"A feast for the eyes...bringing alive a long vanished world that's still eerily present."--Daniel Czitrom, New York Post The premiere national Jewish newspaper has opened its never-before-seen archives, revealing a photographic landscape of Jews in the twentieth century and beyond. This extraordinary volume features classic photographs of the history one has learned to associate with the Jewish Daily Forward--Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, labor rallies--along with gems no one would expect. The book also features essays by Leon Wieseltier, Roger Kahn, and Deborah Lipstadt, and a rousing introduction by Pete Hamill.
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
These books have been revised and written in accordance with the latest syllabus prescribed by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE). Answers to the objective questions and unit test papers are included at the end of each chapter.
A New Lens on Life is the colorful, true story of Harry Brady.Growing up on the Northside of Pittsburgh with an alcoholic father and rats in the basement, the scrawny little kid with glasses developed an Irish wit and hilarious storytelling style.A childhood peppered with classroom misbehavior, sandlot baseball exploits, misadventures with fireworks, miscues as an altar boy, and practical jokes was tempered by an endearing innocence and compassion for others.As a college senior, Harry was the lone survivor of a tractor-trailer accident that killed three classmates. "Why save me?" he asked as he began losing his Faith.Still mourning their deaths while sitting next to classmate Antonin Scalia at graduation from Georgetown, Harry questioned the existence of God. Inspired by the love of his life, Harry finished medical school, started a family, and wound up in the Army.During his M.A.S.H.-like service as a Captain and surgeon in Korea at the height of the Vietnam War, Harry's mischievous and creative stunts shocked his superiors as he served those in need.Later, as a Professor of Ophthalmology, he led residents on mission trips to serve the blind and the vision-impaired in Haiti.He established the Brady Clinic at Saint Louis University, which has provided free service to more than 11,000 medically disenfranchised people.After living 64 years with a spiritual vision impairment, Harry finally sees that Faith and Reason are two compatible expressions of one universal truth.
A “gripping and personal view of war” (Andy McNab, author of Bravo Two Zero), from a celebrated photojournalist—who spent time in Ukraine in 2014 and documented the turmoil that led to Russia’s invasion—crafts a powerful memoir about his experiences in some of the world’s most dangerous, war-torn areas, and his terrifying capture by Syrian rebels in 2013. For a decade, Jonathan Alpeyrie—a French‑American photojournalist—had ventured in and out of more than a dozen conflict zones. He photographed civilians being chased out of their homes, military trucks roving over bullet‑torn battlefields, and too many bodies to count. But on April 29, 2013, during his third assignment to Syria, Alpeyrie became the story. For eighty‑one days he was bound, blindfolded, and beaten by Syrian rebels. Over the course of his captivity, Alpeyrie kept his spirits up and strove to find the humanity in his captors. He took part in their activities, taught them how to swim, prayed with them, and tried learning their language and culture. He also discovered a dormant faith within himself, one that strengthened him throughout the ordeal. The Shattered Lens is a firsthand account that “reads like a thriller” (The New York Journal of Books) by a photojournalist who has always answered the next adrenaline‑pumping assignment. Yet, during his headline‑making kidnapping and “for all his suffering, Alpeyrie expresses, in words and color photographs, the compassion of a global citizen seeing beyond his personal terror and into the nuances of human interactions” (Booklist).
