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Obra brilhante e essencial para a compreensão de como o nacional-socialismo ascendeu sob o comando de um tirano. O renomado historiador Thomas Weber reúne uma quantidade impressionante de novas infor

Was Jack the Ripper an artist called Frank Miles? Toughill suggests that this former friend of Oscar Wilde was indeed the killer, and that Wilde dropped hints about this in several of his works, most notably The Picture of Dorian Gray, which Wilde wrote in 1889, the year after the Ripper murders took place.In fascinating detail, the author argues that Wildes story, that of a privileged man whose life of vice in the East End of London turns him into a murderer, is in fact a coded message about the Rippers identity. However, The Ripper Code is not just a fascinating voyage through the writings of Oscar Wilde and others. It is also a striking example of original detective work. Here, as in his previous books, Toughill unveils stunning evidence from a hitherto untapped source and uses it to devastating effect in arguing his case. The result is a book which is as original as it is enthralling.

In 1937, Ursula Bower visited Nagaland at the invitation of a friend, and on a dispensary tour encountered the Naga people. She was so taken was with their striking dignity, tribal pride and unique culture that she arranged to live among them to write an anthropological study. But she became more than an observer living alone among them, Ursula was integrated into their village life, becoming their figurehead when in 1944 the Japanese invaded the jungles of Nagaland from Burma. The Nagas turned to her for leadership and with the support of General Slim, her Naga guides were armed and trained to patrol and repel the Japanese incursions. The Nagas courage and loyalty were duly recognised, and after the conflict Ursula, with Naga support, went on to run a jungle training school for the RAF. Later, with her husband, Tim Betts as Political Officer, she worked among the volatile tribes of the remote Apa Tani Valley, bordering Tibet. Following the Independence of India in 1947, Ursula returned to her highland roots, but to her death in 1988, her experiences among the Naga people shaped and directed her life.

Esta obra consiste na abordagem do processo de urbanização romana da região do Noroeste da Hispânia, tendo por base a avaliação dos conhecimentos disponíveis propiciados pelas fontes escritas, epigrá

In "Victoria C. Woodhull: A Biographical Sketch," Theodore Tilton offers a compelling portrait of one of Americas most controversial figures in the womens rights movement. Written in an engaging yet scholarly style, this biographical sketch presents Woodhulls dynamic life as a spiritualist, suffragist, and radical thinker who challenged the norms of the 19th century. Tilton meticulously weaves together Woodhulls personal anecdotes, social context, and the philosophical underpinnings of her activism, presenting a vivid account that highlights her commitment to social reform and her visionary ideas about womens rights and sexuality. Theodore Tilton, a journalist and activist, was at the forefront of progressive social movements during his time. His involvement with issues concerning womens suffrage and equality undoubtedly shaped his perspective and deepened his admiration for Woodhull. Tiltons insights and experiences in the realm of social justice offer readers a deeper understanding of the challenges Woodhull faced, as well as the broader societal implications of her work. This book is highly recommended for scholars, students, and anyone interested in the history of feminism and civil rights. Tiltons dedication to truth and justice makes this biographical sketch not only an informative read but also an inspiring call to action for contemporary advocates of equality.In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:- Handpicked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.

"A few years ago I was working a gold-quartz mine in California. It was a worthless mine, under the conditions of that time. I had been dragged into it by the shifts and needs of California life. Destiny probably meant to teach me patience and self-possession in difficulty. So Destiny thrust me into a bitter bad business of quartz mining. If I had had countless dollars of capital to work my mine, or quicksilver for amalgamation as near and plenty as the snow on the Sierra Nevada, I might have done well enough...."

É um guia para reconhecer as sutilezas do abuso emocional, entender os jogos psíquicos por trás do narcisismo e, sobretudo, resgatar a própria identidade. Cada capítulo foi pensado para oferecer não

O Maior Desafio são memórias de um pioneiro que, em sua temática e forma, é um livro de recordações. O fio da narrativa do professor Dr. Teske se organiza em torno das suas lembranças, ao cumprir a d

Cuando en marzo de 2004, Tiziano Terzani, debido a una enfermedad terminal, ve acercarse el final de su vida, decide reunirse con su hijo Folco para mantener con él unas valiosas conversaciones sobre la vida que ha llevado.Aceptando su destino con la serenidad propia del que ha frecuentado las filosofias orientales durante gran parte de su vida, Terzani rememora los hechos que han marcado su existencia y la de los suyos.Nacido en el seno de una humilde familia florentina en los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Tiziano Terzani quiere transmitir a su hijo su insaciable curiosidad por el mundo y sus habitantes. Desafiando el destino que le reservaba su origen social, decidio ser periodista y recorrer incansablemente nuestro planeta. Frente a su mirada comprometida desfilaron la mayoria de los hechos determinantes del convulso siglo XX: la guerra fria, la China maoista, el apartheid surafricano o la guerra de Vietnam son solo algunos de los acontecimientos que marcaron la trayectoria de este hombre extraordinario.

The great, the good, and the very, very bad from Worcestershires past live again in this informative, lively and entertaining collection of more than 700 mini-biographies of county men and women from across the centuries. All of human life is here, from composers to conmen, from military men and a woman to medical pioneers and nineteenth-century manufacturers, from daring explorers to one of the great entertainers of the music hall era. The county can claim many more who were either born or lived here for a major part of their lives, who made their mark with colourful enterprise or diligent toil. All of them called Worcestershire home and their contribution to its rich and varied history is remembered here in this well-researched and engaging book.

Terri Thal was very much a part of the folk music world in 1960s Greenwich Village, New York. Few people know that she was 21-year-old Bob Dylans first manager prior to his contract with Albert Grossman and Columbia Records. She also managed musician Dave Van Ronk (who was her husband), and others to include the Roche sisters, Paul Geremia and The Holy Modal Rounders. She booked performances at coffee houses, clubs and basket houses. On 6 September 1961, she recorded a set from a young Bob at The Gaslight Cafe it is the first known live recording of his original songs - known to Dylan fans as the First Gaslight Tape! Terri took this audition tape to clubs to try to get him gigs and she still owns the original reel-to-reel tape! She had many friends in Greenwich Village including Suze Rotolo and a number of seminal 1960s folk musicians.When Dave Van Ronk first saw young Bob performing in a club in Greenwich Village he said I just heard this kid whos a fucking genius. Youve got to hear him. Within a few days I heard him play and agreed with Dave. Bob Dylan asked me, Would you get me gigs?Terri Thal has two passions: folk music and social justice. This is a personal story of the world of folk music in 1960s New York written by a Jewish woman from Brooklyn who, although not a musician, was an intrinsic part of this scene. Terri describes Greenwich Village as a community that was supportive, musically exciting and one in which people had fun.Terri tells us what it was like to hang out in the Village coffee houses, to host folk singers like Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs who hung out at her apartment, and to be a manager. We hear her view and involvement of the 1960s socialist organizations, and how she later merged her professional work in not- for-profit agencies.

¿Cómo sentían, pensaban, expresaban sus sentimientos y emociones las mujeres de la Europa cristiana medieval? La historia de las mujeres, disciplina relativamente reciente en los estudios históricos, ofrece una vision documentada de la presencia femenina en la sociedad, tradicionalmente invisibilizada y silenciada, y un acceso a la esfera de los sentimientos y sometimientos femeninos. Clerigos, moralistas, legisladores, novelistas o tratadistas son las voces masculinas que de modo preeminente han descrito y prescrito los usos amorosos de las mujeres. Sin embargo, existen magnificos ejemplos que nos acercan directamente al pensar y sentir femenino. En este libro, podremos oir sus voces, sus esperanzas, anhelos y lamentos, a traves de los asombrosos testimonios plasmados en cartas, poemas, canciones, memorias, tratados, pero tambien documentos judiciales como interrogatorios y testamentos de mujeres de distinta clase y condicion, algunas conocidas e ilustradas, como Eloisa, Dhuoda de Uzes, Hildegarda de Bingen, Margarita Porete, Christine de Pizan, Leonor Lopez de Cordoba, Isabel de Villena, etc., y otras muchas desconocidas e iletradas, pero depositarias y transmisoras de unos saberes y practicas surgidos de la vida cotidiana, tambien de la abnegacion y del amor. Un recorrido conjunto por la historia de las emociones y sentimientos que nos permite conocer sus ideas acerca del cuerpo y sus cuidados; los ideales de belleza; la sexualidad; los modelos amatorios, con una parada obligatoria en el amor cortes; los amores prohibidos; los amores entre mujeres o el amor a Dios; el matrimonio y los enlaces forzosos o secretos, las violencias y castigos maritales, tambien la armonia conyugal; la maternidad o la hermandad entre mujeres.

One authors excuses.What, me write a book?Dont be so bloody daft.It takes me long enough to read a book let alone write one, but then it was pointed out to me that l had written all about my family history, which by the way l loved doing so whats the difference, and l do have a good memory for things that happened a long time ago, on the radio the other day l heard a famous author say, all writers are liars, they call on their own experiences but then invent embroider and exaggerate in order to make a better story, l have not consciously tried to do this and l dont think l need to , where l have quoted dialogue it must be remembered that l heard conversations like these many times over the years in one form or another, most of the incidents l describe are also well remembered by my brothers and sisters and even now on the rare occasions we get together we amuse each other with talk of the old days in Ladywood and laugh about things that were not quite so funny at the time and this has helped keep my memory fresh.

In August 1914 the German main attack was conducted by the 2nd Army. It had the missions of taking the vital fortresses of Liege and Namur, and then defeating the Anglo- French-Belgian forces in the open plains of northern Belgium. The German attack on the Belgian fortress at Liege from 5 to 16 August 1914 had tremendous political and military importance, and yet there has never been a complete account of the siege. The German and Belgian sources are fragmentary and biased. The short descriptions in English are general, use a few Belgian sources and are filled with inaccuracies. Making use of both German and Belgian sources, and supported by tactical maps, this book for the first time describes and evaluates the construction of the fortress, its military purpose, the German plan and the conduct of the attack. Previous accounts emphasise the importance of the huge German Big Bertha cannon, to the virtual exclusion of everything else; Ten Days in August shows that the effect of this gun was a myth, and reveals how the Germans really took the fortress and thus set the scene for perhaps the most destructive conflict in history.

Conventional histories of the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau describe how, although the British were massively outnumbered, precise and rapid rifle fire mowed down rows of German troops: the staggering casualties inflicted made both British victories, and set the stage for the Battle of the Marne. But neither encounter has ever been described in English from the German point of view. Using German tactics manuals and regimental histories, Terence Zuber re-examines the battles at Mons and Le Cateau, subjecting British tactics to a critique that goes beyond admiration for rapid rifle fire and presenting new and startling perspectives, showing how the Germans employed a high degree of tactical sophistication in conducting combined-arms operations. The odds were, in fact, even, and German casualties never reached the levels described in the standard histories. The Mons Myth is the first history of these battles to take this approach in ninety years, and completely changes our understanding of what actually happened.

The Real German War Plan, 190414 fundamentally changes our understanding of German military planning before the First World War. On the basis of newly discovered or long-neglected documents in German military archives, this book gives the first description of Schlieffens war plans in 1904 and 1905 and Moltkes plans from 1906 to 1914. It explodes unfounded myths concerning German war planning, gives the first appraisal of the actual military and political factors that influenced it, shows that there never was a Schlieffen Plan and reveals Moltkes strategy for a war against Russia from 1909 to 1912. Tracing the decline in the German military position and the recognition by 1913 that Germany would be forced to fight outnumbered on both the eastern and western fronts, it is an essential read for anyone with an interest in the First World War.

Like the Battle of Verdun, the Battle of the Frontiers has often been ignored by military historians, who assumed that the French lost the first battles of the World War I because they launched suicidal bayonet charges against German machine guns. Therefore, for nearly a century, these battles have been considered uninteresting. In reality, these were some of the most important, hard-fought and instructive battles of the First World War.The Battle of the Frontiers is the first history of this battle in English and is based on ground-breaking research conducted in French and German army archives. It also makes use of neglected French and German books and articles, as well as German regimental histories, and includes personal accounts by participants such as Manfred von Richthofen (when he was still a cavalry lieutenant) and the young Erwin Rommel. Terence Zuber here presents a dramatic new perspective on combat in 1914.

Este livro traz uma abordagem sobre a Capitania de Minas Gerais, analisando como Vila Rica foi se constituindo, respondendo as forças sociais, administrativas e economicas. Um trabalho essencial para a compreenso da historia urbana mineira.

Esta é a história de um cão, um homem e um anjo. Talvez para você será apenas uma história fantasiosa sobre um animal de estimação, mas para mim, foi muito mais do que isto. Enquanto estou escrevendo

En la década de 1700, en París, una tal Jeanne de Saint-Rémy engañó a los joyeros reales con un collar hecho con seiscientos cuarenta y siete diamantes asegurando que era la mejor amiga de la reina Maria Antonieta. A mediados de la decada de 1800, las hermanas Kate y Maggie Fox fingieron que podian hablar con los espiritus y sin querer iniciaron un movimiento religioso. ¿Cuantas mujeres despues de la muerte de los Romanov han afirmado ser la Gran Duquesa Anastasia? Para Tori Telfer, el arte de la estafa femenina tiene una larga y venerable tradicion, y este libro es la prueba.