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My Work (Paperback)
Olga Ravn; Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell
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R520
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Discovery Miles 4 370
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After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move
to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to
completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online
news and compulsively buys clothes she canât afford. To avoid
sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and
write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental
experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms â
fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters â to explore the
relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and
literature.
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Thread Ripper (Paperback)
Amalie Smith; Translated by Jennifer Russell
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R389
R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
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An artist in her thirties weaves and unravels connections between
the loom and the computer, DNA and technology, dreams and decisions
Thread Ripper is a multi-strand novel about weaving, women, and
programming. In Copenhagen, a tapestry-weaver embarks on her first
big commission, a digitally woven tapestry. As she works, she draws
illuminating connections between all the stuff that life is made
from - DNA, plant tissue, algorithms, text and textile - and that
which disrupts it - radiation, pests, entropy and doubt. In another
strand, we follow Ada Lovelace, the 1830s mathematician and pioneer
of computer programming. And Penelope, the faithful wife of
Odysseus, who wove and unpicked a shroud to put off her 108
suitors. Contemplative yet clear-sighted, Amalie Smith's hybrid
textile of a novel bares the aching but crucial interwovenness of
art and life.
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The Dolls (Paperback)
Ursula Scavenius; Translated by Jennifer Russell
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R381
R315
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In the four stories that make up The Dolls, characters are plagued
by unexplained illnesses and oblique, human-made disasters and
environmental losses. A big sister descends into the family
basement. Another sister refuses her younger brother. A third
sister with memory loss is on the run, seeking shelter at Notpla. A
fourth set of siblings travel to Hungary with their late mother in
a coffin. They each have a different version of their mother's
story. Drawing on the likes of August Strindberg, Franz Kafka,
Andrej Kurkov, Knut Hamsun, T.S. Eliot, Bela Tarr, and Hieronymus
Bosch, Scavenius's universe is chilling and excruciatingly
seductive. In it, nothing can be said to be true anymore. After
all, anything can be propaganda today.
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Marble (Paperback)
Amalie Smith; Translated by Jennifer Russell
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Discovery Miles 3 150
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Recently unearthed from the ground, Marble leaves her new lover in
Copenhagen and travels to Athens. The city is overflowing with
colour, steam and fragrance, cats cry like babies at night, the
economic crisis is raging. In this volatile landscape, Marble
grasps the world by exploring its immediate surfaces. Capturing
specks of colour on ancient sculptures in the Acropolis Museum with
an infrared camera, she simultaneously traces the pioneering
sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, who spent several months in the
same place 110 years earlier. Far away from her husband and
children, Carl-Nielsen showed that Archaic sculptures were
originally painted in bright colours - a feat which meant defying
Victorian gender roles and jeopardising her marriage. Sensuous and
electric, yet admirably forensic in its approach to mineral life,
Marble is a galvanizing novel about the materials life is made of,
about korai and sponge diving, about looking and looking again,
written in a spare and pellucid style.
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My Work
Olga Ravn; Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell
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R514
R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move
to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to
completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and
compulsively orders clothes she canât afford. To avoid sinking
deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write.
My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of
giving birth, mixing different literary formsâfiction, essay,
poetry, memoir, and lettersâto explore the relationship between
motherhood, work, individuality, and literature.âOlga Ravn writes
dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of writing.
Reading Ravnâs book, you run through the whole gamut of human
emotion, as though you too were a new mother: tears, laughter,
anger, fear, pain, frustration. This is powerful writing thatâs
hard to put down.ââPolitiken
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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Discovery (Paperback)
Jennifer Russell
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R392
Discovery Miles 3 920
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My story 'Her Place Was With God', was written for you and for me.
I wrote it for my kids, my grandkids, my mom, my dad's, my sisters
and brothers and for all of my family and friends as a whole. I
wrote it for you and your neighbor and for the family who had one
of their loved ones come home from war and their heart is broke
when they are so angry and torn up inside that slowly and loudly
the abuse is everywhere. It's about you or someone you love or all
of the others we don't know who are growing up in a world of drug
use. It's a part of their everyday life and they know no different
or for the young teenager alone and scared. He or she is offered to
get high and a warm place to sleep and food to eat in exchange for
the un-mentionable. It's for the family whose sole provider lost
their job because of cut backs or gets hurt at work and is laid
off. Money is hard and moods change, relationships grow weary and
trust fades. Abuse, any and all types, physical, sexual, verbal,
emotional and drug abuse can happen in these families and in
anyone's home, in many different ways. When someone is abused it
will always be a part of you, but with God it doesn't have to
define who you are as a person or what you can accomplish in your
life.
"This recipe book is a must-have for every vegan, and is also a
terrific gift for your not-quite-yet vegan friends. Beautiful,
simple, and fun--highly recommended." - Dr. Will Tuttle, author of
#1 Amazon best-seller The World Peace Diet Recipes From The Kitchen
Of A Self-Proclaimed Veganista is designed for the home-chef in
mind, whether you are a diehard vegan or a carnivore looking for
more plant-centric recipes to incorporate into your daily regime.
With veganism on the rise, being vegan and staying vegan gets
easier every day, and it doesn't have to be flavorless or boring.
The majority of the ingredients in this book are staples that can
be found just about everywhere. Every recipe has been tested and
tried by many different groups of people, so you know they will
work. There is also a full-color photo for nearly every recipe, so
there will be no surprises as to what the end product is supposed
to look like.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich BWL - Personal und
Organisation, Hochschule Fresenius; Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch,
Abstract: Wenn Menschen zusammentreffen, fallen sie Urteile.
Beurteilt wird immer - im Berufs- sowie auch im Privatleben. Dies
geschieht auch ohne ein vorheriges Beurteilungstraining und ohne
bewussten Entschluss. Menschen beurteilen oft schon in den ersten
30 Sekunden eines Treffens und bilden ihr erstes Urteil uber ihr
Gegenuber. Dabei hilft dem Menschen ein schnelles Urteil sich in
seiner Umgebung zu orientieren und zurechtzufinden. Wir sind dabei
vielen Eindrucken ausgesetzt, begegnen jeden Tag zahlreichen
Menschen - sozusagen gehort es zur psychologischen
Grundausstattung, andere einzuschatzen, um eventuelle Gefahren fur
sich selbst erkennen zu konnen. Diese Urteile haben weitreichende
Konsequenzen. Erscheint uns jemand als gefahrlich, werden wir das
Verhalten andern. Weckt dabei jemand unser Interesse, werden wir
uns ihm zuwenden und uns langer mit ihm beschaftigen. Erscheint uns
diese Person jedoch gleich unsympathisch, so wird es derjenige
schwer haben, den schlechten ersten Eindruck wieder wett zu machen.
In den meisten aller bundesdeutschen Unternehmen werden regelmassig
Mitarbeiterbeurteilungen durchgefuhrt. Diese haben gerade fur die
Betroffenen weitreichende Konsequenzen, entscheiden die Urteile
doch uber Einstellungen, Gehalt, Forderung und weiteres Fortkommen
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich VWL - Makrookonomie,
allgemein, Note: 1.7, Fachhochschule fur Wirtschaft Berlin,
Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit geht es um die
Zusammenhange und Auswirkungen der Globalisierung in der heutigen
Zeit, die auf irgendeine Art und Weise den gesamten Globus
betreffen - sei es beispielsweise durch die Industrialisierung, die
globale Ausweitung von Handelsbeziehungen oder die Umweltbelastung
und -zerstorung durch den Schadstoffausstoss oder die Abholzung der
Regenwalder zur Gewinnung von Holz
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Informatik -
Wirtschaftsinformatik, Note: 1.7, Fachhochschule fur Wirtschaft
Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit geht es
vor allem um die Strategie, die Microsoft verfolgt, um so
erfolgreich auf dem internationalen Markt zu sein. Ferner werden
die Begriffe IIS, BIS, ERP etc. erlautert. Zusatzlich findet eine
Abgrenzung zu anderen Firmen, wie SAP oder Oracle statt.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Personal und
Organisation, Note: 1,7, Fachhochschule fur Wirtschaft Berlin, 40
Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der
deutsche Arbeitsmarkt ist mit einer Veranderung der
wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen konfrontiert und befindet sich
in einem grundlegenden Wandel. Es vollzieht sich eine Verschiebung
des traditionellen Rollenverstandnisses von Frau und Mann: Frauen
drangen zunehmend auf den Arbeitsmarkt und Manner interessieren
sich vermehrt fur die Elternzeit, um das Aufwachsen ihrer Kinder
intensiv miterleben zu konnen. Fur Deutschland als
Hochtechnologiestandort ist es besonders wichtig, die langfristige
Sicherung der internationalen Wettbewerbsfahigkeit zu gewahrleisten
und somit alle vorhandenen Ressourcen des Arbeitsmarktes zu
erschliessen und sinnvoll zu nutzen. Zukunftsdenkende Unternehmen
sehen eine Chance darin, die Unterschiedlichkeit der Geschlechter
auch auf der Fuhrungsebene abzubilden. Dabei ist es unumganglich
geworden neue Wege zu gehen und Potentiale extern sowie intern
aufzudecken und zu fordern. Viele Unternehmen behaupten von sich:
"Bei uns werden alle Mitarbeiter gleich behandelt." Allerdings wird
diese Aussage mittlerweile von der Mehrheit der Bevolkerung nicht
mehr ernst genommen, da es fur ein Unternehmen nach wie vor einen
gravierenden Unterschied macht, ob es sich um einen weiblichen oder
mannlichen Arbeitnehmer handelt. Um diesen Unterschieden
langfristig entgegenzuwirken, muss die Unternehmensleitung die
Problematik erkennen und sich diese zu Nutze machen. Konkret
bedeutet das fur die Belegschaft: gleiche politische Rechte,
gleicher Lohn, gleiche Bildungschancen, gleiches Recht auf
Kindererziehung und Familienarbeit fur Frau und Mann
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