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The Farm

by Max Annas ...

Translated by Rachel Hildebrandt Reynolds ...

Series series Catalyst International Crime Series
Eight Hours. Minute by Minute.Somewhere in South Africa, a farm comes under heavy attack. No shooters in sight. Only one thing is certain: The attackers are savagely resolute. A diverse group of people barricade themselves inside the farmhouse: black and white; women, men, and children; bosses and workers; a police officer; random visitors. Who is the target of the attack? What has motivated it? ... Read more

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Eight Hours. Minute by Minute.Somewhere in South Africa, a farm comes under heavy attack. No shooters in sight. Only one thing is certain: The attackers are savagely resolute. A diverse group of people barricade themselves inside the farmhouse: black and white; women, men, and children; bosses and workers; a police officer; random visitors. Who is the target of the attack? What has motivated it?
... Read more
The Wall

by Max Annas ...

Translated by Rachel Hildebrandt Reynolds ...

Series series Catalyst International Crime Series
Winner of the 2017 German Crime Fiction PrizeMoses wants one thing: to get home, where his girlfriend and a cold beer are waiting for him. But his car breaks down on an empty street, not a single human being in sight. Moses slips into The Pines, a gated community, in hopes to find help from a university classmate who lives there. Over there, in the “white” world, everything seems calm, orderly, ... Read more

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Winner of the 2017 German Crime Fiction PrizeMoses wants one thing: to get home, where his girlfriend and a cold beer are waiting for him. But his car breaks down on an empty street, not a single human being in sight. Moses slips into The Pines, a gated community, in hopes to find help from a university classmate who lives there. Over there, in the “white” world, everything seems calm, orderly,
... Read more

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Wall, The

by Max Annas ...

Narrated by Boise Holmes ...

Unabridged

5 hours 27 min

Winner of the 2017 German Crime Fiction PrizeMoses wants one thing: to get home, where his girlfriend and a cold beer are waiting for him. But his car breaks down on an empty street, not a single human being in sight. Moses slips into The Pines, a gated community, in hopes to find help from a university classmate who lives there. Over there, in the “white” world, everything seems calm, orderly, ... Read more

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Winner of the 2017 German Crime Fiction PrizeMoses wants one thing: to get home, where his girlfriend and a cold beer are waiting for him. But his car breaks down on an empty street, not a single human being in sight. Moses slips into The Pines, a gated community, in hopes to find help from a university classmate who lives there. Over there, in the “white” world, everything seems calm, orderly,
... Read more

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Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute

Updated Edition

by Hamish Bowles, Chloe Malle ...

An updated and expanded edition, covering the past five years of the Met Costume Institute’s exhibitions and galas through the lens of VogueThe Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibition is the most prestigious of its kind, featuring subjects that both reflect the zeitgeist and contribute to its creation. Each exhibition—from 2005’s Chanel to 2011’s Alexander McQueen: ... Read more

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An updated and expanded edition, covering the past five years of the Met Costume Institute’s exhibitions and galas through the lens of VogueThe Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibition is the most prestigious of its kind, featuring subjects that both reflect the zeitgeist and contribute to its creation. Each exhibition—from 2005’s Chanel to 2011’s Alexander McQueen:
... Read more
The Aftershock Review

Issue 3

Edited by Max Wallis, Dr Anna Percy, Suzi Feay ...

Series Book 3 - The Aftershock Review
The Aftershock Review: Issue Three is bigger, stranger, riskier and more tender: a major new issue from the poetry magazine described by The Guardian as “a jolt to the mainstream.” Featuring an ambitious range of established and emerging poets, Issue Three moves through grief, illness, recovery, addiction, queerness, class, desire, ecological dread, family, survival and the unstable architectures ... Read more

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The Aftershock Review: Issue Three is bigger, stranger, riskier and more tender: a major new issue from the poetry magazine described by The Guardian as “a jolt to the mainstream.” Featuring an ambitious range of established and emerging poets, Issue Three moves through grief, illness, recovery, addiction, queerness, class, desire, ecological dread, family, survival and the unstable architectures
... Read more
Artificial Intelligence in Religious Practice

Bots, Robots, and Generative AI

Edited by Max Tretter, Marcel Scholz, Anna Puzio, Jonas Simmerlein ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Artificial Intelligence has entered religious contexts. This edited volume focuses on AI as it is developed for religious settings and increasingly embedded in concrete religious practices. It offers an interdisciplinary and interreligious perspective on a rapidly evolving field.Technically oriented contributions provide insights into the development of specific AI tools for religious applications ... Read more

$116.09 USD

Artificial Intelligence has entered religious contexts. This edited volume focuses on AI as it is developed for religious settings and increasingly embedded in concrete religious practices. It offers an interdisciplinary and interreligious perspective on a rapidly evolving field.Technically oriented contributions provide insights into the development of specific AI tools for religious applications
... Read more
Soaking the Middle Class

Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster

by Anna Rhodes, Max Besbris ...

Extreme weather is increasing in scale and severity as global warming worsens. While poorer communities are typically most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, even well-resourced communities are increasingly vulnerable as climate-related storms intensify. Yet little is known about how middle-class communities are responding to these storms and the resulting damage. In Soaking the ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Extreme weather is increasing in scale and severity as global warming worsens. While poorer communities are typically most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, even well-resourced communities are increasingly vulnerable as climate-related storms intensify. Yet little is known about how middle-class communities are responding to these storms and the resulting damage. In Soaking the
... Read more
Gaze Regimes

Film and feminisms in Africa

Edited by Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Max Annas, Beti Ellerson, Henriette Gunkel ...

Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is
... Read more
Art and Society 1972–2022–2072

From the Art for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 to Artistic Design Concepts of the Twenty-First Century

by Anton Biebl, Elisabeth Hartung, Tanja Baar, Britto Arts Trust, Michael Buhrs, Alice Creischer, Clémentine Deliss, Maurin Dietrich, Thomas Eller0, Jasmine Ellis1, Rebekka Endler2, Sagal Farah3, Laszlo Glozer4, Anna Heringer5, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz6, Christian Kandzia7, Larissa Kikol8, Christine Sun Kim9, Alexander Kluge0, Jakob Lena Knebl1, Barbara Könches2, Michael Lentz3, Anna-Angela Libal4, Julienne Lorz5, M+M6, Goshka Macuga7, Thomas Mader8, Marny Garcia Mommertz9, Barbara Mundel0, Catherine Nichols1, Angelika Nollert2, Hans Ulrich Obrist3, Britta Peters4, Raumfragen Neuperlach5, raumlaborberlin6, Lorena Herrera Rashid7, Hanno Rauterberg8, Pedro Reyes9, Kay Schiller0, Rüdiger Schöttle1, Mareike Schwarz2, Elisabeth Spieker3, Daniela Stöppel4, Heinz Schütz5, Tobias Staab6, Matthias Stadler7, Gerfried Stocker8, Jana Kerima Stolzer9, Corinna Thierolf0, Joanna Warsza1, Manfred Weihe2, Susanne Witzgall3, Miriam Zadoff4, Cao Yu5, Lucas Zwirner6, Studio Pandan, Berlin7 ...

Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to unfold its potential as an emancipatory and creative force as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich—according to the grand vision of its planners. The international avant-garde of the time, including Walter de Maria, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Dan Flavin, ... Read more

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Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to unfold its potential as an emancipatory and creative force as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich—according to the grand vision of its planners. The international avant-garde of the time, including Walter de Maria, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Dan Flavin,
... Read more
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Jews, God, and History

by Max I. Dimont ...

Narrated by Anna Fields ...

Unabridged

17 hours 53 min

Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and modern Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.Brilliantly narrated in a thousand and one episodes, ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and modern Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.Brilliantly narrated in a thousand and one episodes,
... Read more

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Tyranny and Music

by Beau Bothwell, Daniel Guberman, Mei Han, Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis, Jessica Loranger, Max Noubel, Anna Oldfield, James Parsons, Brent Wetters, Molly Williams, Sienna M. Wood, Thomas Kernan ...

Tyranny and Music is an edited collection of essays that explore how musical artists respond to cruel or oppressive governments and ruling regimes. Its primary strength and unique quality lies in its diversity, presenting a postmodern collage of scholarship that reaches across the divides of classical, popular and traditional musics just as it connects musical resistance of the past with the ... Read more

$105.99 USD

Tyranny and Music is an edited collection of essays that explore how musical artists respond to cruel or oppressive governments and ruling regimes. Its primary strength and unique quality lies in its diversity, presenting a postmodern collage of scholarship that reaches across the divides of classical, popular and traditional musics just as it connects musical resistance of the past with the
... Read more

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The Indestructible Jews

by Max I. Dimont ...

Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

Unabridged

16 hours 49 min

From the author of Jews, God, and History, this comprehensive history of the Jewish people is "an epic drama, searching and nobly conceived" (Publishers Weekly).A compelling account of the four-thousand-year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path of the Jews ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

From the author of Jews, God, and History, this comprehensive history of the Jewish people is "an epic drama, searching and nobly conceived" (Publishers Weekly).A compelling account of the four-thousand-year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path of the Jews
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

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