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Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 525min

New York Times, "Times Critics Top Books of 2020""The most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel I read this year was originally published in 1881. Jull Costa and Patterson offer a peerless translation of this comic masterpiece." (Parul Sehgal, New York Times)Machado de Assis’ classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for 21st-century audiences.“I passed away at two o’clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city.” So begins Machado de Assis’ Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, told eerily from beyond the grave. First appearing in Brazil in 1881, this remarkably experimental novel was never intended by its author to be a popular “run-of-the-mill-novel”.Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves, was not, originally, expecting literary encomiums in his lifetime, especially not for Brás Cubas. And yet, his prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories would influence generations of South American writers. Now, with this coruscating new translation of one of his most compelling novels, esteemed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado’s career, as his flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark.In eloquent, contemporary prose, Costa and Patterson breathe new life into the dynamic character of Brás Cubas and reveal the vivid, tempestuous Rio de Janeiro of his time. The recently deceased Cubas narrates his life story, admitting glibly: “I am not so much a writer who has died, as a dead man who has decided to write.” His life, therefore, is relayed out of order, beginning with his funeral, and then stepping back to offer “a brief genealogical sketch”. An enigmatic, amusing, and frequen ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ramon De Ocampo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/057515/bk_adbl_057515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Down to Earth

Expeditionen ins Ganze versammelt Texte und Gespräche, die sich der Praxis einer ökologischen Wende im Bereich der Kunst und Kultur verschreiben: weg von einem westlichen Denken, das die Elemente des Lebens isoliert, extrahiert und verwertet, hin zu Strukturen, die ganzheitlich und respektvoll funktionieren. Wir brauchen ein neues "Betriebssystem" in unseren Ausstellungs- und Theaterhäusern, das nicht mehr Verschleiß und Konsum belohnt, sondern Begegnung und Integration. Denn unser Weltbild kippt von einer Epoche, in der der Mensch zur Naturgewalt wurde, in Richtung eines neuen Bewusstseins für unser Eingebettet-Sein in ein Ökosystem aus anderen Lebewesen neben, in und mit uns. Thomas Oberender ist Autor und Kurator und seit 2012 Intendant der Berliner Festspiele. Frédérique Aït-Touati ist Wissenschaftshistorikerin und Theaterregisseurin. Dorothea von Hantelmann ist Kunsthistorikerin, Kuratorin und Professor of Art and Society am Bard College Berlin. Bruno Latour ist Wissenschaftsphilosoph und Verfasser zahlreicher Bücher, darunter Das terrestrische Manifest (2017). Hermann E. Ott ist Jurist und setzt sich bei ClientEarth - Anwälte der Erde mit rechtlichen Mitteln für den Umweltschutz ein. Tino Sehgal ist Künstler und Kurator und wurde 2013 mit dem Goldenen Löwen ausgezeichnet. Joulia Strauss ist Künstlerin und Aktivistin und Gründerin der Avtonomi Akadimia in Athen. Andreas Weber ist Biologe, Philosoph und Verfasser zahlreicher Bücher, darunter Indigenialität (2018).--What is the connection between art and a new eco-politics? What changes lie ahead for our cultural institutions? How does Gaia make it onto the theatre stages? How can art come into being without resources being consumed? What can we learn from indigenous cultures? What does animism mean today? And is the Anthropocene coming to an end? Exploring Entirety brings together texts and conversations focused on practices relating to an ecological turn in the realm of art and culture: away from a Western mode of thinking that isolates, extracts, and exploits the different elements of life and towards structures that operate holistically and respectfully. We need a new "operating system" in our museums, galleries, and theatres that no longer rewards wastage and consumption but instead favours encounters and integration. For our world view is shifting away from an era in which humanity turned into a force of nature and towards a new awareness of our embeddedness in an ecosystem made up of other living beings existing alongside, within, and together with us.Thomas Oberender is an author, curator, and, since 2012, artistic director of the Berliner Festspiele. Frédérique Aït-Touati is a science historian and theatre director. Dorothea von Hantelmann is an art historian, curator, and professor of art and society at Bard College Berlin. Bruno Latour is a philosopher of science and author of numerous books, including Down to Earth (2017). Hermann E. Ott is a lawyer who uses legal strategies at ClientEarth-Anwälte der Erde to campaign for environmental protection. Tino Sehgal is an artist, curator, and recipient of the Golden Lion in 2013. Joulia Strauss is an artist, activist, and founder of Avtonomi Akadimia in Athens. Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher, and author of numerous books, including Indigenialität (2018).

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100 Boyfriends

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and Pink News' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. "This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense." -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "I loved this book-raunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way." -Roxane Gay An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure-from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama-Purnell's characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it-or perhaps because of it-they shine. Armed with a deadpan wit, Purnell finds humor in even the darkest of nadirs with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within 100 Boyfriends are an inimitable tour of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.

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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993

Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbriath Award for Nonfiction, the Gotham Book Prize, the ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award, and the Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award. A 2021 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of NPR, New York, and The Guardian's Best Books of 2021, one of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, one of Electric Literature's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021, one of NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and one of Gay Times' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. "This is not reverent, definitive history. This is a tactician's bible." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled-and beat-The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration-and long-overdue reassessment-of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world.

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The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint

"[The Shadow Drawing] reorients our perspective, distills a life and brings it into focus-the very work of revision and refining that its subject loved best." -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times (Editors' Choice) An entirely new account of Leonardo the artist and Leonardo the scientist, and why they were one and the same man. Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated as the epitome of genius. He was the masterful painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, and the visionary inventor who anticipated airplanes, hot-air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist? And what can a mysterious, long-lost book teach us about how Leonardo truly conceived his art? Shortly after Leonardo's death, his peers and rivals created the myth of the two Leonardos: there was Leonardo the artist and then, later in life, Leonardo the scientist. In this pathbreaking biographical interpretation, the art historian Francesca Fiorani tells a very different and much more interesting story. Taking a fresh look at Leonardo's celebrated but challenging notebooks as well as other, often obscure sources, Fiorani shows that Leonardo became fluent in science when he was still a young man. As an apprentice in a Florence studio, he was especially interested in the science of optics, which tells us how we see what we see. For the rest of his life he remained, according to a close observer, obsessed with optics, believing that his art would grow only as his knowledge of light and shadow deepened. Given Leonardo's scientific bent, one might think this meant that he wanted to turn himself into a human camera. In fact, he aspired to use science to capture-as no artist before him had ever done-the interior lives of his subjects, to paint the human soul in its smallest, tenderest motions and vicissitudes. And then he hoped to take one further step: to gather his scientific knowledge together in a book that would be even more important than his paintings. His Treatise on Painting would be disfigured, ignored, and lost in subsequent centuries; now, Fiorani traces this singular work's byzantine path through history and reconstructs the wisdom Leonardo hoped it would impart. Ranging from the teeming streets of Florence to the most delicate brushstrokes on the surface of the Mona Lisa, The Shadow Drawing vividly reconstructs Leonardo's life while teaching us to look anew at his greatest paintings. The result is both a stirring biography and a bold reconsideration of how the Renaissance understood science and art-and of what was lost when the two were sundered.

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Behave

The New York Times bestseller "It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." -David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote for science book of the year." -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Hands-down one of the best books I've read in years. I loved it." -Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old. The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do...for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.

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