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March 2015Pechrabenschwarz
Roman
by Renata Adler, Helga Huisgen
In Pechrabenschwarz erzählt Renata Adler mit kühner Raffinesse von Kate und ihrem Wagnis, sie selbst zu sein. Denn Kate befindet sich in einer Beziehung zu einem verheirateten Mann. Und die Widersprüchlichkeiten häufen sich, im Kopf und anderswo, bis sie die junge Frau zur Flucht aus New York treiben, mitten in die pechrabenschwarze Nacht im irischen Nirgendwo … Renata Adlers Sound – im selben Moment nüchtern und sublim – ist unverkennbar. Dieser Sound machte ihren von der deutschen Kritik gefeierten Erstling Rennboot zu der Wiederentdeckung der letzten Jahre und Adler zu einem brandneuen Klassiker.
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October 1979Rennboot
Roman
by Renata Adler, Marianne Frisch, Helga Huisgen
Renata Adler, geboren 1938 in Mailand, studierte in Harvard und an der Sorbonne. Sie arbeitete für den New Yorker und die New York Times. Zeit ihres Lebens ist sie eine streitbare Figur des amerikanischen Kulturlebens.
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March 2014Rennboot
Roman
by Renata Adler, Marianne Frisch
Renata Adler ist Kult, ihre Stimme unwiderstehlich und »Rennboot« die Wiederentdeckung des Jahres. Daran lässt die Reaktion der Presse in den USA keinen Zweifel, als Adlers Debütroman im Frühjahr 2013 nach mehr als dreißig Jahren neu aufgelegt wird. Denn Jen Fain, die Hauptfigur, schlägt jeden mit ihrem Ton in den Bann. Ob spielerische Dates ohne Folgen, New Yorker Partys, mondäne Kurzurlaube oder das tägliche Abmühen als Journalistin – Jens Aufzeichnungen beschwören auf scharfsinnige und charmante Weise das urbane Leben einer jungen, unabhängigen Frau.
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FictionEstepicursor (Steppicursor)
by Marcelo Vera
After the collapse of her life as a couple and the breakdown of her expectations and projects, she desperately needs a place, something or someone to hold onto so as not to remain like a rolling plant at the mercy of the wind. With a simple, profound prose and full of references to popular culture, the Argentine author Marcelo Vera continues to deepen the narrative of the loss. After the publication of his first novel, Solo, and the poem El glitter de los solitarios, he experiments with the loneliness of a separation, the failure of motherhood and the fragility of illusion.
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January 2018Luis und Lotte. Beste Freunde für immer
Vorlesegeschichten für starke Kindergartenkinder:
by Seltmann, Christian
Ein Vorlesebuch voller origineller Geschichten aus dem Kindergartenalltag! Luis ist neu in der Gruppe. Zum Glück zeigt Lotte ihm alles und die beiden werden ziemlich beste Freunde. Zusammen mit Pia, Flora, Eddie und Moritz sind sie mal mutig, trotzig, ängstlich oder richtig stark. Sie kümmern sich um die Kleinen, setzen sich füreinander ein, streiten und versöhnen sich. So wird jeder Kita-Tag zu einem kleinen, besonderen Abenteuer!
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June 2018Die allerbeste Prinzessin
by Poznanski, Ursula / Illustrated by Büchner, SaBine
An innovative & different princess story! • The three princesses love to quarrel • Original and incredibly witty • Written by Ursula Poznanski and stunning illustrations by Sabine Büchner • Translation Grant! Bianca, Violetta and Rosalind are three adorable princesses. But they share a tiny quirk: they love to argue! One day a visitor asks for entrance into the castle. Prince Waldomir doesn’t enjoy hunting dragons anymore and rather prefers to get married know. Of course each princess is convinced to be the best choice and the prince’s one and only. So a rat race is launched before they have even met the puny prince for the first time…
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The ArtsJanuary 2018The Flower of Evil: Illustration Art of Aubrey Beardsley
by by Aubrey Beardsley Edited by Wei Junlin
This title collects illustrations, posters, and design works of Aubrey Beardsley, the characteristic illustrator in the 19th century. It is the most complete collection of his works in China, edited by Mr. Wei Junlin, painter and researcher of Beardsley.
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Children's & YAJuly 2019Buchstabendschungel
by Poznanski, Ursula / Illustrated by Büchner, SaBine
Help the animals to find their letters ... easy as ABC!• By best-selling author Ursula Poznanski• Get a first feeling for letters and words!• Humorously illustrated, with funny details!After a big storm in the jungle, the little monkey collects many funny-looking things. “That are letters,” knows the smart parrot. “Somebody must have lost them”. And indeed, monkey and parrot come across strange animals that seem like something is missing. A "iger", a "nake", a "at" … An exciting letter story for reading aloud and early reading, guessing and poetizing by yourself!
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Children's & YAJanuary 2015Hatless
by Lateefa Buti / Illustrated by Doha Al Khteeb
Kuwaiti children’s book author Lateefa Buti’s well-crafted and beautifully illustrated children’s book, Hatless, encourages children (ages 6-9) to think independently and challenge rigid traditions and fixed rituals with innovation and creativity. The main character is a young girl named Hatless who lives in the City of Hats. Here, all of the people are born with hats that cover their heads and faces. The world inside of their hats is dark, silent, and odorless. Hatless feels trapped underneath her own hat. She wants to take off her hat, but she is afraid, until she realizes that whatever frightening things exist in the world around her are there whether or not she takes off her hat to see them. So Hatless removes her hat. As Hatless takes in the beauty of her surroundings, she cannot help but talk about what she sees, hears, and smells. The other inhabitants of the city ostracize her because she has become different from them. It is not long before they ask her to leave the City of Hats. Rather than giving up or getting angry, Hatless feels sad for her friends and neighbors who are afraid to experience the world outside of their hats. She comes up with an ingenious solution: if given another chance, she will wear a hat as long it is one she makes herself. The people of the City of Hats agree, so Hatless weaves a hat that covers her head and face but does not prevent her from seeing the outside world. She offers to loan the hat to the other inhabitants of the city. One by one, they try it on and are enchanted by the beautiful world around them. Since then, no child has been born wearing a hat. The people celebrate by tossing their old hats in the air. By bravely embracing these values, Hatless improves her own life and the lives of her fellow citizens. Buti’s language is eloquent and clear. She strikes a skilled narrative balance between revealing Hatless’s inner thoughts and letting the story unfold through her interactions with other characters. Careful descriptions are accompanied by beautiful illustrations that reward multiple readings of the book.
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December 1983
Morels Erfindung
Roman. Mit einem Nachwort von Jorge Luis Borges. Aus dem Spanischen übersetzt von Karl August Horst
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Karl August Horst, Jorge Luis Borges
Adolfo Bioy Casares wurde am 15. September 1914 in Buenos Aires (Argentinien) geboren. 1932 lernte er im Haus der Essayistin und Literaturkritikerin Victoria Ocampo Jorge Luis Borges kennen und zwei Jahre darauf seine spätere Frau Silvina Ocampo, die ihn gemeinsam mit Borges überzeugte, sein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften und der Philosophie aufzugeben und sich ganz der Literatur zu widmen. 1940 veröffentlichte er La invención de Morel (dt. Morels Erfindung, Neuübersetzung von 2003), sein wohl bekanntester Roman und inzwischen ein Klassiker der phantastischen Literatur. 1954, das Jahr in dem seine einzige Tochter, Marta, geboren wurde, veröffentlichte er El sueño de los héroes (dt. Der Traum der Helden), einen seiner durch Thematik, Sprach- und Lokalkolorit »argentinischen« Romane. Unter den gemeinsamen Pseudonymen H. Bustos Domecq und B. Suárez Lynch verfaßte er mit Borges zusammen zahlreiche Erzählungen, unter anderem die Kriminalgeschichten Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (dt. Sechs Aufgaben für Don Isidro Parodi). 1990 erhielt Bioy Casares den bedeutendsten Literaturpreis der spanischsprachigen Welt: den Premio Cervantes. Er starb 1999 in Buenos Aires.
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Agronomy & crop productionNovember 2011Crop Stress Management and Global Climate Change
by Edited by Jose Luis Araus, Gustavo A Slafer.
Climate change is a diverse, multifactorial phenomenon, meaning that the agronomic strategies needed are case-specific and will have regional differences. This book provides an integrated view of the challenges and opportunities that will face agriculture in the future as a result of climate change. It discusses how the stresses resulting from climate change can be overcome by assessing, measuring and predicting environmental changes and stresses, identifying opportunities and adapting to change and responding to multifactorial change. Challenges and potential strategies that might be taken to overcome these are illustrated using a number of case studies. Climate change will pose many challenges to agriculture in the future, but by taking an integrative approach to predicting and adapting to change, this book will inspire researchers to turn those challenges into opportunities.
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April 2017Vera
Erzählungen 1912
by Bunin, Iwan / Russisch Trottenberg, Dorothea; Herausgegeben von Grob, Thomas
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Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniquesSeptember 2000Grazing Ecology and Forest History
by Edited by Franciscus W M Vera
It is a widely held belief that a climax vegetation of closed forest systems covered the lowlands of Central and Western Europe before humans intervened in prehistoric times to develop agriculture. If this intervention had not taken place, it would still be there and so if left, the grassland vegetation and fields we see today would revert to its natural closed forest state, although with a reduced number of wild species. This book challenges this view, using examples from history, pollen analyses and studies on the ecology of tree and shrub species such as oak and hazel. It tests the hypotheses that the climax vegetation is a closed canopy forest against the alternative one in which species composition and succession of vegetation were governed by herbivores and that the Central and Western European lowlands were covered by a park-like landscape consisting of grasslands, scrub, solitary trees and groves bordered by a mantle and fringe vegetation. Comparative information from North America is also included, because the forests there are commonly regarded as being analogous to the primeval vegetation in Europe. This title is a revised, updated and expanded translation of book published in Dutch.
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2022Talking to Customersin Pharmacies
A conversation guidefor newcomers and old hands
by Dr Kirsten Lennecke, Illustrated by Barbara Kohm
The basis for successful advice is having a sound knowledge of the effect and application of medicines, but also an instinct for the individual needs and characteristics of the person asking for your help. This skill can be trained! Entertaining explanations and numerous case examples taken from everyday pharmacy practice help with this. They show how pharmacy staff can react empathetically, avoid misunderstandings, and manage delicate situations with confidence. The 5th edition has become more colourful! This applies not only to the illustrations, but also to the team and customers of our model pharmacy. A personality model with distinctive colours representing the different characters promises exciting insights. Good communication creates satisfied customers who want to come back again and again!
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September 2020Drei Nächte, drei Tage
by Marie-Claire Blais, Nicola Denis
Eine sonnendurchflutete Insel, irgendwo im Golf von Mexiko. Hier leben Menschen in Reichtum, andere in extremer Armut. Und hier versucht eine Frau namens Renata sich nach einem Eingriff auszukurieren. Doch ihre Unruhe gilt nicht nur ihrer Gesundheit, Renata schwankt zwischen hedonistischen Ausschweifungen und der Verantwortung für andere, zwischen der Schönheit der Welt und ihrer Ungerechtigkeit. Währenddessen finden auf der ganzen Insel Festivitäten statt – man feiert die Geburt eines Kindes und das Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts –, es versammelt sich ein schillerndes Ensemble an Charakteren: Künstler, Drag-Queens, Ku-Klux-Klan-Mitglieder, Kinder, die in unschuldige Spiele vertieft sind, Geflüchtete der benachbarten Inseln. Sie alle verbindet eine innere Zerrissenheit und das unausweichliche, sie umgebende Meer. Drei Nächte, drei Tage ist das Porträt eines tropischen Inselkollektivs zwischen Exzess und Verzweiflung. Ein schier atemloses, polyphones Werk, barock und radikal zeitgenössisch, »ein visionäres, unentbehrliches, opulentes Sittenbild des späten 20. Jahrhunderts« (Voir).
