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By Vivian Etting

This ebook offers the interesting tale of Queen Margrete I and her upward push to strength in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Her political targets culminated within the founding of the Nordic Union in 1397, which had very important effect at the background of Scandinavia for the following centuries. The publication analyses the main imperative assets and provides a bright photo of medieval society in Denmark through the past due heart a while. whilst the ebook describes the nature of this dynamic lady, who's regarded as the most very important rulers within the center a while. just a very small a part of the literature pertaining to Scandinavian medieval background has been released in English, and this booklet offers for the 1st time overseas readers the chance to examine the historical past to the founding of the Nordic Union. The textual content is definitely illustrated.

By Deb Abramson

By Dawood Amiri

By Richard Lloyd Parry, Simon Vance

By Ms. Yay Panlilio, Ms. Denise Cruz

On December eight, 1941, because the Pacific warfare reached the Philippines, Yay Panlilio, a Filipina-Irish American, confronted a question with out effortless resolution: How might she give a contribution to the war?In this 1950 memoir, The Crucible: An Autobiography by means of Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla, Panlilio narrates her event as a journalist, triple agent, chief within the Philippine resistance opposed to the japanese, and lover of the guerrilla normal Marcos V. Augustin. From the war-torn streets of Japanese-occupied Manila, to battlegrounds within the geographical region, and the agricultural farmlands of primary California, Panlilio blends wry remark, rigorous journalistic aspect, and well known romance.Weaving jointly appearances via Douglas MacArthur and Carlos Romulo with harmful espionage networks, this paintings presents an insightful point of view at the battle. The Crucible invitations readers to determine new intersections in Filipina/o, Asian American, and American literature reports, and Denise Cruz's advent imparts key biographical, historic, and cultural contexts to that function.

By K. Tamayama

The japanese railway squaddies, who outfitted the infamous Burma-Thailand railway in 1942-43, earned an unenviable attractiveness for brutality, yet they've got now not hitherto advised their very own tale. this is often the 1st publication to carry to gentle the stories of the warriors of the Emperor, who labored with 55,200 British, Australian and Dutch prisoners of conflict within the building of the 415 kilometre railway.

By Malachy McCourt

Malachy McCourt, bestselling writer of A Monk Swimming, stocks the intense tale of ways he went from residing the headlong and heedless lifetime of a world-class inebriated to turning into a sober, loving father and grandfather, nonetheless fortunately married after thirty-five years. Bawdy and humorous, bare and relocating, informed within the similar inimitable voice that left readers around the world brooding about what occurred subsequent in A Monk Swimming, making a song My Him music is "told with the frankness and honesty for which McCourt has develop into popular" (New York day-by-day News).

By Mikhail Krutikov

By Anne Frank

The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. ultimately, in a  new translation, this definitive variation contains  entries approximately Anne's burgeoning sexuality and  confrontations along with her mom that have been lower from  previous variations. Anne Frank's The Diary of a  Young lady is one of the such a lot enduring  documents of the 20th century. considering the fact that its  publication in 1947, it's been a loved and deeply  admired monument to the indestructible nature of the  human spirit, learn by means of thousands of individuals and  translated into greater than fifty-five languages.  Doubleday, which released the 1st English translation  of the diary in 1952, now bargains a brand new translation  that captures Anne's younger spirit and restores  the unique fabric passed over by way of Anne's father,  Otto -- nearly thirty percentage of the diary.  The elder Frank excised information about Anne's  emerging sexuality, and concerning the often-stormy relations  between Anne and her mom. Anne Frank and her  family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation  forces, concealed at the back of an Amsterdam place of work building  for years. this can be Anne's list of that time.  She was once 13 while the kin went into the  "Secret Annex," and in those pages, she grows  to be a tender lady and proves to be an insightful  observer of human nature to boot. A undying story  discovered by way of every one new new release, The  Diary of a tender lady stands with out peer.  For younger readers and adults, it keeps to  bring to existence this younger lady, who for a time  survived the worst horrors the trendy international had noticeable -- and  who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly  human all through her ordeal.

By Dr Cunningham Jack

This ebook examines the lives of 2 top Irish ecclesiastics, James Ussher (1581-1656) and John Bramhall (1594-1663). either males have been key gamers within the spiritual struggles that shook the British Isles throughout the first 1/2 the 17th century, and their lives and works offer vital insights into the ecclesiastical historical past of early sleek Europe. in addition to charting the careers of Ussher and Bramhall, this learn introduces an unique and revealing procedure for analyzing post-Reformation faith. Arguing that the Reformation was once encouraged by way of non secular impulses that pre-date Christianity, it introduces a biblical suggestion of 'Justice' and 'Numinous' motifs to supply a distinct viewpoint on ecclesiastical improvement. positioned easily, those motifs signify at the one hand, the terror of God's judgement, and at the different, the sacred belief of the phobia of God. those refined understandings that co-existed within the Catholic church have been cut up aside on the Reformation and proved to be separate poles round which varied interpretations of Protestantism amassed. through making use of those looser thoughts to Ussher and Bramhall, instead of inflexible labels reminiscent of Arminian, Laudian or Calvinist, a extra refined knowing in their careers is feasible, and gives an altogether extra passable approach to denominational categorisation than those shortly hired, not only for the British church buildings yet for the background of the Reformation as a complete.