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Un apasionante relato sobre el valor de dos mujeres judías que se enfrentaron a los nazis para dar hogar y esperanza a decenas de víctimas.En una fría noche de febrero de 1943, la familia Brilleslijper llega a una villa escondida en las profundidades del bosque holandes: el Nido Alto. Al abrigo de sus muros, las jovenes hermanas Janny y Lien organizan la operacion mas arriesgada de la resistencia contra los nazis: crear un escondite para salvar a decenas de judios, justo ante las narices de los lideres de la ocupacion que viven a unos metros del refugio.Poco mas de un año despues, la seguridad del escondite se ve comprometida. Janny y Lien son arrestadas y llevadas al campo de Westerbork, donde encuentran una compañia muy singular: Ana Frank y su hermana Margot. Con ellas enfrentaran las atrocidades del nazismo y, finalmente, seran trasladadas a Auschwitz. Janny y Lien se convierten en el bastion emocional de las hermanas Frank, a quienes cuidan durante sus ultimos dias de vida como a su propia familia.La autora, Roxane Van Iperen, se mudo a esta casa sin saber que habia sido un refugio durante la guerra. Conmocionada por su descubrimiento, investigo durante seis años y busco a la familia de estas hermanas para contar su hazaña. El resultado es una historia conmovedora sobre la fortaleza, la resistencia humana y el coraje de las mujeres unidas por la tragedia.

The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization is a hand-illustrated journey into the art of starting over. With whimsy and insight, it explores how to rebuild society from scratch if the modern world were to disappear tomorrow. Blending captivating illustrations with thought-provoking ideas from science, art, engineering, and more, its both an imaginative guide to reestablishing the world we take for granted and a heartfelt celebration of human ingenuity.

Long-distance ties connecting Europeans from all geographical corners of the continent during the fifteenth and sixteenth century facilitated the sharing of religious texts, books, iconography, ideas, and practices. The contributions to this book aim to reconstruct these European networks of knowledge exchange by exploring how religious ideas and strategies of transformation 'travelled' and were shared in European and transatlantic cultural spaces. In order to come to a better understanding of Europe-wide processes of religious culture and religious change, the chapters focus on the agency of the laity in 'new communities of interpretation', instead of intellectual elites, the aristocracy, and religious institutions. These new communities of interpretation were often formed by an urban laity active in politics, finance, and commerce. The agency of religious literatures in the European vernaculars in processes of religious purification, reform, and innovation during the long fifteenth century is still largely underestimated. 'Networking Europe' aims to step away from studying 'national' textual production and consumption by approaching these topics instead from a European and interconnected perspective. The contributions to this book explore late medieval and early modern networks connecting people and transporting texts following three main axes of investigation: 'European Connections', 'Exiles, Diasporas, and Migrants', and 'Mobility and Dissemination'.

Ever since Neolithic times Greek lands lay open to cultural imports from western Asia: agriculture, metal-working, writing, religious institutions, artistic fashions, musical instruments, and much more. Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Canaan, and Israel. Martin West's new book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing that they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged. His survey embraces Hesiod, the Homeric epics, the lyric poets, and Aeschylus, and concludes with an illuminating discussion of possible avenues of transmission between the orient and Greece. He believes that an age has dawned in which Hellenists will no more be able to ignore the Near Eastern literature than Latinists can ignore Greek.

The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna, and Venice examines their common Byzantine past, since all three escaped incorporation into the Lombard kingdom in the late 7th and early 8th centuries. By 750, however, Rome and Ravenna'spolitical links with the Byzantine Empire had been irrevocably severed.Thus, did these cities remain socially and culturally heirs of Byzantium? How did their political structures, social organisation, material culture, and identities change? Did they become part of the Western political andideological framework of Italy? This study identifies and analyses the ways in which each of these cities preserved the structures of the Late Antique social and cultural world; or in which they adapted each and every element available to them to their own needs, at various times and in various ways, to create a new identity based partly on their Roman heritage and partly on their growing integration with the rest of medieval Italy. It tells a story which encompasses the main contemporary narratives, documentary evidence,recent archaeological discoveries, and discussions on art history; it follows the markers of status and identity through titles, names, ethnic groups, liturgy and ritual, foundation myths, representations, symbols, and topographies of power to shed light on a relatively little known area of earlymedieval Italian history.

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