Social groups: religious groups and communities

This is the gripping history of the Nazi-sponsored attempt to infiltrate the 1943 wartime Allied conference in Tehran and assassinate the "e;Big Three"e; leaders: Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.

This book is a rhetorical analysis of the "e;Seybert Report,"e; based on the findings of the Seybert Commission formed in the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania and tasked with investigating the paranormal phenomena alleged to arise in Spiritualist seances.

Verschwindet die Religiosität in der Moderne oder ist im Gegenteil eine Rückkehr der Religionen zu verzeichnen?

Sulphur Springs native Frank Webster Pearce was a soldier in Texas' own 36th Infantry Division and the 111th Engineer Combat Battalion.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book shows how Latin American authors find Nazism relevant to thinking through some of the most urgent contemporary challenges.

In October 1940 an Italian army some 200,000 strong invaded Greece across its largely undefended border with Albania.

Publishing for the first time in paperback.

Why is the Golden Rule so central in almost every culture and religion?

This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.

With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day.

This book explores the important and barely examined connections between the humanitarian concerns embedded in the religious heritage of Jewish American artists and the appeal of radical political causes between the years of the Great Migration from Eastern Europe in the 1880s and the beginning of World War II in the late 1930s.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Staat und Monopole im totalen Krieg" verfügbar.

This book sets out new theoretical foundations for Jewish social justice education by surveying and discussing Freirean critical pedagogy, Catholic models of social justice education, Jewish social justice literature and interviews with educators and activists.

The first study of album-making in the Ottoman empire during the seventeenth century, demonstrating the period's experimentation, eclecticism, and global outlookThe Album of the World Emperor examines an extraordinary piece of art: an album of paintings, drawings, calligraphy, and European prints compiled for the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r.

The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, has been extensively chronicled.

Before the French Revolution, tens of thousands of foreigners served in France's army.

Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture and religious practice in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity.

Adash Bulwa was born in Poland in 1926.

The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914.

The Shi'i clergy are amongst the most influential political players in the Middle East.

Albert Kesselring was the principal Axis commander in the Italian theatre, confronting the Allies at Salerno, Anzio and Cassino.

The online social network phenomenon has forever changed the way we think about ourselves in relation to our neighbors.

How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalismDuring and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy, the prospects of liberty, and the decline of the imperial system.

Wer predigt, hat etwas zu sagen.

The most important and dramatic carrier battle of World War II, which completely changed the fortunes of both Japan and America.

The RAF introduced the Avro Lancaster in 1942 and used it to spearhead this aerial offensive.

This book provides a sociological understanding of the phenomenon of exorcism and an analysis of the reasons for its contemporary re-emergence and impact on various communities.

In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism.

Using a new interdisciplinary approach to practical theology, A Rite on the Edge, reflects theologically on the findings of research conducted by Sarah Lawrence into baptism in the Church of England and in English culture more widely, using insights and research methods from corpus linguistics.

The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history.

This WWII history exposes a shocking episode of treason among the highest levels of British leadership in a conspiracy with Nazi High Command.

In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents.

When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before—thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world.

This book explores the subject of genocide through key debates and case studies.

This NoNonsense book aims to answer the questions that people are asking without jargon and in an easy-to-use FAQ format.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historiansWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history.

This book synthesizes perspectives on how 'place' is deeply intertwined with our spirituality and well-being.

This book asserts that gratitude for God's gift of creation grounds the insight of positive psychology that grateful persons act pro-socially.

How was it possible that almost all of the nearly 300,000 British and American troops who fell into German hands during World War II survived captivity in German POW camps and returned home almost as soon as the war ended?

In this provocative history, James B.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home to a rich cultural mix of Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

An account of the mass genocide of French Jews under the authority of Alois Bruenner, centering on the plight of two French Jewish families.

This book delves into the complexities of masculinity, mental health, and cultural identity among young Bangladeshi-Canadian men.

On 1 September 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, the Wehrmacht numbered 3,180,000 men.

This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace throughout the 1940s, particularly the partnership between the so-called 'Father of Europe' Jean Monnet and the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations.

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations-whether literary or photographic?