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Count Luna (Paperback)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Jane B. Greene
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Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate,
finds the Nazis distasteful - but in war and in business, distaste
can lead to negligence. When Jessiersky's board of directors sends
his mysterious neighbour Count Luna to a concentration camp on
trumped-up charges in order to seize his land, Jessiersky can't
shake the feeling that Count Luna blames him - and, after the war
ends, that Count Luna will have his revenge. So begins a wild,
weird and witty cat-and-mouse chase through windswept moors,
shadow-filled houses and, eventually, the catacombs of Rome, as an
increasingly paranoid Jessiersky asks himself: who is Count Luna?
Where is he hiding? And will he stop at nothing - not even the
edges of the plausible and canny - to exact his bloody venegance?
Much is written about the theory of theological interpretation, but
how does it apply to actually working with biblical texts? This
volume shows that theological interpretation is not so much an
exegetical method as it is a practice concerned with Scripture's
role in the faith and formation of persons and church communities.
Widely recognized biblical scholar Joel Green demonstrates both the
practice of theological interpretation and the fruitfulness of this
approach to reading biblical texts, providing students with helpful
ways of wrestling with knotty interpretive issues. He also explores
how theological inquiry can coexist with rigorous academic study of
the Bible.
This book provides facts and figures to show how fast fossil fuel
energy is being used up in the developed countries. It considers
the problems of feeding the population of the developing countries
to whom the expedient of using fossil fuel energy to boost food
production is not available.
ECPA Christian Book Award Winner Readers' Choice Award Winner
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the Best Bible Reference The second edition of the Dictionary of
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Count Luna (Paperback)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Jane B. Greene
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R383
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At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat,
heads a great Viennese shipping company. He detests the Nazis, and
when his board of directors asks him to go along with confiscating
a neighbor's large parcel of land for their thriving wartime
business, Jessiersky refuses. Yet, without his knowledge, the board
succeeds in sending the owner of the land, a certain Count Luna, to
a Nazi concentration camp on a trumped-up charge. Years later the
war is over, but after a series of mysterious events, Jessiersky,
deeply paranoid, becomes convinced that Count Luna has survived and
seeks vengeance; driven to kill the source of his dread, he decides
to hunt down Luna-and his years-long chase after the spectral count
finally takes him deep into the catacombs of Rome... The nightmare
logic of Count Luna comes from deep within Jessiersky's festering
fears and serves up his brooding, insanity-spiced, delicious
disquisitions-on what the Etruscans knew, on cemeteries as
originally "sleeping places"-before coming at last to death itself:
"Well, well, well, thought Jessiersky, swallowing hard. So you do
die after all. You refuse to believe that someday you will die but
then you die. And you don't even notice it. And yet the fact that
you don't is the best thing about dying..."
First published in 1990, this is the first text to offer a
goegraphicand regional study of venture capitalism. Although the
importance of this type of capitalism in creating and nurturing
small firms has long been recognized, it does not have a uniform
global character. Drawing on previously unused data, Green's book
offers a geographic comparison which displays the diverse forms of
venture capitalist markets from the well established to the newly
emerging and the rapidly dissapearing.
Originally published in 1990, this book is the first to provide an
in-depth examination of post-war North American merger activity
from the perspectives of both geography and industrial class. It
applies core periphery and resource dependency theories to analyse
an unprecedented quantity of merger data on both inter-city and
international levels. The book concludes with a detailed assessment
of the structure and efficacy of US penetration of the Canadian
economic system.
In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films
produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of
the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer
violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other
state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films
not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer
Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic
practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities.
Examining globally circulating international art films as well as
popular melodramas made for local audiences, Green-Simms emphasizes
that in these films queer resistance-contrary to traditional
narratives about resistance that center overt and heroic
struggle-is often practiced from a position of vulnerability. By
reading queer films alongside discussions about censorship and
audiences, Green-Simms renders queer African cinema as a rich
visual archive that documents the difficulty of queer existence as
well as the potentials for queer life-building and survival.
First published in 1990, this is the first text to offer a
goegraphicand regional study of venture capitalism. Although the
importance of this type of capitalism in creating and nurturing
small firms has long been recognized, it does not have a uniform
global character. Drawing on previously unused data, Green's book
offers a geographic comparison which displays the diverse forms of
venture capitalist markets from the well established to the newly
emerging and the rapidly dissapearing.
Originally published in 1990, this book is the first to provide an
in-depth examination of post-war North American merger activity
from the perspectives of both geography and industrial class. It
applies core periphery and resource dependency theories to analyse
an unprecedented quantity of merger data on both inter-city and
international levels. The book concludes with a detailed assessment
of the structure and efficacy of US penetration of the Canadian
economic system.
First published in 1997, this volume emerged in the wake of China's
Open Door policy. Qu and Green focus on the spatial aspects of
foreign direct investment within China. They aim to locate FDI
within a subnational context, with particular reference to the
Chinese experience between 1979 and 1993. Issues explored include
the philosophy, objectives and process of inducing FDI, the choice
of cities and the country of origin effect. Issues explored include
the philosophy, objectives and process of inducing FDI, the choice
of cities and the country of origin effect.
In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films
produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of
the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer
violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other
state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films
not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer
Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic
practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities.
Examining globally circulating international art films as well as
popular melodramas made for local audiences, Green-Simms emphasizes
that in these films queer resistance-contrary to traditional
narratives about resistance that center overt and heroic
struggle-is often practiced from a position of vulnerability. By
reading queer films alongside discussions about censorship and
audiences, Green-Simms renders queer African cinema as a rich
visual archive that documents the difficulty of queer existence as
well as the potentials for queer life-building and survival.
This title was first published in 2002. The interest in becoming
globally competitive through network strategies, particularly
networks between small and medium-sized firms in local business
communities, is high among academic researchers, economic
development agencies and growth orientated firms. Important
contributions to our understanding of the strategic use of networks
are coming from a number of disciplinary and theoretical
perspectives. This volume provides a unique opportunity to both
synthesize this diverse literature and report the results of
original research. It is particularly relevant to scholars of
business and management, geography and economics
This book provides facts and figures to show how fast fossil fuel
energy is being used up in the developed countries. It considers
the problems of feeding the population of the developing countries
to whom the expedient of using fossil fuel energy to boost food
production is not available.
First published in 1997, this volume emerged in the wake of China's
Open Door policy. Qu and Green focus on the spatial aspects of
foreign direct investment within China. They aim to locate FDI
within a subnational context, with particular reference to the
Chinese experience between 1979 and 1993. Issues explored include
the philosophy, objectives and process of inducing FDI, the choice
of cities and the country of origin effect. Issues explored include
the philosophy, objectives and process of inducing FDI, the choice
of cities and the country of origin effect.
This title was first published in 2002. The interest in becoming
globally competitive through network strategies, particularly
networks between small and medium-sized firms in local business
communities, is high among academic researchers, economic
development agencies and growth orientated firms. Important
contributions to our understanding of the strategic use of networks
are coming from a number of disciplinary and theoretical
perspectives. This volume provides a unique opportunity to both
synthesize this diverse literature and report the results of
original research. It is particularly relevant to scholars of
business and management, geography and economics
Repentance and conversion are key topics in New Testament
interpretation and in Christian life. However, the study of
conversion in early Christianity has been plagued by psychological
assumptions alien to the world of the New Testament. Leading New
Testament scholar Joel Green believes that careful attention to the
narrative of Luke-Acts calls for significant rethinking about the
nature of Christian conversion. Drawing on the cognitive sciences
and examining key evidence in Luke-Acts, this book emphasizes the
embodied nature of human life as it explores the life
transformation signaled by the message of conversion, offering a
new reading of a key aspect of New Testament theology.
Writing, reading, and interpretation are acts of human minds,
requiring complex cognition at every point. A relatively new field
of studies, cognitive linguistics, focuses on how language and
cognition are interconnected: Linguistic structures both shape
cognitive patterns and are shaped by them. The Cognitive
Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation section of the Society of
Biblical Literature gathers scholars interested in applying
cognitive linguistics to biblical studies, focusing on how language
makes meaning, how texts evoke authority, and how contemporary
readers interact with ancient texts. This collection of essays
represents first fruits from the first six years (2006-2012) of
that effort, drawing on cognitive metaphor study, mental spaces and
conceptual blending, narrative theory, and cognitive grammar.
Contributors include Eve Sweetser, Ellen van Wolde, Hugo Lundhaug
and Jesper T. Nielsen.
Linking the terms "rural" and "literacy" often conjures images of
deficit and improvement. This book takes a different approach,
unpacking both of these laden concepts in diverse national
contexts. It explores how people in many rural places understand
and experience what it means to be rural and the multiple ways that
exist of being literate, including ways that are linked to and
situated in a particular place and conception of that place. The
chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range
of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and
pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and
complex representations of rurality that challenge simplistic
conceptions of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined
world beyond the metropolis.
The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide
range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices
and pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and
representations of rurality that challenge simplistic conceptions
of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined world beyond the
metropolis.
Thomas Hardy frequently insisted that his poems were not
self-expressive, but dramatic or 'impersonative'. Yet biographical
expositions have dulled their impersonality. Brian Green's approach
is more exacting and rewarding; taking Hardy at his word, he traces
Hardy's 'master theme' throughout the corpus of poems - a governing
concern which merges Victorian and perennial ideas throughout the
whole of Hardy's writings.
Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to
connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set
of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on
the Revised Common Lectionary. For each worship day within the
three-year lectionary cycle, the commentaries in Connections link
the individual lection reading with Scripture as a whole as well as
to the larger world. In addition, Connections places each Psalm
reading in conversation with the other lections for the day to
highlight the themes of the liturgical season. Finally, sidebars
offer additional connections to Scripture for each Sunday or
worship day. This nine-volume series is a practical, constructive,
and valuable resource for preachers who seek to help congregations
connect more closely with Scripture.
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