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Tourism industryJune 2010Cultural Tourism Research Methods
by Edited by Greg Richards, Wil Munsters.
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February 2022The Great Rift
How Society Drifts Apart and How to Counter It. An Essay
by Jean-Pierre Wils
Chaos flourishes beneath the surface – a deep fissure runs through our society Inside the pressure-cooker of the coronavirus pandemic, we see more clearly the volatile status of how we live together. Why were we unprepared, in spite of the numerous warnings over the years? Jean-Pierre Wils speculates that our society, which is already marked by tension and hectic stalemate, is riven by a deep division. In this case, the reality of the crisis triggered by the pandemic is only the prelude to a much deeper crisis: climate change. But how can we manage it? To do so Wils advocates for a “culture of interim solutions” – a culture of thoughtfulness, soul-searching, slowing down and reorienting towards social and ecological sustainability ...
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March 2021Facing Death
Suicide as last emancipation?
by Jean-Pierre Wils
Assisted suicide has been the subject of much passionate debate in many societies. The philosopher and theologian Jean-Pierre Wils does not deny autonomy, but asks – on the basis of his profound historical and ethical knowledge – about the social consequences. Does the right to assisted suicide not in the long run lead to the obligation to decide for or against it? And does not the pressure towards a supposedly reasonable decision increase, as soon as the causation of one‘s own death is seen as a final act of self-realisation and emancipation, or even commended as such? Wils makes a strong plea for the debate to be held in a broader context, to remove our finiteness from cultural amnesia – and in doing so, lays the foundation for a contemporary discussion on assisted suicide.
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March 2023Why We Need Comfort
On the trail of a human need
by Jean-Pierre Wils
— The accompanying book to the Kassel exhibition "Trost" ("Comfort") in spring 2023 — A book to counter desolation in these challenging times — What comfort is and why people need it "Comfort" is one of those words that has a somewhat tarnished reputation: cold comfort, false comfort, consolation prize, someone is not to be comforted ... "Action instead of comfort" is the maxim; "therapy instead of resignation" the variant. There is something old-fashioned about comfort. And still we long for it; people have always looked for "sources of comfort". In the midst of the climate and global political upheavals of our time, in the middle of a Ukraine war, a play recently celebrated at the Salzburg Festival is called, "Crazy for Consolation". People seek comfort because just helping is no longer helping; they are at the end of their abilities. "Comfort" would appear to be a gift in both senses of the word. But "comfort" is a mystery. Jean-Pierre Wils attempts to solve it in this essay.
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May 2022Unter den Menschen
Roman
by Mathijs Deen, Andreas Ecke
Jan lebt allein auf einem Hof am Rande der Nordsee, das Leben geht seinen Gang, aber die Einsamkeit nagt an ihm. Ein bisschen Gesellschaft wäre schön, eine Frau, Gespräche, Sex, vielleicht sogar eine eigene Familie? Jan gibt eine Anzeige auf und erhält Antwort von Wil. Wil jedoch, so stellt sich heraus, verfolgt einen ganz eigenen Plan – sie sucht keine Liebe, sondern ein Haus mit Blick aufs Meer. Zwei Menschen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, versuchen zusammenzufinden. Kann das gutgehen? Atmosphärisch, lakonisch und mit einem feinen Gespür für das Skurrile beschreibt Mathijs Deen den Weg zweier einsamer Menschen in eine ungewöhnliche Partnerschaft – charmant, unterhaltsam und tragikomisch.
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September 2022Identity or Not?
by Jean-Pierre Wils (ed.)
Questions of identity trigger controversial and highly emotional discussions in the political and social debate. The positions range from radically emancipatory perspectives to authoritarian and restorative efforts on the far right wing of politics. Liberal democracies are now opening up – slowly – as identity- and gender-sensitive forums. Opposite them are the 'new ethics' of illiberal democracies and totalitarian states that are aimed at ethnic homogeneity and gender uniformity. But that's not to say that there is unity in the liberal settings on the necessary degree of identity politics. Both language and gender politics are deeply controversial. Do we need an 'identity' and, if so, which one or how many? Can the identity debate be extended by means of other concepts?
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September 2021Crisis and Transformation
by Jean-Pierre Wils (Ed.)
We live in an age of upheaval and crisis; our existence is at the threshold of a new epoch that leaves nothing as it was before. It became clear that the natural materials of our world in transformation were a finite and exhaustible resource. The ambitious projects of humankind were already beset by doubts and the optimism of something better in store for us in the future became ever more subdued. An era of sceptical thinking dawned. What was only recently celebrated as an achievement is today placed in question: democracy, human rights and the bond of solidarity between the generations. But the art of dialogue must always be preserved. The capacity for critical reflection must be repeatedly practised and the sensitivity of our perception deepened.
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September 2023Being Able to Stop
Against the delusion of permanent growth
by Edited by Jean-Pierre Wils
We moderns were the inhabitants of an age of impetuous forward movement and voracious discontent. Our main virtue was to increase our reach. Increasing our having and accelerating our being were the signposts towards the future. We just could not get enough. Using the blinkers of ignorance and self-anaesthesia, however, we managed to forget the tremendous costs incurred by this intoxication. Now disillusionment has set in. We look to the future with anxiety. We know that we have long since crossed a line and that a revision of our lifestyle is imminent. We have a bad feeling, and doubts about progress often give way to anger and rebellion. Which stocks of the modern narrative should we defend; which would we do better to let go? How will we even "be able to stop"? The path to a different society needs an attractive goal, because without the prospect of a different, better life, we will not move forward. We should start practising immediately. There is no time to lose.
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Children's & YAWoodwalkers & Friends (1). Fantastic Feline Friends
by Katja Brandis/Claudia Carls
You have never seen the Woodwalkers like this before: find out about the lives of the puma boy Carag and his shapeshifting friends outside the school walls. The young puma shapeshifter Carag is really looking forward to the school holidays. He’s going to visit the family of his girlfriend Tikaani for the first time, so that they can celebrate her birthday together. But before they can head for the far north, they are overtaken by events. First, two self-willed companions join them, and then Carag receives a call for help from his own puma family. A hostile wolf pack has taken over their old den close to Clearwater High. There is something not quite right about these wolves. As the situation becomes increasingly fiery, Carag and Tikaani know they can rely on help from Holly the chipmunk. But will the three of them be able to save the day?
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2024Walking in the dark
James Baldwin, my father and I
by Douglas Field
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true stories2020Arrow of the Steppe
by Maria Artemenko
What toys and dreams could a Sarmatian girl who lived many centuries ago in the Black Sea steppes have? For example, to tame a wild horse. And to shoot bows as accurately as her mother, a glorious warrior. The main thing is to save a willful horse from a devastating storm in time and manage to hide in her tiny house. The story of Fati from the Sarmatian tribe is about character, struggle with fears, friendship, losses and discoveries.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2003De Stijl and Dutch modernism
by Michael White, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer
De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive character of Dutch modernism. Examines the connection between debates concerning abstraction in painting and spatiality in architecture and contemporary developments in the fields of urban planning, advertising, interior design and exhibition design. Describes the interaction between the world of mass culture and the fine arts. ;
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February 2019Das Herz der Zeit: Die unsichtbare Stadt
The Heart of Time: The Invisible City
by Monika Peetz
15 year-old Lena discovers an ancient clock among her dead parents’ old things and accidentally activates the timepiece’s mechanism. Far away in the invisible city, a place not of this world, a boy takes notice of her: Dante. He is curious to find the daughter of the legendary woman who once left the time-travellers society to live a mortal life. When Lena learns about the mechanisms of time, she decides to change her own fate and travels back to the night, her parents died. Only too late she realises that meddling in her own life automatically affects the lives of everyone else around her too. The story reaches its peak when Lena has to decide between getting her parents back and saving the life of her best friend Bobbie. 12+ years The first volume of an enthralling new fantasy trilogy with two headstrong time-travellers English sample translation available!
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October 2019Das Herz der Zeit: Die Nacht der Eulen
The Heart of Time: The Night of the Owls
by Monika Peetz
Lena is having a hard time adjusting to ordinary life. How can she forget Dante, the boy whose eyes are different colours? But she soon has much bigger worries. On a school trip she realises that her pursuers haven’t given up after all. At the last minute, Lena manages to pass the chronometer she uses to travel through time to her friend Bobbie. A fateful mistake. Fleeing, Bobbie stumbles into the past and becomes trapped in the year 1900. While she fights her way as a papergirl, Lena breaks her promise and returns to the invisible city to look for help – and Dante. Soon all three of them are on a mission to prevent their enemies from constructing chronometers to travel through time themselves. But they’re always a step ahead and the whole invisible world is in danger… 12+ years The first volume of an enthralling new fantasy trilogy with two headstrong time-travellers English sample translation available!
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January 2020The Girl Who Grew Nasty Things
by Wil Mara
Maddie Dragonette doesn't like people. A loner, she prefers to be among the rare plants she grows in her greenhouse, plants that can cause great pain. When Maddie doesn't get a part in the school play, her anger grows as wild as her nasty plants. What happens when anger and hate grow out of control?
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Children's & YAApril 2021The Serpent's Spell
Book 1 of The MiddleGate Books
by Rae St. Clair Bridgman (author & illustrator)
When Wil and his cousin Sophie rescue the sacred snakes of Narcisse, they find themselves swept up in a dangerous plot in the magical, hidden city of MiddleGate. The secret society known as the Serpent’s Chain is on the loose, and Wil is carrying the very thing they’ve been seeking.
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Baby - wat wil je eten?
Aanwijsboek voor peuters
by Kathrin Dreusicke / Roberto Di Bartolomeo
Mijn baby heeft honger - ja - en wil niet eten wat ik aanbied. Tot ik het merk: de kleine vingers tikken gretig op een mandarijn, die op een advertentie wordt afgedrukt. Ohhh - zo kunnen we communiceren, zelfs zonder woorden. Hier is het eerste baby moedertaalboek om onze kleintjes te helpen begrijpen. Dit indexboek is ideaal voor kinderen van 1 tot 2 jaar oud.
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Children's & YAFebruary 2011Kingdom of Trolls
Book IV of The MiddleGate Books
by Rae St. Clair Bridgman (author & illustrator)
A prize trip to Iceland sends Wil and Sophie on another quest to unravel the mystery of the Serpent's Chain. Meanwhile, their friend Mr. Bertram has been imprisoned, falsely accused of murder. When trolls capture the cousins, it looks like they and their adventures might end up in the soup!
