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April 2005Bono über Bono
Gespräche mit Michka Assayas
by Assayas, Michka; Bono / Englisch Lutze, Kristian; Vorwort von Bono
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2013From entertainment to citizenship
Politics and popular culture
by John Street, Sanna Inthorn, Martin Scott
From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them. It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the world at large. For them, popular culture is not simply a matter of escapism and entertainment, but of engagement too. The place of popular culture in politics, and its contribution to democratic life, has too often been misrepresented or misunderstood. This book provides the evidence and analysis that will help correct this misperception. It documents the voices of young people as they talk about popular culture (what they love as well as what they dislike), and as they reveal their thoughts about the world they inhabit. It will be of interest to those who study media and culture, and those who study politics. ;
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FictionWHY I CAN'T WRITE
How to survive in a world where you can’t pay rent, can’t afford to focus, be healthy or to remain principled. Dijana Matković tells a powerful story of searching for a room of her own in the late stages of capitalism.
by DIJANA MATKOVIĆ
It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
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FictionDIARY OF DISGUST
by ISABEL BONO
In this raw story, Diary of Disgust examines, in extremely sensitive prose, the meaning of life in a society where happiness is an obligation. Mateo comes back home with bandaged forearms and the certainty that he’s failed at everything: family, marriage, work, and even killing himself. He’s not crazy, he’s just a normal guy who doesn’t really feel like living. But Mateo is, above all, a responsible man who feels obliged to return to what was his home. Not only will he have to live again with his father’s neuroses; he’ll also have to reside with the ghost of his deceased mother and his absent brother. When life seems to ease into routine and tedium, he will meet Micaela, a teenage neighbor, dark and luminous at the same time, and the two of them will become friends in secret. Almost without knowing it, Micaela will become a fundamental and decisive factor in Mateo’s life.
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September 2022Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa
A Christian Latin Reader
by Sarah Wear
Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa: A Christian Latin Reader features the entirety of Tertullian’s To Martyrs and The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, with selections from Cyprian’s On the Good of Patience and a short appendix on Augustine’s Commentary on Psalm 121.6. The Latin text has facing vocabulary and theological, historical, philosophical, and grammatical notes. In the first three centuries, Roman Carthage produced some of the earliest literature composed originally in Latin by Christians. Tertullian’s Ad Martyras (197); Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (203), and Cyprian’s De Bono Patientiae (256) all embody the force of this new genre of Latin literature. With this literature, we see a variant of Latin often denoted “Christian Latin.” Christian Latin featured linguistic elements marked by characteristics of biblical Latin, later Latin, as well as vulgarisms. In addition to converging philologically, Tertullian, the author of the Passio, and Cyprian align themselves in topos: they all ask the question of how one can endure torment and anxiety in this world. Patience (patientia), derived from the verb for “to suffer” (patior), is a virtue that allows one to endure troubles, anxieties, and physical pains with the hope of eternal happiness and salvation in heaven. In this Reader, the student will find three different literary perspectives on this theme. The book also draws parallels to the works of Seneca and Cicero on patience and suffering.
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Mystery2013Muscles, Music and Murder
A Buckeye Barrister Mystery
by David M. Selcer
As he sits front row center for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra's opening night concert, overweight and underpaid attorney, Winston Barchrist III, is shocked as its new Russian Maestro is shot during the finale of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture—the one where real cannons boom at the end. The pro bono defense of his best friend in the homicide of a Belgian body builder during the Arnold Schwarzenegger Fitness Classic, will now no longer be the only case on Winston's mind. Powerful people in the community, including the Symphony Board Chairman, begin exerting pressure on him, as the Maestro’s daughter hires him to find out who shot her father. The two matters become more and more intertwined as Winston investigates, bringing him dangerously close to some dark corporate secrets and too many seemingly unrelated coincidences to ignore. After reading three autopsy reports and observing two of the autopsies himself, Winston is certain the capers in which he’s involved are not only about MUSCLES and MUSIC, but also about MURDER.”
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Biography & True StoriesJune 2018These Are Such Perfect Days
The Del Amitri Story
by Charles Rawlings Wray
Glasgow band Del Amitri have sold more than six million albums. Their 1995 single Roll To Me cracked the Top 10 in the US, and five of their albums went Top 10 in the UK. But as yet there hasn t been anything substantial written about the band...until now! From ambition to success, this is the complete story of Del Amitri's rise from initial formation through six albums that took them to global recognition. From early Peel sessions, to touring with Morrissey; to appearing on Letterman and cracking the US, the book follows every up and down of the band s incredible career, as well as providing unique and original insights into their personalities and music.
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Biography & True StoriesCaged: Women’s Voices from a Bangkok Prison
by Thanadda Sawangduean
“’Sup, Po? Back again, are you? You can’t stand sleeping in your own house? You like it here too much, huh?” “It’s the cops, Pa... I had nothing on me. But they brought me in anyway.” Po was saying this to Pa Dab. “Oh, don’t you worry about that. They’ll find you something.” The latest from two-time winner of the Chommanard Book Prize, Caged: Women’s Voices from a Bangkok Prison details the author’s three years in prison for a crime she did not commit. Eri brings to light the lives of women behind bars. While many cannot get past the strict regulations and poor living conditions, for Eri, there is room for much more. Throughout this book, she teaches us how to live our life to the fullest, maintain our positivity, and never lose hope.
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Education2017The Reconciliation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
A step-by-step lesson plan for primary school teachers, scaffolded with thinking tools, cartoons and extension materials
by Eric Frangenheim
A one-day to six-day teaching and learning unit to extend all students in foundation and higher-order thinking as well as co-operative thinking skills. This lesson plan is based on a well-known story and Eric Frangenheim’s sequel, which charts Goldilocks’ dismay at her break-and-enter and her successful attempts at redemption. This unit is all about the use of thinking skills and thinking tools to encourage students to do their own thinking and become reflective, analytical and optimistic thinkers and learners. It is also a template for most teachers to modify any of their learning and teaching units, offering their students greater opportunities to engage in their own learning and to have FUN and experience SUCCESS.
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Aprender a pensar en positivo
¡Atrévete… ya! El cielo es el límite
by Mariel Mambretti
In this volume, you will learn about the prodigious qualities of the brain, the powerhouse that governs who we are and, above all, how much we can become. Right now, millions of neurons are working for you, flashing, sending out a constant electrical flow. These tiny cells transmit sensations, desires, feelings, but also orders, attitudes, dispositions. Learning to wield that prodigious force to your advantage is at your fingertips. You can do it. Also, the brain can give answers that no computer has. It is proven that this amazing quality can be educated and increased. Whoever trains his ability to think, who knows how to encourage it and use his wealth of intelligence to the fullest, will have that tool available to geniuses, whose brain is potentially similar to everyone's. To achieve this, here you will find exercises and small challenges that will allow you to face the greatest challenges, those that will undoubtedly lead you to the goal.
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December 2021The Three Companions
Courage, Compassion and Wisdom
by Joan van den Brink
Combining illuminating real-life stories with expert, practical guidance, take an inspiring journey of refl ection and realisation through how courage, compassion and wisdom has a profound impact on everyday situations and our capacity for tolerance, kindness and inclusivity.
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October 202018-10 Reflexion Visual del Estallido Social en Chile
by Maria Eliana Aguayo
Work that represents a visual testimony of the social outbreak that was presented in Chile in October 2019, without censorship or cuts. Illustrations, vignettes and comics that in an intimate and stark way show the various experiences and points of view of young artists. Visions of social criticism, community, hope, joy, effervescence, violence and pain are presented. In this careful and attractive work, the best 86 works obtained through an open call by RRSS are compiled. It is an eminently visual book (with large, full-color illustrations and comics); trilingual (with translations into English and French); and informative (includes notes with reflections from the artists and comments from the editor). The compilation and production of the book was in charge of the publisher María Eliana Aguayo. Regarding the creation of the book, the editor comments: “We are very happy with the success of the call, we received more than 500 works from more than 150 authors from different parts of the country and abroad (…) The hardest work was selecting, ordering and systematize all this, the works, reflections and notes”.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentOctober 2021Untangling you | How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful?
by Dr Kerry Howells
A practical guide to untangling difficult relationships, letting go of resentment and ultimately leading a happier life. No doubt you have experienced everyday resentment in your life: a sibling who appeared to be favoured by your parents; a partner who leaves you for another person; a neighbour who won’t deal with their barking dog; a workmate who is promoted ahead of you… the list goes on and on. These everyday resentments can keep simmering away, robbing us of joy and wreaking havoc on our health, relationships and workplaces. But no matter how hard we try to let it go and be the ‘bigger person’, sometimes it’s impossible to express gratitude toward someone who has wronged us. Thousands of clinical studies have demonstrated the positive benefits of gratitude to our physical, emotional and social wellbeing, but according to award-winning gratitude educator Dr Kerry Howells, it’s only when we experience the discomfort of not being able to find gratitude that a path opens for real growth and transformation. Based on 25 years of ground-breaking research, Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? is the first book of its kind to discuss gratitude in terms of its conceptual opposite: resentment. Using practical strategies, tools and insights, this life-changing book will show you how to start to repair difficult relationships, improve your wellbeing, grow your resilience, and ultimately move from resentment towards deep gratitude to lead a happier and more fulfilling life. Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? will help you on this journey, whether you are a leader, coach, parent, teacher, people manager, mentor, health professional, or just someone who wants to grow their character and self-efficacy.
