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      • Bernd Liske

        Bernd Liske, born in 1956, studied mathematics in Chemnitz and is the owner of Liske information management systems. From its founding in 1998 until May 2015, Bernd Liske was a member of the main board of BITKOM, where he worked in the defense, education and knowledge management working groups. In the course of his efforts to deal with the revelations of Edward Snowden in the NSA affair, he was expelled from BITKOM in 2015. From 1998 to 2003 he was a member of the board of the Association of Organizations and Information Systems (VOI). Bernd Liske has been dealing with socio-political issues for many years. In his analyzes and concepts, he deals with social, political and economic problems in our society in order to make contributions to maintaining Germany as a business location. His book “PRISM A Lesson for our Democracy”, published in September, grew out of this. The diversity of the topics he deals with as well as the systemic principles used for their treatment can be followed on his homepage at and on his TWITTER channels @BerndLiske, @LiskeAphorismen and @LiskeZitate. He now regards his aphorisms as an open source operating system for the analysis and design of social processes and has been using them successfully for years.

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      • Berlinica Publishing

        BERLINICA is a publishing house that brings Berlin to America. Berlinica is run by Eva Claudia Schweitzer, a book author, and a journalist for twenty-five years. Berlinica  Publishing LLC is located in New York City. It publishes everything devoted to Berlin in English and in German, from fiction to history, photo books, guide books, biographies, books about culture and architecture, cookbooks, and also movies, and music. Berlinica books are available everywhere where books are sold, in stores in the U.S. and Canada, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as online in a number of additional countries, from Brazil to England, Japan, and Australia to India.

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        The Arts
        October 2008

        The encompassing city

        Streetscapes in early modern art and culture

        by Stuart Blumin

        The streetscape - the closely observed, faithfully rendered view of the city's streets, squares, canals, buildings and people - was a new artistic genre of the early modern era, a period in which the city itself was assuming new forms and taking on new roles in Europe and America. This unique book reopens the window of the early city view makers by tracing earlier forms of urban representation in European art into the sudden coalescence of the new genre in Italy and the Low Countries during the middle years of the seventeenth century. It explores the rapid expansion and diffusion of the genre through the eighteenth century, its appeal to such artists as Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Francesco Guardi, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and its embrace of a culture of secular improvement more commonly understood through the writings of Enlightenment philosophes. To examine the long history of the genre is to learn much about the early modern city, and to rediscover many beautiful and long-forgotten works of art. ;

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        The Arts
        September 2015

        Film modernism

        by Sam Rohdie

        This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism, contradiction, desire, destructuring and writing. Each category, though autonomous, interacts, intersects and juxtaposes with the others, entering into a dialogue with them and in so doing creates connections, illuminations, associations and rhymes which may not have arisen in a more conventional framework. The author refers to particular films and directors that raise questions related to modernism, and, inevitably, thereby to classicism. Jean-Luc Godard's work is at the centre of the book, though it spreads out, evokes and echoes other filmmakers and their work, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, João César Monteiro, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Orson Welles. This innovative and eloquently written text book will be an essential resource for all film students. ;

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        September 2006

        Der Sohn des Akkordeonspielers

        Roman

        by Bernardo Atxaga, Matthias Strobel

        Als Joseba nach über zwanzig Jahren seinen Jugendfreund David in Kalifornien wiedersieht, müssen die beiden sich erst an ihre gemeinsame Vergangenheit herantasten – zu viele offene Fragen stehen zwischen ihnen, zuviel Verheimlichtes, Unausgesprochenes. Als ehemalige Mitglieder der baskischen Untergrundorganisation haben sie zwar Abstand gewonnen zu ihren Verstrickungen von damals, doch lasten quälende Schuldgefühle auf ihnen – Schuldgefühle angesichts eines Verrats, von dem sie beide wissen, daß er notwendig war. Wie war es dazu gekommen, daß sie, die jugendlichen Freunde und späteren Studenten, in den Bannkreis der militanten baskischen Idee gerieten? Sie müssen ins reine kommen mit ihrer Vergangenheit, die sie auseinandergetrieben hat und die erst im Angesicht von Davids nahem Tod ihre Macht über sie verliert. Es ist eine beklemmende, zunehmend dramatische Geschichte, und Atxaga erzählt sie ebenso eindringlich wie differenziert. Denn hinter dem Gewissenskonflikt, den David und Joseba durchmachen müssen, liegt die ganz andere Geschichte ihrer unwiderruflichen Entfernung aus dem, was ein ländliches Paradies sein könnte. Wie konnte es geschehen, daß aus den musisch begabten, zweifelnden Jugendlichen, die sie waren, militante Aktivisten der ETA wurden? Daß der eine dafür seine erste große Liebe verriet; daß der andere in ein zwielichtiges Verhältnis zu all seinen ehemaligen Freunden geriet? Welchen menschlichen Preis mußten sie zahlen? Und wer, vor allem, hat damals im Jahr 1976 das Kommando verraten, dem sie beide angehörten?

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        January 2011

        Das Auge des Drachen

        Roman

        by Bernardo Fernández, Petra Strien-Bourmer

        Nordrhodesien, 1869: Aus einer Grube starren den Tierfänger Lorenzo Cassanova die Augen eines Ungetüms an, das nichts mit den exotischen Tieren gemein hat, die Cassanova sonst an die Zoologischen Gärten und Zirkusse in aller Welt liefert. Doch der eilends anreisende deutsche Tierhändler Carl Hagenbeck wird weder Cassanova noch die Bestie lebend vorfinden. Schanghai, fünf Jahre zuvor: Der kleine Pi Ying und sein alter Lehrer können aus ihrem brennenden Haus nur drei Kugeln retten, die aussehen wie riesige Perlen. Aber erst Jahrzehnte später soll auf der anderen Seite des Globus, im Norden Amerikas, ein großes Geheimnis gelüftet werden, das bis heute sagenumwoben ist.

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