"At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes--mostly working-class Americans in their twenties--became...

"At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold was now determined to conquer Italy. Together, they made three visits there the last when Mozart was seventeen, all vividly recounted here by acclaimed conductor Jane Glover. Father and son travelled from the theatres and concert salons of Milan to the church-filled streets of Rome to Naples, poorer and more dangerous...

What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science, medicine and personal loss? This book is the first to compile the many attempts in science and medicine to account for life and death in Mary Shelley's time. It considers what her contemporaries thought of...

"Nikita Igorevich Krivoshein (rodilsi︠a︡ 6 ii︠u︡li︠a︡ 1934, Parizh) - sinkhronnyĭ perevodchik v OON, I︠U︡nesko, OBSE, PASE i dr.; pisatelʹ, obshchestvennyĭ i politicheskiĭ dei︠a︡telʹ russkoĭ ėmigrat︠s︡ii. V 1947 godu okazyvaetsi︠a︡ vmeste s roditeli︠a︡mi v SSSR. Semʹi︠u︡ russkikh dvori︠a︡n-ėmigrantov seli︠a︡t v g. Ulʹi︠a︡novsk. Ėtapy puti Nikity s 1950-1957: tokarʹ na zavode, shkola rabocheĭ...

"In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settled as ruling classes in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. Jews endured a subordinate status politically and militarily, a minor nation amid the powers of the Hellenistic world. Erich Gruen's work, however, highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting...