This volume provides an introduction to modern German&Jewish history, from the late Middle Ages to the twentieth century, using analytical categories such as ?
Mit den Fortschritten in der Medizin, vor allem aber mit der Verbesserung des Lebensstandards schwindet immer mehr das Bewusstsein, dass Krankheiten einst ein "geschichtsmächtiger" Faktor waren.
Mit den Fortschritten in der Medizin, vor allem aber mit der Verbesserung des Lebensstandards schwindet immer mehr das Bewusstsein, dass Krankheiten einst ein "geschichtsmächtiger" Faktor waren.
Die Geschichte der Hugenotten in Frankreich, ihre Fluchtwege und Zufluchtsorte im europäischen Refuge und ihre unterschiedliche Aufnahme in den einzelnen Aufnahmeländern werden in diesem Buch mit den konfessionellen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Verhältnissen der Hugenotten in Bezug gesetzt.
In this ';thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue' (Library Journal) Mia Kankimki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.
A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler's extraordinary story and how it came to the world's attention through Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel and the subsequent multiple Oscar-winning film, Schindler's List*27th January 2019: 25th anniversary of the movie, which will be re-released in the UK and Australia*In 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life.
Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime now he's unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties back to the origin of the Ashes On the night of 23 September 1910, on a station 500km west of Brisbane, farm hand John Neil was beaten to death with a cricket bat.
Callous Disregard is the account of how a doctor confronted first a disease and then the medical system that sought and still seeks to deny that disease, leaving millions of children to suffer and a world at risk.
'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon.
16 SEPTEMBER 1620: 400 YEARS SINCE THE MAYFLOWER SET SAILOn a blustery day in September 1620 a small ship, the Mayflower, set sail from the English port of Plymouth.
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NON-FICTION A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulous, clinical and sobering, a shockingly important and incisive book' David OlusogaVast and revelatory, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the 'desk killers' who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the modern era.
