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In the vein of the great stream-of-consciousness narrators, such as
the unparalleled Hunter S. Thompson, Brian Wallace paints vivid,
frank backdrops for his transmission. With fluid prose, Wallace
guides the reader through the mind of his protagonist,
thought-by-thought, as he grapples with the spectre of organised
religion and its deleterious effect on contemporary culture.
Speaking bluntly throughout, the author demonstrates no fear in
calling out clashing ideologies for the resultant Labyrinth of
Chaos they have weaved over the course of recorded time. "Mind
Transmission, Inc." refuses to cater to the conservative,
traditional, closed-minded sect of our society, and instead offers
philosophies and theories from paths less-trodden -- for those
seeking to make sense (and some happiness) out of the grey,
everyday existence to which most have become numb and resigned.
Have You Ever Tried To Get Lost? In this avant-garde,
counter-culture novel, Alan Agrippa embarks upon a journey of
Jungian individuation that encompasses both geographical and mental
terrain. As he travels through England, Scotland, and Ireland, he
immerses himself in a broad range of philosophical challenges to
develop an understanding of a world that, until then, is unknown to
him. Together, you and he are propelled to explore some of the
fundamental questions of existence: the nature of physics,
mysticism, and the human mind. "Labyrinth of Chaos" is a story of
transcendence which challenges traditional notions of morality,
politics, and love. It celebrates the best of the individual human
spirit: youthful idealism, romantic longings, and the unbridled
pursuit of genius.
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to
become the City of Boston's Director of Education and created the
New England Holocaust Memorial, a wise and intimate memoir about
finding strength in the face of despair and an inspiring meditation
on how we can unlock the morality within us to build a better
world. On October 29, 1939 Szmulek Rosental's life changed forever.
Nazis marched into his home of Lodz, Poland, destroyed the
synagogues, urinated on the Torahs, and burned the beards of the
rabbis. Two people were killed that first day in the pillaging of
the Jewish enclave, but much worse was to come. Szmulek's family
escaped that night, setting out in search of safe refuge they would
never find. Soon, all of the family would perish, but Szmulek, only
eight years old when he left his home, managed to against all odds
to survive. Through his resourcefulness, his determination, and
most importantly the help of his fellow prisoners, Szmulek lived
through some of the most horrific Nazi death camps of the
Holocaust, including Dachau, Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, and seven
others. He endured acts of violence and hate all too common in the
Holocaust, but never before talked about in its literature. He was
repeatedly raped by Nazi guards and watched his family and friends
die. But these experiences only hardened the resolve to survive the
genocide and use the experience--and the insights into morality and
human nature that it revealed--to inspire people to stand up to
hate and fight for freedom and justice. On the day that he was
scheduled to be executed he was liberated by American soldiers. He
eventually traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, where, with all of
his friends and family dead, he made a new life for himself, taking
the name Steve Ross. Working at the gritty South Boston schools, he
inspired children to define their values and use them to help those
around them. He went on to become Boston's Director of Education
and later conceived of and founded the New England Holocaust
Memorial, one of Boston's most visited sites. Taking readers from
the horrors of Nazi Germany to the streets of South Boston, From
Broken Glass is the story of one child's stunning experiences, the
piercing wisdom into humanity with which they endowed him, and the
drive for social justice that has come to define his life.
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to
create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a
"devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding
strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after
a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of
anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New
England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as
many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers
lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind
Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German
authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers.
Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village,
forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a
day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was
imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was
finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was
literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for
his brother had been killed. Ross learned in his darkest
experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as
well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the
human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He
decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to
ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never
experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly
forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city
schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he
spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a
site millions of people including young students visit every year.
Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass
is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped
lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.
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The Star Current (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
Michael Andrew McDonald; Edited by Brian Wallace Baker; Cover design or artwork by D J Stevenson
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This collection of photographs presents photojournalist Renee C.
Byer's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "A Mother's Journey," along
with other early and recent photographs. "A Mother's Journey" is an
intimate portrayal of a single mother's emotional and financial
struggles as her son battles neuroblastoma, a rare form of
childhood cancer. This year-long documentary project was originally
published in the Sacramento Bee as a four-part series and on the
Web as a multimedia package. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for
Feature Photography in 2007, the series won a World Understanding
Award as well the Society of Professional Journalist's Sigma Delta
Chi Award for feature photography. "When done well," said Byer,
"photojournalism is a powerful tool because it connects people to
the reality of life and can bring understanding and awareness to
important issues."
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