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January 1984Hiroshima und wir
Augenzeugenberichte und Perspektiven. (Informationen zur Zeit)
by Erlinghagen, Helmut
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March 1989Irrläufer
Erzählungen
by Stanisław Lem, Hanna Rottensteiner, Stanisław Lem
Während die ersten beiden Erzählungen sehr jugendlich das, was die Erwachsenenwelt glaubt, in Frage stellen, wird zum Beispiel die Erzählung »Unser Mann in Hiroshima« realitätsnah. Von Vernichtungsmaschinen verschiedenster Art ist hier die Rede, von der Entwicklung und dem Einsatz atomarer Waffen, von tödlich wirkenden Bakterienzerstäubern, von Drogen, die feindliche Agenten zur Preisgabe von Informationen zwingen. Und schon hier verbinden sich detaillierte Kenntnisse physikalischer, technischer und militärischer Zusammenhänge mit Phantasie und Erzählkunst, durch die sich das spätere Werk des Autors in höchstem Maße auszeichnen sollte.
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August 2006Tagesnotizen
Aufzeichnungen 1941–1992
by Günther Anders, Volker Hage, Volker Hage
Die Tagebücher des Schriftstellers und Philosophen Günther Anders (1902–1992) zählen zu den bedeutendsten literarischen Journalen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine zahlreichen, Jahrzehnte übergreifenden Notizen, von ihm selbst nie zu einem geschlossenen Werk zusammengestellt, sondern bruchstückhaft in verschiedenen seiner Bücher zitiert (so auch in seinem Hauptwerk Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen): Hier werden sie nun erstmals – in exemplarischer Auswahl – chronologisch angeordnet und zusammengestellt. Anders, der eigene schriftstellerische Projekte zeitlebens zurückstellte und als Warner vor einer neuen Atomkatastrophe international bekannt wurde, hat wie kein zweiter Autor deutscher Sprache die Erfahrungen von Flucht, US-Exil, Heimkehr ins Nachkriegseuropa und seine Eindrücke von Reisen zu Schauplätzen des Grauens wie Auschwitz und Hiroshima darzustellen gewußt.
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December 2018UFO Invasion
by Yang Peng
Yang Peng's alien series original science fiction works. The book continues Yang Peng's consistent style of creation—incredible imagination, extraordinary exaggeration, unrepeatable comedy, bizarre plots, sci-fi elements, relaxing, humorous, and thrilling fun. At the same time, courage, integrity, kindness, unity, patriotism, and environmental protection are integrated into the delightful storytelling. The theme is positive, setting a good example for the children. Aliens have invaded Earth! This is a group of aliens from the ghost planet who cannot be killed. How to do? In this critical situation, the brave primary school student Dididi, the intelligent Dr. Guima, the wise Witch Gurit, the Hiroshima atomic bomb victim Shuiyunjingzi gathered together to form the "Save the Earth Four" group. A fierce battle with the aliens started ...
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The ArtsOctober 2009Alain Resnais
by Emma Wilson, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram
Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating introduction to his work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade, traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt. Exploring questions of the time-image, of trauma, of the senses, this volume sets Resnais' films in the context of important current debates in film theory, and provides a concise account of critical discussions of his work in France and beyond. Yet it also offers a highly personal and detailed engagement with individual images and scenes in Resnais' films. A passionate and partial defence of Resnais' work, old and new, this volume stands apart in its attention to the more tangible and moving pleasures of his films, their pathos, rigour and visual beauty. ;
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Alain Resnais
by Emma Wilson
Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating introduction to his work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade, traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt. Exploring questions of the time-image, of trauma, of the senses, this volume sets Resnais' films in the context of important current debates in film theory, and provides a concise account of critical discussions of his work in France and beyond. Yet it also offers a highly personal and detailed engagement with individual images and scenes in Resnais' films. A passionate and partial defence of Resnais' work, old and new, this volume stands apart in its attention to the more tangible and moving pleasures of his films, their pathos, rigour and visual beauty.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2008States of suspense
The nuclear age, postmodernism and United States fiction and prose
by Daniel Cordle
When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it precipitated a nuclear age that shaped the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. States of suspense is about the representation of this nuclear age in United States literature from 1945-2005. The profound psychological and cultural impact of living in anticipation of the Bomb is apparent not only in end-of-the-world fantasies, but also in mainstream and postmodern literature. This book traces the ways in which key motifs - the fragility of reality; the fear of closure; the inadequacies of language to represent the world - move between nuclear and postmodern cultures of the Cold War era. Taking three symbolically threatened environments - the home, the city, the planet - the book explores their recasting as 'nuclear places' in literature, and shows how these nuclear concerns resonate with those of other cultures. States of suspense will be of interest to students and scholars of American literature, and postmodern and technological culture. It will also be interest to those more generally intrigued by the cultural fallout of the nuclear age. ;
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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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FictionJune 2020Drawings of Hiroshima
by Marcelo Simonetti
“The sky was covered with grey clouds. The drizzle was lighter than normal, almost pious. The Japanese were advancing through the streets with short, fast steps. Satoru was ahead of them. He pedaled at a good pace. From his bicycle seat, the city revealed itself to his eyes as a sequence of frames. It was strange to be there, in his grandfather's city, and to ride through it as he had probably never done before: on two wheels. Even so, the possibility that the route he was taking would intersect with the routes that his grandfather had taken when he was a child, provoked an intimate emotion in him. Those landscapes were over eighty years old, including an atomic bomb, but it was the land where Ryu Nakata had learned to walk, to speak, to read”. The death of his grandfather, awakens in the young Yasuhiro Nakata the desire to know the family history, especially after finding a letter in which he discovers another side of the old man whose last words were: 'Hiroshima, Hiroshima', warning of the existence of a secret. As a result, Yasuhiro embarks on a journey that will take him from Valparaiso to Hiroshima, where his grandfather emigrated ten years before the atomic disaster. This is the beginning of Drawings of Hiroshima— a charming story that allows readers to follow the protagonist on a journey in which he not only reconnects with his Japanese origins, but also questions his present, his interpersonal relationships and his interest in writing, deepening the unconscious desire to understand the role that he plays in a story that is not his own but yet challenges him directly. With this new release, Marcelo Simonetti addresses issues such as migration and identity, connecting the historic Chilean port of Valparaiso with the memory of the tragedy occured in the Japanese city.
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Children's & YAApril 2020The Last Paper Crane
by Kerry Drewery | Illustrated by Natsko Seki
One thousand paper cranes to achieve your heart’s desire. 1945, Hiroshima: Ichiro is a teenage boy relaxing at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later there is a blinding flash as the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped. With great bravery the two boys find Hiro’s fiveyear- old sister Keiko in the devastated and blasted landscape. When Hiro succumbs to his wounds, Ichiro is the only one who can take care of Keiko. But in the chaos Ichiro loses her when he sets off to find help. Seventy years later, the loss of Keiko and his broken promise to his dying friend are haunting the old man’s fading years. Mizuki, his grandaughter, is determined to help him. As the Japanese legend goes, if you have the patience to fold a thousand paper cranes, you will find your heart’s desire; and it turns out her grandfather has only one more origami crane to fold . . . Narrated in a compelling mix of prose, free verse and haiku poems, this is a haunting and powerful novel of courage and survival, with full-page illustrations by Natsko Seki.
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Pollution & threats to the environmentOctober 2001Status of the Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (DS86)
by Committee on Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Board on Radiation Effects Research, National Research Council
The Committee on Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) was set up more than a decade ago at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy. It was charged with monitoring work and experimental results related to the Dosimetry System 1986 (DS86) used by RERF to reconstruct the radiation doses to the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the time it was established, DS86 was believed to be the best available dosimetric system for RERF, but questions have persisted about some features, especially the estimates of neutrons resulting from the Hiroshima bomb. This book describes the current situation, the gamma-ray dosimetry, and such dosimetry issues as thermal-neutron discrepancies between measurement and calculation at various distances in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It recommends approaches to bring those issues to closure and sets the stage for the recently convened U.S. and Japan Working Groups that will develop a new dosimetry for RERF. The book outlines the changes relating to DS86 in the past 15 years, such as improved numbers that go into, and are part of, more sophisticated calculations for determining the radiations from bombs that reach certain distances in air, and encourages incorporation of the changes into a revised dosimetry system.
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Geography & the EnvironmentTodo lo que brilla (All that glitters)
Cómo los metales han formado a la humanidad (How metals have shaped mankind)
by Irene del Real
Why have metals defined the stages of the planet and the course of mankind? Is it true that the inhabitants of the Roman Empire could have gone mad by the consumption of lead water? Is there a similarity between Game of Thrones valyirio steel swords and those made in Damascus? What was sought in alchemy and transmutation? Did you know that for the Incas gold was the sweat of the sun and silver the tears of the moon? Where did the uranium from the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki come from? What minerals are needed to manufacture smartphones and LED displays? These pages condens billions of years of questions, mysteries, research and studies around metals. Because, as Irene del Real, a doctor in economic geology and recognized with the award For Women in Science by UNESCO and L’Oréal, says, we tend to forget the importance they have in our history and how unimaginable our everyday life would be without them. Addressed to all audiences, All that Shines is a fascinating, shocking and highly entertaining essay: a love letter to geological processes and also a map to guide a new paradigm of environmentally and socially friendly consumption.Why have metals defined the stages of the planet and the course of mankind? Is it true that the inhabitants of the Roman Empire could have gone mad by the consumption of lead water? Is there a similarity between Game of Thrones valyirio steel swords and those made in Damascus? What was sought in alchemy and transmutation? Did you know that for the Incas gold was the sweat of the sun and silver the tears of the moon? Where did the uranium from the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki come from? What minerals are needed to manufacture smartphones and LED displays? These pages condens billions of years of questions, mysteries, research and studies around metals. Because, as Irene del Real, a doctor in economic geology and recognized with the award For Women in Science by UNESCO and L’Oréal, says, we tend to forget the importance they have in our history and how unimaginable our everyday life would be without them. Addressed to all audiences, All that Shines is a fascinating, shocking and highly entertaining essay: a love letter to geological processes and also a map to guide a new paradigm of environmentally and socially friendly consumption.
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MedicineJuly 1995Adverse Reproductive Outcomes in Families of Atomic Veterans
The Feasibility of Epidemiologic Studies
by Committee to Study the Feasibility of, and Need for, Epidemiologic Studies of Adverse Reproductive Outcomes in the Families of Atomic Veterans, Institute of Medicine
Over the past several decades, public concern over exposure to ionizing radiation has increased. This concern has manifested itself in different ways depending on the perception of risk to different individuals and different groups and the circumstances of their exposure. One such group are those U.S. servicemen (the "Atomic Veterans" who participated in the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site or in the Pacific Proving Grounds, who served with occupation forces in or near Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or who were prisoners of war in or near those cities at the time of, or shortly after, the atomic bombings. This book addresses the feasibility of conducting an epidemiologic study to determine if there is an increased risk of adverse reproductive outcomes in the spouses, children, and grandchildren of the Atomic Veterans.
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An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful
by J. David Simons
Eminent British writer Sir Edward Strathairn returns to the Japanese resort hotel where he once spent a beautiful winter falling in love and writing his best-selling novel, which accused America of being in denial about the horrific consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. As we learn more about Sir Edward’s earlier life, however – his student days in Bloomsbury, his relationship with a famous American artist – we realise that he too is in denial, trying to escape the past events that are now rapidly catching up with him. An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful is a sweeping novel of East and West, love and war, truth and delusion. Featuring richly drawn characters and a narrative that perfectly builds the tension up to the explosive climax, this book has all the hallmarks of a modern classic.
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March 2020
The bomb
by Alcante, LF Bollée & Denis Rodier
On August 6, 1945, at 08:16:02 an explosive charge of more than 15 kilotons fell on the city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were pulverized and everything within 12 square kilometers was instantly destroyed. A deluge of flames and ash had just caused Japan’s greatest trauma, and probably that of the history of modern warfare. The whole world is horrified by the discovery of the existence of the most destructive manmade weapon ever invented: the atomic bomb.But how could such an appalling tool be invented? To answer this question, the authors return to the origins of its main component, uranium, and shed light on the scientific discoveries around this element and their uses both civilian and military. They have created a collaborative non-fiction work of the stories of men and women who are at the crux of History and narrated by its main protagonist, uranium.
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Science & MathematicsFebruary 1991The Children of Atomic Bomb Survivors
A Genetic Study
by National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Commission on Life Sciences, William J. Schull, James V. Neel
Do persons exposed to radiation suffer genetic effects that threaten their yet-to-be-born children? Researchers are concluding that the genetic risks of radiation are less than previously thought. This finding is explored in this volume about the children of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki--the population that can provide the greatest insight into this critical issue. Assembled here for the first time are papers representing more than 40 years of research. These documents reveal key results related to radiation's effects on pregnancy termination, sex ratio, congenital defects, and early mortality of children. Edited by two of the principal architects of the studies, J. V. Neel and W. J. Schull, the volume also offers an important comparison with studies of the genetic effects of radiation on mice. The wealth of technical details will be immediately useful to geneticists and other specialists. Policymakers will be interested in the overall conclusions and discussion of future studies.
