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The Swimmers
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
"Up there," she says, "I'm just another little old lady. But down here, at the pool, I'm myself."
For the people who swim there each day, the local pool is a haven of unexpected kinship and private solace. For Alice, her daily laps have become the ritual that gives her life meaning, even though she may not remember the combination to her locker or where she put her towel.
But one day, a crack appears deep beneath the surface of the water, and then another, and then another. The pool must close for repairs, and with that Alice is plunged into dislocation and chaos.
Away from the steady routines of her swimming, she is engulfed by difficult memories of her own past. And as her sense of home, and of herself, slip further out of her grasp, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic comes a novel about memory and loss, mothers and daughters, the stories that make up a life, and what happens when they start to unravel.
The Universe in a Box
Illuminating, provocative and bold, The Universe in a Box is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos
How do scientists study the entire universe?
How can we make sense of its vast, intricate workings?
We are part of an incredible chain of events stretching 13.8 billion years into the past and even further into the future. But what does that future hold? And will we ever truly understand our cosmic home?
The Universe in a Box is Andrew Pontzen's tribute to simulations - the remarkable computer codes that, over the last century, have allowed us to understand the distant past and far future of the universe. It reframes what we think we know about galaxies, black holes and matter itself. And it reveals the stories of the pioneering scientists who unlocked the mysteries of space, from redshift to improbable dark materials that pass, ghostlike, through solid rock.
Illuminating, provocative and bold, this is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos.
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Monets Minutes
A stunning exploration of the vital links between Claude Monet’s Impressionism and the time technologies that helped define modernity in the nineteenth century.
Monet’s Minutes is a revelatory account charting the relationship between the works of Claude Monet (1840–1926)?founder of French Impressionism and one of the world’s best-known painters?and the modern experience of time. André Dombrowski illuminates Monet’s celebration of instantaneity in the context of the late nineteenth-century time technologies that underwrote it.
Monet’s version of Impressionism demonstrated an acute awareness of the particularly modern pressures of time, but until now scholars have not examined the histories and technologies of time and timekeeping that informed Impressionism’s major stylistic shifts. Arguing that the fascination with instantaneity rejected the dulling cultures of newly routinized and standardized time, Monet’s Minutes traces the evolution of Monet’s art to what were then seismic shifts in the shape of time itself.
In each chapter, Dombrowski focuses on the connections between a set of Monet’s works and a specific technology or experience of time, while providing the voices of period critics responding to Impressionism. Grounded in exceptional research and analyses, this book offers new interpretations of key paintings by Monet and a fresh perspective on late nineteenth-century art, society, and modern temporality.
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Batman: The Imposter
A unique new vision of Gotham, built to be the logical next step for fans of the 2022 film THE BATMAN!
Bruce Wayne’s mission as the Batman has only been underway for a year or so, but he can tell he’s making a difference in this city. Unfortunately, he’s made some powerful enemies–and not just among the colorful maniacs called “super-villains.” All the traditional power brokers of Gotham resent the disruption the Batman has brought to town… and it seems one of them has a plan to neutralize him. There’s a second Batman haunting Gotham’s rooftops and alleys–and this one has no qualms about murdering criminals, live and on tape. With the entire might of the Gotham City Police Department and Gotham’s rich and powerful coming down on his head, Batman must find this imposter and somehow clear his name…but how can you prove your innocence from behind a mask?
Mattson Tomlin–creator of the hit Netflix series Project Power and director of the upcoming Mother/Android–has teamed up with Eisner-winning suspense and horror artist Andrea Sorrentino (JOKER: KILLER SMILE, Gideon Falls) to create a wholly new version of Gotham City, informed by grim reality, where every punch leaves a broken bone and every action has consequences far, far beyond Batman’s imagination!
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A Pásztori levelek és a Filemonhoz írt levél magyarázata
„A Református Egyházi Könyvtár most a két Timóteushoz írt levél, valamint a Tituszhoz és Filemonhoz írt levelek kommentárját közli, Szabó András (1871–1957) néhai székelyudvarhelyi klasszika filológus, kollégiumigazgató, Erasmus- és Kálvin-fordító tolmácsolásában, átdolgozott formában... A négy levél kommentárjai ma is teljes figyelmünkre méltók. Nemcsak azért, mert Kálvin meglátásai és módszere is segítségünkre lehetnek a bibliai szöveg és üzenet megértésében (ahogy ő is igénybe vette a régiek segítségét), és nemcsak azért, mert megjegyzésein keresztül bepillanthatunk a reformáció korának küzdelmeibe, hanem leginkább azért, mert rendkívüli tisztasággal tud egyszerre elvonatkoztatni Pál apostol személyes utalásaitól és ugyanakkor teljes körűen bepillantani azok mélységébe. Ez a keresztyénség titka, ahogy a Filemonhoz írt levélnél megjegyzi: bár Pál jelentéktelen és köznapi üggyel foglalkozik, mégis, szokásához híven, Istenhez emelkedik. Noha egy ember dolgában jár el, mégis az egész egyházat tartja szem előtt. Ez a titka Kálvin magyarázatainak is.” (Részletek Bogárdi Szabó István előszavából)
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Who can afford to be critical?
On the conditions and limits of critical thinking for design culture under capitalism
Design schools increasingly urge students to address social, political and environmental issues in their work. But who can afford to work in this way after graduation?
In a dynamic style that draws from multiple contributors, Who Can Afford to Be Critical? discusses the limits that affordability, class and labor impose upon the educational promise of holding a "critical" practice. Why do we tend to ignore the material and socioeconomic constraints that bind us as designers, claiming instead that we can be powerful agents of change? Instead of focusing on the dream of ethical work under capitalism, could we instead focus first on designers' own working conditions, as one immediate site for collective action? Over the course of four chapters, this publication delves into the modes of precarity in critical graphic work and possible paths toward emancipation from that position.
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Study for Obedience
A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.
Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property...
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023
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This Mortal Coil
Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so much? How is it that a century ago people died mainly from infectious disease, while today the leading causes of death in industrialised nations are heart disease and stroke? And what do changing causes of death reveal about how previous generations have lived?
University of Manchester Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at particular causes - from infectious disease to genetic disease, violence to diet - who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overcome them. Along the way we hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role in preventing scurvy; the Irish immigrant who opened the first washhouse for the poor of Liverpool, and in so doing educated the public on the importance of cleanliness in combating disease; and the Church of England curate who, finding his new church equipped with a telephone, started the Samaritans to assist those in emotional distress.
This Mortal Coil is a thrilling story of growing medical knowledge and social organisation, of achievement and, looking to the future, of promise.
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The Fifth Dimension
The Fifth Dimension is set partly in Prague, Czech Republic at the height of the country’s transition toward freedom and democracy, and partly in a reFIFTHDIMENSIONmote region of the Argentine Andes. Jacob has left behind his family to take part in a demanding experiment. Succeed, and he comes home with a small fortune.
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Beyond Great
This exciting new book from the prestigious Boston Consulting Group details the nine core strategies that will help companies keep customers, attract quality talent, generate revenue, and improve the communities around them, in the face of new disruptive forces.
BEYOND will give readers everywhere the strategies they need to navigate a daunting new era of technological, economic, and social change. Supported by years of research and hands-on consulting practice, it will present a comprehensive framework for building a high-performing, adaptive, and socially responsible global company.
The book begins by taking an incisive look at the disruptive forces transforming globalization, including economic nationalism; the boom in data flows and digital commerce; the rise of China; heightened public concerns about capitalism and the environment; and the emergence of borderless communities of digitally connected consumers. The authors then offer nine core strategies that will help businesses today address and exploit these forces.
Through compelling stories from international companies like Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Microsoft, Xiaomi, Fitbit, Adidas, and many others, BEYOND argues that leaders today must evince a new kind of flexibility and light-footedness, constantly layering in new strategies and operational norms atop existing ones to allow for "always-on" transformation. Leaders must master a whole new set of rules about what it takes to be "global," becoming shapeshifters adept at handling contradiction, multiplicity, and nuance. This book will show them how.
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Lernerautonomie und Fremdsprachenunterricht
Der Einsatz von Lernstrategien im Zweit- und Fremdsprachenerwerb . Die Beiträge in diesem Sammelband geben einen Überblick über den Stand der Forschung. Sie diskutieren unter anderem Konzepte der Autonomieförderung in unterschiedlichen Lernkontexten; den
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Doppler (nem.)
»So lange es Magermilch gibt, gibt es Hoffnung.« Andreas Doppler mag die Menschen nicht, das wird ihm nach einem Sturz vom Fahrrad plötzlich klar. Er zieht in den Wald, um endlich so einsam sein zu können, wie er es möchte. Sein bester Freund wird ein Elchkalb, doch ab und zu muss Doppler in die Stadt, um Magermilch zu besorgen, nach der er süchtig ist. Seine Besuche sind nicht folgenlos, denn schon bald finden weitere Menschen Gefallen an Dopplers Lebensweise ... Andreas Doppler, 40 Jahre alt, Familienvater und erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, kommt nach einem Sturz vom Fahrrad zu der Erkenntnis, dass er sein wohl geordnetes, tüchtiges Leben satt hat, und so zieht er in den Wald. Als der Winter kommt, erlegt er eine Elchkuh und nimmt ihr nun verwaistes Kalb auf, das schon bald sein bester Freund wird. Seine Familie - er hat bereits zwei Kinder und ein drittes ist unterwegs - akzeptiert zunächst Dopplers Rückzug, doch stellt seine Frau eine Bedingung: Wenn das Kind geboren wird, ist mit dem Waldleben Schluss. Nach und nach suchen immer mehr Menschen im Wald eine neue Erfüllung und stören Dopplers Einsiedlertum, und als der Geburtstermin naht, muss er sich entscheiden... Ein schräger, temporeicher und witziger Roman über einen Mann in der Midlife Crisis und seinen Kampf gegen die Tugend der Tüchtigkeit.
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Der Stadtfeind Nr.1
Von Kleinstadthelden, der Liebe und anderen Neurosen. Joe hat es geschafft. Nicht nur der spießigen Provinz den Rücken zu kehren, nein, er hat einen Bestseller geschrieben - ein bitterböses Buch über seine Vergangenheit. Mit sehr vielen beabsichtigten
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Das Leben und Sterben im Uncle Sam Hotel
»Uncle Sam Hotel - das ist Amerika. Zwölf Stories vom Poeten des amerikanischen Underground Charles Bukowski. Geschichten, Szenen und Lebensbrocken von ganz unten; vom Saufen; vom Leben mit Säufern und Nutten und anderen Randexistenzen; von den feinen und
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Ein Pferd namens Milchmann
Als eines Morgens ein riesiges graues Pferd auf der Terrasse steht, traut Herman seinen Augen kaum. Das Pferd heißt Milchmann und seine gewaltigen Lippen zittern, als wolle es gleich losheulen. Das ist schon ungewöhnlich genug, aber noch seltsamer ist, dass auch bei den anderen Kindern Pferde auftauchen. Das kann kein Zufall sein, denkt Herman, und ost ganz sicher: die Pferde sind in Gefahr!
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Phänomenologie des Geistes
Mit der "Phänomenologie des Geistes" erscheint 1807 eines der bis heute bedeutendsten und wirkungsreichsten Werke der Philosophiegeschichte. Hegel widmet sich darin den grundlegenden Fragen der Erkenntnistheorie und dem Problem der Entstehung von individuellem und kollektiv geschichtlichem Bewusstsein. Mit seinen Ausführungen zu Herrschaft und Knechtschaft übte er insbesondere maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Philosophie von Karl Marx, doch auch zahlreiche andere Philosophen erhielten durch Hegels Gedanken entscheidende Impulse.
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Vágó István - Kinyitom a számat!
Egy könyv politikáról, szerelemről, féltékenységről, pénzről, lopásról, züllöttségről és vakmerőségről, egy könyv az elmúlt évek és a ma Magyarországáról. Egy könyv az egyik legnépszerűbb magyar tévésről, Vágó Istvánról." (Bárdos András)
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einfach lesen 2 - Ich hätte nein sagen können
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Nora möchte lieber mit Sabina als mit Katrin befreundet sein. Denn die kann eigentlich keiner in der Klasse leiden.
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Wanderlust : A History of Walking
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker.
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