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      • Tango Sin Fin

        “Método de Tango” is the first fundamental book series that teaches how to play tango music, published in English and Spanish since 2014 by Tango Sin Fin in Buenos Aires. This book series is the only collection which provides any musician, arranger, composer or ethnomusicologist from around the world a methodological and pedagogical approach to tango language, using academic terms, exercises and musical studies. Each volume is focused on one instrument: violin, bass, bandoneon, piano, flute and guitar. So far, the collection has only been published in Argentina and worldwide rights belong to Tango Sin Fin.

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        March 1997

        Frederik

        Erzählung

        by Kurt Aebli

        So klassisch wie das Thema, so unverwechselbar ist diese Prosa. Kurt Aebli berichtet von einer Person, die verschwindet. Prosaminiaturen von traurig-komischer Aura haben diesen Erzähler bekannt gemacht, seine Wahrnehmungsschärfe, seine treffsicheren Provokationen durch das Unspektakuläre wurden als „Aeblifizierungen des Alltags“ beschrieben. Und seine hohe Kunst der Tarnung und Täuschung führt Kurt Aebli auch in seiner Erzählung Frederik verstörend vor. Wer ist Frederik? Was ist uns eine Person, wenn sie plötzlich nicht mehr da ist? In drei Kapiteln wirft Kurt Aebli drei Blicke auf seine rätselhafte Figur Frederik, um nach und nach die Blende dieser Prosa der Ausdeutung schärfer stellen zu können. Zunächst reist Frederiks Freundin Yvette von Zürich nach New York, trifft dort nur Paul, den Freund von Frederik, und irrt zunehmend verlorener durch die Riesenstadt. Schließlich begegnen wir Paul in Zürich und dann Frederik flanierend in Berlin. In ständiger und raffinierter Verschiebung von Blick, Zeit und Ort und in einer Sprache, die zwischen Ironie und Witz, kühler Beobachtung und philosophierender Selbstbespiegelung sich spielerisch zu bewegen weiß, können wir Leser bemerken: Das Verschwinden kann schwierig sein.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2022

        The pastor in print

        Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England

        by Amy G. Tan

        The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2010

        An age of wonders

        Prodigies, politics and providence in England 1657–1727

        by William Burns, Kim Latham

        Monstrous births, rains of blood, apparitions of battles in the sky - people in early modern England found all of these events to carry important religious and political meanings. In An age of wonders, available in paperback for the first time, William E. Burns explores the process by which these events became religiously and politically insignificant in the Restoration period. The story involves the establishment of early modern science, the shift from 'enthusiastic' to reasonable religion, and the fierce political combat between the Whigs and the Tories. This historical study is based on close readings of a variety of primary sources, both print and manuscript. Burns claims that prodigies lost their religious meaning and became subjects of scientific enquiry as a result of political struggles, first by the supporters of the restored monarchy and the Church of England against Protestant dissenters, and then by the Whig defenders of the Revolution of 1688 against the Tories and the Jacobites. By integrating religious and political history with the history of science, An age of wonders will be of great use to those working in the field of early modern history. ;

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        Data Science für Einsteiger

        Daten analysieren, interpretieren und richtige Entscheidungen treffen

        by Kaufmann, Uwe H.; Tan BC, Amy

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        January 1993

        Eine Frau für tausend Kinder

        Der Lebensbericht einer mutigen Frau, die zur Retterin für Kinder in aller Welt wurde

        by Pierpaoli, Yvette / Übersetzt von VomScheidt, Elke

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        April 1985

        Sozialer Raum und »Klassen«

        Zwei Vorlesungen

        by Pierre Bourdieu, Bernd Schwibs, Yvette Delsaut

        Die Konstruktion einer angemessenen Theorie des sozialen Raumes setzt den Bruch mit einer Reihe marxistischer Theoreme voraus: zunächst mit einer ›substantialistischen‹ Konzeption der sozialen Gruppen; dann mit der intellektualistischen Illusion, die vom Wissenschaftler entworfenen Gruppen ließen sich im Realen identifizieren; drittens mit der ökonomistischen Reduktion des sozialen Raumes auf die ökonomischen Produktionsverhältnisse, das heißt der Unterschlagung der symbolischen Auseinandersetzung um die Repräsentation (in) der sozialen Welt. – Der Text ist die erweiterte Fassung eines Vortrages, den Bourdieu zur Eröffnung der «Suhrkamp Vorlesungen für Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften« im Februar 1984 in Frankfurt gehalten hat. Der zweite Text – Bourdieus Antrittsvorlesung am Collège de France vom April 1982 – ist das paradoxe Unternehmen, mit der Autorität des Vortragenden autoritativ vorzutragen, was es heißt, mit Autorität vorzutragen.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2018

        Water and fire

        The myth of the flood in Anglo-Saxon England

        by Anke Bernau, Daniel Anlezark

        Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our understanding of how Christian Anglo-Saxons perceived their place in the cosmos. For them, history unfolded between the primeval Deluge and a future - perhaps imminent - flood of fire, which would destroy the world. This study reveals both an imaginative diversity and shared interpretations of the Flood myth. Anglo-Saxons saw the Flood as a climactic event in God's ongoing war with his more rebellious creatures, but they also perceived the mystery of redemption through baptism. Anlezark studies a range of texts against their historical background, and discusses shifting emphases in the way the Flood was interpreted for diverse audiences. The book concludes with a discussion of Beowulf, relating the epic poem's presentation of the Flood myth to that of other Anglo-Saxon texts.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        Banished potentates

        by Robert Aldrich

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        Biography & True Stories
        November 2024

        Walking in the dark

        James Baldwin, my father and I

        by Douglas Field

        A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.

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