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Aperture 241: Utopia
This winter, in the wake of a pandemic, global protest movements, and a dramatic presidential election in the United States, Aperture releases "Utopia," an issue that shows that other ways of living are possible--when the collective will exists.
In "Utopia," artists, photographers, and writers envision a world without prisons, document visionary architecture, honor queer space and creativity, and dream of liberty through spiritual self-expression. They show us that utopia is not a far-fetched scheme, but rather a way of reshaping our future.
In a profile, Salamishah Tillet considers Tyler Mitchell's visions of Black people resting in open green space, a democratizing landscape in which Mitchell continuously asks himself: "What are the things that I can do to lessen the inherent hierarchies in the photography-shoot structure of seeing and being seen?" Sara Knelman shows the freeing possibilities of the feminist collage works of Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, Sara Cwynar, and Alanna Fields. Julian Rose speaks with the filmmaker Matt Wolf about his latest documentary, Spaceship Earth (2020), which follows the people who created Biosphere 2 in 1991. And Antwaun Sargent traces Black queer artists' journeys into immersive desire. "Utopia" also includes compelling portfolios by David Benjamin Sherry, Allen Frame, and Balarama Heller, whose respective works span time and geography, from bohemian New York to a Hare Krishna retreat in India.
"The utopian imagination tends to stir when the world feels simultaneously wrecked and malleable," the writer Chris Jennings notes, in a series of reflections by writers such as Olivia Laing and Nicole R. Fleetwood. Notions of utopia shouldn't be restricted to the fantasy of a fully realized ideal society, or the outsize, often failed, sometimes disastrous schemes and social experiments of the past. Instead, we might consider utopia a mode of vision and thought that shields us from hopelessness.
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How Does My Home Work
The third title in a series of process books, this stylishly illustrated book explains how our homes are supplied with electricity, water and gas.
A sequel to Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food and Where Do Clothes Come From? by Chris Butterworth and Lucia Gaggiotti, this stylishly illustrated book explains the mechanical processes required to produce the things our homes needs to keep us happy and comfortable - electricity, water and gas. Chris Butterworth traces the journey of water, describing how it falls from the sky as rain then gets collected up in reservoirs and sent to factories to be treated and tested, before it can finally be piped to our homes. She also simply and clearly explains how electricity is made and where the gas we use in our boilers comes from. This fascinating process book succeeds in being young, child-centred and friendly, but also packs in an enormous amount of technical information.
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Year One
With one drop of blood, the old world is gone for ever. And in its place, something extraordinary begins... They call it The Doom - a deadly pandemic that starts on a cold New Year's Eve in the Scottish countryside.
There's something mysterious about the virus and the way it spreads. As billions fall sick and die, some survivors find themselves invested with strange, unexpected abilities. Lana, a New York chef, has the power to move things and people with her will.
Fred can summon light in the darkness. Jonah, a paramedic, sees snatches of the future in those he touches. Katie gives birth to twins, and suspects that she has brought fresh magic into the world, along with new life.
But The Doom affects people differently. Along with the light, a dark and terrifying magic will also rise. As the remaining authorities round up the immune and the 'Uncannies' for testing, Lana, Katie and others flee New York in search of a safe haven.
The old world is over, and Year One has begun.
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Piszkos Fred, a kapitány
Ismerj meg te is egy csodálatos, szórakoztató történetet igényes, könnyen kezelhető e-könyv kiadásban. A kiadványhoz mellékelt olvasónapló a szerző életrajzán kívül tartalmazza a könyv legfontosabb adatait, a szereplők és a tartalom bemutatását, valamint további elemzési szempontokat is, melyek segítenek a mű átfogóbb megismerésében és egy esetleges számonkérésre való felkészülésben is.Hogyan lesz egy kagylónyelű kését kereső alvilági csavargóból álruhás trónörökös? Csak az a Fülig Jimmy tudhatja a választ a kérdésre, aki a Honolulu-Star luxusgőzösön szerepet cserél St. Antonio kalandvágyó főhercegével, hogy míg a főrend megismeri az alvilág szabályait, ő pofonosztással tartsa kordában a szigeten az államügyeket. És hogy jön mindehhez Piszkos Fred? Ő ezúttal érző szívű atyaként követi el válogatott gaztetteit, hogy ebben a kalandos történetben fiát, a herceget végül trónra segítse.
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Irreplaceable
All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. From the tiny to the vast, from marshland to meadow, and from Kent to Glasgow to India to America, they are disappearing.
Irreplaceable is not only a love letter to the haunting beauty of these landscapes and the wild species that call them home, including nightingales, lynxes, hornbills, redwoods and elephant seals, it is also a timely reminder of the vital connections between humans and nature, and all that we stand to lose in terms of wonder and wellbeing. This is a book about the power of resistance in an age of loss; a testament to the transformative possibilities that emerge when people come together to defend our most special places and wildlife from extinction.
Exploring treasured coral reefs and remote mountains, tropical jungle and ancient woodland, urban allotments and tallgrass prairie, Julian Hoffman traces the stories of threatened places around the globe through the voices of local communities and grassroots campaigners as well as professional ecologists and academics. And in the process, he asks what a deep emotional relationship with place offers us - culturally, socially and psychologically. In this rigorous, intimate and impassioned account, he presents a powerful call to arms in the face of unconscionable natural destruction.
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Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories
'Does one desire the Yule-tide spirit, sir?' 'Certainly one does. I am all for it.' Aunts, engagements, misunderstandings and hangover cures; this delightful collection from 'the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness' (Julian Fellowes) brings together a baker's dozen of P. G. Wodehouse's finest short stories. "A comic master". (David Walliams). "A cavalcade of perfect joy". (Caitlin Moran).
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Gewitter in Den Bergen (Green Valley Serie, Band 3)
Laura freut sich riesig, als sie erfahrt, dass sie mit ihren beiden Freundinnen Sahra und Bianka ein Wochenende lang mit ihren Pferden auf Wanderritt ins Gebirge darf. Doch das Wochenende lauft nicht ganz wie geplant. Es gibt viele Probleme und Hindernisse, als sie unterwegs sind, die selbst den drei Freundinnen Angst machen. Schliesslich zieht auch noch ein Gewitter im Gebirge auf, als sie sich verirrt haben! Das Gewitter wird starker und kommt naher. Die Madchen mussen einer Konfrontation ins Auge sehen, die ihr Leben bedroht. Wie wird dieses Abenteuer ausgehen? Band 1: Das geheimnisvolle Pferd Band 2: Probleme auf Green Valley Band 3: Gewitter in den Bergen"
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Verdi
Mi volt az olasz opera elképesztő sikerének titka a XIX. században? Mi volt az oka, hogy a kortárs francia és német zeneszerzők belesárgultak az irigységbe? - teszi fel a kérdést kötetében Julian Budden. És meg is válaszolja: részben az olasz énekesek, minden idők legtökéletesebb technikájú előadóművészei; részben az, hogy az olasz operának az évszázadok során már kialakult a zenei anyanyelve; részben a drámai költészet nemes hagyományain nevelkedett itáliai librettisták tekintélye, legfőképpen azonban egy Giuseppe Verdi nevű zseni, aki szerény vidéki környezetéből kiemelkedve az új Olaszország legnagyobb tisztelettel övezett alakjává lett. Akinek kimeríthetetlenül gazdag zenei világát azóta is csodáljuk. Budden nagydíjakkal kitüntetett Verdi-monográfiája az első magyarul is olvasható kézikönyv, amely a modern kutatásokkal szemben támasztott követelményeknek és a nagyközönség igényeinek egyaránt megfelel. Bemutatja Verdi életét és személyiségét, és külön fejezetekben behatóan, élvezetesen tárgyalja műveit. Nemcsak az operákat, hanem a teljes zenei korpuszt. Julian Budden (1924-2007) angol zenetörténész, tanár a Liverpoolhoz közeli Hoylake-ben született. Oxfordban, majd a londoni Royal College of Musicban folytatott tanulmányai után 1951-ben a BBC-nél helyezkedett el. 1960 és 1967 között az intézmény zenei főmunkatársa, majd elnök-igazgatója lett. 1983-tól Firenzében élt. Pályája során mindvégig kitüntetett figyelmet szentelt az olasz operának, élete utolsó évtizedében a luccai Puccini Kutatóközpont vezetője volt. Részt vett a Verdi műveinek angliai és olaszországi összkiadását gondozó szerkesztőbizottság munkájában. Számos remek tanulmányt írt, és háromkötetes monumentális művet szentelt Verdi operáinak. Utolsó nagyszabású vállalkozása, egy Puccini-monográfia, 2002-ben jelent meg.
A(z) Verdi Könyv szerzője Julian Budden.
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Such, Such Were the Joys
In this bitingly honest autobiographical essay, Orwell recounts his days as a pupil at St Cyprian's preparatory school in Eastbourne, Sussex. He reflects on a 'world of force and fraud and secrecy,' where the actual 'pattern of school life' was played out as a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Reflecting on the hypocrisy of Edwardian society, Orwell condemns the education he received as 'a preparation for a sort of confidence trick,' designed mercinarily to prepare pupils for exams without concern for real knowledge or understanding. This is Orwell as political dissident and supreme chronicler of class conflict.
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The Patriots
Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about abandoning America - only to discover, years later, that America has abandoned her. Now, as her son Julian travels back to Moscow - entrusted to stitch together a murky transcontinental oil deal - he must dig into Florence's past to discover who his mother really was and what she became. He must also persuade his own son, Lenny, to abandon his risky quest for prosperity in the cut-throat Russian marketplace. As he traces a thread from Depression-era America, through the collective housing and work camps of Stalin's USSR, to the glittering, oil-rich world of New Russia, Julian finally begins to understand the role he has played - as a father, and as a son.Epic in sweep and intimate in detail, The Patriots is both a compelling portrait of the entangled relationship between America and Russia, and a beautifully crafted story of three generations of one family caught between the forces of history and the consequences of past choices.
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Deep-diving and elegant . . . Wide Sargasso Sea meets Beloved meets Alias Grace' Margaret Atwood
'Compulsive' Emma Donoghue
'A star in the making' Sunday Times
'Gothic fiction made brand new' Stef Penney
'Stunning' Guardian
'Spectacular' Natasha Pulley
'Dazzlingly original' The Times
'A heroine for our times' Elizabeth Day
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'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?'1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth.
For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a plantation in Jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in London, where a beautiful woman waits to be freed.
But through her fevered confessions, one burning question haunts Frannie Langton: could she have murdered the only person she ever loved?
A beautiful and haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night back alleys, into the enthralling heart of Georgian London
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The Devils Half Mile
Golden Hill and The Alienist meet Gangs of New York in this sweeping historical crime drama set in 18th century New York. New York, 1799: Justy Flanagan, lawyer, soldier, policeman, has returned to his native city, bloodied and battered after fighting in the Irish Rebellion against the English. Determined to hunt down the man who murdered his father, his inquiries lead him to Wall Street and the fledgling stock market there.
But as his investigations into the past move ahead, the horrific murders of young slave women in the present start to occupy his time. Convinced that there is a link between his father's murder, the deaths of the young women, and a massive fraud that nearly destroyed New York's economy, Justy can trust no one. As the conspiracy deepens, it becomes clear that those involved will stop at nothing to keep their secrets.
Justy is forced to choose: will he betray his father's memory, compromise his integrity, and risk the lives of his closest friends, to get to the bottom of a tale so dangerous, it could change the landscape of America forever?
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Az elveszett cirkáló
Nincs azon semmi csodálkozni való, hogy a Brit Királyi Tengerészet történetének lapjain nem szerepel a Balmoral nevű cirkáló eltűnésének históriája, az érdemes hadihajót ugyanis az éj leple alatt kötötte el Piszkos Fred. El nem ítélhető tettét azért követte el, mert egy hajó bérlésére nála lévő pénzt elrulettezte...
Hajóra pedig szüksége volt, hogy elindulhasson az expedíció Indokínába egy eltűnt légionista felkutatására. Szegény Piszkos Fred, ha előre sejti, hogy egy angol hadihajó kapitányának ápoltsági szintjéig mosdatják, aligha vág bele a dologba. De ha már benne voltak, mellékesen megoldották őfelsége birodalmának gyarmatügyi kérdését, lelepleztek egy veszedelmes árulót, többször megmentették a fiatal Earl of Sudessex életét és végül teljesen váratlanul megtalálták a légionistát...
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Assassins Creed Volume 3
The Brotherhood of the Assassins is in trouble. Their long feud with the Templar Order has depleted their resources and they are struggling to regain their footing in a world where the goalposts are constantly shifting. Could joining forces with a mysterious collective help, or are their aims too different to make an alliance an option? Join Charlotte de la Cruz and Galina Voronina as they try and navigate a clear path for the Assassins through turbulent waters! Critically-acclaimed collection of the stunning Assassin's Creed comics .Established as entirely canon by Ubisoft Head of Content, Aymar Azaizia, with story and plot contributions from Ubisoft lead scriptwriter Richard Farrese. Perfect jumping on point for those new to the franchise, as well as existing fans!
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Brian Frouds Goblins 10 1/2 Anniversary Edition
If you brought home the first edition, you were in big trouble! If you bring home this new and expanded edition, you are in even deeper trouble! Renowned artist Brian Froud and scholar Ari Berk have continued their exploration of the goblin realm. (For the uninformed, goblins are those maleficent creatures who cause all manner of havoc in the human realm.) Now, thanks largely to Froud's and Berk's continuing carelessness, the viscid and largely nonsensical NEW volume has been unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Among its pages are new letters of apologies and disclaimers complete with new art; a list of Gargle's new titles, grants, entitlements and responsibilities, and sadly much more! Also included is an envelope containing a new talisman that is guaranteed to ward off goblins.
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Circle of Death - A Strike Back Novel (5)
'Ryan never fails to nail the target with a well-aimed burst of rapid-fire realism.'- Crime Revie
Ex-SAS heroes Bald and Porter take on the Deep State in the nail-shredding new Strike Back thriller
In a world run by rich and powerful men, Julian Cantwell is more powerful than most. A ruthless political consultant, Cantwell has manipulated elections around the world, bribing opponents and blackmailing political rivals. Doing whatever it takes for his clients to win. But when a freelance journalist threatens to expose his alleged involvement in a terrifying conspiracy, Cantwell suddenly finds himself under threat. Backed into a corner, he is forced to take drastic action. Meanwhile in London, former Regiment hero John Porter and ex-SAS vagabond John Bald are drafted in by their MI6 paymasters for a highly secretive - and dangerous - mission.
A respected British academic has been arrested in chaos-stricken Venezuela. Accused of spying for the British government, she is being held captive by the President's notorious security forces. Working alongside a team of ex-Navy SEALs, Bald and Porter are tasked with infiltrating Venezuela and rescuing the academic before she caves in to her interrogators. But as they get closer to their target, Bald and Porter begin to uncover a terrifying plot. A conspiracy that goes right to the very heart of power. To survive, they must face down their deadliest enemy yet, in a desperate fight to the death. In the battle between the SAS and the Navy SEALs there can be only one winner. Will Bald and Porter prevail? Or have our heroes finally met their match?
Die erste Liebe (nach 19 vergeblichen Versuchen)
Colin ist ein echtes Wunderkind: Er spricht elf Sprachen fließend, bildet liebend gerne Anagramme und ist überhaupt ein wandelndes Lexikon. In der Liebe allerdings läuft es alles andere als gut. Gerade hat ihn zum neunzehnten Mal eine Katherine sitzengelassen. Auf einer Reise quer durch Nordamerika, zu der ihn sein Freund Hassan überredet hat, entwickelt Colin ein Theorem, mit dem er in Zukunft rechtzeitig vorausberechnen will, wann ihn eine Freundin abservieren wird. Doch dann lernt er Lindsey kennen, die sein mühsam ausgearbeitetes Theorem mit einem Wimpernschlag widerlegen wird. Nominiert für den Preis der Jury der Jungen Leser 2009, Literaturhaus Wien
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Zerbrechlichkeit
Für manche Menschen ist jede Zeit eine Zeit der Gefahr, in der das Leben intensiver wird, sich konzentriert auf den gegenwärtigen Augenblick, das Jetzt. Lebenshunger zeichnet sie aus und eine Unersättlichkeit, der fast alles geopfert wird. Stein, Österreicher in Kalifornien, der zwischen Neuer und Alter Welt pendelt, ist einer dieser ängstlich Verwegenen. Er lädt Stéphane, seinen Freund aus Pariser Studententagen, zu dessen 50. Geburtstag an die Westküste ein. Ihr einwöchiges Zusammensein wird zu einer Fahrt ins Blaue, einem Erinnerungs- und Bilanztrip. Vieles, finden die beiden heraus, war falsch, aber die Fahrt Richtung Hölle geht mit unverminderter Geschwindigkeit weiter.
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The Finkler Question
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one'. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer a
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