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The Celtic Conspiracy
In the final days of World War II, an Irish soldier discovers a cache of artifacts in an Austrian cave that threatens to expose long-buried secrets of the Catholic Church. Secrets that prove the Druids of Ireland did not die out; they were systematically exterminated in cold blood. However, the secret will stay buried within the walls of the soldier's home for another fifty years before it is brought to light by his son, a modern-day proponent of the Druids' enlightened, pacifist culture. Armed with the evidence and the conviction to expose the Church's conspiracy, the soldier's son, a Supreme Court justice, forms an unlikely alliance with a healer, a linguist, and a Boston attorney to bring the Vatican to trial. As the action races from the corridors of the White House and the United States Supreme Court to Dublin's halls of academia and the secretive back passages in Rome, the Church will stop at nothing to silence the voices of the past.
The Work I Did
____________________________ 'The last surviving eyewitness to the Nazi power apparatus ... Her memories are remarkable given her age. Yet this book is also notable for what is not recalled ... These gaps result not from memory's decay, but from willful denial ... An effective warning' - Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Whatever Pomsel's degree of guilt, her choice of words and actions raise important questions about coercion and complicity ... Reading this book we must hope that we can learn from history in a way that she could not' - Daily Telegraph ____________________________ I know no one ever believes us nowadays – everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing. It was all a well-kept...
Imagining AI
AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and beyond, and much of the technology itself is shaped by a disproportionately white, male, US-based elite. However, different cultures have been imagining intelligent machines since long before we could build them, in visions that vary greatly across religious, philosophical, literary and cinematic traditions. This book aims to spotlight these alternative visions. Imagining AI draws attention to the range and variety of visions of a future with intelligent machines and their potential significance for the research, regulation, and implementation of AI. The book is structured geog...
Culture in Nazi Germany
A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the arts were closely tied to the propaganda machine that promoted the cause of Germany's military campaigns. Michael H. Kater's engaging and deeply researched account of artistic culture within Nazi Germany considers how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed when the Nazis came to power. With a broad purview that ranges widely across music, literature, film, theater, the press, and visual arts, Kater details the struggle between creative autonomy and political control as he looks at what became of German artists and their work both during and subsequent to Nazi rule.
어느 독일인의 삶
『어느 독일인의 삶』은 독일 나치 선전부장 요제프 괴벨스를 위해 일했던 브룬힐데 폼젤의 증언을 정치학자 토레 D. 한젠이 정리한 책이다. 1942년부터 1945년까지 괴벨스의 비서로 일했던 폼젤은 이 책에서 자신은 그 당시 나치의 만행을 전혀 알지 못했다고 주장한다. 괴벨스의 지근거리에서 일했던 그녀의 주장을 우리는 어떻게 받아들여야 할까? 나치 정권의 마지막 순간까지 자신의 자리를 지키며 충직한 태도를 보인 그녀를 우리는 어디까지 신뢰할 수 있을까? 106세 노인이 생의 마지막 순간에 들려주는 회고는 현재 우리가 살고 있는 시대에 어떤 메시지를 전달하고 있는가? 이런 질문들에 답하기 위해 한젠은 폼젤의 이야기에 귀 기울인다. 정치적 소용돌이 속 한 개인의 책임과 비극적 삶을 면밀히 분석함으로써 그것이 현재를 살아가는 우리에게 무엇을 말해 주는지 살피려는 것이다.
The Art of Fairness
From a New York Times bestselling author, a fresh and detail-rich argument that the best way to lead is to be fair Can you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognizing that, as the old saying has it, “nice guys finish last.” But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme and be a bully or Machiavellian to get anything done? In The Art of Fairness, bestselling author David Bodanis uses thrilling case studies to show there's a better path, leading neatly in between. He reveals how it was fairness, applied with skill, that led the Empire State Building to be constructed in barely a year––and how the same techniques brought a quiet English debutante to...
The Little Paintbrush
The little paintbrush is often teased by all the other brushes in the cabinet, who have thick bristles and are chosen by their artist to create many paintings. They boast all day about the pieces they've helped create, and the little paintbrush yearns to be like them. One day, the little paintbrush is thrown out of the cabinet as he tries to inch out to be noticed. Alone and disheveled, he befriends an old broom who consoles him. Then, one night, a thief breaks into the artist's house and it's up to the little paintbrush to warn the artist—who is none other than Edvard Munch! After driving the thief away, Munch is inspired by the little paintbrush and his valiant efforts. Together they create a new masterpiece, The Scream. And from then on, the little paintbrush becomes Munch's favorite. This magical tale teaches kids about one of history's most famous paintings through the story of one little paintbrush who becomes a big talent.
2024/2025
Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender – seit über 140 Jahren die bewährte Dokumentation der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Literaturszene – umfasst in seiner 74. Ausgabe Einträge zu ca. 9.000 Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern. Ohne literaturkritische Wertung stellt der Literatur-Kalender die lebenden Verfasserinnen und Verfasser schöngeistiger Literatur in deutscher Sprache vor – unabhängig von Staatsangehörigkeit und geographischem Lebens- und Wirkungsbereich. Die Artikel informieren über Adressen, Lebensdaten, Mitgliedschaften in Fachverbänden und literarischen Vereinigungen, literarische Preise sowie die Veröffentlichungen der Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftst...
Neue Urbanität – Konzepte zur Stadt der Zukunft
Seit 2008 leben weltweit mehr Menschen in der Stadt als auf dem Land und das Ende dieser Form der Urbanisierung ist noch lange nicht in Sicht. Diese Entwicklung begann bereits in der Renaissance mit der Konzeption sogenannter Idealstädte. Von diesen wurde jedoch nur eine geringe Anzahl tatsächlich gebaut, und ihre Konzeption trug ansonsten eher ein utopisches Element in sich. In dieser Spannung von realer Stadtwelt und utopischen Gegenentwürfen bewegt sich auch der vorliegende Band, der neben kunsthistorischen, künstlerischen, architektonischen und umwelttheoretischen Entwürfen erstmals in einer solchen Breite literarische Zukunftsvisionen der Stadt mit einbezieht, dabei über reine Stadtmotive wie etwa Metropolis oder Babylon im expressionistischen Film oder der Literatur der 1920er Jahre, über Städtebilder im benjaminischen Sinne hinausgeht, weil Stadt hier immer in Hinblick auf die Zukunft und die Möglichkeiten der Veränderung und Innovation betrachtet wird.
2022/2023
Die bewährte Dokumentation der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Literaturszene umfasst über 9.000 Einträge lebender Verfasserinnen und Verfasser schöngeistiger Literatur in deutscher Sprache: Adressen, Lebensdaten, Mitgliedschaften, Auszeichnungen sowie 140.000 Veröffentlichungen; im Anhang u. a.: Übersetzer, Verlage, Literaturpreise, Fachverbände, Literaturhäuser, Zeitschriften, Agenturen; Festkalender, Nekrolog, geographische Übersicht.
