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November 2016Man steht sehr bequem zwischen allen Fronten
Briefe 1952-2011
by Christa Wolf, Sabine 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 von 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 2007abhanden 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 SciencesMay 2024Home 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 2012Tote 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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Humanities & Social Sciences2021Women Emirate? The Female Politicians of Muslim World
by Natalia Malynovska
If you ask someone the name of a famous politician, you will probably hear a European or American name. And this will once again confirm how little we know about women in politics from other parts of the world. In our book you will find stories of famous politicians and statesmen from different Muslim countries. These women not only became the first parliamentarians, prime ministers, ministers, speakers of parliament in their countries, but went through a thorny path, became influential and famous both at home and abroad. The book will help to understand the Muslim world and the nature of women’s rights in Islam, the contradictions and combinations of feminism in the conventional «West» and «East». The author examines social movements and organizations public campaigns and protests in Muslim countries that have influenced women’s political rights and led to significant changes in the Middle East and beyond.
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Business, Economics & LawDecember 2018World 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 & YAJuly 2013The Man of Steel: Superman und die tödlichen Pflanzen
Fischer. Nur für Jungs
by Manning, Matthew K. / Englisch Strohm, Leo H.; Illustriert von Vecchio, Luciano
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Children's & YAMarch 2021My 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 2017O, 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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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2023Negotiating relief and freedom
Responses to disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907
by Oscar Webber
Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. It shows that British approaches to disaster 'relief' prioritised colonial control and 'fiscal prudence' ahead of the relief of the relief of suffering. In turn, that this pattern played out continuously in the long nineteenth century is a reminder that in the Caribbean the transition from slavery to waged labour was not a clean one. Times of crisis brought racial and social tensions to the fore and freedoms once granted, were often quickly curtailed.
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October 2024The 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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2022aporello: 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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Geography2018Geographical atlas of the world
by SSPE "Kartographia"
The Geographical Atlas of the World is a modern reference cartographic publication containing up to 100 political and physical maps of the world and political maps of individual countries and groups of countries. Political and administrative maps of the regions of Ukraine are presented separately. At the end of each separate section, a reference block with flags and a selection of modern, necessary information about the countries is provided from the "Political and political-geographical maps" section. In the second part of "Physical Maps", each map is supplemented with thematic illustrations, reference data, and interesting facts inherent in the corresponding region of our planet. The index of geographical names, which includes more than 16 thousand proper names of geographical objects in its list, will help you quickly find them on pages of the atlas. Modern design and printing capabilities were used to create the atlas.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 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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Picture books, activity books & early learning material2022Atlas of the world "Let's travel to the wonderland"
by SSPE "Kartographia"
Let's travel to the Wonderland! Geographical atlas for the youngest. An interesting and unusual journey awaits the little reader in this book. Together with the fairy-tale boy Telesyk and Goosenya, he will go on a space journey, where he will get to know the stars and planets. And when he returns to the Earth, he will be able to look into all its corners, find out how many countries there are on it, what their flags are and how the inhabitants of these countries dress. And then you will get to know the various plants and animals characteristic of each region of the world, find out where such familiar plants come from, and who was the first to domesticate domestic animals. Telesyk with Geese will help the baby to get to know his native Ukraine better, its nature, to look at the bright colored maps that are produced and grown on its lands, which are crafts and crafts in Ukraine. And then everyone together will return to the world of fairy tales of Europe and America, Africa and Asia, Australia and Ukraine. The book is beautifully illustrated. The cartographic material is aimed at the reading level of the youngest schoolboy. The publication is a laureate of the national competition "Book Art of Ukraine", awarded with diplomas of the Forum of Publishers in Lviv and the Committee of Radio and Television of Ukraine.
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November 2023Tourism, 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 2010Die 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.
