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Red Quarter Moon
Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they became special objects of Soviet persecution. Though her parents fled in 1929, many relatives remained in the USSR. Konrad's search for these missing extended family members took place over twenty years and five continents - on muddy roads, lonesome steppes, and in old letters, documents, or secret police archives. Her story emerges as both haunting and inspiring, filled with dramatically different accounts from survivors now scattered across the world. She aligns the voices of her subjects chronologically against the backdrop of Soviet policy, intertwining the historical context of the Terror Years with her own personal quest. Red Quarter Moon is an enthralling journey into the past that offers a unique look at the lives of ordinary families and individuals in the USSR.
A Witness in Times of War and Peace
A Witness in Times of War and Peace is a searing memoir that describes the struggles a Mennonite pastor experiences during the Second World War. Gerhard Hein is a practicing Mennonite when he is called up for duty, and he must reconcile his pacifist beliefs with the obligation to serve in Germany’s Wehrmacht. He displays courage in a terrifying and uncertain time by voicing his concerns about the National Socialistic ideology in both words and deeds, standing up for his beliefs by pointing to the One who can bring real peace. His story shows that in the darkness of war, rays of genuine love, care, and compassion can shine through.
User-Innovation
Economic growth is highly dependent on technological progress and innovation, yet the sources from which these innovations originate are still largely misunderstood and untapped. Recent research has demonstrated that users, rather than manufacturers, are often a critical source of innovation in numerous fields from extreme sports to medical devices to software. This book systematically identifies the most important barriers to user-innovation and critically evaluates the democratization of innovation argument by critically assessing the main legal, economic, technological, and societal barriers to user-innovation for the first time and proposing alternative possibilities. Through original re...
Perspectives On User Innovation
There has been a dramatic shift towards more open, democratised, forms of innovation that are driven by networks of individual users. Users are now visibly active within all stages of the innovation process and across many types of industrial output, and their influence is spreading across many sectors. They are actively engaged with firms in the co-creation of products and services, and firms can no longer control the innovation agenda. This developing phenomenon has large implications for our understanding of the management of innovation.Drawing on practice-based insights, together with theoretical approaches developed in Innovation Studies and Science and Technology Studies, this book brings together a collection of recent work that examines key aspects of this emerging new model of innovation, while highlighting exciting new ideas in this area. With content contributed by academics, practitioners and researchers, this book is a good reference source for academics and general public interested in the management and policy implications of user innovation./a
User Innovation Barriers’ Impact on User-Developed Products
Thorsten Pieper explores the impact of innovation barriers along the user innovation process, in particular whether technological, social, legal and ownership barriers change the properties of user-developed products. This study roots from the “open innovation” research field and reveals insights from innovating users in “collaborative workspaces”. The results prove a hierarchical allocation of innovation barriers regarding their influence on the end-product and moderating influences of user innovators’ personal characteristics. The author discusses these insights and provides practical recommendations for more efficient promotion of user innovations and successful integration in corporate "co-creation" projects.
The Reel Middle Ages
Those tales of old--King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc--have been told and retold, and the tradition of their telling has been gloriously upheld by filmmaking from its very inception. From the earliest of Georges Melies's films in 1897, to a 1996 animated Hunchback of Notre Dame, film has offered not just fantasy but exploration of these roles so vital to the modern psyche. St. Joan has undergone the transition from peasant girl to self-assured saint, and Camelot has transcended the soundstage to evoke the Kennedys in the White House. Here is the first comprehensive survey of more than 900 cinematic depictions of the European Middle Ages--date of production, country of origin, director, production company, cast, and a synopsis and commentary. A bibliography, index, and over 100 stills complete this remarkable work.
Opera Viva
A history of the Canadian Opera Company and Canadas cultural growth in the second half of the twentieth century.
POLIZEIT-Bericht
Polizeit, Band 3 Zeitmaschinen gibt es nicht. Aber wenn doch, würde sie auch garantiert jemand dazu benutzen, um Morde und andere Verbrechen zu begehen. Nach "POLZEIT-Detective" und "POLIZEIT-Inspektor" geht es auch hier wieder um ein paar Mördereien, die so ohne Zeitmaschine eigentlich nicht möglich gewesen wären. Und es geht um den "großen Zeitkrieg", der hier ein wenig beleuchtet wird. Das Buch dreht sich also nicht nur um Kriminalfälle, sondern dringt ein bisschen tiefer in "das Polizeit-Universum" ein. Und Detective Inspektor Ethan Cause darf dabei natürlich auch nicht fehlen. "POLZEIT-Bericht" kann nach Band 2 spielen... oder vor Band 1. Oder irgendwo dazwischen. Entscheiden Sie selbst. Ein bisschen philosophisch, ein bisschen verspielt wird den Fragen nachgegangen: Was könnte man mit Zeitmaschinen machen, wenn das nicht blanker Unfug wäre? Ist das überhaupt Unsinn? Und wo hab ich eigentlich geparkt? Ungewöhnliche Krimis, wie man sie sonst wahrscheinlich nur in einer anderen Zeitlinie findet...
