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Children's & YASiberian haiku
by Jurga Vile, Lina Itagaki
This graphic novel tells a story of a Lithuanian boy Algiukas, who in 1941 together with his family was deported to Siberia. His aunt Petronella brings along a book of the Japanese haiku poems. In exile, she inspires the deportees not to succumb to the despair and to see the beautiful side of life. AWARDS Main Prize in Book Art Contest 2017 Best Book of the Year by IBBY Lithuania 2017 Best Illustrations for a Children’s Book by IBBY Lithuania 2017 White Raven 2017 The Aloysius Petrikas Literary Prize for Children’s Book of the Year 2018 Children’s Book of the Year 2018 (Lithuania) IBBY Honor List 2020 Nomination at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2020 Selection for Children’s Book Jury in Latvia 2020 International Jānis Baltvilks Award in Latvia 2020 Nomination for Bologna Ragazzi Award 2020 in Italia Latvian edition of “Sibīrijas haiku” was included in the Latvian PEN list of the most important books published in Latvia in 2020 Nomination at the International Book Contest “Reading St. Petersburg,” 2021 (Russia) Nomination for Latvian Literature Prize 2020 Nomination for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2021 in the young adult book category
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April 2016Ehering und Eisenkette
Lösegeld- und Mitgiftzahlungen im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert
by Witowski, Janis
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January 1998Treuebrüche
Die kreative Aufarbeitung des Seitensprungs
by Spring, Janis Abrahms; Spring, Michael
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January 1996Treuebrüche
Die kreative Aufarbeitung des Seitensprungs
by Spring, Janis Abrahms / Englisch Herbst, Gabriele
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March 2019SCHÖN, ANSTRENGEND, AUFREGEND.
Mein Wohlfühlbuch für frischgebackene Mamis
by Horn, Isabell / Zusammen mit Schedlich, Janis
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July 2017Das Sams 1. Eine Woche voller Samstage
by Paul Maar, Monty Arnold, Nina Dulleck, Janis Grossmann, Alexander Rieß, Frank Gustavus
IWie aus dem Nichts taucht an einem Samstag ein eigenartiges Wesen mit roten Haaren, Trommelbauch und blauen Punkten im Gesicht bei Herrn Taschenbier auf: das Sams. Es ist laut, frech, singt Lieder und reimt von früh bis spät. Lauter Dinge, die Herr Taschenbier eigentlich gar nicht mag. Deswegen versucht er das Sams auch wieder loszuwerden. Doch, seltsam, je länger es bei Herrn Taschenbier bleibt, desto lieber gewinnt er es und wird sogar selber einmal ein bisschen frech zu seiner strengen Vermieterin Frau Rotkohl. Mag Herr Taschenbier sich am Ende gar nicht mehr vom Sams trennen? Der große Kinderklassiker vom großartigen Paul Maar, mit neuem Cover von Nina Dulleck, erstmals ungekürzt gelesen von Monty Arnold.
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December 2019Das Sams 2. Am Samstag kam das Sams zurück
by Paul Maar, Monty Arnold, Alexander Rieß, Janis Grossmann, Nina Dulleck, Frank Gustavus
Herr Taschenbier tut wirklich alles, damit das Sams zu ihm zurück kommt! Er trifft am Montag Herrn Mon, am Dienstag geht er brav zum Dienst. Am Mittwoch ist zum Glück ganz von alleine Mitte der Woche und am Donnerstag sorgt Herr Taschenbier höchstpersönlich mit Blech und Nudelholz für Donner. Und tatsächlich: Am Samstag kommt das Sams zurück! Und mit ihm viele neue Wunschpunkt. Papa Taschenbier legt sofort mit dem Wünschen los, doch obwohl das Sams ihm schon oft erklärt hat, wie man richtig wünscht, geht auch dieses Mal wieder einiges schief … Ungekürzte Lesung von Monty Arnold - insbesondere seine hingebungsvoll gesungenen Lieder, die das Sams so vor sich hin reimt, sind schreiend komisch!
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July 2018Das Sams 3. Neue Punkte für das Sams
by Paul Maar, Monty Arnold, Nina Dulleck, Alexander Rieß, Janis Grossmann, Frank Gustavus
Manchmal ist Herr Taschenbier sich nicht sicher, ob es wirklich der beste aller Wünsche war, dass das Sams für immer bei ihm bleibt. Schließlich hat es keine Punkte mehr im Gesicht und kann keine Wünsche mehr erfüllen, es ist nur noch vorlaut und gefräßig! Noch schlimmer aber ist, dass Herr Taschenbier sich verliebt hat und sich nicht traut seine Angebetete anzusprechen ... Wenn das Sams doch nur wieder Wunschpunkte hätte! Urkomisch gelesen von Monty Arnold.
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FictionThe Pearl Diver
by Jānis Poruks
The Pearl Diver, which the author described as fantasy, is one of the earliest long prose works by Poruks. Its main character, Ansis, is from the countryside and comes to Rīga to study. He is passionate; a dreamer and an idealist. For Ansis, “pearl diving” means fulfilling your life’s goals: he wants to make his dreams come true, not just view them from a distance. But his life takes some difficult turns: his mother dies, he is unlucky in love, and he struggles with loneliness and, of course, the possibility that the world will never understand him. Ansis has no shortage of benefactors, including his mentor Talheims, his beloved Anna, and others. As the story progresses, Rīga comes to discover Ansis’s unique nature and he begins to meet new people. The moral of the story is that every reader has to find the “pearls” in their own life (there is also a theory that Poruks used “pearls” to refer to the hearts of good people).
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FictionJanuary 1933The New Farmer and the Devil
by Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš
At the beginning of the novel The Farmer and the Devil, the retired Latvian army officer Krasts is building his new farm. Together with his wife Aina and her father Andrāns, he works tirelessly to complete it, turning the surrounding spruce forest into pastures and putting up new farm buildings. However, a devil, a figure in Latvian tradition who is more of a trickster than a diabolical villain, has lived in this part of the forest for centuries and is angered by the destruction of his home, so he directs a series of misfortunes at the farmer – a beautiful woman named Manga, lack of money, etc. – to try and make him leave. At first the farmer is somewhat susceptible to the devil’s temptations, but in the end he pulls himself together and defeats them, so that good triumphs after all at the end of the novel.
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FictionJanuary 1937Aija
by Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš
Jaunsudrabiņš’ trilogy Aija (1911–1924) follows the life of a man named Jānis. In the first novel, he is a fifteen-year-old servant boy working as a cowherd at a wealthy farm, who falls in love with the slightly older Aija, a maid at the main house. Aija flirts with Jānis but is more interested in an advantageous marriage than in this cowherd’s love and marries a wealthy, middle-aged cobbler. Jānis is crushed and sets out for Rīga, where he works in various factories so that – in the second part of the trilogy – he is able return to his childhood home by the time he is thirty, to help out on the farm. Jānis falls in love with Ieva, who was just a little girl in the first book but has grown into a beautiful young woman and is also working as a maid. Jānis tries to use this new love to get over his earlier infatuation with Aija, whose husband has since died. He is not successful, and is thrown into an existential crisis, though this crisis is ultimately resolved when Jānis marries Aija.
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March 2022The Circular Economy and Green Jobs in the EU and Beyond
by Brizga, Janis
The circular economy is a model of production and consumption that is underpinned by a transition to renewable energy and materials. It is a resilient system that is good for business, people and the environment. "The Circular Economy and Green Jobs in the EU and Beyond" examines what the circular economy means, why the transition from a linear economy to a circular one is important, and how we can achieve it. The book offers clarification on the meaning and the implications of the circular economy across different contexts – economic, social, cultural, legal and international. In doing so, it goes beyond simply arguing in favour of a circular economy and critically assesses the political and distributional choices that are made during this transition. Particular emphasis is placed on the implications for jobs and different business models as well as on questions of equity.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceAuthoring
An Essay for the English Profession on Potentiality and Singularity
by Janis Haswell, Richard Haswell
This is a very smart monograph, and a provocative one, with a powerful essay quality as it weaves back and forth between composition and literature perspectives. Surely there will be contention—highly productive contention. But I was just delighted to be pushed around by this book. —Christiane Donahue, Dartmouth The postmodern conviction that meaning is indeterminate and self is an illusion, though fascinating and defensible in theory, leaves a number of scholarly and pedagogical questions unsatisfied. Authoring—the phenomenological act or felt sense of creating a text—is "a remarkably black box," say Haswell and Haswell, yet it should be one of the central preoccupations of scholars in English studies. Not only can the study of authoring accommodate the "social turn" since postmodernism, they argue, but it accommodates as well conceptions of, and the lived experience of, personal potentiality and singularity. Without abandoning the value of postmodern perspectives, Haswell and Haswell use their own perspective of authorial potentiality and singularity to reconsider staple English-studies concerns such as gender, evaluation, voice, character, literacy, feminism, self, interpretation, assessment, signature, and taste. The essay is unique as well in the way that its authors embrace often competing realms of English studies, drawing examples and arguments equally from literary and compositionist research. In the process, the Haswells have created a Big Idea book, and a critique of the field. Their point is clear: the singular person/mysterious-black-box/author merits deeper consideration than we have given it, and the book's crafted and woven explorations provide the intellectual tools to move beyond both political divisions and theoretical impasses.
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Biography & True StoriesJune 2019Rocket Girls
Storie di ragazze che hanno alzato la voce
by Laura Gramuglia
Women in the history of rock are not few; but few are the ones remembered. However, armies of other female musicians fought with them, though their stories never gained the spotlight. But the moment to tell them has arrived. That’s why Rocket Girls is first of all a request for attention. A reading that encourages us to look beyond labels and consider female music not a genre in itself, but a world as rich and multi-faceted as the male one. You will meet fifty women who have fought the patriarchy of rock. One song for every artist, from the ’50s to this day.Nina Simone, M.I.A., Lauryn Hill, Saint Vincent, Madonna, Fiona Apple, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Björk, Amy Winehouse, Tina Turner, Siouxie, Courtney Love, Janis Joplin, Marianne Faithfull, Nico, Sinead O’Connor, Whitney Houston, Cat Power, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Cher, and many more.
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The Arts: General IssuesNovember 2020The Seekers
Meetings with Remarkable Musicians
by John Densmore
The iconic drummer of The Doors investigates his own relationship with creativity and explores the meaning of artistry with other artists and performers in this compelling and spellbinding memoir. Whether it's the curiosity that blossoms after we listen to our favorite band's newest record, or the sheer admiration we feel after watching a knockout performance, many of us have experienced art so pure-so innovative-that we can't help but wonder afterwards: "How did they do that?" And yet, few of us are in a position to be able to ask those memorable legends where their inspiration comes from and how they translated it into something fresh and new. Fortunately for us, this book is here to offer us a bridge. In The Seekers, John Densmore-the iconic drummer of The Doors and author of the New York Times bestseller Riders on the Storm-digs deep into his own process and draws upon his privileged access to his fellow artists and performers in order to explore the origins of creativity itself. Weaving together anecdotes from the author's personal notebooks and experiences over the past fifty years, this book takes readers on a rich, thought-provoking journey into the soul of the artist. By understanding creativity's roots, Densmore ultimately introduces us to the realm of everyday inspirations that imbue our lives with meaning. Inspired by the classic spiritual memoir Meetings with Remarkable Men, this book is fueled by Densmore's abundant collection of transformative experiences-both personal and professional-with everyone from Ravi Shankar to Patti Smith, Jim Morrison to Janis Joplin, Bob Marley to Gustavo Dudamel, Lou Reed to Van Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis to his own dear, late Doors bandmate Ray Manzarek. Ultimately, the result is not only a look into the hearts and minds of some of the most important artists of the past century-but a way for readers to identify and ignite their own creative spark, and light their own fire.
