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March 2018Eine bessere Zeit
Roman
by Jaume Cabré, Kirsten Brandt, Petra Zickmann
Er wollte sie nie, die Textilfabrik, die seit sieben Generationen den Reichtum der Gensanas bedeutete. Miquel wollte ein Leben in Barcelona, eins, das Überzeugungen folgt, nicht dem Geld. Doch mit den Jahren kamen die Niederlagen, dann die Zweifel und nun zwingt ihn der Tod eines Freundes zurückzukehren … Eine bessere Zeit erzählt vom Aufbegehren gegen die eigene Familie. Es ist ein Roman über die Kraft der Traditionen, über den Glauben an das Schöne angesichts der verlorenen Zeit – sprachgewaltig orchestriert vom Weltbestsellerautor Jaume Cabré. Als Miquel den Bruch mit seiner Familie herbeiführt, ist er keine zwanzig Jahre alt. Zusammen mit seinem Jugendfreund beginnt er ein Studium der Literatur an der Universität in Barcelona. Doch schon bald zieht es die beiden aus Faszination für eine Frau in den antifranquistischen Untergrund und sie laden eine Schuld auf sich, die nie mehr vergeht. Als Franco stirbt und Spanien sich verwandelt, muss Miquel nach und nach zurückfinden. Zu einem Leben ohne Idealismus, zu seiner Familie und dem erdrückenden Gewicht ihrer zweihundertjährigen Geschichte …
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March 2015Testfall Ukraine
Europa und seine Werte
by Katharina Raabe, Manfred Sapper
Der Krieg in der Ostukraine ist ein Krieg im Zentrum Europas. Das wurde spätestens klar, als über dem Kampfgebiet eine zivile Verkehrsmaschine abgeschossen wurde. Über 300 Menschen, die meisten aus den Niederlanden, kamen ums Leben. Doch nichts geschah, was die Gewalt und den rasanten Zerfall von Zivilität bis hin zum Sterben der Millionenstädte Donezk und Luhansk hätte stoppen können. Die Ereignisse, die der Maidan-Revolution in Kiew folgten, von der Krim-Annexion bis zur Invasion russischer Truppen in Nowoasowsk, haben binnen weniger Monate die Grundlagen der europäische Nachkriegsordnung erschüttert: territoriale Integrität, Souveränität, Sicherheit, Frieden scheinen außer Kraft gesetzt. Russland und der Westen stehen sich wieder feindlich gegenüber. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Und was bedeutet das für das künftige Zusammenleben in Europa? Schriftsteller und Publizisten suchen nach Antworten. Mit Beiträgen von Alice Bota, Andreas Kappeler, Kateryna Mishchenko, Herfried Münkler, Serhij Zhadan u.a.
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September 2012Wir neuen Deutschen
Wer wir sind, was wir wollen
by Bota, Alice; Pham, Khuê; Topçu, Özlem
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March 2018Eine bessere Zeit
Roman
by Jaume Cabré
Miquel ist keine zwanzig Jahre alt, als er den Bruch mit seiner Familie herbeiführt. Er will frei sein, will seinen Leidenschaften und Überzeugungen folgen. Die Textilfabrik, die seine Familie seit sieben Generationen reich macht, interessiert ihn nicht. Stattdessen beginnt er zusammen mit seinem Jugendfreund ein Studium der Literatur an der Universität in Barcelona. Doch schon bald zieht es die beiden jungen Männer aus Faszination für eine Frau in den antifranquistischen Untergrund, und sie laden eine Schuld auf sich, die nie mehr vergeht. Eine bessere Zeit erzählt vom Aufbegehren gegen die eigene Familie. Es ist ein Roman über die Kraft der Traditionen, über den Glauben an das Schöne angesichts der verlorenen Zeit – sprachgewaltig orchestriert vom Weltbestsellerautor Jaume Cabré.
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August 2019Eine bessere Zeit
Roman
by Jaume Cabré, Petra Zickmann, Kirsten Brandt
Miquel ist keine zwanzig Jahre alt, als er den Bruch mit seiner Familie herbeiführt. Er will frei sein, will seinen Leidenschaften und Überzeugungen folgen. Die Textilfabrik, die seine Familie seit sieben Generationen reich macht, interessiert ihn nicht. Stattdessen beginnt er zusammen mit seinem Jugendfreund ein Studium der Literatur an der Universität in Barcelona. Doch schon bald zieht es die beiden jungen Männer aus Faszination für eine Frau in den antifranquistischen Untergrund, und sie laden eine Schuld auf sich, die nie mehr vergeht. Eine bessere Zeit erzählt vom Aufbegehren gegen die eigene Familie. Es ist ein Roman über die Kraft der Traditionen, über den Glauben an das Schöne angesichts der verlorenen Zeit – sprachgewaltig orchestriert vom Weltbestsellerautor Jaume Cabré.
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March 1988Das Tagebuch der Herzogin
by Robin Chapman, Maria Dessauer
"Man schreibt den Sommer 1608. Don Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra, der berühmte Autor des »Don Quijote de la Mancha«, I. Buch, weilt auf dem Schloß des Herzogs von Caparroso und seiner Frau, der »schönen Jägerin«. Autor und Herzogin – María Isabel – vertiefen sich ins Gespräch. Man vergnügt sich, man ersinnt kleine Schauspiele frei nach Motiven des allseits gelesenen Romans; der Dichter beginnt angeregt mit dessen zweitem Teil und verlässt nach geraumer Weile das Paar. Zum großen Kummer von Isabel: hat er doch in ihre freudlose Ehe mit dem jagdlüsternen grobschlächtigen Herzog einen Funken höchst zärtlicher Phantasie gebracht., ja, sie zu einem seiner geliebtesten Geschöpfe gemacht. In keiner Geringeren als der überirdisch schönen Dulcinea mag sich María Isabel porträtiert sehen; diese Rolle will und wird sie sich auf den Leib schneidern…"
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Domingo Por La Tarde En El Parque Kilinski
by Arieh Stav
Domingo Por La Tarde En El Parque Kilinski por Arieh Stav Había rumores, un olor a miedo en el aire. Y, sin embargo, ocurrió todo con rapidez increíble. Los soviéticos abandonaban la ciudad y los alemanes estaban en sus puertas. Mera Stollar agarró a su bebé y huyó. A partir de aquél día, su vida se convirtió en una odisea de huída y supervivencia. Gracias al aspecto ario de su hijo (siempre y cuando no le bajaran los pantalones…), su ingenio y sabiduría, huyeron de la ciudad después del exterminio de sus habitantes judíos. Sin documentos, la madre y el niño deambularon entre las callejuelas de la Polonia ocupada haciéndose pasar por refugiados polacos hasta que llegaron a Varsovia. En el camino, vivieron con el constante temor de captura, hambre, frío, enfermedad y la crueldad e indiferencia de la gente, pero hubo también casos de compasión y clemencia. Su fuga está acompañada de muchos peligros y amenazas. Una familia cristiana los echa a la calle por haberse persignado con la mano izquierda. Un delator ucraniano los entrega a la policía, lo que significa ser transportados a Treblinka. El tren es bombardeado y, el primer día de la Liberación, Mera es declarada culpable de colaborar con el enemigo alemán, un pecado que es penado con una sentencia de ejecución. DOMINGO POR LA TARDE EN EL PARQUE KILINSKI también relata la historia de Rójele, encarcelada por un par de botas, de Stiepan el policía ucraniano cuyo amor por Vera no evita que mate a toda la familia de ella, de Lieber, protegido por el cadáver de su padre en las fosas de la muerte de Susenki, de Sonia la conversa, a quien el crucifijo que llevaba colgado del cuello no la salvó, de la abuela Yadzia, la polaca que estaba dispuesta a sacrificar su vida por Libi, a quien amaba como su propia nieta, de Alex e Irena, las dos artistas de circo ucranianas que irónicamente estaban bajo la protección de Mera y de Rudolf, el paracaidista alemán cuyo galanteo y amor por Mera provocaron la desilusión. Arieh Stav nació en 1939 en Rovno, Polonia en aquel entonces y hoy día Ucrania. En 1951 emigró a Israel junto con su madre. Se educó en el kibutz Givat Haim, sirvió en el ejército de Israel como paracaidista y fue miembro del kibutz hasta 1963, cuando lo dejó y se mudó a Tel Aviv. Estudió psicología, filosofía y drama en la Universidad de Tel Aviv. Arieh Stav es el director del Ariel Center for Policy Research, una organización apolítica dedicada a la investigación exhaustiva y al debate de asuntos políticos y estratégicos que incumben a Israel y al pueblo judío. Stav es el editor de Nativ, a periódico bimestral sobre política y arte y es autor y editor de muchos libros y estudios de investigación. Tradujo al hebreo y publicó numerosos volúmenes de poemas épicos escritos a lo largo de los tiempos y en un gran número de idiomas.
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PoetryMay 2008Gesammelte Gedichte
1954 - 2006
by Gernhardt, Robert
Wir vergeben die meisten Genehmigungen zu Robert Gernhardt über den Band "Gesammelte Gedichte". Das Inhaltsverzeichnis findet sich im Punkt "Supporting Information." An den Gedichten auf den Seiten 1 bis 68 aus diesem Band hat S. Fischer keine Rechte!
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Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)October 2021El año de la rata
by Jorge Alderete
Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.
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Humanities & Social SciencesThe Gospel of Prosperity
Literary and critical perspectives about the science of getting right quick
by Luis Miguel Estrada
In 2020, amidst the whirlwind of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas from books about the science of becoming a millionaire returned to Luis Miguel Estrada whom, since he left a financial job, has dedicated himself fully to literature. In this book, he thinks some of the key questions raised by bestsellers from Napoleon Hill to Kiyosaki. Do we stop seeking money just because we pursue art? More importantly: regardless of what we do, how do we seek money? Why have narratives like positive thinking and the law of attraction become a universal language that gains strength during each economic crisis? Is there a link between bestsellers about the science of getting rich and great universal literature? This book attempts to answer these questions, beginning with the origins of books on becoming a millionaire, which delve into the agile 19th-century United States, transition through the fast-paced turn of the century, and explode in the years after the Great Depression. The journey continues with examples of wild successes (real-life fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes or fictional criminals like Walter White from Breaking Bad) that prompt us to question the influence of success-at-any-cost ideas on popular culture, as well as their ethical limits. How can one reconcile readings, cultural products, and experiences that seem so distant? The broader reading audience responds more to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill than to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Is there a way to read them alongside each other and emerge renewed from the experience? This book invites you on that adventure.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)March 2018Muerte en Mitra
by Miquel Bota
Wake up, Ramón! What are you looking for? Why? After the partial loss of his memory, Ramón Mitra embarks on an introspective journey that takes him to a destination not imagined. In a delirious transition between reality and possibility, revisiting specific moments of his past, the protagonist of the novel will persist in his efforts to recover the pieces of himself that are missing. With the help of a young nurse, a philosophy student, a pharmacist reading Freud and a provincial secretary, Ramón struggles to achieve enlightenment through his personal odyssey, in which the fight against desire will be the mark of his itinerary. Set in mid-20th century Spain, nothing will be accidental in the history of Ramón Mitra: not his name, not the tests to which he will be subjected, neither the absences nor the presences of his journey.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)August 2018Cuentos TRANS
by Inma Chacón, Fermina Ponce, Germán Padinger, Margarita García Gallardo, Antonio J. Quesada, Sharon E. Smith, Carlos A. Colla, Miquel Bota
Is TRANS an adjective? Is TRANS- a prefix? What is TRANS? What does it mean? Each reader can ask this question from very different perspectives, depending on the moment in time and life trajectory. So you can simultaneously enjoy all the amazing stories in this collection, and playfully challenge your reading preconceptions. TRANS Stories brings together eight narrative voices from different backgrounds, which offer unique approaches to the term “trans”. Some of the inhabitants of this transliterary journey are: a lonely being who celebrates a (happy) birthday; a mother and a daughter who face the coldness of an operating room; a journalist who lives in space, in a colony on Earth; a young civil servant who is confused by the night; a cook and an artist who decide to revolutionize the world of the senses; the wife of an entomologist ready to solve a mystery; a Kabbalist who undergoes a transformation after an outbreak of (ir)reality; and the male models of a painter who are discovered through a game of identities. The characters and voices in these stories are part of a transitory and transcribed space in which nothing, and everything, is what it seems, and in which everything, and nothing, becomes transgressive. These eight stories make TRANS something transfigurative.
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February 2018Reconquista
by Miquel Bulnes
Towards the end of the eleventh century, during an expedition to collect protection funds for the city of Seville for King Alfonso VI, the young Castilian cousins Eloy and Carmelo become separated. Carmelo comes under the care of an Islamic vizier in Seville, learns Arabic and serves in Seville’s army; Eloy is appointed infanzón in the province of Toledo, which has been conquered by Alfonso VI. Eventually, their paths will cross again when they face each other on the battlefield. At the beginning of the twelfth century the Mozarab brother Pius was summoned from Toledo to a monastery of the order of Cluny to hear the confessions of a dying noble. While the noble endlessly stalls his actual confession, Pius gradually begins to understand what kind of place he has traveled to and why he was assigned this task. Reconquista is a dazzling, all-encompassing novel in which Miquel Bulnes sublimely tells the fascinating story of the struggle between Mohammedans and Christians in Medieval Spain through a host of unforgettable characters.
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August 2019PROCÉS STORIES
L'humor també decideix. Humor Also Rules. El humor también decide
by Miquel Bota, Marina López Planella, David Roas, Christopher J. Castañeda, Jordi Gràcia, Juan Manuel Chávez, Paula Naudi, Carlos A. Colla, Fermina Ponce, Fidel Masreal
In these short stories, we would like to make you blush, whether it’s pink or red as a beetroot. Allow yourself to be beguiled, for a little while, by some voices that perhaps do not sing your own tune. We dare you!
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FictionThe Shortcut
by Miquel Martín
Published by Edicions del Periscopi (Catalan) English sample available La drecera (The Shortcut), by Miquel Martín, has been the big surprise of the summer season. Published at the end of June it has been selling more and more since then and now it’s been in Catalan Bestsellers lists for weeks. This is a short novel about the passage from childhood to youth of the son of the housekeepers of a rich family that owns a large summer house in the region of Empordà (which might ring a bell because it is also the setting of Milena Busquets’s successful novel This Too Shall Pass). In The Shortcut we see the evolution of this boy of 10, who still does not know anything about social boundaries and the scars that life leaves on adults, and who finishes the novel, at 13 or 14, having discovered some of the secrets, joys, wonders and resignations of the adult world.
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I WAS A GUIDE IN HELL
by Gerard Miquel
Historic fantasy in the "Sleepy Hollow" vein, with adventure, humour and horror.
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FictionThe Fourth Girl On The Left
by Andreu Martín
Sinopsis World War I. While the main European cities are bleeding into conflict, Barcelona is one of the great pearls of the Mediterranean. Despite its status as a neutral territory, no one ignores the fact that on the coast there are ports where they can illegally stock up on fuel and groceries, with the approval of the local authorities, and that German submarines arrive at Cape Ixent where all kinds of interests and conflicts with secret services, double agents and spies from here and there are cooked. n the heart of this Barcelona in the midst of an urban boom, with the noise of the streets, the bustle of bars, casino games and evening shows, comes Amadeu, a peasant boy fresh out of the seminar, who is looking for a dancer with whom his father had lived a strange adventure. She has only one clue: she is the fourth girl to the left of a photograph she keeps in her jacket pocket. She immediately discovers that her name is Amanda Rogent and that she is on display at Barcelona's Moulin Rouge: a whole vedet who loves to scandalize. Amadeus needs to find answers, but discovering the truth is not always the best thing that can happen to you… After titles such as Death Story, Tibidabo's Harem, Everyone Will Remember You, Harem's Favorite, You’re Going To Say I’m Crazy and Cops (the latter, signed with Joan Miquel Capell), Andreu Martín returns to "Crims.cat" with a very retrospective novel, set in the exciting Barcelona of the first decades of the twentieth century.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 1999The Assessment of Science Meets the Science of Assessment
Summary of a Workshop
by National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Testing and Assessment
To explore the connections between new approaches to science education and new developments in assessment, the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council (NRC) sponsored a two-day conference on February 22 and 23, 1997. Participants included BOTA members, other measurement experts, and educators and policymakers concerned with science education reform. The conference encouraged the exchange of ideas between those with measurement expertise and those with creative approaches to instruction and assessment.
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Examinations & assessmentJuly 1999
The Assessment of Science Meets the Science of Assessment
Summary of a Workshop
by Board on Testing and Assessment, National Research Council
To explore the connections between new approaches to science education and new developments in assessment, the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council (NRC) sponsored a two-day conference on February 22 and 23, 1997. Participants included BOTA members, other measurement experts, and educators and policymakers concerned with science education reform. The conference encouraged the exchange of ideas between those with measurement expertise and those with creative approaches to instruction and assessment.
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El Libro de los Saludos
by Arianna Squilloni
Everyday we greet people we happen to meet either by chance or by design. We humans are greeting each other all the time all over the world. But do we know what it really means to tell another person things like "Hello", "Ciao", "Good morning" or "Goodbye"? Did you know that when you say “Ciao” to someone you are saying that you are their slave? Or that many forms of greeting consist precisely of wishing the other person health, while saying “Hola” or “Hello” are just ways of attracting their attention? El libro de los saludos ("The Book of Greetings") proposes a journey through the history, customs and habits of the way people greet each other all over the world. In this book you will find many anecdotes and curious facts and you will discover the strangest and funniest customs, coming from peoples from the furthest corners of the planet. Enjoy this fascinating and informative journey through the cultural history of humanity, a journey that reminds us that nobody is an island and that we all belong to one great family. And that the small daily interactions between people are what makes us truly human.
