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Herbert Horatio "Poppy" Blackwell was once a daring aviator, an illustrious movie producer, and a brilliant businessman. A Howard Hughes-like mogul, Poppy has become a recluse with paralyzing fears of infection. Cloistered in the penthouse high above his desert gambling empire, he is attended by a small army of maids and footmen and lawyers and physicians, who live in a state of constant surveillance as they cater to his eccentric, paranoid demands.
Herman Q. Louse is Poppy's valet, one of the many indentured...

Die Nouvelle Grammaire en dialogues richtet sich an Erwachsene und Jugendliche auf dem Niveau Grand débutant oder Anfänger (GER-Niveau A1). Das Buch behandelt grammatische Konzepte eingebettet in Dialoge, die dem täglichen Leben entnommen sind.

Diese neue Ausgabe zeichnet sich aus durch :

• Zwei Drittel neue Dialoge, Aufnahmen und Auswertungen um mit den aktuellen Themen auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben.
• Wiederholung, Korrektur und Erweiterung der Grammatik mit 33 Kapiteln zu spezifischen grammatikalischen Punkten (z.B. bestimmte/unbestimmte Artikel, Possessiva...

In times of stress, trauma and crisis-whether on a personal or global scale-it can be all too easy for us to externalize a larger-than-life figure who can assuage our suffering, a Hero who comes to the fore even as we recede into the background. In taking on our collective burden, however, such an omnipotent Hero can actually undermine us, representing as it does the very same characteristics we fail to note in one another. By granting the Hero to power to set things right, we seem to deny it to ourselves, leaving us temporarily lightened but ultimately helpless.

In response, Sue...

Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of 'us' and 'them' that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be subjects in our own history, but keep reconstituting the Other as an object in their own history. Trans-generational Trauma and the Other argues that healing requires us to engage with the Other who carries a corresponding pre-history. Without this dialogue, alienated ghosts can become persecutory objects, in psyche, politics, and culture.

This volume examines the...