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        The gates of curiosity

        by Jean de Dieu Munyurangabo

        A board book to let children know numbers, colors and print foot. By opening every gate of x color, a child know which animals walked there etc…

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        Children's & YA

        Umbrella Over Berlin

        by Cao Wenxuan

        An umbrella goes to Berlin on holiday with its holder, but is left in the hotel because it doesn't rain. The person visits the Brandenburg gate, the Berlin Wall, and the Holocaust Memorial, but the poor old umbrella sees nothing. And so, on the last day of the holiday, the umbrella flies out of the window, and up into the sky above Berlin.

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        Relationships
        2019

        Felix Austria

        by Sofia Andrukhovych

        The events of Felix Austria unfold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Stanislav, present-day Ivano-Frankivsk — an ordinary city in the Reczposolita territories of Felix Austria (Austro-Hungarian Empire), whose residents live, suffer, inseparably fall in love, delight in science and the charlatan performances of world-renowned illusionists, seek amusement at balls and carnivals, shpatzir aroun their neighborhoods, and hide secrets in the carved wooden chests. And against the backdrop of an era that, for posterity, will become overgrown in myths about an idyllic way of life, arise the fates of two women, intertwined as closely as the trunks of two trees, who are bonded in an inextricable relationship that doesn’t allow them to live or breathe, stay or leave. Drama surrounded by the luxury and buzz of the beginning of the 20th sentury.

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        Crime & mystery
        2019

        The Great Prussia Hotel

        by Bohdan Kolomiychuk

        It’s 1905 in Europe. Russia is losing the war with Japan and is now concentrating its forces in the West. Specifically, hundreds of Russian entrepreneurs head to Austria-Hungary and Prussia to establish business relationships, agents of the Russian Okhranka secret police and members of Russia’s criminal underworld disguised among them. Meanwhile, in the Austrian city of Lviv, the career of Criminal Police Commissar Adam Wistowicz advances. He’s one of the best investigators in Halychyna (Galicia), whose reputation is well known even in the empire’s capital, Vienna. Wistowicz’s ex-wife Anna Kalisch, an actress of the Berlin Shauspielhaus, unexpectedly finds herself in the middle of the ruthless whirlpool. In despair, she sends the commissar a telegram, begging for help. Between two fires, in foreign Prussia, Wistowicz takes on the most dangerous case of his life. He finds himself in the Royal Opera House, among communists in a German pub, in the luxury Great Prussia Hotel in Posen, then one on one with a maniac in the middle of an empty square… Teetering at knifepoint between life and death, winning crazy amounts of money and subsequently losing it, and confronting a powerful enemy with only intelligence and adroitness, the commissar from faraway Halychyna brilliantly brings the case to a close… and proves victorious.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2023

        Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism

        A time of reproductive unrest

        by Madelaine Moore

        This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water. Presenting an incorporated comparison, it analyses the conjuncture following the 2007 financial crisis through the lens of water expropriation and resistance. This brings into view the way that transnational capital has made use of and been facilitated by the strategic selectivities of both the Irish and the Australian state, as well as the particular class formations that emerged in resistance to such water grabs. What is revealed is a crisis-ridden system that is marked by increasing reproductive unrest - class understood through the lens of social reproduction theory. As an important analysis of two significant water struggles, the book makes a compelling argument for integrating the study of social movements within critical political economy.

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        The Arts
        December 2019

        Screening the Paris suburbs

        From the silent era to the 1990s

        by Philippe Met, Annie Fourcaut, Roland-François Lack, Jean-Louis Pautrot, Keith Reader, Margaret Flinn, Eric Bullot, Tristan Jean, Malcolm Turvey, Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck, Térésa Faucon, Philippe Met, Camille Canteux, Derek Schilling, Guillaume Soulez, David Vasse, Derek Schilling

        Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content. In the Paris suburbs they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions, from bourgeois villas and bucolic riverside cafés to post-war housing estates and postmodern new towns. For the first time in English, contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long film history, marked by such towering figures as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati and Jean-Luc Godard. Idyllic or menacing, expansive or claustrophobic, the suburb served divergent aesthetic and ideological programmes across the better part of a century. Themes central to French cultural modernity - class conflict, leisure, boredom and anti-authoritarianism - cut across the fifteen chapters.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2021

        Human capital and empire

        by Andrew Mackillop

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        March 2000

        Wie werde ich Bill Gates

        Aufzucht und Lebensweise des gemeinen Nerd

        by Brujn, Max de

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        February 2005

        Vienna

        by Menasse, Eva

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2000

        Henry V

        by James Loehlin

        This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern theatre as a dark and troubling analysis of the causes and costs of war. The book details the theatrical innovations and political insights that have turned one of Shakespeare's most traditional-bound plays into one of his most popular and provocative. Henry V gives details analyses of several important modern productions. Beginning with a consideration of the play's political significance in Elizabethan London, the book goes on the reveal its subsequent reinvention, both as patriotic pageant and anti-war manifesto. Individual chapters consider important productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and other British and North American companies, as well as the landmark film versions. A compelling account of the theatrical revolution that has transformed one of Shakespeare's most challenging plays. ;

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        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2024

        False profits of ethical capital

        Finance, labour and the politics of risk

        by Claire Parfitt

        False profits of ethical capital is a thought-provoking approach to understanding stakeholder capitalism. Rather than focusing on the inadequacies of corporate responsibility, sustainable investment and consumer politics, this book grapples with the technical and rhetorical functions of ethical capital for profit and accumulation. It provides a unique and eclectic analysis of the political dynamics between finance, capital and labour, offering a refreshing perspective on struggles interlocking social, ecological and economic crises, and suggesting new ways of thinking about sustainability politics.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan

        Young men and the digital economy

        by Hannah Schilling

        Digital technologies promise efficiency and comfort, but the smoothness of platform services relies on the hidden social labour of those who keep the gig economy running. This book presents a comparative ethnography of young men making a living through digital technologies: selling mobile airtime in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and app-based delivery riders in Berlin, Germany. These case studies explore the significance of symbolic capital in urban youth's social existence and organisation of livelihood in the digital economy, and the technological mechanisms producing a new form of urban precarity. Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan puts forward an original comparative approach to develop a global urban sociology for the digital era. It provides an innovative analytical toolbox that decentres discussions of precarity from the standard of a normal employment contract. With its focus on symbolic capital, the ethnography shows the consequences of the proliferating gig economy for status struggles among urban youth, and carefully embeds the densification of software and services into the socio-material relations on which these new urban infrastructures are built.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        January 2024

        Capitalism in contemporary Iran

        Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics

        by Kayhan Valadbaygi

        By situating Iran within the neoliberal global capitalism and resulting geopolitics, this book traces the patterns of capital accumulation and transformations in class and state formation emanating from it. It shows that Iranian neoliberalisation has brought about two capital fractions, namely the internationally-oriented capital fraction and the military-bonyad complex. It substantiates that the co-existence of these competing class fractions with different accumulation strategies has generated hybrid neoliberalism. The book further demonstrates how this new class formation has reorganised the function and operation of state institutions and transformed state ideology. By documenting the ways in which Iranian neoliberalisation has reshaped the subaltern classes and formed Iran's volatile foreign policy, it also provides a novel account of major events and processes in contemporary Iran, such as the post-2017 wave of uprisings, the nuclear programme and international sanctions.

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        October 2015

        Gelassen bleiben, Baby

        Coole Tipps für ruhige Eltern

        by Vienna, David / Englisch Wais, Johanna

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        Yo amé Berlin

        by Meir Sussman

        Yo amé Berlin – Una conmovedora novela de post Guerra por Meir Sussman La novela “Yo amé Berlín”, (publicada en hebreo con el nombre “Ahavti et Berlín”), acontece en el año 1985, combinando tres diferentes líneas de historia: La primera trata sobre el retorno de los judíos a Berlín después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Algunos de estos judíos fueron deportados al Ghetto de Lodz en Polonia, y posteriormente a Auschwitz. Retornaron a Berlín después de la guerra para reconstruir ahí el Centro de la Comunidad Judía, y la historia cuenta las antiguas rivalidades entre los funcionarios del Centro. La segunda línea de historia se centra en retrospectivas escenas de estas personas viviendo en el Ghetto de Lodz, mientras la tercera trata de las dificultades de los alemanes en Berlín, al estar dividida la ciudad después de la guerra. La novela contiene dos historias de amor. Una de estas historias, trata de un escritor que pretende ser judío, quien escribe una obra en idioma polaco acerca de las desgracias de los judíos de Polonia durante el siglo 18. Llega a Berlín para traducir su obra al alemán, para presentarla ante la audiencia alemana. El escritor se enamora de una joven música judía-americana que estaba en Berlín tratando de entrar a la famosa Orquesta de Berlín, sus padres habían huido de Alemania hacia los Estados Unidos antes de la guerra. La segunda historia de amor se desarrolla entre un “cazador”, una colorida figura identificada por su “sombrero de caza", y una chica de clase obrera. El clímax de la obra transcurre en el Seder de Pascua, la tradicional cena ceremonial en las vísperas de las vacaciones de Pascua. En este Seder en particular, los participantes discuten el destino de los judíos que sobrevivieron la guerra. El anfitrión, uno de los principales personajes de la historia, recuerda la Pascua de 1941, celebrada mientras estaba en cautiverio en el Ghetto de Lodz. La pregunta, por qué estos judíos han decidido volver a Berlín y reconstruir ahí sus “vidas”, mientras parecen “muertos vivientes”, es expuesta pero no respondida. La historia representa vívidamente la vida de un Berlín dividido y los cambios que la ciudad experimentó, como una metrópolis de la preguerra y después como una ciudad dividida. El autor describe a Berlín como una “isla” revelando su belleza, que reina en junto a la dificultad, el hambre, los borrachos, viudas por la guerra y comerciantes en la propiedad de segunda mano de la vieja y agonizante generación. Meir Sussman nació en Jerusalén. Estudió cinematografía en Nueva Cork y después se trasladó a Alemania, donde vivió por 4 años  estudió teología en la Universidad Libre de Berlín. Sussman editó la película, aclamada por la crítica, “Zacarías”, escrita y dirigida por Irene Dische, que trata sobre la historia de un científico judío quien se ve forzado a dejar Austria e ir a los Estado Unidos como refugiado. Una de los cuentos cortos de Sussman, Die Bau-Maus, fue seleccionado para publicarse en Der Alltag, Zurich, en 1989 bajo el seudónimo de Max Katzenfuss. El autor también ha publicado (en hebreo) dos cuentos para niños: El sofisticado cocinero y Benjamín el bueno y Benjamín el malo.

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        May 2007

        Paris, Joyce, Paris

        by Djuna Barnes, Karin Kersten, Kyra Stromberg

        »Ein Liebhaberbändchen zum Mit-sich-Herumschleppen (nicht nur in Paris), zum Fotos-Anschauen (Paris, wie es einmal war, von unnachahmlichem Zauber), zum Sich-Freuen, daß es solche Bücher noch gibt.« BuchJournal

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2021

        The Massacre at Paris

        By Christopher Marlowe

        by Martin White, Mathew R. Martin

        This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily shocking and intellectually gripping, the play's dramatic action spans a tumultuous two decades in French history to unfold for its audience the tragic consequences of religious fanaticism, power politics, and dynastic rivalry. Comprehensively introduced and containing full commentary notes, this edition opens up this frequently neglected but historically significant and dramatically powerful play to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the history of the massacre, the play's treatment of its sources, the play's dramatisation of trauma, and the play's exploration of notions of religious toleration.

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