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Author : Heinrich Lienhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783857915048
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book "Wenn du absolut nach Amerika willst, so gehe in Gottesnamen!" written by Heinrich Lienhard and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Schelbert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442233524
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Switzerland written by Leo Schelbert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switzerland's exceptional scenic beauty of valleys, lakes, and mountains, its central location on international trade routes, and its world famous banking system are just a few elements that have contributed to its rise in the global market. It consists of twenty-six member states, called cantons and it’s actively engaged in the maintenance of peace among nations. The history of the Swiss Confederation is as rich and varied as its culture and people. This updated second edition of Historical Dictionary of Switzerland features the nation's multicultural and democratic traditions and institutions, its complex history, and its people's involvement in past and present world affairs. This is done through a list of abbreviations and acronyms, a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, maps, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone who wants to know more about Switzerland.
Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : Fireship Press
ISBN 13 : 1611791154
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Captain Bayley's Heir written by G. A. Henty and published by Fireship Press. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 32 pages of additional articles, references, and bibliographies of recommended reading. The California Gold Rush began in early 1848 when gold was discovered by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill. In the next few years some 300,000 people flocked to the gold fields to make their fortune; and we think of it as a peculiarly American event. It wasn't. Indeed, the prospectors came from all over the world-the UK, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and China, to name but a few. This book is the story of one of those overseas adventurers. Frank Norris was quietly living in England, an heir to a considerable fortune, when his world was suddenly turned up-side down. His cousin, a rival heir, laid a trap for him, resulting in Frank being accused of theft. To avoid these charges he flees to America, where he begins a cross-country trek to the California gold fields. Despite the arduous journey, he makes it to California only to discover that his difficulties have just begun. As you read along you might be struck by Henty's use of standard western plot fixtures like wagon trains, Indian raids, stagecoach robberies, buffalo hunts, and so forth. You might want to keep in mind, however, that those devices were not copied from others; countless others copied them from him. Henty's History Series - Learning History Through Fiction The Henty series is a unique way of learning about history. It consists of over 80 novels, each written by George A. Henty, and each featuring a significant historical person, period or event. * Perfect for busy people who have never lost their desire to learn. * An ideal way for homeschool students to learn history. * Organized by time period. * With additional nonfiction articles and a bibliography of recommended reading. "If you want to fall in love with history, there is simply no better way to do it than this."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Western Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heinrich Lienhard
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809322336
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (223 download)
Download or read book New Worlds to Seek written by Heinrich Lienhard and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lienhard has provided an unusually full account of his early life. The book contains fifty-one chapters, with each chapter featuring one or more life-shaping incidents for this pioneer who would successfully cross the Rocky Mountains at the same time the Donner party, taking a different and more obvious route, perished."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anson F. Rainey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004281541
Total Pages : 1671 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 vol. set) written by Anson F. Rainey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 1671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new critical edition of the el-Amarna Letters based on personal examination of all the tablets.
Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825946
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Hiding from Humanity written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, in the law. Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in troubling ways with a desire to hide from our humanity, embodying an unrealistic and sometimes pathological wish to be invulnerable. Nussbaum argues that the thought-content of disgust embodies "magical ideas of contamination, and impossible aspirations to purity that are just not in line with human life as we know it." She argues that disgust should never be the basis for criminalizing an act, or play either the aggravating or the mitigating role in criminal law it currently does. She writes that we should be similarly suspicious of what she calls "primitive shame," a shame "at the very fact of human imperfection," and she is harshly critical of the role that such shame plays in certain punishments. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich variety of philosophical, psychological, and historical references--from Aristotle and Freud to Nazi ideas about purity--and on legal examples as diverse as the trials of Oscar Wilde and the Martha Stewart insider trading case, this is a major work of legal and moral philosophy.
Author : Claus Westermann
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802804501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Living Psalms written by Claus Westermann and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author provides a new & valuable introduction to the Book of Psalms. He revitalizes the reader's understanding & appreciation by clearly drawing out the meaning of the psalms while demonstrating their abiding religious significance & their relevance to present day concerns.Some of the topics include:*Communal psalms of Lament*Individual psalms of trust*Liturgical psalms*Translations of some 50 psalms along with extensive commentary on each.
Author : Robin Dunbar
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500772142
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind written by Robin Dunbar and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A closer look at genealogy, incorporating how biological, anthropological, and technical factors can influence human lives We are at a pivotal moment in understanding our remote ancestry and its implications for how we live today. The barriers to what we can know about our distant relatives have been falling as a result of scientific advance, such as decoding the genomes of humans and Neanderthals, and bringing together different perspectives to answer common questions. These collaborations have brought new knowledge and suggested fresh concepts to examine. The results have shaken the old certainties. The results are profound; not just for the study of the past but for appreciating why we conduct our social lives in ways, and at scales, that are familiar to all of us. But such basic familiarity raises a dilemma. When surrounded by the myriad technical and cultural innovations that support our global, urbanized lifestyles we can lose sight of the small social worlds we actually inhabit and that can be traced deep into our ancestry. So why do we need art, religion, music, kinship, myths, and all the other facets of our over-active imaginations if the reality of our effective social worlds is set by a limit of some one hundred and fifty partners (Dunbar’s number) made of family, friends, and useful acquaintances? How could such a social community lead to a city the size of London or a country as large as China? Do we really carry our hominin past into our human present? It is these small worlds, and the link they allow to the study of the past that forms the central point in this book.
Author : Gottfried Benn
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200080
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book Primal Vision written by Gottfried Benn and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected writings of Gottfried Benn or primal visions of the 1920s anticipated in certain ways the positions of such writers today as Beckett and Genet, the French antinovelists and the American Beats.
Author : Julius Theodor Zenker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783741136412
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Türkisch-Arabisch-Persisches Handwörterbuch written by Julius Theodor Zenker and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkisch-Arabisch-Persisches Handworterbuch is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future."
Author : Jacques Monod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140256468
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Chance and Necessity written by Jacques Monod and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.
Author : Gottfried Benn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374175375
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Impromptus written by Gottfried Benn and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection of poetry and prose from the master of German expressionism The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912)—written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after—with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set Benn on the path to celebrity and notoriety. And indeed, mortality, flowers, and powerful aesthetic collisions typify much of his subsequent work. Over the decades, as Benn suffered the vicissitudes of fate (the death of his mother from cancer; the death of his first wife, Edith; his brief attempt to ingratiate himself with the Nazis, followed by their persecution of him; the suicide of his second wife, Herta), the harsh voice of the poems relented and mellowed. His later poetry—from which Impromptus is chiefly drawn, many of the poems translated into English for the first time—is deeply affecting: it reflects the routines and sorrows and meditations of an intelligent, pessimistic, and experienced man. Written in the low, unupholstered monologue of the poet talking to himself, these works are slender ribbons of speech on the naked edge of song and silence. With this collection of poems and essays—edited and translated by the award-winning poet Michael Hofmann—Benn, at long last, promises to attain the presence and importance in the English-speaking world that he so richly deserves.
Author : Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Publisher : Ariadne Press (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mars in Aries written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although this story of a romance between an aristocratic Wehrmacht officer and a mysterious woman in Vienna set against the 1939 invasion of Poland was deemed unacceptable fare for Third Reich readership due to its ambiguity, lack of heroic military images, and the sympathetic portrayal of a suffering Poland, the novel's actual purpose and highly subversive quality were hardly suspected by the Ministry of Propaganda."--Jacket.
Author : Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN 13 : 1805330373
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book I Was Jack Mortimer written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and published by Pushkin Press Classics. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A terrific fast-moving book. . . a truly clever, rather wonderful book that both plays with and defies genre” – Irish Times A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim, and is caught into a dangerous spiral Twice adapted for film, I Was Jack Mortimer is a tale of misappropriated identity as darkly captivating and twisting as the books of Patricia Highsmith. “One doesn’t step into anyone’s life, not even a dead man’s, without having to live it to the end.” A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late... Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world’s greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov.
Author : Horace Greeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco, in the Summer of 1859 written by Horace Greeley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922077
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Days of Gold written by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession—soon called 49ers—included the wealthy and the poor from every state and territory, including slaves brought by their owners. In numbers, they represented the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. In this first comprehensive history of the Gold Rush, Malcolm J. Rohrbough demonstrates that in its far-reaching repercussions, it was the most significant event in the first half of the nineteenth century. No other series of events between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War produced such a vast movement of people; called into question basic values of marriage, family, work, wealth, and leisure; led to so many varied consequences; and left such vivid memories among its participants. Through extensive research in diaries, letters, and other archival sources, Rohrbough uncovers the personal dilemmas and confusion that the Gold Rush brought. His engaging narrative depicts the complexity of human motivation behind the event and reveals the effects of the Gold Rush as it spread outward in ever-widening circles to touch the lives of families and communities everywhere in the United States. For those who joined the 49ers, the decision to go raised questions about marital obligations and family responsibilities. For those men—and women, whose experiences of being left behind have been largely ignored until now—who remained on the farm or in the shop, the absences of tens of thousands of men over a period of years had a profound impact, reshaping a thousand communities across the breadth of the American nation.
