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Silný příběh tří generací žen z rodiny nacistického důstojníka v koncentračním táboře Dachau a židovské rodiny z Vídně, v němž je každý hluboce poznamenán válečnými hrůzami bez ohledu na to, na které straně konfliktu stojí. V 90. letech 20. století se v Kalifornii setkávají dva přeživší z obou rodin. Rosa je mladá australská muzikoložka, Otto světoznámý skladatel a violoncellista. Spojuje je hudba i minulost, ale bude zapotřebí ještě něčeho dalšího, co jim pomůže překlenout rány i propasti způsobené dějinami. S dětskými vzpomínkami na rozbombardovaný Leicester a Coventry se Martin Goodman po škole přestěhoval do Berlína. Jeho dílo zkoumá způsoby, jimiž válka působí v šokových vlnách na další generace. Spisovatel, oceněný za své romány i vědecká díla, nyní přednáší jako profesor kreativního psaní na Univerzitě v Hullu.

In AD 70, after a war that had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only eighty years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary consequences? This superb book, by one of the world�s leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish worlds, narrates and explains this titanic struggle, showing why Rome�s interests were served by this policy of brutal hostility, and how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the empire. The book thus also provides an exceptional and original account of the origins of anti-Semitism, whose history has had often cataclysmic reverberations down to our own time.

The Write Mentoring is the handbook for emerging and established writers. Authors Martin Goodman and Sara Maitland explain how to establish and run successful mentoring schemes for writers. Witty and candid, this groundbreaking book is essential reading for writers and for those involved in developing them.

Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope. Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activists? Corporations? Engineers? Scientists? Whoever, environmental laws need to be enforceable and enforced. Step forward a fresh breed of passionately purposeful environmental lawyers. They provide new rules to legislatures, see that they are enforced, and keep us informed. They tackle big business to ensure money flows into cultural change, because money is the grammar of business just as science is the grammar of nature. At the head of this new legal army stands James Thornton, who takes governments to court, and wins. And his client is the Earth. With Client Earth, we travel from Poland to Ghana, from Alaska to China, to see how citizens can use public interest law to protect their planet. Foundations and philanthropists support the law group ClientEarth because they see, plainly and brightly, that the law is a force all parties recognize. Lawyers who take the Earth as their client are exceptional and inspirational. They give us back our hope.

'An absolute godsend ... Goodman has done both Jews and non-Jews a great service with this book, encapsulating most of Jewish thought over four millennia into one extraordinarily readable volume' Julia Neuberger, Literary Review A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present... číst celé

The Second World War is over, but young Tomas learns that Europe's wounds have not yet healed. Discover the 30th anniversary edition of a Whitbread shortlisted novel - available in the U.S. for the first time. "You come to see [Tomas] is conserving himself deliberately against the old suffering, the tired old guilt of the adults... Simplicity is a great virtue, in novels as elsewhere. After all, it can only be produced from sincerity." - Penelope Fitzgerald It's 1966. Young Tomas is taught by English war veterans, the adults around him haunted by memories of war. He walks the ruins of Coventry with his Gran, the city still rebuilding from the blitz. But his mother is German, and Tomas is torn between two worldviews. As he nears adulthood Tomas heads to 1970s Berlin. He's taken in by his enigmatic uncle, a blind, disgraced Nazi soldier. Arm in arm, they explore a drastically changing Berlin. Out in Dresden, a city decimated by Allied firebombs, Tomas finds more family with their hidden stories. This soaring, poignant novel invites readers to explore what we inherit from the wars of our elders, and how we might move on.