BROUGHT TO THE USA WHEN HE WAS A FEW MONTHS OLD AND VERY SICK TO JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL, MD THEY SAVED HIS LIFE, WENT TO SCHOOL AT MOUNT WASHINGTON SEMINARY, BALTIMORE, MD WHEN HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD WENT TO AUGUSTA MILITARY ACADEMY IN FT DEFIANCE, VA; AS A TEENAGER HE WAS TAKEN TO EUROPE AND PLACED IN SEVERAL PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN AND SWITZERLAND, HE BECOME A LANGUAGES PROFESSOR, BEFORE WWII HE RETURNED TO EL SALVADOR, CENTRAL AMERICA WITH HIS FATHER. HE ENJOYED SPORTS: TENNIS HE COMPETED AND WON SEVERAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN EUROPE AND WAS AN INSTRUCTOR IN EL SALVADOR, AS WELL AS A TEACHER IN LANGUAGES, HE ALSO LOVED SKIING, SWIMMING AND SOCCER. HE WROTE AND COMPOSED HUNDRED AND HUNDRED OF POEMS IN FIVE (5) LANGUAGES.

BROUGHT TO THE USA WHEN HE WAS A FEW MONTHS OLD AND VERY SICK TO JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL, MD THEY SAVED HIS LIFE, WENT TO SCHOOL AT MOUNT WASHINGTON SEMINARY, BALTIMORE, MD WHEN HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD WENT TO AUGUSTA MILITARY ACADEMY IN FT DEFIANCE, VA; AS A TEENAGER HE WAS TAKEN TO EUROPE AND PLACED IN SEVERAL PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN AND SWITZERLAND, HE BECOME A LANGUAGES PROFESSOR, BEFORE WWII HE RETURNED TO EL SALVADOR, CENTRAL AMERICA WITH HIS FATHER. HE ENJOYED SPORTS: TENNIS HE COMPETED AND WON SEVERAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN EUROPE AND WAS AN INSTRUCTOR IN EL SALVADOR, AS WELL AS A TEACHER IN LANGUAGES, HE ALSO LOVED SKIING, SWIMMING AND SOCCER. HE WROTE AND COMPOSED HUNDRED AND HUNDRED OF POEMS IN FIVE (5) LANGUAGES.

An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor “Max” Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer. More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen’s story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen’s journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life.

From the author of The Changing Mind and The Organized Mind comes a New York Times bestseller that unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with music ***** 'What do the music of Bach, Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?' Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. From Mozart to the Beatles, neuroscientist, psychologist and internationally-bestselling author Daniel Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand music, and what it can teach us about ourselves. ***** 'Music seems to have an almost wilful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know . . . Daniel Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox' Sting 'You'll never hear music in the same way again' Classic FM magazine 'Music, Levitin argues, is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development' Literary Review

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Musician, composer, producer: Brian Eno is unique in contemporary music. Best known in recent years for producing U2's sensational albums, Eno began his career as a synthesizer player for Roxy Music. He has since released many solo albums, both rock and ambient, written music for film and television soundtracks, and collaborated with David Bowie, David Byrne, Robert Fripp, and classical and experimental composers. His pioneering ambient sound has been enormously influential, and without him today's rock would have a decidedly different sound. Drawing on Eno's own words to examine his influences and ideas, this book—featuring a new afterword and an updated discography and bibliography—will long remain provocative and definitive.

An anthology of articles on the evolution of minimal music in New York in 1972-1982, which originally appeared in the Village Voice (New York).