Biography: historical, political and military

Thilo Schulz erzählt die ungewöhnliche Lebensgeschichte eines Außenseiters, der versuchte, einen Modus Vivendi mit dem NS-Regime zu finden, und daran scheiterte.

Das kleine Dorf Riace in Kalabrien und ihr Bürgermeister Mimmo Lucano (2004–2018) wurden während der humanitären Krise von Lampedusa im Jahr 2009 international bekannt, weil sie 200 Flüchtlingen und Asylbewerbern Unterkunft und Gastfreundschaft gewährten – im Gegensatz zu Mailand, das gerade mal 20 Plätze zur Verfügung stellte.

In "Erwacht" zeigt Kerstin Scherer über ihre persönliche Lebensgeschichte als erfolgreiche Unternehmerin, praktizierende Schamanin und als Mensch mit hellsichtigen Fähigkeiten, ihren Leser*innen die tiefgreifenden Möglichkeiten, Lebenskonflikte zu lösen, Erfolge zu erzielen und das eigene Glück zu finden.

En este libro el autor presenta sus vivencias en primera persona, desde sus inicios en Ucrania hasta llegar e instalarse en Argentina, en búsqueda de una vida mejor.

Jean Meyer afirma que "la verdad a que aspira la «ciencia histórica» es siempre fragmentaria", que "el discurso del historiador nunca deja de ser un relato" y que los escritores de historias imaginadas "reconocen plenamente la irrupción de la historia en la construcción de sus ficciones".

El libro Michelle Bachelet, una mujer política, de la Editorial Usach, ahonda en el legado político de una de las figuras clave desde el retorno a la democracia.

En la historia del quehacer político nacional, Gladys Marín es una de las figuras más prominentes debido a su activa presencia, que cubre más de cuatro décadas de lucha y consecuencia a toda prueba.

Conocido por su oratoria, el Presidente Salvador Allende realizó innumerables intervenciones a lo largo de su vida.

En plena marcha victoriosa de su regimiento de infantería por territorio de Francia, en 1944, el soldado Leroy Stewart no pensaba en la gloria ni en la muerte.

ARRIBISTA: Del francés "arriviste/arriver", que durante siglos significó "arribar", "llegar".

Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milkens lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.

Die bewegte Lebensgeschichte eines Heimatlosen zwischen Krieg, Kunst, Wissenschaft und Weltumseglung Als Flüchtling kam Adelbert von Chamisso in den Wirren der französischen Revolution nach Deutschland.

One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 ';One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.

Anhand der Biografie von Nicolaas Rost schreibt Markus Wegewitz eine Erfahrungsgeschichte des Antifaschismus im Europa des 20.

"Entre 1960 y 2019 el Ecuador ha sufrido una profunda transformación en la política, la economía y la sociedad.

Los gobiernos del giro a la izquierda en América Latina, y en especial los del Socialismo del siglo XXI, atravesaron a nuestros países con la fuerza de un huracán.

Entre las ofertas de campaña electoral para conquistar la presidencia por parte de Hugo Chávez, Rafael Correa y Evo Morales se encontraban las ideas fuerza de "la democratización de la comunicación" y "la comunicación como un derecho".

"El análisis de la psicología comunitaria parte de fundamentos críticos de la investigación acción-participativa como modelo de intervención que conjuga a la teoría con la práctica para la transformación social.

"La lectura de este libro nos permite sobrepasar la conversación prototípica acerca de los millennials, porque nos corremos de los lugares comunes, así como de la mistificación de un conjunto de características y defectos que se les atribuye a quienes forman parte de este segmento mundial de la población, que nació a fines del siglo pasado e inicio de este.

'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned most of the 20th century, from airships at its start to reusable spacecraft near the end.

In the twenty-first century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism of all kinds.

In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr.

The Leadership of Muhammad is a very personal study of the life-story and leadership skills of the Prophet.

It was an outlawed book, a text so dangerous "e;it could only be countered by the most vicious burnings, of books and men and women.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church.

Kurt Aram (1869-1934) war ein deutscher Journalist und Schriftsteller.

In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author John Perry explores the life of Sir.

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway.

One of Argentinas 30,000 disappeared, Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed.

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.

The religious and political winds are changing.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

A compelling biography of the legendary king, rebel, and poisoner who defied the Roman EmpireMachiavelli praised his military genius.

The definitive biography of the legendary "e;first citizen of Athens"e;Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world.

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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State.

In time for the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War, Private Heller and the Bantam Boysbased on Heller's long-hidden diarytells the tale of a group of privileged yet nave Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph Heller.

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied.

This first full-length treatment of Russell Kirk's life and accomplishments blends new biographical insights and critical perspectives about the author of the ground-breakingThe Conservative Mind.

Westlake Girl: My Oregon Frontier Childhood is the true story of a spirited girl coming of age in an isolated village on the Oregon coast from 1928 to 1936.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is most famous for his role as the first Commissioner ever to rule organized baseball.

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B.

Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency at a time when Japan and Europe, fully recovered from wartime devastation, threatened America's position as the number one economy in the world.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;UP FROM SLAVERY (An Autobiography)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy.

';To begin with I was in love and I am in love so that's not hard,' Barbara Bush told her granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa on her porch in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none.

This unique collection of short biographies of the Lone Star State's most colorful characters includes headliners Father Miguel Muldoon, the Irish-Spanish Catholic priest and diplomat who helped convert Protestants in order to settle Austin, and six-foot-two prostitute and hotelkeeper Sarah Bowman, who fought as bravely as a man among the Rangers and was buried with full military honors.

This book details Lee's life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the South's surrender at Appomattox.