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My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell

Arthur Bear Chief suffered both sexual and psychological abuse during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation. My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell is a of chronological vignettes that depict the punishment, cruelty, and injustice that Arthur endured at Old Sun and then later relived in the traumatic process of retelling his story in connection with a complicated claims procedure. Late in life, after working for both the provincial and federal government, Arthur returned home to Gleichen. It was there that he began to reconnect with Blackfoot language and culture and to write his story.

E-books / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával / Történelem

Les messagers volants en terre d’Islam

Le pigeon voyageur a joué un rôle primordial en terre d’Islam dès le début du califat abbasside (fin du VIIIe siècle). Des vallées du Tigre et de l’Euphrate qui en furent sans doute le berceau, il gagna l’Orient comme l’Occident (Andalus et Sicile). Mais nul État ne lui attacha plus de prix que celui des Mamelouks qui couvrit l’Empire d’un dense réseau de colombiers, des rives de l’Euphrate en Syrie du Nord au bord de la mer Rouge en Égypte.

E-books / Életmód / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával

Taste – Power – Tradition – Geographical Indications as Cultural Property

The idea of origin in terms of space and culture as a special indicator of quality is one of the most influential strands in contemporary food. It impacts on politics, economics and everyday life – and it connects these fields with complex relations of power and culture. With geographical indications, the EU offers an instrument which allows for the declaration of specialties, qualified by their tradition, as typical for a defined area. The declaration serves to protect these products as intellectual and collective property and presents them as culinary heritage, thereby enabling sale at an added value. Accordingly, the EU instrument of geographical indications evokes the interests of a variety of disciplines, such as (agricultural) economics, (social) geography, sociology, anthropology and law. Nonetheless, dialogue and cooperation among the disciplines are quite rare.

E-books / Életmód / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával

Himalayan Dreaming : Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, 1922-1990

How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, from the exploits of a brash, young colonial with an early British Himalayan expedition in the 1920s to the coming of age of Australian climbers in the 1980s. The story goes beyond the two remarkable Australian ascents of Mt Everest in 1984 and 1988 to explore the exploits of Australian climbers in the far-flung corners of the high Himalaya.

E-books / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával / Történelem

Ten Journeys to Cameron’s Farm : An Australian Tragedy

Three decades after what he called ‘a dreadful air crash, almost within sight of my windows’ Robert Menzies wrote ‘I shall never forget that terrible hour; I felt that for me the end of the world had come…’ Ten Journeys to Cameron’s Farm tells the lives of the ten men who perished in Duncan Cameron’s Canberra property on 13 August 1940: three Cabinet ministers, the Chief of the General Staff, two senior staff members, and the RAAF crew of four. The inquiries into the accident, and the aftermath for the Air Force, government, and bereaved families are examined.

E-books / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával / Művészet

The British Monarchy On Screen

Moving images of the British monarchy, in fact and fiction, are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. British monarchs even appeared in the new ‘animated photography’ from 1896, led by Queen Victoria. Half a century later, the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century’s end, Princess Diana’s funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. In the first book-length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyse the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to ‘William and Kate’.

E-books / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával / Történelem

Les loteries royales dans l’Europe des Lumieres

Un « impôt sur les imbéciles », une « friponnerie », un « jeu cruel », un « fléau inventé par le despotisme »… Les hommes des Lumières n’avaient pas de mots assez durs pour dénoncer la loterie royale, une institution que tous les États européens ont mis sur pied au xviiie siècle. Les souverains encourageaient donc la passion du jeu, l’oisiveté, et captaient sans vergogne l’épargne de leurs sujets ? Faire croire que l’on gagne, tandis que l’on perd toujours, n’était-ce pas le propre d’un État corrompu ? Ou bien doit-on plutôt considérer la loterie royale comme un outil d’ingénierie financière, le fruit d’une nouvelle rationalité publique ?

E-books / Életrajzi regény / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával / Történelem

Travels of a Country Woman

The former Lera Margaret Ussery, born in post-Victorian Tennessee, began her colorful adventures in 1896. Travels of a Country Woman, begins with the family’s emergence from the Depression, initially by way of a trip from Columbia, Tennessee, to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933. They traveled by “Elizabeth T,” the family Model T Ford and Lera wrote articles about the “Flivver” trip for the Nashville Banner.

E-books / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával / Napló, levelezés / Történelem

Karl Außerhofer – Das Kriegstagebuch eines Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg

Das Tagebuch des Karl Außerhofer berichtet vom Kriegseinsatz im Gebirgskrieg des Ersten Weltkrieges im Pustertal sowie an der Südfront. Es zeigt die Eigen- sowie Feindwahrnehmung Außerhofers, gibt emotionale Einblicke in seinen Kriegsdienst und das Leben seiner Familie, die von Hoffnungen auf eine bessere Zukunft geprägt sind. Beschreibungen zu Landschaft, Wetter, Essen, Freizeit, zu Kleidung, Hygiene, Unterkunft, zu Krankheit, Tod und zur Religion runden den sehr persönlichen Bericht ab.

E-books / Könyvajánló / Könyvtárosok ajánlásával / Művészet

Verdi in Victorian London

Now a byword for beauty, Verdi’s operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they, and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their antagonistic attitude change? And why did opera managers continue to produce Verdi’s works? Massimo Zicari’s Verdi in Victorian London reconstructs the reception of Verdi’s operas in London from 1844, when a first critical account was published in the pages of The Athenaeum, to 1901, when Verdi’s death received extensive tribute in The Musical Times.