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Positiverosity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 153

Positiverosity

David Fox-Pitt MBE is a born motivator who has been enthusing and inspiring people for over thirty years. Fox-Pitt is passionate about making a difference. The staggering impact of his adventure challenge business, WildFox Events Ltd, is testament to this and has so far raised over AGBP40 million for charity world-wide, all from the family base in the Scottish Highlands. He likes to tempt people to surpass their own expectations as they take part in his events and he leads by example by pushing himself - in 2019 he cycled from Land's End to John O' Groats on a Penny Farthing. Afterwards he admitted it was one of the toughest challenges he'd ever undertaken. Why the Penny Farthing? "e;...because it makes people smile"e;. Positiverosity(R) is David's word for positive energy combined with a generous spirit and is the core value behind his motivational programmes davidfoxpitt.club

Positiverosity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Positiverosity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-28
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  • Publisher: Unknown

How one man used his SAS training as a force for Global good... David likes to make things happen. In this inspirational book he gives encouragement in an uncertain world through seven golden principles defined by his own adventures, his altruism, and his training in the SAS. This book will motivate, and uplift you and is filled with stories and advice on how to push your boundaries to achieve self-fulfilment.

Positiverosity
  • Language: en

Positiverosity

Surviving Volcanoes, Jungles with Head-Hunters, A Recreation of the Cockleshell Heroes Mission, and SAS Selection, Fox-Pitt is a born Storyteller and Adventurer.

The Soviet Gulag
  • Language: en

The Soviet Gulag

"Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. This volume develops a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. It brings a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, the forced labor system, and the Gulag as viewed in a global historical context, among many other topics. It also offers fascinating new interpretations of the interrelationship and importance of the Gulag to the larger Soviet political and economic system, and how they were in fact, parts of the same entity"--

Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

This volume presents work from an international group of writers who explore conceptualizations of what defined "East" and "West" in Eastern Europe, imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology, politics, and cultural production. They reveal that the roots of an East/West cultural divide were present many years prior to the rise of socialism and the Cold War. The chapters offer insights into the complex stages of adoption and rejection of Western ideals in areas such as architecture, travel writings, film, music, health care, consumer products, political propaganda, and human rights. They describe a process of mental ma...

The Holocaust in the East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

The Holocaust in the East

Silence has many causes: shame, embarrassment, ignorance, a desire to protect. The silence that has surrounded the atrocities committed against the Jewish population of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during World War II is particularly remarkable given the scholarly and popular interest in the war. It, too, has many causes—of which antisemitism, the most striking, is only one. When, on July 10, 1941, in the wake of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, local residents enflamed by Nazi propaganda murdered the entire Jewish population of Jedwabne, Poland, the ferocity of the attack horrified their fellow Poles. The denial of Polish involvement in the massacre lasted for decades. Sinc...

Fascination and Enmity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Fascination and Enmity

Russia and Germany have had a long history of significant cultural, political, and economic exchange. Despite these beneficial interactions, stereotypes of the alien Other persisted. Germans perceived Russia as a vast frontier with unlimited potential, yet infused with an "Asianness" that explained its backwardness and despotic leadership. Russians admired German advances in science, government, and philosophy, but saw their people as lifeless and obsessed with order. Fascination and Enmity presents an original transnational history of the two nations during the critical era of the world wars. By examining the mutual perceptions and misperceptions within each country, the contributors reveal...

Pitt Rivers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Pitt Rivers

Mark Bowden has written an entertaining and thoroughly researched biography of General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900).

William Pitt the Younger: A Biography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 708

William Pitt the Younger: A Biography

The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself.

Crossing Borders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared modernity and instead strives for a theoretical and empirical middle ground as the basis for a creative and richly textured analysis. Discussions of Soviet modernity have tended to see the Soviet state either as an archaic holdover from the Russian past, or as merely another for...