Abraham Lincoln's 'State of the Union Addresses' offers a comprehensive collection of his speeches delivered to Congress during a critical period in American history. Known for his eloquent prose and strategic use of rhetoric, Lincoln's addresses provide valuable insights into the political challenges and goals of t...

This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death. After an introduction that traces the persistence of ...

This open access book addresses the protection of privacy and personality rights in public records, records management, historical sources, and archives; and historical and current access to them in a broad international comparative perspective. Considering the question “can archiving pose a security risk to the pro...

This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group of writers – in particular, Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Wilhelm Schäfer, Emil Strauß, Börries Freiherr von Mün...

John S. C. Abbott's book, 'Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi', delves into the life and exploits of the infamous Spanish conquistador who led the first European expedition to navigate the Mississippi River. The book is a meticulously researched biography that paints a vivid picture of De Soto's ad...

This edition is compiled out of articles, essays, executive orders, statements and speeches written and spoken by president Putin. This collection was created in order to shed light on the cause of the war and real plans of Russian president. His words are showing his true intent, his final goal that was formed year...

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized part of the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine, which consists of Lugansk and Donetsk oblasts...

While researching family genealogy, I was surprised to learn that my wife is related to Major General George Armstrong Custer, Major General Galusha Pennypacker, Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, and Frank Knox Morton Pennypacker. This is the story of these four fascinating characters that have played important roles ...

This volume provides novel social-scientific and historical approaches to religious identifications in late antique (3rd–12th century) Egyptian papyri, bridging the gap between two academic fields that have been infrequently in full conversation: papyrology and the study of religion. Through eleven in-depth case stu...

Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection extends the concept and action of ‘performance’ and connects it to the idea of ‘mothering’ as activity. Motherin...

Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine reveals how and why religion has become a pivotal political force in a society struggling to overcome the legacy of its entangled past with Russia and chart a new future. If Ukraine is "ground zero" in the tensions between Russia and the West, religion is...

The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postw...

Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren int...

Over the past 70 years, American and Soviet scientists have used the animal world for testing. Despite losses, these animals have taught the scientists a tremendous amount more than could have been learned without them. Without animal testing in the early days of the human space program, the Soviet and American prog...

Hawaiian Legends & Myths is a collection of books by William Drake Westervelt, one of Hawaii's foremost authorities on island folklore. It contains five books Westervelt wrote about Hawaiian legends, folklore and mythology. "Legends of Maui" includes numerous myths of Māui, Polynesian demi god of Polynesia and Hina ...

کتاب دمحمحیسم اثر نیما شهسواری بخشی از متن کتاب در زمانهای بسیار دور در نزدیکی روستایی کم بضاعت و کمجمعیت دختری در خانوادهای مذهبی زندگی میکرد او در خانوادهای چشم به جهان گشوده بود که بیشتر زمان عمرشان را مشغول عبادت خداوند بودند پدرش از روحانیون و مراقبان خانهی خدا بود و مادر در کارهای نظافتی همان خانهی مقدس مشغول ...