Sacred Possessions - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900
This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. When works of art created for religious purposes outlive their original function, they often take on new meanings as they move from sacred spaces to secular collection...
Scorsese by Ebert
Scorsese by Ebert
Scorsese by Ebert
Roger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received - for 1967's "I Call First", later renamed "Who's That Knocking at My Door" - creating a lasting bond that made him one of Scorsese's most appr...
Herzog by Ebert
Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge ...
Sybille Bedford
'Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph Sybille Bedford's life contained all the grand feeling and seismic events of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death. Her father...
Friedrich Ebert
Der Sozialdemokrat Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte - als Mitglied der Revolutionsregierung nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg und als erster gewählter Reichspräsident der ersten dem...
Friedrich Ebert: Germany
This title is about Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925). Ebert was influential in securing SPD support for the war in 1914. On the eve of war he travelled to Switzerland to arrange the movement of SPD funds if the party was outlawed. As the leader of orga...
Signed Sybille de Margerie
"Simplicity and creativity. Modernity and tradition. Bringing aesthetics to technology, elegance to color, crafting harmony and rejecting discomfort. That is my ambition."Known the world over for her spectacular int...
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Diethelm Sybille/Fabienne Romer: Plangeliedli...
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The Faces of Justice
It provides you with the most extravagant material, and it teaches the near impossibility of reaching the truth.'Sybille Bedford, Paris Review (1993)For The Faces of Justice (1961) Sybille Bedford journeyed through Europe to sit in the press box o...
Medium, Messenger, Transmission
This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, exa...
Medium, Messenger, Transmission
This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, exa...
Great Movies III
Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for "The Chicago Sun-Times" for over four decades now, and his biweekly essays on great movies have been featured there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of t...
Sprache, Sprechakt, Kommunikation
Gibt es eine Sprache hinter dem Sprechen? Zwölf einflussreiche Sprachdenker des letzten Jahrhunderts werden so dargestellt, dass ihre Antwort auf diese Frage hervortritt. Dabei ergibt sich ein überraschendes Bild: Die »pragmatische Wende« trennt S...
Young Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes
Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes. In adopting a longitudinal perspective, the book fills a research gap and provides a macro-level analysis of mot...
Jigsaw
This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German...
Auschwitz
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Syb...
Quicksands
Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and non-fiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this magnificent memoir, she moves from Berlin during th...
Visit to Don Otavio
Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel - through bug-infested ju...
Freiheit
Freiheit
Der Stachel des Digitalen
Der Stachel des Digitalen
A Legacy
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Life Itself
Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-t...
Awake in the Dark
For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America's most renowned and beloved film critic. From Ebert's Pulitzer Prize to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, fr...
Great Movies
The Great Movies
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun
Uppvaknanden
Lars flyr undan mediedrevet till en liten glesbefolkad by i Norrlands inland. Här ska han skriva en roman och hitta sig själv. Men så flyttar Linda in i huset bredvid, och hela tillvaron förändras. En katastrofal seglats över Atlanten och en framg...
