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Christine Heimannsberg
Gelobtes Land, die dystopische Climate Fiction Trilogie: Mit CO2 verbindet man den Klimawandel, schmelzende Gletscher und Überflutungen. Mittlerweile ist der Klimawandel auch in der Literatur angekommen. „Climate Fiction“ oder „Cli-fi“ lautet das Stichwort, das zuletzt verstärkt in den Feuilletons auftauchte. Die deutsche Autorin Christine Heimannsberg präsentiert mit ihrer Debüt-Trilogie „Gelobtes Land“ eine ungewöhnliche, spannende Dystopie, die ökologische wie humanistische Themen geschickt im neuen Genre zusammenführt.
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Promoted ContentChildren's & YANovember 2015
Batman – Labyrinth der Gefahren. Du entscheidest selbst!
by West, Tracey / Englisch Dreller, Christian
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Promoted ContentOctober 2016
Young Sherlock Holmes
Tödliche Geheimnisse
by Lane, Andrew / Englisch Dreller, Christian; Englisch Dreller, Christian
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020
Defense of the West
by Stanley R. Sloan, Lawrence Freedman
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 2013
The Madmen of Bethlehem
by Osama Alaysa
Adopting the story-within-a-story structure of Arabian Nights, author Osama Alaysa weaves together a collection of stories portraying centuries of oppression endured by the Palestinian people. This remarkable novel eloquently brings together fictional characters alongside real-life historical figures in a complex portrayal of Bethlehem and the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. The common thread connecting each tale is madness, in all its manifestations. Psychological madness, in the sense of clinical mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, finds expression alongside acts of social and political madness. Together, these accounts of individuals and communities provide a gateway into the histories of the city of Bethlehem and Palestine. They paint a picture of the centuries of political oppression that the Palestinian people have endured, from the days of the Ottoman Empire to the years following the Oslo Accords, and all the way to 2012 (when the novel was written). The novel is divided into three sections, each containing multiple narratives. The first section, “The Book of a Genesis,” describes the physical spaces and origins of Bethlehem and Dheisheh Refugee Camp. These stories span the 19th and 20th centuries, transitioning smoothly from one tale to another to offer an intricate interpretation of the identity of these places. The second section, “The Book of the People Without a Book”, follows parallel narratives of the lives of the patients in a psychiatric hospital in Bethlehem, the mad men and women roaming the streets of the city, and those imprisoned by the Israeli authorities. All suffer abuse, but they also reaffirm their humanity through the relationships, romantic and otherwise, that they form. The third and final section, “An Ephemeral Book,” follows individuals—Palestinian and non-Palestinian—who are afflicted by madness following the Oslo Accords in 1993. These stories give voice to the perspectives of the long-marginalized Palestinian population, narrating the loss of land and the accompanying loss of sanity in the decades of despair and violence that followed the Nakba, the 1948 eviction of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. The novel’s mad characters—politicians, presidents, doctors, intellectuals, ordinary people and, yes, Dheisheh and Bethlehem themselves—burst out of their narrative threads, flowing from one story into the next. Alaysa’s crisp, lucid prose and deft storytelling chart a clear path through the chaos with dark humor and wit. The result is an important contribution to fiction on the Palestinian crisis that approaches the Palestinians, madness, and Palestinian spaces with compassion and depth.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social Sciences2001
Ukraine between East and West
by Ihor Shevchenko
The book by Prof. Ihor Shevchenko, a noble intellectual, one of the most prominent specialists in the fields of Byzantine and Slavic history and culture, presents the medieval and early modern history of Ukraine in a broad cultural perspective in the context of the country’s relations with the East (Byzantium, Muscovite/Russian state, the Ottoman Empire) and the West (Poland and Austria-Hungary). The twelve essays that make up the book cover the period from the introduction of Christianity in Kievan Rus to the early 18th Century.
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Trusted PartnerAugust 2004
West-östlicher Divan
Eigenhändige Niederschriften
by Johann W von Goethe, Katharina Mommsen, Katharina Mommsen
Sonderausgabe
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Trusted PartnerChildren's & YAMarch 2014
Sam Hinkel – Der Ärger geht weiter
by Burns, T.R. / Englisch Dreller, Christian
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Trusted PartnerChildren's & YAApril 2015
Sam Hinkel – Ärger währt am längsten
by Burns, T.R. / Englisch Dreller, Christian
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Trusted PartnerChildren's & YADecember 2016
Sam Hinkel und die Akademie für Ärger
by Burns, T.R. / Englisch Dreller, Christian
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Trusted PartnerSeptember 2016
Weltenriss
Die Karten der verlorenen Zeit
by Grove, S.E. / Englisch Dreller, Christian
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 1990
Zwölf Tage in den Bakhtiari-Bergen
Eine Reiseerzählung
by Sackville-West, Vita / Englisch Erckenbrecht, Irmela
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Trusted PartnerAugust 2006
Central Park West
Drei Stücke
by Allen, Woody / Englisch Driessen, Martin Michael; Englisch Tabert, Nils
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017
The West must wait
County Galway and the Irish Free State, 1922–32
by Una Newell
The West must wait presents a new perspective on the development of the Irish Free State. It extends the regional historical debate beyond the Irish revolution and raises a series of challenging questions about post-civil war society in Ireland. Through a detailed examination of key local themes - land, poverty, politics, emigration, the status of the Irish language, the influence of radical republicans and the authority of the Catholic Church - it offers a probing analysis of the socio-political realities of life in the new state. This book opens up a new dimension by providing a rural contrast to the Dublin-centred views of Irish politics. Significantly, it reveals the level of deprivation in local Free State society with which the government had to confront in the west. Rigorously researched, it explores the disconnect between the perceptions of what independence would deliver and what was achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal administration.
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 1992
Lesben-Knigge
Ein Ratgeber für alle Liebeslagen
by West, Celeste / Englisch Huber, Michaela