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Hardboiled Hollywood
Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: I have chosen the two films that will be subjected to examination in this work because they have a lot in common at first glance. Their scripts are based on crime novels of the so called hardboiled school, a stream in American popular literature that developed after the First World War. They were both filmed in the 1940s and produced by the Warner Brothers studio. No scholarly or critical discussion of the Hollywood genre of film noir is complete without them, and they both feature Humphrey Bogart as the main actor in the role of the private eye. What I hope to show this thesis is not only that these films, despite the similarities outlined above, are far from being b...
Zombie Zone Germany: Die Erste
Unsere Städte wurden Höllen. Sie kamen über Nacht. Ihr Hunger war unstillbar. Sie fielen wie Heuschreckenschwärme über die Lebenden her. Zerrissen sie, fraßen, machten aus ihnen etwas Entsetzliches. In den Straßen herrscht verwestes Fleisch. Zwischen zerschossenen Häusern und Bombenkratern gibt es kaum noch sichere Verstecke. In Deutschland ist der Tod zu einer seltenen Gnade geworden. Hohe Stahlbetonwände sichern die Grenzen. Jagdflieger und Kampfhubschrauber dröhnen darüber. Es wird auf alles geschossen, was sich (noch) bewegt. Deutschland wurde isoliert - steht unter Quarantäne. Die wenigen Überlebenden haben sich zu Gruppen zusammengeschlossen, oder agieren auf eigene, verzw...
Germany's Covert War in the Middle East
Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into English in their entirety for the first time - chronicle the complexities of the fragile Ottoman-German alliance from the perspective of a participant. Much like fellow soldier-scholar T.E. Lawrence, Prufer and his colleagues tried to steal the loyalties of the Muslim subjects of the opposing sides. The book explores these episodes of sabotage, subversion and subterfuge - from managing spies to preparing for the attack on the Suez Canal in 1915 - and in the process sheds light onto the ways World War I played out across the Middle East. Complemented throughout by in-depth and meticulously researched footnotes, this primary source collection is an invaluable addition to the extant corpus of late Ottoman and World War I historical documents.
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Fundbüro der Finsternis
Wem ist nicht schon einmal ein Gegenstand in die Hände gefallen, der faszinierte? Aufgrund seines Alters, seiner Form, seines Werts oder seines mysteriösen Hintergrundes. Aber nicht jeder Fund bringt seinem Finder Glück. Ist es Aberglaube oder nur ein schlechtes Omen? Sind es spirituelle Überreste des Vorbesitzers? Oder ist es gar ein Fluch? In den Geschichten dieser Anthologie müssen die Protagonisten lernen, mit einem magischen Kompass umzugehen, werden mit tödlichen Pflanzen konfrontiert, tragen mystische Masken und lernen die wahren Tücken der Zeit kennen. Diese und viele weitere grauenhafte Begegnungen mit dem Unbekannten sind an einem Ort versammelt, der nun von Ihnen entdeckt werden kann: dem Fundbüro der Finsternis. Das Titelbild stammt von Andreas Schwietzke. Ein Geschichtenweberprojekt ...
About Trees
About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
Application and Theory of Petri Nets
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2012, held in Hamburg, Germany, in June 2012. The 18 regular papers and 3 tool papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The book also contains 2 invited talks. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets and related models of concurrent systems are addressed.
Commercial Banking
The existence of financial intermediaries is arguably an artifact of information asymmetry. Beyond simple financial transactions, financial intermediation provides a mechanism for information transmission, which can reduce the degree of information asymmetry and consequently increase market efficiency. During the process of information transmission, the bank is able to provide unique services in the production and exchange of information. Therefore, banks have comparative advantages in information production, transmission, and utilisation. This book provides an overview of commercial banking and includes empirical methods in banking such risk and bank performance, capital regulation, bank competition and foreign bank entry, bank regulation on bank performance, and capital adequacy and deposit insurance.
Proofs from THE BOOK
According to the great mathematician Paul Erdös, God maintains perfect mathematical proofs in The Book. This book presents the authors candidates for such "perfect proofs," those which contain brilliant ideas, clever connections, and wonderful observations, bringing new insight and surprising perspectives to problems from number theory, geometry, analysis, combinatorics, and graph theory. As a result, this book will be fun reading for anyone with an interest in mathematics.
