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        July 2000

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        Roman eines Mörders

        by Paso, Fernando del

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        March 2019

        Gegenüber

        Roman

        by Erika Pluhar

        »Dass es nie zu spät ist, neuen Mut zu schöpfen, davon erzählt dieser Roman.« (ORF III) Henriette Lauber blickt auf ein schöpferisches und erfülltes Leben zurück: Als Cutterin von Kinofilmen konnte sie an der Seite ihres geliebten Mannes in spannende Welten eintauchen. Heute lebt sie allein in einer kleinen Wohnung in Wien, und all ihre Liebe gilt ihrem Patensohn aus der Westsahara. Eines Tages macht sie zufällig die Bekanntschaft ihrer jüngeren Nachbarin Linda. Zwischen den beiden Frauen entsteht ein reger Kontakt. Während Linda Henriette im Alltag hilft, erzählt diese ihr von ihrer Vergangenheit, von der Arbeit in der Filmbranche, den Reisen rund um den Globus und ihrer großen Liebe. Für Linda eröffnen sich neue Welten, und sie beginnt, ihr eigenes Leben zu hinterfragen ...Die Geschichte einer generationenübergreifenden Frauenfreundschaft und ein schonungsloser, aber ermutigender Blick auf das Älterwerden.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2024

        The machinic city

        Media, performance and participation

        by Marcos P. Dias

        As human and machine agency become increasingly intermingled and digital media is overlaid onto the urban landscape, The machinic city argues that performance art can help us to understand contemporary urban living. Dias analyses interventions from performance artists such as Blast Theory, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Rimini Protokoll, which draw from a rich history of avant-garde art movements to create spaces for deliberation and reflection on urban life, and speculation on its future. While cities are increasingly controlled by autonomous processes mediated by technical machines, Dias analyses the performative potential of the aesthetic machine, as it assembles with media, capitalist, human and urban machines. The aesthetic machine of performance art in urban space is examined through its different components - design, city and technology actants. This unveils the unpredictable nature and emerging potential of performance art as it unfolds in the machinic city.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        England’s military heartland

        Preparing for war on Salisbury Plain

        by Vron Ware, Antonia Dawes, Mitra Pariyar, Alice Cree

        A considered investigation of a long-standing army base's impact on the British countryside. What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? Beyond the barracks provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? Beyond the barracks investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.

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        Science & Mathematics
        March 2022

        Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests

        by Takumasa Kondo, Gillian Watson

        Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible to control by natural enemies so biological control is possible. They have unique genetic systems, unusual metamorphosis, a broad spectrum of essential symbionts, and some are sources of commercial products like red dyes, shellac and wax. There is, therefore, wide interest in these unusual, destructive, beneficial, and abundant insects. The Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests is the most comprehensive work on worldwide scale insect pests, providing detailed coverage of the most important species (230 species in 26 families, 36% of the species known). Advice is provided on collection, preservation, slide-mounting, vouchering, and labelling of specimens, fully illustrated with colour photographs, diagrams and drawings. Pest species are presented in two informal groups of families, the 'primitive' Archaeococcids followed by the more 'advanced' Neococcids, covered in phylogenetic order. Each family is illustrated and diagnosed based on features of live and slide-mounted specimens, with information on numbers of genera and species, main hosts, distribution, and biology. For the important pest species, coverage includes information on the morphology of live and slide-mounted specimens, common names, principal synonyms, geographical distribution, plant hosts, plant damage and economic impact, reproductive biology, dispersal, and management strategies including biological, cultural and chemical control, sterile insect techniques, regulatory control, early warning systems and field monitoring. An additional complete list of scale insect pests worldwide is provided, comprising 642 species in 28 scale insect families (about 8% of the 8396 species of living scales known), with information on plant hosts, geographical distribution and validation sources. Beneficial uses of scale insects as sources of red dyes, natural resins and waxes, as agents for invasive weed control. The importance of their honeydew to bees for making honey, and as a food source to other animals, are included. Academic researchers, students, entomologists, pest management officials in agribusiness or government including plant quarantine identifiers, extensionists, farmers, field scientists and ecologists will all benefit from this book.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2024

        Governing the military

        by Carlos Solar

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        November 2020

        Lange Liebe

        Vom Glück des Zusammenbleibens | Das perfekte Hochzeitsgeschenk

        by Antonia Meiners

        Liebe, die ein Leben lang hält – alle träumen davon, nur wenigen ist sie vergönnt. Und doch hört man immer wieder von Paaren, denen dieses Glück gelungen ist. Ab der ersten Zigarette wie bei Helmut Schmidt und Loki, nach arrangierter Hochzeit im Falle von Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Preußen und Königin Luise, vereint durch gemeinsames Engagement wie bei Gertrude Stein und Alice B. Toklas, eins im Schreiben bei Christa und Gerhard Wolf, magisch-romantisch wie bei Paul und Linda McCartney. Wie lange Liebe gelingt? In diesem Buch wird es erzählt.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        November 2023

        David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine

        by Nicholas Royle

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        December 2021

        Critical Philosophy of Race

        Ein Reader

        by Kristina Lepold, Marina Martinez Mateo

        Welche Art von Realität hat race? Welche Rolle spielen Wahrnehmungs- und Wissensformen bei ihrer Konstruktion? Was ist und wie funktioniert Rassismus? Das sind die zentralen Fragen, denen sich seit zwei Jahrzehnten das Forschungsfeld der Critical Philosophy of Race widmet, welches insbesondere in den USA wirkmächtige akademische und außerakademische Debatten angestoßen hat. Aber auch hierzulande ist die philosophische Beschäftigung mit race und Rassismus wichtig geworden, wie aktuelle Ereignisse und Diskussionen zeigen. Der Band stellt die noch junge Disziplin vor und präsentiert – zum Teil in deutscher Erstübersetzung – die einschlägigen Texte, u. a. von Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Tommie Shelby, Linda Martín Alcoff und Sally Haslanger.

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        January 2005

        Kingpeng

        Roman

        by Stift, Linda

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        August 2007

        Stierhunger

        Roman

        by Stift, Linda

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        February 2011

        Kein einziger Tag

        Roman

        by Stift, Linda

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        December 2015

        Unter den Steinen

        Erzählung

        by Stift, Linda

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