Peter K. Schneider Livres

A travers l'étonnante histoire de Konrad Latte, un musicien juif qui survécut aux années du nazisme en Allemagne, Peter Schneider dresse le portrait des justes allemands, ces citoyens ordinaires qui ont décidé un jour qu'ils devaient aider à sauver les juifs. Un récit pudique, simple, qui retrace des années d'angoisse et d'horreur...

Pendant des annees, de maison en maison, Peter schneider a transporte un carton contenant la correspondance de sa mere. A l'age ou l'on se rend compte qu'on a vecu plus de temps qu'il ne nous en reste a vivre, il se decide a l'ouvrir. Une lecture ahurissante: l'image traditionnelle de l'epouse qui s'est sacrifiee pour ses enfants, decedee alors qu'il avait moins d'une dizaine d'annees, vole en eclats. Cette femme qu'il a peu connu n'a pas seulement aime ses quatre enfants et son mari, mais aussi, eperdument, le meilleur ami de celui-ci, un celebre metteur en scene d'operas.

Le 9 novembre 1989, le monde saluait dans l'émotion la chute du mur de Berlin et les Allemands en liesse bénéficiaient pour la première fois de la sympathie que l'on accorde aux opprimés qui se libèrent. Mais à ceux de ses compatriotes qui espéreraient profiter des événements pour s'installer dans le confort bienfaisant de l'autosatisfaction ou de l'amnésie, Peter Schneider, le sceptique, tend ici un miroir sans complaisance : non, le mur n'était pas uniquement le symbole de la guerre froide, il était avant tout une conséquence de la guerre tout court ; non, le 9 novembre 1989 ne peut effacer la "nuit de cristal" du 9 novembre 1938 ; oui, xénophobie et dogmatisme continuent de hanter la société et la pensée allemandes. Avec une ironie lucide, au fil d'anecdotes éclairantes et d'analyses pertinentes, Peter Schneider nous guide à travers la réalité confuse et parfois drolatique d'un pays qui se cherche, d'un pays qui nous est proche et que nous avons tout intérêt à connaître pour ce qu'il est.

This book is written for parents and all those who have to do with children who stutter, regardless of the country you live in. It provides essential information on stuttering and clearly distinguishes between myths about stuttering and the very latest findings. The dedicated authors explain where stuttering comes from, how you can talk to children about stuttering, where to obtain support, how stuttering is treated and what results can be expected from treatment. The essential message of this book is: “You’re not at the mercy of stuttering. You can do something for your child. Your child is able to learn how to deal with stuttering and to increase his or her chances of recovery.“

The observation, in 1919 by A. S. Eddington and collaborators, of the gra- tational de? ection of light by the Sun proved one of the many predictions of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity: The Sun was the ? rst example of a gravitational lens. In 1936, Albert Einstein published an article in which he suggested - ing stars as gravitational lenses. A year later, Fritz Zwicky pointed out that galaxies would act as lenses much more likely than stars, and also gave a list of possible applications, as a means to determine the dark matter content of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. It was only in 1979 that the ? rst example of an extragalactic gravitational lens was provided by the observation of the distant quasar QSO 0957+0561, by D. Walsh, R. F. Carswell, and R. J. Weymann. A few years later, the ? rst lens showing images in the form of arcs was detected. The theory, observations, and applications of gravitational lensing cons- tute one of the most rapidly growing branches of astrophysics. The gravi- tional de? ection of light generated by mass concentrations along a light path producesmagni? cation, multiplicity, anddistortionofimages, anddelaysp- ton propagation from one line of sight relative to another. The huge amount of scienti? c work produced over the last decade on gravitational lensing has clearly revealed its already substantial and wide impact, and its potential for future astrophysical applications.

This book outlines the fundamentals of this fascinating branch of astronomy, and explores the forefront of astronomical research. The author’s passion for the topic shines with an intensity that rivals the book’s many colourful illustrations, and will deeply inspire the reader. The cogently written text introduces the reader to the astronomy of galaxies, their structure, their active galactic nuclei, their evolution and their large scale distribution. Starting with a detailed description of our Milky Way, and a review of modern observational and theoretical cosmology, the book goes on to examine the formation of structures and astronomical objects in the early universe.

This work introduces us, by means of a series of vignettes, to the changes, large and small, that have taken place in Germany since the dismantling of the Wall. The author argues that the real fear about the new Germany is not the rise of neo-Nazism, but of a cult of righteousness, with its concomitant mistrust of foreigners and especially the threat of the creation of a moral vacuum for a nation so intent on forgetting the ghosts that haunt its past.

Light observed from distant objects is found to be deflected by the gravitational field of massive objects near the line of sight - an effect predicted by Einstein in his first paper setting forth the general theory of relativity, and confirmed by Eddington soon afterwards. If the source of the light is sufficiently distant and bright, and if the intervening object is massive enough and near enough to the line of sight, the gravitational field acts like a lens, focusing the light and producing one or more bright images of the source. This book, by renowned researchers in the field, begins by discussing the basic physics behind gravitational lenses: the optics of curved space-time. It then derives the appropriate equations for predicting the properties of these lenses. In addition, it presents up-to-date observational evidence for gravitational lenses and describes the particular properties of the observed cases. The authors also discuss applications of the results to problems in cosmology.

Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of bar room anecdotes over beer and vodka, adjusting to a new life in the west; Pommerer, trying to outwit the system in the east; the unnamed narrator, who 'escapes' back-and-forth to collect stories; his beguiling, exiled lover Lena; the three boys who defect to watch Hollywood films; and the man who leaps across the Wall again and again - simply because he cannot help himself. All are, in their different ways, wall jumpers, trying to lose themselves but still trapped wherever they go. Ultimately, the walls inside their heads prove to be more powerful than any man-made barrier . . .

On the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the last five decades, no city has changed more than Berlin: divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has become Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants and entrepreneurs. Blending memoir, history and reportage, this legendary Berliner takes us behind the scenes there - looking at everything from life under the Stasi and the difference between East and West Berliners' sex-lives to the city's night-life, politics and hidden quirks - and reveals what makes Berlin the uniquely fascinating place it is.