General and world history

Rudolf Bahro: Vorlesungen 1990 – 1993 Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

What can today's corporate raiders learn from the scourge of the high seas?

How should we think about Christian apologetics in a society where people are encouraged to discover, determine and live their own truth?

This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath's government to follow a more amenable course throughout the 'Year of Europe' and to convince Harold Wilson's governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts.

The twentieth century was astonishing in all regards, shaking the foundations of practically every aspect of human life and thought, physics not least of all.

Throughout the ages, human beings have shown an astonishing capacity to adapt to their environments.

The first comprehensive history of the world, The Outline of History is a vibrant synthesis of real history, told in a sweeping, panoramic style, as if it were fiction.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license.

"e;Life of Robert Louis Stevenson"e; by Sir Graham Balfour is an authoritative and richly detailed biography that delves into the fascinating life and enduring legacy of the beloved Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War.

This WWII history examines an early British commando raid on Nazi occupied France through extensive interviews with survivors from both sides.

This book tells the little known story about the decision for the Caribbean island of Tobago to form a unitary colony with the neighbouring island of Trinidad in 1889.

'No one can deny Paul Roland is a complete master of his subject.

In this, the final volume of the memoirs of Jasper Speedicut, the old soldier and courtier is deeplyand often hilariouslyinvolved in the 1900 siege of the Peking legations, the death and funeral of Queen Victoria, the final days of Oscar Wilde, the removal to safety of the personal correspondence of the Dowager Empress of Germany, the sinking of RMS Titanic, the start of the First World War, and the fates of Mata Hari and Edith Cavell.

"e;Life of Robert Louis Stevenson"e; by Sir Graham Balfour is an authoritative and richly detailed biography that delves into the fascinating life and enduring legacy of the beloved Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places.

Visualizing Fascism argues that fascism was not merely a domestic menace in a few European nations, but arose as a genuinely global phenomenon in the early twentieth century.

El libro que tiene el lector en sus manos ha sido concebido con un doble propósito.

Hüter des Friedens Edgar Wallace - Spannendes Abenteuer des englischen Distriktbeamten Sanders.

Der historische Bestseller zum Lebenslauf der Deutschen spannend erzählt vom britischen Germanisten: kurzweilig, unterhaltsam und nicht aus der Hand zu legen!

A través de ensayos que se ocupan de cuatro mitos griegos, el autor, en rigurosa pesquisa que consulta fuentes de la arqueología, la historia, la filología clásica y la filosofía, establece relaciones vinculantes entre los cultos mistéricos y las necesidades y demandas utilitarias de la democracia ateniense.

"Freemasonry" sparked violent debate and multiple attempts to clarify its history and goals.

En los últimos años, las víctimas del conflicto y los excombatientes desmovilizados se han convertido en actores centrales del conflicto armado en Colombia.

Das leicht verständliche Nachschlagewerk!

Aus meiner Sammlung "Authentische Kriminalfälle" habe ich einen Teil (von 1800 – 1950) spektakulärer Fälle ausgewählt, welche ich in den nächsten Bänden veröffentlichen möchte.

Geschützt durch die Anonymität des Internets vertraten die meisten Teilnehmer des Email- Disputs erschreckend intolerante, undemokratische Positionen, so als wären die über sechzig Jahre seit dem Kriegsende spurlos an ihnen vorbeigegangen.

Este libro reune, en forma de entrevista, las reflexiones del profesor Jose Angel Garcia de Cortazar sobre su itinerario personal y academico como docente e investigador en varias universidades espanolas.

En Cuba se vive de cara al mar.

Österreich 1937Das beschauliche Wien gerät im März 1937 in einen regelrechten Schockzustand.

Benjamin Tucker Tanner played an important role in the rise of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.

Die DDR ist seit bald 25 Jahren Geschichte.

A partir del momento en que Einstein publicó, en 1905 y 1917, sus revolucionarios trabajos sobre su teoría de la relatividad, la visión que el ser humano tenía del mundo y del universo cambió para siempre.

The Iliad is the most famous epic of all ancient peoples.

Omar Toson, the writer of this book, is considered one of the figures of the modern Egyptian renaissance.

The story of the Odyssey is an epic branching from the story of the Trojan Wars, those long, ancient wars that broke out between the armies of the Greek city-states and the armies of Troy and their allies from Asia Minor at that time, and their reason is what we mentioned in the story of the Iliad, when Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, came as a guest of the king.

No es la primera vez que los autores de este libro -Helena Ruiz y Francisco Morales Padrón- navegan por la aventura oceánica que el mundo de la piratería personifica.

Lo maravilloso y el poder analiza toda una serie de historias de naturaleza maravillosa que, segun la Historia Augusta, anunciaron el futuro poder de Aureliano y Tacito.

Als einer von wenigen lettischen Juden hat Alexander Bergmann den Holocaust überlebt.

Max Dressler (1912 – 1974) arbeitete im zweiten Weltkrieg in der Versuchsanstalt Penemünde als Mathematiker.

Fasten your seatbelts, dear reader, for a mind-bending odyssey through the labyrinth of "e;Unexplained World Wonders.

He aquí algunas afirmaciones que el autor ha oído por televisión y en otras ocasiones: «Con seguridad, el budismo es superior: no tiene la ingenuidad del cristianismo»; «¿Cristo?

Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd.