Simon Parkin
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
""The finest book on video games yet. Simon Parkin thinks like a critic, conjures like a novelist, and writes like an artist at the height of his powers--which, in fact, he is."--Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter On January 31, 2012, in an internet cafe on the outskirts of New Taipei City, Taiwan, 23-year-old student Chen Rong-yu was found dead at his keyboard while the video game he had been playing for three days straight...
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Español
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Matamos el tiempo con los videojuegos pero ¿qué pasa cuando los videojuegos nos matan a nosotros?
La pregunta da mucho de sí, y Simon Parkin intenta responderla sin olvidar que, para algunos, EVE Online, Grand Theft Auto y League of Legends tienen poderes salvíficos.
Jugamos por muchos motivos, y Muerte por videojuego es, a su manera, una teoría estética y política del diseño, la programación y ese aparente contrasentido que es la vida...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hiring Right is for anyone who interviews and hires for their organization — Hiring Managers, Business Leaders, HR Professionals and Recruiters. What you learn by reading Hiring Right will make it easier to hire great talent. This book presents a model for finding, engaging, closing, and retaining the top candidates and high performers in your market. In a world where many organizations emptily proclaim that people are their greatest asset, this...
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Deutsch
Description
Zum ersten Mal erzählt: das Schicksal deutscher Künstler in Churchills Internierungslagern
Simon Parkin beleuchtet ein bisher unbekanntes Kapitel des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Im Mai 1940 ließ Winston Churchill alle männlichen Deutschen und Österreicher zwischen 16 und 60 Jahren ohne Gerichtsverfahren als »feindliche Ausländer« internieren. Die Flüchtlinge waren den Nazis gerade entkommen und wurden nun von Churchill auf die Isle of Man zwischen...
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