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From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humorous stories from history, Barczewski's survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today. Product details Format Hardback | 280 pages ...

Continuing the definitive space opera anthology series. Today's most popular writers produce new stories set in their most famous universes, alongside essential and seminal short fiction from past masters. The definitive collection of explorers and soldiers, charting the dark frontiers of our expanding universe. Amongst the infinite stars we find epic sagas of wars, tales of innermost humanity, and the most powerful of desires - our need to create a better world. The second volume of seminal short science fiction, featuring twenty-six new stories from series such as Wayfarers, Confederation, The Lost Fleet, Waypoint Kangaroo, Ender, Dream Park, the Polity and more. Alongside work from tomorrow's legends, revisit works by masters who helped define the genre: Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Campbell, Becky Chambers, Robert Heinlein, George R.R. Martin, Susan R. Matthews, Orson Scott Card, James Blish, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Tanya Huff, Curtis C. Chen, Seanan McGuire, Sharon Lee and ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Alex Forley had everything: good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. But now he is dead - an apparent case of suicide. Detective Inspector Rod Eliot isn't sure Alex killed himself and he wants the answers to two simple questions. Was it murder? And if so, who did it? Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book. Product details Format Paperback | 77 pages ...

To the unstudied eye, St. Matthew's gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is. In his third volume of meditations on Matthew (chapters 19-25), Erasmo Leiva continues to show Matthew's prose to be not terse so much as economical--astoundingly so given its depth. The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this. Each short meditation comments on a verse or two, pointing to some facet of the text not immediately apparent, but rich with meaning. Leiva's work is scholarly but eminently approachable by the lay reader. The tone is very much of taste and see how good the Lord is and an invitation of friend, come up higher!. The goal of the book is to help the reader experience the heat of the divine heart and the light of the divine Word. Leiva comments on the Greek text, demonstrating nuances in the text that defy translation. He uses numerous quotes from the Fathers and the Li...

Die Funktion des Orgasmus ist das Werk Wilhelm Reichs, das die weiteste Verbreitung gefunden hat. Als das Buch 1969 zum ersten Mal in der Bundesrepublik erschien, wurde es mit begeisterter Zustimmung aufgenommen. Seitdem hält die Rezeption dieses fundamentalen sexualökonomischen Werks an. Die Bedeutung der Funktion des Orgasmus liegt in der Radikalität, mit der Reich als erster die zentrale Bedeutung der Sexualität für den Einzelnen und die Gesellschaft erkannt hat. Über Freud hinaus, der die Notwendigkeit der Triebsublimierung für die kulturelle Entwicklung postuliert, stellt Reich die Frage nach den gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen der Neurosenentstehung und kommt zu der Feststellung, daß jede Neurose die Folge einer gestauten Sexualenergie ist, deren Verdrängungsmechanismen von der autoritären Familien- und Ehestruktur automatisch erzeugt werden. Er weist nach, daß die orgastische Potenz gleichzeitig soziale Potenz ist, die eine Humanisierung und ungestörte Leistungsfähigkeit erst gar...

"After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you." Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world's most successful and adored bands for over four decades. Here he tells the full and candid story of that life, and what it is to be part of the ever evolving Fleetwood Mac. His all-access autobiography spans the career of one of classic rock's greatest drummers and band leaders, the co-founder of the deeply loved super group that bears his name. In this intimate portrait of a life lived in music, Fleetwood vividly recalls his upbringing in Cornwall, Egypt and Norway tapping along to whatever song was playing on the radio; his experiences as a musician in Sixties London; the early days of the band featuring Peter Green, and his close friendship with George Harrison and seemingly all of music royalty. Play On sheds new light on Fleetwood Mac...

Dieses Buch informiert über die wichtigsten Ereignisse und Zusammenhänge der ukrainischen Geschichte. Es setzt der vorherrschenden russozentrischen Perspektive eine ukrainische gegenüber und versucht gleichzeitig, ukrainische nationale Mythen kritisch zu überprüfen. Dabei wird nicht nur die Geschichte der Ukrainer vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart dargestellt; auch die Geschichte der in der Ukraine lebenden Polen, Russen, Juden und Deutschen wird mir berücksichtigt. Das Buch wurde für die Neuauflage aktualisiert und bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart fortgeführt. Product details Format Paperback | 414 pages ...