Lakonisch, direkt, mit einem klaren Blick für die Absurditäten des Lebens erzählen die Autorinnen aus dem Land an der Nordsee. Knapp und eigenwillig, aus oft schräger Perspektive richten sie den Blick auf das Persönliche, das immer auch geprägt ist durch die Historie: die nationalsozialistische Besatzungszeit und deren Nachbeben etwa oder das Verhältnis zu den ehemaligen Kolonien in Südostasien. Im Zentrum ihrer Geschichten stehen Schlüsselmomente der Kindheit, Brüche und Weichenstellungen...

Le 24 septembre 2019, la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse du Québec publiait une importante étude visant à documenter les expériences d’« actes haineux à caractère xénophobe, notamment islamophobe » (CDPDJQ, 2019). En donnant la parole aux personnes visées par de tels actes, ce rapport prend notamment la mesure des différentes agressions, discriminations et menaces dont les personnes racisées, et en particulier les femmes musulmanes, sont la cible au quotid...

The true story of the long-unsolved killing of a celebrity in northern Florida: "A page-turner." — First Coast LivingThe murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley, a former model and television hostess who was once engaged to Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., is still notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad daylight on the front steps of her mansion. Gossip swirled that neighbor Frances Be...

Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York.During the late...

Series SummaryThe new What Every Catholic Should Know series is intended for the average faithful Catholic who wants to know more about Catholic faith and culture. The authors in this series take a panoramic approach to the topic of each book aimed at a non-specialist but enthusiastic readership.Book SummaryWho is God? If we want to love God and make him the center of our lives, we would do well to settle this question at l...

St. Johns County and St. Augustine are some of the earliest settled areas in the United States, and both are home to fascinating history. The area's story is filled with tales from Native Americans, early European settlers and modern-day Floridians. In some places, the habitants of those historical moments have remained. From the Castillo de San Marcos to the Huguenot Cemetery and the authentic old drugstore, the city and the county are filled with fascinating and terrifying stories of lin...

Quand Beaumarchais disait, prenant pour devise un hémistiche du Mahomet de Voltaire : « Ma vie est un combat, » il disait vrai, mais il ne disait pas assez. Sa vie fut tout ensemble un combat et un tourbillon enveloppant, entraînant, mêlant tout, dans un conflit de faits et de choses, qui est peut-être, et nous allons le prouver, le plus étrange, le plus ondoyant, le plus divers, qui ait jamais agité une existence humaine.

It is no wonder the ancient city of St. Augustine is steeped in secrets. St. Johns, the oldest continuously occupied county in America celebrated its 450th birthday on September 4, 2015. More like a European enclave than an urban landscape, it is a place of cannon fire, street parties, historical reenactments, concerts, and more. From admiring replicas of fine art at Ripley’s Believe or Not, to hunting haunts in restaurants and museums, to eating ice cream from a recipe originated by World...

Mit „Change Management“ sind meist bereichsübergreifende Veränderungsmaßnahmen in Organisationen gemeint. Doch häufig kristallisieren sich in Veränderungsprozessen „Kernbereiche“ heraus, die zum „Nadelöhr“ für den Erfolg eines Veränderungsprojekts werden und deshalb besondere Zuwendung erfordern: Der Fokus kann dabei klassisch auf einer organisationalen Restrukturierung liegen, auf Maßnahmen auf Teamebene, aber auch auf der Personalentwicklung (wenn z.B. der demografische Wandel Change-Pro...

General Maximilien Foy was a renowned and experienced French general with a long and distinguished career. An artilleryman like his master Napoleon, he fulfilled his duty to France despite disagreeing with Napoleon, and fought across Europe from Switzerland, Germany, Portugal and Spain. He spent a major part of his career fighting in the Peninsular armies at Busaco and with Masséna in Portugal. His military career came to an end after heroic fighting at Waterloo in 1815, after which he bec...

References to the good angels in the works of Augustine are legion, and angels also play a central role in some of his major works, such as City of God and the opening of On the Trinity. Despite Augustine's interest in angels, however, little scholarly work has appeared on the topic. In this book, Elizabeth Klein gives the first comprehensive account of Augustine's theology of the angels and its importance for his thought more generally. Offering a close textual analysis of the reference t...

It is no wonder the ancient city of St. Augustine is steeped in secrets. St. Johns, the oldest continuously occupied county in America celebrated its 450th birthday on September 4, 2015. More like a European enclave than an urban landscape, it is a place of cannon fire, street parties, historical reenactments, concerts, and more. From admiring replicas of fine art at Ripley’s Believe or Not, to hunting haunts in restaurants and museums, to eating ice cream from a recipe originated by World...