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Informatics in Schools: Sustainable Informatics Education for Pupils of all Ages
Julie C. Dunbar"This volume of conference proceedings brings together the latest evidence-based research on teaching informatics in schools. Two keynote contributions and 15 scholarly articles address a variety of topics such as computer science in teaching primary, secondary and high school students, blind pupils solving algorithmic problems, applying computer science to computational physics, using computer games as programming assignments, and so on. The authors are specialists in educational research and take into account current pedagogical theories such as situated and constructive learning theories, and competence measurement. They examine different approaches from around Europe and investigate methods for teaching not only computer usage but also algorithmic and computational thinking." Cette publication est accessible en ligne via le portail findit.lu aux usagers inscrits à la Bibliothèque Nationale ou aux bibliothèques de l’Université du Luxembourg.
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Pong redivivus
Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Friedrich Meckseper„Pong lebt! Mit schallendem Juchhe hat sich am Ende von Sibylle Lewitscharoffs Erzählung "Pong" der liebenswerte, verrückte Held dem Mond in die Arme geworfen - und hat, entgegen den Befürchtungen der Leser, diesen kühnen Sprung vom Dach überstanden. Nun liegt er im Krankenhaus und hat alle Zeit der Welt, sich seinen Gedanken hinzugeben, die vor allem um rätselhafte Objekte kreisen, die er zu Hause verwahrt.“ Sibylle Lewitscharoff hat den 2013 den renommierten Georg-Büchner-Preis gewonnen. 1998 erhielt Sibylle Lewitscharoff den Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis für ihre Erzählung „Pong“
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Beethoven im Bild: die Darstellung des Komponisten in der bildenden Kunst vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert
Silke Bettermann"Kein Komponist wurde so häufig dargestellt, keiner war als Sujet der bildenden Kunst so beliebt wie Ludwig van Beethoven. Dabei spielte nicht nur sein Konterfei eine Rolle, die Darstellung Beethovens wurde auch in vielerlei Kontexte eingebettet. Überraschend ist deren große Vielfalt: Beethovens Geburt, sein Tod, seine Beziehungen zu Frauen, seine Schwerhörigkeit und Isolation, sein Temperament – der ganze Mensch faszinierte und inspirierte Künstler unterschiedlichster Metiers. Silke Bettermanns Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Auseinandersetzung bildender Künstler mit Beethoven, von den frühen authentischen Portraits bis hin zu modernen Interpretationen der Gegenwart, und berücksichtigt zugleich die verschiedenen Gattungen: Malerei, Graphik, Plastik, Denkmalkunst, Medaillen aber auch Performances. Ein Überblicks-Essay sowie 50 ausgewählte Beispiele stellen die Fülle der Themen und Ansätze vor, die von Malern, Graphikern und Bildhauern aufgegriffen wurden. Das Buch gibt damit zugleich Einblick in die Art, wie bildliche Darstellungen unser Beethoven-Bild prägten und zur Mythenbildung um den Komponisten beitrugen."
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Erwin Blumenfeld : Blumenfeld Studio Color, New York, 1941-1960
“Erwin Blumenfeld was one of the most sought-after and best-paid fashion photographers of his time, shooting for Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Life. Influenced by the surrealists and the artistic avant-gardes, he challenged the genres conventions in his early fashion photographs with fascinating originality and perfection. Although Blumenfeld left to posterity a considerable oeuvre of colour photographs, so far only his magazine spreads were really known. For this volume, the original slides were recovered from Blumenfelds extensive archive and digitally reconstructed. His compositions can thus be seen for the first time in their original form and colourfulness.”
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Dear life
Alice Munro“Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Critics have been saying for so long that a typical Alice Munro story is as rich and textured as any novel that they seem not to have noticed that her recent stories don’t resemble novels much at all. Beginning (roughly) with Runaway (2004) and continuing through to Too Much Happiness (2009), Munro has gradually shifted away from the complex, oblique narratives and intricately layered portraiture of her mid-career work toward a pared-down, almost expressionist form of storytelling. There is an interesting diversion at the end of this book: the final four stories are, in Munro's own words, "not quite stories… the first and last – and the closest – things I have to say about my own life." A less well-known writer would not be allowed to lift her hands and say, "Look, there are some bits here, and I'm not sure what they are, but there you go," but they are delightful additions to this collection. Plainer, with a slightly more bitter edge, than the "fictional" stories that precede them, they are a tantalising glimpse of the memoir Munro fans would swoon for, should she choose to write it.”
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Women, music, culture : an introduction
Julie C. Dunbar"Women, Music, Culture is an undergraduate textbook on the history and contribution of women in a variety of musical genres and professions. Clear writing, compelling narrative, and more than fifty guided listening examples bring the world of women in music to life. It includes a wide array of pedagogical aids, including an abundance of photographs, a comprehensive companion website, critical thinking exercises, as well as a running glossary that reinforces key figures and terms. Covering important figures in art music and popular music, it examines a community of women involved in the world of music, including composers, producers, consumers, performers, technicians, mothers, educators and listeners."
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Carambole : ein Roman in zwölf Runden
Jens Steiner„In den letzten Jahren hat sich in Georgien eine lebendige und vielstimmige Literatur herausgebildet, die vor allem von jungen Autorinnen bestimmt wird. Mit Lakonie, Scharfsinn und ungeheurer Erzählfreude porträtieren sie Leben und gesellschaftliche Umbrüche in ihrem Land."
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Salinger
David Shields, Shane Salerno“Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century. For more than fifty years, the ever elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye has been the subject of a relentless stream of newspaper and magazine articles as well as several biographies. Yet all of these attempts have been hampered by a fundamental lack of access and by the persistent recycling of inaccurate information. Salinger remains, astonishingly, an enigma. The complex and contradictory human being behind the myth has never been revealed. No longer. In the eight years since The Private War of J.D. Salinger was begun, and especially in the three years since Salinger's death, the authors interviewed on five continents more than 200 people, many of whom had previously refused to go on the record about their relationship with Salinger. This oral biography offers direct eyewitness accounts from Salinger's World War II brothers-in-arms, his family members, his close friends, his lovers, his classmates, his neighbors, his editors, his publishers, his New Yorker colleagues, and people with whom he had relationships that were secret even to his own family. Shields and Salerno illuminate most brightly the last fifty-six years of Salinger's life: a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers. Provided unprecedented access to never-before-published photographs (more than 100 throughout the book), diaries, letters, legal records, and secret documents, readers will feel they have, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger's meticulously built-up wall. The result is the definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century.”
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Infinite space, the architecture of John Lautner [Film] = Infinite space, der Architekt John Lautner
von Murray Grigor«The Architecture of John Lautner "The purpose of architecture," said John Lautner, "is to create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life." Infinite Space, a new documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create "architecture that has no beginning and no end." It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life - and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century. As a young man, Lautner broke from his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright, and went west to California to forge his own architecture. His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, endless battles with building codes, an accidental leap into the epicenter of pop culture, bitterness at lost opportunities, and finally - monumental achievement. Lautner was idolized by young modernists, criticized by academics, and beloved by the clients who worked side by side with him to build their houses. It was a life in pursuit of beauty. Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores Lautner's dramatic spaces with choreographed camera moves, as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources. Other voices join him: comments from Frank Gehry and his peers who were influenced by Lautner, the emotional memories of original clients, owners and builders, the remarks of Frank Escher, the architect who restored the Chemosphere house, and Julius Shulman who famously photographed all the great modernists.»
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Night train to Lisbon [Film] = Nachtzug nach Lissabon
von Bille August«Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there - shocking his students, and surprising even himself. His unusual impulsiveness is driven by two chance encounters - with a mysterious Portuguese woman in a red coat and with a book, the journal of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat, Amadeu de Prado. With the book as his talisman, Raimund boards the night train to Lisbon on a journey to find out more about Prado, whose words haunt and compel him. Gradually, a picture of an extraordinary man emerges: a difficult, brilliant, charismatic figure, a doctor and a poet, and a rebel against Salazar's dictatorship. And as Prado's story comes to light so, too, Gregorius himself begins his life anew.»
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Francophonies du proche : les poésies d'expression française en Suisse et en Belgique, aujourd'hui
Serge Bourjea"Plusieurs essais portant notamment sur le paradoxe essentiel qui sous-tend la très riche création littéraire suisse, la poésie belge contemporaine et une étude de l'oeuvre singulière du plus voyageur des écrivains suisses, Nicolas Bouvier. Dans l'esprit des auteurs, la "francophonie du proche" prend ses distances avec une certaine idéologie du "français langue universelle"."
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Das Handbuch der Filmmusik : Geschichte, Ästhetik, Funktionalität
hrsg. von Josef Kloppenburg"Die Geschichte der Filmmusik reicht von den Vorläufern und Vorbildern in der Kunst- und Popularmusik über die Anfänge der Stummfilmzeit bis zur erstaunlichen Vielfalt ihrer heutigen Formen in Hollywood und anderswo. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die enorme Bandbreite der Musik in Film und Fernsehen – vom Mainstream-Kino über den Videoclip bis zur Visualisierung von Kunstmusik. Die Bedeutung und die Funktionalität der Filmmusik wird anhand prägnanter Beispiele wie Iwan der Schreckliche, Der Herr der sieben Meere oder auch Marienhof und Fluch der Karibik anschaulich dargestellt. Eine reichhaltige Bebilderung sowie zahlreiche Dokumente und Notenbeispiele sorgen für eine vorzügliche Visualisierung. Dieses Buch ist eine unabdingbare Grundlagenlektüre für jeden Musikinteressierten, der die Filmmusik in allen ihren Facetten kennen lernen will. Es wendet sich an professionelle Musik- und Filmschaffende sowie an musik- und filminteressierte Laien und Liebhaber, die ein grundlegendes Wissen über Filmmusik mit ihren differenzierten Kompositionen und beeindruckenden Klanggestaltungen erwerben wollen."
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Jongleurs des temps modernes : Dario Fo et Franca Rame
Brigitte Urbani"Les caractéristiques essentielles du théâtre de Dario Fo et de son épouse Franca Rame sont présentées, à travers un panorama de leur carrière, un aperçu du contenu de leurs comédies ainsi que des techniques par lesquelles ils délivrent leur message."
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The flamethrowers : a novel
Rachel Kushner«The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandro’s family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow. The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. At its center is Kushner’s brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge.»
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Les promesses : trilogie romanesque
Marco Lodoli"Après « Les prémices » et « Les prétendants », dernière de trois trilogies venant clore un grand cycle romanesque"
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The poet and the piper [Enregistrement sonore]
Seamus Heaney«Piping and poetry are surely of the essence of Ireland. Here, distilled to perfection, are Seamus Heaney and Liam O’ Flynn, both masters of their craft. Iit is not often we are given the opportunity to hear a poet recite his own verses. The pipes and the poetry appear on separate tracks, but they blend well as a complete experience. The recording features traditional and contemporary music, lyrics and poetry such as An Bonnán Buí, one of the oldest known Irish traditional songs. Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in County Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the author of over 20 volumes of poetry and criticism, and edited several widely used anthologies. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." Heaney taught at Harvard University (1985-2006) and served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry (1989-1994). He died in 2013.»
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Durch Himmel und Hölle : mein Leben mit den Eagles (1974 - 2001)
Don Felder mit Wendy Holden"Die Eagles schrieben den Soundtrack zum Lebensgefühl der amerikanischen Siebziger. Bis heute belegen ihre Alben Spitzenplätze in den Charts. Hinter der Bühne jedoch war keineswegs alles so friedlich und leichtlebig, wie es nach außen hin den Anschein hatte…Don Felder war nur ein unbekannter Gitarrist aus Florida, doch als er sich den Eagles anschloss, begann für ihn ein kometenhafter Aufstieg. Die Platten, die er zusammen mit seinen Bandkollegen Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner und seinem Jugendfreund Bernie Leadon einspielte, verkauften sich millionenfach (Eagles: Their Greatest Hits: 1971-1975 ist das bestverkaufte Album aller Zeiten). In Konzerten trat er vor Massen begeisterter Fans auf und wurde zum Co-Autor des weltbekannten Hits „Hotel California“. Sein virtuoses Gitarrenspiel verhalf der bereits populären Gruppe endgültig zum Kultstatus. Nun bricht Don Felder das jahrzehntelange Schweigen gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit und gewährt den Fans einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Eagles – wo Drogen, Gier und endlose Grabenkämpfe den Alltag bestimmten und es regelmäßig zu schweren Konflikten kam."
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La voz dormida [Film]
dirigida por Benito Zambrano«Benito Zambrano has adaptated Dulce Chacon’s book of the same name, set in the terrible years immediately following the end of the Spanish civil war. The film focuses on the relationship between two sisters: Hortensia is pregnant and in jail in Madrid; Pepita has come from Cordoba to be with her and look after the child she is going to have. They are both in relationships with guerrillas fighting in the underground in the mountains.»
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Malas temporadas [Film] = Hard times
dirección Manuel Martín Cuenca«One day in school, Gonzalo decides to not take a test given his class; upon going home, he announces to his mother Ana that he’s not leaving his room. Ana works for an NGO that deals with refugees; one of her clients is Carlos, a Cuban exile who gets by selling black-market cigars and artworks. Carlos brings Mikel, just released from prison, to Ana’s house so that he can teach Gonzalo how to play chess — and possibly get him to start living again. Each of these characters faces an actual or emotional barrier they know they have to get past in order for their lives to go on in any meaningful way. Cuenca’s beautifully crafted screenplay, co-written with Alejandro Hernandez, deftly moves from story to story, creating at times parallels and ironies that we recognize long before his characters.»
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Aftermath : on marriage and separation
Rachel Cusk“I loved reading it, and found it fascinating, but I also found it dangerous. An incitement to riot...It’s an extraordinary piece of work and the writing is utterly beautiful...I laughed out loud, often, in painful recognition.”—Esther Freud “She captures the absolute shock of suddenly finding yourself responsible for another person—with no training, no guidance, and, indeed, no one coming from their planet to take them back. A brilliant book—and so funny too.”—Kate Atkinson Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of seven novels: She won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young Novelists.
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