IFLA's First Fifty Years

IFLA's First Fifty Years
Author: Willem Roelf Henderikus Koops
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3111356655

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.

Fifty Years Ago

Fifty Years Ago
Author: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1994
Genre: Holocaust Remembrance Day
ISBN:

Libri

Libri
Author: Jean Anker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2000
Genre: Information services
ISBN:

Vols. 4-24 include Communications of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA-FIAB).

What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution

What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution
Author: G. Holton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2006-12-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230601790

The result of a four-year, in-depth study of those refugees who came as children or youths from Central Europe to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, fleeing persecution from the National Socialist regime. This study uses social science methodology and examines their fates in their new country, their successes and tribulations.

Refer

Refer
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999
Genre: Information services
ISBN:

The Lost One

The Lost One
Author: Stephen D. Youngkin
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2005-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813137004

Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame. Lang said of Lorre: "He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life." Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized for his riveting performances in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Casablanca (1942). Lorre arrived in America in 1934 expecting to shed his screen image as a villain. He even tried to lose his signature accent, but Hollywood repeatedly cast him as an outsider who hinted at things better left unknown. Seeking greater control over his career, Lorre established his own production company. His unofficial "graylisting" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, however, left him with little work. He returned to Germany, where he co-authored, directed, and starred in the film Der Verlorene (The Lost One) in 1951. German audiences rejected Lorre's dark vision of their recent past, and the actor returned to America, wearily accepting roles that parodied his sinister movie personality.The first biography of this major actor, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre draws upon more than three hundred interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor. Author Stephen D. Youngkin examines for the first time Lorre's pivotal relationship with German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, his experience as an émigré from Hitler's Germany, his battle with drug addiction, and his struggle with the choice between celebrity and intellectual respectability.Separating the enigmatic person from the persona long associated with one of classic Hollywood's most recognizable faces, The Lost One is the definitive account of a life triumphant and yet tragically riddled with many failed possibilities.

State of the World 2001

State of the World 2001
Author: Lester Russell Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780393048667

An indispensable guide for anyone concerned with the future of life on our planet.