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Explores the contours of Latinx Catholic environmentalism Home based conservationist measures such as cultivating backyard gardens avoiding consumerism and limiting waste are widespread among Spanish speaking Catholics across the United States Yet these home based conservationist practices are seldom recognized as environmental because they are enacted by working class immigrant communities and do not conform to the expectations of mainstream environmentalism In Falling in Love with Nature Amanda J Baugh tells the story of American environmentalism through a focus on Spanish speaking Catholics shedding light on environmental actors who have been hidden in plain sight While dominant narratives about environmental activism include minorities primarily in the realm of environmental racism and injustice Baugh demonstrates that minority communities are not merely victims of environmental problems They can be active agents who express love for nature based on inherited family traditions and close relationships with the land Baugh shows that Spanish speaking Catholics have values that have been overlooked in global discourses grassroots movements and the highest echelons of the US Catholic Church By drawing attention to the environmental knowledge that is alr

¿De dónde sacó Hitler su imponente fuerza? ¿En que basó su avasallador éxito político? ¿Cómo logró imponer su voluntad primero en Alemania y después en media Europa? Las respuestas de Fest a estas preguntas contradicen la imagen tradicional de Hitler. El autor no se limita a realizar un riguroso retrato de la condicion humana del dictador, donde este emerge como un personaje obstinado, acomplejado, teatral y avido de poder, sino que nos brinda una completa interpretacion de una epoca crucial de la historia reciente. Esta gran biografia de Hitler, publicada por primera vez en 1973, se convirtio inmediatamente en un bestseller mundial. Es una obra revolucionaria que marco nuevos caminos de investigacion sobre Hitler y que sigue considerandose el gran clasico insuperado sobre el tema.

«Con un sentimiento de profunda gratitud, volviendo los ojos hacia Stalin, los pueblos de la Unión Soviética y toda la humanidad progresista, ven en el camarada Stalin a su admirado jefe y maestro...

El imaginario de la cultura política del siglo xx generado en torno a Stalin es simplificador: Stalin fue una máquina de matar, de exterminio. Sin embargo, es un error juzgar a Stalin desde nuestros valores y tacharlo solamente de monstruo. Al hacerlo, nos alejamos peligrosamente de una historia fidedigna del siglo xx y desvirtuamos el presente. Ademas del monstruo, Robert Service nos presenta al hijo de un hombre alcoholico y de una mujer devota; al joven revolucionario y marxista; al politico y estadista; al intelectual y poeta. Mas alla del Stalin que la propaganda nos ha legado, esta la encarnacion del orden comunista, el hombre de Estado que reforzo las estructuras de la Union Sovietica e impidio su desmoronamiento.Robert Service, haciendo uso de los archivos desvelados tras la disolucion de la Union Sovietica, ha dedicado treinta años a la investigacion rigurosa y pormenorizada del lider sovietico para examinar su compleja figura, carrera, impacto y extraordinaria personalidad, y reconstruir al hombre que hay detras del mito.

Esta memoria, suscita en siete décadas, recoge lo más esencial de las vivencias todas de una biografía en cuyo inmediato entorno aparecen graves acontecimientos de la historia de España y en cuyo núcleo se situa un modo muy peculiar del ejercicio de una carrera militar en nuestros dias. El libro subraya de manera elogiosa el arte de recordar como si la memoria fuese una cualidad de la persona a la que conviene poner por delante del cultivo de la razon y de la forja del caracter. Los testimonios del periodo 1932 - 2002 aparecen ordenados en siete capitulos y un epilogo, referido este a la actualidad mas palpitante. Se corresponden con la infancia, tal como fue vivida durante los agitados años treinta; con la juventud atravesada en lo que llaman los fecundos años cincuenta y con la sintesis de familia profesion lograda, segun el autor, en la decada vertebral de los sesenta. Culmina la obra autobiografica con claras referencias a la politica española de los años setenta, acaecidos en una decada critica donde se situa su ejercicio de la direccion General de Patrimonio Artistico y Cultura del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia. Las reconsideraciones de lo sucedido, tanto en los ochenta como en los serenos años noventa al general convertido en memorialista, cierran el siempre sincero ejercicio del arte de recordar con la atencion fija en tareas de enseñanza primero y luego de investigacion.

Robin Seager traces the life of Tiberius from his birth in Rome in 42 bc during the death throes of the Republic, through his military career and reign as Emperor, to his death in ad 37. Tiberius'' complex character is the key to understanding his reign. Challenging the common ancient view of Tiberius as a consummate hypocrite, Seager portrays him instead as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power, who lost his grasp of reality as his fears of conspiracy and assassination spiralled out of control, and who finally resorted to ruling by terror. The second edition of this highly readable biography contains a substantial afterword, reconsidering various questions and discussing important new evidence that has come to light since the book was first published. Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor''s complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor. Argues that Tiberius'' character provides the key to understanding his reign. Portrays Tiberius as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power. Shows how Tiberius'' fears of conspiracy and assassination caused him to lose his grasp of reality. A new afterword discusses important new evidence that has come to light on the reign of Tiberius.

Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that unforgiving station in the Atlantic and, being a family man, he took his family with him. More... Life was bleak in Balcombe's bungalow on the fringe of James Town. But then, in October 1815, the situation was transformed by the arrival of an unusual visitor. Napoleon Bonaparte, one-time master of Europe, now prisoner and exile, stepped ashore. The Balcombes, like all the islanders, were amazed. And even more so when Napoleon, taking a fancy to their bungalow (the Briars) moved in with them. Betsy, overcoming her surprise at sharing her home with an emperor, delighted in his company and the two became firm friends. Miss Betsy Balcombe made the most of her time with the world's most famous prisoner, keenly observing all around her, noting down conversations, recording moods. The result is a unique set of memoirs which records in astonishing detail an almost unbelievable story. That of how a precocious teenager and an emperor talked, argued, played, confided and teased their way through grim years of exile on the barren rock of St Helena. This attractive, illustrated edition brings this remarkable story back to life