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The SZBA is presented to writers, intellectuals and publishers whose writings and translations of humanities have enriched Arab cultural, literary and social life.
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This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, architects, engineers, project managers and builders - and has had unreserved access to document the creation of this already award-winning structure. The design of 1 Angel Square by the architects 3DReid, is currently the UK's highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) rated office building to date, and it is set to be one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe. 1 Angel Square, the book, is an intimate record of this fascinating building. Some of the impressive facts include: 3,157 internal and external window panels make up the façade; there are 10,500 data and power outlets; it sits on 539 foundation piles, with an average depth of 18 metres below ground; and there are approximately 22km of power cables. This book will be required reading for students of architecture and construction, sustainability studies and urban planning, and for those with an interest in the history of one of the world's great businesses. ;
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Das Tempeldach schildert zwei China-Gesandtschaften, mit denen sich die japanische Regierung um engere Verbindung mit dem Weltreich der T’ang bemühte und möglichst umfassende Kenntnisse der bewunderten chinesischen Kultur ins Inselreich herüberzubringen suchte. Der ersten Gesandtschaft im Jahr 731 gehörten zwei buddhistische Mönche an, die einen Meister zur Reise nach Japan bewegen sollten – was ihnen auch gelang. Mit der zweiten Gesandtschaft fuhr Chien-chên, einer der bedeutendsten Geistlichen, mit ihnen nach Japan.
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Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. It shows that British approaches to disaster 'relief' prioritised colonial control and 'fiscal prudence' ahead of the relief of the relief of suffering. In turn, that this pattern played out continuously in the long nineteenth century is a reminder that in the Caribbean the transition from slavery to waged labour was not a clean one. Times of crisis brought racial and social tensions to the fore and freedoms once granted, were often quickly curtailed.
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Über die hier vorliegenden drei autobiographischen Erzählungen um das Altern und Sterben schrieb Friedrich Dürrenmatt: »Beim Lesen dieses Geschehens dachte ich nicht mehr an einen anderen Schriftsteller. Ich dachte nur noch an Inoue. Was mich bewegte, war, wie nicht nur Inoue, seine Frau und seine Kinder, sondern auch seine Brüder, seine Schwester und sein Schwager am Alterszerfall teilnehmen, wie sie wahrnehmen, ohne die alte Frau zu entmündigen oder abzuschieben, sondern mit unendlicher Ehrfurcht vor dem Abspulen eines Lebens ... wie sie überlegen, wenn die alte Frau des Nachts mit einer Taschenlampe die Zimmer durchstreift, ob sie als junge Frau ihren Sohn oder als kleines Kind ihre Mutter suche, bis sie endlich bemerken, daß sie alle für die alte Frau gestorben und daß sie alle für die alte Frau jemand anderes sind, Fremde.«
