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Babyn Jar. Stimmen
Gedichte. Ukrainisch und deutsch Aus dem Ukrainischen von Claudia Dathe
by Marianna Kijanowska
In Babyn Jar, einer Schlucht bei Kiew, wurden Ende September 1941 mehr als 33 000 Kiewer Juden von den deutschen Einsatzgruppen, der Wehrmacht und lokalen Helfern erschossen. Das Hier und Jetzt jener endlosen Tage verwandelt die ukrainische Lyrikerin Marianna Kijanowska in eine nicht mehr weichende Gegenwart. Die 67 Gedichte ihres Zyklus, die »Stimmen«, sind fiktive Selbstaussagen von Kiewer Bürgern, die durch die Straßen getrieben wurden, aber auch von anderen, die am Fenster standen oder von ferne die Schüsse hörten. Das Buch ist in vieler Hinsicht einzigartig und wird Anlass zu Diskussionen geben. Der wohl bedeutsamste Aspekt: Eine nicht-jüdische Ukrainerin klagt und erinnert an die Kiewer Juden, deren Ermordung erst nach und nach den Platz in der Erinnerungskultur der heutigen Ukraine einnimmt. Ihr Gedichtzyklus ist ein Monument aus Stimmen – visionär und verfremdend zugleich.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2014EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension
by Paul Copeland, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Simon Bulmer, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys
At the heart of the European integration process is the political economy debate over whether the EU should be a market-making project, or if it should combine this with integration in employment and social policy. What has been the impact of the 2004 and 2007 rounds of enlargement upon the political economy of European integration? EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension analyses the impact of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements upon the politics of European integration within EU employment and social policy. This book analyses the main policy negotiations in the field and analyses the political positions and contributions of the Central and Eastern European Member States. Through analyses of the negotiations of the Services Directive, the revision of the Working Time Directive and the Europe 2020 poverty target, the book argues that the addition of the Central and Eastern European states has strengthened liberal forces at the EU level and undermined integration with EU employment and social policy. ;
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Children's & YATilda Appleseed. Christmas in the Winter Forest
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
There are 24 days to go until Christmas. In the mouse house there is a delicious smell of punch, and Tilda busily hunts through her pantry: she wants to do some baking. The best of all flavours is still Aunt Emily’s frost-hip jelly. Christmas can’t come without that. But what a shock! There are no frost hips left! And it’s so difficult to get fresh ones, because they only grow in the north. Without further ado, Tilda sets off on an exciting journey through the winter forest, and she has the most weird and wonderful Christmas adventures on the way…
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Children's & YAThe Detention Pros
by Kirsten John/Miryam Specht
Clara, Julian, Felix and Fee must have done something bad, because they are waiting for a severe punishment: detention. “Detention” is actually the wrong word. In fact their task is to get the school garden into shape, which includes the fountain with non-stop snapping turtles. But oh, shock horror! First of all, Felix digs up a skull. Then several suspicious looking men turn up, alleging that they are sports teachers. Could this be the cover-up of a murder? And what is the grumpy housemaster Kratzek hiding? In order to find out just what is going on at the closed school, the four detainees must stick together at all costs – and that is the biggest adventure of them all.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2014EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension
by Paul Copeland
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The ArtsJune 2021Algerian national cinema
by Guy Austin
This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film has represented this often misunderstood nation. Algerian National Cinema explores key films from The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Mascarades (2007). Introductions to Algerian history and to the national film industry are followed by chapters on the essential genres and themes of filmmaking in Algeria, including films of anti-colonial struggle, representations of gender, Berber cinema, and filming the 'black decade' of the 1990s. This thoughtful and timely book will appeal to all interested in world cinemas, in North African and Islamic cultures, and in the role of cinema as a vehicle for the expression of contested identities. By the author of the critically-acclaimed Contemporary French Cinema.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Algerian national cinema
by Guy Austin
This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film has represented this often misunderstood nation. Algerian National Cinema explores key films from The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Mascarades (2007). Introductions to Algerian history and to the national film industry are followed by chapters on the essential genres and themes of filmmaking in Algeria, including films of anti-colonial struggle, representations of gender, Berber cinema, and filming the 'black decade' of the 1990s. This thoughtful and timely book will appeal to all interested in world cinemas, in North African and Islamic cultures, and in the role of cinema as a vehicle for the expression of contested identities. By the author of the critically-acclaimed Contemporary French Cinema.
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September 2018Mein Liederbuch
by Dagmar Manzel
»Schon als Kind«, schreibt Dagmar Manzel, »begeisterten mich die Lieder der Zwanziger Jahre, erzeugten in mir so etwas wie eine kleine Sehnsucht, die mich schließlich, viele Jahre später selbst als Sängerin auf die Bühne bringen sollte.« Unvergessen sind sie, die Lieder, die im Babylon Berlin der Weimarer Republik auf den Varieté-, Kabarett- und Operettenbühnen Furore machten: Jede Frau hat irgendeine Sehnsucht, Irgendwo auf der Welt oder Ick wunder´ mir über jar nischt mehr. Der Komponist Werner Richard Heymann pflegte zu sagen: „Sie kennen mich nicht, aber Sie haben schon viel von mir gehört“, und meinte damit seine Hits wie Ein Freund, ein guter Freund oder Das gibt’s nur einmal. Das vorliegende Liederbuch enthält die persönliche Auswahl Dagmar Manzels in Noten und Texten, die Namen der Komponisten und Autoren reichen von Friedrich Hollaender bis Mischa Spoliansky, von Walter Mehring bis Bertolt Brecht, ihre Protagonistinnen sind Blandine Ebinger, Lotte Werkmeister, Fritzi Massary und viele andere. Ergänzt wird das Liederbuch mit Abbildungen aus dem Cabaret Berlin der Roaring Twenties.
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June 2019Dark Clouds Indicate Rain
by Xiao Aozi
When Grandpa dug taro in the ground, he caught a little loach and took the loach home for cooking. Little dragan, the brother of the little loach, found him in danger and run after him with dark clouds. Grandpa and Grandma discussed how to cook the little loach with a dispute. During the argument, the crock containing the small loach was broken, and the dark clouds carried by the little dragon also landed ... Eventually, will the little loach be saved?
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Children's & YAEldéric et le Livres des Mondes (Eldéric and the Book of Worlds)
by Marie Desvignes
On an autumn evening, a fire broke out in the only school in the province of Saint-Andre and completely destroyed it. Johann, a thirteen-year-old boy who was still inside, was reported missing. It is a shock. There is no trace of the boy, whom everyone thinks is dead. Transported to another world, on the continent of Onirix, among the Menz people, Johann, now endowed with great powers, is entrusted with a great mission: to find the manuscripts of the Book of Worlds stolen for two centuries by the witch Theuz.
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Fiction2017Summer Rains
Winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Author
by Ahmad Al Qarmalawi
Using music as a thread that connects the past to the present, this novel explores what happens when traditional and cultural heritage clash with modernity. The characters face the impact of modernization on heritage and arts versus the need to protect and preserve their traditional culture and must choose between the pursuit of materialism versus spiritual balance. Al Qarmalawi writes about a wide range of music from Sufism to the present era of electronic musical arts, and Summer Rains addresses the current Arab youth crisis, in which young people find themselves torn between fundamentalism and modernity. (An extended English-language report on this book will be available soon.)
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2001British culture and the end of empire
by Andrew Thompson, Stuart Ward, John Mackenzie
This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017British culture and the end of empire
by Stuart Ward
This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.
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April 2017The Lost Children
by Donald Willerton
At a picnic in the mountains in 1891, three children run into the forest to play and are never seen again. Morethan a hundred years later, Mogi Franklin and his sister, Jennifer, discover a series of clues that bring themto the brink of solving the mystery, only to be thwarted by a resort-building billionaire eager to sacrifice an entiretown to build a playground for the rich.The Mogi Franklin Mystery Series features a new kind of twenty-first-century hero for Middle-Grade readers as the young adventurer uses his unique problem-solving skills to battle legends of the past while solving the mysteries of today.
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January 2021Dengue Fever and Other Hemorrhagic Viruses, Second Edition
by Patrick G. Guilfoile, Ph.D. and Tirtha Chakraborty, Ph.D.
Dengue fever is an infectious disease found around the world that is caused by four closely related, but distinct, types of viruses commonly transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Triggering excessive bleeding, dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and dengue hemorrhagic shock can be fatal. Dengue Fever and Other Hemorrhagic Viruses, Second Edition explores the biology of the dengue virus and similar viruses such as Ebola, Marburg virus, and Lassa fever, as well as their symptoms, where they are commonly found, how they are transmitted, and the efforts to treat and eradicate them.Chapters include: History of Infectious Disease Other Hemorrhagic Fevers Insect Vectors Treatment and Prevention of Dengue Infections.
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The ArtsSeptember 2024The renewal of post-war Manchester
Planning, architecture and the state
by Richard Brook
A compelling account of the project to transform post-war Manchester, revealing the clash between utopian vision and compromised reality. Urban renewal in Britain was thrilling in its vision, yet partial and incomplete in its implementation. For the first time, this deep study of a renewal city reveals the complex networks of actors behind physical change and stagnation in post-war Britain. Using the nested scales of region, city and case-study sites, the book explores the relationships between Whitehall legislation, its interpretation by local government planning officers and the on-the-ground impact through urban architectural projects. Each chapter highlights the connections between policy goals, global narratives and the design and construction of cities. The Cold War, decolonialisation, rising consumerism and the oil crisis all feature in a richly illustrated account of architecture and planning in post-war Manchester.
