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      Man steht sehr bequem zwischen allen Fronten

      Briefe 1952-2011

      by Christa Wolf

      »Post, Post, Post«. Dieser Stoßseufzer, notiert im Kalender unter dem Datum vom Sonntag, dem 4. März 1990, kommt nicht von ungefähr: Christa Wolf war eine ungeheuer produktive Korrespondentin. Ihre Briefe an Verwandte und Freunde, Kollegen, Lektoren, Politiker, Journalisten geben faszinierende Einblicke in ihre Gedankenwelt, ihre Schreibwerkstatt, ihr gesellschaftliches Engagement. Ob sie an Günter Grass oder Max Frisch schreibt, von Joachim Gauck Einsicht in ihre Stasi-Akte fordert oder sich mit Freundinnen wie Sarah Kirsch und Maxie Wander austauscht, wir sind Zeuge von Freundschaften und Zerwürfnissen, Auseinandersetzungen und Bestätigung, von der Selbstfindung einer der wichtigsten Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nicht zuletzt beeindruckt ihr Umgang mit der Flut von Leserbriefen, die sie mit zunehmendem schriftstellerischen Erfolg erreicht und auf die sie geduldig und kundig – und manchmal auch mit der gebotenen Direktheit – eingeht.

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      October 2007

      abhanden mit der hand, abfußen mit dem fuß

      Antons liebste Wort-Spiel-Verse

      by Gerhard Wolf, Anton Wolf, Martin Hoffmann

      Dieser Band versammelt die schönsten Wortspielgedichte und -verse, illustriert mit den spontanen und skurrilen Zeichnungen des Enkels von Christa Wolf. Ein Buch zum Lesen und Vorlesen. Kinder lieben die Zungenbrecher von »Fischers Fritz«, lieben »Doppelmoppel«, »eile mit feile« und Morgensterns Palmström und Korf. Solche Wortspielreime und -gedichte haben Christa und Gerhard Wolf ihrem Enkel Anton oft vorgelesen.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2024

      Home front heroism

      Civilians and conflict in Second World War London

      by Ellena Matthews

      Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how heroism was manufactured as civilians adopted roles in production, protection and defence, through the use of uniforms and medals, and through the way that civilians were injured and killed. This book makes a novel contribution to the study of heroism by exploring the spatial, material, corporeal and ritualistic dimensions of heroic representations. By tracing the different ways that Home Front heroism was cultivated on a national, local and personal level, this study promotes new ways of thinking about the meaning and value of heroism during periods of conflict. It will appeal to anyone interested in the social and cultural history of Second World War as well as the sociology and psychology of heroism.

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      January 2012

      Tote Mädchen

      Roman

      by Richard Calder, Hannes Riffel, Dietmar Dath

      Großbritannien 2071. Ein Virus verwandelt pubertierende Mädchen in bluthungrige Cyborgs, »tote Mädchen«. Wer von ihnen gebissen wird, zeugt selbst vampirische Wesen. Die regierende Partei »Human Front« ruft zum Massaker an den Puppen auf und riegelt London hermetisch ab. Doch der junge Ivan Zwakh weigert sich, seine Geliebte, die Sexpuppe Primavera, zu verlassen, auch wenn ihre Liebesbeweise ihn fast das Leben kosten. Den beiden gelingt die Flucht nach Bangkok, aber ihre Verfolger sind ihnen dicht auf den Fersen … Richard Calder entwirft eine düstere Zukunftswelt, in der Gelüste nach Sex, Schmerz und Macht die Existenz der Menschheit aufs Spiel setzen. Ein temporeich erzählter, fesselnder Roman über den Versuch einer unmöglichen Liebe im Cyborgzeitalter.

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      August 2005

      Saint Tropez

      und andere Erzählungen

      by Wondratschek, Wolf

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      Business, Economics & Law
      December 2018

      World Heritage Sites

      Tourism, Local Communities and Conservation Activities

      by Takamitsu Jimura

      Heritage is a growing area of both tourism and study, with World Heritage Site designations increasing year-on-year. This book reviews the important interrelations between the industry, local communities and conservation work, bringing together the various opportunities and challenges for different destinations. World Heritage status is a strong marketing brand, and proper heritage management and effective conservation are vital, but this tourism must also be developed and managed appropriately if it is to benefit a site. As many sites are located in residential areas, their interaction with the local community must also be carefully considered. This book: - Reviews new areas of development such as Historic Urban Landscapes, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Memory of the World and Global Geoparks. - Includes global case studies to relate theory to practice. - Covers a worldwide industry of over 1,000 cultural and natural heritage sites. An important read for academics, researchers and students of heritage studies, cultural studies and tourism, this book is also a useful resource for professionals working in conservation, cultural and natural heritage management.

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      Children's & YA
      March 2021

      My Upside Down World

      by Ken Spillman and Silvana Giraldo

      “This is a TRUE story. It’s about my world” There’s smoke in the kitchen. Dad acts normal but Mom is worried her head might explode. Even so, the biggest problem is global. You-Know-Who has been at it again and the world must be put right. Today! Big brothers are mean. Big brothers spell trouble. And Big Brothers are not to be trusted, especially if they turn your world upside down. Or is it downside up? In this book where the parallel crazy worlds with their upside-downness and downside-upness weave a fantastic, troubled, creased co-existence, nothing is what it seems like and everything is up for wonder. Ken Spillman adroitly plays around with words and situations both believable and unbelievable, while Silvana Giraldo spins a splendidly broken-but-beautiful world to bring alive an Orwellian dystopia into this picture book.

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      January 2017

      O, My Fellow Countrymen

      by Jai Xing’an

      Centering on many practical problems, O, My Fellow Countrymen elaborates a series of thrilling stories via the ruthless conflicts between Wang Tiansheng, the protagonist, and corrupt officials, thus shaping the image of a credible and respected rural secretary of the Party committee who is austere and full of courage. The novel exhibits contemporary living and working status of rural cadres from village-level, town-level and county-level, thereby vividly reflecting the profound reform in current politics, economy and social life, and making itself a realistic novel of counter-corruption subject which is quite rare in recent years.

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      October 2024

      The Impact of Therapy and Pet Animals on Human Stress

      by Lori Kogan

      Stress can have a deleterious effect on people's mental, physical, and psychological health. There is a growing body of evidence, however, that suggests animals, both as pets and therapy partners, can help mitigate people's stress levels. This book showcases a rich collection of research papers from Human-Animal Interactions. It highlights research pertaining to pets as well as animal-assisted therapy in both school and professional settings. The book also includes a scene-setting introduction and wrap-up conclusion from the editor. Providing comprehensive information on the impact of animals on human stress, this book is a useful resource for anyone interested in human health or human-animal relationships.

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      2022

      aporello: Human Parasites

      by Christine Bender-Leitzig, Dr. Reiner Pospischil

      Infestation with parasites usually causes revulsion in those affected and many infections are kept secret through shame. In recent times there has also been a rise in non-native parasites, which often remain undetected. This book gives an overview of the most significant human parasites as well as their - prevalence - symptoms - treatment possibilities. The text is accompanied by illustrations that help when giving everyday advice. Practical icons show at a glance when, for example, the authorities must be notified and what special things need to be considered. Highly concentrated knowledge in an instant? That’s aporello!

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2023

      Critical theory and human rights

      From compassion to coercion

      by David McGrogan

      This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.

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      November 2023

      Tourism, heritage and commodification of non-human animals

      a post-humanist reflection

      by Álvaro López-López, Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas, Carol Kline, Tomas Arias, Jean Azcatl Pineda, Alicia Mariana Penélope Castro Pérez, Bobbie Chew Bigby, Émilie Crossley, Johan Edelheim, Georgina Flores, Carolin Funck, Leonardo Garavito-González, Yulei Guo, Jes Hooper, Brenda Martínez Velasco, Alejandro Morales, Gustavo Ortiz-Millán, Mateo Nicolás Rico Medina, Jorge Iván Ruiz Barrera, Javed Salim, Estephania Sepúlveda Perdomo, Rie Usui, David A. Varela-Trejo, Nusrat Yasmeen

      Heritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies. It is commonly a positive assessment of many elements of the physical and human environment (e.g. ecosystems and landscapes, monuments, customs, gender norms, religious practices, gastronomy, and livelihoods). Heritage and tourism are strongly related to each other in that heritage gives rise to tourist attractions and activities, and tourism enhances the designation of heritage sites. Non-human animals (hereafter 'animals') are present as implicit or explicit heritage elements through multiple tourist environments: animals may be themselves the heritage focus of tourist interest (visual arts, gastronomy, as charismatic and distinguished beings, as part of festivities or rituals), or it may be that animals are agents involved in heritage tourist environments such as working animals or in recreational activities. A post-humanist perspective the moral valuation of equality between humans and other animals demands that both are sentient beings and self-aware of their pain and pleasure. Thus, the involvement of animals as heritage elements by themselves or as an element of tourist consumption in heritage sites implies their commodification and lack of agency. As such, these practices are usually unethical, since they threaten the animals' primary interests: not to suffer, not to feel pain and to be able to live their freedom. This book contains chapters that reveal both the unethical interactions between humans and animals within heritage tourism, and those that show experiences in which efforts are made to minimize damage within the commercialization of animals involved as heritage themselves. It will be of interest to postgraduate students, academics, NGOs and tourism planners.

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      August 2010

      Die Figur des Dritten

      Ein kulturwissenschaftliches Paradigma

      by Eva Eßlinger, Tobias Schlechtriemen, Doris Schweitzer, Alexander Zons

      Auf der Bühne der Epistemologie kommt es im 20. Jahrhundert zu einer signifikanten Umbesetzung. Ins Rampenlicht der Theoriebildung tritt eine Gestalt, die bis dahin weitgehend zu einer Existenz off stage verurteilt war: die Figur des Dritten. Seither tummelt sich eine Vielzahl von zuvor eher randständigen Akteuren in den kulturwissenschaftlichen Theorien: Boten, Cyborgs, Parasiten, Rivalen, Trickster. Prominent wird der/die/das Dritte jedoch nicht allein in solchen Verkörperungen, sondern auch als theoretische Figuration: Kategorien wie third space, Hybridität oder drittes Geschlecht deuten auf eine neuartige Sensibilität für die Problematik von Grenzziehung und Unterscheidung. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band bietet Lesern aus dem breiten Spektrum der Kulturwissenschaften einen Problemaufriss und Überblick über die Vielfalt von Figuren und Figurationen des Dritten.

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      Medicine
      July 2018

      Are We Pushing Animals to Their Biological Limits?

      Welfare and Ethical Implications

      by Temple Grandin, Martin Whiting

      Stimulating and thought-provoking, this important new text looks at the welfare problems and philosophical and ethical issues that are caused by changes made to an animal's telos, behaviour and physiology, both positive and negative, to make them more productive or adapted for human uses. These changes may involve selective breeding for production, appearance traits, or competitive advantage in sport, transgenic animals or the use of pharmaceuticals or hormones to enhance production or performance. Changes may impose duties to care for these animals further and more intensely, or they may make the animal more robust. The book considers a wide range of animals, including farm animals, companion animals and laboratory animals. It reviews the ethics and welfare issues of animals that have been adapted for sport, as companions, in work, as ornaments, food sources, guarding and a whole host of other human functions. This important new book sparks debate and is essential reading for all those involved in animal welfare and ethics, including veterinarians, animal scientists, animal welfare scientists and ethologists.

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      June 1993

      Die Ideologie des Ästhetischen

      by Paul Man, Karl Heinz Bohrer, Christoph Menke, Jürgen Blasius, Christoph Menke

      Als Paul de Man 1983 starb, war er der wohl bekannteste und einflußreichste Vertreter einer Richtung der Literaturkritik und ihrer Theore, die allgemein als »dekonstruktiv« bezeichnet wird. Kennzeichnend für diese Richtung ist eine erneute Konzentration auf die innere Verfaßtheit der literarischen Texte. Eine erste Auswahl dieser methodisch vorbildlich wie brillant geschriebenen Texte ist 1988 unter dem Titel »Allegorien des Lesens« in der edition suhrkamp erschienen. Die vorliegende Auswahl konzentriert sich auf die methodologischen und theoretischen Prämissen dieses Vorhabens, wie sie die Abhandlungen über die Zeitlichkeit der Literatur, über Shelley und über die Autobiographie deutlich machen. Sich auf die immanente Verfaßtheit und Bewegung von Texten einzulassen ist nach de Man kein selbstzweckhaftes, folgenloses Unternehmen. De Man beansprucht vielmehr für seine »Rückkehr zur Philologie« eine allgemeine Bedeutung; die Literaturkritik ist zugleich philosophische und politische Kritik. Damit ist der zweite Schwerpunkt dieser Auswahl bezeichnet. De Man erläutert diese These zum einen in kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit der Philosophie Jacques Derridas. Zum anderen zeigt er an zentralen Texten der ästhetischen Tradition, an Kant und Hegel, daß ihr falsches – »ideologisches« – Verständnis literarischer Texte unter der Kategorie des »Ästhetischen« ebenso weitreichende philosophische wie politische Konsequenzen hat.

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      Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
      September 2020

      Equine Reproductive Physiology, Breeding and Stud Management

      by Mina C G Davies Morel

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