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37 studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe
over1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process. In
Europe, the cross went north and east as the centuries unrolled:
from the Dingle Peninsula to Estonia, and from the Alps to Lapland,
ranging in time from Roman Britain and Gaul in the third and fourth
centuries to the conversion of peoples in the Baltic area a
thousand years later. These episodes of conversion form the basic
narrative here. History encourages the belief that the adoption of
Christianity was somehow irresistible, but specialists show
theunderside of the process by turning the spotlight from the
missionaries, who recorded their triumphs, to the converted,
exploring their local situations and motives. What were the
reactions of the northern peoples to the Christian message? Why
would they wish to adopt it for the sake of its alliances? In what
way did they adapt the Christian ethos and infrastructure to suit
their own community? How did conversion affect the status of
farmers, of smiths, of princes and of women? Was society wholly
changed, or only in marginal matters of devotion and superstition?
These are the issues discussed here by thirty-eight experts from
across northern Europe; some answers come from astute re-readings
of the texts alone, but most are owed to a combination of history,
art history and archaeology working together. MARTIN CARVER is
Professor of Archaeology, University of York.
'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times 'A defiant
call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its
final page' Morning Star 'A skilful act of literary witness, sharp,
moving and funny' Joanne Limburg 'Christoph Keller ... ranks among
the great Swiss writers' Neue Zurcher Zeitung Most stories of
disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. Life
After Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his
childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only
revealed what had been with him since birth. SMA III, the 'kindest
one', allows those who have it to live a long life, and it
progresses slowly. There is no cure. By the age of 25, he had to
use a wheelchair some of the time. 'There were two of me: Walking
Me. Rolling Me.' By 32, he could still walk into a restaurant with
a cane or on somebody's arm. At 45, 'Rolling Me' took over
altogether. Intimate, absurdist and winningly frank, Every Cripple
a Superhero is at once a memoir of life with a progressive
disorder, and a profound exploration of the challenges of loving,
being loved, and living a public life - navigating restaurants,
aeroplanes, museums and artists' retreats - in a world not designed
for you. Threaded throughout are Keller's own photographs of the
unexpected beauty found in puddle-filled 'curb cuts', the pavement
ramps that, left to disintegrate, form part of the urban obstacle
course. Those puddles become portals into a different, truer city;
and, as they do, so this book - told with humour and immense grace
- begins to uncover a truer world: one where the 'normal' is not
normal, where disability is far more widespread than we might
think, and where there always exist, just alongside our own, the
lives of everyday superheroes.
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The Essential June Jordan (Paperback)
Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller; Introduction by Jericho Brown; June Jordan
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The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . .
the universal poet' (Alice Walker) For the poet and activist June
Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled
from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a living,
breathing history of the struggles that defined the USA in the
latter half of the twentieth century; and her poetry, accordingly,
put its dazzling stylistic range to use in exploring issues of
gender, race, immigration, representation and much else besides.
Here, above all, are sinuous, lashing and passionate lines,
virtuosic in their musicality and always bearing the stamp of
Jordan's irrepressible personality. Here are poems of suffusing
light and profound anger: poems moved as much by political animus
as by a deep love for the observation of human life in all its
foibles, eccentricities, strengths and weaknesses. With a foreword
by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, The Essential June Jordan
allows new readers to discover - and old fans to rediscover - the
vital work of this endlessly surprising poet who, in the words of
Adrienne Rich, believed that 'genuine, up-from-the-bottom
revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the
widest possible human referentiality.'
'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times 'A defiant
call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its
final page' Morning Star 'A skilful act of literary witness, sharp,
moving and funny' Joanne Limburg 'Christoph Keller ... ranks among
the great Swiss writers' Neue ZĂźrcher Zeitung Most stories of
disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. Life
After Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his
childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only
revealed what had been with him since birth. SMA III, the 'kindest
one', allows those who have it to live a long life, and it
progresses slowly. There is no cure. By the age of 25, he had to
use a wheelchair some of the time. 'There were two of me: Walking
Me. Rolling Me.' By 32, he could still walk into a restaurant with
a cane or on somebody's arm. At 45, 'Rolling Me' took over
altogether. Intimate, absurdist and winningly frank, Every Cripple
a Superhero is at once a memoir of life with a progressive
disorder, and a profound exploration of the challenges of loving,
being loved, and living a public life - navigating restaurants,
aeroplanes, museums and artists' retreats - in a world not designed
for you. Threaded throughout are Keller's own photographs of the
unexpected beauty found in puddle-filled 'curb cuts', the pavement
ramps that, left to disintegrate, form part of the urban obstacle
course. Those puddles become portals into a different, truer city;
and, as they do, so this book - told with humour and immense grace
- begins to uncover a truer world: one where the 'normal' is not
normal, where disability is far more widespread than we might
think, and where there always exist, just alongside our own, the
lives of everyday superheroes.
Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the
Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol,
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and
Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana
Tolstaya and the recent Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich.
There is no similar one-volume collection of the best of the
Russian greats in English. Women writers are particularly well
represented and predominate in the last fifty years; also included
is a story by the recently rediscovered Teffi, who was widely
hailed a century ago in Russia as 'the female Chekhov'.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Gallia Discors In Causa Pietistico-mystica Johann Wolfgang
Jager, Johann Christoph Keller Reis, 1715
From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle';
from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John
Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected
here attest to humankind's long and joyous (mostly) relationship
with the world's most popular alcoholic beverage. A surprising
number of authors, and perhaps some surprising authors, have added
their tributes to the brew. Here, to name but a few, we find
Charles Baudelaire, John Betjamen, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht,
Raymond Carver, Amy Clampitt, Emily Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin,
Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, Eric Idle, E. Nesbit, Flann
O'Brien, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Arthur RImbaud, Rumi and Hank
WIlliams, all rather less than sober. Unsurprisingly, 'Anon.' is
widely represented, in particularly exuberant spirits. There are
recipes, and hangovers (inevitably); there's singing ... a hymn to
NInkasi, ancient Sumerian goddess of beer, Prohibition protest
songs and old English drinking catches; there is philosophy (of a
sort), and consolation. Whether pulling up at the celestial bar in
Keats's 'Mermaid Tavern' or at the grittier, jazzier one in Carl
Sandburg's 'Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio', lovers of beer and
poetry are sure to find something to celebrate in these pages.
Inhaltlich unveranderte Neuauflage. Die uberdurchschnittlichen
Misserfolgsquoten bei ICT-Projekten verstarken den Ruf nach
neuartigen und alternativen Betrachtungs- und Denkweisen im
Projektmanagement. Tools, um harte" Erfolgsfaktoren zu planen und
zu evaluieren, gibt es bereits wie Sand am Meer. Kein
professioneller Software-Entwickler hat nicht wenigstens einige
solcher Tools im Einsatz. Doch wie sieht es mit den weichen"
Erfolgsfaktoren aus? Dieses Buch beschaftigt sich mit der
Visualisierung sozialer Erfolgsfaktoren in ICT-Projekten. In einem
ersten theoretischen Teil werden bestehende Methoden vorgestellt,
mit denen soziale Erfolgsfaktoren gemessen werden. In einem zweiten
praxisorientierten Teil zeigt der Autor auf, wie die bestehende
MIO-Lernumgebung des Schwerpunktes mensch informatik organisation
der Universitat Zurich um ein zusatzliches Tool erweitert wurde.
Mit Hilfe dieses Tool konnen in einem Projektteam soziale
Erfolgsfaktoren definiert, erfasst und visualisiert sowie auf der
Grundlage eines systemischen Ansatzes gezielte Interventionen
getatigt werden. Das Buch richtet sich primar an
Projektverantwortliche und -coaches fur den ICT-Bereich, welche
eine alternative Betrachtungsweise im Team- und Projektmanagement
kennen lernen mochten, aber auch an Projektmanager aus anderen
Bereichen.
Dokument aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich P dagogik - Wissenschaft,
Theorie, Anthropologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Dieses
Dokument richtet sich an alle, die in irgend einer Form mit der
Waldorfschule zu tun haben oder hatten: An Menschen, die p
dagogisch t tig sind, waren oder werden wollen, an Sch ler,
Absolventen und Eltern, die ihre Kinder in die Waldorfschule
geschickt haben oder noch schicken wollen, an alle, die selbst
Schwierigkeiten mit der Erziehung durch die Waldorfschule hatten
oder noch haben, aber auch an alle, die den Mut und das Interesse
haben, berlieferte und bernommene Inhalte aus Religion und
Philosophie daraufhin zu pr fen, in wie weit sie mit der
Wirklichkeit, auf die sie sich beziehen, bereinstimmen.
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