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Die letzten Tage des 19. Jahrhunderts. Im düsteren Schloss ihrer Ahnen wächst Aura Institoris inmitten eines Labyrinths endloser Gänge und Säle heran. Als ihr Vater, der Alchimist Nestor Nepomuk Institoris, im Auftrag seines ärgsten Widersachers Lysander ermordet wird, gerät Aura unversehens zwischen die Fronten eines Konflikts, dessen Wurzeln weit zurück ins Mittelalter reichen. Denn Aura ist die Erbin eines uralten Rätsels, der Rezeptur des Steins der Waisen, der Unsterblichkeit verspricht. An...
| Автор | Kai Meyer |
"Könige sind wie Gaukler. Sie blenden die Untertanen mit ihrem Mummenschanz, damit die nicht merken, dass das Reich auseinanderfällt" Anno Domini 951: Der junge Gaidemar, ein Bastard vornehmer, aber unbekannter Herkunft und Panzerreiter in König Ottos Reiterlegion, erhält einen gefährlichen Auftrag: Er soll die italienische Königin Adelheid aus der Gefangenschaft in Garda befreien. Auf ihrer Flucht verliebt er sich in Adelheid, aber sie heiratet König Otto. Dennoch steigt Gaidemar zum...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World. In 1979, the book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America by Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel caused a sensation in the United States by pointing out that Japan was surpassing America as world economic leader; the book remains to this day the all-time bestseller in Japan of non-fiction by a Western author. The book was timely: Japan's subsequent «bubble era» of the 1980s saw the country booming....
| Автор | Clyde Prestowitz |
This book of Japanese poetry and lyrics explores a little-known style of Japanese song called Ko-Uta.A Ko-Uta is translated as «little song» in Japanese. Unfamiliar to most Westerners, ko-uta are particularly in tune with the tradition of Japan's Edo-era merchants. Some ko-uta are aesthetic, many are earthy.Ko-uta are sung to the accompaniment of the shamisen—a traditional, three-stringed Japanese lute. Ko-uta come to life when they are sung, and the best example of where they live...
| Автор | Liza Crihfield |
Batik occupies a special place in Indonesian culture. Each fabric has a rich story to tell—as a reflection of the nation's religious beliefs, sophisticated court cultures and cosmopolitan history. The extraordinary textiles in this book are from the collections of Rudolf Smend and Donald Harper. Most date from the period 1880 to 1930 when the art of batik reached its apogee. Having collected historical batik for over thirty years and published two books on the subject, Rudolf...
| Автор | Rudolf Smend |
Thinking of getting a Japanese-style tattoo? Want to avoid a permanent mistake? Japanese Tattoos is an insider's look at the world of Japanese irezumi (tattoos). Japanese Tattoos explains the imagery featured in Japanese tattoos so that readers can avoid getting ink they don't understand or, worse, that they'll regret. This photo-heavy book will also trace the history of Japanese tattooing, putting the iconography and kanji symbols in their proper context so readers will...
| Автор | Brian Ashcraft |
Italien im 13. Jahrhundert: Pandolfina, Tochter einer Sarazenenprinzessin und eines apulischen Grafen, wächst wohlbehütet am elterlichen Hofe auf. Doch als ihr Vater stirbt, bringt der Widersacher und Nachbar ihres Vaters Silvio di Cudi die Burg in seinen Besitz – und will das 14-jährige Mädchen zur Heirat zwingen. Pandolfina kann entkommen und findet Schutz am Hofe von Friedrich, des Königs von Sizilien und Kaisers des Heiligen Römischen Reiches. Fortan setzt die Prinzessin alles daran,...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Mallorca im Jahre 1343: Das Inselreich wird in einem blutigen Feldzug durch König Pere IV. von Katalonien-Aragón erobert. Auch die Burg des Grafen von Marranx fällt dem übermächtigen Gegner in die Hände, und sein Erzfeind nützt die Gelegenheit zur Rache: Weil der Graf ihm einst die Braut raubte, sollen jetzt dessen Töchter für die Schmach von damals bezahlen. Nur um Haaresbreite gelingt es Miranda und Soledad zu entkommen, doch ihr Verfolger ist wie besessen vom Gedanken an Vergeltung. Als er...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of development and of the growth of material production, consumption,...
| Автор | Ronald D Eller |
The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours in the water, eight remaining survivors swam to a remote island controlled by the Japanese. Deep behind enemy lines and without food or drinking water, the crewmen realized that their struggle for survival...
| Автор | Michael Sturma |
" An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history, Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of mountaineer individualism against the complexities of industrial development and the growth of...
| Автор | Otis K. Rice |
The Politics of South African Football is the story of people whose vehement resistance and declaration that there could be �no normal sport in an abnormal society� proved to be a powerful antidote to the apartheid government�s assurances that �all was well�. Oshebeng Alphie Koonyaditse gives an inspiring account of the event-filled journey that led to that memorable Saturday of May 15, 2004. For the first time in World Cup history South Africa, and indeed Africa, won the right to host the...
| Автор | Alpheus Koonyaditse |
In the wake of King Henry VIII's death, England's throne is left in a precarious state-as is the peculiar relationship between his two daughters. Mary, the elder, once treasured, had been declared a bastard in favor of her flame-haired half-sister, Elizabeth, born of the doomed Anne Boleyn. Yet the bond between the sisters was palpable from the start. Now reinstated, Mary eventually assumes her place as queen. But as Mary's religious zeal evolves into a reign of terror, young...
| Автор | Brandy Purdy |
Anno 1517. Mit letzter Kraft haben Kristina und Witter ihre Häscher abgeschüttelt. Zuflucht finden die beiden Täufer in Giebelstadt, dem Heimatdorf von Lud, der ihnen schon einmal das Leben rettete. Auch hier schlägt ihnen, den «Ketzern», Hass entgegen. Gefahr droht jedoch nicht nur von innerhalb des Dorfes: In Würzburg schmiedet Prinz Konrad Pläne, sich Giebelstadt und seine Ländereien unter den Nagel zu reißen, solange es herrenlos ist. Damit das nicht passiert, begeben Lud und Witter sich auf...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
London 1560: Als Spionin der Krone fällt Eleanor of Waringham im Konflikt zwischen der protestantischen Königin Elizabeth I. und der katholischen Schottin Mary Stewart eine gefährliche Aufgabe zu. Ihre Nähe zur Königin schafft Neider, und als Eleanor sich in den geheimnisvollen König der Diebe verliebt, macht sie sich angreifbar. Unterdessen schleicht sich ihr fünfzehnjährige Bruder Isaac als blinder Passagier auf ein Schiff. Nach seiner Entdeckung wird er als Sklave an spanische Pflanzer...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The book exposes various mechanisms and methods by which covert colonial mechanisms are employed to perpetuate colonialism, especially in Africa. Less overt and more covert perpetuation of colonialism is done through the use of networks. The main achievement of the initial phase of colonialism was the establishment of networks that are nefarious and omnipresent; constituting “distributed presence,” which allows for “action at a distance.” As a result,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritanian—have been flaring ever since the nation’s independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions , El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania’s...
| Автор | El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed |
This study draws on the life of renowned historian, Robert H. Ferrell, to explore issues related to the history profession. Ferrell’s life story contextualizes postmodernism, the New Left, and the challenges of crafting history. The author analyzes Ferrell’s biases, examining distinctions between his morals and actions as well as his private and public life. This book provides crucial insight into the subjectivity of history, the boundaries of the discipline, and the effects...
| Автор | Douglas A. Dixon |
Although what we now call “analytic philosophy” has been around at least since the turn of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until the latter half of the twentieth century that it became the dominant mode of philosophizing in the Western world. In Race, Gender, and the History of Early Analytic Philosophy , Matt LaVine argues that the changes associated with this shift from early analytic philosophy, a revolutionary movement, to later analytic philosophy, the...
| Автор | Matt LaVine |
In this unapologetically African-centered monograph, Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies. From Amma to the goddess inkosazana , Sobekneferu to Nzingha, Nehanda to Ahebi Ugbabe, Omu Okwei, and the daughters or umuada of Igboland, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa documents the worlds and life histories of...
| Автор | Nwando Achebe |
Maggie Harris has left the quiet English village of her birth, with its apple orchards and all the people most dear to her, and travelled to Australia for the adventure of her life…<br /> <br />Despite all her planning, nothing can prepare her for when she arrives at McKinnley Sheep Station, in a blaze of dust and barking kelpies, and straight into the turbulent path of Jack McKinnley, the station owner’s handsome son and his dangerous girlfriend.<br /> <br />The...
| Автор | Tracey Friday |
When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into poverty and astronomical inflation. The government once praised for its magnanimity and ethnic...
| Автор | Daniel Compagnon |
Irland Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: Ciara, die Schwester eines rebellischen Clanoberhaupts, kehrt nach Jahren der Verbannung mit ihrer Familie in ihre Heimat in Ulster zurück. Doch dies bedeutet beileibe nicht Ruhe und Frieden, denn ihr Bruder und seine Männer wollen erneut für die Freiheit Irlands in den Kampf ziehen. Ohne Unterstützung scheint dies ein aussichtsloses Unternehmen zu sein, und so rufen sie dafür den deutschen Söldnerführer Simon von Kirchberg zu Hilfe. Dieser war die erste große...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long been obscured due to the Confucian monopoly of written records. Multicultural China in the Early...
| Автор | Sanping Chen |