In the history of the 20th century, the horrors of the Pol Pot regime in what was once known as Cambodia and later as Kampuchea are ranked with those of Hitler and Stalin in order to convey their magnitude and scope. Yet, like those two other dictators, Pol Pot's life and career have an elusive quality that defies the historical record. When ...
In this large-scale biography of Mao Zedong, a scholar assesses him as a man of enormous vision and achievement while acknowledging the great toll of human lives that resulted from his dictatorial rule. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
This book provides a reference for sport psychology lecturers, students, coaches and other professionals with an interest in the field. Self-belief, known as 'self-efficacy' by sports psychologists is widely believed to be an essential component of sporting success. This book examines the nature of efficacy as it applies to sporting behaviour in ...
La memoria colectiva que es la historia se nos aparece hoy mucho menos como el mero relato de lo ocurrido en el pasado que como un instrumento de analisis del presente. Al termino de un siglo de expectativas fallidas, y ante un futuro incierto, necesitamos revisar criticamente esta memoria y asentaria sobre nuevas bases de conocimiento. Mas ...
The man the world knew as Pol Pot headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times. In the three-and-a-half years of his rule in Cambodia, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or died from hunger and disease. A supposedly gentle, carefree land of slumbering temples and smiling peasants ...
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