It focuses on the life writings of three Colombian social movement leaders and contrasts them with the memoirs of a hegemonic ex-president. These autobiographies and their representation of nonviolence are analyzed examining the emplotment the struc...Loe edasi...
A biography of the Molteno family, political reformers, activists, and civil servants, who helped shape South African history. From the Cape Colonys first prime minister to anti-segregation crusaders, a story of public service, anti-racism, and prog...Loe edasi...
This book was published in 1966, when it was a 100 years since a young man of 20 arrived in London on his way from Dublin to China. A change of plan delayed his departure and, instead of becoming a missionary in the foreign field, he stayed here to...Loe edasi...
Drawing together both recent research and original sources, this concise and accessible biography reassesses the debates surrounding the life of King Edward IV. Edward IV remains essential reading for all students of late medieval England, the Wars...Loe edasi...
Dr. Jonny Acheson, an Emergency Medicine Consultant in one of the UKs busiest departments, loved his job. Diagnosed with Parkinsons in 2016, his once-thriving environment worsened his symptoms. When Your Neurons Dance explores his adaptation, suppor...Loe edasi...
First published in 1956, The Life of Ludwig Mond is one of the earliest biographies to present the story of Dr. Mond. It throws light on the progressive changes that have taken place in chemical knowledge....Loe edasi...
Charting the life and writings of Wadysaw Biekowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Wadysaw Gomuka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Polan...Loe edasi...
The Nine Magazines of Kodansha (1934) is the autobiography of the Japanese publisher Seiji Noma, owner of the Kodan Company, publishing several million-selling magazines and a daily paper. He details his upbringing in post-feudal Japan, and the mode...Loe edasi...
Horace Walpole (1964) was widely acclaimed when it first appeared as the best life of Walpole yet written. It is scholarly and thorough, and since then there is no reason to believe that it has been displaced....Loe edasi...
Sari: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia - CEU Press
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2025, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003718208)
This book is a detailed biography of the writer and journal editor who probably changed the literary culture of the Soviet Union more than any other person in the two decades after Stalins death....Loe edasi...
The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four womenConstance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antiochand an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, i...Loe edasi...
With newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated, this book gives a lively account of an undocumented story of WWII, Black American, and Dutch military history....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1988, Rotten to the Core? asks who was the real Neville Heath? The author deals with Heath the psychopath, but it also depicts the curious post-war society which allowed him to take root and to flourish, showing that Heath th...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1987, in this new approach to the case of William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Francis Selwyn looks both at the career of Joyce, the Irish-American-cum-Fascist bully-boy, and the changing nature of treason, altered by the events of...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1993, Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal account of psychotherapy and psychosynthesis. Through it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, charts his own development...Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, Triumph over Darkness is a stirring story of determination and tenacity in the face of adversity. Lennard Bickel researched this story in Paris and in the small village where Louis Braille was born....Loe edasi...
This biography provides a well-rounded analysis of Queen Charlotte by considering her own perspectives on queenship and her role in Britain....Loe edasi...
This book shares the life narrative of Deysi Quiñones to shed light on the intricate relationship between her life and the wider cultural, political, social, and historical contexts of the Dominican Republic....Loe edasi...
This book, the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, shows how key turns in Goffmans career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history.The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffmans scholarship which has...Loe edasi...
This book offers an analysis of the many stories celebrating the life and deeds of Cyrus the Great over millennia and what they reveal about Cyrus and contemporary societies who wrote about him. Suitable for students and scholars working on the Acha...Loe edasi...
