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March 1999Gnosis
Die Botschaft des fremden Gottes
by Hans Jonas, Christian Wiese, Christian Wiese
Hans Jonas (1903-1993) war Philosoph und wegweisender Theoretiker der internationalen Ökologiebewegung. Er floh 1933 vor den Nationalsozialisten und emigrierte, nach Stationen in Großbritannien und Israel, schießlich in die USA. Dort forschte und lehrte Jonas unter anderem an der renommierten New School for Social Research. Sein Werk wurde in 15 Sprachen übersetzt. Christian Wiese, geboren 1961, Studium der Ev. Theologie und Judaistik in Tübingen, Bonn, Jerusalem und Heidelberg, Promotion 1997 in Frankfurt a.M., Habilitation 2006 in Erfurt. 2007-2010 Professor für jüdische Geschichte und Direktor des Centre for German-Jewish Studies an der University of Sussex. Vorher Stationen als Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Salomon-Ludwig-Steinheim-Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte in Duisburg und Wiss. Assistent am Lehrstuhl für Judaistik an der Universität Erfurt. Sein Forschungsgebiet ist die moderne jüdische Geschichte und Philosophie, die Geschichte des Zionismus sowie die Geschichte der jüdisch-christlichen Beziehungen der Neuzeit. Gastprofessuren in Montreal, Dublin, am Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, an der University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) und an der ETH Zürich. Seit 2010 Inhaber der Martin-Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, seit 2021 Direktor des Frankfurter Buber-Rosenzeig-Instituts für jüdische Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte der Moderne und Gegenwart. Christian Wiese, geboren 1961, Studium der Ev. Theologie und Judaistik in Tübingen, Bonn, Jerusalem und Heidelberg, Promotion 1997 in Frankfurt a.M., Habilitation 2006 in Erfurt. 2007-2010 Professor für jüdische Geschichte und Direktor des Centre for German-Jewish Studies an der University of Sussex. Vorher Stationen als Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Salomon-Ludwig-Steinheim-Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte in Duisburg und Wiss. Assistent am Lehrstuhl für Judaistik an der Universität Erfurt. Sein Forschungsgebiet ist die moderne jüdische Geschichte und Philosophie, die Geschichte des Zionismus sowie die Geschichte der jüdisch-christlichen Beziehungen der Neuzeit. Gastprofessuren in Montreal, Dublin, am Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, an der University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) und an der ETH Zürich. Seit 2010 Inhaber der Martin-Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, seit 2021 Direktor des Frankfurter Buber-Rosenzeig-Instituts für jüdische Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte der Moderne und Gegenwart.
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May 2008Intent!
oder Die Spiegel des Todes
by Ljubko Deresch, Maria Weissenböck
Petro Pjatotschkin geht noch zur Schule, als er sein phänomenales Gedächtnis entdeckt. Ein Blick ins Buch genügt, um den Unterrichtsstoff abzuspeichern. Seine skurrile Begabung macht ihn zum Außenseiter und Grübler, der sich in wissenschaftliche Werke über Zeit und Bewußtsein vertieft. Er experimentiert mit sich selbst und stellt fest, daß er sich auch an Ereignisse erinnert, die er nicht erlebt haben kann. Im "Café Kosmos", dem russischen Buchladen in Lemberg, lernt Petro eine junge Künstlerin aus Montreal kennen, die sich der abstrakten Malerei verschrieben hat. Ihre Bilder mit Titeln wie "Misted Mirror" oder "Intent!" erscheinen ihm als Symbole seiner "Gedächtniskunst", er meint darin ihre Fähigkeit zu erkennen, wie er Parallelwelten zu sehen. Eine leidenschaftliche Liebe beginnt …
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April 2022Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health
Activities, Challenges and Opportunities
by Stéphanie Brazeau, Nicholas H. Ogden
This book focuses on the potential for Earth Observation (EO) to contribute to public health practice. Remote sensing experts from the EO community together with epidemiologists, modelling experts, policy makers, managers and public health researchers gathered at the One Earth-One Health workshop held at the Canadian Earth Observation Summit in Montreal in 2017. They shared how EO is being used to understand, track, predict, and manage infectious diseases and discussed the challenges and significant potential of using and developing EO data for public health purposes. The information provided by the workshop participants and members of the international community, has been compiled and substantially updated to reach EO community members and public health professionals interested in developing and applying EO and other geospatial applications in the risk assessment and management of public health issues. Major foci are mosquito-borne diseases, tick-borne diseases, air quality and heat, water-borne diseases, vulnerable populations and pandemics (including COVID-19).
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True stories2015Ilovaisk
by Yevhen Polozhii
Ilovaisk (2015) is a novel about the tragic events of the summer/autumn 2014 when part of Ukrainian Armed Forces were ambushed by the Russian army near Ilovaisk in the Eastern Ukraine. The author interviewed more than a hundred servicemen in hospitals and on the front lines - those who took part in the campaign. Based on their recollection of events, he written 16 short stories, all connected by characters, time and place. The book has become a bestseller and has several reprints in Ukraine. The book was turned into a screenplay. The movie called “Border” is currently being produced based on the book. A theatre play Eastern Vacations by Stozhary Theater was staged in Montreal, Canada. A sculpture of the soldier and a little girl has been mounted in the Museum of Anti Terroristic Operation in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine to commemorate the story of Ilovaisk defenders told by the old man named Ivan in the book. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Book Institute, Ilovaisk is among 30 iconic books since Ukraine's independence.
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January 2001Der Prozeß und Tod Jesu aus jüdischer Sicht
by Chaim Cohn, Hannah Livon, Christian Wiese
Chaim Cohn, 1911 in Lübeck geboren, wanderte 1930 nach Palästina aus. Er studierte in Jerusalem Judaistik und Jura. Seit der Staatsgründung Israels 1948 wirkte er als Generalstaatsanwalt – in der Funktion wirkte er bei der Ergreifung Eichmanns mit Fritz Bauer zusammen –, als Justizminister des Landes und von 1960 an als Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof Israels. Er vertrat sein Land bei der UNO-Menschenrechtskommission. Chaim Cohn starb 2002 in Jerusalem. Christian Wiese, geboren 1961, Studium der Ev. Theologie und Judaistik in Tübingen, Bonn, Jerusalem und Heidelberg, Promotion 1997 in Frankfurt a.M., Habilitation 2006 in Erfurt. 2007-2010 Professor für jüdische Geschichte und Direktor des Centre for German-Jewish Studies an der University of Sussex. Vorher Stationen als Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Salomon-Ludwig-Steinheim-Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte in Duisburg und Wiss. Assistent am Lehrstuhl für Judaistik an der Universität Erfurt. Sein Forschungsgebiet ist die moderne jüdische Geschichte und Philosophie, die Geschichte des Zionismus sowie die Geschichte der jüdisch-christlichen Beziehungen der Neuzeit. Gastprofessuren in Montreal, Dublin, am Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, an der University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) und an der ETH Zürich. Seit 2010 Inhaber der Martin-Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, seit 2021 Direktor des Frankfurter Buber-Rosenzeig-Instituts für jüdische Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte der Moderne und Gegenwart.
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October 1986Stil
Geschichten und Funktionen eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurselements. Herausgegeben von Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht und K. Ludwig Pfeiffer. Unter Mitarbeit von Armin Biermann, Thomas Müller, Bernd Schulte, Barbara Ullrich
by K. Ludwig Pfeiffer, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht wurde 1948 in Würzburg geboren. Er studierte Romanistik, Germanistik, Philosophie und Soziologie in München, Regensburg, Salamanca (Spanien) und Pavia (Italien). Nach seiner Habilitation 1974 war er von 1975-1982 Professor in Bochum und von 1983-1989 an der Universität in Siegen. Von 1989 bis 2018 hatte er den Lehrstuhl für Komparatistik an der Stanford University inne. Gegenwärtig ist er ständiger Gastprofessor an der Université de Montréal, am Collège de France sowie an der Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen. Für sein Werk erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, zuletzt 2015 den Kulturpreis der Stadt Würzburg. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht wurde 1948 in Würzburg geboren. Er studierte Romanistik, Germanistik, Philosophie und Soziologie in München, Regensburg, Salamanca (Spanien) und Pavia (Italien). Nach seiner Habilitation 1974 war er von 1975-1982 Professor in Bochum und von 1983-1989 an der Universität in Siegen. Von 1989 bis 2018 hatte er den Lehrstuhl für Komparatistik an der Stanford University inne. Gegenwärtig ist er ständiger Gastprofessor an der Université de Montréal, am Collège de France sowie an der Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen. Für sein Werk erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, zuletzt 2015 den Kulturpreis der Stadt Würzburg.
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November 1988Materialität der Kommunikation
Herausgegeben von Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht und K. Ludwig Pfeiffer. Unter Mitarbeit von Monika Elsner, Barbara Keller, Verena Kiefer, Claudia Krülls-Hepermann, Ute Peter, Bernd Schulte, Barbara Ullrich, Benno Wagner-Pitz
by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht wurde 1948 in Würzburg geboren. Er studierte Romanistik, Germanistik, Philosophie und Soziologie in München, Regensburg, Salamanca (Spanien) und Pavia (Italien). Nach seiner Habilitation 1974 war er von 1975-1982 Professor in Bochum und von 1983-1989 an der Universität in Siegen. Von 1989 bis 2018 hatte er den Lehrstuhl für Komparatistik an der Stanford University inne. Gegenwärtig ist er ständiger Gastprofessor an der Université de Montréal, am Collège de France sowie an der Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen. Für sein Werk erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, zuletzt 2015 den Kulturpreis der Stadt Würzburg.
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September 1992
Eine Geschichte der spanischen Literatur
by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht wurde 1948 in Würzburg geboren. Er studierte Romanistik, Germanistik, Philosophie und Soziologie in München, Regensburg, Salamanca (Spanien) und Pavia (Italien). Nach seiner Habilitation 1974 war er von 1975-1982 Professor in Bochum und von 1983-1989 an der Universität in Siegen. Von 1989 bis 2018 hatte er den Lehrstuhl für Komparatistik an der Stanford University inne. Gegenwärtig ist er ständiger Gastprofessor an der Université de Montréal, am Collège de France sowie an der Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen. Für sein Werk erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, zuletzt 2015 den Kulturpreis der Stadt Würzburg.
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The ArtsFebruary 2022"I am Jugoslovenka!"
Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2019The Montreal Shtetl
Making Home After the Holocaust
by Zelda Abramson and John Lynch
As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees was palpable in the streets of Montreal and their impact on the existing Jewish community is well-recognized. But what do we really know about how survivors’ experienced their new community? Drawing on more than 60 interviews with survivors, hundreds of case files from Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and other archival documents, The Montreal Shtetl presents a portrait of the daily struggles of Holocaust survivors who settled in Montreal, where they encountered difficulties with work, language, culture, health care, and a Jewish community that was not always welcoming to survivors. By reflecting on how institutional supports, gender, and community relationships shaped the survivors’ settlement experiences, Abramson and Lynch show the relevance of these stories to current state policies on refugee immigration.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesJune 2020Amy Cloutier
or the year I almost flunked my adolescence
by Stéphanie Lapointe
Amy is a feisty 13-year-old with a real gi for turning her thoughts and feelings into drawings. She lives in Montreal with her father, a sewing machine repair man by day and nu y inventor by night. When he’s invited to pursue his research in Japan, young Amy is sent to a small town far away from Montreal and all her friends. She will meet a part of her family she has never heard of before and will have to adapt to a new school and a new life. Soon, she will discover that this is the town where her mother lived before she died, when Amy was very young. This leads Amy to inves gate the mystery behind her mother’s death and to discover a terrible truth.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFear of a Black Nation
Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal
by David Austin
Winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean—people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country—raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics.
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FictionOctober 2019CHAJNANTOR
by PABLO MONTREAL
Synopsis: "ALBOR is the most important astronomical project in history, and seeks to discover the origin of the universe and understand how everything that exists was created. Towards the year 2032 many groups have realized that the discoveries that ALBOR is making are dangerous and they can change the meaning of life and the reasons for our existence. Government and religious groups will try to prevent ALBOR from further discovering information. For this, ALBOR relies on the ARCANTES, a group of young people from different tribes around the world who will defend the search for origin of the universe."
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October 2020Leonard Cohen, The Untold Stories
The Early Years, Volume One
by Michael Posner
Artist, poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, icon – there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a truly international sensation, entertaining and inspiring the world with his art. From his groundbreaking and bestselling novels, Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game, to timeless songs such as “Suzanne” and “Hallelujah,” Cohen is one of the world’s most cherished artists. His death in 2016 was felt around the world by the legion of fans and fellow artists who would miss his warmth, humor, intellect, and piercing insights. Leonard Cohen, The Untold Stories follows the great man as he travels the globe developing his style and enigmatic character. This is the story of his early years, from boyhood in Montreal, university, and his growing career in to the 60s that took him to the world’s stage. It probes his public and private life, through the words of those who knew him best: his family and friends, colleagues and contemporaries, rivals, business partners, and his many lovers. From Montreal to Greece, London to Paris and New York, Cohen touched lives everywhere. It's also a snapshot of a golden era – the times that helped foster his talents and successes. In this revealing and entertaining first of three planned volumes, bestselling author and biographer Michael Posner draws on dozens of interviews to present a uniquely true and compelling portrait of Cohen – as if we’re right there beside him, overhearing a private conversation in a New York café.
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2016La chambre verte / The Green Chamber
by Martine Desjardins
All houses have their secrets, but the Delorme family home has a darker one: the mummified remains of a woman buried alive. It is kept in a sealed basement vault called the Green Room. Neil Gaiman meets Lemony Snicket in this tragicomic family saga where spinsters get drunk on vanilla extract, cats are thrown into burning furnaces, orphans seek revenge for stolen inheritances, and houses satisfy their most murderous intents. Winner of the Prix Jacques-Brossard. To learn more about this title, click here: https://editionsalto.com/droits-rights/la-chambre-verte/
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)2022CAPITAN ZHEIMER 4 - OLIMPIC ADVENTURE
by Nacho Golfe
This crazy gang will travel to Mexico City or Montreal to experience the OLYMPICS up close. Discover the true OLYMPIC SPIRIT! Fun, friendship, Alzheimer's and family. The story of a new superhero. The story of a grandson and his grandfather.
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FictionSeptember 2016Autour d'elle
by Sophie Bienvenu
In 1996, a sixteen-year-old teenager gives birth in secret to a boy in a Montreal hospital. Autour d’elle recounts twenty years in the lives of Florence Gaudreault and her biological son through the eyes of characters who have crossed their paths in one way or another and who are now telling their own version of the story. This polyphonic novel surveys the depths of the human heart and explores love in all its forms, be it lost love, all-powerful love, destructive love or rediscovered love.
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January 2012Fire Play
Out of Print
by Dany Sirene, Anne Cain
Fire demiurge Lau had it made until the Mother Goddess banished him for his cruel treatment of humans. Now he’s stuck in a mortal life, trying to cope without his powers—mainly by partying hard and seducing anything with a heartbeat.Then he meets Jesse Warner.College student Jesse is new to Montreal. Out from under his parents’ thumbs for the first time, he can’t wait to begin to discover who he really is. He has no idea what’s really at stake when he falls in love with the former demiurge... until a powerful being with a grudge shows up, ready to destroy them both. ;
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FictionSeptember 2022This is Where We Talk Things Out
by Caitlin Marceau
This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contemporary Horror, follows the gut-wrenching journey of Miller and her estranged mother, Sylvie, who have always had a tense relationship. After Miller's father dies, she agrees to a girls' vacation away from the city to reconnect with the only family she has left. Although she’s eager to make things work, Miller can’t help but worry that her mother is seeing their countryside retreat as a fun weekend getaway instead of what it really is: a last-ditch effort to repair their relationship. Unfortunately, that quickly becomes the least of Miller’s problems. Sylvie's trapped in the past and if Miller's not careful, she will be too. A cross between Stephen King's Misery and Stephanie Wrobel's Darling Rose Gold, This Is Where We Talk Things Out explores the horror of familial trauma, mother-daughter relationships, and what happens when we don't let go.
