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James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and thought-provoking cultural history, turning his trenchant eye to the wellness industry that emerged in the 1970s.Concepts such as wellness and self-care may feel like distinctly twenty-first century ideas, but they first gained traction as part of the New Age health movements that began to flourish in the wake of the 1960s. Riley dives into this strange and hypnotic world of panoramic coastal retreats and darkened floatation tanks, blending a page-turning narrative with illuminating explorations of the eras music, film, art and literature.Well Beings delves deep into the mind of the seventies - its popular culture, its radical philosophies, its approach to health and its sense of social crisis. It tells the story of what was sought, what was found and how these explorations helped the Me Decade find itself. In so doing, it questions what good health means today and reveals what the seventies can teach us about the strange art of being well.

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistA Comprehensive Look at Women Who Built the Early ChurchWomen were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders.Nijay Gupta calls us to bring these women out of the shadows by shining light on their many inspiring contributions to the planting, growth, and health of the first Christian churches. He sets the context by exploring the lives of first-century women and addressing common misconceptions, then focuses on the women leaders of the early churches as revealed in Pauls writings. We discover the major roles of people such as: Phoebe, Pauls trusted coworker Prisca, strategic leader and expert teacher Junia, courageous apostle Nympha, representative of countless lesser-known figures When we understand the world in which Jesus and his followers lived and what the New Testament actually attests about women in the churches, it becomes clear that women were active participants and trusted leaders all along. They were welcomed by Paul and other apostles, were equipped and trained for ministry leadership, instructed others, traveled long distances, were imprisonedand once in a while became heroes and giants.The New Testament writers tell their stories. Its time for the church to retell them, again and again.

A lively and readable accountSpectatorA fine book ... well-written and well-researchedWashington TimesIn less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that for decades seemed to have no real purpose. Was it a dry-run for D-Day, or perhaps a gesture by the Allies to placate Stalins impatience for a second front in the west?Historian David OKeefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was in fact a mission, set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a pinch policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine that would permit codebreakers like Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to turn the tide of the Second World War.A fast-paced and convincing book ... that clears up decades of misinformation about the ignoble raidToronto Star

366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story In a treasure trove for history buffs, W. B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us back and forth in history from the time of the Ancient Egyptians to the world we live in today. You furnish the pictures, Ill furnish the war. (25 April 1898) Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst urges war artist Frederick Remington to stay in Cuba while Hearst publishes lurid tales of an imaginary conflict. I am tasting the stars! (4 August 1693) The monk Dom Perignon tests the result of his new techniques in the making of sparkling wine, and champagne is born. I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. (20 March 1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Toms Cabin, the nineteenth centurys bestseller apart from the Bible. From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step. (18 October 1812) Napoleons all-conquering Grande Armee begins its slow and ignominious retreat from Moscow.

Am 12. November 2018 jahrt sich zum hundertsten Mal die Ausrufung der Republik. Eines Staates, der zum Zeitpunkt seiner Grundung noch Deutschosterreich heit und von dem viele glauben, dass er nicht uberleben wird. Doch der deutschsprachige Rest des zerbrochenen Habsburgerreiches beweist Lebenswillen und Tatkraft. Mit dem Anschluss an Nazideutschland verschwindet Osterreich von den Landkarten, aber nicht aus den Kopfen und Herzen seiner Menschen. Die Wiedergeburt der Republik 1945 vereint sie als Osterreicherinnen und Osterreicher zu gemeinsamer Anstrengung fur eine bessere Zukunft. Hubert Nowak zeigt die markanten Eckpunkte und entscheidenden Veranderungen dieses Weges auf und zeichnet das ebenso lebendige wie differenzierte Bild eines Staates, der in zwei Anlaufen aus den Katastrophen eines Zeitalters der Extreme zu sich selbst findet. Aus dem Inhalt: November 1918: Am Anfang war das Ende | Die ersten Schritte ohne Kaiser | Ein Gerust fur zwei Republiken: die Verfassung | Das Lagerdenken: Parteien und Parlamentarismus | Foderalismus Segen oder Fluch | Ins Sozialparadies und wieder zuruck | Feindbilder: Juden, Muslime, Eliten | Ein katholisches Land: Werte und Pragungen | Insel der Seligen - Osterreichs Rolle in der Welt | Die Zukunft der Republik | Die groen Gestalten: Hans Kelsen, Ignaz Seipel, Engelbert Dollfu, Leopold Figl, Julius Raab, Bruno Kreisky u. a.

Racconta dal punto di vista storico-militare, la battaglia combattuta da Napoleone per entrare a Mosca durante la campagna di Russia del 1812 (conosciuta anche come "Battaglia di Borodino"). Resoconto preciso con allegati bollettini ufficiali e ordini di battaglia dettagliati.

Dopo un primo volume dello stesso autore, pubblicato sempre presso le Edizioni Studium, sulla Storia della politica internazionale (1917-1957). Dalla Rivoluzione dottobre ai Trattati di Roma (2009), si prende qui in esame, in maniera avvincente e documentata, la lotta dei popoli colonizzati per ottenere lindipendenza, che pone al centro i movimenti, i partiti e i leaders che lhanno determinata, fra i quali emergono, tra gli altri, figure come Bolvar, Gandhi, Nasser, Ho Chi Min e Castro. Il volume evidenzia le diverse fasi di questo fenomeno, dalla nascita degli Stati Uniti dAmerica alla decomposizione dellUnione Sovietica, con una particolare attenzione agli avvenimenti della seconda met del Novecento e dei primi anni Duemila. Sono esaminati in modo specifico i problemi del Medio Oriente, della Palestina, dellIndia, della penisola indocinese, dellAmerica Latina e di Cuba; in questo contesto emerge la fine degli imperi coloniali doltremare e di quelli contigui alla potenza colonizzatrice. Sono discusse inoltre, in maniera originale, le questioni relative alle calotte polari e allo spazio extraterrestre. Si tratta di nuove forme di colonizzazione in parte regolate da trattati multilaterali e in parte oggetto, a tuttoggi, di controversie fra diversi Stati.

Choose Witness Over WarIts possible to be faithful in the public square without joining the culture war. In fact, theres a model. The Black churchs social action tradition has long rejected the idea that overcoming polarization means moral compromise. Its historic public witness has defied the culture wars demands to treat opponents as enemies.In his new book, Dont Let Nobody Turn You Around, AND Campaign co-founder and president Justin Giboney explores a compelling vision of how the Black Churchs social action tradition can inspire hope and healing in the face of todays polarized culture wars. The spirituals of the Black church, such as "Dont Let Nobody Turn You Around," were rallying cries during the Civil Rights movement, making clear the connection between faith and justice during marches and protests. These songs encapsulated the unwavering faith and resilience of the Black church, propelling ongoing advocacy for justice in the public square, rooted firmly in the Black churchs powerful public expression of faith.Centered on faith, justice, and moral imagination, Dont Let Nobody Turn You Around offers a blueprint for public witness that rises above division without compromising Christian values. Giboney thoughtfully examines the principles, motives, and accomplishments of the Black Churchs legacy, calling all Christians to a courageous and faithful engagement in the public square. This book challenges assumptions on both the Left and Right, presenting a bold model for how social justice and moral order can work together while resisting the demands of polarization and enmity.In this book, you will: Discover the Black Churchs rich history of pairing orthodoxy and orthopraxy in its public witness. Learn how this history can transform todays polarized politics. Explore how to value both social justice and moral order for a faithful Christian witness. This book is not just for the Black churchits a call for the whole church to bear public witness in a distinctly Christian way. Whether youre politically engaged or disillusioned by the brokenness of Christian public witness today, Dont Let Nobody Turn You Around will inspire you to act with courage, conviction, and Christ-likeness. Choose witness over culture war, and get your copy today.

(Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: (1) anthropological and contrastive perspectives; (2) the original Old Kingdom settings; (3) text format and language; (4) social dimensions; and (5) religious experience.

This volume publishes, for the first time, approximately fifty late Egyptian texts from the Suzuki collection held at Tokai University, Japan. The project is a result of a five-year collaboration between Tokai University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Michigan, and the Staatliche Museum zu Berlin. Professor Suzuki formed his collection in the early 1960s when he was based in Cairo. The bulk of the collection, now housed in the Department of Asian Civilization, School of Letters at Tokai University as part of the Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection (AENET), consists of early demotic texts. There is also one Third Intermediate period hieratic text concerned with temple land, and a few small Greek fragments from the Byzantine period. The texts published here present an interesting range of document types and examples of demotic handwriting, and a few surprises. Among the more intriguing pieces are a fine word list and a new mythological narrative.

Coping with Obscurity publishes the papers discussed at the Brown University Workshop on Earlier Egyptian grammar in March, 2013. The workshop united ten scholars of differing viewpoints dealing with the central question of how to judge and interpret the grammatical value of the written evidence preserved in texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2350-1650 BC). The nine papers in the volume present orthographic, lexical, morphological, and syntactic approaches to the data and represent a significant step toward a new, pluralistic understanding of Earlier Egyptian grammar.

Das Stadtewesen in Europa bluht um 1500. Die Stadt bietet einen eigenen Rechtsraum. Nicht nur die rechtlichen, sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und religiosen Binnenverhaltnisse sind entscheidend, sondern auch die Auenbeziehungen sowie die Auendarstellung. Diese sind ebenfalls durch die genannten Aspekte von Recht, sozialen und politischen Verhaltnissen, von Handel und Nahrungsversorgung, aber auch durch weitere Facetten wie Waldbesitz, geographische Lage und Zugang zu Wasserstraen sowie die Anbindung an weitere uberregionale Infrastruktur und schlielich auch durch die Einbindung in Bildungsnetzwerke und religiose Strukturen und deren jeweilige Transformationen gepragt. Eine Stadt ist jedenfalls ein herausgehobener Kommunikationsraum in vielfacher Hinsicht.Auf Einladung von Franz von Sickingen wurde Landau am 13. August 1522 ein Konferenzort. Adelige aus dem deutschen Sudwesten grundeten eine ritterschaftliche Vereinigung unter dem Hauptmann von Sickingen: den Landauer Bund. 500 Jahre danach bietet dieser Band ein buntes und facettenreiches Panorama einer aufstrebenden sudwestdeutschen Stadt alsBegegnungsraum fur den Adel.

Estamos ante un estudio de las fuentes de documentación sobre la historia de España de las que se sirvieron consagrados autores alemanes de entreguerras, como Döblin, Perutz, Frank, Kesten o Schneide

The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been transformed into the true body and blood of Jesus. In this way the "cultus Dei" thus celebrated allowed the people to venerate the Eucharistic bread in order that they might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history. Perhaps it is logical, therefore, that pageants and plays were introduced in order to access yet another way of visualizing and participating in those events. Thus the "invisible things" of the divine order "from the creation of the world" might be displayed. The York Corpus Christi Plays, contained in London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290 and comprising more than thirteen thousand lines of verse, actually represent a unique survival of medieval theater. They form the only complete play cycle verifiably associated with the feast of Corpus Christi that is extant and was performed at a specific location in England.

Hibis Temple, tucked away in the remote Khargeh Oasis, contains the longest monumental hymns to Amun-Re ever carved in hieroglyphs. These religious texts, inscribed during the reign of Darius I, drew upon a large variety of New Kingdom sources, and later they served as sources for the Graeco-Roman hymns at Esna Temple. As such, the hymns to Amun-Re from Hibis are excellently suited for studying Egyptian theology during the Persian Period, on the eve of the supposed "new theology" created by the Graeco-Roman priesthood. This new study, the first extensive commentary on the five liturgically connected hymns, features new translations with detailed notes. The book also considers dominant theological themes present in the texts, including the concept of "Amun within the Iris."

Die Treuhandanstalt steht fur viele Menschen fur all das, was bei der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands schiefgelaufen ist. Vor allem in Ostdeutschland ist sie zum Synonym geworden fur Ausverkauf, Raubzug und Willkur, also vieles, was bis heute mit den ersten Jahren nach der Wiedervereinigung verbunden ist.In diesem Buch berichten 17 Akteurinnen und Akteure aus dem Inneren der nach wie vor umstrittenen Behorde. Vorstande, Referentinnen oder Abteilungsleiter erzahlen von langen Arbeitstagen, schwierigen Rahmenbedingungen und groem offentlichem Druck. Sie erinnern sich an die ersten Arbeitstage, an die enge Zusammenarbeit im Kollegium und an uberraschende Details zu bekannten Privatisierungsfallen in Ostdeutschland.Es kommen mehrere Vorstandsmitglieder zu Wort, aber auch Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter aus dem Personalbereich, der Offentlichkeitsarbeit, der Rechtsabteilung oder den regionalen Niederlassungen. Die Erinnerungen an die Arbeit innerhalb der Treuhand fugen insofern der Debatte um ihr Wirken eine weitere wichtige Perspektive namlich die von innen hinzu.

Angelo Sindoni ha studiato nelle Universita di Milano statale e di Messina, dove si e laureato con lode in Lettere Moderne (relatore Prof. Alberto Monticone; correlatore Prof. Rosario Villari). Subito dopo, nel 1968, ha vinto una borsa di studio biennale (in Storia contemporanea) presso lUniversita di Messina; nel 1970 si e trasferito allUniversita di Perugia dove, a partire dal 1972, e stato assistente ordinario di Storia contemporanea. Nel 1985/86 vinceva il concorso a cattedra di prima fascia in Storia moderna e da quellanno e rimasto incardinato a Storia Moderna presso la Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dellUniversita di Messina. Sindoni e autore di numerose pubblicazioni scientifiche edite in varie sedi. Tra i libri si ricorda anzitutto Dal riformismo assolutistico al cattolicesimo sociale (2 voll., Edizioni Studium, Roma 1984), unopera che ha aperto un nuovo filone di indagini, coltivate soprattutto dallIstituto teologico G. Guttadauro di Caltanissetta e dalloperoso Centro Studi Cammarata di S. Cataldo, promosso dal compianto arcivescovo Cataldo Naro. Tra i libri da ricordare anche Vito DOndes Reggio. La Chiesa, lo Stato, il Mezzogiorno (Studium, Roma 1991), nonche il piu il recente Societa precapitalistica e modernita in Sicilia (Rubbettino 2013). Tra le relazioni a Convegni si ricorda quella tenuta alla Normale di Pisa nel 1989, in rappresentanza della Sicilia, al Convegno organizzato dallAssociazione degli Storici Europei per il Bicentenario della Rivoluzione francese e quella tenuta allUniversita di Roma Sapienza, Le citta italiane (Nord, Sud, Centro) verso lUnita del Paese, tenuta al Convegno Le citta italiane e il processo di unificazione nazionale, in occasione del 150 dellUnita dItalia. Ha collaborato con il CNRS francese, con lEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales di Parigi, con le Universita di Valladolid, Cambridge e altri Atenei americani, organizzando vari convegni internazionali. Sindoni ha diretto numerosi progetti di ricerca nazionali ed e stato ideatore e coordinatore del Dottorato di Storia dellEuropa mediterranea in eta moderna e contemporanea. Ha ricoperto anche diversi incarichi di governance accademica, in particolare dal 2008 al 2013 e stato Prorettore dellUniversita di Messina, con delega al Patrimonio storico, artistico e bibliotecario.

Cuando, a finales del siglo XVIII, las autoridades virreinales de la Nueva España decidieron instalar farolas en las calles del centro de la Ciudad de México, sacaron de la oscuridad nocturna los cuerpos de los citadinos indigenas, afrodescendientes y plebeyos españoles. Los patrulleros urbanos, conocidos como "guardafaroleros", daban mantenimiento a las farolas e intentaban arrancar de las calles novohispanas la sexualidad, la expresion corporal y la vida social de los plebeyos, aplicando politicas raciales que a menudo enfrentaban el violento rechazo de la poblacion. En Centinelas de la Ilustracion, Nicole von Germeten conduce a los lectores a lo largo del arduo camino emprendido en la ciudad de Mexico para definir e imponer valores modernos, tal como los concebian las primeras fuerzas del orden, en un proceso acelerado de racializacion de las poblaciones urbanas y con el surgimiento del concepto moderno de masculinidad. La autora nos lleva a lo largo de la fallida lucha de las elites por controlar las calles de la ciudad y del proceso por el cual, a medida que aumentaba la vigilancia y la poblacion se resistia con violencia, se produjo un impasse en la marcha hacia la modernidad. Centinelas de la Ilustracion ofrece un apasionante e innovador estudio del surgimiento de ese primer cuerpo policial, llevando una nueva luz a la historia de la masculinidad y la raza en Mexico en el siglo XVIII, asi como a los origenes de la policia en el continente americano.

Joaquín Fernández de Leiva Erdoíza constituyó parte del reducido grupo de diputados que participaron en la Comisión de Constitución de Las Cortes posterior a la formación de la Primera Junta de Gobierno en Chile. Como nadie, abogo por la creacion de un Estado español unitario, donde españoles y americanos habian de tener una entera igualdad politica al alero normativo de una Constitucion y lucho incesantemente por visibilizar el verdadero caracter de los procesos politicos que sucedian en Americaa principios del siglo XIX.La investigacion, en dos tomos, nos invita a conocer la influencia y obra politica del desconocido medio hermano de Manuel Rodriguez, una historia que ha sido silenciada por los clasicos proceres de la memoria nacional. El autor da a conocer la intervencion de un hombre que, bajo la bandera hispanoamericana, se invistio de ideales y propuestas que marcaron un precedente y nuevo rumbo, sobre todo, en la declaracion de independencia de Chile en 1818.

El proceso de emancipación que culmina en 1826, con la incorporación de Chiloé a la República de Chile, abre paso a lo que este volumen denomina La búsqueda de un orden republicano. El título indicado encierra, en realidad, lo que constituyo el gran desafio que se enfrento entonces: reemplazar el orden monarquico por el republicano, esto es, por la libertad moderna, en una sociedad que desconocia como llevar a cabo esa verdadera revolucion, en la que todavia muchos se desenvolvian de acuerdo con el imaginario del Antiguo Regimen y en la que no se podia hablar todavia de la existencia de una nacion. Los caminos que se propusieron para vencer ese reto fueron variados y pusieron de relieve que las diferencias entre los grupos que se disputaban el poder nacian de la mayor o menor libertad que pretendian establecer. Como bien se sabe, se impusieron _nalmente quienes dieron vida a un autoritarismo presidencial que importo, en lo fundamental, instaurar un orden que dejo el control del parlamento y del poder judicial en manos del ejecutivo, quien fue dotado ademas de las armas necesarias para suspender las garantias individuales en caso de amenaza externa o interna. Sobre esa base, el pais, antes que otros de America Latina, alcanzo una sorprendente estabilidad, si bien ese logro fue objetado y rechazado por quienes estimaron que se vivia bajo una dictadura, y propugnaron que el camino por seguir no era otro que reponer la libertad ganada en los campos de batalla y perdida debido al regimen despotico que, segun sostenian, se implanto a partir de 1830. El desarrollo de esa lucha politica, marcada por la intolerancia y la violencia, forma parte de la trama principal de un relato que convierte en una suerte de actores colectivos al espacio geogra_co, a las ciudades, al campo, al ejercito, a la marina y a la Iglesia; y en los protagonistas individuales a las mujeres y a los hombres, al tiempo que sugiere que el destino de unos y otros dependio de ellos mismos, pero tambien de fuerzas que les resultaron desconocidas e inmanejables.