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July 2015Lauras letzte Party
Roman | Ein düsterer Psychothriller aus Skandinavien
by J. K. Johansson, Elina Kritzokat
„Vermisst. Die 16-jährige Laura Anderson wurde zuletzt am 13.8. um 23 Uhr am Strand von Palokaski gesehen, wo sie mit Freunden eine Party feierte. Laura ist schlank, mittelgroß, hat blaue Augen und schwarz gefärbte Haare. Sie trug eine enge weiße Jeans und eine rosa Karobluse und Turnschuhe.“ „Mia ging auf das weiße f auf blauem Grund. Keine Fotos. Keine neuen Kommentare oder Likes. Aber eine Nachricht. Und im selben Moment wusste sie, dass sie keine Sekunde mehr schlafen würde. Die Nachricht kam von Johanna und war kurz: Laura ist tot.“ Mia Pohjavirta musste ihren Polizei-Job für Ermittlung in sozialen Netzwerken wegen ihrer Internet-Sucht an den Nagel hängen. Als Sonderpädagogin ist sie jetzt an ihre alte Schule und damit in ihre Heimatstadt zurückkehrt. Es soll endlich Ruhe in ihr Leben einkehren. Aber am ersten Schultag nach den Ferien macht es schnell die Runde: die 16jährige Schülerin Laura Anderson ist verschwunden. Ihre Eltern richten in ihrer Verzweiflung auf der Suche nach ihrer Tochter eine Facebook Seite ein und lösen damit einen wahren Shitstorm aus. Von Satanskult, Drogen und Sadomaso-Spielen ist die Rede, jemand will Laura in Amsterdam gesichtet haben. Jeder hat seine eigene Theorie, wo Laura steckt, aber am meisten scheint Mias Bruder Niklas zu wissen, der als Psychologe an der Schule arbeitet. Der Sommer, der für Mia so strahlend und hoffnungsvoll begann, wird zum düsteren Albtraum. Teil eins der Palokaski-Trilogie. Wenn »Gone Girl« und »Twin Peaks« aufeinandertreffen...
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Biography & True StoriesJune 2010Alison Uttley: Spinner of Tales
The authorised biography of the creator of Little Grey Rabbit
by Denis Judd
Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig are just two of the inspired characters created by Alison Uttley, loved by millions and still very popular today. But who was the real woman spinning enchanting tales of country life and lore, magic and friendship? Alison Uttley gathered much of the inspiration for her stories from the fond memories of her Derbyshire childhood and her love of the countryside. A talented and prolific writer, she was still producing stories in her late eighties. Yet she was often plagued by self-doubt, and extremely possessive over her close friends, family and work. Tragically, Alison's husband committed suicide before her writing successes. She soon developed a smothering relationship with her only child John, even convincing him to jilt his first fiancée and escape to Scotland - the honeymoon destination. With exclusive and unrestricted access to her personal diaries and private letters, Denis Judd paints an intriguing portrait of one of the most successful, creative and troubled children's authors of modern times. ;
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The ArtsMarch 2005French cinema in the 1970s
The echoes of May
by Alison Smith
This book re-examines French cinema of the 1970s. It focuses on the debates which shook French cinema, and the calls for film-makers to rethink their manner of filming, subject matter and ideals in the immediate aftermath of the student revolution of May 1968. Alison Smith examines the effect of this re-thinking across the spectrum of French production, the rise of new genres and re-formulation of older ones. Chapters investigate political thrillers, historical films, new naturalism and Utopian fantasies, dealing with a wide variety of films. A particular concern is the extent to which film-makers' ideas and intentions are contained in or contradicted by their finished work, and the gradual change in these ideas over the decade. The final chapter is a detailed study of two directors who were deeply involved in the debates and events of the 70s, William Klein and Alain Tanner, here taken as exemplary spokesmen for those changing debates as their echoes reached the cinema. ;
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The ArtsJanuary 2019French cinema in the 1970s
The echoes of May
by Alison Smith
This book re-examines French cinema of the 1970s. It focuses on the debates which shook French cinema, and the calls for film-makers to rethink their manner of filming, subject matter and ideals in the immediate aftermath of the student revolution of May 1968. Alison Smith examines the effect of this re-thinking across the spectrum of French production, the rise of new genres and re-formulation of older ones. Chapters investigate political thrillers, historical films, new naturalism and Utopian fantasies, dealing with a wide variety of films. A particular concern is the extent to which film-makers' ideas and intentions are contained in or contradicted by their finished work, and the gradual change in these ideas over the decade. The final chapter is a detailed study of two directors who were deeply involved in the debates and events of the 70s, William Klein and Alain Tanner, here taken as exemplary spokesmen for those changing debates as their echoes reached the cinema.
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February 2023Night Shadow 2. She Who Alights The Night
by Laura Cardea, Moon Notes
Die das Licht beherrscht … Magisches Finale in Paris. Du liebst den Mix aus verbotener Liebe, Geheimbünden und historischen Settings? Für Fans wie dich, die romantische Fantasy-Romane für junge Erwachsene suchen, gibt es aktuell nur eins: Laura Cardeas Dilogie Night Shadow. Hier ist der finale zweite Band aus dem historischen Paris an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert – eine Zeit, in der alles möglich schien, auch für Odette und Eugéne. Licht oder Dunkelheit, Freund oder Feind? Noch immer stecken Odette und Eugéne mitten im Kampf gegen die Nyx. Diese haben inzwischen eine bedrohliche neue Technologie entwickelt. Sie ruft noch mehr machtgierige Männer auf den Plan, die ihre Finger im Spiel haben. Ein Spiel, in dem kaum noch zu erkennen ist, wem die beiden überhaupt noch vertrauen können – außer einander. Dabei weiß Eugéne noch immer nicht, wer Odette in Wahrheit ist. Der historische Stoff, aus dem Romantasy-Träume sind. Nach Nachtschwarz nun Lichtweiß: Freu dich auf Band 2 der New Adult-Dilogie mit dem Mond-Cover. Wow-Setting: das historische Paris des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts. Für Fans von „Babylon Berlin“ oder „Bridgerton“, gepaart mit einer originellen Fantasy-Idee. Mit wunderschön illustriertem Stadtplan, Stammbaum und großem Glossar. Deine Lieblingsthemen „Girl disguised as boy“ und „Forbidden love“. Wieder fesselnd geschrieben von Laura Cardea, der Autorin von „Splitter aus Silber und Eis“.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2009Dante and the Victorians
by Alison Milbank
In this ground-breaking book, Alison Milbank explains why a comprehension of the Victorian reception of Dante is essential for a full understanding of Victorianism as a whole. Her focus on this much-neglected topic allows her to reconfigure the British nineteenth-century understanding of history, nationalism, aesthetics and gender, and their often strange intersections. The account also builds towards a demonstration that the modernist perpetuation of the Dante obsession reveals an equal continuity with many aspects of Victorianism. The book provides not only an authoritative introduction to these important cultural themes, but also a re-reading of the genealogy of literature in the modern period. Instead of the Victorian realism challenged by Modernist symbolism's attempts to transcend linear time, Milbank offers us a contrary, continuous 'Danteism'. For both the Victorians and the Modernists Dante is the first writer to historicise, fictionalise and humanise the eternal role, and he becomes paradoxically the means by which history, secularised fiction and a positivist humanism could be reconnected to a lost transcendent. Dante and the Victorians provides the first comprehensive account of why the reading of Dante was central to nineteenth-century British language and culture. ;
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1990Neue Pater-Brown-Geschichten
Die Ungläubigkeit des Pater Brown, Das Geheimnis des Pater Brown, 19 Detektivgeschichten
by Gilbert K Chesterton
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May 1991Intentionalität
Eine Abhandlung zur Philosophie des Geistes
by Harvey P. Gavagai, John R. Searle
Nach seinen sprachphilosophischen Arbeiten ('Sprechakte', stw 458; 'Ausdruck und Bedeutung', stw 349) hat John R. Searle mit 'Intentionalität' eine Untersuchung zu einem Kernstück der Philosophie des Geistes vorgelegt, die in einem engen thematischen Zusammenhang mit den früheren Arbeiten steht. Intentionalität ist nach Searles Auffassung die Basis sprachlicher Bedeutung. In seiner Theorie der Intentionalität geht es um die begrifflichen Eigenschaften intentionaler Zustände (auf die Frage nach ihrem ontologischen Status geht er ausführlicher ein in 'Geist, Hirn und Wissenschaft', stw 591). Zwei Aspekte stehen dabei im Vordergrund der Untersuchung: die Logik der Repräsentation und der Kausalität intentionaler Zustände. Doch Searle entwickelt in dieser Arbeit nicht nur eine Theorie der Intentionalität und des Zusammenhangs zwischen sprachlichem und geistigem Inhalt. In einem vornehmlich kritischen Teil setzt er sich ausführlich mit konkurrierenden Auffassungen aus dem Bereich der analytischen Philosophie auseinander, insbesondere mit derzeit sehr einflußreichen 'nicht-deskriptivistischen' Theorien des Bezugs, wie sie von S. Kripke, H. Putnam, K. Donnellan, T. Burge und D. Kaplan vertreten und angeregt wurden.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2010The Duchess of Malfi
By John Webster
by John Brown, David Bevington, John Brown, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an improved, accessible and throughly up-to-date edition. Starting with the authoritative Revels Plays edition of 1964, John Russell Brown has augmented the notes and collations, and casts new light on Webster's dramatic dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction encompasses a stage history from its well-documented early performances right through to recent productions in the twenty first century. The bibliography has also been expanded. Students, actors, directors, academics and theatre-goers will find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 100/2
Higher Learning and Civic Cultures of Knowledge: Manchester 1824–2024
by Stuart Jones
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections.
