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        Science & Mathematics
        December 2018

        Halophytes and Climate Change

        Adaptive Mechanisms and Potential Uses

        by Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Sergey Shabala, Masayuki Fujita

        This book contains current knowledge and the most recent developments in the field of halophyte biology, ecology, and potential uses. Halophytes are characterised as plants that can survive and complete their life cycle in highly saline environments. This book explores the adaptive mechanisms and special features of halophytes that allow them to grow in environments that are unsuitable for conventional crops and considers their role as a source of food, fuel, fodder, fibre, essential oils, and medicines. Halophytes and Climate Change includes coverage of: - Special morphological, anatomical, and physiological features of halophytes - Ion accumulation patterns and homeostasis in halophytes - Potential use of halophytes in the remediation of saline soil - Growth and physiological response and tolerance to toxicity and drought - Mangrove ecology, physiology, and adaptation Written by a team of international authors and presented in full colour, this book is an essential resource for researchers in the fields of plant physiology, ecology, soil science, environmental science, botany, and agriculture.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Montage

        by Sam Rohdie

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        February 2006

        Totalität und Mitleid

        Richard Wagner, Sergej Eisenstein und unsere ethisch-ästhetische Moderne

        by Dieter Thomä

        1940 fand im Moskauer Bolschoj-Theater eine Aufführung statt, die als ein kultureller Höhepunkt des Hitler-Stalin-Pakts gedacht war: Richard Wagners Walküre in der Inszenierung von Sergej Eisenstein. Dank dessen subversiver Kraft wurde daraus kein faschistisch-kommunistisches Stelldichein, sondern ein Ereignis, in dem sich die großen politisch-ästhetischen Konfliktlinien der Moderne abzeichnen. Dieser irrlichternden Begegnung von Wagner und Eisenstein widmet Dieter Thomä einen großen Essay, in dem er jene Konfliktlinien bis in die Gegenwart fortzeichnet. Behandelt wird der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk ebenso wie der Ausgriff auf die politische »Totalität«. Doch findet sich bei Wagner und Eisenstein auch eine zarte Geste zur Rettung des Individuellen: eine kleine Verteidigung des »Mitleids«. So wird aus der historischen Trouvaille ein überraschend aktueller Kommentar zu einem Grundkonflikt der Moderne: dem Verhältnis zwischen Individuum und Allgemeinheit.

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        November 2008

        Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike

        Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital

        by Alexander Kluge

        »Der Entschluß steht fest, das KAPITAL nach dem Szenarium von Karl Marx zu verfilmen«, notierte Sergej Eisenstein am 12. Oktober 1927. Eisenstein, der mit Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (1926) die Filmsprache revolutionierte, wollte Marx’ Buch »kinofizieren«. Die Herausforderung, die von einem solchen Werk ausgeht, so glaubte Eisenstein, würde die Filmkunst von Grund auf umrücken. Ihm schwebte die Anwendung völlig neuer, von James Joyce’ Ulysses abgeleiteter Formen vor: »faits divers«, »emotionale Konvolute« und Reihen »dialektischer Bilder«. 80 Jahre später kommentiert Alexander Kluge Eisensteins monumentalen Plan. Auf drei DVDs sammelt er filmische Miniaturen zu Marx’ Theorie, die uns so nah und so fern ist wie die Antike. Gespräche mit Peter Sloterdijk, Dietmar Dath, Oskar Negt, Boris Groys, Rainer Stollmann und anderen montieren ganz unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf Das Kapital. Mit Filmen wie Abschied von Gestern (1966) und seiner Beteiligung an dem Kollektivfilm Deutschland im Herbst (1978) ist Alexander Kluge einer der wichtigsten Vertreter des Neuen deutschen Films. Im April 2008 wurde er beim Deutschen Filmpreis mit dem »Ehrenpreis« für hervorragende Verdienste um den deutschen Film ausgezeichnet.

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        Biography & True Stories
        July 2021

        Serhii Lyfar. The biography

        Flying under the wing of Icarus

        by Roman Bereza

        The novel depicts the life and work of the legendary Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serhii Lyfar who, due to his talent, entered the cohort of the most outstanding artists of the world culture of the 20th century. Relying on documentary sources and biographical data, the author vividly and truthfully describes the entire era of the development of choreographic art in Europe, which is associated with the name of the great Ukrainian, who was destined to appear at the origins of the latest revival of French ballet in the last century. The reader can watch Kyiv in the first quarter and middle of the 20th century. In the novel also appears the theatrical, choreographic, and artistic life of France of that time, which was vividly reflected in the creative path of Serhiy Lyfar and received its dynamic development in unity with such notable figures as Serhiy Diaghilev, Mykhailo Fokin, Enrico Cecchetti, Matilda Kshesinska, Anna Pavlova, Olga Spesyvtseva, Tamara Karsavina, Vaclav and Bronislava Nijinsky, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Benoit, Coco Chanel, George Balanchine and a number of other famous personalities who were in the center of world culture and art.

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        July 1990

        Der entgegenkommende und der stumpfe Sinn

        Kritische Essays III

        by Roland Barthes, Dieter Hornig

        Der Band zeigt Bedeutung und Entwicklung der Untersuchungen Barthes' über einen Gegenstand, den man »die Schrift des Sichtbaren« nennen könnte: Fotografie, Kino, Malerei, Theater, Musik. Barthes beschäftigt sich unter anderem mit der Botschaft der Fotografie, der Rhetorik des Bildes, mit Brecht, Diderot und Eisenstein, aber auch mit romantischer Musik, mit Schumann. Bei all diesen Versuchen geht es Roland Barthes vor allem um die »dritte Bedeutung«, jener zwischen entgegenkommendem und stumpfem Sinn oszillierenden Signifikanz.

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        December 2008

        Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?

        by Slatan Dudow, Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler, Ernst Ottwalt

        Bertolt Brecht interessierte sich früh für das neue Medium Film: »Der Filmsehende liest Erzählungen anders. Aber auch der Erzählungen schreibt, ist seinerseits ein Filmesehender«, schrieb er 1931 in Der Dreigroschenprozeß. Noch im selben Jahr machte er sich gemeinsam mit dem Regisseur Slatan Dudow und dem Komponisten Hanns Eisler an ein eigenes Filmprojekt: Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt? Der Film erzählt die Geschichte der Arbeiterfamilie Bönicke, die während der Weltwirtschaftskrise aus ihrer Wohnung vertrieben wird und in die Gartenkolonie »Kuhle Wampe« im Osten Berlins zieht. Formal setzen Brecht und Dudow dabei auf die Montagetechnik, die in den zwanziger Jahren von Sergej Eisenstein entwickelt worden dar. Unmittelbar nach der Fertigstellung verhinderte die Zensur im März 1932 zunächst die Uraufführung mit der Begründung, die politische Tendenz sei »längst nicht so grob und stark aufgetragen« wie üblich, und genau das mache den Film gefährlich; 1933 verboten die Nationalsozialisten Kuhle Wampe endgültig. Heute gilt Kuhle Wampe als Meilenstein des politischen Kinos.

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        January 1990

        Die Unsren

        Ein russisches Familienalbum

        by Dowlatow, Sergei / Russisch Leupold, Gabriele

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        Science & Mathematics
        November 2020

        Techniques for Work with Plant and Soil Nematodes

        by Roland N Perry, David J Hunt, Sergei A Subbotin

        Techniques for Work with Plant and Soil Nematodes is an up-to-date, comprehensive book covering the practicalities of working with and studying soil and plant nematodes. Written by an international team of experts, this book is highly illustrated and provides thorough coverage of methods whilst allowing for relevant information to be located quickly. It includes the fundamental traditional techniques and new methodologies, covering: sampling; extraction; estimating numbers; handling, fixing, staining, mounting; culturing techniques; figure preparation, measurement and image processing; electron microscopy techniques; behavioural and physiological assays; and cytogenetic, biochemical and molecular biology techniques. This book is an essential resource for anyone involved in plant nematology needing to refer to a readily available methodology standard, including students of nematology and parasitology, university lecturers and researchers, diagnostic laboratories, and quarantine and advisory service personnel. It provides a much needed compendium of the spectrum of information needed to work with these microscopic organisms.

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        Fiction
        September 2017

        A Vision of Battlements

        by Anthony Burgess

        by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake

        A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        December 2017

        Transforming Travel

        Realising the potential of sustainable tourism

        by Jeremy Smith

        Transforming Travel combines stories from leading companies, interviews with pioneers and thinkers, along with thorough analysis of the industry's potential to make lasting, positive change. - A unique collection of case studies and stories of the most successful, inspirational, impactful and innovative travel businesses in the world. - A vital presentation of the latest research and statistics on the positive impacts and potential of transformative, sustainable tourism, - A positive and realistic vision of the scope of tourism to promote sustainable development at a time when travel and interaction with foreign cultures is facing numerous existential challenges. Written in a highly engaging style Transforming Travel presents an urgent argument for transforming tourism so it might reach its potential to promote tolerance, restore communities and regenerate habitats, while providing a vital guide for anyone looking to develop the successful sustainable tourism enterprises and destinations needed to do so.

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        The Arts
        November 2017

        Vivien Leigh

        Actress and icon

        by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale

        This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era. With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the 'public ownership' of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime and beyond.

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        Botany & plant sciences
        May 2012

        Plant Stress Physiology

        by Vadim Demidchik, Jill M Farrant, Hank Greenway, Anthony E Hall, Marcel A K Jansen, André Läuchli, Henry T Nguyen, Eric Ruelland, Peter Ryan, Lawrence V Gusta, Philip White, Gerald Berkowitz. Edited by Sergey Shabala.

        The fact that most of the suitable land has already been cultivated, meeting a projected target of a 50% increase in the global food production by 2050 to match the projected population growth becomes a challenging task. This book provides a timely update on the recent progress in our knowledge on all aspects of plant's perception, signalling and adaptation to a variety of environmental stresses such as drought, salinity, temperature and pH extremes, waterlogging, oxidative stress, and pathogens.

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        Science & Mathematics
        April 2018

        Cyst Nematodes

        by Roland N Perry, Maurice Moens, John T Jones, Matthew A. Back, James G. Baldwin, George W. Bird, Vivian C. Blok, David J. Chitwood, Laura Cortada, Matthias Daub, Keith G. Davies, Walter S. de Jong, Loes J.M.F. den Nijs, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Godelieve Gheysen, Aska Goverse, Ivan G. Grove, Johannes Hallmann, Zafar A. Handoo, John T. Jones, Catherine J. Lilley, Horacio D. Lopez-Nicora, Edward P. Masler, Melissa G. Mitchum, Maurice Moens, Sharad Mohan, Terry L. Niblack, Roland N. Perry, Jon Pickup, Adrian M.I. Roberts, Andrea M. Skantar, Geert Smant, Richard W. Smiley, Sergei A Subbotin, Victoria Taylor, Gregory L. Tylka, Lieven Waeyenberge, Inga A. Zasada

        This book is a compendium of current information on all aspects of these economically important parasites. It provides comprehensive coverage of their biology, management, morphology and diagnostics, in addition to up-to-date information on molecular aspects of taxonomy, host-parasitic relationships and resistance. Written by a team of international experts, Cyst Nematodes will be invaluable to all researchers, lecturers and students in nematology, parasitology, agriculture and agronomy, industries with an interest in chemical and biological control products for management of plant-parasitic nematodes, and any courses, quarantine and advisory services.

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