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Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation Sir Rudolf Peierls Born in Germany in 1907 Peierls was indeed a bird of passage whose career of fiftyfive years took him to leading centers of physicsincluding Munich Leipzig Zurich Copenhagen Cambridge Manchester Oxford and J Robert Oppenheimers Los Alamos Peierls was a major participant in the revolutionary development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 1930s working with some of the pioneers and as he puts it some of the great characters in this fieldOriginally published in 1985The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for Navy flight school in 1943 By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot still not quite twentyone and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theatre In this eloquent narrative by turns dramatic funny and elegiac Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age He makes real the places the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands and the people the other young pilots the girls and the young wives even the enemy pilots He remembers friendship and the excitement and tedium of war the high exhilaration of flying and the dying More than a tale of combat Flights of Passage is a story of one boys growth to manhood in the turbulent testing world of war in the air
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Energetic and cosmopolitan the Batrakaninbspfamily fate is entwined with that of their adopted land Egypt as it is caught in the upheavals of the 20th century Georges Bey Batrakani is the patriarch of this family of Greek Catholic Frenchspeaking Syrians living in a Muslim Cairo run by the British He is driven by the need to achieve the wealth necessary for the luxury he craves His chosen method is to manufacture the tarboosh or fez worn by every member of the Egyptian establishment As long as the tarboosh holds sway the family flourishes But in 1952 everything must change Egyptians take the reins of power for the first time since the pharaohs and the tarboosh becomes an anathema The Batrakanis birds of passage their love affair with Egypt at an end must move on to a new exile elsewhere
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The two ladies didnt want their husbands to die but they did want to survive them for the cruise It would be such fun just the two of them on a boat decently widowed at last But the sea holds hidden perils for women of a certain age The author won the Booker Prize for The Elected Member
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Among the great names in the world of alpine skiing that of Otto Lang ranks high And not just a great sportsman Lang was to become an important contributor to the world of American filmmaking as well In this compelling and richly anecdotal autobiography Lang tells his fascinating life story Born in Bosnia in 1908 and raised in Salzburg Austria Lang came to the United States in 1935 to introduce fellow Austrian Hannes Schneiders revolutionary Arlberg method of ski instruction to the New World During his early years in the US Lang founded ski schools on Mounts Rainier Baker and Hood in the Pacific Northwest and eventually succeeded Friedl Pfeifer as director of the famed Sun Valley Ski School At Sun Valley Lang taught many of Hollywoods elite to ski among them the legendary Darryl F Zanuck of Twentieth Century Fox Through Zanuck Lang found an introduction to the world of American cinema From acting in and later producing ski films he graduated to feature films eventually directing and producing dozens of films and over 100 television programs His screen credits include Call Nourished 777 starring Jimmy Stewart the 1952 James Mason thriller Five Fingers and the Japanese sequences of Tora Tora Tora Lang received four Academy Award nominations during his distinguished career As ski instructor and filmmaker Otto Lang made many remarkable friends and in these pages he recalls in vivid detail his relationships with an international cast of characters among them the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig Mohammed Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Iran Russian operatic star Feodor Chaliapin ski filmmaker Warren Miller documentarian Lowell Thomas plus Darryl Zanuck and a host of Hollywood notables With A Bird of Passage Otto Lang offers readers a spellbinding and beautifully written tale the riveting and often moving story of a life lived with courage passion and style Rick Newby author of Old Friends Walking in the Mountains
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