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      • Christine Heimannsberg

        Gelobtes Land, die dystopische Climate Fiction Trilogie: Mit CO2 verbindet man den Klimawandel, schmelzende Gletscher und Überflutungen. Mittlerweile ist der Klimawandel auch in der Literatur angekommen. „Climate Fiction“ oder „Cli-fi“ lautet das Stichwort, das zuletzt verstärkt in den Feuilletons auftauchte. Die deutsche Autorin Christine Heimannsberg präsentiert mit ihrer Debüt-Trilogie „Gelobtes Land“ eine ungewöhnliche, spannende Dystopie, die ökologische wie humanistische Themen geschickt im neuen Genre zusammenführt.

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        The Arts
        June 2021

        Chris Marker

        by Sarah Cooper

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        Theory of architecture
        November 2014

        The extended self

        Architecture, memes and minds

        by Chris Abel

        In his wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, Chris Abel argues that, despite progress in sustainable development and design, resistance to changing personal and social identities shaped by a technology-based and energy-hungry culture is impeding efforts to avert drastic climate change. The book traces the roots of that culture to the coevolution of Homo sapiens and technology, from the first use of tools as artificial extensions to the human body, to the motorized cities spreading around the world, whose uncontrolled effects are changing the planet itself. Advancing a new concept of the meme, called the 'technical meme,' as the primary agent of cognitive extension and technical embodiment, Abel proposes a theory of the 'extended self' encompassing material and spatial as well as psychological and social elements. Drawing upon research from philosophy, psychology and the neurosciences, the book presents a new approach to environmental and cultural studies that will appeal to a broad readership searching for insights into the origins of the crisis.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2009

        The silence of Barbara Synge

        by Bill McCormack

        'The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (née Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. Key events in the family's history are carefully documented, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play, the effects of the famine which influenced 'The playboy of the western world' in 1907, and the behaviour of Francis Synge at the time of the union. 'The silence of Barbara Synge' is a unique work of cultural enquiry, combining archival research, literary criticism, and religious and medical history to pull the strands together and relate them to the family's literary descendent J.M. Synge. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        Dissolute Characters

        by Bill McCormack

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        March 2012

        The ends of Ireland

        Criticism, history, subjectivity

        by Conor Carville

        'The Ends of Ireland' considers the work of a key group of critics emerging from Ireland through the 1980s and 1990s: Seamus Deane, Luke Gibbons, David Lloyd, W. J. McCormack, Gerardine Meaney and Emer Nolan. As the main representatives of the turn to theory in Irish Studies these critics have examined Irish culture in the light of ideas taken from psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism and postcolonialism. In a series of incisive yet accessible chapters Carville analyses the way in which these often provocative ideas have been put to work in the Irish context, transforming our understanding of writers like Joyce and Beckett, as well as informing broader debates around nationalism, modernization, memory and historical revisionism. Essential reading for anyone concerned with Irish Studies and its relationship with theory, the issues raised by 'The Ends of Ireland' set a new agenda for Irish Studies in the coming times. ;

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        Das Kartell

        Roman

        by Winslow, Don

        Übersetzt von Chris Hirte

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        October 2016

        Die goldenen Tage

        Roman

        by Monica Sabolo

        Crans-Montana in den 1960ern. Jahr für Jahr treffen sich in dem mondänen Urlaubsort drei betörende junge Frauen: Chris, Charlie und Claudia. Ein paar Jungen sind den sirenenhaften Erscheinungen hoffnungslos verfallen. Dazu verdammt, die »drei Cs« aus der Ferne – auf der Skipiste, am Pool, im Nachtclub – zu beobachten, bedeuten für die Jungen bereits die unscheinbarsten Gesten die Welt. Und dann gibt es da auch noch ihre unbezwingbaren Konkurrenten: »die Italiener«. Die Jahre verstreichen, es werden exzentrische Feste gefeiert, Ehen geschlossen, und noch immer streben Chris, Charlie, Claudia und ihre ehemaligen Verehrer nach dem vielleicht Unerreichbaren: Leichtigkeit, Liebe, Wahrhaftigkeit. Die goldenen Tage erzählt vom Aufstieg und Fall einer jeunesse dorée, von ihren unschuldigen ersten Verliebtheiten und späteren abgründigen Obsessionen. Eine atemberaubende Gratwanderung zwischen Unbeschwertheit, Glamour und Tragik – und eine Lektüre, die Sehnsüchte heraufbeschwört, die man längst für vergessen hielt.

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        Military history
        July 2013

        From victory to Vichy

        by Chris Millington

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2017

        Northern Ireland and the crisis of anti-racism

        by Chris Gilligan

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        April 2008

        SPC

        Statistical Process Control in Injection Molding and Extrusion

        by Rauwendaal, Chris

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        July 2011

        Todespfad

        Roman

        by Marten, Chris

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        June 2011

        Hydra

        Roman

        by Marten, Chris

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