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This book includes essays from a variety of disciplines. It is particularly focused on ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and combine insights from distant areas of the humanities and the social sciences. Taken together, the essays cover a wide span of the most influential ideas in Western culture, which are merged, transformed, and interpreted in novel and elaborate ways.

Dothan S: Bridging the Abyss

Bridging the Abyss

Essays on the Scientific and Cultural Foundations of Western Civilization

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now in a stunning tenth-anniversary edition, “the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written” (The Washington Post) tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn’t offer easy answers. This deluxe edition includes a brand-new introduction from the author and cover art in addition to gorgeous sprayed edges and a stamped case. “A gripping courtroom drama . . . Given the current political climate it is quite prescient and worthwhile. . . . This is a writer who understands her characters inside and out.”—Roxane Gay, The New York Times Book Review Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is Black, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: She insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other’s trust, and come to see that what they’ve been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now in a stunning tenth-anniversary edition, “the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written” (The Washington Post) tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn’t offer easy answers. This deluxe edition includes a brand-new introduction from the author and cover art in addition to gorgeous sprayed edges and a stamped case. “A gripping courtroom drama . . . Given the current political climate it is quite prescient and worthwhile. . . . This is a writer who understands her characters inside and out.”—Roxane Gay, The New York Times Book Review Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is Black, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: She insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other’s trust, and come to see that what they’ve been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong.

A Novel

Small Great Things (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) 

A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches 'Endearingly personal, honest and reflective ... invites you to rethink where memory ends and history begins' Dominic Sandbrook, The Times, Books of the Year 'As I finished his book, I began to see my own family's past through his glass mountain' Ian Ellison, Literary Review Malcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great-uncle Ralph's wartime adventures: he'd been a prisoner in Italy, and he'd cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork. Apart from that, he'd faded into family folklore, lost to view. Until, one hot afternoon in an English country garden, a chance conversation set Gaskill on his uncle's trail... What Ralph really did in the war was, he discovers, even more extraordinary than the exaggerations of family myth. From last-ditch fighting in the Libyan desert and incarceration in a Puglian prisoner-of-war camp, to desperate, dramatic escapes and the assuming of an entirely new identity among the peasants and partisans of the Italian Alps, Gaskill traces a life transformed by conflict, while lifting the curtain on a long-forgotten episode of the Second World War. Yet The Glass Mountain is about more than war: it's a haunting exploration of what it means to encounter the past, and how we remember, forget and recover it. As he follows his uncle's path through dusty archives and the landscapes, towns and villages of present-day Italy, Gaskill finds himself confronted by questions that go to the heart of how we think about the people who came before us: Why do stories matter? How much of the past can ever be true?

Escape and Discovery in Wartime Italy

The Glass Mountain

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now, that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book.”—Emma Straub"How About Now is a balm, a banister, and a battering ram. Her very best yet."—Catherine NewmanThe third full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.Renowned poet Kate Baer returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of time in a shifting world.With her trademark candor and curiosity, Baer explores what it means to grow older, to release children into the wildness of their own lives, and to reclaim the ever-evolving self. Raw, luminous, and urgent, this collection channels Baer’s own journey to middle age into poems that are profoundly intimate yet resound universally, identifying the beauty, resilience, and fragility that arrive in every stage of life.How About Now is a striking declaration of ongoing transformation and self-discovery. From the poet who has captured the heartbeat of the modern woman, this collection reaffirms Kate Baer’s place among the most vital voices of our era.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now, that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book.”—Emma Straub"How About Now is a balm, a banister, and a battering ram. Her very best yet."—Catherine Newman The third full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman. Renowned poet Kate Baer returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of time in a shifting world. With her trademark candor and curiosity, Baer explores what it means to grow older, to release children into the wildness of their own lives, and to reclaim the ever-evolving self. Raw, luminous, and urgent, this collection channels Baer’s own journey to middle age into poems that are profoundly intimate yet resound universally, identifying the beauty, resilience, and fragility that arrive in every stage of life. How About Now is a striking declaration of ongoing transformation and self-discovery. From the poet who has captured the heartbeat of the modern woman, this collection reaffirms Kate Baer’s place among the most vital voices of our era.

Poems

How About Now

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A propulsive debut novel following a has-been reality TV star and a disgraced producer who get one last shot at redemption on a show set on a remote island, only to discover that the plot twists are beyond what they ever imagined. Everyone gets the story arc they deserve. Kent Duvall, a faded reality show winner, just wants another chance at glory—to find his way out of his depressing life and back to his highlight reel. When a scandal is captured on camera at a charity event, he gets his shot, on a new jungle survival show with seven other contestants. Each of them has been cast as a type—Ruddy the bully, Miriam the nerd, Ashley the love interest—but everyone is more than they appear. The contestants’ goals seem simple—survive the wild, build a raft, win treasure. But Beck Bermann, a reality producer who suffered her own public shaming, sees them as characters in her redemption arc. As the schemes and strategies spiral out, breakout camps sabotage each other and rival producers struggle to control the storyline. Soon the question becomes less about who will win than who will make it out in one piece.

A propulsive debut novel following a has-been reality TV star and a disgraced producer who get one last shot at redemption on a show set on a remote island, only to discover that the plot twists are beyond what they ever imagined. Everyone gets the story arc they deserve. Kent Duvall, a faded reality show winner, just wants another chance at glory—to find his way out of his depressing life and back to his highlight reel. When a scandal is captured on camera at a charity event, he gets his shot, on a new jungle survival show with seven other contestants. Each of them has been cast as a type—Ruddy the bully, Miriam the nerd, Ashley the love interest—but everyone is more than they appear. The contestants’ goals seem simple—survive the wild, build a raft, win treasure. But Beck Bermann, a reality producer who suffered her own public shaming, sees them as characters in her redemption arc. As the schemes and strategies spiral out, breakout camps sabotage each other and rival producers struggle to control the storyline. Soon the question becomes less about who will win than who will make it out in one piece.

Escape!

This story collection is a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with Marguerite Yourcenar's works. Published to great acclaim in France in 1993, this collection is not only a delight for Marguerite Yourcenar fans but a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with the author's lengthier, more demanding works. This collection includes three stories written between 1927 and 1930 when the author was in her mid-twenties. These stories cover a range of themes, from an allegory on greed and a scene from the war of the sexes to a witch hunt that obsessively creates its own quarry. For the devoted readers of Yourcenar, this collection allows a rare glimpse at the beginnings of a writer's craft. In these accomplished but forgotten pieces, edited and introduced by her biographer, Josyane Savigneau, readers will find the blend of fable and fairy tale of Oriental Tales, the psychological chronicle of Dear Departed, and the ironic realism of A Coin in Nine Hands. Read as an introduction to Yourcenar's work, the stories take us into the writer's workshop, as it were, to the early days of creation. A Blue Tale and Other Stories carries the unmistakable voice of a formidable and vastly talented writer. Marguerite Yourcenar (her pseudonym was an anagram of her family name, Crayencour) was born in Brussels in 1903 and died in Maine in 1987. One of the most respected writers in the French language, she is best known as the author of the acclaimed Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss. She was awarded many literary honors, most notably election to the Académie Française in 1980, the first woman so honored.

A Blue Tale and Other Stories

Der Band dokumentiert das Internationale Studierenden-Symposion zu Sprache, Technik und Kultur, das im Juni 2021 online am Fachbereich Germanistik des Beijing Institute of Technology, VR China, stattfand. Aufgenommen wurden nach einer Begutachtung vorwiegend ausgewählte Vorträge von Studierenden aus China und Deutschland, die sich mit aktuellen Themen im Spannungsfeld des Tagungstitels beschäftigen. Die vorgestellten Projekte bieten Potenzial zur weiteren Erforschung, teils in Abschlussarbeiten, teils darüber hinaus. Das Interesse des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses an Fragen zu Sprache, Technik und Kultur wird dokumentiert. Ergänzend sind Plenarvorträge mit aufgenommen.

Neue Perspektiven aus China und Deutschland

Germanistik im Wandel

Zur Einführung (Junius)

Der Zeichentheoretiker und Schriftsteller Roland Barthes (1915-1980) steht wie kein anderer Intellektueller für die Entwicklungen des französischen Denkens zwischen Strukturalismus und Poststrukturalismus,
Marxismus und Dekonstruktion, Erzähltheorie und Schreibkunst. Als enfant terrible der Kultur- und Literaturtheorie hat Barthes unsere Sicht der Welt verändert, indem er sie - von Alltagsgegenständen bis zur haute couture, von der Literatur und Philosophie bis zu Massenkultur und Fotografie - in ein 'Reich der
Zeichen' verwandelt hat. Im Zentrum stehen dabei stets die Zeichen des Lebens: im Diskurs der Liebe, im Abenteuer des Wissens, in der 'Lust am Text'. Die LebensZeichen Barthes' entwerfen eine Wissenschaft
vom Leben, die diese Einführung in ihrer ganzen Dynamik erfassbar macht.

Roland Barthes zur Einführung

A comprehensive, research-based guide to CEO communication, this book shows how CEOs can communicate strategically, ethically, and effectively with external and internal stakeholders.Strategic CEO Communication is informed by communication theory and research insights from public relations and strategic communication scholarship to help readers build relationships, improve corporate reputation, and ensure ethical business practices in rapidly changing business, social, and media environments. It covers topics such as corporate reputation, leadership, internal communication, CEO activism, crisis management, ethics, and social media and the growing role of emerging technologies. It offers insight into how leaders can engage employees while meeting public expectations for corporate responsibility, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability.Ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of leadership, management, and organizational communication in public relations, communication, or management programs as well as corporate leaders seeking research-informed guidance on effective communication for strategic success.

Strategic CEO Communication

The Video Games Textbook takes the history of video games to the next level. Coverage includes every major video game console, handheld system, and game-changing personal computer, as well as a look at the business, technology, and people behind the games.Chapters feature objectives and key terms, illustrative timelines, color images and graphs, in addition to the technical specifications and key titles for each platform. Every chapter is a journey into a different segment of gaming, where readers emerge with a clear picture of how video games evolved, why the platforms succeeded or failed, and the impact they had on the industry and culture. Written to capture the attention and interest of students from around the world, this newly revised Third Edition also serves as a go-to handbook for any video game enthusiast.This edition introduces new content in each chapter, including coverage of adaptive gaming technology, cloud gaming, influential industry professionals, hardware innovations, and significant gaming milestones-from classic systems to PlayStation 5 Pro, Nintendo Switch 2, and the latest Xbox platforms.Key Features<ul> <li>Explores the history, business, and technology of video games, including social, political, and economic motivations</li> <li>Facilitates learning with clear objectives, key terms, illustrative timelines, color images, tables, and graphs</li> <li>Highlights the technical specifications and key titles of all major game consoles, handhelds, personal computers, and mobile platforms</li> <li>Reinforces material with market summaries, reviews of breakthroughs and trends, as well as end-of-chapter activities and quizzes</li> </ul>

History • Business • Technology

The Video Games Textbook

Die Stimme der Musik entwirft zum ersten Mal eine veritable Musik|sprach|philosophie. Der Autor zeigt dabei die in den letzten hundert Jahren vorgelegten philosophischen Entwürfe zur Musik als Sprache und entfaltet davon ausgehend seinen Ansatz einer Sprache der Musik als Eigensprachlichkeit. Musiksprache wurde bisher in Analogie zur Sprache gedacht. Hier wird ein neuer Weg beschritten, der Musik als Imitation der menschlichen Stimme versteht. Woher diese stimmliche Eigensprache der Musik kommt, wie sie funktioniert, wo ihre Grenzen liegen, wo ihre Stärken, das alles zeigt dieses neue Standardwerk. In hunderten von Beispielen kommt die Musik, als Kunst- wie als Popularmusik, selber zur Sprache.
Das Buch verfolgt zahlreiche Spuren aus verschiedenen Wissenschaften, und knüpft an die wichtigen Arbeiten der Musikphilosophie und Musikwissenschaft an. Es betrachtet Musik systematisch und im Horizont einer langen Evolutionsgeschichte. Überdies ist das Buch aus der musikalischen Praxis heraus geschrieben, aus der Komposition genauso wie aus der Aufführungspraxis, aus dem Hören wie aus dem Nachdenken über Musik. Zuletzt unternimmt das Buch Ausblicke auf Kulturen jenseits der westlichen Welt, auf Afrika, Indien, den Nahen Osten und Australien. Die Stimme der Musik behandelt Musik grundsätzlich. Daher geht es nicht nur Klassik, sondern auch um Jazz, Pop, die Film- und Medienmusik und nicht zuletzt die zeitgenössische Musik.
Tief in der menschlichen Evolution verwurzelt, in jede Kindheit zurückreichend, in aller Welt verbreitet, erhebt die Musik ihre Stimme, um die Condition humaine mit dem zu bereichern, was sie über viele Jahrhunderte eigenständig entwickelte und was kaum jemand missen möchte. Dadurch wird Musik zu einem festen Teil der modernen Kultur, ganz ähnlich wie Literatur, Film und die Bildende Kunst.

Eine Musikphilosophie

Die Stimme der Musik

Very Short Introductions

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his life and his work remains contested. This Very Short Introduction to Moses Maimonides surveys Maimonides' many intellectual, literary, and professional ventures. Born in Islamic Cordoba, he ultimately settled in Cairo, where he served as jurist and civic leader and a highly esteemed physician with responsibilities at the Fatimid and Ayyubid courts, even as he deepened his philosophical-theological pursuits. He moved seamlessly between specialized, private, and public Jewish and Muslim spheres. Indeed, his written works traverse multiple disciplines, employ several literary genres, and address various elite and popular audiences. Beginning with his Commentary on the Mishnah and culminating in the seminal Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law), Maimonides reorganized and systematized all of rabbinic law. He regarded the attainment of wisdom as the ultimate goal of human life. Like many Jewish and Muslim religious intellectuals of the period Maimonides was preoccupied with the problem posed by the language religious tradition deploys in referring to God. His Guide for the Perplexed treats this central challenge to knowing God's absolute, unchanging unity, as well as defining the purpose of divine law and supposed interruption of the natural order in the form of prophecy and miracles. This book organizes Maimonides' thinking and writings thematically and puts his works into dialogue with one another. It proposes that the key to engaging Maimonides on his own terms is to understand he applied a rationalist's regimen characteristic of his scientific research and practice of medicine to all of his life's work: he observed and studied a problem, diagnosed it, and then prescribed a remedy for it whether the concern was physical, metaphysical, spiritual, intellectual, or social in nature. His Arabic and Hebrew contributions to each of his fields of inquiry were translated and disseminated far and wide and found a prominent place among religious and scientific intellectuals in the Latin West and throughout the Jewish and Islamic worlds.

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his life and his work remains contested. 

This Very Short Introduction to Moses Maimonides surveys Maimonides' many intellectual, literary, and professional ventures. Born in Islamic Cordoba, he ultimately settled in Cairo, where he served as jurist and civic leader and a highly esteemed physician with responsibilities at the Fatimid and Ayyubid courts, even as he deepened his philosophical-theological pursuits. He moved seamlessly between specialized, private, and public Jewish and Muslim spheres. 

Indeed, his written works traverse multiple disciplines, employ several literary genres, and address various elite and popular audiences. Beginning with his Commentary on the Mishnah and culminating in the seminal Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law), Maimonides reorganized and systematized all of rabbinic law. He regarded the attainment of wisdom as the ultimate goal of human life. Like many Jewish and Muslim religious intellectuals of the period Maimonides was preoccupied with the problem posed by the language religious tradition deploys in referring to God. His Guide for the Perplexed treats this central challenge to knowing God's absolute, unchanging unity, as well as defining the purpose of divine law and supposed interruption of the natural order in the form of prophecy and miracles.

This book organizes Maimonides' thinking and writings thematically and puts his works into dialogue with one another. It proposes that the key to engaging Maimonides on his own terms is to understand he applied a rationalist's regimen characteristic of his scientific research and practice of medicine to all of his life's work: he observed and studied a problem, diagnosed it, and then prescribed a remedy for it whether the concern was physical, metaphysical, spiritual, intellectual, or social in nature.

His Arabic and Hebrew contributions to each of his fields of inquiry were translated and disseminated far and wide and found a prominent place among religious and scientific intellectuals in the Latin West and throughout the Jewish and Islamic worlds.

A Very Short Introduction

Moses Maimonides

Unbedingt ansehen – Höhenflüge der Elfenbeinkunst aus über zwei Jahrhunderten. Von eleganten Tabakdosen, edlen Schmuckstücken bis hin zu ausdrucksstarken Schnitzereien des Art déco und des Expressionismus – die Vielfalt der Gestaltung des kostbaren Materials bezaubert und erzählt eine spannende Geschichte. Der reich bebilderte Band rückt herausragende Werke vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis in die Moderne in den Fokus, darunter bedeutende Arbeiten von Otto Glenz Ferdinand Preiss, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff und Jan Holschuh. Die meisterhaft gefertigten Schnitzereien aus dem kostbaren, kontrovers diskutierten Material faszinieren bis heute. Filigraner Schmuck, elegante Frauenstatuetten sowie abstrakte Skulpturen zeugen von einer über 200 Jahre währenden Tradition der Elfenbeinschnitzkunst im Odenwald, die mit Graf Franz I. zu Erbach-Erbach begann.

Unbedingt ansehen – Höhenflüge der Elfenbeinkunst aus über zwei Jahrhunderten. Von eleganten Tabakdosen, edlen Schmuckstücken bis hin zu ausdrucksstarken Schnitzereien des Art déco und des Expressionismus – die Vielfalt der Gestaltung des kostbaren Materials bezaubert und erzählt eine spannende Geschichte.
 
 Der reich bebilderte Band rückt herausragende Werke vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis in die Moderne in den Fokus, darunter bedeutende Arbeiten von Otto Glenz Ferdinand Preiss, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff und Jan Holschuh. Die meisterhaft gefertigten Schnitzereien aus dem kostbaren, kontrovers diskutierten Material faszinieren bis heute. Filigraner Schmuck, elegante Frauenstatuetten sowie abstrakte Skulpturen zeugen von einer über 200 Jahre währenden Tradition der Elfenbeinschnitzkunst im Odenwald, die mit Graf Franz I. zu Erbach-Erbach begann.

Glanzstücke. Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum Schloss Erbach

Bridging the Abyss

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