Judy Montagu spent her late teenage years and early twenties directing anti-aircraft defences during the Second World War as a Captain in Gunnery for the British Army.
A memoir of growing up in Florida interwoven with cultural reflections of the state from The X-Files to Emersonrevealing the complex truths of life as a FloridianFlorida and pop culture are a magnetic, viral match.
In "e;Between Worlds,"e; Brian Martin delivers a raw, unflinching account of a life shaped by extraordinary encounters with beings from beyond our understanding.
Presiding in the White House longer than any other first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt championed the downtrodden as she traveled the globe, yet she was a maze of contradictionsan idealist who carried on a moneymaking career that depended on her position and a conventional-appearing wife and mother who found emotional succor from intense relationships outside her family.
Manchen seiner Zeitgenossen galt Adolf Loos als der Mann, der Nein sagt , und kaum einer sagte es mit mehr Entschiedenheit: Nein zum Ornament, Nein zum dekorativen Aufputz, Nein zur Vergeudung, Nein zum Uberkommenen und Irrationalen.