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Witness To A Century
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Author : George Seldes
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2011-04-27
Witness To A Century written by George Seldes and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person statements from a generation that included Hitler, Nehru, and Mao . . . and Seldes too." --Columbia Journalism Review
Witness To The Century
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Author : Cadambi Sheshachar Venkatachar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Witness To The Century written by Cadambi Sheshachar Venkatachar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with India categories.
Writings of a former Indian civil servant; chiefly relates to political events of the 20th century.
A Witness To A Century
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Author : Dietrich A. Alsberg
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001
A Witness To A Century written by Dietrich A. Alsberg and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The book is the story of a refugee who survived the Nazis and his contributions to the U.S. as a soldier, engineer and citizen. His father interned under Konrad Röntgen when X rays were discovered The author was born in Germany in 1917 during World War I. The story continues with life in the Weimar Republic and under the Nazi regime Though raised Christian, because of his Jewish ancestry, he had to go into hiding and had a harrowing miraculous escape from the Nazis in 1938. During World War II he served in the U .S. Army in Europe as related through his war letters. An Electrical Engineer with Bell Laboratories he contributed to the cutting edge of the technical revolution of our time: Long Distance Communications, the Transistor, Guided Missiles (ICBM’S and Satellite Launchers), Missile Defense, Electromagnetic Nuclear Weapons Effects (EMP) and high speed communications through Millimeter Waveguide. He was granted numerous patents and contributed to technical journals and books. The personal story runs in parallel with the technical story: raising a family, civic affairs, public office, and world travel to Europe, Japan and the Americas. He had a particular interest in Americas civilizations and pre-Columbian archeology.
Disappearing Witness
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Author : Gretchen Garner
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-07-25
Disappearing Witness written by Gretchen Garner and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-25 with Art categories.
In documenting this transformation in American photography, Disappearing Witness forcefully rethinks the history of photography itself.
Witness Of A Century
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Author : Noble Frankland
language : en
Publisher: London : Shepheard-Walwyn
Release Date : 1993
Witness Of A Century written by Noble Frankland and has been published by London : Shepheard-Walwyn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of Prince Arthur, who was Queen Victoria's favourite son, the Duke of Wellington's godson, Edward VII's brother, George V's uncle and the great-uncle of Edward VIII and George VI.
Witness To An Extreme Century
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Author : Robert Jay Lifton
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-06-14
Witness To An Extreme Century written by Robert Jay Lifton and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On a fateful day in the spring of 1954 Robert Jay Lifton, a young American psychiatrist just discharged from service in the Korean War, decided to stay in Hong Kong rather than return home—changing his life plans entirely—so that he could continue work that had enthralled him, interviewing people subjected to Chinese thought reform. He had plunged into uncharted territory in probing the far reaches of the human psyche, as he would repeatedly in the years ahead, and his Hong Kong research provided the first understanding of the insidious process that came to be known as brainwashing. From that day in Hong Kong forward, Lifton has probed into some of the darkest episodes of human history, bearing his unique form of psychological witness to the sources and consequences of collective violence and trauma, as well as to our astonishing capacity for resilience. In this long-awaited memoir, Lifton charts the adventurous and constantly surprising course of his fascinating life journey, a journey that took him from what a friend of his called a “Jewish Huck Finn childhood” in Brooklyn to friendships with many of the most influential intellectuals, writers, and artists of our time—from Erik Erikson, David Riesman, and Margaret Mead, to Howard Zinn and Kurt Vonnegut, Stanley Kunitz, Kenzaburo Oe, and Norman Mailer. In his remarkable study of Hiroshima survivors, he explored the human consequences of nuclear weapons, and then went on to uncover dangerous forms of attraction to their power in the spiritual disease he calls nuclearism. During riveting face-to-face interviews with Nazi doctors, he illuminated the reversal of healing and killing in ordinary physicians who had been socialized to Nazi evil. With Vietnam veterans he helped create unprecedented “rap groups” in which much was revealed about what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder, helping veterans draw upon their experience for valuable, even prophetic, insights about atrocity and war. As a pioneer in psychohistory, Lifton’s encounters with the consequences of cruelty and destructiveness led him to become a passionate social activist, lending a powerful voice of conscience to the suppressed truths of the Vietnam War and the dangers of nuclear weapons. Written with the warmth of spirit—along with the humor and sense of absurdity—that have made Lifton a beloved friend and teacher to so many, Witness to an Extreme Century is a moving and deeply thought-provoking story of one man’s extraordinary commitment to looking into the abyss of evil in order to help us move beyond it.
Leica
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Author : Alessandro Pasi
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2004
Leica written by Alessandro Pasi and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Photography categories.
A lavishly illustrated history of the first hand-held camera discusses its impact on documentary photography, its use by numerous famous photographers, and its status as a sought-after collectible today. By the author of Beetle Mania.
Witness Tree
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Author : Lynda V. Mapes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-04-11
Witness Tree written by Lynda V. Mapes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Science categories.
An intimate look at one majestic hundred-year-old oak tree through four seasons--and the reality of global climate change it reveals. In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years of rapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping its leaves later as the climate warms. Even the inner workings of individual leaves have changed to accommodate more CO2 in our atmosphere. Climate science can seem dense, remote, and abstract. But through the lens of this one tree, it becomes immediate and intimate. In Witness Tree, environmental reporter Lynda V. Mapes takes us through her year living with one red oak at the Harvard Forest. We learn about carbon cycles and leaf physiology, but also experience the seasons as people have for centuries, watching for each new bud, and listening for each new bird and frog call in spring. We savor the cadence of falling autumn leaves, and glory of snow and starry winter nights. Lynda takes us along as she climbs high into the oak's swaying boughs, and scientists core deep into the oak's heartwood, dig into its roots and probe the teeming life of the soil. She brings us eye-level with garter snakes and newts, and alongside the squirrels and jays devouring the oak's acorns. Season by season she reveals the secrets of trees, how they work, and sustain a vast community of lives, including our own. The oak is a living timeline and witness to climate change. While stark in its implications, Witness Tree is a beautiful and lyrical read, rich in detail, sweeps of weather, history, people, and animals. It is a story rooted in hope, beauty, wonder, and the possibility of renewal in people's connection to nature.
Witness Against History
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Author : Yomi Braester
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Witness Against History written by Yomi Braester and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate.
Charles Wheeler Witness To The Twentieth Century
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Author : Shirin Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Release Date : 2023-11-09
Charles Wheeler Witness To The Twentieth Century written by Shirin Wheeler and has been published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's trouble spots. Present at many of the key episodes of the twentieth century, he had - as a BBC manager noted after the shooting of George Wallace, Presidential candidate and Governor of Alabama, on 15 May 1972, 'a knack of being in the right place at the right time'. It was typical of Charles that he ran towards the sound of the gunshot while the crowd was running in the opposite direction. Wheeler's investigative skill and sense of judgement made him one of the most authoritative reporters of his generation. But what was it like to have been witness to the events that shaped our modern world? In this book - part memoir, part history, part reflection - his daughter, Shirin Wheeler, examines her father's journalistic legacy and brings her personal knowledge to bear on the project. She will tell the story of her father: a patient listener and forensic interrogator who was driven by curiosity and passion to report and expose injustice, and above all to give a voice to people ignored or unheard by many.