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This book chronicles Greece's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shapes and is shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff. Written by his daughter, the book is part historical biography, part coming-of-age novel and part memoir.

This work follows the life and work of the first forty-three years of Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) from the beginnings of his childhood in Anstruther to the end of his ministerial career in Glasgow in 1823. He became a theologian, minister and Scottish reformer and is best remembered for his involvement in the Disruption of 1843.

This is the first critical assessment of the work of the Irish author Mary O'Donnell, whose principal themes include contemporary Irish society, the position of women in Ireland and the role of the artist. The essays collected here illuminate O'Donnell's role as a humanist writer searching for truth at all costs.

In English and many other languages the name «Kon-Tiki» is a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the postwar world. In the voyage of six Scandinavians and a parrot on a balsa raft across the Pacific Ocean the classic journey of discovery was re-invented for generations to come. Kon-Tiki spoke of heroism, masculinity, free-spirited rebellion against scientific dogmatism, and the promise of an attainable exotic world, while it updated these mythological staples to fit the times. After years of relentless media exploitation of the 101-day raft journey, Heyerdahl emerged as the protagonist in a legend that helped to create a new postwar West. A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into an epic narrative that became imbued with a universal appeal. The book also addresses the problematic nature of Heyerdahl¿s theory that a white culture-bearing race had initiated all the world¿s great civilizations.