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Author: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 200
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The author describes being in Florence in a pension by the Arno River when it overflowed. She records the story of the flood and its aftermath in the four months after.
Author: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 200
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The author describes being in Florence in a pension by the Arno River when it overflowed. She records the story of the flood and its aftermath in the four months after.
Author: Robert Clark Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385528345 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 370
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Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses. Two American artists wade through the devastated beauty; a photographer stows away on an army helicopter to witness the tragedy first-hand; a British “mud angel” spends a month scraping mold from the world’s masterpieces; and, through it all, an author asks why art matters so very much to us, even in the face of overwhelming disaster.
Author: Margo Culley Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY ISBN: 9780935312515 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 364
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Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.
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Features an exhibition of photographs of the November 4, 1966 flood in Florence, Italy, provided by Florence ART News. Includes photographs of rising flood waters, scenes of damage, rescue operations, health care, and recovery efforts. Provides an interview with the mayor of Florence and excerpts from a diary of a child in the flood.
Author: Kressmann Taylor Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524537608 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 307
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In the mid-1930s, a brave young theological student refused to preach Nazi doctrine and was denied ordination in the German Lutheran Church. He struggled to resist the Nazi takeover of the church but, with his life in danger, was ordered out of the country by his bishop. He fled to the United States, where, through the FBI, he contacted author Kressmann Taylor so she could tell his story. Day of No Return fictionalized to deceive the Nazis and protect Karl Hoffman and his family still in Germany. Now his subsequent life and true identity, which remained secret for the rest of her life, are at last revealed in this dramatic new edition. Stirring dramatic interest (New York Times). Thrilling! (Christian Science Monitor).
Author: David McCullough Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416561226 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Author: James Gleick Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307379574 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 400
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From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Author: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
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