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The remarkable story of a woman's journey out of Auschwitz to find her family, told to her son for the very first time.
As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never thought to investigate. The story of how his mother survived Auschwitz.
In the few last months of the War, thirteen-year-old Alina Peretti, along with her mother and sister, was one of thirteen thousand non-Jewish Poles sent to Auschwitz, in the wake of the Warsaw Uprising. Her experiences there, which she rarely discussed, cast a shadow over the rest of her life.
Now ninety, Alina has been diagnosed with dementia. Together, mother and son begin a race against time to record her memories and preserve her family's story. For the first time, Alina recalls her experiences as a child during the Second World War, the horrors that she witnessed in Auschwitz and the miraculous story of how she survived a firing squad.
Along the way, Jacques learns long-hidden secrets about his mother's family; his mysterious grandfather who lived a double-life, his grandmother who read tarot cards in a Soviet labour camp, and his aunt and uncles, whose fate he never knew. He also gains an understanding of his mother through retracing her past, learning more about the woman who would never let him call her 'Mum'.
A transformational guide to stepping up and standing out
Good leadership requires authenticity, assertiveness and adaptability.
It takes courage. Yet many of us are stuck playing it safe and striving
to fit in.
Dispelling the myth that caring is a weakness, Alina Addison shows how
the things we care about most can fuel our most courageous acts.
Combining deep research with her own expertise - as a pioneering
corporate leader, Emotional Intelligence coach, and mother to a son on
the autism spectrum - Addison presents the eight life-changing
principles behind audacious leadership.
These practical, proven methods will help you identify the things that
set you apart, inspire others and dare to create the life and career
you truly want.
A love story about the systems we put in place to protect ourselves
and how they fall apart. Maya doesn't believe that love and
romance can happen for her, so an arranged marriage with a college
friend seems like a safe bet. But when the plane is forced to make
an emergency landing in Switzerland, she's forced on an adventure
with the grumpy but handsome stranger from the plane. Everything
that can go wrong, continues to go wrong, but maybe this time
it’s not so bad because she has someone by her side... 'Just as
sweet as the romance that blossoms between Maya and Sarfaraz is the
satisfaction of watching Maya learn to prioritize her own desires.
Figuring out what she really wants in life is tricky enough; throw
in familial expectations, a possible curse, and the right man at
the wrong time, and you’ve got a delicious recipe for an
engaging, relatable, and rewarding read' Sarah Hogle, author
of You Deserve Each Other
Driven by an international agenda, the act of ‘rethinking’
corruption has already taken place more than once in the past two
decades, contributing further to a post-truth about corruption than
to anything else. This book makes a clear argument in favor of
rethinking corruption across any contingency and offers a
forecasting method, alongside the latest generation of analytical,
fact-based tools to map, assess and predict corruption risk.
Mungiu-Pippidi argues that corruption is a policy problem
frequently overriding individual choice, and can only be tackled by
strong policy interventions, not by ‘nudging’ every individual
into honesty. Chapters explain that corruption has not decreased
despite unprecedented efforts because the international context
presently creates far more opportunities for it than constraints:
few nations, governments or international organizations have proven
able to solve the social dilemma of corruption. Meanwhile, many
countries, governments, businesses and politicians profit from a
world order where integrity cannot be enforced and perpetuate the
current status quo. Rethinking Corruption will be crucial reading
for academics and students of political science, sociology and law
seeking to understand the theoretical dimensions of corruption. It
will also be an enlightening read for policy makers, administrators
and practitioners looking to rethink how corruption can manifest.
This authoritative Handbook compiles a diverse set of contributions
on digital entrepreneurship, providing an in-depth study of how
digital entrepreneurship research has evolved over the years, and
where it stands today. Offering a snapshot of the major themes in
digital entrepreneurship research, the Handbook highlights a wide
range of both practice-engaged and practice-relevant works and
explores the fundamental concepts and common themes in the field.
Chapters examine key topics including the digital platform economy,
the digitalization of work, the blockchain economy, and the
rural-urban digital divide. The Handbook further analyzes the
history and theory of digital entrepreneurship, while also sparking
ideas for future research through a consideration of emerging
phenomena and new ways to approach research in this broad area of
study. Discussing a diverse set of questions, contexts, theories,
and methods, this Handbook will be a key resource for researchers
and advanced students with a particular interest in
entrepreneurship, innovation, technology management, and digital
business models. Managers and entrepreneurs will also find the
discussion of digital entrepreneurship in relation to financing,
social issues, and technology beneficial.
This book presents a series of studies on organizations across
Europe, displaying new perspectives on institutional resilience of
affected governance structures during crisis. Such an approach to
governance studies not only aims to provide readers with conceptual
and practical knowledge on crisis experience of organizations, but
also to equip them with necessary cognitive tools to perform well
in a similar crisis context in the future. The book highlights
knowledge on institutional resilience and delivers an enduring
resource for researchers and students on a time of unprecedented
crisis. Cross-national/sectorial interdependences in Europe are
multiplying, while institutional reaction and international
collaboration mechanisms are falling behind. The studies presented
here aim to shape a conceptual understanding of students,
academics, and practitioners considering these contemporary
challenges and opportunities. They provide a valuable resource in
the field of governance, sustainability, crisis management,
innovation, and leadership.
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Family is (Hardcover)
Samantha Trinidad; Illustrated by Alina Shabelnyk; Edited by Rebecca Michael
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R553
Discovery Miles 5 530
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"I am a big fan of Women and Children First . . . Alina Grabowski
is an astute and limber narrative artist and I could read her prose
all day long and never grow weary." --Lorrie Moore, author of A
Gate at the StairsA gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the
private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small
Massachusetts town.Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave
that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have
run the town's industries for generations. When a young woman dies
at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously
unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves
her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante,
the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is
cast, secrets are buried deeper. Some are left to pick up the
pieces, while others turn their backs, and all the while, a truth
about that dreadful night begins to emerge.Told through the eyes of
ten local women, Grabowski's Women and Children First is an
exquisite portrait of grief and a powerful reminder of life's
interconnectedness. Touching on womanhood, class, and sexuality,
ambition, disappointment, and tragedy, this novel is a stunning
rendering of love and loss, and a bracing lesson from a phenomenal
new literary talent that no one walks this earth alone.
Due to the emergence of innovative technologies, various
professional fields are transforming their traditional business
practices. Specifically, the financial and legal markets are
experiencing this digital transformation as professionals and
researchers are finding ways to improve efficiency,
personalization, and security in these economic sectors.
Significant research is needed to keep pace with the continuous
advancements that are taking place in finance. Fostering Innovation
and Competitiveness with FinTech, RegTech, and SupTech provides
emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects
of technologically innovative mechanisms and applications within
the financial, economic, and legal markets. Featuring coverage on a
broad range of topics such as crowdfunding platforms,
crypto-assets, and blockchain technology, this book is ideally
designed for researchers, economists, practitioners, policymakers,
analysts, managers, executives, educators, and students seeking
current research on the strategic role of technology in the future
development of financial and economic activity.
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Food Processing (Hardcover)
Romina Alina Marc, Antonio Valero Diaz, Guiomar Denisse Posada Izquierdo
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R3,657
Discovery Miles 36 570
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This book covers topics needed to be considered in research
around usable privacy. The book starts from a psychological
perspective and introduces readers to basic behavioral theories and
models that can explain end-user privacy behavior (including the
“privacy paradox”) on a theoretical level. Subsequently, an
introduction to different study methods (e.g., experiment, survey,
interviews, co-creation) used in usable privacy research is given.
Based on this, different methodological aspects, such as
identifying appropriate questionnaires, and applying User-Centered
Design, will be discussed. Finally, the book describes application
areas for privacy research such as dark patterns and presents
solutions for privacy protection, e.g., regarding consent-giving
and PETs. The book aims to bring together the different research
approaches to the topic of usable privacy, which often originate
from computer science, psychology, and law, and provide a
methodologically sound basis for researchers who want to delve
deeper into this topic. This is an open access book.
Through the lens of multi- and interdisciplinarity, this book
highlights the potential of progress in cloud computing
technologies, metaverse development, and digital transformation in
charting a path to economic and social recovery, governance
process and societal evolution enabling to
tackle the global polycrises triggered by
the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The book is an outcome of the
5th International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences,
ICESS 2022, Bucharest, Romania.
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