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Achiever Exam Prep Guide For AP European History (AP European History)
By Christopher Freiler. 2017
Chris Freiler’s vast experience with the changes to the new AP European History course and exam informed this revision of…
his best-selling Achiever Exam Prep Guide for AP European History. The Achiever Exam Prep Guide is still the best resource for AP students using any AP European History textbook.Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)
By Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt. 2015
This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of…
science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors.Una historia de España
By Arturo Pérez-Reverte. 2019
EDICIÓN ESPECIAL Un relato ácido, divertido, personal y poco ortodoxo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte sobre la historia de España. Más de…
160.000 ejemplares vendidos. Ahora con nuevos contenidos: 10 libros, cuadros y películas (y una más) elegidos por el autor para conocer la historia de España. A lo largo de los 91 capítulos más el epílogo de los que consta el libro, Arturo Pérez-Reverte narra los principales acontecimientos ocurridos desde los orígenes de nuestra historia y hasta el final de la Transición con una mirada subjetiva, construida con las dosis exactas de lecturas, experiencia y sentido común. «La misma mirada con que escribo novelas y artículos -dice el autor-; no la elegí yo, sino que es resultado de todas esas cosas: la visión, ácida más a menudo que dulce, de quien, como dice un personaje de una de mis novelas, sabe que ser lúcido en España aparejó siempre mucha amargura, mucha soledad y mucha desesperanza.» Desde El ruedo ibérico, de Valle-Inclán, o los Episodios Nacionales, de Galdós, hasta las películas El Cid, protagonizada por Charlton Heston, y el Alatriste de Viggo Mortensen, o las pinturas históricas de Velázquez y Goya, esta edición especial se completa con la selección de 10 libros, 10 cuadros y 10 películas (y una más), elegidos por Arturo Pérez-Reverte, para conocer la historia de España. Reseñas:«Veamos el libro como el regalo de un gran novelista a la sociedad española, porque estoy convencido de que Una historia de España, de Arturo Pérez-Reverte, es un moderno epílogo al Quijote.»José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec, Cultura/s, La Vanguardia «Arturo Pérez-Reverte sabe cómo retener al lector a cada vuelta de página.»The New York Times Book Review «Arturo Pérez-Reverte consigue mantener sin aliento al lector.»Corriere della Sera «No solo es un espléndido narrador. También maneja con pericia diferentes géneros.»El Mundo «Hay un escritor español que se parece al mejor Spielberg más Umberto Eco. Se llama Arturo-Pérez-Reverte.»La Repubblica «Su sabiduría narrativa, tan bien construida siempre, tan exhaustivamente detallada, documentada y estructurada, hasta el punto de que, frente a todo ello, la historia real resulta más endeble y a veces hasta tópica.»Rafael Conte «Su estilo elegante se combina con un gran manejo de la lengua española. Pérez-Reverte es un maestro.»La Stampa «Pérez-Reverte tiene un talento endiablado y un sólido oficio.»Avant-Critique «Un repaso equidistante por los tres años de contienda [...] donde defiende la importancia de la memoria y la necesidad de no olvidar lo que fueron aquellos tres años de barbarie.»Antonio Lucas, El Mundo (sobre La guerra civil contada a los jóvenes) «La capacidad de síntesis y la ecuanimidad crítica del autor abonan un trabajo de lectura obligatoria.»Sergio Vila-SanJuán, La Vanguardia (sobre La guerra civil contada a los jóvenes)Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress
By Bjorn Kurten. 2006
Poland has carried out two peaceful revolutions in the span of one generation: first, the self-limiting movement of Solidarity, which…
undermined the legitimacy of Communism and then a negotiated transfer of power from Communism to free market democracy. Today, while Poland is seen as a success story and is joining political and economic associations in the democratic West, Poles themselves seem downcast. They ask: is social anomie a price worth paying for a successful transformation? In making moral compromises with an outgoing tyranny, can one avoid cynicism and disappointment with democracy?Zbigniew Brzezinski, professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University has calledPolish Transformation"a work that provides a comprehensive as well as incisive overview of the extraordinary difficult and historically unprecedented process of transforming an increasingly corrupt and decayed totalitarian system into a modern democracy."John Lenczowski, director of the Institute of World Politics, adds that "this extremely useful volume explains the essential elements of the post-communist political transition in Poland. Its authors convey...the cultural and ideological underpinnings that can be captured only by authorities who have developed over a lifetime that special sixth sense for detecting the elusive and unquantifiable soul of a country."Radek Sikorski, the executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute, writes that "we should be grateful to the authors and editors of this thoughtful volume for asking questions which remain relevant for that uncomfortably large part of humanity that still lives under totalitarian or authoritarian regimes."This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late…
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents, essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and, most importantly, Géricault’s own oeuvre, this study explores the fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged—alongside a growing number of abolitionists—overtly or covertly. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, race and ethnic studies and students of modernism.Sport, Welfare and Social Policy in the European Union (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)
By Alberto Testa, Stefano Martelli, Nicola R. Porro. 2003
Sport is often seen as an indicator of the civic maturity of a community, an aspect of the rights of…
citizens to health, education and social integration. This book examines the relationships between participation in sport and physical activity, and welfare policies across Europe. It argues that the success of campaigns for the promotion of sport depend on the existence of dedicated welfare policies promoted by the European states and explores variations in cultural models and structures of governance across Europe. Addressing the function of supranational institutions such as the EU as well as voluntary networks, the book illuminates key issues in European societies such as migration, financial austerity and Brexit as they relate to sport policy. This is important reading for scholars and students in the fields of European sport and physical activity, sociology, political science and organisational analysis, as well as operators and managers of the sport systems involved in advanced training programmes.The Research Process in Sport, Exercise and Health: Case Studies of Active Researchers
By Sheldon Hanton, Rich Neil, Scott Fleming, Kylie Wilson. 2014
What are the challenges and potential pitfalls of real research? What decision-making process is followed by successful researchers? …
The Research Process in Sport, Exercise and Health fills an important gap in the research methods literature. Conventional research methods textbooks focus on theory and descriptions of hypothetical techniques, while the peer-reviewed research literature is mainly concerned with discussion of data and the significance of results. In this book, a team of successful researchers from across the full range of sub-disciplines in sport, exercise and health discuss real pieces of research, describing the processes they went through, the decisions that they made, the problems they encountered and the things they would have done differently. As a result, the book goes further than any other in bringing the research process to life, helping students identify potential issues and problems with their own research right at the beginning of the process. The book covers the whole span of the research process, including: identifying the research problem justifying the research question choosing an appropriate method data collection and analysis identifying a study’s contribution to knowledge and/or applied practice disseminating results. Featuring real-world studies from sport psychology, biomechanics, sports coaching, ethics in sport, sports marketing, health studies, sport sociology, performance analysis, and strength and conditioning, the book is an essential companion for research methods courses or dissertations on any sport or exercise degree programme.This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a…
Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for goods in Canton. It is also a European history studying the wholesale market for Asian goods in Gothenburg and Copenhagen, the formation of taste and the impact of fashion in the blending of tea and the assortments of colours on wrought silk destined for markets across Europe. Linking material history to political economy and the histories of science, this book ends on the threshold of the nineteenth century, the rise of the second British Empire in Asia, and the creation of synthetic dyes in Europe.Swedish Taxation: Developments since 1862
By Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula. 2015
By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and…
Stenkula explain how Sweden developed the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world, until the beginning of the 2000s.Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (Toronto Italian Studies)
By Charles L. Leavitt IV. 2020
Neorealism emerged as a cultural exchange and a field of discourse that served to shift the confines of creativity and…
revise the terms of artistic expression not only in Italy but worldwide. If neorealism was thus a global phenomenon, it is because of its revolutionary portrayal of a transformative moment in the local, regional, and national histories of Italy. At once guiding and guided by that transformative moment, neorealist texts took up, reflected, and performed the contentious conditions of their creation, not just at the level of narrative content but also in their form, language, and structure. Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History demonstrates how they did so through a series of representative case studies. Recounting the history of a generation of artists, this study offers fundamental insights into one of the most innovative and influential cultural moments of the twentieth century.Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Arresting Images
By Robert Justin Goldstein, Andrew M. Nedd. 2015
In this comprehensive account of censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, when imagery was accessible to the illiterate…
in ways that print was not, specialists in the history of the major European countries trace the use of censorship by the authorities to implement their fears of the visual arts, from caricature to cinema.All The Way: My Life In Four Quarters
By Don Yaeger, Sean Mortimer, Joe Namath. 2019
Three days before the 1969 Super Bowl, Joe Namath promised the nation that he would lead the New York Jets…
to an 18-point underdog victory against the seemingly invincible Baltimore Colts. When the final whistle blew, that promise had been kept. Namath was instantly heralded as a gridiron god, while his rugged good looks, progressive views on race, and boyish charm quickly transformed him - in an era of raucous rebellion, shifting social norms, and political upheaval - into both a bona fide celebrity and a symbol of the commercialization of pro sports. By 26, with a championship title under his belt, he was quite simply the most famous athlete alive. Although his legacy has long been cemented in the history books, beneath the eccentric yet charismatic personality was a player plagued by injury and addiction, both sex and substance. When failing knees permanently derailed his career, he turned to Hollywood and endorsements, not to mention a tumultuous marriage and fleeting bouts of sobriety, to try and find purpose. Now 74, Namath is ready to open up, brilliantly using the four quarters of Super Bowl III as the narrative backbone to a life that was anything but charmed. As much about football and fame as about addiction, fatherhood, and coming to terms with our own mortality, All the Way finally reveals the man behind the icon.Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World)
By Alec Ryrie, Tom Schwanda. 2016
Puritanism has a reputation for being emotionally dry, but seventeenth-century Puritans did not only have rich and complex emotional lives,…
they also found meaning in and drew spiritual strength from emotion. From theology to lived experience and from joy to affliction, this volume surveys the wealth and depth of the Puritans' passions.The European Football Championship: Mega-Event and Vanity Fair (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe)
By Basak Alpan, Alexandra Schwell, Albrecht Sonntag. 2015
The UEFA European football championship was the first European mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a…
departure point, this volume focuses on football as a realm of constructing and negotiating identities using rich ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth media analysis.Sons and Heirs: Succession and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy)
By Frank Lorenz Müller, Heidi Mehrkens. 2016
Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education…
and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War.Catalan Nationalism: Francoism, Transition and Democracy (Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain #Vol. 9)
By Montserrat Guibernau. 1975
Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism…
within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform regional identities? Has devolution fostered secessionism in Catalonia? These are some of the key questions discussed in this book.Catalan Nationalism considers whether a nation without a state, such as Catalonia, is able to survive within larger political institutions such as Spain and the European Union. The author examines the different 'images' of Catalonia presented by the main Catalan political parties. The book also provides a study of the role of intellectuals in the construction of nationalism and national identity in nations without states in the global era.The key questions addressed in this book are highly relevant for the study of devolution and its consequences, transitions to democracy and globalization and national identity. Based on a successful combination of theory and innovative empirical research, the scope and depth of the book's analysis will make it essential reading for students and academics in the fields of history and politics.Competitive Tendering - Management and Reality: Achieving value for money
By Philip Sayers, P. Sayers. 1988
This is a book written by those at the sharp end of leisure service contract management. The lessons that can…
be learned from it are of value to everyone involved in, or studying, all forms of contract management. Readers will be able to benefit from examples of best, and worst, practice. The book will be especially valuable for clients, contractors, and students, directors and consultants.State Formation in Palestine: Viability and Governance during a Social Transformation (Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa)
By Mushtaq Husain Khan, George Giacaman, Inge Amundsen. 1997
This book examines key questions and challenges the widely prevalent view that the Palestinian Authority collapsed because of its internal…
governance failures, its lack of commitment to democracy, and corruption. It argues that the analytical framework of 'good governance' is not appropriate for assessing state performance in developing countries, and that it is especially inappropriate in conflict and post-conflict situations. Instead, an alternative framework is proposed for assessing state performance in a context of economic and social transformation. This is then applied in detail to different aspects of state formation in Palestine, showing that the institutional architecture set up by the Oslo agreements was responsible for many of the serious failures.Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)
By Joachim Von Puttkamer, W 322, Odzimierz Borodziej. 1953
Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European…
countries as merely countries of origin. It sheds light on their experience of immigration and the establishment of refugee regimes at different stages in the history of the region. The book brings together a variety of case studies on Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and the experiences of return migrants from the United States, displaced Hungarian Jews, desperate German social democrats, resettled Magyars, resourceful tourists, labour migrants, and Zionists. In doing so, it highlights and explores the variety of experience across different forms of immigration and discusses its broader social and political framework. Presenting the challenges within the history of immigration in Eastern Europe and considering both immigration to the region and emigration from it, Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century provides a new perspective on, and contribution to, this ongoing subject of debate.