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Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty

Author : Deborah R. Coen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226111784
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty written by Deborah R. Coen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize–winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin Schrödinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of Vienna’s women’s movement. Training her critical eye on the Exners through the rise and fall of Austrian liberalism and into the rise of the Third Reich, Deborah R. Coen demonstrates the interdependence of the family’s scientific and domestic lives, exploring the ways in which public notions of rationality, objectivity, and autonomy were formed in the private sphere. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty presents the story of the Exners as a microcosm of the larger achievements and tragedies of Austrian political and scientific life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Breakaway

Author : Nicole Cooke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471130363
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Breakaway written by Nicole Cooke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR A retirement statement from a sports star rarely causes a flicker, but Nicole Cooke went out as she rode her bike: giving it her all. The contrast could not have been greater - as Lance Armstrong, a fraudster backed by many corporate sponsors and feted by presidents, was about to deliver a stage-managed confession to Oprah, so a young woman from a small village in Wales took aim. She too had been a cyclist, the only rider ever to have become World and Olympic champion in the same year, and the first British cyclist to have been ranked World No.1, but as a woman in a man's sport, her exploits gained little recognition and brought no riches. She too had ridden through this dark period for the sport when drug-taking was everywhere. Nicole Cooke spoke up for those who had taken a very different path to Lance and his team-mates. In her frank and outspoken autobiography, Cooke reveals the real story behind British cycling's rise to global dominance. With a child's dreams of success, she left home at 18 to pursue her goals in Italy. Broken contracts, unpaid wages, a horrendous injury and drugs cheats were just some of the challenges she faced, even before she lined up to take on her opponents. The Breakaway is a book that will not only inspire all those who read it, but which also asks some serious questions about the way society regards women's sport.

The Transformation of Civil Society

Author : William Noll
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228017424
Total Pages : 961 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Civil Society written by William Noll and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catastrophic terror Soviet power unleashed on the Ukrainian countryside in the early 1930s altered every aspect of village life. Based on extensive interviews with villagers throughout Ukraine, The Transformation of Civil Society provides an oral history of the material and cultural destruction sustained in rural Ukraine throughout the Stalinist era. Beginning with wholesale deportations and evictions, followed by the process of collectivization in Ukraine, the Soviet state’s impact on peasant life extended deep into the fabric of society. Targeting the cultural life of these Ukrainians, the 1930s began with the physical repression of religious institutions and personnel, the repression of church ritual, and later, the repression of entertainment and expressive culture such as music making. By bringing to light the experiences of more than four hundred Ukrainians who witnessed the terror of the Stalinist era, William Noll privileges villagers' points of view on the near total destruction of their world and preserves the memory of their civil society. Almost twenty-five years after its Ukrainian publication, The Transformation of Civil Society makes this classic available in English for the first time.

The Other Half of Life

Author : Kim Ablon Whitney
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0375844228
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Other Half of Life written by Kim Ablon Whitney and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbreaking novel based on the true story of a World War II voyage. In May of 1939, the SS St. Francis sets sail from Germany, carrying German Jews and other refugees away from Hitler’s regime. The passengers believe they are bound for freedom in Cuba and eventually the United States, but not all of them are celebrating. Fifteen-year-old Thomas is anxious about his parents and didn’t want to leave Germany: his father, a Jew, has been imprisoned and his mother, a Christian, is left behind, alone. Fourteen-yearold Priska has her family with her, and she’s determined to enjoy the voyage, looking forward to their new lives. Based on the true story of the MS St. Louis, this historical young adult novel imagines two travelers and the lives they may have lived until events, and immigration laws, conspired to change their fates. Kim Ablon Whitney did meticulous research on the voyage of the St. Louis to craft her compelling and moving story about this little-known event in history.

Faith of the Fallen

Author : Terry Goodkind
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312867867
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Faith of the Fallen written by Terry Goodkind and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sword of truth novel.

Born Survivors

Author : Wendy Holden
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062370278
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Born Survivors written by Wendy Holden and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life. Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband. With the rest of their families gassed, these young wives are determined to hold on to all they have left—their lives, and those of their unborn babies. Having concealed their condition from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, they are forced to work and almost starved to death, living in daily fear of their pregnancies being detected by the SS. In April 1945, as the Allies close in, Priska gives birth. She and her baby, along with Anka, Rachel, and the remaining inmates, are sent to Mauthausen concentration camp on a hellish seventeen-day train journey. Rachel gives birth on the train, and Anka at the camp gates. All believe they will die, but then a miracle occurs. The gas chamber runs out of Zyklon-B, and as the Allied troops near, the SS flee. Against all odds, the three mothers and their newborns survive their treacherous journey to freedom. On the seventieth anniversary of Mauthausen’s liberation from the Nazis by American soldiers, renowned biographer Wendy Holden recounts this extraordinary story of three children united by their mothers’ unbelievable—yet ultimately successful—fight for survival.

Life Paints Its Own Span

Author : Susan Bach
Publisher : Daimon
ISBN 13 : 9783856305161
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Life Paints Its Own Span written by Susan Bach and published by Daimon. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering work, Life Paints Its Own Span, is a comprehensive exposition of Susan Bach's original approach to the physical and psychospiritual evaluation of spontaneous paintings and drawings by severely ill patients. At the same time, this work is a moving record of Susan Bach's own journey of discovery.

Broken Solidarities

Author : Felix Anderl
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 152922022X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Broken Solidarities written by Felix Anderl and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of the social movement against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. The book observes international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.

Learning Diversity

Author : Hans Karl Peterlini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658405481
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Learning Diversity written by Hans Karl Peterlini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open-Access-book explores diversity in its ambivalence. On the one side, we love to describe diversity as a resource for personal, social, economic, and cultural growth. On the other side, categories of differences often lead to discrimination or serve as justifications for privileges. They can cause exclusion and, conversely, promote the self-constitution of discriminated subjects and groups.The book moves within this tension of exclusion and belonging. Case studies of young ethnicized people vividly depict the interwovenness of identity-building and diversity. Theoretically, the book examines the psychosocial and anthropological conditions for constructing the Other. Sharp divisions between We and the Other, between social and national groups, and between humans and nature have devastating, life-threatening consequences. Dichotomous split-offs divide people, nations and the whole world. So, how do we deal with diversity? The author does not provide simple recipes but engages in a phenomenology of diversity that does not press life and its manifestations into categories but keeps them in a limbo of attention by affirming and doubting differences.

Summary of Wendy Holden's Born Survivors

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Wendy Holden's Born Survivors written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-21T22:59:00Z with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Priska’s parents, Emanuel and Paula Rona, ran a kosher cafés in Zlaté Moravce, a town in the Slovak Republic. Her mother was a goodwife and cook, and her father was a strict disciplinarian who spoke German or Yiddish with her mother whenever he didn’t want his children to understand. #2 Priska, the daughter, was the fourth in line. She was named Piroska at birth, but was called Priska by her family and friends. She was the first Rona child to attend the local high school, the Gymnázium Janka Král’a. #3 Priska’s family was very successful, and she enjoyed a comfortable life. She was a teacher, and she and her family were rarely affected by anti-Semitism. However, the economic depression that began in Germany after the First World War began to change the mood across the border in 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor. #4 Hitler’s speeches denounced capitalism and those who’d allied themselves with Bolsheviks, Communists, and Marxists. He promised to eliminate Jews and other undesirables from Germany in a thorough solution.

The Bible Knowledge Word Study

Author : Darrell Bock
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 9780781434454
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Bible Knowledge Word Study written by Darrell Bock and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2006 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes words in biblical context, rather than providing a simple dictionary definition. Gives Verse-by-verse commentary in a neat, clear, easy-to-read format.

The Strassmanns

Author : W. Paul Strassmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845454162
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Strassmanns written by W. Paul Strassmann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America. In Berlin they found success in politics, medical science, theatre, and aviation and considered themselves German patriots. With the catastrophe of the First World War and its aftermath, they suffered rejection, threats, and persecution as their fellow citizens became unhinged by Nazism, forcing Strassmanns into exile abroad where they again made their mark and rebuilt successful careers. This book is populated by extraordinary characters, such as Wolfgang, the convicted revolutionary of 1848 who nevertheless led urban reform; by Ernst, who directed the only liberal anti-Nazi resistance movement; and by Antonie, a celebrated actress and transatlantic sports pilot. Strassmann highlights both the large-scale and the very personal dramas of this period in world history. The book is enhanced by many photographs, offering a fascinating document of the fate of a remarkable family.

Practicing Art/Science

Author : Philippe Sormani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351708074
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Practicing Art/Science written by Philippe Sormani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day. Why, by whom, and under what circumstances are such initiatives promoted? What does their experimental character look like - and what can be learned, epistemologically and institutionally, from probing the multiple practices of "art/science" at work? In answer to the questions raised, Practicing Art/Science contrasts topical positions and insightful case studies, ranging from the detailed investigation of "art at the nanoscale" to the material analysis of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and its cracked smile. In so doing, this volume brings to bear the "practice turn" in science and technology studies on the empirical investigation of multifaceted experimentation across contemporary art, science, and technology in situ. Against the background of current discourse on "artistic research," the introduction not only explains the particular relevance of the "practice turn" in STS to tackle the interdisciplinary task at hand, but offers also a timely survey of varying strands of artistic experimentation. In bringing together ground-breaking studies from internationally renowned scholars and upcoming researchers in sociology, art theory and artistic practice, as well as history and philosophy of science, Practicing Art/Science will be essential reading for practitioners and professionals in said fields, as well as postgraduate students and representatives of higher education and research policy more broadly.

Report

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 2536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Children Are Gifts

Author : Edwina Grice Neely
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 197362401X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Children Are Gifts written by Edwina Grice Neely and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is our hope that as you read Children Are Gifts, you will discover the uniqueness and giftedness of the personality of each of your children and that you will love them in a new way. Florence Littauer, Author of the Million + selling book Personality Plus Marita Littauer, Author of Wired That Way Children Are Gifts is a remarkable book, written skillfully with a mix of professional expertise and practical wisdom coming from her long and vast daily life experiences. I found this book to be a must have guide for parents Carmen Esposito, Educator Professional Counselor The book will help you discover your childs unique gifts and abilities, and experience the joy; clear up the question, Why does my child act the way he/she does? emphasize the importance of positive communication when talking to your child; present strategies on how to discipline with love, without threats and bribes; provide methods and tools with abundant activities that are fun for All Ages. You have received a gift! Embrace the thought and enjoy the journey!

Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

Author : Miron Dolot
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039307854X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust written by Miron Dolot and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks. In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death—his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused—and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders.

Modernity, Complex Societies, and the Alphorn

Author : Charlotte Vignau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739167979
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Modernity, Complex Societies, and the Alphorn written by Charlotte Vignau and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity, Complex Societies, and the Alphorn provides a fascinating examination of the musical instrument the alphorn, alphorn music and its performance. Indeed, it is the first book about this extraordinary instrument to appear in English. It analyses the alphorn phenomenon as a symbol of the Swiss nation, going back to the Swiss nation building process in the nineteenth century and the "invention of tradition" which began in the second half of the nineteenth century, before arriving at important issues of contemporary alphorn practice such as: what is tradition? How is it being negotiated? The insightful and valuable comments from key Swiss alphorn players add to the extensive ethnographic and archival material. Departing from this analysis, the case studies of Bavaria, the Netherlands, and Japan shed a light on the issues of worldwide migration of alphorn practice in the modern world, as well as on the diverse concepts of a Swiss imagery. Intellectually sophisticated yet easily accessible, the book ends with an exploration of how to use video and film for musical ethnography, considering the practical issues of filmmaking as well as the theoretical implications of shooting and editing for an ethnomusicological film. Drawing from the alphorn film as a sample, this book covers the entire filmmaking process, from the conception of the film to the feedback-sessions with the protagonists, providing fundamental insights into this technique for ethnomusicologists. Based on solid, careful, and complete research, this work will especially appeal to scholars of musicology, Swiss history, and filmography.