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Author: Christopher Pyne Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing ISBN: 0522867995 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 221
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Why do seemingly intelligent men and women leave their families to spend more than half the year travelling to Canberra, and spending night after night at electorate and campaign events? Surely there are easier ways to earn a living. A Letter to My Children is Christopher Pyne's honest account of how a belief in the power of public service, inspired by his crusading ophthalmologist father, led him to pursue a career in politics, driven by the ambition of leaving a legacy for the next generation.
Author: Christopher Pyne Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing ISBN: 0522867995 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 221
Book Description
Why do seemingly intelligent men and women leave their families to spend more than half the year travelling to Canberra, and spending night after night at electorate and campaign events? Surely there are easier ways to earn a living. A Letter to My Children is Christopher Pyne's honest account of how a belief in the power of public service, inspired by his crusading ophthalmologist father, led him to pursue a career in politics, driven by the ambition of leaving a legacy for the next generation.
Author: Thomas Davidson Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 88
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A Letter to My Children from the Fifties By: Thomas Davidson Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s was full of both fun times and hard ships, and life back then certainly looked a lot different than it does today. Instead of video games and social media there were sock hops and the soda fountain, as well as cars with no seatbelts and laundry by hand! In this nostalgia-filled memoir, author Thomas Davidson takes a trip down memory lane to share with today’s generations all the things that made his childhood so special.
Author: Raoul Vaneigem Publisher: PM Press ISBN: 1629635278 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 131
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Readers of Vaneigem’s now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism. Written some thirty-five years after the May “events,” this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. “How could I address my daughters, my sons, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” wonders Vaneigem, “without including all the others who, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power, are in danger, even tomorrow, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?” A Letter to My Children provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world, but at the same time, in true dialectical fashion, and “far from the media whose job it is to ignore them,” Vaneigem discerns all the signs of “a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations, a new drive to reinstate true human values, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.”
Author: Rudolph Tessler Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 9780826212443 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 262
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"Tessler's upbringing had emphasized community and family devotion - traits not forgotten in the concentration camps, where he and his family members often rescued one another from certain death. Few fathers and sons survived the concentration camps together. In spite of the odds, Tessler and his brother Buroch managed to stick together, sharing their father's labor assignments to protect him from death, preserving not only their family bond but also their spirituality. Tessler's father, always a source of strength and guidance to his family, provided counsel to many prisoners in the camp and eventually assumed the role of rabbi."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Kalman Miller Publisher: Hats Office Books ISBN: 9781587360152 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 132
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Survival, Hope, a common dream of escape & help other Jews escape. These are the themes that characterize A Letter to My Children. This first hand account offers a story of survival to future generations. In 1939, amidst Nazi & Soviet Advances on Poland, a Jewish family is trying to escape from the Nazis. Father and Son escape to Russian side of Poland & mother & daughter to follow. The plan does not succeed: father and son end up in a Soviet Labor camp, mother & daughter will perish in an extermination camp. The young son, Kalman, after being released finds work in Soviet Central Asia with other Jewish refugees in the hope of reaching Palestine once the war is over. His father died in the camp. Miller later joins the Bricha, a Jewish organization smuggling Jews from Communist Europe to the west. Contemporary photographs & the author's account provide a view inside the operations & rescue missions of the Bricha along the borders of the future Iron Curtain. This book also follows the author & his wife to post-war France & tells the story of Jewish immigrant life in post-war America.
Author: Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg Publisher: Persephone Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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Features letters written (but never posted) by a 60 year-old woman, to her children living abroad, about the experience of living in Hamburg during the war. Discovered in a drawer in the 1970s, they were translated by her daughter, the late Ruth Evans, and first published in England and Germany in 1979.
Author: Jennifer L. Place Publisher: ISBN: 9780984679935 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 154
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This book began as a journal I wrote to my son. The more I wrote, the more I believed it could be viewed not only as a letter to my own son, sharing my experiences and observations in life, but also to share them with mothers of the world. We are united in that same role: no matter where you live, your station in life, your status in the community. I think at our core, we all want the same thing for our children - we want a better life than what we had. We want our children to have less pain, less misfortune, more wisdom and to grow up in a better world in general than we did. What I began to write were things I wanted him to know as he grew older - lessons on life and love. But I also I wanted him to know that, aside from being his mother, I am also a real person. I'd like to be able to say, when he gets older, that my child had a glimpse into the person I was before he was born. I hope that within these pages, within these letters and lessons, all mothers can find their voice speaking with me as they help to shape the future of their own children. Jennifer L. Place
Author: Christopher Pyne
Author: Christopher Pyne
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