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During the twentieth century, a certain type of Indian painting began to fascinate the West. Unlike Mughal art, it was a product of Hindu courts in Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills and unlike Mughal painting, its chief concern was with the varied phases of romance. Ladies would be shown brooding in...

Was könnte ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für die Gestaltung einer sozialen Zukunft bedeuten? Die Meinungen für und wider ein existenzsicherndes Grundeinkommen für jeden Menschen, ob er arbeitet oder nicht, gehen weit auseinander. Doch die große Debatte um Sinn und Realisierbarkeit der »grandiosen...

Das perfekte Gedächtnis – wer träumt nicht davon! Sich Dinge spielend einfach merken zu können und auf Kommando sofort wieder aus dem Gedächtnis hervorzuholen. Wir bewundern in Shows oder im Fernsehen Menschen, die sich scheinbar unendliche Abfolgen von Spielkarten merken können oder auch die...

"Pellegrinaggio in Inghilterra" recita il sottotitolo. E di un viaggio solitario si tratta, d'estate e per lo più a piedi, nel Suffolk, dove Sebald visse sino all'ultimo: in uno spazio delimitato da mare, colline e qualche città costiera, attraverso grandi proprietà terriere in decadenza,...

In quattro schegge di prosa, una Corsica di luce e fantasmi, di natura e mito, che nessuno ha mai visto. L’ultimo e incompiuto vagabondaggio di Sebald.

Lust, Greed, Gluttony… You can find all seven of the Deadly Sins in this eclectic collaboration. Whether you like modern humor, lusty historical fiction, sci-fi, or deep, emotional poetry, you will find it all and more in the pages of Seven Deadly Sins: Simply Delectable Stories. But…there’s...

Nel 1966, in procinto di lasciare la Svizzera per Manchester, Sebald mette in valigia i libri di tre scrittori destinati a segnare per sempre la rotta dei suoi incessanti viaggi letterari. Per questo, più di trent’anni dopo, sente di dover rendere a Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel e Robert...

L’origine della musicalità che tutti av­ver­tono in Sebald colta nelle tracce auto­biografiche di questa piccola raccolta di prose e di versi: un’infanzia nella Ger­mania postbellica, una giovi­nezza in cui vanno gemmando temi e Leitmotiv di un’in­tera opera.

While the Reformed tradition originated with Huldrych Zwingli and was more fully developed with John Calvin, it was John Knox who made significant contributions to this movement as it unfolded in Scotland. John Knox: An Introduction to His Life and Works traces the life and thought of John Knox in...

Provision of efficient resuscitation is mandatory to the success­ ful functioning of all hospital wards and departments. Failure to provide such a service increases morbidity and mortality. Resuscita­ tion falls largely into the domain of the anaesthetist. However, an anaesthetist is not always...

An old man, who is at the end of his life, is fortunate to have his brain transplanted into the body of a young man who died during a brain operation. During the operation, an inert part of the old mans brain was activated, which, after 12 months caused his brain to develop, giving him extraordinary...

The present volume, number 15 of the Acta Historiae Neerlandicae - which have been appearing since 1978 under the title The Low Countries History Yearbook - is the last of the series. Economic reasons force the publishers to discontinue it. This is a matter for regret. Both the editors of the Yearbook...

Thoroughly classroom tested, this text is designed specifically for one-semester accelerated and online courses at the upper undergraduate and MBA levels. It is based on the theme that business and personal decisions are made within both micro- and macro-economic environments. By understanding the...

TROTZ ALLEDEM In unserer Geschichte gibt es wunderbare Zeiten des Erfolges, aber auch ganz furchtbare, abgrundtiefe, Stürze in die Enttäuschung. Um nicht in eine wehrlose Depression zu verfallen, brauchen wir Mut und Zuversicht um mit den Enttäuschungen fertig zu werden. Trotz alledem.. Sei es...