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Book SynopsisThe first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today’s readers about the maritime world in the age of sail. Ashley Bowen began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. After leaving the sea, Bowen spent the rest of his days as a ship-rigger in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A witness to significant historical events, including the British conquest of Canada and the American Revolution, Ashley Bowen confounds today’s audience with his eighteenth-century interpretation of events—an interpretation informed by his deeply religious beliefs and his suspicion of Yankee patriotism.The Broadview edition is the first to present the story of Ashley Bowen as a continuous narrative. Vickers’ introduction provides the context for Bowen’s life in colonial New England, and additional writings by Ashley Bowen and his Marblehead contemporaries are included. The appendices include Bowen’s diary accounts of his experiences in the 1759 British expedition against Quebec, smallpox epidemics, and the American Revolution.Trade Review“Thanks to Daniel Vickers and Broadview Press for making Ashley Bowen’s Diary and Journals so readily accessible. Heretofore only available to scholars working in research libraries, The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen can now become essential reading in undergraduate Early American, Atlantic, and maritime history courses.” — Robert A. McCaughey, Columbia University“Daniel Vickers’ masterful treatment of Ashley Bowen’s journals gives us the best look into colonial maritime life to date. Bowen’s meticulous journal entries combined with Vickers’ editorial technique makes this an invaluable resource for scholars and maritime enthusiasts alike.” — Joshua M. Smith, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy“The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen is an essential source for anyone interested in maritime history. Daniel Vickers provides an excellent introduction that places Bowen in the larger context of Atlantic history. The maps, notes, and appendices are a treasure trove of information.” — Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroductionAshley Bowen: A Brief ChronologyThe Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728–1813)Appendix A: Ashley Bowen, “Courtship of Dorothy Chadwick”Appendix B: Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries Relating to the Seven Years War and the Expedition Against Quebec, 1759Voyage to QuebecQuebec CampaignBattle of the Plains of Abraham and the Capture of QuebecAppendix C: SmallpoxAshley Bowen, “A Memorandum of the Smallpox from the First Discovery at Marblehead, 1773”Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries on the Smallpox Epidemic and Inoculation Controversy (1773–74)Excerpts from the Essex Gazette Relating to the Smallpox Epidemic and Inoculation Controversy (1773–74)Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries Relating to the Smallpox Epidemic (1777)Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries on Minding the Smokehouse During the Smallpox Epidemic (1792)Appendix D: Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries During the American RevolutionThe Coercive Acts Take Effect (1774)Lexington and Concord (1775)Bunker Hill (1775)Benedict Arnold’s Attack on Quebec (1775–76)Two Weeks in the War (1776)Campaign in the Middle Colonies (1776–77)Religion and Revolution in MarbleheadAppendix E: Personal Writings of Ashley BowenPoetryOn SmallpoxOn Revolution and ReligionOn MarriageDreamsAppendix F: Contemporary Accounts of MarbleheadReverend John Barnard (1714–66)Alexander Hamilton (1744)Francis Goelet (1750)Ensign Francis Williams (1775)Robert Honyman (1775)Francisco de Miranda (1784)George Washington (1789)Appendix G: Miscellaneous WritingsJournal of Elizabeth Bowen MartinLetter from Nathan Bowen to Ashley Bowen (24 May 1757)From the Boston News-Letter and New England Chronicle (10 March 1763)From a Letter from Ashley Bowen to the Reverend William Bentley (14 May 1807)From William Bentley’s DiaryAshley Bowen’s Obituary, Essex Register (6 February 1813)Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697—1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour pardon by the King. Over time he attracted many supporters, practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his death in a debtors’ prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the first great English biographies.The edition is supplemented by other writings by Johnson, a selection of Savage’s prose and verse, contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnson’s biography, and selections by Johnson’s first two major biographers, Sir John Hawkins and James Boswell.Trade Review“Samuel Johnson’s Life of Mr Richard Savage is one of the greatest narratives in any genre of the British eighteenth century. Johnson’s biography of his friend, a minor poet and hack writer who represented himself as the illegitimate son of a nobleman and died in a Bristol jail, is at once sympathetic and satiric. Broadview’s edition, freshly edited and annotated by Nicholas Seager and Lance Wilcox, should be welcomed by students and general readers alike. Their introduction is lively, informed, and concise. The narrative itself is supplemented by relevant writings of Johnson and Savage, excerpts establishing Savage’s reputation, and a range of other useful aids.” — Robert Folkenflik, University of California, Irvine“This deeply informed edition of The Life of Mr Richard Savage is essential reading for students both of Samuel Johnson and of biography. The literary criticism, editorial practice, reception history, and wide-ranging reclamation of contexts are exemplary. The edition also allows us to read Savage’s poetry, which Johnson included in his footnotes but which Seager and Wilcox prudently place at the back of their book. They have joined Samuel Johnson to produce an admirable Savage that should find readers from the classroom to the boardroom.” — Howard Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin, Madison“Like all Broadview editions, this is a first-rate version of Johnson’s work. The introduction is a masterpiece of information. It explains who Johnson was when he took on this project, and why he would write such a work about his friend. Even more exciting are the appendices, devoted to such topics as related writings by Johnson; some of Savage’s writings; Savage’s contemporary reputation; Savage’s posthumous reputation; and the lives of Johnson. A more useful text for the classroom could not be imagined.” — George E. Haggerty, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900“This comprehensively researched edition breaks new ground in what we know of Savage, adds abundant dimensions to the study of his life and work, and recasts The Life of Mr Richard Savage as an ideal teaching text in the area of eighteenth-century literature.” — Joe Lines The Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on MoneyRichard Savage and Samuel Johnson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAn Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversJohnson’s extended footnotes to the LifeAppendix A: Errors of Fact in Johnson’s Life of SavageAppendix B: Related Writings by Johnson London (1738) The Rambler no. 60 (13 October 1750) From The Rambler no. 145 (6 August 1751) The Idler no. 84 (24 November 1759) “The Life of Collins” (1781) Appendix C: Richard Savage, Satirist The Bastard (1728) “Fulvia” (c. 1728) From An Author to Be Let (1729) From The Progress of a Divine (1735) Appendix D: Savage’s Contemporary Reputation From Eliza Haywood, Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1724) From The Life of Mr. Richard Savage [The “Newgate Biography”] (1727) From Nature in Perfection (1728) From William Saunders, “On Richard Savage, Esq” (1742) Appendix E: Savage’s Posthumous Reputation Denis Diderot, Review of L’Histoire de Savage (1771) Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Prologue to Sir Thomas Overbury (1777) “On Richard Savage, the Poet” (1790) Appendix F: Johnson’s Biographers From Sir John Hawkins, Life of Samuel Johnson (1787) From James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) GlossarySelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFlorence Hope Luscomb's life spanned nearly all of the twentieth century. Born into a remarkable family of abolitionists and progressive thinkers, the young Florence accompanied her feminist mother to lectures and political rallies, soon choosing a course of political engagement and social activism from which she never retreated. Politcal Women counters the traditional narratives that place men at the center of political thinking and history. Showing how three generations of Luscomb's family had set the stage for her activism, this biography presents her story against the backdrop of Boston's politics and larger struggles for social justice. Luscomb participated in every significant social reform movement of her time -- from securing women's right to vote and supporting trade unionism to advocating an end to the war in Vietnam. Luscomb also ran for public office; she was narrowly defeated when she ran for Boston's city council in 1922. Although unsuccessful as a third-party candidate for Congress (in 1936 and 1950) and for Governor of Massachusetts (in 1952), she was one of the few women of her time to seek office. Independent, athletic, and spirited, she apparently never thought that traditional gender prescriptions applied to her. A practicing architect before the First World War, an exuberant hiker all her life, and a member in collective-living arrangements, Luscomb enjoyed a life of rich experiences and sustaining relationships. In Florence Luscomb's biography, Sharon Hartman Strom suggests that although women were excluded from the activities and sites associated with conventional politics until recently, they did political work that gave purpose to their lives and affected political thinking in their communities, states, and ultimately the nation.Trade Review"Sharon Hartman Strom's biography of Florence Hope Luscomb is a fascinating tribute to a strong, determined woman. More important, because Luscomb's activism-amazingly-spanned the early twentieth century women's suffrage movement, the post-World War I peace movement, 1950s McCarthyism, and the rebirth of peace and social justice organizing in the sixties and seventies, Strom is able to use Luscomb's life to explore the important connections among these movements." -Kristi Andersen, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and author of After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal "The greatest strength of Political Woman is in the author's superb sense of the long continuities of American activism, in uniting movements and eras that are all too often seen as quite separate. In telling the story of this one amazing individual, Professor Strom encapsulates the history of twentieth century progressive politics, its commitment to feminism, peace activism, and union rights. It is a wonderful story." -Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Penn State University, and author of Hood and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania "In this beautifully crafted biography, Sharon Hartman Strom provides both a vivid portrait of her individual subject and a searching interpretation of the larger historical meanings of Luscomb's life. Strom frames her biography with autobiography: in a moving introduction and epilogue, she recounts her relationship with Luscomb and reflects on their shared tradition of activism. Deeply researched, insightful, and highly readable, Political Woman offers a valuable new resource for courses on reform and radicalism, women's history, and life writing." -Barbara Melosh, Professor of English and History at George Mason University "Strom's biography merges vigorous historical narrative with a talent for listening to a life... Besides her sophisticated political analysis, Strom probes several personal issues through the narrative, including Luscomb's family choices (she lived with her beloved mother until Hannah's death), and the economic and professional choices that resulted in poverty in her old age." -The American Historical Review "Strom succeeds in weaving Florence Luscomb's life story around the political currents of the last century, especially in Boston. Social and women's historians will welcome this story of one woman's contribution to the cause of equality and democracy." -The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Organizations Used in Text Introduction: "Not Bad for an Old Lady" 1. "This Wilderness World" (1815-80) 2. "Let Every (Wo)Man be Persuaded in (Her) ... Own Mind" (1863-90) 3. "My Class is Woman" (1890-1917) 4. "My Tender Reputation" (1917-33) 5. "Life Has Been Damn Lonely" (1933-40) 6. "Born Once ... Died Twice Already" (1940-45) 7. "A New, Really Liberal Party in America" (1946-54) 8. "Riding Roughshod Over American Freedoms" (1950-56) 9. "Popular Education is Indispensable" (1956-85) Epilogue: "May the Circle be Unbroken" Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCecily McMillan didn't come from much: she had a hardscrabble life bouncing between the members of a broken family scattered from Texas to Atlanta. Her relationship with her parents became increasingly strained, and at sixteen she was legally emancipated and taken in by a beloved teacher. She became politically active at a young age, leading walkouts against the Iraq War in high school and protesting against union busting in college. When she moved to New York for a masters degree at the New School, she found herself planning what would later become Occupy Wall Street.On St. Patrick's Day, 2012, her life changed forever. Cecily swung by Zuccotti Park to pick up friends on her way to meet others at a nearby Irish pub- but she never made it out. The celebration was cut short by a police raid that cleared the square. In the melee, she was grabbed from behind by a police officer. Two years later she faced a Kafkaesque trial and was sentenced to three months at Rikers Island.Inside Rikers, Cecily grew close to her fellow inmates, women with precarious lives who took her under their wings and taught her how to navigate life in prison. Through them, she remembered where she came from and who she was fighting for. And through them, she found her voice. The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan is an intimate, brave, bittersweet memoir of a remarkable young woman trying to make sense of her place in the world.Trade Review"Emotionally provocative, politically explosive, this memoir is a beautiful reminder that true patriots never stop battling to make their countries better." --Shelf Awareness, Starred Review "Cecily McMillan's self-portrait of the activist as a young woman dignifies the played-out term 'badass.' Many people braved the wilds of Zuccotti Park; far more have endured Rikers Island--what sets McMillan apart is her fearless insistence on always interrogating her circumstances, and making them better. But what makes this memoir sing is her voice. Wise beyond her years, earnest-yet-funny, and strong enough to share her own vulnerabilities, McMillan has written a book that is both refreshingly humanizing and deeply inspiring." --Kate Bolick, author of Spinster "Cecily McMillan's story has the makings of a classic. Her writing is as exemplary as her commitment: as an observer, she puts all her senses to work; she has the storyteller's craft in abundance. In The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan, a great American story will find its teller." --Todd Gitlin, best-selling author of The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage "A revealing memoir...full of outrage." --Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisJosep Pla’s masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, when Pla was in Barcelona studying law, the Spanish flu broke out, the university shut down, and he went home to his parents in coastal Palafrugell. Aspiring to be a writer, not a lawyer, he resolved to hone his style by keeping a journal. In it he wrote about his family, local characters, visits to cafés; the quips, quarrels, ambitions, and amours of his friends; writers he liked and writers he didn’t; and the long contemplative walks he would take in the countryside under magnificent skies. Returning to Barcelona to complete his studies, Pla kept up his diary, scrutinizing life in the big city with the same unflagging zest and humor.Pla, one of the great Catalan writers, held on to this youthful journal for close to fifty years, reworking and adding to it, until he finally published The Gray Notebook as both the first volume and the capstone of his collected works. It is a beautiful, entrancing, delightful book—at once a distillation of the spirit of youth and the work of a lifetime.

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Book SynopsisLisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication, nurturing an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.

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Book SynopsisFethullah Gülen is a leading figure in the current Turkish socio-political context. Regardless of the impression different circles have about him, he is universally acknowledged as an accomplished scholar and independent thinker who has had a life in tears dreaming of a “golden generation,” but also a life spent in persecution and ongoing trials. This book goes beyond the current controversy around his name, and tries to explore Gülen as a scholar around his certain personal traits and some of the key concepts he has been emphasizing over the years to mobilize his audience. Based on a research that covers over seventy books, 564 sermons, over 500 talks by Gülen, more than fifty interviews of his close associates and friends aired on TV networks, and the author''s personal observations, this book is a useful reference for those who study scholarly traditions of Islam in general and Fethullah Gülen in particular.

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Book SynopsisBringing to light an entertaining array of anecdotes, this collection of police stories recalls some of the strangest, funniest, and most poignant accounts from the freeways, highways, and country roads throughout California. From the family who pulled over for a picnic on the median strip of a busy freeway to the angelic-looking 5-year-old girl who defused a tense traffic stop by sweetly confessing, ""my daddy has a beer under the seat,"" this is an uncompromising view of the everyday pursuits, enforcement stops, arrests, accidents, and weird encounters that patrolmen must endure. Also featured is a panoply of unlikely drunk-driving suspects, including Santa Claus, a Boy Scout troop leader, a newlywed couple, and an airline pilot on his way to fly a plane; the traffic stop of an elderly driver whose license had expired 35 years earlier--and who explained he was on his way to the DMV; and many more hilarious, odd, and tragic stories of life and death on the open road. Encouraging a renewed respect for the men and women in uniform who risk their lives to protect the public, this compilation also contains advice on highway safety and how to behave when pulled over by a patrol officer.

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Book SynopsisWhen Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didnt know she would be facing a constant battle with cold, disease, malnutrition, and the ever-present possibility of death. With quiet determination, she resolved to survive, to endure each fresh hardship without complaint, and to be of service to the community around her. Gold Rush in the Klondike is Knowless true story of her year in the Yukon territory, a revealing, never-before-published personal memoir of day-to-day life at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Written in a clear, forthright, nineteenth-century style, Gold Rush in the Klondike presents terrifying struggles against a hostile environment, picturesque descriptions of an untouched Arctic wilderness, and Knowless keen observations of men and women on the frontier. A Victorian gentlewoman of refinement, Knowles found herself among swearing, whoring, sometimes violent miners, whom she won over with her grit and compassion. Deciding to never moralize or condemn, Knowles writes frankly of the intense hardships that drove miners into lives of drink and dissipation and the frontier women who were forced to make stark choices between prostitution and starvation. Knowless adventures include encounters with author Jack London (Knowles firmly disapproved of Londons cruel mistreatment of his sled dogs), nursing miners during a typhoid outbreak until she fell ill herself, witnessing savage fights among the miners, dangerous travel through the mountain passes and river rapids of the Yukon, and a daring surreptitious visit to a gambling saloon. Amid all hardships, Knowles formed warm relationships with the mining community, for, as she put it, All the diseases and other troubles had knitted us into one large family. Illustrated with period photographs, Gold Rush in the Klondike is an invaluable historical document of a lost time and place and an admirable portrait of one womans determination in the face of danger.

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Book SynopsisA genius to rival Edison, a personality as intriguing as Tesla, Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a key figure in creating the modern world.Thomas Alva Edison and Nikola Tesla have the glory, but perhaps the greatest electrical wizard of them all was Charles Proteus Steinmetz. Revered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a genius, but largely forgotten today, Steinmetz made the modern world possible through his revolutionary work on AC electricity transmission, the technology underlying today?s power grid. More than just a great scientist and engineer, Steinmetz was also one of the most colorful characters in American life.Standing just four feet tall with a pronounced spine curvature, Steinmetz was as well known for his fiery political opinions, his fierce advocacy for social progress and education, his unusual home life, and his private menagerie as for his technical achievements. The first full biography of Steinmetz in many years, Charles Proteus Steinmetz: The Electrical Wizard of Schenectady brings the life, passions, and scientific achievement of this remarkable man to a new generation.

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Book SynopsisFrom Pushcart Prize-winning author Lawrence Shainberg, a funny and powerful memoir about literary friendships, writing, and Zen practice.“Inexplicably good karma”—to this, author Lawrence Shainberg attributes a life filled with relationships with legendary writers and renowned Buddhist teachers. In Four Men Shaking he weaves together the narratives of three of those relationships: his literary friendships with Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, and his teacher-student relationship with the Japanese Zen master Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi. In Shainberg’s lifelong pursuit of both writing and Zen practice, each of these men represents an important aspect of his experience. The audacious, combative Mailer becomes a symbol in Shainberg’s mind for the Buddhist concept of “form,” while the elusive and self-deprecating Beckett seems to embody an awareness of “emptiness.” Through it all is Nakagawa, the earthy, direct Zen master challenging Shainberg to let go of his endless rumination and accept reality as it is.

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Book Synopsis'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead.' Claire Messud, Harpers Magazine'As riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and deeply affecting.' NewsweekIn 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing Franz Kafka, Émile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would be burned by the Nazis. In 1933, Kurt and his wife Helen fled to France and Italy, and later to New York, where they would bring books including Doctor Zhivago, The Leopard and The Tin Drum to English-speaking readers.Meanwhile, Kurt's son Niko, born from an earlier marriage, was left behind in Germany. Despite his Jewish heritage, he served in the German army and ended up in an prisoner of war camp before emigrating to the US in 1948. As Alexander gains a better understanding of his taciturn father's life, he finds secrets that never made it to America and is forced to confront his family's complex relationship with the Nazis.This stunning account of a family navigating wartime and its aftershocks brilliantly evokes the perils, triumphs and secrets of history and exile.Trade Reviewan event-filled biography and, along the way, a captivating case study in the challenges faced by refugees attempting to remake a life...as enlightening as it is engaging. * Wall Street Journal *as riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and deeply affecting. * Newsweek *Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead. -- Claire Messud * Harpers Magazine *Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey. -- Philippe Sands[A] poignant portrait...Wolff skillfully contextualizes his father and grandfather's tales with military and political history; details links between Merck and the Nazi regime; and uncovers family secrets, including the existence of his father's illegitimate half-brother. History buffs and literary enthusiasts will be rewarded * Publishers Weekly *An astonishing, compelling, confronting story of a divided family, reaching sharply into the present. -- Tim Bonyhady, author of GOOD LIVING STREETMeticulously researched and beautifully written, Endpapers, at its heart, is an absorbing family history. But it is so much more than that, a haunting exploration of guilt and responsibility, of roots and new beginnings. Filled with stunning literary details that any bibliophile will cherish, this is an intimate and complex portrait of a remarkable family that also tells a wider story of Europe and America in the twentieth century. Endpapers is a treasure - a brave and moving book. -- Ariana Neumann, author of WHEN TIME STOPPEDA powerfully told story of family, honor, love and truth, by a masterful writer who sees across the oceans and through the generations. In Endpapers we see the Wolff family through war and love, detention camps and immigration hearings, kindness and betrayal, occupying a world equal parts Casablanca and Kafka. It is engrossing and entertaining, a book of conscience and remembrance that tells the beautiful truth that so often those who contribute most to the culture and civic life of a place are the outcast and the refugee. -- Beto O'RourkeAlexander Wolff - a writer of superb grace - traces a complex and compelling family history in this deeply absorbing narrative of high culture under threat, of political and moral violence, and the deep wish for what Wolff refers to as Heimkehr or 'homecoming.' Endpapers held me in its spell for days. -- Jay Parini, author of BORGES AND ME: AN ENCOUNTERA stunning and brave book, deep and absorbing. I was enraptured by the story of Kurt, Niko and Alex as they moved through the crosswinds of the twentieth century, from Munich to Princeton, and into the modern world. -- David Maraniss, author of A GOOD AMERICAN FAMILYIn a compelling, frequently thrilling and - if you have an ear for the biting tone of Hitler's exiles - often hilarious book, Alexander Wolff combines biography, memoir and cultural history, rendering them indivisible, and making clear the uncanny and terrifying parallels between Kurt Wolff's day and ours. -- Anthony Heilbut, author of EXILED IN PARADISE and THOMAS MANN[A] revelatory, riveting and deeply moving account of his family's involvement in Germany's recent history. -- Joshua Hammer * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPrologue: Prologue Introduction: Introduction 1: Bildung and Books 2: Done with the War 3: Technical Boy and the Deposed Sovereign 4: Mediterranean Refuge 5: Surrender on Demand 6: Into a Dark Room 7: A Debt for Rescue 8: An End with Horror 9: Blood and Shame 10: Chain Migration 11: Late Evening 12: Second Exile 13: Schweinenest 14: Turtle Bay 15: Mr. Bitte Nicht Ansprechen 16: Shallow Draft 17: Play on the Bones of the Dead 18: The End, Come by Itself

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Book SynopsisAvraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935) stands as a colossal figure of modern Jewish history and thought. Jurist, mystic, poet, theologian, communal leader, founder of the modern Chief Rabbinate and still the defining thinker of Religious Zionism, he is indispensable for understanding modern Jewish thought, the contemporary State of Israel, and the most fundamental interactions of religion, nationalism, ethics and spirituality. Despite countless studies of him, almost no full-fledged intellectual biography of him exists in any language. This study of the years before his momentous move to Jaffa in 1904, drawing on little-known works, including recently published manuscripts, begins to fill that gap. It traces his life and times in the remarkably intense Rabbinic intellectual milieu of late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, and his path from a profound, regularly rationalist traditionalism, towards a dynamic theology and spiritual practice weaving together Kabbalah, philosophy, universal ethics, and romantic mysticism.Trade Review“Mirsky teaches us how to read afresh a much-discussed writer and how to navigate a vast and at times bewildering corpus. This sterling intellectual biography will become the definitive work on the making of one of the greatest modern mystics, introducing and translating a wealth of lesser known or newly printed sources. Mirsky’s exquisitely rich reading exposes the full range and complexity of the manifold contexts (medieval, Lithuanian, Zionist, theosophical, legal, and ethical) from which his hero emerged, without in any way obscuring his brilliant originality, as he invites us to viewings of Kook as an aspiring prophet, yet also as a master of exegesis and mourning poet. To not only hold all of these tensions, but also render them lucid to readers of all backgrounds, is nothing less than a feat of dedicated reflection and high-powered analysis. This is historical writing in its most eloquent, passionate and engaged form.”—Jonathan Garb, author of A History of Kabbalah from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day“Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook plays a central role in twentieth-century Jewish life and thought, and his influence in so many areas is profound. More works of scholarship have been devoted to him than any other modern rabbi, and these studies have concentrated on R. Kook’s mature works, written when he was in the Land of Israel. Yehudah Mirsky’s most recent book stands out as he focuses on the early writings of R. Kook, the ones completed before he left Europe. Anyone who wishes to understand how R. Kook became who he was, and the trajectory of his religious thought, must grapple with these early works, including the tensions that arise between his early thought and what he later expressed. There is no better guide in this matter than Mirsky, whose ear is attuned not only to what R. Kook says, but to how he says it and sometimes even more importantly, what he does not say. Mirsky also shows himself to be an expert translator of R. Kook, able to preserve the nuances of very difficult, and often poetic, formulations. The present work is a worthy successor to Mirsky’s earlier book, the critically acclaimed Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution.”— Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Scranton“Yehudah Mirsky’s command of every relevant strand in contemporary Jewish thought is astonishing. A beautifully wrought, intellectually sophisticated, and moving portrait of the wrestlings of one of Judaism’s most indispensable thinkers.”— Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University“Despite the astounding proliferation of studies relating to the life and works of R. A. I. Kook, the present volume is one which no student of his thought can afford to ignore. In this tour de force, Mirsky provides a detailed intellectual biography of the hitherto relatively ignored years preceding R. Kook’s move to Palestine, an updated bibliography of unpublished writings now being released alongside original versions of previously censored works, and the wealth of secondary literature that these have evoked. Such factors are game-changers, inducing the replacing of misguided attempts to provide a coherent and systematic view of R. Kook’s thought with appreciation of the role of chronological development in the evolution of his inner life and spiritual horizons. Mirsky’s masterly style, the wealth and sophistication of his intriguing commentaries, and his policy of relegating specialized or tangential information to copious footnotes make this book a joy for professional scholars and interested laymen alike.”— Tamar Ross, Professor Emerita, Department of Jewish Thought, Bar Ilan University“The significance of Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Cohen Kook in modern Jewish thought is generally recognized. However, he has been more lauded than understood or read. His writing is enigmatic and the limited knowledge about his early years has been a stumbling block for readers and students alike. The apparent impossibility of tracking down necessary sources and the difficulties of penetrating Rav Kook’s prose dismayed even the most dedicated of them. A magic wand was needed. This book is that wand and Yehuda Mirsky is the magician who uncovered remarkable sources on Rav Kook’s life and was able to transform opaqueness into clarity and the obscure into comprehensible. His book will be a standard starting point for anyone setting out to understand Rav Kook and his world. Readers of Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity will find it hard to remember how they even tried to understand Rav Kook’s writing before they read this book.”— Shaul Stampfer, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University"An illuminating blend of intellectual biography and textual analysis, Toward the Mystical Experience of Modernity charts the course of Rav Kook’s intellectual development throughout his first twenty years of public life. Avoiding the twin pitfalls of historical determinism and ideological essentialism, Mirsky shows how the contingencies of Rav Kook’s life… shaped Rav Kook’s writing and teaching in this period… Toward the Mystical Experience of Modernity paints a picture of Rav Kook’s early life that flows from one point to the next, showing shifts and developments, without flattening individual links in the chain into a homogenous whole. Each step has its own significance, while also taking part of a coherent narrative… Toward the Mystical Experience of Modernity thus invites the reader to reconsider not just how they imagine Rav Kook, but how they imagine their individual selves and the Jewish people.”– Levi Morrow, The Lehrhaus“In his outstanding new book, Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904, Yehudah Mirsky achieves the rare feat of presenting Rav Kook’s teachings in all their fullness. By focusing on Rav Kook’s writings from the first half of his life, before his emigration to Palestine, Mirsky offers a fascinating picture of Rav Kook’s thought that is far richer and more complex than the version taught today by many who claim to be his disciples… [R]ather than read ‘Rav Kook’s works as a unified canon whose inconsistencies must be resolved in order for him to be authoritative,’ Mirsky chooses to ‘read them, and try to understand him, in terms of his time and place.’ In embracing the contradictions and evolutions of his thought, Mirsky reveals intriguing nuances others miss and captures Rav Kook’s unending pursuit of contradiction and its attempted resolution…[I]t behooves us to take a close look—as Mirsky so marvelously does—at Rav Kook in his fullness, and to encounter a thinker who refuses to grant contradiction the final say, while still recognizing that its final resolution may be beyond our grasp.”– Zachary Truboff, Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas“How did Rav Kook arrive at such a unique approach to modernity? What were the building blocks that he used to erect his intellectual edifice? Where did Rav Kook find the wherewithal to blaze his own individual trail that deviated so distinctively from the well-worn paths of all those around him? These are the questions that Mirsky seeks to answer, and there is perhaps no one as well equipped to answer them. He brings together a mastery of the sociology of modernity, the history of ideas, the development of the Kabbalah, 19th-century intellectual trends, medieval Jewish philosophy, the Lithuanian yeshiva culture and, of course, Rav Kook’s extensive published and unpublished writings. Mirsky summons all these intellectual resources to get to the bottom of the mystery that is the emergence of Rav Kook.”– Ross Singer, The Jerusalem Post“Yehuda Mirsky’s Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook is a masterful work; one might almost say a masterpiece. … Mirsky’s work is a fundamental Handbuch, a guide to Rav Kook’s thinking whose usefulness will surely endure over several decades. Any student of the works featured here… will find in Mirsky’s work the definitive historical, literary, and bibliographical framing for approaching these works. This is an enormous contribution not only to scholarship but to Torah learning. … This book is, then, essential background material for the future student, and will be appreciated for decades to come as a standard reference work. More broadly, this is probably the best introduction in the English language—and probably any language—to the biography, context, formation, and social and intellectual context within which Rav Kook operated. If nothing else, this superb bio-bibliographical introduction to Rav Kook is enough to make this book a classic. … Mirsky has laid solid foundations that will allow others to gain a deeper appreciation of Rav Kook. For the everyman, he has provided a roadmap for studying his early life. For the scholar, he has constructed an edifice that justifies a re-reading of the key texts in light of some of the questions posed above. For both audiences, this first-rate work constitutes an invitation to further study and to deepen our understanding of Rav Kook.”– Alon Goshen-Gottstein, The Tel Aviv Review of BooksTable of Contents Introduction The Work in Brief Precis Mapping Rav Kook Many Editorial Hands Academic Approaches The Missing Early Decades in Rav Kook'sCorpus Towards Expressivism and the Subject Rav Kook and the Medieval PhilosophicalTradition The Early Writings Self-Cultivation, Philosophical Ethics,Mussar Chapter One: Childhood and Early Years: Between Mitnagdism, Hasidism and Haskalah 42 Rabbinic Humanism and Haskalah Geographic and Cultural Background Family Backgound Social Changes: Haskalah's Shift fromEnlightenment to Radicalism Rabbinic Maskilim Childhood and Early Education Studies in Lyutsin and Smorgon andEngagement with Haskalah Betrothal and Aderet Avraham Kook Goes to Volozhin Marriage, Poverty and First RabbinicPost Literary Debut 'Ittur Sofrim Loss Chapter 2: All in the Mind: The Writings ofthe Zeimel Period The Small-Town Rabbinate Talmudic Commentary and a Sage'sDiscontents Halakhic Writings and a Touch ofPhilosophy Hevesh Pe'er The Primacy of the Mind in Hevesh Pe'er Midbar Shur Moshe Hayim Luzzatto Midbar Shur and the Pursuit ofPerfection, Jewish and Universal An Elegy for His First Wife Conclusion Chapter 3: Boisk at the Crossroads of Mussarand Tiqqun Unease in Zeimel and the Influence ofEliasberg Boisk Developments in Yeshiva Culture and theMussar Movement The Turn to Interiority as a Defining Themeof this Period : The Self and Tiqqun Lithuanian Kabbalah Pinkasim 15 & 16 "The Rustlings of My Heart": RavKook and B.M. Levin Conclusion Chapter 4: 'Eyn Ayah: Intellect,Imagination, Self-Expression, Prophecy 'Eyn Ayah and Modernity's ExpressivistTurn The Work: Genre, Method and the Study ofAggadah in Rabbinic Circles Two Introductions to the Work Self-Perfection Intellect, Imagination, Feeling Perfection of the Individual and the Wholeand the Internalization of KabbalahStrategies of Containment The Renewal of Prophecy and the Mission ofthe Artist The Emergence of Dialectic The Problem of Self-Love The Study of Aggadah and SpiritualIndividualism Concluding Remarks on Expressivism andSubjectivity Chapter 5: The Turn Towards Nationalism:Between Ideology and Utopia, or, Ethics and Eschatology Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe Early Mentions of Nationalism and Hints ofApocalypse First Responses to the Zionist Movement First Response to Orthodox Anti-Zionism Ha-Peles The First Essay: Israel's UniversalMission Interlude: Creation of the Mizrahi The Second Essay: Mobilizing Literature The Third Essay: Ethics, History andEschatology Alexandrov's Response: Rav Kook and AhadHa-Am 'Eyn Ayah Passages on History andEschatology Assessing the Essays: Ideology andUtopia Chapter 6:'The New Guide of the Perplexed' 'TheLast in Boisk': Making Sense of Heresy en Route to Zion To Jaffa and Palestine The Second Aliyah 'The New Guide of the Perplexed' 'The Last in Boisk': Heresy, Nietzsche,Apocalypse The Journal Messiah ben Joseph Expressivism and the Song of Songs Heresy and Eschatology Ethics, Jesus, Nietzsche, Qelippah Working with Heresy, Reworking Torah Studyand Theology Leaving Boisk Conclusion Transformations in the Land of Israel Seven Shifts: From To-Down to Bottom-Up Philosophy, Mysticism, Experience Implications for the Study of Religion:Theology as Autobiography Implications for Rav Kook Studies Berdyczewsky and Rav Kook: Between Ruptureand Dialectic

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Book SynopsisStrength and Goodness (Force-Bonté) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remains a pioneering work of African literature as well as a unique and invaluable historical document about colonialism and Africa’s role in the Great War. Lamine Senghor’s The Rape of a Country (La Violation d’un pays) is another pioneering French work by a Senegalese veteran of World War I, but one that offers a stark contrast to Strength and Goodness. Both are made available for the first time in English in this edition, complete with a glossary of terms and a general historical introduction. The centennial of World War I is an ideal moment to present Strength and Goodness and The Rape of a Country to a wider, English-reading public. Until recently, Africa's role in the war has been neglected by historians and largely forgotten by the general public. Euro-centric versions of the war still predominate in popular culture, Many historians, however, now insist that African participation in the 1914-18 War is a large part of what made that conflict a world war.Trade Review"White War, Black Soldiers is a terrific read, from start to finish, and addresses such an important gap in our knowledge about Africa, Africans, and WWI. The editors offer a rich, balanced and nuanced account not just of the historical contexts in which to read these texts but also of how we should approach them—in all their complexity. Diallo’s text nicely defies a neat postcolonial reading and helps us appreciate the historical contingencies and variations of interwar ‘radicalism’. It also of course helps students confront the ongoing whiteness of WWI studies." —Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign"With a comprehensive scholarly Introduction that contextualizes the service of African men within European-led colonial armies, this book presents two extremely rare personal accounts by African soldiers who fought in the First World War. The early twentieth-century writings of Senegalese war veterans Bakary Diallo and Lamine Senghor, here published in English for the first time, illustrate the global nature of the conflict. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the Great War or African History." —Timothy Stapleton, University of Calgary, author of Africa: War and Conflict in the Twentieth Century (2018)"White War, Black Soldiers provides us with important primary documents (previously available only in French) and valuable historical context to dramatically improve our knowledge and understanding of the African experience in World War I. By bringing the experiences and perspectives of Bakary Diallo and Lamine Senghor to an English-speaking audience, Robb has provided world historians, Africanists, and secondary teachers alike with a valuable tool to help address students’ (and general readers’) lack of awareness that anyone other than Europeans were involved in the First World War.." —Jonathan Reynolds, Northern Kentucky University"[This] rare and important book provides valuable African perspectives on World War I. Robb's analysis—and Erber and Peniston's English translation—of Senegalese soldier Bakary Diallo's Strength and Goodness (1926) further deconstructs the false binary of resistor/collaborator in African colonial history." —Ronald Lamothe, Lesley University“[I]t is to be welcomed that these two texts from French West Africa are becoming available to Anglophone readers who usually rely on sources from Anglophone Africa. The contradictory positions of the two authors in this book will inspire much discussion in classes on colonialism, and they contribute insights on the wider impact of World War I in the colonial empires.” —Raffael Scheck, Colby College, in the International Journal of African Historical Studies"[A] welcome addition to the growing effort to bring African voices from World War I to an English-language reading public. . . . Robb does well to provide a considered introduction for these two excellent translations, carefully undertaken by Nancy Eber and William Peniston. Robb provides much useful background on the colonial project, its African armies and constabularies, as well as experiences and attitudes of Africans during the Great War and after. "[T]aken together, these two accounts match very well the reality of postwar experiences of African veterans of World War I, as contradictory as they might first appear. . . Robb puts it well in his introduction: such veterans might best 'be seen as trying to negotiate between two cultures' (p. 37). In presenting these two complementary translations, White War, Black Soldiers succeeds in illustrating the totality of the altogether human reactions of Africans who experienced the First World War." —Melvin E. Page, on H-Africa, H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisStrength and Goodness (Force-Bonté) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remains a pioneering work of African literature as well as a unique and invaluable historical document about colonialism and Africa’s role in the Great War. Lamine Senghor’s The Rape of a Country (La Violation d’un pays) is another pioneering French work by a Senegalese veteran of World War I, but one that offers a stark contrast to Strength and Goodness. Both are made available for the first time in English in this edition, complete with a glossary of terms and a general historical introduction. The centennial of World War I is an ideal moment to present Strength and Goodness and The Rape of a Country to a wider, English-reading public. Until recently, Africa's role in the war has been neglected by historians and largely forgotten by the general public. Euro-centric versions of the war still predominate in popular culture, Many historians, however, now insist that African participation in the 1914-18 War is a large part of what made that conflict a world war.Trade Review"White War, Black Soldiers is a terrific read, from start to finish, and addresses such an important gap in our knowledge about Africa, Africans, and WWI. The editors offer a rich, balanced and nuanced account not just of the historical contexts in which to read these texts but also of how we should approach them—in all their complexity. Diallo’s text nicely defies a neat postcolonial reading and helps us appreciate the historical contingencies and variations of interwar ‘radicalism’. It also of course helps students confront the ongoing whiteness of WWI studies." —Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Book SynopsisChristopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But on much of today’s left, he’s remembered as a defector, a warmonger, and a sellout—a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who traded his left-wing principles for neoconservatism after the September 11 attacks. In How Hitchens Can Save the Left, Matt Johnson argues that this easy narrative gets Hitchens exactly wrong. Hitchens was a lifelong champion of free inquiry, humanism, and universal liberal values. He was an internationalist who believed all people should have the liberty to speak and write openly, to be free of authoritarian domination, and to escape the arbitrary constraints of tribe, faith, and nation. He was a figure of the Enlightenment and a man of the left until the very end, and his example has never been more important. Over the past several years, the liberal foundations of democratic societies have been showing signs of structural decay. On the right, nationalism and authoritarianism have been revived on both sides of the Atlantic. On the left, many activists and intellectuals have become obsessed with a reductive and censorious brand of identity politics, as well as the conviction that their own liberal democratic societies are institutionally racist, exploitative, and imperialistic. Across the democratic world, free speech, individual rights, and other basic liberal values are losing their power to inspire. Hitchens’s case for universal Enlightenment principles won’t just help genuine liberals mount a resistance to the emerging illiberal orthodoxies on the left and the right. It will also remind us how to think and speak fearlessly in defense of those principles.

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Book SynopsisThis informative book guides young readers through the early life, presidency, and legacy of Thomas Jefferson. The book also includes an "Issue Spotlight" special feature, several "Did You Know" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Beacon level, aligned to reading levels of grades 2-3 and interest levels of grades 3-5.Trade Review"[I]nformative and may be considered for purchase where new books are needed." —School Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis informative book guides young readers through the early life, presidency, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. The book also includes an "Issue Spotlight" special feature, several "Did You Know" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Beacon level, aligned to reading levels of grades 2-3 and interest levels of grades 3-5.Trade Review"[I]nformative and may be considered for purchase where new books are needed." —School Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis informative book guides young readers through the early life, presidency, and legacy of George Washington. The book also includes an "Issue Spotlight" special feature, several "Did You Know" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Beacon level, aligned to reading levels of grades 2-3 and interest levels of grades 3-5.Trade Review"[I]nformative and may be considered for purchase where new books are needed." —School Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis informative book guides young readers through the early life, presidency, and legacy of Thomas Jefferson. The book also includes an "Issue Spotlight" special feature, several "Did You Know" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Beacon level, aligned to reading levels of grades 2-3 and interest levels of grades 3-5.Trade Review"[I]nformative and may be considered for purchase where new books are needed." —School Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis informative book guides young readers through the early life, presidency, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. The book also includes an "Issue Spotlight" special feature, several "Did You Know" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Beacon level, aligned to reading levels of grades 2-3 and interest levels of grades 3-5.Trade Review"[I]nformative and may be considered for purchase where new books are needed." —School Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis informative book guides young readers through the early life, presidency, and legacy of George Washington. The book also includes an "Issue Spotlight" special feature, several "Did You Know" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Beacon level, aligned to reading levels of grades 2-3 and interest levels of grades 3-5.Trade Review"[I]nformative and may be considered for purchase where new books are needed." —School Library Journal

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Book SynopsisPhantom Lady chronicles the untold story of Hollywood’s most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s. In 1933, Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling down with one of the local boys. A few short years later, she was Alfred Hitchcock's confidante and the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of his first American film, Rebecca. Harrison had quickly grown from being the worst secretary Alfred Hitchcock ever had to one of his closest collaborators, critically shaping his brand as the “master of suspense.” Forging an image as “the female Hitchcock,” Harrison went on to produce numerous Hollywood features before becoming a television pioneer as the producer of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. A respected powerhouse, she acquired a singular reputation for running amazingly smooth productions—and defying anyone who posed an obstacle. Author Christina Lane shows how this stylish, stunning woman, with an adventurous romantic life, became an unconventional but impressive auteur, one whom history has overlooked.Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1: At Home Chapter 2: Wartime Chapter 3: Beyond the Village Chapter 4: Birth of a Master Chapter 5: True Crime Pays Chapter 6: Bigger Steps .. Chapter 7: A Team of Three Chapter 8: Going Hollywood Chapter 9: Oscar Calls Chapter 10: Building Suspense Chapter 11 Hitting Hurdles Chapter 12 Phantom Lady . Chapter 13: New Associations Chapter 14: Bedeviling Endings . Chapter 15: Crimes and Misdemeanors Chapter 16: Let it Ride Chapter 17: Full Circle, by Degrees Chapter 18: A New Proposal .. Epilogue .. Acknowledgements Bibliography .. Filmography . Notes Index

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Book Synopsis“As a young Afghan woman who dreamed of becoming an air force pilot, Niloofar Rahmani confronted far more than technical challenges; she faced the opprobrium of an entire society.” —Pamela Constable, author of Playing with Fire and former Kabul and Islamabad bureau chief for the Washington Post The true story of Niloofar Rahmani and her determination to become Afghanistan’s first female air force pilot—as seen on Anderson Cooper and ABC News In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed women to join the armed forces, and Niloofar entered Afghanistan’s military academy. Niloofar had to break through social barriers to demonstrate confidence, leadership, and decisiveness—essential qualities for a pilot. Niloofar performed the first solo flight of her class—ahead of all her male classmates—and in 2013 became Afghanistan’s first female fixed-wing air force pilot. The US State Department honored Niloofar with the International Women of Courage Award and brought her to the United States to meet Michelle Obama and fly with the US Navy’s Blue Angels. But when she returned to Kabul, the danger to her and her family had increased significantly. Rahmani and her family are portraits of the resiliency of refugees and the accomplishments they can reach when afforded with opportunities Table of ContentsPreface 1: My Father 2: The Soviets 3: Courtship 4: Civil War 5: Escape 6: The Refugee Camp 7: Karachi 8: Our Return 9: Life Under the Taliban 10: September 11, 2001 11: Invasion and Freedom 12: School 13: Not Everything Changes 14: Dreams Form 15: University 16: A Commercial 17: Recruitment 18: Basic Training 19: Friends, Reflection, and Graduation 20: Joining the Air Force 21: Medical Test and More Tests 22: English Is a Requirement 23: Move West 24: Flight Training 25: First Flight 26: Things Change 27: Up Where I Belong 28: Outed 29: Graduation 30: The Squadron 31: Flying Operations 32: The Threats Come 33: India and AWOL 34: Back in the Air 35: Contacts 36: The United States 37: My Return 38: Everything Crumbles 39: Escape 40: Back in Training 41: Asylum 42: What’s Next Afterword

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Book SynopsisAuthentic and inspiring, Everything that Rises personalizes the realities of climate change by paralleling the relationship we have with our planet to the way we interact within our own homes. Many Millennials begin their professional lives in the background, working for causes unchosen by them, for wages barely enough to scrape by. Brianna Craft’s first internship, however, was assisting the Least Developed Countries Group during the United Nations’ climate change negotiations. ​Conditions were similar. The cause was not. Brianna is thrown directly into the middle of the talks. While working for those most ignored and affected by the climate crisis, she must find her own voice in rooms filled with the world’s most powerful people. A dynamic that painfully reminds her of what it felt like growing up in a house where the loudest voice always won. Four years later, she witnesses the adoption of the first universal climate change treaty, The Paris Climate Agreement. But despite the signing of the 2015 treaty, the crisis rages on. Brianna confronts her own history to further the cause and navigate the future.It will take all of us to save our home.Table of Contents1 A Conference of Parties 2 Climate Change and Me 3 Breathless 4 False Start 5 Compromised 6 Monster 7 The Traveling Show 8 Hope Springs 9 Stalemate 10 From Gambia with Love 11 The Triumph of Paris 12 Rebellion

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Book Synopsis“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!” —Valerie BertinelliRabia Chaudry—known from the podcast Serial and her bestselling book, Adnan’s Story, as well as her own wildly popular podcast, Undisclosed—serves up a candid and intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a tight knit but sometimes overly concerned Pakistani immigrant family. “My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but never not fat.” Rabia Chaudry was raised with a lot of love—and that love looked like food. Delicious Pakistani dishes—fresh roti, chaat, pakoras, and shorba—and also Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen, and an abundance of American processed foods, as her family discovered its adopted country through its (fast) food. At the same time, her family was becoming increasingly alarmed about their chubby daughter’s future. Most important, how would she ever get married? In Fatty Fatty Boom Boom, Chaudry chronicles the dozens of times she tried and failed to achieve what she was told was her ideal weight. The truth is, though, she always loved food too much to hold a grudge against it. At once an ode to Pakistani cuisine, including Chaudry’s favorite recipes; a love letter to her Muslim family both here and in Lahore; and a courageously honest portrait of a woman grappling with a body that gets the job done but refuses to meet the expectations of others. For anyone who has ever been weighed down by their weight— whatever it is—Chaudry shows us how freeing it is to finally make peace with body we have.Trade Review“A delectable memoir that reads with the intensity of a novel. Devour it all at once, or savor it slowly—there’s no wrong way to enjoy this funny, heart-wrenching, and brutally honest journey of food, family, and learning to love yourself.” —Geraldine DeRuiter, founder of Everywherist.com and author of All Over the Place“A delectable memoir that reads with the intensity of a novel. Devour it all at once, or savor it slowly—there’s no wrong way to enjoy this funny, heart-wrenching, and brutally honest journey of food, family, and learning to love yourself.” —Geraldine DeRuiter, founder of Everywherist.com and author of All Over the Place “This unflinching and often humorous memoir of a Pakistani girl shows us Rabia Chaudry’s resilience while highlighting her determination to celebrate the foods she loves. I was rooting for her as she learned to control food instead of food controlling her.”—Tung Nguyen, author of Mango and Peppercorns “A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are. It’s such a relief to not treat food as the enemy any longer and start to learn how to love and nourish the body I have today. I absolutely loved it!”—Valerie Bertinelli “Beautifully weaving together stories of food, family, and self-discovery, Rabia Chaudry’s memoir Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is complex, rich, and revelatory. I was deeply moved by her vulnerability, delighted by her self-deprecating humor, and awe-struck by her honesty. Chaudry sets a grand table before us and invites us to join her as she presents readers with her struggles, triumphs, and insights as a young girl in Pakistan, an awkward middle schooler in Maryland, and a young wife, advocate, and activist. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is surprising, fiery, and heart-felt. Chaudry’s most important recipe contains the ingredients for loving and honoring who we were, who we are, and who we aspire to be.” —Phuc Tran, author of Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In “Rabia Chaudry’s Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is a hilarious and brutally honest journey told with candor, charm and wit about learning how to love yourself and your body unapologetically while navigating a roller-coaster of a life populated with eccentric and lovable Pakistani family members, delicious food recipes, awkward childhood crushes, failed diets, and Husky pants. I laughed at characters and scenes that seemed lifted from my own Pakistani home and winced at the colorism and fat-shaming that is often so prevalent but unchallenged in our communities. The big-hearted book takes on all of it with an invitation for all of us to be better, while enjoying a glorious, fried samosa along the way.”—Wajahat Ali, author of Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on Becoming American “Rabia Chaudry has given us the next chapter in the story of how food shapes self and how self shapes food. Here is an American, a South Asian woman writing at the intersection of food, tradition, gender, the body and pressures without and the journey within. This is an important and savory work.”—Michael W. Twitty, James Beard Award-winning author of The Cooking Gene “A delectable memoir that reads with the intensity of a novel. Devour it all at once, or savor it slowly—there’s no wrong way to enjoy this funny, heart-wrenching, and brutally honest journey of food, family, and learning to love yourself.” —Geraldine DeRuiter, founder of Everywherist.com and author of All Over the Place “This unflinching and often humorous memoir of a Pakistani girl shows us Rabia Chaudry’s resilience while highlighting her determination to celebrate the foods she loves. I was rooting for her as she learned to control food instead of food controlling her.”—Tung Nguyen, author of Mango and Peppercorns “Yes, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is a book about food and Rabia’s relationship to food, how that relationship influenced her life and how she ultimately, as she says, becomes friends with her body. It’s also a profound act of generosity as Rabia invites us into her life with candor, humor, and kindness, for herself, her family and anyone who has reflected on their relationship to food. Not incidentally, it’s a terrific read and one you can appropriately plow through or savor. I cannot recommend Fatty Fatty Boom Boom highly enough. I can’t wait for my friends to read Rabia’s story, for my kids to try Rabia’s recipes and for the world to know more about this remarkable woman.”—Chelsea ClintonNamed a Best Book of November/2022 by Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Amazon“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are. It’s such a relief to not treat food as the enemy any longer and start to learn how to love and nourish the body I have today. I absolutely loved it!”—Valerie Bertinelli“Beautifully weaving together stories of food, family, and self-discovery, Rabia Chaudry’s memoir Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is complex, rich, and revelatory. I was deeply moved by her vulnerability, delighted by her self-deprecating humor, and awe-struck by her honesty. Chaudry sets a grand table before us and invites us to join her as she presents readers with her struggles, triumphs, and insights as a young girl in Pakistan, an awkward middle schooler in Maryland, and a young wife, advocate, and activist. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is surprising, fiery, and heart-felt. Chaudry’s most important recipe contains the ingredients for loving and honoring who we were, who we are, and who we aspire to be.” —Phuc Tran, author of Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In“Engrossing…Chaudry refreshingly eschews conventional narratives about weight loss, as well as fat acceptance…Victory is sweet and savory in this ebullient tale of self-acceptance.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Chaudry eloquently portrays the role of food in love and friendship. At the same time, she doesn’t flinch from reporting the humiliations heaped on the overweight at every turn... The literary equivalent of chaat masala fries: spicy, heady, sour, and uniquely delicious.” —Kirkus (starred review)“Chaudry is totally engaging, a perfect host. And after her descriptions of food, readers will be very happy to see recipes included at the end. Utterly delicious!” —Booklist (starred)“…touchingly warm and intimate… Chaudry is an uplifting storyteller and her humor-laden anecdotes balance the underlying gravity of her story with grace and skill. A Pakistani American lawyer struggling with her weight chronicles with humor and sensitivity her path toward inner contentment and shares recipes for chai, ghee and the Pakistani dishes she loves.”—Shelf Awareness“Rabia Chaudry has given us the next chapter in the story of how food shapes self and how self shapes food. Here is an American, a South Asian woman writing at the intersection of food, tradition, gender, the body and pressures without and the journey within. This is an important and savory work.”—Michael W. Twitty, James Beard Award-winning author of The Cooking Gene“A delectable memoir that reads with the intensity of a novel. Devour it all at once, or savor it slowly—there’s no wrong way to enjoy this funny, heart-wrenching, and brutally honest journey of food, family, and learning to love yourself.”—Geraldine DeRuiter, founder of Everywherist.com and author of All Over the Place“This unflinching and often humorous memoir of a Pakistani girl who struggles with her weight and also her family and culture’s reaction to it, shows us Rabia Chaudry’s resilience while highlighting her determination to celebrate the foods she loves. I was rooting for her as she learned to control food instead of food controlling her. The wonderful Pakistani recipes included will surprise anyone who thinks that Indian and Pakistani food are the same.”—Tung Nguyen, author of Mango and Peppercorns“Those who know Chaudry from the podcast Serial may be surprised to read this bighearted, hilarious, and brutally honest journey told with candor, charm, and wit about learning how to love yourself and your body unapologetically while navigating a roller-coaster of a life populated with eccentric and lovable Pakistani family members, delicious food recipes, awkward childhood crushes, failed diets, and Husky pants. I laughed at characters and scenes that seemed lifted from my own Pakistani home and winced at the colorism and fat-shaming that is often so prevalent but unchallenged in our communities. The big-hearted book takes on all of it with an invitation for all of us to be better, while enjoying a glorious, fried samosa along the way.”—Wajahat Ali, author of Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on Becoming American“Chaudry… pens a delightful and entertaining memoir… mouth-watering descriptions of the foods… Her hilarious anecdotes about her large and supportive family are relatable to any reader with zany relatives.”—Library Journal“Inspiring… This triumphant tale celebrates loving yourself and eating good food (it even includes recipes!)”?—Real Simple“Inspiring… This triumphant tale celebrates loving yourself and eating good food (it even includes recipes!)”​—Real Simple“Chaudry…turns her gimlet eye on her lifelong struggle with weight... Funny, smart and moving, this is a book for anyone with body issues."—Los Angeles TimesFatty Fatty Boom Boom is much more than skin-deep... this book was very personal—Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe“Deeply personal…cultural norms about what beauty means and what the ideal body is traverse oceans and continents; the pressure from family to be a certain shape and size have never felt more universal than in this heartfelt memoir.”—Zibby Owens, GoodMorningAmerica.com ABCNews.com“Deeply truthful. Chaudry writes authentically, reflecting on her relationship with food, fatness, and diet culture, while also exploring her passion for cooking and her feelings surrounding comments on her body. She includes a recipe section at the end, which many might want after reading her sensational descriptions of Pakistani food.”—Farrah Penn, BuzzFeed“[Chaudry] frankly and humorously details how she…learned to embrace her body and find joy in food — most significantly, the cuisine of her culture.”—Eater.com“This is more than a memoir about food and weight — it’s a humorous examination of growing up in a Muslim immigrant family, a love letter to the food of her culture, and a look at society’s expectations about what a body — a woman’s body — should look like.”—Book Riot“A meal is much more than what’s on your plate, as Rabia Chaudry details in Fatty Fatty Boom Boom, her memoir-with-recipes that delves into body image, disordered eating and the messages we get from our families about food. Exploring the foodways of her birth country and beyond led her to not just delicious bites, but true satisfaction.”—Austin-American Statesman“Delightful and entertaining… mouthwatering … Her hilarious anecdotes about her large and supportive family are relatable to any reader with zany relatives.”​—Library Journal“Delightful and entertaining… mouthwatering … Her hilarious anecdotes about her large and supportive family are relatable to any reader with zany relatives.”?—Library Journal“A candid and engaging reckoning with fat shaming... an engrossing read that attempts to reckon with two disparate cultures’ shame surrounding body image and obsession with looking thin. But don’t miss the tantalizing recipes... Like everything else in this book, they’ll keep you coming back for seconds.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Readers will eat it up, finding consolation in Chaudry's story… Atypical of inspirational weight loss books, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom, is, among other things, a love letter to Chaudry's native cuisine.” —NPR.org“Her writing is funny and sharp and allows readers to delve into the legacy of the South Asian diaspora via its cuisine… It’s an honest look at the relationship with the one thing we all carry with us (quite literally) throughout our lives: our bodies. And it’s a sort of love letter to the food that fuels it.”—Okayplayer“You may be familiar with the author for the role she played in getting Adnan Syed freed, but trust me, she contains multitudes. This memoir explores her relationship with food and family, with Pakistani and American culture, and how she found her voice and her life.”—The Arts STL

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of Holocaust survivor and prominent banker Marcel Goldman, born in Krakow in 1926. Goldman started his studies in economics in Krakow and completed them in Israel, where he became a respected banker. In telling his story, this book analyzes Israel’s social and economic development, its causes and circumstances. Following Goldman as our main character, we take a close look at the birth of the private banking sector and the building of modern economy in Israel. The book also describes the life of Polish Jews in Israel in general, the way in which they settled there, and built the prosperity of the state. The story of Marcel Goldman is an example of how Israel’s success is the sum of its citizens’ successes.Table of ContentsPreface by Aleksander B. SkotnickiIntroduction1. Mythical Krakow—Childhood (1926–1939)2. The Hell of Extermination—Youth, Part One (1939–1945)3. The Aliyah Time—Youth, Part Two (1945–1954)4. In the Land of Success—The Mature Age (1954–2019) ConclusionAfterwordBibliography

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Book SynopsisTold through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate.Internationally known in Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish studies, Jack Nusan Porter was born in Maniewicz, Ukraine to Jewish Partisans in the 1940s. Through this engaging and thoughtful memoir, we follow Porter as he recounts his personal journey from a DP camp in Linz, Austria to an idyllic childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended Hebrew day school under Reb Twersk. Porter masterfully details his radicalism in the politically and sociologically turbulent 1960s which would later influence his academic work on genocide, Holocaust studies, and international human rights. Constantly re-inventing himself, readers are treated to engaging anecdotes as they navigate through Porter's highs, lows, and in-betweens.Trade Review“This remarkable and compelling book, a combination of memoir and articles by and about the author, provides an in-depth portrait of Jack Porter, a committed Jewish radical who has also retained his commitment to his very specific Jewish faith. It is a unique and highly readable account of his ongoing search for how Jews should relate to the modern world.”– Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University; Chief Historian, Global Education Outreach Project, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw“One of the most admired and thoughtful heroes of the Jewish left, Jack Nusan Porter offers a remarkable memoir of his life and work. Vividly recounting mid-century Jewish life in middle America, along with travel to the new State of Israel, Porter gives us a thoughtful window into an extraordinary era that reconstituted Jewish identity after the Shoah.”– Professor Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart One: 1946-1963—Coming to America From Maniewicze to Milwaukee—the Making of a Writer/Activist Milwaukee in the 1940s and 1950s / Diary, 1959 LA in the 1950s and 1960s Habonim/Dror, 1956-1964 Israel, 1962-1963 / Diary, 1963 Golda and Me Part Two: 1962-1971—The Radical Years University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee: Becoming an Activist/Intellectual, 1963-1967; the Milwaukee Riots and Father Groppi; the Beginning of the Counterculture for Me; Hippies, Acid Trips, and Communes Activism Continued, 1967-1971: The 1968 Chicago Convention Riot; the Chicago 8 Rrial; My Relationship to Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krasner, and Lee Weiner; the Black Student Sit-In at NYU; the Founding of the Radical Jewish Student Movement; the 1960s (Civil Rights, Hippies, Grass, Acid, the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War, Vietnam, Woodstock) My Days and Nights in the Jewish Defense League Northwestern: The Making of a Sociologist Academic Follies Reunions Part Three: 1971-1991—The Transitional Years My Grove Press Days My Nazi-Hunting Days My Native American Days and Nights (Sun Dances, Sweat Lodges, Dealing with Death) Marriage and Settling Down / The Almuly Family / A Jittery Decade, the 1970s—the First Half of the Radical Decade; the Second Half—We Grow Up, Settle Down, and Get Married The Death of a Father The Founding of the IAGS/International Association of Genocide Scholars / Trips to Sarajevo, Iraq, and Other Zones of Conflict A Jew at the Ukrainian Institute No Tenure: The Switch to Real Estate: Hello, Harold Brown and Other Billionaires The Landlord: Dealing with Weirdoes (Crazy Tenants), Wise Guys (Italian, Russian, African American), and Community Organizers (Chuck Turner, Mel King, Ray Flynn) Part Four: 1991-2020—The Stabilizing Years The Death of My Mother Running for Office—Skakes, Fitzie, and Other Kennedys The New Yorker Article The Lost, Confused, and Yet Somehow Productive Years of 1990-2010 (Divorce, Stress—the Mallory-Weiss Syndrome—Death of Second Wife, Alienation from Family yet Traveling the World Lecturing on Genocide and Its Prevention) Rabbi in Paradise (“Key West Rabbi”) Finding Love Again, with Raya, 2011-2017 Back to Harvard and Stability, 2011-2020—Renewed Productivity, Especially with Help from World-Famed Designer and Cousin Allen Porter, Support from My Mentor and Genocide Guide Greg Stanton, and Spiritual and Communal Support from My Sephardic Shul) Toward the Future / Miracles / Mormons / Mahayana Meditation / Finding Peace and Love Again Glossary of TermsAppendixMy Contribution to KnowledgeFamous People I Have Met or Who Have Influenced MeJack Nusan Porter’s Family TreeSources and PermissionsAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of Holocaust survivor and prominent banker Marcel Goldman, born in Krakow in 1926. Goldman started his studies in economics in Krakow and completed them in Israel, where he became a respected banker. In telling his story, this book analyzes Israel’s social and economic development, its causes and circumstances. Following Goldman as our main character, we take a close look at the birth of the private banking sector and the building of modern economy in Israel. The book also describes the life of Polish Jews in Israel in general, the way in which they settled there, and built the prosperity of the state. The story of Marcel Goldman is an example of how Israel’s success is the sum of its citizens’ successes.Table of ContentsPreface by Aleksander B. SkotnickiIntroduction1. Mythical Krakow—Childhood (1926–1939)2. The Hell of Extermination—Youth, Part One (1939–1945)3. The Aliyah Time—Youth, Part Two (1945–1954)4. In the Land of Success—The Mature Age (1954–2019) ConclusionAfterwordBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe filmmaker of the surfing documentary Five Summer Stories and pioneer of the IMAX format tells stories from his adventurous life and groundbreaking career in Hollywood and beyond.      Greg MacGillivray is a man with stories. Stories of being a surfer kid in California, and making his first movie at the age of 13; of his early days as a filmmaker, creating iconic surfing documentaries such as the cult classic 5 Summer Stories, with his partner in crime, Jim Freeman; of his years in Hollywood, working in Hollywood with such legends such as Stanley Kubrick (on The Shining, no less); and of his work pioneering the 70mm IMAX film format, creating some of the most spectacular, groundbreaking cinematography celebrating the natural world. There are stories of almost dying in New Guinea, flying into eyes of hurricanes, the perils of shooting in the USSR, and how filming Mount Everest changed his life. Greg MacGillivray has led a life like no other, - and for the first time, he’s telling his story. In this fascinating memoir, Greg chronicles his personal journey as an artist, a self-made filmmaker, a father, and an entrepreneur at the head of the most successful documentary production company in history. It is also a story about MacGillivray’s deep commitment to family, to ocean conservation, and to raising awareness about the importance of protecting our natural heritage for generations to come. Contributions by legendary surfers Gerry Lopez and Bill Hamilton, and filmmakers such as Stephen Judson and Brad Ohlund, plus 40 QR codes to extraordinary film clips, add give even more depth and perspective to this amazing journey.  Greg’s compelling stories of adventure, surfing, love, loss, inspiration, conservation, and filmmaking give you a front seat to an extraordinary life - and, just like his IMAX movies, makes you feel as if you are there. EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS: Includes 40 QR codes linked to rare, incredible videos that bring Greg MacGillvray’s stories to life.   BEHIND-THE-SCENES SECRETS: Learn the history of the IMAX film format, and how filmmakers achieve an immersive and awe-inspiring visual experience.   FROM SURFER TO MOVIE LEGEND: Follow the journey of a man who went from a teenage surfer to the most successful documentary filmmaker in history with hundreds of amazing escapades and achievements in between.  

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Book SynopsisA smart and hilarious memoir of privilege and excess told by the son of a powerful, seductive member of the New York elite.Ben Sonnenberg grew up in the great house on Gramercy Park in New York City that his father, the inventor of modern public relations and the owner of a fine collection of art, built to celebrate his rise from the poverty of the Jewish Lower East Side to a life of riches and power. His son could have what he wanted, except perhaps what he wanted most: to get away.Lost Property, a book of memoirs and confessions, is a tale of youthful riot and rebellion. Sonnenberg recounts his aesthetic, sexual, and political education, and a sometimes absurd flight into “anarchy and sabotage,” in which he reports to both the CIA and East German intelligence during the Cold War and, cultivating a dandy’s nonchalance, pursues a life of sexual adventure in 1960s London and New York. The cast of characters includes Orson Welles, Glenn Gould, and Sylvia Plath; among the subjects are marriage, children, infidelity, debt, divorce, literature, and multiple sclerosis. The end is surprisingly happy.

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Book SynopsisSex, corruption, and power: the rise and fall of the Red Widow of ParisParis, 1889:Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist twenty years her senior, she knows her options are limited. Determined to fashion herself into a new woman, Meg orchestrates a scandalous plan with her most powerful resource: her body. Amid the dazzling glamor, art, and romance of bourgeois Paris, she takes elite men as her lovers, charming her way into the good graces of the rich and powerful. Her ambitions, though, go far beyond becoming the most desirable woman in Paris; at her core, she is a woman determined to conquer French high society. But the game she plays is a perilous one: navigating misogynistic double-standards, public scrutiny, and political intrigue, she is soon vaulted into infamy in the most dangerous way possible.A real-life femme fatale, Meg influences government positions and resorts to blackmail-and maybe even poisoning-to get her way. Leaving a trail of death and disaster in her wake, she earns the name the "Red Widow" for mysteriously surviving a home invasion that leaves both her husband and mother dead. With the police baffled and the public enraged, Meg breaks every rule in the bourgeois handbook and becomes the most notorious woman in Paris.An unforgettable true account of sex, scandal, and murder, The Red Widow is the story of a woman determined to rise-at any cost.

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Book SynopsisTwo daughters, who are identical twins decided to document the life of their adopted father (Papi). They share some of the greatest lessons learned from Papi which helped shaped their lives. These lessons are captured during intimate moments where Papi describes his childhood, moving to the United States, navigating the workforce, and love and marriage. The lessons on maintaining a healthy marriage and raising a family are invaluable. We also explore the importance of rising above challenges with humility. You will be intrigued with his love and level of commitment to his wife who was diagnosed with Alzheimer''s. Until her passing in 2021 he kept his promise to never leave her side. This included never placing her in a skilled nursing facility. Papi became her caregiver for over 10 years and when he was forced to have back surgery (Spinal Stenosis). His two daughters quickly moved in to care for Mami. Papi was in a rehabilitation center for many weeks and could not wait to recover so he could be reunited with his wife. You will be inspired by his life and appreciate the many lessons he shares.

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Book SynopsisFor too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that ‘sex work’ is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Prostitution Narratives refutes the lies and debunks the myths spread by the industry through the lived experiences of women who have survived prostitution. These disturbing stories give voice to formerly prostituted women who explain why they entered the sex trade. They bravely and courageously recount their intimate experiences of harm and humiliation at the hands of sex buyers, pimps and traffickers and reveal their escape and emergence as survivors. . Essential reading for Women’s Studies.Trade ReviewWhatever your stand on prostitution, its the first-hand stories of women that have to be listened to first. These accounts are among the most unsettling you will ever read, dispelling in just a few pages the comforting fairytales our society has built around sex work. Steve Biddulph, author of Raising BoysAs you read, be prepared to feel both grief and rage. Prostitution Narrativesforces us to face the routine cruelty of the sexual-exploitation industries and go beyond the diversionary arguments of those who glorify sex work. Most importantly, this book asks men to choose: What do we value more, our own sexual pleasure or the humanity of women? Our answer reveals whether we believe in our own humanity. Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin, author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity.One of the women who shared their story in Prostitution Narratives went on to share it in the Daily Mail online. Her article can be read in full using the link below.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture. Painfully and at times, reluctantly, Fuse probes and explores the documented prevalence of mental health issues in bi-racial women.

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Book SynopsisSamson Johnson has spent a life in politics. A self professed politics 'bicycle seat' finds himself run down and out of faith around 2014. Despite having worked many positions in numerous campaigns, for a litany of different causes all over the political spectrum, he is jaded, pained and full of doubt. In an effort to bring himself down from the non-stop, jet set campaigning lifestyle,Samson takes a quiet data entry job for a think tank in Washington DC, in an effort to reclaim stability in his life. Within weeks however, Samson's attempt at finding serenity is shattered with reports of another mass shooting. Samson finds himself possessed to address gun violence and begins a one man campaign to end it forever.From Militia men in Oklahoma, to a Pride Center in Vermont, from shareholders in California, to reservation workers in South Dakota – Samson Johnson's 'Believe America' movement traverses all over America to reach its people. Yet as the movement builds in popularity so does Samson's reflection on his policy. Across his journey, he is given the creeping realization that his policy may be woefully misguided and in fact, stand to do more harm than good.

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Book Synopsis“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps: starved, traumatized, and worked nearly to death. A story like Ilse Johansen’s is rarely told—of a woman caught in the web of fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and beginning of the Cold War. The candid story of her time as a prisoner, written soon after her release, provides startling insight into the ordeal of a German female prisoner under Soviet rule. Readers of memoir and history, and students of feminism and war studies, will learn more about women’s experience of the Soviet gulag through the eyes of Ilse Johansen. Introduction by Michael Seadle.Trade Review"Surviving the Gulag is an unflinching story of being a German woman in the very places that have been written about by so many men." [Full review at http://www.ralphmag.org/JC/gulag.html] -- Lolita Lark * RALPH Magazine *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface ix Hans Rudolf Gahle r Acknowledgements xi Karin and Rex Marshall Editor’s Introduction xiii Heather Marshall Introduction xxix Michael Seadle Surviving the Gulag 1 Index 239

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Book SynopsisAs the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration camps. Highly educated, hard working, and often opinionated, E. Maud Graham joined the Canadian contingent of forty teachers. Her eyewitness account reveals the complexity of relations and tensions at a controversial period in the histories of both Britain and South Africa. Graham presents a lively historical travel memoir, and the editors have provided rich political and historical context to her narrative in the Introduction and generous annotations. This is a rare primary source for experts in Colonial Studies, Women’s Studies, and Canadian, South African, and British Imperial History. Readers with an interest in the South African War will be intrigued by Graham’s observations on South African society at the end of the Victorian era.Trade Review"Maud Graham’s 1905 book about her experiences in South Africa (1902–04) offers a fascinating perspective on the country.... Historians Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, and Susanne M. Klausen have made this primary document accessible by republishing it, adding footnotes to Graham’s text to help contemporary readers, and writing an extensive fifty-page introductory analysis of her account. They have included many of the wonderful photographs that appeared in Graham’s original publication and have added more from Graham’s private collection and relevant archives.... Graham’s account will help others understand how the British and English-speaking Canadians in South Africa perceived Boers and native southern Africans at the turn of the twentieth century, and her descriptions reveal details about everyday life in South Africa at an important moment of transition.... Graham’s book represents the perspective of a well-embedded outsider reporting to far-removed readers, rather than that of a female teacher involved in international or imperial education." -- Benjamin Bryce * Historical Studies in Education *This is a contemporary presentation of a historic document with graceful typographical details. The full bleed archival images and unexpected treatment of page numbers and running shoulders, though unusual for a travel memoir, add to its interest. The consistent use of the grid is satisfying. Daphne Geismar, Juror, Association of American University Presses: Book, Jacket, and Journal Show 2016"This book is recommended for those who wish to learn more about South African history and early race relations or tensions. Graham’s opinionated writing will amuse and interest those researching women’s studies." African Studies Quarterly, Volume 16 -- Amy L. Crofford * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction CHAPTER I | The Call to South Africa CHAPTER II | London CHAPTER III | Southampton to Cape Town CHAPTER Iv | On the Karoo CHAPTER v | Norval’s Pont Camp CHAPTER v I | Johannesburg and Pretoria CHAPTER v II | End of the Camp Life CHAPTER v III | Fauresmith CHAPTER Ix | Kroonstad CHAPTER x | The Kafirs and the Labor Question CHAPTER x I | Repatriation and Compensation CHAPTER x II | Paupers and Government Relief Works CHAPTER x III | Education and Church Schools CHAPTER xiv | The Farming Question CHAPTER xv | Homewards Bibliography Index

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