En las trincheras de Stalingrado es una pieza fundamental de la literatura bélica y uno de los primeros textos escritos en la antigua Unión Soviética que aborda con honestidad incontestable el que, probablemente, sea el episodio más importante de la Gran Guerra Patria: la batalla por Stalingrado.
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice?
In this book, Nicolas Laos studies the meaning of the terms "e;world"e; and "e;order,"e; the moral dimensions of each world order model, and wider issues of meaning and interpretation generated by humanity's attempt to live in a meaningful world and to find the logos of the beings and things in the world.
When Elizabeth Goodman first arrived at the tiny congregation that would become her home as a pastor--a congregation of about seven people in a town of just under a thousand--the longest-standing member told her that though the congregation was small, her preaching need not be.
The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere, and this book has been called the best account of it ever written.
During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities.
The realities of WWII underwater warfare come to life in this chronicle of a submarine sunk in the Philippines-and the remarkable sailors who survived.
How the history of Texas illuminates America's post-Civil War pastTracing the intersection of religion, race, and power in Texas from Reconstruction through the rise of the Religious Right and the failed presidential bid of Governor Rick Perry, Rough Country illuminates American history since the Civil War in new ways, demonstrating that Texas's story is also America's.
Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing.
The Black Devils March is an account of how the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the West under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, arose out of the ashes of defeat and while attempting to avoid the internal politics of the Polish Government in Exile, was able to return to Europe in August 1944 on the side of the Western Allies.
"Der alte Traum vom Neuen Reich" ist eine umfassende Darstellung all jener utopischen Schriften – zur Illustration werden etwa 200 weithin unbekannte faschistische und proto-faschistische populäre Zukunftsromane seit dem Vormärz bis zum Vorabend des Dritten Reichs herangezogen –, in denen in Deutschland Leitbilder und Zukunftsvisionen eines neuen "Reichs", eines auf nationalen Gemeinsinn beruhenden Staatswesens auftauchten.
This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the Chinese Catholic Church.
Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theology focuses on what postcolonial theologies look like in colonial contexts, particularly in dialogue with the First Nations Peoples in Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
This collection explores whether and how religious and secular worldviews and political ideologies held by scientists, citizens, decision-makers and politicians influence science as practiced and understood today.
Plus de trois cent vingt noms figurent sur le mémorial érigé à Ramatuelle en hommage à des héros particulièrement discrets : des agents et honorables correspondants des Services spéciaux (les services de renseignement et de contre-espionnage qui ont fait le choix de la Résistance dès le 14 juin 1940).
Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure.
Through nine seasons the TV show Supernatural has delved into social, philosophical, literary, and theological themes that not only add depth to the show, but reflect our era's intellectual concerns.
An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university.
The study of religion and politics is a strongly behavioral sub-discipline, and within the American context, scholars place tremendous emphasis on its influence on political attitudes and behaviors, resultuing in a better understanding of religion's ability to shape voting patterns, party affiliation, and views of public policy.
Religion-fuelled terrorism and attacks on freedom of expression have recently drawn headlines across Europe, either in protest or in support of extreme political or religious persuasions.
La liturgia, casa de la ternura de Dios recoge textos de José Rivera sobre el año litúrgico, agrupándolos por cada uno de los tiempos fuertes que van marcando su calendario: Adviento y Navidad, Cuaresma, Semana Santa, Pascua y Pentecostés.
The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a “strange bird”: a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic insider.
James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism to the Second World War, by focusing on its tumultuous relationship with one of the conflict's key belligerents and masters of the blockade of the Third Reich, Great Britain.
Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor choices, and at times without hope.
Fondé sur des faits réels, ce livre raconte le destin singulier de Bernard Lacroix, un jeune Français déporté en Allemagne en 1943 pour avoir tenté d'échapper au Service du Travail Obligatoire, et disparu en avril 1945 pendant les « marches de la mort » qui ont marqué la fin de la libération des camps.
