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      • Bernd Liske

        Bernd Liske, born in 1956, studied mathematics in Chemnitz and is the owner of Liske information management systems. From its founding in 1998 until May 2015, Bernd Liske was a member of the main board of BITKOM, where he worked in the defense, education and knowledge management working groups. In the course of his efforts to deal with the revelations of Edward Snowden in the NSA affair, he was expelled from BITKOM in 2015. From 1998 to 2003 he was a member of the board of the Association of Organizations and Information Systems (VOI). Bernd Liske has been dealing with socio-political issues for many years. In his analyzes and concepts, he deals with social, political and economic problems in our society in order to make contributions to maintaining Germany as a business location. His book “PRISM A Lesson for our Democracy”, published in September, grew out of this. The diversity of the topics he deals with as well as the systemic principles used for their treatment can be followed on his homepage at and on his TWITTER channels @BerndLiske, @LiskeAphorismen and @LiskeZitate. He now regards his aphorisms as an open source operating system for the analysis and design of social processes and has been using them successfully for years.

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      • Berlinica Publishing

        BERLINICA is a publishing house that brings Berlin to America. Berlinica is run by Eva Claudia Schweitzer, a book author, and a journalist for twenty-five years. Berlinica  Publishing LLC is located in New York City. It publishes everything devoted to Berlin in English and in German, from fiction to history, photo books, guide books, biographies, books about culture and architecture, cookbooks, and also movies, and music. Berlinica books are available everywhere where books are sold, in stores in the U.S. and Canada, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as online in a number of additional countries, from Brazil to England, Japan, and Australia to India.

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        September 2006

        Der Sohn des Akkordeonspielers

        Roman

        by Bernardo Atxaga, Matthias Strobel

        Als Joseba nach über zwanzig Jahren seinen Jugendfreund David in Kalifornien wiedersieht, müssen die beiden sich erst an ihre gemeinsame Vergangenheit herantasten – zu viele offene Fragen stehen zwischen ihnen, zuviel Verheimlichtes, Unausgesprochenes. Als ehemalige Mitglieder der baskischen Untergrundorganisation haben sie zwar Abstand gewonnen zu ihren Verstrickungen von damals, doch lasten quälende Schuldgefühle auf ihnen – Schuldgefühle angesichts eines Verrats, von dem sie beide wissen, daß er notwendig war. Wie war es dazu gekommen, daß sie, die jugendlichen Freunde und späteren Studenten, in den Bannkreis der militanten baskischen Idee gerieten? Sie müssen ins reine kommen mit ihrer Vergangenheit, die sie auseinandergetrieben hat und die erst im Angesicht von Davids nahem Tod ihre Macht über sie verliert. Es ist eine beklemmende, zunehmend dramatische Geschichte, und Atxaga erzählt sie ebenso eindringlich wie differenziert. Denn hinter dem Gewissenskonflikt, den David und Joseba durchmachen müssen, liegt die ganz andere Geschichte ihrer unwiderruflichen Entfernung aus dem, was ein ländliches Paradies sein könnte. Wie konnte es geschehen, daß aus den musisch begabten, zweifelnden Jugendlichen, die sie waren, militante Aktivisten der ETA wurden? Daß der eine dafür seine erste große Liebe verriet; daß der andere in ein zwielichtiges Verhältnis zu all seinen ehemaligen Freunden geriet? Welchen menschlichen Preis mußten sie zahlen? Und wer, vor allem, hat damals im Jahr 1976 das Kommando verraten, dem sie beide angehörten?

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        January 2011

        Das Auge des Drachen

        Roman

        by Bernardo Fernández, Petra Strien-Bourmer

        Nordrhodesien, 1869: Aus einer Grube starren den Tierfänger Lorenzo Cassanova die Augen eines Ungetüms an, das nichts mit den exotischen Tieren gemein hat, die Cassanova sonst an die Zoologischen Gärten und Zirkusse in aller Welt liefert. Doch der eilends anreisende deutsche Tierhändler Carl Hagenbeck wird weder Cassanova noch die Bestie lebend vorfinden. Schanghai, fünf Jahre zuvor: Der kleine Pi Ying und sein alter Lehrer können aus ihrem brennenden Haus nur drei Kugeln retten, die aussehen wie riesige Perlen. Aber erst Jahrzehnte später soll auf der anderen Seite des Globus, im Norden Amerikas, ein großes Geheimnis gelüftet werden, das bis heute sagenumwoben ist.

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        The Arts
        October 2008

        The encompassing city

        Streetscapes in early modern art and culture

        by Stuart Blumin

        The streetscape - the closely observed, faithfully rendered view of the city's streets, squares, canals, buildings and people - was a new artistic genre of the early modern era, a period in which the city itself was assuming new forms and taking on new roles in Europe and America. This unique book reopens the window of the early city view makers by tracing earlier forms of urban representation in European art into the sudden coalescence of the new genre in Italy and the Low Countries during the middle years of the seventeenth century. It explores the rapid expansion and diffusion of the genre through the eighteenth century, its appeal to such artists as Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Francesco Guardi, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and its embrace of a culture of secular improvement more commonly understood through the writings of Enlightenment philosophes. To examine the long history of the genre is to learn much about the early modern city, and to rediscover many beautiful and long-forgotten works of art. ;

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        The Arts
        September 2015

        Film modernism

        by Sam Rohdie

        This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism, contradiction, desire, destructuring and writing. Each category, though autonomous, interacts, intersects and juxtaposes with the others, entering into a dialogue with them and in so doing creates connections, illuminations, associations and rhymes which may not have arisen in a more conventional framework. The author refers to particular films and directors that raise questions related to modernism, and, inevitably, thereby to classicism. Jean-Luc Godard's work is at the centre of the book, though it spreads out, evokes and echoes other filmmakers and their work, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, João César Monteiro, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Orson Welles. This innovative and eloquently written text book will be an essential resource for all film students. ;

      • Children's & YA

        Pata Pank y Pato Punk

        by Bernardo Atxaga

        Duck Pank and Duck Punk go to the hairdresser to retouch their crests because they have a mission: go to the zoo and disturb the lion.Everyone prevent them to do so, but they do not listen to anyone and they direct themselves to the area, where the king of the jungle lives. And then it happens, what it had to happen...

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        Houses and Graves

        by Bernardo Atxaga

        «If we could flip over names in print as with stones in an orchard and see the life hidden beneath, we would discover that no two beings are the same.» In a bakery in the Basque village of Ugarte, a boy who one day returned from boarding school in the south of France having lost his ability to speak, recovered his speech thanks to a friendship with twin boys and to something strange which the three discovered in the waters of the canal which ran down from the mountains. The Franco dictatorship is nearing its final days. Everything is changing in Ugarte and also in the El Pardo barracks where, just then, Eliseo, Donato, Celso and Caloco are trying to train a magpie and flout the rules which reserve hunting for the rich and powerful. Theirs was also a tale of friendship, with the right amount of thoughtlessness, rebelliousness and tragedy. Years later, strikes whipped up by the unions shook the mining industry in Ugarte. This is now the turbulent eighties and Eliseo and the twins find themselves caught up in a plot for vengeance hatched by the engineer Antoine and which seems straight out of a crime novel. Time passes quickly and everything that was changes: music, television with its reality, electronic mail, all arrive while the interior lives of the protagonists of this story retain intact their silences, secrets, threats… It’s only life, which runs like threads of water between stones. But it goes on. With this exciting novel, grounded in friendship, love for nature, and the imminence of death, Atxaga again shows himself a master in the creation of unforgettable settings and characters.

      • Casas y tumbas

        by Bernardo Atxaga

        «If we could flip over names in print as with stones in an orchard and see the life hidden beneath, we would discover that no two beings are the same.» In a bakery in the Basque village of Ugarte, a boy who one day returned from boarding school in the south of France having lost his ability to speak, recovered his speech thanks to a friendship with twin boys and to something strange which the three discovered in the waters of the canal which ran down from the mountains. The Franco dictatorship is nearing its final days. Everything is changing in Ugarte and also in the El Pardo barracks where, just then, Eliseo, Donato, Celso and Caloco are trying to train a magpie and flout the rules which reserve hunting for the rich and powerful. Theirs was also a tale of friendship, with the right amount of thoughtlessness, rebelliousness and tragedy. Years later, strikes whipped up by the unions shook the mining industry in Ugarte. This is now the turbulent eighties and Eliseo and the twins find themselves caught up in a plot for vengeance hatched by the engineer Antoine and which seems straight out of a crime novel. Time passes quickly and everything that was changes: music, television with its reality, electronic mail, all arrive while the interior lives of the protagonists of this story retain intact their silences, secrets, threats… It’s only life, which runs like threads of water between stones. But it goes on. With this exciting novel, grounded in friendship, love for nature, and the imminence of death, Atxaga again shows himself a master in the creation of unforgettable settings and characters.

      • Children's & YA
        April 2017

        The Big Adventures Of Tiny House

        by Susan Schaefer Bernardo, Courtenay Fletcher

        The adventure begins when an old farmhouse gets salvaged and recycled into Tiny, a snug little house with a big heart — and WHEELS! With the help of Big Truck, Tiny sets off across America to discover if he is still a real home. After thousands of miles, Tiny discovers that home isn't a place…it's a feeling in your heart.The irresistible rhymes and delightfully detailed illustrations in this new classic are sure to enchant children — and the book's gentle messages about sustainable living and working together will delight parents and teachers as well.

      • Children's & YA

        Inspired

        by Susan Schaefer Bernardo

        As if life weren't complicated enough, teenager Rocket Malone has just learned that her mysterious Aunt Polly is actually Polyhymnia, a Greek Muse who desperately needs her help. Now Rocket needs to juggle middle school and apprentice Muse training, learn how to ride Pegasus and blow glass, battle Zeus and catch a crazed nymph named Echo -- all without losing her best friend or looking like an idiot in front of her crush Ryan. As she strives to inspire others, Rocket learns to trust her own voice and realizes that the most important spark she must ignite is her own -- because the brighter she shines, the more she lights the way for those around her.

      • Children's & YA

        Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs

        by Susan Schaefer Bernardo, Courtenay Fletcher

        No matter how far apart we are, I will always find ways to tell you I love you. Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs is a beautiful picture book with a simple but powerful message: love lasts forever. The book is intended for all children but is especially healing for children coping with separation anxiety, grief, loss or divorce.It is a Gold Medal winner of the International Publisher Awards, and a featured title in the LeVar Burton Kids Skybrary app. It was selected as a Child's Grief Awareness Day book-of-the-month, and also featured three years in a row for Multicultural Children's Book Day. Available as a bilingual edition called Besos de sol, abrazos de luna.

      • Fiction
        November 2022

        DEATH BE DAMNED

        Patay Kung Patay

        by Mike Alcazaren, Noel Canlas & AJ Bernardo

        When an entertainment TV crew gate crashes a party of society's elite at a remote hacienda, a supernatural revolution of the undead suddenly boils over. "DEATH BE DAMNED" takes its readers to a deadly, gore-ridden ride filled to the brim with sickle and scythe-wielding zombies led by a mysterious 10-year old girl. Who will survive?

      • Medicine
        April 2016

        Fast Facts: Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting

        by Rudolph M Navari, Bernardo L Rapoport

        Few side effects of cancer treatment are more feared by patients than nausea and vomiting. Failure to control these symptoms on the first day of chemotherapy increases the risk of them occurring on subsequent days and in subsequent cycles of chemotherapy, and can often result in patients refusing further cancer treatment. Very effective antiemetics are available to prevent this from happening, but do you know how best to use them? Fast Facts: Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting presents the evidence for the clinical agents that can prevent CINV, along with the recommendations for their use in various clinical settings using recently established international guidelines. Correct administration of prophylactic antiemetics in relation to the emetogenicity of the chemotherapy being given not only improves patients’ quality of life during treatment but also adherence to subsequent cancer treatments, thus improving overall outcomes. This refreshingly readable handbook is therefore a must-read resource for all health professionals in a position to make this kind of a difference.

      • El éxito internacional de la cocina catalana

        Más allá de la creatividad y la innovación

        by Mercè Bernardo, Raúl Escalante, Anna Arbussà

        El éxito de la cocina catalana en las últimas décadas es indiscutible. Lo corrobora el hecho de que Cataluña tenga el mayor número de restaurantes galardonados con la estrella Michelin de España. La personalidad y el liderazgo de los chefs, la creatividad de las recetas, la innovación y el «fenómeno Ferran Adrià» son algunos de los factores que, como es sabido, han hecho posible que la gastronomía catalana haya alcanzado un nivel de excelencia tan alto. Pero, ¿existen otras causas? En esta obra se analizan otros motivos que ayudan a explicar este éxito, especialmente dos: las relaciones entre los cocineros y su formación. El anhelo por aprender y mejorar, el ambiente de colaboración y respeto mutuo son los ingredientes que han situado la cocina catalana entre las mejores del mundo.

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