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Upstart Press Ltd Nine Lives: New Zealand Writers on Notable New
Book SynopsisA selected group of NZ writers have chosen a favourite New Zealander to write an essay on. These pieces are personal, illuminating and often moving. Around 5,000 words per essay, the writers had full choice on who to write about and what approach to take, so there is great variety in the styles. Writers are; Lloyd Jones on Paul Melser (potter), Paula Morris on Matiu Rata (politician), Catherine Robertson on Dame Margaret Sparrow (doctor and health advocate), Greg McGee on Ken Gray (all black), Stephanie Johnson on Carole Beu (bookseller), Malcolm Mulholland on Ranginui Walker(academic) Selina Tusitala Marsh on Albert Wendt (writer), Elspeth Sandys on Rewi Alley (writer and activist), and Paul Thomas on John Wright (cricketer).
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Handheld Press The Akeing Heart: Letters between Sylvia Townsend
Book Synopsis'This long-hidden treasure-trove of letters, with its many wonderful new photographs and illustrations, is a revelation. The "other woman's" voice is heard, and the shape of the Warner-Ackland-White love-triangle changes subtly. The Akeing Heart is the most important and startling addition in decades to what we know about these perennially fascinating writers.' Claire Harman, author of Sylvia Townsend Warner. A Biography and The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner The Akeing Heart is the long-lost story of the deep and passionate relationships between Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland and Elizabeth Wade White. Their intellectual and emotional integrity that endured over twenty years of heartache is revealed here in the rich correspondence preserved by Elizabeth from their relationship, and reconstructed by her godson, Peter Haring Judd. Valentine was the serial seducer, Elizabeth the passionate lover newly aware of her sexuality, while Sylvia kept faith in anger and despair. Elizabeth's long-term partner Evelyn Holahan emerges from the background to their story, as Sylvia's friend, and as a firm dash of realism to Valentine's romanticism. The correspondence over twenty years between the four women in this agonised relationship -in letters, poems, telegrams, keepsakes and notes -makes this book one of the finest collections of twentieth-century literary letters about love and its betrayals. Originally self-published by the author in 2013, this new edition of The Akeing Heart brings this supplement to Sylvia and Valentine's story to a wider readership. `Judd's story is an engrossing one, and the best of the Warner letters evince her characteristic joy in language and observation. Most moving are her efforts to retain Elizabeth's friendship while allowing the affair to take its course.' Times Literary SupplementTrade ReviewReview of the FIRST EDITION by Michael Caines, The Times Literary Supplement, 10 January 2014: In 1929, Sylvia Townsend Warner spoke at a literary luncheon in a New York hotel. Her audience included a certain Elizabeth Wade White, the daughter of a rich family in Connecticut, who would, much later, write the first biography of the New England poet Anne Bradstreet. They stayed in touch, and a close friendship developed that would become a source of misery, especially but not exclusively for Warner, as she lost her partner, Valentine Ackland, to a younger woman whom she had previously advised and encouraged in her intellectual pursuits. In one sense, the affair, which took place around the beginning of the Second World War, was brief. The intimacy it forged between the lovers lasted for years, however, and it would flare up again after the war. This episode in Warner's life, and the pain it caused her in her loyalty to the troubled Ackland, will not be unfamiliar to those who have read, say, Warner's diaries or I'll Stand by You, Susannah Pinney's selection of their correspondence. A member of White's family, Peter Haring Judd, supplies a new angle in The Akeing Heart: Passionate attachments and their aftermath. Judd's account is chiefly drawn from a substantial archive (now in the New York Public Library) of letters (including sixty from Warner, and hundreds from Ackland), poems and Journals by all three women, as well as letters from a fourth party, White's companion Evelyn Holahan, seething at the behaviour of Ackland, the "Dorset Sappho". Yet the interest of The Akeing Heart lies not Just in its tracing of these emotional collisions, but in the alternative chronicle it presents of life in the 1930s and 40s, as these women experienced it - in their travels, their political activities (supporting the Communists in Spain), their apprehension of war's approach. "Long threaten, long last", Warner observes of the political situation in 1938. "If wars are like thunderstorms the next war will be a long one." Ackland, meanwhile, makes a shocking impression on White's parents when she visits, with her necktie, masculine haircut and cigars. She had been, she later admitted, "drunken and lecherous". Apparently, she had made a pass at one of the maids. This is a self-published book, which shows in minor but distracting ways, and its structure is questionable: there is too much pre-emptive quotation in the linking passages between letters, which feels like stealing the correspondents' thunder; this could have been avoided if the book had been divided instead into a long introductory essay and a discrete selection from the archive. Judd's story is an engrossing one, nonetheless, and the best of the Warner letters evince her characteristic Joy in language and observation. Most moving are her efforts to retain Elizabeth's friendship while allowing the affair to take its course. Review of the FIRST EDITION in Vulpes Libris, 28 August 2013: This is Evelyn, writing in 1949 to her lover and life partner Elizabeth, on the occasion of Elizabeth's journey to England from the USA, to visit Valentine, Elizabeth's lover. Valentine had had a brief fling with Evelyn before Elizabeth had met either woman, and was also the lover and life partner of Sylvia. Got that? Now read on. "First of all please understand that I will never accept, trust or respect V. for reasons I have very definitely and clearly told you. On this matter, any possible doubts I might have had (and I assure you I had none) would have been more than confirmed this past summer by the selfish histrionics she burdened you with at a time when you were already most sadly burdened. However, there is no point or need to discuss this subject as I am sure you know how I feel. Secondly, I cannot and never will, be able to regard your great love with the degree of respect such a love of yours should have. You have rightly censured me for speaking of your relationship with the Dorset Sappho in "vulgar terms". The grotesque is usually vulgar, and when you have had sexual relations with a man you are more aware of how grotesque it is for a woman to try to act like a man. All the wedding ring, collar-and-tie, strutting and talking, business is pathetic and grotesque. It is absolutely impossible for me to reconcile my knowledge of you - my wonderfully dignified, intelligent and steadfast Elizabeth - as being a partner to such a spectacle and grotesqueness." Well! This extract from the letter might sound like sour grapes, but it also sounds like a woman angry at her beloved letting herself down with a selfish and ridiculous rake. The charismatic Valentine Ackland who had enthralled all three women was a minor lesbian poet, and the partner of the novelist, critic, poet and biographer Sylvia Townsend Warner. A recent reissue of their 1934 joint poetry collection, Whether A Dove or A Seagull, revealed the authorship of the poems that had been anonymised when first published, and, as Ali Smith noted in her review in the LRB, Valentine was not the author of the most accomplished poems. History has shown us that Valentine excelled at being the object of many women's love, and for causing much anguish and suffering to Sylvia. She was a poet, but she was and is much better known as a wrecker of hearts and a promiscuous seducer to boot. Why does this matter? In the established biographical studies of Sylvia Townsend Warner - who is a marvellous and under-rated novelist - Valentine is tragic, misunderstood, bedevilled by her drinking and her mid-life passion for Elizabeth Wade White. I haven't read Claire Harman's excellent biography of Warner for some years, but my recall of the `Elizabeth episode' as described there is that Elizabeth descended on a hapless Valentine, who was foolish enough to be seduced and then endured helplessly while Elizabeth rampaged around Dorset demanding that Valentine leave Sylvia and live with her. Sylvia meanwhile suffered in a civilised and frozen way, and all ended happily when Valentine stopped drinking and Elizabeth went away. I may have got some things muddled, but that's the residual effect. But The Akeing Heart, a large and impeccably edited collection of newly discovered letters, completely changes our understanding of the emotional dynamics of this messy and bitterly unhappy affair. Claire Harman was apparently very enthusiastic about its publication. Elizabeth - the younger of the women - was befriended by Sylvia and then Valentine in the 1920s, and holidayed with them both on and off during the 1930s. Sylvia was her adviser in art and life. But Valentine and Elizabeth fell shatteringly in love, and Valentine's solution for this awful triangle was to propose that she and Elizabeth lived together as lovers, and Sylvia stayed with them as their companion. One of the more heart-breaking findings from the letters is that Sylvia, in desperation, agreed to this proposal for some time, until it became obvious that Elizabeth and Valentine were an explosive and destructive combination. The Second World War separated them physically, but they wrote constantly, and Elizabeth sent Sylvia and Valentine frequent food parcels and clothing from the US throughout the war, for which both women thanked her, Sylvia with careful distant courtesy, tempered by the affection she still felt for her protegee, and Valentine with grateful devotion. Elizabeth's journey to England in 1949, the occasion of Evelyn's letter quoted above, was her second attempt to claim Valentine as her own. I cannot understand what she thought she was doing with Evelyn, or how Evelyn endured the betrayal. This extraordinarily tangled love story is the heart of these letters. The editor of this volume, Peter Haring Judd, was Elizabeth Wade White's godson and executor, and was tasked with clearing out her home after her death. On discovering the letters, and masses of other personal material from her life, her family, her relationship with Evelyn Holahan, and her pioneering work as a socialist philanthropist in McCarthyite America, he realised that he had a book on his hands and the other half of a story that nobody had realised could be told. He has been meticulous in transcribing the letters, and contextualising them with additional research and from his own family knowledge. The index is particularly good, constructed to suit a researcher's needs rather than following mechanical indexing rules. The resulting book is an important addition to the primary sources for studying Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland. But even if you don't care two hoots about those writers, this book relates a powerful love story set in a little-known queer literary landscape before and after the Second World War, and is embedded in the literary circles around Sylvia and Valentine and the Powys clan. The letters by all four women are beautiful, loving, passionate, desperate, angry, tense, matchlessly expressed, and packed with literary, social, political and wartime history. Sylvia Townsend Warner's estate gave permission for her letters to be published, for which scholars of the twentieth-century novel should be thankful, because in them her writer's voice is heard again. The letters of Valentine, Elizabeth and Evelyn twine and snap at each other, recreating their passions in articulate and controlled literary language that never forgets the meanings of words, and never uses a clumsy expression when something can be said in a way that is elegant and true. They are writers' letters first, as well as lovers' letters and women's letters. They are also possibly the most important literary letters to be published this year, but for all that, Peter Haring Judd was unable to persuade a publisher of their potential, and has chosen to self-publish via print on demand with Amazon. The resulting book's physical quality is perfectly good, though maybe a little floppy, since it runs to nearly 400 pages. It deserves a proper publisher who will give it a little light editing, get it into library-standard format, and benefit from the sales to scholars, libraries, and Warner and Ackland completists. So who will rush to snap up this terrific opportunity?Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abreviations and Note One: Like an astonished nervous dither bird Two: Entering into a dream Three: The new breath of life blowing out of England Four: Violent & ecstatic happiness Five: She is like the sea Six: Now and finally what love is and must be Seven: A last meeting must happen one time Eight: The flame rekindled and abated Epilogue Select Bibliography Endnotes Index About the Author
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Conker Editions Ltd Football's Black Pioneers: The Stories of the
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Brepols N.V. In Search of the First Venetians: Prosopography
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of
Book SynopsisThe book Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Auto-biographies is composed of over 30 essays written by prominent researchers worldwide belonging to the “Second Generation” and “ Third Generation” of Holocaust offspring. Each essay traces the author’s path to a research profession, focusing on the influence of their family’s Holocaust background at various crossroads of their life.Table of ContentsIntroduction - David Clark: - A Legacy of Displacement and the Search for Home - Samuel Juni: Righting a Life Which Started on the Wrong Foot - Ela Karpowicz: Becoming - Abraham J. Peck: Towards the Holocaust: A Son of Survivors in Search of Himself - Abraham Z. Reznick: The Holocaust and I - Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz: Nature or Nurture and My Search for Roots - Judith Tydor Baumel- Schwartz: In the Beginning There Was Auschwitz - Dov Dori: My Mother the Hero - Yehudit Judy Dori: From Holocaust to Breaking the Glass Ceiling - Dov Eichenwald: I Have No Other Country - Zehavit Gross: “I Didn’t Choose to be a Second Generation” - Anita H. Grosz: Would the Real Anita Please Rise - Jacqueline Heller: Surviving Survivors - Naomi Levy: On Being Second Generation and My Major Life Choices - Hilda Nissimi: The Holocaust Is a Black Hole - Katalin Pécsi- Pollner: Rewriting My Identity – From “Feeling Jewish” to Discovery of My Heritage - Haim Taitelbaum: Pass the Parcel - Dorota Glowacka: Hide and Seek: A Conversation with My Father in Three Voices - Susan Jacobowitz: Singing History - Shmuel Refael: A Greek- Jewish Family in a German Bauhaus - Dov Schwartz: Academia as a Voyage of Survival - Anita Winter: My Parents’ Story Is Also My Story – But Different - Dan Carter: My Heritage - Emmanuel Friedheim: Between the Shoah and Masada – An Unfulfilled Historical Journey - Rahel Jarach- Sztern: Memory, Tradition, Family: A Second Generation as Mother and Researcher - Rina Krautwirth: (Re)affirming the Past: Growing Up as the Child of a Holocaust Survivor - Liat Steir- Livny: From Holocaust “Intrusions” to Holocaust Research - Daniela Ozacky Stern: Reflections of a Third- Generation Holocaust Scholar - Ariel Zellman: Coming Home - Contributors
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Lars Muller Publishers Sauerbruch Hutton: Archive 2
Book Synopsis"The current compendium traces the development of the office's architectural practice and thinking through a series of completed buildings, works in progress and projects that, as yet, remain unrealised. The book illuminates its strategies of sustainable design, its multiple interventions in the post-industrial cityscape and the unfolding of an architectural language full of sense and sensuality that reacts to its physical and social context, as well as to functional, technical, spatial and sculptural considerations. The book reveals Sauerbruch and Hutton's understanding of their profession as an ongoing process of research into presence and future, and is the only comprehensive documentation of their numerous works."
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Bohlau Verlag Osterreichische Historiker: Lebensläufe und
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Dietrich Reimer Kunsthistorikerinnen 1910-1980: Theorien,
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Dietrich Reimer Ethnologie: Biographie Einer Kulturwissenschaft
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol: Encounters in New
Book SynopsisFew figures tower over twentieth-century art like Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol. Their works were ground-breaking and incalculably influential, yet at the same time both artists were wildly popular in their lifetime and have only become more so in the decades since their deaths. Despite the striking differences in their art and personalities, the two men nonetheless had a lot in common the most obvious being a strong sense of the power of publicity and an affinity for eccentricity and extravagance. They also shared a love of New York, which both men made the heart of their social lives; it was there, in the 1960s, that they met for the first time. This book offers the first-ever direct juxtaposition of Dali and Warhol as personalities and artists. Torsten Otte builds his account through perceptive analyses of similarities in their lives and work, and reconstructs their many encounters based on first-hand accounts by some 120 people who knew and worked with the men. Around sixty images, many of them published here for the first time, by eminent photographers such as Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Philippe Halsman, Christopher Makos, Man Ray, or Robert Whitaker, round out the book.
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Die Gestalten Verlag Original Man: The Tautz Compendium of Less
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian
Book SynopsisSubhas Chandra Bose and his brother Sarat were among the most importanteaders of the Indian struggle for independence. Brothers Against the Raj is the definitive biography of the Bose brothers, placing them in the context of the Indian freedom struggle and the turbulent international politics of the period.eonard A. Gordon uses material gathered from archives, records and over 150 interviews he conducted with the brothers'' political contemporaries and family members, as well as hundreds of unpublishedetters, to bring toife once more two of India''s most controversialeaders during one of the most significant epochs in Indian history. [A] distinguished book... Mr. Gordon is a thorough scholar... one of the books of the year for 1990. Gordon has done full justice to the Bose brothers, giving them their due and recounting their story in the context of the turbulent times in which theyived. Professor Gordon has... conducted exhaustive and painstaking research and put its fruits into an eminently readable book. Besides, he has skilfully put the story of theirives into the context of the complex politics of India and Bengal of their times. The author is a New Yorker but knows Calcutta well... The entire distinguished family seems to come alive as he writes, but he is careful to paint them with their warts intact. [An] extraordinary, informative, and insightful study of Subhas and Sarat Bose. I have found the book informative and absorbing. [ Gordon has] managed to combine empathy with objectivity- not an easy feat.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories
Book Synopsis30 Women in Power carries the inimitable voices of Indian women who have been pioneers andedarge organizations in banking,aw, the media, advertising, government services, health care, consulting, the fast-moving consumer goods sector and the not-for-profit space. In these narratives told up, close and personal thirty of India''s greatest women achievers speak of the guiding principles that have held them in good stead; The role models who have anchored them; The childhood influences that have shaped their values and the interests outside the world of work that have revitalized them. Coming from all walks ofife, these empowered women discuss their many successes and their dreams for the future. Yet, they also venture to disclose the setbacks that have preceded hard-won conquests; The barriers, psychological or otherwise, that may have held them back at certain points and the compromises they''ve had to make to reach the top. Through these honest and contemplative revelations, thirty women in power answer those questions that confront all working women from how best to balance the personal and the professional, to how to dismantle gender biases. Equally, the essayists consider seminal issues that concern every committed professional, man or woman: What are the qualities that define aeader? Where does one find a mentor? What are the ingredients in the recipe for success? Edited by businesseader extraordinaire Nainaal Kidwai, this topical and relevant book is a must-read, not only for theessons it provides, but also for the intimate accounts it offers ofives powerfullyived.
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Brill The Voices of War Heroines: Sexual Violence,
Book SynopsisWith its focus on wartime sexual violence, this book examines the traumatic memories of wartime rape in context of contemporary theories of war. The translated testimonials of the raped women of the Bangladesh war emphasize the importance of critical discussion on gendered violence, war trauma, and the restructuring of policies regarding recovery and rehabilitation of the war victims, especially in the global South.Table of ContentsContents 1 Introduction War and Sexual Violence Women, War, and the Liberation War of Bangladesh Writing and Re-presentations: the Voices of Raped Women Life and Works of Neelima Ibrahim 2 Translator’s Note 3 The Voices of War Heroines Testimony 1: Tara Nielsen Testimony 2: Meher Jan Testimony 3: Rina Testimony 4: Shefali Testimony 5: Moyna Testimony 6: Fatema Testimony 7: Mina Bibliography Index
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. VEER SAVARKAR: SAVARKARTHE MAN WHO COULD HAVE
Book SynopsisIf Indiaooks forward to its 75th year of Independence, it is alsoooking at 75 years of the country''s partition. Perhaps the biggest human tragedy of the twentieth century, it was marked by unparalleled violence that was suppressed by interested parties for their own political and ideological reasons. In the analysis of the real factors thated to Partitionies theesson to protect India''s unity and integrity, as exemplified by the relentless but unsuccessful attempt by Veer Savarkar to prevent the birth of Pakistan. Arguably the greatest symbol of India''s national integration, Savarkar''s warnings on the threats to India''s security have come true in the past seven decades. Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition uncovers Savarkar, the thinker and the father of India''s national security who has shown the best possible pathway towards one nation that rises above religious, caste and regional feelings. It also proves the falsity of chargesevelled against Savarkar from time to time and exposes the motives behind them. It reveals, for the first time, the manner in which the Narendra Modi-led government has implemented Savarkar''s national security and diplomatic vision.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD: A MEMOIR
Book SynopsisHis autobiography is like him, no holds barred and a racy read that makes us feel ''wish we had a life like this''. -Sunil Gavaskar In its broad, multifaceted sweep of events from his birth in Mumbai''s poverty-stricken Madanpura to a father who started life as an orphan and a mother from a penurious family, Khalid Ansari''s life has been an enjoyable and purposeful journey in service of his fellow human beings. In this ''donkey''s tale-upar wala meherbaan to gadha pehelwaan (When God smiles kindly, the donkey thinks he''s a wrestler)'', Ansari has endeavoured to capture some highlights of a splendoured life which he has been blessed to live, catching stars while chasing rainbows. From starting newspapers and magazines; representing his country at the United Nations; accompanying dignitaries on state visits; covering cricket Test matches, nine Olympics, Commonwealth and Asian Games; travelling the world; being honoured with the Padma Shri award-it''s been indeed la vie en rose. In this memoir, the author has been at pains to prevent this from deteriorating into a ''I-did-this-did-that''-pat-himself, shabash!'' hagiography or a dry-as dust pontificaltome, by ''spicing'' it up with dollops of frothy anecdotes and self-critical bon mots even as he has attempted a discourse on the purpose of life, the ''right path'' and the like. Since charity and service to humankind are now the author''s obsession post retirement, he has also dwelt at some length upon his private, self funded charitable foundation and on giving away whatever little material possessions his wife Zeyna and he have acquired in his lifetime.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. NEERAJ CHOPRA: FROM PANIPAT TO THE PODIUM
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. EVERY MOTHER IS A CEO: MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM MY
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. ON BOARD: TEST, TRIAL AND TRIUMPH, My Years in
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Zubaan In the Shadow of Freedom – Three Lives in
Book SynopsisIn the early 1930s. Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. In Berlin, Ayii became a well-known journalist, and he met and fell in love with the renowned filmmaker Thea von Harbou, the writer of the classic films "Metropolis" and "M" and former wife of legendary director Fritz Lang. They later married. In this unique account, Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul - the daughter of Ayii and his third wife, Indumati Gunaji - traces the turbulent lives of her parents and that of Thea von Harbou against the backdrop of Nazi Germany and Gandhi's India. The book describes how Thea, many years Ayii's senior, became his support and mainstay in Germany, helping him in his attempts to bring young Indian students to the country. Hitler's rise to power put an end to that effort, and, on Thea's advice, Ayii returned to India, where the outspoken journalist became involved in Gandhi's campaign of noncooperation with the British, and where, with Thea's consent, he soon married Indumati, a Gandhian activist. Caught up in the whirlwind of Gandhi's activism, Indumati and Ayii spent several years in Indian prisons, unable to live as a married couple until their release, managing thereby to comply with a condition Gandhi himself had put on their marriage - that they remain apart for several years. Using a wealth of documents, letters, newspaper articles, and photographs, including personal papers, "Berlin to Gandhi" weaves together the tangled histories of two women, the man they loved, and two countries battling violence and nonviolence, fascism and colonialism.
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Pentagon Press Greatest Air Aces of All Time
Book SynopsisA flying Ace, fighter Ace or Air Ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The concept of the "Ace" emerged in 1915 during World War I, at the same time as aerial dogfighting, and was a term often also used to create heroes for domestic audiences, in what were otherwise wars of attrition. The individual combat actions of Aces were widely reported and disseminated as a chivalrous knight reminiscent to ancient era.For a brief early period, the exceptionally skilled pilot could shape the battle in the skies, and approximately five percent of combat pilots account for the majority of air-to-air victories. French newspapers were the first to describe Adolphe Pégoud as an Ace in World War I, and later Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron. There were a large number of Air Aces in World War II, and later in the Korean, Vietnam, Iraq-Iran, and Arab-Israeli wars. This book covers 25 of the greatest Air Aces across wars, nationalities and countries.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. How Prime Ministers Decide
Book SynopsisNeerja Chowdhury's book explores India's prime ministers' key decisions, offering insights into their leadership styles and historical impact. It analyzes pivotal moments to reveal decision-making processes of leaders like Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, V. P. Singh, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Manmohan Singh.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. FAIZ: FROM PASSIONATE LOVE TO A COSMIC VISION
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Pioneers In Microbiology: The Human Side Of
Book SynopsisPasteurization, penicillin, Koch's postulates, and gene coding. These discoveries and inventions are vital yet commonplace in modern life, but were radical when first introduced to the public and academia. In this book, the life and times of leading pioneers in microbiology are discussed in vivid detail, focusing on the background of each discovery and the process in which they were developed — sometimes by accident or sheer providence.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Pioneers In Microbiology: The Human Side Of
Book SynopsisPasteurization, penicillin, Koch's postulates, and gene coding. These discoveries and inventions are vital yet commonplace in modern life, but were radical when first introduced to the public and academia. In this book, the life and times of leading pioneers in microbiology are discussed in vivid detail, focusing on the background of each discovery and the process in which they were developed — sometimes by accident or sheer providence.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Lives And Times Of Great Pioneers In Chemistry
Book SynopsisChemical science has made major advances in the last few decades and has gradually transformed in to a highly multidisciplinary subject that is exciting academically and at the same time beneficial to human kind. In this context, we owe much to the foundations laid by great pioneers of chemistry who contributed new knowledge and created new directions. This book presents the lives and times of 21 great chemists starting from Lavoisier (18th century) and ending with Sanger. Then, there are stories of the great Faraday (19th century) and of the 20th century geniuses G N Lewis and Linus Pauling. The material in the book is presented in the form of stories describing important aspects of the lives of these great personalities, besides highlighting their contributions to chemistry. It is hoped that the book will provide enjoyable reading and also inspiration to those who wish to understand the secret of the creativity of these great chemists.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Lives And Times Of Great Pioneers In Chemistry
Book SynopsisChemical science has made major advances in the last few decades and has gradually transformed in to a highly multidisciplinary subject that is exciting academically and at the same time beneficial to human kind. In this context, we owe much to the foundations laid by great pioneers of chemistry who contributed new knowledge and created new directions. This book presents the lives and times of 21 great chemists starting from Lavoisier (18th century) and ending with Sanger. Then, there are stories of the great Faraday (19th century) and of the 20th century geniuses G N Lewis and Linus Pauling. The material in the book is presented in the form of stories describing important aspects of the lives of these great personalities, besides highlighting their contributions to chemistry. It is hoped that the book will provide enjoyable reading and also inspiration to those who wish to understand the secret of the creativity of these great chemists.
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