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Deutsch | 2018 | ISBN: 3806237832 | 304 Seiten | PDF EPUB (True) | 20 MB
Als Jules Mazarin 1630 die politische Bühne betritt, tut er dies zwar als päpstlicher Gesandter, aber ohne nennenswerten Rang und Namen dafür mit beispielloser Durchschlagskraft: Er verhindert durch sein diplomatisches Geschick die militärische Eskalation zwischen Spanien und Frankreich im Erbfolgekrieg von Mantua. Von nun an stehen ihm alle Türen offen, was der junge Italiener zu nutzen weiß. Er gewinnt die Gunst des Ersten Ministers in Frankreich, Kardinal Richelieu, dessen Posten er 1642 übernimmt und bis zu seinem Tod 1661 innehat. Mazarin fungiert als Erzieher Ludwigs XIV. Auch nachdem Ludwig XIV. 1654 gekrönt wird, bleibt Mazarin im Amt. Nebenbei häuft er enormen privaten Reichtum an 36 600 000 Livres. Seine Geschäftsidee ist ebenso simpel wie brillant: Er entscheidet kraft seines Amtes über die Militäraktionen Frankreichs und verkauft dem Staat anschließend alles, was zur Kriegsführung nötig ist. Uwe Schultz legt mit diesem Buch die erste Biografie einer schillernden Figur vor.

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Deutsch | 2009 | ISBN: 3806222657 | 209 Seiten | PDF EPUB (True) | 4.4 MB
Le pauvre fils boucher de Walldorf près de Heidelberg a incarné le célèbre rêve américain dans une carrière sans précédent. Contrairement à l'Europe tourmentée par les révolutions, les guerres et les famines, Astor a pu réaliser son rêve très personnel dans le Nouveau Monde. Détaillant de marchandises de luxe talentueux et ambitieux, il a rapidement rejoint le glamour New York Money Noble. Alexander Emmerich raconte l'histoire fascinante d'un homme aux multiples facettes : parce qu'Astor n'était pas seulement l'homme d'affaires le plus réussi de son temps, mais aussi propriétaire d'hôtel et de théâtre, fondateur de bibliothèque, conseil d'administration de la société des immigrants allemands, franc-maçon et bon ami du président américain.

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Deutsch | 2017 | ISBN: 3806234523 | 264 Seiten | PDF EPUB (True) | 23 MB
Der Astronom Johannes Kepler zählt zu den Begründern der modernen Naturwissenschaft. Er entdeckte die Gesetze der Planetenbewegung und trieb die Erforschung des Universums voran. Thomas Posch entwirft in dieser konkurrenzlos aktuellen Biographie ein umfassendes Porträt Keplers, der auch als Naturphilosoph, Mathematiker und Theologe wirkte. Sein Lebensweg entfaltet sich vor dem historischen Panorama einer Wendezeit, die der Dreißigjährige Krieg bis in die Grundfesten erschütterte. Tycho Brahe, Rudolf II., Wallenstein und Galilei waren Keplers Zeitgenossen. Der Mutter drohte der Scheiterhaufen wegen Hexerei. In Briefen gewährt Kepler berührende Einblicke in sein Innerstes. Der Rückgriff auf bisher kaum bekannte Dokumente garantiert die Lebendigkeit der Darstellung, die sich stets auf neuestem Wissensstand bewegt. Keplers Errungenschaften werden allgemein verständlich in das Lebensbild verwoben.

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Osprey Publishing | 2009 | ISBN: 1846034256 | English | 252 pages | PDF | 67.61 MB
In the eyes of history, Japanese intelligence in World War II has fared very poorly. However, these historians have most often concentrated on the later years of the war, when Japan was fighting a multi-front war against numerous opponents. In this groundbreaking new study, Japanese scholar Ken Kotani re-examines the Japanese Intelligence department, beginning with the early phase of the war. He points out that without the intelligence gathered by the Japanese Army and Navy they would have been unable to achieve their long string of victories against the forces of Russia, China, and Great Britain. Notable in these early campaigns were the successful strikes against both Singapore and Pearl Harbor.

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English | 2021 | ISBN: 1462796672 | EPUB | pages: 760 | 2.4 mb
Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You're familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors were trying to teach readers through their stories? Do you know how to read them as a Christian? Taking into account your old worldview, as well as that of the author?

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English | 2009 | ISBN: 0752453181 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 1.6 mb
Jane Austen's reputation rests on the six novels she wrote in her short life - enduringly popular novels which have become part of the fabric of English life, and which have reached new audiences through recent dramatisations on screen and stage. This book, which draws on her letters, describes Jane's life in the vicarage at Steventon and later at Bath and Chawton, and her relationships with family and friends - especially her beloved sister, Cassandra, and the engaging Tom Lefroy (who it was rumoured was the love of her life). It also describes the parties and balls in country houses and assembly rooms which she attended and the detail of nineteenth-century life which she so sharply observed and which provided the background to her novels. This book is a pleasure for anyone wanting to understand the life of one of our great novelists.

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2015 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1541168925 | EPUB | 1 MB
For centuries, the inlet called the Golden Horn and the city on the hills overlooking it were situated in the middle of the known world. To the south, through the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, lay the Mediterranean, around which the Greek, Roman, Persian, and Arab worlds revolved. To the north, through the Bosporus, lay the Black Sea, with its Russian and eastern European coastline. And across the narrow Bosporus was Asia Minor, bridge to the Orient. Because of its strategic location, the city on the Golden Horn was coveted by a succession of different peoples. But even though it frequently was under siege, even though control of it often changed hands, and even though, indeed, it was conquered and leveled more than once, the city proved to be virtually immortal. Founded nearly twenty-seven centuries ago as the Greek colony of Byzantium, the city was harassed by the barbaric Thracians, attacked by the Persians, vied for by the Athenians and Spartans. Weakened and dispirited, its citizens finally were forced to seek the protection of Rome, and the city became little more than a Roman outpost. Then, in the fourth century, the Roman Emperor Constantine I decided to build his capital on the site. It was in the new city of Constantinople that ancient Greco-Roman culture was married to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and that Western civilization became Christian civilization. As the center of the vast Byzantine Empire, the city was one of the richest and most important on earth. But because of its wealth, it was sacked by the Crusaders in 1204. And because of its strategic location, it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Since then, as the city of Istanbul, it has remained an international metropolis, a city of East and West, a city whose great paintings, mosaics, statuary, and architecture reflect the many cultures that have been centered there and the many ages the city has survived. Here is its story.

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1996 | 206 Pages | ISBN: 1859841066 | PDF | 4 MB
Challenging the similarly romantic, ahistoric and irreconcilable notions of Islamic and Western cultures, this book cuts through conventional wisdom and common cliches to highlight the plurality and historicity of both. For Aziz Al-Azmeh, the Orientalist and racist view of Islam is nothing but the mirror-image of the myths propagated by the Islamic fundamentalists an radicals. In this book he demonstrates both views share an erroneous and an historical conception of Islam as an unchanging and monolithic entity. Moreover, this analysis dissects the mutual implication of both the dominant Western discourse and its supposed primary opponent, postmodernism, in this form of essentialism. There is no one, homogeneous Islam, and this book highlights the diversity and plurality of forms of the Muslim tradition, seeking to understand historically the phenomenon of fundamentalism, amongst other strands, as a profoundly modern ideology. Challenging the stereotypes and legends of both its opponents and proponents, the book traces how political Islam breaks with core elements of the Muslim tradition and, at the same time, roots many of its concepts in European reactionary and romantic thought. This edition is expanded to include further studies of the role of the secular and the popular in Islamic societies. Aziz Al-Azmeh is the author of Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies, Ibn Khaldun and Muslim Kingship.

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367770539 | 251 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
Is it wrong for a man to buy sex from a woman? In this book, Holly Lawford-Smith argues that it is wrong: commercial sex is quintessentially hierarchical sex, and it is wrong both to have, and to perpetuate a market in, hierarchical sex. Angie Pepper argues that it isn't wrong: men are permitted to buy sex from those women who freely choose to sell it.

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by Luca Basso, Dave Mesing
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004686967 | 263 Pages | True PDF | 2.38 MB