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March 2005

Style and Meaning

Studies in the Detailed Analysis of Film

by Susan Williams

The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and filmmakers, reflecting shifts both in documentary production itself, and in ways of discussing it. Once again, the emphasis has been on clear and provocative writing, sympathetic to the practical challenges of documentary film-making but making connections with a range of work in media and communications analysis. With its wide range of contributors and the international scope of its agenda, New challenges for documentary will be essential reading for general filmmakers and documentary students both of academic and practical inclinations.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2023

Presence

The strange science and true stories of the unseen other

by Ben Alderson-Day

In this enthralling book, Ben Alderson-Day explores one of the most curious experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing sense that someone or something is there when we are alone - the feeling of an unseen presence. When and why do presences emerge? What does this feeling mean and where does it come from? And how can we even begin to understand a phenomenon that can be transformative for those who experience it and yet so hard to put into words? The answers to these questions lie in this fascinating exploration through cutting-edge research in contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and philosophy. Taking the reader on a riveting and emotional journey, Presence offers remarkable insights into the experience of felt presence and how it relates to a range of medical conditions, including sleep paralysis, dementia and Parkinson's. This compelling story will stoke the fascination of sceptics and ardent believers alike who are drawn to the mystery of the unseen.

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July 2017

Ester

by Ego, Beate

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SINAMATELLA: A Quest for Meaning

by Shlomo Breznit

Don’s personal life is shattered by a trauma, and he is devastated and helpless. His obsessive, automat-like way of thinking leaves no room for fresh or novel experiences. He seeks help from Irv, a highly unconventional therapist, who sends him to Africa in order to “unfreeze his personality.” There, at Sinamatella, he starts the long journey back from his deep depression. Slowly, step by step, his inner life, which was an empty shell, starts to evolve, and with it his ability to cope. He meets a person unlike anyone he has known before, who teaches him to trust his intuition. He learns to infuse meaning into the most mundane experiences and thus enrich his life beyond recognition. Sinamatella is a story of hope and of a second chance in life. Shlomo Breznitz is a world-renowned expert in the area of psychological stress and coping. His more recent work is in the area of cognitive aging and brain training. He has published numerous scientific books in his field. The most recent, Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom, which he wrote with Collins Hemingway, was published by Ballantine Books in 2012. In addition he has written two memoirs, Memory Fields and The Tapestry of Life. He was the rector and president of the University of Haifa and briefly served in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. He lives in Haifa. An English-Language eBook edition was published in winter 2014 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons ,Inc., CA. 212 pages, 15X22.5 cm

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 1998

Angela Carter

by Aidan Day

This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the medieval through de Sade to Foucault. ;

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October 2007

Winterquartier

Roman

by Cathy Day, Dirk Gunsteren

Lima, Indiana 1884. Der erfolgreiche Unternehmer Wallace Porter ist am Ende. Seine junge Ehefrau liegt im Sterben, ihr Traum von Abenteuern in Amerikas Westen wird für immer ungelebt bleiben. Da schlägt der ärmliche Zirkus Hollenbach in der Kleinstadt sein Quartier auf. Aus einer Laune heraus kauft Porter den bankrotten Wanderzirkus. So wird die Provinzstadt Lima Jahr für Jahr zum Winterquartier des »Great Porter Circus« und zur Heimat für Hochseilartistinnen, Clowns, Dompteure und Akrobaten. Über Jahrzehnte und Generationen hinweg verschmelzen so die Sippen des Zirkus mit den Bewohnern der Kleinstadt Lima, prägt der Zirkus ihre Lebensläufe.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 1998

The Ideal Landscapes: The Meaning of Feng-shui

by YU Kongjian

It is a valuable work written by YU Kongjian on landscape design and the meaning of Feng-shui. It analyzes the structural characteristics of Feng-shui and landscape patterns, as well as the profound relationship between the two notions. The book follows the experience of human evolution and cultural ecology and provides abundant field research material, revealing the common patterns between an ideal Feng-shui design, other ideal landscape designs in Chinese culture, as well as ideal landscape design in the psychology and statistic sense. The work demonstrates China’s Feng-shui theory with cultural, geographical, biological and philosophical significance. The author, with amply practical experience in urban design and landscape design, reveals the cultural significance of Feng-shui with respect and understanding towards culture, belief, local development, as well as an objective attitude towards this theory.

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1974

Die Bedeutung der Bedeutung. (The Meaning of Meaning)

Eine Untersuchung des Einflusses der Sprache auf das Denken und der Wissenschaft des Symbolismus. Supplement: Das Problem der Bedeutung in primitiven Sprachen

by C K Ogden, I A Richards, Bronislaw Malinowski, Gert H Müller

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October 2018

All of this is true

Ruhm kann tödlich sein

by Peñaflor, Lygia Day

Als die Freunde Miri, Soleil, Jonah und Penny sich mit der exzentrischen Bestsellerautorin Fatima Ro anfreunden, glauben sie, dass ihr Leben endlich den ersehnten Kick bekommt. Sie teilen sich gegenseitig ihre tiefsten Geheimnisse mit und gründen sogar einen Fan-Club für die Autorin. Diese wiederum lässt die Clique hautnah an ihrem Leben teilhaben - bis sie plötzlich in ihrem neuen Buch ein skandalträchtiges Geheimnis verrät, das eine tödliche Tragödie auslöst. Die Schülerinnen müssen sich entsetzt eingestehen, dass in dieser Freundschaft niemand ehrlich gespielt hat.

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August 2021

Aloha und alles auf Anfang

Roman

by Annicken R. Day, Elke Ranzinger

Maya Williams ist eine hart arbeitende Karrierefrau, ehrgeizig und ambitioniert, an die Spitze eines New Yorker IT-Unternehmens zu gelangen. Eines Tages erhält sie ihre Chance: Sie soll ihren Chef bei einer Investorenkonferenz auf Hawaii vertreten. Nach ihrem Vortrag wird sie nicht befördert, sondern gefeuert – und ihr bisheriges Leben komplett über den Haufen geworfen. Durch die besondere Atmosphäre Hawaiis sieht sie das Leben, die Arbeit, die Liebe und sich selbst in neuem Licht. Bis sie nach einigen Monaten auf der Insel ein Angebot bekommt, von dem ihr altes Ich immer geträumt hatte … Aloha und alles auf Anfang ist eine Hommage an Hawaii und gleichzeitig ein inspirierender, charmanter Roman voll positiver Energie, der Mut macht, das Glück zu suchen und seine Träume zu leben.

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September 2010

Mose in Judentum, Christentum und Islam

by Böttrich, Christfried; Ego, Beate; Eißler, Friedmann

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April 2009

Jesus und Maria in Judentum, Christentum und Islam

by Böttrich, Christfried; Ego, Beate; Eißler, Friedmann

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May 2011

Adam und Eva in Judentum, Christentum und Islam

by Böttrich, Christfried; Ego, Beate; Eißler, Friedmann

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April 2009

Abraham in Judentum, Christentum und Islam

by Böttrich, Christfried; Ego, Beate; Eißler, Friedmann

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August 2013

Elia und andere Propheten in Judentum, Christentum und Islam

by Böttrich, Christfried; Ego, Beate; Eißler, Friedmann

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August 2021

Aloha und alles auf Anfang

Roman

by Annicken R. Day

Maya Williams ist eine hart arbeitende Karrierefrau, ehrgeizig und ambitioniert, an die Spitze eines New Yorker IT-Unternehmens zu gelangen. Eines Tages erhält sie ihre Chance: Sie soll ihren Chef bei einer Investorenkonferenz auf Hawaii vertreten. Nach ihrem Vortrag wird sie nicht befördert, sondern gefeuert – und ihr bisheriges Leben komplett über den Haufen geworfen. Durch die besondere Atmosphäre Hawaiis sieht sie das Leben, die Arbeit, die Liebe und sich selbst in neuem Licht. Bis sie nach einigen Monaten auf der Insel ein Angebot bekommt, von dem ihr altes Ich immer geträumt hatte … Aloha und alles auf Anfang ist eine Hommage an Hawaii und gleichzeitig ein inspirierender, charmanter Roman voll positiver Energie, der Mut macht, das Glück zu suchen und seine Träume zu leben.

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August 2004

So werden Wünsche wahr

by Day, Laura / Übersetzt von Tauer, Claudia

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2023

Global networks of Indigeneity

by Bronwyn Carlson, Tristan Kennedy, Madi Day

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La faim justifie les moyens (Hunger justifies the means)

by Gilka

Elo the crocodile finds himself in a small dilemma: he must choose between his stomach and his heart. But hungry for several days, he will not hesitate long.

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May 2015

The Meaning of the Letter of Aristeas

In light of biblical interpretation and grammatical tradition, and with reference to its historical context

by Matusova, Ekaterina

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