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        January 2022

        Paare

        Von Beziehungskünstlern und ihrer Liebe

        by Barbara Bechtolsheim

        Marilyn Monroe und Arthur Miller, Yoko Ono und John Lennon, Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul Celan, Susan Sontag und Annie Leibowitz, John Cage und Merce Cunningham … -- zwanzig Paare aus Musik, Kunst und Literatur stellt die Autorin vor und erzählt, wie Kreativität das Miteinander und umgekehrt die Liebe das künstlerische Schaffen beflügeln. Die Lebenswege vieler dieser Paare sind untrennbar miteinander verwoben. Wie gestaltet sich ihr Alltag, gehen sie mit Rivalität und Stress und Verlust um? Wie bewahren sie ihre Liebe und Leidenschaft? Auch bei diesen Künstlerpaaren ist nicht alles perfekt, und darum geht es auch gar nicht. Vielmehr inspirieren Offenheit und Sensibilität, Stetigkeit und Bereitschaft zu Neuem in der Kunst und in der Liebe.

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        April 2008

        Ein Tag der Liebe

        Ein Stundenbuch der Gezeiten von Sehnsucht und Abschied

        by Rolf Michaelis

        Als einen Liebesreigen rund um die Uhr, von Mitternacht zu Mitternacht, inszeniert Rolf Michaelis diese sehr persönliche Sammlung von Gedichten und anderen Texten über die Liebe aus drei Jahrtausenden. Dabei trifft man nicht nur auf jene "schönsten Liebesgedichte", wie man sie aus zahlreichen Zusammenstellungen kennt, sondern der besondere Reiz dieser selbst wie ein Kunstwerk komponierten Anthologie liegt in den Funden, die Rolf Michaelis in den Literaturen des Ostens und des Mittelalters, der Antike und der Moderne macht, deren Verfemung durch die Nazis bis heute nachwirkt. Besonders reich ist diese Auswahl an Liebesgedichten von Frauen. Rolf Michaelis hat ein durch und durch weltliches Stundenbuch arrangiert, das die Liebe zeit- und weltumspannend zwischen Sehnsucht und Verführung, Erfüllung und Abschied, Ekstase und Trauer nachts, morgens, mittags, abends und wieder nachts feiert – ein Tag der Liebe. Als ich an ihn dachte, schlief ich glücklich ein. Da erschien er mir. Hätte ich gewußt: ein Traum, wär ich nie mehr aufgewacht. Ono no Komachi

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        Requiem for A Holy Island

        by Zecharia Plavin

        There was a tiny island in the Far East populated by tall, gifted people plagued by malignant ideology and ruled by merciless leaders. However, a noble few were dedicated to peacefully rescuing their people from tyranny and death. Dr. Solomon Jekavpils reads about this unfamiliar place in the diary of the late pianist Adelaide Fourangier. Meanwhile, Solomon's former classmate, Nelly, manipulates him to search for Illirio Mariafels, her lost love. The story spans entire lifetimes in pre-war France, French Saigon, the island, and Paris in the late twentieth century; the diary reveals many crucial personalities. After several setbacks in her life, Fourangier joins the leading liberal islander and devotes her life to teaching piano to children. Life on the island transforms her into a caring human being, inspired pianist, and master tutor. Illirio, her heroic son, can inspire wonderful kindness with his chanting. Fourangier’s diary reveals her unusual family’s secrets and describes the tragic fate of the island and its people. Dr. Zecharia Plavin, a concert pianist and educator, was born in 1956 in Lithuania but has lived in Israel since his youth. He studied under Louis Kentner, the great pianist. Prof. Plavin teaches at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Ono Academic College. He is an author, composer, scholar, and self-proclaimed dull fellow with no sense of humor… An English-language eBook edition was published in summer 2015 by Samuel Wachtman’s Sons, Inc., CA. 432 pages, 15 x 22 .5cm.

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        Ein Requiem für eine heilige Insel

        by Zecharia Plavin

        Ein Requiem für eine heilige Insel/Zecharia Plavin   Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte einer winzigen Insel im Fernen Osten, die von großartigen, begabten Menschen bevölkert, aber von bösartigen Ideologien geplagt und von gnadenlosen Führern regiert wurde. Einige wenige Bewohner widmeten sich jedoch der friedlichen Rettung ihres Volkes vor Tyrannei und Tod.Dr. Solomon Jekavpils entdeckt diesen ungewöhnlichen Ort beim Lesen des Tagebuchs der verstorbenen Pianistin Adelaide Fourangier. Solomons ehemalige Klassenkameradin Nelly überredet ihn daraufhin, nach Illirio Mariafels, ihrer verlorenen Liebe, zu suchen.Neben der Beschreibung der Insel gibt die Geschichte einen Einblick in das Leben im Vorkriegsfrankreich, im französischen Saigon, und im Paris des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Tagebuch beschreibt viele wichtige Persönlichkeiten.Nach mehreren Rückschlägen in ihrem Leben schließt Fourangier Freundschaft mit einer freizügigen, bekannten Inselbewohnerin und widmet ihr Leben dem Klavierunterricht für Kinder. Das Leben auf der Insel verwandelt sie in einen fürsorglichen Menschen sowie in eine inspirierte Pianistin und meisterhafte Lehrerin.Illirio, ihr Sohn, verzaubert mit seinem Gesang seine Zuhörer. Fourangiers Tagebuch enthüllt die Geheimnisse ihrer ungewöhnlichen Familie und beschreibt das tragische Schicksal der Insel und ihrer Bewohner.Dr. Zecharia Plavin, Konzertpianist und Pädagoge, wurde 1956 in Litauen geboren und lebt seit seiner Jugend in Israel. Er studierte bei Louis Kentner, dem großen Pianisten. Prof. Plavin unterrichtet an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Jerusalem und am Ono Academic College. Er ist ein Autor, Komponist, Gelehrter und bezeichnet sich selbst als „langweiligen Kerl ohne Sinn für Humor“.Eine englischsprachige nordamerikanische Ausgabe wurde Anfang 2015 von Samuel Wachtmans Sons, Inc., CA, veröffentlicht.432 Seiten 15 x 22,5 cm.

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      • Quick & easy cooking

        A Japanese Version of Beautiful Breakfast for Lazy People

        by Makiko Ono

        A Series Total of 150,000 Copies Sold in Japan! On an ordinary week day, breakfast is the least important meal for many of us. We skip it to sleep another five minutes. If anything, it's the same old cereal. Or we stop by the store near work to spare a few dollars on a doughnut and coffee. We get excited for lunch breaks and dinners, but never for breakfast.   But wait a minute, because what you're about to see in this book will change your view of breakfast at home. You might think a book about breakfast is only for people who are good at cooking or those who care to put aside the time for it. But nope, this book teaches lazy people how to put the LEAST amount of time and effort in it!   All 260 recipes in this little book have three things in common. They 1. take merely 5 minutes to make 2. require no dishwashing 3. perfect your morning mood!   From beautiful fruit sandwiches, monthly themed English muffins to cute little rice balls, various versions of Japanese-style miso soup and nutritious rice bowls... This delightful little book will help you to become the most clever and efficient morning cook. Keep sleeping those extra five minutes in the morning, because with these recipes, you won't need them! Love your mornings, love your life!

      • Food & Drink
        December 2019

        Deliciously Microorganic

        The Wonderful World of Fermented Food & Drink, An Illustrated Guide

        by ferment books, ono-misa

        250 microorganic foods and 60 recipes are in one book! With full color illustrations, let’s learn more about fermentation’s unique history, pioneers’ stories and cultural differences about foods.   Chapter 1 Microorganic Foods of the World ............... p 11 Chapter 2 Microorganic Japanese Foods ................... p 65 Chapter 3 Koji is Like Gold ...................................... p 119 Chapter 4 A Look at Where Fermentation Happens..... p 129 Chapter 5 Fermentation: A Global Chronology ........... p 147 Chapter 6 Microorganic Food & Ingredients ............... p 155 Chapter 7 Further Reading ........................................ p 181

      • August 2020

        Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love

        Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora

        by Makiko Nishitani

        Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tongan migrant mothers and adult daughters in Australia, anthropologist Makiko Nishitani provides a unique account of how gifts, money, and information flow along the connections of kin and kin-like relationships. Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love challenges the conventional discourse on migration, which typically characterizes intergenerational changes from tradition to modernity, from relational to individual, and from obligation to autonomy and freedom. Rather, through an intimate examination of Tongan women’s everyday engagement with kinship relationships, Nishitani highlights how migrant women and their daughters born outside Tonga together create a field of relationships with kin and kin-like people, and navigate between individualistic, personal desires and familial duties and obligations. Their negotiations are not limited to a local frame of reference, but encompass vast distances, including relationships with relatives in places like Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the “home” island nation. Tongan women manage these relationships across diverse modes of communication: face-to-face interactions in homes and at church, lengthy telephone conversations on fixed phone lines in kitchens, and interactions on social media accessed on living room computers shared between neighboring households. Relationships between migrant mothers and second-generation daughters  are suffused with warmth and empathy, as well as tensions and  misunderstandings. Nishitani’s work demonstrates the critical contemporary relevance of classical anthropological kinship studies and gift theories as tools that can help us to understand transnationalism in the “digital” age. Through reflections on feminist geography, social theory of technology, Bourdieu’s field theory, and media studies, Nishitani makes a convincing call for anthropologists to use relationships rather than geographical places as a site of anthropological fieldwork in order to understand the sociality of diasporic people. Filled with rich, intimate portrayals of diasporic women’s everyday lives and the everyday politics of familial relationships, Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love will appeal to students and scholars of the anthropology of migration, of communication technologies and social media, and of gender and familial relationships, as well as to those interested in fieldwork methodology, transnational and migration studies, and Pacific studies.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        January 2021

        MINDFUL ORIGAMI

        Paper pack plus 64 page book

        by Mari Ono

        Featuring a 64-page book, plus 250 sheets of  origami paper with 15 origami models designed for mindfulness practice.    These projects will guide you on a path to connectedness, awareness and improved physical and mental health.   Origami is the perfect tool for anyone interested in taking the first steps toward a mindful lifestyle.

      • Economics

        The Economics of Educational Success

        Groundbreaking evidence on how to raise children and maximize their future achievements

        by Makiko Nakamuro

        Over 330,000 Copies Sold in Japan!!   Are video games really that bad for your kids?Is it harmful to reward your kids in order to make them study?Is praising your kids really the best way to raise them?   While many critics tend to write education and child-raising books based ontheories and personal experiences, this book gives extraordinary insights onhow we could potentially raise academically successful children by followingscientifically proven data and statistics. Whether you wish to agree or not,the facts disclosed in this book are objective, persuasive and worth knowing.It contains groundbreaking evidence that lot of the causes and effects thatwe have believed to be true about successful child-raising and educationwere simply myths and beliefs.

      • John Lennon: SBTS with Lyrics

        All the Songs. All the Stories. All the Lyrics.

        by Paul Du Noyer

        Lennon's life after the Beatles was eventful and fascinating. He moved from stardom in the world's biggest pop group to global peace campaigner and figurehead for radical causes. He left England for a new life in the USA with Yoko Ono. He later abandoned public life and retired to his New York apartment to raise their son and live the life of a recluse. In 1980 he re-emerged with a new album, but the plan to resume his career was cruelly curtailed on a fateful night outside the Dakota Building when he was murdered. Upon first publication, this book was the first to examine and assess all of John Lennon's solo work. This updated edition includes lyrics and is released on the 40th anniversary of his death and the 80th anniversary of his birth.

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