Tom Hopper Bücher

Lustig, tieftraurig, bewegend und menschlich. Hopper schreibt kurze, liebevolle Geschichten über seine Erlebnisse, seine Ansichten, die Arbeit als Förderschullehrer und seine Beweggründe. Es ist ein besonderer Blick auf seine Welt, seine Familie, seine Schüler: innen und auf die Gesellschaft. Wie steht es um uns? Gibt es Hoffnung oder sind wir tatsächlich gespalten und verloren? Hopper geht dahin, wo es weh tut und gibt Antworten auf die kleinen und großen Fragen. Und sie werden nicht jedem gefallen.

This is my story.As a young child in Germany from 1943-1945, in and out of bomb shelters, who doesn’t know any better since he has never experienced anything else.As an unhappy adolescent in the 1950s, who doesn’t like his home and wants to join the French Foreign Legion.And as a young man in April 1960, who is disillusioned about his present life and seeks a new future in another land.It was to Australia that I came, with 1400 others, in an old ‘bucket’ built in 1930, called SS Castel Felice. Very happy, actually, as for the first time in my life I feel as free as a bird; can do my own thing in my own time.You will read about my life above and about my trials and tribulations as a vagabond in Oz. The people I have met and worked with, everlasting friendships, and travels between the old and the new country until I meet the love of my life and settle in the far west of Sydney.

In this classic study, a noted scholar reveals "how deeply rooted in medieval thought was the consciousness of numbers, not as mathematical tools, nor yet as the counters in a game, but as fundamental realities, alive with memories and eloquent with meaning."