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Padel is the fastest growing and most exciting sport in the world. All About Padel: The Complete Guide for Beginners will tell you everything you need to know about padel. The book covers the rules, techniques, equipment and etiquette of padel. You will also learn how to use court positioning to your advantage and how to make most of teamwork in doubles play. The guide also features several interviews with international padel players. Among them are enthusiastic amateurs as well as one of the top female padel players in the world. Pick up this book and you are on your way to being proficient in padel!
There is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with 'host communities' and with each other, especially in towns. Interest in historical aspects of these phenomena is growing rapidly, not least in studies of the long and complex history of the towns of Central and Eastern Europe. Most such studies focus on particular places or on particular groups, but this volume offers a broader view covering the period from the tenth to the sixteenth century and regions from Germany to Dalmatia and from Epirus to Livonia, with an emphasis on the territory of medieval Hungary. The focus is on the changing nat...
The conversion of the lands on the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea by Germans, Danes and Swedes in the period from 1150 to 1400 represented the last great struggle between Christianity and paganism on the European continent, but for the indigenous peoples of Finland, Livonia, Prussia, Lithuania and Pomerania, it was also a period of wider cultural conflict and transformation. Along with the Christian faith came a new and foreign culture: the German and Scandinavian languages of the crusaders and the Latin of their priests, new names for places, superior military technology, and churches and fortifications built of stone. For newly baptized populations, the acceptance of Christi...
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Nicolaus von Vicken (1571 bis nach 1625) ist als Briefpartner Johannes Keplers und erster Leser seiner "Astronomie Nova" eine durchaus relevante Figur der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, und dieses Buch ist seine wissenschaftliche Biographie, auf der Basis von Briefen, Gerichtsakten, seinem Stammbuch und anderen Dokumenten aus mehr als 20 Archiven und Bibliotheken in ganz Europa. Doch gleichzeitig wird hier ein Leben nachvollzogen, das in Teilen auch einem Abenteuerroman entsprungen sein könnte. Denn außer Astronom war von Vicken auch Astrologe, Alchemist, Bergrat, Stahlhersteller, Autor einer Schrift über die Handlesekunst - die Liste ließe sich fortsetzen. Im Dienst mehrerer Kaiser, Könige u...