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“August, 1971. My raging hormones triggered events that would change the course of my life forever.” Seventeen-year-old Peter was just a typical teenager, looking for a good time. After a night out with a friend looking for sexual fulfilment, he awakes to find that it’s two year’s in the future – and he has no memory of how he’s got there. Peter quickly realises that he’s become something quite different from his younger self. To his horror, he discovers that he’s at the centre of a violent drug-dealing culture, where dangerous vile characters – including his homicidal twin – are searching for him, asking questions that he can no longer answer. All the money in his posses...
Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond. But as the amount of information in databases explodes, we are forced to reassess our ideas about what knowledge is, how it is produced, to whom it belongs, and who can be credited for producing it. Every scientist working today draws on databases to produce scientific knowledge. Databases have become more common than microscopes, voltmeters, and test tubes, and the increasing amount of data has led to major changes in research practices and profound reflections on the proper professional roles of data producers, collectors, ...
Deutschlands Metropolen wachsen kontinuierlich, wahrend die Einwohnerzahlen in strukturschwachen Regionen sinken. Trotz dieser gegenlaufigen Tendenzen ist der Flachenneuverbrauch in beiden Betrachtungsraumen hoch, da selbst schrumpfende Gemeinden Neubaugebiete in naturnahen Ortsrandlagen ausweisen, wahrend Ortskerne verwaisen. Um die endliche Ressource Boden zu schutzen, sollte baulicher Fortschritt daher kunftig seltener auf der "Grunen Wiese" erfolgen. Stattdessen gilt es, den Fokus auf innerortliche Brachflachen zu richten. Verwahrloste Immobilien geraten hierbei in den Blick, denn durch ihre Revitalisierung wird die weitere Flachenversiegelung reduziert und zugleich stadtebaulichen Missstanden begegnet. Maximilian Haussler setzt an diesem Befund an und beantwortet aus juristischer Sicht die Frage, wie das Innenentwicklungspotenzial verwahrloster Immobilien rechtlich bewertet werden kann.
The new look on the history of art and its blind spots, the far-reaching digitization of structures and content, the changing role of museums and art criticism, new forces from influencers to NFTs: Hardly any market system has evolved as profoundly in the last decade as the distribution of art. With 25 years of experience in the art industry, Dirk Boll acts as a continuous chronicler and seasonal commentator of these pervasive developments. His handbook Art and its Market is a reliable source of in-depth knowledge about the inner workings of global art market systems. How do auctions, the network of galleries, and fairs work? How are prices being made, and how do trends both in the production of art as well as its collection emerge? What is more, this edition provides comprehensive information on the practical issues of art acquisition: What are the customs and pitfalls, the economic interdependencies between the artists, buyers and other market players, and the legal regulations governing the trade with art?