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Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these murders, as well as the coercive sterilizations of some four hundred thousand others classified as “feeble-minded,” be officially acknowledged as crimes at all. The Question of Unworthy Life charts this history from its origins in prewar debates about the value of disabled lives to our continuing efforts to unlearn eugenic thinking today.

In Mythica Emily Hauser tells, for the first time, the extraordinary stories of the real women behind some of the western world’s greatest legends. Following in their footsteps, digging into the history behind Homer’s epic poems, piecing together evidence from the original texts, recent astonishing archaeological finds and the latest DNA studies, she reveals who these women – queens, mothers, warriors, slaves – were, how they lived, and how history has (or has not – until now) remembered them.

Together with his own life-changing encounters with animals around the world, Martin has celebrated the intelligence, loyalty, and companionship of some truly extraordinary creatures whose lives have been entwined with our own. By turns heart-warming, inspiring and always fascinating, Meetings With Remarkable Animals gives us a chance to meet them too.

La Prima Repubblica ci sembra un mondo lontano e irripetibile. In bianco e nero, senza social, un mondo nel quale gli italiani guardavano alla politica in modo diverso, i partiti avevano milioni di iscritti e andavano a votare quasi tutti. Può suonare incredibile oggi, ma in un sondaggio del 1951 secondo l'80 per cento delle donne era desiderabile che il marito fosse più colto della moglie, mentre nel 1967 il 58 per cento degli intervistati riteneva che le donne non dovessero occuparsi di politica. Cosa è successo da allora? In che modo l'Italia è diventata il paese che è oggi?

Between 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the commercial realm through their enthusiasm for new edible consumables. The resulting food products promised wondrous solutions for what seemed to be both individual and social ills.

Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.

It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall's most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unofficial national anthem. But when a stranger challenges the Radio 3 presenter on his ancestry, he is inspired to return to the lands of his boyhood to rediscover the place where he grew up, and attempt to confirm if he still belongs there.

Vom schwarzen Schaf der Familie zum weltberühmten Schriftsteller - ein packendes Hörbuch über eine Leuchtturmbauer-Dynastie und die frühen Jahre Robert Louis Stevensons, Autor von DIE SCHATZINSEL und DR. JEKYLL UND MR. HYDE. Schottland, 1868. Der fast 18-jährige Robert Louis Stevenson träumt von einem Leben als Schriftsteller. Eine Zeitlang lässt sein Vater ihn gewähren, doch als Robert sein Studium vernachlässigt und sich unstandesgemäß verliebt, muss er Edinburgh verlassen.

La guerra civil española se considera un ensayo general de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, pocos comprenden sus orígenes, causas y principales batallas. Pocos historiadores han presentado un relato apasionante y fácil de entender de las batallas y las principales campañas por tierra y mar. Demasiados historiadores se preocupan por ciertos aspectos de la guerra y la tratan solo como una precuela de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Buy this audiobook to claim your guide to the past, and prepare for an enlightening journey through the ages!

Deutschland hat versagt, schreibt Ulrich Schneider. Die Bundesrepublik stand mit Corona, Energiekrise und explodierenden Lebenshaltungskosten vor der größten Herausforderung ihrer Geschichte, es wurden unvorstellbare Summen in zahllosen Entlastungspaketen ausgegeben. Trotzdem gelang es nicht, die Gesellschaft in ihrer Krise zusammenzuhalten.

Legends of Norse Mythology is your practical guide for navigating the Norse realms and revealing the origins of these mythical stories, ranging from the gripping narratives of revered gods to Viking sagas of the Scandinavian seafaring adventures with longships, to the timeless rituals of the Nordic people.

Returning to Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, Fritz Bauer – a gay Jewish lawyer and outspoken critic of Hitler – was determined to reclaim the Germany he had once loved. But he soon saw that the perpetrators of the Holocaust had largely got away with their crimes. Top Nazi officers – mass-murders and cruel sadists – had been given plum jobs at major German companies; held prestigious offices in top universities; were in positions of power as lawyers, judges and political advisors.

In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman—if there were such a thing—would never make a good wife. But a circle of women called the Bluestockings did something extraordinary: Coming together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, they fought for women to be educated and to have a public role in society. In this intimate and revelatory history, Susannah Gibson delves into the lives of these pioneering women.

Vom Kriegsbeginn bis zum Untergang – Josef Wimmer hat den 2. Weltkrieg an nahezu allen Fronten hautnah miterlebt. Hören Sie jetzt die unglaubliche Autobiografie eines jahrelangen Frontkämpfers – ehrlich, unverblümt, ohne Pathos. Ich war dabei lautet der simple wie treffende Titel von Josef Wimmers Autobiografie. Mit 17 Jahren meldet er sich freiwillig zu den Pionieren. Es folgen fast sechs Jahre Kriegsdienst an vorderster Front, schließlich Kriegsgefangenschaft und zuletzt eine Karriere in der Bundeswehr.

Democrazia: un'idea straordinariamente duttile che ha plasmato il corso della storia europea, dalla Rivoluzione inglese a quella francese, dalla Prima guerra mondiale fino alla guerra fredda e al crollo del Muro. Ripercorrendo le ideologie che l'hanno nutrita e sostenuta, Canfora formula la sua tesi: il meccanismo elettorale è ben lungi dal rappresentare la democrazia. Oggi, nel mondo ricco, ha vinto la libertà, con tutte le sue immani conseguenze. La democrazia è rinviata ad altre epoche.

Werner Heisenberg was one of the greatest physicists of all time. He probed the depths of not just science but the nature of our very existence. His groundbreaking work in quantum mechanics, particularly the formulation of the uncertainty principle, revolutionized our understanding of the subatomic world and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932.

Step into the turbulent world of Tudor England, where ambition, betrayal, and love intertwine amidst the backdrop of royal courts and political upheaval. Delve deep into the lives and reigns of some of history's most fascinating rulers. From the rise of Henry VII, the shrewd and determined founder of the Tudor dynasty, to the iconic reign of Henry VIII, whose quest for a male heir reshaped the course of English history, this book offers a vivid portrayal of the triumphs and tribulations of the Tudor monarchs.

Demokratien sind fragil. Freiheiten, die fest errungen scheinen, können verspielt werden. Wenige historische Ereignisse verdeutlichen dies so eindringlich wie das Scheitern der Weimarer Republik. Volker Ullrich erzählt eines der größten Dramen der Weltgeschichte – anschaulich, spannend und nahe an den handelnden Personen. Eine Lektüre, die beklemmende Parallelen zur Gegenwart zeigt. Die Geburt der Weimarer Republik stand unter einem denkbar ungünstigen Stern. Das deutsche Kaiserreich hatte den Weltkrieg krachend verloren. Der Versailler Vertrag legte dem besiegten Land harte Bedingungen auf.

In 2007, Russell Edwards, fuelled by fascination and determination, discovered a shawl – an unexpected key in the historical mystery of Jack the Ripper. With an intriguing blend of forensic investigation and historical research, the book explores the gripping evidence, a blood-stained shawl, connected to the universally infamous criminal, Jack the Ripper. Persistent and fearless, Edwards embarks on a captivating seven-year quest to authenticate the shawl and unearth its concealed truths. His search takes him deeper into the heart of one of history's most chilling real crime stories.