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Game changer : animal rights and the fate of Africa’s wildlife
Glen Martin« Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In "Game Changer", award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa's megafauna. Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds that the policies championed by animal welfare groups could lead paradoxically to the elimination of the very species - including elephants and lions - that are the most cherished. In his anecdotal and highly engaging style, Martin takes readers to the heart of the conflict. He revisits the debate between conservationists, who believe that people whose lives are directly impacted by the creation of national parks and preserves should be compensated, versus those who believe that restrictive protection that forbids hunting is the most effective way to conserve wildlife and habitats. Focusing on the different approaches taken by Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia, Martin vividly shows how the world's last great populations of wildlife have become the hostages in a fight between those who love animals and those who would save them. »
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Practicing geography
« Whether you are just beginning as a major, taking classes toward a GIS certificate, working on an advanced degree, or considering a career change at a different point in your life, geography can lead to exceptional career opportunities. Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and the Environment is a comprehensive new resource from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and Pearson, designed to prepare students for careers in business, government, and non-profit organizations. Funded by the National Science Foundation, this project brings together members of the geography community to author different chapters that discuss workforce needs, expectations, and core competencies in professional geography, profiling the professional applications of and opportunities in geography today. »
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Das fremde Meer
Katharina Hartwell„Dieses Buch ist eine Reise: in die Salpêtrière, die Pariser Psychiatrie, in der Sigmund Freud Schüler bei Charcot war; in den Winterwald, aus dem eine gelangweilte Prinzessin einen Prinzen retten will; in die Wechselstadt, in der ganze Häuser als »Mobilien« durch die Stadt wandern; in die Geisterfabrik, wo Seelenfragmente zu Spiritografien verarbeitet werden ... Zehn Kapitel, zehnmal die Geschichte von Marie und Jan. Marie gehört zu den Menschen, die glauben, dass Katastrophen immer nur die treffen, die nicht auf sie vorbereitet sind. Sie rechnet darum stets mit dem Schlimmsten - und behält recht. Sie ist eine Außenseiterin, ängstlich, verzweifelt, meist stumm und voller Sehnsüchte. Womit sie nicht rechnet? Gerettet zu werden, von Jan, der so anders als sie selbst scheint. Von ihm fühlt Marie sich gefunden. Doch ganz traut sie ihrem Glück nicht, denn sie weiß: man kann alles trennen, teilen und spalten, sogar ein Atom. Was haben Marie und ihre Geschichten dem Schicksal entgegenzusetzen? Kann die Literatur ein Leben retten? Kann sie erzählen, wofür es keine Worte gibt?“
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La poésie française
Xavier Darcos« "Aimer, souffrir, espérer, se souvenir, croire, fraterniser... La poésie nous dit la vérité. Elle touche au coeur de tout ce qui nous est essentiel". C'est ainsi que Xavier Darcos raconte l'histoire de la poésie française, en même temps qu'il définit le genre poétique. Chaque chapitre est consacré à une période dont il présente les courants, les auteurs et les oeuvres. Des citations, des pistes de lecture et des définitions complètent cette introduction. »
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Corporate financial reporting and analysis : a global perspective
S. David Young and Jacob Cohen« What distinguishes this book from others in financial accounting and corporate financial reporting is the seamless way it approaches the world's two dominant accounting regimes: US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). »
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La soumission
Eugen Uricaru« En 1944, Petra Maier, une jeune femme roumaine, est déportée dans un camp de Sibérie en compagnie de femmes allemandes et magyares. Enceinte, elle sera bientôt renvoyée chez elle, et accouchera d'un fils, doté d'étranges pouvoirs. »
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Women in art : figures of influence
photogr.] Reed Krakoff« Photographed by Reed Krakoff, Women in Art: Figures of Influence features intimate black-and-white portraits of leading women in the contemporary art community. From Valentina Castellani, Almine Rech, and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn to Dominique Lévy, Marianne Boesky, and Lucy Chadwick, each woman possesses undeniable talent, creativity, and intelligence—making them prominent figureheads of renowned galleries, museums, and institutions across the globe.Complementing each image is an art questionnaire—following in the spirit of the Proust Questionnaire and Fashion Questionnaire—personally completed by each woman along with selected works of art. A true objet d’art, Women in Art: Figures of Influence offers a unique window into the feminine side of the art world. »
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Obituary cocktail : the great saloons of New Orleans : a photographic essay and history
by Kerri W. McCaffety ; with an introduction by Andrei Codrescu« This is a gloriously illustrated glimpse into the world of New Orleans most legendary watering holes - and the drinks that made them famous. New Orleans is host to more than 3,000 'gin joints' - more per capita than any other city in the United States. This lavishly illustrated volume, featuring more than 200 stunning full-colour photographs, provides readers with a glimpse into the architectural and cultural treasures hidden among these many historic saloons. Filled with fascinating tales and accompanied by classic recipes for long-time favourites - among them the legendary Obituary Cocktail itself, not tasted for over 100 years - this volume captures the romance, mystery, and utter uniqueness of the great bars of New Orleans. »
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Distant intimacy : a friendship in the age of the internet
Joseph Epstein« This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters ever transacted via the Internet. Also unusual, at least for correspondents in the twenty-first century, is that Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein have never met, nor even spoken to each other. But what is most rare about this book is the authors' abundant talent for entertaining their readers, as much when the topic is grave as when it is droll. Raphael and Epstein agree to embark on a year-long correspondence, but other rules are few. As the weeks progress, their friendship grows, and each inspires the other. Almost any topic, large or small, is considered: they write of schooling, parents, wives, children, literary tastes, enmities, delights, and beliefs. They discuss their professional lives as writers, their skills or want of them, respective experiences with editors, producers, and actors, and, in priceless passages scattered throughout the letters, they assess such celebrated figures as Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens, Sontag/Leibowitz, Malcolm Gladwell, Harold Bloom, George Steiner, Harold Pinter, Isaiah Berlin, George Weidenfeld and Robert Gottlieb, among many others. Epstein and Raphael capture a year in their letters, but more, they invite us into an intimate world where literature, cinema, and art are keys to self-discovery and friendship. »
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Diderot : le combattant de la liberté
Gerhardt Stenger« Biographie de Diderot présentant une synthèse de la pensée de l'auteur le plus représentatif des Lumières, directeur principal de l'Encyclopédie, inventeur du drame bourgeois et de la critique d'art. Le côté subversif de sa pensée politique, sociale et philosophique est mis en relief. »
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Yoram Kaniuk est mort
Le célèbre écrivain, peintre et journaliste israélien est mort à l’âge de 83 ans des suites d’un cancer le 8 juin, à Tel-Aviv. Ses romans et nouvelles ont été traduits en quatorze langues et sont couronnés de nombreux prix.
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The truth about William Shakespeare : fact, fiction and modern biographies
David Ellis« This is a polemical attack on how recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information. How is it that biographies of Shakespeare can continue to appear when so little is known about him, and what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why is it that a majority of the biographies published in the last decade have been written by distinguished Shakespeareans who ought to know better? This book attempts to solve this puzzle by examining the methods the biographers have used to hide their lack of knowledge. At the same time, by exploring efforts to write a life of Shakespeare along traditional lines, it asks what kind of beast biography really is and how it can ethically be approached. From this book, the reader can learn all that is directly known about Shakespeare. It exposes the lie of the Shakespeare biography industry where books marketed as biographies are nothing of the kind. It questions how we acquire our knowledge of other people and what an ethical expectation of a biography could be. »
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Flappers : six women of a dangerous generation
Judith Mackrell« Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another cataclysmic world change. It focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation’s spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes and partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world. »
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Hollywood costume
ed. by Deborah Nadoolman Landis« This landmark book celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer's contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered 'costume', Hollywood Costume reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about people and it is the art of the costume designer who helps create those characters. This book looks at this process of transformation by analyzing some of the finest and most eclectic costumes from the most beloved films of the last 100 years. As well as essays by a wide variety of leading scholars, archivists and private collectors, the book incorporates contributions by key costume designers, actors and directors working in Hollywood today. Fabulous golden age of Hollywood costumes are juxtaposed beside all the contemporary classics including The Tramp, Ben Hur, Cleopatra, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ocean's Eleven, Sherlock Holmes and Avatar. »
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Wooden churches : travelling in the Russian North = Derevi︠a︡nnye t︠s︡erkvi : puteshestvie po russkomu severu
photogr.] Richard Davies"80% of Russian wooden architecture that existed pre-1917, no longer exists. But luckily, there is still something left to fight for." Professor Vyacheslav Petrovich Orfinsky, Architecture Department, Petrozavodsk State University, August 2008 « The photographs in this book have been taken over a period of nine years. These churches are the remnants of thousands that were built all over Russia from the time of Prince Vladimir, who, on his conversion to Christianity in 988, 'ordained that wooden churches should be built and established where pagan idols had previously stood. Most of those that survive are to be found in the sparsely populated north-western corner of Russia - specifically, in the Leningrad, Vologda, Murmansk, and Archangel Regions and the Republic of Karelia. The area is vast and many thousands of miles have been travelled by car, jeep, aeroplane, boat, train, snowmobile, sledge and foot to track them down. These fragile, desecrated structures retain a spiritual presence that commands respect even in the absence of their gilded icons. They are nearing the end of their days. It is extraordinary that a country as rich and powerful as Russia, with a cultural legacy beyond compare, should let these wonderful, life-enhancing treasures slip through its fingers. Along with the photographs of Richard Davies, there are first-hand accounts by Matilda Moreton of their journeys, and the insights and interpretations of writers and artists, travellers and historians, propagandists and politicians. »
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An introduction to scientific research methods in geography and environmental studies
Daniel R. Montello, Paul C. Sutton« This revised, updated, and extended second edition of An Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography and Environmental Studies provides a broad and integrative introduction to the conduct and interpretation of scientific research, now covering both Geography and Environmental Studies. It explains both the conceptual and the technical aspects of research, as well as all phases of the research process. »
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No joke : making Jewish humor
Ruth R. Wisse« Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience. Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor around the world, teasing out its implications as she explores memorable and telling examples from German, Yiddish, English, Russian, and Hebrew. Among other topics, the book looks at how Jewish humor channeled Jewish learning and wordsmanship into new avenues of creativity, brought relief to liberal non-Jews in repressive societies, and enriched popular culture in the United States. Even as it invites readers to consider the pleasures and profits of Jewish humor, the book asks difficult but fascinating questions: Can the excess and extreme self-ridicule of Jewish humor go too far and backfire in the process? And is "leave 'em laughing" the wisest motto for a people that others have intended to sweep off the stage of history? »
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Here and now : letters (2008-2011)
Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee« Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Here and Now" is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page. »
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Un homme trop facile
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt« Alex s'apprête à entrer en scène pour la première du Misanthrope lorsque le véritable Alceste lui apparaît dans son miroir. Ce dernier est furieux d'être interprété par un homme léger et doué pour le bonheur. »
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Geschäftsmodelle entwickeln : 55 innovative Konzepte mit dem St. Galler Business Model Generator
Oliver Gassmann, Karolin Frankenberger, Michaela Csik« Basierend auf erfolgreichen Mustern in anderen Industrien lässt sich so die eigene Geschäftslogik revolutionieren. Über 90 Prozent aller Geschäftsmodellinnovationen sind Rekombinationen aus 55 Geschäftsmodellmustern. In diesem Werk werden diese Muster praxisorientiert vorgestellt und konkret gezeigt, wie sich mithilfe des praxisbewährten St. Galler Business Model Navigators innovative Geschäftsmodelle identifizieren und entwickeln lassen. Eine Landkarte aller Geschäftsmodelle liefert einen guten Überblick und erlaubt die Einordnung der eigenen Industrie. »
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