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        April 2021

        Among Fellow Primates

        Views of a monkey researcher

        by Volker Sommer

        Man brings apocalyptic plagues to the world and his fellow primates – from global warming to the destruction of forests. While millions of monkeys and apes lived on Earth only a few decades ago, today many species are strongly endangered. In this book the anthropologist and monkey researcher Volker Sommer calls on us to finally protect the fundamental rights such as the right to life, freedom and physical integrity of the great apes. For all his seriousness, Sommer is also a great storyteller who deals with his own profession with humour, sympathy and in a highly instructive way.

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        Adventure
        2018

        The Wall

        by Andriy Tsaplienko

        In the fantastic novel by Andriy Tsaplienko, the reader faces two post-apocalyptic societies where one confidently paves the way for progressive development, and the other degrades. The author is convinced that mentality and everlasting traditions change very little over the centuries. The novel heroes, Ukrainians, and Russians, who bear bright national traits, are in constant tense antagonism. Their war goes on at several levels — from armed conflicts to clashes of souls and inner convictions. And the Wild Fields that remain after big and small confrontations are like unhealed wounds, cancer tumors: they continue to bleed, demonstrating to humanity that war produces only the war.

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        Fiction
        October 2000

        Moscowiada

        by Yurii Andrukhovych

        The apocalyptic day of the Ukrainian poet in Moscow begins on the seventh floor of the literary hostel, which is an ironic modification of both Tower of pure art and cultic Space Tower. Seven floors of the building, according to Mircho Eliade, correspond to seven planetary heavens. After starting his journey from the point where the Sky and the Earth meet, the hero all the time goes downstairs. After attaining some initiations that are obligatory for men such as probation by alcoholism, probation by love and testing in fight the hero reaches a parodic afterlife.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Passages

        On Geo-Analysis and the aesthetics of precarity

        by Sam Okoth Opondo, Michael J. Shapiro

        Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text addressing themes such as colonialism, nuclear zones of abandonment, migration control regimes, transnational domestic work, the biocolonial hostilities of the hospitality industry, legal precarities behind the international criminal justice regime, the shadow-worlds of the African soccerscape, and immunity regimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This book invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'. The aesthetic breaks emerging from the book's image-text montage draw attention to the ethics of encounter and passage that challenges colonial, domestic, and nation-statist sovereignty regimes of inattention.

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        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        2021

        Erosion

        by Artem Chapeye

        After a young couple returns from their vacation to the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, they discover that the world as they once knew it no longer exists. Tragedy happened and survivors are forced to adapt to the harsh conditions of their new reality: overcoming deeply-rooted fears, they try to forge another world where they can unite with those who still retained their humanity. Will the couple be able to survive, make alliances with others, and give birth to a new generation? Will the insidiousness of human nature manifest itself in this new world? Chapeye's post-apocalyptic novel, diluted with beautifully melancholic and black humor, is a kind of artistic study of people's behavior in critical situations when everything that once seemed stable falls apart.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        After the end

        Cold War culture and apocalyptic imaginations in the twenty-first century

        by David L. Pike

        After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape in the global North in the 1960s and that spread globally into the twenty-first century. After the End reminds us not only that most of the world's peoples have lived with or died from apocalyptic conditions for centuries, but that the Cold War imaginaries that grew from and fed those conditions, continue to survive as well.

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        Fiction
        September 2018

        Puma

        By Anthony Burgess

        by Paul Wake, Andrew Biswell

        Puma - disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format - is Anthony Burgess's lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy - the dreaded Puma. It is a visceral book about the end of history as man has known it. Despite its apocalyptic theme, its earthquakes and tidal waves, murder and madness, Puma is a gloriously-comic novel, steeped in the rich literary heritage of a world soon to be extinguished and celebrating humanity in all its squalid glory. In Burgess's hands this meditation on destruction, mitigated by the hope of salvation for a select few, becomes powerful exploration of friendship, violence, literature and science at the end of the world.

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        Television
        September 2004

        Terry Nation

        by Jonathan Bignell, Andrew O'Day

        This is the first in-depth study of the science fiction television devised and written by Terry Nation. Terry Nation was the inventor of the Daleks and wrote other serials for 'Doctor Who'; he also wrote the BBC's 1970s post-apocalyptic drama 'Survivors' and created the space adventure series 'Blake's 7'. Previously television science fiction in Britain has received little critical attention. This book fills that gap and places Nation's work in the context of its production. Using Terry Nation's science fiction work as a case study, the boundaries around the authorship and authority of the television writer are explored in detail. The authors make use of BBC's archival research and specially conducted interviews with television producers and other production staff, to discuss how the programmes that Terry Nation created and wrote were commissioned, produced and brought to the screen. The book makes an important contribution to the study of British television history and will be of interest to enthusiasts of Terry Nation's landmark drama series as well as students of Television Studies.

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        Historical fiction
        2020

        Cain

        by Volodymyr Yeshkilev

        "It is our time that will decide the future of countries and dynasties to come" said the Cardinal Mazarini's spy to the young nobleman named Pavel Moshkovsky, who will later become the ruler of Ukraine under title of Hetman Teteria. And he was right - the middle of the XVII century started a New Age of European history and drew the apocalyptic outlines of the world in the twilight of which we now live. The dark silhouette of the Biblical figure from the Book of Genesis, who was the firstborn child of Adam and Eve and committed a great sin of killing thy own brother overshadows the last four centuries of the world’s history. Volodymyr Eshkilev dives deep into the secrets of the castles and their rulers in his historical novel "Cain", the second of the trilogy "Cursed Hetmans". The reader will recognise the characters from the author’s previous novel called “Union” and will meet many new historical figures who lived and work during the period called “Ruin”. During the “Ruin” the hetmanate of Teteria, one of the most stipulated and disgraced rulers of Ukraine, held power. Eshkilev offers his own unique and unexpected interpretation of this historical figure. The events of the novel take place in beautiful and artistic surroundings and reflect on political, diplomatic, and even occult affairs of the XVII century.

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        Free Flow To Eternity

        by Nili Yaffe

        The book’s title attests to human will, as expressed in the poem “May the World Never End.” Throughout the book the writing is concise yet has depth to challenge the reader. Through the fast-pace writing, the reader is left with a sense of deep inspiration and is able to relate to the inventive poetry. There are mystical, ancient, and feminine aspects to the poems, which reflect hopes of humanity. The first part of the book contains poems about searching for a path and the latter part contains poems of resolution. Another theme found in a few patriotic poems merges with a universal aspiration for a life of peace and comradeship, which elevates them above time and place. The poems “Destruction” and “End” foresee an apocalyptic future of a universe in which there is nothing left to fight for. Alternatively, there are “The End of Days” poems, such as “And It Shall Come to Pass after Many Days.” The last poem, “The Secret Wishes in Dreams,” seals the collection with birth, describing it as the most significant experience both men and women have during their lifetime. It is about all human hopes, which are realized in the process of birth, where light envelops the infant and those around him. Free Flow to Eternity comes alive through the reader’s emotions and Imagination. A English langaue e-Boojk edition was published in fall 2014 by Sanuel Wachtman's Sons 2014, Inc. , CA. 80 pages, 14. x 21 cm

      • October 2023

        黙示録後の時代の王の中の王

        【忘れられた記憶を解き放つシリーズ 003】

        by Microcosmic International Culture Creative Ltd.

        《黙示録的時代の王の中の王》: 人生の秘密を明らかにする感動の作品無限の宇宙で、私たちは星の海を旅し、自分たちの起源、存在理由、そして最終的な目的地について熟考します。 《終末後の王の中の王》は、ダスト・インターナショナル・カルチュラル・クリエーションより出版された、人生に対する究極の答えを明らかにすることを目的とした衝撃的な作品です。 この本は、東洋と西洋の両方の宗教の古代の聖人の知恵を組み合わせて、時間と空間を超えた人類文明の真の歴史を探求する旅に私たちを導きます。この革新的な作品で、著者は人類の起源を明らかにし、聖書の黙示録に記されている王たちの謎を説明します。 この本では、創造主がどのようにして王や領主たちを地球に導いたのかが説明され、宇宙の真の構造が示されています。 この壮大な物語は数千年に渡り、宇宙の誕生、発展、変容を目撃してきました。《黙示録後の王の中の王》では、東洋と西洋の古代聖人の予言が明らかになり、人類文明の真の歴史を再評価し理解する機会を提供します。 この本は、私たちの生活における最も基本的な疑問を感情的なタッチで考察しています。 "私は誰?" 「なぜ私はここにいるのですか?」 "どこに向かってるの?" 本作では東洋と西洋の宗教の謎が解き明かされ、真実への扉が開かれます。この作品は、人類の真実の理解を書き換える歴史的傑作であるだけでなく、感動的で人生を肯定する感情的な作品でもあります。 それは、混沌とした世界で答えを見つけるのに役立ち、人生の温かさと美しさを感じるように私たちを導きます。 この本を読むと、星空の海の岸に立っているような気分になり、日常生活で直面する困難や葛藤を克服するのに役立つユニークな体験を提供します。結論として、《黙示録後の時代における王の中の王》は、読者に新たな視点とインスピレーションを提供する独創的で革新的な本です。 この素晴らしい旅に参加して、この美しい宇宙の秘密を解き明かしましょう。 本書は、真実を追い求める冒険家のための究極のガイドとなるだろう。最後に、《黙示録後の時代における王の中の王》は、私たちと宇宙とのつながりについて考える素晴らしい機会を提供します。 これを通じて、私たちはより深く、より有意義な方法で自分自身、他者、そして周囲の世界とつながり、共感することができます。 この本があなたの心に響き、あなたの人生に豊かさと成長の種をもたらしますように。

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        Journey in Trumplandia: The Rise of Populism in America

        by Tiberiu Dianu

        The book is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever. Some pundits predict that, if things don’t change, another civil war could occur. Have we reached a point of no return? Hopefully, America is mature enough to learn from its mistakes and avoid further scars along its evolving history. "Trumplandia is a welcome addition toward understanding current events, Washington’s international policy, and the present American society; a society polarized and divided as it has not been since the Civil War.” NICHOLAS DIMA, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, Nelson Institute, James Madison University, Virginia. "The book is fascinating. It provides background to, and insights into [the] current and past political history as well as offering a personal view... of the country and society. Presented in thematic form in chapters and sections, the insights offered provide a suggestive radiography...” Dr. DENNIS DELETANT, OBE, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC. "There has been this backsliding in... what a truly functioning rule-of-law state is, that has proper separation of co-equal powers, which, if you don’t keep working on that, you backslide. And I am even worried about that here, in the United States right now, about backsliding.” OBIE MOORE, Esq., OLM Advisors LLC, Washington DC “Indeed, Trumplandia should be a welcome addition to any scholar, student or layman’s library, especially in its international edition. If anyone loses sleep over its challenging assertions, then it will have been well worth it.” ERNESTO MORALES HIZON, Ph.D. Candidate in American and Comparative Politics at Claremont Graduate University, Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TIBERIU DIANU has practiced law in Romania (as a corporate lawyer, judge, senior counselor at the Ministry of Justice, university professor and senior legal researcher), and in the United States (as a legal expert for the judiciary). He published several books and a host of articles in law, politics, and post-communist societies. Tiberiu currently lives and works in Washington, DC.

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        Mind, Body, Spirit

        Transcendent Dreaming

        Stepping into Our Human Potential

        by Christina Donnell, PhD

        Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into Our Human Potential (Winds of Change Books, October 2008) by Christina Donnell, PhD, recounts a series of dreams that, much to the author's surprise, revealed within her a capacity for prophecy, clairvoyance, stepping out of time, materialization, and ultimately, a state of oneness with all creation. These faculties of expanded consciousness, she proposes, lie dormant in humankind, ready to be awakened. This multiple award-winning book chronicles Donnell's radical spiritual awakening through "transcendent dreaming," a form of dreaming that expands consciousness, allowing dreamers to identify with the intelligence that animates the universe. Through example, the book invites readers to access their infinite nature by delving into their own dream experiences. In the process, it eases theirtransition from identifying with the individual self to identifying with the underlying intelligence pervading the universe. This blueprint for a transcendent humanity guides us toward a future of inner peace, joy, and wonderment independent of external circumstances. Donnell offers ten of her own dreams, not so much as revelatory epiphanies, rather as sources of inspiration so that readers will want to delve deeply into their own dream experiences. Her dreams are organized in a way that lets readers witness the dream experiences as they unfolded, and learning more about their significance for expanding consciousness and accessing transcendent reality.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2009

        Global justice networks

        Geographies of transnational solidarity

        by Paul Routledge, Andrew Cumbers

        This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'. Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants' network in Asia (People's Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers) and the Social Forum process, it analyses some of the global justice movement's component parts, operational networks and their respective dynamics, strategies and practices. The authors argue that the emergence of new globally-connected forms of collective action against neoliberal globalisation are indicative of a range of place-specific forms of political agency that coalesce across geographic space at particular times, in specific places, and in a variety of ways. Rather than being indicative of a coherent 'movement', the authors argue that such forms of political agency contain many political and geographical fissures and fault-lines, and are best conceived of as 'global justice networks': overlapping, interacting, competing, and differentially-placed and resourced networks that articulate demands for social, economic and environmental justice. Such networks, and the social movements that comprise them, characterise emergent forms of trans-national political agency. The authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an understanding of the operational dynamics of such networks. Such an analysis challenges key current assumptions in the literature about the emergence of a global civil society. ;

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        March 1995

        Bambusregen

        Haiku und Holzschnitte aus dem »Kagebôshishû«

        by Claudia Waltermann, Ekkehard May, Claudia Waltermann, Ekkehard May

        Von der vormodernen Literatur Japans erfreuen sich die Verse des Haiku im Westen besonderer Beliebtheit: Die mit 17 Silben wohl kürzeste Form der Dichtkunst überhaupt fasziniert durch ihre große Ausdruckskraft auf kleinstem Raum, und sie erschließt sich über alle Barrieren von Sprache und Übersetzung hinweg erstaunlich problemlos durch die suggestive Kraft ihrer jahreszeitenbezogenen Momentbeschreibungen. Ein besonders eindrucksvolles Zeugnis der heiterpointierten Poesie dieser Gattung ist das 1754 in Ôsaka erschienene Kagebôshishû, eine Sammlung von Haiku und Tuschzeichnungen bzw. Holzschnitten. Aus ihm werden erstmals 26 Bild-Text-Paare bekannt gemacht.

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        Biology, life sciences
        November 2015

        Climate Change Challenges and Adaptations at Farm-level

        Case Studies from Asia and Africa

        by Edited by Naveen P Singh, Cynthia Bantilan, Kattarkandi Byjesh, Swamikannu Nedumaran

        This book emphasis the role of farm level adaptation as a key in developmental pathways that are challenged by climate risks in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. It throws light on key issues that arise in farm level impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change and discusses Q2 methodological approaches undertaken in study domains of Asia and Africa. The book systematically describes the perceptions, aspirations as elicited/voiced by the farmers and identifies determinants of adaptation decisions. Chapters identify constraints and opportunities that are translated into indicative intervention recommendations towards climate resilient farm households in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. Furthermore, it discusses with evidences that contributes to the development of livelihood strategy for poor farmers in Asia (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and China) and Africa (Burkina Faso, Niger, Kenya and Ghana).

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        March 2003

        Tempestad

        Roman

        by Roberto Cotroneo, Karin Krieger

        Roberto Cotroneo wurde 1961 in der norditalienischen Stadt Alessandria geboren. Er studierte Philosophie und einige Jahre Klavier. Seit 1983 war er u.a. für L'Europeo, L'Espresso, der renommierten Wochenzeitschrift, und Sole 24 Ore als Literaturkritiker tätig. Seit 1994 zeichnet er für den Kulturteil von L'Espresso verantwortlich. Er gilt als der angesehenste und zugleich gefürchtetste Kritiker Italiens. Sein erstes Buch, Wenn ein Kind an einem Sommermorgen. Briefe an meinen Sohn über die Liebe zu Büchern, erschien 1996 in deutscher Übersetzung im Marion von Schroeder Verlag in Düsseldorf und 2002 im Insel Verlag Frankfurt. Diese unterschwellige Autobiographie und Autopoetik ist eine suggestive Einführung in die Kunst des kritischen Lesens. Umberto Eco, in dessen Nachfolge Cotroneo erzählerisch ganz offensichtlich steht, urteilte über dieses Buch: "Roberto Cotroneo zeigt, daß er wirklich weiß, wie Bücher gelesen werden sollten."

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