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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2009Romania and the European Union
How the weak vanquished the strong
by Tom Gallagher
According to Tom Gallagher, Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceausescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. He argues convincingly that Brussels was tricked into offering full membership to this Balkan country in return for substantial reforms which its rulers now refuse to carry out. This book unmasks the failure of the EU to match its visionary promises of transforming Romania with the shabby reality. Benefiting from access to internal reports and leading figures involved in a decade of negotiations, it shows how Eurocrats were outwitted by unscrupulous local politicians who turned the EU's multi-level decision-making processes into a laughing-stock. The EU's famous 'soft power' turned out to be a mirage, as it was unable to summon up the willpower to insist that this key Balkan state embraced its standards of behaviour in the political and economic realms. The book unravels policy failures in the areas of justice, administrative and agricultural reform and shows how Romania moved backwards politically during the years of negotiations. ;
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March 2022Amanda Gorman
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Queenbe Monyei, Silke Kleemann
Schon als kleines Mädchen las Amanda alles, was ihr in die Finger kam, ob es nun ein Buch oder die Werbung auf der Cornflakes-Packung war. Da sie an einem Sprachfehler litt, schrieb sie ihre Gedanken lieber auf. Schon früh stand für sie fest: sie wollte Dichterin werden. Aber wie hätte sie ihre Gedichte vorlesen können, mit ihrem Handicap? Durch harte Arbeit überwand sie ihr Stottern, und im Januar 2021 trug sie bei der Amtseinführung von Präsident Joe Biden ihr weltberühmt gewordenes Gedicht »The Hill We Climb« vor, eine einzigartige Botschaft der Hoffnung und Zuversicht auf eine bessere Zukunft für Amerika – und die Welt. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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November 2019Missing Boy
Thriller
by Candice Fox, Thomas Wörtche, Andrea O’Brien
Ein achtjähriger Junge ist spurlos verschwunden, und sein Verschwinden gibt Rätsel auf: Er und seine drei Freunde befanden sich in einem Zimmer auf der 5. Etage des White Caps Hotel, während ihre Eltern im hoteleigenen Restaurant unten zu Abend aßen. Als Sara Farrow um Mitternacht nach den Kindern sieht, ist ihr Sohn Richie weg. Die anderen drei Jungs schwören, dass sie in ihrem Zimmer geblieben sind, und die Aufzeichnungen der Hotel-Überwachungskameras bestätigen, dass Richie das Gebäude tatsächlich nicht verlassen hat. Da seine Mutter kein Vertrauen in die Fähigkeiten der örtlichen Polizei hat, wendet sie sich an das Ermittlerduo Ted Conkaffey und Amanda Pharrell. Für Ted hätte der Auftrag jedoch nicht zu einem schlechteren Zeitpunkt kommen können: Zwei Jahre zuvor hatte ihn eine falsche Anschuldigung seine Karriere, seine Reputation und seine Ehe gekostet, nun aber ist gerade seine junge Tochter Lillian auf dem Weg zu ihm nach Crimson Lake, seinem nordaustralischen Refugium. Er muss die übelsten Typen der Gegend aufspüren, um den vermissten Jungen zu finden – und könnte dabei sein eigenes Kind in tödliche Gefahr bringen …
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April 2019Crimson Lake
Thriller | Vorlage zur Mini-Serie »Troppo«
by Candice Fox, Thomas Wörtche, Andrea O’Brien
12.46 Uhr: Die dreizehnjährige Claire Bingley steht alleine an einer Bushaltestelle. 12.47 Uhr: Ted Conkaffey hält mit seinem Wagen neben ihr. 12.52 Uhr: Das Mädchen ist verschwunden … Sechs Minuten – mehr braucht es nicht, um das Leben von Detective Ted Conkaffey vollständig zu ruinieren. Die Anklage gegen ihn wird zwar aus Mangel an Beweisen fallengelassen, doch alle Welt glaubt zu wissen, dass einzig und allein er es gewesen ist, der Claire entführt hat. Um der gesellschaftlichen Ächtung zu entgehen, zieht sich der Ex-Cop nach Crimson Lake, einer Kleinstadt im Norden Australiens, zurück. Dort trifft er Amanda Pharrell, die ganz genau weiß, was es heißt, Staatsfeind Nr. 1 zu sein. Vor Jahren musste sie wegen angeblichen Mordes ins Gefängnis. Nun tun sich die beiden Außenseiter zusammen und arbeiten als Privatdetektive. Ihr Fall: Ein berühmter Schriftsteller mit Doppelleben und kaputter Familie ist verschwunden, die örtliche Polizei behindert die Arbeit der beiden mit harschen Methoden. Dann platzt das Inkognito von Conkaffey, die Medien erzeugen Hysterie. Lynchstimmung macht sich breit. Während er den Fall seiner neuen Partnerin wieder aufrollt und sie versucht, ihn zu entlasten, nimmt der Fall des Schriftstellers überraschende Wendungen …
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August 2014Amandas Suche
Roman
by Isabel Allende, Svenja Becker
Amanda ist lebensklug und ausgesprochen eigensinnig. Sie wächst in San Francisco auf, der Stadt der Freigeister. Ihre Mutter Indiana führt eine Praxis für Reiki und Aromatherapie und steht im Mittelpunkt der örtlichen Esoterikszene. Der Vater ist Chef des Polizeidezernats und ermittelt in einer grausamen Mordserie. Auf eigene Faust beginnt Amanda Nachforschungen dazu anzustellen, unterstützt von ihrem geliebten Großvater und einigen Internetfreunden aus aller Welt. Doch als Indiana spurlos verschwindet, wird aus dem Zeitvertreib plötzlich bitterer Ernst. Und Amanda muss über sich hinauswachsen, um die eigene Mutter zu retten. »Amandas Suche« erzählt den Weg einer furchtlosen jungen Frau, die mit allen Mitteln verteidigt, was sie liebt – ein fesselnder Roman über das kostbare Band zwischen Müttern und Töchtern und die lebensrettende Kraft der Familie.
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Demonstrations & protest movementsJuly 2014Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine
Striking with tied hands
by Mihai Varga
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book's main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for workers and trade unions to mobilise, pose threats to employers, and break out of their political isolation, but even under such harsh conditions strategy matters for defending workers' rights and living standards. The cases studied in this book are 18 conflict episodes at 10 privatised plants in the Romanian steel industry and Ukraine's civil machine-building sector in the 2000s. This book should be relevant for anyone taking interest in how and to what extent workers can reassert their influence over the conditions of production in regions and economic sectors characterised by disinvestment (of which outsourcing and 'lean' methods of production are instances).
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FictionAndreaa Constantin
by Esteban Torres Lana
A dangerous challenge at sea through a rock arch battered by strong waves. She ends up seriously injured in a leg when her friend Aurelio arrives at the cove. Overcoming her pain, she hides her injuries from Aurelio and tells him the extraordinary story of her mother, which propelled her to undertake such a madness. The story begins 6 years ago in Tenerife, with Nayra's expulsion from Philosophy class for the third time in a week, causing Pablo, her father, to pick her up from school and embark on a long day of disputes, confessions, and finally, complicities between them. Walking around Santa Cruz, canceling classes and professional commitments, Pablo and Nayra spend the day discovering a personal and sentimental reality that surprises them. The problems Nayra mentions with a group of immigrant classmates, along with the aggression Nayra shows towards her mother, Lola, prompt Pablo to tell her the unfinished story with Andreea, a high-class Romanian prostitute. Pablo cannot control the level of intimacy of the tale despite his own amazement, hearing himself say things he thought were unspeakable. Nayra responds, between disputes and affection, interspersing her own confidences, some of them having a strong impact, like the adventure with an immigrant who arrived on the beaches of Fuerteventura during a summer excursion. Neither tells the most intimate details of their stories truthfully, but they are accessible to the reader. Despite frequent arguments due to the teenager's incisive and groundbreaking language, their complicity grows and they end up spending the day together, walking through different places in the city. The story with Andreea takes on dramatic tones that completely captivate the young woman. Two suicides, the chase by Romanian mafia, returning to her hometown, searching for Pablo, Andreea’s struggle to regain her dignity and her artistic capacity through painting, and the apparent disappearance of her father's life, capture Nayra’s attention. Despite the narrative tricks used by Pablo, when night falls and they reach home, Nayra connects the dots and is surprised to discover that her perfectionist and successful mother, a recognized painter from Santa Cruz, with whom she has had a very conflictive season, is Andreea Constantin, the Romanian immigrant her father met as a high-class prostitute. After an initial reaction of rejection due to the ignorance in which she was kept, she understands her mother's situation. All the questions she always had about many details of her life arise with the discovery. A few years after discovering her identity, Andreea disappears from home. A call from Romania alerts them to the discovery of two charred bodies near her birthplace and the presence of her old exploiter nearby, who cursed her for life through a Transylvania ritual when she abandoned prostitution. Knowing she was discovered in Tenerife, Andreea tried to keep her family away from danger and returned to her country, where she was easy prey for the mafia. Pablo and his daughter Nayra fly to Bucharest to identify Andreea’s body, which may have been brutally murdered and burned. When it seems the identification will be negative, a small detail of the clothing makes them doubt. Desolate, they receive medical and psychological support from the Romanian team, but it turns out to be a false lead. Andreea is rescued from a hideout and has survived due to a misunderstanding by her captors. Protected by the Romanian police, she later becomes a key witness whose testimony ends the dangerous band of her pimp. But that bravery comes at a price; 2 years later, she does not return from an art exhibition in Paris. The police believe that her exploiter’s curse was fulfilled by a nephew who visited him in prison shortly before his death and was seen in Paris during the days Andreea had the exhibition. After a year of anguish, Nayra can no longer bear the situation and decides to mourn her mother at the cove where she painted her last picture. It had as its background the rock arch symbolizing the risk of living and facing life’s challenges. Nayra considers her mother lost and throws Andreea’s ashes into the sea, symbolized by those of a magnolia branch she planted many years ago. With this, she internalizes the loss and the fighting values Andreea taught her. The exit from the volcanic cove is a song to the life that continues and to the young woman who represents it. The novel is dedicated to the memory of Andreea Constantin and the thousands of women sexually exploited around the world.
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September 2022Tourism Planning and Development in Eastern Europe
by Hania Janta, Konstantinos Andriotis, Dimitrios Stylidis
Three decades ago, the hypermobility of tourists from the days before the global pandemic was truly unthinkable in Eastern Europe. The borders were closed and the region isolated from the rest of the world. Despite an extraordinary transformation of tourism in the area since, Eastern Europe remains under-explored in tourism studies. This book fills the gap by outlining contemporary strategies for tourism development in post-socialist countries, considering the opportunities and challenges as well as the initiatives and approaches to sustainability. Reviewing tourism development and planning across Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania, this book: - Offers a contemporary and insightful outlook of Eastern Europe tourism, with a wide range of case studies from inter-disciplinary and single-disciplinary perspectives; - Uses varied methodological approaches and research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, informal conversations, document analysis, netnography, questionnaires and secondary data, to form an interesting and diverse treatise; - Considers post-COVID tourism and the significant role of tourism stakeholders in its re-development. Illuminating the various economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts that tourism has created, this book is a valuable reference for researchers and students of tourism and related disciplines, as well as anyone interested in the development of Eastern Europe.
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Children's & YAEscondida (Hidden)
by Adolfo Córdova, Amanda Mijango
A poem and two lyrical voices intertwine in this book that invites the reader to get closer to the secret life of a girl who, with her voice, tells us about the complexity and richness of her inner world. A world that although it is not visible to the adult, has grown within her. On the other hand, there is the voice of the adult, who approaches and distances the girl, recognizing that inner world and its uniqueness. This poem written by Adolfo Córdova is extremely delicate and finds its counterpart in the work of Amanda Mijangos, who with pencil, oil monotype on paper, watercolour, and digital work, shows us that inner world with visual metaphors. The book contains a wonderful surprise: it is an accordion book (with a hardback spine) that allows the two voices and images of nature to be traversed. A book that talks about the intimate life of childhood and the relationship between this and adulthood.
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Journey in Trumplandia: The Rise of Populism in America
by Tiberiu Dianu
The book is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever. Some pundits predict that, if things don’t change, another civil war could occur. Have we reached a point of no return? Hopefully, America is mature enough to learn from its mistakes and avoid further scars along its evolving history. "Trumplandia is a welcome addition toward understanding current events, Washington’s international policy, and the present American society; a society polarized and divided as it has not been since the Civil War.” NICHOLAS DIMA, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, Nelson Institute, James Madison University, Virginia. "The book is fascinating. It provides background to, and insights into [the] current and past political history as well as offering a personal view... of the country and society. Presented in thematic form in chapters and sections, the insights offered provide a suggestive radiography...” Dr. DENNIS DELETANT, OBE, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC. "There has been this backsliding in... what a truly functioning rule-of-law state is, that has proper separation of co-equal powers, which, if you don’t keep working on that, you backslide. And I am even worried about that here, in the United States right now, about backsliding.” OBIE MOORE, Esq., OLM Advisors LLC, Washington DC “Indeed, Trumplandia should be a welcome addition to any scholar, student or layman’s library, especially in its international edition. If anyone loses sleep over its challenging assertions, then it will have been well worth it.” ERNESTO MORALES HIZON, Ph.D. Candidate in American and Comparative Politics at Claremont Graduate University, Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TIBERIU DIANU has practiced law in Romania (as a corporate lawyer, judge, senior counselor at the Ministry of Justice, university professor and senior legal researcher), and in the United States (as a legal expert for the judiciary). He published several books and a host of articles in law, politics, and post-communist societies. Tiberiu currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
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January 1990Sondersprachen der Romania / Sondersprachen der Romania. Band 1
Spanische Sonderzeichen. Mit einem Vorwort, einer Biographie und einem Schriftenverzeichnis
by Wagner, Max Leopold / Herausgegeben von Kröll, Heinz
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January 1990
Sondersprachen der Romania / Sondersprachen der Romania. Band 2
Sardische, italienische, portugiesische, rumänische und türkische Sondersprachen
by Wagner, Max Leopold / Herausgegeben von Kröll, Heinz
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January 1990
Sondersprachen der Romania / Sondersprachen der Romania. Band 4
Judenspanisch II
by Wagner, Max Leopold / Herausgegeben von Kröll, Heinz
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January 1990
Sondersprachen der Romania / Sondersprachen der Romania. Band 3
Judenspanisch I
by Wagner, Max Leopold / Herausgegeben von Kröll, Heinz
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January 2005
Amtsträger und Herrscher in der Romania Gothica
Vergleichende Untersuchungen zu den Institutionen der ostgermanischen Völkerwanderungsreiche
by Maier, Gideon
