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        February 2023

        Tobias Mayer

        or measuring the earth, sea and sky

        by Thomas Knubben

        —300th birthday of Tobias Mayer in February 2023 — The rediscovery of a great scientist — A chapter in the fascinating history of science The story of Tobias Mayer's life (1723 to 1762) is that of a child prodigy and orphan who became a pioneer of the Enlightenment as a cartographer, mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Having never been to university, at the age of 28 he was appointed a professor in Göttingen by the Elector of Hanover and King of England. He revolutionised cartography with his zeal and skill, helping sailors to find the right path across the seas and providing people with the firstever clear view of the moon. 17th February 2023 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Tobias Mayer. High time to recall this prototype of a scientist.

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        September 1996

        Monster, Wilde, Unschuldsengel

        Mythen, mit denen wir leben

        by Warner, Marina

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        Ottonian Germany

        The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg

        by David Warner

        The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire. Thietmar's testimony also has special value because of his geographical location, in eastern Saxony, on the boundary between German and Slavic cultures. He is arguably the single most important witness to the early history of Poland, and his detailed descriptions of Slavic folklore are the earliest on record. This is a very important source in the medieval period, translated here in its entirety for the first time. It relates to an area of medieval studies generally dominated by German scholars, in which Anglo-phone scholars are beginning to make a substantial contribution.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2011

        Holiday camps in twentieth-century Britain

        Packaging pleasure

        by Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Jeffrey Richards

        This book is the story of two holiday camp chains established in the 1930s that provided thousands with packaged pleasure. Warner and Butlin's commercial camps emerged at the intersection of cultural shifts that politicised working-class leisure and consumption. Entertainment fostered in the post-war camps provided a forum for popular pleasure that reinforced the idea of a 'national' culture grown from the common experience of war. Butlin and Warner, the big commercial chains of the 50s and 60s, are enmeshed in our social and cultural history. Dawson uncovers the significance of the holiday camps to the political, economic, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain, drawing on an impressive variety of sources, from government documents to trade journals, advertising, photographs, oral histories, literature, films and songs. This unique volume will be of interest to academics and specialists of British social history, popular culture and tourism studies whilst remaining accessible to enthusiasts. ;

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        June 2019

        It’s A Nerd’s World

        Die Brains hinter YouTube, Smartphone, Computer und Co.

        by Schrödel, Tobias

        Smartphone? Coole Sache. Internet? Wie kann man ohne überleben!? Zeit, die Menschen zu feiern, die das möglich gemacht haben. Tobias Schrödel, IT-Experte und Deutschlands erster Comedy-Hacker, erzählt die Geschichten rund um die Brains, deren Hardware, Software und Internet-Anwendungen das Leben von uns allen für immer verändert haben - und die teilweise niemand kennt. Das muss sich ändern! Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt! Aber Vorsicht: Es wird absurd, lustig, tragisch und vielleicht sogar ein kleines bisschen lehrreich.

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        February 2009

        Lost and Sound

        Berlin, Techno und der Easyjetset

        by Tobias Rapp

        Techno ist tot, zumindest offiziell. In Wirklichkeit waren elektronische Musik und die nächtliche Subkultur des Ausgehens – jenseits von sozialen Utopien und Love Parade – nie kreativer und interessanter als heute. Und nie so an einem Ort konzentriert: Jedes Wochenende bevölkern junge Leute aus ganz Europa ein paar Kilometer am Berliner Spreeufer; sie kommen mit Billigfliegern und bleiben nicht selten, bis die letzte After Hour nach Tagen fast wieder ins nächste Wochenende mündet ... Tobias Rapp, selbst DJ und ein intimer Kenner der Szene, porträtiert die faszinierendste, exzessivste und insgeheim einflußreichste Hauptstadtkultur und ihre Protagonisten: Tänzer und DJs, Musikproduzenten und Stadtplaner.

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        September 2008

        Jeffersons Erben

        Wie die digitalen Medien die Politik verändern

        by Tobias Moorstedt

        Die USA sind die älteste (Medien-)Demokratie der Welt. Franklin D. Roosevelt unterhielt sich in den dreißiger Jahren bei den »Fireside Chats« per Radio mit den Wählern, John F. Kennedy war der erste Präsident des TV-Zeitalters, 2008 kommt die nächste Medienrevolution: Barack Obama und John McCain kämpfen vor allem im Internet um Stimmen, werben auf MySpace und sammeln so Millionen an Spendengeldern und rekrutieren eine Armee von Graswurzelaktivisten. Tobias Moorstedt erkundet in seiner Reportage, wie die politische Software den demokratischen Prozeß verändert. Er trifft junge Texaner, die durch das Netz mit liberalen Gedanken in Kontakt kommen, begleitet Bürgerjournalisten und spricht mit Internetstrategen und Bloggern – den Meinungsführern des 21. Jahrhunderts.

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        1989

        In weiblicher Gestalt

        Die Verkörperung des Wahren, Guten und Schönen

        by Warner, Marina / Übersetzt von Preuschoft, Claudia

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        1994

        Indigo

        Oder Die Vermessung der Wasser Roman

        by Warner, Marina / Übersetzt von Hedinger, Sabine

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        August 2006

        Tagesnotizen

        Aufzeichnungen 1941–1992

        by Günther Anders, Volker Hage, Volker Hage

        Die Tagebücher des Schriftstellers und Philosophen Günther Anders (1902–1992) zählen zu den bedeutendsten literarischen Journalen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine zahlreichen, Jahrzehnte übergreifenden Notizen, von ihm selbst nie zu einem geschlossenen Werk zusammengestellt, sondern bruchstückhaft in verschiedenen seiner Bücher zitiert (so auch in seinem Hauptwerk Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen): Hier werden sie nun erstmals – in exemplarischer Auswahl – chronologisch angeordnet und zusammengestellt. Anders, der eigene schriftstellerische Projekte zeitlebens zurückstellte und als Warner vor einer neuen Atomkatastrophe international bekannt wurde, hat wie kein zweiter Autor deutscher Sprache die Erfahrungen von Flucht, US-Exil, Heimkehr ins Nachkriegseuropa und seine Eindrücke von Reisen zu Schauplätzen des Grauens wie Auschwitz und Hiroshima darzustellen gewußt.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2003

        Step-daughters of England

        British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary

        by Jane Garrity

        Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects. Reading literary texts through the lens of material culture, this book makes a major contribution to the new modernist studies by arguing that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent and complicated relation to Britain's imperial history. Drawing on extensive archival research, Garrity takes as her point of departure the ubiquitous maternal and racial link to national identification during the interwar period. Each chapter foregrounds a different range of cultural developments that coincided with the rise of modernism, such as emerging visual techniques, the revival of British neo-medievalism, ethnographic work on primitive mysticism, and nostalgia for English ruralism. By locating both canonical and non-canonical works of female literary modernism within broader cultural discourses, Garrity demonstrates the intersections among nationalism, imperialism, gender and sexuality in the construction of English national culture.

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        The Arts
        June 2021

        Cinesonica

        Sounding film and video

        by Andy Birtwistle

        Cinesonica: sounding film and video explores previously neglected and under-theorised aspects of film and video sound, drawing on detailed case study analyses of Hollywood cinema, art cinema, animated cartoons, and avant-garde film and video. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the soundtrack, and breaking away from the focus on narrative and signification that has tended to dominate the study of film sound, the book examines the way in which sound's materiality figures within audiovisual experience. Through a close examination of sound-image relations in a range of film and video forms and genres - including Warner Bros. cartoons, scratch video, and artist's film and video - Cinesonica recasts the film and video text as the meeting point of audio and visual materialities, cultural practices and perceptual activity. The interdisciplinary approach adopted by the book makes its discussion of sound of interest to those studying and working in a range of subject disciplines, including film studies, sound studies, sonic arts, cultural studies, music and art history.

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