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Books by Anne Karpf
  | | The War After by Anne Karpf Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2009 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-24834-6, ISBN: 0-571-24834-9 "Anne Karpf's parents survived the Nazi Holocaust. Her mother, a concert pianist when she was eighteen, was a survivor of Plaszow and Auschwitz concentrations camps. Her father survived several Russian labour camps. When they came to Britain in 1947, their pasts came with them. In this thought-provoking and moving memoir, Anne Karpf explores the profound impact of her parents' wartime experiences on her daily life. Combining a gripping ..." |
 | | How to Age by Anne Karpf Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2014 by Pan Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-76775-1, ISBN: 0-230-76775-3 "Society has a deep fear of ageing. Old age is increasingly viewed as a biomedical problem, something to be avoided at all costs and then vanished away by medicine. Anne Karpf urges us to change our narrative. Exploring how our outlook on ageing is historically determined and culturally defined, she draws upon case studies, old and new, to suggest how ageing can be an actively enriching time of immense growth. She argues that if we can r ..." |
 | | The Human Voice(1st Edition) How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are by Anne Karpf Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-299-3, ISBN: 1-58234-299-7 "Dazzling and groundbreaking, the first book to explore something so fundamental that most of us take it for granted. What is more amazing about the voice: its central importance to human society, or our widespread disregard for it? From an early age we are taught to think about what we say, what we do, what we wear--not about how we sound. In fact, Karpf points out, we are overlooking one of the primary things people notice about us. Th ..." |
 | | How to Age (The School of Life) by Anne Karpf Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-05898-0, ISBN: 1-250-05898-8 "THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE’S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS “DAMNABLY CUTE.” WE DON’T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED TO STIMULATE, PROVOKE, AND CONSOLE. Society has a deep fear of ageing, and showing your age is increasingly one of our most pervasive taboos. Old a ..." |
 | | The Human Voice by Anne Karpf Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Pub Ltd International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-7822-2, ISBN: 0-7475-7822-2 |
 | | The Human Voice(1st Edition) How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are by Anne Karpf Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-7649-5, ISBN: 0-7475-7649-1 |
 | | The War After(1st Edition) Living with the Holocaust by Anne Karpf, The War After Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1996 by William Heinemann Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-434-00239-9, ISBN: 0-434-00239-9 "Anne Karpf's Jewish parents survived the holocaust after indescribable suffering. In post-war Britian, Anne devoted her to life to trying to compensate for their suffering. The affect it had on her is depicted in this account of coming to terms with a painful heritage." |
 | | How Women Can Save The Planet (Hardback) by Anne Karpf Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2021 by C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-78738-461-3, ISBN: 1-78738-461-6 "And, from New Orleans to Bangladesh, the lives of poor women of colour are being profoundly re-shaped by a crisis they did nothing to create. This vital book shows that we're not all in it together - but we could be." |
 | | The Human Voice(Updated) The Story of a Remarkable Talent by Anne Karpf Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-8537-4, ISBN: 0-7475-8537-7 "Why has the female voice deepened over the last fifty years? Who talks more, men or women? How can a baby in the womb distinguish between different voices? The human voice is the personal and social glue that binds us, and the most important sound in our lives. The moment we open our mouth we leak information about our biological, psychological and social status. Babies use it to establish emotional ties and acquire language, adults to ..." |
 | | The War After(Updated) Living with the Holocaust by Anne Karpf, The War After Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1997 by Mandarin Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7493-2009-6, ISBN: 0-7493-2009-5 "Anne Karpf's Polish-born parents survived the Nazi Holocaust. When they came to Britain they told their stories to their children, who came to feel responsible for their parents' well being. The need to protect and nourish her parents took precedence over almost every other impulse, stunting her development until finally, with the return of rampaging childhood eczema in her early thirties, her skin began to articulate some of the buried ..." |
 | | The School of Life Ser. How to Age by Anne Karpf 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-05899-7, ISBN: 1-250-05899-6 "As they move into their thirties, they may have to learn how to convert some of their blistering energy into staying power. When we talk about life shrinking as we age, what may actually be happening is this sloughing off of inessentials. As the French actress Nathalie Baye put it when she was 63, 'That's the trick about ageing: you need to somehow become lighter at the same time.' Lighter can mean not spreading oneself so thinly, ..." |
 | | Doctoring the Media The Reporting of Health and Medicine by Anne Karpf 298 Pages, Published 1988 ISBN-13: 978-0-608-20355-3, ISBN: 0-608-20355-6 |
 | | Women and Radio(1st Edition) Airing Differences by Caroline Mitchell, Anne Karpf, Anne Carfe Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-22071-2, ISBN: 0-415-22071-8 "Combining classic work on radio with innovative research, journalism and biography, Women and Radio offers a variety of approaches to understanding the position of women as producers, presenters and consumers as well as offering guidelines, advice and helpful information for women wanting to work in radio.Women and Radio examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming and reveals and explains the inequali ..." |
 | | How to Age by Anne Karpf Published 2014 by Pan Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-5885-8, ISBN: 1-4472-5885-1 "One in the new series of books from The School of Life, launched January 2014: How to Age by Anne Karpf How to Develop Emotional Health by Oliver James How to Be Alone by Sara Maitland How to Deal with Adversity by Christopher Hamilton How ..." |
 | | The War After by Anne Karpf 368 Pages, Published 2013 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-30784-5, ISBN: 0-571-30784-1 "Anne Karpf's parents survived the Nazi Holocaust." |
 | | Representing Auschwitz At the Margins of Testimony (The Holocaust and its Contexts) by Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams, Cathy S. Gelbin, Eva Hoffman, Anne Karpf Hardcover, 246 Pages, Published 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-29768-6, ISBN: 1-137-29768-9 "The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried in the grounds of the crematoria at Birkenau in 1944, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The accounts, which are often marginalize ..." |
 | | The Human Voice The Story of a Remarkable Talent by Anne Karpf Digital, 416 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-2788-8, ISBN: 1-4088-2788-3 "Why has the female voice deepened over the last fifty years? Who talks more, men or women? How can a baby in the womb distinguish between different voices? The human voice is the personal and social glue that binds us, and the most important sound in our lives. The moment we open our mouth we leak information about our biological, psychological and social status. Babies use it to establish emotional ties and acquire language, adults to ..." |
 | | Doctoring the Media(1st Edition) the Reporting of Health and Medicine by Anne Karpf Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 1988 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-00250-9, ISBN: 0-415-00250-8 "An entertaining and very illuminating look at the interaction between the media and the medical profession, covering everything from the radio doctors of the 1930s to the ethical and political issues behind the media's coverage of AIDS." |
 | | Gender and Expertise by Maureen Mcneil, Donna Haraway, Judith Williamson, Grazyna Baran, Anne Karpf Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1987 by Free Association Books ISBN-13: 978-0-946960-26-2, ISBN: 0-946960-26-7 |
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