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Secant Publishing Elisabeth Gilman: Crusader for Justice
Book SynopsisThis is the first-ever biography of Elisabeth Gilman, a largely forgotten Marylander born to privilege in the nineteenth century who became an irrepressible force for social justice in the twentieth. As the second daughter of Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Elisabeth was raised in well-to-do, influential circles. Privately educated by tutors, she eventually earned a bachelors degree at Johns Hopkins. But unlike many who shared Elisabeths elevated station, she was possessed of a restless and critical spirit. As a strong devotee of the Social Gospel, she campaigned on behalf of the poor, African- Americans, women, and laborers exposed to harsh conditions. After her fathers death, Elisabeth joined the Socialist Party and was nominated as a candidate for governor of Maryland, United States senator, mayor of Baltimore, and even sheriff of Baltimore. Never married, Elisabeth fell under the spell of a charismatic, progressive Episcopal priest named Mercer Green Johnston, and followed him and his wife to Paris during World War I, where she helped to support homesick American doughboys under the aegis of the YMCA.
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Mage Publishers Never Invisible: An Iranian Womans Life Across
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Tidalwave Productions Female Force: Dolly Parton - Bonus Pride Edition
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£7.96
Titletown Publishing, LLC Place of No Return: How I Survived China's Uyghur
Book SynopsisHer crime: she is Uyghur. Mihrigul Tursun's story is a powerful testimony of bravery in the face of unimaginable crimes. Her three children were forcibly taken from her before she was taken to a so-called re-education camp. Months later, she could only take two of her children back into her care alive. During her detention, Mihrigul Tursun was physically and mentally tortured and forcibly sterilized. She witnessed inmates being raped and killed. She was about to face her own execution when she was finally rescued. Mihrigul Tursun has experienced firsthand the measures used by the Chinese state to eradicate the cultural and religious identity of the Uyghurs. It is necessary to break people, cut off any closeness between them, find out every detail about them, frighten and terrorize them, not give them any freedom, or silence them. But even when Mihrigul Tursun is threatened, living in exile, and yet she is determined not to remain silent. It is her courageous concern to enlighten the world about the human rights violations against her people and report on the crimes behind the walls of the so-called re-education camps.
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Simon & Schuster Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours
Book SynopsisThis intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra—from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life—features never-before-seen photos and new revelations about some of the most famous people of the past fifty years, including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono. “If you are a Frank fan, buy this book” (Jimmy Kimmel).More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him—a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now. From Sinatra’s closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol that offers “new information on almost every page” (The Wall Street Journal). Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse—about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they’d led, the lives they wished they’d led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world’s biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer’s hand when he drew his last breath. “Frank Sinatra fans, pull up a chair and let longtime confidante and road manager Tony Oppedisano regale you with tales from the entertainer’s inner circle” (Parade magazine)—Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain on a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong.Trade Review“There’s new information on almost every page…Frank fans will find plenty to cheer…A believable portrait of a towering 20th-century figure in the defiant December of his years.” —Wall Street Journal“There are many books about Sinatra but few, if any, written by someone who spent as much time with him as the legend Tony O. If you are a Frank fan, buy this book.” —Jimmy Kimmel“Frank Sinatra fans, pull up a chair and let longtime confidante and road manager Tony Oppedisano regale you with tales from the entertainer’s inner circle in Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours. Enjoy intimate accounts of late-night drinking sessions, Las Vegas reveling, Rat Pack glory days, mob-tie truths and those infamous relationships with Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow, Marilyn Monroe and more.” —Parade magazine“Tony Oppedisano enjoyed unrivaled access to the man many consider America’s greatest 20th-century entertainer [and] shares the tales with punch and panache….Late-in-life wisdom seeps through as Sinatra recounts regrets about leaving his first marriage, takes stock of who his true friends are and tries to keep his music career flourishing...Perhaps the most surprisingly interesting portion of the book may be Oppedisano sharing his own life story and details of first entering Sinatra’s orbit….Sinatra and Me may not set the record straight about every misconception of its title subject but not for lack of Oppedisano trying. That the results of such a quest prove so readable, human and sympathetic testifies to the writer’s powerful memory and singular life experiences.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “An unblinking yet affectionate portrait of the singer in the October, November, and December of his years, and should appeal to diehards and rubberneckers alike.” —Airmail“An invaluable record…Sinatra and Me may leave readers longing for a friend like Frank; they'd be equally lucky to have one like Oppedisano. This tribute by Sinatra's much-younger best friend is like an Ol' Blue Eyes tune: sparkling, warm and emotionally true.” —Shelf Awareness“Oppedisano debuts with a remarkable look at the final years of one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century….This fascinating and intimate account stands out among the dozens of books written about the celebrated legend.” —Publishers Weekly“A fond remembrance of a deep friendship…Reveals a vulnerability in the Chairman of the Board that is often quite moving.” —Booklist“Revealing…A must-read for Sinatra fans, this lovingly written, sweetly devoted account may even solve some pop-culture mysteries.” —Kirkus Reviews"Utterly clear-eyed yet truly loving...A matchless portrait of a flawed, brilliant man—and of a great friendship. A gem of a book.” —James Kaplan, bestselling author of Frank: The Voice and The Chairman“What a great book! Tony O. does here what many have tried to do without quite succeeding: he’s made Frank Sinatra accessible….Certainly, this is one of the very best of the Sinatra books and, I daresay, maybe the only one the man himself would actually read!” —J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times bestselling author of Sinatra: Behind the Legend“Tony O. was Frank Sinatra’s go-to guy, and in this affectionate and intimate memoir, he writes about the wee small hours with the love and even awe that the great singer evoked. ….Even veteran Frankophiles will enjoy the twice-told tales, the striking new ones, and the natural eloquence of heartfelt eulogy in Sinatra and Me.” —David Lehman, author of Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World"I knew and loved and dated and worshipped Frank Sinatra—he was like no one else—and I consider myself a very contented survivor. This book was one of the best trips I’ve ever had. Tony captures the real Frank. I think I’ll be reading Sinatra and Me over and over.” —Angie Dickinson, star of more than 50 Hollywood films“The legend that is Frank Sinatra remains a fascinating topic. Tony O. had a deep and abiding friendship with Ol' Blue Eyes and an all-access pass to his life. We all are fortunate that he chose to share these intimate recollections with us.” —Michael Bublé, four-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist"Having a friendship like the one between Frank Sinatra and Tony O. was a true gift. Believe me, Tony was there in the 'wee small hours of the morning.' Sinatra and Me is a wonderful book." —Robert Wagner, star of It Takes a Thief and Hart to Hart“Literally, my entire life has been intimately intertwined with America’s beloved ‘Rat Pack’—with my Uncle Frank as Chairman of the Board; my Dad, the King of Cool; and the amazing man I call Uncle Sammy….This book is definitely 'Dal Cuore'—from the heart. Tony captures not just Frank but Frank’s entire world….You’re in for an authentic treat.” —Deana Martin, actress and Billboard Top 40 recording artist“Frank Sinatra, never anything less than a riveting presence, was a man I was lucky enough to be around and get to know—but Tony O. knew him as few men know each other….This is a deeply intimate book, and well worth the read.” —Tony Danza, star of Taxi and Who’s the Boss?"If you knew Frank Sinatra you knew Tony Oppedisano. The love, loyalty, respect, and friendship Tony showed Frank was infinite, and perhaps most important, wasn't just directed to the artist and legend but to the human being." —Lorna Luft, actress, singer, and New York Times bestselling author of Me and My Shadows"I loved Tony’s book. It's fun and paints such a vivid picture of the times that I felt I'd actually just spent a weekend in Palm Springs with Frank…and still have a hangover." —George Schlatter, former producer of the Grammy Awards and of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
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Random House USA Inc His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the
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Random House USA Inc Shredders: Girls Who Skate
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Caitlin Press What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love &
Book SynopsisThis mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghettis unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love. As the youngest child of a traditional Italian-Catholic immigrant family, Monica learns the intimacy of the dinner table and the ritual of meals, along with the requirements of conformity both at the table and in life. Monica is thirteen when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoes a mastectomy. When her mother dies three years later, Monica considers the existence of her own breasts and her emerging sexuality in the context of grief and the disintegration of her sense of family. As Monica becomes an adult, she discovers a part of her self that rebels against the rigours of her traditional upbringing. And as the layers of her sexuality are revealed she begins to understand that like herbs infusing a sauce with flavour, her differences add a delicious complexity to her life. But in coming to terms with her place in the margins of the margins, Monica must also face the challenge of coming out while living in a small town, years before same-sex marriage and amendments to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms created safer spaces for queers. Through risk, courage, and heartbreak, she ultimately redefines and recreates family and identity according to her own alternative vision.
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Caitlin Press A Quiet Roar: Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Book SynopsisCompelling and honest life of a stubborn BC rancher living tenaciously in the face of her Multiple Sclerosis condition. The devastating diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease does not ordinarily form the starting point of a triumphant story. This, however, is a triumphant story. Heidi Redl was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2004 and immediately chose to fight the disease with the only tools available to her: sheer stubbornness and courage. Growing up on a pioneer ranch in the rough and dusty days of the late 1960s and the 1970s, Redl learned at a young age to be self-reliant and tenacious. Life as a rancher had given her the courage she would need to bravely and persistently fight back against this chronic disease that now affects 2.5 million people worldwide. But nothing in her previous experiences could fully prepare her to live with an equally tenacious enemy. In this book Redl shares the struggles and triumphs in her uphill battle with multiple sclerosis. To survive, Redl must first learn to trust and rely on other people for the help she would need in the new reality of her daily life. This compelling and honest memoir is a record of her struggle against the physical challenges of living with a progressive disease but also of the support and incredible friendships she found along the way.
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Caitlin Press Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, poetry, and essays the magazine has published since it was founded in 1975 as ROOM OF ONE''S OWN. This collection includes poems about men not to be fallen in love with, trans womanhood, the morning-after pill, the mind fuck of being raped by a romantic partner, and a tribute to the women who were murdered in the Montreal Massacre. In one story, a group of sexual assault survivors meet weekly and come up with an unique way to help police capture their assailant, while in another a dinner party turns to witty talk of racism, sexism, pornography, and time travel. One author recounts how she learned multiple languages in order to connect with her father, another reluctantly walks down the aisle in order to stay in Canada with the man she loves. For forty years, ROOM has created a space for diverse voices. As Amber Dawn says in her opening essay, There is Room. We do fit. Contributors include Carol Shields, Audrey Thomas, Marian Engel, M. NourbeSe Philip, Carmen Aguirre, Eden Robinson, Daphne Marlatt, Dorothy Livesay, Ayelet Tsabari, Ivan Coyote, Tracey Lindberg, Sina Queyras, Evelyn Lau, Jen Sookfong Lee, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, and more. With forewords by Eleanor Wachtel and Amber Dawn, interviews with four former ROOM editors, and an afterword by ROOM''s current publisher and managing editor.
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Caitlin Press Free to a Good Home: With Room for Improvement
Book SynopsisThe German word zugunruhe translates as the stirring before moving. Its used to describe birds and herds of animals, like wildebeests, before the great migration. Though Jules Torti is neither German nor a wildebeest, she understands this marrow-deep anxiousness all too well; she is just someone looking for a home. This book is evidence of Tortis life-long commitment to feeling at home where it mattered most: within herself. At eighteen, with one thousand dollars in her bank account, she moved to the West Coast from Ontario to find her people. She headed specifically to Davie Street -- that is where all the gays were! Finding a girlfriend proved to be elusive, but she learned a lot of Pet Shop Boys lyrics and studied everything by Jane Rule and Chrystos for guidance. Torti continued searching. Whether prepping chimpanzees breakfast in the Congo, searching for her own breakfast in the dumpsters of Vancouvers back alleys or seeking a permanent address in Ontarios unforgiving real estate market -- with many other worldly adventures in between -- Torti found that homesickness took up its own residence in her identity. While she longed for a home of bricks and mortar (or log or stone), she knew her greatest sense of home was to be found in a person, the missing her. For many, the path to home is never linear. If Torti began her memoir in Amsterdam, you might not follow. If she began in Uganda, you might get it. If she started with her time spent in the soggy Costa Rican jungle, you would have a better understanding. But, if she scrolled back to her tomboy self at age six, then you would see. Logically, this is where she begins her memoir of emotional geography: on an unpaved countryside road in Southwestern Ontario, among the corn and tobacco-fringed fields of Mount Pleasant, where she grew up. At turns poignant, hilarious and uncannily familiar, Free to a Good Home explores what it means to call a place home when life oddly mirrors a choose-your-own-adventure storybook.
£14.39
Caitlin Press Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter
Book SynopsisHow can a god-fearing Catholic, immigrant mother and her godless, bohemian daughter possibly find common ground? Food Was Her Country is the story of a mother, her queer daughter and their tempestuous culinary relationship. From accounts of 1970s macrobiotic potlucks to a dangerous mother-daughter road trip in search of lunch, this book is funny, dark and tender in turn. Bociurkiws Ukraine-born mother is a devotee of the Food Channel and a consummate cook. When she gets cancer of the larynx, she must learn how to eat and speak all over again. Her daughter learns how to feed her mother, but, more crucially, how to let her mother feed her. Food Was Her Country explores a daughters journey of grieving and reconciliation, uncovering the truth of her relationship with her mother only after her death. Marusya Bociurkiws Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl was a food writing phenomenon: the worlds first LGBTQ food memoir. With this long-awaited follow-up, Food Was Her Country draws upon a queer archive of art and activism, stories from her popular food blog, Recipes for Trouble, as well as social histories of food, evoking new beginnings and fresh ways of tasting the world.
£13.49
NeWest Press Horseplay: My Time Undercover on the Granville
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence!Finalist for Book Cover Design at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!In his first true crime memoir, undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver''s heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and the War on Drugs is intensifying. From his barroom observer''s seat, Boucher candidly reveals the lives of heroin addicts who spend each day looking for their next hit. Their dangerous subculture, centred around three gritty hotels on the Granville Strip, becomes Boucher''s domain as he attempts both to gain acceptance in a world far removed from his own and to keep himself safe.With Horseplay, decorated RCMP officer Norm Boucher takes readers back to the assignment that shaped his outlook on the role of criminal law enforcement and the human side of addiction as it collides with the ruthlessness of the drug business.
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Boulder Books Ray Guy: Portrait of a Rebel
Book SynopsisThere was a time -- not so long ago -- when the rich and influential quivered with trepidation as they opened the pages of the Evening Telegram. For within that newspaper lurked Ray Guy, whose sharp satire revealed bitter truths about those who wielded power in Newfoundland and Labrador. Guy, heralded as the real opposition to Premier Joey Smallwood, wrote with passion about the subject dearest to his heart -- Newfoundland and Labrador. For decades, he wrote fearlessly and defiantly in a range of local and national media. But Guy was also a deeply trouble man, who struggled against alcoholism and depression. Ron Crocker was a roommate and colleague of Guy in his Evening Telegram Days. Drawing on years of friendship, as well as an in-depth reading of Guys works and candid interviews with many of those closest to him, Crocker delivers a detailed portrait of the writer and his work. RAY GUY: PORTRAIT OF A REBEL is a testament and a toast to Ray Guys brilliant writing. It is also a compelling biography of a complex man with an incredible gift.
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Granville Island Publishing 11,000 Days at School: From Class Clown to High
Book Synopsis11,000 Days at School: From Class Clown to High School Vice-Principal is an illuminating and humour journey through the evolution of education in British Columbia.
£12.34
Tidewater Press Hangman: The True Story of Canada's First Official Executioner
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Tidewater Press Better Next Year: An Anthology of Christmas Epiphanies
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Boulder Books Agnes Ayre's ABCs of Amazing Women: Newfoundland
Book SynopsisJoin legendary artist and activist Agnes Ayre (1890-1943) as she leads readers through an alphabetical introduction to some of the most remarkable women from Newfoundland and Labrador history. You will meet scientists, artists, philanthropists, writers, athletes, adventurers, and more. Youll also get to know a trailblazing group of suffragists who altered the course of this provinces history. This book demonstrates that within every individual is the ability to accomplish something spectacular; it also reminds us that that when like-minded people work together, they can change society for the better. Filled with beautiful original illustrations, fascinating historical detail, and rarely told stories, this innovative ABC book will charm and inform children and adults alike.
£17.99
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Memory Is Our Home – Loss and Remembering: Three
Book SynopsisThis is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I, grew up during the interwar period and who, after escaping the atrocities of World War II, was able to survive in the vast territories of Soviet Russia and Uzbekistan. Translated by her own daughter, interweaving her own recollections as her family made a new life in the shadows of the Holocaust in Communist Poland after the war and into the late 1960s, this book is a rich, living document, a riveting account of a vibrant young woman's courage and endurance. A forty-year recollection of love and loss, of hopes and dreams for a better world, it provides richly-textured accounts of the physical and emotional lives of Jews in Warsaw and of survival during World War II throughout Russia. This book, narrated in a compelling, unique voice through two generations, is the proverbial candle needed to keep memory alive.Trade Review"Memory is Our Home is an important book for many reasons, not the least of which is that our Holocaust survivors, older and more fragile as the years go by, soon will no longer be with us. As one historian starkly reminds us, the twenty-year old who survived Auschwitz is now nearly ninety. This means that for us Jews specifically and for humanity in general, we are about to lose our eye-witnesses, something that could reduce the memory of the Holocaust to the back pages of history. That's why Suzanna Eibuszyc's efforts at not only recounting her mother's story but her determination to share it with the world are so vitally important. In the vast library of Holocaust literature, several books hold our attention and Memory is Our Home is one of them. Ms. Eibuszyc tells her mother's story with words that touch our hearts and create an indelible album of what happened to one family and how Nazi horrors shaped their lives. As our survivors pass on, Memory is Our Home will live in our hearts, reviving the spirit of those who suffered so while superbly maintaining Holocaust literature in the place of prominence it deserves". -- Rabbi Barbara Aiello, Serrastretta, Calabria, Italy"This is an important autobiography, the kind one seldom finds nowadays. It is a rare intellectual treat how Roma eloquently intertwines her personal and family history with the prevailing general, socio-political conditions and popular workers` movements of the Jews in Poland. We learn in minute details, without them becoming dull or boring, what life was like for her poor working-class family with a widowed, single mother who together with one son became the main breadwinners. Her descriptions are so vivid that one can actually touch the poverty and feel her immense loss when her mother dies-twice. Roma Talaszowic-Ejbuszyc has written a most compelling and illuminating memoir. In her straightforward style, she encompasses life in its totality. It is highly recommended." -- Judy Weissenberg Cohen, editor of Women and the holocaust"This Memoir fascinates from the early paragraphs. Rarely has a book been written that pencils so bleak a portrait of the Poland that had been cloaked in the secrecy of life under Germany`s iron fist. Even for those who lived those years in the rest of occupied Europe it presents an unfamiliar, stark black and white vision of hell." -- Rudy Rosenberg, author of "And Somehow We Survive""This book is such a tremendous accomplishment. The small details of Eibuszyc's mother s survival constantly amazed me. Powerful in its simplicity, the pages are all about the smallest things-the details about finding shelter, surviving cold and hunger, and how much a person can take. The importance of not forgetting, or ensuring that the Jewish legacy survives, that the Jewish culture and contribution to Poland are not erased." -- Marcy Dermansky, Author of the "Bad Marie""SUZANNA EIBUSZYES BOOK IS A DEEPLY MOVING AND POIGNANT memoir written by a daughter based on her mothers diaries. The book is an example of life writing at its finest. It situates the horrificexperiences of a family in the broader historical context and recovers the continuity of a biographical narrative of the family and community, ensuring that the memories of the unspeakably tragic past are not forgotten...Memory is Our Home underscores the importance of remembering and giving voice to victims in order to restore their dignity by validating their memories. The book powerfully conveys the need and responsibility to preserve ones identity and heritage and to tell the story of a once-vibrant cultural life destroyed in the course of the Holocaust. Equally important, it also calls upon readers to keep the memory of past atrocities alive as a way of preventing future injustices." - Tanya Narozhna, University of Winnipeg, Europe-Asia Studies 69/7
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon To See or Not to See – My Recovery from Blindness
Book SynopsisInez De Florio, born blind, tells us the moving, fascinating, and true story of her recovery from blindness at the age of 48 and how she coped with learning to see. Eyesight seems to be completely effortless for us, but for persons blind since birth these processes of adaptation are overwhelmingly demanding. For that reason, more than half of the patients commit suicide within the first years after successful surgery. De Florio, whose late recovery from blindness did not stop her from making a brilliant academic career as a professor in didactics, foreign languages, and intercultural communication, not only reveals astounding insights into the world of the visually impaired and their interactions with sighted people. Based on newest scientific findings, she also offers an illuminating report on how to learn to see and how to appreciate visual perception without over-emphasizing the importance of eyesight.Trade ReviewIn her science-oriented book Prof. Dr. Inez De Florio provides first-hand insight into the enormous efforts that are necessary when someone starts learning to see at an advanced age after successful surgery. Her personal experience gives her the opportunity to evaluate the importance of sight in comparison to the other senses based on newer scientific studies and biographical narratives. She demonstrates that touch, the first sense humans acquire, but also hearing, smell, and taste are not sufficiently evaluated, and calls on the readers to attach more importance to them. Dr. habil. Bernd KlewitzTable of ContentsIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly; Best of Elvis; Blind is the one who refuses to see; Communication serves the proper self; Love at first sight; Learning on the model; Colors, shapes and optical illusions; A crossing is a crossing is a crossing; The slightly different alphabetization; Wrapping artist; Jazz dance with open eyes; TV-listening with pictures; From the Eye Confusion Book to the Yearbook; Summary: seeing with all senses; View to the sky; Notes.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile
Book SynopsisWhen Megan Buskeys grandmother Anna dies in Cleveland in 2013, Megan is compelled in her grief to uncover and document her grandmothers life as a native of Ukraine. A Ukrainian American, Buskey returns to her familys homeland and enlists her relatives there to help her in her questand discovers much more than she expected. The result is an extraordinary journey that traces one womans story across Ukraines difficult twentieth century, from a Galician village emerging from serfdom, to the bloodlands of Eastern Europe during World War II, to the Siberian hinterlands where Anna spent almost two decades in exile before receiving the rare opportunity to emigrate from the Soviet Union in the 1960s. In the course of her research, Megan encounters essential and sometimes disturbing aspects of recent Ukrainian history, such as Nazi collaboration, the rise and persistence of Ukrainian nationalism, and the shattering impact of Russias full-scale invasion in 2022. Yet her wide-ranging inquiries keep leading her back to universal questions: What does family mean? How can you forge connections between generations that span different cultures, times, and places? And, perhaps most hauntingly, how can you best remember a complicated past that is at once foreign and personal?Trade Review"A painfully honest and carefully researched journey of a Ukrainian American into her familys complicated and difficult past. Anchored in the catastrophe of the Second World War and the subsequent Stalinist repression of the Ukrainian peasantry, the story flows, unexpectedly to the author herself, into the unfolding drama of the current Russian invasion. Thoughtful and beautifully written." Jan Gross, Princeton University, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland"This book is not only important, but captivating and instructive." John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta"Megan Buskeys blend of tireless investigation with thoughtful analysis and careful prose make this book an exemplar of the best traditions in historical writing." Wil S. Hylton, author of Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
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Hauser & Wirth Arshile Gorky - The Plow and the Song: A Life in
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Edition Axel Menges Karl Freidrich Schinkel: Das Architektonische
Book SynopsisText in German. There is a copious and wide-ranging body of literature on Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Germany's most important 19th-century architect. But there is not a single work that records and assembles material on buildings by Schinkel that are still standing today, one hundred and sixty years after his death, after two world wars and major political upheavals. This volume is intended to fill the gap by providing the fullest possible compilation. It is surprising how many buildings by Schinkel still exist. There are over 170 of them in 112 different places, 62 in Germany and 49 in Poland and Russia, with Berlin and Potsdam each counting as a single location. The picture is very varied as far as the individual buildings are concerned. The churches make up the greatest number: about 86 of them are still standing. Then come 34 museums, theatres, guardhouses, schools and similar buildings, 18 palaces, castles and manor houses, 12 memorials, 12 tombs, 6 interiors and 4 fonts. A glance at a map of the former state of Prussia shows clearly that the buildings are not distributed evenly. In the west, the Rhineland and Westphalia, there were and are relatively few buildings by Schinkel. There is a decided cluster, the first regional concentration, in the present Saxony-Anhalt, between Magdeburg and Weimar. Further to the east come major accumulations in Berlin and Potsdam, and then the Oderbruch in the east of Brandenburg as another cluster. There are also concentrations of buildings by Schinkel in the Posen area as well as in West and East Prussia. Pomerania and Silesia have far fewer. Heinz Schonemann provides an introductory essay about Schinkel in his day, Helmut Borsch-Supan has contributed accounts of the way in which Schinkel's legacy is being handled today. The catalogue texts are by Martina Abri, Elke Blauert, Eva Borsch-Supan, Bernd Evers, Hillert Ibbeken and Heinz Schonemann.
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Edition Axel Menges The Spanish Gardens of Javier Mariátegui: Gardens
Book SynopsisIt was not by chance nor by a trick of fate that Javier Mariátegui dedicated himself to gardening. He grew up among gardens. Both his grandmothers were gardening enthusiasts, one of them, the Marchioness of Casa Valdés, wrote the book Spanish Gardens, which describes the history of Spanish gardening from Roman times to the present day. This book continues to be a reference for all lovers of this particular field of history and art. This enthusiasm was passed on to him by his parents. From his earliest years he was making his own gardens, by reusing those plants discarded by his father. Mariátegui studied landscape gardening and design at the Escuela de Paisajismo y Jardinerìa Castillo de Batres in Madrid. Subsequently he worked in England as a gardener. Back in Spain, he established the Jardines de España nursery, which looks after and employs handicapped children, with whom he first started making gardens. For the past thirty years, he has created numerous gardens across Spain and in several other European countries. He has also published many articles on landscape-gardening topics in specialized magazines and a book on one of his gardens: El Jardín de los Tapices / The Tapestry Garden. Among the present garden architects of Spain Mariátegui plays an outstanding role. Even the Spanish TV has dedicated a monographic program to him and his gardens. It would be difficult to summarize in a few words the essence of Mariáteguis gardens, given the wide variety of styles, their versatility and numerous differences that perhaps becomes his "signature". His style is not dogmatic, he loves order and disorder, straight lines and curved, the wild chaos of nature as well as strict geometrical patterns, varied and single species of plants, colour and absence of colour. Moreover he enjoys bringing elements that clash together until they harmonize. Perhaps as a result of an intimate knowledge of the magic of water in Andalusian Moorish gardens, Mariátegui uses water as an essential element in many of his gardens. He makes it 'work' in all its forms; in pumps,in cascades, in constant gentle movement, or rocking in waves, in disperse drops or in silence like a mirror that adds the magic of its reflection.
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Motilal Banarsidass, Encountering Bliss
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Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Govt of India The Message of Mahatma Gandhi
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Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Govt of India Great Lives, Great Words:Mahatma Gandhi
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National Book Trust Drop in the Ocean : an Autobiograp
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