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Der Zauberer: Nabokov und das Glück
Lila Azam Zanganeh"Der Zauberer" erzählt vom Glück. Vom Glück, das Lesen bedeutet, vom Glück, die Worte wie Schmetterlinge einzufangen, vom Glück, einen Autor fürs Leben zu entdecken. Zugleich ist das Buch ein wahres Fest für alle Nabokov-Leser. Denn es erzählt die ungewöhnliche Erkundungsreise einer phantasievollen Leserin in das Werk, die Sprache, das Leben Nabokovs. Tief taucht die junge Autorin in die lichtdurchdrungenen Zauberuniversen von "Ada", "Lolita" und "Sprich, Erinnerung" ein. Sie schweift durch die russische Kindheit Nabokovs, erkundet seine funkelnde Sprache, reist zu seinen Lebensstationen, unterhält sich mit dessen Sohn Dmitri und findet immer wieder dieses Glück, das die Lektüre von Nabokovs Werken bedeutet. Denn für Zanganeh ist er, der Schmetterlingsjäger unter den Autoren, jener, dem es am besten gelang, all diese ephemeren, so schwer fassbaren Momente und Emotionen einzufangen. Aus all dem hat Lila Azam Zanganeh eine poetische Erfahrung aus literarischem Essay, Biographie, Phantasterei und Interpretation geschaffen. Ein Schatz für jeden Leser, der nur ein einziges Mal durch seine Lektüre in jenen rauschhaften Zustand versetzt wurde, den wir Glück nennen, und der für einen kurzen Moment Sein und Zeit aufhebt.
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Gaia's garden : a guide to home-scale permaculture
"The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America s home gardeners, introducing permaculture s central message: working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers. Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it’s fun and easy to create a backyard ecosystem by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including: building and maintaining soil fertility and structure catching and conserving water in the landscape providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals, growing an edible forest that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods. This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it’s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that’s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden."
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Tools for teaching in an educationally mobile world
Jude Caroll« Tools for Teaching in an Educationally Mobile World examines the challenges that undergraduate and postgraduate teachers often encounter when working with students from different national and cultural backgrounds. It focuses on the consequences for interactive teaching and for course design in a world where students, ideas and courses are mobile, using examples and experiences from a wide range of disciplines and national contexts. It not only considers Anglophone countries, including the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, but also the use of English as a language of instruction in countries where neither teachers nor students are native English speakers. This book offers ideas for adjusting and adapting teaching approaches for culturally and linguistically diverse student groups. Students may cross national boundaries to seek accreditation, or the courses may be ‘transnational’, being designed in one country and delivered in another using local as well as ‘fly-in’ faculty. It draws upon growing good practice recommendations using tried and tested methods alongside the extensive and varied experience of the author. »
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Kreative Geographie
Tilman Phode Jüchtern« Wer dieses Buch liest, erhält die Bausteine für ein komplettes Programm der modernen Geographie und ihrer Didaktik: Gesellschaft-Umwelt-Verhältnisse, Vielperspektivität, Konstruktivismus, Kontingenz, Reduktion von Komplexität, Reflexivität, Bildungsstandards und Geographie-Machen in der politischen Praxis. Über 40 ausgewählte Texte aus mehr als 40 Jahren Erfahrung im Fach Geographie, in Schule, Universität und Politik geben Einblick in die Denkgeschichte des Faches, Anregungen zur eigenen Standortbestimmung und zur Lehr- und Unterrichtspraxis. Der Reader ist als Lesebuch konzipiert, alle Artikel können auch für sich gelesen werden. Das Buch richtet sich an Fachwissenschaftler und Didaktiker, an Lehrer und Lehrerinnen und an Studierende, die das Nachdenken über Bildung durch Geographie auch in die eigenen Hände nehmen wollen. »
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Immigrant children in transcultural spaces
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana« Grounded in both theory and practice, with implications for both, this book is about children’s perspectives on the borders that society erects, and their actual, symbolic, ideational and metaphorical movement across those borders. Based on extensive ethnographic data on children of immigrants (mostly from Mexico, Central America and the Philippines) as they interact with undergraduate students from diverse linguistic, cultural and racial/ethnic backgrounds in the context of an urban play-based after-school program, it probes how children navigate a multilingual space that involves playing with language and literacy in a variety of forms. Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces speaks to critical social issues and debates about education, immigration, multilingualism and multiculturalism in an historical moment in which borders are being built up, torn down, debated and recreated, in both real and symbolic terms; raises questions about the values that drive educational practice and decision-making; and suggests alternatives to the status quo. At its heart, it is a book about how love can serve as a driving force to connect people with each other across all kinds of borders, and to motivate children to engage powerfully with learning and life. »
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Initiation à la cosmologie
« A la croisée de l'astrophysique et de la physique des particules, la cosmologie offre une connaissance de plus en plus riche de l'Univers et de son origine. Cet ouvrage est volontairement synthétique. A partir de quelques principes de base, il élabore des raisonnements physiques et mathématiques, simples mais rigoureux, qui permettent d'élaborer des modèles d'Univers (infini, fini, courbe...). Cette cinquième édition est une actualisation globale de l'ouvrage, rendue nécessaire car la cosmologie est un domaine où les découvertes et les interprétations sur les processus d'organisation de l'Univers foisonnent. »
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Travel, tourism and art
edited by Tijana Rakić« Art, in its many forms, has long played an important role in people's imagination, experience and remembrance of places, cultures and travels as well as in their motivation to travel. Travel and tourism, on the other hand, have also inspired numerous artists and featured in many artworks. The fascinating relationships between travel, tourism and art encompass a wide range of phenomena from historical 'Grand Tours' during which a number of travellers experienced or produced artwork, to present-day travel inspired by art, artworks produced by contemporary travellers or artworks produced by locals for tourist consumption. Focusing on the representations of 'touristic' places, locals, travellers and tourists in artworks; the role of travel and tourism in inspiring artists; as well as the role of art and artwork in imagining, experiencing and remembering places and motivating travel and tourism; this edited volume provides a space for an exploration of both historical and contemporary relationships between travel, tourism and art. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and fields of study including geography, anthropology, history, philosophy, and urban, cultural, tourism, art and leisure studies, this volume discusses a range of case studies across different art forms and locales. »
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L'univers quantique : tout ce qui peut arriver arrive...
« Comprenez-vous quelque chose à la mécanique quantique? Malgré les efforts d'un grand nombre de vulgarisateurs ou de pédagogues, ce domaine de la physique reste confus et contre-intuitif pour les non-spécialistes. Brian Cox et Jeff Forshaw entreprennent dans cet ouvrage de démystifier les théories de la physique quantique. L'histoire commence avec l'hypothèse de Max Planck au tournant du XIXe siècle qui postule que l'énergie d'un corps chaud est constituée de "quanta". Cox et Forshaw explorent ensuite plus d'un siècle de découvertes et de questionnements, jusqu'au fameux boson de higgs, clé de voûte du modèle standard décrivant la matière à son niveau le plus élémentaire. »
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The sacrifice
Joyce Carol OatesWhen a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.Unfolding in a chorus of multiracial voices – from the police to the media to the victim and her family – which gather to reach a tense crescendo at the novel’s climax, this novel offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution – and the primal decisions we make to protect those we love.
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China: through the looking glass
Andrew BoltonDrawing upon Chinese decorative arts, cinema and costume, notably imperial court robes, the close fitting cheongsam, and the unisex Mao suit, their designs are fantastical pastiches of anachronistic motifs. As in the game of 'Chinese whispers', the process of cultural translation transforms the source material into ingeniously original fashions that are products solely of the designers imaginations. In a similar way, contemporary Chinese film directors render fanciful, highly stylized evocations of various epochs in China's history demonstrating that China's imagery is equally seductive to artists in the East and further inspiring today s designers. Juxtaposing modern fashions and film stills with their forebears in fine and decorative arts and historical dress, China: Through the Looking Glass reveals the rich and ongoing creative dialogue between East and West, past and present.
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The heart goes last
Margaret AtwoodStan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs, and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own - they sign up immediately. A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, The Heart Goes Last is Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping best. Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels.
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Bodies under siege : self-mutilation, nonsuicidal self-injury, and body modification in culture and psychiatry
"Bodies Under Siege is an excellent book dealing with self-mutilation in depth and breadth. It is a clinical volume that should be of use to all in the mental health field. The book is also an anthropological contribution to the understanding of what it means to be human."
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Photography visionaries
Mady Warner MarienAn inspiring guide to 75 of the most influential photographers from c.1900 to the present. Entertainingly written by an expert on photography, it provides fascinating insight into the lives and careers of men and women working in a medium which perhaps more than any other in the visual arts has been deeply affected by technological change. The entries are arranged chronologically, instilling in the reader an understanding of what marks each photographer as a visionary. Each entry is less about providing a full biography of the person and more about creating a sense of excitement regarding their work and the lasting impact that it has had on photography.
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Les prépondérants : roman
Hédi KaddourEn Abistan, le peuple est soumis à un Dieu unique et vit dans la foi sans se poser de questions, sous le joug d'un système de surveillance qui contrôle les idées et les actes déviants. Mais Ati est en proie au doute et cherche à rentrer en contact avec un peuple de renégats qui vivrait dans un ghetto, libéré de l'omnipotence de la religion.
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Frühstück mit der Drohne. Tagebuch aus Gaza
Atef Abu Saif„Am 7. Juli 2014 beginnt der bisher letzte der vielen Kämpfe um den Gazastreifen. Inmitten aller Pressestimmen zum Geschehen tauchen in den führenden Zeitungen der Welt Tagebuchtexte auf. Ihr Autor: Atef Abu Saif, ein in der arabischen Welt bekannter Romancier. Er hält fest, was um ihn herum geschieht. Wie er mit seiner Frau den Alltag bewältigt. Wie er seinen Kindern zu erklären versucht, warum sie nicht mehr auf die Straße dürfen. Wie er mit der Angst kämpft, wenn im Nachbarhaus die Raketen einschlagen und die ganze Wohnung mit Scheibensplittern übersät ist.“
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Boussole : roman
Mathias EnardFranz Ritter, musicologue viennois, est insomniaque, sous le choc d'un diagnostic médical alarmant. Il fuit sa nuit solitaire dans ses souvenirs de voyages, d'études et d'émerveillements. Prix des libraires de Nancy et des journalistes du Point 2015, prix Goncourt 2015.
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Women in dark times
Jacqueline RoseJacqueline Rose's new book begins with revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe.Enraged by injustice, they are each in touch with what is most painful about being human, bound together by their willingness to bring the unspeakable to light.Taking the argument into the present are today's women, courageous individuals involved in some of the cruellest realities of our times. Grappling with the reality of honour killing - notably through the stories of Shafilea Ahmed, Fadime Sahindal and Heshu Yones - Rose argues that the work of feminism is far from done. In the final three chapters, she celebrates the work of three brilliant contemporary artists - Esther Shalev-Gerz, Yael Bartana and Thérèse Oulton - whose work grows out of an unflinching engagement with all that is darkest in the modern world.
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État du monde arabe
Mathieu Guidère« Depuis le Printemps arabe et malgré la mort de Ben Laden, le monde arabe est plongé dans un nouveau cycle de violence, dont l'épicentre ne cesse de se déplacer, de la Libye au Yémen, en passant par le Sinaï, la Syrie et l'Irak. Après le temps de l'espoir démocratique, les pays arabes se sont trouvés confrontés, à des degrés divers, à la menace terroriste et au risque de guerre civile. Dans un contexte international marqué par un retour de la guerre froide et des crises à répétition, les perspectives d'avenir sont plus que jamais incertaines. Cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'état actuel du monde arabe en proposant des clés pour comprendre les mécanismes en jeu dans les crises complexes que traversent les sociétés contemporaines. »
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Der überflüssige Mensch
Ilija Trojanow„Wer nichts produziert und nichts konsumiert, ist überflüssig – so die mörderische Logik des Spätkapitalismus. Überbevölkerung sei das größte Problem unseres Planeten – so die internationalen Eliten. Doch wenn die Menschheit reduziert werden soll, wer soll dann verschwinden, fragt Trojanow in seiner humanistischen Streitschrift wider die Überflüssigkeit des Menschen. In seinen eindringlichen Analysen schlägt er den Bogen von den Verheerungen des Klimawandels über die Erbarmungslosigkeit neoliberaler Arbeitsmarktpolitik bis zu den massenmedialen Apokalypsen, die wir, die scheinbaren Gewinner, mit Begeisterung verfolgen. Doch wir täuschen uns: Es geht auch um uns. Es geht um alles.“
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2084: la fin du monde
Boualem SansalEn Abistan, le peuple est soumis à un Dieu unique et vit dans la foi sans se poser de questions, sous le joug d'un système de surveillance qui contrôle les idées et les actes déviants. Mais Ati est en proie au doute et cherche à rentrer en contact avec un peuple de renégats qui vivrait dans un ghetto, libéré de l'omnipotence de la religion. Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française 2015.
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