Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts.
Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts.
In the city of Olinda, Brazil, Clara is looking forward to the Carnaval street parade, with the colorful, fantastic costumes that her great-grandmother makes for the family--but her Bisa is too old to follow the parade, so Clara decides to bring the parade to her.
Eine umfassende Einführung in die Erforschung des Erzählens: Das Autorenduo Tom Kindt und Tilmann Köppe beginnt mit den sprach- und medientheoretischen Grundlagen. Davon ausgehend stellen sie den Aufbau, das Funktionsspektrum und die Analyse von Erzählungen zusammenhängend dar und erläutern diese anschaulich. Die im literatur- und medienwissenschaftlichen Studium erlernten Verfahren der Einzeltextanalyse werden ebenso vorgestellt wie die anthr...
This raw and relatable guide to radical self-care and self-love empowers readers to embrace the powerful Diosa within.In this fiercely inspiring book from a fresh new voice in the women's empowerment space, psychotherapist Christine Gutierrez welcomes women to join her in healing the wounds from past hurt or trauma to reclaim their worth and come back home to their true self and soul.Diosa is the Spanish word for Goddess. A diosa is anyone who...
Dive into Kousuke Satake's suave and explosive manga debut, about powerful women good and evil, featuring a story of vengeance in a stylish, art-deco urban wonderland that's one part Fullmetal Alchemist and one part Cowboy Bebop.Ashaf: a soft-spoken man with delicate features, a coffin strapped to his back, and an entourage of black crows. Guideau: a feral, violent girl with long fangs and the eyes of a beast. This ominous pair appear one day ...
The writings of one of the greatest film critics of his generation on the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.One of the greatest film critics of his generation, Serge Daney wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma before becoming a journalist for the daily newspaper Libération. The writings collected in this volume reflect Daney's evolving interests, from the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more stru...
Urlaub im Paradies? Gleich zum Auftakt ihrer nachgeholten Flitterwochen erleben Commissaire Girard und ihr Mann Patric, dass die karibische Insel sie wenig willkommen heißt. Sie bleiben mit ihrem Leihwagen liegen. Die Rettung naht, sie lernen die Familie Détour kennen. Damit beginnt ein Abenteuer, in dem Lucie ihre ganze Erfahrung aufbringen muss, um Patric vor einer Mordanklage zu bewahren. Die Saint-Tropez Krimis können unabhängig voneinande...
Jean Améry (Hanns Chaim Mayer) was an Austrian-born essayist, whose reflections on ageing outline the cost that advanced age brings to the human body, mind, and spirit. He suggested the frail elderly come to rest, and are forced, by the depredations of ageing, to make do without. Similarly, scholars in palliative care and medical research (Linda Ganzini et al., Marianne Dees et al., and Timothy Quill, for example) have observed that persons co...
Texts explore the multifaceted conceptual practice of the artist Ilana Halperin.Ilana Halperin (b.1973) is an artist who shares her birthday with an Icelandic volcano. Working through the aesthetics of geology since the late 1990s, her multifaceted, conceptual practice unearths the intimate poetics of rocks, minerals, and body stones. Halperin's fieldwork has led her from erupting volcanoes in Hawaii to petrifying caves in France and geotherma...
From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles comes a compelling biography about Robert Kennedy. Americans claimed Robert Kennedy as one of their own. They called him Bobby. Lyrical and evocative text by Deborah Wiles (Countdown, Revolution, Anthem, and Kent State) brings the story of Robert F. Kennedy to life, with breathtaking illustrations by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. Bobby is set in 1968, with a grandfather telling his grandchild ab...