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September 2019Die verzauberte Stunde
by Meghan Cox Gurdon
Wir wussten es schon immer: Lesen macht glücklich und schlau. Und in Zeiten ständiger Berieselung und Ablenkung ist ein Buch eine sichere Bastion, in die man sich retten kann, wenn die Welt zu laut wird. Doch es gibt etwas, was noch schöner ist als Lesen: Vorlesen. Was sich in uns alles abspielt, wenn wir uns gemeinsam auf dem Sofa über ein Buch beugen, einer Geschichte lauschen und Bilder gucken, beschreibt die Journalistin und fünffache Mutter Meghan Cox Gurdon. Sie beleuchtet soziale, psychologische und neurologische Aspekte des Vorlesens und zeigt, wie dabei unter anderem die Bindung gestärkt, die Sprachentwicklung gefördert und das Vorstellungsvermögen bereichert wird – und dass es deshalb besonders für Kinder elementar ist. Meghan Cox Gurdon erklärt, warum Vorlesen die Synapsen feuern lässt, wie es das Fernsehen niemals kann. Warum es nicht nur Kinder glücklich macht. Und warum es einfach viel schöner ist, als alleine zu lesen.
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September 2019Die verzauberte Stunde
Warum Vorlesen glücklich macht
by Meghan Cox Gurdon, Frank Sievers
Wir wussten es schon immer: Lesen macht glücklich und schlau. Und in Zeiten ständiger Berieselung und Ablenkung ist ein Buch eine sichere Bastion, in die man sich retten kann, wenn die Welt zu laut wird. Doch es gibt etwas, was noch schöner ist als Lesen: Vorlesen. Was sich in uns alles abspielt, wenn wir uns gemeinsam auf dem Sofa über ein Buch beugen, einer Geschichte lauschen und Bilder gucken, beschreibt die Journalistin und fünffache Mutter Meghan Cox Gurdon. Sie beleuchtet soziale, psychologische und neurologische Aspekte des Vorlesens und zeigt, wie dabei unter anderem die Bindung gestärkt, die Sprachentwicklung gefördert und das Vorstellungsvermögen bereichert wird – und dass es deshalb besonders für Kinder elementar ist. Meghan Cox Gurdon erklärt, warum Vorlesen die Synapsen feuern lässt, wie es das Fernsehen niemals kann. Warum es nicht nur Kinder glücklich macht. Und warum es einfach viel schöner ist, als alleine zu lesen.
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July 2010Auf der Suche nach dem Wunderbaren
Die Lehre des großen Meisters G. I. Gurdjieff
by Ouspensky, Peter D. / Übersetzt von Keyserling, Arnold; Übersetzt von March, Louise
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2023Border images, border narratives
The political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2026Border enclaves
Melilla and the making of Europe’s southern periphery
by Laia Soto Bermant
Border enclaves examines the Spanish enclave of Melilla as a prism for understanding Europe's contemporary dislocations. Based on over a decade of ethnographic research, it explores how borders are enforced, contested and inhabited in a city suspended between Africa and Europe, colonial legacies and modern regimes. Through a polyphonic narrative following smugglers, migrants, teachers and politicians, it reveals how everyday practices and symbolic performances shape life in the enclave. Selective visibility-who is seen or erased-structures authority and exclusion. Situating Melilla within broader processes like Spain's colonial history and Europe's border restructuring, the book argues that its fragmented sovereignties and external dependencies make it a paradigmatic site for grasping Europe's precarious margins. It calls for an ethnographic lens attuned to dislocation as both lived experience and analytic tool.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2021Border images, border narratives
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman, Sarah Green, Hastings Donnan
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2022Shakespeare and the supernatural
by Victoria Bladen, Yan Brailowsky, Gayle Allan, Jacquelyn Bessell, Victoria Bladen, Yan Brailowsky, William C. Carroll, Bernadette Cochrane, Alexa Huang, Laurie Johnson, Pierre Kapitaniak, Imke Lichterfeld, Florence March, Maddalena Pennacchia, Chelsea Philips, Yukari Yoshihara, Christopher Wortham
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2025Queer as folklore
The hidden queer history of myths and monsters
by Sacha Coward
A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new. Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward takes you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the 'queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows and created safe spaces in underworlds. But these forgotten narratives tell stories of resilience that deserve to be heard. Join any Pride march and you will see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads, drag queens in mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. These are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past.
