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Maja is the author of Uppercut (2026), My Beautiful Ugly Love (2024), The Possible Self (2024), My blood on paper. Life is a Story - story.one (2023), Der Smartphonekevin & Papa Olli. Life is a Story - story.one (2023).

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Uppercut

release date: Jan 01, 2026

My Beautiful Ugly Love

release date: Nov 20, 2024
My Beautiful Ugly Love
Zmuszeni do małżeństwa wcale nie muszą się kochać... od razu. Minji jest typową szarą myszką – zatapia się w świecie książek, rzadko wychodzi z domu. Do tego nie najlepiej radzi sobie z nawiązywaniem i podtrzymywaniem relacji. Nie wpasowuje się również w koreańskie kanony piękna. Chociaż jest charakterna, o wielu kwestiach decyduje za nią ojciec. Dziewczyna jest przerażona jego najnowszym planem. Zgadza się na aranżowane małżeństwo tylko z nadzieją, że ostatecznie uda się jej do niego nie dopuścić. Swojego przyszłego narzeczonego, Joona, spotyka w niezbyt sprzyjających okolicznościach i uznaje go za zarozumiałego drania. Nie tak wyobrażała sobie swojego przyszłego męża! A już na pewno nie przewidziała tego, że znokautuje go ciężkim słownikiem... Najgorsze jednak, że siostra Minji – beauty influencerka Sora, poznała Joona wcześniej. Chłopak był przekonany, że to właśnie Sora jest mu przeznaczona. Ogromna niechęć do brzydszej siostry przeradza się jednak stopniowo w zupełnie inne, ciepłe uczucie, choć nie jest to łatwa droga. Między narzeczonymi ciągle wrze od emocji, a ściany drżą od ich sprzeczek... Czy na przekór wszystkiemu Minji uwierzy, że też zasługuje na miłość? Ta historia jest naprawdę SWEET. Sugerowany wiek: 18+.

The Possible Self

release date: Mar 05, 2024
The Possible Self
Awarded the Gold IBPA Book Award in the Psychology category. Sometimes success isn''t enough—discover how to achieve lasting, whole-life fulfillment through a simple five-stage plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves. We''re often told that the key to success in life involves advancing in our careers, so why do feel stuck and unfulfilled when everything seems to be going right? Adult development expert Maja Djikic explains that in order to discover our purpose and achieve real, lasting change, we need to move beyond narrowly targeted ideas and strategies like changing our mindset or slightly altering one aspect of our behavior. Instead, we need to go deeper and focus on our innate desires. Djikic says that sustained change can only happen when our whole self moves holistically the same direction and at the same time. She introduces a transformational system called the Wheel of Change—a simple, five-segment plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves: Desires, Actions, Emotions, Thoughts, and Body. By understanding the mechanisms of these five integral parts, you will be able to escape the paradox of success without happiness and move towards your own path of fulfilling self-development.

My blood on paper. Life is a Story - story.one

release date: Sep 01, 2023
My blood on paper. Life is a Story - story.one
Eine Ansammlung von englischer Lyrik über Gefühle, das Leben, die Welt und eine neue Sicht auf Alltägliches. In Poesie und Lyrik verarbeite ich vieles. Dinge die mich bewegen oder mir einfach in den Sinn kommen. Und vielleicht kann der ein oder andere sich selbst zwischen den Zeilen finden. A collection of english poetry about feelings, life, the world and a different view on ordanary things. In Poetry i process many things. Things that touch me or just come to my mind. And maybe someone can find themselves in-between these lines.

Der Smartphonekevin & Papa Olli. Life is a Story - story.one

release date: Aug 27, 2023
Der Smartphonekevin & Papa Olli. Life is a Story - story.one
Sieh einmal, was ein Ding! Hier steht unser Kevin. Mit dem Smartfon in der Hand, so ist''s im ganzen Land bekannt: "Vom Smartfon werden die Augen eckig, die Kinder speckig und die Zimmer dreckig!" Aber Kevin will es doch nicht hören, kann dem Smartfon nicht abschwören. Doch Papa Olli zeigt ihm dann, warum ein Smartfon gefährlich werden kann.

The Last Two

release date: Aug 15, 2023
The Last Two
Meet Najin and Fatu—the last of the northern white rhinos—as well as the scientists, conservationists, and rangers who are fighting for the species’ survival. The last two remaining northern white rhinos, an already functionally extinct species, are kept behind three electrical fences and protected by a squad of rangers at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Their names are Najin and Fatu. Both are descended from the last male northern white rhino, Sudan. Najin is his daughter, while Fatu is his granddaughter. Along with Sudan and another male named Suni, they were transferred to Kenya in 2009, in the hope that returning them to their natural habitat might help them regain their zest for life and reproduction. Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan. With the deaths of Sudan and Suni, the northern white rhinos’ destiny is now in the hands of their Kenyan caretakers and a team of scientists at the BioRescue international consortium, which is developing and using several different techniques to resurrect the species, including assisted reproduction and stem cell technologies. The plan is to insert northern white rhino embryos into southern white rhino surrogate mothers as soon as possible. There is a real chance the first “new” northern white rhino baby will be born in late 2023. Will science prevail, or is it too late? Journalists Boštjan Videmšek and Maja Prijatelj Videmšek explore this question by taking readers on a journey through the history of the northern white rhinos. They introduce the rangers, conservationists, and scientists fighting for the future of the northern white rhinos and dissect what led the species to the brink of extinction, from wars and climate change to poaching and the black market. The Last Two offers hope for the future of the environment and the fight to save the many species that call Earth home.

Cross my heart: Beast & Demon Part I

release date: Jul 07, 2023
Cross my heart: Beast & Demon Part I
Când tatăl ei moare, ea se trezește brusc în grija a trei bărbați complet străini. În urmă cu opt ani, ea era Indigo Remington. Acum toată identitatea sa se rezumă la un singur nume, Nyx. În urmă cu opt ani trăia o viață protejată de pericole, acum primejdia o pândește pretutindeni, fiindcă meseria ei e să lupte cu ea. Doar că acum nu se mai teme, căci e capabilă să sfâșie până și întunericul cu sabia sa. „— Au ars stelele în noaptea asta. — Mai puțin tu. — Hm? — Îți simt pe spatele meu strălucirea. — E doar o umbră care te va consuma. — O să mă tragă în tenebrele tale… — Da… — Dar mă voi agăța de sufletul tău după aceea. — Bun, fiindcă demonii mei te cer, iar eu nu mai reușesc să le fac contra.”

What Your Autistic Child Wants You to Know

release date: Jul 21, 2022
What Your Autistic Child Wants You to Know
"There are so many things I wish I could have told my parents when I was a child, but back then I did not have the words." It can be challenging understanding what your autistic child wants and needs, at times it can feel like a struggle to ask the right questions and find the right words. Written by autistic psychologist and advocate, Maja Toudal, in collaboration with other autistic voices, this candid book explores a range of common situational and social challenges an autistic young person may face and gives lived-experience advice on how to resolve them. Maja offers insights on everything from making mealtimes work for your child, to handling bullying and peer pressure, both at school and on social media, providing an insider''s guide into the child''s emotional life. With relatable and engaging advice on what your child needs and why, alongside chapters focusing on how to approach puberty, providing coping mechanisms for meltdowns, and offering insight into making safe spaces, this is the essential guide to parenting autistic young people.

Art and Climate Change (World of Art)

release date: Jun 07, 2022
Art and Climate Change (World of Art)
An overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that responds to today’s environmental crisis, from species extinction to climate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth is threatened, creative production for its own sake is not enough. Through contemporary artworks, artists are calling for an active, collective engagement with the planet in order to illuminate some of the structures that threaten biological survival. Exploring the meeting point of decolonial reparation and ecological restoration, artists are remaking history by drawing on the latest ecological theories, scientific achievements, and indigenous worldviews to engage with the climate crisis. Across five chapters, authors Maja and Reuben Fowkes examine these artworks that respond to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impact on the planet’s climate, from scenes of nature decimated by ongoing extinction events and landscapes turned to waste by extraction, to art coming out of the communities most affected by the environmental injustice of climate change. Featuring a broad range of media, including painting, photography, conceptual, installation, and performance, this text also dives into eco-conscious art practices that have created a new kind of artistic community by stressing a common mission for creators all over the world. In this art history, the authors emphasize the importance of caring for and listening to marginalized and indigenous communities while addressing climate uncertainty, deforestation, toxicity, and species extinction. By proposing scenarios for sustainable futures, today’s artists are reshaping our planet’s history, as documented in this heavily illustrated book.

Distant Transit

release date: Mar 22, 2022
Distant Transit
From a groundbreaking Slovenian-Austrian poet comes an evocative, captivating collection on searching for home in a landscape burdened with violent history. At its core, Distant Transit is an ode to survival, building a monument to traditions and lives lost. Infused with movement, Maja Haderlap’s Distant Transit traverses Slovenia’s scenic landscape and violent history, searching for a sense of place within its ever-shifting boundaries. Avoiding traditional forms and pronounced rhythms, Haderlap unleashes a flow of evocative, captivating passages whose power lies in their associative richness and precision of expression, vividly conjuring Slovenia’s natural world––its rolling meadows, snow-capped alps, and sparkling Adriatic coast. Belonging to the Slovene ethnic minority and its inherited, transgenerational trauma, Haderlap explores the burden of history and the prolonged aftershock of conflict––warm, lavish pastoral passages conceal dark memories, and musings on the way language can create and dissolve borders reveal a deep longing for a sense of home.

The Last Wild Horses

release date: Feb 15, 2022
The Last Wild Horses
Translated into 40 languages, winner of the Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize, and the most successful Norwegian author of her generation, Maja Lunde returns with a heart-wrenching tale, set in the distant past and the dystopian future, about extinction and survival, family and hope. Mikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse, a journey that tests not only his physicality, but his heart.In 1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias and several Przewalski horses, travels to Mongolia to re-introduce the magnificent horses to their native land. The veterinarian has dedicated her life to saving the breed from extinction, prioritizing the wild horses, even over her own son. Europe’s future is uncertain in 2064, but Eva is willing to sacrifice nearly everything to hold onto her family’s farm. Her teenage daughter implores Eva to leave the farm and Norway, but a pregnant wild mare Eva is tending is about to foal. Then, a young woman named Louise unexpectedly arrives on the farm, with mysterious intentions that will either bring them all together, or devastate them one by one. Spanning continents and centuries, The Last Wild Horses is a powerful tale of survival and connection—of humans, animals, and the indestructible bonds that unite us all. Translated from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley

Ładny gips

release date: Jun 23, 2021
Ładny gips
Agata Cyryl i Jola Kapłan, znane nam z powieści „Dracena przerywa milczenie” i „Strusie jajo”, znowu mieszają szyki przestępcom – a także tropiącym je policjantom. Rzecz dzieje się na prowincji, z dala od szacownych murów macierzystej uczelni obu przyjaciółek, w małym miasteczku, które Agata wybrała sobie na urlop. Z ogrodów znikają gipsowe figurki krasnali, by niespodziewanie pojawić się w zupełnie innych miejscach. Wygląda to na serię niewinnych żartów. Jednak pozory mylą – miasteczko staje się areną przerażających wydarzeń, a na jego mieszkańców pada blady strach. Policja jest bezradna. Agata i Jola po prostu muszą wkroczyć do akcji! Powieść Mai Kotarskiej, to wciągająca od pierwszej strony, pełna pozytywnej energii komedia kryminalna. Wyraziste postaci, dowcipne dialogi, niespodziewane zwroty akcji. Po prostu dobra literatura. Projekt okładki: Olga Bołdok.

Bake It Vegan

release date: Jun 01, 2021
Bake It Vegan
Craveable Vegan Desserts Made Easier Than Ever Making the perfect vegan dessert just got simple! With this approachable collection of treats, you can satisfy your sweet tooth without relying on unhealthy artificial sweeteners or processed ingredients. Maja Brekalo combines all-natural ingredients with a whole lot of creativity and flavor to share desserts that taste decadent but are also good for you. You can “veganize” classics with recipes like The Chocolate Cake, Buttery Almond Thumbprint Cookies or the Fudgiest Bakery-Style Brownies. Bake vegan for breakfast or tea time with a Chocolate Chip Walnut Banana Bread or Peach and Blackberry Galette. And you should definitely try fun no-bake and raw favorites like Pecan Salted Caramel Slices, Individual Neapolitan Cheesecakes and Nutella Cake. All of these treats are a breeze to whip up yet sure to impress, with so much variety that you’ll definitely find a new go-to dessert. Whether you’re a vegan or just looking for healthier takes on your traditional favorites, this cookbook has something for you.

Epic 30-Minute Roasts

release date: Oct 13, 2020
Epic 30-Minute Roasts
100 Incredible Roasts in Half the Time Maja and Jernej Zver, founders of the award-winning blog Jernej Kitchen, show you how to make delicious roasts in just 30 minutes or less. These 100 incredible dishes are all prepped, roasted to perfection and ready to serve in half the time. With Maja and Jernej’s use of clever culinary hacks that seriously streamline the cooking process, you’ll yield all the tender results of a traditional roast without the wait. These recipes cover everything from classic beef and pork to venison, lamb, veggies and seafood. Make the juicy Oven-Roasted T-Bone Steak with Herb Butter in 15 minutes by searing it in a cast-iron skillet and finishing it off under the broiler. Think you can’t roast a whole chicken in 30 minutes? Think again! With Crispy Roasted Chicken Halves, you simply trim out the breastbone, roast each half and are done in no time. In addition to being quick and easy, each recipe is brimming with delicious, innovative flavors, such as Duck Breast with Plum Chutney, Roasted Chicken Thighs with Grapes and Polenta, Miso-Apricot–Glazed Pork Chops with Bean Salad and so much more. With this collection of mouthwatering roasts, you’ll save time and energy in the kitchen without ever sacrificing flavor.

Conviviality at the Crossroads

release date: Oct 09, 2020
Conviviality at the Crossroads
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today''s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post-industrial convivial society of ''autonomous individuals and primary groups'' (Illich 1973), which resembles present-day manifestations of ''convivialism''. Paul Gilroy refashioned conviviality as a substitute for cosmopolitanism, denoting an ability to be ''at ease'' in contexts of diversity (Gilroy 2004). Rather than replacing one concept with the other, the fourteen contributors to this book seek to explore the interconnections - commonalities and differences - between them, suggesting that creolisation is a necessary complement to the already-intertwined concepts of conviviality and cosmopolitanism. Although this volume takes northern Europe as its focus, the contributors take care to put each situation in historical and global contexts in the interests of moving beyond the binary thinking that prevails in terms of methodologies, analytical concepts, and political implementations. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work''s license are retained by the author or authors.

Nordic eHealth Benchmarking

release date: May 28, 2020
Nordic eHealth Benchmarking
Online publication: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2020-505/ Abstract [en] The Nordic eHealth Research Network (NeRN) was established by the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) eHealth group in 2012. The objective was to develop, test, and evaluate a common set of indicators for monitoring eHealth in the Nordic countries, Greenland, Faroe Islands and Aaland, for use to support the development of Nordic welfare.The results of the network’s first three mandate periods were published in the Nordic Council of Ministers reports. Links can be found on the NeRN web page: https://thl.fi/en/web/thlfi-en/research-and-expertwork/projects-and-programmes/nordic-ehealth-research-network-nern This publication reports the outcomes of the fourth mandate period focusing on five tasks: 1 New analysis of eHealth policies in the Nordic countries. 2 Updating common indicators in accordance with emerging new policy goals. 3 Developing a Nordic model survey to monitor citizen views on eHealth. 4 Cyber security in the Nordic Countries. 5 Personas for users of indicators of eHealth availability, use and outcome in the Nordic countries.

Bosnian Post-Refugee Transnationalism

release date: May 27, 2020
Bosnian Post-Refugee Transnationalism
This book develops a new concept of post-refugee transnationalism to describe experiences of Bosnian refugees who settled in Ireland after fleeing the conflict in 1990s Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book explores their ambivalent relationship with their host and home countries, Ireland and Bosnia, arguing that their current experiences are best described as post-refugee transnationalism. Post-refugee transnationalism is characterised by Bosnians dividing their time between the two countries rather than permanently settling in either and by engaging in summer migrations and diasporic interconnections and affiliations. The book proposes post-refugee transnationalism as different to other instances of transnationalism by stressing its enforced origin provoked by the conflict and institutionalized by the Dayton Peace Agreement. The book combines Foucault’s biopolitics, David Theo Goldberg’s understanding of nation states as racial states and Giorgio Agamben’s expansion on the idea of potentiality, to develop the concept of post-refugee transnationalism.

Archaeology Hotspot Italy

release date: Mar 27, 2020
Archaeology Hotspot Italy
A full-color guide to Italy''s archeology and treasures. Archaeology Hotspot Italy presents a comprehensive overview of the Italian archaeology. The main archaeological epochs – from Paleolithic to the Middle Ages – and sites and the discoveries made in the last twenty years, as well as past and present great archaeologists are thoroughly explored. Archaeology Hotspot Italy gives also insights into the way in which archaeology is practiced today, dealing with controversies over interpretation of the past connected to different theoretical approaches and present-day social and political contingencies. One of the aims of Archaeology Hotspot Italy is to give to the reader the idea that archaeology is by no means a static discipline, and that our knowledge of the past is continuously challenged by new discoveries and new approaches as well as by national and international heritage politics. It can be read either while staying comfortably at home or while traveling through Italy. Indeed, it was conceived as a handbook on Italian archaeology for armchair archaeologists as well as an archaeological guide for those visiting Italy. It provides key information on unconventional and not well-known archeological sites, which are outside of the mass tourism circuits, as well as insights on must-see sites and monuments in Italy, such as Pompeii or the Ancient city of Rome. The reader will find insights into the actual work of Italian archaeologists in current excavations, and on the challenges that they have to face. This perspective is quite unique. By combining information on archaeological sites with insights into archaeological practice, this book enables the reader to fully understand the archaeological profession in Italy. This beautiful full-color book features 44 photographs and 3 maps.

Familiars in Witchcraft

release date: Jul 16, 2019
Familiars in Witchcraft
A comprehensive exploration of familiars and their many forms and powers • Explores witch’s familiars in folklore, shamanic, and magical traditions around the world, including Africa, India, Scandinavia, ancient Greece, and China • Explains how familiars are related to shamanic power animals and how the witch draws on her personal sexual energy to give this creature its power • Examines the familiar in alchemical, Hermetic, and Egyptian magical literature, including instructions for procuring a supernatural assistant Exploring the history and creation of a “witch’s familiar,” also known as a spirit double or guardian spirit, Maja D’Aoust shows how there is much more to these supernatural servant spirits and guardians than meets the eye. She reveals how witches are not the only ones to lay claim to this magician’s “assistant” and examines how the many forms of witch’s familiars are well known in folklore throughout Europe and America as well as in shamanic and magical traditions around the world, including Africa, India, and China. The author explains how familiars are connected with shapeshifting and how the classic familiars of medieval witchcraft tradition are related to the power animals and allies of shamanic practices worldwide, including animal guardian spirits of Native American traditions and the daimons of the ancient Greeks and Romans. She examines the fetch spirit, also known as the fylgia in Scandinavian tradition, and how the witch or sorcerer draws on their personal sexual energy to give this creature its power to magnetize and attract what it was sent to retrieve. She looks at incubus, succubus, doubles, doppelgangers, and soul mates, showing how familiars can also adopt human forms and sometimes form romantic or erotic attachments with the witch or shaman. Reviewing alchemical, Hermetic, and Egyptian magical literature, including the nearly forgotten alchemical works of Anna Kingsford, D’Aoust explores their instructions for procuring the attention of a supernatural assistant as well as an extensive description of the alchemical wedding and how this ritual joins the magician and familiar spirit into a single unified consciousness. Exploring fairy familiars, she reveals how a practitioner can establish a “marriage” with a totemic plant or tree spirit, who, in return, would offer teachings about its medicinal and visionary powers. Delving deeply into the intimate relations of humanity with the spirit world, D’Aoust shows how forming connections with living forces other than human enables us to move beyond the ego, expand our magical abilities, as well as evolve our conscious awareness.

A Boy and a House

release date: Sep 11, 2018
A Boy and a House
What will the little boy find at the top of the stairs?

War and the Politics of Ethics

release date: Feb 02, 2018
War and the Politics of Ethics
Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West''s ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect. This book examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the vision of ethical war itself, exploring how the commitment to ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in turn, to shape what is considered ethical in war. The book closely examines particular practices of warfare, such as targeting, the use of cultural knowledge, and ethics training for soldiers. What emerges is that instead of constraining violence, the commitment to ethics enables and enhances it. The book argues that the production of ethical war relies on an impossible but obscured separation between ethics and politics, that is, the problematic politics of ethics, and reflects on the need to make decisions at the limit of ethics.

The History of Bees

release date: Aug 22, 2017
The History of Bees
“Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey” (Elle), and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this “spectacular and deeply moving” (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) novel follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees—and to their children and one another—against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive—one that will give both him and his children honor and fame. United States, 2007. George is a beekeeper fighting an uphill battle against modern farming, but hopes that his son can be their salvation. China, 2098. Tao hand paints pollen onto the fruit trees now that the bees have long since disappeared. When Tao’s young son is taken away by the authorities after a tragic accident, she sets out on a grueling journey to find out what happened to him. Haunting, illuminating, and deftly written, The History of Bees joins “the past, the present, and a terrifying future in a riveting story as complex as a honeycomb” (Bryn Greenwood, New York Times bestselling author) that is just as much about the powerful bond between children and parents as it is about our very relationship to nature and humanity.

Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond

release date: Aug 07, 2017
Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond
The extant generalizations about the grammar of space rely heavily on the analyses of declarative sentences. There is a need to check whether these generalizations also hold in the domain of interrogation. To this end this book analyzes data from some 450 languages (including non-standard varieties). The focus is on paradigms of spatial interrogatives such as English where, whither and whence and their internal organization. These paradigms are checked for recurrent patterns of morphological mismatches (such as syncretism) and different degrees of complexity (e.g. the number of segments). The data-base consists of a large parallel literary corpus (Le petit prince and translations thereof) which is complemented by further sources of information such as descriptive grammars. The data are analyzed from a synchronic perspective. However, diachronic issues are addressed unsystematically, too. It is shown that the distribution of phenomena which characterize paradigms of spatial interrogatives are subject to areal-linguistic factors. This is the first typological study of spatial interrogatives. It provides new insights for students of the grammar of space, morphological paradigms, and language typology.

The Great Mindshift

release date: Sep 12, 2016
The Great Mindshift
This book describes the path ahead. It combines system transformation researchwith political economy and change leadership insights when discussing the needfor a great mindshift in how human wellbeing, economic prosperity and healthyecosystems are understood if the Great Transformations ahead are to lead to moresustainability. It shows that history is made by purposefully acting humans andintroduces transformative literacy as a key skill in leading the radical incremental change

Angel of Oblivion

release date: Aug 30, 2016
Angel of Oblivion
Haderlap is an accomplished poet, and that lyricism leaves clear traces on this ravishing debut, which won the prestigious Bachmann Prize in 2011. The descriptions are sensual, and the unusual similes and metaphors occasionally change perspective unexpectedly. Angel of Oblivion deals with harrowing subjects - murder, torture, persecution and discrimination of an ethnic minority - in intricate and lyrical prose. The novel tells the story of a family from the Slovenian minority in Austria. The first-person narrator starts off with her childhood memories of rural life, in a community anchored in the past. Yet behind this rural idyll, an unresolved conflict is smouldering. At first, the child wonders about the border to Yugoslavia, which runs not far away from her home. Then gradually the stories that the adults tell at every opportunity start to make sense. All the locals are scarred by the war. Her grandfather, we find out, was a partisan fighting the Nazis from forest hideouts. Her grandmother was arrested and survived Ravensbrück. As the narrator grows older, she finds out more. Through conversations at family gatherings and long nights talking to her grandmother, she learns that her father was arrested by the Austrian police and tortured - at the age of ten - to extract information on the whereabouts of his father. Her grandmother lost her foster-daughter and many friends and relatives in Ravensbrück and only escaped the gas chamber by hiding inside the camp itself. The narrator begins to notice the frequent suicides and violent deaths in her home region, and she develops an eye for how the Slovenians are treated by the majority of German-speaking Austrians. As an adult, the narrator becomes politicised and openly criticises the way in which Austria deals with the war and its own Nazi past. In the closing section, she visits Ravensbrück and finds it strangely lifeless - realising that her personal memories of her grandmother are stronger. Illuminating an almost forgotten chapter of European history and the European present, the book deals with family dynamics scarred by war and torture - a dominant grandmother, a long-suffering mother, a violent father who loves his children but is impossible to live with. And interwoven with this is compelling reflection on storytelling: the narrator hoping to rid herself of the emotional burden of her past and to tell stories on behalf of those who cannot.

Intangible Organizational Resources

release date: Jul 15, 2016
Intangible Organizational Resources
This book addresses the challenges of organizing modern-day institutions, focusing on the management of intangible organizational resources of libraries through both library science and management theory. Highlighting new information requirements, knowledge transfer technologies and changing patterns of social behaviour, Intangible Organizational Resources explores how these changes are affecting the organization of information services such as libraries, and discusses what they mean for the effectiveness and quality of their services. Making a unique contribution in an otherwise under-explored field, this is an essential text for those involved in the organization of information services.

The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts

release date: Mar 29, 2016
The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts
New York Times bestseller • An artfully playful collection of unexpected and remarkable facts about animals, illustrated by Swedish artist Maja Säfström. Did you know that an octopus has three hearts? Or that ostriches can''t walk backward? Or that a group of owls is called a parliament, or that they have three eyelids? Sea otters hold hands in their sleep, bees never sleep, and penguins laugh when they''re tickled! This charming compendium contains over 100 pages of fascinating facts about the animal kingdom illustrated with whimsical detail.

Frédéric Chopin

release date: Jun 05, 2015
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources.

Kotlici Su U Paklu, U Raju Nema Kuvanja

release date: Apr 07, 2014
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