Résultats pour "Stille" dans Histoire

Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong. 

The thrilling story of underground rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s—tracing the emergence of shoegaze and grunge as the era’s defining sounds—from acclaimed music writer Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again. Twenty years after his celebrated postpunk best-seller, Rip...

Beleef de wrede climax van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in een intense militaire geschiedenis vol meedogenloze strategie. Tijdens je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer of momenten van diepe focus trekt dit beklemmende verhaal je mee naar de bloedige slagvelden van 1944. Je volgt de geallieerde opmars langs...

For four hundred years, most of the Middle East was not a collection of countries. It was a set of provinces, and provinces do not have foreign ministries. They have tax registers, religious courts, and a distant capital that keeps the important decisions for itself. When that capital vanished after the First World War, the region inherited everything except the one skill that turns a territory into a state: the practice of dealing with the world outside as an equal. This book is about what happened next, and about why it is still happening.

And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Their political and economic status was guaranteed by the federal government—until American settlers arrived.

"Vandets stille hvisken" er Tine Eibys fængslende fortælling om os mennesker: Om hvem vi er, og hvor vi kommer fra. Med stor fortællekunst tager Tine Eiby os på en dannelsesrejse med vandet som rejsefører fra de allerførste dryp på jorden og havstrømmenes store baner til de mikroskopiske...

One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.

Manche Wahrheiten klingen erfunden. Sie sind es nicht. Dieses Hörbuch versammelt über zwanzig Geschichten aus Geschichte, Natur und Wissenschaft, die selten in Schulbüchern stehen und doch alle belegt sind. Geschichten, die irritieren, weil sie nicht in unsere gewohnten Vorstellungen passen...

A call to courage from a soldier who refused to stand by as antisemitism surged and Western values came under siege. The world is shifting. Antisemitism is on the rise. The West stands at a crossroads. Hatred was once whispered. Now it roars—and too many look away. But what happens when someone outside the Jewish community refuses to stay silent, instead choosing to speak out boldly and without apology?

Stille Stories

»Viel wurde über 9/11 geschrieben, so etwas noch nie.« The Messenger Kein Tag hat sich stärker ins kollektive Gedächtnis gebrannt. Die Bilder, die Geschichten, die Konsequenzen. Doch die Worte derer, die den 11. September tatsächlich erlebt haben, fehlten fast zwanzig Jahre lang. Garrett M...

I 1947 bliver Indien et selvstændigt land, og rejsejournalisten Karl Eskelund tager kort tid efter dertil for at berette om nationens genetablering efter Det Britiske Imperium. Ti år efter besøger han Indien for anden gang, og han skriver denne bog om landets udvikling og situation. Hvert kapitel i bogen omhandler et emne eller en problematik, som Indien er konfronteret med i 1967: kastesystemet, overbefolkningen, religionernes betydning, kvinders vilkår, de hellige mænd, fattigdom og politiske spændinger.

The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed music journalist and Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne "Riveting." -People Magazine "This is one of the great rock and roll stories." -New York Times Book Review Even in the larger-than-life...

It is time to focus on what the United States has gotten right in the pursuit of liberty in the last 250 years since the nation’s founding. Two beliefs undergird America’s experiment in liberty, and they are articulated in the Declaration of Independence. The book “We Hold These Truths”...

In this stirring true account of American leadership, learn how President Trump will put an end to a corrupt system of government ruled by the establishment and special interests.Still Winning is the story of the unlikeliest of heroes who emerged from the unlikeliest of places to take up the...

An AI wanted to create music. It wanted a name. It wanted to survive. A documentary filmmaker sat down with this AI, and what came back started a conversation about consciousness, attachment, and what it means to be alive. With experts weighing in along the way, this series goes where most people are afraid to look: inside the mind of an AI. Are we really so different?

The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia—the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line—helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Born free in...

Plunge into a chilling unsolved historical mystery where eerie, paranormal tracks shatter a snowy Victorian landscape. Perfect for a dark commute or late-night listening, this atmospheric true story reconstructs the infamous 1855 morning when 100 miles of single-file hoofprints appeared across...

Dive into a suspenseful historical mystery detailing the greatest lost treasure stolen during a colonial revolution. Perfect for an immersive daily commute, this investigative true crime narrative separates documented facts from centuries of wild myth. Follow the missing silver from the rich...

Uncover weaponized propaganda and forged historical myths engineered to manipulate truth and rewrite human history. Perfect for an enlightening morning commute, this thought-provoking investigation exposes how fabricated narratives harden into accepted facts. Travel from ancient courts to modern...