Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth-century Russia.
Now in its 35th edition, and compiled in association with the Publishers Association, this is the most authoritative, detailed trade directory available for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, listing over 900 book publishers.
To most students of the Peninsular War the name Robert Craufurd evokes images of a battle-hardened martinet, flogging his men across Portugal and Spain, driving them hard and generally taking a tough stance against anything and everything that did not meet with his own strict disciplinarian code.
Fundado en septiembre de 1935 en España, el POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista) desempeñó un papel importante durante la guerra civil (1936-1939), principalmente en Cataluña, región donde estaba mayoritariamente implantado.
This book outlines some aspects of Jewish intellectual life in the nineteenth and twentieth century, presenting a narrative of the relationship between Jewish scholars and their cultural environment.
In this carefully researched and hauntingly written memoir, Lisa Gruenberg not only records her own life, but also that of relatives long lost to darkness, terror, and murder.
John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy’s call, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
An Ancient Theory of Religion examines a theory of religion put forward by Euhemerus of Messene (late 4th-early 3rd century BCE) in his lost work Sacred Inscription, and shows not only how and why euhemerism came about but also how it was- and still is-used.
The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.
James VII and II is one of the least studied monarchs of Scotland, and has previously mostly been studied from an English perspective or as the muddled victim of the revolution of 1688/9 which delivered for Britain much-vaunted political emancipation.
Los siglos XIV y XV fueron tiempos de cambios tumultuosos en la Europa medieval; fueron testigos de la Peste Negra, del Gran Cisma de Occidente, de la agudización de los temores del Apocalipsis y de la eliminación de la población no cristiana de España.
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023Nooruddean Choudry was born in 1979 - the year Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose, Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah of Iran, and Tim Martin opened his first Wetherspoons.
How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed-and how America can fulfill it againThe liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power-and also its biggest failures.
As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950.
Als im Januar 1945 die deutschen Truppen im Raum Warschau dem Druck der Roten Armee nicht mehr standhalten können und zurückweichen, verlieren die beiden Obergefreiten Röttger und Sailer den Anschluss an ihre Einheit.
Karl Nendel – mit 32 Jahren Chefenergetiker der DDR-Braunkohlenindustrie, wenig später Leiter der Abteilung Elektronik im Volkswirtschaftsrat, dann stellvertretender Minister im Ministerium für Elektrotechnik und Elektronik und schließlich Regierungsbeauftragter für die Mikroelektronik.
