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Requiem for A Holy Island
by Zecharia Plavin
There was a tiny island in the Far East populated by tall, gifted people plagued by malignant ideology and ruled by merciless leaders. However, a noble few were dedicated to peacefully rescuing their people from tyranny and death. Dr. Solomon Jekavpils reads about this unfamiliar place in the diary of the late pianist Adelaide Fourangier. Meanwhile, Solomon's former classmate, Nelly, manipulates him to search for Illirio Mariafels, her lost love. The story spans entire lifetimes in pre-war France, French Saigon, the island, and Paris in the late twentieth century; the diary reveals many crucial personalities. After several setbacks in her life, Fourangier joins the leading liberal islander and devotes her life to teaching piano to children. Life on the island transforms her into a caring human being, inspired pianist, and master tutor. Illirio, her heroic son, can inspire wonderful kindness with his chanting. Fourangier’s diary reveals her unusual family’s secrets and describes the tragic fate of the island and its people. Dr. Zecharia Plavin, a concert pianist and educator, was born in 1956 in Lithuania but has lived in Israel since his youth. He studied under Louis Kentner, the great pianist. Prof. Plavin teaches at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Ono Academic College. He is an author, composer, scholar, and self-proclaimed dull fellow with no sense of humor… An English-language eBook edition was published in summer 2015 by Samuel Wachtman’s Sons, Inc., CA. 432 pages, 15 x 22 .5cm.
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April 2024Wo die Asche blüht
Roman
by Nguyễn Quế Mai, Claudia Feldmann
Vietnam, 1969: Die beiden Schwestern Trang und Quỳnh wachsen in einem kleinen Dorf im Mekongdelta auf. Als junge Frauen bestellen sie die Reisefelder ihrer verarmten Eltern, der Vater ist als Invalide aus dem Krieg heimgekehrt. Als eine Freundin ihnen erzählt, in Saigon wäre es für Mädchen wie sie leicht, Arbeit als Barmädchen zu finden, fassen sie den Entschluss, in die Stadt zu gehen. Trang lernt dort einen amerikanischen Soldaten kennen und stürzt sich mitten in den Wirren des Krieges in eine Affäre mit ihm, die nicht ohne Folgen bleibt …Jahrzehnte später kehrt ein amerikanischer Veteran zurück nach Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt in der Hoffnung, sich von den Schatten der Vergangenheit befreien zu können. Er trifft auf Phong, den Sohn einer Vietnamesin und eines ehemaligen GIs, der in einem Waisenhaus aufwuchs und verzweifelt seine Eltern sucht – kann Phong ihm helfen, seine alte Schuld wiedergutzumachen? Der atmosphärisch dichte neue Roman der internationalen Bestsellerautorin ergründet das bewegende Schicksal der Kinder vietnamesischer Frauen mit amerikanischen Soldaten – und erzählt eine unvergessliche Geschichte von Schuld und Vergebung.
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April 2024Wo die Asche blüht
Roman
by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Claudia Feldmann
Vietnam, 1969: Die beiden Schwestern Trang und Quỳnh wachsen in einem kleinen Dorf im Mekongdelta auf. Als junge Frauen bestellen sie die Reisefelder ihrer verarmten Eltern, der Vater ist als Invalide aus dem Krieg heimgekehrt. Als eine Freundin ihnen erzählt, in Saigon wäre es für Mädchen wie sie leicht, Arbeit als Barmädchen zu finden, fassen sie den Entschluss, in die Stadt zu gehen. Trang lernt dort einen amerikanischen Soldaten kennen und stürzt sich mitten in den Wirren des Krieges in eine Affäre mit ihm, die nicht ohne Folgen bleibt …Jahrzehnte später kehrt ein amerikanischer Veteran zurück nach Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt in der Hoffnung, sich von den Schatten der Vergangenheit befreien zu können. Er trifft auf Phong, den Sohn einer Vietnamesin und eines ehemaligen GIs, der in einem Waisenhaus aufwuchs und verzweifelt seine Eltern sucht – kann Phong ihm helfen, seine alte Schuld wiedergutzumachen? Der atmosphärisch dichte neue Roman der internationalen Bestsellerautorin ergründet das bewegende Schicksal der Kinder vietnamesischer Frauen mit amerikanischen Soldaten – und erzählt eine unvergessliche Geschichte von Schuld und Vergebung.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
The cult of the Two Grand Elders
by Fabian Graham
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.
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July 2011Die schönsten Erzählungen Islands
by Soffía Auður Birgisdóttir, Gert Kreutzer, Halldór Guðmundsson
Die vorliegende Anthologie vermittelt dem Leser ein neues Bild von Island, eines, das weit über die alten Mythen von Elfen und über stolze Wikingersagen hinausgeht. Halldór Laxness, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, Hallgrímur Helgason, Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir und Sjón, um nur einige der besten Erzähler Islands zu nennen, präsentieren das moderne Island des 20. Jahrhunderts und erzählen uns vom Land der Sagen und Wunder, seiner Natur, vor allem aber von seinen Bewohnern und ihren Geschichten.
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Children's & YAOctober 2019Endemic
Ten endemic plants of Reunion to know and protect
by Mary-des-ailes
This herbarium is devoted to ten endemic trees of Reunion, examples of precious species that are now only found in a few islands, witnesses of a now threatened balance.
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September 2008Island
Ein Reisebegleiter
by Arthúr Björgvin Bollason
Island: Land der Trolle und der Geysire, der Gletscher und Vulkane. Immer mehr Reisende entdecken die sagenumwobene Vulkaninsel am Polarkreis. Die Hauptstadt Reykjavík präsentiert sich als aufstrebende junge Metropole mit einer lebendigen Kulturszene. Isländische Musik und Filme wurden internationale Exportschlager. In diesem Band lädt der Autor – selbst Isländer – ein, seine Heimat zu entdecken. Auf den Spuren der großen isländischen Sagas und einheimischer wie internationaler Autoren führt er uns durch ein faszinierendes Land.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true stories201536 and 6 Cats
by Halyna Vdovychenko
36 and 6 cats — that’s exactly how many fluffy tailed creatures appeared in front of Mrs. Krepova’s apartment on one rainy evening. The stubborn woman was reluctant to welcome the strangers in her house, but everything changed when the feline, sphinx-like Baroness appeared and completely won her heart. Neither Mrs. Krepova nor her nephew Stas could have ever imagined the outcome of the invasion of their small apartment by 36 adult cats and 6 small kittens.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840
by Angela McCarthy, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand.
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Fear and Valor in Six Days: : An Israeli Soldier's Testemonial in Perspective
by Yehuda Reves
Fear and Valor in Six Days: An Israeli Soldier's Testemonial in Perspective by Yehuda Reves Through the viewfinder of a bazooka, this book offers a critical view of fear, valor and pride, death and love, friendship and hatred, reality and mystical dreams, faith and the secular, as well, the end and the beginning. Collected here are manuscripts, stories and thoughts written intermittently over a period of more than forty years in the diary of a fighter during and after the battles of the Six-Day War. Portrayed here is a bitter, cruel reality; how soldiers kill, are wounded and die on the battlefield. Here are described facts intermixed with imagination and dreams; a description that illustrates the nature of male society in the Israeli army with its blend of cunning, coarseness and innocence. This book was written on the battlefront of North Samaria; and in the northern Golan Heights. The author served in the armored troops, as a commander of a tank company numbering six vehicles. All these manuscripts were stuck like bullets in the barrel of a gun since the war ended before they were ready to be collected in one volume that now includes the life experience and perspective of additional forty-plus years. Yehuda Reves is a forester who, throughout his entire life, has observed people, trees, shrubs, the soil, and inanimate rocks with unaffected wonder. He was responsible for collecting seeds and for the propagation and planting of trees on behalf of The Israeli Forestry Department. Today, he travels and works in the reproduction of wild Mediterranean plants. The author served in the Israeli reserve army as a junior officer for 32 years and has fought in four wars. He is married and has two daughters and nine grandchildren. 190 pages,14.5 x 21 cm
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Magische Blätter VI
by Friederike Mayröcker
»Erster Gedanke am Morgen: werde ich heute schreiben können (…) werde ich in die Feuerlilien Verfassung geraten, schreiben zu können.« Die Magischen Blätter dokumentieren das Schreibleben von Friederike Mayröcker, ihr ungeheuer produktives und vielseitiges »Zetteldasein«. Seit 1984 versammeln sie die verstreut publizierten, kürzeren Prosatexte der Dichterin; Band VI präsentiert die in den Jahren 1999 bis 2005, zwischen dem Tod Ernst Jandls, der Auszeichnung mit dem Georg- Büchner-Preis und der Publikation des jüngsten großen Prosawerks entstandenen Texte.
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Business, Economics & LawMarch 2022Vietnam Tourism
Policies and Practices
by Huong T. Bui, Giang T. Phi, Long H. Pham, Huong H. Do, Andrew Le, Binh Nghiem-Phu, Quynh N. Bui, He T. Bui, Phuong-Anh Dang, Thuy T. Duong, Thomas E. Jones, Thu G. Hoang, Phuong M. Ngo, Tuan Q. Pham, Thanh D. Tran, Hang T.B. Tran, Le-Anh Trinh, Hai Q. Truong
Vietnam has experienced rapid growth within its tourism industry during the past decades. This growth is part of Vietnam's opening economy allowing a wide range of forms of tourism. Vietnam Tourism: Policies and Practices provides a comprehensive review of tourism development in Vietnam. Part I outlines the history of tourism, the role and involvement of public and private sectors in governance and planning, and the markets for tourism. Part II offers analysis and assessment of various types of tourism in Vietnam, including marine and island, eco, heritage, dark and community-based tourism. Part III centres on current operational issues of tourism, hotels and events. The book provides an up-to-date analysis on Vietnamese tourism policy, structure, governance, and operations as well as various forms of tourism from both a theoretical and practical perspective by: providing a comprehensive review in a single resource; outlining public and private sector tourism; addressing Vietnamese structure, governance and planning of tourism; examining special interest tourism; · addressing current issues of industry's operations and management; embracing local and global perspectives; principles and practices applicable to Southeast Asia. Written by scholars with extensive research experience on tourism in Vietnam this book is a reliable source of reference for students, researchers and industry practitioners who are interested modern tourism specifically in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
