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Das Buch von Göran Rosenberg vereint die historische Analyse mit der Subjektivität. Rosenberg berichtet am Anfang über seine Kindheit in Schweden und die Einwanderung nach Israel. Von Beginn an zeigt Rosenberg seine Meisterschaft in der Verknüpfung der eigenen mit der politischen Geschichte. Er beleuchtet die Anfänge des Zionismus im 19. Jahrhundert im ersten Teil seines Buches, der den Titel »Exodus« trägt. Es folgt »Das Gelobte Land«, und die nachfolgenden Kapitelüberschriften nennen die verschiedenen Themen: »Ein Land wie alle anderen«, »Ein besseres Land«, »Ein größeres Land« und schließlich »Ein Land am Ende der Zeit«. Immer ging es in der Ideengeschichte des Zionismus um das Land - aber welches? Am Leitfaden dieser Frage entwickelt Rosenberg seine Geschichte des modernen Israels. Am Ende steht der Anfang: »Das jüdische Problem«, Reflexionen über das Judentum nach dem Holocaust.
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Certain nutrients and physical activity can significantly alter immune function and inflammation. Targeted interventions may be an effective and inexpensive means to improve the inflammation and immune dysfunction associated with chronic diseases. This book defines the relevant underlying biological mechanisms and strengthens our understanding of how nutrients and physical activity impact inflammatory diseases. A useful reference for researchers and students of nutrition, physiology and sports science, it explores the unique aspects of inflammation induced by nutritional deficiencies or activity levels, and their interrelationship.
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Why can Asia now feed its rapidly growing population, but Africa continues to experience famine? This book is the outcome of a three-year project coordinated by a group of Swedish researchers with collaborating scholars from Africa and Asia. It provides a comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on case studies of eight African and eight Asian countries (focusing on the early part of the Green Revolution), this book presents a causal and explanatory model of Asian green revolutions. It discusses why such progress has been made in Asia, but has not yet occurred in Africa. It also examines the implications of the case studies for future development in Africa.
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Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is predominantly a rural and agricultural phenomenon. The large majority of all poor are farmers and herders, therefore as long as the poor remain smallholders, alleviation of poverty remains an agricultural task. African Smallholders documents the farm-level effects of agricultural policies, focusing on a variety of themes including micro-credit, infrastructure, cash crop production and food security. To deepen our understanding of agricultural development it discusses staple food production in sub-Saharan Africa and its response to changing geo-political, macro-economic and agricultural policy. It is a useful resource for all those researching or involved with food security, agricultural and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Waste land, void, the return to no-man's-land, disintegration and the departure from history represent only some of the large topics encompassed by There Would Not Be Any Miracles Here (Ovdje neće biti čuda), the first novel written by Goran Ferčec, one of the most talented playwrights of the younger generation. Bender, the protagonist, is a young intellectual facing an identity crisis in the western metropolis the name of which the reader does not learn, where he has settled down during the wars in these parts of the world. An escapist running away from not only the past but everyday life as well, he is loaded with self-doubt. While being in such an entirely damaged position, an unexpected call from his father prompts him to return to his home country, to the village he has originated from, where after the ravages of war almost no one lives any more. The return from the urban anti-utopian reality to the rural waste land does not take place only on the realistic, physical level of the journey, but also, in an even more evident manner, in the protagonist's consciousness. His conflict with himself, his own demons, and his father, as well as the inability to escape his own fate, lead him towards the utter negation of reality. Ovdje neće biti čuda is one of those novels posing real questions, although not providing any answers because they do not even exist. Ferčec’s protagonist Bender is an emblematic contemporary intellectual who can only search, and in this search completely disappear because the consequences of wars, transition and contemporary life are such that they leave a contemplating individual with no perspective save the sheer void, which may be, but not necessarily, the starting point of the creation of the new.
In this, his third collection of stories, Lester Goran moves us again through the times and places indelibly stamped with his wit and insight about people and events lost to history. Outlaws of the Purple Cow centers around the domains of Irish-American men and women in Pittsburgh. Goran creates once more his world of poignant and magical times and places within the mundane affairs of ordinary men and women. Goran’s evocative settings and narratives range form the supernatural to the humorous, from bawdy to richly detailed realism.Goran, with his mastery of language and images, chronicles in stories the unheralded laughters and sorrows of Americans seldom noted in fiction.Goran creates once more his world of poignant and magical times and places within the mundane affairs of ordinary men and women. Goran’s evocative settings and narratives range from the supernatural to the humorous, from bawdy to richly detailed realism: the bewildering ceremony enacted on a suburban lawn on Good Friday; an inventory of the loves of a lifetime compiled on scraps of paper and matchbook covers; the young man home on leave from the army who encounters a woman whose entire life is reflected in the wires holding together her threadbare Christmas tree; and the young man on the first day of his first job who delivers roses to a house where the homeowner had died since ordering the flowers. Goran, with his mastery of language and images, chronicles in stories the unheralded laughter’s and sorrows of Americans seldom noted in fiction.
Lester Goran's first book of short stories, Tales from the Irish Club, was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book of the Year 1996.” This second collection also centers around a group of men and women in an Irish-American enclave in Pittsburgh, primarily during the years surrounding World War II, but extending at times into the eighties.With evocative settings and narratives ranging from the supernatural to the humorous, from bawdy hilarity to richly detailed realism, Goran creates once more his world of poignant and magical times and places within the mundane affairs of ordinary men and women. With his mastery of language and images he shows again what Paul West has termed “the lunatic sadness of things.”As the Pittsburgh Post—Gazette noted in its review of Tales from the Irish Club, “His many characters come alive with an immediacy and clarity that makes their stories seem like today's gossip.” She Loved Me Once and Other Stories is a worthy successor to that book.
Tales from the Irish Club contains 11 wry accounts of an enclave of Irish Americans in Pittsburgh during and after World War II. In this first collection of short stories by Lester Goran are the often comic, sometimes tragic tales of Jack Lanahan, the transcendental artist who carves nothing but wooden roosters; Long Conall O’Brien, haunted by the ghosts of prostitutes he has known world-wide; Mrs. Pauline Conlon, famous as the woman who outlives three husbands—until she meets Sailor Kiernan; and the night an image of the Madonna appears on the wall of Local No. 9 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.Ranging from the grimly realistic to the fantastic, Goran’s stories examine lives so unheralded that only the Irish Club, Forbes Field—where the Pirates break their hearts, and St. Agnes Church—where they attend school and prepare for eternity—know their joys and sorrows.“Tales from the Irish Club presents a group of stories so well imagined that one can hardly tell them apart from life…They are meant to overheard, not heard, as if the reader were a child at a wedding eavesdropping on someone’s loquacious, slightly drunken aunt…I abandoned the Hibernian world of Lester Goran’s Pittsburgh with a sense of loss. Closing his book felt like driving away from my own boyhood city after a large Thanksgiving dinner, with improbable stories still echoing in my head. Tales from the Irish Club is a memorable work.”—New York Times Book Review
The End. And Again is a novel about war, romance and rock ’n’ roll. It takes us back to Ljubljana and the Balkans in late 1980s and early 1990s through reminiscences of embittered bureaucrat Peter, corrupt manager Goran and eternal runaway Mary. After taking a fateful bus ride, Mary had fallen in love with Denis, a passionate rock musician, but their love story was tragically cut short when she, a young missionary, was ordered to leave the country for violating the Mormon code, and Denis was cast from his peaceful life in Ljubljana, exiled and sent tumbling into the ravages of the Balkan war. Peter’s, Goran’s and Mary’s memories of the years when their interests revolved more around their band, music and above all love than around the turbulent political situation that derailed their lives, intersect with those of Denis in the maelstrom of war. A lack of any meaningful resolution to their story haunts them all and forces them to search for a different end(ing). (And) Again.
It is the summer of 1991 and Vladan Borojević, 11, is enjoying an almost idyllic childhood in the seaside town of Pula in today’s Croatia. Unaware of underlying tensions within their country on the brink of disintegration, he and his young friends spend their days hanging out, swimming and playing sports. His Serbian-born father is a proud member of the Yugoslav Army who is first redeployed to Belgrade with his family, which puts a sudden end to Vladan’s childhood, and ultimately disappears from their life.Seventeen years later, Vladan, now estranged from his mother and living in Slovenia, googles the name of his father and unexpectedly discovers a dark family secret. The discovery that he is the son of a fugitive war criminal sends him off on a journey around the Balkans to find his elusive father. On the way, he begins to understand how the falling apart of his family is closely linked with the disintegration of the world they used to live in. The story of the Borojević family deals intimately with the tragic fates of the people who managed to avoid the bombs but were unable to escape the war.
The most cutting-edge series from the most acclaimed writer of the decade, Mark Millar! Dive into the wildest imagination and hyper-action where unconventional super-heroes and super-villains stories are told in the unique ironic style that made Mark Millar famous worldwide. A whole library of titles is available from the early success of Wanted to the new Netflix productions, through the super-hits Kick-Ass and Hit Girl. Titles brought to screen: WANTED(Mark Millar, J.G. Jones) - MOVIE KICK-ASS(Mark Millar, John Romita Jr.) – MOVIE FRANCHISE HIT GIRL(Mark Millar, John Romita Jr., Jeff Lemire, Kevin Smith, Eduardo Risso, Goran Parlov) - MOVIE KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE(Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons) – MOVIE FRANCHISE JUPITER’S LEGACY(Mark Millar, Frank Quitely) – TV SERIES AMERICAN JESUS– THE CHOSEN ONE (Mark Millar, Peter Gross) – TV SERIES SUPERCROOKS(Mark Millar, Leinil Francis Yu) – ANIME SERIES More titles, including further Netflix adaptations: NEMESIS(Mark Millar, Steve McNiven) SUPERIOR(Mark Millar, Leinil Francis Yu) MPH(Mark Millar, Duncan Fegredo) CHRONONAUTS(Mark Millar, Sean Murphy - Eric Canete) STARLIGHT(Mark Millar, Goran Parlov) MAGIC ORDER(Mark Millar, Olivier Coipel) EMPRESS(Mark Millar, Stuart Immonen HUCK(Mark Millar, Rafael Albuquerque) SHARKEY THE BOUNTY HUNTER(Mark Millar, Simone Bianchi) REBORN(Mark Millar, Jonathan Glapion – Greg Capullo) PRODIGY(Mark Millar, Rafael Albuquerque) SPACE BANDITS(Mark Millar, Matteo Scalera) KING OF SPIES(Mark Millar, Matteo Scalera)
A genuine glossary of modern Belgrade wirtten with lucid and witty style.
