Historie og samfunn

Livet kan være vakkert hvis du gjør det vakkert. Det er opp til deg. Eddie Jaku så først og fremst på seg selv som tysk, dernest jødisk. Men alt skulle forandre seg den 9. november 1938, da han ble banket opp, arrestert og ført til en konsentrasjonsleir. De neste sju årene opplevde Eddie grusomheter det er vanskelig å forestille seg, først i Buchenwald, deretter i Auschwitz og til sist i nazistenes dødsmarsj. Eddie kom fra prøvelsene med livet i behold og lovet seg selv å smile hver dag. Han hedrer dem som ikke overlevde ved å dele det han har lært og leve livet på best mulig måte. Nå ser han på seg selv som «verdens lykkeligste mann». Hundreåringen har mye å lære oss om takknemlighet, lykke og et godt liv. Gjennom denne hjerteskjærende, men mest av alt håpefulle fortellingen, lærer vi hvordan det er mulig å finne lykke selv når det ser som mørkest ut.

Ordinary Men is a gripping book written by Christopher R Browning. Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 2001, this book belongs to a genre that is both illuminating and compelling. Ordinary Men provides an in-depth analysis of how ordinary individuals can be transformed into executors of horrific acts. Browning, an acclaimed historian, presents a meticulous account of a reserve police battalion's role during the Holocaust. The author's narrative is chilling and thought-provoking, making readers question the limits of humanity. This book is not just a historical account; it's a profound exploration of human nature and morality. Published by Penguin Books Ltd, Ordinary Men continues to be a significant contribution to Holocaust literature.

The first peer-reviewed book of its kind, this important volume addresses a current gap in the field of gestalt therapy: that the practice-and psychotherapy more broadly-still suffers from pervasive hetero- and cis-normativity.This book offers gestalt-therapy-based research and training material on gender, sex, and relationship diversity (GSRD), including chapters on a variety of GSRD issues and how therapists can become more GSRD-sensitive. The contributors position themselves across the whole spectrum of GSRD and offer their voices as an invitation to further queer the gestalt community with diverse content ranging from academic, research-oriented pieces to experiential, reflective perspectives. Featured chapters explore topics including gender-radical clients, sex and sexuality, relationship diversity, integrating GSRD and gestalt therapy, and addressing heteronormativity in gestalt therapy training.Queering Gestalt Therapy is for everyone who is interested in gender, sex, and relationship diversity, especially as they relate to gestalt therapy practice. This book will be especially useful for therapists, supervisors, coaches, and students of gestalt therapy.

The Vietnam War ended nearly fifty years ago but the central paradox of the struggle endures: how did the world's strongest nation fail to secure freedom for the Republic of Vietnam? Michael F. Morris addresses this vexing question by focusing on the senior Marine headquarters in the conflict's most dangerous region. Known as I Corps, the northern five provinces of South Vietnam witnessed the bloodiest fighting of the entire war. I Corps also contained the Viet Cong's strongest infrastructure, key portions of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the important political and economic prizes of Hue and Da Nang. For Americans, it was the site of the first major military operation (Operation STARLITE); the Battles of Hue City and Khe Sanh during the 1968 Tet Offensive; and a military innovation known as the Combined Action Platoon (CAP), a counterinsurgency technique designed to secure the region's villages. The Marine zone served as Saigon's "canary in the coal mine"--if the war was to be won, allied action must succeed in its most contested region. With such deep significance, I Corps holds many answers to the lasting questions of the Vietnam War.Following the Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF)--the primary US tactical command in I Corps from 1965 to 1970--Corps Competency? provides the first composite analysis of the critical role of the senior Marine headquarters and offers a coherence missing in piecemeal accounts. Despite the critical importance of I Corps, relatively little is known about its overall impact on the war due to disconnected and patchy historical study of the region.In this comprehensive and newly insightful study of the Vietnam War, Michael Morris tells a story that illustrates what can happen when a corps headquarters is not ready for the conflict it encounters and then fights the war it wants to rather than the one it must.

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities

It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one. Indeed the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue.The author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in fact been based on symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off the others. Using a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy - with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before.This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: 'transition' was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. More and More and More forces its readers to understand the modern world in all its voracious reality, and the true nature of the challenges heading our way.

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy.During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating.Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, With the Old Breed tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran.'Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific - the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary - into terms we mortals can grasp' Tom Hanks

Japan's Sengoku jidai ('Warring States Period') was a time of crisis and upheaval, a chaotic epoch when the relatively low-born rural military class of 'bushi' (samurai warriors) succeeded in overthrowing their social superiors in the court throughout much of the country. Into this tumultuous age of constant warfare came three remarkable individuals: Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616). Each would play a unique role in the re-unification of the disparate, fragmented collection of warring provinces which constituted Japan in the sixteenth and early seventeenth-centuries. This new narrative history of the sengoku era draws together the epic strands of their three stories for the first time. It offers a coherent survey of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600) under both Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, followed by the founding years of the Tokugawa shogunate (1600-1616). Every pivotal battle fought by each of these three hegemons is explored in depth from Okehazama (1560) and Nagashino (1575) to Sekigahara (1600) and the Two Sieges of Osaka Castle (1614-15). In addition, the political and administrative underpinnings of their rule is also examined, as well as the marginal role played by western foreigners ('nanban') and the Christian religion in early modern Japanese society. In its scope, the story of Japan's three unifiers ('the Fool', 'the Monkey', and 'the Old Badger') is a sweeping saga encompassing acts of unimaginable cruelty as well as feats of great samurai heroism which were venerated and written about long into the peaceful Edo/Tokugawa period.

Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet. This title sees Europe not in terms of states and shifting land boundaries, but as a geographical niche particularly favoured in facing many seas.

One of the most important Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha works of the Second Temple Period is Enoch.According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 5:21-24), Enoch lived only 365 years (far less than the other patriarchs in the period before the Flood).Enoch "walked with GOD."Enoch is a figure who receives direct personal revelation from God. He sees the magnificence of God and begins to preach to those around him against sin. He warns that the sinners will be winnowed and that God himself will appear on Mount Sinai to judge the humans as well as the fallen angels on Earth. Among the more controversial material within this text is the detailed account it gives of fallen angels on earth and their cursed offspring, the Nephilim. Azazel features heavily as the instigator of metal weapon production, the use of cosmetics and advocate of widespread promiscuity and fornication. In this book, the figure of Enoch is charged with the knowledge of God's chosen and brutal punishment for the Nephilim, their human mothers and their Angel fathers.The Book of Enoch is a pseudoepigraphal work (a work that claims to be by a biblical character). The Book of Enoch was not included in either the Hebrew or most Christian biblical canons, but could have been considered a sacred text by the sectarians. The original Aramaic version was lost until the Dead Sea fragments were discovered. This is a compilation of several separate works, most of which are apocalyptic. Its oldest portion is the "Apocalypse of Weeks," written shortly before the Maccabean uprising of 167 BC against the Seleucids. The Ethiopic Book of Enoch is called a "pseudepigraphical work," meaning one that is not included in any canon of scripture, outside of even the Apocrypha. The only complete extant version is an Ethiopic translation of a previous Greek translation made in Palestine from the original Hebrew or Aramaic. The Book of the Watcher, tells the story of fallen angels from Gen 6:1-4 that took wives, created the Nephilim, and taught advanced technology to mankind, ultimately leading to the great flood and their destruction. The Parables of Similitude, is an apocalyptic book about the Son of Man and the Ancient of Days. These ancient prophecies of Jesus are directly in line with what we find in the Bible, and are remarkably similar to The Book of Revelation. The Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries is a detailed account of the stars and their functions. The Dream Visions is the prophecy of all human history, from the creation of mankind all the way to the end times and the final judgement. The past, present, and future are foretold in grand detail. The prophecy of weeks is similar to the prophecy structure in the book of Daniel. The Noah Fragments is the untold story of Noah from the Bible. We learn more about his mission to save all humanity and the struggles of his father Lamech and his grandfather Methuselah. Finally, included herein are all known fragments of The Book of Giants. Each work is independent, but all the works are bound by a common theme: the punishment of the wicked and the blessedness of the righteous.

Etter annen verdenskrig har det gode forholdet mellom Sverige og Norge blitt trukket frem som en viktig del av krigshistorien. Begrepet «broderfolk» brukes for å understreke det nære og fortrolige vennskapet. Vi blir fortsatt fortalt at under krigen ble Sverige vår redning fordi svenskene ville hjelpe oss. Det er bare en del av sannheten. Nordmenn som ønsket et fritt Norge hadde et svært anstrengt forhold til Sverige gjennom store deler av annen verdenskrig. Blant de okkuperte vokste det frem et glødende hat mot svenskene. Det var vanskelig for dem å akseptere at svenske myndighetsorganer var en viktig samarbeidspartner for Tyskland gjennom de dramatiske krigsårene. Med vantro så nordmennene hvordan nabolandet ga Tyskland bistand og støtte under felttoget mot Norge, senere under okkupasjonen og ved aksjoner mot den norske motstandsbevegelsen. Etter krigen ønsket vi nordmenn å glemme. Forsoning ble det viktigste. Sverige ble aldri stilt til ansvar for handlinger som kostet norske liv.Det svenske sviket utfordrer det inntrykket vi har av vårt svenske nabofolk før og under okkupasjonsårene. Det svenske maktapparatet støttet ikke Norges kamp mot den tyske okkupasjonsmakten. Frykten for kommunismen gjorde at de i stedet ønsket et nasjonalsosialistisk Europa. Landets myndigheter ville sikre Sverige en posisjon i en fremtidig, germansk union der Tyskland bestemte. Å hjelpe Norge var ikke prioritert og vår motstandskamp ble omtalt som ynkelig og unødvendig. Norge ble ofret for «den iskalla egoismens politik» der det viktigste var å unngå at Sverige ble involvert i verdenskrigen. Konsekvensen var et svik mot det norske broderfolkets kamp for sin frihet. Det svenske sviket.

Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda - whether literature, coinage, or iconography - in the court of Alexander the Great, as well as those of his Successors, demonstrating that it was as integral to Hellenistic courts as it was to Imperial Rome.This volume brings together ten essays from leading international scholars in Alexander studies. There is currently no equivalent collection which has a specialist focus of themes or issues relating to the use of propaganda in the courts of Alexander or his Successors.This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Alexander studies, as well as those studying the use of propaganda across the ancient world, and to the more general reader with an interest in Alexander the Great and his reign.

This book addresses one of the most pressing geopolitical inquiries of our era: how will China's ambition manifest on the global stage? To address this question, the book considers Chinäs long tradition of statecraft. By doing this, it provides a unique and novel insight into the ¿why¿ behind Chinäs actions and sparks a crucial dialogue on ¿how¿ to best navigate Chinäs global rise. Through a keen analytical lens, the book illuminates both the constraints and the flexibility inherent in Chinese policy-making. It underscores the geographic and historical factors that constrain China's actions, forcing its leaders into trade-offs. It also highlights the system's inherent flexibility, expanding the range of strategic options available when dealing with China. The most unique contribution consists in framing the pre-occupations of contemporary China in the context of both long-standing Chinese trends and unprecedented global changes. This book offers a nuanced and realistic guide for senior policy makers, business leaders, academic researchers, and global citizens who seek to decipher the enigma of China's ascent and channel its trajectory towards a more positive and responsible direction.

"In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Na"

This luxurious hardback edition contains three classic texts from China and Japan, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings and The Way of the Samurai. These works of military strategy are about much more than being a warrior, including ideas of leadership, virtue and disciple which remain relevant to conduct in business and in life today.

"First published in Australia by Pantera Press Pty Limited, in 2023"--Title page verso.

Interdisciplinary study of one of the most important texts of the Anglo-Norman period.

For rundt 950 000 år siden gikk en mann og fire barn på en strand og etterlot seg det som regnes som de eldste sporene etter en menneskefamilie. For den prisvinnende forfatteren Simon Sebag Montefiore ga disse fossilene inspirasjon til en ny type verdenshistorie, en som strekker seg over alle kontinenter og helt tilbake til tidenes morgen. En historie med vekt på familiebåndene som binder oss alle sammen.I denne storslagne boken forteller Montefiore om menneskehetens mektigste dynastier, gjennom slottsintriger, forbudte kjærlighetsforhold og familieliv. Han maler fram store temaer som krig, migrasjon, pest, religion og teknologi, og i midten plasserer han menneskene som levde i det. Sammen utgjør de en særdeles mangfoldig rolleliste: I tillegg til herskere og erobrere møter vi prester, sjarlataner, kunstnere, vitenskapsfolk, moguler, gangstere, elskere, ektemenn, koner og barn.Du har Hongwu, tiggeren som grunnla Ming-dynastiet; Ewuare, Leopard-kongen av Benin; Henry Christophe, kongen av Haiti; Kamehameha, erobreren av Hawaii; Zenobia, den arabiske prinsessen som trosset Roma; Murasaki, den første kvinnelige romanforfatter; Sayyida al-Hurra, den marokkanske piratdronningen. Her finner du også moderne skikkelser som Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin og Volodymyr Zelenskyj. Du finner de romerske keiserne, Mediciene og inkaene, osmanene, Bonapartene, Habsburgerne, zuluene, Rothschildene, Rockefellerne, Churchillene, Kennedyene, Castroene, Nehruene, Pahlaviene, Kenyattaene, saudierne, Kim'ene og Assadene. Disse mektige familiene representerer ytterpunktene i den menneskelige streben, med blodige maktovertakelser, forræderske konspirasjoner og sjokkerende stormannsgalskap, side om side med en blomstrende kultur, rørende romanser og opplyst godhet.Verden - en familiehistorie er en bragd av en bok som fanger hele menneskehetens historie i en eneste mesterlig fortelling.

Det siste året har vært preget av en rekke debatter som på en eller annen måte viser en omsorgskrise. Madeleine Schultz' politiske omsorgsmemoarer er en essayistisk bok om å bli mor for andre gang. Det er også en politisk refleksjon rundt begrepet omsorg og kritikk av omsorgsarbeidets status i dagens samfunn. Hun hevder at vi har bygget et system som har alt å tjene på å ikke vise fram omsorgen. Vi behandler omsorgsarbeidet som en uendelig ressurs som vi kan utnytte helt til bristepunktet.Madeleine Schultz venter sitt andre barn. Som skribent er hun tydelig plassert på venstresiden i det politiske landskapet og har tro på en sterk velferdsstat. Likevel oppsøker hun privat fødselshjelp. Etter en mindre god erfaring da hun fødte sitt første barn, kjenner hun seg ikke lenger trygg på at det offentlige kan ivareta henne gjennom fødselen. Det er utgangspunktet for at hun gjennom ni måneder i foreldrepermisjon lurer på hva som egentlig har skjedd med omsorgens status: Hvorfor verdsetter vi ikke omsorgen mer enn vi gjør, når vi alle sammen er helt avhengig av den? Madeleine Schultz tar også leseren med i sin egen hage, der hun gjennom dyrking av planter og blomster viser at omsorgen for mennesker og natur må sees i sammenheng. Vi forstår det kanskje som to separate saker, men i denne boken argumenterer Madeleine Schultz for at det ene henger sammen med det andre.

This book explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women¿s and non-binary people¿s experiences of identity and desire.

Podcastsuksess i bokform! Intriger, sex, brodermord, trolldom og blodige slag - Game of Thrones? Nei, vår egen norske vikinghistorie! Visste du at Harald Gråfell egentlig var Norges første influencer? Eller hvor mange koner Harald Hårfagre hadde? Kongerekka er basert på Are Sende Osens populærhistoriske podkast ved samme navn. Boken forteller om de sentrale norske historieskikkelsene slik vi aldri har hørt om dem før, og fra førstemann, Harald Hårfagre, går det bokstavelig talt slag i slag fremover i historien. Boken er illustrert av Kristian Krohg-Sørensen, som bidrar med den hittil ikke så kjente nettavisen Budstikka fra vikingtiden. Her blir man oppdatert på nyeste sladder fra siste vikingblot, true crime-historier om hvordan Harald Hårfagre egentlig døde, og ikke minst eksklusive insidertips til hvordan du bygger et uknuselig vikingskip.

Italy 1636 uses the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 to explore the operation of early modern armies through a neo-Darwinian lens, emphasizing the universal features of human behaviour and psychology as they relate to violence and war.

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklins life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, Americas best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richards Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nations alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklins amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.

Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, this book follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship.