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Daniel Stein
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Daniel Stein, intérprete
«En una época en que está de moda definirse a través de la identidad, Daniel Stein, intérprete de Liudmila Ulítskaia es una refrescante defensa de la belleza de lo mestizo.» The Daily Beast «Una novela de una sinceridad muy cruda que es rara en la literatura sobre el Holocausto.» The Literary Review Para crítica y lectores, Daniel Stein, intérprete es ya la gran novela rusa de nuestro tiempo. Basado en un personaje real, Daniel Stein es un judío polaco que sobrevive al Holocausto haciendo de intérprete alemán para la Gestapo. Consigue salvar la vida a cientos de judíos del gueto de Emsk y, cuando es descubierto, huye y se esconde en un convento de monjas. Acabada la guerra, em...
Daniel Stein, Interpreter
This innovative novel tells the story of Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew who narrowly survives the Holocaust by working for the Gestapo as an interpreter. After the war, he converts to Catholicism, becomes a priest, and finally emigrates to Israel. Despite this seemingly far-fetched progression, the life of Daniel Stein is not an invention--he is based on a real person, Oswald Rufeisen, a Carmelite priest. Daniel Stein, Interpreter ranges from before World War II to modern times, and from the shtetl to Israel to America. It portrays a life full of amazing contradictions and undaunted faith.
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Gertrude Stein
“You are, of course, never yourself,” wrote Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) in Everybody’s Autobiography. Modernist icon Stein wrote many pseudo-autobiographies, including the well-known story of her lover, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas;but in Lucy Daniel’s Gertrude Stein the pen is turned directly on Stein, revealing the many selves that composed her inspiring and captivating life. Though American-born, Stein has been celebrated in many incarnations as the embodiment of French bohemia; she was a patron of modern art and writing, a gay icon, the coiner of the term “Lost Generation,” and the hostess of one of the most famous artistic salons. Welcomed into Stein’s art-covered...
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Spin Glasses and Complexity
Spin glasses are disordered magnetic systems that have led to the development of mathematical tools with an array of real-world applications, from airline scheduling to neural networks. Spin Glasses and Complexity offers the most concise, engaging, and accessible introduction to the subject, fully explaining what spin glasses are, why they are important, and how they are opening up new ways of thinking about complexity. This one-of-a-kind guide to spin glasses begins by explaining the fundamentals of order and symmetry in condensed matter physics and how spin glasses fit into--and modify--this framework. It then explores how spin-glass concepts and ideas have found applications in areas as d...
Gertrude Stein
The definitive book on Gertrude Stein
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives
Written by leading international scholars, this book surveys transnational dimensions of graphic narratives, covering popular comics and graphic novels from the USA, Asia and Europe.
