The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul after death.
Die Malteser Ritter, auch bekannt als der Orden des Heiligen Johannes, sind ein faszinierendes Kapitel der europäischen Geschichte, geprägt von Tapferkeit, Glauben und unermüdlichem Einsatz für das Wohl der Menschheit.
This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.
To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before.
Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between film and surveillance, medium and message.
"e;Mrs Elizabeth McMullin Muter was married to a captain of the 1st Battalion 60th King's Royal Rifles stationed in Meerut, a few hours travel east of Delhi, when the mutiny among the sepoys of the garrison broke out there on Sunday morning of May 10th, 1857.
Two Years in the Forbidden City is the memoir by Princess Der Ling about her life in the service of Empress Dowager Cixi, where she was the First lady-in-waiting, as well as interpreter for her when she received foreign visitors.
The contribution of this book to existing work in socio-onomastic research is its treatment of the official and unofficial names of the two Indian Christian communities (i.
This book identifies the formation, development and changes in New Zealand perceptions of its Asian neighbours, the work of which is based mainly on New Zealand sources-newspaper reports, Government and Parliamentary papers and documents from New Zealand individuals and organisations.
This book identifies the formation, development and changes in New Zealand perceptions of its Asian neighbours, the work of which is based mainly on New Zealand sources-newspaper reports, Government and Parliamentary papers and documents from New Zealand individuals and organisations.
"e;The author-a staff officer-who was an eyewitness to most of the major events of the First Anglo-Burmese War, gives us an incisive overview of the whole war.
This study by one of Japan's foremost political scientists examines the unfolding relationship between the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the state, and the forces of industrialization in Japan from the 1950s through the 1980s.
El enfrentamiento en Cannas entre cartagineses y romanos, las batallas de Jena-Auerstedt en las guerras napoleónicas, el valle de Shenandoah en la guerra de Secesión estadounidense, la ofensiva de Cambrai en la Primera Guerra Mundial, el fuerte Eben-Emael y Kursk en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, entre otros, son ejemplos de las tácticas más efectivas de la historia.
Exploring the dynamic genres of animation and comic book films, this book examines the transmedia role of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its critical involvement in attempts to diversify representations in youth-oriented cinema and culture.
Journey Through Time and Experience: The Memoir You Cant MissHave you ever wondered what its like to witness the shifting tides of history first-hand while navigating a kaleidoscope of personal triumphs and challenges?
Journey Through Time and Experience: The Memoir You Cant MissHave you ever wondered what its like to witness the shifting tides of history first-hand while navigating a kaleidoscope of personal triumphs and challenges?
This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.
This book offers a new analysis of the Nordic Peace after its onset in 1814, the year that marks the end to centuries of warfare between the Nordic countries, and the applicability of the Nordic solutions and principles for North East Asian conflicts.
