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In the 1920s, Adolf Rosenberger was one of Germanys best known racing car drivers. He was also co-founder and managing director of a design firm that had recently been launched by Ferdinand Porsche, and it was his job to ensure financing for the design firm a firm that provided important impetus during this time for technical innovation and racing car construction. When the firm fell into difficulties during the global business crisis, he ended up stepping away from his management role in the company, but remained active as partner and "foreign representative". The Jewish Rosenberger was however unable to escape the increasing persecution by the Nazis: in 1935 he lost his shares in the company and landed for a time in a concentration camp. After emigrating in 1938 he would go on over the following decades to develop a precarious new existence in the USA. Compensation and restitution proceedings that he initiated against the company would end up severing any remaining ties with the now internationally renowned sports car manufacturer. This book, drawing on documents that have remained unpublished until now, frames and analyses the exceptional and moving biography of Adolf Rosenberger.

Reckoning with the Colonial Past to Bring Justice to the Present As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominionover the land, over Indigenous nations, and over the future. Their narrative constructed a myth of innocence that justified a massive program of violence and dispossession by suppressing a darker history. That history still reverberates today, from settler Americas relations with the Indigenous nations of the United States to ways the land has been commodified as property. Its time for the whole truth to be told.In Undoing Manifest Destiny, L. Daniel Hawk exposes the belief systems and practices that settlers developed to justify the displacement, destruction, and cultural erasure of Indigenous peoples, beginning in the early American colonial period and extending to the present day. Writing as the descendant of White settlers and as a biblical scholar, he challenges settler Christians to uncover what the settler narrative denies and to work toward addressing historic injustices.In this book, Hawk combines settler colonial theory, historical analysis, and Christian theology to examine how settler America sought to erase Indigenous presence from lands taken by the United States and its colonial predecessors; offers a decolonizing perspective that challenges the church to acknowledge its complicity with the colonial project and to enter into dialogue directed toward setting things right; and highlights contemporary manifestations of colonialism in US interactions with its Indigenous citizens, demonstrating that past issues are still present and need to be addressed today. Hawk asserts that Christians were complicit with programs of erasure, and so Christians are called to confront and heal their residue today. Joining historical research with theology and biblical scholarship, Hawk helps us recognize the myths that shape the American imagination and to engage our faith for a better way forward.This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, students, and readers invested in areas such as post- and de-colonial studies, race and ethnicity, United States history, and social justice. Deepen your understanding of history, confront unsettling truths, and work toward justice and healing with Undoing Manifest Destiny.

What is a human being? Where does neurosis begin? Is sexual desire truly the engine of thought? Can fear, trauma and depression ever be cured? And what, by the way, is the meaning of life? In this vivid and gripping account, psychologist Steve Ayan takes us back to fin-de-siecle Vienna, where a bold new idea was born: that psychotherapy could heal the mind. This is the enthralling story of how Freud, Jung, Adler, and their contemporaries revolutionised the way we understand ourselves - giving rise to psychotherapy, a field that would forever reshape Western culture. With captivating storytelling and deep insight, Ayan unpacks the dreams, rivalries, and obsessions of these early visionaries. More than simply a historical account, this book explores the lasting legacy of their work, revealing how the promise of personal transformation became a modern fixture of society - and how the questions they raised still echo in our lives today.

On a beach near Naples in October 79 CE, more than three hundred people were standing on a beach, hoping for an evacuation. Vesuvius a volcano which needs no introduction in the world of Ancient Rome erupted. They had left it too late, and were all instantly killed in the devastation that followed.Neighbouring the world-renowned Pompeii, the town of Herculaneum is the neglected victim of Vesuvius. It was uniquely preserved in the aftermath of the eruption, and in many ways gives us unparalleled windows into the past.For the first time, this fascinating new history tells the story of Herculaneum and the people who lived there. Through the eyes of the Weaver, the Slave Girl and the Pregnant Lady, the Soldier, the Fisherman and the Boxer, as well as relevant buildings and the archaeological discoveries of the past 20 years it is possible to hear their voices and build a historical picture that is more colourful, complete and alive than has ever been possible before. Essential reading for fans of Pompeii Herculaneum receives 300,000 visitors every year and is one of Italys top ten tourist destinations, yet it has been overshadowed by Pompeii in popular history until now Based on the latest archaeological research and discoveries, Adrian Murdoch explores the ancient Roman town to bring the ancient world to life Herculaneums unrivalled preservation gives us a unique glimpse into Roman life

Un relato épico de la gesta que cimentó el primer Imperio global de la historia.Esta es la historia de los intrépidos españoles que tras el descubrimiento de América se lanzaron a surcar un nuevo océano al que llamaron Pacifico y lograron asentarse en las islas Filipinas, estableciendo un enclave unico: un encuentro entre Oriente y Occidente sin precedentes con culturas como la china o la japonesa.Elcano, Loaysa, Legazpi o Urdaneta son algunos de los nombres que pasaron a la historia, pero junto a ellos tambien navegaron quienes, sin figurar en los libros, buscaron fortuna o simplemente sobrevivir: carpinteros, pilotos, grumetes, soldados, escribanos, religiosos, agricultores, artesanos, comerciantes... A lo largo de estas paginas conoceremos sus aventuras, no exentas de peligros, desafios y desdichas, pero tambien de hazañas sin igual. Viajaremos con ellos a traves del increible proceso sociocultural que supuso establecerse en un lugar tan remoto y diferente, con un analisis exhaustivo que nos ayude a comprender la epopeya que alli se vivio en una epoca historica incomparable.

Nature artist Jane Smith has been fascinated by wildlife communities and ecosystems her whole adult life. Starting from her own garden in Argyll, she travels to ten locations in the west of Scotland - from the towering cliffs of St Kilda and the peatlands of Lewis to the Solway estuary and the urban sprawl of Glasgow - to explore the interaction of people and wildlife in a variety of diverse settings. On her journey she discovers a number of communities who are taking on the job of regenerating their own landscapes and meets a host of fascinating people whose lives are inextricably bound up with questions of sustainability, conservation and landownership. Contents Includes: Western Isles (peatlands) * North Uist (machair) * Islay (farmland) * Loch Arkaig (woodland) * Knapdale (wetland) * Dumfries and Galloway (river and estuary) * Jura (coast) * St Kilda archipelago (sea) * Glasgow (urban landscapes) *Eigg (community ownership)

Throughout LGBTQ+ history, suburbia has been seen as somewhere to escape from: a place where heterosexuality rules; where difference will not be tolerated; where youll never find a soulmate. But for many, those streets of twitching curtains and pebble-dashed semis were - or still are - a place to call home.From Addlestone to Wilmslow, Tales of the Suburbs explores the relatively untold twentieth century tale of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in suburbia. Through remarkable archive material and original interviews, social historian John Grindrod reveals stories that are messy and moving, dark and funny, uplifting and extraordinary. Together, they reclaim suburbia as a space for all - or those that want it - where counter-cultural expression thrives despite the Neighbourhood Watch, and queer love and friendship bloom against the odds.

Forget 1066 the making of England began over a century earlier.When Viking armies first over-wintered in England, they opened a century of conflict and ambition. In Norway, Harald Fairhair rose from a regional chieftain to become its first king, while in England Alfred the Great preserved Wessex from conquest and laid the foundations for unity. His successors, Edward the Elder and Athelstan, extended that vision, leading to the creation of a single English kingdom after Athelstans decisive victory at Brunanburh in 937.Meanwhile, Haralds heirs struggled for Norway. Eric Bloodaxe briefly claimed the crown before being overthrown by his brother Hakon, fostered at Athelstans court. Exiled to Britain, Eric ruled in York until his violent death in 954, ending Norse kingship in England.This is the turbulent century when kings rose and fell, and when England and Norway first took shape amid rivalry, warfare and shifting alliances.

Examines the barbarians from Europe and beyond who harassed, eroded and eventually caused the disintegration of the Roman Empire. It includes the Huns, Mongolian horsemen who swept into Europe to form a short-lived empire from the Urals to the Rhine; the Visigoths, or western Goths, who sacked Rome in 410 and ruled Spain from Toledo until the Moorish conquest in 711; the Ostrogoths, or eastern Goths, who ruled Italy from 493 until the Emperor Justinian drove them out in 534; the Franks, a group of Germanic tribes who came to rule France under the Merovingians; and the Vandals, fierce Arian Christians who invaded Gaul and Spain around 400 and sacked Rome in 455. As the authors show, some, such as the Vandals in North Africa, had shortlived periods of supremacy and relatively insignificant effect on the areas they settled; others, such as the Franks, adapted to Roman ways to create the strong foundations of medieval and later nations. Throughout the text, the authors reconstruct the volatile world of pitched battle and invasion.

Paying for a peerage - an illegal practice - feels like a very modern form of corruption, one that both the Labour and Conservative parties have been happy to indulge in at times during the early twenty-first century. Except, of course, it was happening almost a century ago.Meet Maundy Gregory, actor, journalist, publishing proprietor, conman, embezzler, MI5 spy - and the man you went to see if you had the money to pay for a peerage in the post-First World War years.Cutting a dash across high society of the 1920s - he was in attendance at the wedding of the future George VI - the immaculately oiled and overdressed Gregory would happily pockets thousands for playing Mr Fixit for wannabe knights and lords, and swell the coffers of Lloyd Georges Liberal Party to millions of pounds.Business was brisk, and business was brazen. Visitors to his lavish office on Parliament Street, with a direct line to Number 10, would be wined and dined and, after paying up, leave satisfied that they would be next on the list for a knighthood or barony. Nothing could be guaranteed, of course, and it was a strictly no refunds business.But Gregory was also suspected of being something else, to add to his impressive list of accomplishments: a murderer. As the political winds changed, the debts mounted up and the walls closed in around him, he somehow managed to inherit his mistresss not inconsiderable savings when she scribbled a new will on the back of a menu and was suddenly taken ill ...In The Man Who Sold Honours, Stephen Bates lifts the lid on the truth about this long-forgotten character who remains the only person ever to be successfully prosecuted under the sale of honours act of 1925. A powerful preview of the scandals to come in Britain in recent years, this is the story of the original honours tout - a riches-to-rags tale of greed, corruption and murder in the interwar years.

Un viaje fascinante por la vida, las ruinas y las controversias del Partenón, de la mano de la gran divulgadora del mundo clásico, Mary Beard.Desde hace más de dos mil años, el Partenón domina la Acropolis de Atenas como uno de los simbolos universales de la civilizacion clasica. Pero, ¿que sabemos realmente de este edificio? ¿Como ha llegado a representar ideales tan diversos democracia, arte, imperio, identidad nacional a lo largo de los siglos?En este libro, Mary Beard reconstruye con rigor y agilidad narrativa la historia del templo de Atenea: desde su construccion en el siglo V a.C. hasta sus multiples transformaciones como iglesia bizantina, mezquita otomana, ruina romantica y epicentro de uno de los debates culturales mas encendidos de nuestro tiempo.Con la lucidez, el humor y la profundidad que la caracterizan, Beard nos guia por los significados cambiantes del Partenon y sus esculturas, las polemicas sobre los marmoles de Elgin, y las tensiones entre patrimonio, nacionalismo y museo universal. Una mirada reveladora sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de un monumento que sigue generando admiracion, orgullo, polemica y lagrimas.

During the Civil War, when Ernie OMalley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some of his notes were smuggled out. Most of all, he wrote, I would have liked to talk about the rank and file where I found solace. Raids and Rallies, an account of various offensives against the British in 1920 21, is his tribute to that rank and file. It was a peoples war. That is why we fought so well from November 1920.What helps to make these memoirs notable is that OMalley writes more than a documentary in his constant awareness of nature in the background. Sunday Press;Entrancing reading for those who seek an insight into the mentality of the men who took on the might of the British Empire. Sunday Independent;Where OMalley differs from virtually all others who have published their recollections of those years is that he was a writer and an intellectual who was constantly weighing and analysing all that was happening. The Irish Post

Un recorrido apasionado y entretenido por los grandes musicales de nuestra era en el que descubriremos lo que realmente nos cuentan sobre raza, género, poder y deseo.¿Qué tienen en común Wicked, Cats o West Side Story? Que no solo nos han hecho cantar, sino tambien repensar el mundo (aunque no nos hayamos dado cuenta).Cantar la historia es una historia cultural muy poco convencional: una que se canta, se baila y se analiza con tanta pasion como ironia acida. A traves de nueve musicales que han marcado la historia reciente, Javi Alonso, brillante divulgador y amante del teatro musical, nos invita a un viaje en el que nos mostrara como estas obras reflejan temas como las masculinidades, el racismo, lo queer o la memoria historica. Desde la violencia mal dirigida de West Side Story hasta la catastrofe digital de la pelicula de Cats, pasando por la moral de las protagonistas de Wicked, el autor mezcla analisis cultural, anecdotas personales y un afilado humor para desmontar la idea de que los musicales son solo evasion y fantasia.El resultado es un ensayo pop que reivindica el teatro musical como uno de los grandes narradores de nuestro tiempo. Porque si, a veces la historia se canta, hasta ocho veces por semana en cada teatro.

In 1939, when Ian Burumas epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse.By 1943, with the German defeat at Stalingrad, ordinary life in Berlin would acquire an increasingly desperate cast. The last three years of the war in Berlin are truly a descent into hell, with a deranged regime in desperate free fall, an increasingly relentless pounding from Allied bombers, and the mounting dread of the approaching Soviet army. The common greeting of Berliners was now not Auf wiedersehen or Heil Hitler but Bleiben Sie ubrig -Stay alive. And by wars end Berlins population had fallen by almost half.Among the people trying to stay alive in the city was Ian Burumas own father, a prisoner conscripted into forced labour in the war economy along with 400,000 other imported workers. Buruma gives due weight to his and their experiences, which give the book a special added dimension. This is a book full of tenderness and genuine heroism, but it is by no means sentimental: again and again we see that most people do not do the hard thing most of the time. Most people go along. Its a lesson that has not lost its timeliness.

When Titanic left Southampton in 1912, neither the Aristocrat, The Countess of Rothes, nor the Able Seaman, Thomas Jones, imagined meeting, let alone navigating a tiny lifeboat together at night, among towering icebergs. But Jones put Noel Rothes at the tiller of his boat when he realised her calm capability, and for seven long hours they did all they could to shepherd at least twenty-five others to safety. Their ordeal forged an unlikely affinity that lasted until Noel died in 1956. Angela Young, Noels great-granddaughter, tells the stories of these two courageous Titanic survivors and considers why so very few people survived the tragedy.

Cada nuevo año de la Universidad de Ibagué es un momento para recordar, para caminar entre pasillos, salones, calles, carreras y caracolíes, que en su tronco cuentan el paso del tiempo; esos espacios que alguna vez fueron monte, trochas y senderos; esos lugares habitados por todas las personas que hicieron la universidad posible y que hoy siguen narrando su historia.En dos capitulos, el libro abarca un recuento de experiencias de funcionarios, estudiantes y docentes de la Universidad de Ibague. La primera parte fue escrita por Luz Angela Castaño, quien trabajo por mas de treinta años en la universidad y fundo nuestra editorial. Este primer momento abarca desde 1980 hasta 1986, año en que se graduo el primer profesional. De la mano de las primeras personas que crearon e hicieron parte de lo que nacio como Corunivesritaria, Castaño nos lleva por esas historias que solo se contaban en los encuentros intimos de aquellos que pusieron y presenciaron esa primera piedra que hoy ha visto graduar a mas de 28 000 alumnos. Para la segunda, reunimos escritos de todas las personas que quisieron participar con un texto para narrar parte de su experiencia con la Universidad de Ibague. Los lectores menos esquematicos podran encontrar una lectura no lineal entre las dos partes que les permitira saltar del texto de Castaño a los textos individuales que constituyen la segunda parte, el salto los llevara a profundizar en la historia que se estan leyendo en la primera parte. Quienes prefieren la lectura lineal, podran leer este libro pagina a pagina.

Em uma Jerusalém sitiada, onde o fervor religioso se choca com a implacável máquina de guerra romana, vidas se entrelaçam em um turbilhão de paixão, fé e desespero. Esca, o nobre guerreiro britânico,

This comprehensive guide to the flags of the world provides concise, accurate coverage of every country in the world, giving the history, meaning, and symbolism of national flags, together with large-scale and smaller locator maps. The Complete Guide to Flags of the World, 4th Edition includes the history of flags, the color flags in over 220 countries and territories, flags of international organizations, large-scale and detailed locator maps for easy reference, up-to-date data and statistics for all countries, information about the history and symbolism of each flag, a section on de facto and emerging states, and a full index. This 4th edition comes with 38 updated flags and new, revised information for all things flags.

Since we were first able to communicate with each other, stories have formed a basis for our cultures, communities and collaborative ventures. Stories are a fundamental part of what it means to be human. From the oldest known cave paintings found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to the debate about the role of artificial intelligence in our creative endeavors, within these pages lies a concise history of storytelling in Europe, written by a storyteller with a decade of experience in storytelling and a passion for stories in all their forms.

Did Henry VIII really plan to have Anne Boleyns beloved dog thrown out the window? Did Jane Seymour deliberately get her maids to look less attractive than her? Was Elizabeth I secretly a man? Did King Edward VI de-feather an eagle in an epic temper tantrum? Who is the most sighted Tudor ghost of all time? Did Elizabeth I really have no teeth? Did one of the most famous Tudor palaces really get knocked down to pay off gambling debts? Who were there Grey sisters, and why is theirs one of the saddest Tudor stories of all?From Henry VII to Elizabeth I, this delightful book answers all these questions and more. Come with us as we delve into the people and places behind the Tudor myths & legends that are so world famous.Through various tales exploring the whole of the glittering dynasty, well learn about the lesser-known facts and figures behind these myths. Each reign serves up a wealth of fascinating historical stories to reveal the Tudor world in a new light.