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Ausgehend von den Stimmen der Betroffenen analysiert dieses Buch die Verantwortungskette hinter dem staatlichen System der österreichischen Fürsorge- und Heimerziehung nach 1945. Am Beispiel Salzbur……続きを見る

As the German army moved swiftly into its start positions at the beginning of the First World War, efficiently and seamlessly forming up for the hammer blow that was to fall on France it must have b……続きを見る

Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Only he’s not so sure he was right to go. He’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as a lab……続きを見る

No period in the history of our country surpasses in interest that immediately preceding and including the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Many volumes have been written setting forth the patrio……続きを見る

This book tells the story of how Saint John Paul II politically deployed sacred weapons and profane enemies in his war on communism. The effects of his deployment – chiefly during his three pilgrima……続きを見る

La Civilisation et les grands fleuves historiques - Léon Metchnikoff   Préfacé par le géographe libertaire Elisée Reclus.   Ce livre comporte une t……続きを見る

Today there is much talk of a 'crisis of trust'; a crisis which is almost certainly genuine, but usually misunderstood. Trust: A History offers a new perspective on the ways in which trust and distr……続きを見る

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilg……続きを見る

This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning. Rather than examining punk as……続きを見る

In Ghost's of '45, Geoffrey Hill addresses the great questions still revolving around Japan's past militarism---how did it get started, why were they so aggressive, why were individuals so submissiv……続きを見る

This book deals with three phases of the history of the West (now including the U S) known as the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment. The rebirth commenced largely in Florence. It w……続きを見る

Five revolutions made the West in the modern world. We will look at the completion of the industrial revolution and the current onset of the technological revolution (which is destroying minds, mann……続きを見る

Over 100 maps and diagrams are included. As one of the foremost of a new generation of officers around the time of Prussian expansionism and the birth of a federal Germany, he was to experience much……続きを見る

Gregory the Great, whose reign spanned the years between 590 and 604 A.D., was one of the most remarkable figures of the early medieval Papacy. Aristocrat, administrator, teacher and scholar, he asc……続きを見る

“Racy two-volume military memoirs of the brilliant mind that conceived the operational plan for Tannenberg, Germany’s triumph on the eastern front in 1914. Hoffmann was the strong man in the east fo……続きを見る

Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning histori……続きを見る

For decades the crown jewels of Japan’s postwar manufacturing industry, motorcycles remain one of Japan’s top exports. Japan’s Motorcycle Wars assesses the historical development and societal impact……続きを見る

An urban archaeologist working anywhere in the world can imagine this scenario: armed with a small digging tool and a soft brush, the archaeologist stands at a freshly cut trench facing off a constr……続きを見る

The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, and the effects of that rebellion on diplomacy, the domestic slave trade, and the definition of slavery its……続きを見る

The power of India reached its pre-British Raj height under the Maratha Empire or the Maratha Confederacy which was an Indian imperial power that existed from 1674 to 1818. At its peak, the empire c……続きを見る

"Coast Calendar," says its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, "is the story of the work and play, the human nature and the weather, the fauna and flora, the ups and downs in a sample, all-around Main fa……続きを見る

Northern California - Oregon and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff, american journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer (1830-1901) This ebook presents «Northern California - Oregon……続きを見る

The Communistic Societies of the United States Charles Nordhoff, american journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer (1830-1901) This ebook presents «The Communistic Societies of the United St……続きを見る

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most f……続きを見る

Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in……続きを見る

Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not o……続きを見る

Der Vatikan - Sex, Lügen und Verbrechen. Johannes Seiffert untersucht unvoreingenommen und detailgenau die düstersten Kapitel aus 2000 Jahren Kirchengeschichte. Wie sieht es wirklich hinter den dick……続きを見る

The real story behind the investigation of Iraq, and the basis for the MSNBC documentary of the same name hosted by Rachel Maddow Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times be……続きを見る

The CRB: This nonfiction book tells the story of one of America’s greatest humanitarian efforts. During World War I, the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) initiated, organized, and supervised t……続きを見る

A searing indictment of Marxist-Leninist practice and the ‘slaveholding democracy’ that was Soviet Russia from April 12 1918 when the Communist Party patricians launched their well-prepared and sust……続きを見る