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Radicalism and Terrorism in the 21st Century
Implications for Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism, which are of exceptional importance and relevance in contemporary society. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book contains articles which explore legal, political, psychological, economic and...
Converging Pathways- Itinerarios Cruzados
Spain and the European Integration Process- España y el proceso de construcción europea
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Europe: the fruit of a willing construction that superseded much of its past darkness by gradually transforming numerous walls, prejudices and conflicts into bridges of cooperation and mutually enriching developments. Spain: An amalgam of creative tensions, of groundbreaking realisations, of successively...
Political Unification Revisited
On Building Supranational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2001
Can independent nations unify politically? Amitai Etzioni raised this searching question in his seminal 1965 book, Political Unification: A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces. In this revised edition—now with an extensive new introduction—Etzioni convincingly argues that the experiment of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe...
The Politics of Magic
DEFA Fairy-Tale Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
From Paul Verhoeven’s The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold’s The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany’s state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century...
The Socialism of Fools?
Leftist Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Anti-Semitism, as it has existed historically in Europe, is generally thought of as having been a phenomenon of the political right. To the extent that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century leftist movements have been found to manifest anti-Semitism, their involvement has often been suggested to...
Kachka
A Return to Russian Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Celebrated Portland chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales brings her acclaimed Portland restaurant Kachka into your home kitchen with a debut cookbook enlivening Russian cuisine with an emphasis on vibrant, locally sourced ingredients.
“With Kachka, Bonnie Morales has done something amazing: thoroughly...
The Battle of Tours
The Turning Point in the Struggle Against Islam
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Tours in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Tours. In the year 732, Christian Frankish and Burgundian troops under Charles Martel clashed with soldiers...
Translation Under State Control
Books for Young People in the German Democratic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
In this book, Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children’s literature under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. Giving prominence to extra-textual factors, the study undertakes a close investigation of the...
A Season in Hell
An English Translation from the French
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2004
Arthur Rimbaud wrote a few pieces that set French poetry aghast around 1873. He'd taken to wandering Europe in lieu of university. His teachers hated him. There was a sort of subtle but perverse defiance to his work. He would create new words to describe the world around him, and produced pages of...
Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde
Painting in Paris, 1890-1915
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children’s literature and culture in the Golden...
by Jean-Jacques Ampère
Language: French
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Voulez-vous être soudainement et complètement dépaysé ? n’allez pas à Constantinople, allez à Rotterdam ; arrivez dans cette ville un jour de marché. Les bâtimens chargés de marchandises, les canaux bordés de grands arbres, dans les rues une population compacte comme celle qu’on voit...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is a legendary figure, whose life and career were deeply influential in Finnish and European history. He is viewed by many as the father of modern Finland after leading the 'White' faction to victory and independence in the Finnish Civil War of 1918. He then commanded his...
by Dante
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In this celebration of a poet's passionate love for the woman he worshiped from afar, Dante weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. La Vita Nuova records the poet's adoration of Beatrice, the celestial figure who would ultimately guide...