Resultados para "Cascadia" en Historia

In this searing and beautifully written memoir, Marine Lieutenant and CNN Op-Ed contributor Mike Scotti charts a course from the front lines of Iraq back home to New York, showing how sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. Sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. As...

In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped - but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned without escape, their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts.

Mary Beard braque les projecteurs sur les hommes qui ont gouverné l’Empire romain, de Jules César (assassiné en 44 avant notre ère) à Alexandre Sévère (assassiné en 235 de notre ère). Qui étaient réellement les empereurs de Rome ? De cruels maniaques du contrôle, des bourreaux de travail, des adolescents excentriques. Ce livre n’offre pas une galerie chronologique de portraits : Caligula le fou, Néron le monstre, Marc Aurèle le philosophe... L’autrice pose des questions autrement importantes pour une plongée sans pareille dans la Rome impériale : quel pouvoir les empereurs détenaient-ils réellement ?

Dalrymple contends that the nature of the kingdom of God contrasts the kingdoms of the world in that the kingdom of God manifests power through love (hence, the cross) whereas the kingdoms of the world manifest power through violence. In light of this observation, the question now becomes, “What does this mean when it comes to war, especially war in the Middle East?”

From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name...