The Crucible
Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2013
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Crucible
Author : Charles Emmerson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1610397835
Book Description
The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chance In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home. An Austrian war veteran trained by the German army to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. A solar eclipse turns a former patent clerk into a celebrity. An American reporter living the high life in Paris searches out a new literary style. Lenin and Hitler, Josephine Baker and Ernest Hemingway, Rosa Luxemburg and Mustafa Kemal--these are some of the protagonists in this dramatic panorama of a world in turmoil. Revolutions and civil wars erupt across Europe. A red scare hits America. Women win the vote. Marching tunes are syncopated into jazz. The real becomes surreal. Encompassing both tragedy and humor, the celebrated author of 1913 brings immediacy and intimacy to this moment of deep historical transformation that molded the world we would come to inherit.
Fire in the Crucible
Author : John Briggs
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1890482773
Book Description
What makes a genius different? Is a genius born or made? In this exploration of creativity, the author reveals that there is no special trait of genius. Rather than being gifted above ordinary people, a genius will give expression to subtle nusances, and perceptions that others ignore.
Crucible of Faith
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0465096417
Book Description
One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian tradition In The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible Era." It was during these years that Judaism grappled with Hellenizing forces and produced new religious ideas that reflected and responded to their changing world. By the time of the fall of the Temple in 70 CE, concepts that might once have seemed bizarre became normalized-and thus passed on to Christianity and later Islam. Drawing widely on contemporary sources from outside the canonical Old and New Testaments, Jenkins reveals an era of political violence and social upheaval that ultimately gave birth to entirely new ideas about religion, the afterlife, Creation and the Fall, and the nature of God and Satan.
The Crucible of Islam
Author : G. W. Bowersock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0674978218
Book Description
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century, yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. A renowned classicist, G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this obscure and dynamic period in the history of Islam—exploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammad’s prophetic message, and why that message spread so quickly to the wider world. The Crucible of Islam offers a compelling explanation of how one of the world’s great religions took shape. “A remarkable work of scholarship.” —Wall Street Journal “A little book of explosive originality and penetrating judgment... The joy of reading this account of the background and emergence of early Islam is the knowledge that Bowersock has built it from solid stones... A masterpiece of the historian’s craft.” —Peter Brown, New York Review of Books
Dwellers in Crucbl
Author : Margaret Wander Bonanno
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Interplanetary voyages
ISBN : 0671660888
Book Description
The Romulans kidnapped six Warrantors, hostages for peace from their native worlds, to incite political chaos and civil war within the Federation. Sulu is sent to find the hostages and bring them back alive.
The Nameless Day
Author : Sara Douglass
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765303620
Book Description
Douglass combines powerful storytelling with meticulous historical research and presents a unique take on the ageless battle between the forces of heaven and hell.
The Crucible
Author : Coles Publishing Company. Editorial Board
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Miller, Arthur, 1915
ISBN : 9780774030212
Book Description
A literary study guide that includes summaries and commentaries.
Crucible Leadership
Author : Warwick Fairfax
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1631954776
Book Description
For leaders who believe they may not be maximizing their leadership potential, Warwick Fairfax is the trusted leadership advisor who helps readers uncover their own unique path to living and leading with significance, effectiveness, and authenticity in all areas of life. In Crucible Leadership, he shares the power of embracing the crucible moments: those past trials, failures, and setbacks that can be seen as either roadblocks or as jumping-off points to leading a life of significance and purpose dedicated to serving others. Crucible Leadership comes alive through the unique framework of Warwick’s own story: how his legacy shaped his worldview and drove decisions that eventually led to his own crucible moment. He demonstrates to readers in an honest, self-reflective way how they can make sense of their own talents and trials to lead with authenticity in all areas of life. Warwick empowers readers to become the leader they were designed to be through his unique perspective, which has been shaped by three powerful touchstones: Hard-won insights and honest, self-reflective lessons learned from his own crucible moment, and the long road back from it Inspiring and instructive stories from his rich and iconic family history Time-honored leadership truths proven out by history’s greatest and most inspirational figures
The Crucible of German Democracy
Author : Robert E. Norton
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161598288
Book Description
Robert E. Norton offers the first comprehensive study in any language devoted to Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923) and his activities during the First World War. Troeltsch was one of the most famous figures of his day, a renowned historian, philosopher, sociologist, and theologian. But he did not just comment on events, he also actively served in a number of public roles before, during, and after the war. Throughout the last decade of his life, Troeltsch was a central participant in many of the most significant political debates and struggles that took place in his country, and in the process he became one of the most forceful and committed proponents of democracy in Germany. Tracing the gradual rise and growth of democratic thought during the war, Robert E. Norton shows how democracy itself emerged as the pivotal question within German domestic politics around which everything else came to revolve. In this process, Ernst Troeltsch emerged as one of the most eloquent and persuasive voices advocating for democracy and peace, and always promoting the ideals of freedom and human dignity for all peoples.
