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Schimmelpfennig: Plays One

The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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Schimmelpfennig: Plays One

The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his writing. The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre. Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God has been likened to a post-colonial Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Here two doctors who have returned from Africa reveal the true cost of their failure to combat a terrible and frightening disease. Idomeneus is a narrative play written for a large chorus which re-tells the classical Idomeneus myth in contemporary terms; a fractured, mythic tidal wave, brought to life with astounding theatricality by an ensemble of storytellers. A small narrative piece, The Four Points of the Compass is an urban fable of crossed destinies and uncanny coincidences and a compelling contemporary tale of lust for life and the fragility of existence.

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1783195940

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Schimmelpfennig: Plays One

The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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Schimmelpfennig: Plays One

The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass

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Winter Solstice

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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Winter Solstice

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

Christmas Eve. Bettina and her husband Albert aren’t happy. Bettina’s mother is staying for the holidays. Which is awkward. Not least because Bettina’s mother met a man on the train. And now she’s invited him around for drinks... Family, betrayal and the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through the UK premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s razor-sharp comedy.

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1786820579

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Liminal

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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Liminal

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

A thrilling, filmic immersion into Berlin's legendary club scene - a skillfully told novel about the fragility of life. Berlin, Görlitzer Park: The body of a young woman in a white wedding dress floats in the canal. Who is she, and where does she come from? Suspended drugs investigator Tommy trawls Berlin's clubs and criminal clans to uncover the woman's story. On his odyssey through the city, he meets survivors and fighters, the lost and stranded from all over the world: from the Japanese tattoo master to the Indian fire-eater. Wide awake and dead tired, suspended between a dreamscape and reality, Tommy dives deeper and deeper into the Berlin underworld and into his own past. A breathless noir novel that is as hard-hitting as it is emotional, exploring the fragility of life and our longing for community. PRAISE FOR One Clear, Ice-cold Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century "A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace" John Boyne (author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS), Irish Times "A brilliantly kaleidoscopic morality tale"- Eileen Battersby, Financial Times "A magnificent achievement, a novel of terrific originality" - Charlie Connelly, New European "The exhilarating narrative is wonderfully concise, and the imagery is intensely cinematic" - Barry Forshaw, Guardian Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

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MacLehose Press

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1529418704

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The Golden Dragon

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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The Golden Dragon

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

Number 6: Thai soup with chicken, coconut milk, Thai ginger, tomatoes, button mushrooms, lemon grass and lemon leaves (hot). On a typical evening, anywhere in Europe, you walk into your local Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant, and the whole world is there. Everyone connected to everyone else, through this one place...The Golden Dragon is a funny and theatrical fable of modern life and migration, whisking you from your local takeaway to East Asia and back, revealing what really goes into that bowl of spicy soup. Are you hungry yet?

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Winter Solstice

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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Winter Solstice

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Idomeneus

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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Idomeneus

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

‘A promise is a promise. A promise is a promise.’ Idomeneus, King of Crete, has killed his son. Or maybe not. Maybe he's let his son live, but angered the gods in doing so. Or maybe the person he thinks is his son is an imposter. Maybe his real son actually turned into a talking, shape-shifting sea-creature and is back to have a heart-to-heart. Or maybe it's all true, all at once. A kaleidoscope of monsters, mythmaking and sudden, striking humor, Roland Schimmelpfennig’s smash-hit Idomeneus details the end of a war between nations and the beginning of a war between reason and superstition. Idomeneus makes a promise to the gods, and what comes next is a fractured, mythic tidal wave, brought to life in an inventively staged quest-story.

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One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century

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A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace" John Boyne, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's best-known contemporary playwright One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge. On an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodes. The lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by Tomasz, a Polish construction worker who cannot survive in Germany without his girlfriend. Elisabeth and Micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the city. A woman burns her mother's diaries on a Berlin balcony. And Elisabeth's father, a famous sculptor, observes the vast skeleton of a whale in his studio and asks: What am I doing here? And why? Experiences and encounters flicker past with a raw, visual power, like frames in a black and white film. Those who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold time. This first novel of Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright is written in prose of tremendous power and precision. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

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0857056972

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Liminal

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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The Woman Before

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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The Woman Before

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

‘You swore that you’d love me for ever’ Frank doesn’t recognise the woman at the door. She’s come to remind him of a promise he made twenty years before. A darkly humorous study of modern relationships and the things we say that may come back to haunt us. The Woman Before opened at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2005.

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1849439184

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Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry

By: Björn O. Roos,Roland Lindh,Per ke Malmqvist,Valera Veryazov,Per-Olof Widmark

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Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry

By: Björn O. Roos,Roland Lindh,Per ke Malmqvist,Valera Veryazov,Per-Olof Widmark

The first book to aid in the understanding of multiconfigurational quantum chemistry, Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry demystifies a subject that has historically been considered difficult to learn. Accessible to any reader with a background in quantum mechanics and quantum chemistry, the book contains illustrative examples showing how these methods can be used in various areas of chemistry, such as chemical reactions in ground and excited states, transition metal and other heavy element systems. The authors detail the drawbacks and limitations of DFT and coupled-cluster based methods and offer alternative, wavefunction-based methods more suitable for smaller molecules.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119277876

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Personal Diplomacy in the EU

Political Leadership and Critical Junctures of European Integration

By: Roland Vogt

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Personal Diplomacy in the EU

Political Leadership and Critical Junctures of European Integration

By: Roland Vogt

At a time when the economic troubles and bailouts of Greece and other European economies are casting significant doubt on the future viability of the Eurozone and the EU, it is crucial to examine the origins of the political will and leadership that is necessary to move the integration process forward. This book makes a significant conceptual and empirical contribution by elucidating the extent to which the integration process hinges not on institutions and norms, but on the relations among leaders. Vogt conducts a comparative diplomatic history of three critical junctures in the process of European integration: the creation of the Common Market (1955–1957), British accession (1969–1973), and the introduction of the Euro (1989–1993). He illustrates how personal diplomacy, leadership constellations, and the dynamics among leaders enable breakthroughs or inhibit accords. He also reveals how the EU’s system of top-level decision-making that privileges institutionalised summitry has operated in the past and suggests – in a separate chapter – why it has come to atrophy and prove more dysfunctional of late.

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Routledge

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1317229592

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9781317229599

Secularism and Biblical Studies

By: Roland Boer

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Secularism and Biblical Studies

By: Roland Boer

What is secular biblical criticism? 'Secularism and Biblical Studies' presents a selection of essays that examine the nature of secular biblical studies and its hermeneutical principles. The essays outline and analyse debates within biblical studies over the issue of secularism and explore the interplay of atheism, agnosticism and faith in the interpretation of the Bible. The book argues for a hermeneutics of suspicion and a wider engagement with cultural, literary and anthropological disciplines. Examining biblical hermeneutics from a range of perspectives - from Europe, Israel and the USA - 'Secularism and Biblical Studies' offers a provocative and challenging approach that will be of interest to all students and scholars of the Bible.

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131547851X

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Ballade am Strom: Historischer Roman

Die Zeit der Napoleonische Kriege

By: Roland Betsch

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Ballade am Strom: Historischer Roman

Die Zeit der Napoleonische Kriege

By: Roland Betsch

Diese Ausgabe von "Ballade am Strom" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Aus dem Buch: "Wie tief es mich nun bewegt, da ich mich anschicke, dir zu schreiben. Mir ist, ich dürfe nicht viele Worte machen, um dir einleitend zu erklären, warum ich hier im Rheinwald hause, einsam geworden aus der Erkenntnis heraus, ich bedürfe jetzt keiner Menschen, sondern nur des wandernden Stromes, der rauschenden Bäume, der Winde und Wolken und des wilden Getiers, das mich umgibt; ich bedürfe nur dieser Wesen und Dinge und des Alleinseins, um das vollenden zu können, was mich erfüllt und was für dich ein Wegweiser sein soll in die Heimat, die du im Groll verlassen hast, aus Überdruß an den Menschen und aus Abscheu vor Lüge und Verrat. Ein Versuch, aus Zeitenwandel und Schicksal eines unglückseligen Landes heraus das Wesen und die dunklen Regungen der Menschenbrust, ja selbst das Verbrechen und den Wankelmut des Herzens zu erklären und mit seinen trüben Folgen milde zu verzeihen, wissend um alle Nöte und um die Zerrissenheit der menschlichen Kreatur, ein solcher Versuch, unternommen aus schlummernder Liebe zu allem, was lebt und atmet, sich ängstigt und freut, auftaucht ins Licht und versinkt in die Schwärze, soll für dich zur Geste des Mitleidens werden und dir die innere Größe geben, mit lächelndem Schauen über Menschen und Ereignissen zu stehen und deine Heimat, gerade wegen ihres zertretenen und geschändeten Schicksals, ihrer Menschenmischung aus Gut und Böse, um so stärker zu lieben. Roland Betsch (1888-1945) war ein deutscher Ingenieur, Schriftsteller, Erzähler und Dramatiker.

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Musaicum Books

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8027224349

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9788027224340

Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

By: S. Morita,Roland Wiesendanger,E. Meyer

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Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

By: S. Morita,Roland Wiesendanger,E. Meyer

Since 1995, the noncontact atomic force microscope (NC-AFM) has achieved remarkable progress. Based on nanomechanical methods, the NC-AFM detects the weak attractive force between the tip of a cantilever and a sample surface. This method has the following characteristics: it has true atomic resolution; it can measure atomic force interactions, i.e. it can be used in so-called atomic force spectroscopy (AFS); it can also be used to study insulators; and it can measure mechanical responses such as elastic deformation. This is the first book that deals with all of the emerging NC-AFM issues.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540431179

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9783540431176

Push Up

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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Push Up

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, everyone wants love. So they push for it. Published alongside the U.K. premiere at the Royal Court, a sexy new play from an exciting new German writer.

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MIT Press

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1854596845

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One Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

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One Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century

By: Roland Schimmelpfennig

A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's best-known contemporary playwright One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge. On an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodes. The lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by Tomasz, a Polish construction worker who cannot survive in Germany without his girlfriend. Elisabeth and Micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the city. A woman burns her mother's diaries on a Berlin balcony. And Elisabeth's father, a famous sculptor, observes the vast skeleton of a whale in his studio and asks: What am I doing here? And why? Experiences and encounters flicker past with a raw, visual power, like frames in a black and white film. Those who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold time. This first novel of Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright is written in prose of tremendous power and precision. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

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