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Varian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, was a young New Yorker who rescued more than 1,500 Europeans from the Nazi's including Mar Chagall, Max Ernst, Hannah Arendt, and other intellectuals, political activists, and "degenerative" artists, many of them Jews. This moving Holocaust rescue story is set against the backdrop of American isolationism and anti-Semitism.

"The drama here is in the thrill...

In wenigen Wochen wieder fit

Es ist fast schon peinlich, wie wenig ich machen musste, um endlich wieder schmerzfrei zu laufen. Diese Worte eines Klienten brachten den Sportwissenschaftler, Personal Trainer und Wanderexperten Marwin Isenberg irgendwann auf den Gedanken, über seine Expertise und seine Übungen ein Buch zu verfassen.

Denn in der Tat gibt es viele Menschen, die beim Wandern oder danach über Beschwerden klagen und deshalb vielleicht sogar ganz darauf verzichten. Dabei lassen sich die...

Every day the media floods the airwaves with their often-contradictory version of the role and behavior of the police force. Based on this, you might think that police officers either brutally enforce their own interpretation of the nation s laws or use all the modern tools available to carefully and persistently uncover the special clues that lead to the identification and arrest of suspected criminals. Based on interviews with 26 police chiefs, Police Leadership in a Democracy: Conversations with America s Police Chiefs takes a poignant journey through the minds of the...

Noah Isenberg's study ofthe filmnoir classic Detour draws on archival sources, unpublished letters and interviews to provide an illuminating account ofits production history, its critical reception, its afterlife (including various remakes) and the different ways in which the film has been understood since its release.

The plight of the new teacher has changed little during the last 30 years. Neophytes still confront the same conflicting demands--to foster students' academic development while controlling their behavior, often in crowded classrooms in ill-equipped and poorly administered schools. Thanks to five books, Isenberg (a 30-year veteran of urban classroom teaching) found solace and support. The five books are "Up The Down Staircase," "Teacher," "How Children Fail," "To Sir With Love," and "36 Children." As teaching narratives, these best-selling writings of classroom teachers are a precious...