“…This fascinating book follows her and her closest collaborators - her lover and mentor Ruth Benedict, her third husband Gregory Bateson, and her would-be fourth husband, Geoffrey Gorer - to their triumphant climax when Mead was chosen to be one of the principal cultural ambassadors from America to Britain in 1943. Part intellectual biography, part cultural history, and part history of the human sciences, Peter Mandler's book is a reminder that the Second World War and the Cold War were a clash of cultures, not just ideologies; examines how far intellectuals should involve themselves in politics; and speaks to modern-day concerns, such as the United States' relationship with Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran…”

“…Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian faith of his childhood. …”

“…With its lyrical prose and confident grace, A Free Life is a luminous addition to the works of one of the preeminent writers in America today…”
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“…He offers new insights into what makes a claim of conscience distinctively "religious", and draws on a wealth of examples from America, Europe, and elsewhere to highlight the important issues at stake. …”

“…In these chapters, written by a wide range of prominent and promising scholars from across Europe, North America, Australia, and the Mediterranean world, readers will find summary studies on key historical moments (such as the history of Carthage), areas of culture (organized around language, religion, and material culture), regional studies and areas of contact (spanning from the Levant and the Aegean to Iberia and North Africa), and the reception of the Phoenicians as an0idea, entangled with the formation of other cultural identities, both ancient and modern…”

“…In his consideration of the forces and processes at work in the fundamental transformations that have been reshaping Europe over recent years, the author focuses on the unification of Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform program, the accelerating pace of West European integration through the European Community, and the uncertainties surrounding America's future role in a Europe "beyond containment." …”

“…It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases. …”
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“…From the seventeenth century onward, in both modern Europe and North America, historical sciences - notably philosophical historiography and cultural history - colonized both the past (or national pasts) and the "rest" of the world. …”

“…Supply ships ferrying vital weapons, food and fuel from North America are being torpedoed by the German U-boats. …”

“…Este vídeo reúne 44 respuestas y consejos de San Josemaría Escrivá, tomados de la predicación oral realizada entre los años 1972 y 1975 en Europa y América San Josemaría responde a las preguntas que todos llevamos en el corazón acerca de los sacramentos, la vida ordinaria, el matrimonio y los hijos, el trabajo profesional, el trato con Dios, la contradicción y el dolor... …”

“…Here, John and Abigail's relationship unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation.--From publisher description…”

“…But in 2009, he accepted what many said was a thankless task: returning to public office as the director of the CIA, taking it from a state of turmoil after the Bush-era torture debates and moving it back to the vital center of America's war against Al Qaeda, including the campaign that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. …”

“…Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. …”

“…Featuring four previously unpublished essays, the writings collected in this volume convey his other prognostications and warnings for contemporary America and the global order-all of which remain surprisingly relevant. …”

“…An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. …”
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“…But after he raised the Stuart standard at Glenfinnan in the Western Highlands, destroyed a contingent of the British army at Prestonpans near Edinburgh, and then marched south into England, swiftly reaching Derby, the rising threatened to destabilise the British state, dethrone King George and the Hanoverian dynasty, while disrupting Britain's military capability in Europe and colonial activities in America and beyond. Less than four decades after the controversial Act of Union between Scotland and England, arrogance and incompetence on the part of government ministers had allowed the small danger Charles and his Jacobite army had initially posed to escalate into a full-scale civil war: part of the on-going dynastic, political and ideological struggle for the heart and soul of this new nation. …”