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Identity, Attachment and Resilience

Autor: Antonia Bifulco

Número de Páginas: 246

Identity, Attachment and Resilience provides a timely foray into the new field of psychology and genealogy, exploring the relationship between family history and identity. The field encompasses family narratives and researches family history to increase our understanding of cultural and personal identity, as well as our sense of self. It draws on emotional geography and history to provide rich yet personalised contexts for family experience. In this book, Antonia Bifulco researches three generations of her own Czechowski family, beginning in Poland in the late nineteenth century and moving on to post-WWII England. She focuses on key family members and places to describe individual experience against the socio-political backdrop of both World Wars. Utilising letters, journals and handwritten biographies of family members, the book undertakes an analysis of impacts on identity (sense of self ), attachment (family ties) and resilience (coping under adversity), drawing out timely wider themes of immigration and European identity. Representing a novel approach for psychologists, linking family narrative to social context and intergenerational impacts, Identity, Attachment and...

A Poet's Revolution

Autor: Donna Hollenberg

Número de Páginas: 531

"The first full-length biography of British-born poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life a major voice in American poetry during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on exhaustive archival research of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Krolik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Korlik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both a woman and an artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited"--Front jacket flap.

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Billboard

Número de Páginas: 140

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

2003 Brookman Stamp Price Guide

Autor: David S. Macdonald

Número de Páginas: 398

From Brookman comes the nation's most accurate and highly respected retail price guide of stamps and postal collectibles. Annual updates include thousands of newly illustrated stamps, retail prices on U.S., United Nations, and Canadian stamps, First Day Covers, souvenir cards, Pages, Panels, U.S. territories, and most types of postal collectibles from 1847 to 2002. A special autograph section covers presidents, government figures, military leaders, Hollywood celebrities, authors, athletes, and more. -- Nation's most accurate and highly respected retail price guide of stamps and postal collectibles -- Updates include prices on U.S., United Nations, and Canadian stamps, First Day Covers, souvenir cards, Pages, Panels, U.S. territories, and most types of postal collectibles from 1847 to 2002 -- Expanded autograph section covers presidents, government figures, military leaders, Hollywood celebrities, authors, and athletes

Moscow, 1937

Autor: Karl Schlögel

Número de Páginas: 650

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which 1 1⁄2 million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits the sites of show trials and executions and, by also consulting numerous sources from the time, he provides a masterful panorama of these key events in Russian history. He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also aimed to construct a new society. Based on countless documents, Schlögel’s historical masterpiece vividly presents an age in which the boundaries separating the dream and the terror dissolve, and enables us to experience the fear that was felt by people subjected to totalitarian rule. This rich and absorbing account of the Soviet purges will be essential reading for all students of Russia and for any readers interested in one of the most dramatic and disturbing events of modern history.

1945

Autor: Gregor Dallas

Número de Páginas: 767

A history of the end of World War II that focuses on diplomatic mistakes, military accidents, and interactions of world leaders.

Troubled Memory

Autor: Lawrence N. Powell

Número de Páginas: 614

This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memoryis also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto as a group, the Skoreckis evaded deportation to Treblinka, by posing as Aryans and ultimately made their way to New Orleans, where they became part of a vibrant Jewish community. Lawrence Powell traces the family's dramatic odyssey and explores the events that eventually triggered Anne Skorecki Levy's brave decision to honor the suffering of the past by confronting the recurring specter of racist hatred. Breaking decades of silence, she played a direct role in the unmasking and defeat of Duke during his 1991 campaign for the governorship of Louisiana.

Troubled Memory, Second Edition

Autor: Lawrence N. Powell

Número de Páginas: 624

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto as a group, the Skoreckis evaded deportation to Treblinka by posing as Aryans. The family eventually made their way to New Orleans, where they became part of a vibrant Jewish community. Lawrence Powell traces their dramatic odyssey and explores the events that eventually triggered Anne Skorecki Levy's brave decision to honor the suffering of the past by confronting the recurring specter of racist hatred.

1995 Brookman

Autor: David S. Macdonald

Número de Páginas: 262

Past for the Eyes

Autor: Oksana Sarkisova , Péter Apor

Número de Páginas: 439

How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past. "Books on the CEE transformations that deal with media and popular cultures should be welcomed. Past for the Eyes belongs to this extraordinary breed. The book is devoted to the visual representations of the socialist / communist past and the forms they took. The interconnected processes of visualization of the past, and the...

Play Index

Número de Páginas: 328

Fanfare

Número de Páginas: 574

The Gramophone

Annual Magazine Subject-index

Número de Páginas: 632

The Dramatic Index for ...

Autor: Frederick Winthrop Faxon , Mary Estella Bates , Anne C. Sutherland

Número de Páginas: 310

Issues for 1912-16, 1919- accompanied by an appendix: The Dramatic books and plays (in English) (title varies slightly) This bibliography was incorporated into the main list in 1917-18.

The Magazine Subject-index

Contains the cumulation of the subject index issued in the quarterly numbers of the Bulletin of bibliography and magazine subject-index.

Obra crítica 2

Autor: Julio Cortázar

Número de Páginas: 344

Este segundo volumen de la Obra crítica de Cortázar recupera, de entre numerosas y diversas publicaciones, la producción ensayística del autor anterior a su obra cumbre, Rayuela. En paralelo a su obra literaria, Julio Cortázar produjo un considerable conjunto de textos críticos de altísimo valor, tanto por su agudeza interpretativa como por la atractiva brillantez de su prosa. La presente recopilación de esos trabajos, publicada originalmente en 1994, se organiza en tres volúmenes, a cargo de los especialistas Saúl Yurkievich ("Teoría del túnel", 1947), Jaime Alazraki (textos anteriores a Rayuela) y Saúl Sosnowski (textos posteriores a Rayuela). Los textos críticos de Cortázar estaban dispersos en muy diversas y distantes publicaciones. En este segundo volumen de la Obra crítica, Jaime Alazraki reunió aquellos producidos antes de Rayuela, a partir de la primera nota publicada en la revista Cabalgata. Con un perfecto dominio de la bibliografía cortazariana, Alazraki logró recuperar textos casi desconocidos, donde se anuncia la personalidad literaria de Julio Cortázar y se prefigura su trayectoria. Estos escritos, de lectura imprescindible, permiten completar la...

Cuentos

Autor: Edgar Allan Poe

Número de Páginas: 887

Casi siempre ignorado por sus contemporáneos, el genio atormentado de Edgar Allan Poe no tardó en ser reconocido tras su muerte por autores de la talla de Baudelaire, Dostoievski, Jules Verne o Mallarmé. En la actualidad, sus cuentos son considerados como perfectas obras pioneras del terror psicológico y también de otros géneros como la narración detectivesca o la ciencia ficción. Además de recopilar todos sus relatos breves, este volumen se abre con una completa introducción al universo tenebroso y oscuro de Poe, y presenta la célebre traducción de otro maestro del cuento: Julio Cortázar.

Polish Catholicism between Tradition and Migration

Autor: Wojciech Sadlon

Número de Páginas: 212

From a critical realist perspective, this book examines the manner and the extent to which religion is shaped by modernity. With a focus on Poland, one of the most monolithic and religiously active Catholic societies in the world – but which has undergone periods of intense transformation in its recent history – the author explores the transformations that have affected Catholicism from a position of reflexivity. Viewing Catholicism as a system of ideas elaborated by tradition, the author considers the relationship between human subjectivity and social structure by examining the shift from traditional religious practice to modern religious observance, particularly in an era of migration in which many Polish Catholics have relocated to western European countries, with profound changes in their religious outlook. Presenting a new approach to understanding religious change from the perspective of religious reflexivity, Polish Catholicism between Tradition and Migration will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in religion, research methods, social change and critical realist thought.

Rosemary and Bitter Oranges

Autor: Patrizia Chen

Número de Páginas: 240

Patrizia Chen's childhood was suffused with the scent of simmering pots of cacciucco -- a local, hearty seafood stew -- and of the pittosporum blooming along the Tuscan coast. Her family's house and sumptuous garden in the Italian seaside town of Livorno are at the center of this captivating book that weaves together simple, delicious recipes with a love of home, family, nature, custom, and, above all, food. The family cook, Emilia, a feisty, temperamental woman from a nearby fishing village, dutifully produces bland white dishes for every family meal, as dictated by Patrizia's grandfather. But behind the kitchen door it's a different story. One day seven-year-old Patrizia is led by a wonderful smell into the kitchen, where Emilia is preparing a spicy red sauce bursting with garlic and onion. With one bite, Patrizia becomes hooked. In the spacious, sun-drenched kitchen and adjoining herb garden, Emilia takes Patrizia under her wing, disclosing the secrets of her favorite Tuscan dishes. Through vivid descriptions and charming anecdotes, Chen brings to life the white Carrara marble terraces, the coal-burning stoves, antique roses, and sacks of chestnut flour that fill the family...

The Advocate of Peace

Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries: Bilingual Edition, 4th Edition

Autor: Joanna F. Fountain

Número de Páginas: 487

For public and school libraries, this resource reflects recent changes in Library of Congress subject headings and authority files, and provides bilingual information essential to reference librarians and catalogers serving Spanish speakers. Libraries must provide better access to their collections for all users, including Spanish-language materials. The American Library Association has recognized this increasing need. Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries: Bilingual Fourth Edition is the only resource available that provides both authorized and reference entries in English and Spanish. A first-check source for the most frequently used headings needed in school and public libraries, this book incorporates thousands of new and revised entries to assist in applying LCSH and CSH headings. Of the approximately 30,000 headings listed, most include cross-references, and all of the cross-reference terms are translated. MARC21 tags are included for all authorized entries to simplify entering them into computerized catalogs, while indexes to all headings and free-floating subdivisions are provided in translation from Spanish to English. This book gives librarians access to...

The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature

Número de Páginas: 1002

The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal

Número de Páginas: 1590

Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

Publisher and Bookseller

Número de Páginas: 1214

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.