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Beyond Tomorrow
Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.
Let the Right One In
Damiano Nava (1982) likes to use the camera as a diary. After moving to Berlin, in November 2009, he found it hard to spontaneously meet people of his generation who might be interested in being photographed. He didn't speak German, and it was hard for him to establish the kind of intimate relationship required for the project. "I was like someone having problems finding a soulmate, so it seemed like a natural step to turn to the internet", he writes in his introduction. He wrote an ad and posted it on Craigslist and Exberliner. For about two years, the ad generated new contacts. Nava received about a thousand e-mails, met around a hundred people and took pictures of the few who were comfortable with him.This book gathers these photos, together with a selection of the emails he received, and an "Afterword" by Italian art critic and curator Guido Bartorelli. A faithful portrait of a generation, with its narcissism and its peculiar relationship with traveling, communication, body language and image making.
Neanderthals and Modern Humans
Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the Pleistocene. In particular, it challenges the view that Modern Human 'superiority' caused the extinction of the Neanderthals between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. Clive Finlayson shows that to understand human evolution, the spread of humankind across the world and the extinction of archaic populations, we must move away from a purely theoretical evolutionary ecology base and realise the importance of wider biogeographic patterns including the role of tropical and temperate refugia. His proposal is that Neanderthals became extinct because their world changed faster than they could cope with, and that their relationship with the arriving Modern Humans, where they met, was subtle.
Willing Sacrifice
Raised in isolation, La'tiera has been coddled and secluded, her mission too important to risk anything happening to her. The Herald--a harbinger comet--has appeared in the sky, telling all the Time of Trial is near. She is ready to do as her duty requires, though the very world she will die to preserve is one she will never see. Dal has led a free life, serving the Order established centuries ago to find and instruct the Bearer in how to perform the Trial established by the covenant made between the Four Gods and the Demons who seek to take over his world. Yet as the latest Trial approaches, there has been no news of the Bearer. The Order is worried… A lively child draws these two togethe...
Der Weizen gedeiht im Süden
Ein Atomkrieg hat das Leben in der nördlichen Hemisphäre vernichtet. In einem hochtechnisierten Bunker in den Schweizer Alpen hoffen 300 Überlebende auf eine Zukunft. Doch Getreidepest und ein soziopathischer Killer nehmen dem Bunker die Lebensgrundlagen. Verzweifelt wagt Dr. Oliver Bertram zusammen mit seiner Tochter und einer kleinen Gruppe die gefährliche Flucht hinaus in den nuklearen Winter. Ihr Ziel ist Afrika, der einzige Ort, an dem menschenwürdiges Leben noch möglich scheint. Eine lange Reise durch einen lebensfeindlichen Kontinent liegt vor ihnen, die die Flüchtlinge nicht ohne Opfer hinter sich bringen können. Erik Schulz engagiert sich in der Organisation der Internationalen Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges. Seine Expertise für Bunkeranlagen und die Folgen nuklearer Katastrophen sorgt dafür, dass seine Geschichte erschreckend authentisch wirkt.
Hexenherz. Eisiger Zorn
Europa, 1466: Als die Hexenverfolgung immer weiter um sich greift, schreitet die bisher geheime Elite der Hexen ein und offenbart: Jede Frau ist der Magie fähig! 550 Jahre später wächst die junge Hexe und staatstreue Gardistin Helena in einer Gesellschaft heran, in der die Vorherrschaft der Frauen unumstößlich scheint. Sie träumt davon, weiter im Dienst der höchsten Hexe, der Goldenen Frau, aufzusteigen. Doch als sie Opfer einer Intrige wird und fliehen muss, gerät sie in die Fänge von Rebellen. Denn auch das stärkste Regime hat seine Fehler – und seine Feinde ...
Living Under the Shadow
Contributors to this volume—from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology—show that human societies have been incredibly resilient and adaptive from the impacts of volcanic eruptions over human history and prehistory.
Antarctic Earth Science
The fourth international symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences took place in Adelaide, South Australia during the week 16-20 August 1982. This volume contains a record of the centenary activities celebrating Sir Douglas Mawson and the one hundred and seventy-four papers that were presented by delegates for discussion over the five days. Sir Douglas Mawson was part of the first team to reach the magnetic South Pole, a leading geologist and scientific figure during the heroic age of of antarctic exploration. The papers presented during the symposium were divided into fifteen categories covering east and west Antarctica, marine, land and glacial geology, plate tectonics, islands, peninsulas, climatic change and Precambrian and Cenozoic era activity. The two hundred persons from sixteen countries who attended the symposium brought together a wide range of the most current expertise and research to share, of which this volume provides a record.
Erich. Oder: Der Tag, den Angela M. nie vergessen wird
Das Leben nimmt seinen gewohnten Gang, so scheint es: Rüdiger, der Supermarkt-Azubi, fürchtet, dass die Chefin seinen Wurst-Klau bemerkt haben könnte; Postbote Ahmed fiebert dem Treffen mit seiner geheimnisvollen Lieblings-Kundin entgegen; Taxifahrerin Bella hat mal wieder 'ne Stinkwut auf alle Männer dieser Welt; Herr Klose versucht weiterhin, den Tauben im Park Essmanieren beizubringen; Polizeiobermeister Mizerski hilft der alten Frau Kleinschmidt, ihre Konservendosen zu öffnen und erfährt dabei viel Wissenswertes über die Welt des Subatomaren; Bob Dylan kommt in die Stadt und bricht sich kurz vor seinem Konzert beim Fußballspielen ein Bein – das wird die große Stunde von Harry,...
