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In My Own Last Words
What Would You Say If You Could Write Your Own Obituary? When end-of-life caregiver and grief counselor Christiane zu Salm wrote an obituary for herself as a requirement of her training, she realized how powerful it could be for people nearing death to talk about their lives in their own words. Standard obituaries contain little beyond simple facts about the deceased person's family, career, hobbies, and achievements. But they don't tell us much about the person's actual experience of life. How do regular people view their lives as they approach death? The patients zu Salm interviewed in their homes, nursing facilities, and hospices were eager for a chance to set the record straight and impart their final thoughts. This collection presents obituaries gathered from people facing death in the U.S. before and during the global Covid-19 pandemic. It also includes the author's own story of leaving a successful career as a media executive to do end-of-life work, as well as her reflections on what we can learn from the dying about making the most of our lives.
The Culture of Stopping
Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects – houses, asphalt, cars, plastic, computers and so on – now exceeds the totality of living matter. And while biomass continues to decline due to deforestation and species extinction, the mass of man-made objects is growing faster than ever. We’re on a treadmill to disaster. To get off this treadmill, argues Harald Welzer, we need to learn how to stop: as individuals and as societies, we need to stop doing what we’re doing and say ‘...
The Heidelbergerin
The Heidelbergerin - is a magnificent book that takes us on a journey into the fascinating world of the city of Heidelberg and tells us the stories of its unique residents. "The typical Heidelbergerin is [...] in love with life, she loves the Old Town and the Neckar. In this book, you will not only learn about the mindset of the Heidelbergerin but also discover a wealth of information about Germany's oldest university town." (Reader's review) Allow yourself to be swept away into the vibrant tapestry of the Heidelbergerin's world. Get to know us and fall in love with the city!"
Pattern Design
A contemporary guide to pattern design, this title brings together a wide variety of pattern designs and their variations, and maps the spectrum of their possible applications, such as wallpaper, furniture, interior design, clothes and more.
Billboard
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
The Magic of Things
“This excellent book is a painfully honest account of successive unwinnable wars. It is the text book Mr. Obama and others will need if Afghanistan is ever to be left to find its own peace and prosperity.” —Jon Snow, Channel 4 News (UK) Jonathan Steele, an award-winning journalist and commentator, has covered the country since his first visit there as a reporter in 1981. He tracked the Soviet occupation and the communist regime of Najibullah, which held the Western-backed resistance at bay for three years after the Soviets left. He covered the arrival of the Taliban to power in Kabul in 1996, and their retreat from Kandahar under the weight of U.S. bombing in 2001. Most recently Steele...
Kinder, der Tod ist gar nicht so schlimm!
Als Tim Renner sich 1986 bei der Plattenfirma Polydor bewarb, wollte er eine Enthüllungsstory über die Musikindustrie schreiben. Doch es kam anders, und er machte Karriere. Für achtzehn Jahre verschmolz seine Biografie mit der Entwicklung der Musikbranche, er brachte Bands wie Element of Crime, Rammstein, Tocotronic und Philip Boa zum Erfolg und stieg immer weiter auf, bis er schließlich an der Spitze von Universal Music Deutschland stand. Doch er erlebte auch, wie der Druck des Marktes musikalische Entwicklungen bremste, wie sich Pop und Kommerz immer mehr verzahnten und nicht zuletzt, wie die alten Strukturen der Branche sich durch Digitalisierung und Globalisierung in rasantem Tempo a...
Cases on Information Technology Entrepreneurship
Cases on Information Technology and Entrepreneurship is a cutting-edge look into how IT can be the structural foundation of an entrepreneurship, describing specific examples of IT as the base of a start-up company and demonstrating how, using IT as a strategic advantage, entrepreneurs can quickly move toward achieving their business goals.
ZEITmagazin - Das war meine Rettung
Jeder kennt Momente und Situationen, in denen man nicht mehr weiter weiß und der Lebensweg vielleicht sogar eine radikale Wendung nimmt. Die wöchentliche Rubrik "Das war meine Rettung" aus dem Zeit-Magazin widmet sich genau diesen elementaren Erfahrungen: Persönlichkeiten aus Wirtschaft, Politik, Kultur und Gesellschaft berichten in Interviews von einschneidenden Erlebnissen, die sie zu den Menschen gemacht haben, die sie heute sind. Unter anderem mit Thomas Quasthoff, Ildikó von Kürthy, Ferdinand von Schirach, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ferran Adria und Vera Lengsfeld.
Privat gesammelt - öffentlich präsentiert
Während im deutschsprachigen Raum Kunstmuseen traditionell Einrichtungen der öffentlichen Hand sind, lässt sich seit den 1990er Jahren eine Gegenbewegung erkennen: Immer mehr private Sammlerinnen und Sammler treten mit eigenen und privat finanzierten Museen und Kunsträumen an die Öffentlichkeit. Erstmals werden in diesem Buch Gründungsmotive und Zielsetzungen privater Kunstinitiativen erforscht und ihre Erfolgsfaktoren im Vergleich zu öffentlichen Museen wissenschaftlich fundiert und differenziert erläutert. Die Erkenntnisse sind sowohl für die aktuelle Museumsforschung und das Anwendungsgebiet des Kulturmanagements als auch für das Verständnis des gegenwärtigen Kunstbetriebs und...
