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Hemos escuchado, a los estadistas mundiales, hablar de como se cuentan los grandes acontecimientos; el desarrollo de un pais, una plaga, una enfermedad, etc. No se alarme, el sufrimiento del pueblo de Cuba se cuenta en numeros de muertos; por mas de 65 anos. Este pequeno pais es una isla, situada en el caribe, su poblacion ha sido sometida, a la mas terrible de las torturas, solo comparable al exterminio de la poblacion camboyana, por el regimen comunista...
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St Giles-in-the-Fields: History of a London Parish resurrects a neglected area of Central London, rich in history and incident. St Giles is at the centre of one of the greatest cities in the world - but you've probably never heard of it. But it is an area with a dense and tangled history that tells us a great deal about the experience of living in London across the span of time from the twelfth century to today. This history has rarely been glamorous,...
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Today, America's most dangerous enemies are not the terrorists or those wanting to kill us. They are the unseen evil forces that have been slowly depleting us of morality, decency and value in God. Evil has taken a seat not only in our movies, media, music and schools, but in our White House. The Evilution of America has been eroding what our Forefathers fought and suffered to create and is turning the United States into a country void of everything...
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The Rolling Stones were founded by Brian Jones who selected Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Wyman and Watts to join his group. He continues to be vilified as a callous nerd, and those who perhaps give him credit for musical creativity and a good dress style, quickly hasten to claim his character was flawed. Despite persistently badmouthed as a misfit who had some of the devil in him, the truth is that the devil did not impregnate his mother any better...
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Tras sus muros carmesí, la Ciudad Prohibida de Pekín esconde mil secretos. Vedada al público (de ahí su nombre), este increíble recinto medieval, diez veces más grande que el palacio de Versalles, fue la residencia de los veinticinco emperadores de las últimas dinastías chinas, Ming (1368-1644) y Qing (1644-1912). Como sus familias y cortes sólo salían de esta «ciudad dentro de la ciudad» en contadas ocasiones, todas las decisiones políticas...
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The childhood memory of British India, by virtue of a parental great-grandfather's birth (and a curious foreign diplomatic incident abroad), suggested the idea for Mr. Abdul Haye Amin. He was born in the District of Sylhet in the year 1970. He wrote his first book of English poems, "The Islands Historia De Amor," in memory of the British Channel Islands, Lord Jesus Christ (RA), and his father (Allah/God). He has also written a book of Bangla poems...
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Hay libros que cuentan historias y otros nos las explican. Este nos ayuda justo a entender las causas de las rebeliones populares de 2011 y las razones que llevaron a la mayoría a evolucionar de formas turbulentas. Gilbert Achcar empieza por analizar la modalidad del capitalismo en el Medio Oriente y cómo se ha bloqueado el desarrollo económico y social, ocasionando desempleo, desigualdad, pobreza y frustración. Su exploración no se limita a...
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Relatos y crónicas radicales es una mirada objetiva del partido más antiguo de Argentina en estos cuarenta años de democracia, a través del relato histórico de hechos que sucedieron y personajes que se involucraron en la vida democrática del país y de la provincia de Santiago de Estero. Este relato se traslada particularmente al pequeño pueblo de Fernández, desde la década del cuarenta, cuando los inquietos habitantes comenzaron a expresar...
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A partir de una firma que figura en el Acta de Independencia mexicana, y de la curiosidad que dio origen a una larga investigación, surge este libro que pretende reconstruir a un personaje apenas conocido; de entre todos los firmantes de dicha Acta, Isidro Ignacio Icaza Iraeta fue referido por la historia simplemente como el que había sido jesuita, y aunque fue prácticamente ágrafo -lo cual ha dificultado especialmente conocer sus inquietudes...
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In the Editor's Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there is a rapid increase of published sources and serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there...
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When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false charges of antisemitism or redefining antisemitism can suppress the global progressive fight for justice. There is no one definitive voice on antisemitism and its impact.
Jewish Voice for Peace has...
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The first account of the Allied navies' vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign
The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe is one of the most widely recognized events of modern history. The assault phase, Operation Neptune, began with the D-Day landings in Normandy-one of the most complex amphibious operations in history, involving 7,000 ships and nearly 200,000 men. But despite this immense effort, the...
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On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event.
The forecasts in Duluth predicted the day would be "warm and humid. Partly sunny with a 30% chance of thunderstorms."...
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Anne de Courcy, the author of Husband Hunters and Chanel's Riviera, examines the controversial life of legendary beauty, writer and rich girl Nancy Cunard during her thirteen years in Jazz-Age Paris.
Paris in the 1920s was bursting with talent in the worlds of art, design and literature. The city was at the forefront of everything new and exciting, there was no censorship, life and love were there for the taking. At its center was the gorgeous, seductive...
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In Churchill's D-Day, Allen Packwood and Richard Dannatt narrate and analyze Sir Winston Churchill's emotional turmoil and epic decision-making before, during, and after the world-defining action of D-Day. Culled from the official Churchill Papers at the Churchill Archives Centre, the book features historical documents, letters, and more, for a Churchillian experience of D-Day leadership, military strategy, and humanity.
As dawn breaks on June 6th,...
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Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art that was never returned...
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This is the 1927 book that years later inspired the movie of the same name. It is a book about criminal violence, corrupt politics and police, and illicit sex. The City of New York, from the late colonial period up to the early twentieth century, was a bustling hub of commerce, industry, and immigration. For many the city was the gateway to a new life in America, and for many others it was a place to steal a buck from their fellow New Yorkers and...
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In October 1941, Hitler launched Operation Typhoon-the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in huge victories at Viaz'ma and Briansk-among the biggest battles of the Second World War. David Stahel's...
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From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies.
In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet - a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns...
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Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. This gentrification itself leads to queer displacement. Combining urban history, architectural critique, and queer and trans theories, Queering Urbanism traces...