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The end of ethics and a way back : how to fix a fundamentally broken global financial system
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Jordan D. MamorskyThis book is about how we have lost virtue in our society, why it matters, what the arc of trust provides in markets, as well as a close look at the worst of the worst cases of economic vice.
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Une renaissance sartrienne
Annie Cohen-Solal«La biographe de Sartre porte un regard nouveau, nourri de ses voyages, sur la fortune de son oeuvre dans le monde après sa mort. Les hommages en provenance des cinq continents s'accordent sur un point : le message de Sartre reste, aux yeux des intellectuels, un outil de référence pour déchiffrer leur époque, au point de devenir, par la contribution de ses nombreux disciples, un véritable modèle.»
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Blown covers : New Yorker covers you were never meant to see
Françoise Mouly«In an era of amped-up political speech and proliferating news outlets magazine covers still have the power to influence public opinion and even change minds. New Yorker covers under the art direction of Francois Mouly since 1993 have broken through the clutter of journalistic cliches using traditional means; hand-drawn illustrations, satire and caricature. In Blown Covers M ouly takes us behind the scenes at The New Yorker and reveals how the magazine creates its signature visual commentary. She describes how the artists, who conceptualise and realise their images on tight deadlines, end up capturing accurately all the benchmark moments of the past two decades. Mouly explains why she encourages artists to send outrageous images never censuring the ideas as too crude, savage, obvious or partisan and shows how these are essential stages in the evolution of a cover that stands the test of time by retaining its edge. Moulys book captures contemporary history, from the farce of Monica Lewinsky, to the adventures of Michelle and Barak, to nuclear meltdown in Japan, in images that are as accurate as they are outrageous. More than that, it shows how the magazine that exem plifies journalistic excellence also dares to cultivate a sense of humour when grappling with complex moral and political issues.»
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A hologram for the king : a novel
Dave Eggers«In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here.»
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My lunches with Orson / conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
ed. and with an introd. by Peter Biskind«When his first film, Citizen Kane, was released, Welles had already achieved fame in theater and radio. He followed Kane with several masterpieces, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Touch of Evil (1958) and was famous as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949). By the 1980s, his films already classics, he hadn’t made a new film in nearly a decade, making it impossible to get funding for future projects, which led to lending his voice to wine commercials. Dining frequently with filmmaker Henry Jaglom, Welles allowed him to record their conversations. These recordings reveal Welles, the raconteur, as he recalls lovers (Rita Hayworth, Lena Horne); disses actors and directors (John Houseman, Joan Fontaine, Chaplin); tells outlandish stories (Carole Lombard’s plane was shot down by Nazi agents in America); and bemoans lack of respect from his peers. He is unguarded in his comments, revealing a vain, prickly personality, uncompromising and brilliant. Film buffs will find Welles’ commentary endlessly fascinating, though the director’s fans might be saddened to see him as a washed-up has-been. A worthy addition to the Bogdanovich, Leaming, and Callow accounts of Welles.»
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Alles nur Konsum : Kritik der warenästhetischen Erziehung
Wolfgang Ullrich«Selbst alltägliche Konsumprodukte müssen heutzutage höchsten ästhetischen Ansprüchen genügen und werden oft ähnlich aufwendig inszeniert wie Werke der Hochkultur. Wolfgang Ullrich wagt den Spagat zwischen beiden Welten und fragt, ob wir nicht alle längst dem Doping durch Konsum erliegen.»
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Que justice soit rendue : roman
Giorgio Fontana«A la veille de la retraite, le procureur de Milan Roberto Doni est chargé de poursuivre en justice un jeune Maghrébin accusé d'un crime. Une journaliste apporte au magistrat les preuves de l'innocence du suspect. Grand bourgeois pétri de certitudes, Doni va découvrir l'envers de la société milanaise.»
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Tai pei : a novel
Tao Lin«“At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle - with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day 'was over' - he noticed with confusion, having thought it was early morning, that it was 4:46PM” Lin's writing here is intricate – even beautiful, and as a portrait of an internet-shaped psyche, it's unmatched. When Paul first meets his wife, he reads "all four years of her Facebook wall… one night looking at probably 1,500 of her friends' photos to find any she might've untagged." Taipei is an ode - or lament - to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. From one of this generation's most talked-about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal and uncompromising novel about memory, love, and what it means to be alive.»
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The supplicant : Mexico 1971-2007
photogr.] Paolo Gasparini ; [texts] Juan Villoro«Italian-Venezuelan Paolo Gasparini is a key figure in contemporary documentary photography. Known for his emblematic images of conflict zones--the border between the United States and Mexico, the Zapatista territory (from Morelos to Chiapas), the Sierra Tarahumara and Mexico City--Gasparini weaves an ambiguous narrative by fusing contemporary and traditional themes, with the aim of demonstrating that photography can be an act of political conscience. With an uncompromising gaze, Gasparini celebrates the vitality of these regions while denouncing the tragedies that besiege them. Superbly designed by Yvette Garcia, "Paolo Gasparini: The Supplicant" presents a wholly unique vision with a decade's worth of images taken throughout Latin America. Poetic and unflinching, Gasparini's images confront the stark reality, which is equal parts beauty and brutality.»
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Leaving the Atocha station : a novel
Ben Lerner«The narrator of Ben Lerner’s subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel, is a young American poet who, in 2004, is spending a fellowship year in Madrid, where he spends his time reading Tolstoy, Ashbery, and Cervantes, going to parties, downing tranquillizers, smoking spliffs, trying and largely failing to love and be loved by two Spanish women. Ben Lerner, a poet in his early thirties who has written three books of verse, is interested in whether words truly belong to us. This can make the novel sound more heavy-going than it is; in fact, like his verse, it has a beguiling mixture of lightness and weight. There are wonderful sentences and jokes on almost every page. Lerner is attempting to capture something that most conventional novels, with their cumbersome caravans of plot and scene and “conflict,” fail to do: the drift of thought, the unmomentous passage of undramatic life.»
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Z : a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler«When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. Before long, Zelda has fallen for him, even though Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. When he sells his first novel, she optimistically boards a train to New York, to marry him and take the rest as it comes. What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French riviera - where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein. Everything seems new and possible, but not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous - sometimes infamous - husband? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it.»
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Boccace : conteur et passeur de la Renaissance
Marina Marietti«Biographie de l'écrivain italien, précurseur de la prose italienne et du genre de la nouvelle. Ses écrits s'inspirent de la littérature chevaleresque ou d'auteurs latins comme Tacite ou Homère. Citoyen engagé et républicain, il fut le témoin de son temps.»
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La France, l'Allemagne et l'Europe monétaire de 1974 à 1981 : la persévérance récompensée
Amaury de Saint Périer«Récit des débats et controverses entre la France et l'Allemagne ayant conduit à la création d'une zone de stabilité monétaire européenne concrétisée par l'apparition de l'écu puis de l'euro. Avec les témoignages des principaux acteurs : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing et Helmut Schmidt.»
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Careless people : murder, mayhem and the invention of "The great Gatsby"
Sarah Churchwell«Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books, delighting readers across the world. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail the relation of Fitzgerald's classic to the chaotic world he in which he lived. Fitzgerald set his novel in 1922, and Careless People carefully reconstructs the crucial months during which Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald returned to New York in the autumn of 1922 - the parties, the drunken weekends at Great Neck, Long Island, the drives back into the city to the jazz clubs and speakeasies, the casual intersection of high society and organized crime, and the growth of celebrity culture of which the Fitzgeralds themselves were the epitome. And for the first time it returns to the story of Gatsby and the high-profile murder that provided a crucial inspiration for Fitzgerald's tale. With wit and insight, Sarah Churchwell traces the genesis of a masterpiece, discovering where fiction comes from, and how it takes shape in the mind of a genius. Blending biography and history with lost and forgotten newspaper accounts, letters, and newly discovered archival material, Careless People is the biography of a book, telling the extraordinary tale of how F. Scott Fitzgerald created a classic and in the process discovered modern America.»
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Green cities : an A-Z guide
edited by Nevin Cohen« Via 150 signed articles, this volume provides an overview of the key concepts that urban planners, policy makers, and architects, engineers, and developers use to understand the sustainability dimensions of the urban environment. It identifies cities that have taken steps to become greener and discusses the strategies they have used. It reviews broad concepts associated with green cities. It discusses technologies, infrastructures, and programs that contribute to the greening of cities. Cities face enormous environmental challenges, and the entries in this volume, from case studies of greener cities to discussions of green urban design, infrastructure, and processes, can help us transform out cities into healthier, sustainable communities in which a growing urban population can thrive. »
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff erhält den Georg-Büchner-Preis 2013
Die Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung verleiht den diesjährigen Georg-Büchner-Preis an die Schriftstellerin Sibylle Lewitscharoff. Der Preis wird am 26. Oktober 2013 in Darmstadt verliehen. Aus der Begründung der Jury: „In ihren Romanen hat Sibylle Lewitscharoff mit unerschöpflicher Beobachtungsenergie, erzählerischer Phantasie und sprachlicher Erfindungskraft die Grenzen dessen, was wir für unsere alltägliche Wirklichkeit halten, neu erkundet und in Frage gestellt. Ihre Texte vertiefen und erweitern die genaue Wahrnehmung der deutschen Gegenwart in Bereiche des Satirischen, Legendenhaften und Phantastischen. Philosophische und religiöse Grundfragen der Existenz entfaltet die Schriftstellerin in einer subtilen Auseinandersetzung mit großen literarischen Traditionen und mit erfrischend unfeierlichem Spielwitz. […]“
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Le dernier des éléphants
Stéphanie Vergniault; avec la collaboration de Jeanne Grange« Stéphanie Vergniault se bat au travers de son association SOS Éléphants du Tchad pour sauver les derniers spécimens de l'espèce, victimes du trafic de l'ivoire. Il y a 20 ans, on comptait plus de 20 000 éléphants au Tchad. Aujourd'hui, il en reste dix fois moins. Sur le terrain, Stéphanie et ses hommes mettent leurs vies en danger pour poursuivre les braconniers et appeler les autorités en renfort pour les arrêter. Ils ne peuvent malheureusement pas compter sur l'aide des villageois, qui ne comprennent pas leur combat : pour eux, les éléphants sont ceux qui piétinent leurs récoltes. Dans ce contexte, protéger les pachydermes est ardu : les embûches sont nombreuses, les intrigues importantes, les moyens faibles, et il arrive que la jeune femme soit très découragée. Mais malgré toutes les épreuves, le combat reprend toujours de plus belle. Ce livre est son témoignage, celui d'une femme courageuse, qui se bat dans l'ombre, comme des dizaines d'autres individus en Afrique. Va-t-elle y parvenir ?... L'histoire le dira. »
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Must read : rediscovering American bestsellers : from Charlotte Temple to the Da Vinci code
ed. by Sarah Churchwell« What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, when so many books that were once immensely popular remain under-examined? Addressing those and other equally pressing questions about popular literature, Must Read is the first scholarly collection to offer both a survey of the evolution of American bestsellers as well as critical readings of some of the key texts that have shaped the American imagination since the nation's founding. Focusing on a mix of enduring and forgotten bestsellers, the essays in this collection consider 18th and 19th century works, like Charlotte Temple or Ben-Hur, that were once considered epochal but are now virtually ignored; 20th century favorites such as The Sheik and Peyton Place; and 21st century blockbusters including the novels of Nicholas Sparks, The Kite Runner, and The Da Vinci Code. »
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Alex MacLean
Walter Siti« Il y a des pistes de danse, des terrains de jeux, des potagers et des vergers, des jardins d'agrément, des sculptures, des chalets,des piscines, des vestiaires pour les nageurs et pour les amateurs de bain de soleil, des peintures de sol, des coupoles, des lucarnes, des panneaux solaires, des volières, des espaces de pique-nique, des bosquets à l'abri des regards indiscrets et des abstractions peintes pour n'être vues que du ciel. sans oublier les inévitables éléments de mécanique urbaine : les conduits d'aération, les cheminées, et surtout les silhouettes des réservoirs d'eau qui se dressent comme des sentinelles tutélaires au sommet de la plupart des immeubles. Alex Maclean révèle un nouveau monde. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de New York, qui ne ressemble à nulle autre. Nous prenons conscience de la cinquième façade de chacune de nos villes. »
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Resistere non serve a niente : [romanzo]
Walter Siti« Premio Strega 2013. Par son roman Walter Siti nous emmène dans un monde où l’argent commande et déforme, où la possession est le seul critère de la valeur individuelle, où le corps est monnaie et où la violence représente un avantage commercial. »
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