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On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a Westminster Justice of the Peace, was discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill. He had been pierced with his own sword and apparently strangled. His death lead to a widespread popular hysteria about a "Popish Plot". Although a magistrate famous for his fierce rectitude, Godfrey was closely involved with the alternative healer and "stroker", Valentine Greatrakes and also played a part in many plots and and intrigues centred on the uninhibited court of Charles II and Restoration London. His death brought to a head a series of rumours about Catholic plots to kill Charles II and install his brother, James, Duke of York, on the throne. Identified as the victim of a Jesuit hit-man, Godfrey became overnight a Protestant martyr and cult figure.

For the last 60 years, J. I. Packer has exerted a steady and remarkable influence on evangelical theology and practice. His many books, articles, and lectures have shaped entire generations of Christians, helping elevate their view of God and enliven their love for God. In this new biography, well-known scholar Leland Ryken provides readers with a compelling overview of Packers interesting life and influential legacy. Exploring his childhood, college days, theological education, and professional life in both England and America, this volume combines detailed facts with personal anecdotes so as to paint a holistic portrait of the man himself. Finally, Ryken identifies lifelong themes evident in Packers life, ministry, and writings that shed light on his enduring significance for Christians today.

La straordinaria storia di Sergio Porcarelli,figlio di madre sopravvissuta libica,di padre sopravvissuto a rastrellamento nazista,sopravvissuto a leucemia,sopravvissuto a atti persecutori,mutilato chirurgicamente,diversamente abile, maamante della vita e generoso verso gli altri.

Geburtstrauma durch Sauerstoffmangel, neurologische Funktionsstorungen, TetraspastikDas E-Book Wackeltante wird angeboten von BoD - Books on Demand und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert:Geburtstrauma, Hirnschadigung, Tetraspastik, Autobiografie, Erfahrungen

Napoleon Bonapartes campaign in Russia in from 24 June to abt 5 December 1812 remains one of the greatest military disasters of all times.The hot weather and the forced marches making the soldiers sick reduced Napoleons Grande Armee fom abt 450.000 to only 120.000 a the time he reached Moscow. More famous is the bitter winter during the withdrawal which reduced his fighting force to an est 1.500 and only abt 100.000 made it back. Napoleon didnt have the supplies the Russians had.The great battles were few as the Russians avoided most of them and instead they employed scorched earth and guerilla tactics to beat Napoleon. His Russia campaign would lead to the end of his grip on Europa.The campaign is full of great names on both sides and it is impossible to do justice to them all in a small book like this one. Many famous artists have depicted this epic war. We hope the readers will enjoy our selection of art work.

Note: this title has a separate workbook.Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to fascinate even today, more than 200 years after his death. His legacy is shown in beautiful paintings.He was an unrivalled general, although he did make occasional mistakes both on the tactical and the strategic level - the most significant was his attack on Russia, which annihilated most of his Grande Armee and led to his downfall.Napoleon institutionalized plunder and destruction in a way mostly only known by more primitive invaders. Both he and his generals and soldiers stole incredible amounts of cultural property and wantonly destroyed much moreNapoleon did leave some durable institutions on which modern France is built upon, including the Napoleonic Code, the judicial system, the central bank and the countrys financial organization, military academies, and a centralized university. We hope the reades will enjoy our seletion of artwork.

Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 - died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting. In Joaquín Sorolla Portraits 3 1911 -1920 Sorolla paints still paints many important portraits although in the course of preparing for his grand masterpiece "The Vision of Spain", which hangs in the Hispanic Society of America, he did not have the same amount of time available. Sorolla also indulged in painting gardens as relaxation from the gigantic "The Vision of Spain" project.The portraits provide a deep and interesting look into both American and Spanish society in this period. In his early years Sorolla often showed social realism, in his culmination period showed the increasingly wealthy sitters that came to him and in his final period he is a celebrated portraitist of rich Americans and a cultural and political elite in Spain.

The Play of Emotion and Fantasy is the book about the arts of the in Finland living Dutch Visual Artist and Interior Architect Willem Krijgsman (born in 1953, Delft). The book contains a large collection of his early artworks.In the form of two separate, interesting interviews, he takes the reader with him by showing his works through many fantastic colour photos and pictures. He explains his process of creation and artistic developments. He is showing us, how he goes from paper collages to assemblages, from assemblages via junk art into drawing, followed by his later discovery of clay, that developed into love for modelling clay.In this rich, with photographs and drawings, illustrated book Krijgsman shows his love for the arts in general. Making art, by discovering and researching art forms, is his most important motivation.He wants, that his book of arts is working as if being in an exhibition situation. The reader can go through different stages of his artistic creations. Explanations and names under the pictures, if so, are kept to a minimum, not to disturb the viewers own interpretation.The artist, living in Finland since 1981, has held many solo exhibitions in his home country, especially in Helsinki and Vantaa. He has also taken part in many group exhibitions and gained publicity. Though not internationally known, his wonderful artworks are very much on the level and worthwhile exploring. They show a really motivated, talented and sincere visual artist at work.Willem Krijgsman has published in Finnish, in 2023, the book Fifty-Fifty (BoD, ISBN: 978-952-80-9321-3) telling his integration process into the Finnish society via intertextual collages using e.g. paintings from Golden Age of Finnish Art.

Sigüenza célèbre les 900 ans de la Reconquête musulmane du 12 au 14 juillet 2024. Depuis lors, elle est fondamentalement une ville chrétienne sous la direction des évêques. Elle fut une ville chrétie

Me Rea ja Lea olimme tilanneet matkan Teneriffalle. Matkan tarkoituksena oli juhlistaa Rean elakkeelle jaamista. Meilla oli mukanamme vaaleanpunainen kirjanen, johon kirjoitimme tapahtumia matkastamme. Matkahan tehtiin vuonna 2013. Vaaleanpunainen kirja on ollut laatikossa piilossa useat vuodet ja eraana paivana se tupsahti esille. Se aikaansai sen, etta nyt meilla on oikea kirja kirjoitettuna matkastamme. Matkan haluamme jakaa kaikkien teidan kanssanne. Mukavia lukuhetkia.

Mein Leben gleicht einem Wunder. Es stand anscheinend unter einem besonderen Schutz. Trotz furchterlicher Erlebnisse konnte ich durch auergewohnliche Fugungen psychisch uberleben und zu einer guten Entwicklung finden. Ohne Gott ware ich an den schrecklichen Ereignissen zerbrochen. Um die Groe dieses wundersamen Geschehens sichtbar zu machen, reicht es nicht aus, die heilenden Vorgange darzustellen. Nur wenn ich auch die verstorenden Sachverhalte aufzeige, ist es moglich, das Ausma der besonderen Fugungen zu begreifen, das meinem Leben eine unerwartete Wendung gab.

Frutto di un certosino lavoro di ricomposizione di una quantita enorme di materiale disperso in una varieta eterogenea e frammentaria di fonti, il presente lavoro costituisce in assoluto la prima raccolta organica strutturata cronologicamente e non secondo criteri tematici delle lettere edite di Luigi Pirandello.I tre tomi di cui lopera si compone includono complessivamente 1.747 lettere, 72 cartoline, 67 telegrammi, 34 vaglia, 16 cartolinotti e 3 biglietti da visita entro un arco temporale di mezzo secolo di rapporti epistolari con 109 destinatari diversi tra il 1886 e il 1936.Premessa da un saggio introduttivo di Roberto Loi Piras comprendente la storia dei carteggi, il censimento delle lettere e delle parti mancanti o espunte anche nelle edizioni piu autorevoli, lanalisi critica delle edizioni disponibili con una problematizzazione di questioni di ordine prettamente filologico o legate alla corretta datazione di alcune epistole, una mappatura degli originali, la segnalazione di alcuni inediti e il catalogo, lopera risulta essere il piu completo quadro disponibile per quanto concerne la parabola umana e intellettuale di Pirandello ma anche uno specchio della temperie della cultura italiana durante il cruciale snodo del passaggio dallillusione post-risorgimentale alla crisi dello Stato liberale allavvento e stabilizzazione del fascismo.

Die junge judische Lyrikerin Selma Merbaum starb 1942 mit 18 Jahren in dem deutschen Zwangsarbeitslager Michailowka in der heutigen Ukraine. Nur 57 handschriftlich niedergeschriebene Gedichte umfasst ihr schmales Werk Blutenlese, das auf abenteuerliche Weise uberlebt hat und auf der letzten Seite mit dem Satz abschliet: Ich habe keine Zeit gehabt zuende zu schreiben In jahrelanger Forschung hat Marion Tauschwitz Daten, Ereignisse und Fakten zum Leben der jungen Kunstlerin zusammengetragen, Archivmaterial aus der Ukraine, aus England, den USA und Deutschland ausgewertet, Dokumente geborgen, Zeitzeugen ausfindig gemacht und die faszinierende, gleichermaen einfuhlsame wie wissenschaftlich fundierte Biografie verfasst. Gleich nach seinem Erscheinen machte das Werk Furore und entfaltete ungeahnte Wirkung: Zeitzeugen aus aller Welt lieferten erganzende Erinnerungen an Selma Merbaum. Mit neuen Dokumenten, einer neuen Einleitung sowie drei bisher unbekannten Fotos und einer Zeittafel erweitert Tauschwitz in dieser Neuausgabe ihrer Biografie das bisherige Bild der groen Lyrikerin.

Alan Parker will mich fur den Film Midnight Express, Hauptrolle, ich soll einen kiffenden Ami spielen.Ist doch toll!, rief Klaus. Mach das! Damit schaffst Du Hollywood!Ich lie meine Butterbrezel sinken und fragte: Seit wann geht es um Hollywood es geht um den Kampf um Befreiung!Christof Wackernagel ist seit seinem funfzehnten Lebensjahr ein gefragter Schauspieler. 1977 hatte er die Moglichkeit gehabt, in einer internationalen Produktion mitzuwirken, doch er beschloss, sich stattdessen der RAF anzuschlieen. RAF oder Hollywood erzahlt die Geschichte vor Wackernagels Zeit in der RAF. So ist das Buch zwar keine Autobiografie, Abrechnung oder Bitte um Absolution, aber dennoch eine autobiografisch vorgetragene Antwort auf die Frage, warum er sich dem bewaffneten Untergrund anschloss. Wackernagel berichtet aus der jeweiligen Zeit, was ihn beeinflusste und ihn seine Meinung bilden lie, und gibt somit stets den damaligen Zeitgeist wieder, ohne aus heutiger Sicht zu urteilen.

James Joyce da inicio a la modernidad de las letras irlandesas con la publicación de "Los muertos", cuento que abre esta exhaustiva compilación de veinticinco relatos editada por Sinéad Mac Aodha y Jorge Fondebrider.Esta antologia -en palabras de sus editores- tiene como unica ambicion que los lectores "descubran una nueva constelacion de autores, que sepan algo que antes no sabian y que de esa forma encuentren conocimiento, compañia y consuelo"

Alejandro III de Macedonia construyó un imperio que se extendía por todos los rincones del globo, desde el tranquilo y calmo reino de Macedonia hasta el mundo helénico, Persia y, en última instancia, hasta la India. El confiaba en detenerse solo al llegar al oceano Pacifico, pero todo se acabo antes, con su prematura muerte a los treinta y tres años.De esto hace a dos milenios, pero las historias de su vida, tanto de hechos reales y como lengendarios, han mantenido a Alejandro, conocido por "el Magno" siempre vivo a lo largo de la historia de las civilizaciones, pues su legado es eterno. Pero ¿quien fue realmente Alejandro en su tiempo? Han sido muchas las teorias y estudios sobre el personaje, pero al fin, en este ensayo biografico, Anthony Everitt lo juzga conforme a los criterios de su epoca, considerando todas las posibles contradicciones. Podemos, ahora si, conocer al principe macedonio: naturalmente curioso y fascinado por la ciencia y la exploracion, fue un hombre que disfrutaba de las artes y que usaba la gran epopeya de Homero, la Iliada, como biblia. A medida que conquistaba mas y mas tierras y veia su imperio crecer, Alejandro mostro respeto por las tradiciones de sus nuevos subditos y un juicio cuidadoso al gobernar sobre tan vastos territorios. Pero tambien su vida tuvo un lado oscuro: conquistador empedernido que construyo el imperio mas grande de la historia hasta el momento, tambien glorifico la guerra y fue conocido por cometer actos de notable crueldad. He aqui la biografia definitiva del mas grande estratega de la historia.

Esta completa biografía es el resultado de más de veinte años de trabajo acerca de la figura de María Tudor, reina de Inglaterra y segunda esposa de Felipe II. La autora muestra su profundo conocimiento de la historia de Inglaterra y España, avalando su estudio con una solida documentacion y una seleccion de referencias textuales. Nos ofrece, sin embargo, un libro de facil lectura, dirigido tanto a expertos como a un publico general.

Henrietta Moraes first discovered Soho when she was eighteen or so she tells us. Her favourite sport was social climbing (heaven knows she enjoyed the exercise) and she was good at it, going to all the right parties and simply gate-crashing others. From the summit of the 1950s bohemian scene she surveyed the life and times of those who broke all the rules, such as the artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon (for whom she became a muse). But thats not all she did as a key counter-culture figure in the 1960s Chelsea Set, no other woman was more indefatigable in becoming a bohemian legend.Through Hen, youll learn how to steal your best friends boyfriend; enchant and ensnare a husband; blossom into a magnificent muse; dress like a comic book superhero; become a connoisseur of every illicit drug known to medical science and dose a Rolling Stones concert with them; join the caravan set and head along the gypsy trail in search of the Holy Grail, before rematerialising as the minder for a mind-blowing pop iconAlong the way youll indulge in the gentle art of cadging drinks; the feline felony of cat burglary; the canny craft of charity shop shoplifting and the haphazardness of steamy sex in second-hand bookshops.Hen, Mistress of Mayhem takes you to the epicentre of Sohos Golden Age; stage by stage it forms a complete guide to a hell-raising companion.

Greenvile Collins (1643-94) is the most important Royal Navy officer you have never heard of. But he was well known to Samuel Pepys, and worked personally for Charles II, James II and William III as hydrographer, navigation instructor and royal yacht captain. The charts by themselves would ensure his place in history, but Collins also made history through his actions. As navigator of the Kings flagship during the Glorious Revolution he perpetrated an ingenious deception, granting the Dutch army crucial extra time to mount their invasion. This has never been written about, perhaps because historians tend not to be navigators, yet its all there, in Collins 1688 journal, hiding in plain sight. This new study both explores for the first time Collins charts as navigation aids, as well as how he changed the course of history.

Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, which goes back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit of prurient pornographers, eroticism and sexuality received considerable attention from scholars.Written by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 - 1274), one of the leading scientists of the age, The Sultans Sex Potions is part of a relatively small group of works devoted to aphrodisiacs, as well as sexual stimulants, sexual practices and positions. Sober and measured in tone, the work was intended to be a manual, which would allow the patient to dispense with the services of a physician. Written at the request of the ruler, its potions, electuaries, syrups and enemas enjoyed a royal warrant of appointment to arouse the lust for coitus and enhance sexual potency.This bilingual volume includes a critical edition of three manuscripts (Berlin, Cairo and Glasgow) and is accompanied by a translation, as well as an introduction to Arabic erotic literature, a biography of the author and extensive indexes.