Escape To Life

Author : Andrea Weiss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226886743
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain written by Andrea Weiss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Thomas Mann's two eldest children that provides intriguing insight into both their lives and the political and cultural shifts at the same time. Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were unconventional, rebellious, and fiercely devoted to each other. Empowered by their close bond, they espoused vehemently anti-Nazi views in a Europe swept up in fascism and were openly, even defiantly, gay in an age of secrecy and repression. Although their father’s fame has unfairly overshadowed their legacy, Erika and Klaus were serious authors, performance artists before the medium existed, and political visionaries whose searing essays and lectures are still relevant today. And, as Andrea Weiss reveals in this dual biography, their story offers a fascinating view of the literary and intellectual life, political turmoil, and shifting sexual mores of their times. In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain begins with an account of the make-believe world the Manns created together as children—an early sign of their talents as well as the intensity of their relationship. Weiss documents the lifelong artistic collaboration that followed, showing how, as the Nazis took power, Erika and Klaus infused their work with a shared sense of political commitment. Their views earned them exile, and after escaping Germany they eventually moved to the United States, where both served as members of the U.S. armed forces. Abroad, they enjoyed a wide circle of famous friends, including Andre Gide, Christopher Isherwood, Jean Cocteau, and W. H. Auden, whom Erika married in 1935. But the demands of life in exile, Klaus’s heroin addiction, and Erika’s new allegiance to their father strained their mutual devotion, and in 1949 Klaus committed suicide. Beautiful never-before-seen photographs illustrate Weiss’s riveting tale of two brave nonconformists whose dramatic lives open up new perspectives on the history of the twentieth century.

Author : Sigrid Weigel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783112204160
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape to Life written by Sigrid Weigel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. This compendium, adopting the title of a volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals thinking when it was translated intoEnglish and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angleand aspect deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, himself a German exile, produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced together in this book for the first time."

Author : Mali Karl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape to Life written by Mali Karl and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by Mali Karl, is the true and moving story of her life. From her experiences in her home in Lwów, Poland, from which she was brutally snatched away into the whirlwind of events that resulted in the darkest era of humanity, the Holocaust.With a broken heart, with no more tears to cry or ire to calm, this heroic woman emerges as an overwhelming force whose faith and courage has guided her eagerness to ESCAPE TO LIFE.This book reflects her internal struggle, between the events that she feels reluctant to remember, and her imperative need to relate them in order to make sure that this will happen never again.

Author : Charles Paterson
Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9780997003468
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape Home written by Charles Paterson and published by Doppelhouse Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting family memoir of a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice begins in Nazi-occupied Europe and journeys home to American modernism.

Author : Patricia Herskovic
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9789653081529
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape to Life written by Patricia Herskovic and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in the crossfire of Nazi oppression, two people triumph in this story of courage, luck and passion during one of the darkest moments of the 20th Century. After surviving a perilous escape from Auschwitz's infamous death camps, William Herskovic miraculously made his way across Nazi-occupied Europe. Becoming one of the first recorded eyewitnesses of Hitler's atrocities, he alerted the underground, and was eventually credited with the rescue of hundreds, perhaps thousands, bound for the gas chambers. Mireille, still merely a teenager, managed to hide her parents in attics and rural homes, risking her life daily to venture out for the food to keep them alive. The Herskovic family survived the perils of the Holocaust with their souls and spirits soaring. Patricia Herskovicwas born in Belgium and immigrated to the United States as a child. She received her degree in political science from UCLA. Currently a motion picture producer, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. Distributed for Yad Vashem Publications, Jerusalem

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545841844
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Camp Run-For-Your-Life (Give Yourself Goosebumps #19) written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS! Heads up! You're on your way to sports camp! If only Uncle Ed can find the place. He’s the lamest driver ever.A sign up ahead says CAMP RUNNING LEAF. Hey! That's not the name of the camp you signed up for! But Uncle Ed is already driving away. Oh, well. Running Leaf is a sports camp too. Isn't that why the campers call it Camp Run-For-Your-Life?You've got a choice of events. If you enter the athletic competition called the "Selection," you could be selected for a free trip... to be a slave on Plant Xentron! Yikes. Maybe you'd better choose the wilderness hike instead. Just look out for that mountain lion over there! Oh and try to steer clear of the Zombies with rotting limbs...The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!

Author : Lucinda Jackson
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647424046
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Escape written by Lucinda Jackson and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucinda Jackson, a harried scientist and business executive, sets off to make a break from her corporate decades and have an “extraordinary” retirement. She launches into a five-phase “Project Escape,” complete with a vision, goals, and a scorecard of success to deliver this next chapter. Soon, Jackson and her semi-reluctant husband of thirty years are off as volunteers to the government of the Pacific island country of Palau. But while Jackson got the girl out of the corporation, even the jolt of Palau can’t fully get the corporation out of the girl. As she struggles through self-examination around purpose, identity, ego, marriage, and parenthood after years of investing so much in career, Jackson gradually learns who she is again. Whether you’re thinking ahead to retirement or are already there, Project Escape provides an unvarnished but ultimately encouraging reference in navigating the “post-career” era.

Author : Jeffrey Eanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781677153121
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life is an Escape Room written by Jeffrey Eanes and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Yourself Can Be Fun!Life is an Escape Room: Applying Lessons Learned from Successful Escapeletes to Achieving More in Life demonstrates how the skills you gain playing escape rooms with intention will make you more successful in all aspects of your life. Escape rooms are the fun way to learn about perception, communication, leadership, how to have better relationships, and so much more! Each chapter provides entertaining and insightful advice (and exciting stories!) to help you improve your professional and personal life skills.Find out how a booby-trapped Egyptian tomb, following a pirate's treasure map, and a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an obstacle course, a hedge maze, and a playground can make your life better and improve your self-awareness and personal skills.Author BiosChristina and Jeffrey Eanes are obsessed with escape rooms. Some of their escapes include from prison (many times); a cabin in the woods before a serial killer trapped them; and a mad scientist's lab where not only did they escape the lab, but they also saved humanity from the zombie virus by stealing the antidote (you're welcome!) Chris utilizes the learning from these escape rooms to enhance her speeches, workshops, coaching, and podcast series (Quit Bleeping Around). Jeff spends his days keeping our country safe with a great team of folks at that huge pentagon-shaped building near Washington, D.C.

Author : Glenn Lovell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape Artist written by Glenn Lovell and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape Artist—based on Glenn Lovell’s extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell—is the first biography of the director of such acclaimed films as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bad Day at Black Rock. Lovell examines Sturges’s childhood in California during the Great Depression; his apprenticeship in the editing department of RKO Pictures, where he worked on such films as Gunga Din and Of Human Bondage; his service in the Army Air Corps in World War II; and his emergence as one of the first independent producer-directors in Hollywood. Chronicling the filmmaker’s relationships with such luminaries as Spencer Tracy, James Garner, Yul Brynner, and Frank Sinatra, Escape Artist interweaves biography with critical analyses of Sturges’s hits and misses. Along the way, Lovell addresses the reasons why Sturges has been overlooked in the ongoing discussion of postwar Hollywood and explores the director’s focus on masculinity, machismo, and male-bonding in big-budget, ensemble action films. Lovell also examines Sturges’s aesthetic sensibility, his talent for composing widescreen images, and his uncanny ability to judge raw talent—including that of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, all of whom began their careers in Sturges’s movies. This long overdue study of a major Hollywood director will find a welcome home in the libraries of film scholars, action movie buffs, and anyone interested in the popular culture of the twentieth century. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association "Pick up a copy of film critic and scholar Glenn Lovell's terrific new Sturges biography, Escape Artist. . . . I can't urge you enough to check out this interview-rich, aesthetically and culturally perceptive look at the filmmaker and his work."—Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News “Lovell’s list of interviewees reads like a who’s who of Hollywood and they obviously provided rich source material for this full-scale biography and career survey.”— Leonard Maltin “This long overdue study of a major Hollywood director will find a welcome home in the libraries of film scholars, action movie buffs, and anyone interested in the popular culture of the twentieth century.”—Turner Classic Movies (TCM.com)

Author : David J Antocci
Publisher : David J Antocci
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ESCAPE, A New Life written by David J Antocci and published by David J Antocci. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save herself, she had to lose everything. Trapped in a tropical paradise with no memory of how she got there, Abby is thrust into a fight for her life. Hunted by a madman, and chased by unsettling dreams of her past, she meets up with Eric. Together they set out to escape. Yet, they discover this deceptive paradise is harder to leave than they ever imagined. Can they escape their hunter, or are they only pawns in his game of life or death? One mystery leads to another until their escape throws them into even greater danger as Abby’s frightening past finally catches up with her. Her escape is only the beginning. If you like an edge of your seat thriller with twists and turns you’ll never see coming, you’ll love David Antocci’s ESCAPE trilogy. Grab the series starter today! What Reviewers are saying: ★★★★★ ‘The ending left me with my eyes and mouth wide open.’ ★★★★★ ‘The only problem with Antocci's books is that you can't put them down!’ ★★★★★ ‘Seldom has a storyline been so intriguing it leaves one speechless.’ ★★★★★ ‘This was one of the best reads of the summer. The author was exceptional in bringing his characters to life.’ ★★★★★ ‘David Antocci is a masterful storyteller!’ ★★★★★ ‘Can't wait to tell my friends about this book. It is a must read. Great Author.’ ★★★★★ ‘This is a fast and furious tale that immerses the reader immediately into the story and doesn't let go even after the final page!’ ★★★★★ ‘From cover to cover it is full of action, mystery, and intrigue while including some romance.’ ★★★★★ ‘Here is a book by an author who has the remarkable ability to set a pace and to maintain it. This was a very engaging read.’