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Man's Search For Meaning - The Classic Tribute To Hope From The Holocaust

by Viktor E. Frankl

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 A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

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Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses | Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies - REAP N.º 31 - 2022

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 «A génese dos Estudos Anglo-Portugueses - a Escrita de Viagens, em geral, e os viajantes britânicos em Portugal, em particular - marca, mais uma vez, a REAP/JAPS, cujo presente número é dedicado à memória da sua fundadora, a saudosa Professora Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa. Assim, na senda do trabalho pioneiro levado a cabo sob a sua coordenação, dois dos artigos que compõem o presente número dizem respeito a estudos de caso integráveis no âmbito da Escrita de Viagens. (…) Para além dos viajantes britânicos em Portugal, a Professora Maria Leonor desenvolveu várias outras temáticas no âmbito dos Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, como a projecção de Inês de Castro em Inglaterra e a literatura negra ou de terror em Portugal, as quais são de algum modo revisitadas neste número.» Do Editorial de Gabriela Gândara Terenas
Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses | Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies - REAP N.º 30 - 2021

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 Os Estudos Anglo-Portugueses tiveram a sua génese na análise de relatos de viajantes britânicos em Portugal, que, para além de vários trabalhos e publicações, deu origem à base de dados VAP (Viajantes Anglófonos em Portugal) sedeada no CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). Embora os objectos de estudo em Anglo-Portugueses se tenham vindo a diversificar muitíssimo ao longo dos anos, a escrita de viagens continua a atrair muitos investigadores da área, tal como o presente número da REAP/JAPS demonstra.
Anais de História de Além-Mar - Ano 2017 – N.º XVIII

by João Paulo Oliveira e Costa

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 Neste volume dos Anais de História de Além-Mar (…) os estudos publicados variam amplamente tanto nos seus focos geográficos como nos limites cronológicos. Ainda assim, o leitor encontrará facilmente uma linha que une os artigos em torno do conceito de identidade, visto em formas diferenciadas, desde o relacionamento de uma cultura com o seu envolvimento ambiental até às resistências aos proselitismos religiosos, passando pela formação de comunidades coloniais ou pela memória de comunidades desestruturadas. (Da nota de abertura)
Anais de História de Além-Mar - Ano 2016 – N.º XVII

by João Paulo Oliveira e Costa

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 Neste número da revista Anais de História de Além-Mar, apresentamos um dossier sobre religião e alteridade no mundo ibérico que foi dirigido por Bruno Feitler, Hugo Ribeiro da Silva e Jaime Teixeira Gouveia. (…) ao longo de doze textos percorremos todo o mundo ultramarino, desde o extremo oriente asiático até à floresta africana, ou desde vale do rio da Prata até ao tecto do mundo, abordamos diferentes cronologias desde o século XVI ao XVIII, e temas diversificados, desde a arquitectura às práticas de quotidiano ou desde os intercâmbios culturais às sombras da Inquisição. Em todos revisitamos essa linha ténue que é a fronteira, seja qual for a sua manifestação, possibilitando-nos novas percepções deste processo complexo que foi a propagação do Cristianismo pelo mundo na época moderna. (Da nota de abertura)
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Caliban And The Witch - Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation

by Silvia Federici

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 A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. It is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood.
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Orientalism

by Edward W. Said

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 Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs.

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How Democracies Die - What History Reveals About Our Future

by Daniel Ziblatt e Steven Levitsky

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 What History Reveals About Our Future. Democracies die in three stages: the election of an authoritarian leader, the concentration and abuse of governmental power and finally, the complete repression of opposition and citizens. The first step was taken by the US with the election of Donald Trump; we must all learn how we can prevent all three. From how General Augusto Pinochet dramatically seized power in Chile in 1973 to the quiet undermining of Turkey's constitutional system by President Recip Erdogan, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw insightful lessons from democracies in crisis across history.

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Sapiens - The Multi-Million Copy Bestseller

by Yuval Noah Harari

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 **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Discover the book that inspired Gareth Southgate's leadership style. 'Interesting and provocative...

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The Origins Of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

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 Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination.
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How The World Really Works - A Scientistâ€™S Guide To Our Past, Present And Future

by Vaclav Smil

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 * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check - because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, making their complete and rapid elimination unlikely. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on - from Yuval Noah Harari to Noam Chomsky - ultimately Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead?

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On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century

by Timothy Snyder

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 History does not repeat, but it does instruct. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. This book deals with this topic.
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Guns, Germs And Steel - (Patterns Of Life)

by Jared Diamond

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 Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamondâ€™s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?
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Lessons Of History

by Durant

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 A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.

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Why We'Re Polarized - A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick 2022

by Ezra Klein

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 Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended?
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Band Of Brothers

by Stephen E. Ambrose

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 The book that inspired Steven Spielbergâ€™s acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis.

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The Happiest Man On Earth - The Beautiful Life Of An Auschwitz Survivor

by Eddie Jaku

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 The moving and inspiring story of an Auschwitz survivor who shares what heâ€™s learned about gratitude, tolerance and kindness.
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Man'S Search For Meaning - The Classic Tribute To Hope From The Holocaust (With New Material)

by Viktor E. Frankl

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 Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph.

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The Civil War - Together With The Alexandrian War, The African War, And The Spanish War

by Julius Caesar

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 A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with immediacy and power. "The Civil War" is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world.
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Numbers Don't Lie - 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

by Vaclav Smil

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 Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From Earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge lazy thinking. Smil is on a mission to make facts matter, because after all, numbers may not lie, but which truth do they convey? Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. This is his first book for a more general readership.
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Russia - Myths And Realities

by Sir Rodric Braithwaite

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 A short and pithy introduction to the history of Russia as we know it today
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Strategy - A History

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 One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.
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Homage To Catalonia

by George Orwell

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 Following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, the author brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of ordinary Spanish men and more.
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Europe In The High Middle Ages - The Penguin History Of Europe

by William Chester Jordan

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 Presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it.
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