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Saved Warriors is a gripping sci-fi romance in the Intergalactic Enosis: The Pyxis System series.

"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction which, if left unchecked, posed grave danger to the world. But when no WMDs were found, the US and its allies were forced to consider that their political and intelligence failures had led to one of the most disastrous conflicts of our time. And a more integral question remained unsolved: Why had Saddam seemingly sacrificed his long reign in power by giving the impression that he possessed hidden stocks of dangerous weapons? The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power, and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq, and, for the first time, dramatizes America's fundamental miscalculations during its decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program, Steve Coll traces Saddam's motives by way of his inner circle. He brings to life the diplomats, scientists, family members, and generals who had no choice but to defer to their leader-a leader directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, as well as the torture or imprisonment of hundreds of thousands more. This was a man whose reasoning was impossible to reduce to a simple explanation, and the CIA and successive presidential administrations failed to grasp integral nuances of his paranoia, resentments, and inconsistencies - even when the stakes were incredibly high. Calling on unpublished and under-reported sources, interviews with surviving participants, and Saddam's own transcripts and audio files, many of which have never been made public, Coll pulls together an incredibly comprehensive portrait of a man who was convinced the world was out to get him, and acted accordingly. A work of great historical significance, The Achilles Trap is the definitive account of how corruptions of power, lies of diplomacy, and vanity - on both sides - led to avoidable errors of statecraft, ones that would enact immeasurable human suffering and forever change the political landscape as we know it"--

A beautifully illustrated book-length publication on the contemporary artist and Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley, whose quietly devastating work blurs the space between fact and fiction.Garrett Bradley works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, and cultural histories in the United States. Her collaborative and research-based approach to filmmaking is often inspired by the real-life stories of her protagonists. This book explores Bradley’s work through the lens of devotion and features conversations with the artist and contributions from the likes of Ashley Clark, Arthur Jafa, Joy James, Tyler Mitchell, Kevin Quashie, and Claudia Rankine. This is the first volume in a new series of readers copublished with Lisson Gallery entitled Re:, which will respond to a number of its artists and themes past and present.Adopting archival material alongside newly shot footage, Bradley’s films exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, not only disrupting our perception of time, but also breaking down our preconceived ideas about objectivity, perspective, and truth-telling. These narratives unfold naturally in both feature-length and short form, revealing a multitude of individual and collective stories. The social, economic, and racial politics of everyday life—its joys, pleasures, and pains—are lyrically and intimately rendered on screen.

The first exhibition catalogue of the acclaimed queer, feminist curatorial initiative Ridykeulous, marking the occasion of their first institutional presentation in Europe at Nottingham Contemporary.Founded in 2005, Ridykeulous mounts exhibitions and events primarily concerned with queer and feminist art. This publication will be the first exhibition catalogue by Ridykeulous, joined by Sam Roeck, and will accompany the fall 2023 exhibition Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos at Nottingham Contemporary. With newly commissioned texts by curator Lia Gangitano and Alexandro Segade of the artist collective My Barbarian, the catalogue will be complemented by a conversation between Ridykeulous members Nicole Eisenman, A.L. Steiner and Sam Roeck, providing insights into the collective's thinking, politics, behind-the-scenes notations, and methods of exploration, as well as an introduction by Nottingham Contemporary's Chief Curator Nicole Yip.Using humor to critique the art world and heteropatriarchal culture at-large, Ridykeulous often reinvents language to reflect their sensibilities and concerns—composing communiqués, screeds, and diatribes across various media. The exhibition features an intergenerational mix of 30 contemporary visual artists working across film, video installation, sculpture, and performance. Playfully proposing queer fabulosity as a critical intervention in the capitalist spectacle, the exhibition seeks to erode the secondary positioning of LGBTQ+ art and artists as “alternative.” Designed by the Zürich-based Studio Marie Lusa, the publication will evoke the textual feeling of a zine, with over 100 full-color and black-and-white image plates.

An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky.Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender or abject—the subjects in the figurative paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982) convey an uneasy, dark humor. They seem trapped in a precarious inner monologue, or under the spell of mundane lived experience. Sanya Kantarovsky: Selected Works 2010-2024 is published with the support of Aspen Art Museum, following Kantarovsky's exhibition A Solid House (2022). It includes more than 140 full-color image plates and spans the artist's oeuvre, focusing on his most recent output since his previous monograph No Joke (2014).The publication also includes a conversation between Kantarovsky and art historian Isabelle Graw, as well as essays by the psychoanalyst and writer Jamieson Webster and art historian George Baker.

"A ... picture book about perseverance, overcoming challenges, and working hard to achieve your goals! Sydney learns to conquer her fear of public speaking at school, in this affectionate father-daughter story referencing inspiring role models who dealt with similar issues. Sydney wants to be a great leader when she grows up. There's just one problem--when she tries to speak in front of the class, she gets nervous, and the words just won't come out"--

One thing nobody can take away from us... or why sex makes us want to live! Times are extraordinary! Every day we hear new bad news, no travel, no events, vacations are supposed to be shortened... but our longings grow with every day that we are isolated because of the Corona Pandemic. How good that we can dream about it! Dreams don't cost anything, in my dreams I don't have to do anything and can do anything, in these seconds I'm neither active, nor productive, nor effective; fall completely out of space and time and in our daydreams all our longings are fulfilled. In our imagination we can safely go to parties, sit by the sea, do extreme sports as a chair fart, find the unattainable dream man, even have the most extraordinary sex without consequences...you very personal 'erotic cinema in the head' He who has more dreams in his soul than reality can destroy is really rich. (Hans Kruppa)Sex fantasies are mostly desires that don't have to be realized. They can be completely absurd and unworldly and do not have to live from the intention of acting, but they are the key to really good, hot sex. It is not for nothing that the brain is also referred to as the most important human sexual organ, because it is the control center for every good orgasm . If it is addressed by our 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste), then it ensures good blood circulation in our sexual organs. This creates sexual tension. The tension is discharged through another process in the brain, which resembles neural fireworks and is accompanied by involuntary, rhythmic muscle contractions. Just at the moment of orgasm, this control center releases an extra dose of dopamine. This is a neurotransmitter that gives us a pleasant feeling of reward. At the same time, a large dose of oxytocin is released on command from the brain. This in turn is a messenger substance that awakens the desire to cuddle and strengthens the bond with the partner. During sex, our glands mix a cocktail of other substances that make you want to live, albeit in small amounts. These include the happiness hormone serotonin and the stimulating neurotransmitters adrenaline and noradrenaline. The sex hormone testosterone increases performance in men and women, while estrogen in women ensures that the antennae of their senses become even more receptive. The satiety hormone prolactin helps us feel full of happiness after sex. And finally, the unspeakable phenylethylamine makes the good mood in bed perfect. In short: the more you indulge in the power of all your senses, the more pleasurable sex is and the more you do for your well-being. My next book Summer Dreams should pick you up right there! Tickle your senses, escape the confines of your life, take your over-the-counter self-medication for recovery from everyday difficulties to instant physical relaxation and mental relief!Let me take you into a world of sexual fantasies with a book designed to make you dream too ... Let's dream life beautifully and enjoy the erotic short vacation, then life will be fun again!

'For the past half-century Frank Field has been an outstanding parliamentarian, social reformer and champion of the disadvantaged. He joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and was expelled from it at the age of 78.' -Brian & Rachel Griffiths'Frank Field is one of the most important, iconoclastic and remarkable politicians of his generation. This book is told with his Christian belief, regrets and all, and his trademark searing honesty.' -Nick TimminsIn the increasingly dirty world of British politics, one man has stood out for unimpeachable integrity - the former Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, Frank Field.In this touching but also profound memoir, the veteran former Labour MP and social campaigner Frank Field reveals the poverty of his own childhood and the deep and lasting effect of his Christian socialism. Field has spent his life fighting poverty in Britain, and has found allies on all sides of the political spectrum. In this book, Field talk about his activism, his foundational work with the Child Poverty Action Group and his work passing legislation for the Minimum Living Wage. He explains why he has dedicated his life to speaking out against the corruption of greed and power and writes with great alacrity about the titans of his political age, including Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. In the end, Field's zeal for reform was too much for too many people, and, in 2015, he was deselected by his own local Labour party. Politics, Poverty and Belief is an implicit indictment of modern British politics - the world of cash for questions, Partygate and all the rest - in which the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

Als Tilda sich in ihren, bis dahin noch nicht aufgeflogenen Stalker verliebt, hat der perfide Millionär Paul fortan ein ganz leichtes Spiel damit, das gesamte Umfeld der unbedarften Träumerin zu instrumentalisieren. Durch vehementes Einwirken fesseln Freunden und Bekannten Tilda emotional an den sich fernhaltenden Sonderling. Obwohl Paul seine Liebe Tilda gegenüber leugnet und sich abweisend verhält, erliegt Tilda ihren Phantasien und gibt sich ihren Glücksgefühlen hin.Die massiven Einflussnahmen des Manipulators generieren in ihr die Bereitschaft, seiner angeblich geheimen Überraschungshochzeit zuzustimmen.

Layken og Wills kærlighed har overvundet selv de hårdeste odds, og de unge elskende, nu nygifte, begynder at føle sig sikre og i harmoni. Men selvom Layken holder af alt ved deres nye liv sammen, kan hun ikke lægge behovet for at vide alt om Wills fortid fra sig. Og det er på trods af at Will gør det meget tydeligt for hende, at han foretrækker at lade de smertefulde øjeblikke blive dér – i fortiden.Men til sidst kan han ikke modstå sin hustrus indtrængende bønner, og han begynder at vikle sin side af historien ud. For første gang afslører han nogle af sine mest intime følelser og tanker, både gode og svære øjeblikke et par chokerende afsløringer fra før han mødte Layken.I <i>Tæppefald</i> fortæller Will sin side af historien om deres komplicerede forhold. Deres fremtid afhænger nu af hvor godt de kan arbejde sig igennem det i dette sidste bind i SLAMMED-serien.

Det er lykkedes Layken og Will at overvinde de udfordringer som truede deres forhold, og bevise for alle, at de hører sammen. Men det de snart erfarer er, at nogle af de ting, som har bragt dem sammen kan blive de selvsamme ting som vil skille dem ad for evigt.Layken tvivler tit på forholdet, mens Will gør alt for at bevise sin kærlighed til hende. Hvad de to forelskede unge mennesker snart opdager om dem selv kan ændre hele deres verden og de vigtigste mennesker omkring dem.

Efter pludseligt at have mistet sin far må Layken agere anker for sin mor og lillebror. Udadtil har hun en ukuelig og sejlivet facade, men under det hele er hun ved at miste håbet.Her kommer Will ind i billedet. En flot, 21-årig ny nabo med en spændende lidenskab for poetry slam og en unik humor. Efter kun et par dage har Layken og Will skabt et ubrydeligt følelsesmæssigt bånd, og Layken tør håbe igen.Men kort tid efter deres intense første date, tvinges de tilbage til virkeligheden, hvor en chokerende afsløring sætter en stopper for deres forhold. De daglige interaktioner bliver smertefuldt svære, og de må kæmpe for at finde en balance mellem de dybe følelser der drager dem til hinanden og de mørke hemmeligheder, som skiller dem.

"Rab: A Deeper Look" by Robbie Ornig is a riveting exploration of the captivating history of Rab, an island jewel of the Adriatic Sea. From its ancient roots to its vibrant modern life, this comprehensive volume presents a meticulously researched account of Rab's rich tapestry of life. Ornig work stands out for its depth, offering readers a unique perspective on the island's cultural, societal, and culinary traditions. Packed with illuminating details and heartfelt storytelling, this book is a must-read for history enthusiasts, scholars, and anyone interested in discovering the hidden depths of this Mediterranean gem.

In den 50ern durch die Pin up Fotografie zum Kunst- und somit auch zum Lustobjekt geworden, ist der Nylonstrumpf schon lange nicht mehr ausschließlich ein Kleidungsstück.Nylons sind seit Jahrzehnten die erotischste Wunderwaffe, um bei Männern wahre Leidenschaft auszulösen! Egal, ob sie nun unter einem geilen Minirock hervorschauen, an der Unterwäsche mit Strapsen gehalten werden, unten mit hochhackigen Schuhen abschließen oder als Strumpfhose knackige Popos umhüllen ¿ Nylons verfehlen niemals ihre unglaubliche Wirkung Männerträume wahr zu machen - bei diesem Anblick wird wohl jeder Mann zum Fetischisten¿ In diesem Buch bekommt ihr einen tiefen Einblick über die Fetisch-Gelüste mit Nylons¿es lohnt sich!Jeden Tag genießt Damian die eleganten Nylon bestrumpften Beine seiner Sekretärin Nadja und kann sich diesem Zauber nicht entziehen. Ihre unendlich langen Beine wirken so unglaublich verführerisch und wecken seine geheimsten Sehnsüchte. Vor lauter Begierde wird jeder Augenblick mit ihr zum größten Erlebnis und wecken seine Lust auf ein sofortiges Liebesspiel. Schon die Vorfreude lässt ihn fast explodieren, wäre da nicht seine eigene Firmenpolitik nie etwas mit Angestellten anzufangen.Ich möchte Euch in den Bann der erotischen Phantasien ziehen mit Fotos und fesselnden Geschichten über die sinnliche Art in Nylons verwöhnt zu werden. Texte und Bilder sind eine Hommage an eines der weiblichsten Kleidungsstücke, das heutzutage schon fast vom Aussterben bedroht ist. Lass Dich inspirieren...

Immer mehr Menschen entdecken Kunst als Bereicherung ihres Lebens und sehen im Kunstkauf eine Alternative zu anderen Investments. Doch der Markt ist schwer zu durchschauen, wirkt oft elitär und unberechenbar. Damit ist jetzt Schluss: Der Markt erfährt eine digitale Revolution ¿ und damit eine längst fällige Demokratisierung, von der sowohl die Künstler als auch die Käufer profitieren.Die versierte Kunsthistorikerin und Kunstmarktexpertin Ruth Polleit Riechert stellt in diesem Buch ihre selbst entwickelte und über viele Jahre erprobte Methode vor, um Kunst fachgerecht zu beurteilen und qualitativ hochwertige Werke zum fairen Preis zu erstehen. Sie zeigt, warum jetzt die beste Zeit ist, um Kunst zu kaufen, und wie Sie dabei vorgehen.Die 2. Auflage wurde aktualisiert und um neue sowie internationale Marktentwicklungen ergänzt; zudem werden Trends wie Künstliche Intelligenz, NFTs oder Blockchain eingeordnet sowie die Folgen der Corona-Pandemie auf den Markt beschrieben.Sie erfahren: ¿ Wie sich der Kunstmarkt verändert und welche Vorteile Sie davon haben¿ Wie Sie gute Kunst erkennen und welche Qualitätskriterien Ihnen helfen¿ Welche Kunst sich als Geldanlage eignet und wie Sie ihren Wert einschätzen¿ Ob es sich lohnt, in Kunst zu investieren, und welche Anlagestrategie aus der Finanzindustrie Ihnen hilft¿ Wie die neuen Technologien Sie beim Kauf unterstützen

Der kompakte Leitfaden für alle, die noch nicht wissen, wie sie ihr erstes Buch erfolgreich auf den Buchmarkt bringen.Sie sind frustriert, weil Sie keine Zeit zum Schreiben finden, mit einer Schreibblockade kämpfen oder sich mit der Überarbeitung Ihres Manuskripts überfordert fühlen?Sie sind unsicher, wie Sie das Schreibhandwerk lernen, einen Verlag finden oder Ihr Buch selbst veröffentlichen können?Ihnen graut vor Marketing, dem Aufbau Ihrer Internetpräsenz oder der deutschen Bürokratie?Lösen Sie die obigen Probleme doch einfach durch diesen Autorenratgeber!Darin lernen Sie Schritt für Schritt mithilfe vieler Aufgaben, Tipps und Checklisten:- wie Sie schneller und effizienter Ihr Manuskript fertigstellen und für eine Veröffentlichung vorbereiten- aus den vielfältigen Veröffentlichungsmöglichkeiten die für Sie und Ihre Bücher passende auszuwählen- welche Marketingmaßnahmen notwendig sind, um Ihr Zielpublikum zu erreichen, eine treue Leserschaft zu gewinnen und sich im Büchermarkt zu etablieren- wie Sie Ihre Schreibkarriere systematisch und unter Erfüllung gesetzlicher Vorschriften aufbauen- wie Sie sich ein unterstützendes Netzwerk aus lesenden und schreibenden Gleichgesinnten schaffen, mit dem Sie Ihren Traum vom Schreiben leben könnenUmfangreich erweiterte, aktualisierte und komplett überarbeitete Neuausgabe von ¿Autor werden in vier Schritten¿

Der Tod hält Einzug ins Halfway House ......und mit ihm stößt ein mysteriöser neuer Gast zu den Bewohnern der alten Villa.Rose Grey ist überglücklich. Endlich haben ihre drei Brüder begriffen, dass sie noch immer lebt. Oder zumindest existiert. Als Geist, unsichtbar für die Augen ihrer Familie, ist sie seit Jahren zur Einsamkeit verdammt, bis ein Fremder mitten in der Nacht im Gasthaus für magische Wesen in Not landet.Al kann sie nicht nur sehen, es gelingt Rose sogar, ihn zu berühren. Etwas, das bisher noch nie funktioniert hat, denn Spuken ist gar nicht so leicht und unglaublich anstrengend. Helfen will Al ihr allerdings nicht. Wenn es nach ihm ginge, säße er jetzt in einer einsamen Hütte im Wald weit weg von den Greys und sämtlichen sterblichen Seelen.Aber blöderweise weckt diese Berührung einen alten Wunsch in Rose, den sie sich immer verboten hat: noch einmal zu leben, eine eigene Familie zu gründen und alt zu werden. Mit Al an ihrer Seite.Doch wie soll das gehen, wenn ihr Körper vor über drei Jahren gestorben ist? Und was hat Al überhaupt erst ins Halfway House geführt? Welche Geheimnisse versteckt er hinter seinem dunklen Mantel und den stechenden eisblauen Augen?Jetzt lesen und herausfinden!Geist der Dryade ist Band 4 einer spannenden Serie zauberhaft-kitschiger Liebesgeschichten voller paranormaler Wesen, die ihren Platz in der magischen Welt erst finden müssen.

Leitmotiv des Steirischen Jahrbuchs für Politik - etabliert als Standardwerk der Dokumentation und Analyse des steirischen Zeitgeschehens, eingebettet in den größeren österreichischen, europäischen und internationalen Zusammenhang - und Ziel der Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber ist es, eine umfassende und pluralistische Darstellung der wesentlichen Entwicklungen in Politik und Gesellschaft im vorangegangenen Jahr zu bieten.

In this volume of selected essays and interviews, the author explores a number of fundamental issues regarding Armenia's foreign and security policies and scrutinizes the political culture as the framework within which positions have been defined and solutions have been sought. The previously published and unpublished material collectively analyze the political thinking that characterized the response to challenges the Third Republic faced and failed to address from the standpoint of statehood versus a vague but powerful nationalism. The author achieves this difficult task by studying themes such as Armenia and Armenians as agents of their own history as opposed to the dominant sense of victimhood, maximalism confused with patriotism, the role of mediators and other states as saviors, the comfort zone of illusions and legends as opposed to hard realism and pragmatism. Libaridian argues that the dominant but faulty framework led leaders of the state and Diaspora to a policy that bet on war rather than peace, a second Karabakh war that Armenia lost in 2020, a war that should have been avoided.

A collection of free verse poems that delve deep into the sense of self, freedom, and the magical connection between the inner world and the external world; created for the truth found within, and the flutter that comes with dreams.

Based on the blockbuster 2022 solo show in London, KAWS: NEW FICTION documents the ground-breaking, multi-layered exhibition that presented the artist's new and recent works in physical and augmented reality. A unique collaboration between the acclaimed artist KAWS, the Serpentine Galleries, digital art platform Acute Art, and the online video game phenomenon Fortnite, KAWS: NEW FICTION bridges the gap between the physical and virtual worlds, showcasing KAWS's artworks as they've never been seen before. This one-of-a-kind book chronicles the iconic KAWS figure as it journeys through viewing the exhibition's paintings, sculptures, site-specific additional artworks revealed via augmented reality (visible at the show through a dedicated AR app), and the virtual recreation of the physical gallery simultaneously featured in Fortnite. KAWS: NEW FICTION is a celebration of the unprecedented exhibition, and KAWS's creative influence, as it was experienced in physical, virtual, and augmented realities.

Divided Warriors is a gripping sci-fi romance in the Intergalactic Enosis: The Pyxis System series.

Broken Warriors is a gripping sci-fi romance in the Intergalactic Enosis: The Pyxis System series.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."—The Washington Post • A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times • "The book everyone is talking about."—PoliticoThe inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious."A sumptuous feast of astonishing tales...The more one reads, the more one wishes to read."—NPR.com • "A beautifully written, utterly dispiriting history of the man who attacked democracy." —The GuardianThe bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired.The Divider brings us into the Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical, revealing how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, which cabinet members had a resignation pact, whether Trump asked Japan’s prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize and much more. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those around Trump—how they justified working for a man they considered unfit for office, and where they drew their lines.The Divider is based on unprecedented access to key players, from President Trump himself to cabinet officers, military generals, close advisers, Trump family members, congressional leaders, foreign officials and others, some of whom have never told their story until now.

Die Festschrift für Anas Schakfeh, ehemaliger Präsident der Islamischen Glaubensgemeinschaft, würdigt ihn als Menschen und Denker. Er ist vielen bekannt als das langjährige Gesicht des Islams in Österreich, der sich einerseits für einen Platz der MuslimInnen in der Gesellschaft und andererseits für einen interreligiösen Dialog und ein gedeihliches Miteinander eingesetzt hat und als Verteidiger der Demokratie, mitunter auch in seiner ursprünglichen Heimat Syrien. Namhafte Persönlichkeiten aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Religion widmen dem Jubilar thematische Beiträge sowie persönliche Erinnerungen.

Wer erhält das Erbe eines Verstorbenen? Wer kann Rechte an einer Erbschaft geltend machen und wer entscheidet über deren Verteilung? Die Antworten darauf fielen in früheren Epochen und je nach Gesellschaft, Milieu und Kultur anders aus. Rechtliche, ökonomische, und soziale Normen und Praktiken besaßen unterschiedliches Gewicht. Ebenso variierten Zukunftserwartungen sowie Familienvorstellungen und familiale Netzwerke, die den Besitztransfer häufig entscheidend prägten.Jürgen Dinkel analysiert in dieser Studie erstmals und aus vergleichender Perspektive, wie Gesellschaften im transatlantisch-europäischen Raum vom 19. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert diese Fragen beantworteten. Dabei wird sichtbar, wie Individuen und Verwandtschaftsnetzwerke in lokalen, nationalen und transnationalen Bezugsrahmen ihre Erbpraktiken an sich wandelnde Bedingungen anpassten, um Vermögen in der Familie zu halten. Zugleich wird deutlich, wie Gesellschaften mit Ungleichheiten umgingen, und wann und warum die Gesetze, Institutionen und Praktiken entstanden, die bis in die Gegenwart tiefgehend individuelle Lebensentwürfe und gesellschaftliche Vermögensverteilungen beeinflussen.

The Central Synagogue of Sofia was built between 1905 and 1909 as a highly visible and monumental structure in the social, commercial, and religious center of the Bulgarian capital. Having survived the Second World War, it remains a testament to early 20th century Sofia and its majority Sephardic Jewish community. In its architecture, it reflects the city's search for its own modern, European, and national identity, whilst attesting to the struggle of the Sofia Jewish community headed by its chief rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis to claim its place within the nation building project. In this first in-depth study of the building, Fani Gargova illuminates the history of the Central Synagogue of Sofia and the motivations behind its construction by positioning its appearance and architecture vis-à-vis Central European Reform synagogues and the emerging Bulgarian national style. By looking at the building through the lens of urban planning, building material and technique, liturgy, as well as musical performance, this book significantly expands the common notion of synagogue architecture.