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Honk If You Married Sonja
Travel with Texan Sonja Klein as she takes the reader from her ranch in west Texas from Cuzco to Dubai, from Kazakhstan to Morocco, from Siberia to the Sahara. At intervals, Klein diverges from her journeys to reveal her remarkable life story -- four husbands diverse as the Texas weather. Her stories are very Texan. If there were a female Gus in Lonesome Dove, Klein is it. In this book you will find the thoughts and attitudes of an independent spirit. The book is racy and full of the wit and wisdom of a Texas lady who reveals the unapologetic and hilarious account of her life.
Roundtrip from Texas
Description From her ranch on Ambush Hill in West Texas, Sonja Klein has produced second book even better than Honk If You Married Sonja! Hop in her back pocket and travel vicariously with this cheeky Texas gal as she explores Brazil, China, East Africa, India, Vietnam and many other destinations, one adventure-and misadventure-at a time. You'll be intrigued with her no-holds-barred essays, worldwide travel adventures and Texas ranch life. From the author I believe that we are nomads and that traveling helps us find ourselves. Most human contacts have been made through travel by wandering pilgrims who approached the meaning of life through walking. We might be able to think and live better a...
Ambushed by America
Non-fiction essays concerning travel in America and current life of a Texas lady aging disgracefully.
International Life Insurance
The editor has assembled a distinguished group of authorities on international life insurance to set out the key issues in this fast-changing area of international planning - and how to profit from the financial benefits it offers.
Saplings, Switches, and Twigs
Essays of wit and wisdom, Non-fiction
Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein is the most significant poet and essayist in German today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European and global perspective, and this volume seeks to present the poet and his work to the English-speaking world in all their significance and breadth. Written by a line-up of international scholars and critics, the volume offers highly readable and wide-ranging essays on Grünbein’s substantial œuvre, complemented by specially commissioned material and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and European traditions, and engages with Grünbein’s works in the context of a number of relevant topics, such as ‘memory’, ‘urban life’, ‘mortality’, ‘love’, and ‘presence’; it also probes Grünbein’s sustained dialogue with the natural sciences and the visual arts.
Traveling Bodies
Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling. The case studies assembled in this volume discuss a variety of traveling practices, experiences, and media with chapters featuring Asian, American, and European historical and contemporary perspectives. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume identifies and examines diverse literary, historical and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which traveling and the body intersect, including ‘classic’ travelogues, (new) media (e.g., film, digital travel apps), surf culture, and travel-inspired tattoos. The contributions offer various avenues for further research, not only for scholars working with body theory and travel (writing), but also for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, culture, media, and embodied practices of traveling.
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting core text for music and migration studies. Conceptualized as a comprehensive methodological and theoretical guide, it foregrounds the mobile potentials of music and presents key arguments about why musical expressions matter in the discussion of migration politics. 24 international specialists in music and migration set methodological and theoretical standards for transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of migration studies, discussing 41 keywords, such as mobility, community, research ethics, human rights, and critical whiteness in the context of music and mi...
Translating Memories of Violent Pasts
This collection brings together work from Memory Studies and Translation Studies to explore the role of interlingual and intercultural translation for unpacking transcultural memory dynamics, focusing on memories of violent pasts across different literary genres. The book explores the potential of a research agenda that links narrower definitions of translation with broader notions of transfer, transmission, and relocation across temporal and cultural borders, investigating the nuanced theoretical and conceptual dimensions at the intersection of memory and translation. The volume explores memories of violent pasts – legacies of war, genocide, dictatorship, and exile across different genres...
Health from Space Research
Space physiology and space medicine are fairly recent sciences, born of the desire to launch man into space and bring him safely back again. Weightlessness and cosmic radiation - conditions which can neither be adequately simulated nor reproduced on earth - are on the other hand used as research tools for medical experiments, in particular in the fields of neurophysiology, internal medicine as well as genetics and radiation dosimetry. The newly established Austrian Society for Aerospace Medicine provides a basis for multidisciplinary approaches to spaceflight biomedical research. Diagnostic, prognostic and elective, operational and preventive measures can be fostered by activities of the Society. In October 1991 the first Austrian was launched into orbital flight and fulfilled an ambitious scientific program which was dominated by life science experiments in the areas of cardiovascular medicine, fluid-electrolyte research, neurophysiology, endocrinology, genetics, and radiation biology. The results from these experiments, presented in this book, will help to improve the management of biomedical problems in daily life.
