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BIS DASS DER TOD EUCH SCHEIDET: ENDLICH IST DER METZGER ZURÜCK
Danjela – eine Wankelmütige? Die Danjela, das ist eine, die Licht ins Leben anderer Menschen bringen kann. So wie in das ihres Willibald, der ihr endlich den langersehnten Antrag gemacht hat. Seine Holde plant ein Fest mit großem Tamtam und quartiert ihn vor der Hochzeit aus der Wohnung aus, «weil steigert Vorfreude und Spannung!» Doch dann, kurz vor dem Ja-Wort, ist es plötzlich vorbei mit der Romantik: Ein bedrohlich aussehender Kerl betritt die Kirche. Danjela lässt den erstarrten Willibald vor dem Altar stehen – und verschwindet. Der Metzger fällt in ein tiefes Loch. Nur der Gedanke, dass sie vielleicht einen guten Grund für ihr Verschwinden hatte, dass sie ihn möglicherweise sogar schützen wollte, lässt ihn weitermachen. Die verzweifelte Suche nach Danjela führt den Metzger gar nicht so weit weg, und doch in eine völlig andere Welt: hinein in die erbarmungslosen Machenschaften eines hiesigen Familienclans, mit dem Danjela ganz offenbar in irgendeiner Art von Verbindung steht. Und als hätte der Metzger nicht schon genug Probleme, taucht auch noch ein Kopfloser auf und bereitet ihm Kopfzerbrechen …
Der Metzger – ein Original Der Metzger, das ist einer, der alte Dinge liebt. Als Restaurator kennt er die Schönheit eines Gegenstands, wenn dessen abgenutzte Oberfläche eine Geschichte erzählt. Er ist einer, der gerne allein ist, manchmal allerdings war er auch einsam, bevor Danjela in sein Leben trat und es heller und schöner machte. Er ist einer, der in der Schule gemobbt wurde, weil er zu klug und zu weich war für die wilden Bubenspiele am Pausenhof. Einer, der gerne Rotwein trinkt, mitunter viel zu viel. Doch auch, wenn mit dem Wein manchmal die Melancholie kommt, weiß er um die schönen Seiten des Lebens. Und um die lustigen. Vor allem aber ist der Metzger einer, dem das Verbrechen immer wieder vor die Füße fällt, manchmal stolpert er sogar mitten hinein. Und dann muss er, sehr zu seinem Leidwesen, aber zur Freude einer großen Leserschaft, die gemütliche Werkstatt verlassen und Nachforschungen anstellen …
Der Raab – ein Kultautor Der Raab, das ist einer, der einen unverwechselbaren Stil hat. Schräger Humor, authentische Charaktere, Wortwitz, feine Gesellschaftskritik; vor allem eine extrem gute Beobachtungsgabe und zugleich die Fähigkeit, die Beobachtungen treffend-komisch aufs Papier zu bannen, das ist die Mischung, die ihn so erfolgreich gemacht hat. Beim Lesen ist es zuweilen schwer zu entscheiden, ob man gespannt der Auflösung entgegenfiebern oder sich lieber doch möglichst viel Zeit lassen möchte, um das Lesevergnügen voll auszukosten. Und vielseitig ist er, der Raab – er schreibt nicht nur verschiedene Kriminalromane, sondern auch Drehbücher. Mit «Die Djurkovic und ihr Metzger» holt er seinen außergewöhnlichen Helden Willibald Adrian Metzger zurück auf die Krimibühne – und brilliert einmal mehr: wortwitzig, überraschend, klug, einfach genial!
**************************************************************************** "Zum Glück hat das Warten ein Ende! Ich liebe und lese alles von Thomas Raab und habe dem neuen Metzger lange entgegengefiebert."
"Keiner kann es wie der Raab, er beutelt einen zwischen Tränen und Freudentränen, nimmt einen mit auf einen emotionalen Ritt durch spannende Kriminalfälle, hochkomische Beobachtungen und ins Seelenleben seiner zutiefst sympathischen Figuren."
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The Digital Edge
How black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate onlineThe Digital Edge examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. While notions of the digital divide between the “technology rich” and the “technology poor” have largely focused on access to new media technologies, the contours of the digital divide have grown increasingly complex. Analyzing data from a year‐long ethnographic study at Freeway High School, the authors investigate how the digital media ecologies and practices of black and Latino youth have adapted as a result of the wider diffusion of the internet all around us–in homes, at school, and in the palm of our hands. Their eager adoption of different technologies forge new possibilities for learning and creating that recognize the collective power of youth: peer networks, inventive uses of technology, and impassioned interests that are remaking the digital world.Relying on nearly three hundred in-depth interviews with students, teachers, and parents, and hundreds of hours of observation in technology classes and after school programs, The Digital Edge carefully documents some of the emergent challenges for creating a more equitable digital and educational future. Focusing on the complex interactions between race, class, gender, geography and social inequality, the book explores the educational perils and possibilities of the expansion of digital media into the lives and learning environments of low-income youth. Ultimately, the book addresses how schools can support the ability of students to develop the social, technological, and educational skills required to navigate twenty-first century life.
Affinity Online
How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people Boyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affinity networks, Affinity Online considers how young people have found new opportunities for expanded learning in the digital age. These cases reveal the shared characteristics and unique cultures and practices of different online affinity networks, and how they support “connected learning”—learning that brings together youth interests, social activity, and accomplishment in civic, academic, and career relevant arenas. Although involvement in online communities is an established fixture of growing up in the networked age, participation in these spaces show how young people are actively taking up new media for their own engaged learning and social development.While providing a wealth of positive examples for how the online world provides new opportunities for learning, the book also examines the ways in which these communities still reproduce inequalities based on gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The book concludes with a set of concrete suggestions for how the positive learning opportunities offered by online communities could be made available to more young people, at school and at home. Affinity Online explores how online practices and networks bridge the divide between in-school and out-of-school learning, finding that online affinity networks are creating new spaces of opportunity for realizing the ideals of connected learning.
Out of Work
Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself. An Independent Institute Book
Transformation of Rage
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones.
To Be An American
The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was founded. In clear, precise terms, Bill Ong Hing considers immigration in the context of the global economy, a sluggish national economy, and the hard facts about downsizing. Importantly, he also confronts the emphatic claims of immigrant supporters that immigrants do assimilate, take jobs that native workers don't want, and contribute more to the tax coffers than they take out of the system. A major contribution of Hing's book is its emphasis on such often-overlooked issues as the competition between immigrants and African Americans, inter-group tension, and ethnic separatism, issues constantly brushed aside both by immigrant rights groups and the anti-immigrant right. Drawing on Hing's work as a lawyer deeply involved in the day-to-day life of his immigrant clients, To Be An American is a unique blend of substantive analysis, policy, and personal experience.
This Time We Knew
We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images, from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the parties and individuals responsible for the current Balkan War and crimes against humanity. The stories, often accompanied by video or pictures of rape, torture, mass graves, and ethnic cleansing, available almost instantaneously, do not allow even the most uninterested viewer to ignore the grim reality of genocide. And yet, while information abounds, so do rationalizations for non-intervention in Balkan affairs – the threshold of real genocide has yet to be reached in Bosnia; all sides are equally guilty; Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia is a threat to the West; it will only end when they all tire of killing each other – to name but a few. In This Time We Knew , Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Mestrovic have put together a collection of critical, reflective, essays that offer detailed sociological, political, and historical analyses of western responses to the war. This volume punctures once and for all common excuses for Western inaction. This Time We Knew further reveals the reasons why these rationalizations have persisted and led to the West's failure to intercede, in the face of incontrovertible evidence, in the most egregious crimes against humanity to occur in Europe since World War II.Contributors to the volume include Kai Erickson, Jean Baudrillard, Mark Almond, David Riesman, Daniel Kofman, Brendan Simms, Daniele Conversi, Brad Kagan Blitz, James J. Sadkovich, and Sheri Fink.
The Truth About Freud's Technique
In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that has been fractured by our avoidance of the same. Thompson suggests that, while avoiding reality may help to relieve our experience of suffering, this short-term solution inevitably leads to a split in our existence. M. Guy Thompson forcefully disagrees with the recent trend that dismisses Freud as an historical figure who is out of step with the times. He argues, instead, for a return to the forgotten Freud, a man inherently philosophical and rooted in a Greek preoccupation with the nature of truth, ethics, the purpose of life and our relationship with reality. Thompson's argument is situated in a stunning re-reading of Freud's technical papers, including a new evaluation of his analyses of Dora and the Rat Man in the context of Heidegger's understanding of truth. In this remarkable examination of Freud's technical recommendations, M. Guy Thompson explains how psychoanalysis was originally designed to re-acquaint us with realities we had abandoned by encountering them in the contest of the analytic experience. This provocative examination of Freud's conception of psychoanalysis reveals a more personal Freud than we had previously supposed, one that is more humanistic and real.
The Smart Culture
What exactly is intelligence? Is it social achievement? Professional success? Is it common sense? Or the number on an IQ test? Interweaving engaging narratives with dramatic case studies, Robert L. Hayman, Jr., has written a history of intelligence that will forever change the way we think about who is smart and who is not. To give weight to his assertion that intelligence is not simply an inherent characteristic but rather one which reflects the interests and predispositions of those doing the measuring, Hayman traces numerous campaigns to classify human intelligence. His tour takes us through the early craniometric movement, eugenics, the development of the IQ, Spearman's «general» intelligence, and more recent works claiming a genetic basis for intelligence differences. What Hayman uncovers is the maddening irony of intelligence: that «scientific» efforts to reduce intelligence to a single, ordinal quantity have persisted–and at times captured our cultural imagination–not because of their scientific legitimacy, but because of their longstanding political appeal. The belief in a natural intellectual order was pervasive in «scientific» and «political» thought both at the founding of the Republic and throughout its nineteenth-century Reconstruction. And while we are today formally committed to the notion of equality under the law, our culture retains its central belief in the natural inequality of its members. Consequently, Hayman argues, the promise of a genuine equality can be realized only when the mythology of «intelligence» is debunked–only, that is, when we recognize the decisive role of culture in defining intelligence and creating intelligence differences. Only culture can give meaning to the statement that one person– or one group–is smarter than another. And only culture can provide our motivation for saying it. With a keen wit and a sharp eye, Hayman highlights the inescapable contradictions that arise in a society committed both to liberty and to equality and traces how the resulting tensions manifest themselves in the ways we conceive of identity, community, and merit.
The Prostitution of Sexuality
In 1979, Kathleen Barry's landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, pulled back the curtain on a world of abuse prostitution that shocked the world. Documenting in devastating detail the lives of street prostitutes and the international traffic in women, Barry's work was called powerful and compassionate by Adrienne Rich and a courageous and crusading book that should be read everywhere by Gloria Steinem. The Los Angeles Times found it a powerful work filled with disbelief, outrage, and documentation . . . sexual bondage shackles women as much today as it has for centuries.In The Prostitution of Sexuality, Barry assesses where we are 15 years later, how far we've come and, more importantly, how far we have still to go. Shifting her focus from the sexuality of prostitution to the prostitution of sexuality, Barry exposes the practice of teenage sexual exploitation and the flourishing Asian sex tour industry, emphasizing the world-wide role of the expanding multi-billion dollar pornography industry. The work identifies the global conditions of sexual exploitation, from sex industrialization in developing countries to te normalization of prostitution in the West. The Prostitution of Sexuality considers sexual exploitation a political condition and thus the foundation of women's subordination and the base from which discrimination against women is constructed and enacted. Breaking new ground, Barry convincingly argues for the need to integrate the struggle against sexual exploitation in prostitution into broader feminist struggles and to place it, as one of several connected issues, in the forefront of the feminist agenda.Barry concludes the book with a sampling of strategies– international, regional, local, and personal–that feminist activists have employed successfully since the early 1980s, highlighting new international legal strategies for human rights resulting from her work.