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One of Indiewire's six highlights of SXSW 2015, singled out by Janet Pierson as "pretty nuts," Selected at Sheffield 2015 and raved by SoundOnSight as "bombastic," DISASTER PLAYGROUND investigates future outer space catastrophes and the procedures in place to manage, assess, and minimize the risks. From NASA and the SETI Institute to the White House and the United Nations, Disaster Playground follows the people who are responsible for protecting humanity...
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Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzer's famed New York World newspaper, Bly went undercover as a patient at a notorious insane asylum on Blackwell's Island. Spending ten days there, she recorded the abuses and neglect she witnessed, turning her research into a sensational two-part story for the New York World later published as Ten Days in a Mad-House....
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Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the...
13) Holocaust poetry
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The works of poets from Europe, Israel and America. In History and Reality, Stephen Spender writes: "She felt a kind of envy for / Those who stood naked in their truth: / Where to be of her people was / To be one of those millions killed."