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Beyond the Blue Border
Hanna and Andreas will do anything to leave oppressive East Germany behind. There's one escape route open to them, but can they survive it? Hanna and Andreas have always been friends. When they're expelled from school for activism directly challenging the socialist state in East Germany, they end up doing factory work. But what kind of life do they have to look forward to without education or opportunity? Especially when they aren't allowed a voice? The choice to risk imprisonment or death by escaping to the democratic West seems like a risk worth taking. They set out to swim twenty-five hours across the choppy waters of the Baltic Sea. Linke's storytelling achieves a delicate balance between heightened moments of danger--searchlights, jellyfish, a Russian helicopter, a violent summer storm--and the monotony, ineffable fatigue, physical pain, cramping, fear, and hope that fill the rest of the journey. A memorable tale of two people risking all for a chance at freedom.
Beautiful New Sky
It was a bold, ambitious and wildly arrogant idea: extending the reach of communism into space. Spurred on by the defeat of Hitler and the competitive rivalry with the United States, the Soviet space programme saw a frenetic surge of scientific activity focused on the objective of demonstrating Communist mastery beyond the confines of the Earth. In order to create the optimally standardized bodies that cosmonauts would require, top secret military laboratories were set up in 1970s East Germany. The New Man – the modern colonist of space – was intensively trained for the purpose of surviving years of weightlessness in outer space. Experiments were carried out in prisons, hospitals and arm...
Canonizing Hypertext
This innovative monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing. Canonizing Hypertext combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the motivational and pedagogic possibilities of this form of literature. It focuses on key questions for literary scholars and teachers: How can literature be taught in such a way as to make it relevant for an increasingly hypermedia-oriented readership? How can the rapidly evolving new media be integrated into curricula that still seek to transmit 'traditional' literary competence? How can the notion of literary competence be broadened to take into account these current trends? This study, which argues for hypertext's integration in the literary canon, offers a critical overview of developments in hypertext theory, an exemplary hypertext canon and an evaluation of possible classroom applications.
Erzählende Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Deutschunterricht
Ein Handbuch für Studium, Referendariat und Lehrerberuf Egal ob Kanontext, Schulklassiker oder erfolgreiche neuere Publikation: Das Handbuch "Erzählende Kinder- und Jugendliteratur“ bietet in mehr als 100 Artikeln eine schnelle Orientierung über Inhalte, didaktische Eignung und methodische Ansatzpunkte für den Deutschunterricht aller Schulformen. Es kann im Lehramtsstudium seminarbegleitend oder zur Prüfungsvorbereitung eingesetzt werden und genauso zur Unterrichtsplanung in Referendariat und Schulpraxis.
Vom Atmen unter Wasser
Die Bergmanns waren eine ganz normale Familie. Bis Sarah, die sechzehnjährige Tochter, eines Abends auf dem Nachhauseweg ermordet wird. Jetzt, ein Jahr später, ist der Gerichtsprozess vorbei, der Täter verurteilt. Doch was geschieht mit denen, die zurückbleiben, die mit ihrem Leben nicht einfach weitermachen können? Vom Atmen unter Wasser erzählt vom Versuch einer Familie, mit ihrer Trauer umzugehen. Als die Mutter am ersten Jahrestag von Sarahs Ermordung einen Suizidversuch unternimmt, bittet der Vater den Sohn um Hilfe. Ausgerechnet Simon, der Zeit seines Lebens im Schatten der jüngeren Schwester stand, soll nun die Balance der Familie wiederherstellen. Und tatsächlich: Es gelingt ihm, seine Mutter in ihrem Kokon aus Trauer und Wut zu erreichen - doch dabei gerät er an seine Grenzen und droht sich selbst zu verlieren.
Natural Gas Conversion VI
This volume contains peer-reviewed manuscripts describing the scientific and technological advances presented at the 6th Natural Gas Conversion Sumposium held in Alaska in June 2001. This symposium continues the tradition of excellence and the status as the premier technical meeting in this area established by previous meetings.The 6th Natural Gas Conversion Symposium is conducted under the overall direction of the Organizing Committee. The Program Committee was responsible for the review, selection, editing of most of the manuscripts included in this volum. A standing International Advisory Board has ensured the effective long-term planning and the continuity and technical excellence of these meetings.
Beards and Texts
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity the beard played a distinctive role throughout the Middle Ages in literary discussions of such major themes as majesty and humanity. At the same time beards served as an important point of reference in didactic poetry concerned with wisdom, teaching and learning, and in comedic texts that were designed to make their audiences laugh, not least by submitting various figure-types to the indignity of having their beards manhandled. Four main chapters each offer a reading of a work or poetic tradition of...
Sisters in Motion
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Logistics Competencies, Skills, and Training
Despite the spread of automation and new supply chain management paradigms, logistics remains dependent on a rather specific set of skills and competencies, whether for managerial, administrative, or blue-collar jobs, such as trucking or warehousing. This dependence implies that the logistical performance of businesses, industries, and nation states is strongly influenced by the quantity and quality of the workforce. Insufficient resources of a competent and properly trained workforce in logistics adversely affect the quality of service, reduce productivity in sectors dependent on logistics, and ultimately reduce trade competitiveness. While other interventions that affect logistics performa...
