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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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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 1998

        Irish Home Rule

        by Alan O'Day, Mark Greengrass

        Irish Home Rule considers the pre-eminent issue in British politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. It is the first account to explain the various self-government plans, to place these in context and examine the motives for putting the schemes forward. The book distinguishes between moral and material home rulers, making the point that the first appealed especially to outsiders, some Protestants and the intelligentsia, who saw in self-government a means to reconcile Ireland's antagonistic traditions. In contrast, material home rulers viewed a Dublin Parliament as a forum of Catholic interests. This account appraises the home rule movement from a fresh angle, distinguishing it from the usual division drawn between physical force and constitutional nationalists It maintains that an ideological continuity runs from Young Ireland, the Fenians, the early home rulers including Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell, to the Gaelic Revivalists to the Men of 1916. These nationalists are distinguishable from material home rulers not on the basis of methods or strategy but by a fundamental ideological cleavage. ;

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        September 2023

        »Das Glück dieser Erde«

        Pferdegeschichten

        by Marie Bernhard, Christina Kraus

        Früher gehörten Pferde zum Straßenbild, sie zogen Kutschen und Fuhrwerke. Auf dem Land war das Pferd von alters her der wichtigste Helfer des Menschen. Heute prägen andere Pferdestärken unsere Umwelt … In der Weltliteratur hat das schöne und außergewöhnliche Tier tiefe Spuren hinterlassen: vom geflügelten Pegasus bis zu den Rossen des Sonnengottes Helios, von Don Quijotes »Rosinante« bis Pippi Langstrumpfs »Kleinem Onkel«. Die nostalgische Anthologie bietet eine Auswahl der schönsten Pferdegeschichten und -gedichte, ergänzt mit Illustrationen von Christina Kraus, die uns die Welt der Apfelschimmel und Rappen, der Hengstfohlen und Araberstuten, der Wildpferde und Ponys farbig und eindrucksvoll vor Augen führt.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2021

        African cities and collaborative futures

        Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics

        by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Susan Parnell

        This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability of African cities, as seen through local narratives of residents. Drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first-hand research, the contributions offer a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century. At a time when the future of the region as a whole will be determined in large part by its cities, the implications of these developments are profound. With case studies from cities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania, this volume explores how the rapid growth of African cities is reconfiguring the relationship between urban social life and its built forms. While the most visible transformations in cities today can be seen as infrastructural, these manifestations are cultural as well as material, reflecting the different ways in which the city is rationalised, economised and governed. How can we 'see like a city' in twenty-first-century Africa, understanding the urban present to shape its future? This is the central question posed throughout this volume, with a practical focus on how academics, local decision makers and international practitioners can collaborate to meet the challenge of rapid growth, environmental pressures and resource gaps.

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        Geography & the Environment
        August 2020

        Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city

        by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Susan Parnell

        The imperatives of public health shaped our understanding of the cities of the global north in the first industrial revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are doing so again today, reflecting new geographies of the urban age of the twenty-first. Emergent cities in parts of the globe experiencing most profound urban growth face major problems of economic, ecological and social sustainability when making sense of new health challenges and designing policy frameworks for public health infrastructures. The rapid evolution of complex 'systems of systems' in today's cities continually reconfigure the urban commons, reshaping how we understand urban public health, defining new problems and drawing on new data tools for analysis that work from the historical legacies and geographical variations that structure public health systems.

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        March 2018

        Pilze

        Ein Lesebuch

        by Raimund Fellinger, Matthias Reiner, Christina Kraus

        „Eins der größten Sommervergnügen war der sehr russische Sport der Pilzsuche.“ Vladimir Nabokov berichtet von diesen Freuden und ihren Regeln. John Cage nimmt an einem Pilzbestimmungskurs teil, Marie Luise Kaschnitz sinniert über die Architektur von Pilzhäusern, Vinzenz Klink rät zum Trüffel: Das vorliegende Pilzlesebuch lädt ein zu literarischen Spurensuchen mit Sarah Kirsch, Arno Schmidt, Leo Tolstoi u.v.a. Und mit Peter Handke geht es natürlich in den Wald zu den „Dingsda“. Hexenringe, Boviste oder Baumschwämme: Garniert sind die Texte mit zauberhaften farbigen Illustrationen von Christina Kraus.

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        Mind, Body, Spirit

        Transcendent Dreaming

        Stepping into Our Human Potential

        by Christina Donnell, PhD

        Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into Our Human Potential (Winds of Change Books, October 2008) by Christina Donnell, PhD, recounts a series of dreams that, much to the author's surprise, revealed within her a capacity for prophecy, clairvoyance, stepping out of time, materialization, and ultimately, a state of oneness with all creation. These faculties of expanded consciousness, she proposes, lie dormant in humankind, ready to be awakened. This multiple award-winning book chronicles Donnell's radical spiritual awakening through "transcendent dreaming," a form of dreaming that expands consciousness, allowing dreamers to identify with the intelligence that animates the universe. Through example, the book invites readers to access their infinite nature by delving into their own dream experiences. In the process, it eases theirtransition from identifying with the individual self to identifying with the underlying intelligence pervading the universe. This blueprint for a transcendent humanity guides us toward a future of inner peace, joy, and wonderment independent of external circumstances. Donnell offers ten of her own dreams, not so much as revelatory epiphanies, rather as sources of inspiration so that readers will want to delve deeply into their own dream experiences. Her dreams are organized in a way that lets readers witness the dream experiences as they unfolded, and learning more about their significance for expanding consciousness and accessing transcendent reality.

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        1988

        Strampel dich frei, Christina!

        Ein Verselbständigungs-Buchspiel. (rororo tomate)

        by Lust, Thea

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        April 2008

        Über Benjamin

        by Helmut Heißenbüttel, Thomas Combrink, Thomas Combrink, Christina Weiss

        "Die Emigration Benjamins war ein Akt, der untrennbar ist von seinem Werk. Dieses Werk, das ist bereits vorausprojiziert in Partien der Einbahnstraße, lebt aus der unmittelbaren Erfahrung der Emigration." Nur selten hat Helmut Heißenbüttel (1921-1996), Literaturkritiker und avantgardistischer Autor, so nachdrücklich bei einem Schriftsteller auf die Wichtigkeit der Lebensgeschichte, auf die unmittelbare Verschränkung von Existenz und schriftlichem Ausdruck gepocht wie im Falle Walter Benjamins. Überraschend wechselt er dabei auch den Modus: Von diskursiven Äußerungen über den Rundfunkautor oder den Briefeschreiber geht er über zur literarischen Formulierung in der "Nacht in den Pyrenäen", worin er die letzten Tage Benjamins nachzeichnet. Die in diesem Band gesammelten Texte sind zwischen 1967 und 1983 publiziert bzw. gesendet worden. (Einige werden hier zum ersten Mal gedruckt.) In diesem Zeitraum hat sich nicht nur Benjamins Bild in der Öffentlichkeit verändert, sondern ebenfalls Heißenbüttels Auffassung von Literatur. Stets argumentiert Heißenbüttel auch aus der Position des Produzierenden, des dichterisch Tätigen - in den späteren Beiträgen mit der für ihn einschneidenden Erfahrung, daß die politisch-kulturellen Hoffnungen der »goldenen« sechziger Jahre nicht realisiert wurden; dichtend konnte die Welt nicht verändert werden. Über Benjamin ist das Zeugnis einer tiefgehenden Auseinandersetzung mit Leben und Werk, die zugleich den, der sich da auseinandersetzt, anschaulich mitcharakterisiert. Aus guten Gründen ruft das Nachwort von Christina Weiss die Gestalt Heißenbüttels, des fast schon Verschwundenen, zurück.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2021

        Post-everything

        An intellectual history of post-concepts

        by Herman Paul, Adriaan van Veldhuizen

        Postmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this? Post-everything examines why post-Christian, post-industrial and post-bourgeois were terms that resonated, not only among academics, but also in the popular press. It delves into the historical roots of postmodern and poststructuralist, while also subjecting more recent post-constructions (posthumanist, postfeminist) to critical scrutiny. This study is the first to offer a comprehensive history of post-concepts. In tracing how these concepts found their way into a broad range of genres and disciplines, Post-everything contributes to a rapprochement between the history of the humanities and the history of the social sciences.

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        April 2024

        Während ich hier bin

        Roman

        by Steele, Emma

        Aus dem Englischen von Nadine Alexander und Christina Kuhlmann

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        March 2023

        Die Sekunde zwischen dir und mir

        Roman

        by Steele, Emma

        Aus dem Englischen von Simone Jakob, Nadine Alexander und Christina Kuhlmann

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        April 2022

        Silent Killers

        How Big Food Risks Our Health

        by Wilfried Bommert, Christina Sartori

        Addiction from the supermarket The most powerful drug cartel of the 21st century sells pizzas, chocolate bars and mixed sweets. The promise: a quick and happy snack at low cost. The truth: this “food” isn’t nutritious, but is addictive and fattening, while bringing bumper profits for the investors. “Big Food” is becoming more powerful, but the costs due to the consequences of obesity now risk overwhelming global healthcare services. Obesity ranks as a killer before smoking or high blood pressure. A direct analysis of a man-made epidemic that is dominated by a few large companies and kept going by multiple profiteers. Their motto: “Teach the world to snack.”

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