The Warrior of the High Planes

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...

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Este libro se ocupa de las formas de comerciar y de aspectos de navegación en una gran región americana que se ha caracterizado desde la llegada de los europeos por concentrar movimientos marítimos y rutas comerciales, primero sólo recorridas por barcos españoles, pero, a partir de la cuarta década del siglo XVI, también usadas por los súbditos de otras potencias europeas. Hasta hoy en día, el llamado Gran Caribe, Circuncaribe o Golfo-Caribe ha conservado su papel como importante región de tránsito comercial, reforzado desde inicios del siglo pasado con la apertura del canal de...

Beginning with the days of ancient Egypt and Greece and spanning through the Middle Ages, this study of myths and legends tells the stories of various characters in mythology, from gods and men to heroes and monsters. These chronicles from distinctive times, places, and cultures provide an explanation of the origin of man and the world. Desde los dioses egipcios y griegos a los mitos de la Edad Media, este estudio de mitos y leyendas fascinantes relata la historia de los personajes de la mitología desde dioses y hombres hasta héroes y monstruos. Estas crónicas de distintos pueblos, épocas ...