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View book details for Still Alive
A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times). Swept up as a child in the …
WINNER OF THE NEUSTADT PRIZE This novel of post-9/11 London is a masterful dissection of racism, aging, and the perturbing nature of desire. Ananda Devi's "fluid, poetic language memorably conjures a union of two outcasts" (The New Yorker). A chance …
Irish novelist Soula Emmanuels debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desirecharting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An …
View book details for Die Einsamkeiten der Moderne
Eine Theorie der Modernisierung als Zeitalter der Vereinsamung
Die Moderne zeigt sich als ein Zeitalter zunehmender sozialer Desintegration: Sakularisierung und Rationalisierung, Urbanisierung und Globalisierung, Individualisierung und Digitalisierung machen es Gemeinschaften heute schwer. Die Moderne kommt mit erstrebenswerten Verheiungen, die sie attraktiv werden lassen, doch es gibt sie nicht …
View book details for mittendrin und rundherum
Reden, Planen, Bauen auf dem Land und in der Stadt Ein nonconform Lesebuch
Seit uber 20 Jahren ist nonconform in Deutschland und Osterreich in der raumlichen Transformation tatig. Architektur ist fur das interdisziplinare Kollektiv nie blo ein fertiges, fotogenes Resultat, sondern immer auch ein lustvoller, horizonterweiternder Prozess, in den die Burger*innen einer Gemeinde, …
View book details for Klosterfrauen Frauenkloster
Eine kunstlerische Untersuchung zu Frauenklostern im Wandel
Nachdem das Kloster Schlehdorf fur die verbliebenen dreiig Ordensfrauen zu gro geworden war, beschlossen die Schwestern gemeinschaftlich den Verkauf und zogen in einen neu errichteten Anbau. Die Kunstlerin Jutta Gorlich, die Fotograf*innen Ulrike Myrzik und Edward Beierle sowie die Kulturmanagerin …
View book details for ReHab
Living, Inhabitants, Houses
At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007, housing became a central commodity in the short-circuit system of mortgages granted to private individuals and businesses. In the aftermath of the crisis, and in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, …
View book details for Nanoanalytics
Nanoobjects and Nanotechnologies in Analytical Chemistry
De Gruyter
Nanoanalytics is a novel branch of analytical chemistry which explores applications of nanotechnologies in chemical analysis. This comprehensive publication gives an overview of the analytical techniques used to study nanoobjects and nanoparticles as well as the application of nanomaterials themselves …
View book details for Space Tessellations
Experimenting with Parquet Deformations
Tackling a topic that has particular appeal in the age of digital design, this well-founded introduction to the subject of parquet deformation fills a gap. These subtle, intricate geometric transformations, best known through the "Metamorphosis" series by M. C. Escher, …
View book details for Greening Europe
Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century A Handbook
Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people …
Jews and Armenians are often perceived as peoples with similar tragic historical experiences. Not only were both groups forced into statelessness and a life outside their homelands for centuries, in the 20th century, in the shadow of war, they were …
View book details for Designing Emotion
Methods and Strategies for Designers
Strategies for the design process considering emotions. How does design make the indestructible character of a drill tangible? Why does a brand become a trusted friend? And what emotions should intelligent gardening tools actually radiate? The accurate communication and design …
View book details for Leandro Valencia Locsin
Filipino architect
The largely unknown oeuvre of the Philippine architect Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994) embodies the search for identity in the built environment. Having completed his studies, Locsin opened his practice in 1953 in the capital Manila which, after the aerial attacks …
View book details for Navigating and Managing an Academic Library
Best Practices from the Arabian Gulf Region
This book is unique in concisely addressing the impact of new and enhanced approaches to library service, encompassing topics such as Information Literacy skills acquisition, inclusive of non-Western environments, artificial intelligence in academic libraries, research data management, and confronting the …
In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of values and goods are part of the eudaimonistic tradition, and he famously criticizes eudaimonism for its flawed material …
View book details for Das Ol und der Kampf um eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung
Die Bedeutung der Olkrisen der 1970er Jahre fur die Nord-Sud-Beziehungen
Die beiden Olschocks" von 1973/74 und 1979/80 waren nicht nur zentrale wirtschaftliche Ereignisse, sondern ubten entscheidenden Einfluss auf die zeitgenossischen Debatten um eine grundlegende Reform, wenn nicht gar Revolution, der Weltwirtschaftsordnung aus. Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die Olkrisen erstmals nicht …
View book details for Brentano and the Positive Philosophy of Comte and Mill
With Translations of Original Writings on Philosophy as Science by Franz Brentano
Before now, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the multiple relations between A. Comtes and J.S. Mills positive philosophy and Franz Brentanos work. The present volume aims to fill this gap and to identify Brentanos position in the context …
View book details for Dionysiac Dialogues
Euripides' Bacchae, Aeschylus and Christus Patiens
This book consists of two main, interrelated thematic units: the reception of Aeschylus' Dionysiac plays in Bacchae and the refiguration of the latter in the Byzantine drama Christus Patiens. In both sections the common denominator is Euripides' Bacchae, which is …
View book details for Sustainable Business Strategy
Analysis, Choice and Implementation
In the twenty-first century, there is no single prescription for business strategy development, choice and implementation. The challenges facing firms, not-for-profit organizations and the public sector are significant and call for creativity, inclusivity, diversity and responsibility. The looming and deepening …
View book details for Dual-Phase Depolarization Analysis
Interactive Coupling in the Amorphous State of Polymers
This book focuses on the characterization of the amorphous phase of polymers, whether they are pure amorphous or semi-crystalline ones, above Tg or below Tg, by studying the relaxation of dipoles and space charges naturally found in their structure after …
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and …
View book details for Reden wir uber Baukultur
Was in Zukunft wichtig wird
Baukultur ist als gemeinsame kulturelle Leistung nicht Privatsache, sondern physisches Abbild unserer Gesellschaft. Sie beschreibt die Gestalt unseres Lebensraums, aber auch den Prozess seiner Entstehung, Aneignung, Nutzung und Erhaltung. Baukultur ist fest mit dem Alltag aller Menschen verwoben und beeinflusst …
View book details for The Turkish Connection
Global Intellectual Histories of the Late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey
Covering a rich array of global aspects, ranging from individuals as ideational entrepreneurs to transnational intellectual trajectories, this volume deals with multiple dimensions of global and transnational backgrounds pertaining to Turkeys intellectual history, starting with the 19th and reaching the …
View book details for Neoconservative Images of Europe
Europhobia and Anti-Europeanism in the United States, 19702002
While in the last twenty years perceptions of Europe have been subjected to detailed historical scrutiny, American images of the Old World have been almost wantonly neglected. As a response to this scholarly desideratum, this pioneering study analyzes neoconservative images …
Despite noticeable growth in Islamic banking and finance literature in recent years, very few published books in this area deal with supervisory and regulatory issues in Islamic banking theoretically or empirically and none with the critical issue of risks involved …
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