Richard Evans

Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler’s People, he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement: namely, the lives of its most important members.

Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Evans forms a typological framework of Germany society under Nazi rule from the top down. With a novelist’s eye for detail, Evans explains the Third Reich through the personal failings and professional ambitions of its members, from its most notorious deputies—like Goebbels, the regime’s propagandist, and Himmler, the Holocaust’s chief architect—to the crucial enforcers and instruments of the Nazi agenda that history has largely forgotten—like the schoolteacher Julius Streicher and the actress Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing on a wealth of recently unearthed historical sources, Hitler’s People lays bare the inner and outer lives of the characters whose choices led to the deaths of millions.

Nearly a century after Hitler’s rise, the leading nations of the West are once again being torn apart by a will to power. By telling the stories of these infamous lives as human lives, Evans asks us to grapple with the complicated nature of complicity, showing us that the distinctions between individual and collective responsibility—and even between pathological evil and rational choice—are never easily drawn.

The Faces of the Third Reich

Hitler's People

Michael Vey possède des super-pouvoirs. D'un seul geste, il peut envoyer des décharges électriques de plusieurs milliers de volts. Pratique, quand on est harcelé par les caïds du lycée et atteint de tics embarrassants. Michael se croit seul... avant de découvrir que Taylor, ravissante pom-pom girl, est elle aussi "électrique". A peine commencent-ils à comprendre leur secret qu'une mystérieuse organisation, convoitant les pouvoirs des deux adolescents, les prend en chasse...

Le cercle des 17

Unter Strom

Die Liga der 17

Clare Farmer

This book challenges what are, for many people, deep-rooted expectations regarding the routine arming of police and compares jurisdictions in which police are routinely armed (Toronto, Canada and Brisbane, Australia) and those where police are not routinely armed (Manchester, England and Auckland, New Zealand). With a focus on Western jurisdictions and by examining a range of documentary, media and data sources, this book provides an evidence-based examination of the question: Do police really need guns? This book first provides detailed insight into the armed policing tradition and perceptions/expectations with respect to police and firearms. A range of theoretical concepts regarding policing, state power and the use of force is applied to an examination of what makes the police powerful. This is set against the minimum force tradition, which is typified by policing in England and Wales. Consideration is also given to the role played by key tropes and constructs of popular culture. Drawing on Surette’s model of symbolic reality, the book considers contrasting media traditions and the positioning of firearms within narrative arcs, especially the role of heroes. The book concludes by drawing together the key themes and findings, and considering the viability of retaining and/or moving towards non-routinely armed police.

Policing and Firearms: Past, Present and Future

Do Police Need Guns?

Auditions are an integral part of every performer's life. From getting into drama school through to a successful career in an overcrowded industry, Auditions: The Complete Guide offers crucial advice, resources and tried and tested techniques to maximise success before, during and after each audition. Written by an established casting director and former actor, with over 35 years of experience on a wide range of productions, this book offers a wealth of personal and professional insights, covering: * drama and theatre schools * showcases * amateur and professional auditions * contemporary, classical, physical and musical theatre * television and commercial castings, movie screen tests and self taping * voice-overs and radio drama * networking * recalls and workshops * handling job offers, and rejection From training to triumph, nerves to networking and camera to casting couch, Auditions: The Complete Guide is an entertaining, accessible and indispensable read for every performer. Richard Evans CDG has cast a wide variety of productions in all media since 1989 and, prior to this, worked as an actor for 10 years. He has devised and presented audition and career development workshops at many top drama and theatre schools worldwide, and at the Actors Centre, London and has written Auditions: A Practical Guide (Routledge, 2009) and 'A Casting Director's Perspective' for The Actors' Yearbook, 2005. He is a member of The Casting Directors' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland. www.auditionsthecompleteguide.com

The Complete Guide

Auditions

The first monograph in English to focus on Pergamum in this period.

Beyond Hellenistic Kingship

A History of Pergamum

Written by Richard Evans, Independent Thinking on Emotional Literacy: A passport to increased confidence, engagement and learning shares an approach that will help educators boost their pupils' emotional literacy, with the broader aim of nurturing a more grounded, engaged and intrinsically motivated child. Foreword by Ian Gilbert. Do teachers truly understand their pupils? And do the pupils themselves really understand their own needs? In Independent Thinking on Emotional Literacy, Richard Evans reminds every school educator that behind every child is a set of circumstances so entwined - and within them a set of emotions so involved - that to ignore them is to be complicit in any educational failings experienced by that child. Richard equips educators with a collaborative 'passport' template designed to improve pupils' emotional literacy and promote discussion of the often-unspoken issues that prevent children from making progress at school. It enables staff to steer young people to greater emotional understanding of themselves, so that they can better manage their route through the school system. Furthermore, Richard provides a detailed tutorial as he walks you through the subtleties and wide-ranging possibilities of its use. Colour copies of the passport are also made available for free download as a complimentary feature of the book. If the passport is aimed at anyone, adult or child, it's those not altogether happy with the system; those not convinced it provides as much breadth and meaning as it could; and who sense that education is as much about the acquisition of self-knowledge as it is about that of knowledge per se. Ultimately, the result of the enterprise is deeper understanding - whether it's of the girl who falls asleep at the back, the boy who needs constant support, or those pupils who need extra careful attention at parents' evening. Suitable for all educators in both primary and secondary settings.

A passport to increased confidence, engagement and learning

Independent Thinking on Emotional Literacy

The Talent Magnet - Employer Branding & Recruitment Marketing Strategies to Attract Millennial Talent.

Who Really Runs the Country?

Duplicity

Gritty, breathless and gripping. A compelling, suspenseful law and order thriller. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time and will regret it forever. Nothing can change what happened, but only the lawyer can provide justice for them both. Will Anna Booth do it or will it be out of her hands? "This was a really great read! Even though the story itself was gruesome and sad, it makes the reader question morality, as well as the use of the death penalty." FEMALE REVIEWER A teenager is looking for a good time and meets a young woman who has no interest in him or his friends. Their worlds collide again when walking home. His mistake was not helping her. After a police investigation exposing his friends, Billy Humphries faces his day in court. He knows he is innocent and has little fear of the justice system. But the justice system wants a guilty accused and Billy is their patsy. Three trials and a media storm later, his lawyer Anna Booth fights for justice for her client and the victim. OUT OF MY HANDS is a gripping crime thriller featuring emotional and convincing characters and exposes the politics of crime and justice. If you like fast-paced, page-turning, gritty crime thrillers that draw you into the story then Richard Evans' fifth book will not disappoint you. Buy OUT OF MY HANDS today and bring to light the reality of the American justice system and its faults. Evans' writing style allows the reader to glide through the book's chapters whilst being familiarised with the plot and major protagonists. Go on, have a read. - Amazon review. Trigger warning: Out of my hands is a gritty crime thriller and reader 18+ recommended.

A crime, a trial, a punishment. Is it Justice?

Out of my Hands

Marilyn Monroe continues to be an identifiable cultural figure over 50 years after her death. Marilyn is a photographic history of her career, from Norma Jeane to stardom.

In Words and Pictures

Marilyn

Sir Basil Clarke was a courageous and intrepid First World War newspaper correspondent. In late 1914 he defied a ban on reporters by living as an ‘outlaw’ in Dunkirk and by the time he was forced to leave was one of only two remaining journalists near the Front. Later in the war he reported from the Battle of the Somme and caused a global scandal by accusing the government of effectively ‘feeding the Germans’ by failing to properly enforce its naval blockade. Closer to home, he was the first to publish reports from the Easter Rising. Clarke became the UK’s first public relations officer in 1917 and established the first PR firm in 1924. His public relations career included leading British propaganda during the Irish War of Independence, and his official response to Bloody Sunday in 1920 is still controversial today. In this, the first biography of Clarke, Richard Evans expertly portrays the life and character of this extraordinary man − a man who risked his life so that the public had independent news from the war and who became the father of the UK’s public relations industry. RICHARD EVANS is a former journalist who has worked in public relations roles in the charity sector and local government for the past eight years. He is currently Head of Media for Diabetes UK and lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two children. Follow him on Twitter: @richardjaevans

The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke

From the Frontline

Carl Gustav Jung

Ernest Jones

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Carl Gustav Jung. Richard Isadore Evans, professeur de psychologie à l'université de Houston, a réalisé en 1961 une série d'entretiens avec Carl Gustav Jung. Peu de temps avant sa mort, l'auteur de "L'Homme à la découverte de son âme" y expose lui-même ses idées et les grands principes de sa doctrine, abordant notamment les questions de la théorie de la personnalité, de l'inconscient collectif et des archétypes. Il y évoque également les rencontres avec certains hommes qui ont marqué sa vie (Freud, Einstein, Toynbee,...). L'ouvrage se termine par un entretien avec Ernest Jones, le célèbre psychanalyste biographe de Sigmund Freud, qui précise les points de divergence entre la pensée freudienne orthodoxe et les vues propres à l'école jungienne. Ce livre d'entretiens, véritable introduction à la psychologie analytique de Jung, permet de dégager l'originalité de sa contribution à la recherche psychanalytique et offre, dans un langage simple et clair, une approche rapide mais assez précise de l'ensemble de son oeuvre.

Entretiens avec Carl Gustav Jung

John McEnroe

A noted sports journalist traces the spectacular rise of tennis's "enfant terrible," examines his on-court behavior and his great matches, and reveals McEnroe's generosity and loyalty to family, friends, and country

A Rage for Perfection : a Biography

McEnroe

This volume examines the ways in which divination, often through oracular utterances and other mechanisms, linked mortals with the gods, and places the practice within the ancient sociopolitical and religious environment. Whether humans sought knowledge by applying to an oracle through which the god was believed to speak or used soothsayers who interpreted specific signs such as the flight of birds, there was a fundamental desire to know the will of the gods. In many cases, pragmatic concerns – personal, economic or political – can be deduced from the context of the application. Divination and communication with the gods in a post-pagan world has also produced fascinating receptions. The presentation of these processes in monotheistic societies such as early Christian Late Antiquity (where the practice continued through the use of curse tablets) or medieval Europe, and beyond, where the role of religion had changed radically, provides a particular challenge and this topic has been little discussed by scholars. This volume aims to rectify this desideratum by providing the opportunity to address questions related to the reception of Greco-Roman divination, oracles and prophecy, in all media, including literature and film. Several contributions in this volume originated in the 2015 Classics Colloquium held at the University of South Africa and the volume has been augmented with additional contributions.

Ancient Divination and Its Reception

Prophets and Profits

Adam Gaffen

The Kildaran - Katrina has claimed the title from the day she met Mike. Now he's finally given in. What could possibly go wrong? How about a full load of nuclear weapons, intended for disposal, being hijacked by Islamist insurgents bent on establishing a new Emirate? And the former Stasi agent Kurt Schwenke is behind it all. His objective? Revenge on the person who foiled him most recently: Katya Ivanova.

The Kildaran

Chronicles the Chinese leader's life in the context of twentieth-century turmoil, recounting the Japanese invasion, the ascent of communism, Mao's Cultural Revolution, and other events

Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China

When ruthless political operative Jonathan Wolff is assigned the task of overthrowing corrupt Australian Prime Minister Andrew Gerrard in the federal election campaign, no one is safe from the line of fire. Wolff’s tactful manipulation and political prowess guide the opposition towards election success, but fearing they will not win, Hawk must initiate his own explosive campaign to defeat the Prime Minister and remain loyal to the Mercantiles – a long-established group of high-taxpaying business owners out to manipulate the halls of Parliament House. With investigative journalist Anita Devlin hot on his trail, Wolff oversees a storm of violent demonstrations in a strategic ploy to advance the cause of independent candidate Jaya Rukhmani. Devlin is determined to be the whistle-blower, but does she have what it takes to expose Wolff and the Mercantiles? Or will political power overcome truth in this gripping Australian political thriller?

Who really runs the country?

While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies crossed to Asia for the first time to carry the war to the Seleucids. Here they faced one of the most sophisticated armies of the ancient world, evolved from Alexander's all-conquering war machine with the exotic additions of elephants, scythed chariots and heavily armored cataphract cavalry. The Seleucids also possessed a formidable navy. The Roman army defeated the Seleucids at the epic battle of Magnesia in 190 BC, which marked the beginning of a long decline for Seleucid power in Asia . This, however, allowed other states to come to the fore, most notably Pontus . In the 1st century BC, Rome 's grip on its Asian provinces was shattered by the onslaught of Mithridates VI of Pontus, Rome 's most enduring foe. Mithridates was eventually overcome, after many Roman reverses, but these wars in turn led to conflict with Armenia . Like the other volumes in this series, this book gives a clear narrative of the course of these wars, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate. This volume draws on Dr. Evans' expertise in studying topography in relation to ancient events and specifically his original research into the battlefield of Magnesia.

Roman Conquests: Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia

Martine De Marre

Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world, from brigands, mercenaries and state-sponsored "piracy", to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities. The chronological extent of the studies in this volume, written by an international group of experts, ranges from about 2000 BCE to the 20th century. The geographical spectrum in similarly diverse, encompassing Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia, allowing readers to track this phenomenon in various different manifestations. Predatory behaviour is a phenomenon seen in all walks of life. While violence may often be concomitant it is worth observing that predation can be extremely nuanced in its application, and it is precisely this gradation and its focus that occupies the essential issue in this volume. Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity will be of great interest to those studying a range of topics in antiquity, including literature and art, cities and their foundations, crime, warfare, and geography.

Richard Evans

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