On the rainy afternoon of November 28,1938, a slight 18-year-old Austrian man took in his first impressions of Shanghai. Paul Hoffmann had left his family and all that was familiar to him in Vienna and was now among a forlorn stream of thousands of Jewish refugees into China to escape Nazism. For the next thirteen years, Shanghai would be his home, and he made the most of the last years of the foreign-dominated world of old Shanghai. Witness to History is the moving memoir of a man caught ...

The fourth issue of Black Cat Weekly presents more tales of the mysterious and fantastic—4 mystery shorts, a mystery novel, 2 science fiction stories, a fantasy story, plus a science fiction novel.Here are:THE HAMMERING MAN by Edwin Balmer and William MacHargFLOORED, by Hal CharlesTWILIGHT LADIES, by Meg OppermanWEST OF QUARANTINE, by Todhunter BallardTHE BROTHERS OF THE LEFT HAND PATH, by Frank Lovell NelsonTHE HERPLE IS A HAPPY ...

Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual a...

The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history -- for the non-specialist, interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with a description of the instrument, and here Hoffmann grapples with the complexity of va...

Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fräulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage with the gnome Corduanspitz. Can Anna find any way of removing the ring? Will her poet lover shake off his passive demeanour and come to her aid? And has Corduanspitz truly relinquished all ties to his gnome heritage?Around a love story very much of its time, Hoffman arranges a narrative that br...

Telecommunications service providers face increasing information assistance requests to help law enforcement while they simultaneously struggle with CapEx and OpEx reductions. On the other hand, law enforcement agencies face expensive telecommunication interface options for data collection as they battle with a growing backlog of subpoena requests.

LET THE WORLD'S GREATEST SCIENTISTS TAKE YOU TO THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE TODAY.From Astronomy to Viruses, you'll find their narratives full of genius, personal insight and enlightenment. Great Minds of Science, hosted by Paul Hoffman, is a tribute to mankind's ingenuity and boundless curiosity.