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September 2017Einige Hunde
by Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Der Hund ist der Begleiter des Menschen seit Jahrtausenden. Jan Philipp Reemtsmas Exkursionen zum „Hund in der Malerei“ unterscheiden, gelehrt und unterhaltend die verschiedenen Funktionen, die sie in der Malerei innehaben. »Hunde als Accessoires, die einfach nur das Bild mit einer optischen oder genrespezifischen Auflockerung versehen – und Hunde, die seltsam prominent im Bild erscheinen, ohne daß man, auf den ersten Blick, zu sagen vermöchte, was sie da eigentlich zu suchen haben.« So spannt sich der Bogen von Rembrandt bis Max Liebermann, von Watteau bis Lucian Freud. Vierzig Farbabbildungen illustrieren die Ausführungen. Und der Leser des Buches wird beim nächsten Museumsbesuch nach Hunden Ausschau halten.
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1980Region und Industrialisierung
Region and Industrialization. Studien zur Rolle der Region in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte der letzten zwei Jahrhunderte /Studies on the Role of the Region in the Economic History of the Last Two Centuries
by Herausgegeben von Pollard, Sidney; Herausgegeben von Hölscher, Lucian
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Children's & YA2014I, Author
by Eliana Lucián
I dreamed of seeing my name on the cover of a book. I wanted it so much that one day… I did it myself!
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood
by Mike Mannin, Paul Flenley, Nora Siklodi, Paul Flenley, Tatiana Romanova, Nadia Burenko, Teodor Lucian Moga, Marcin Kosienkowski, Monika Eriksen, Dimitris Tsarouhas, Martin Dangerfield, Edward Stoddard, Igor Merheim-Eyre, Maria Stoicheva, Kiryl Kascian, Adam Mickiewicz, Derek Averre, Kevork Oskanian
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October 2024Chalcidoidea of the World
by John Heraty, James Woolley, Austin Baker, Hannes Baur, Julie Böhmová, Matthew L. Buffington, Roger A.Burks, Matthew Cock, Astrid Cruaud, Ana Dal Molin, Natalie Dale-Skey, Christopher Darling, Gerard Delvare, Priscila G. Dias, Tiffany Domer, Chrysalyn Dominguez, Fernando H.A. Farache, Lucian Fusu, Michael W. Gates, Marco Gebiola, Alex V. Gumovsky, Michael Haas, Paul Hanson, Christer Hansson, Judith Herreid, Keith Hopper, J T Huber, Martha Hunter, Randa Jabbour, Petr Janšta, Robert Luke Kresslein, Lars Krogmann, Amelia Lindsey, Kerry E. Mauck, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Jason L. Mottern, José Luis Nieves-Aldrey, John S Noyes, Ryan K. Perry, Ralph Peters, John Pinto, Andrew Polaszek, Alexey A. Polilov, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Javier Torréns, Serguei V. Triapitsyn, Jonah M. Ulmer, Roy G. Van Driesche, Simon van Noort, Ionela-Madalina Viciriuc, Jack Werren, Rachel L. Winston, Y. Miles Zhang
The superfamily Chalcidoidea (the jewel wasps) are part of the insect order Hymenoptera. The superfamily comprises more than 27,000 known species, with an estimated total diversity of more than 500,000 species, meaning that the vast majority have yet to be discovered and described. Most of the species are parasitoids, attacking the egg, larval stage or pupal stage of their host, though many other life cycles are known including gall associates and fig pollinators. This landmark volume has been co-authored by world authorities on the systematics and biology of chalcidoid wasps. It provides an introduction to the superfamily, a review of chalcidoid morphology, an overview of the fossil record, a phylogenetic framework for the revised classification of the superfamily, an identification key for the 50 recognized families, and detailed treatments of the individual families. The book consolidates much recent research on the phylogenomics of Chalcidoidea and the fossil record. This research has resulted in substantial changes to their classification, and in a review of all families, the new family groups are presented to the general scientific public for the first time. The book is an historic milestone, presenting a reclassification of the superfamily and a synthesis of knowledge on all aspects of Chalcidoidea that will serve for generations to come. Individual chapters clarify the limits of families and subfamilies based on contemporary phylogenetic studies. These chapters provide for each family: diagnostic features and extensively illustrated details of their specialized morphology, summaries of their distribution and worldwide diversity, a history of their classification history and major workers, phylogenetic relationships, natural history, use in biological control and economic impact, fossil history, and fully illustrated identification keys to subfamilies or in some cases to genera. Additional chapters present best practices for collecting, rearing from hosts, and preservation, review digital resources currently available, explore the diversity of their natural history and their human impacts, such as their use and importance to biological and natural control of pest arthropods. Chapters by worldwide authorities explore the enormous biological diversity of chalcidoid wasps including consequences of their almost unbelievable miniaturization (the most extreme known in insects), relationships with endosymbionts, special aspects of genetics, genomics, evolutionary biology and development, and brief accounts of the most significant chalcidoid researchers that have passed. For many years to come this important book will serve the needs of hymenopterists and professional entomologists, taxonomists and systematists, entomologists working on parasitic wasps as biological control agents, and ecologists working on parasite-host interactions.
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Health systems & servicesJuly 2006The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures 2005
Next Steps Toward Higher Quality Health Care
by Institute of Medicine
In 1988, an exciting and important new program was launched at the Institute of Medicine. Through the generosity of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation, a lecture series was established to bring to greater attention some of the critical health policy issues facing our nation today. Each year a subject of particular relevance is addressed through a lecture presented by experts in the field. The Rosenthal lecture included in this volume captures three exciting presentations, given by Drs. Elliott Fisher, George Isham, and Lucian Leape, and reveals the ensuing discussion on "Next Steps Toward Higher Quality Health Care."
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FictionNovember 2019Polifemo (Novel)
by Erik Del Bufalo
The novel Polifemo, by Erik Del Bufalo, written with fine language and dramatic texture, narrates the inner experience of a modern man, blinded by a clarity that surpasses him, unable to see any depth or mystery. At the turn of this millennium, in the middle of a tropical city, plagued by plague and destruction, Lucian Holzer is suddenly caught up in the plot of a crime, which is also the warp of two loves. The mysterious death of his youthful passion will become a voracious shadow that will not cease to haunt him. Due to a mistake, two feminine presences, one past and the other present, will end up becoming the same ghost eager for dark desires.
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May 2020Der Hamster verlässt das Rad
Der Weg zur finanziellen Freiheit und Autarkie - wie auch Anfänger online Geld verdienen, Geld richtig anlegen, Vermögen aufbauen und passives Einkommen erzielen!
by Christopher Klein, Jens Helbig
"Six hours is enough for the work. The other hours say to man: live! LucianRainer and Totala Zufall have spent their whole life in the gear of the hamster wheel. Through the construction of our monetary system they are - like most people - in an invisible treadmill. A prison from which magnate and capitalist Karl Kulation knows how to profit. Rainer and Totala decide they no longer want to be slaves of the system. They finally want to live financially free and independent! With the instructions in this book, they succeed in gradually freeing themselves from the constraints of the hamster wheel and switch to the track of the winners. This book is a step-by-step guide for all those people who are also longing for a better quality of life, who want to finally leave the treadmill and live as independently and self-sufficiently as family Zufall (chance). Finance-Book for age group 18-40 - part of the most popular finance-book-series in Germany and Amazon Bestseller!
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Health & Personal DevelopmentAugust 2014Cry for Health, Volume 1
Health: The Casualty of Modern Times
by Jesse Sleeman
Cry for Health is the first volume of a brilliant treatise that explores vitally important issues for everyone working in healthcare, ecology, sociology, environmental and biological sciences. In fact, for anyone concerned about our survival. In essence, it unravels the hidden story behind the moderrn pandemic, death by doctoring, the failure of medical science to fully understand heatth, and the health impact of man-made chemicals, electropollution, and modern farming and food processing practices. Author Jesse Sleeman has over 30 years' experience in the practice and teaching of natural and traditional therapies and medical philosophies.
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Classic crimeJuly 2017Ein MORDs-Team - Der Fall Marietta King 3: In den Trümmern / The Young Investigators - The Case of Marietta King 3: Burried
by Andreas Suchanek
Founding Day ends in disaster. A bomb deposited at the school by Kaminski tears through the building in a massive explosion. Trapped inside, the survivors must fight to survive. And as Chris Archer’s life hangs in the balance, Olivia pushes herself to the limit to help her friends in the schoolhouse.
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June 2018The Coroner's Wife
by Joan Hambridge
Joan Hambidge has published over 25 collections of poetry. Her work uses the magnifying lense of poetry to dissect, examine and recompose the material of her own life and work, and in so doing, explores ideas and issues central to our understanding of language and meaning. The poems selected for translation in this compilation offer insights into her views across a spectrum of four categories: city life; love and family; ars poetica; and time and eternity. The Coroner’s Wife offers English readers the unique opportunity to experience a prolific and renowned Afrikaans poet in their own language. Translations have been sensively rendered by well-known poets, Charl JF Cilliers, Johann de Lange, Jo Nel and Douglas Reid Skinner.
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History of architectureOctober 2013Paul T. Frankl
Autobiography
by Christopher Long and Aurora McClain (eds)
A page-turner that captures this leading Modernist in his own words. – Bennett Johnson, Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Viennese émigré Paul T. Frankl was a pioneer of early modern design in America, known for his “Skyscraper” furniture of the 1920s and work for Hollywood celebrities. His autobiography, thought for decades to be lost, is annotated by design scholar Christopher Long and accompanied by previously unpublished photographs and drawings. Hand-sewn with a linen cover, this book won the “Most Beautiful Book” design award in Austria.
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November 2021The History of Science Fiction
A Graphic Novel Adventure
by Xavier Dollo & Djibril Morissette-Phan
Journey through time and space with this graphic novel history of the Sci-Fi genre, from Mary Shelley to William Gibson and Philip K. Dick to Ken Liu and Ted Chiang, and more. Trace the progress of SF through modern times and learn why key figures and inventors like Thomas Edison and Elon Musk have looked to Sci-Fi to predict the future.For the first time in illustrated form, this comprehensive history of Sci-Fi traces its origins and charts its history from its beginnings as a “schlock” genre to its respected status today.Who is considered the world’s first science fiction author? How did American science fiction begin? What sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? Discover the origins of your favorite page-to-screen Sci-Fi movies. Find out why Sci-Fi so effortlessly captures our imaginations and makes us dream of new worlds.The answers are here, along with detailed chapters dedicated to the founders of the genre and their modern-day successors.
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Literary FictionJune 2021This Good Book
by Iain Hood
‘Sometimes I wonder, if I had known that it was going to take me fourteen years to paint this painting of the Crucifixion with Douglas as Jesus, and what it would take for me to paint this painting, would I have been as happy as I was then?’ Susan Alison MacLeod, a Glasgow School of Art graduate with a dark sense of humour, first lays eyes on Douglas MacDougal at a party in 1988, and resolves to put him on the cross in the Crucifixion painting she’s been sketching out, but her desire to create ‘good’ art and a powerful, beautiful portrayal means that a final painting doesn’t see the light of day for fourteen years. Over the same years, Douglas’s ever-more elaborately designed urine-based installations bring him increasing fame, prizes and commissions, while his modelling for Susan Alison, who continues to work pain and suffering on to the canvas, takes place mostly in the shadows. This Good Book is a wickedly funny, brilliantly observed novel that spins the moral compass and plays with notions of creating art.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Featherbones
by Thomas Brown
The bookFelix walks the same way to work through Southampton every morning, and the same way home again in the evenings. His life up to this point feels like one day repeated over and over; a speck of silt caught in the city's muddied waters. Sometimes it is all he can do to sit and watch while the urban sprawl races indifferently around him. But when the city stares back at him, one evening after work, everything changes.He doesn't see the statue's head move, but he feels its eyes on him, studying him from its lofty perch in East Park. From then on he continues to glimpse it, or something like it, encroaching with every visitation. With it come memories, spilling through the streets, crawling through the dark, haunting his night-time flat, until he isn't quite sure what is real anymore and what is imagined, in this hard, grey place where the gulls watch him sleep...
