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View Rights PortalPetra Schier, Jahrgang 1978, lebt mit Mann und Hund in einer kleinen Gemeinde in der Eifel. Sie studierte Geschichte und Literatur an der Fernuniversität Hagen und arbeitet seit 2003 freie Autorin. Ihre sehr erfolgreichen historischen Romane erscheinen u.a. im Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, ihre ebenfalls sehr beliebten Weihnachts- sowie Liebesromane bei Rütten Loening, MIRA Taschenbuch, HarperCollins und Weltbild.Unter dem Pseudonym Mila Roth veröffentlicht die Autorin verlagsunabhängig verschiedene erfolgreiche Buchserien.
View Rights PortalThe soviet realia are not entirely clear to modern adolescents. Childhood in the late Soviet Union was not like it is now. Back in those days, everything was different and even scary to some point: a premonition of the nuclear war, propaganda, shortages, and confusing household items. The main characters of the book, a teenage Matvii and his father Petro, go to Lviv to visit their grandmother. There are still heaps of Soviet things in her ceiling cabinet and they are good at telling stories. Paretns are good at this as well, if you ask them well. The book gives a reason to talk about feelings of nostalgia and values.
Chipka is an artificially intelligent robot, and Petro is an engineer. The two engage in frequent conversations. They crack jokes at times and bicker at others. By listening to their conversations, you can learn about their favorite topic, which is, of course, robots. You'll discover many interesting things from them, starting from the stories behind the earliest strange mechanisms to the development of small nanorobots, and even robots made from skin cells or the heart of an African frog, created today! People have invented so many fascinating things! We live in a world where automobiles drive themselves, planes are controlled remotely, and machines learn, clean up, win at chess, and explore the depths of the sea. What will the future hold? From 7 to 11 years, 7500 words Rightsholders: publishing@man.gov.ua
Mythos und Bedeutung. Das wilde Denken. Eine Diskussion mit Paul Ricoeur, Mark Gaboriau, Michel Dufrenne, Jean Pierre Faye, Kostas Axelos, Jean Lautmann, Jean Cuisinier, Pierre Adot und Jean Conilh. Wie arbeitet der menschliche Geist?. Ein Gespräch mit Raymond Bellour. Der Mensch, bekleidet durch den Mythos. Ein Gespräch mit Jean Pouillon. Mythos und Bedeutung I. Ein Gespräch mit Pierre Daix. Mythos und Bedeutung II. Ein Gespräch mit Raymond Bellour. »Der Humanismus bedroht den Menschen«. Ein SPIEGEL-Gespräch mit Dieter Brumm, Karla Fohrbeck, Gustave Stern und Wolfgang Gust. Von der Irrationalität der Geschichte. Ein Gespräch mit Jean-Marie Benoist. Die strukturalistische Tätigkeit. Ein Gespräch mit Marco d'Eramo. Die religiöse Dimension der Gesellschaften. Ein Gespräch mit Jean-Claude-Escaffit.
Petro Pjatotschkin geht noch zur Schule, als er sein phänomenales Gedächtnis entdeckt. Ein Blick ins Buch genügt, um den Unterrichtsstoff abzuspeichern. Seine skurrile Begabung macht ihn zum Außenseiter und Grübler, der sich in wissenschaftliche Werke über Zeit und Bewußtsein vertieft. Er experimentiert mit sich selbst und stellt fest, daß er sich auch an Ereignisse erinnert, die er nicht erlebt haben kann. Im "Café Kosmos", dem russischen Buchladen in Lemberg, lernt Petro eine junge Künstlerin aus Montreal kennen, die sich der abstrakten Malerei verschrieben hat. Ihre Bilder mit Titeln wie "Misted Mirror" oder "Intent!" erscheinen ihm als Symbole seiner "Gedächtniskunst", er meint darin ihre Fähigkeit zu erkennen, wie er Parallelwelten zu sehen. Eine leidenschaftliche Liebe beginnt …
The book contains articles and essays describing the life of the outstanding German-speaking poet of the 20th century, a native of Chernivtsi, Paul Celan. The book explores his Bukovinian roots (Bukovyna is a historical region located both in Ukraine and Romania), little-known pages of his biography, connections with the Slavic and Jewish groups, personal and creative contacts with such authors as Alfred Margul-Sperber, Ingeborg Bachmann, Bertolt Brecht. The reader will also take a note on the role and significance of music in Celan’s works. The book is published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth and 50th anniversary of his death. The publication is intended for literary critics, philosophers, cultural experts and anyone interested in the history of development of the 20th century German lyrics.
Paul Celans poetisches Werk ist bereits seit dem Ende der 1950er Jahre zum Objekt einer außergewöhnlich breitgefächerten literaturkritischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit geworden. Seitdem avanciert der Dichter zum meistgedeuteten Lyriker der Nachkriegszeit. Wie aber war Paul Celan als Mensch – als Spiel- und Schulkamerad, als Kollege und Gefährte, als Freund und Geliebter? 55 Autoren, die ihn in verschiedenen Phasen seines Lebens gekannt haben, erinnern sich an ihre Begegnungen mit dem Dichter und beschreiben ihn aus unmittelbarer Nähe. Die in diesem Buch versammelten Materialien stellen den ersten übersichtlichen Versuch dar, dem menschlichen Bild Celans anhand der Fülle hinterlassener veröffentlichter und teils unveröffentlichter oder in deutscher Sprache zum ersten Mal erscheinender Erinnerungen in konzentrierter Form näher zu kommen. In diesem Sinne ist das vorliegende Buch nicht nur an Celan-Spezialisten, sondern auch an den breiteren Kreis der Leser gerichtet, die über menschliche Eigenschaften des Dichters, über seine Charakterzüge und Neigungen sowie über seine literarischen und ästhetischen Präferenzen mehr erfahren wollen.
A former prisoner of conscience who was imprisoned for nearly 14 years presents fifty articles he has written during 20 years of freedom. They tell about his cellmates Vasyl Stus, Yuri Lytvyn, Oleksa Tykhyi, Valeriy Marchenko, Levko Lukianenko, about prisoners of conscience Oksana Meshko, Mykola Rudenko, Petro Hryhorenko, Ievhen Sverstiuk and other outstanding personalities.
Flipping through the pages of the cultural history of Odesa in the 20th century, the author of the book analyses the frontier identity that developed in this peculiar city. In the first part of the book, the general processes that determined the cultural face of Odesa are analysed, in the second, portraits of prominent artists are presented - Volodymyr Zhabotynskyi, Petro Leshchenko, Mykhailo Zhuk, Boris Necherda, Boris Khersonskyi. Each of them in their own way embodied the image of the beach and sea city in its changing identity and constant charm. And if the above personalities are forgotten today, then we have a good opportunity to get to know and appreciate them more deeply, at the same time rethinking the phenomenon of Odesa in the 20th century.
Alki Zei, the legendary novelist, has shaped modern Greek literature and children’s fiction like none other. Petros’ war, one of her monumental novels, that has been translated in 11 languages, is being transformed into a graphic novel, with her own blessing before her recent passing. With respect to the original text and its spirit and atmosphere, Angeliki Darlasi and Dimitris Mastoros adapt this classic work of Greek literature for the new generation. Petros, a nine year old boy, is very sad because his cricket is dead. His elder sister, Antigone, wants to give him the box of her bracelet for burying it. Petros prefers to squeeze it in the crevice of the girder. But he doesn’t have the time. The next morning he is waken up abruptly by his mother. “Wake up and get ready. There is war! Can’t you listen to the sirens?” It is the 28th of October 1940. Petros knows about the war in his books. He is thrilled by heroes, shields, swords and victories. Is it the same in reality? Young Petros lives the war, occupation and resistance together with his parents, his sister, his grandfather and his turtle, Theodore. We follow him in his long walk with all the real adventures that take place between October 1940 and October 1944, when Greece was liberated.
From the Fence until Lunchtime can be read as a stand-alone story but it is also the sequel to DIPSORA (ISBN 9781871506747). All the central family characters are reintroduced as Kostas returns from St Petersburg to live again at Lakelands with Valeriya, the Russian agent and love of his life who is also one of the narrators of this story. A luxurious holiday cruise embroils the Nashes in a violent death leading to the Italian Mafia’s involvement in the subsequent cover-up of the crime and concomitant exposure of British political sleaze. The other narrator, Maxine, is pursuing a new career in the City with the Nash family business where she begins a passionate affair with her boss, who is also her first cousin. Constricted by the need for secrecy and almost completely unsupported, Maxine endures sacrifice and heartbreak as the yoke of dynastic duty is laid on rich, handsome George who continues to have it all, up to and beyond the bittersweet ending.
HOW is a book made? How are paper and ink made? What is a publishing house and what does it do? What goes on at the printer’s and the bookbinder’s? And what impact does producing a book have on the environment? Did you know that for every book produced a tree has to be cut? That making paper can be a heavily polluting procedure? How have we come to make and buy books that you can scratch and sniff, that float in the bathtub or glow in the dark? What does this all mean for our environment and what can we do to protect it? This book contains not one but two texts! — A very short one, for little readers but also for busy grownups; — and a longer one, for those of us who want to learn more about how a book is really made!
You have been admitted to…. THE RECORD SCHOOL! Silje, Rurik and Kostas are nine years old, and none of them really fit in. Silje lives in the posh suburb Tigerholm, but she is the only one with a mohawk and a rocker style. Rurik’s family only wants to train, compete and win in athletics, but he is just not into traditional sports. And Kostas is super smart, he has already jumped ahead three classes in school, but he has no real friends, and mainly hangs around the library, playing chess with 80-year old Allan. They all apply to the Record School, a boarding school on a remote island, where all the students train for some kind of world record, and anything can happen. In the beginning, everything seems exciting, but there are also clouds on the horizon. Take the twins, Sanja and Manji, for example, and the strict rules – will you really be suspended from the school if you aren’t punctual?
ONCE upon a time in a little village there lived Yellow, Red, Green, and Blue. They lived in peace until one day… A great storm blew in from far away. When the sun was high in the sky again, they noticed something shiny at the edge of Yellow’s roof. That’s when their troubles began…