Most Popular Books by Elisabeth Wolf

''Haunting, ominous and astonishingly dark. A mesmerising triumph.'' Suzy Aspley, author of Crow Moon ''Unnerving and windswept with a wild, Gothic heart.'' Jody Cooksley, author of The Small Museum ''Compelling contemporary gothic, skin-creepingly good.'' Elaine Thomson, author of Hawthorn Within the walls of Winterbourne dwells a secret room, with an unspeakable collection of books. Librarian Anne Adams has found the perfect escape: a job cataloguing the library of Winterbourne, an architectural masterpiece on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Surrounded by an awe-inspiring landscape, the library is magnificent, with priceless first editions, a librarian''s dream. However, Anne''s early weeks in her new job are beset by obstacles - no internet, a house plunged into darkness every night and unexplained mysteries on the island. After weeks of isolation, upon meeting the mysterious owner Lucien Broussard, Anne is puzzled. Eloquent and well-travelled, his reclusive nature seems uncharacteristic. But after finding a cryptic clue within the pages of a book, Anne discovers that Broussard''s collection includes everything from the mundane to the books no one should ever open . . . Get swept up in Elisabeth Wolf''s chilling and unpredictable mystery.

Second in a fresh new series with a screenplay format featuring the irrepressibly lovable Lulu Harrison, a down-to-earth girl in Twinkle Town, and her diaper-wearing dog. Lulu''s plans for a family-only Hawaiian luau are crushed under her sister''s Fourth of July blockbuster bash, until Lulu decides this Independence Day she''s gong to stand up for herself. Lights! Camera! ACTION! If only real life were like the movies. Instead, the Harrison family''s fabulous Hawaiian vacation has fallen apart, thanks to Lulu''s parents'' massive blockbuster film shoot. Their tightly-scheduled family time has been taken over by extra time on the set—and they''re totally missing out on the real Hawaii. Lulu decides to teach her family the meaning of ohana, but her genius plans are seriously backfiring. (She didn''t mean to unleash a rampaging pug onto her parents'' movie set. Oops!) Can Lulu get her family back together, or will her exploits push them further apart? Praise for Lulu in La La Land: "Fun, infectious humor and satisfying, light storytelling."—School Library Journal

Down-to-earth Lulu does not fit with her glamorous, Hollywood A-list family but as her eleventh birthday approaches she writes a screenplay about her efforts to throw a birthday party her parents and sister might actually attend.

Der Wertewandel der vergangenen Jahrzehnte veränderte auch die Kulturpolitik: Nicht nur Kulturverständnis, -verhalten und kulturelle Bedürfnisse der Bevölkerung erfuhren einen zum Teil tiefgreifenden Wandel, auch kulturpolitische Akteure wie politische Parteien und Kulturverwaltungen reagierten auf die veränderten Bedingungen. Die empirische Studie weist anhand einer Inhaltsanalyse Veränderungen in der kulturpolitischen Programmatik in Deutschland und Österreich von 1952 bis 1994 nach. Sie zeigt institutionen- und parteienspezifische Parallelen zwischen diesen Veränderungen und relevanten Entwicklungen bei einzelnen Bevölkerungsgruppen auf.

In den letzten Jahren standen Kunstsponsoring und Kulturförderung durch Unternehmen sowohl in Deutschland als auch in Österreich im Mittelpunkt einer nicht immer sachlich geführten kulturpolitischen Diskussion. Das vorliegende Buch skizziert ein aktuelles Bild der Situation der betrieblichen Kulturfinanzierung in den beiden Staaten und konfrontiert diese mit den diesbezüglichen Anstrengungen der öffentlichen Hand. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird den Fragen nachgegangen, ob und wie das betriebliche Kulturengagement in allgemeine kulturpolitische Strategien einbezogen wird und warum dieses Thema gerade in den letzten Jahren so viel Beachtung finden konnte.