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American Men and Women in Medicine, Applied Sciences and Engineering with Roots in Czechoslovakia
No comprehensive study has been undertaken about the American learned men and women with Czechoslovak roots. The aim of this work is to correct this glaring deficiency, with the focus on men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering. It covers immigration from the period of mass migration and beyond, irrespective whether they were born in their European ancestral homes or whether they have descended from them. This compendium clearly demonstrates the Czech and Slovak immigrants, including Bohemian Jews, have brought to the New World, in these areas, their talents, their ingenuity, the technical skills, their scientific knowhow, as well as their humanistic and spiritual upbringi...
The Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond
This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures. Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence as well as their transgressive nature. But what is it that makes images the loci of such powerful properties? The present volume is an attempt to recuperate the living image, draw it from the margins, and re-illuminate its importance for cultural history. The title of this book reflects the ambition of the contributions to navigate between the Middle Ages of the past and the Middle Ages of the pre...
The Very Annoying Jew
COMEDY FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Award-winning TV producer David Britton is enraged with the world, but much of the world is enraged with him too. Especially when he screws up the deal to sell the media company that’s driving him crazy. But that’s not the half of it. He has offended most of his staff, and his wife wants a divorce, and he’s getting hate mail, and he’s being harassed by religious freaks. And Sylvia Plath has died. In his kitchen. After he’d dropped her. It’s not looking good.
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