Download or read book Sermon Preached at the Solemn Requiem for Mrs Bertram Currie April 21st 1902 written by Francis Scoles and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Changing Face of Death written by Glennys Howarth and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-01-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The taboo on death is at last breaking down. There is far greater receptivity to informed discussion about death and dying. Dying with dignity is one major issue: euthanasia and the 'natural death movement' are the latest stages in a debate first stimulated by the hospice movement. Media treatment of the bereaved, especially after disasters, has attracted some adverse criticism, yet after the decline of traditional customs of mourning, people seek new models of acceptable behaviour at a time of death. The book argues that attitudes to death and to disposal are culturally formed and examines the factors in the formation and decline of such attitudes by analysing specific issues over four centuries of death.
Download or read book Gorbachev His Life and Times written by William Taubman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction The definitive biography of the transformational Russian leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev. "Essential reading for the twenty-first [century]." —Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left. By 1990 he, more than anyone else, had ended the Cold War, and in 1991, after barely escaping from a coup attempt, he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union he had tried to save. In the first comprehensive biography of the final Soviet leader, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy became the Soviet system’s gravedigger, how he clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, how he found common ground with America’s arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and how he permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Throughout, Taubman portrays the many sides of Gorbachev’s unique character that, by Gorbachev’s own admission, make him "difficult to understand." Was he in fact a truly great leader, or was he brought low in the end by his own shortcomings, as well as by the unyielding forces he faced? Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, as well as foreign leaders, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved, and to the family that they raised together. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.
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Download or read book The Early Reformation on the Continent written by Owen Chadwick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a look at the formative years of the European Reformation and origins of Protestant faith and practice. The author discusses topics such as the Bible, clerical celibacy, divorce, hymns, the Eucharist.
Download or read book Martin Travers 1886 1948 written by Rodney Warrener and published by Unicorn Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biographical study of Travers and his life's works. Complete listing of all Travers' actual and projected work.
