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Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north. Dasani comes of age as New York City's homeless crisis is exploding. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani leads her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: ...
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Discusses the 2008-9 Rumos Artes Visuais programme of the Itaú Cultural
In 1896, a young Genevan medium named Hélène Smith perceived in trance the following words from a Martian inhabitant: "michma michtmon mimini thouainenm mimatchineg." Those attending her séance dutifully transcribed these words and the event marked the beginning of a series of occult experiences that transported her to the red planet. In her state of trance, Smith came to produce foreign conversations, a new alphabet, and paintings of the Martian surroundings that captured the popular and scientific imagination of Geneva. Alongside her Martian travels, she also retrieved memories of her past lives as a fifteenth-century "Hindoo" princess and as Queen Marie Antoinette. Today, Smith's séan...
"L’Abécédaire de la forêt" n’est pas un dictionnaire comme les autres : le genre y est en parfaite harmonie avec l’objet d’étude. Telle la forêt, où s’ouvrent sentiers et chemins de traverse, l’Abécédaire croise les analyses de biologistes, littéraires, linguistes, juristes, écologues et vétérinaires sur un espace qui ne semble unique qu’en apparence : la forêt et ses composantes, végétales ou animales, visibles ou invisibles, que scrutent des regards croisés entre disciplines artistiques et scientifiques. Il s’agit d’un kaléidoscope raisonné, non exhaustif mais éclectique, miroir des questionnements actuels sur la forêt, aussi merveilleuse que menacée....
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Jura - Zivilrecht / BGB AT / Schuldrecht / Sachenrecht, Note: 17 Punkte , Bucerius Law School - Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaften in Hamburg (Lehrstuhl Privatrecht I), Veranstaltung: Fünfte Republik und Code civil: Grundzüge des französischen Staats- und Rechtssystems, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit vergleicht die Regeln zur Eigentumsübertragung im französischen und deutschen Recht. Dabei kommt der Autor zum Ergebnis, dass große Ähnlichkeiten in der Sache durch sehr unterschiedliche Terminologie und Dogmatik verschleiert werden.