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Hitler As the Anti-Christ of This Age, the Jews, the Gays, the Other-Abled, the Coming Messianic-Age and the Last Day... Hitler As the Anti-Christ of This Age, the Jews, the Gays, the Other-Abled, the Coming Messianic-Age and the Last Day (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Tom J Kuna-(Jacob)
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
How Computers Entered the Classroom, 1960-2000 - Historical Perspectives (Hardcover): Carmen Flury, Michael Geiss How Computers Entered the Classroom, 1960-2000 - Historical Perspectives (Hardcover)
Carmen Flury, Michael Geiss
R2,958 Discovery Miles 29 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the history of education, the question of how computers were introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The contributions shed light on the computerization of education from a historical perspective, by attending closely to the different actors involved - such as politicians, computer manufacturers, teachers, and students -, political rationales and ideologies, as well as financial, political, or organizational structures and relations. The case studies highlight differences in political and economic power, as well as in ideological reasoning and the priorities set by different stakeholders in the process of introducing computers into education. However, the contributions also demonstrate that simple cold war narratives fail to capture the complex dynamics and entanglements in the history of computers as an educational technology and a subject taught in schools. The edited volume thus provides a comprehensive historical understanding of the role of education in an emerging digital society.

Songs of the Prairie and the C.E.F. [microform] (Hardcover): Stanley 1885-1980 Harrison Songs of the Prairie and the C.E.F. [microform] (Hardcover)
Stanley 1885-1980 Harrison
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The War in the Air-Volume 3 - a History of the RFC & RNAS in Africa, the Air Raids on Britain & on the Western Front 1916-17... The War in the Air-Volume 3 - a History of the RFC & RNAS in Africa, the Air Raids on Britain & on the Western Front 1916-17 including the Battles of Arras (Hardcover)
H.A. Jones
R1,118 Discovery Miles 11 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Path of the 50th - The Story of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division (Hardcover): E. W. Clay The Path of the 50th - The Story of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division (Hardcover)
E. W. Clay
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania - Allies on the Home Front, 1944-1945 (Hardcover): Flavio G. Conti, Alan R. Perry Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania - Allies on the Home Front, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
Flavio G. Conti, Alan R. Perry
R2,676 Discovery Miles 26 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States. When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies in September 1943, most of these soldiers agreed to swear allegiance to the United States and to collaborate in the fight against Germany. At the Letterkenny Army Depot, located near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, more than 1,200 Italian soldiers were detained as co-operators. They arrived in May 1944 to form the 321st Italian Quartermaster Battalion and remained until October 1945. As detainees, the soldiers helped to order, stock, repair, and ship military goods, munitions and equipment to the Pacific and European Theaters of war. Through such labor, they lent their collective energy to the massive home front endeavor to defeat the Axis Powers. The prisoners also helped to construct the depot itself, building roads, sidewalks, and fences, along with individual buildings such as an assembly hall, amphitheater, swimming pool, and a chapel and bell tower. The latter of these two constructions still exist, and together with the assembly hall, bear eloquent testimony to the Italian POW experience. For their work the Italian co-operators received a very modest, regular salary, and they experienced more freedom than regular POWs. In their spare time, they often had liberty to leave the post in groups that American soldiers chaperoned. Additionally, they frequently received or visited large entourages of Italian Americans from the Mid-Atlantic region who were eager to comfort their erstwhile countrymen. The story of these Italian soldiers detained at Letterkenny has never before been told. Now, however, oral histories from surviving POWs, memoirs generously donated by family members of ex-prisoners, and the rich information newly available from archival material in Italy, aided by material found in the U.S., have made it possible to reconstruct this experience in full. All of this historical documentation has also allowed the authors to tell fascinating individual stories from the moment when many POWs were captured to their return to Italy and beyond. More than seventy years since the end of World War II, family members of ex-POWs in both the United States and Italy still enjoy the positive legacy of this encounter.

Egypt from One Revolution to Another - Memoir of a Committed Citizen Under Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak (Hardcover): Dr Aly... Egypt from One Revolution to Another - Memoir of a Committed Citizen Under Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak (Hardcover)
Dr Aly El-Samman, Michael Binyon
R759 R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Save R102 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To understand the current situation in Egypt it is necessary to see it in a broader historical perspective and examine the evolution of Egypt since Nasser's 1952 revolution. No one is better placed to offer this perspective than Aly El-Samman, previously a close advisor to Anwar Sadat and now a promoter of intergenerational dialogue to the young pioneers of today's revolution. In Egypt from One Revolution to Another, El-Samman offers a rigorous and vivid analysis of these last sixty years of Egyptian history. His memoir, rich in revelations and anecdotes, gives us a rare insight into the thinking of some of the most famous figures of the 20th century, including the leaders of the existentialist movement in France. But, more importantly, it sets out a real strategy of peace for the shores of Mediterranean Sea and far beyond.

Jane's Fighting Ships 1904. (Naval Encyclopedia and Year Book) - Facsimile Edition. Volume 1 of 2. England, France,... Jane's Fighting Ships 1904. (Naval Encyclopedia and Year Book) - Facsimile Edition. Volume 1 of 2. England, France, Germany, Russia. (Hardcover)
Fred T. Jane
R2,506 Discovery Miles 25 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Supreme Court, the Constitution, and William Rehnquist (Hardcover): Steven T. Seitz The Supreme Court, the Constitution, and William Rehnquist (Hardcover)
Steven T. Seitz
R3,949 R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Save R1,168 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution at a level sufficiently general to guide lawmaking while avoiding great detail. This four-page document has guided the United States of America for more than two centuries. The Supreme Court has parsed the document into clauses, which plaintiffs and defendants invoke in cases or controversies before the Court. Some, like the Interstate Commerce Clause, are central to the survival of a government of multiple sovereignties. The practice of observing case precedents allows orderly development of the law and consistent direction to the lower courts. The Court itself claimed the final power of judicial review, despite efforts to the contrary by the executive and legislative branches of the national government and the state supreme courts. The Court then limited its own awesome power through a series of self-imposed rules of justiciability. These rules set the conditions under which the Court may exercise the extraordinary final power of judicial review. Some of these self-imposed limits are prudential, some logical, and some inviting periodic revision. This book examines the detailed unfolding of several Constitutional clauses and the rules of justiciability. For each clause and each rule of justiciability, the book begins with the brilliant foundations laid by Chief Justice John Marshall, then to the anti-Federalist era, the Civil War, the dominance of laissez faire and social Darwinism, the Great Depression redirection, the civil rights era, and finally the often-hapless efforts of Chief Justice Rehnquist.

Utopian Universities - A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s (Hardcover): Miles Taylor, Jill Pellew Utopian Universities - A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s (Hardcover)
Miles Taylor, Jill Pellew
R3,571 Discovery Miles 35 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds light on the social and cultural topography of the long 1960s. With an impressive geographic coverage - using case studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia - the book explores how these universities have influenced academic disciplines and pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience. From educational reform in West Germany to the establishment of new institutions with progressive, interdisciplinary curricula in the Commonwealth, the illuminating case studies of this volume demonstrate how these universities shared in a common cause: the embodiment of 'utopian' ideals of living, learning and governance. At a time when the role of higher education is fiercely debated, Utopian Universities is a timely and considered intervention that offers a wide-ranging, historical dimension to contemporary predicaments.

Adolf Hitler - The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes (Paperback): Patrick Delaforce Adolf Hitler - The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes (Paperback)
Patrick Delaforce
R424 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in April 1889, and shot himself in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 with Russian soldiers beating at the door, surrounded by the ruins of the country he had vowed to restore to greatness. Adolf Hitler: The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes - part biography, part miscellany, part historical overview - presents the life and times of der Fuhrer in a unique and compelling manner. The early life of the loner son of an Austrian customs official gave little clue as to his later years. As a decorated, twice-wounded soldier of the First World War, through shrewd manipulation of Germany's offended national pride after the war, Hitler ascended rapidly through the political system, rousing the masses behind him with a thundering rhetoric that amplified the nation's growing resentment and brought him the adulation of millions. By the age of 44, he had become both a millionaire with secret bank accounts in Switzerland and Holland, and the unrivalled leader of Germany, whose military might he had resurrected; six years later, he provoked the world to war. Patrick Delaforce's book is a masterly assessment of Hitler's life, career and beliefs, drawn not only from its subject's own writings, speeches, conversation, poetry and art, but also from the accounts of those who knew him, loved him, or loathed him. The journey of an ordinary young man to callous dictator and architect of the 'Final Solution' makes for provocative and important - thought not always comfortable - reading.

The War in the Air - a History of the RFC, RAF & RNAS during the First World War 1914-18: Volume 1 (Hardcover): Walter Raleigh The War in the Air - a History of the RFC, RAF & RNAS during the First World War 1914-18: Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Walter Raleigh
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Provisional Roll of Service; 1915 (Hardcover): University of Aberdeen Provisional Roll of Service; 1915 (Hardcover)
University of Aberdeen
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock - Judicial Independence and Civic Populism (Hardcover): John Cerullo, David C.... The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock - Judicial Independence and Civic Populism (Hardcover)
John Cerullo, David C. Steelman
R2,946 Discovery Miles 29 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case are hardly confined to New Hampshire. They involved the proper nature and operation of judicial independence within a "populist" civic culture that had long assumed the primacy of the legislative branch, extolled its "citizen legislators" over insulated and professionalized elites, and entrusted those legislators to properly supervise the judiciary. In the last few decades of the 20th Century, New Hampshire's judiciary had been substantially reconfigured: constitutional amendments and other measures endorsed by the national judicial-modernization movement had secured for it a much higher level of independence and internal unification than it had historically enjoyed. However, a bipartisan body of legislators remained committed to the principle of legislative supremacy inscribed in the state constitution of 1784. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a series of clashes over court administration, allegations of judicial corruption, and finally a bitter and protracted battle over Court decisions on educational funding. Chief Justice Brock publicly embodied the judicial branch's new status and assertiveness. When information came to light regarding some of his administrative actions on the high court, deepening antipathy toward him exploded into an impeachment crisis. The struggle over Brock's conduct raised significant questions about the meaning and proper practice of impeachment itself as a feature of democratic governance. When articles of impeachment were voted by the House of Representatives, the state Senate faced the difficult task of establishing trial protocols that would balance the political and juridical responsibilities devolved on them, simultaneously, by the state constitution. Having struck that balance, the trial they conducted would finally acquit Brock of all charges. Nevertheless, David Brock's impeachment was a highly consequential ordeal that provided a needed catalyst for reforms intended to produce a productive recalibration of legislative-judicial relations.

Iconic Summer Camps Around Jacksonville (Hardcover): Dorothy K. Fletcher Iconic Summer Camps Around Jacksonville (Hardcover)
Dorothy K. Fletcher
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
No Future - Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 (Hardcover): Matthew Worley No Future - Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 (Hardcover)
Matthew Worley
R2,563 Discovery Miles 25 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976-84 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop. Fanzines and independent labels flourished; an emphasis on doing it yourself enabled provincial scenes to form beyond London's media glare. This was the period of Rock Against Racism and benefit gigs for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the striking miners. Matthew Worley charts the full spectrum of punk's cultural development from the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks and Slits through the post-punk of Joy Division, the industrial culture of Throbbing Gristle and onto the 1980s diaspora of anarcho-punk, Oi! and goth. He recaptures punk's anarchic force as a medium through which the frustrated and the disaffected could reject, revolt and re-invent.

A Nun, a Convent, and the German Occupation of Belgium (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Rene Kollar A Nun, a Convent, and the German Occupation of Belgium (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Rene Kollar
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
On A Burning Deck - An Oral History of the Great Migration (Hardcover): Tom Jones On A Burning Deck - An Oral History of the Great Migration (Hardcover)
Tom Jones
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women and War Work (Hardcover): Helen Fraser Women and War Work (Hardcover)
Helen Fraser
R767 R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Save R60 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
After Aquarius Dawned - How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies (Hardcover): Judy Kutulas After Aquarius Dawned - How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies (Hardcover)
Judy Kutulas
R2,902 Discovery Miles 29 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Judy Kutulas complicates the common view that the 1970s were a time of counterrevolution against the radical activities and attitudes of the previous decade. Instead, Kutulas argues that the experiences and attitudes that were radical in the 1960s were becoming part of mainstream culture in the 1970s, as sexual freedom, gender equality, and more complex notions of identity, work, and family were normalized through popular culture--television, movies, music, political causes, and the emergence of new communities. Seemingly mundane things like watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show, listening to Carole King songs, donning Birkenstock sandals, or reading Roots were actually critical in shaping Americans' perceptions of themselves, their families, and their relation to authority. Even as these cultural shifts eventually gave way to a backlash of political and economic conservatism, Kutulas shows that what critics perceive as the narcissism of the 1970s was actually the next logical step in a longer process of assimilating 1960s values like individuality and diversity into everyday life. Exploring such issues as feminism, sexuality, and race, Kutulas demonstrates how popular culture helped many Americans make sense of key transformations in U.S. economics, society, politics, and culture in the late twentieth century.

Hidden History of Lake Winnipesaukee (Hardcover): Glenn A. Knoblock Hidden History of Lake Winnipesaukee (Hardcover)
Glenn A. Knoblock
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Black Cross Red Star  Air War Over the Eastern Front - Volume 5 -- The Great Air Battles: Kuban and Kursk April-July 1943... Black Cross Red Star Air War Over the Eastern Front - Volume 5 -- The Great Air Battles: Kuban and Kursk April-July 1943 (Hardcover)
Christer Bergstrom
R1,608 Discovery Miles 16 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Living the Love - Emily Hobhouse post-war (1918-1926) (Hardcover): Jennifer Hobhouse Balme Living the Love - Emily Hobhouse post-war (1918-1926) (Hardcover)
Jennifer Hobhouse Balme
R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warren Gamaliel Harding, President of the United States; (Hardcover): William Estabrook 1867-1963 Chancellor Warren Gamaliel Harding, President of the United States; (Hardcover)
William Estabrook 1867-1963 Chancellor
R934 Discovery Miles 9 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
For the Honor of Our Fatherland - German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War (Hardcover): Tracey Hayes Norrell For the Honor of Our Fatherland - German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War (Hardcover)
Tracey Hayes Norrell
R2,527 Discovery Miles 25 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For the Honor of Our Fatherland: German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War focuses on the German Jews' role in reconstructing Poland's war-ravaged countryside. The Germany Army assigned rabbis to serve as chaplains in the German Army and to support and minister to their own Jewish soldiers, which numbered 100,000 during the First World War. However, upon the Army's arrival into the decimated region east of Warsaw, it became abundantly clear that the rabbis might also help with the poverty-stricken Ostjuden by creating relief agencies and rebuilding schools. For the Honor of Our Fatherland demonstrates that the well-being of the Polish Jewish community was a priority to the German High Command and vital to the future of German politics in the region. More importantly, by stressing the importance of the Jews in the East to Germany's success, For the Honor of Our Fatherland will show that Germany did not always want to remove the Jews-quite the contrary. The role and influence of the German Army rabbis and Jewish administrators and soldiers demonstrates that Germany intentionally supported the Polish Jewish communities in order to promote its agenda in the East, even as the modes for future influence changed. By implementing a philanthropic agenda in the East, the Germans recognized that its success might lie in part in enfranchising the Jewish population. Moreover, the directives of these relief agencies were not only beneficial to the impoverished Jewish communities, but the German Army had much to gain from this transnational relationship. The tragic irony was that Germany returned to the East in the Second World War and killed millions of Jews.

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