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From 1940, Leon Weintraub (born 1926) was forced by the Nazis to live with his family in the Litzmannstadt ghetto and perform forced labour. The skills he learnt there probably saved him from death: when the ghetto was dissolved in 1944, the prisoners were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and killed. Weintraub, however, managed to pass himself off as a labour prisoner and thus escape being murdered. In the turmoil of the final months of the war, he survived several of the Nazis brutal deportation operations until he finally managed to escape on one of the transports. Most of his family did not survive the Holocaust. In conversations with journalist Magda Jaros, Leon Weintraub talks about his childhood in od and his life after the war: his medical studies in Gottingen, his career in Poland and his emigration to Sweden due to the anti-Semitic March riots in 1968. It is the story of reconciliation after unspeakable sufferingbut also a warning.Despite the horrors that Leon Weintraub experienced in his life, he constantly believes that dialogue and mutual respect are the way to improve the world. And these are not just words, but are followed by actions. He constantly repeats to all close and familiar people that everyone should approach everyone with respect, because religion, nationality or skin color do not count, but the human-human relationship is the most important. The determination with which he wants to convey his message to Poles, Germans and Jews who have been united and divided by history, arouses my great admiration.Joanna Podolska, director of the Dialogue Center Marek Edelman in od

In the sequel to award-winning playwright Seamus ORourkes popular first memoir, Standing in Gaps, this innocent Leitrim lad finally flees the nest, briefly sampling life in New York, Dublin and London, before inevitably returning to his beloved, duller-than-dishwater home, to a life which now includes alcohol, Dr. Hook and some low-budget romance.But man does not live on romance alone and Seamus needs to get to the bottom of his general uselessness, spurred on as always by his ever-the-realist father, who prophesied his mediocrity from an early age. Seamus continues to underachieve whilst struggling to interpret his Auld Lads advice and watered down compliments You werent as bad as I often saw ya, They must be badly stuck, if they asked you and the classic What kind of an eejit are ya? in a memoir that captures the innocence and the absurdity of rural life in 1980s and 1990s Ireland.

With the strong possibility of Labour forming our next government, it is fascinating to consider the last time the party stood on the verge of power, back in 1997. At that time, future Europe Minister Denis MacShane had a ringside seat that he would occupy for the next decade or so, living through Cool Britannia, the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Mandelsons multiple resignations, Princess Dianas death and Tony Blairs seeming invincibility.New Labour may be remembered as an unstoppable force, but MacShanes diaries reveal that while, outwardly, all seemed to be going well, the personal rivalries, slights and petty jealousies between the partys big beasts meant that it was never far from disaster.MacShane was a regular in Downing Street from the moment of Labours election victory, and his candid, intimate diaries show figures such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Robin Cook, Peter Mandelson, Clare Short and Alastair Campbell in a light in which theyve never been seen before, detailing the personalities as much as the politics of Labours most successful stint in government.

A biografia definitiva de Napoleão. O historiador Adam Zamoyski apresenta o homem para além da lenda. Um retrato íntimo e completo do homem que mudou a História.Napoleão inspira visões apaixonadas e,

Irene Schweizer: jazz pianist, activist, icon. A self-taught musician from the Swiss village of Schaffhausen, at the age of 19 she won first prize at the Zurich amateur jazz festival. (The festival had not anticipated that a woman might win: first prize was a mens shirt.) The creative journey of this young woman from the north of Switzerland led her inexorably to experimental music: from the London jazz club Ronnie Scotts and the Zurich club Africana to avant-garde stages in Wuppertal, Berlin, Willisau, Chicago, and New York; from concerts with Don Cherry, Louis Moholo and George Lewis to solo appearances as a celebrated artist in theSwiss temples of high culture: the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre and the Zurich Tonhalle. She fought constantly for artistic freedom and autonomy. Her committed action against apartheid and for womens rights resulted in her surveillance by Swiss intelligence agencies, revealed in the "secret files scan- dal" of 1989. Undaunted, Schweizer persisted in her activism for left politics in Switzerland.Christian Broecking has researched and written the biography of one of the most exceptional musicians of the post-war period in Europe.

A notable figure in the cultural and social history of Denmark, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvigs (1783-1872) works are still salient for us now. Highlighting his vivacious ideas and personality, A Grundtvig Anthology includes extracts from Grundtvigs historical, educational, theological, devotional, and poetical works. Each chapter is prefaced by insightful explanatory introductions by leading authorities on Grundtvigs monumental body of work, along with a comprehensive general introduction and illuminating annotations. Grundtvig viewed the myths of the North as an expression of the moral values and understanding of life, and his hymn and song writing reveal the same joy of life, openness and freedom as the Norse perspective. By offering selections from across his major works, this anthology succeeds in capturing his spirit in English translation, and continuing his written legacy.

Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest Egyptologists and archaeologists America has yet produced. Breasteds greatest achievement was the founding of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 1919, through the generous support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Oriental Institute embodies Breasteds vision of an inter-disciplinary research center that unites archaeology, textual studies, and art history as three complementary methodologies to provide a holistic understanding of ancient Near Eastern civilizations, and the ways that they laid the foundations for what we think of today as "Western civilization." Breasteds legacy continues to flourish today. Reprint of the Scribners Sons 1943 Edition, with New Foreword and Photographs.

Crónicas y Testimonios de un salubrista. Ni silencios ni secretismos" es una serie de escritos y publicaciones de vivencias del autor, el doctor Luis Suárez Rosas (La Habana, Cuba, 9 de octubre de 1948).En las primeras tres decadas del siglo XXI escribio sus impresiones de acontecimientos importantes para el, que parten desde sus ancestros familiares, cubanos y españoles; transcurren por hechos vividos como niño, adolescente, joven, adulto y adulto mayor en Cuba y allende sus fronteras; resaltando la posibilidad de coincidir en su tiempo como alumno, compañero y amigo de grandes salubristas de la Salud Publica de Cuba en la etapa posterior al 1 de enero de 1959, personalidades que recuerda con respeto y devocion como sus personajes inolvidables.En "Cronicas y Testimonios de un salubrista. Ni silencios ni secretismos", el autor evoca con respeto y admiracion a su profesor y amigo, el doctor Francisco Rojas Ochoa (1930-2020). El autor destaca que en el año 2013 la Revista Cubana de Salud Publica, dirigida por el Profesor Rojas Ochoa, le publico en la Seccion Debate el articulo de su autoria El silencio epidemiologico y la etica de la salud publica cubana. Años despues, el 20 de octubre de 2017, en el entonces recien publicado libro del doctor Rojas Ochoa Actor y Testigo, en su presencia le escribio de su puño y letra esta dedicatoria personal: A Luis Suarez, que no encontrara aqui silencios o secretismo, como has dado lecciones que otros no aprendieron.Aquel articulo, la dedicatoria del Profesor Rojas Ochoa y la necesidad de preservar la memoria historica de la salud publica de Cuba, fundamental para entender el presente y construir un futuro mejor, evitando repetir errores del pasado, han servido como linea argumental para el nacimiento de este libro escrito por un salubrista, por un ser humano."

When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didnt expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to think bigger about love.In these pages we follow the journey Weber began in her first memoir, Surprised by Oxford, from her relationship with her sometimes-absent father to the ups and downs of love, marriage, and parenthood.Now a literature professor, Weber reflects on her relationship with a sometimes-absent father and how that has shaped her. Through her personal story, as well as spiritual, theological, and literary reflection, Sex and the City of God explores what life looks like when we choose to love God first.

Giuseppe Mayno della Spinetta (sobborgo d’Alessandria), il bandito di Marengo, è un brigante che ha fatto parlare di sé nella prima metà dell’Ottocento. Ha dato del filo da torcere alle autorità fran

Angela Merkel hat nach mehr als zehn Jahren Amtszeit als Bundeskanzlerin langst internationalen Kultstatus erreicht. Eigentlich musste die Welt nach einer so langen Amtszeit alles uber die Politikerin und promovierte Physikerin aus der ehemaligen DDR wissen. Aber gerade ihr Verhalten in der Fluchtlingskrise hat das Interesse neu geweckt auch beim politischen Gegner: Wie tickt die Kanzlerin? Was denkt sie uber die Turkei und was uber Seehofer? Wieso reist sie einmal im Jahr nach China? Wie ist das mit ihren Blazern, was bedeuten Begriffe wie merkeln? Das Merkel-Lexikon beantwortet diese Fragen aus dem Blickwinkel eines Insiders der Berliner Politikszene. Das Merkel-Lexikon wird online weitergefuhrt: Auf seinem Blog https://merkel-lexikon.de aktualisiert der Autor Andreas Rinke regelmaig seine Eintrage zum Buch. So bleibt das Nachschlagewerk immer auf dem neuesten Stand.

El Bicentenario de la Independencia del Perú nos alcanza en un contexto de crisis que evidencia la necesidad de hacer una reflexión profunda sobre nuestra historia y evolución como república. Pero, ademas del reconocimiento de nuestras debilidades a lo largo de la historia, es tambien importante reconocer que se ha hecho bien y quienes han dejado o siguen dejando una huella positiva en nuestro camino como pais.En 2010, la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) invito a reconocidos profesionales e intelectuales de diversas generaciones e ideologias para que escriban sobre veinte ilustres peruanos cuyas biografias edificantes e ideas han guiado y marcado la historia del pais en distintos ambitos. Hoy, publica nuevamente estos ensayos y suma a cinco autores y cinco personajes mas. De esta manera, llega al lector 25 peruanos del sigloxx.Los personajes, cuyas vidas estan retratadas en este libro, son Manuel Gonzalez Prada, Julio C. Tello, Francisco Garcia Calderon, Victor Andres Belaunde, Jose de la Riva-Aguero y Osma, Cesar Vallejo, Honorio Delgado, Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero, Pedro G. Beltran, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, Raul Porras Barrenechea, Luis Alberto Sanchez, Jorge Basadre, Doris Gibson, Jose Maria Arguedas, Fernando Belaunde Terry, Jose Abelardo Quiñones Gonzales, Luis Bedoya Reyes, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Fernando de Szyszlo, Blanca Varela, Tilsa Tsuchiya, Luis Banchero Rossi, y Mario Vargas Llosa.

El autor trabajó en este libro, escrito a la vez en alemán y en español, durante cinco años. Con él ha puesto por primera vez, según el Profesor Rudolf Vierhaus, un sólido fundamento para todo estudio posterior sobre Krause. Ureña ha incorporado en su estudio abundante material inedito del archivo del filosofo aleman, asi como abundante informacion contenida en fuentes de dificil acceso desconocidas hasta ahora. Por primera vez, ofrece una bibliografia completa de Krause, con mas de 180 titulos. Ureña trabajo en las siguientes bibliotecas: Nacional sajona de Dresde, Universidad de Gotinga, Instituto Max Planck de Historia de Gotinga, Estatal Bavara de Munich, Museo Masonico de Bayreuth, Ciudad y Universidad de Frankfurt, Supremo Consejo del Rito Escoces Antiguo y Aceptado de Frankfurt, asi como en otras bibliotecas de Munich, Hannover, Bamberg, Oldemburgo, Wolfenbuttel, Wiesbaden, Berlin y Heidelberg, y en los archivos de las Universidades de Gotinga y de Munich.La confeccion de esta obra encontro no pocas dificultades. No existe una edicion critica de las obras de Krause; las numerosas obras editadas por sus discipulos entre 1834 y 1911 carecen, por lo general, de notas e indices, las introducciones de los editores son pauperrimas y, en algunos casos, ni siquiera se indica con exactitud el manuscrito al que corresponden. Las bibliografias existentes son muy parciales y contienen pequeños errores. La ausencia de estudios fiables sobre Krause hizo necesaria una constante revision de los datos que no fuesen de primera mano. El archivo de Krause, con 417 legajos, de los que muchos comprenden mas de una carpeta, exigio una paciente exploracion de un material no siempre bien ordenado.Esta biografia ofrece, por fin, una imagen detallada de la figura humana e intelectual de Krause, con resultados verdaderamente sorprendentes. Los responsables de su segunda edicion, ademas de añadir otro prologo, han respetado escrupulosamente el texto de la primera, aunque en algun caso ha sido necesario incluir alguna pequeña nota aclaratoria sobre proyectos que el autor anunciaba y que se llevaron a cabo con posterioridad.

Este libro se centra en cuatro plataformas temáticas que intentan aproximarse al contexto de la independencia durante los gobiernos de San Martín y Bolívar en el Perú. Primero se analizan los proyectos politicos que se plantearon en el siglo XIX, de tendencia liberal, que llevaron a cambiar la propuesta de una monarquia constitucional a una alternativa republicana. Luego, se habla sobre la guerra, la poblacion y la etnicidad para estudiar las agendas politicas de los sectores populares, sobre todo en cuanto a la abolicion de la esclavitud, la ciudadania republicana y la situacion del indigena en este periodo de transicion. Asimismo, se toca el tema de la educacion, la sociabilidad y el genero, en especial el papel de la mujer en las independencias de Peru, Mexico y Chile. Por ultimo, se analiza el impacto del Congreso Anfi ctionico de Panama de 1826, convocado por Bolivar, reconocido como el embrion de la Organizacion de Estados Americanos, para concluir con el analisis del denominado panamericanismo bolivariano.

«[Un libro que] sigue siendo vigente y piedra de toque dentro de la literatura mexicana», Elena Poniatowska.A Pancho Villa lo persigue la sombra de hombre sanguinario, reputación que, sin embargo, no

Ireland, under both the Irish Free State and after full independence, has now had just over 100 years of autonomous national political leadership.This book, based on Iain Dales blockbuster podcast, tells the story of Irish politics over the past century by examining the lives and actions of each Irish Taoiseach, from W.T. Cosgrave to Micheal Martin. 15 leading Irish historians, journalists and politicians write essays on each of these figures, showing in the process how Ireland developed from a poor ex-colony to a successful, modern country at the heart of the European Union. In the process, the contributors examine the importance of topics such as the power of the Roman Catholic Church, changing social mores, Irelands relationship with the UK, and its economic development.This is a must read for anyone interested in Irish politics at a time of potential far-reaching change for the republic.

The American-born folklorist and musician Margaret Fay Shaws passion for the Hebrides led her to the island of South Uist in 1929 and then to Canna in 1935 as the wife of the eminent folklorist John Lorne Campbell. Her extraordinary work in documenting and preserving traditional Gaelic songs and customs remains a vital resource for understanding Hebridean music, and the Campbells house on Canna is a unique collection of priceless material celebrating the Hebridean world. This vast archive also includes Margarets collection of still and film photography, which capture the essence of island life at a time when old traditions were vanishing. This book celebrates the legacy and life of a remarkable woman, who herself wrote with such wit and flair of her travels and adventures and which took her from turn of-the-century Pennsylvania to 1920s New York, Paris, Nova Scotia and the Hebrides, where she lived until her death in 2004.

A brilliant and bloody examination of the axes foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, splashed across newspaper headlines and popular culture. For as long as the axe has been in our hands, we have used it to kill. Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology one that has been with us since prehistory. And just as early humans used the axe to chop down trees, hunt for food, and whittle tools, they also used it to murder. Over time, this particular use has endured: as the axe evolved over centuries to fit the needs of new agricultural, architectural, and social development, so have our lethal uses for it.Whack Job is the story of the axe, first as a convenient danger and then an anachronism, as told through the murders it has been employed in throughout history: from the first axe murder nearly half a million years ago, to the brutal harnessing of the axe in warfare, and from its use in King Henry VIIIs favourite method of execution, to Lizzie Borden and the birth of modern pop culture. Whack Job sheds brilliant light on this familiar implement, this most human of weapons. This is a critical examination of violence, an exploration of how technology shapes human conflict, the cruel and sacred rituals of execution and battle, and the ways humanity fits even the most savage impulses into narratives of the past and present.

When Maiwand Banayee was 16, he wanted to become a suicide bomber for the Taliban.In this inspiring tale of survival and self-discovery, the reader will follow Maiwands journey down a dark path and his ultimate redemption. Growing up in Kabul amid the Afghan wars, he witnessed atrocities that no child should ever see - rotting corpses, starving families, a neighbourhood torn apart. He escaped to a refugee camp in Pakistan, where religious militants began the gradual grooming of Maiwand and other Afghan boys. These confused and traumatised children were indoctrinated, radicalised and prepared to die in the name of a religious war. But Maiwand escaped this life. Fleeing Afghanistan, he had a life-altering crisis of faith, confidence and meaning, finding new purpose and rebuilding himself.Maiwand taught himself how to read and write in English, and here tells his astonishing story in crystalline prose. Delusions of Paradise offers a powerful warning about the dangers of radical religion, and is a stunning celebration of self-determination and redemption from an important new voice.

Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion womens issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died suddenly, aged 69, in January 2020.But John Clarke, Marians widower, doesnt use her moniker instead, he calls her Finucane. It highlights the gap between the woman so many felt they knew and the woman he loved the real Marian who was by turns curious, fiery, emotional, stubborn, charming and endlessly excited by life.When John and Marian first got together, they promised each other that theyd never be boring. What ensued was forty years of conversation and thousands of miles travelled. Finucane & Me is an unexpected love story: the story of two people who made a pact for madness; the story of a never-ending search for meaning; the story of two people who lived life to its fullest.