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Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? This book explores a key Cold War epidsode.

The number one New York Times best seller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal) - the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country.

An insightful 12-lecture course that explores the principles that guided the founding of the United States, the conditions that led to the break with Great Britain, and the creation of such founding documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.You'll deepen your understanding of fundamental ideas that inspired American independence and that continue to have a profound influence on American thought. You'll also receive insight into what historians call "the long conversation" in American society.

As long as people have been writing books, authors have been using them to create misrepresentations of women. From medieval reality show-style wife tests to 21st century dating guides based on 200-year-old novels, Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman takes listeners on a guided tour of advice on what women should and should not do.

Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume designed to identify important principles and characteristics that are particularly American.

Krishna reads The Ideal of Human Unity, one of the important texts written by the great Indian philosopher, Sri Aurobindo. This podcast is part of a celebration of his 150th birth anniversary and is organised by the Auro Artworld (https://auroartworld.org/) . We are driven by a passion for the arts and a deep sense of service and responsibility to the artists, to the receivers of the arts, and to the Dream and values of Auroville itself. Transparency and openness to change remain core to our ethos and the services we offer to the community. The arts will exist — Sri Aurobindo wrote in The ...

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the past narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America’s most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves.

Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters - girls who were raised without brothers and pushed to study, achieve, and succeed as if they were sons. Fast forward to the present, where in an urbanized economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage - or not marry at all - to spawn a label: "leftovers". Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar - Ideal of modern India - By Ramdutt Chakradhar Jii Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Dr. Hedgewar ( founder of RSS ) met at Bhausaheb Gadkari’s home in Pune. Sri Bhausaheb Abhyankar took all of us (including Balasaheb Salunke ) to the summer camp. Dr. Ambedkar addressed the swayamsevaks on military discipline and organisation. The above material is sufficient to prove that sites like velivada have only one agenda – to work towards create a divide among Hindus. We only hope that Sri Balasaheb Salunke , a member of the Scheduled Caste, a close associate of Babasaheb Ambedkar, a ...

Non solo Palmanova, Aquileia, Pienza, Sabbioneta: l'Italia pullula di città ideali dalla struttura geometrica regolare, frutto di visioni laiche o di esoteriche cosmogonie. L'itinerario va dalla quadristellata Terra del Sole, voluta da Cosimo I de' Medici nel 1546 in Romagna, ad Acaya, in provincia di Lecce; da San Leucio, frazione di Caserta, alle città-operaie Crespi d'Adda e Solvay a Rosignano; dalle città "di fondazione" fascista, come Latina e Sabaudia nel Lazio, Arborea e Fertilia in Sardegna, al recente "sogno" della Scarzuola in provincia di Terni.

This addition to Oxford's Very Short Introductions series traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether it is the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today.

In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas - antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans - white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South.

Kostymören Sanna Nyström och maskören Erika Nicklasson pratar om hur siluetter och ideal har sett ut genom historien utifrån dagens film och tv-serier. Besök @siluettochideal på instagram för att se bilder på det vi pratar om i avsnitten.

Francesca legge L'ideale dell'unità umana, uno dei testi importanti scritti dal grande filosofo indiano Sri Aurobindo. Questo podcast fa parte di una celebrazione del 150° anniversario della nascita ed è organizzato da Auro Artworld (https://auroartworld.org/) . Le arti esisteranno — scriveva Sri Aurobindo in The Life Divine — «come espressioni e mezzi della verità dello spirito e della bellezza e delizia dell'esistenza». Questa è la sfida che si pone agli artisti di Auroville e a tutti coloro che nel mondo si sono ispirati al Sogno. Powered by Firstory Hosting Powered by Firstory ...

Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals, and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to defend those values in a country pitching into violence and chaos.

Step back in time and travel with Rochambeau as he rides through the night to the Palace of Versailles, answering a summons from King Louis XVI; sail with Rochambeau as he and his 42-ship convoy cross the Atlantic on an exhausting 70-day voyage to America; sit by his side as his carriage travels to meet with George Washington for their first face-to-face conference in Hartford, Connecticut; and enjoy the tension between the two generals as their strategy emerges in this captivating audiobook.

"L'ora segnata dal destino: Ricordi di un "volontario" universitario" è il resoconto dell'esperienza della seconda guerra mondiale, vissuta da un giovane diciannovenne, nutrito di studi classici e di ideali umanitari e libertari. La narrazione di una guerra "improvvisata", vissuta all'interno delle caserme, senza il filtro della retorica ufficiale del regime, è la testimonianza dell'assurdità, per certi versi anche tragicomica, di ogni conflitto. Al dramma delle vicende storiche si intreccia l'odissea di Gaspare, il protagonista, novello Ulisse.

On its surface, the question posed by this work - Is Penn State a Real University? - seems ridiculous. Yet, its thoughtful exploration by Dr. Ben Novak, a four-term former trustee, reveals that there is far more to the answer than one might first imagine. Nearly 25 years ago, State College Magazine published the essays that form the core of this audiobook. Assembled for the first time and updated for contemporary listeners, Dr. Novak's explication - equal parts informational and inspirational - rings as true today as at the time of its original publication.

In Our Auntie Rosa, Mrs. Parks' loved ones share their remembrances and reflections to create a previously unpainted picture of the real woman behind the legend. Rosa Parks largely disappeared from the public when she and her husband, Raymond, relocated to Detroit in 1957, escaping the violently racist South. It was in Detroit where Mrs. Parks reconnected with her only sibling, Sylvester McCauley, whom she affectionately called "Brother", and her 13 nieces and nephews.