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...wanted to help get the word out about Ingrid's plight, and now her release is clearly helping to sell the book." The slim volume, the first document written by Betancourt, 46, about her captivity, is a coup for the New York City publisher. It contains a passionate foreword by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who pleads, "In the name of her humanity, and of yours, I implore you to listen to this voice." It also contains a loving response from her son and daughter, who were electrified by the unexpected proof that their mother was still alive...
...Parents of current students can and should play a role too. But today most parents work like dogs (and get their children to work like dogs) to get them into the “best” college, and then, as Tom Wolfe has written in a foreword to “Declining by Degrees,” do not show “the slightest curiosity about what happens to them once they get” to college...
...major photographic talent, arriving on the bookshelf or coffee table in a fully formed state and with images that practically hummed with love for the city and its proletariat. "I was born here, I have always lived here and all my work is here," Yau said in the foreword. In his sense of place, he was to Hong Kong what Robert Doisneau was to Paris - a chronicler in black and white of the sooty streets and ordinary people at his city's heart. But in his consummate sensitivity to the decisive moment, Yau was sometimes reminiscent of the great Henri...
...book Phantom Shanghai was published last month. Many of the historic buildings that Girard documents-forlorn carcasses cowering below towers of concrete and glass-have already been demolished. Understanding this lends the photos a nostalgic resonance, a sense that we are witnessing what novelist William Gibson, in his foreword to the book, calls "the actual vanishing, the hideous 21st-century urban hat trick...
...postulated the existence of the unconscious, which he said is shaped by early experience and can profoundly affect moods and behavior, its secrets detectable in dreams and slips of the tongue. "[Braydle] would justify his treatment of [Beddoe] as building a relationship with her," says Jureidini, who wrote the foreword to Beddoe's book, "but it's a bastardization of psychotherapy, just as the way she was treated with medication was a bastardization of the biological approach...