European History
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

VI Transfiguration Towards the Self The snake which cannot shed its skin, perishes. Likewise those spirits which are unable to change their concepts are no longer spirits. Men of order, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Ryszard Kapuściński [Kapuściński, Ryszard]

The historic role of a hare? Scholars agree that it was the Scythians who stopped Darius’s march on Europe. If this hadn’t happened, the fate of the world might have ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1893-12-15 | Author:Paul Bourget [Bourget, Paul]

"And now this last verse: Peto quod petivit latro poenitens! [I ask that which the penitent thief asked.] "What a cry! Ah, but it is beautiful! It is beautiful! What ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Carlo Ginzburg

43 The interrogations ended on the 12th of May. Menocchio was conducted back to his cell. A few days passed. Finally, on the 17th, he refused the services of a ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:E.H. Gombrich

THE MONGOLS In Germany the death of the last Hohenstaufen led to greater confusion than ever. No one could agree on a new king so none was chosen. And because ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-26 | Author:Joseph de Maistre

Seventh Dialogue The Chevalier This time, Senator, I hope you will keep your promise, and tell us something about war. The Senator I am quite ready to do so, for ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-21 | Author:Jonathan French [French, Jonathan]

TWENTY-THREE A SINGLE SHOT PUNCHED FROM the wall east of the gate. The ball landed well short of the depleted hoof, churning nothing but earth and the dead. No others ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1837-01-01 | Author:Thomas Carlyle

CHAPTER V THE NEW BERLINE But scouts, all this while, and aides-de-camp, have flown forth faster than the leathern Diligences. Young Romœuf, as we said, was off early towards Valenciennes: ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-24 | Author:Hirschkind, Charles [Hirschkind, Charles]

SOUND RESISTANCE Scholars of flamenco necessarily encounter difficulties intrinsic to studying musical forms that do not accord with the nationalist assumptions undergirding the field of musicology, though they also must ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-26 | Author:Simeon Man [Man, Simeon]

CONCLUSION Radicalizing movements for democracy in South Korea and the Philippines that unfolded in the years after the Vietnam War laid bare the contradictions of the U.S. claim of supporting ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:Joan Wallach Scott [Scott, Joan Wallach]

Laïcité French supporters of the law banning headscarves defined themselves as apostles of secularism. This was not just any secularism but a special French version, at once more universal than ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:E.P. Thompson [Thompson, E.P.]

The second is a letter to a Crown lawyer: Mr Litchfield sir thear is one thing that I am not serten weather I menshened but I have thought it most ...
( Category: Economics October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Walter Abish

. 16 What does Egon know? Egon behind the wheel of his Mercedes, hurtling down the four-lane highway that, to his eyes, splits the landscape in two: low hills, cultivated ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
azw3 |deu | 1911-01-01 | Author:Hanns Heinz Ewers

Chapter Nine Speaks of Alraune’s lovers and what happened to them. THESE were the five men that loved Alraune ten Brinken: Karl Mohnen, Hans Geroldingen, Wolf Gontram, Jakob ten Brinken ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:E.M. Cioran

Conditions of Tragedy If Jesus had ended his career upon the Cross, if he had not been committed to resuscitation—-what a splendid tragic hero! His divine aspect has cost literature ...
( Category: World History October 18,2021 )