Witness To A Century

Author : George Seldes
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307775429
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness to a Century written by George Seldes and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Author : Gretchen Garner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871672
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disappearing Witness written by Gretchen Garner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-07-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In documenting this transformation in American photography, Disappearing Witness forcefully rethinks the history of photography itself.

Author : Dietrich A. Alsberg
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595204422
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Witness to a Century written by Dietrich A. Alsberg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lynda Mapes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632862530
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness Tree written by Lynda Mapes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Noble Frankland
Publisher : London : Shepheard-Walwyn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness of a Century written by Noble Frankland and published by London : Shepheard-Walwyn. This book was released on 1993 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416597186
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness to an Extreme Century written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jack V. Matson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466578645
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effective Expert Witnessing written by Jack V. Matson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentation’s impact on a jury. Effective Expert Witnessing, Fifth Edition: Practices for the 21st Century explores the fundamentals of litigation, trial preparation, courtroom presentation, and the business of expert witnessing. Extensively updated to reflect new developments since the last edition, it provides practical advice enabling expert witnesses and attorneys to maximize the effectiveness of their expert testimony. The Fifth Edition includes three new chapters. The first uses a hypothetical case study to explore expert witness immunity and issues related to professional malpractice and civil liability. In a chapter on psychology and the art of expert persuasion, noted social psychologist and witness preparation specialist Ann T. Greeley reveals the psychology of juries, discusses what makes an expert effective, and provides tips for conveying effective testimony through verbal and nonverbal behavior and graphics and technology. The final chapter surveys nine of the worst mistakes an expert can make and provides tips on how to avoid them. Accompanying the book are downloadable resources in which Dr. Matson introduces video clips demonstrating effective and ineffective expert testimony at deposition and trial. The book and supplemental downloadable resources provide robust strategies ensuring that expert witnesses have the best possible advantage in presenting testimony that is credible, persuasive, and compelling.

Author : Rut Likhṭenshṭain
Publisher : Gefen Books
ISBN 13 : 9780982494905
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness to History written by Rut Likhṭenshṭain and published by Gefen Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness to History, a comprehensive book on the Holocaust aimed at both laymen and Jewish high school and college students, is unique in that it is a fully sourced, academically reliable history of the Holocaust, with particular emphasis on the experiences of religious Jews.

Author : Cadambi Sheshachar Venkatachar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness to the Century written by Cadambi Sheshachar Venkatachar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings of a former Indian civil servant; chiefly relates to political events of the 20th century.

Author : Michal Givoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108107966
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Care of the Witness written by Michal Givoni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims, soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a source of moral and political truth, the capacity to generate adequate testimonies based on this experience was repeatedly called into question. Michal Givoni's book follows the trail of the problems, torments, and crises that became commingled with witnessing to genocide, disaster, and war over the course of the twentieth century. By juxtaposing episodes of reflexive witnessing to the Great War, the Jewish Holocaust, and third world emergencies, The Care of the Witness explores the shifting roles and responsibilities of witnesses in history and the contribution that the troubles of witnessing made to the ethical consolidation of the witness as the leading figure of nongovernmental politics.