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How can the West rediscover its authentic spirit? Exploring the period from 1899 to 1945 from the end of the US frontier and the writing of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to the conclusion of World War II and the dropping of the atom bomb Luigi Morelli traces the events that led the United States to become the worlds dominating imperial force. America, he demonstrates, is deeply connected to Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe, particularly Russia. Yet despite their tragic collective histories, there is hope for the future if only America can claim its true task.Searching for the Spirit of the West challenges many of the falsehoods that pass for mainstream history. Utilizing a wealth of documented evidence from the research of overlooked historians, economists, social and spiritual thinkers, the author takes a symptomatic view of the past, revealing hidden, longer-term trends. This approach offers a new understanding of events such as the rise of Nazism, the Great Depression, the new Deal, and even the roles of banking and clandestine brotherhoods in world history. Morelli also appraises The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in parallel with Americas cultural achievements. Through imagination, L. Frank Baums contemporary fairy-tale enables us to intuit the true mission of the West and its potential contribution to world culture, now and in the future.

Viver, lutar e morrer na maior máquina de combate do mundo antigoO exército romano foi a maior máquina de combate do mundo antigo e a maior organização da Antiguidade Ocidental. O Império Romano depe

United States, mid-80s. Following the rise of thrash metal, another revolution disturbs the heavy metal scene: the birth of a major monster, death metal. And right in the heart of this storm, one group stands out to the point of practically naming the genre as a whole Death, guided by the tenacity and perseverance of a boy who would not give up on his dreams easily.His name is Chuck Schuldiner. Thanks to Chuck, over the years Death became a complex war machine. Far from the stereotypes and cliches of the musical currents that the band helped create, the group elevated the idea of heavy metal to a level that few dared to play.Tracing the most important events in Chucks life and career, extracting details from those who knew him closely, and examining all his albums from a musical and lyrical point of view, this book celebrates the life and work of a great artist, whose contribution is seminal to the history of heavy metal. A boy who always liked to think independently and who lived for the music, whose dream was prematurely interrupted, at the age of thirty-four, by a cruel illness that took his life.

A powerful, poignant and pacey adoption memoir which reads like a thriller New York Times. Donnas birth parents were infamous con artists at the heart one of the USs biggest crime investigations of the 1960s. Adoption, Family and FraudWhen her adoptive mother died in 2009 Donna Freed set out to track down her birth mother. What she discovered was truly shocking - she was the daughter of a pair of infamous con artists, at the heart of one of the biggest true crime stories to grip the USA in the 1960s. Previously redacted records from the infamous *Louise Wise Services in New York revealed that Donnas mother (27, Jewish and single), her father (40, Catholic, married with 4 children), had hatched a plan to defraud an insurance company and run off to Spain to raise Donna. Further investigation revealed that in 1967, Donnas mother, Mira Lindenmaier, faked her own death in a drowning accident off City Island in the Bronx for the double indemnity insurance money. Donna loved her tricky, unconventional adoptive mother, but was now keen to meet her birth mother and find out how and why her parents abandoned her. How would she feel towards Mira, her real Mum. How has becoming a mother herself impacted on her feelings towards her two mothers? Gripping and fast-paced, this extraordinary memoir is also incredibly moving tackling fundamental questions about motherhood and identity, nature vs nurture.

A magnífica e definitiva história de Roma, contada ao longo de vinte e dois momentos que moldaram os seus três mil anos de História.Roma exerceu e continua a exercer uma enorme influência na imaginaç

Uma viagem para o passado de uma superpotência globalA China é a civilização mais antiga da Terra, mas sua história é pouco conhecida pelo resto do mundo. A narrativa brilhante de Michael Wood – que

The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society, and an indigenous Bedouin in Israel, Amal came into this world fighting for her voice to be heard in a community that did not prize girls. At birth it was only her father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her Amal [hope] in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." Five brothers were indeed to follow.Hope is a Womans Name is a rare look at Bedouin life from the even rarer perspective of a Bedouin girl. Amal challenged authority from birth, slowly learning where her communitys boundaries lay and how to navigate them.As a shepherd at the age of 6, Amal led her flock of sheep across the green mountains of Laqiya, her village in the Negev in southern Israel. Given such responsibility, though rarely recognition, Amal came to understand her community and forge her skills as a leader.Aged 13 and frustrated by the constraints put on her education as a girl, Amal set up literacy classes for the adult women in her village. She aimed to teach them not only how to read, but to value education itself: "I wanted them to taste an education so that they would never again deprive their daughters of one." This was the beginning of a lifelong career initiating projects that would help create change for the Bedouin a minority within Israels Palestinian minority and for their women in particular. She established economic empowerment programmes for marginalized women, helped found an Arab-Jewish school, and created organizations to promote shared society.At every turn she had to face the challenges of tradition as well as the prejudices of Israeli society to create new possibilities that would allow women to empower themselves.Amal has learnt to embrace every aspect of her complicated identity Bedouin, Arab, woman, Palestinian and Israeli citizen to help create social change, build bridges with other communities and inspire hope.Hope is a Womans Name is an intimate portrayal of a little-known culture and its strengths, values, morals and boundaries. It is a rare and moving story.

Aimed at military model makers and wargamers who are interested in the armoured fighting vehicles of the United States as used throughout World War II, this book follows on from Modelling British World War II Armoured Vehicles by the same author. The book places its emphasis on US Army and US Marine Corps AFVs modelled mainly in 1/72 and 1/48 scales, in a deliberate departure from the more popular 1/35 scale, to encourage and inspire model makers who are new to or less familiar with these scales. Illustrated with over 270 colour photos this book features every major US AFV used in World War II, with many models shown in various stages of construction and paintings. It presents step-by-step guides demonstrating the painting techniques appropriate for different scales and includes an additional section showing how to paint wargames models. There is also a review of how the USA developed tanks and other armoured vehicles from the interwar period through to the end of World War II. This fascinating story will help model makers and wargamers give the vehicles they build an historical context.

Quando um grupo de torcedores para diante de uma televisão, enfeitiçados por um jogo de futebol, um sujeito desafeto do esporte pode até não aceitar aquela tamanha devoção por uma bola. Poderá não ac

A stalwart anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigner. Doreen (Baroness) LawrenceFrom fighting for Nelson Mandelas freedom to exposing his betrayal under Jacob Zuma, a 50 year story of constant campaigning. Sir Trevor McDonald, broadcasterThe powerful and timely story of Peter Hains political life fighting South African apartheid and modern-day corruption.Peter Hain has had a dramatic 50-year political career, in Britain and his native South Africa. This is the story of that extraordinary journey, from Pretoria to the House of Lords.Hain vividly describes his anti-apartheid parents arrest and harassment in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close white family friend, and enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant anti-Springbok demonstrations he became Public Enemy Number One in the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a bomb.He used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in President Jacob Zumas administration, informed by his government deep throat, and likely influenced Zumas resignation. Hain ends by exhorting South Africa to reincarnate Nelson Mandelas vision and integrity for the future.Praise for A Pretoria Boy:Peters gripping story and his passionate activism resonates with me over our common (African) childhood and exile in Britain. Natasha Kaplinsky, broadcasterA tour de force over an extraordinary half century of campaigning for justice. Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and United Nations Development ChiefTalk about courage and chutzpah - this young un helped topple apartheid! Ronnie Kasrils, former ANC underground chief and Minister

Utter joy! A delicious romp through the heyday of balderdash and grand-scale deception, penned by one of the countrys finest magical minds. Derren BrownIn 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds to witness the trick, the performer didnt. Over the following decades, elaborate pranks would continue to bamboozle audiences across England.In The Century of Deception, magician and magic historian Ian Keable tells the engrossing stories of these eighteenth-century hoaxes and those who were duped by them. The English public were hoodwinked time and time again, swallowing whole tales of rapping ghosts, a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitating Frenchman in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrological predictions. Not only were the hoaxes widely influential, drawing in celebrities such as Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Swift, they also inflamed concerns about English credulity.Fake news and going viral may be modern terms, but as this entertaining, eye-opening book shows, these concepts have been with us for centuries.A fascinating, witty and beautifully-written book. Matt Lucas Ian Keables brilliant book has opened my eyes to an incredible world of hoaxers and deceivers that I didnt know even existed. A cracking read filled with extraordinary stories. Andy Nyman A masterful and fascinating journey into a hitherto hidden world of history, mystery and hoaxes. Richard Wiseman

Esta coleção aborda o tema do Patrimônio Histórico, Artístico e Cultural, e se propõe a trazer elementos de reflexão para a atividade da Educação Ambiental. Este Volume 2 é composto de seis Capítulos

Esta coleção aborda o tema do Patrimônio Histórico, Artístico e Cultural, e se propõe a trazer elementos de reflexão para a atividade da Educação Ambiental. Este Volume 3 é composto de seis Capítulos

Esta coleção aborda o tema do Patrimônio Histórico, Artístico e Cultural, e se propõe a trazer elementos de reflexão para a atividade da Educação Ambiental. Este Volume 1 é composto de seis Capítulos

A biografia de um líder que transformou o mundo.Quando em 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev se tornou líder da União Soviética, esta era uma das duas superpotências mundiais. Em 1989, a sua política liberal da

Conscious of possible deficiencies, the editor presents this result of his labors to all readers interested in the history of this beautiful town. Although the work is largely a compilation of facts and figures touching the history of Georgias metropolis from its founding to the first years of the 20th century and no special merit of originality is claimed for it, the reader will find much in these pages as is not elsewhere easily accessible in printed form matter authentic and valuable for reference. Particularly is this true of the war history recorded with great fidelity and no little detail in the first volume. The facts therein contained were gathered from original sources Federal and Confederate mostly direct from field orders, reports and correspondence. The task involved a vast deal of research and reading, but the editor feels compensated by the belief that a fuller or more reliable narrative of the famous "Atlanta Campaign," from Dalton to Jonesboro, was never written. The second volume, which deals with post-bellum and modern Atlanta, will be found to be brought down to date in preserving a record of the citys upbuilding and remarkable progress. The last decade of the 19th century has completely metamorphosed Atlanta physically. Her rehabilitation after the ruthless legions of Sherman passed through her ashes to the sea was not more magical, if we may use the word, than has been her rapid transformation in this latter conquest of peace. It is surprising, at first blush, but nearly all of the better buildings of Atlanta, business and residential, have been constructed within less than these past ten years, and this means the practical rebuilding of the city and its wide expansion in that short space of time. This is volume two out of two.

Conscious of possible deficiencies, the editor presents this result of his labors to all readers interested in the history of this beautiful town. Although the work is largely a compilation of facts and figures touching the history of Georgias metropolis from its founding to the first years of the 20th century and no special merit of originality is claimed for it, the reader will find much in these pages as is not elsewhere easily accessible in printed form matter authentic and valuable for reference. Particularly is this true of the war history recorded with great fidelity and no little detail in the first volume. The facts therein contained were gathered from original sources Federal and Confederate mostly direct from field orders, reports and correspondence. The task involved a vast deal of research and reading, but the editor feels compensated by the belief that a fuller or more reliable narrative of the famous "Atlanta Campaign," from Dalton to Jonesboro, was never written. The second volume, which deals with post-bellum and modern Atlanta, will be found to be brought down to date in preserving a record of the citys upbuilding and remarkable progress. The last decade of the 19th century has completely metamorphosed Atlanta physically. Her rehabilitation after the ruthless legions of Sherman passed through her ashes to the sea was not more magical, if we may use the word, than has been her rapid transformation in this latter conquest of peace. It is surprising, at first blush, but nearly all of the better buildings of Atlanta, business and residential, have been constructed within less than these past ten years, and this means the practical rebuilding of the city and its wide expansion in that short space of time. This is volume one out of two.

Columbus is the state capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio, as well as the county seat of Franklin County. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. This is a full account of the history of this beautiful towns, of Franklin county and its various townships and includes a huge and thoroughly investigated biographical section.

The Battle of Hastings is one of the key events in the history of the British Isles. This book is not merely another attempt to describe what happened at Hastings - that has already been done supremely well by many others - but instead to highlight two issues: how little we actually know for certain about the battle, and how the popular understanding of 14 October 1066 has been shaped by the concerns of later periods. It looks not just at perennial themes such as how did Harold die and why did the English lose, but also at other crucial issues such as the diplomatic significance of William of Normandys claim to the English throne, the Norman attempt to secure papal support, and the extent to which the Norman and Anglo-Saxon armies represented diametrically opposed military systems. This study will be of great interest to all historians, students and teachers of history and is illustrated with 10 colour and 10 black & white photographs.

Wie Menschenrechte zu einer Legitimationsgrundlage fur militarische Interventionen wurden.Die Balkankriege der neunziger Jahre, der Volkermord in Ruanda und die Darfur-Krise dienten als Katalysatoren einer Debatte, die die Koordinaten internationaler Politik und des Volkerrechts nachhaltig verandert hat: Der Verweis auf humanitare Notlagen und Menschenrechtsverletzungen wurde zu einem der zugkraftigsten Argumente, um Eingriffe einzelner Staaten oder Staatenbundnisse auf fremdem Territorium zu legitimieren. Die dadurch angestoene Neuverhandlung internationaler Normen ging einher mit einer Relativierung des Souveranitatsprinzips und des Gewaltverbots.Der Aufstieg des sogenannten New Humanitarianism" wahrend der neunziger Jahre war nicht zuletzt das Resultat politischer und kultureller Wandlungsprozesse, deren Wurzeln in der Zeit vor dem Ende der bipolaren Weltordnung lagen. Die Aushohlung des Unparteilichkeitsgebots humanitarer Akteure, der Aktivismus einer Neuen Linken und die Entstehung einer neuen Ethik der Dringlichkeit haben die Formen und Ziele des Humanitarismus grundlegend verandert. Der Band nimmt gleichermaen die Rolle von Regierungen, suprastaatliche und nichtstaatliche Akteure wie NGOs, Medien und Sozialwissenschaften in den Blick.