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        June 2021

        Fast ein Vater

        by Alejandro Zambra, Susanne Lange

        Als er nach neun Jahren seine erste Liebe wiedersieht, erhält Gonzalo eine zweite Chance. Und mit ihr eine Aufgabe: Vater sein. Denn während er sich in all der Zeit mit Haut und Haaren der Poesie verschrieb, bekam Carla einen Sohn. Der ist jetzt sechs, liebt Katzenfutter und wirkt mindestens genauso überrumpelt. Nicht nur deshalb will Gonzalo es besser machen als all die nichtsnutzigen Männer aus seiner Familie, sondern auch um seinem eigenen Scheitern endlich etwas entgegenzusetzen. Doch trotz allem bleibt er immer nur fast ein Vater. Und als er mit seiner Poesie eine zweite Chance erhält, scheint nichts naheliegender als der Verrat an sich und seinen Idealen. Ein Roman über das Gewicht der Liebe, über Vaterschaft und die tragischen, die komischen Befreiungskämpfe eines Mannes, der etwas anderes erwartet hat. Alejandro Zambra ist der große Virtuose der lateinamerikanischen Literatur, Fast ein Vater sein unbestrittenes Meisterwerk.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Alejandro Amenábar

        by Barry Jordan

        Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amenábar has become the 'golden boy' of Spanish filmmaking, a bankable star director whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences and domestic box office success. He has directed three of the highest-grossing movies in Spanish film history and has enjoyed enormous international and critical acclaim, including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside, 2004. This book is the first full-length study in English of Amenábar's shorts and feature films. It provides detailed analysis of his engagement with popular film genres as the basis for an auteur cinema and incorporates a reappraisal of his auteurism as fundamentally decentred and shared. An essential resource for students, scholars and fans of Amenábar, the book will also appeal to a wider readership, including professionals in the film, media and culture industries as well as those who have a general interest in the best of Spanish, European and world cinema.

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        The Arts
        June 2012

        Alejandro Amenábar

        by Barry Jordan, Nuria Triana-Toribio, Andy Willis

        Since the release of his first feature (Tesis) in 1996, Alejandro Amenábar has become the 'golden boy' of Spanish filmmaking, its 'King Midas', - a bankable star director - whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences and domestic box office success. He has directed three of the biggest grossing movies in Spanish film history and has enjoyed enormous international and critical acclaim (including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside, 2004). With Alejandro Amenábar, Jordan provides the first full-length study in English of Amenábar's shorts and feature films. Known for his spectacular imagery, sophisticated editing, memorable sound-tracks and challenging subject matter, Jordan shows how Amenábar makes a serious and socially aware, exportable 'middlebrow' cinema, designed for global audiences. There is also a detailed analysis of his engagement with popular film genres as the basis for an auteur cinema, and Jordan incorporates a reappraisal of Amenábar's auteurism as fundamentally decentred and shared. The book will be an essential resource for teachers, students, scholars and fans of Amenábar. It will also appeal to a wider readership, such as those who work in the film, media and culture industries as well as those who have a general interest in the best of Spanish, European and World cinema. ;

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        The Arts
        April 2019

        Alejandro Amenábar

        by Nuria Triana-Toribio, Barry Jordan, Andy Willis

        Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amenábar has become the 'golden boy' of Spanish filmmaking, a bankable star director whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences and domestic box office success. He has directed three of the highest-grossing movies in Spanish film history and has enjoyed enormous international and critical acclaim, including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside, 2004. This book is the first full-length study in English of Amenábar's shorts and feature films. It provides detailed analysis of his engagement with popular film genres as the basis for an auteur cinema and incorporates a reappraisal of his auteurism as fundamentally decentred and shared. An essential resource for students, scholars and fans of Amenábar, the book will also appeal to a wider readership, including professionals in the film, media and culture industries as well as those who have a general interest in cinema.

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        June 2020

        Warum Lesen

        Mindestens 24 Gründe

        by Frank Wegner, Katharina Raabe

        Sind wir, was wir gelesen haben? Schärft Lesen die Wahrnehmung? Den Gemeinsinn? Was geschieht im Gehirn, wenn wir lesen? Gibt es ein illegitimes Lesen? Ein ekstatisches? Liest man alt anders als jung? Wie las man im Sozialismus? Was liest man im Krieg? Was bedeutet Lesen in unserer heutigen Abstiegsgesellschaft? Macht Nicht-Lesen am Ende glücklicher? Dies ist ein Lesebuch und ein Buch über das Lesen, eine Anthologie, die das welt- und selbsterschließende Abenteuer des Lesens beschreibt, seziert und feiert. Ausgehend von ihren literarischen oder wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten nehmen sich 24 Autorinnen und Autoren die Freiheit, das Thema auf ihre Weise zu behandeln: in Gestalt einer Theorie, einer Erzählung, einer Kindheitserinnerung oder als Streifzug durch die eigene Bücher- und Lesegeschichte. Mit Originalbeiträgen von: Marcel Beyer, Rachel Cusk, Annie Ernaux, Jürgen Habermas, Michael Hagner, Eva Illouz, Hans Joas, Dževad Karahasan, Esther Kinsky, Thomas Köck, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Enis Maci, Nicolas Mahler, Friederike Mayröcker, Oliver Nachtwey, Katja Petrowskaja, Andreas Reckwitz, Hartmut Rosa, Clemens J. Setz, Wolf Singer, Maria Stepanova, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Alejandro Zambra, Serhij Zhadan

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        Extraños de ánimo (Mood strangers)

        by Alejandro Stilman

        Book where the short stories are related and the author addresses realistic and social subjects in a very dynamic way and playing properly with some literary resources where the narrations get more interesting.

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        August 2022

        Altopía

        1. La traición

        by Barrientos, Alejandro; Cuevas, Joaquín

        It is the year 2053 and El Alto celebrates its tenth anniversary as the capital of the New Kollasuyo. Metropolis of the Andes, continental scrap metal market, second-hand industrial engine, robotic garbage supply, recipient of Chinese colonies, host of technosophical cyber-religions, world headquarters of the cholet and the highest popular fair on the planet, the city of the future is the mirror of our dreams. Don't let them talk you out of it: the future is now!

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        September 2000

        Die Flüsse der Vergangenheit

        Sechs Geschichten aus dem Hinterland

        by Alejandro Rossi, Gisbert Haefs

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        Individual film directors, film-makers
        March 2015

        The three amigos

        The transnational filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

        by Deborah Shaw

        Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three-best known Mexican-born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón. Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films with a focus on both the texts and the production contexts in which they were made. These include studies on del Toro's Cronos/Chronos, El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army; Iñárritu's Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel; and Cuarón's Sólo con tu pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria, Y tu mamá también, and Children of Men. The Three Amigos will be of interest to all those who study Hispanic and Spanish cinema in particular, and world and contemporary cinema in general.

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        Medicine
        April 2018

        Bovine Tuberculosis

        by Mark Chambers, Stephen Gordon, Francisco Olea-Popelka, Paul Barrow

        This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing human infection through consumption of unpasteurised milk or by close contact with infected animals. Following a systematic approach, expert international authors cover epidemiology and the global situation; microbial virulence and pathogenesis; host responses to the pathogen; and diagnosis and control of the disease. Aimed at researchers and practising veterinarians, this book is essential for those needing comprehensive information on the pathogen and disease, and offers a summary of key information learned from human tuberculosis research. It will be useful to those studying the infection and for those responsible for controlling the disease.

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        Fiction
        2015

        Pantalones azules

        by Sara Gallardo

        Pantalones azules is a novel with a deceptively simple appearance. As Leopoldo Brizuela has noted, fifty years after its first publication, it "reveals itself as the recounting of a process infinitely more subtle" than an impossible love affair, which was the key interpretation by its contemporaries. On the contrary, Pantalones azules is a story of multiple disillusionments: those of Alejandro, the young protagonist from a well-to-do family, Catholic and anti-Semitic, who encounters the limits of his convictions upon meeting Irma, an immigrant with a Jewish mother who lost her parents in the European war; those of Irma, who receives not compassion but the inhuman brutality of Alejandro’s convictions; and those of Elisa, Alejandro’s virgin fiancée, who must decide her position within the patriarchal family structure and whether to accept her role as a future wife subjected to the tacit violence of her fiancé. But more than a story of love and disillusionment, Pantalones azules is a prodigious representation, for its freshness and vitality, of the distances that separate social groups, cultures, generations, and genders within the same time and place. A prime example of Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary ability to bring her characters to life with wisdom, humor, a touch of malice, and a surprising economy of resources, this second novel by the author also broadens her perspective on the landscape: the countryside, the city, and the river are depicted here with unusual accuracy, possible only for someone who has experienced landscape and language as a unique amalgam, a defining characteristic of her works. First published in 1963, Pantalones azules has circulated only minimally since then. Fiordo is proud to bring this superb novel by one of Argentina’s greatest writers back to readers.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2022

        Criptomoneda y soberanía (Cryptocurrency and sovereignity)

        Tensiones del dinero en el siglo XXI (Money tensions in the 21st century)

        by Alessi, Alejandro; Coronel, Daniel; Pomar, Tomás; Ribera, Juan Emilio (comps.)

        This book addresses the significant impact of new technologies on monetary and economic systems. Amidst global events, like the Russo-Ukrainian war, the U.S. considered creating an official cryptocurrency, while the International Monetary Fund pressured Argentina to relinquish cryptocurrency use. As the world shifts towards digital currencies, nations like Argentina must decide their stance or risk being left behind.

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