Zwischen Genius und Gehorsam – Mozarts Salzburger JahreVon Thomas HaroldWie wird aus einem Wunderkind ein freier Künstler? Und welchen Preis fordert die Heimat, wenn sie zugleich Schule und Grenze ist?In „Zwischen Genius und Gehorsam“ zeichnet Thomas Harold ein vielschichtiges, historisch fundiertes und zugleich eindringlich erzähltes Porträt von Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts Salzburger Jahren. Fernab romantischer Verklärung zeigt dieses Buc...

At the time of his death, renowned Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas was at work on a life of one of the most controversial figures in American history: Edwin McMasters Stanton, the man who marshaled the military forces of the Union in the Civil War and played a crucial role in the only presidential impeachment trial in our history. Harold Hyman, himself a prize-winning historian, undertook to carry on from the advanced point in research and writing that Thomas had reached.The res...

Our 51st issue is another strong one one, with four of our acquiring editors finding tales for us. Michael Bracken has an original Bev Vincent mystery, and Barb Goffman has a winner from R.T. Lawton. Cynthia Ward turns the tables on fellow editor Michael Bracken and selects a haunted house story by him! And too-long-absent editor Paul Di Filippo has picked a powerful story by Sheree R. Thomas. Good stuff.As if that’s not enough (which it never is for the Black Cat!), we have gone b...

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women’s, and environmental history.The essays describe a wide array of photographs and present an eclecti...

T. H. Wilson Sr.As the day of judgment draws nigh, the world becomes more dangerous. This age of relativism has a declaration of war against God's Word and inalienable human rights. Weak nations will be trampled, and freedom-loving nations will be challenged. This book is presented to be read with an open mind. It is written with love for the souls of humans that will spend eternity in heaven with God or in the ---- of fire with the devil (Rev. 20:10-15).

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner] The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The Paradise Mystery [Joseph Smith Fletcher] Helen Vardon's Confession,The Singing Bone{R. Austin Freem...

Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour's greatest ever election winner. How did he do it - and at what cost?Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political calculator, even as a Soviet secret agent. In this powerful new portrait, drawing on previou...

Harold Blooms introduktion till Thomas Manns Bergtagen.»Underbar. Harold Bloom är en av de stora pedagogerna. Han skriver med passion om författarna han älskar och vars verk bejakar livet.« | John Banville, Irish TimesHAROLD BLOOM, född 1930 i Bronx, New York, är en av vår tids mest erkända och omtalade litteraturkritiker, författare till kritiskt innovativa verk som The Anxiety of Influence [1973] och The Western Canon [1994] och översat...

What if the Jesus we've been taught to believe in isn't the whole story?For nearly two thousand years, Christianity has proclaimed a powerful vision of Jesus—shaped by creeds, councils, and centuries of theology. But beneath these layers lies a more immediate, transformative question: Who was Jesus before doctrine defined him?In Jesus in Plain Sight, Harold G. Birkenhead invites readers on a bold and deeply spiritual journey to rediscover ...

This collection consists of the greatest British mystery novels and detective stories, all concocted by the masterminds of the mystery genre: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Other Mysteries True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men Series Mr. J. G. Re...

Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a "perfect storm" of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond to natural disasters or the devastation of the Great Recession. This book contains the academic presentations that were made at the Symposium on Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Gover...

Do you know someone who was an addict, and now, they are sober? Do you know someone who was an addict and couldn't beat their addiction in time? Do you know someone who is currently struggling with addiction? Show them you care by purchasing this anthology. Help raise awareness so your best friend, brother, parent, or anyone in your life isn't taken by the drug epidemic in America. The education for addiction post rehab/sobriety isn't pushed as much as the need to get sober. Many people fe...