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Until February 15 2001 Howard Reichs mother Sonia had managed to keep almost everything about her experience of the Holocaust from her son That night she packed some clothes and fled her house in Skokie Illinois convinced that someone was trying to kill her This was the first indication that she was suffering from lateonset post traumatic stress disorder a littleknown condition that can emerge decades after the initial trauma For Howard it was also the opening of a window onto his mothers pastnbsp InnbspPrisoner of Her Past Howard Reich has written a moving memoir about growing up as the child of Holocaust survivors and finding refuge from silence and fear in the world of jazz It is only when Sonias memories overwhelm her and Howard begins to piece together her story that he comes to understand how his parents lives shaped his own The paperback edition includes an epilogue by the author that relates developments since the publication of the cloth edition
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Prisoner of Her Past tells the haunting story of a secret childhood trauma resurfacing sixty years later to unravel the life of Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich The film follows her son Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich as he journeys across the United States and Eastern Europe to uncover why his mother believes the world is conspiring to kill her Along the way he finds a family he never knew he had This film is the first to illuminate a littleknown illness lateonset Post Traumat
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This is the story of the capture of one of the largest Spanish warships and the captivity of her crew
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According to legend Aspasia of Miletus was a courtesan the teacher of Socrates and the political adviser of her lover Pericles Next to Sappho and Cleopatra she is the best known woman of the ancient Mediterranean Yet continued uncritical reception of her depiction in Attic comedy and naive acceptance of Plutarchs account of her in his Life of Pericles prevent us from understanding who she was and what her contributions to Greek thought may have been Madeleine Henry combines traditional philological and historical methods of analysis with feminist critical perspectives in order to trace the construction of Aspasias biographical tradition from ancient times to the present Through her analysis of both literary and political evidence Henry determines the ways in which Aspasia has become an icon of the sexually attractive and politically influential female how this construction has prevented her from taking her rightful place as a contributor to the philosophical enterprise and how continued belief in this icon has helped sexualize all womens intellectual achievements This is the first work to study Aspasias biographical tradition from ancient Greece to the present day
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RENDER UNTO CAESAR Gifted with the power of Nabu armed with the Helmet of Fate EgyptianAmerican medical student Khalid Nassour is getting a crash course in the ways of the world beyond Unfortunately our worlds a big enough mess as it is As Khalid struggles to reconcile everything he thought he knew about life and faith with the angels demons gods and monsters facing him at every turn the people of his ancestral homeland face monsters of their own So when protests against the police state turn violent outside the Egyptian consulate in New York its Khalids fate to investigate What he discovers is a dictatorship much olderand potentially deadlierthan the one the protesters face The spirit of none other than Julius Caesar himself has risen again and hes determined to finish what he started and conquer Egypt for good Stopping Caesar will take everything the new Doctor Fate knows about space and time magic and history And it may bring a former Fate out of retirement in the bargain Comics legend Paul Levitz LEGION OF SUPERHEROES JSA and acclaimed artist Sonny Liew THE SHADOW HERO THE ART OF CHARLIE CHAN HOCK CHYE continue their rollicking reimagining of DCs premiere superhero sorcerer in DOCTOR FATE VOL 2 PRISONERS OF THE PAST Collects issues 812
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According to legend Aspasia of Miletus was a courtesan the teacher of Socrates and the political adviser of her lover Pericles Next to Sappho and Cleopatra she is the best known woman of the ancient Mediterranean Yet continued uncritical reception of her depiction in Attic comedy and naive acceptance of Plutarchs account of her in his Life of Pericles prevent us from understanding who she was and what her contributions to Greek thought may have been Madeleine Henry combines traditional philological and historical methods of analysis with feminist critical perspectives in order to trace the construction of Aspasias biographical tradition from ancient times to the present Through her analysis of both literary and political evidence Henry determines the ways in which Aspasia has become an icon of the sexually attractive and politically influential female how this construction has prevented her from taking her rightful place as a contributor to the philosophical enterprise and how continued belief in this icon has helped sexualize all womens intellectual achievements This is the first work to study Aspasias biographical tradition from ancient Greece to the present day
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Translated by Ida Egede WintherHundreds of thousands of prisoners were incarcerated in camp around the world during World War II And individuals from all walks of life joined international organizations like the Red Cross churches and other religious groups to help counter the hopelessness of camp life One of these was Chris Christiansen who had just graduated from Theological School at Copenhagen University when he took a position with the Worlds Alliance of the YMCAs to work with the British American and other Allied prisoners of war in Germany The next seven years were for him an amazing experience The prisoners faced cold starvation loneliness deprivation and cruel and arbitrary treatment Those who served among them unrecognized in the headlines or history text worked tirelessly and patiently to relieve the conditions of the prisoners as much as possible Christiansen who was also arrested in Berlin and imprisoned in Moscow experienced this grim aspect of warfare from both sides His story pays tribute to the prisoners to the relief workers to the churches and other service organizations and to that part of the human spirit that sustained them through this dark period in our collective past
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A beautifully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Simón Radowitzky 18911956 a gentle soul caught up in a cruel world The authorillustrator is an Argentinian living in Spain where the book was first published in 2016 Radowitzky appears in a few books recentlynbspThe Anarchist ExpropriatorsnbspandnbspRebellion in Patagoniaboth from AK Press but this is the first Englishlanguage book devoted solely to him His tumultuous life begins with his immigration from Ukraine to Argentina followed by his assassination of Colonel Falcon who presided over the slaughter of 100 workers in 1909 Banished to a penal colony he escaped was recaptured and tortured serving a total of twenty years Upon release he joined the Spanish Revolution after which he decamped for Mexico where he died in 1956 while employed at a toy factory Stuart Christie author ofnbspGranny Made Me an Anarchist introduces the AK Press editionWhile Radowitzkys story has been toldnbsp it has never been told in quite the way Agustín Comotto tells it Through a series of flashbacks Prisoner 155 examines the agonies and survival of an exceptional individual GuardianComottos Prisoner 155 is in my view a truly great work comparable to Art Spiegelmans Maus and Marjane Satrapis Persepolis rich with complexity and ambiguity and whose shy and sensitive central character a committed humanist imbued with a deep sense of justice who never expressed regret for the two lives he took remains an enigma He was one of countless men and women the salt of the earth most of them anonymous who chose to resist against an unjust classridden society in the hope of building a better world for humanity Stuart Christie from the foreword
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Focusing on these and other thematic issues Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience Period photographs and first person accounts augment the text helping to communicate not only the layered and textured character of the experience but the human drama of the story as well A comprehensive roster identifying those interned in the frontier camps of the Rocky Mountains is also included
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This is a reallife story of smallboat adventure on the high seas complete with extreme risk lastminute ingenuity and many nearmisses The Sea Takes No Prisoners begins in the 60s telling of the adventures of the author as a boya time of boarding schools long holidays and an unbelievable to todays parents amount of freedom and danger Encouraged by his parents who lived abroad to become more independent and selfsufficient Peter decided to see how far he could get in his familys small open dinghy Calypso At age 16 he spent a winter restoring the 16foot Wayfayer open boat before sailing headlong into a force 7 gale and very nearly capsizing after which he headed back to land to plan even more extreme adventures The Wayfayer is a popular class of open dinghy 11000 built a boat designed for daytime gunkholing around coastlines and estuaries But along with the occasional brave crewmate Peter managed to sail her across the English Channel through the Bay of Biscay down the French canals and into the Mediterranean then up into the North Sea and the Baltic to Oslo living aboard for three months at a time These were some of the longest voyages that anyone had ever achieved in an open boat where as Peter says you have to be like a tightrope walker concentrating on balance day and night fully aware of the consequence of relaxing your vigilance He survived huge waves nine rudder breakages in heavy seas dismasting capsizes and hallucinations caused by sleep deprivation He also managed it on a tiny budget working as a farm laborer hitchhiking everywhere and at times living on one meal of cereal a day to save the maximum amount for his boat Charming beautifully written and a lovely insight into a seemingly golden time this is primarily a great read but will be of huge practical use to anyone wanting to go that bit farther in their dinghy It also includes a lovely foreword by worldfamous yachtsman Brian Thompson
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To the Western imagination Tibet evokes exoticism mysticism and wonder a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost Originally published in 1998 Prisoners of ShangriLa provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West Donald Lopez reveals here fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion He examines among much else the politics of the term Lamaism a pejorative synonym for Tibetan Buddhism the various theosophical psychedelic and New Age purposes served by the socalled Tibetan Book of the Dead and the unexpected history of the most famous of all Tibetan mantras om mani padme hum More than popculture anomalies these versions of Tibet are often embedded in scholarly sources constituting an odd union of the popular and the academic of fancy and fact Upon its original publication Prisoners of ShangriLa sent shockwaves through the field of Tibetan studieshailed as a timely provocative and courageous critique Twenty years hence the situation in Tibet has only grown more troubled and complexwith the unrest of 2008 the demolition of the dwellings of thousands of monks and nuns at Larung Gar in 2016 and the scores of selfimmolations committed by Tibetans to protest the Dalai Lamas exile In his new preface to this anniversary edition Lopez returns to the metaphors of prison and paradise to illuminate the state of Tibetan Buddhismboth in exile and in Tibetas monks and nuns still seek to find a way home Prisoners of ShangriLa remains a timely and vital inquiry into Western fantasies of Tibet
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The conclusion of the acclaimed cartoonists story of his father The second volume of Stalag IIB begins when René Tardi finally gets a taste of freedom as prisoners and German officers alike are forced to evacuate the POW camp he has languished in for the past four years Thus begins the long grueling journey eastward where Tardi and his fellow POWs must evade the pursuing Russian Army stave off their gnawing hunger and contend with the increasingly illtempered and vicious German soldiers accompanying them Throughout this harrowing odyssey the only thing that keeps him going is the hope that hell one day return home to France where his wife Henriette patiently awaits him Featuring meticulous line work punctuated by stunning splashes of color Jacques Tardis grim yet heartening biographical portrait is a personal and artistic triumph Fullcolor illustrations throughout
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A journalist journeys back into her familys own hidden past to uncover the history of her New York GermanJewish family which attempted to hide its religious and cultural background by converting to Roman Catholicism
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As an exotic dancer at The Great Alaskan Bush Company in Anchorage Mechele Hughes Linehan knew how to captivate men Three of them were convinced she was engaged to them Then one spring morning in 1996 one man Kent Leppink was found in the snow shot in the headDays before his death Kent had removed Mecheles name from his milliondollar life insurance policy He wrote a letter to his family stating that should he meet foul play Mechele would likely be among those involved But she wasnt charged with Kents death She married a doctor moved to Olympia Washington and began a new life For years Mecheles suburban friends never suspected a thing She went to school meetings hosted backyard barbeques and was beloved by her neighbors But authorities eventually found enough evidence to mount a case against her and an alleged accomplice Did Mechele conspire to kill her exfiancé Or is she the innocent victim as she claims Seduced by Evil is the shocking true story about a love triangle that ended in mysteryand murder
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