Download or read book From My Recent Past written by Grigory Gershuni and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From My Recent Past is a memoir written by Russian revolutionary Grigory Gershuni (1870–1908), the infamous mastermind behind the Combat Organization (CO) of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR). Grigory Gershuni envisioned himself a knight fighting the dragon of injustice, a believer in a Russian revolution that would sweep away an autocratic “regime that made killers of its own children!” In his view, his personal mission was to cut off the head of that dragon, i.e. eliminate the cruelest, corrupt, and lawless agents of the repressive tsarist regime. Over the course of nine years (from 1902 to 1911), he engaged seventy-eight members of his Combat Organization to commit 263 terrorist acts, including the assassination of two government ministers, thirty-three governors-general, a vice-governor, as well as several admirals and generals. This book depicts his revolutionary activities, his arrest, and proceedings before a military tribunal, a death sentence verdict that was replaced at the last minute by a life sentence, and years of imprisonment in the Peter and Paul and Shlisselburg fortresses. It is presented here in English translation by Katya Vladimirov, with an introduction by Katya Vladimirov and an afterword by John P. Moran.
Download or read book My Current Past written by Jhiree Davis-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through my profession as a Licensed Professional Counselor, I discovered many answers to my past. These insights gave me the ability to chart my future, free from the influence of my mother's addiction. I learned to accept that I had no control over her sobriety or her ability to love me. This acceptance empowered me to focus on my life, my future, and my path to success. When I was only three years old, addiction ripped my family apart, sucking me into a lifestyle no child should endure. Living with my mother's addiction cultivated in me a passion to encourage, uplift, and provide guidance to others whose lives are affected by a loved one's addiction. Along with chasing my dreams, I also chased my mother's love. Her failed attempts at sobriety translated into my personal failures; and rather than finding a mother's love, I uncovered a devastating roller coaster of high hopes, insecurities, forgiveness, pain, and broken promises. Now, who was going to save me? As I flourished in my profession and matured as an adult, I realized that the love I was searching for was within me the entire time. We have the ability to save ourselves through: - Education - Realization - Acceptance - Positive Actions Come with me to see how I stepped out of pain and into delightful purpose.
Download or read book The Oxford History of the Novel in English written by John Kucich and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies written by Dr Siobhan Kattago and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory has long been a subject of fascination for poets, artists, philosophers and historians. This timely volume, edited by Siobhan Kattago, examines how past events are remembered, contested, forgotten, learned from and shared with others. Featuring contributions from key thinkers in the field, this comprehensive volume will be a valuable resource for all academics and students working within this area of study.
Download or read book Memory in the Wild written by Brady Wagoner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild of natural settings, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially extended and socially distributed process, embedded within culture and history. This book explores the complex relations between practices of remembering and the settings in which they are enacted. It advances a novel set of concepts developed from ecological, cognitive, cultural and narrative currents in psychology and further afield to analyze (1) trajectories of autobiographical remembering, (2) the relation between individual and collective memory, (3) memory and cultural transmission, as well as (4) various methodological techniques to investigate memory in the wild.
Download or read book America A Concise History Volume Two Since 1865 written by James A. Henretta and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fresh interpretations from two new authors, wholly reconceived themes, and a wealth of cutting-edge scholarship, the Fifth Edition of America: A Concise History is designed to work perfectly with the way you teach the survey today. Building on the book’s hallmark strengths—balance, explanatory power, and a brief-yet-comprehensive narrative—as well as its outstanding full-color visuals and built-in primary sources, authors James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self have shaped America into the ideal brief book for the modern survey course, at a value that can’t be beat.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order 1930 1980 written by Steve Fraser and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming.
Download or read book Modernities Memory and Mutations written by Abby Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Davie, one of the world’s most influential scholars in contemporary sociology of religion, has furthered a tradition developed by David Martin and others in comparative sociology of religion and modernity in European and international perspective. Davie’s writings on belief and belonging, particularly in a context outside active Church participation, have contributed important understandings of the cultural role of religion as memory and practice in contemporary European societies. Through her most recent work on new roles of religion in relation to the political, legal and welfare sectors of society, she has addressed debates on the resurgence of religion and the ’post-secular condition’. Modernities, Memory and Mutations presents an overview and critical engagement with contemporary themes in the sociology of religion which will inform current and forthcoming generations of scholars. Reflecting on how Grace Davie’s contributions have influenced their own work and wider debates in the field, leading international scholars engage with themes Davie has critically explored across religious studies and mainstream sociology evolving a new research agenda for sociology of religion.
Download or read book United States Military History 1865 to the Present Day written by Jeffery Charlston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining America's rise as a global military power challenges the methodologies of military history. This volume looks beyond the major conflicts covered elsewhere in the Library to explore the operational, conceptual, technological and cultural forces that shaped the United States military after the American Civil War. Individual articles reflect the wide range of topics and approaches that contribute to the growing understanding of the American military and its relationship with its parent society.
Download or read book Oswaal One For All Olympiad Class 3 English Previous Years Solved Papers For 2024 25 Exam written by Oswaal Editorial Board and published by Oswaal Books. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the Product: • Crisp Revision with Concept-wise Revision Notes & Mind Maps • 100% Exam Readiness with Previous Years’ Questions from all leading • • • • Olympiads like IMO, NSO, ISO & Hindustan Olympiad. • Valuable Exam Insights with 3 Levels of Questions-Level1,2 & Achievers • Concept Clarity with 500+ Concepts & 50+ Concepts Videos • Extensive Practice with Level 1 & Level 2 Practice Papers
Download or read book Identity Trauma Sensitive and Controversial Issues in the Teaching of History written by Hilary Cooper and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Education is a politically contested subject. It can be used to both promote xenophobia and to develop critical thinking, multiple perspectives, and tolerance. Accordingly, this book critically examines complex issues and constructivist approaches that make history relevant to students’ understanding of the modern world. As such, it has global appeal especially in North and South America, Canada, Europe and Asia. The book’s authors address the major challenges that History Education faces in an era of globalisation, digital revolution and international terror, nationalism and sectarian and religious conflict and warfare. Central to this volume are controversial issues, trauma, and questions of personal and national identity from a wide range of international settings and perspectives. The research in this book was undertaken by leading history educators from every continent. Their interdisciplinary research represents an important contribution to the teaching of social sciences, social psychology, civic education programmes, history and history education in schools, colleges and universities. The book offers new approaches to history educators at all levels. In addition, the chapters offer potential as required reading for students to both develop an international perspective and to compare and contrast their own situations with those that the book covers. Section I considers issues related to identity; how can history education promote social coherence in multicultural societies, in societies divided by sectarianism, or countries adapting to regime changes, whether Communist or Fascist, including, for example, South Africa, previously Communist countries of Eastern Europe, and previous dictatorships in South America and Western Europe. It discusses such questions as: How important is it that students learn the content of history through the processes of historical enquiry? What should that content be and who should decide it, educators or politicians? What is the role of textbooks and who should write and select them? Should history be taught as a discrete discipline or as part of a citizenship or social sciences curriculum? Sections II and III explore ways in which memory of sensitive issues related to the past, to war, or to massacres may be addressed. Are there new methodologies or approaches which make this possible? How can students understand situations involving intolerance and injustice?
Download or read book Past Mortems written by Carla Valentine and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that day's corpses her task list. Past Mortems tells Carla's stories of those years, as well as investigating the body alongside our attitudes towards death - shedding light on what the living can learn from dead and the toll the work can take on the living souls who carry it out. Fascinating and insightful, Past Mortems reveals the truth about what happens when the mortuary doors swing shut or the lid of the coffin closes.
Download or read book The Place of War in English History 1066 1214 written by J. O. Prestwich and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading medievalist of his generation studies Anglo-Norman practice in the raising and maintaining of armed forces, and its effect on the government and economy.
Download or read book Midrash the Search for a Contemporary Past written by Benjamin J. Segal and published by U'd Syn Conservative Judaism. This book was released on 1973 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post Wall German Cinema and National History written by Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989. Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the '68 student movement, and the Red Army Faction -- historical flashpoints involving political oppression, civil disobedience, and the longing for utopian solutions to social injustice -- have come to be seen as decisive moments in a collective history that unites East and West even as it divides them. Telling stories about a shared past, establishing foundational myths, and finding commonalities of experience are pivotal steps in the construction of national identity. Such nation-building is always incomplete, but the cinema provides an important forum in which notions of German history and national identity can be consumed, negotiated, and contested. This book looks at history films made since 1989, exploring how utopianism and political dissent have shaped German identity. It studies the genre - including popular successes, critical successes, and perceived failures - as a set of texts and a discursive network, gauging which conventions and storylines are resilient. At issue is the overriding question: to what extent do these films contribute to a narrative that legitimizes the German nation-state? Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of Germanand The Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College.
Download or read book Temporal Consciousness Transposition written by Kenneth Joel Teicher and published by Kenneth Joel Teicher. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you are offered the opportunity to travel to any time in your past. You can either simply observe and remember or actually alter your life. Ben Tilifson has received this precise opportunity. Thinking it is a joke perpetrated by friends, he reluctantly decides to play along. Except it is not a joke. During Ben’s first trip, he coerces his fifty-five year younger self into speaking to a high school crush to whom he was originally too bashful to even say hello. The brief conversation changes his life forever. The girl introduces Ben to a friend that will become his wife. Realizing it’s not a joke or bad dream, Ben decides to continue his travels. Fearful of doing anything else that might alter his own life, he decides to devote his action to saving lives from terrible accidents. Upon returning from his most recent trip, Ben discovers his life has been dramatically transformed. A thorough review reveals that he must have traveled back in time simply to win a lottery. Memorizing the winning numbers, Ben travels twelve years into his past and purchases the winning ticket. He returns to a life even more altered than the one he just left. He is convinced he is somehow jumping between parallel yet different timelines. Recognizing the contradiction of time travel, Ben wonders what would happen if he reverses the action of his first trip. The surprise ending to the Temporal Consciousness Transposition presents a paradox that convinces Ben he has no free will.
Download or read book The New York Times Film Reviews 1999 2000 written by New York Times Theater Reviews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Oscar-winning blockbustersAmerican BeautyandShakespeare in Loveto Sundance oddities likeAmerican MovieandThe Tao of Steve, to foreign films such asAll About My Mother, the latest volume in this popular series features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every film review and awards article published inThe New York Timesbetween January 1999 and December 2000. Includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names. This collection is an invaluable resource for all libraries.
