Biography: general

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806.

A thorough look into the early life and career of Charlie Chaplin.

The sort of assessment Holowchak aims to do in this book is both historical and psychological, so the book is in large measure a psychobiography.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist.

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The captivating story of former Wall Street Journal publisher Warren Phillips's rise to the topNewspaperman is at once a fascinating narrative of one man's journey through the newspaper business and an expert analysis of how the news is made.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

Slobodan Milosevic - Belgrade's tyrant and successor to Tito, 'Butcher of the Balkans' - represents, in many ways, the final shudder of that particularly aggressive 20th-century brand of the creature that was nationalism.

"e;The personality of a general is indispensable,"e; Napoleon once said.

Dès les années 1930 des infirmières et quelques infirmiers ont offert des soins de santé et contribuer à bâtir les fondations d'un système de santé dans les communautés autochtones disséminées sur les côtes de l'Hudson, de l'Ungava et de la Baie James.

Paris between the wars: our impression is one of gaiety, frivolity, fashion, of exuberant living - a city whose lights were put out by the terrifyingly rapid advance of the German panzers in 1940.

The book contains a collection of recollections of the author spanning his days as student, at the bar, as legislator and minister, as judge of the Supreme Court and as a convinced crusader for public causes in the long years spent after superannuation.

When the Philadelphia Phillies signed Dick Allen in 1960, fans of the franchise envisioned bearing witness to feats never before accomplished by a Phillies player.

A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris.

In the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Crawford F.

How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and in the media?

*Winner of the Colonial Dames of America Book Award* Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis.

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropyIs philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today's democracy?

From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America.

'He found many marvelous things.

We need a new philosophy of the earth.

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Historic Photos of Harry S.

One of Australia's most revered environmental scholars and its most distinguished landscape essayist.

The author seeks to challenge the long-held perceptions of the politics of the American Civil War.

Der römische Kaiser Nero (37–68 n.

As England's cricket team compete for the Ashes in Australia, ex-England spinner Phil Tufnell is enjoying life as a retired cricketer and national treasure.

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries.

The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side.

Die deutsche Ausnahmeturnerin Kim Bui schildert ihren Weg zum Leistungssport ab dem zehnten Lebensjahr.

Trained as a cultural historian, Thomas R.

From its inception what came to be known as the Oxford Movement was always intended to be more than just an abstruse dialogue about the theoretical nature of Anglicanism.

'[A] vivid, inquiring memoir.

I defy any woman to flick through Modestly, through Dina s musings on bullying, eating disorders, maternity wear, contouring and feminism, and not find something they can relate to METRO This is the story of my life.

I am here.

A powerful collection of 30 Bible stories about people whose faith in God brought them their finest hour.

Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies written that yearKing Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.

Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe.

Party-girl supreme and queen of street fashion, supermodel and millionairess, Kate Moss is as familiar in headlines as on the catwalk as the twin narratives of lurid tabloid stories and continuing adulation of the fashion industry demonstrates to all the paradox of fame.

The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

A young thirteen-year-old girl wants to become a Religious.

Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt.

Owain Glyndwr is a towering figure in Welsh history.

By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America.

Große multinationale Unternehmen beeinflussen, meist ohne dass wir es merken, wie wir leben, was wir essen, wie wir unsere Zeit verbringen, wen wir treffen, wie wir uns fortbewegen und sogar was wir denken.

Además de uno de los futbolistas con más talento y carisma del fútbol británico de todos los tiempos —en la memoria de muchos ingleses quedan sus hazañas deportivas, como la primera Copa de Europa que ganó el Manchester United en 1968—, George Best fue un enfant terrible que conmocionó al mundo del fútbol y a la sociedad británica de los sesenta y setenta.

In Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered, venerated Lincoln scholar William C.

Escape into Danger tells the remarkable story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming of age during World War II.