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'The best novel I've encountered this year, brilliant and funny and
profound, producing some of the most complex, fascinating
characters I've ever known. As far as I'm concerned, the novel is
an instant classic' Jaroslav Kalfar, author of Spaceman of Bohemia
'This is art of the highest order, a masterpiece of restraint,
insight and style' Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves
9th November 1989, East Berlin, the day the Berlin Wall will fall -
Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi agent whose life's work, a manual on the
demoralisation of political opponents, once made him renowned now
faces an ailing psyche and the fading twilight of his career. His
whole life has been reduced to a preoccupation with the
disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his local cafe.
Twenty-five years earlier, during the Cold War, a physicist
Johannes Held had been sent by the East Germans to infiltrate a US
military operation in the Arizona desert, where teleportation and
other paranormal activities were being investigated. On his return
to Germany he refused to divulge what he had learned there and
Zeiger was summoned to obtain his confession. The torturer and the
tortured strangely became friends. But Zeiger soon betrayed Held -
a treachery that haunts him to this day and one that will prove to
be connected to Lara's disappearance. Darkly comic and hauntingly
surreal, The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures examines
obsession, Cold War paranoia and the dwindling career of a Stasi
operative. Set against the brutal backdrop of communist East
Germany, Hofmann's debut captures the fate of humanist fantasies
under an extreme surveillance state.
'The best novel I've encountered this year, brilliant and funny and
profound, producing some of the most complex, fascinating
characters I've ever known. As far as I'm concerned, the novel is
an instant classic' Jaroslav Kalfar, author of Spaceman of Bohemia
'This is art of the highest order, a masterpiece of restraint,
insight and style' Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves
9th November 1989, East Berlin, the day the Berlin Wall will fall -
Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi agent whose life's work, a manual on the
demoralisation of political opponents, once made him renowned now
faces an ailing psyche and the fading twilight of his career. His
whole life has been reduced to a preoccupation with the
disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his local cafe.
Twenty-five years earlier, during the Cold War, a physicist
Johannes Held had been sent by the East Germans to infiltrate a US
military operation in the Arizona desert, where teleportation and
other paranormal activities were being investigated. On his return
to Germany he refused to divulge what he had learned there and
Zeiger was summoned to obtain his confession. The torturer and the
tortured strangely became friends. But Zeiger soon betrayed Held -
a treachery that haunts him to this day and one that will prove to
be connected to Lara's disappearance. Darkly comic and hauntingly
surreal, The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures examines
obsession, Cold War paranoia and the dwindling career of a Stasi
operative. Set against the brutal backdrop of communist East
Germany, Hofmann's debut captures the fate of humanist fantasies
under an extreme surveillance state.
"Live and Online!" offers the key to designing effective
interactions for the synchronous classroom. This ensures that
participants have ample opportunity to collaborate and interact,
which in turn helps them to successfully learn online. Author
Jennifer Hofmann explains the use of powerful synchronous
tools--Whiteboard, Chat, Breakout Room, Application Sharing, and
Synchronized Web Browsing--provides sample exercises for each tool,
and offers advice on how each tool fits into the instructional
landscape. At the end of each exercise there is space provided for
notes and suggestions on how to customize the interaction for
specific projects. The companion CD-ROM contains sample graphics,
leader guide pages that support the exercises, and templates for
creating leader and participant materials and interactive plans.
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