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For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war..
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"Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel - Growing Up Under the Third Reich," is a memoir of a very young girl who grew up in Berlin, Germany Born in 1935, she survived the allied bombing of Berlin, the Russian onslaught through East Prussia, the terrible chaotic days of the horrific final battle for Berlin, and the starvation which ensued thereafter. The book also deals with the indoctrination of a young child in Hitler's Reich and Communist East Germany. She later embraced freedom in West Berlin and studied at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg..
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Operatic in scope, ULULU (Clown Shrapnel) is a dramatic, genre-bending narrative and a lyrical cultural biography of the archetypal seductress Lulu. In a furious performance of text and imagery, Thalia Field introduces us to the stock characters of the commedia, the famous plays, operas, and silent films in which Lulu appeared, the artists who brought her to life, and the censorship and controversy that she engendered.

The myth of "Lulu" began during the height of late-nineteenth-century Viennese culture with a sequence of two plays by Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box), and continued through the two world wars with Lulu, an unfinished opera by Alban Berg, and Pandora's Box, a highly acclaimed film by G.W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks. Throughout all of Lulu's incarnations she met with censure-Wedekind's plays were banned from the stage, Berg's opera, which contained a secret score for his young lover, was kept from the public by his widow, and Pabst's erotic film was too risqu for many.

As Field's story peeks into the dressing rooms and back alleys of history, words take the stage, "fictional" and "historical" characters speak side by side, and lyrical symbolism undulates throughout the pages. Original and treated footage from award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison and illustrations from artist Abbot Stranahan complete this masterful work of avant-garde fiction, presented in a numbered and signed first edition limited to 1,500 copies.

In addition to her multimedia performance work, Thalia Field, an assistant professor at Brown University, is the author of Point and Line and Incarnate: Story Material.

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"Culture Shock! Personal Protection at Home and Abroad" provides information on every aspect of your security -- from electronic surveillance and explosive devices, to responses to extortion, abduction, terrorism, hijacking, and home invasion. Whether traveling or at home, the information in this guide is the key to your personal safety.

Written by an internationally qualified and experienced security consultant, this book helps readers minimize the threat to themselves, their families, and their businesses by making them aware of the security risks and offering practical advice on implementing preventative strategies..
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