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This book brings together for the first time five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting and significant working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. Whatever their chosen habitats or shifting terrains, each of these highly distinctive auteurs has developed unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. The book proposes that we think about cinematographic space in its many different forms simultaneously (screenspace, landscape, narrative space, soundscape, spectatorial space). Through a series of close and original readings of selected films, it posits a new 'space of the cinematic subject'. Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume opens up new areas of critical enquiry in the expanding interdisciplinary field of space studies. It will be of immediate interest to students and researchers working not only in film studies and film philosophy, but also in French/Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, gender and cultural studies. Listen to James S. Williams speaking about his book http://bit.ly/13xCGZN. (Copy and paste the link into your browser) ;
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Grassland ecosystems are deeply affected by human activities and need appropriate management to optimise trade-offs between ecosystem functions and services. Until now they have mainly been analysed as agro-ecosystems for animal production but this book looks beyond the role of grassland as a feeding ground, and evaluates other important processes such as carbon sequestration in soils, greenhouse gas regulation and biodiversity protection. This authoritative volume expertly highlights the need for an immediate balance between agriculture and ecological management for sustainability in the future.
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A major documentary about the environ-ment, brilliantly crafted by renowned creators Jacques Pasquet and Yves Dumont. With an educational but never mo- ralistic approach, Jacques Pasquet explains the ins and outs of what forms our environment. From wa- ter to air, and passing through soil, energies and climate, the author de- ciphers and analyzes with accura- cy, humor and passion the role, the threats and the stakes of everything that surrounds us. Even if the planet is threatened and in a precarious state, everything is not lost... solu- tions still exist!
A new volume of the hit comic book series (nearly 100,000 copies sold) The Nightmare Brigade is comprised of the mysterious Professor Angus and three teenagers: Tristan, Esteban and Sarah. Thanks to some new technological device the brigade is able to see people’s dreams and access their psyche. They discover that the line between reality and the world of dreams is blurred...
The Empowerment of Two Sisters: a Compelling, Luminous Debut Tilda’s days follow a strict schedule: the supermarket till, maths homework, the swimming pool, cooking, looking after her 10-year-old sister Ida — and, on bad days, her mother too. The three of them live in the saddest house on Fröhlichstraße in a small town which Tilda loathes. After all, someone has to be there for Ida, someone has to earn money, take responsibility. They have no father in their lives anymore and their mother is a depressive alcoholic; she tries, but the situation runs away from her more and more. Then Tilda is offered a PhD position in Berlin, and her future flashes before her, promising freedom and possibility. But how can she leave Ida alone with their mother? And when Viktor, Ivan’s older brother who Tilda used to be friends with, appears, her life goes off the rails. Viktor has an unabashed grin and swims 22 lengths at the pool just like she does. Viktor is there for her when the situation at home spins out of control... 22 Lengths is a raw, tender story about shitty conditions, the devastation of family life, and finding happiness somewhere between responsibility and freedom.
A book about farewells, grief, father-son relationships, and the lasting influence they have on our lives and behaviour How can you let your father go if it is you who has to decide the moment? Moving, Candid, Poetic, and Sensitive In early 2018, Andreas Schäfer’s father comes to visit him in Berlin. He has recently learned that the cancer he recovered from long ago has returned, but he has no complaints. He goes to the opera, takes a trip to the sea, sits on his son’s sofa and says, bewilderedly: “There’s something in my head!” But what is it? What is there in the father’s head? He goes back to Frankfurt, where he has lived alone since separating from his Greek mother decades ago. He also goes to the biopsy alone, seemingly determined not to give up his lone wolf-lifestyle until the last possible moment. On the day of the examination, the Chief Neurosurgeon gets in touch and tells Schäfer that his father has suffered a brain haemorrhage: “Your father is going to die,” he says. “He is in an induced coma. You have to decide when to switch off the machine.” How to cope when the life of one's own father being placed in one's hands? How to say goodbye when you are supposed to decide the timing yourself? ‘Die Schuhe meines Vaters’ is a book about fathers and sons and the unexpected ways of mourning that is as harrowing as it is heartfelt. Sincerely, poetically and sensitively, Andreas Schäfer tells of his own state of shock – but above all he approaches the father, the passionate traveller, the war traumatised, willed to be happy and lost at the same time, and their special, not always easy relationship.
A Book to Shake Perceptions and Certitudes – a Book that Will Change You The book’s unnamed protagonist, who feels neither male nor female, is prompted by their grandmother’s slide into dementia to investigate their family history. The more their grandmother forgets, the more the narrator tries to remember: what was it in their childhood that prompted them to feel so alienated from their body? Does it have something to do with the family’s hushed-up history of incest? Why is their grandmother struggling to differentiate between herself and her sister who died young? And what happened to their youngest great aunt who disappeared when she was young? Tracking down answers to these questions proves difficult because the family has a habit of keeping quiet about such matters. At the heart of it all is the question of self-determination: how to exist when your own body is never a given, but is instead constantly having to be negotiated? Singular in its style and form, Bloodbook deals with our intangible heritage, the things we carry without being asked: stories, genders, identities, trauma, languages, class affiliations. Kim de l’Horizon searches for other kinds of knowledge and traditions, other stories and ways of becoming: feminist, witchy, bought with blood, and those that leave a hole in their wake. De l’Horizon leaves the linear, monotonous form of family stories behind and opts for a fluid, streaming form of writing which softens instead of pinning down.
If someone offered you a place to hide out from your life, would you take it? Linda, Friederike, and Valentin move into a peculiar hotel and get the opportunity to change their lives A magnificently told, tragicomic, and hope-giving novel about how terrible and how wonderful life can be all at once An Invitation to Disappear Hempel has no dreams. No, really. Unlike most people, he’s reasonably content and there’s nothing in particular that he’d wish for his life. So everything would be great if it weren’t for his girlfriend Elfie, who’s obsessed with her own dreams: “Don’t dream about what your life could be, live your dream,” is her motto, emblazoned on her living room wall in gold script. So Hempel invents his own dream for Elfie: running the New York marathon. But when Elfie enters him into the race and he is accepted, he’s got a problem. Friederike has everything she could wish for: she’s a successful professor, she has a great husband and, at the age of forty, she’s just become a mother. Everyone around her thinks she must be on top of the world – but it’s quite the opposite, and she wishes she could disappear out of her life forever. One day, Hempel and Friederike are presented with precisely this opportunity: to disappear for a time and leave everything behind them – in a hotel that doesn’t host tourists but people who have lost their footing. They can stay as long as they like, take some time out, think their lives over until it all becomes clear. But when Hempel and Friederike meet Linda, who has an extreme fear of heights, and Valentin, the owner of the hotel, any notion of peace or care goes out the window... ‘Not Out Of The World’ tells a story about the loneliness at the heart of people, about lies and unspoken truths, and about many different kinds of disappearing. Anne Köhler employs plenty of imagination and humour to expose the unfathomable and the absurd in the everyday and reveals people with deep-seated insecurity in our supposedly secure modern western world.
A novel about the power of telling and listening The Worst Catastrophes Take on a Meaning when They Are Told Seven very different people sit at the phones of the telephone counselling service. Rieke is studying theology and prepares for pastoral care in her night shifts. Wanda is a collection manager in a GDR museum and the only one who suspects early on that the majority of the callers will be poor, elderly and East German. No one but her is so well prepared for the yesterday that won't stop talking in the today. Not even Matthias, although he knows how present the past can be: His father let himself roll in front of a train on a Saturday afternoon long ago. For Matthias, life since then has been a puzzling task whose solution he hopes to find through the beautiful Emilia. The retired radio editor Niedlich, unhappy Marianne and the 80-year-old narrator von Schrey complete the group. All seven learn that listening, more than giving advice, can soothe the hopelessness of a sleepless night. They learn that their own life experience also becomes more worldly in the process. The conversations with a paedophile fleeing from his addiction, with a woman threatened with homelessness and many who can no longer sleep or feel tell of worlds they do not know but share in listening. The biographies of the listeners touch those of the invisible, who hardly anyone sees in a success-oriented society, not even on the street. A filigree web emerges that fishes lives as unspectacular as they are tragic out of the darkness of untold stories. Every situation has a story that you have to know in order to understand the whys and wherefores. Every moment has its biography, and every biography its riddles.
“A masterpiece of thrilling historiography” Mindener Tageblatt She was the last ship to set sail from a peacetime Europe and the first to be sunk by a German submarine in the Second World War. Travelling on board the Athenia, however, were over a thousand passengers, making their way from Glasgow to Montreal, among them American tourists, Polish and German Jews, other victims of Nazi persecution, and British businessmen. The commander of U30 believed the ship to be troop carrier and 118 passengers drowned. In a series of distinct scenes, Cay Rademacher joins the dots of this astonishing tragedy. The young daughter of the film director Ernst Lubitsch was among the passengers onboard the Athenia. The US ambassador in London sent his son to Glasgow to take charge of the American survivors: his name was John F. Kennedy. There are countless poignant and vivid details that turn this story of a comparatively small tragedy into a faithful record of a time in history and the atmosphere that accompanied it. Within the world of the Athenia, Cay Rademacher captures an image of Europe on the edge of a precipice and reveals a spectacular panorama of the first days of the Second World War.
Roasted mammoth, the last supper or Hawaiian toast — Uta Seburger presents dishes that offer a glimpse into an era The perfect gift to bring along when you’re invited to dinner with friends! A Culinary History of Humanity Did you know that the nobel citizens of Ancient Rome loved to watch live birds flutter out of a roasted piglets? Or that gladiators at the colosseum followed a vegan diet? How did the pickled herring come to be? And was the last mammoth really consumed in London in 1951? Fifty dishes serve as touchstones for a history of food — and humanity, too. Uta Seeburg takes fifty dishes and presents us with a chronological culinary history of humanity. From roasted mammoth (approx. 11,000 BC), to Babylonian stew (2000 BC), the last supper (approx. 30 AD), baked swan (1672), Wiener Schnitzel (around 1830) or Hawaiian toast (1955) to Ferran Adria’s iconic liquid olives (2003): each essay describes a dish and why its creation marks a key moment in history. Learn what was eaten to celebrate the victory at Waterloo and how the omelette ended up on TV.
There is no right life in the wrong one. But there is a right direction. A search for self-knowledge in the story of one’s own life: a short poetology of life A modern book of hours about minimalism, mindfulness and clarity, a short account of the important questions in life How Do I Live a Good Life? New Year’s Day in the Ligurian back country. A room in a monastery. A landscape which is sparse and green at once. It is in these tranquil surroundings, on this day of beginnings and endings that the oldest question of all presents itself again: how do I live a good life? It begins with a chain of thought that runs through the hours of the day from before sunrise until after sunset, from the beginnings of the contemplation of life, into the present and beyond, forever conscious of the fact that a life will not simply be lived, it will also be read about. This book acts as a companion, and also an invitation to come along on the search for the right direction: it contemplates the human and the monastic, rules for life regarding what matters, and the classical imperative of beauty, of degree and of self-knowledge. In this guide, author and doctor of philosophy John von Düffel has not written a story for important days in the conventional sense; he has written a short chronicle about coming to a realisation about how a life should be relayed. Transparent and compact, his book of hours is a literary text that presents a philosophy of life. The answer to everything is in the societal and yet very personal question: what story am I living in? Which point in the story? And how do I proceed?
This pet scrapbook is a place where kids can preserve precious memories of their faithful friend (photos, anecdotes, details about its habits) and also express the emotions stirred up by its death through activities like drawing or writing. Whether a pet is given away, is lost or has died, children feel grief and have to talk about it. Concepts related to death are simply and reassuringly explained in the book, providing children with tools for dealing with these upsetting events. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/1OF183E
A Book About Love and the Courage to Let It Happen From their first meeting, Clara and Elias know that they are meant for each other. This changes everything: Elias can no longer suppress the fact that he is stuck in a false life with his girlfriend. And Clara realises that it is time to give up her self-imposed solitude. But there is the age difference and her unresolved feelings of guilt following her husband's death. Elias, on the other hand, doesn't really know how to stand by anything in life, because as an actor he knows how to rescue himself from reality into the play again and again. The wild happiness of the first days is followed by the first test, and the two doubt and fight with and for each other. Can one, no longer quite young and laden with life experience, find and live love once again, or even for the first time? The answer is: Yes! Is it possible to find love again – or for the first time – when you’re no longer young, and weighed down with heavy baggage?
