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      The Arts
      March 2026

      Abnormal peripheries

      Slovak and Czech performance art in the 1960s and 70s

      by Sam Cermak

      This book traces an early history of performance art from the former Czechoslovakia, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of the Prague Spring and the subsequent policy of Normalization that brought on cultural censorship, prosecution, and state violence against artists. The book draws on Czech and Slovak scholarship as well as primary research in archives, interviews, and fieldwork to dispel misreadings of visual and cultural idioms in pre-existing Anglophone scholarship about the region. Although the former Soviet Bloc is often equated with repression and lack of experimental art in public spaces, performance artists within the former Socialist Czechoslovakia often used public, semi-public and clandestine spheres to create their performances. By analysing both works of established artists such as Aktual, Alex Mlynárcik, Petr Stembera, Jan Mlcoch, as well as under-theorised practitioners including Luba Lauffová, Karel Miler, Temporary Society of Intense Living, and Crusaders School of Pure Humour with no Joke, this book analyses how performance can survive and sometimes even thrive on the background of a politically oppressive regime. Cermak tells a unique story of localised resistance to a monolithic public sphere through artistic intervention, a closely knit community, artistic exchange, and agonistic reframing of socialism as a philosophy rather than state ideology.

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      September 2005

      Alex, Dafi und ich

      Roman über die Freundschaft

      by Almagor, Gila / Übersetzt von Mirjam, Pressler

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      Children's & YA

      Silver Flood (1). The Mystery of Ray´s Rock

      by Alex Falkner/ Torben Weit

      The seven children are completely cut off from civilisation, mobile phones don’t work anymore and there’s no sign of help. Strange things happen on the island. Plants and animals grow unnaturally fast, their supplies are raided ... And as other groups of school children emerge, a life and death race begins for Eddie, Milla and their classmates to be rescued from the island. The first instalment of the ‘Silver Flood’ duology: a dangerous adventure with exciting plot twists and scare-factor. For all readers of survival and adventure stories aged 10+. Fast-paced reading for boys and girls, for outdoor kids and all those on their way! The final volume 2, GONE MISSING ON RAY’S ROCK, will be published on 7th April 2020!

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      June 2024

      Dark Scar

      A psychological Thriller. Dr. Evelin Wolf and Alex Gutenberg 2

      by Roxann Hill, Paul Wagle, Rebecca Steinberg, John Julian, Nicholas Mockridge, Alexios Saskalidis

      Death lurks in the shadows Who are you? Hamburg Criminal Psychologist Dr. Evelin Wolf wonders as she examines the severely disturbed homeless man with the conspicuous scar across his face. The extremely aggressive man with no memory or identity is alleged to have committed a brutal murder. But Evelin and Assistant District Attorney Alex Gutenberg doubt his guilt and suspect there is something more behind the supposedly crystal-clear case. Shortly thereafter, Hamburg is shaken by a series of murders unparalleled in cruelty and sadism. The perverted killer draws a bloody trail across the Hanseatic city and links it with a clear message to Alex and Evelin: Revenge. Alex and Evelin work feverishly to solve both cases. In the process, they make a fatal mistake. And the killer exploits it mercilessly…

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      May 2024

      Moonslaughter

      A psychological Thriller. Dr. Evelin Wolf and Alex Gutenberg 1

      by Roxann Hill, Paul Wagle, Rebecca Steinberg, John Julian, Nicholas Mockridge, LiveLive Media GmbH, Torsten Schwiemann, Alexios Saskalidis

      Some deserve to live. Others deserve to die. A lunar eclipse hovers above Hamburg and bathes houses and streets in an unearthly light. In the exclusive district of Blankenese, four men are brutally murdered in the basement of a villa. Only the granddaughter of the owner survives the bloody massacre. Severely traumatized and completely listless, she is found sitting in the middle of the corpses. She cannot remember anything. Assistant District Attorney Alex Gutenberg, who has to struggle with a number of personal issues himself, asks the criminal psychologist Dr. Evelin Wolf for support. When Evelin succeeds in penetrating the buried memories of the key witness piece by piece, she and Alex begin to disclose not only the motives for the massacre, but also the unimaginable extent of cruelty and depravity behind it. And Alex suddenly finds himself confronted with his own guilt-ridden past...

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      August 2017

      Das Spiel mit der Angst

      Thriller

      by Louise Mey, Thomas Brovot

      Alex Dueso ist Chef der Pariser Sondereinheit zur Bekämpfung von Sexualdelikten. Alex Dueso liebt Statistiken und das Feierabendbier mit Kollegen. Und Alex Dueso ist eine Frau. Das wird ihr nun zum Verhängnis. Dueso, alleinerziehende Mutter und hartgesottene Kriminalpolizistin, hat es sich in den Kopf gesetzt, zusammen mit ihrem Ermittlerteam der Gewalt gegen Frauen in ihrer Stadt ein Ende zu setzen. Die völlig uneinsichtigen Täter, mit denen sie es zu tun bekommt, sind ihr mehr als zuwider. Doch plötzlich wird alles anders, als ein männliches Opfer auftaucht, das noch dazu aus Scham nicht über die Nacht des Verbrechens sprechen will. Bald darauf kommt es zu weiteren Überfällen auf Männer, und der Beginn einer unerhörten Gewaltserie stellt Dueso und ihren Freund und Kollegen Marco auf eine harte Probe: Sie müssen ihr bisheriges Ermittlungsschema über Bord werfen und sich in die Psyche der frauenfeindlichen Opfer begeben – und zwar sehr viel tiefer, als ihnen lieb ist.

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      September 1995

      Letzte Blicke, flüchtige Details

      Roman

      by Herbert Genzmer

      Kaltblütig erschlägt der achtzehnjährige Alex Oliver Thon seine Eltern. Der Junge legt eine Spur nach Norden, fährt aber über Frankreich und Spanien nach Portugal, südwärts...

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      June 2000

      Wurzeln "Roots"

      Roman

      by Haley, Alex

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      November 1979

      Wurzeln 'Roots'

      Roman

      by Haley, Alex

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      April 2009

      Die Abenteuer von Aguila und Jaguar

      Drei Romane in einem Band: Die Stadt der wilden Götter, Im Reich des Goldenen Drachen, Im Bann der Masken

      by Isabel Allende, Svenja Becker

      Die junge Brasilianerin Nadia und der aus Kalifornien stammende Alex erleben gemeinsam phantastische Abenteuer, die sie quer über die Kontinente führen: vom Amazonasgebiet über den Himalaja in die afrikanischen Urwälder. Und immer wieder ist es ihren Totemtieren, dem Adler, »Aguila«, und »Jaguar«, zu verdanken, daß sie in den schwierigsten Momenten eine glückliche Lösung finden.

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      Politics & government
      July 2013

      Managing labour migration in Europe

      by Alex Balch

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