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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.

Waris Dirieová ako trinásťročná opustila svoju nomádsku rodinu, aby unikla sobášu so starým mužom. Z púšte si odniesla poznačené telo, čo spôsobila ťažká každodenná práca so zvieratami i takzvaná ženská obriezka, stáročná, v modernom svete nepochopiteľná, až krutá tradícia. Africké dievčatá ju podstupujú už v útlom veku, aby tak stúpla ich cena na trhu s nevestami. Šťastná náhoda umožnila Waris pracovať niekoľko rokov ako slúžka na somálskom veľvyslanectve v Londýne. Keď legálny pobyt vypršal, Waris sa vzbúri: nechce sa vrátiť do púšte, ale rozhodne sa, samotná v cudzom prostredí, zarobiť peniaze pre svoju matku. Život v púšti ju naučil odvahe, schopnosti ísť vytrvalo za svojím cieľom cez všetky možné prekázky. Vypestoval v nej aj hlboký cit pre spolupatričnosť rodiny, oddanosť a lásku, ktorá tak často chýba v bohatom, no odcudzenom západnom svete - Waris nielenže našla v sebe silu zdôveriť sa ľuďom so svojím pozoruhodným osudom, ale zapojila sa aj do boja proti ženskej obriezke ako mimoriadna veľvyslankyňa OSN a zanietená zástankyňa ľudských práv.

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It is the most persistent myth of our time: religion is the cause of all violence. But history suggests otherwise. Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed. * Religion is as old as humanity: Fields of Blood goes back to the Stone Age hunter-gatherers and traces religion through the centuries, from medieval crusaders to modern-day jihadists. * The West today has a warped concept of religion: we regard faith as a personal and private matter, but for most of history faith has informed people's entire outlook on life, and often been inseparable from politics. * Humans undoubtedly have a natural propensity for aggression: the founders of the largest religions - Jesus, Buddha, the rabbis of early Judaism, the prophet Muhammad - aimed to curb violence and build a more peaceful and just society, but with our growing greed for money and wealth came collective violence and warfare. * With the arrival of the modern all-powerful, secular state humanity's destructive potential has begun to spiral out of control. Is humanity on the brink of destroying itself? Fields of Blood is a celebration of the ancient religious ideas and movements that have promoted peace and reconciliation across millennia of civilization.

Robespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him.

The award-winning author of A History of God shares practical recommendations for promoting world peace by cultivating one's intrinsic tendencies for compassion, outlining a program for achieving mindfulness and engaging in acts of kindness.

Early this morning, several hours before my arrest, I was woken by an earth tremor. I mention the incident not to suggest that there was a connection - that somehow the fault lines in my life came crashing together in a form of a couple of policemen - for in Tokyo we have a quake like this every month. I am simply relating the sequence of events as it happened. It has been an unusual day and I would hate to forget anything . . . So begins The Earthquake Bird, a haunting novel set in Japan which reveals a murder on its first page and takes its readers into the mind of the chief suspect, Lucy Fly - a young, vulnerable English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator. As Lucy is interrogated by the police she reveals her past to the reader, and it is a past which is dangerously ambiguous and compromising . . .Why did Lucy leave England for the foreign anonymity of Japan ten years before, and what exactly had prompted her to sever all links with her family back home? She was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, so why was she not more forthcoming about the circumstances of their last meeting? As Lucy's story unfolds, it emerges that secrets, both past and present, obsess her waking life . . .

One of the most anticipated international debuts of 2004, DavidBezmozgis’s Natasha and Other Stories lives up to its buzz withnumerous award distinctions and a sheaf of praise from reviewers and readers.These are stories that capture the immigrant experience with wit and deepsympathy, recalling the early work of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth. Anexquisitely crafted collection from a gifted young writer.

Rosalind Bengal arrives in Bombay on the eve of the monsoon to find her family embroiled in a suspicious situation involving the Bombay movie industry and a series of murders of the community's transgenderprostitutes.

This guide includes an integrated road atlas with index, plus area and city maps. Local tips are highlighted in yellow, covering hotels, restaurants and places to visit. Travel tips are cross-referenced to the atlas.

In De maffia onder vuur beschrijft Thomas Reppetto hoe de Amerikaanse overheid in de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw begon met de vervolging van het grootste misdaadsyndicaat dat het land ooit heeft gekend: de maffia. Hij schrijft over Jimmy Hoffa, Sam Giancana en ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo. Hij laat zien hoe mannen als Robert F. Kennedy, en later Rudolph Giuliani, langzaam maar zeker de overhand kregen in wat uitgroeide tot een ware oorlog tegen de georganiseerde misdaad. Na vijftig jaar intensief procederen werd de maffia aan banden gelegd. Reppetto besluit zijn boek met bewijs voor de provocatieve stelling dat er in het Amerika van na 11 september weinig aandacht is voor de georganiseerde misdaad, terwijl een nieuwe generatie criminelen klaar lijkt te zijn om de maffiapraktijken weer op te pakken.