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      • Trusted Partner
        August 2019

        Eine 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.

      • Trusted Partner
        March 2018

        Eine 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.

      • Trusted Partner
        March 1988

        Das 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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        December 2017

        Religiöse Sonderwege

        Weltanschauliche Orientierungskompetenz für Religionslehrkräfte

        by Pfister, Stefanie; Roser, Matthias

      • Trusted Partner
        November 2022

        The Dark

        Antarktis-Thriller

        by Haughton, Emma

        Aus dem Englischen von Cornelia Röser

      • Trusted Partner
        March 2024

        Tödliche Oase

        Thriller

        by Haughton, Emma

        Aus dem Englischen von Cornelia Röser

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      • Fiction
        August 2019

        Between Beirut and You

        by Roser Miquel

        In a city and a country immersed in a permanent conflict, the Liban, Rita, Shawn, Ibraïm and some other characters as Mahmud, Mariam or old Suleiman will be involved and pulled into the heart of the conflict, gobbled down by the passional force that pulls strings in the history of this country.

      • February 2018

        Reconquista

        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.

      • Fiction

        The 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.

      • September 2023

        Islamic civilisation

        by André Miquel

        André Miquel, a great specialist, and lover of this extremely rich and complex universe, has written a well-documented and scholarly vision of the multifaceted forms of Islam which is more than ever present at the heart of international political life. He presents, in this now classic work, a global vision of Islam, through a historical, political, economic, cultural, and religious approach spanning fourteen centuries. The author understands Islam as a whole, without omitting the differences and particularities that constitute the very richness of this religion. Henry Laurens has rewritten and updated the final chapter which considers the orientations of the last decade, in particular the importance of the Middle East conflict and the rise of terrorist activity. A vast updated chronological table completes this essential text.

      • I WAS A GUIDE IN HELL

        by Gerard Miquel

        Historic fantasy in the "Sleepy Hollow" vein, with adventure, humour and horror.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2018

        Muerte 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.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        August 2018

        Cuentos 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.

      • August 2019

        PROCÉS 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!

      • Education

        The Production of Educational Knowledge in the Global Era

        by Resnik, J.

        What impact does globalization have on the production of educational knowledge, and on the way scholars envisage education systems and education in general?Western education systems are being transformed, and their role redefined, in light of the processes of globalization: education targets are being reshaped in response to global economic needs; education systems are rated according to international rankings and education itself has been packaged into a commodity that can be commercialized worldwide. In addition, globalization prompts more intimate contact with different types of societies, cultures and knowledge that defy our “universal” foundations and research tools. Has educational knowledge developed in a way that enables us to disentangle the new education configurations? In order to respond to this question this edited volume addresses four major challenges: to understand the denationalization of education and the need to re-conceptualize this transformation. to uncover the agents and the tools of educational globalization, such as the knowledge producers, international organizations and role of statistics. to explore the implications of the emerging international educational institutions and international curricula. to understand non-western education and integrating it into western educational knowledge. These challenges are located at the core of the production of educational knowledge and are treated from a variety of viewpoints: sociological quantitative and qualitative scholarship, ethnographic accounts, socio-historical perspectives and philosophical reflections. This book contributes to critical thinking about globalization and educational knowledge and, at the same time, opens our spirits to the theoretical opportunities and educational enrichment that the globalization era offers. This is a compelling collection for anthropologists, sociologists, educational researchers, and anyone who seeks to understand the need of new modes of thinking about education in the global era. CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Arnove, Aaron Benavot, Eyal Ben Ari, Roser Cussó, Yossi Dahan, Roger Dale, Oren Lallo, Julia Lerner, Orna Naftali, Julia Resnik, Susan Robertson, Philip Wexler and Yossi Yonah. About the editor: Julia Resnik is a sociologist of education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a comparativist who specializes in the globalization of educational and the author of numerous articles on educational reforms published in international journals such as Comparative Education Review, Journal of Education Policy and Oxford Review of Education.

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