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April 2015Forschung an Einwilligungsunfähigen.
Insbesondere strafrechtliche und verfassungsrechtliche Aspekte der fremdnützigen Forschung.
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The ArtsNovember 2017Vivien Leigh
Actress and icon
by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale
This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era. With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the 'public ownership' of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime and beyond.
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)Le Monde de Scarlett
by Sabrina Moguez
Scarlett est la princesse d’un royaume de glace. Pourtant, elle n’a d’intérêt que pour de jolis et légers vêtements, pas du tout adaptés à son climat. Un jour, elle profite de l’absence de ses parents pour allumer un feu et se réchauffer… faisant fondre tout son château ! Emportée par les flots, elle peut heureusement compter sur les animaux de la banquise pour retrouver ses parents, et comprendre qu’il y a des choses bien plus importantes que ses jolies robes.
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Fallen
by Mel O'Doherty
A stark and beautifully written literary novel, focussing on the impact on one family of one of the most shameful chapters in modern Irish history: the Mother and Baby Homes scandal. Michael Connolly lives with his ageing father Martin, and is haunted by memories of his mother Elaine's suicide in 1981, and by her insistence in the years before that "They killed my baby in Bessborough", a notorious Mother and Baby Home in mid-twentieth century Cork. Nobody believed her, but in 2014, Michael realises that she was telling the truth.
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Picture booksNovember 2020Our Goldilocks
by Adrien Albert
An intruder’s on the prowl! A suspenseful book for the youngest readers. Big Papa Bear, Big Mama Bear, and Little Baby Bear go out to the garden, leaving their steaming cups of hot chocolate on the table. But who’s this? An intruder, drawn by the delicious aroma of hot chocolate, sneaks into the house and proceeds to make a real mess. And when the bear family returns, the intruder runs to hide for fear of being... eaten? Reality will be very different! Adrien Albert’s version of this famous tale. Ever since he met Scarlett, the little girl he’d always dreamed of, Palomino is impatient. As soon as it’s the weekend, he races off to meet up with her. When he sees his friends Roxy and Arizona, he gallops to outrun them. Near the old canyon where they all meet to play, he runs like the wind! So when Scarlett disappears, Palomino rushes off to save her. And nobody will slow him down.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceJuly 2020Essential English for Meetings
by Scarlett Lin
Be proficient in conversational skills and build English communication skills in business occasions! In highly internationalized business occasions, It's believed many people have used English to have meetings with foreign customers. However, the common experience of many people is often inconspicuous, hesitating, or even incomprehensible. Such experience is enough to make people feel trembling about meeting in English. Meetings with native English speakers are not as easy as daily conversations, and you cannot easily muddle through when you encounter something you don’t understand. When holding a business meeting, different specific topics are often involved, and sufficient preparation must be made to express it clearly. In order to help business people who are determined to stand firm in the international market and negotiate business with global customers smoothly, this book plans 9 major themes and 24 scenarios for meeting English conversations.
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November 2020The Science of Why, Volume 5
Answers to Questions About the Ordinary, the Odd, and the Outlandish
by Jay Ingram
Have you ever wondered if octopuses are from outer space? What Mexican jumping beans are? Or if banana peels are really slippery? If questions like these are keeping you up at night, you can rest easy. Bestselling author Jay Ingram is here to answer all the whimsical and whacky wonderings that have baffled people since the dawn of time. From our bodies to our pets (and other beasts) to the natural world around us, Ingram tackles science topics big and small, such as:Did dinosaurs sit on their eggs?What is our funny bone?Is there a specific muscle that makes dogs cute? Because who hasn’t pondered whether plants have feelings? Or if Robin Hood was a real person? Or what humans will look like in the future? Teeming with amusing answers to bemusing questions and handy and hilarious illustrations this latest volume separates fact from fiction, lesson from legend, and myth from marvel. Endlessly illuminating and entertaining, The Science of Why, Volume 5 is five times the fun for new and old readers of the series.
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January 2020Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai
Essays
by Fiza Pathan
"I am a recluse and I love books more than I love people." - So begins Fiza Pathan, the self-proclaimed Reclusive Writer and Reader of Mumbai. In this charming collection of personal essays, Fiza recalls important phases of her life, along with the books she was reading at the time and where she read them. Revealed along the way are Fiza's personal struggles, from the father who didn't want a girl child to the years she believed she wanted to be a nun to the college friends who shamed her for gaining weight.Her greatest victories are found here as well, among them the publication of her first story, the request to autograph her most popular book by an author she admired, the start of her own publishing company, and the acquisition of her very own office-cum-writing hut. Within her stories, you'll meet Fiza's beloved Mama, editorial partner (and uncle) Blaise, many other uncles and aunts, the librarians of her youth, and plenty of book salesman. All the people who have helped Fiza along her path to books, books, and more books. You'll also take a taxi with Narayan, Fiza's "Man Friday," to visit her favorite haunts, from libraries to kiosks to boutiques to vendors who pile their offerings on the sides of the road, and you'll learn the plots of her favorite comics, religious writings, medical thrillers, horror stories, activist writings, and so much more.Fiza believes that every one of the books she has read has helped her become the person - and the writer - she was meant to become. Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai is her life in books!
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)March 2022The Green Indian Problem
by J.L. Willetts
Set in the valleys of South Wales at the tail end of Thatcher’s Britain, The Green Indian Problem is the story of Green, a seven year-old with intelligence beyond his years – an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem: everyone thinks he’s a girl. Green sets out to try and solve the mystery of his identity, but other issues keep cropping up – God, Father Christmas, cancer – and one day his best friend goes missing, leaving a rift in the community and even more unanswered questions. Dealing with deep themes of friendship, identity, child abuse and grief, The Green Indian Problem is, at heart, an all-too-real story of a young boy trying to find out why he’s not like the other boys in his class. Longlisted for the Bridport Prize (in the Peggy Chapman-Andrews category)
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Children's & YAMay 2020This point you have to reach
by Mireille Disdero
Violette and Arnaud, 17-year-old high school students inseparable since the 7th grade, have a relationship that is constantly intensifying. They love each other. Life is beautiful... Violette, very active on the web, runs a literary forum and a blog where she expresses her passion for writing. But, after a party in Paris organized by the members of the forum, she is not the same anymore. Arnaud, who was not present at the party, is worried and wants to understand. What happened that night? And why can't she remember it?
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FictionOctober 2020The Outlook for Earthlings
by Joan Frank
The Outlook for Earthlings traces an unusual, difficult friendship across a lifetime, between women of stunningly opposite natures. Melanie Taper is timid, compelled to obey and venerate authority. Yet in unguarded moments she demonstrates such deadly insight into human foibles as to suggest a strength that has, for dark reasons, deliberately hidden itself. Scarlet Rand, by contrast, is rash, willful, and impatient of reverence of any stripe. Scarlet is shocked by Mel's passive reserve; despite her obvious gifts, Mel is—bafflingly—self-erasing. Mel's saintliness maddens Scarlet—because finally and most troublingly, Scarlet disbelieves it. Their friendship suggests to each a final frontier, a saving sanctuary. Yet at its core, a pained impasse soon becomes evident: each woman takes a secret, moral offense at the other's inmost nature—and choices. Living out these differences—against awareness of the illness which is slowly destroying one of them—proves an ultimate challenge. In each, a reckoning must occur. The Outlook for Earthlings examines what women want, amid conflicting layers of need. It ponders beginnings, endings, and Virginia Woolf's declaration that good angels must be killed. It considers the limits of friendship—and of the act of witnessing. At its heart, it asks how we may finally measure a life—and who should do the measuring.
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Business, Economics & LawSeptember 2020The Business of Choice: How Human Instinct Influences Everyone's Decisions
by Matthew Willcox
In this 2nd edition of the award winning The Business of Choice, expert author and consultant Matthew Willcox explores the science of influencing choice, bringing together the work of thousands of behavioral scientists and practitioners. Cutting to the heart of the science, Willcox helps you apply this to your own marketing and brand strategies, allowing you to use an understanding of how humans naturally decide to make your brand or business a natural choice. The Business of Choice takes you through the story of how instinct affects our decisions, from its roots in our evolutionary history, to technology and artificial intelligence today. You'll discover how human nature affects how people decide, whether they are making choices for grocery shopping, or their retirement investments. The first edition of The Business of Choice was awarded the 2016 Berry – American Marketing Association Book Prize for Best Book in Marketing.
