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Saving Stella - Deborah Blumenthal - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Saving Stella - Deborah Blumenthal - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

For fans of Two Bobbies comes a moving, true story about a young man and his dog who escape the violence of the Syrian War. Some bonds are stronger than war . . . Life for musician Bassel and his dog Stella in Damascus, Syria, has changed since the civil war began. Instead of enjoying long walks through their neighborhood, they hear bombs toppling buildings and sharp blasts of gunfire through the night. When it becomes too dangerous for him to stay, Bassel makes the difficult decision to escape, leaving his family, friends--and Stella--behind. After a long, dangerous journey, Bassel finally finds refuge in Belgium, but misses his family, his home, and most of all . . . Stella. With the help of friends in his new home, Bassel hatches a dramatic plan to rescue his beloved dog. This remarkable, true story will inspire readers and remind them that even amid the harshest circumstances of war, acts of kindness and humanity will always endure.

DKK 139.00
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Walking to Listen - Andrew Forsthoefel - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Walking to Listen - Andrew Forsthoefel - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

A memoir of one young man’s coming of age on a journey across America--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way. Life is fast, and I’ve found it’s easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I’m slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us. At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn’t know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn’t know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately, it’s the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself on the most human level.

DKK 197.00
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Like Trees Walking - Jane Sigloh - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Like Trees Walking - Jane Sigloh - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Many of us are fast approaching the "golden years" of retirement, wondering with fear — and hope — what the future holds for us. And you won''t find a better companion for the journey of aging than Jane Sigloh. She''s witty, perceptive, and wise. A retired Episcopal priest, she is possessed of both reverent awe and irreverent honesty about the facts and fantasies of growing old. She interweaves the insights of Scripture, poetry, fiction, and philosophy into her memories and reflections on the challenges and opportunities that maturity brings. Dip into any of these chapters and find a refreshing perspective, a humorous anecdote, or an intimate confession that will ring true to your own experience.

DKK 147.00
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Screenwriting is Rewriting - Jack Epps - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Screenwriting is Rewriting - Jack Epps - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

If there is one skill that separates the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it is the ability to rewrite successfully. From Jack Epps, Jr., the screenwriter of Top Gun , Dick Tracy , and The Secret of My Success , comes a comprehensive guide that explores the many layers of rewriting. In Screenwriting is Rewriting , Epps provides a practical and tested approach to organizing notes, creating a game plan, and executing a series of focused passes that address the story, character, theme, structure, and plot issues. Included are sample notes, game plans, and beat sheets from Epps’ work on films such as Sister Act and Turner and Hooch . Also featured are exclusive interviews with Academy Award® winning screenwriters Robert Towne ( Chinatown ) and Frank Pierson ( Dog Day Afternoon ), along with Academy Award® nominee Susannah Grant ( Erin Brockovich ).

DKK 282.00
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The Political Possibility of Sound - Salome (london College Of Communication Uk) Voegelin - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Political Possibility of Sound - Salome (london College Of Communication Uk) Voegelin - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The Political Possibility of Sound present a perfectly incomplete form for a discussion on the possibility of the political that includes creativity and invention, and articulates a politics that imagines transformation and the desire to embrace a connected and collaborative world.The themes of these essays emerge from and deepen discussions started in Voegelin''s previous books, Listening to Noise and Silence and Sonic Possible Worlds . Continuing the methodological juxtaposition of phenomenology and logic and writing from close sonic encounters each represents a fragment of listening to a variety of sound works, to music, the acoustic environment and to poetry, to hear their possibilities and develop words for what appears impossible.As fragments of writing they respond to ideas on geography and migration, bring into play formless subjectivities and trans-objective identities, and practice collectivity and a sonic cosmopolitanism through the hearing of shared volumes. They involve the unheard and the in-between to contribute to current discussions on new materialism, and perform vertical readings to reach the depth of sound.

DKK 286.00
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Secrets and Spies - Jamie Gaskarth - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Secrets and Spies - Jamie Gaskarth - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Exploring how intelligence professionals view accountability in the context of twenty-first century politics How can democratic governments hold intelligence and security agencies accountable when what they do is largely secret? Using the UK as a case study, this book addresses this question by providing the first systematic exploration of how accountability is understood inside the secret world. It is based on new interviews with current and former UK intelligence practitioners, as well as extensive research into the performance and scrutiny of the UK intelligence machinery. The result is the first detailed analysis of how intelligence professionals view their role, what they feel keeps them honest, and how far external overseers impact on their work Moving beyond the conventional focus on oversight, the book examines how accountability works in the day to day lives of these organizations, and considers the impact of technological and social changes, such as artificial intelligence and social media.

DKK 355.00
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Grave - Allison C. (writer Meier - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Grave - Allison C. (writer Meier - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide, Allison C. Meier has spent more time walking among tombstones than most. Even for her, the grave has largely been invisible, an out of the way and unobtrusive marker of death. However, graves turn out to be not always so subtle, reverent, or permanent. While the indigent and unidentified have frequently been interred in mass graves, a fate brought into the public eye during the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice today is not unlike burials in the potter’s fields of the colonial era. Burial is not the only option, of course, and Meier analyzes the rise of cremation, green burial, and new practices like human composting, investigating what is next for the grave and how existing spaces of death can be returned to community life.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

DKK 140.00
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Strength for the Sandwich Generation - Kristine Bertini - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Strength for the Sandwich Generation - Kristine Bertini - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

This comprehensive, instructive, and entertaining book is full of information and resources for middle-aged adults faced with the complexities of raising children while caring for elders.Multigenerational caregiving has become a prevalent phenomenon in the generation of Baby Boomers. Nurturing children as they rapidly evolve and grow as individuals while simultaneously assisting elderly parents to live with—and then exit life with—dignity and respect can be a trying experience. The good news: there can be great joy in this capacity as well. Strength for the Sandwich Generation: Help to Thrive While Simultaneously Caring for Our Kids and Our Aging Parents addresses the multiple complexities that arise for the millions of middle-aged adults caring for both their children and their elders, providing the caregiver with resources and information that include strategies for caring for the self, children, and elders; handling financial strain; and addressing moral and ethical dilemmas. A licensed clinical psychologist, author Kristine Bertini shows midlife readers how to balance their demanding and multiple roles while also making meaning and finding genuine happiness in their complex world.

DKK 405.00
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Blanket - Kara (college Of William And Mary Thompson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Blanket - Kara (college Of William And Mary Thompson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures. Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

DKK 136.00
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The Soap Opera Genre Revisited - Ahmet Atay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Soap Opera Genre Revisited - Ahmet Atay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the soap opera ratings in the U.S., UK, and Australia to identify the trends and analyze the discussions on soap opera blogs and interviews to gauge the audience reception of the soap opera storylines. Over the years, the soap opera genre developed and became very successful - especially between the 1960s and 1990s - in the US, the UK, and Australia. In the early 2000s, due to the US soap operas’ declining ratings, those that were once successful, including Guiding Light , As the World Turns , and All My Children , were cancelled. For example, during the 1996–1997 season, there were 12 soap operas on air. During the 2008–2009 season, this number dropped to eight, and currently (2014–2015 season), only four soap operas remain on US television networks. Nonetheless, the genre is still widely popular in Australia and the UK. Shows such as Neighbours and Coronation Street consistently draw high ratings, suggesting that different factors affect the soap operas’ success in different countries, such as production and budgetary issues, the nature of the stories, and changing viewership demographics. Understanding the reasons behind the genre’s popularity and decline through a comparative analysis is crucial to make sense of its current status.

DKK 986.00
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