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Rainer Maria Rilke's work spans the divide between turn-of-the-century Europe's decadence and its post First World War revolutionary modernism, always struggling to develop, to seek and reach beyond itself. This selection of poems from throughout Rilke's creative output is arranged chronologically, placing poems of similar themes and / or modes of expression close to one another, making bed-fellows of poems rarely seen together. Each poem is to a greater or lesser extent conscious of others. The aim is to illuminate the underlying themes which Rilke said he had arrived at very early in his life. In his powerful new translation, skilfully shaped into current English, Ian Crockatt succeeds in catching Rilke's blend of crafted sensuality and inward-focused spiritual searching, while his comprehensive introduction and notes to this selection are both informative and enlightening.

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Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental questions of love and death, of the chaos of the modern world as well as the spiritual consolation of art and nature. Change Your Life draws from across Rilke's career to offer a comprehensive view of his most essential poetry, featuring major selections from the great Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus alongside less frequently anthologised work. In these dazzling new translations by acclaimed poet Martyn Crucefix, Rilke's poems beguile with fresh insight and mystery.

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The captivating original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West

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Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as witnesses to Europe’s colonial past in ethnographic museums. Rainer F. Buschmann investigates the roughly two hundred thousand artifacts extracted from the colony of German New Guinea from 1870 to 1920. Reversing the typical trajectories that place ethnographic museums at the center of the analysis, he concludes that museum interests in material culture alone cannot account for the large quantities of extracted artifacts. Buschmann moves beyond the easy definition of artifacts as trophies of colonial defeat or religious conversion, instead employing the term hoarding to describe the irrational amassing of Indigenous artifacts by European colonial residents. Buschmann also highlights Indigenous material culture as a bargaining chip for its producers to engage with the imposed colonial regime. In addition, by centering an area of collection rather than an institution, he opens new areas of investigation that include non-professional ethnographic collectors and a sustained rather than superficial consideration of Indigenous peoples as producers behind the material culture. Hoarding New Guinea answers the call for a more significant historical focus on colonial ethnographic collections in European museums.

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Schwierige Situationen aktiv gestaltenDieses Buch hilft andere verstehen und sich unterschiedlichen Charakteren verständlich zu machen. Wer arbeitet, ist von anderen Menschen umgeben. Oftmals lässt sich die Kommunikation gestalten. Bei Vorgesetzten scheint der Einfluss gering zu sein – wir müssen sie nehmen wie sie sind. Das verursacht manchmal Stress. Sachse und Collatz, Experten in der Beratung von Menschen in Arbeitskontexten, zeigen in diesem Buch, wie Persönlichkeitsstile „ticken“: Die verschiedenen Stile werden jeweils in ihren allgemeinen Charakteristika, Beziehungsmotiven, zugrundliegenden Annahmen (Schemata), in ihren Stärken und Schwächen – mit den Konsequenzen für sich selbst und ihre Interaktionspartner – beschrieben. Leserinnen und Leser erkennen, wie sie dem konstruktiv und gesund begegnen können. Dieses Buch ist kurz und anschaulich und für Chefs wie für Mitarbeiter gleichermaßen zu Genuss und Gewinn geschrieben.Der InhaltWas sind Persönlichkeitsstile? – 9 Stile: Charakteristika, Beziehungsmotive, Schemata, Kommunikation – Alltagsbeispiele.Das AutorenteamProf. Dr. Rainer Sachse macht komplexe psychologische Sachverhalte allgemein verständlich und stellt sie humorvoll und einfühlsam dar.Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Annelen Collatz berät Menschen im Berufskontext und hat bereits mehrere erfolgreiche Bücher geschrieben.

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Alle im Praxisalltag auftretenden Fragen zur Rehabilitation von Herz- und Gefäßpatienten werden in dem Buch ausführlich behandelt. Die Autoren stellen sowohl Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der kardiovaskulären Rehabilitation im stationären (Anschlußheilbehandlung) als auch im ambulanten Bereich (Herzgruppen) kritisch dar. Dazu gehören Therapieempfehlungen, mögliche Komplikationen oder Gefahren, Kontraindikationen und die Abwägung, wann welche Maßnahme in welcher Institution und bei welchen Patienten sinnvoll einzusetzen ist. Das Buch wird ergänzt durch Empfehlungen für die personelle, apparative und logistische Ausstattung von Rehabilitationskliniken und ambulanten Herzgruppen. Somit leistet das Buch einen fundierten und praxisbezogenen Beitrag zur kardiologischen Rehabilitationsmedizin.

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Die Einführung bietet eine weitgehend komplette und dabei gleichzeitig gestraffte Übersicht über das auf die unterschiedlichsten Rechtsgebiete verteilte Recht der Behinderten: Schwerbehindertenrecht, Spezifikationen im Zivilrecht, die Diskussion um das zivilrechtliche Antidiskriminierungsgesetz, das Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz des Bundes und einiger Länder, weitere Teilbereiche des öffentlichen Rechts, das Strafrecht und die Unterbringung, soweit hier die Stellung der Behinderten betroffen ist. Ein Überblick über das Recht der Sozialhilfe einschließlich des Rentenrechts rundet die Darstellung ab.

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Wer systemisch arbeitet, wird sich mit der Zeit sein Handwerkszeug passend zurechtlegen. Manchmal ist sicherlich auch ein Handbuch erforderlich, in dem man nachschlagen kann, je nachdem, in welchem Zusammenhang und mit wem man es zu tun hat. Ein solcher Werkzeugkoffer ist erst recht fÃ"r diejenigen nÃ"tzlich, die das systemische Handwerk erlernen oder in den ersten Gesellenjahren sind. Die beiden Autoren, erfahren als Ausbilder, Berater, Therapeuten und Supervisoren, leiten Schritt fÃ"r Schritt durch die Phasen systemischer Arbeit: Beobachten, Informationen erfassen und dokumentieren, Aufträge klären, Hypothesen bilden, Ziele definieren; Maßnahmen planen und umsetzen. Das systemische Vorgehen wird so konkret dargestellt, dass es direkt angewendet werden kann. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele veranschaulichen die Umsetzung in den verschiedenen Feldern psychosozialer Arbeit. Kurze Skizzierungen des theoretischen Hintergrunds runden die Darstellung des jeweiligen "Werkzeugs" ab. Das beschriebene Vorgehen ist keiner systemischen Richtung verpflichtet, sondern vermittelt schulenÃ"bergreifend wertvolles Know-how fÃ"r alle Arbeits- und Berufsfelder.

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Systemische Beratung und Therapie wirkt und ist weltweit verbreitet. Umso erstaunlicher, dass es in Deutschland bisher keine zusammenfassende Darstellung für die interessierte Öffentlichkeit gibt. Dieses Buch schließt die Lücke. Rainer Schwing und Andreas Fryszer plaudern aus dem Nähkästchen ihrer jahrzehntelangen Erfahrung mit systemischen Ansätzen. Sie beschreiben anschaulich die systemische Arbeit in der Beratung Einzelner und Familien oder Teams, in der Supervision von Fachkräften oder dem Coaching von Führungskräften.Nach einer kurzen Einführung werden die grundlegenden Prinzipien der systemischen Beratung erklärt. Störungen und Krankheiten werden als Lösungsversuche gesehen, die irgendwie danebengeraten sind. Die zahlreichen konkreten Tipps aus dem systemischen Handwerkskoffer haben sich im Alltag bewährt und können direkt umgesetzt werden, um Probleme zu lösen oder überraschende neue Antworten auf lebenspraktische Fragen zu erhalten. Sie taugen ganz nebenbei als Ratschläge für ein erfülltes und glückliches Dasein. Und wer über die zahlreichen Anregungen des Buches hinaus Hilfe benötigt, dem verrät das Abschlusskapitel, wo sie zu erhalten ist.

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Once the basic idea of hypertext had spread rapidly throughout the world via the Internet, the reception of hypertexts soon became subject of empirical research among psychologists, cognitive scientists, and educational researchers. As easy to use software for the writing of hypertexts (HTML editors) is now broadly available, there are no longer any technical obstacles for the use of hypertext production in teaching and learning. This book presents and analyses the learning effects that can be anticipated from the production of hypertexts. It includes laboratory experiments, studies on the production of hypertexts in the context of educational institutions, and reports on software environments designed for the production of hypertext. It includes theoretical, empirically and developmentally oriented contributions. The first three chapters link up directly with research on traditional writing while addressing aspects of the interaction between content and rhetoric during hypertext writing. The next three chapters focus on cooperative learning of students in and through the production of hypertexts. The following two chapters look at new technological possibilities, namely, a software environment for transforming textbooks into personalized hypertexts and the design of hypervideos. The final chapter discusses potential methods for further research.

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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the greatest German language poet since Goethe, worked for a time as Rodin's secretary at Meudon. This title is a paperback edition of Stephen Cohn's celebrated translations and includes the complete German language text parallel with the English.

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Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and developer of Darwin’s theories of evolution, he denounced religious dogma, authored philosophical treatises, gained a doctorate in zoology, and coined scientific terms which have passed into common usage, including ecology, phylum, and stem cell. At the heart of Haeckel’s colossal legacy was the motivation not only to discover but also to explain. To do this, he created hundreds of detailed drawings, watercolors, and sketches of his findings which he published in successive volumes, including several marine organism collections and the majestic Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), which could serve as the cornerstone of Haeckel’s entire life project. Like a meticulous visual encyclopedia of living things, Haeckel’s work was as remarkable for its graphic precision and meticulous shading as for its understanding of organic evolution. From bats to the box jellyfish, lizards to lichen, and spider legs to sea anemones, Haeckel emphasized the essential symmetries and order of nature, and found biological beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. In this book, we celebrate the scientific, artistic, and environmental importance of Haeckel’s work, with a collection of 450 of his finest prints from several of his most important tomes, including Die Radiolarien, Monographie der Medusen, Die Kalkschwämme, and Kunstformen der Natur. At a time when biodiversity is increasingly threatened by human activities, the book is at once a visual masterwork, an underwater exploration, and a vivid reminder of the precious variety of life.

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Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is committed to the real world observed with acute and visionary intensity. Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesmen, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece.

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How can we realise and actualise love, reason and meaningful, productive work? If the Art of Being - the art of functioning as a whole person - can be considered the supreme goal of life, a breakthrough occurs when we move from narcissistic selfishness and egotism - from having - to psychological and spiritual happiness - being. The Art of Being remains one of the most important and sought-after works in the Fromm canon.Fromm here offers a path to true wellbeing and a way of living based on authentic self-awareness that comes only through honest self-analysis. He warns of the pitfalls of our attaining enlightenment without effort, or believing that life can be lived without pain. The tantalising 'spiritual smorgasbord' offered by our consumer-oriented world, Fromm maintains, only feeds our illusions of 'easy awareness'. Confronting the psycho-gurus who preach these shortcuts to enlightenment, Fromm offers another way to self-awareness through meditation rather than material gain.This volume is a sequel to one of Erich Fromm's most popular works, To Have or to Be. In this book, Fromm examines the true paths - as opposed to false directions - that will lead us to self-knowledge and enlightenment. This edition, commemorating thirty years since the first English publication of The Art of Being, features an updated introduction from editor Rainer Funk.

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Creativity is highly valued and admired as a characteristic of outstanding people. It is believed that creative individuals, because of their talent, playfully produce new and extraordinary things, that they are kissed by the muses or driven by mysterious forces. However, modern science has knowledge that sheds light on the secret of creativity. The author describes the essential elements of creativity in a generally understandable way: talent, knowledge, motivation, personality traits and environmental conditions. Then the five phases of the creative process are presented: preparation, incubation, illumination, realization and verification. From the analysis of creative personalities and processes, consequences are drawn for their promotion in school, work, science, culture, economy and politics. A sound understanding of creativity helps to discover and promote creative potential in the areas mentioned. In today's world with its diverse challenges, however, not only extraordinary, but also everyday creativity is of great practical importance. Paying attention to creative aspects in education, training, partnership, sexuality and personal development leads to a meaningful lifestyle.

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The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31–1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, both notable for their vernacular language and attention to everyday, contemporary life. Immersing himself in rural or small-town communities, Bruegel is particularly notable for his depiction of peasant experience and folk culture, earning the artist nickname “Peasant Bruegel.” Whether hunters shivering in the snow or a boisterous country fair, Bruegel raised the farming, festivals, gatherings, and games of peasant culture to the status of high art. Bruegel’s imposing religious and moral subjects, meanwhile, such as The Triumph of Death and The Tower of Babel are as awestriking and influential today as they were in the 16th century, inspiring contemporary culture from The Lord of the Rings cinematic battle scenes to Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld. From the corn harvest to the conversion of Saul, from quaint wedding processions to Christ’s road to Calvary, this book brings together the rich range of Bruegel’s subjects to introduce his powerful compositions of both biblical and earthly tableaux.

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