"La fin du printemps" retrace l'enfance joyeuse de John Freund, passionné de football et d'écriture, avant que tout bascule avec l'invasion nazie de la Tchécoslovaquie en 1939. L'auteur offre un récit poignant et authentique de cette période tragique.
On the eve of World War II, John Freund was a young boy who loved soccer as much as he loved to write. In Springs End he recounts with telling detail how his joyful childhood was shattered by the German invasion of his homeland, Czechoslovakia, in 1939. Like other boys his age, John loved mischief and adventure and he found his greatest pleasure sitting and watching the dozens of trains that rolled through his city of Ceske Budejovice every day. He was only nine years old when, as he puts it, the devil walked in. Hoping at first the conflict and persecution would soon blow over, the Freunds an assimilated Jewish family who identified first and foremost as Czechs suffered through the systematic erosion of their rights before being first deported to the Terezin concentration camp near Prague and then transported to Auschwitz. Springs End faithfully records everything John witnessed inside the death camp life in the family camp section of the compound, the experience of being one of Dr. Josef Mengeles Boys of Birkenau, and the successful revolt of the Sonderkommando that destroyed part of the crematoria complex. Johns loss of innocence and suffering are made all the more poignant by writing that reveals an unwavering faith in humanity, determined optimism and commitment to rebuilding his life in Canada.
Designed for introductory courses in Probability and Statistics, this textbook caters specifically to engineering, physical science, and mathematics students at the sophomore or junior level. It offers a comprehensive foundation in statistical concepts and methods, making it suitable for one or two semester courses. The content is tailored to engage students and enhance their understanding of applied statistics in relevant fields.
This important study makes a convincing case for its thesis that the dramatic form of Shakespeare's plays corresponds to that of a natural system evolving to a more complex state while undergoing symmetry breaking. Drawing upon such key concepts of chaos theory as global agency and self-similarity, the book constructs a methodology which illuminates many problematic aspects of agency in the selected comedies, tragedies, and histories it examines. Each of these genres is shown to reflect the paradoxical dynamics of a chaotic system. This fresh systems perspective offers a serious challenge to the structuralist assumptions underlying many current literary approaches.
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