The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings

The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings
Title The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Pages 124
Release 2007-07-05
Genre Design
ISBN 9781568987040

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This title chronicles the life of Albert Hastings, an octogenarian living alone in a small flat in Wales. Bert's writing is paired with Deveney's photographs and together they tell a story of fulfilment, lonliness, hope and beauty.

Nothing Personal

Nothing Personal
Title Nothing Personal PDF eBook
Author James Baldwin
Publisher Beacon Press
Pages 106
Release 2021-05-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0807006424

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James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin’s deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020—which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the Confederacy—Baldwin’s documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves today. Baldwin’s thoughts move through an interconnected range of questions, from America’s fixation on eternal youth, to its refusal to recognize the past, its addiction to consumerism, and the lovelessness that fuels it in its cities and popular culture. He recounts his own encounter with police in a scene disturbingly similar to those we see today documented with ever increasing immediacy. This edition also includes a new foreword from interdisciplinary scholar Imani Perry and an afterword from noted Baldwin scholar Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Both explore and situate the essay within the broader context of Baldwin’s work, the Movement for Black Lives, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the presidency of Donald Trump. Nothing Personal is both a eulogy and a declaration of will. In bringing this work into the twenty-first century, readers new and old will take away fundamental and recurring truths about life in the US. It is both a call to action, and an appeal to love and to life.

All You Can Lose is Your Heart

All You Can Lose is Your Heart
Title All You Can Lose is Your Heart PDF eBook
Author Hank Stuever
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Architectural photography
ISBN 9783868286113

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Deveney's photographs explore 'Cinderella'-style homes built throughout the American Southwest in the 1950s and '60s, when developers applied fairytale-style aesthetics to ranch house exteriors. This book marks the first time these houses are the subject of a publication. These images tell us about a fading vision of the American dream, the last indications of a zeitgeist that encouraged Americans to aspire to a candycoated vision of family and home.

Thirty Four

Thirty Four
Title Thirty Four PDF eBook
Author William Hastings Burke
Publisher Wolfgeist Limited
Pages 232
Release 2015-01-13
Genre
ISBN 9780956371218

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Amidst the giddy chaos of Berlin, Hitler toys with death in his bunker. The golden boy of Nazism, Hermann Goring, looks set to succeed as Fuhrer. But his bid for power ends with a cyanide capsule in a gaol cell in Nuremberg. And there history signs off on Hermann. Yet buried in the footnotes sits the extraordinary story of Hermann Goring's little brother, Albert. A defiant anti-Nazi, Albert Goring spent the war years busting the persecuted out of concentration camps, smuggling them across borders and funnelling aid to refugees throughout Europe. He did everything to undermine his brother's regime. But by 1944 the Gestapo were hunting him down like a dog. Did Hermann step in and save his brother? Enter William, a twentysomething from Sydney, Australia, who stumbles upon the key to Goring's last secret, the original list of Thirty Four witnesses penned by Albert's own hand in Nuremberg. Shelving plans for a Ph.D., William sets off on a three-year odyssey across eight countries and three continents to piece together the puzzling life of Albert Goring. There to guide him are the tattered pages of Albert's list, along with those within who bear testimony to Albert's heroism. Forget staid biography. Think seat-of-your-pants travelogue mixed with a Spielberg eye for storytelling and you start to get a taste for the energy William brings to the page. Delivering the kind of must-read story that turns history on its head, "Thirty Four" gives us a new hero. Standing alongside Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg is the Goring history forgot. 'William Hastings Burke has done a great service by bringing Albert's deeds to light. Many survivors and their descendants scattered across the globe owe their lives to him. It is time that he was recognised by Yad Vashem.' Gilead Sher, "The Jewish Chronicle" '... an enthralling piece of history that has the makings of a great novel.' "Die Presse" 'A fresh and unorthodox form of writing history, enriched by the first person.' "La Aventura De La Historia" 'Burke splices an interesting form of history with his travel anecdotes in the background.' "Die Woche"

Dawning of the Raj

Dawning of the Raj
Title Dawning of the Raj PDF eBook
Author Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Pages 344
Release 2000
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Warren Hastings, Britain's first governor-elect of India, was in the 18th century the person most responsible for the creation of British rule in India, according to the author. Hastings' eventual and dramatic impeachment forms the conclusion to Bernstein's unusual and powerful narrative. 12 illustrations.

Berlin nach 45

Berlin nach 45
Title Berlin nach 45 PDF eBook
Author Michael Schmidt
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2005
Genre Berlin (Germany)
ISBN 9783865210906

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Schmidt's work has always focused on his hometown of Berlin and the book format has always been a fundamental element of his work. One of his most important bodies of work, 'Berlin Nach 1945', has never been published as a whole. He has elaborated a powerful visual record of a city in a state of flux.

Victorians Undone

Victorians Undone
Title Victorians Undone PDF eBook
Author Kathryn Hughes
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 441
Release 2018-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 142142570X

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In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.