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This is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America. It is also an account of a spiritual voyage, from a conventional Christian upbringing, through marriage to Pastor Martin Niemoeller, to conversion to Judaism. Born during the turbulent days of the Weimar Republic, the author was the goddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (to whom her father was financial...
| Автор | Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller Baroness von Sell |
Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. «Gus» Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance to walk on the moon and return to describe his journey. Others went in his place. The stories of the moon walkers are familiar. Less appreciated are Grissom's contributions. The international prestige of winning the Moon Race cannot be understated, and Grissom played a pivotal and enduring...
| Автор | George Leopold |
In May 1938, Hungary passed anti-Semitic laws causing hundreds of Jewish artists to lose their jobs. In response, Budapest's Jewish community leaders organized an Artistic Enterprise under the aegis of OMIKE Országos Magyar Izraelita Közművelődési Egyesület (Hungarian Jewish Education Association) to provide employment and livelihood for actors, singers, musicians, conductors, composers, writers, playwrights, painters, graphic artists, and sculptors. Between 1939 and 1944, activities were...
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American and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning Jews for their desires for wealth and their proclivities for turning a profit. A new, dauntless generation of historians, however, realizes that Jewish business has had and continues to have a profound impact on American...
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Known as Lemberg in German and Lwów in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for much of the twentieth century. This book tells the compelling story of how its inhabitants (Roman Catholic Poles, Greek Catholic Ukrainians, and Jews) reacted to the sweeping political changes during and after World Wars I and II. The Eastern Front shifted back and forth, and the city changed hands seven times. At the end of each war, L'viv...
| Автор | Christoph Mick |
Among the many consequences of Spain’s annexation of Portugal from 1580 to 1640 was an increase in the number of Portuguese authors writing in Spanish. One can trace this practice as far back as the medieval period, although it was through Gil Vicente, Jorge de Montemayor, and others that Spanish-language texts entered the mainstream of literary expression in Portugal. Proficiency in both languages gave Portuguese authors increased mobility throughout the empire. For those with literary...
| Автор | Jonathan William Wade |
In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian and French Jesuits, the garden described in this book was a wonderland of multistoried buildings, fountains, labyrinths, and geometrical hills. It even included an open-air theater. Through detailed...
| Автор | Hui Zou |
Spanning more than 500 years, this illustrated book covers the rich history of Christianity in Latin America. The authors use an analytical framework as they describe the institutional religious history for the period covered in that chapter, providing the context to look at other concurrent though non-institutional developments within Christianity. Each section includes sources that look at the way Christianity manifested and continues to manifest itself in the life of Latin...
| Автор | Justo L. Gonzalez |
What were the origins of the ANC Youth League, where has it gone wrong and how can it once again become an organisation that represents and supports South Africa’s youth? For most of its existence, the ANC Youth League has played a powerful role in the politics of the ANC, and therefore of South Africa. In this book, Youth League member Rebone Tau tells the story of the league, from its formation in Soweto in 1944 to its banning, reconstitution and current standing, highlighting key incidents...
| Автор | Rebone Tau |
When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1922. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, arguing that this historical approach highlights constant clashes between religious and ethnic groups in Palestine. He demonstrates that existing Arab residents viewed new Jewish...
| Автор | Alan Dowty |
Die beeldhouer en argitek Gianlorenzo Bernini is gebore in 1598. Hy was skaars tien toe beide sy pa en geledere uit die Vatikaan begin besef die jonge Bernini is geniaal – ’n kunstenaar wat in die voetspore van Michelangelo kan volg, of . . . selfs beter? Heese neem ons op ’n reis deur Bernini se lewe, vanaf sy grootwordjare totdat hy op die ouderdom van 41 in die huwelik tree. Deur sy sien ons die daaglikse lewe in Rome van die 1600’s, die Kerk wat tegelyk korrup en tog so toegeeflik teenoor...
| Автор | Marié Heese |
Aan die einde van 1896, enkele jare voor die Anglo-Boereoorlog, het die 26-jarige wewenaar en Transvaalse koerantman Eugène Marais na Londen vertrek om in die regte te gaan studeer. Hier het hy oënskynlik tot in die doodsnikke van die oorlog gewoon. Oor hierdie lewensjare van een van Afrikaans se beroemdste letterkundige figure is baie min bekend. Leon Rousseau sê in sy baanbreker-lewensverhaal oor Marais, Die Groot Verlange (1974): “Tensy ontdekkings gemaak word wat ’n mens jou op die oomblik...
| Автор | Carel van der Merwe |
Die vuur begin met geweldige drif in die huis te brand. Aan die westekant van die garingbome trek yl grys rook die lug in; die lappie winterkoring is ook brandgesteek. Oor ’n ruk sal net ’n swart tapyt agterbly. Lenie trek al die registers uit en pomp die musiekie se twee pedale. Sy speel ’n psalm. “Die vloekpsalm, Psalm 69, Leentjie. Die vloekpsalm.” Ons oorlog verweef intieme familiestories in die groter landskap van die oorlog in die Oranje-Vrystaat, om ’n deurleefde beeld te gee...
| Автор | Klaas Steytler |
Een oorlog, twee broers, een tragiese twis – die verskriklikste Afrikanerbroedertwis ooit. Meer as 'n honderd jaar ná die laaste skote in die Anglo-Boereoorlog geklap het, word genl. Christiaan de Wet steeds bewonder as onverbiddelike bittereinder, die held wat tot die einde toe volhard het. Sy jonger broer, Piet, word onthou as die joiner wat die wapen teen sy eie mense opgeneem het. In Broedertwis klim Albert Blake as't ware in dié twee broers se koppe. Hy probeer verstaan waarom...
| Автор | Albert Blake |
Die Anglo-Boereoorlog van 1899–1902 is helderder as ooit in die Afrikaanse leser se geheue. Verkope van die eerste bundel, getitel Boereoorlogstories, het alle verwagting oorskry en het reeds ’n tweede druk van die tweede uitgawe daarvan genoodsaak. In Boereoorlogstories 2 tree ook jonger skrywers tot die gesprek toe, onder andere Christine Barkhuizen Le Roux, Jaco Fouché en Gerda Taljaard. Die verhale van lyding en opoffering wat die eerste bundel gekenmerk het, word in die tweede bundel...
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The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of real-after-life gothic tales.Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn’s grave in October 1820, cranioklepty takes us on an extraordinary history of a...
| Автор | Colin Dickey |
The only oral history of the Southern California punk rock scene of the 1970s and 1980s to exclusively focus on women. Interviewees include some of the most influential female musicians and performers of that era: Exene (X), Phranc, Kira (Black Flag), Jennifer Precious Finch (L7), Teresa Covarrubias (the Brat), Pleasant Gehman (Screaming Sirens), Alice Bag (The Bags), and Johanna Went. Interviewees include some of the most influential female journalists, DJs, and photographers of that era:...
| Автор | Stacy Russo |
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Freedom Climbers (Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox) "One of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years." —Boardman-Tasker Prize See this book trailer for Freedom Climbers made by RMB Books, its publisher in Canada, where the cover is slightly different from the Mountaineers Books U.S. edition * Behind the Iron Curtain, Cold War...
| Автор | Bernadette McDonald |
Percival Everett’s <i><b>The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun</i></b>, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document—a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of instructions for buying, training, and punishing, equations for calculating present and future profits, and handwritten annotations affirming the brutal contents. <i><b>The...
| Автор | Percival Everett |
Rosa and Esther march through downtown Detroit in August 1968 to protest the war in Vietnam. When a bloodied teenager reports that mounted police are beating protestors a few blocks away, the young women hurry to offer assistance. They try to stop the violence, but an officer is injured and the sisters are arrested. Rosa sees an opportunity to protest the war in court. Esther has an infant daughter and wants to avoid prison, which means accepting a plea bargain and testifying against her sister....
| Автор | Ellen Meeropol |
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter of The Challenge of Rainier, 40th Anniversary Edition * Special 40th anniversary edition* Featuring 125 photos, 90 illustrations, and 15 maps* Original cover art by Dee Molenaar Originally published in 1971, The Challenge of Rainier is a classic in mountaineering reference and literature, long considered the definitive work on the climbing history of Mount Rainier. Author Dee Molenaar covers geology, glaciology, and climate;...
| Автор | Dee Molenaar |
In the 1950s, a group of brash young British writers coalesced into a controversial poetic and critical movement known simply as the Movement. In the 1980s, a group of brash young American writers coalesced into an equally controversial poetic and critical movement known as New Formalism. Especially since the British coalition known as The Movement was short-lived, surviving less than a decade, few people could have predicted that it would have an impact that was both far-reaching and...
| Автор | Theresa Welford |
Preserving the personal histories of civilians and soldiers who united to defend America during the Second World War, this unique oral history tells the stories of ordinary citizens who left jobs and families behind to contribute to the war effort.Chronicling the sacrifices made by otherwise average people, this keepsake features profiles of and interviews with the men and women who responded to the call to action by putting their lives on hold to fight for their country at home and abroad.From...
| Автор | Jonna Doolittle Hoppes |
In The Falls of the Wyona by David Brendan Hopes , four friends growing up on the banks of a wild Appalachian river just after WWII discover, almost at the same time, the dangerous, alluring Falls and the perils of their own maturing hearts. Seen through the eyes of his best friend Arden, football hero Vince falls in love with the new kid, Glen. They have no context for their feelings, and the next few years of high school become a tense, though sometimes funny, artifice of...
| Автор | David Brendan Hopes |