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May 1997Gesetzgebung und Verfahren.
Ein Beitrag zur Empirie und Theorie des Gesetzgebungsprozesses im föderalen Verfassungsstaat.
by Mengel, Hans-Joachim
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1994Die Zwillinge des Dr. Mengele
Der Arzt von Auschwitz und seine Opfer
by Matalon Lagnado, Lucette; Cohn Dekel, Sheila
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March 2017Handbuch Evangelische Spiritualität
Band 1: Geschichte
by Prolog von Rentzing, Carsten; Prolog von Bedford-Strohm, Heinrich; Beiträge von Zimmerling, Peter; Herausgegeben von Zimmerling, Peter; Beiträge von Kohnle, Armin; Beiträge von Wriedt, Markus; Beiträge von Leppin, Volker; Beiträge von Jung, Martin H.; Beiträge von Mengel, Alfred; Beiträge von Snyder, C. Arnold; Beiträge von Sagovsky, Nicholas; Beiträge von Matthias, Markus; Beiträge von Sommer, Wolfgang; Beiträge von Meyer, Dietrich; Beiträge von Illg, Thomas; Beiträge von Grosse, Sven; Beiträge von van de Kamp, Jan; Beiträge von vom Orde, Klaus; Beiträge von Winkler, Eberhard; Beiträge von Ising, Dieter; Beiträge von Vogt, Peter; Beiträge von Türk, Sébastian; Beiträge von Osthövener, Claus-Dieter; Beiträge von Lindner, Andreas; Beiträge von Bayer, Oswald; Beiträge von Dreesmann, Ulrich; Beiträge von Treusch, Ulrike; Beiträge von Axt-Piscalar, Christine; Beiträge von Strohm, Theodor; Beiträge von Reller, Jobst; Beiträge von Fitschen, Klaus; Beiträge von Dietz, Thorsten; Beiträge von Oermann, Nils Ole; Beiträge von Schlingensiepen, Ferdinand; Beiträge von Löhr, Christian; Beiträge von Hempelmann, Reinhard; Beiträge von Iff, Markus; Beiträge von Raedel, Christoph; Beiträge von Gräb, Wilhelm; Beiträge von Voigtländer, Johannes; Beiträge von Gebhard, Rudolf
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FictionJune 2020Postcards from the East
by Reyes Monforte
A paean to liberty, identity, and hope in the middle of one of the greatest human catastrophes of our history. Madrid, 1980. A woman receives a box of postcards and photos of people she doesn’t know. “These are the postcards your mother wrote when she was in Auschwitz.” In these letters, she will discover the secret that her mother, Elle, kept for thirty-five years: that she was a prisoner of the Nazis and kept texts and photographs from the women in the concentration camp. She wanted to write their stories. One of them is Maria Mandel, a real person, the cruelest and most bloodthirsty SS woman, who lived during the Third Reich, and who would take Elle on as her reluctant protégée. Josef Mengele, Heinrich Himmler, Irma Grese, Ana Frank, Alma Rosé, and Gisella Peri also make their appearance.
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Biography & True StoriesFleeing Was the Most Beautiful Thing We Had
by Marta Marín-Dòmine
Fleeing was the most beautiful thing we had is a book that deals with exile as a I, an extraordinary text on the “dépaysement" (change of scenery) that is inherited from one generation to the next. It’s written by Marta Marín-Dòmine, who was born in Barcelona and now traches Literature and Memory Studies at the Wilfrid Laurier University of Waterloo (Canada). The book was originally published in Catalan by Club Editor and it reached best sellers lists for some weeks. It was awarded an special mention at the 2019 Catalan Booksellers Award and was awarded the 2019 Barcelona Award. The Spanish translation will be published by Galaxia Gutenberg this October 2020. In Fleeing was the most beautiful thing we had, the author pays tribute to her father, a boy of the war, one of many who lived the Spanish Civil War when they were teenagers and who, in 1939, went to exile and sought refuge in France, where they were interned in refugee camps. A boy who lived bombings, exile, the return and humiliation of returning to a pro-Franco Barcelona, a city that he does not recognize as his own and makes him feel like an exile in his own country. The narrator regularly packs her suitcases and goes to a new country where maybe she will end up feeling like home. But no: an instinct pushes her to refuse sedentary life. She seems to flee away. But from what? Based on texts from his father's unpublished memoir, Marin-Dòmine reflects on the impact of war, exile and repression in thousands and thousands of lives, and she does so with such stinging words that the reader’s heart shakes. We can imagine it, almost feel it. In addition, the author uses the description of photographic images of the time, some of them iconic, which impose themselves with all harsh: Children, teenagers and images of the refugee camp of Argelers (in France). But the book does not only tell of the memory of the Spanish Civil War, it talks about all the wars, about all the refugees, about all the exiles ... and it tells all this through the eyes of the exiles’ offspring, who somehow have collected the inheritance of those parents who had to leave. Fleeing was the most beautiful thing we had is a tribute to all the exiles, and a trip from Barcelona to Toronto, looking for traces of nomadic lives. Marta-Marín-Dòmine follows them with the sensitivity of a hunter and focuses on a bewildering truth: that the remembrances of others - what we call memory - are the country where we live. In dark times like today's, this is a reading to reflect on the importance of the values and the ravages of hatred, repression and lies.
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ABSOLVO TE
by Georgi Bardarov
EUROPEAN LITERATURE PRIZE FOR 2021! https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/georgi-bardarov The novel “Absolvo te” is based on two true stories – one about World War II and the Holocaust, and the other about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The main characters are a Palestinian, a Jewish man and a Nazis officer. Each of them must forgive and look past each other’s sins. They’re all in need of “Absolve te”, which translated from Latin means ‘’forgiveness of all sins’’.
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MemoirsNein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
by Jerry Stahl
In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl’s lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling—out-of-control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for our entire country—would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl’s own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJunk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
by M. Chris Fabricant
From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, “forensic scientists” have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Judges and juries put their faith in “expert witnesses” and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are on death row today, condemned by junk science. In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant’s clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the “science” that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City, Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. At turns gripping, enraging, and moving, Junk Science is a meticulously researched insider’s perspective of the American criminal justice system. Previously untold stories of wrongful executions, corrupt prosecutors, and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant’s astonishing true-crime narrative. The book also features a full-color photo insert that illustrates the junk science explored by the author.
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Agriculture & farmingJanuary 2011Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants
by Vanitha Jain & P. Ananda Kumar
Nitrogen fertilizers are necessary to enhance agricultural production and to sustain food security. However, their inefficient use accrues from inherent limitations of the crop plants as well as the manner in which N fertilizers are formulated, applied and managed. The main aim of the book is to assess the various aspects of the fate of fertilizer N in context of the overall N inputs to agricultural systems, with a view to enhance the efficiency of nitrogen use and reduce the negative impacts on environment. The cross cutting issues relate to improvement in nitrogen use by emerging technologies (genetic enhancement, QTL mapping), meeting N needs by understanding its interactions with other nutrients, and mitigation of nitrogen losses caused by environmental factors and management practices. Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants develops links between basic and applied research and practical crop production by addressing a wide range of topics relating to nitrogen use efficiency, and to plant and crop responses to applications of nitrogen via fertilizers, including nitrogen acquisition and reduction, molecular approaches, nitrate induction and signaling; and nitrogen use under abiotic stresses. Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants is an invaluable classroom aid for academics working in plant physiology, biochemistry, biotechnology, molecular breeding and agronomy, and an essential professional resource for researchers working in plant and crop systems as it provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of problems related to the efficient use of nitrogen in agriculture.
