På bagsiden beskrives "The Harbour Master" som et skuespil, hvor havnemesteren konfronteres med sin egen virkelighed og indre uro. Kontoret hans er scenen for møder med personer, der hver især repræsenterer mentale og eksistentielle spændinger, herunder en karakter, der er parat til at afslutte livet. Stykket bryder med traditionel realisme og benytter et mere symbolsk, måske drømmeagtigt udtryk, hvor havet og brændingen fungerer som bagtæppe for fortællingen. Teksten kan både opføres som teater og læses som en romanlignende dramatisk fortælling om identitet, frihed og valg. Type: Paperback
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Et tv-selskab optager et stort sommerprogram på et slot, hvor en håndfuld kendte og tv-folk er samlet. Under opholdet bliver en af deltagerne fundet myrdet, og hele produktionen lukkes ned, mens politiet efterforsker sagen. Journalisten Annika Bengtzon søger sandheden om hvad der skete på slottet og hvorfor. Hun afdækker hemmeligheder, jalousi og magtkampe i medieverdenen, mens hun samtidig kæmper med sit eget familieliv og presset fra redaktionen. Historien udfolder sig som en klassisk locked-room-lignende krimi med fokus på relationer, motiver og mediebranchen. Type: Paperback Krimi af den svenske forfatter Liza Marklund. Romanen er en del af serien om journalisten Annika Bengtzon og foregår i et mediemiljø med fokus på tv-branchen og celebrity-kultur. På et tv-hold opholder en gruppe mennesker sig på et afsidesliggende slot, hvor en af deltagerne bliver myrdet. Annika Bengtzon bliver
Om de drivkræfter, der har medvirket til at verden er blevet flad, i den forstand, at der er skabt en virtuel global digital arbejdsplatform. Fra Berlinmurens fald til de nyeste tendenser inden for teknologi og livsstil The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet, levelling the playing field as never before, so that each of us is potentially an equal – and competitor – of the other. The rules of the game have changed forever – but does this ‘death of distance’, which requires us all to run faster in order to stay in the same place, mean the world has got too small and too flat too fast for us to adjust? Friedm
This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not only engages with theoretical debates about culture and globalization but raises issues of how we think and live today. His account of the experience of global culture encompasses a shouting match in a New York street about Salman Rushdie, a papal visit to the Maya Indians; kung-fu dancers in Nigeria and Rastafarians in Amsterdam; the nostalgia of foreign correspondents; and the surprising experiences of tourists in a world city or on a Borneo photo safari. Summary: "Transnational Connections provides a lucid account of culture
Del Norte - Humboldt - Mendocino - Sonoma - Marin - San Francisco - San Mateo - Santa Cruz - Monterey - San Luis Obispo Surfer Magazine offers the ultimate guide to catching the best waves from the redwood shores of the Oregon-California border to the wind- blasted coastal plains of San Luis Obispo County. For more than 250 spots, this sturdy manual sporting a water-resistant covers delivers a clear assessment of wave quality, prime wave conditions, and local hazards (both natural and manmade). Informative text answers the burning questions that surfers often pose: What tide? What wind? What swell? How are the locals? Are they worse than the sharksor the traffic? With helpful maps, photos, and directions, this Surfer's Guide is sure to become the gold standard for anyone looking to score the perfect wave. Forfatter: The Editors of Surfer Magazine Forlag: Chronicle Books Udgivelsesår: 200
Political Thinkers From Socrates to the Present Political Thinkers provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Western political thought written by a team of internationally renowned scholars. This definitive collection provides an overview of the canon of great theorists, from Socrates and the Sophists to contemporary thinkers such as Habermas and Foucault. Each chapter opens with a short chapter guide, biographical sketch, and list of the key texts and ideas of the thinker under discussion. There then follows a critical presentation of that thinker's ideas and significance and a summation of the best contemporary scholarship in the area. Wide-ranging in its coverage and crystal clear in its structure and presentation, this volume will become a major resource for all students of political thought over the next generation. David Boucher is Professorial Fellow in European Studies a
Summary: The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness Forlag: Pan Macmillan Udgivelsesår: 2016 Sider: 262 Sprog: Engelsk
