Practices and Perspectives

Literacy in Times of Crisis

Black Jackets

Twenty Attributes of a Godly Man

The Measure of a Man

Tuning Into Nature's Messages

Voiceless Whispers

sprechen - reimen - singen mit allen Sinnen

Sprachförderspiele

Forest of Memory

A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach

The Emotional Foundations of Personality

The Millionaire Mechanic: Financial Wisdom in the Rann

The Truth Behind History's Terrifying Flesh-Eaters

Zombies

On Practice and Contradiction

The Theater in the Fiction of Marcel Proust

Teacher's Text

The Eight Parts of Speech

My Hero

&ldquo;Books on climate change are a dime a dozen now, but few, if any, truly reckon with the potential scale of the disasters that await. Dawson reveals the inadequacies of current plans to deal with the problems that cities around the world will face. Forget such buzzwords as &lsquo;green cities,&rsquo; &lsquo;resilience,&rsquo; and &lsquo;sustainable development&rsquo;&mdash;the age of &lsquo;disaster communism&rsquo; is here.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (&ldquo;Best Books 2017&rdquo;&mdash;Top 10) Extreme Cities is a ground-breaking investigation of the vulnerability of our cities in an age of climate chaos. We feel safe and protected in the middle of our great urban areas, but as Sandy and Katrina made clear, and as this fine book reveals anew, the massive shifts on our earth increasingly lay bare the social inequalities that fracture our civilization.&rdquo; &mdash;Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet &ldquo;The way we design and live in cities will determine humanity&rsquo;s ability to avoid an anthropogenic mass extinction event in the coming century. Dawson makes this vividly clear in Extreme Cities, laying out in detail the nature of the problem and some possible positive actions we can take. Crucial to his argument is the fact that technological solutions will not be enough, so that we need to drastically reform the capitalist economic system to properly price and value the biosphere and human lives. His point that social justice is now a necessary survival strategy makes this not just a meticulous history and analysis of our situation, but also an exciting call to action.&rdquo; &mdash;Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Red Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 &ldquo;Cities both in the North and the South are already suffering the effects of climate change. Government and business fitfully recognize and respond, but in ways that reinforce existing injustices and as often as not make things worse. Dawson shows how social movements have combined action on disaster relief with forms of equitable common life to produce models for radical adaptation from which we can all learn. This is a brilloant summation of what we know and what we can do build a new kind of city in the ruins of the old.&rdquo; &mdash;McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene &ldquo;A powerful argument in a dire situation: that we revise our cities to the new game changer, or climate change will revise urban existences as we know it.&rdquo; &mdash;Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, director-general of Bengal Institute of Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements &ldquo;A sophisticated and provocative exploration of the unfolding impact of climate change on urban environments.&rdquo; &mdash;Christoph Lindner, Professor of Urban Theory and Visual Culture, University of Oregon &ldquo;A revelatory confrontation between two forms of 'surplus liquidity': the rent-seeking excess of circulating global capital and the more literal liquidity of the rising tides of climate change. The setting is the city and this meticulously researched and argued book probes the nexus of myopia, greed, environmental disaster&mdash;and hope&mdash;that has placed the urban habitat of billions of us in extremis.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities &ldquo;A sobering account of how planetary urbanization has put us on a collision course with the natural world.&rdquo; &mdash;Jonathan Hahn, Sierra Magazine &ldquo;A must-read for everyone who wants to understand the politics of climate change in an increasingly urban planet, and to explore the possibilities for radical change beyond all technological fixes and governmental adjustments that only reproduce the system as it is.&rdquo; &mdash;Marco Armiero, director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden &ldquo;A superb essay of political ecology, Extreme Cities demonstrates that there is nothing more depending on nature than the city, offering both a diagnosis and a possible therapy for one of the greatest challenges of our time.&rdquo; &mdash;Serenella Iovino, editor of Material Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene &ldquo;Extreme Cities takes the critical long view to challenge city decision-makers to deal seriously with the clash of business-as-usual development, threats from climate change, and persistent social inequality to develop real transformations to drive cities toward sustainability and resilience.&rdquo; &mdash;Timon McPhearson, Director, Urban Systems Lab at The New School, New York City &ldquo;With the majority of humanity located in cities, it behooves us to consider urban ecologies as recent and future sites of non-natural disasters as well as inspiring places of collective resilience and struggles for justice. Dawson&rsquo;s book is a guiding light.&rdquo; &mdash;T.J. Demos, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies &ldquo;The definitive study of an urban&mdash;and planetary&mdash;system pushed to the breaking point. Extreme Cities paints a terrifying, but also hopeful, picture, weaving together accounts of iron-fisted states, greedy real estate developers, and the communities that challenge their rule.&rdquo; &mdash;Jason W. Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life &ldquo;A profoundly sobering picture of climate change&rsquo;s uneven urban toll, both across global expanses and within particular neighborhoods, while also spotlighting instances of radical, on-the-ground resistance to such trends.&rdquo; &mdash;Emily Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zuric and co-editor of Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics &ldquo;Dawson makes a convincing case that, unless urban dwellers and civic leaders engage in a fundamental reconceptualization of the city and whom it serves, the future of urban life is dim.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &ldquo;A substantive contribution to the growing dialogue about our response&mdash;or lack thereof&mdash;to climate change.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus &ldquo;Dawson is well attuned to the ways that upheavals and disasters disproportionately affect the socioeconomically disadvantaged. As Donald Trump continues to roll back protection measures and disavow the US&rsquo;s role in global cooperation to mitigate the effects of climate change, [Extreme Cities] is a clear-eyed reminder of who, and what, will be left most vulnerable as a result.&rdquo; &mdash;Fast Company

The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

Extreme Cities

Klavier lernen für Kinder

Klavierspiel & Spaß. Band 02

Homöopathische Materia Medica für Veterinärmediziner

Schwarze Katze, weißer Kater

Handfeuerwaffen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts

Unter dem Regenbogen - Ein Frühjahr in Paris

Karen Greenberg's deeply researched account of the early days of Guantanamo shows the legal, political and moral questions that plagued the prison camp from the outset: its dubious legal authority, the uncertain status of the prisoners, and the doubts of key officials who tried to uphold American and international law.  The Least Worst Place, which is so well written that it reads in places like a prose poem, is going to be essential reading for anyone who is trying
to understand the legal morass surrounding Guantanamo and detainee policy in the 'war on terror.'

How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison

The Least Worst Place

THOSE WHO HAVE AN EAR LET THEM HEAR

DON'T GIVE THE BEAST THE ADVANTAGE

Con tres heridas yo, Angola, El Mariel, y el Exilio

Cuba

Spreemann & Co

&#147;Well-rounded, redolent of salty sweat, sweet love, and the joy of food&#133; A humorous and witty chronicle of a woman&#8217;s pulling-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps rise through the culinary ranks.&#8221; &#151;Kirkus&#147;A moving, witty memoir.&#8221; &#151;Nigella Lawson, author of How to Eat"I laughed out loud reading The Raging Skillet. An awesome, thoughtful book full of characters I feel like I've always known." &#151;Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming"No chef memoir has ever made me both laugh and cry, but this one did. I fell in love with Chef Rossi, her Orthodox Jewish Jersey family, and her unpretentious, creative way with food. Badass, heartfelt, hilarious." &#151;Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning novelist and author of Blue Plate Special"A fun ride through the wild life of Chef Rossi. Her memoir is sweet, salty, and, ultimately, delicious." &#151;Debbie Stoller, editor in chief of Bust"Rossi's the kind of woman whose heart, humor, and badassery make me a little weak in the knees, and that's before we get to her soulful, unpretentious, joyful take on food. If Janis Joplin and Julia Child had had a baby who got raised by Orthodox Jews, that baby might have turned out a little like Rossi." &#151;Hanne Blank, author of Big Big Love

The True Life Story of Chef Rossi

The Raging Skillet

Blessed Are The Peacemakers: A Theological Analysis of the Thoughts of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr

The Nightingale

I'd barely heard of Theodor Fontane before I read this, but he clearly was an important novelist and I'm delighted to have been introduced to him. This is an great new edition, with a helpfully wide-ranging introduction and notes, and the translation by Mike Mitchell is excellent  I never had the sense that I was even reading a translation, which is high praise from someone as fussy as I am. So  highly recommended.

Effi Briest

New words self-defined

Kato

The Stone Warriors

A Guide to Personal Finance: Things Young Adults Should Know About Finances As They Enter Adulthood

Adulting 101

Ninety-Third Session (31 July-25 August 2017); Ninety-Fourth Session (20 November-8 December 2017); Ninety-Fifth Session (23 April-11 May 2018)

Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Literacy in Times of Crisis

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