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  • I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

    by Gisella Perl, Eva Hoffman ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life. ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Lost in Translation

    A Life in a New Language

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shtetl

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Brafsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence -- still relevant to us today -- attempted in ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

    A Memoir

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Translated by Peggy Kamuf ...
    An inventive blend of memoir and family history that ponders those who didn't flee their German town in time: "Powerfully reclaimed—and imagined—reality." — The Jewish ChronicleWinner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationFor about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Saxony. After ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books seriesTime has always been the great given, the element that establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be circumvented, deconstructed, or wished away. But these days we are tampering with time in ways that affect ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • After Such Knowledge

    Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities to its received memories?In this meditation on the long aftermath of atrocity, Eva ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Appassionata

    A Novel

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Selected as one of Oprah.com’s 20 Tantalizing Beach ReadsSelected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIsabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances are marked by a rare responsiveness to the complexities of her art, and its intensities of feeling. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the compelling musical realm she deeply inhabits, and her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Exit into History

    A Journey through the New Eastern Europe

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    'A book that takes you on an intimate journey through Eastern Europe at a time when the dust was still settling from the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Eva Hoffman travels from the Baltic to the Black Sea, building a compelling portrait of a region uncertain about its future.' IndependentShortly after the epochal events of 1989 Eva Hoffman spent several months in her native Poland and four other ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How to Be Bored

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Series series The School of Life
    In the latest installment of the acclaimed School of Life series, learn how to make peace with your down time—and even benefit from it.Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing, but in the modern world the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Uninterrupted activity can seem exciting, but it can also leave us emotionally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Motivating the Teenage Mind

    by Eva Hoffman, Martin Hoffman ...
    Awakening intrinsic motivation in young people is the most important key to securing them a meaningful and successful life. No matter how much we know about how to learn, no lasting learning is likely to take place unless we want to learn; unless we are convinced of the reasons and have the confidence and resilience to achieve our goals. "Motivating the Teenage Mind" is a unique, comprehensive, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • On Czeslaw Milosz

    Visions from the Other Europe

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Series series
    A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czesław Miłosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the most extreme events of that extreme century, from the world wars and the Holocaust to the Cold War. ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Discover Your Learning Intelligence

    by Eva Hoffman, Martin Hoffman ...
    This is a must-have book to study, learn and revise using various innovative techniques, including mind mapping. Teaching is often delivered in a way that best suits the learning style of those teaching rather than the recipient. This book provides a first step to understanding your own unique and most effective learning strategies. It includes illustrations on how to use and PowerPoint training ... Read more

    $63.99 USD