"Escape to Life"

Author: Eckart Goebel

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 3110258684

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After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New York area or moved on to California and other places. This compendium, adopting the title of a famous 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 into another language 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 angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual’s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced in this book for the first time.

The Influential Leader
The Influential Leader

Author: John Edmund Haggai

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0736933883

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"I believe in John Edmund Haggai and am thrilled with the tremendous results I've seen in the lives of leaders." --Chuck Colson Bestselling author, founder of Prison Fellowship "The Influential Leader" is a powerful book on leadership from a visionary who has trained more than 60,000 people in 177 countries through the Haggai Institute. While other books on leadership focus on "methods," which unfortunately must keep changing as time goes on, this book focuses on "characteristics" that are at the core of successful leadership and will endure no matter how times change. Haggai's call to strong leadership looks at 12 characteristics for aspiring leaders, including... humility communication vision goalsetting self-control opportunity staying power authority Readers will learn how they can become leaders who influence people, inspire results, and accomplish great things for God.

The Larion Senators
The Larion Senators

Author: Rob Scott

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 2010-12-23

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0575087072

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Nerak is defeated. Steven Taylor has cast the malevolent dictator's soul into the Fold's inky void - but the evil that controlled Nerak and brutalised the people of Eldarn has escaped, and taken Mark Jenkins with it. Steven must put his own feelings to one side, for Eldarn's fate still hangs in the balance, and he remains the land's only real hope. As he and his companions make their way across country, rallying what remains of their allies, Mark, no longer the affable teacher from Colorado, disappears into the foothills of the Blackstone Mountains, determined to excavate the Larion spell table and use its awesome power to destroy Eldarn. During an epic sea journey to the enemy strongholds of northern Malakasia, Steven discovers he is stronger than he thought, but a confrontation with Mark is inevitable ... Is Steven willing to kill his best friend and face eternal exile in Eldarn to save two worlds from annihilation? Return to Eldarn for this towering finale, where our heroes face a terrifying army of mutated beasts, and the mysteries of the Larion Senators are waiting to be unlocked, for good or for evil ...