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The lost prince
written and dir. by Stephen Poliakoff« Stephen Poliakoff's BBC drama telling the story of Prince John, the autistic and epileptic son of Queen Mary and King George V who spent his whole life hidden away from public view. Covering the period leading up to and including the First World War, the film bears witness to many major historic events through the eyes of the young prince, and dramatises such important royal occasions as Edward VII's funeral and the visitation of the nine Kings of Europe in 1910. A marvellous reinvention of the costume epic, it is an absorbing study of the turbulent years leading up to and during the First World War, seen through the percipient eyes of a scarcely remembered royal child. Extensively researched, impeccably cast, beautifully filmed, written and directed with masterly economy and restraint, this is a timely reminder that a fiction film can teach complicated world politics in an entertaining way. »
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The propaganda game [Film] = The Korean dream
dir. by Álvaro Longoria« The Hermit Kingdom is a nickname inspired by North Korea's secrecy and withdrawal from the wider world. The last remaining stronghold of Communism, it is a country reviled and lampooned in the West, where its mystery inspires ridicule and anxiety in equal measure. This documentary portrays a highly regimented visit organised through the unexpected figure of a forty-year-old Spaniard who is the government's only foreign employee, Special Delegate Foreign Relations DPRK. Over the course of Longoria's stay, he goes from being an affable curiosity to revealing the depth of his devotion to the party line ; he speaks to a group of school children and tells them how Kim Jong-un is revered across the globe and how North Korea is - effectively - the centre of the world. Another official, however, admits to Longoria's quietly probing camera that the DPRK's understanding of how the world sees it is actually very limited. The aim is to highlight the propaganda wars being embarked upon both within the country's borders and on the international stage. »
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Le fils de l'autre = Der Sohn der Anderen
réal. Lorraine Lévy« Alors qu'il s'apprête à intégrer l'armée israélienne pour effectuer son service militaire, Joseph découvre qu'il n'est pas le fils biologique de ses parents et qu'il a été échangé à la naissance avec Yacine, l'enfant d'une famille palestinienne de Cisjordanie. La vie de ces deux familles est brutalement bouleversée par cette révélation qui les oblige à reconsidérer leurs identités respectives, leurs valeurs et leurs convictions. »
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The promise
written and dir. by Peter Kosminsky« Just as 18-year-old Londoner sets off to spend summer in Israel with her best friend Eliza, beginning her two year stint of National Service, she unearths an old diary belonging to her seriously ill grandfather. Intrigued by the life a man she barely knows, she takes the diary with her, and is stunned to learn of his part in the post-WWII British peace-keeping force in what was then Palestine. Left to her own devices when Eliza begins National Service in the Israeli army, Erin witnesses the complexities of life--for both Jews and Arabs--in this troubled land. And as her grandfather's story comes to life from the pages of the diary, Erin discovers the disturbing truths about his time in Palestine and the atrocities he witnessed during this time of the birth of Israel. As she learns more about her grandfather's experiences, she also starts to witness the complexities of life for both Jews and Arabs alike, but ultimately finds herself retracing his steps in order to fulfill a promise that he was unable to. »
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Spies of Warsaw
directed by Coky Giedroyć, Weronika Migon, Kiaran Murray-Smith« This two-part series is based on an Alan Furst novel of the same title, and it is true to the original in story and in spirit: it’s an enjoyable, straightforward espionage tale. “Spies of Warsaw,” which begins in 1937, is set amid candelabras and barbed-wire fences in Poland, France and Germany, and brackets Polish demimondaines, German industrialists, SS officers, Bolsheviks, Jewish refugees and French military officers. Col. Jean-François Mercier (David Tennant) is a French military attaché in Warsaw, a widower and wounded World War I hero who in 1920 also fought in a Polish unit against the Red Army. Mercier is modeled closely on de Gaulle, though he is much more handsome, and single and available. Mercier has a front-row view of Germany’s preparations for war, and they are hard to miss — the border keeps getting closer. Mercier knows that war is imminent, but he has to fight denial — or indifference — inside the French Embassy and even back in Paris, where top officers in the Deuxième Bureau ignore or dispute his reports. There is nothing more satisfying than a prewar espionage story that shows, up close and told-you-so, how most of Europe slept through Hitler’s rise. »
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The substance : Albert Hofmann's LSD
Martin Witz« Three drops of this colorless, odorless, tasteless liquid would put you out of your mind for hours! – If you haven’t heard of LSD, you will”. Mitten in den Wirren des Zweiten Weltkriegs entdeckt der Schweizer Chemiker Albert Hofmann zufällig eine bislang unbekannte Substanz: LSD. Ein riskanter Selbstversuch lässt ihn das ungeheure Potenzial dieses neuen Wirkstoffs erkennen, der die Welt verändern wird. Hippies, Geheimdienste und das Militär erliegen seinem Rätsel. Selbst Mediziner streiten um die Verwendbarkeit von LSD als Heilmittel. "The Substance" ist ein filmischer Trip durch sechs Jahrzehnte und erzählt die Geschichte einer Droge, die bis heute nichts von ihrer Mysteriösität verloren hat. »
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For two thousand years
Mihail Sebastian ; translated by Philip Ó Ceallaigh« De 1923 à 1933, les dix années de vie d'un jeune juif roumain, des champs de pétrole des Carpates aux cafés de Montparnasse. Confronté aux violences de l'antisémitisme, il s'interroge sur les causes qui le nourrissent depuis 2000 ans. »
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Digitale Kompetenz : was die Schule dazu beitragen kann
Werner Hartmann, Alois Hundertpfund« Digitale Demenz, Verlust der Privatsphäre, Cybermobbing, Informationsüberflutung, Tablets statt Schulbücher, Google und Wikipedia als weltweite Bibliothek, multimediales und interaktives Lernen die Digitalisierung macht auch vor der Schule nicht Halt. Dabei geht es nicht darum, ob digitale Medien 'gut' oder 'schlecht' sind. Die Schule bereitet junge Leute auf die Zukunft vor. Diese Aufgabe darf sie nicht nur mit den Werkzeugen der Vergangenheit angehen. Das Buch setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, über welche Kompetenzen man in einer digital geprägten Gesellschaft verfügen muss. »
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Elizabeth is missing
Emma Healey Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma Healey« Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger. But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it.» Winner of the Costa First Novel Award. Shortlisted for National Book Awards New Writer of the Year.
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Renishaw Hall: the story of the Sitwells
Desmond Seward« When the Sitwell family is mentioned, most people think of its most famous members: the siblings Edith (1887–1964), Osbert (1892–1969), and Sacheverell (1897–1988), glittering masters of self-advertisement who challenged Bloomsbury as arbiters of taste during the 1920s and ’30s and went on grabbing the aesthetic limelight right up until their triumphant tours of the United States in the 1940s and ’50s. According to Evelyn Waugh, they “radiated an aura of high spirits, elegance, impudence, unpredictability, above all of sheer enjoyment. They declared war on dullness.” “I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish” Edith Sitwell The Sitwells entertained the artists of their time in Renishaw Hall (Cecil Beaton, Rex Whistler, Evelyn Waugh, John Piper etc.) D. H. Lawrence is said to have used Renishaw Hall as inspiration for his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. The 1980 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice used footage shot at Renishaw Hall. »
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Die Erkundung der Welt : die großen Entdeckungsreisen von Marco Polo bis Humboldt
Jürgen Sarnowsky« Entdecker hat es überall gegeben. Aber warum haben die Europäer die Welt systematisch vermessen und erobert? Jürgen Sarnowsky eröffnet in seiner kurzen Geschichte der Entdeckungsreisen das große Panorama eines Zeitalters, das wie besessen war von den Geheimnissen und Reichtümern jenseits der Meere. Auf der Grundlage zahlreicher Reiseberichte aus fünf Jahrhunderten zeigt das Buch, wie die Welt seit dem Spätmittelalter angetrieben von Neugier, Abenteuerlust und dem Wettlauf um Land und Reichtum erschlossen wurde. Der Autor erzählt von der frühen Erkundung Asiens und der afrikanischen Westküste, von Vasco da Gama, Kolumbus und Cortés, von den Südseereisen Magellans und Cooks, von der Suche nach der Nordwestpassage und den Forschungsreisen Alexander von Humboldts. Sein spannend geschriebenes Buch führt den Leser ganz nah an die Mentalität der Entdecker heran und lässt uns so die Geschichte der Globalisierung besser verstehen. »
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Pikin Slee
Viviane Sassen« Viviane Sassen's latest body of work was realized in a remote village on the Upper Suriname River. Known for her imaginative approach to fashion photography, Sassen's lens here captures mundane objects, making them appear extraordinary against the background of nature's overwhelming presence. Largely shot in black and white, the informal photos also capture a sense of Sassen's personal connection to the village, which is inhabited by the ancestors of former slaves who escaped Dutch rule. » Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch photographer who has been widely published and exhibited. She was included in the 2011 New Photography exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. She has created campaigns for Miu Miu, Stella McCartney, and Louis Viutton, among others. She has won the Dutch Prix de Rome (2007) and the Infinity Award from International Center of Photography
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La chimie des loisirs
« La chimie est une actrice essentielle de notre qualité de vie. Dans La Chimie au quotidien et maintenant La Chimie des loisirs, un tour d'horizon de quelques univers façonnés par la chimie est présenté. La chimie est partout autour de nous, elle apporte des solutions pour la construction et le confort de la maison, les loisirs ou encore les transports... Sans chimie, les nouveaux équipements de loisirs - consoles de jeux, DVD, lecteurs MP3... - , les chaussures de sport, les piscines n'existeraient pas, pas plus que les moyens de communication modernes, comme le téléphone portable. La chimie est aussi omniprésente dans la mode comme dans le sport. Bref, elle est indissociable de tous les aspects de notre vie. Sans que nous en ayons toujours conscience, nous sommes des chimistes et faisons de la chimie sans le savoir. »
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L'art de Morris
Stéphane Beaujean, Jean-Pierre Mercier, commissaires de l'exposition ; Gaëtan Akyüz, Vladimir Lecointre« A l'occasion des 70 ans de Lucky Luke, retour sur le travail de son créateur avec des reproductions de planches originales, de nombreux dessins inédits, des témoignages de proches et de spécialistes ainsi que des documents d'archives. »
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Karriereführer für Naturwissenschaftlerinnen : erfolgreich im Berufsleben
„In Deutschland schließen inzwischen ebenso viele Frauen wie Männer ein naturwissenschaftliches Studium ab. Welche Karrieremöglichkeiten stehen ihnen offen? Wie begegnen sie der sehr realen Gefahr der Altersarmut durch Stipendien und befristete Anstellung? Und wie schaffen sie es, Familie und Beruf miteinander zu vereinbaren? Karin Bodewits, Andrea Hauk und Philipp Gramlich zeigen in diesem etwas anderen Karriereführer, wie Naturwissenschaftlerinnen die Widrigkeiten des Berufseinstiegs meistern und schon während des Studiums die Weichen richtig stellen können, um im Berufsleben zu bestehen. Die Autoren schöpfen dabei nicht nur aus ihren persönlichen Erfahrungen mit der Arbeitswelt, sondern lassen zahlreiche Wissenschaftlerinnen zu Wort kommen, die ihre mehr oder weniger geradlinigen Karrierewege schildern. Frauen aber auch Männer finden hier viele wertvolle Karrieretipps, von Alternativen zur klassischen Forscherkarriere über die richtige Bewerbung, Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten und beruflichen Wechsel bis zum Wiedereinstieg nach einer Familienpause. Sein lockerer und humorvoller Stil macht das Buch zu einem sympathischen Begleiter durch das Berufsleben, den man beziehungsweise frau nicht mehr missen möchte !“
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Behind the scenes of the universe : from the Higgs to dark matter
“An extraordinary discovery has recently shaken the foundations of Cosmology and Particle Physics, sparking a scientific revolution that has profoundly modified our understanding of our Universe and that is still far from over. Pioneering astronomers in the 1920s and 1930s had already noticed suspicious anomalies in the motion of celestial bodies in distant galaxies and clusters of galaxies, but it wasn't until the late 20th century that the scientific community was confronted with an astonishing conclusion: the Universe is filled with an unknown, elusive substance that is fundamentally different from anything we have ever seen with our telescopes or measured in our laboratories. It is called dark matter, and it constitutes one of the most pressing challenges of modern science. In this book, aimed at the general reader with an interest in science, the author illustrates in non-technical terms, borrowing concepts and ideas from other branches of art and literature, the far-reaching implications of this discovery. It has led to a worldwide race to identify the nature of this mysterious form of matter. We may be about to witness a pivotal paradigm shift in Physics, as we set out to test the existence of dark matter particles with a wide array of experiments, including the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, as well as with a new generation of Astroparticle experiments underground and in space.”
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Tod des Schriftstellers Imre Kertész
„Tod des Schriftstellers Imre Kertész Der Nobelpreisträger Imre Kertész ist am 31. März 2016 im Alter von 86 Jahren in Budapest verstorben. Der ungarische Schriftsteller jüdischer Abstammung wurde 1973 weltberühmt mit seinem Werk “Roman eines Schicksallosen“. Darin verarbeitet er seine Zeit in den KZs Buchenwald und Ausschwitz. Kertész erhielt 2002 den Literaturnobelpreis.“ Werke von Imre Kertész und Werke von und über Imre Kertész welche im Luxemburger Bibliotheksverbund bibnet.lu erhältlich sind.
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Neuroéconomie
Daniel Serra« Une synthèse sur la neuroéconomie, une discipline qui étudie les facteurs cognitifs et émotionnels sur le comportement des acteurs économiques. »
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Coeur tambour : roman
Scholastique Mukasonga« Du Rwanda à la Caraïbe et à l'Amérique, ce roman, qui a pour toile de fond les mystères, les initiations et la naissance de la musique des Nyabinghi, évoque le crime fondateur de ce peuple rasta, celui de la diva Kitami, surnommée l'Amazone noire. »
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The Cambridge companion to modern Arab culture
ed. by Dwight F. Reynolds« Dwight F. Reynolds brings together a collection of essays by leading international scholars to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of modern Arab culture, from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The chapters survey key issues necessary to any understanding of the modern Arab World: the role of the various forms of the Arabic language in modern culture and identity; the remarkable intellectual transformation undergone during the 'Nahda' or 'Arab Renaissance' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the significant role played by ethnic and religious minorities, and the role of law and constitutions. Other chapters on poetry, narrative, theatre, cinema and television, art, architecture, humour, folklore, and food offer fresh perspectives and correct negative stereotypes that emerge from viewing Arab culture primarily through the lens of politics, terrorism, religion, and economics. »
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