The Resource In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
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The item In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically ... nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary status and a tenuous grasp of the language, he and his wife were curious to see how they would function shorn of all the rules that governed their daily lives-housing, food acquisition, transportation, and even basic communication. As soon as t
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Contents
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Walls in Our Heads; 1. Breaking Down the Wall; 2. But for the Weather; 3. Leaving the American Sector; 4. Concrete Details: Your Guide's Tour of Erfurt; 5. ALFs, Autos, and Encounters with the Polizei; 6. Words Fail Me, Yet Again; 7. Destinations and Wanderings; 8. Field without Dreams: Baseball in the Former GDR; 9. The Class That Doesn't Exist in the Country That Once Did; 10. Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down; 11. In Former Times; Afterword: Echoes of a Fallen Wall
- Isbn
- 9780803271609
- Label
- In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
- Title
- In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
- Subject
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- 1961-1989
- Americans
- Americans -- Germany -- Biography
- Authors, American
- Authors, American -- Biography
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 -- Biography
- Biographies
- Electronic books
- Germany
- Germany -- Erfurt
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
- TRAVEL -- Europe | Germany
- Tweedie, Sanford, 1962-
- Tweedie, Sanford, 1962-
- Erfurt (Germany) -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically ... nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary status and a tenuous grasp of the language, he and his wife were curious to see how they would function shorn of all the rules that governed their daily lives-housing, food acquisition, transportation, and even basic communication. As soon as t
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tweedie, Sanford
- Dewey number
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- 814.6
- 814/.6
- 914.3104882
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3620.W43 Z46 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Tweedie, Sanford
- Authors, American
- Americans
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
- Erfurt (Germany)
- Tweedie, Sanford
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- TRAVEL
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
- Americans
- Authors, American
- Germany
- Germany
- Label
- In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Walls in Our Heads; 1. Breaking Down the Wall; 2. But for the Weather; 3. Leaving the American Sector; 4. Concrete Details: Your Guide's Tour of Erfurt; 5. ALFs, Autos, and Encounters with the Polizei; 6. Words Fail Me, Yet Again; 7. Destinations and Wanderings; 8. Field without Dreams: Baseball in the Former GDR; 9. The Class That Doesn't Exist in the Country That Once Did; 10. Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down; 11. In Former Times; Afterword: Echoes of a Fallen Wall
- Control code
- 830162302
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780803271609
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)830162302
- Label
- In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Walls in Our Heads; 1. Breaking Down the Wall; 2. But for the Weather; 3. Leaving the American Sector; 4. Concrete Details: Your Guide's Tour of Erfurt; 5. ALFs, Autos, and Encounters with the Polizei; 6. Words Fail Me, Yet Again; 7. Destinations and Wanderings; 8. Field without Dreams: Baseball in the Former GDR; 9. The Class That Doesn't Exist in the Country That Once Did; 10. Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down; 11. In Former Times; Afterword: Echoes of a Fallen Wall
- Control code
- 830162302
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780803271609
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)830162302
Subject
- 1961-1989
- Americans
- Americans -- Germany -- Biography
- Authors, American
- Authors, American -- Biography
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 -- Biography
- Biographies
- Electronic books
- Germany
- Germany -- Erfurt
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
- TRAVEL -- Europe | Germany
- Tweedie, Sanford, 1962-
- Tweedie, Sanford, 1962-
- Erfurt (Germany) -- Biography
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