Author: Magda Szabo
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II. In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Bálint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Irén Elekes, the headmaster’s dutiful elder daughter, over her younger sister, the scatterbrained Blanka, and little Henriette Held, the daughter of the Jewish dentist. Their lives are torn apart in 1944 by the German occupation, which only the Elekes family survives intact. The postwar regime relocates them to a cramped Soviet-style apartment and they struggle to come to terms with social and political change, personal loss, and unstated feelings of guilt over the deportation of the Held parents and the death of little Henriette, who had been left in their protection. But the girl survives in a miasmal afterlife, and reappears at key moments as a mute witness to the inescapable power of past events. As in The Door and Iza’s Ballad, Magda Szabó conducts a clear-eyed investigation into the ways in which we inflict suffering on those we love. Katalin Street, which won the 2007 Prix Cévennes for Best European novel, is a poignant, somber, at times harrowing book, but beautifully conceived and truly unforgettable.
Author: J. A. Picciano
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146706226X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The story of Katalin begins with a twist of fate as Mortis, the son of a great king, is betrayed at his birth. As Mortis grows, his life is in a state of constant change as he experiences trust, love, lust, friendship, manipulation, and death. The cursed Mortis finds, as you will, that nothing is ever what it seems.
Author: Katalin Karikó
Publisher: Radboud University Press
ISBN: 9493296008
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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On 20 October 2022, the day that Radboud University celebrated its 99th anniversary, Dr. Katalin Karikó received a Radboud honorary doctorate in recognition of her scientific contributions to developing mRNA-based vaccines. This edition includes the laudatio of the honorary supervisor and the speech of the honorary doctor. Karikó spent years researching medical applications of mRNA. Her dream was to develop synthetic mRNA and use this to cure cancer, strokes, and influenza. Eventually, after years of toil, rejection, and criticism from colleagues, she and fellow researcher Drew Weissman demonstrated that it is possible to trigger an immune response in the body with mRNA without the body turning against the mRNA itself. With this breakthrough, a new revolutionary technique was born. Thanks to Karikó’s scientific work, BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna were able to develop the current mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. A prime example of the beneficial impact that fundamental research can eventually have on society.
Author: Magda Szabo
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015 An NYRB Classics Original Like Magda Szabó’s internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza’s Ballad is a striking story of the relationship between two women, in this case a mother and a daughter. Ettie, the mother, is old and from an older world than the rapidly modernizing Communist Hungary of the years after World War II. From a poor family and without formal education, Ettie has devoted her life to the cause of her husband, Vince, a courageous magistrate who had been blacklisted for political reasons before the war. Iza, their daughter, is as brave and conscientious as her father: Active in the resistance against the Nazis, she is now a doctor and a force for progress. Iza lives and works in Budapest, and when Vince dies, she is quick to bring Ettie to the city to make sure her mother is close and can be cared for. She means to do everything right, and Ettie is eager to do everything to the satisfaction of the daughter she is so proud of. But good intentions aside, mother and daughter come from two different worlds and have different ideas of what it means to lead a good life. Though they struggle to accommodate each other, increasingly they misunderstand and hurt each other, and the distance between them widens into an abyss. . . .
Author: Katalin Farkas
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019161551X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative. The main project of The Subject's Point of View is to argue that discarding certain elements of the Cartesian conception would be much more difficult than critics seem to allow, since it is tied to our understanding of basic notions, including the criteria for what makes someone a person, or one of us. The crucial feature of the Cartesian view defended here is not dualism - which is not adopted - but internalism. Internalism is opposed to the widely accepted externalist thesis, which states that some mental features constitutively depend on certain features of our physical and social environment. In contrast, this book defends the minority internalist view, which holds that the mind is autonomous, and though it is obviously affected by the environment, this influence is merely contingent and does not delimit what is thinkable in principle. Defenders of the externalist view often present their theory as the most thoroughgoing criticism of the Cartesian conception of the mind; Katalin Farkas offers a defence of an uncompromising internalist Cartesian conception.
Author: Magda Szabo
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NYRB Classics Original The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love—at least until Magda’s long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix’s prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer.
Author: Katalin Makkai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108497799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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This book explores Kant's compelling vision of our aesthetic and cognitive lives as anchored in experiences of attunement and animation.
Author: Katalin Patniak
Publisher: Orange Hippo!
ISBN: 9781911610700
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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An introduction to everything you need to enhance your life using the Tarot. Whether you're a beginner or you're looking to build confidence in the tarot, The Little Book of Tarotgives a refreshingly modern interpretation for each card, focusing on problems that real people face in real life situations. This mini manual demonstrates interesting and unusual ways of using tarot cards, including for artistic and poetic inspiration, magic and spirituality and teaches readers a fascinatingly different way of looking at the cards. The Ace of Cups. Keywords: love, happiness, intimacy, blessing, harmony, a new start, calmness, clarity. The Ace of Cups represents feelings at their purest form. There is no place for any kind of deception here. It is an especially good sign in love readings, but brings good news in any creative project. Whatever the questioner wants to achieve will need effort, but the situation has the potential for success.
Author: Katalin Sulyok
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489664
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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This pioneering study on environmental case-law examines how courts engage with science and reviews legitimate styles of judicial reasoning.
Author: Katalin Rodriguez-Ogren
Publisher: Price World Publishing
ISBN: 1619843587
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Weight Training for Martial Arts is the most comprehensive and up-to-date martial arts-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by martial artists worldwide. This book features year-round martial arts-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other martial arts book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book is the most informative and complete resource for building muscles, speed, and stamina to enable the body to excel in judo, karate, aikido, kung fu, jujitsu, taekwondo, kempo, muay thai, and all other martial arts forms. The book provides martial artists with an abundance of easy to follow training techniques needed to be effective in the martial arts, such as flexibility, joint stabilization, balance, and muscle development. From recreational to professional, martial artists all over the world are already benefiting from this book’s techniques, and now you can too!
