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From Lederhosen to Jeans

Author : Armin K. Wendt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465326626
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book From Lederhosen to Jeans written by Armin K. Wendt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armin's exodus from the tyranny and destruction of war-tom Germany to the liberating shores of America is a quintessential story of the 20th century. He regales the reader with riveting recounts of living through the Allied fire bombings that defeated fascist Germany and the dramatic fight for survival in post-apocalyptic Europe. This is an enthralling, entertaining read about an immigrant's first impressions of America, told with a self-effacing and deprecating sense of humor. I heartily recommend the jaunty travails extolled in: From Lederhosen to Jeans: A Sweet and Sour Kraut's Journey to America. John Large, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, University of South Florida From his childhood in war-ravaged Hamburg to success in America, Armin Wendt takes us along on many journeys - including eluding Russian guards behind the Iron Curtain and encountering banditos in Central-America. Anything but the stereotypical "staid German," Wendt describes his adventures lovingly and compassionately, often in a humorous way. Anecdotes abound throughout, making this book a delightful read. Gene Cropsey, Award-Winning Author

Jews in Suits

Author : Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350244236
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Jews in Suits written by Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under-researched. Jews in Suits uses a rich range of written and visual sources, including literary fiction and satire, 'ego-documents', photography, trade catalogues, invoices, and department store culture, to propose a new narrative of men, fashion, and their Jewish identities. It reveals that dressing in a modern manner was not simply a matter of assimilation, but rather a way of developing new models of Jewish subjectivity beyond the externally prescribed notion of 'the Jew'. Drawing upon fashionable dress, folk costume, religious dress, avant-garde, oppositional dress, typologies which are often considered separate from one another, it proposes a new way of reading men and clothing cultures within an iconic cultural milieu, offering insights into the relationship of clothing and grooming to the understanding of the self.

Jean Stafford

Author : Charlotte Margolis Goodman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759746
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Jean Stafford written by Charlotte Margolis Goodman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's best short story writers and author of three fine novels, Boston Adventure (1944), The Mountain Lion (1947), and The Catherine Wheel (1952), Jean Stafford has been rediscovered by another generation of readers and scholars. Although her novels and her Pulitzer Prize–winning short stories were widely read in the 1940s and 1950s, her fiction has received less critical attention than that of other distinguished contemporary American women writers such as Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty. In this literary biography, Charlotte M. Goodman traces the life of the brilliant yet troubled Jean Stafford and reassesses her importance. Drawing on a wealth of original material, Goodman describes the vital connections between Stafford's life and her fiction. She discusses Stafford's difficult family relationships, her tempestuous first marriage to the poet Robert Lowell, her unresolved conflicts about gender roles, her alcoholism and bouts with depression—and her amazing ability to transform the chaotic details of her life into elegant works of fiction. These wonderfully crafted works offer insightful portraits of alienated and isolated characters, most of whom exemplify not only human estrangement in the modern world, but also the special difficulties of girls and women who refuse to play traditional roles. Goodman locates Jean Stafford within the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. In her own right, and through her marriages to Robert Lowell, Life magazine editor Oliver Jensen, and journalist A. J. Liebling, Stafford associated with many of the major literary figures of her day, including the Southern Fugitives, the New York intellectual coterie, and writers for the New Yorker, to which she regularly contributed short stories. Goodman also describes Stafford's sustaining friendships with other women writers, such as Evelyn Scott and Caroline Gordon, and with her New Yorker editor, Katharine S. White. This highly readable biography will appeal to a wide audience interested in twentieth-century literature and the writing of women's lives.

Time Shelter: A Novel

Author : Georgi Gospodinov
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1324090960
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Time Shelter: A Novel written by Georgi Gospodinov and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE New Yorker • Best Books of 2022 An award-winning international sensation—with a second-act dystopian twist—Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. “At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. “In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ.” But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a “vagrant in time” who has distanced his life from contemporary reality by reading old news, wearing tattered old clothes, and haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century. In an apricot-colored building in Zurich, surrounded by curiously planted forget-me-nots, Gaustine has opened the first “clinic for the past,” an institution that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing patients to transport themselves back in time to unlock what is left of their fading memories. Serving as Gaustine’s assistant, the narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to nostalgic scents and even wisps of afternoon light. But as the charade becomes more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic to escape from the dead-end of their daily lives—a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present. Through sharply satirical, labyrinth-like vignettes reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Franz Kafka, the narrator recounts in breathtaking prose just how he became entrenched in a plot to stop time itself. “A trickster at heart, and often very funny” (Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker), prolific Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov masterfully stalks the tragedies of the last century, including our own, in what becomes a haunting and eerily prescient novel teeming with ideas. Exquisitely translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter is a truly unforgettable classic from “one of Europe’s most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists” (Dave Eggers).

On Jean Améry

Author : Magdalena Zolkos
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739147676
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book On Jean Améry written by Magdalena Zolkos and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Jean Améry provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry is known for his poignant publication, At the Mind's Limits, a narrative of exile, dispossession, torture, and Auschwitz. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in Améry's writings on victimization and resentment, partly attributable to a modern fascination with tolerance, historical injustice, and reconciliatory ambitions. Many aspects of Améry's writing have remained largely unexplored outside the realm of European scholarship, and his legacy in English-language scholarship limited to discussions of victimization and memory. This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Améry. Comprehensive in scope and multi-disciplinary in orientation, contributors explore central aspects of Améry's philosophical and ethical position, including dignity, responsibility, resentment, and forgiveness. What emerges from the pages of this book is an image of Amèry as a difficult and perplexing-yet exceptionally engaging-thinker, whose writings address some of the central paradoxes of survivorship and witnessing. The intellectual and ethical questions of Améry's philosophies are equally pertinent today as they were half-century ago: How one can reconcile with the irreconcilable? How can one account for the unaccountable? And, how can one live after catastrophe?

Pop Culture Germany!

Author : Catherine C. Fraser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851097384
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Pop Culture Germany! written by Catherine C. Fraser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reality TV show Superstar to Formula One ace Michael Schumacher, Pop Culture Germany! explores the exciting world of contemporary German popular culture. Like no other volume of its kind, Pop Culture Germany! captures the breadth and vitality of popular culture in modern Germany, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of German art, entertainment, television, music, and film. Written by expert contributors who are rooted in German language and culture, the book focuses on German popular culture since 1945, providing an indispensable guide for anyone planning a trip to Germany for business or pleasure or for those who wish to have a deeper understanding of the German nation. This book offers a concise, in-depth overview of the evolution and impact of German media, arts, lifestyles, and recreation, written with a historical perspective.

Somebody Else's Life

Author : Morris Philipson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226667508
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Somebody Else's Life written by Morris Philipson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooper and his accomplice deceive a string of women.

Jean Cocteau and the French Scene

Author : Dore Ashton
Publisher : New York : Abbeville Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jean Cocteau and the French Scene written by Dore Ashton and published by New York : Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Jean Cocteau and the French Scene, eight prominent French and American authors address Cocteau's incessant artistic activities. These trenchant essays relate the poet's kaleidoscopic talents to the larger canvas of the artistic, literary, theatrical, musical, cinematic, and intellectual worlds in which he flourished."--Book jacket.

The Offshore Triumphs of Karla Jean

Author : Dorothy Hagan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781469700427
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Offshore Triumphs of Karla Jean written by Dorothy Hagan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty-six years working on offshore oil rigs for Big Coast Drilling, forty-six-year-old Karla Slidell is coming home to Brinkfield, Texas, for good. As a lanky girl with a peculiar braid, she blazed a trail as a roustabout in 1980. On her final flight home, however, her helicopter crashes; now shes missing in the Gulf of Mexico. As her excited family awaits her return, they instead get word she might not be coming back. They hope Karla can cheat death once again, as she has done since her birth. Among those waiting are Joe, her house-husband and biggest fan since the seventh grade. Then theres Dangling Dooley, the Vietnam War chopper pilot who is Karlas constant source of exasperation. Theres Karlas lifelong friend, Darlene, with whom she experienced every kind of escapade life has to offer. Finally, Karlas insanely religious dad, Orvin, and her vacant, mousy mom, Joy, add to the mix. These people, who form the fabric of Karlas life, hold out hope that she can be found alive and returned home to fulfill a dream that would positively impact so many lives.

Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging

Author : Paul Bourcier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442250992
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging written by Paul Bourcier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging is an updated and expanded edition of Robert G. Chenhall’s system for classifying human-made objects, originally published in 1978. The Chenhall system is the standard cataloging tool for thousands of museums and historical organizations across the United States and Canada. For this fourth edition, hundreds of new terms have been added, and every category, class, sub-class, and object term has been reviewed and revised as needed by a professional task force appointed by the American Association for State and Local History. This new edition features crucial revisions including: • A revised and updated users’ guide with new tips and advice • An expanded controlled vocabulary featuring nearly 950 new preferred terms • 475 more non-preferred terms in the index • An expanded and reorganized section on water transportation • Expanded coverage of exchange media, digital collections, electronic devices, archaeological and ethnographic objects, and more

When Clothes Become Fashion

Author : Ingrid Loschek
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 1847883664
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book When Clothes Become Fashion written by Ingrid Loschek and published by Berg. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. This book explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion.

The Little Vampire Takes a Trip

Author : Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534494154
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Little Vampire Takes a Trip written by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolph the little vampire tags along on Tony’s family vacation in this spooky and funny third book in the classic middle grade Little Vampire series—perfect for readers who love Hotel Transylvania and The Addams Family! When his parents plan a vacation to a farm, Tony and his friend Rudolph the little vampire hatch a plan for Rudolph to come along to keep Tony company. Rudolph needs to have his coffin with him so he can sleep during the day, so he takes the train instead of flying. Can he make the trip without drawing too much attention to himself?

The Adventures of Jazzi G

Author : Gayle Johnston
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1630478423
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Jazzi G written by Gayle Johnston and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s hard being a twelve-year-old girl trapped in the middle of your parent’s divorce, but when your teacher assigns homework over spring break to define peace—Jazzi G is ready to explode. Since her dad left home her life has been anything but peaceful. Angry and depressed, she has no clue what peace is. She needs to ace this assignment or she’s in big trouble. Desperate, she turns to Oxford, a computer nerd and target of every bully on campus. After they create the ‘Kids’ Worldwide Peace Club, the story takes a turn when an accident sends Jazzi spiraling into an altered reality where she and Oxford find themselves traveling the world via an underground CyberCoaster. They unite with kids from different cultural and religious backgrounds, and discover important lessons. But will they unravel that elusive answer to peace before someone notices they’re gone . . .

Hiding

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226791593
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Hiding written by Mark C. Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Mark C. Taylor, the disappearance of depth we sense all around us is a change full of creative possibility. Taylor introduces us to a popular culture in which detectives - the postmodern heroes of Paul Auster and Dennis Potter - lift surfaces only to find more surfaces, and in which fashion advertising plays transparency against hiding. He looks at the current preoccupation with body piercing and tattooing and asks whether these practices actually reveal or conceal. The limitless spread of computer networks, the history of phrenology, the "religious" architecture of Las Vegas - all are brought within the scope of Taylor's brilliant analysis. Postmodernism, he shows, has given us a new sense of the superficial, one in which the issue is not the absence of meaning but its uncontrollable, ecstatic proliferation.

Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide to Exceptionally Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Foods

Author : Andrew Zimmern
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312606613
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide to Exceptionally Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Foods written by Andrew Zimmern and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The host of the Travel Channel's Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods America shares memorable moments from his unconventional culinary travels while describing some of the more unusual foods he has sampled, in an account that features fun facts about culture, geography, art and history.

Austria today

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austria today written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Alien in My E-Mail and Other Stories

Author : Wolfgang Niesielski
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 147590990X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Alien in My E-Mail and Other Stories written by Wolfgang Niesielski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us have encountered frustrating incidents in our lifetimes. For humor columnist Wolfgang Niesielski, one of his most exasperating moments involves an expensive hotel room, a faulty thermostat, and a patronizing front desk clerk only to be rescued by two gentlemen who, after conferring with each other in hushed tones, change their pleasant demeanor into the serious miens of surgeons before a heart transplant operation. In this compilation of his humor columns, Niesielski provides an amusing take on everyday experiences. See what it's like to have an evil cyber presence monopolize your e-mail account, understand the overwhelming differences between first class and tourist class on an airplane, and find out why it's important to choose the right gift for a loved one even if it is a Salad Shooter or an electric nail-file buffing system. From learning how unforgiving Mother Nature truly is when he forgets how to water the lawn to the moment when he discovers he is a procrastinator in the worst way, Niesielski illustrates what fun life can be when one learns to laugh at himself. The Alien in My E-Mail and Other Stories takes others on a delightful ride through one man's wacky life Salad Shooter and all.