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May 2001Emmy Ball-Hennings
Leben im Vielleicht. Eine Biographie
by Bärbel Reetz
»Ich lebe im - Vielleicht/ Bin eine stumme Frage ...« Die so schreibt, ist eine poetische Maskenspielerin, eine, die in ihrem ungewöhnlichen Leben viel gefragt und noch mehr gewagt hat: Emmy Ball-Hennings (1885-1948). Aus der kleinbürgerlichen Enge Flensburgs treibt ihre »Weglaufsucht« sie mit Wandertheatern durch Deutschland, auf die Bühnen europäischer Varietes und Cabarets, in die Abgründe von Drogen, Prostitution und Gefängnis, in die schrille Berliner und Münchner Vorkriegsboheme. 1915 emigriert sie mit Hugo Ball nach Zürich und begründet mit ihm das »Cabaret Voltaire« - die Keimzelle des Dadaismus. Irrlichtert durch die politisch-journalistische Emigrantenszene um Ball und Ernst Bloch in Bern, begegnet 1920 Hermann Hesse, dem Freund fürs Leben. Die Namen ihrer Freundinnen und Gefährten lesen sich wie eine Enzyklopädie der europäischen Avantgarde.Bärbel Reetz hat sich auf Spurensuche gemacht und Einblick in bisher unbekannte Briefe und Aufzeichnungen genommen. Mit ihrer Biographie wirft sie ein neues Licht auf das ungewöhnliche Leben der Emmy Ball-Hennings.
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November 2016Briefwechsel 1921 bis 1927
by Hermann Hesse, Hugo Ball, Emmy Ball-Hennings, Bärbel Reetz, Bärbel Reetz
Im Dezember 1920 treffen sie sich erstmals im Tessin: Hermann Hesse und Emmy Hennings mit Hugo Ball, die, enttäuscht von den politischen Wirren und konservativen Tendenzen im Nachkriegsdeutschland, entschlossen sind, unter südlichen Himmeln ihre »Flucht aus der Zeit« anzutreten.Die Briefe des exzentrischen Paares, das in der Berliner und Münchener Bohème Aufsehen erregt und 1916 mit der Gründung des »Cabaret Voltaire« in Zürich den Dadaismus begründet hat, und die des Autors des Demian berichten von den Bedingungen ihres Schreibens, von Reiseeindrücken und Begegnungen mit Menschen, die die Kulturszene der zwanziger Jahre prägen. Sie belegen heftige Diskussionen um Religion und Psychoanalyse und dokumentieren ausführlich die Beziehung Hesses zu seiner zweiten Frau Ruth Wenger.Nicht zuletzt ist der Briefwechsel eine Fundgrube für die Entstehungsgeschichte von Siddhartha bis zum Steppenwolf, von Hennings' sensitiver Lyrik und Prosa sowie Balls zeitkritischen und theologischen Werken.
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April 1991Hugo Ball
Sein Leben in Briefen und Gedichten
by Emmy Ball-Hennings, Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse, geboren am 2.7.1877 in Calw/Württemberg als Sohn eines baltendeutschen Missionars und der Tochter eines württembergischen Indologen, starb am 9.8.1962 in Montagnola bei Lugano. Er wurde 1946 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur, 1955 mit dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet. Nach einer Buchhändlerlehre war er seit 1904 freier Schriftsteller, zunächst in Gaienhofen am Bodensee, später im Tessin. Er ist einer der bekanntesten deutschen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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Children's & YASeptember 2020Seed Ball
by Bahar Sener / Samantha McLelland
Nowadays, in almost all schools children are being taught about the importance of seeds. They know that seeds carry life. Seed festivals are organized in various places in the spring. Children learn about different types of seeds and how to differentiate them. They even learn how to plant them in pots in their backyards. In this beautiful book, children will learn how to make seed balls using the seeds of different fruits and vegetables. Seed ball is a unique gift from the acclaimed Japanese figure in organic farming, Fukuoka.
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November 1985Hermann Hesse
Sein Leben und sein Werk
by Hugo Ball
Hugo Balls faszinierende Biographie erschien 1927 zu Hermann Hesses 50. Geburtstag, und sie ist bis heute weder überholt noch übertroffen. Denn Hugo Ball war zu sehr selber Künstler, als daß ihm die Problematik Hesses aus seinem eigenen Leben nicht vertraut gewesen wäre. Seit 1920 war er mit Hesse bekannt und hat mehrere Jahre zunächst als kritischer Augenzeuge, später als Freund und vertrautester Gesprächspartner in Hesses unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft gelebt.
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June 1988
Der Künstler und die Zeitkrankheit
Ausgewählte Schriften. Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Burkhard Schlichting
by Hugo Ball, Hans Burkhard Schlichting, Hans Burkhard Schlichting
Dieses Buch mit seinen vierzig, teils unveröffentlichten, teils in entlegene Zeitungen und Zeitschriften verstreuten Schriften ist eine Entdeckung. Denn die Brisanz von Hugo Balls zeit- und kulturkritischen Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1909-1925 kommt erst heute, nachdem die meisten seiner Prognosen eingetroffen sind und seit der Studentenrevolte der sechziger Jahre nicht nur die kulturpolitische Diskussion, sondern auch unser Lebensgefühl bestimmen, zu voller Geltung. Es ist der im Ersten Weltkrieg in die Schweiz Emigrierte, der Nachbar und Mitarbeiter von Walter Benjamin und Ernst Bloch bei der oppositionellen »Freien Zeitung«, der Verfasser eines »Bakunin-Breviers«, der Sympathisant von Kurt Eisner, der Autor eines Essays über Thomas Münzer, welcher Ernst Bloch zu seinem Münzer-Buch anregte, aber auch der Verfasser von brisanten Angriffen gegen Wilhelm II., Hindenburg und von Thesen über die verhängnisvollen Folgen Kantscher Philosophie für den preußischen Militarismus. »Ball würde – wäre der Begriff schon damals bekannt gewesen – ein leidenschaftlicher Gegner der modernen Leistungsgesellschaft samt ihren sozialpsychologischen Folgen gewesen sein. Seine eminente Bildung, sein glühender politisch-sozialer Erneuerungswille und die Kraft seiner Sprache entheben ihn dem Vorwurf, ein anarchistischer Agitator zu sein. Ansatzpunkt ist der erste deutsche ›Zusammenbruch‹ 1918/19. Das heißt die Frage nach den geschichtlichen Ursachen der deutschen Katastrophe. Thomas Münzer sieht Ball in Luthers Preisgabe der aufrührerischen Bauern und in der Tragödie der Bauernkriege einen Schlüssel zur deutschen Geschichte. Ball hat mit wenigen Gleichgesinnten Dada und den Surrealismus ›als Hingabe an den Gegensatz alles dessen, was brauchbar und nutzbar ist‹, in den Jahren vor dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges vorweggenommen.« ›Karl Korn in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung‹
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January 1987Blume und Flamme
Geschichte einer Jugend
by Emmy Ball-Hennings, Hermann Hesse
Mit Emmy Ball-Hennings gilt es eine bemerkenswerte Dichterin wiederzuentdecken, deren 100. Geburtstag große Beachtung fand. »Blume und Flamme« ist der erste Teil ihrer dreibändigen Autobiographie, die, seit vielen Jahren vergriffen, nun wieder zugänglich gemacht werden soll. Er schildert die abenteuerliche Kindheit dieser in Flensburg als Tochter eines Seemanns geborenen Dichterin, ihre Jahre als Dienst-, Zimmer- und Küchenmädchen, bevor sie sich einer Wanderbühne anschloß. »Es wäre schwer zu sagen, was wir an ihren Büchern so sehr lieben. Es sind Bücher, die alle den Charakter von Bekenntnissen haben, und dennoch scheinen sie dann oft wieder wie aus Spiel und reiner Künstlerfreude am Schönen entstanden, aus Freude am Bild, aus Freude an der Sprache, aus zartestem Gehör für ihre Unterströmungen und Melodien ... Sie sind das Gegenteil von l'art pour l'art, sie sind ein Kampf um Wahrheit ... Sie liebt die Leidenden, sie fühlt für die Verfolgten und Rechtlosen.« ›Hermann Hesse‹
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May 1999Das Brandmal
Ein Tagebuch
by Emmy Ball-Hennings, Erika Süllwold
»Was in meinen Papieren steht, nämlich daß ich Schauspielerin, Fabrikarbeiterin, Fotografin usw. bin, das besagt nicht viel. Auch ist es nicht wichtig, zu wissen woher ich gekommen bin. Was hat die geographisches Lage meiner Herkunft, mein Geburtsort, mit meiner Heimatlosigkeit zu tun? Auch bin ich nicht Schauspielerin von Beruf, denn ich liebe nicht den falschen Schein, und mein einziger Beruf ist, das zu erkennen, was ich bin«, schreibt Emmy Hennings in »Das Brandmahl«, über das Hugo Ball bei Erscheinen 1920 sagt:»Emmys »Brandmal« ist erschienen. Hier ist nicht mehr Debatte. Hier ist die Zeit, am Körper erlebt und erlitten.« Auf beeindruckende Weise beschreibt Emmy Hennings ihr eigensinniges, widersprüchliches und faszinierendes Leben in den ersten zehn Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts, als Armut die Wanderschauspielerin zeitweise zum Hausieren und zur Prostitution zwang, die erniedrigenden Lebenserfahrungen ihr zum Brandmahl wurden: »Wenn ich am Fenster stehe, denke ich, die obere Hälfte, Herz und Brust, gehört Gott, die untere Hälfte mag der Teufel nehmen.«
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Children's & YAAi Wan’s Daffodil Ball
by Huang Beijia
After several years of conception and more than one year of writing, Huang Beijia, a famous children’s literature writer, has recently published her new dedication named 'Ai Wan’s Daffodil Ball' in Jiangsu Children Press. The story is set in China in the early 1980s. At that time, the country was like a sleeping giant who was about to wake up. It was easy for people to get lost in that restless, unstable society. This is the setting for the story of the eight-year-old Aiwan. She grew up quietly with her brothers and sisters in an ordinary family in the small town of Qingyang. The story of Aiwan's upbringing is the same as that of many other girls during that period. Her ordinary life style was peaceful and low-key, just like the daffodil in the conch pot, which would be satisfied even with just a little water, all the while sending out a gentle fragrance. Her philosophy of life was learnt from her own life experience in this family, instead of being taught by others. Hard and restrained as her childhood was, we could still imagine that once she grew up, she would discover the wings to fly out into this wide world, and her wealth of experiences would become her fortune, helping her to create a bright, amazing future.
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December 2021A Tale of a Man, a Worm and a Snail
The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
by Alan Fenwick, Wendie Norris, Becky McCall
Schistosomiasis is Africa's second most prevalent infectious disease, but in many high-risk areas the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) has helped achieve up to a 75% reduction in its prevalence. Exploring the work and experiences involved in forming, establishing and managing a health intervention such as the SCI, this book divulges important lessons for anyone looking to replicate its success. Widely recognised as a cost-effective and successful intervention, its knock-on effects include improving overall physical health, school attendance and future prospects. Evaluating the SCI's development, implementation and results through an engaging personal story and written in an approachable style, this book covers: - Key strategic challenges faced and how the SCI overcame them to achieve and maintain low infection rates; - Methods used for raising funding for control and drug donations; - Mobilisation and mechanics of partnerships to facilitate supply and access to drugs; - Nature of working relationships and implementation across Africa; - Ways in which schistosomiasis control can be integrated into, and serve as a model for, other Neglected Tropical Disease programmes (NTD). Written from Professor Alan Fenwick's unique perspective as Director of the SCI, The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative is an essential resource for researchers, policymakers, health professionals and students in the fields of NTD control and global health.
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Science & MathematicsMarch 2022Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests
by Takumasa Kondo, Gillian Watson
Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible to control by natural enemies so biological control is possible. They have unique genetic systems, unusual metamorphosis, a broad spectrum of essential symbionts, and some are sources of commercial products like red dyes, shellac and wax. There is, therefore, wide interest in these unusual, destructive, beneficial, and abundant insects. The Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests is the most comprehensive work on worldwide scale insect pests, providing detailed coverage of the most important species (230 species in 26 families, 36% of the species known). Advice is provided on collection, preservation, slide-mounting, vouchering, and labelling of specimens, fully illustrated with colour photographs, diagrams and drawings. Pest species are presented in two informal groups of families, the 'primitive' Archaeococcids followed by the more 'advanced' Neococcids, covered in phylogenetic order. Each family is illustrated and diagnosed based on features of live and slide-mounted specimens, with information on numbers of genera and species, main hosts, distribution, and biology. For the important pest species, coverage includes information on the morphology of live and slide-mounted specimens, common names, principal synonyms, geographical distribution, plant hosts, plant damage and economic impact, reproductive biology, dispersal, and management strategies including biological, cultural and chemical control, sterile insect techniques, regulatory control, early warning systems and field monitoring. An additional complete list of scale insect pests worldwide is provided, comprising 642 species in 28 scale insect families (about 8% of the 8396 species of living scales known), with information on plant hosts, geographical distribution and validation sources. Beneficial uses of scale insects as sources of red dyes, natural resins and waxes, as agents for invasive weed control. The importance of their honeydew to bees for making honey, and as a food source to other animals, are included. Academic researchers, students, entomologists, pest management officials in agribusiness or government including plant quarantine identifiers, extensionists, farmers, field scientists and ecologists will all benefit from this book.
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October 2022What Does the Ball Think?
Why football is not just kicking
by Johannes Schweikle, Oliver Lück
A football is a moody thing, and the art of mastering it a highly challenging concern. Whether fan or philosopher, football is a fascination, and its various facets are revealed in this anthology with memorable, intelligent and curious contributions. How and with what (human rights-violating) methods did Qatar prepare for the World Cup? Actress Christiane Paul explains why she supports FC Bayern. Herman van Veen explains the difference between Dutch and German football fans, and the report 'Five balls for Angola' takes readers on a journey to football in Africa. A book for dedicated fans and critical football observers.
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Children's & YAFantastic Animals all over the world
by Ekaterina Stepanenko
From time immemorial people believed there were all kinds of wondrous creatures in faraway places. They fly in the air and swim deep in the ocean waters and hide in the mountains. Some have been hunted for hundreds of years and are still sought today. This book describes some of the bizarre creatures born by humankind’s fantasy: their habits and habitats and what science has to say about the possibility of their existence.Here you will find unicorn and cockatice, dragon and kitsune, the kraken and the Nessie, tripodero and bigfoot and many others.
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Biography & True StoriesSeptember 2024Bedsit land
The strange worlds of Soft Cell
by Patrick Clarke
A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, to follow Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career. They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene. From transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho. From the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain. He emerges on the other side with the most in-depth, innovative and entertaining account of the duo ever written.
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April 2024Climate Change and Global Health
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects
by Colin Butler, Kerryn Higgs, Ågot Aakra, Khaled Abass, Robyn Alders, Kofi Amegah, Janetrix Hellen Amuguni, Gulrez Shah Azhar, Katherine Barraclough, Barbara Berner, Alex Blum, Justin Borevitz, Menno Bouma, Devin C. Bowles, Mark Braidwood, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Cyril Caminade, Katrina Charles, Fiona Charlson, Moumita Sett Chatterjee, Matthew Chersich, Rebecca Colvin, Namukolo Covic, Christopher B Daniels, Richard Dennis, Cybele Dey, Hubert Dirven, Yuming Guo, Tari Haahtela, Ivan C Hanigan, Andrew Harmer, Budi Haryanto, Kerryn Higgs, Susanne Hyllestad, Christine Instanes, Ruth Irwin, Ollie Jay, Solveig Jore, Ke Ju, Tord Kjellstrom, Marit Låg, Jason KW Lee, Shanshan Li, Irakli Loladze, Rosemary A. McFarlane, Martin McKee, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Glen Mola, Andy Morse, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Nicholas H. Ogden, Johan Øvrevik, Rebecca Patrick, Rezanur Rahaman, Delia Randolph, Shilpa Rao, Arja Rautio, Mary Robinson, Tilman Ruff, Subhashis Sahu, Jonathan Samet, Photini Sinnis, Julie P Smith, Jes
There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects, on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving and championing a third ('tertiary') category of longer term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, conflict and collapse. This edition has an expanded foundation, with new chapters discussing nuclear war, population and limits to growth, among others. This lively yet scholarly resource explores all these issues, finishing with a practical discussion of avenues to reform. As Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, states in the foreword: 'Climate change interacts with many undesirable aspects of human behaviour, including inequality, racism and other manifestations of injustice. Climate change policies, as practised by most countries in the global North, not only interact with these long-standing forms of injustice, but exemplify a new form, of startling magnitude.' The book is dedicated to Tony McMichael, Will Steffen and Maurice King. This book will be invaluable for students, post-graduates, researchers and policy-makers in public health, climate change and medicine.
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Sustainable agricultureSeptember 2012Productivity Growth in Agriculture
An International Perspective
by Edited by Keith O Fuglie, Sun Ling Wang, Eldon Ball
Increasing food prices have renewed concerns about long-run agricultural demand and supply in the global economy. This book looks at results, methods, and data on international agricultural productivity for a better understanding of long-run trends and the policies that determine them. By presenting an international assessment of total factor productivity growth in agriculture, including up-to-date empirical analysis for developed and developing countries and regions, it provides a response to the rising global scarcity of agricultural production. Essential reading for researchers, policy makers and students.
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2024Welcome to the club
The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ
by DJ Paulette
In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman's perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But, as Paulette reveals, it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women. Part personal account, part call to arms, Welcome to the club exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.
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Children's & YABras de fer pour un ballon (Arm wrestling for a ball)
by Augustin Mansare
Salif is a good student, but a soccer fan. His father finds that he spends too much time playing in the street with "thugs". In no time the passion turns to obsession. The father gives nothing. From hope to disappointment, from running away to depression, how will this showdown for a ball end?
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Children's & YAFootball: the game that changed the world
by Laurent Nicolet and Lev Virovets
Is it true that the first football players in Russia entertained the public between bicycle races? Why did bachelors and married men have to play against each other? Is it possible to cheat, to deceive the referee and win the world championship? What teams did the Little Mozart, Black Spider and Black Panther play for? Most people never ask such questions, while the authors of this book have not only asked them, but also found the answers. This is an exciting history of football from the very beginning till present day, for both children and adults, either long-standing fans or those trying to understand what inspires their friends and family.
