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Ten articles make up the proceedings of a conference held in honor of the 50th anniversary of Columbia U.'s Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture. The contributing librarians, archivists, and historians offer perspectives on the cultural history of Russian and East European exiles and immigrants to North America in the...

Historia zbrojnego, ludowego powstania i człowieka, który ośmielił się przeciwstawić Napoleonowi w imię Wiary i Wolności. Dwieście lat po złożeniu swojej ofiary, Andreas Hofer - bohater walk o wolność Tyrolu i obrońca wiary chrześcijańskiej - pozostaje przykładem jak można i trzeba kochać swoją ziemię oraz swą tożsamość, nie przeciwstawiając jej...

In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a timely and wide#8211;ranging account of the changing nature of suicide in the world today. The suicide rate is soaring in the former Communist bloc, in India and in China, which now has the highest female suicide rate in the world. This rise coincides with those countries...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. "Through the Eye of a Needle" is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the...

"Peeling the Onion" is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Grass' parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him towards books and music. Like most of his...

From Neil MacGregor, the acclaimed creator of "A History of the World in 100 Objects" and the Director of the British Museum, comes a unique, enthralling exploration of the age of William Shakespeare to accompany a new BBC Radio 4 series. Shakespeare lived through a pivotal period in human history. With the discovery of the New World, the horizons...