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September 2015The Life Visa
by Tan Zhongchi
Mr. He Fengshan, born in Yiyang city of Hunan province, issued visas to thousands of Jews when he was the Consul General of the Chinese Embassy in Vienna but at the risk of his own life. Finally, he protected these Jews from being murdered by Nazi.
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November 2014Die Botschaft von Kambodscha / The Embassy of Cambodia
Deutsch-Englische Ausgabe
by Smith, Zadie / Übersetzer Handels, Tanja
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April 2014Embassies – Negotiations – Gifts
Systems of East Roman Diplomacy in Late Antiquity
by Nechaeva, Ekaterina
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MedicineApril 2018Bovine Tuberculosis
by Mark Chambers, Stephen Gordon, Francisco Olea-Popelka, Paul Barrow
This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing human infection through consumption of unpasteurised milk or by close contact with infected animals. Following a systematic approach, expert international authors cover epidemiology and the global situation; microbial virulence and pathogenesis; host responses to the pathogen; and diagnosis and control of the disease. Aimed at researchers and practising veterinarians, this book is essential for those needing comprehensive information on the pathogen and disease, and offers a summary of key information learned from human tuberculosis research. It will be useful to those studying the infection and for those responsible for controlling the disease.
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2017Jackie Chan：Never Grow Up, Only Get Older
by Jackie Chan, Zhu Mo
This is an autobiography of Chinese Kongfu star Jackie Chan. The book is a true recording of this international superstar’s growth and life experience for the last 50 years. It tells us the legendary actor’s stories, and also reflects a fantastic acting age.
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March 2023Born Hutsi
by Fiston Mudacumura
The author was raised in a family of only survivors from the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. Even FARG (A survivors fund) allegedly paid for his school fees for some time. Through FARG reform, he learned that his father had associated with perpetrators even if he was also killed in 1994. Digesting that information as a teenager was not easy. In this book, you read about his other close-to-normal upbringing like infatuation, sex advice from fellow teenagers, getting conned in Paris and arrested on his first trip to France, his take from the "Ndi umunyarwanda" campaign, #PK saving him from getting expelled at the university, joining a political party at the university,...
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2019I Was an Ambassador to the Sultan
"SULTAN’IN ÜLKESİNDE BÜYÜKELÇİYKEN"
by Abdel-Rahman Salah
He worked in Turkey as an ambassador for Egypt at a very delicate stage in the history of the Middle East region as a whole. Since 2010 - when he assumed his duties in Ankara - and until the end of 2013 - at the end of his duties there - he witnessed many pivotal events in the relationship between the two countries.From here comes the importance of the book, “Abdel-Rahman Salah,” the last Egyptian ambassador to Turkey, as it details a relationship between two countries that have military and political weight in the Middle East, and the similar rapprochement - to some extent - during the era of former President “Mohamed Hosni Mubarak”, It increased after 2011 AD and “Mohamed Morsi” took over the rule of the country by virtue of the political doctrine that links the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the Brotherhood in Egypt, thenTurkish estrangement and hostility to Egypt's interests after the June 30 revolution and the overthrow of the Brotherhood's rule. The pages of the book not only give you a new vision of the relationship between Egypt and Turkey under the rule of four presidents of Egypt, but they also give you accurate and documented accounts - in which Ambassador “Abdel-Rahman Salah” participated by virtue of his position - of what happened between the two countries during the past years... Away from the whims of support or opposition.
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Snooker, billiards, poolSnooker Player by Player
by Liam McCann
Snooker Player by Player is a compilation of the 100 greatest snooker players in the game s history. Re-live the glorious careers of Fred and Joe Davis, examine Ray Reardon s six world titles and marvel at the genius of Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O Sullivan. Enjoy the careers of former world champions and masters of the green baize like Terry Griffiths, Jimmy White and Steve Davis, and cast your mind back to the epic 1985 Embassy Final won by Dennis Taylor. The book also features the likes of Cliff Thorburn, Kirk Stevens and John Higgins, all of whom have made maximum breaks. And no book on snooker would be complete without mentioning the game s future stars.
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January 2022
Victim of History
Cardinal Mindszenty, a biography
by Margit Balogh
“Victim of history,” “a martyr from behind the Iron Curtain,” “the Hungarian Gandhi” – these are just some of the epithets which people used to describe Cardinal Mindszenty, archbishop of Esztergom, who was the last Hungarian prelate to use the title of prince primate. Today, Mindszenty has been forgotten in most countries except for Hungary, but when he died in 1975, he was known all over the world as a symbol of the struggle of the Catholic Church against communism. Cardinal Mindszenty held the post of archbishop of Esztergom from 1945 until 1974, but during this period of almost three decades he served barely four years in office. The political police arrested him on December 26, 1948, and the Budapest People’s Court subsequently sentenced him to life imprisonment. Based on the Stalinist practice of show trials, one of the accusations against Mindszenty, referring to his legitimist leanings, was his alleged attempt to re-establish Habsburg rule in Hungary. He regained freedom during the 1956 revolution but only for a few days. He was granted refuge by the US Embassy in Budapest between November 4, 1956 –September 28, 1971. In the fifteen years he spent at the American embassy enormous changes took place in the world while his personality remained frozen into the past. When in 1971 Pope Paul VI received the Hungarian foreign minister, he called Mindszenty “the victim of history”. His last years were spent free at last, but far away from his homeland. In Hungary, the Catholic believers eagerly await his beatification.
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FictionAgent Lylyk
by Yuriy Vynnychuk
This is a sequel novel of the series telling about the adventures of Marco Krylovych, the night reporter. A few months have passed after the events described in 'The Dekker's Mansion'. Marco Krylovych is released from prison to help the secret police (NKVD) with catching the murderer of young women. Seems that the suspect is one of the USSR embassy or NKVD employees... So that to continue the investigation Krylovych gets his cover story as Agent Lylyk. Since the maniac chooses his victims for the first letters of their names to make the name Valentina with them, Marco asap needs to find out who Valentina is. It turned out that he was related to her death 20 years ago and someone was seeking revenge. Marco’s colleague was very close to the clue who the murderer is, but he got killed and now Marco is completely sure that it’s someone from the NKVD. Krylovych gets into the trap of the murderer but manages to survive. After all, the murderer is dead. But to render a murderer was not the only task of Krylovych. The Netherlands Embassy’s archives contain the crucial documents that are hunted for by both the USSR and Germany. The Night Reporter also tries to find these documents since the lives of many people depend on them.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionJanuary 2011The Role of Women in Global Security
by Valerie Norville
This report examines women’s roles in peacebuilding, postconflict reconstruction, and economic development. It draws on discussions at the conference on The Role of Women in Global Security, held in Copenhagen on October 29–30, 2010, and co-hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Denmark and the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in partnership with the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). Ambassador Laurie S. Fulton, U.S. ambassador to Denmark and former member of USIP’s board, brought together participants from the United States, Nordic-Baltic countries, Afghanistan, Liberia, and Uganda to focus on the roles that women can play as leaders in areas of active conflict and postconflict. Participants from the public and private sector, including the military, civilian, NGO, academic, and corporate worlds, joined to share experiences and best-practice recommendations on how to increase women’s participation in their communities to effect positive change: resolving active conflicts, assisting in postconflict reintegration, and furthering economic development. Ambassador Fulton noted that men and women with first-person practical experience were able to share their recommendations with those “who represent political leadership from host countries and international organizations who can encourage implementation of those recommendations.”
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FictionJanuary 2014The Unsinkable Herr Goering
by Ian Cassidy
Contrary to what the so-called history books tell you, Hermann Goering, Hitler's Deputy, Head of the Luftwaffe and second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, did not leave this world courtesy of a cyanide tablet secreted in the heel of his jackboot minutes before his appointment with the hangman. The truth is far more bizarre. THE UNSINKABLE HERR GOERING is a monumental debut novel by Ian Cassidy. It follows Goering, a man blindsided by hubris, on his attempted escape – from both Germany as well as from the Allies – and the inept men of mettle who put a stop to it. It is a hilariously depraved story of of villainous villains, slightly less villainous heroes, bad behavior (and even worse beer), and uncomfortable underwear. Not since A Confederacy of Dunces has a book brought to life such audaciously flawed characters. It gets so much wrong, yet so much right.
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Sociology: work & labourOctober 2012Meeting Global Challenges
German-U.S. Innovation Policy: Summary of a Symposium
by Charles W. Wessner, Rapporteur; Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century; Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy; Policy and Global Affairs; National Research Council
While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technology-based innovations and the value that flows from them. Much of this value is based on creating scientific knowledge and transforming it into new products and services for the market. This process of innovation is complex and interdisciplinary. Sometimes it draws on the genius of individuals, but even then it requires sustained collective effort, often underpinned by significant national investments. Capturing the value of these investments to spur domestic economic growth and employment is a challenge in a world where the outputs of innovation disseminate rapidly. Those equipped to understand, apply, and profit from new knowledge and technical advances are increasingly able to capture the long-term economic benefits of growth and employment. In response to this new, more distributed innovation paradigm, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened leading academics, business leaders, and senior policymakers from Germany and the United States to examine the strengths and challenges of their innovation systems. More specifically, they met to compare their respective approaches to innovation, to learn from their counterparts about best practices and shared challenges, and to identify cooperative opportunities. The symposium was held in Berlin and organized jointly by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and the U.S. National Academies with support of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and the American Embassy in Berlin. Both U.S. and German participants described common challenges on a wide variety of issues ranging from energy security and climate change to low-emissions transportation, early-stage financing, and workforce training. While recognizing their differences in approach to these challenges, participants on both sides drew out valuable lessons from each other's policies and practices. Participants were also aware of the need to adapt to a new global environment where many countries have focused new policy measures and new resources to support innovative firms and promising industries. Meeting Global Challenges: U.S.-German Innovation Policy reviews the participants meeting and sets goals and recommendations for future policy.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fictionOctober 2023The Incredible Story of the Ingenious Max Aub
by Miguel Alayrach and Meluca Redon
The Incredible Story of the Ingenious Max Aub is an illustrated biography intended for a young audience that narrates the most important moments of his personal life, family, and milestones in his professional career. At the age of twelve, Max Aub wrote his first poem, a clear indication of his literary vocation. A life dedicated to literature. A child who grew up between two countries: France and Spain, fleeing from war. An adult who, in the exile of three wars, continued to pursue his passion and left behind a vast body of work: poetry, narrative, theater... despite the inherent adversities of the times in which he lived.
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Politics & governmentApril 2020Democracy's Defenders
U.S. Embassy Prague, the Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia, and Its Aftermath
by Edited by Norman L. Eisen
A behind-the-scenes look at how the United States aided the Velvet Revolution Democracy’s Defenders offers a behind-the-scenes account of the little-known role played by the U.S. embassy in Prague in the collapse of communism in what was then Czechoslovakia. Featuring fifty-two newly declassified diplomatic cables, the book shows how the staff of the embassy led by U.S. Ambassador Shirley Temple Black worked with dissident groups and negotiated with the communist government during a key period of the Velvet Revolution that freed Czechoslovakia from Soviet rule. In the vivid reporting of these cables, Black and other members of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Prague describe student demonstrations and their meetings with anti-government activists. The embassy also worked to forestall a violent crackdown by the communist regime during its final months in power. Edited by Norman L. Eisen, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014, Democracy’s Defenders contributes fresh evidence to the literature on U.S. diplomatic history, the cold war era, and American promotion of democracy overseas. In an introductory essay, Eisen places the diplomatic cables in context and analyzes their main themes. In an afterword, Eisen, Czech historian Dr. Mikuláš Pešta, and Brookings researcher Kelsey Landau explain how the seeds of democracy that the United States helped plant have grown in the decades since the Velvet Revolution. The authors trace a line from U.S. efforts to promote democracy and economic liberalization after the Velvet Revolution to the contemporary situations of what are now the separate nations of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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September 2019Life Wants To Live
Real Stories of Tibetan Refugees
by Paola Martani
The book holds a collection of testimonies tells the heart-wrenching and inspiringstories of Tibetan exiles living as refugees in India. The tales were originally toldto Paola Martani as she researched for her thesis in the Himalayan mountains,where she lived for years as a local, learning the language, religion and mythology.In the pages of this book Martani shares her experiences in this spiritually richland while telling the stories of the remarkable individuals she encountered there.
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December 2018One Woman's Struggle In Iran
A Prison Memoir
by Nasrin Parvaz / Christel Wegert
This is a hard-hitting true story of a young woman who spent 8 years being tortured, starved, and threatened with execution, but who found strength in other woman and found joy in dark places. This physical book is evidence of an unbreakable spirit. In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been studying, and became a member of a socialist party in Iran fighting for a non-Islamic state in which women had the same rights as men. Three years later, at the age of 23, she was betrayed by a comrade and arrested by the regime's secret police. Nasrin spent the next eight years in Iran's prison system. She was systematically tortured, threatened with execution, starved and forced to live in appalling, horribly overcrowded conditions. One Woman's Struggle is both an account of what happened to her during those eight years, and evidence that her spirit was never broken. Nasrin's memoir is a story of friendship and mutual support, of how the women drew strength from one another and found endless small ways to show kindness and even find tiny specks of joy.
