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Vor 200 Jahren: Johann Woyzeck ermordet Johanna Woost

Am 21. Juni 1821 ersticht Johann Christian Woyzeck die Witwe Johanna Woost. Ein Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft, dessen Umstände von Georg Büchner bis Werner Herzog Generationen von Künstlern in Bann schlug. In seinem neuen großen Roman spürt Steve Sem-Sandberg dem historisch verbürgten Fall nach und entwirft eindrucksvoll das Porträt eines Mannes, in dem sich das Vexierspiel von Wahnsinn und Schuld, von innerer Zerrissenheit und Liebe offenbart.

Als W. 1790 beim Leipziger Perückenmacher Knobloch in die Lehre...

An absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by Sem-Sandberg's sharp sense of the absurd.

The Am Spiegelgrund Clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria during WWII, the clinic's doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's...

Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve and largely carried out by the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela s Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as...

Offering a unique, data-led, evidence-based approach to reflective practice in English language teaching, this book brings together theory, research and practice in an accessible way to demonstrate what reflective practice looks like and how it is undertaken in a range of contexts. Readers learn how to do and to research reflective practice in their own settings. Through the use of data, dialogue and appropriate tools, the authors show how reflective practice can be used as an ongoing teaching tool that supports professional self-development.

Offering a unique, data-led, evidence-based approach to reflective practice in English language teaching, this book brings together theory, research and practice in an accessible way to demonstrate what reflective practice looks like and how it is undertaken in a range of contexts. Readers learn how to do and to research reflective practice in their own settings. Through the use of data, dialogue and appropriate tools, the authors show how reflective practice can be used as an ongoing teaching tool that supports professional self-development.

In the summer of 1968, a disillusioned young man fled the United States. Aided by the antidraft underground and with the military in hot pursuit, he, his wife, and their baby son charted a perilous path to a new life in the Canadian north and redemption at home.

Finding Honor is a memoir that chronicles a tumultuous ten-year period of the author's life during the Vietnam War. It is an important story--a story not often told--of one soldier who chose not to go.

When mysterious fires destroy lives and homes, it might just be time to turn up the heat...

Things aren't looking good for Noob Steve. After his house is destroyed by mysterious fires that have been occurring, he finds himself in more hot water after saving the general's daughter, Jillian, from harm's way. Good natured, adventure loving Steve and studious, responsible Jillian become fast friends and embark on an underground adventure.

However, Noob Steve and Jillian may have bitten off more than they can...