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September 2010Lew Tolstoj - Sofja Tolstaja, Eine Ehe in Briefen
by Lew Tolstoj, Sofja Tolstaja, Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak
Der große russische Autor Lew Tolstoj und seine Frau Sofja führten während ihrer fünfzigjährigen Ehe einen ausgedehnten Briefwechsel. Diese Briefe geben Einblicke in das Alltags- und Familienleben der Tolstojs und in die Entstehung von Tolstojs großen Werken wie Krieg und Frieden, Anna Karenina, Die Auferstehung oder Die Kreutzersonate. Vor allem aber sind sie Dokument einer großen und zugleich schwierigen Liebe. Als nach etwa zwei Jahrzehnten Ehe das Familienglück zum Familiendrama wurde und der Schriftsteller sich immer mehr von seiner Familie und seinem bisherigen Leben abwandte, ersetzten die Briefe häufig das Gespräch der Partner. Über Wochen verkehrten Tolstoj und seine Frau nur schriftlich miteinander. Sie trugen in Briefen ihre Auseinandersetzungen aus, fügten einander seelische Verwundungen zu und offenbarten ihr Innerstes, ihren Schmerz und ihre Wut. Und sie beschworen gegenseitig ihre Liebe, rangen um Annäherung. Sie kämpften für ihre Überzeugungen, die nun nicht mehr miteinander zu vereinbaren waren – sie kämpften um ihre Liebe. Der hier erstmals vorgelegte dramatische Ehebriefwechsel zwischen Lew Tolstojs und Sofja Tolstaja ist das bewegende Zeugnis einer großen und zugleich schwierigen Liebe.
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August 2010Sofja Tolstaja
Ein Leben an der Seite Tolstojs
by Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak
»Lange Zeit lebte ich nicht mein eigenes Leben und meinen eigenen Willen, sondern als die Gattin Tolstois.« – Am 23. September 1862 heiratete die achtzehnjährige Sofja Andrejewna Behrs Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi. Anfangs widmete sie ihr Leben ganz dem viel älteren Schriftsteller. Sie war erste Leserin und Kritikerin seiner Werke, Mutter seiner vielköpfigen Kinderschar, verwaltete das Landgut und kümmerte sich um die Finanzen. In jener Zeit des Familienglücks entstanden u.a. Tolstois große Romane Krieg und Frieden und Anna Karenina. Nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten Ehe beschäftigte sich Tolstoi zunehmend mit religiösen und philosophischen Themen und stellte sämtliche Werte seines bisherigen Lebens in Frage. Er entzog sich seiner Frau und Familie, und es kam zu dramatischen Konflikten. Sofja Tolstaja hörte auf, das geistige und literarische Leben ihres Mannes als ihr eigenes zu begreifen. Nachdem sie ihrer eigenen literarischen Begabung vor der Hochzeit entsagt hatte, begann sie, wieder zu schreiben, nur wenige ihrer Werke wurden jedoch veröffentlicht. Vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung Rußlands am Vorabend der russischen Revolution, in der die vermeintlich natürliche, Gott gewollte Geschlechterordnung von vielen Zeitgenossen in Frage gestellt wurde, zeichnet die Biographie das Porträt der Gattin Tolstois als Frau, die für ihre eigene Lebenswahrheit stritt. »In sieben großen Kapiteln zeichnen die beiden Autorinnen einfühlsam und anekdotisch ein Bild von Sofja Tolstaja, das so lebendig und plastisch erzählt wird, als hätte man sie persönlich kennengelernt.« Deutschlandradio Kultur
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February 2009Sofja Andrejewna Tolstaja
Ein Leben an der Seite Tolstojs
by Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak
»Lange Zeit lebte ich nicht mein eigenes Leben und meinen eigenen Willen, sondern als die Gattin Tolstois.« – Am 23. September 1862 heiratete die achtzehnjährige Sofja Andrejewna Behrs Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi. Anfangs widmete sie ihr Leben ganz dem viel älteren Schriftsteller. Sie war erste Leserin und Kritikerin seiner Werke, Mutter seiner vielköpfigen Kinderschar, verwaltete das Landgut und kümmerte sich um die Finanzen. In jener Zeit des Familienglücks entstanden u.a. Tolstois große Romane Krieg und Frieden und Anna Karenina. Nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten Ehe beschäftigte sich Tolstoi zunehmend mit religiösen und philosophischen Themen und stellte sämtliche Werte seines bisherigen Lebens in Frage. Er entzog sich seiner Frau und Familie, und es kam zu dramatischen Konflikten. Sofja Tolstaja hörte auf, das geistige und literarische Leben ihres Mannes als ihr eigenes zu begreifen. Nachdem sie ihrer eigenen literarischen Begabung vor der Hochzeit entsagt hatte, begann sie, wieder zu schreiben, nur wenige ihrer Werke wurden jedoch veröffentlicht. Vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung Rußlands am Vorabend der russischen Revolution, in der die vermeintlich natürliche, Gott gewollte Geschlechterordnung von vielen Zeitgenossen in Frage gestellt wurde, zeichnet die Biographie das Porträt der Gattin Tolstois als Frau, die für ihre eigene Lebenswahrheit stritt.
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Born in A Great Era
by A Record of Changes in Contemporary Lifestyle
1978-2018, a big era. Reform and opening up have profoundly affected the changes in the way of life of the Chinese people. The manuscript replays the development of social life in China over the past 40 years of reform and opening up. It mainly sorts out the great changes in our lives in the past 40 years from the aspects of clothing, food, housing, market, love, and play. Adhering to the purpose of "a magazine and the body temperature of an era", the manuscript has a unique perspective and rich details, which can be regarded as a brief history of alternative life with warmth in this era.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2018Leaving Is a Return
by A Lai
“Leaving Is a Return” is the latest collection of essays by writer A Lai. It is divided into four series. The first part is “bronze years”: the meditation and recollection of the hometown. The second part is called “ideal country of vegetation”: a unique understanding of flowers and trees and Rural Movement, in the author's pen, it is an ideal country. The third part is “dust has not fallen”: it is the author's reading notes, as well as the knowledge of literature and reading experience. The fourth part is “music and poetry”: the author's creative experience and writing process and his understanding of many years of writing career. Leaving Is a Return gives us a lot of insights in seemingly ordinary things. The author compares the layers of the mountain to the "staircase" and says "My soul will go to heaven by stepping on these ladders." The author turns his eyes to nature and whispers with the vast world. These beautiful words can let us comprehend the spiritual space of A Lai.
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Relationships2020Amadoca
by Sofia Andrukhovych
Mutilated beyond recognition in the combat in Eastern Ukraine, the protagonist of Amadoca makes it out alive, if only just. It’s too early to celebrate though: his injuries have caused complete amnesia. The man remembers neither his name nor his home town; not a single relative; not a fragment of his old life. At this point a woman finds him. Her love and patience can work miracles, reaching the deepest levels of memory and forgetting, bringing together discrete snippets of the maimed consciousness and weaving them together into the shared history. Amadoca was the largest lake in Europe that lay on the territory that is now Ukraine. First mentioned by Herodotus and faithfully recreated by medieval cartographers down the centuries it suddenly disappeared from accounts. How can large lakes, whole worlds or entire cultures disappears without a trace? And what is left behind in their wake? Are there paralels between Holocaust of East Europe’s Jews and the distruction of Ukrainian artists in Stalin’s Great Terror? Can one person’s forgetting reach several generations below ground? Are the signs and scars of maimed memories what really keeps us together? Can love and patience help to touch the mind of another human being?
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceFebruary 2020A writer's guide to Ancient Rome
by Carey Fleiner, Jerome de Groot
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Children's & YAMarch 2020Amelie Trott and the Earth Watchers
by Moyra Irving
This is the extraordinary story of how one small girl stopped a planetary catastrophe. It’s a very timely book, written for the child in us all, with a forceful message about the power of young people to transform the world - a theme currently demonstrated by brave young heroes like Greta Thunberg. And with magical synchronicity, the very week Greta began her lone vigil outside the Swedish government last year, over 1,000 miles (1,897 km) away in the fictional world of books, Amelie Trott took to Parliament Square, London - on a mission to avert the End of the World. It’s a family drama with an international feel - set mainly in England but with episodes in Washington DC and around the world.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2021Li, Miss Bee and the Honey Rocket
by Robert Austin / Alina Everatt
Miss Bee and her friends are as busy as bees, because they are planning an extraordinary trip! They thought, designed, worked hard, and a little harder for a little longer… until they finally got everything they needed. They used every single help they can find to embark on an incredible journey; would you like to join them? A marvellous story of a little girl wanting to visit outer space, Miss Bee is intriguing as it is amusing. With its dynamic tone and alluring illustrations, Miss Bee’s story will keep your child’s attention until the very end
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022A new naval history
by Quintin Colville, James Davey, Katherine Parker, Elaine Chalus, Evan Wilson, Barbara Korte, Cicely Robinson, Cindy McCreery, Ellie Miles, Mary A. Conley, Jonathan Rayner, Daniel Spence, Emma Hanna, Ulrike Zimmerman, Max Jones, Jan Rüger
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines - through the prism of naval affairs - issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life in ships and naval bases; and the processes of commemoration, journalism and stage-managed pageantry that plotted the interrelationship of ship and shore. This bold and original publication will be essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students of naval and maritime history. Beyond that, though, it marks an important intervention into wider historiographies that will be read by scholars from across the spectrum of social history, cultural studies and the analysis of national identity.
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Relationships2019Felix Austria
by Sofia Andrukhovych
The events of Felix Austria unfold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Stanislav, present-day Ivano-Frankivsk — an ordinary city in the Reczposolita territories of Felix Austria (Austro-Hungarian Empire), whose residents live, suffer, inseparably fall in love, delight in science and the charlatan performances of world-renowned illusionists, seek amusement at balls and carnivals, shpatzir aroun their neighborhoods, and hide secrets in the carved wooden chests. And against the backdrop of an era that, for posterity, will become overgrown in myths about an idyllic way of life, arise the fates of two women, intertwined as closely as the trunks of two trees, who are bonded in an inextricable relationship that doesn’t allow them to live or breathe, stay or leave. Drama surrounded by the luxury and buzz of the beginning of the 20th sentury.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureSeptember 2018A History of Pesticides
by Graham A Matthews
In this fascinating book, Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds, and vectors of disease. Prior to 1900 only a few chemicals had been employed as pesticides but in the early 1940s, as the Second World War raged, the insecticide DDT and the herbicide 2-4-D were developed. These changed everything. Since then, farmers have been using a growing list of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides to protect their crops. Their use has undoubtedly led to significant gains in agricultural production and reduction in disease transmission, but also to major problems: health concerns for both users of pesticides and the general public, the emergence of resistance in pest populations, and environmental problems. The book examines the development of legislation designed to control and restrict the use of pesticides, the emergence of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and the use of biological control agents as part of policy to protect the environment and encourage the sustainable use of pesticides. Finally, the use of new technologies in pest control are discussed including the use of genetic modification, targeted pesticide application and use of drones, alongside basic requirements for IPM such as crop rotations, close seasons and adoption of plant varieties with resistance to pests and diseases.
