Sökt på: ca sons in
totalt 5 590 träffar
The Emerson Museum
In 1832, Ralph Waldo Emerson had come to a critical pass. He had lost his wife and was on the brink of leaving his career as a minister. In this reduced state he traveled to New …
Fake Prison Doctor of Auschwitz
After over half a century of secrecy, a Swiss bank safe was opened, it contained the long-lost research notes of Josef Mengele, as well as those of his chief assistant in …
Espionage and Treason
Johnson and Boswell
In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell …
Changing South of Gene Patterson
"e;In pointing us toward how to be 'better than we are,' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds us just how fine journalism …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison
From National Book Award–winning author Martin Marty, the surprising story of a Christian classic born in a Nazi prison cellFor fascination, influence, inspiration, and …
Prisoner of the Gestapo
Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living. He begins by describing his unusual childhood and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. …
Memoirs of the Most Remarkable Military Transactions From the Year 1683 to 1718. Containing a Very Particular Account of the Several Battles, Sieges, &c. in Ireland and Flanders, ... Published by his Son
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Dr Johnson
Can it Really Rain Frogs?
What makes a twister twist? Where does acid rain come from? Is it true that snow is sometimes green? Or even red? Can it really rain cats and dogs . . . and frogs? Join popular …
Personal Memories of the Early Analytic Philosophers
Analytic Philosophy began in the first decades of the 20th century at Cambridge with Bertrand Russell, in Vienna with the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists, and in Berlin with …
Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant
Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant is the first history of the concept of facticity. G. Anthony Bruno argues that this concept's coining, transmission, and repurposing by …