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Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.

From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West. Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go? The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the greatest challenge to European security and the global world order in decades.

El nombre de Calomarde pertenece a los más oscuro, abyecto y olvidable de la historia. Frente a la fuerza de un Rasputín o de un Hoover, que pueden ser personajes históricos equivalentes, Calomarde se ha quedado en un chiste. No es tan raro, en un país que tiende a contarse más como comedia que como tragedia, pero da pena tanto desaprovechamiento.

A principios del siglo XX Elinore Pruitt Stewart decidión romper con todos los convencionalismos sociales e iniciar una vida de pionera en el Salvaje Oeste. Estas cartas son el testimonio real de su experiencia.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs's life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels "to address race and gender issues.

Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his 20s, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain.

Sobel instead exposes the real Coolidge, whose legacy as the most Jeffersonian of all twentieth-century presidents still reverberates today. Sobel delves into the record to show how Coolidge cut taxes four times, had a budget surplus every year in office, and cut the national debt by a third in a period of unprecedented economic growth.

For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day.

Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism.

In the spring of 1933, more than 8,000 Jewish musicians, actors, and other artists were expelled from their positions with German orchestras, opera companies, and theater groups. Later that year, the Jüdische Kulturbund, or Jewish Culture Association, was created to allow Jewish artists to perform for Jewish audiences.

In the summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre - Auschwitz. It was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazis' terrifying designs.

The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century - a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune, a great humanitarian, a president elected in a landslide and then routed in the next election, arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism - Herbert Hoover is also one of our least understood presidents.

P. Alois Grimm SJ war Lehrer und Erzieher an der Stella Matutina in Feldkirch/Vorarlberg und am Kolleg St. Blasien im Schwarzwald. Im Unterricht und in seinen Predigten verteidigte er das chistliche Weltbild gegen die völkische Ideologie des Nationalsozialismus und geriet so bald in Konflikt mit der Geheimen Staatspolizei. Da diese keine Handhabe gegen ihn hatte, setzte sie einen Spitzel auf ihn an, der unter dem Vorwand, zum Katholizismus konvertieren zu wollen, ihn aushorchte und in Gespräche über die politische Lage verwickelte.

In The Rebel’s Guide to Life, journey through the lives of some of history’s most influential nonconformists, from Galileo Galilei and Rosa Parks to Frida Kahlo and Steve Jobs. Each chapter explores the courage, resilience, and creativity that drove these extraordinary individuals to defy societal norms and ignite change. Through detailed biographies, insightful reflections, and practical exercises, this book distills the timeless lessons of these rebels into actionable guidance for modern readers.

The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, he created for himself a position of supreme and untouchable authority, allowing him to utterly reshape the city of New York, turning it into the city we know today, while at the same time blighting the lives of millions and remaining accountable to no one.

जगात नावलौकिक मिळविलेल्या थोर माणसांच्या आयुष्याला कलाटणी देणाऱ्या बालपणीच्या घटना - घडामोडींचा व त्यांच्या जडणघडणीचा आढावा या पुस्तकात घेतला आहे . हे ऑडिओ बुक तयार करतांना ग्रामीण भागापर्यंत या 43 कथा पोहोचाव्यात आणि अधिकाधिक ऐकल्या जाव्यात हा उद्देश आहे.

Ernest Hemingway's passion was writing, and he was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged by the many women in his life. His masculine, adventurous spirit appealed to women of all ages, including four wives and a long list of legendary actresses, and he frequently transformed the women in his life into memorable fictional characters.

أسئلة طاردت الكاتب، فطارد الإجابات في هوامش كُتب التاريخ.

Una historia conmovedora de coraje y supervivencia "La primera vez que sentí que algo andaba mal, que estaba siendo señalado y perseguido, fue en mi primer día de clases. Tenía 6 años". Henry Oster fue un niño al que muy pronto le arrebataron todo. De los 2011 judíos deportados de Colonia, Alemania, él estuvo entre los 23 que lograron salir con vida de AuschwitzBirkenau. Sobrevivió no solo por múltiples coincidencias, sino también gracias a su empeño en el cuidado de los caballos en el campo de concentración y a Ivar, un adolescente que se volvió su amigo y dormía junto a él en las barracas.

Just as with the liberation fighters, socialists, and anarchists of previous volumes, these historical figures lived under great threat, attacking vast forces with little more than courage and the certainty of their beliefs. They stand as the bridge over the cultural change between the middle ages and the renaissance.