Peter Calvocoressi Boeken

Exploring the lives of renowned composers such as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, and Borodin, this study delves into their remarkable musical achievements while revealing their diverse and often eccentric pursuits outside of music. It highlights how these multifaceted individuals balanced their creative genius with various intriguing hobbies and interests, offering a unique perspective on their personalities and contributions to the world of music.

This comprehensive survey examines the global political landscape, reflecting on significant developments and shifts over the past decade. The 9th edition offers updated insights and analysis, making it a valuable resource for understanding contemporary political dynamics worldwide. It covers a range of topics, ensuring readers are well-informed about current events and trends in international relations.

First published in 1980, this is one of the very few books written by someone who worked at Bletchley Park for much of the war. Its author was one of the team working in Hut 3, whose task was to translate decrypted German Army and Air Force signals, and assess their intelligence value. This new edition, while substantially rewritten and revised, remains a valuable personal account or personal experience.

An enormously successful, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of world history since the end of the Second World War. The 8th and last ever edition of Calvocoressi's World Politics, is fully updated to provide a complete guide to the second half of the 20th Century. Since the first edition in 1968, World Politics has established itself as a vital text for anyone involved in international politics or history. As world events happened, Calvocoressi added more and more to his book to maintain its status as a current and complete source. It is the only single volume book to give full international coverage and to be written in clear, succint and accessibly writing style.

For the millions who lived through World War II on home or battle front, the realization alone that more than fifty years have passed since the war's beginningis startling, but to the postwar generation, this century's great war has remained singularly remote. TOTAL WAR is its first comprehensive history. Drawing on remembrance, personal experience, and a distinquished record of scholarship and journalism, the authors have skillfully sifted a massive body of accumulated fact and conflicting interpretation to sketch the background to the war, describe its military progress and political momentum, and examine its often surprising consequences. It was a war of civilians, of ideology, and of technology, as much as of military strength or economic resources, and important sections of TOTAL WAR deal with the international politics that shaped basic war aims, with the human drama that grew out of personal commitments to resistance or collaboration, and with the broader social and scientific changes which were wrought by or in spite of the war.

Du sollst dir ein Bild machen! Wer kennt sich wirklich noch aus in der Bibel und in der Fülle ihrer Menschen und Geschichten? Mit seinem ›Who’s who‹ hilft Peter Calvocoressi diesem Mangel auf äußerst unterhaltsame Weise ab: Er erzählt die Geschichten von mehr als 450 Figuren aus dem Alten und dem Neuen Testament und den Apokryphen. Seine Hinweise auf bedeutende Werke in der bildenden Kunst und der Literatur, denen biblische Gestalten und Geschichten als Vorlage dienten, machen deutlich, wie sehr diese Stoffe in unserer Kultur verwurzelt sind.

Tato kniha je o zvláštní stránce Bible- o jejích postavách. Zachycuje charakteristiky více než 450 biblických postav. Některé z nich jsou slavné, jak jen kdo kdy byl. Jiné méně, ale stále ještě mají značný věhlas. Pak jsou tam jen běžně známé postavy, jejichž jména jsou nám povědomá, i když si nepamatujeme, co vykonaly. A nakonec je tam velký kompars těch, kteří slavní nejsou. Čas od času cítíme touhu se o nich něco dozvědět tak, abychom se poučili, připamatovali si nebo vyřešili své pochybnosti. Kdo je kdo v Bibli není encyklopedie. Je to vybraná rukověť, do níž se získá zápis slávou nebo formou přízně. Je určena těm, kdo si s potěšením listují v knihách odkazů, a jsou v ní ta jména, která uvedou prsty do pohybu. Zápisy v této knize kolísají od velmi krátkých po dosti dlouhé. jejich hlavním účelem je zaznamenat o každé zapsané osobě fakta uvedená v Bibli. Není to však jejich jediný účel. Vyprávění o lidech obsahuje popis toho, kdo byli, co dělali, ale také něco navíc. To něco má dvě stránky...