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minibombo
Minibombo makes picture books characterized by clear images and solid colours, telling stories with a short text or no text at all. The books aim to create a participated reading process between adults and children and require a bit of creativity and cooperation on their part. Minibombo loves to explore different types of communication. This is why some of its paper stories have become the starting point for creating digital applications. The apps refer to the original stories in the books and develop them further by exploiting a different code. All the minibombo apps are available worldwide on the App Store and Google Play. Minibombo started in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 2013. Since its beginnings, it has been highly appreciated both by readers and operators in the sector and has been awarded several prizes which have helped make its books known among a wide public. Its books are translated in more than fourteen counties worldwide.
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August 2005Minnie & Fiske
Geschichten von meiner Katzenfamilie
by Cauley, Harry / Übersetzt von Winkler, Christiane
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August 2016Die Konsequenzen
Roman
by Niña Weijers, Helga van Beuningen
Als Kind war Minnie Panis allen ein Rätsel, ihrer Mutter, den Lehrern, dem Arzt, der sie schon als Säugling behandelt hat: das Baby, das nicht schreien wollte. Mit Ende zwanzig ist sie immer noch zurückhaltend, nur scheinbar zerbrechlich, auf jeden Fall bezaubernd anders – und gleichzeitig ein Star in der niederländischen Kunstszene. Unerschrocken und mit leidenschaftlicher Neugier legt Minnie das eigene Leben unters Mikroskop, stellt in ihren Werken gewagte Fragen nach dem Verschmelzen von Leben und Kunst, der Lust, aus dem eigenen Dasein zu verschwinden. Der Fotograf, mit dem sie eine lose sexuelle Beziehung verbindet, kommt ihr als Partner bei ihrem neuen Projekt gerade recht. Doch die Konsequenzen lassen sich nicht absehen. Und die Frage ist: Wer manipuliert wen? Mit Minnie Panis haben wir eine junge, eigensinnige, berückende Protagonistin. Mit »Die Konsequenzen« einen rasanten Roman mit einem so witzigen wie ironischen Blick auf die internationale Welt der Kunst. Und mit Niña Weijers eine neue Stimme, die ohne große Worte, aber mit einer Menge Menschenkenntnis besticht. »Wie kommt es, dass manche Leute aus ihrem Leben erzählen können, als wäre es eine hochspannende Geschichte? Minnie kann das nicht. Weijers glücklicherweise schon.« Vogue »Mühelos hat Weijers ihren Platz unter den angesehenen niederländischen Autorinnen eingenommen, Hella Haasse, Anna Enquist, Margriet de Moor. ... Schreibt man über diesen Roman, klingt es nach Schwerarbeit. Liest man ihn, ist es ganz leicht. Also lesen Sie.« Cees Nooteboom
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December 2010Auf Wiedersehen in Kenilworth
Ein Katzen-Märchen
by Peter Rühmkorf
Ob es in England Gespenster gibt? Aber immer! Der Schloßverwalter von Kenilworth Jam McDamn jedenfalls läßt keine Führung aus, ohne auf den schloßeigenen Geist hinzuweisen. Ob seine Katze Minnie auch an Gespenster glaubt, ist ungewiß, Katzen geben bekanntlich wenig von sich preis. Und tatsächlich: Herausgefordert von McDamn rafft sich das Gespenst Nickel von Kenilworth zu einem letzten verheerenden Zauber auf und verwandelt McDamn in einen Kater, der nun sein Leben in Italien fristet, die Katze Minnie dagegen in ein bernsteinblondes Mädchen in Indien ... »Rühmkorfs Märchen sind voller anarchischer Fabulierlust und Poesie, angefüllt mit schwebenden Sätzen, rasenden Abenteuern und frechen Entzauberungen. Rühmkorf zu lesen ist ein ästhetischer Genuß, eine intelligente Verführung und eine Erinnerung daran, daß Sprache ein herrliches Instrument sein kann.« Gabriele von Arnim, Die Welt
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Business, Economics & LawNovember 2019Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage
by Daniel H Olsen, Maximiliano E Korstanje
In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be considered pilgrimage-like, it covers theories and histories of dark tourism and pilgrimage, pilgrimage to dark tourism sites, and experience design. A key resource for researchers and students of heritage, tourism and pilgrimage, this book will also be of great interest to those studying anthropology, religious studies and related social science subjects.
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July 2014The Black Steed
by Zhang Chengzhi
This is a collection of works by writer Zhang Chengzhi. The Black Steed, Rivers of the North, and Golden Pastures included in this collection have already been translated into different languages. The Black Steed, through the life experience of a man leaving and returning to the countryside and through a beautiful but sad love story, reflects the choices of the Mongolian nationality in the conflict between old and new concepts and the struggle and outcry of the new generation of the grassland.
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2024Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, Alan Rice
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2021The Red and the Black
The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not just a world-historical event in its own right, but also struck powerful blows against racism and imperialism, and so inspired many black radicals internationally. This edited collection explores the implications of the creation of the Soviet Union and the Communist International for black and colonial liberation struggles across the African diaspora. It examines the critical intellectual influence of Marxism and Bolshevism on the current of revolutionary 'black internationalism' and analyses how 'Red October' was viewed within the contested articulations of different struggles against racism and colonialism. Challenging European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left, The Red and the Black offers new insights on the relations between Communism, various lefts and anti-colonialisms across the Black Atlantic - including Garveyism and various other strands of Pan-Africanism. The volume makes a major and original intellectual contribution by making the relations between the Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic central to debates on questions relating to racism, resistance and social change.
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2024Walking in the dark
James Baldwin, my father and I
by Douglas Field
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.
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December 2014The Shadow of a River
by Qiu Shanshan
After I Wait for You in Heaven has sold well for more than ten years, Qiu Shanshan again presents a heart-warming work The Shadow of a River. The novel starts with dreams and memories and tells the ever-changing youth of Taoshu and the frustrations of her family by using the four seasons as the timeline and adopting the double perspectives of a child and an adult. The novel gives an euphemistic and unhurried account of the confusion and fragility of time as well as the tenacity of life, reflecting the ways of life during a historical period and highlighting the good and evil nature of ordinary people. The work, with proper rhythm, fluent and simplistic language, and well-balanced structure, is like a well-crafted long scroll of painting.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2024The debate on Black Civil Rights in America
by Kevern Verney
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Biography & True StoriesApril 2022Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, Alan Rice, Satnam Virdee, Aaron Winter, John Solomos
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January 2007Der Blick hinab
Roman
by Shirin Kumm
Eine Familiengeschichte zwischen Persien und Deutschland, erzählt von Tochter Minima, kurz Minni. Ihre Eltern und Bruder Maximus (Maxi) leben in Teheran und fahren regelmäßig nach Deutschland zu 'Aroma', der deutschen Uroma. Minni schildert glückliche Kindheitstage in der heiteren Außenseiterfamilie mit Kindermädchen und Diener. Nach dem Abitur gehen die Geschwister nach Deutschland, Maxi entdeckt seine Homosexualität, Minni verliebt sich in Luc. Die Beziehung scheitert. Es dauert lange, bis die Munterkeit der Erzählerin das Geheimnis preisgibt: Minni verletzt sich selbst wie unter Zwang.Was sie, empfindlich unberührbar und 'interkulturell' zerrissen, von ihrem Leben zu berichten hat, nimmt gefangen, es berührt.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2022The Red and the Black
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, Satnam Virdee, John Solomos, Aaron Winter
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MedicineApril 2021Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages
From England to the Mediterranean
by Elma Brenner, François-Olivier Touati
For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe. The chapters, including contributions by leading voices such as Luke Demaitre, Carole Rawcliffe and Charlotte Roberts, challenge the view that people with leprosy were uniformly excluded and stigmatised. Instead, they reveal the complexity of responses to this disease and the fine line between segregation and integration. Ranging across disciplines, from history to bioarchaeology, Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages encompasses post-medieval perspectives as well as the attitudes and responses of contemporaries. Subjects include hospital care, diet, sanctity, miraculous healing, diagnosis, iconography and public health regulation. This richly illustrated collection presents previously unpublished archival and material sources from England to the Mediterranean.
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April 2018The Shadow of the Flower
by Ye Zhaoyan
Lady Yu has become the head of the Zhens since her father died and her brother got paralyzed. She intently strives for the long-gone youthful days and the free and happiness she never had before. Nevertheless, the harmful influence of the feudal family on her is deep-rooted and the shadows of her father and brother have always haunted her. In the end, she fights against the evil feudal ethical code at the cost of her youth, passion and life. The novel sets in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River during 1920s which has been no longer in existence and turned into a part of historical relics.
