Author: Arthur Rubinstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950369157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Vladimir Maz'ya
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319018094
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Vladimir Maz'ya (born 1937) is an outstanding mathematician who systematically made fundamental contributions to a wide array of areas in mathematical analysis and in the theory of partial differential equations. In this fascinating book he describes the first thirty years of his life. He starts with the story of his family, speaks about his childhood, high school and university years, describe his formative years as a mathematician. Behind the author's personal recollections, with his own joys, sorrows and hopes, one sees a vivid picture of the time. He speaks warmly about his friends, both outside and inside mathematics. The author describes the awakening of his passion for mathematics and his early achievements. He mentions a number of mathematicians who influenced his professional life. The book is written in a readable and inviting way sometimes with a touch of humor. It can be of interest for a very broad readership.

Author: Jo Ann Beard
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316091863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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The "utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation. Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men who replace them -- are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death. The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today. "A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments." --Harper's Bazaar

Author: Meghan Daum
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250067693
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The cult classic essay collection from “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny . . . writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review). First published in 2001, My Misspent Youthcaptured a generation’s uneasy coming of age as the world made its chaotic way into a new millennium. It also established Meghan Daum as a leading literary voice, widely celebrated for her fresh, provocative approach to the hidden fault lines of America’s cultural landscape. From her New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber-relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.

Author: Arthur Schnitzler
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681373394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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An intensely personal novel about childhood, memory, and history by one of today's most celebrated authors, now available in the US for the first time. Friend of My Youth begins with the novelist Amit Chaudhuri returning to Bombay, the city in which he grew up, to give a reading. Ramu, the friend of his youth, with whom he likes to get together when he comes back, is not there: after years of disabling drug addiction, Ramu has signed up for an intensive rehab program. But Amit Chaudhuri has errands to run in Bombay for his mother and wife, which take him back to the Taj Mahal Hotel, the site, not that long before, of a brutal terrorist attack. Amit Chaudhuri writes novels the way an extraordinary instrumentalist makes music, stating and restating his themes, trying them out in different keys and to various effect, developing and dropping them, only to pick them up again and turn them completely around. He engages both our minds and our hearts. He makes us marvel. Friend of My Youth, his deceptively casual and continually observant and inventive new novel, makes us see and feel the great city of Bombay while bringing us into the quizzical, tender, rueful, and reflective sensibility of its central character, Amit Chaudhuri, not to be confused, we are told, with the novelist who wrote this book. Friend of My Youth reflects on the nature of identity, the passage of time, the experience of friendship, the indignities of youth and middle age, the lives of parents and children, and, for all the humor that seasons its pages, terror, the terror that can strike from nowhere, the terror that is a fact of daily life. Friend of My Youth is fearfully and wonderfully made.

Author: Abraham Nahum Stencl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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"Weimar Berlin was the home of many poets, revolutionaries and dreamers who frequented the Romanische Cafe. These included AN Stencl (1897-1983) who arrived in Britain from Germany in 1936. His poetry was admired by Thomas Mann and Arnold Zweig, among others, and published in Yiddish and German. Stencl settled in London where he founded the literary journal Loshn un lebn (Language and Life) which he edited until his death." "This collection includes selections from two of Stencl's poem sequences from his Berlin years - Un du bist Got And you are God) and Fisherdorf (Fishing Village), in turn Expressionist and pastoral. Heather Valencia contributes a biographical essay on the author's life in Berlin and London." "Stencl's poems are printed in Yiddish, with English translations by Haike Beruriah Wiegand and Stephen Watts. The book is completed by a short memoir of Stencl by East London historian William J. Fishman, and a concluding family memoir by Miriam Becker." --Book Jacket.

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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A story of the early history of life and manners in "the middle ages of the middle West."

Author: John Muir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064434230
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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"When I was little, I could hardly do anything. But now I can do lots of things, like braid my own hair and go to nmusery school. I'm not a baby anymore. I'm me!"Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell perfectly capture a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years. This spirited view of growing up is perfect for the youngest readers.