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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Katherine Beaton
Much has been written about Mary Magdalene but very little about Martha, her relative and co-saint.Who was this mysterious woman, and why did she remain in the shadows for so long?This book reveals with stunning clarity that, far from being a minor figure in the biblical narrative, Martha was one of its major characters. Her story shines a vivid light on the ruthless society of her day, and it uncovers the key role she played in the quiet revolution which would one day replace it.It is a captivating tale of courage, compassion - and culinary surprises.
Much has been written about Mary Magdalene but very little about Martha, her relative and co-saint.Who was this mysterious woman, and why did she remain in the shadows for so long?This book reveals with stunning clarity that, far from being a minor figure in the biblical narrative, Martha was one of its major characters. Her story shines a vivid light on the ruthless society of her day, and it uncovers the key role she played in the quiet revolution which would one day replace it.It is a captivating tale of courage, compassion - and culinary surprises.
Who was Santa Claus? Did he really exist? If he did exist, when did he live? Perplexed parents are liable to be asked such questions at Christmas time and it is to help them that this book was written. Based on solid historical research it proves conclusively that Santa Claus was not a myth, as is sometimes thought. He was in fact a very real person, a dedicated early Christian hero who fought all his life against barbarity and injustice, whose loving kindness for his fellow men became legendary . This book analyses both the man and the legend and provides a fascinating portrait of the old, beloved patron of children.
“Are you an American, or are you not?” This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-Cohen’s provocative history, which ties that seemingly remote corner of the country to one of America’s central concerns: the historical creation of racial boundaries.It was in Cochise County that the Earps and Clantons fought, Geronimo surrendered, and Wheeler led the infamous Bisbee Deportation, and it is where private militias patrol for undocumented migrants today. These dramatic events animate the rich story of the Arizona borderlands, where people of nearly every nationality—drawn by “free” land or by jobs in the copper mines—grappled with questions of race and national identity. Benton-Cohen explores the daily lives and shifting racial boundaries between groups as disparate as Apache resistance fighters, Chinese merchants, Mexican-American homesteaders, Midwestern dry farmers, Mormon polygamists, Serbian miners, New York mine managers, and Anglo women reformers.Racial categories once blurry grew sharper as industrial mining dominated the region. Ideas about home, family, work and wages, manhood and womanhood all shaped how people thought about race. Mexicans were legally white, but were they suitable marriage partners for “Americans”? Why were Italian miners described as living “as no white man can”? By showing the multiple possibilities for racial meanings in America, Benton-Cohen’s insightful and informative work challenges our assumptions about race and national identity.
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—women and men trained in the new field of social science—fanned out across the country to collect data on these fresh arrivals. The trove of information they amassed shaped how Americans thought about immigrants, themselves, and the nation’s place in the world. Katherine Benton-Cohen argues that the Dillingham Commission’s legacy continues to inform the ways that U.S. policy addresses questions raised by immigration, over a century later.Within a decade of its launch, almost all of the commission’s recommendations—including a literacy test, a quota system based on national origin, the continuation of Asian exclusion, and greater federal oversight of immigration policy—were implemented into law. Inventing the Immigration Problem describes the labyrinthine bureaucracy, broad administrative authority, and quantitative record-keeping that followed in the wake of these regulations. Their implementation marks a final turn away from an immigration policy motivated by executive-branch concerns over foreign policy and toward one dictated by domestic labor politics.The Dillingham Commission—which remains the largest immigration study ever conducted in the United States—reflects its particular moment in time when mass immigration, the birth of modern social science, and an aggressive foreign policy fostered a newly robust and optimistic notion of federal power. Its quintessentially Progressive formulation of America’s immigration problem, and its recommendations, endure today in almost every component of immigration policy, control, and enforcement.
Beating Depression: The Journey to Hope
Maga Jackson-Triche; Kenneth B. Wells; Katherine Minnium
McGraw-Hill Companies
2002
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Offers new hope to the more than 17 million Americans who suffer from depressionWritten by nationally recognized experts in the field, Beating Depression arms sufferers and their families with the knowledge and tools they need to recognize depression and make informed choices about its treatment and management. The authors explore the latest findings on the causes of depression and the treatments currently available, including medications and psychotherapeutic approaches. Readers get checklists, quizzes, and other powerful self-assessment tools to help determine if they are actually suffering from depression and to what clinical degree. And they get expert guidance on how to find help and work with physicians and mental health professionals to develop a treatment plan and to cope with problems that can arise during treatment.
If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder
Dwight L. Evans; Tami D. Benton; Katherine Ellison
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2023
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The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with bipolar disorder. While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today--including the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder--with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced this mood disorder in their own children. Among other topics, the book addresses the roots of bipolar disorder, red flags to look out for, treatment options for young people, and practical strategies for helping a teen cope at home and at school. It concludes on a hopeful note, by reviewing the latest scientific evidence on treating this mood disorder. A growing body of research now shows that early diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder may reduce the severity of the disease, both now and in the future. Including chapters on sex, drugs, and social media, and life after high school, this book will provide the information and tools parents need to help adolescents achieve the best possible outcome.
If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder
Dwight L. Evans; Tami D. Benton; Katherine Ellison
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2023
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The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with bipolar disorder. While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today--including the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder--with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced this mood disorder in their own children. Among other topics, the book addresses the roots of bipolar disorder, red flags to look out for, treatment options for young people, and practical strategies for helping a teen cope at home and at school. It concludes on a hopeful note, by reviewing the latest scientific evidence on treating this mood disorder. A growing body of research now shows that early diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder may reduce the severity of the disease, both now and in the future. Including chapters on sex, drugs, and social media, and life after high school, this book will provide the information and tools parents need to help adolescents achieve the best possible outcome.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER â??An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals â?¦ [A] long-awaited, must read bookâ?? SUNDAY TIMES â??Books about modern Russia abound â?¦ Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russiaâ?? THE TIMES
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
Catherine Belton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2020
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A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph " Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." --Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic "This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades." --Peter Frankopan, Financial Times Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about, and who has orchestrated it? In Putin's People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia's economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. The result is a chilling and revelatory expos of the KGB's revanche--a story that begins in the murk of the Soviet collapse, when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of state enterprises and move their spoils into the West. Putin and his allies subsequently completed the agenda, reasserting Russian power while taking control of the economy for themselves, suppressing independent voices, and launching covert influence operations abroad. Ranging from Moscow and London to Switzerland and Brooklyn's Brighton Beach--and assembling a colorful cast of characters to match--Putin's People is the definitive account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.
Presents Kamadeva, the Hindu god of desire, in tales, art, and ritual. Also covers Kamadeva's appearance in Buddhist lore.God of Desire presents Sanskrit tales of the Indian deity Kamadeva as he battles the ascetic god Siva, assists the powerful goddess Devi, and incarnates as the charming son of K???a. Exploring the imagery and symbolism of the god of desire in art and ritual, Catherine Benton reflects on the connection of Kamadeva to parrots, makaras (gharials), and apsarases (celestial nymphs), and to playful devotional rituals designed to win his favor. In addition to examining the Hindu literature, Benton also highlights two Buddhist forms of Kamadeva, the demonic Mara, who tries to persuade the Buddha to trade enlightenment for the delights of a woman, and the ever-youthful Mañjusri, who cuts through ignorance with the bodhisattva sword of wisdom. Tales of Kamadeva from the Hindu and Buddhist traditions present desire as a powerful force continually redefining the boundaries of chaos and order and gently pulling beyond the ephemeral lure of passionate longings.
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
Catherine Belton
Picador USA
2022
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A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph " Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." --Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic "This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades." --Peter Frankopan, Financial Times Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about, and who has orchestrated it? In Putin's People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia's economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. The result is a chilling and revelatory expos of the KGB's revanche--a story that begins in the murk of the Soviet collapse, when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of state enterprises and move their spoils into the West. Putin and his allies subsequently completed the agenda, reasserting Russian power while taking control of the economy for themselves, suppressing independent voices, and launching covert influence operations abroad. Ranging from Moscow and London to Switzerland and Brooklyn's Brighton Beach--and assembling a colorful cast of characters to match--Putin's People is the definitive account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.
Putins Netz. Wie sich der KGB Russland zurückholte und dann den Westen ins Auge fasste - AKTUALISIERTE TASCHENBUCHAUSGABE
Catherine Belton
HarperCollins Taschenbuch
2023
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Putins Netz. Wie sich der KGB Russland zurückholte und dann den Westen ins Auge fasste
Catherine Belton
Harpercollins
2022
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Ocharovatelnaja koshka Pushin vozvraschaetsja! Eta voskhititelnaja knizhka-raskraska - idealnyj podarok vsem poklonnikam "I Am Pusheen the Cat. Ja - Pushin Ket". Samaja neobychnaja pukhlaja koshechka Interneta gotova k vashim kreativnym izyskanijam i jarkim kraskam! Dlja vsekh obozhatelej koshek i knizhek-raskrasok!
LIBRO DEL A O PARA THE ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES Y THE TELEGRAPH. Un portentoso ejemplo del mejor periodismo de investigaci nTras una impresionante labor de investigaci n, Catherine Belton desvela la historia in dita de c mo Vladimir Putin y su c rculo ntimo, formado principalmente por miembros del KGB, se apoderaron del poder en Rusia e instauraron una nueva liga de oligarcas cuya influencia se extiende por Occidente.A trav s de entrevistas exclusivas con algunos de los principales implicados, Belton da cuenta de c mo Putin llev a cabo su implacable conquista de las empresas privadas para posteriormente repartirlas entre sus aliados, quienes poco a poco fueron extendiendo sus poderes por Europa y Estados Unidos. Una historia de c mo el KGB aprovech el caos originado tras la ca da de la Uni n Sovi tica para hacerse con el control del pa s, borrando los l mites entre el crimen organizado y el poder pol tico y silenciando a la oposici n.Los hombres de Putin es un portentoso ejemplo del mejor periodismo de investigaci n y el relato cautivador de las terribles consecuencias que tiene para Rusia y para el mundo ese autoritarismo que reina hoy desde el Kremlin.
Putins krets : maktkamp om det moderna Ryssland
Catherine Belton
Albert Bonniers Förlag
2022
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När Sovjetunionen föll samman 1991 behövde KGB-mannen Vladimir Putin en ny karriär. Han fann den i St Petersburg, där han blev borgmästarens högra hand och gav sig in i en rad lukrativa men ljusskygga affärer. När Putin sedan tog över Ryssland efter Jeltsin kom nätverket inom underrättelsetjänsten och den organiserade brottsligheten väl till pass. Ett decennium senare var alla motståndare bortrensade.Catherine Beltons bok är den definitiva skildringen av Putin väg till envälde. Med hjälp av ett unikt källmaterial når hon in till kärnan av Putins krets, och visar hur dess skoningslösa maktmetoder sedan exporterades till Ukraina, London, Syrien – och till slut till Trumps USA.”Putins krets lär bli den definitiva boken om Putin och putinismen…”Anne Applebaum”Detta fängslande och perfekt researchade verk är sannolikt den bästa bok som skrivits om Putin, om hans gäng, och kanske till och med om det moderna Ryssland, de tre senaste decennierna.”Peter Frankopan