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A consciousness-shifting collection of poetic reflections and meditations These powerful meditations and poetic reflections will comfort, inspire, and gently bring you out of the hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of your true, essential, and authentic self.

The volume explores the role religion had in charity and philanthropy in the long nineteenth-century.

A consciousness-shifting collection of poetic reflections and meditations These powerful meditations and poetic reflections will comfort, inspire, and gently bring you out of the hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of your true, essential, and authentic self.

In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation.

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Über die Jahrhunderte haben die Meere unzählige Geheimnisse verborgen – und die Geschichten über vergrabene Schätze und legendäre Piraten haben die Fantasie der Menschen beflügelt.

Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.

The focus of this volume by Professor Russell is the history of organic chemistry, which arose improbably out of early speculations about the construction of chemical compounds, and in particular their electrochemical nature.

While existing accounts of this period have elevated the exploits of the British soldiers on the battlefield to almost legendary status, the operations of the British Expeditionary Force in the dramatic opening campaign of the First World War remain poorly understood.

Tout le monde connaît Hiroshima.

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.

Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West.

This collection presents the proceedings of an international conference on the significance of the Rites Controversy in Sino-Western history, held in San Francisco in 1992.

'Mama, it's me.

Originally published in 1983 and slightly revised in 1985, joint winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, States of Mind is an exploration of the ideas underlying Anglo-Irish conflict over the past two centuries.

Kronprinz Rudolf von Habsburg – der einzige Sohn von Kaiser Franz Joseph I.

For decades historians argued for the downfall of communication, when early modern societies were hit by a natural disaster.

Jeannine Scher was born in Paris in February 1935.

Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth century's intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of maternity in vernacular religious texts.

Distilling a decade of research by leading experts on the Venerable Bede, Bede the scholar investigates the Northumbrian monk's place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world.

Embark on a captivating journey through British history, where the lives of ordinary people intersect with major events.

This edited collection explores Dante Alighieri's contribution to medical, scientific, and spiritual thought in medieval and early modern times.

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From February 1967 to April 1968, David Vaughan flew the Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Southeast Asia.

From February 1967 to April 1968, David Vaughan flew the Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Southeast Asia.

This book narrates the tumultuous era of total war through the fate of AachenImperial Germanys seat of power for 600 years, site of Charlemagnes coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, and a place with greater geopolitical significance for Adolf Hitler in 1944 than Stalingrad in 1943.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg dauerte vom 1.

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "e;archival revolution"e; due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact.

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "e;archival revolution"e; due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact.

This wide-ranging collection of essays, newly available in paperback, is the first book in English to examine the impact of Stalinist terror on Eastern Europe in the years 1940 to 1956.

Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution's religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy.

Leonard Kaufmann was born in Germany in April 1935.

'After the massacre, the GAA became even more important to us as a real sense of identity.

»Eine glänzende Neubewertung des Mittelalters.

This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorities, and a combination of voluntary and informal actors.

Mit einer unvergleichlichen Mischung aus Eleganz, Mut und Geheimnis schrieb Mata Hari Geschichte.