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Martin Goodman

    1 de agosto de 1953
    J SS Bach
    On Bended Knees
    History Of Judaism
    Rome and Jerusalem
    The Write Guide: Mentoring
    Client Earth
    • Client Earth

      • 312 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      De Polonia a Ghana y de Alaska a China, Client Earth nos embarca en un viaje sobre cómo la ciudadanía puede recurrir al derecho de interés público para proteger el planeta. En estas páginas descubrirás el poder del derecho como un arma implacable y con poder de cambio, que todos respetan y reconocen. Esta excepcional e inspiradora organización y los testimonios de sus miembros nos devolverán la esperanza.

      Client Earth
      3,9
    • The Write Guide: Mentoring

      The Essential Handbook for Emerging and Established Writers

      • 136 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      The Write Mentoring is the handbook for emerging and established writers. Authors Martin Goodman and Sara Maitland explain how to establish and run successful mentoring schemes for writers. Witty and candid, this groundbreaking book is essential reading for writers and for those involved in developing them.

      The Write Guide: Mentoring
      3,0
    • Rome and Jerusalem

      • 656 páginas
      • 23 horas de lectura

      In AD 70, after a war that had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only eighty years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary consequences? This superb book, by one of the world�s leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish worlds, narrates and explains this titanic struggle, showing why Rome�s interests were served by this policy of brutal hostility, and how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the empire. The book thus also provides an exceptional and original account of the origins of anti-Semitism, whose history has had often cataclysmic reverberations down to our own time.

      Rome and Jerusalem
      3,9
    • History Of Judaism

      • 656 páginas
      • 23 horas de lectura

      'An absolute godsend ... Goodman has done both Jews and non-Jews a great service with this book, encapsulating most of Jewish thought over four millennia into one extraordinarily readable volume' Julia Neuberger, Literary Review A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present... číst celé

      History Of Judaism
      3,8
    • The Second World War is over, but young Tomas learns that Europe's wounds have not yet healed. Discover the 30th anniversary edition of a Whitbread shortlisted novel - available in the U.S. for the first time. "You come to see [Tomas] is conserving himself deliberately against the old suffering, the tired old guilt of the adults... Simplicity is a great virtue, in novels as elsewhere. After all, it can only be produced from sincerity." - Penelope Fitzgerald It's 1966. Young Tomas is taught by English war veterans, the adults around him haunted by memories of war. He walks the ruins of Coventry with his Gran, the city still rebuilding from the blitz. But his mother is German, and Tomas is torn between two worldviews. As he nears adulthood Tomas heads to 1970s Berlin. He's taken in by his enigmatic uncle, a blind, disgraced Nazi soldier. Arm in arm, they explore a drastically changing Berlin. Out in Dresden, a city decimated by Allied firebombs, Tomas finds more family with their hidden stories. This soaring, poignant novel invites readers to explore what we inherit from the wars of our elders, and how we might move on.

      On Bended Knees
    • J SS Bach

      • 328 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Silný příběh tří generací žen z rodiny nacistického důstojníka v koncentračním táboře Dachau a židovské rodiny z Vídně, v němž je každý hluboce poznamenán válečnými hrůzami bez ohledu na to, na které straně konfliktu stojí. V 90. letech 20. století se v Kalifornii setkávají dva přeživší z obou rodin. Rosa je mladá australská muzikoložka, Otto světoznámý skladatel a violoncellista. Spojuje je hudba i minulost, ale bude zapotřebí ještě něčeho dalšího, co jim pomůže překlenout rány i propasti způsobené dějinami. S dětskými vzpomínkami na rozbombardovaný Leicester a Coventry se Martin Goodman po škole přestěhoval do Berlína. Jeho dílo zkoumá způsoby, jimiž válka působí v šokových vlnách na další generace. Spisovatel, oceněný za své romány i vědecká díla, nyní přednáší jako profesor kreativního psaní na Univerzitě v Hullu.

      J SS Bach
      4,2