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August 2011Miss Winter lässt nicht locker
Ein neuer Fall für Rosie Winter
by Kathryn Miller Haines, Kirsten Riesselmann
Rosie Winter bricht in die Südsee auf, um ihre große Liebe wiederzufinden. Seekrankheit, Kugelhagel, ein unliebsamer Verehrer und eine mörderische Verschwörung – nichts kann sie in diesem Juni 1943 aufhalten, denn Miss Winter läßt nicht locker. Rosie Winter ist auf dem Weg in die Südsee. Zusammen mit ihrer Freundin Jayne und einer Gruppe Tänzerinnen soll sie in diesem Juni 1943 bei den Soldaten an der Front für gute Laune sorgen. Doch das erweist sich als gar nicht so einfach: Die Überfahrt ist turbulent, die Feldbetten hart und das Essen schlecht. Außerdem stiehlt der Hollywood-Star Gilda DeVane den anderen Frauen die Show, und Rosies große Liebe Jack gilt seit Wochen als vermißt. Während Rosie zwischen Tanzeinlagen und Luftangriffen versucht, mehr über Jacks Verschwinden herauszufinden, wird Gilda bei einem ihrer Auftritte erschossen …
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January 2020Marine Sciences, Revised Edition
Notable Research and Discoveries
by Kyle Kirkland, Ph.D.
Marine Sciences, Revised Edition details the explorers and scientists who are expanding the frontiers of marine science. This comprehensive resource includes the study of the geology of the sea floor, the chemical and physical properties of the water, and the life that teems in and around it. This revised edition now covers the role humans play in polluting marine life and water supplies, and ultimately accelerating climate change, making this edition a must read. It also ties in a selection of various reports, offering students insightful information on the methods and applications of oceanography. Chapters include: The Ocean Depths—Exploring the Seabed Mid-Ocean Ridge—The Largest Single Volcanic Feature on the Planet Creatures of the Deep Sea Tsunami—Killer Waves El Niño and Weather Harmful Algal Blooms—"Red Tides" Human Impacts: Pollution and Climate Change.
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March 2023Why We Need Comfort
On the trail of a human need
by Jean-Pierre Wils
— The accompanying book to the Kassel exhibition "Trost" ("Comfort") in spring 2023 — A book to counter desolation in these challenging times — What comfort is and why people need it "Comfort" is one of those words that has a somewhat tarnished reputation: cold comfort, false comfort, consolation prize, someone is not to be comforted ... "Action instead of comfort" is the maxim; "therapy instead of resignation" the variant. There is something old-fashioned about comfort. And still we long for it; people have always looked for "sources of comfort". In the midst of the climate and global political upheavals of our time, in the middle of a Ukraine war, a play recently celebrated at the Salzburg Festival is called, "Crazy for Consolation". People seek comfort because just helping is no longer helping; they are at the end of their abilities. "Comfort" would appear to be a gift in both senses of the word. But "comfort" is a mystery. Jean-Pierre Wils attempts to solve it in this essay.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2024Peace and the politics of memory
by Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Timothy Williams
This important book provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It does so by developing a theoretical approach focusing on the intersection of sites, agency, narratives, and events in memory-making. Drawing on rich empirical studies of mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia, the book speaks to a broad audience. The in-depth, cross-case analysis shows that inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity in memory politics are key to the construction of a just peace. The book contributes crucial and timely knowledge about societies that grapple with the painful legacies of the past and advances the study of memory and peace.
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January 1992Locker auf dem Hocker
60 unkomplizierte Dehn-, Atem- und Augenübungen, die sich am Arbeitsplatz ausführen lassen
by Friedeberger, Julie / Übersetzt von Balkenhol, Marion
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 1999British Politics in an Age of Reform
by Michael J. Turner, Mark Greengrass
This work is a detailed examination of principal themes in the political history of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. It evaluates much recent research, links the politics of the elite with the politics of the people and seeks to explain significant developments with reference to both their long- and short-term causes. Among the issues addressed are the relative powers of crown, cabinet and parliament between 1760 and 1832; the impact on domestic politics of revolution and war abroad; the growth of radicalism and popular political activity; agitation for reform and the responses of government; the rise of party; the connections between extra-parliamentary pressure and instability; at the centre of power. ;
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Children's & young adult: general non-fiction2020Union of Soviet Things
by Petro Yatsenko
The soviet realia are not entirely clear to modern adolescents. Childhood in the late Soviet Union was not like it is now. Back in those days, everything was different and even scary to some point: a premonition of the nuclear war, propaganda, shortages, and confusing household items. The main characters of the book, a teenage Matvii and his father Petro, go to Lviv to visit their grandmother. There are still heaps of Soviet things in her ceiling cabinet and they are good at telling stories. Paretns are good at this as well, if you ask them well. The book gives a reason to talk about feelings of nostalgia and values.
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May 2021Escapades in Evolution
Of humans, chimps and other capers of nature
by Matthias Glaubrecht
Humans are rapidly changing the conditions of evolution, and while many species have not yet been discovered, the extinction of numerous species is becoming more and more dramatic. In this book, Matthias Glaubrecht contrasts the impending “end of evolution”, of which the evolutionary biologist writes in his bestseller of the same name, with the beauty, diversity and also the whims of nature. In 36 short chapters, the zoologist presents the animal and the all-tooanimal from the curiosity cabinet of evolution, easy to understand and with a good touch of humour – from dinosaurs with four wings to the annual new “Minnelied” hit of the humpback whale to the women’s communes of bonobos who use sex as a form of social bonding.
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April 2019Kings of Chaos / Kings of Chaos (3). Bleib locker, Stinktier!
by Leonhardt, Jakob M.
Yeah! Klassenfahrt! Wir sind für eine Woche auf dieser spukigen Burg irgendwo mitten im Wald. Weit weg von Direktor Kakadu und unseren Eltern. Wann könnten Abdi und ich unseren Battle besser zu Ende bringen, wenn nicht jetzt!? Abdi ist allerdings echt genial, das muss ich zugeben! Er ist mir immer einen Schritt voraus. Wie macht er das nur? Oder steckt vielleicht noch jemand ganz anderes hinter den Streichen?
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