And Yet It Is Heard

Author : Tito M. Tonietti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783034806756

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And Yet It Is Heard by Tito M. Tonietti Pdf

We bring into full light some excerpts on musical subjects which were until now scattered throughout the most famous scientific texts. The main scientific and musical cultures outside of Europe are also taken into consideration. The first and most important property to underline in the scientific texts examined here is the language they are written in. This means that our multicultural history of the sciences necessarily also becomes a review of the various dominant languages used in the different historical contexts. In this volume, the history of the development of the sciences is told as it happened in real contexts, not in an alienated ideal world.

Author : Leon Thorne
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978801660

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It Will Yet Be Heard by Leon Thorne Pdf

Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne’s memoir as a work of “bitter truth” that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated edition, including both Thorne’s original 1961 memoir Out of the Ashes: The Story of a Survivor and his previously unpublished accounts of his arduous postwar experiences in Germany and Poland. Rabbi Thorne composed his memoir under extraordinary conditions, confined to a small underground bunker below a Polish peasant’s pigsty. But, It Will Yet Be Heard is remarkable not only for the story of its composition, but also for its moral clarity and complexity. A deeply religious man, Rabbi Thorne bore witness to forced labor camps, human degradation, and the murders of entire communities. And once he emerged from hiding, he grappled not only with survivor’s guilt, but also with the lingering antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Poland even after the war ended. Harrowing, moving, and deeply insightful, Rabbi Thorne’s firsthand account offers a rediscovered perspective on the twentieth century’s greatest tragedy.

Author : Tara Westover
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443452502

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Educated by Tara Westover Pdf

For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school. Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought.

Author : James Bawden,Ronald G. Miller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813174228

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You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet by James Bawden,Ronald G. Miller Pdf

Journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller spent their careers interviewing the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age. They visited Lee Marvin at home and politely admired his fishing trophies, chatted with Janet Leigh while a young Jamie Lee Curtis played, and even made Elizabeth Taylor laugh out loud. In You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, Bawden and Miller return with a new collection of rare interviews with iconic film stars including Henry Fonda, Esther Williams, Buster Keaton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, and many more. The book is filled with humorous anecdotes and incredible behind-the-scenes stories. For instance, Bette Davis reflects that she and Katharine Hepburn were both considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara but neither was "gorgeous enough" for the part; Janet Leigh analyzes the famous shower scene in Psycho (1960), which was shot in seven days and gave the actress nightmares for years; and Jimmy Stewart describes Alfred Hitchcock as a "strange, roly-poly man, interested only in blondes and murder." Popular horror film stars from Lon Chaney Jr. to Boris Karloff and Vincent Price are also featured in a special "movie monsters" section. With first-person accounts of Hollywood life from some of the most distinguished luminaries in the history of American cinema, this entertaining book will delight classic movie fans.

Author : Robinne Lee
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250125910

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The Idea of You by Robinne Lee Pdf

Now an original movie on Prime Video starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine! When Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles, takes her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band, she does so reluctantly and at her ex-husband’s request. The last thing she expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident, and posh, and the attraction is immediate. That he is all of twenty years old further complicates things. What begins as a series of clandestine trysts quickly evolves into a passionate relationship. It is a journey that spans continents as Solène and Hayes navigate each other’s disparate worlds: from stadium tours to international art fairs to secluded hideaways in Paris and Miami. And for Solène, it is as much a reclaiming of self, as it is a rediscovery of happiness and love. When their romance becomes a viral sensation, and both she and her daughter become the target of rabid fans and an insatiable media, Solène must face how her new status has impacted not only her life, but the lives of those closest to her.

Author : Jaime Forsythe
Publisher : A Feed Dog Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1772141232

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I Heard Something by Jaime Forsythe Pdf

"Poems about evocative somethings: mysterious sounds, faint rumblings, biographies real and imagined, tabloid rumours, nagging memories, animal stirings, storms threatening, and inexplicable machines coughing into motion in the distance."--

Author : Andrew Sarris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015040361118

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You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet by Andrew Sarris Pdf

One of America's most celebrated film critics, author of the seminal work "The American Cinema", offers this definitive statement on film in a masterwork that has been 25 years in the making. From Chaplin to Garbo to Welles, from gangster films to screwball comedies to musicals--this is the history movie buffs have been waiting for.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNR:CR300037414

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The Chinese Repository by Anonim Pdf

Author : Josephine Elizabeth Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590189073

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Catharine of Siena by Josephine Elizabeth Butler Pdf

Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590173930

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Stoner by John Williams Pdf

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

Author : Shaun Hutson
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748119530

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Epitaph by Shaun Hutson Pdf

He sucked in a deep breath full of that strange smell he couldn't identify. He trailed his hands across the satin beneath him and to both sides of him and, when he raised his hands, above him too. He knew why it was so dark. He understood why he could see nothing. He realized why he was lying down. He was in a coffin. A distraught couple thinks you've killed their daughter and they want a confession. If you say you did it, they'll kill you. If you say you didn't, they'll leave you to die. It seems hopeless but there is one way out . . . What would you do?

Author : Gael Hannan
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Hearing impaired
ISBN : 9781460263648

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The Way I Hear It by Gael Hannan Pdf

If you think hearing loss is just a condition of old age-think again. In The Way I Hear It, Gael Hannan explodes one myth after another in a witty and insightful journey into life with hearing loss at every age. Blending personal stories with practical strategies, Gael shines a light onto a world of communication challenges: a marriage proposal without hearing aids in, pillow talk and other relationships, raising a child, going to the movies, dining out, ordering at the drive-thru, in the classroom, on the job and hearing technology. Part memoir, part survival guide, The Way I Hear It offers tips for effective communication, poetic reflections, and heart-warming stories from people she has met in her workshops and at conferences throughout North America. Gael's humorous stories are backed by hearing loss research, and she offers advice on how to bridge the gap between consumer and professional in order to get the best possible hearing health care. The Way I Hear It is a book for people with hearing loss-but also for their families, friends and the professionals who serve them. Gael Hannan shares not only the daily frustrations, but also a strong message of hope and optimism for living successfully with hearing loss....

Author : V. J. Banis
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434447968

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The Earth and All It Holds by V. J. Banis Pdf

The Brussacs were rich, powerful, blessed, and envied. Yet through their lives ran a thread of tragedy and heartbreak that could not be broken, forever linking them in a hellish alliance. This epic tale soars from Nob Hill to the Barbary Coast to the Los Angeles oil fields in a stunning story of the tangled lives of an extraordinary family. "V. J. Banis outdoes himself...all-stops-out historical romance. --"Publishers Weekly "A rip-roaring romantic novel." --Library Journal

Author : David R. George III
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743445610

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Mission Gamma: Book One by David R. George III Pdf

THE TIME HAS COME...for a new era of exploration. With the Dominion War behind them, the crew of the U.S.S. Defiant journeys through the wormhole as Commander Elias Vaughn leads a "corps of discovery" to blaze new trails into the unexplored reaches of the Gamma Quadrant. THE TIME HAS COME ...for a civilization to reach a crossroads. As political forces throughout the Alpha Quadrant intersect at Deep Space 9™ to determine the future of Bajor, the planet's theological unity threatens to shatter. And for Colonel Kira Nerys, the path of the Prophets may become a road to ruin. THE TIME HAS COME...for a father and daughter to confront their past while a mother and son fight for the future, for lovers to be tested and for friendships to transform, and for worlds on opposite ends of the galaxy to face the dusk...or the dawn. TWILIGHT

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027378160

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The Popular Science Monthly by Anonim Pdf