First published in 1960, in <i>Morning at Jalna</i> it is 1863 and the American Civil War is raging south of the border. Still in its early years, the Jalna estate seems far away from the despair and destruction. Philip, who will grow up to become the master of Jalna, has just come into the world, while Augusta, Nicholas, and Ernest are children. Life at Jalna is as peaceful as usual until the Sinclairs come to visit. They ...
In the early to mid-19th century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was able to make a daring escape to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania. His biggest error was writing a note informing his free wife and 11 children ...
Die Weinlese bringt Alyss nichts als Arger: Ihr Mann Arndt hat heimlich ihren Weingarten verkauft. Und Kilian, der Sohn eines einflu?reichen Handlers, den Alyss fur einige Zeit aufgenommen hat, erweist sich als wahrer Satansbraten. Da? Kilian kurz darauf entfuhrt wird, macht die Lage nicht besser. Au?erdem entdeckt Alyss, da? ihre kostbare Brautkrone, ein Teil ihrer Mitgift, verschwunden ist. Nun bleibt ihr keine Wahl mehr … Alyss macht sich an ...
Although the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned out to be the world’s longest-running “people’s war,” and Naxalbari has come to stand for the road to revolution in India. What has gone into the making of this protracted Maoist resistance? Bernard ...
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There she embraced feminism, met anti-apartheid and solidarity movement activists, and encountered a particularly American brand of racial injustice. Urda ...
The Life of Ibn Hanbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597/1200), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadiths—the reports of the Prophet’s sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. He was famous for living according to his own strict in ...
To ma byc cos, czego Warszawa jeszcze nie widziala. Wielki dom towarowy jak angielski Harrods czy niemiecki KaDeWe. Dom Towarowy Bracia Jablkowscy byl najwiekszym sklepem w tej czesci Europy, nowoczesnym i urzadzonym wedlug zagranicznych standardow. W czasie powstania warszawskiego okolica domu zostala zrujnowana, a ostateczna zaglada dokonala sie w 1948 roku, gdy powstawala nowa Warszawa. Ale dom braci Jablkowskich przetrwal i to. Komunisci uzn ...