Author: Etgar Keret File Type: mobi A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore a girl parented by a major household appliance the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossadsuch are the denizens of Etgar Kerets dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Kerets first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade. **
Author: Daniel J. Fiorino
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The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s. The accepted view is that efforts to protect the environment will detract from economic growth, jobs, and global competitiveness. Conversely, much advocacy on behalf of the environment focuses on the need to control growth and avoid its more damaging effects. This offers a stark choice between prosperity and growth, on the one hand, and ecological degradation on the other. Stopping or reversing growth in most countries is unrealistic, economically risky, politically difficult, and is likely to harm the very groups that should be protected. At the same time, a strategy of unguided growth above all would cause ecological catastrophe. Over the last decade, the concept of green growth -- the idea that the right mix of policies, investments, and technologies will lead to beneficial growth within ecological limits -- has become central to global and national debates and policy due to the financial crisis and climate change. As Daniel J. Fiorino argues, in order for green growth to occur, ecological goals must be incorporated into the structure of the economic and political systems. In this book, he looks at green growth, a vast topic that has heretofore not been systematically covered in the literature on environmental policy and politics. Fiorino looks at its role in global, national, and local policy making its relationship to sustainable development controversies surrounding it (both from the left and right) its potential role in ameliorating inequality and the policy strategies that are linked with it. The book also examines the political feasibility of green growth as a policy framework. While he focuses on the United States, Fiorino will draw comparisons to green growth policy in other countries, including Germany, China, and Brazil.
Author: Edward Limonov
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Translated from the Russian by Judson RosengrantThis is an account of Limonovs adolescence in Kharkov, a provincial Soviet city, in the years after Stalins death. But Limonovs hero Eddie-Baby is nothing at all like the Russian heroes English-speaking readers have come to expect and his Kharkov is nothing at all like the tightly-policed USSR we usually encounte in emigre novels. In Eddie Babys Kharkov, there is no law. Police are goons, and the quickest way to become a legend in the housing projects of Saltovka is to beat up a cop. Eddie-Baby is a nearsighted brain who decides, at the age of eleven, to become a hooligan--and does so with the same quiet, scary determination which once led him to fill notebooks with data on the fauna of the tropics. He devotes himself to learning the rules of his punkproletarian world with a slightly crazed pedantry, and takes the reader along with him through one holiday weekend in this astounding, completely unknown habitat the steel jungles of the Soviet nine-floor housing projects. But the book is by no means gritty or grimy, or any of those silly words reviewers use to describe urban descriptions. In Eddie-Babys mind, his world is a forest, full of ogres and prey--and all of it is worthy of caressing, precise description. He makes you love this world. There are paragraphs in this book Ive read something like ten thousand times, they are so perfect. A middleaged lecher pouring a glass of vodka a gang beating a pedestrian to death a precise account of the sort of glue and paper you need to break a window quietly for a burglary Limonov invests every one of these moments from a vanished, outlandish world with a calm and uncanny beauty. Get this book at any cost. There is nothing like it in the world. -John Dolan
Author: Brenda Bethman
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This book examines Elfriede Jelineks investigation of Austrias and Western Europes obscene fantasies through her perversion of generic forms in three of her best-known texts (Die Liebhaberinnen, Lust, and Die Klavierspielerin). Each chapter investigates a central psychoanalytic concept (alienation, jouissance, perversion, and sublimation) and reads a Jelinek text in relation to the genre that it is perverting, exposing the obscene fantasies that lie at its heart. This book argues that the disruption of genres is one of Jelineks most significant literary contributions, with her works functioning to create a negative aesthetics as opposed to a positive reworking of generic forms. **
Author: Connie Luyt
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Zuid-Afrika, 1906. Als Francines man is omgekomen in de Boerenoorlog, wordt zij samen met veel andere blanke vrouwen vastgezet in een Engels kamp. Ze maakt er verschrikkelijke dingen mee. Toch vindt ze er ook, opnieuw, liefde. Dan duikt kort na Francines vrijlating haar man weer op. Kenia, 1945. Francines dochter Maia woont met haar gezin op een boerderij in Kenia. De oorspronkelijke bewoners van Kenia strijden voor onafhankelijkheid en Maia voelt het onheil naderen. Terwijl haar man de jungle in trekt om de vrijheidsstrijders een halt toe te roepen, blijft zijn gezin onbeschermd achter. Zuid-Afrika, 1970. Studente Christine, dochter van Maia, is geobsedeerd door een vraag waarom heeft mijn vader me in de steek gelaten? Ze besluit terug te gaan naar Kenia. Wat ze daar vindt, overtreft al haar verwachtingen. Deze roman vormt het verhaal van drie generaties vrouwen die de moed en de liefde vinden om stand te houden in zware omstandigheden. Een prachtig tijdsbeeld dat ontroerend dichtbij komt. Een van de weinige romans waarvan de inhoud nog beter is dan de flaptekst suggereert. Die Burger, Dagblad van Zuid-Afrika Connie Luyt woont in Pretoria, Zuid-Afrika, en heeft al enkele romans en korte verhalen op haar naam staan. Schaduw over Afrika is haar Nederlandse debuut. NBD|Biblion recensie Dit boek over drie generaties blanke vrouwen in Afrika is het Nederlandse romandebuut van deze Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijfster. De familiegeschiedenis die ze schetst uit het perspectief van drie vrouwen, beslaat de periode van 1903 tot ca. 1980. Het is een periode waarin de familie eerst van Zuid-Afrika naar Kenia emigreert en vervolgens ten tijde van de Mau Mau, de gewelddadige vrijheidsstrijders, weer terug naar Zuid-Afrika. De impact van het ontworteld zijn is het grootst op het leven van de kleindochter Christine die zeer beschadigd is door traumatische gebeurtenissen in haar jeugd. Met een bezoek aan Kenia hoopt ze de spoken uit het verleden te verjagen. Er wacht haar een grote verrassing. Dit boeiende verhaal laat de veerkracht van vrouwen zien in extreme situaties. Door het gebruik van de onvoltooid tegenwoordige tijd kunnen we als lezer in de levens van Francine, Maia en Christine kruipen en komt alles heel dichtbij. Prachtige, ingehouden roman waaruit de liefde voor Afrika spreekt. Bevat enkele woordverklaringen in voetnoten en een bibliografie van fictie en non-fictie, voornamelijk in het Engels. Paperback met kleine druk. (NBD|Biblion recensie, Roelie Prins-Meijer) (source Bol.com)
Author: Amith Kumar P. V.
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This book investigates the process of translation in light of the dialogical principles proposed by the Russian literary theorist and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin. It problematizes interlingual translations by questioning the two extreme tendencies in translation namely, complete target-orientedness on the one hand, and close imitation of the source-text on the other. In the field of cultural encounters, it envisages a Bakhtinian model which is proposed as an alternative to the existing interpretations that discuss the cultural subtleties when two different cultures encounter each other. The overall framework of the book is Bakhtinian, that is, it adopts a dialogic approach, and its main focus is the examination of a Western theoretical formulation through examples from Indian literatures and cultural situations. Such an extension of Bakhtins ideas, especially to explore examples from Indian literary, cultural and translational fields, has not yet received sufficient attention. The study is not only a unique endeavour in filling up the lacunae, but also draws Bakhtin closer to the Indian literary condition. **
Author: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
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The growth of modern information technology has created a challenge in the organizational and managerial areas of IT. While technological advances often make tasks easier, the human side of a task is still affected. Cases on the Human Side of Information Technology provides many real-life examples of how organizations have handled human side issues in the overall utilization and management of IT. It presents information to assist educators and professionals in the implementation of strategies for the benefit of the company or organization.(Cases on Information Technology Series)
Author: Peter Clemoes
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The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia geographical knowledge in King Alfreds court the part played by Bishop thelwolds school at Winchester in the period of tenth-century monastic reform in standardizing the vernacular and in studying and composing Latin poetry allegory in Old English literature the place of origin of the Book of Kells the source of a fourteenth-century Icelandic saga writers picture of Edward the Confessor the principles of the modern study of pre-Conquest architecture and the contemporary state of our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon house. There is also a bibliography which lists all books, articles and reviews published in the field during 1971, and which is continued annually in the series.Book DescriptionThe contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia geographical knowledge in King Alfreds court and the contemporary state of our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon house.
Author: Muhammad H. Zaman
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Long the scourge of developing countries, fake pills are now increasingly common in the United States. The explosion of Internet commerce, coupled with globalization and increased pharmaceutical use has led to an unprecedented vulnerability in the U.S. drug supply. Today, an estimated 80% of our drugs are manufactured overseas, mostly in India and China. Every link along this supply chain offers an opportunity for counterfeiters, and increasingly, they are breaking in. In 2008, fake doses of the blood thinner Heparin killed 81 people worldwide and resulted in hundreds of severe allergic reactions in the United States. In 2012, a counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin, containing no active chemotherapy ingredient, was widely distributed in the United States. In early 2013, a drug trafficker named Francis Ortiz Gonzalez was sentenced to prison for distributing an assortment of counterfeit, Chinese-made pharmaceuticals across America. By the time he was arrested, he had already sold over 140,000 fake pills to customers. Even when the U.S. system works, as it mostly does, consumers are increasingly circumventing the safeguards. Skyrocketing health care costs in the U.S. have forced more Americans to become medical tourists seeking drugs, life-saving treatments and transplants abroad, sometimes in countries with rampant counterfeit drug problems and no FDA. Bitter Pills will heighten the publics awareness about counterfeit drugs, critically examine possible solutions, and help people protect themselves. Author Muhammad H. Zaman pays special attention to the science and engineering behind both counterfeit and legitimate drugs, and the role of a technological fix for the fake drug problem. Increasingly, fake drugs affect us all. **