Bøger om Sent 20. århundrede

Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world

Packed full of facts alongside quotes from the era's movers and shakers, this little book explores the key events, ideas and style that defined the 1970s.

Packed full of facts and quotes, this little book explores the key events, icons and ideas that defined the 1980s.

Packed full of facts and quotes - from civil rights leaders and counterculture icons to writers, artists and musicians - this little book captures the key events, icons and ideas that defined the 1960s.

"A member of the so-called Silent Generation, Michael Hadley has a great deal to say in his twilight years. Opening with his Depression-era childhood on a lonely lighthouse on the west coast of Vancouver Island, this remarkably nuanced memoir spans decades, countries, and oceans."--

It has been over a decade since Marion Crook arrived in the Cariboo for her first job out of nursing school. The vast rural territory that once left her awestruck now feels like home, as she embraces life on the ranch with her husband, Carl, three young children, and numerous farm animals. But things are far from idyllic.Overseeing a small staff of irrepressible nurses serving a public health district the size of a small country brings new challenges every day. From runaway patients and needle-phobic hockey players to cultural misunderstandings and heartbreaking cases of abuse and neglect, Marion never knows what is coming next. The 1970s bring signs of social progress as women gain more autonomy and the region grows more culturally diverse. Yet, old prejudices persist, and Marion must fight for her patients, as well as for her adopted son.Recounted with warmth, compassion, and riveting detail, Always On Call is a fascinating portrait of the hectic life of a rural nurse and highlights the importance of the helping professions.

The story of a young man leaving home for the first time to experience life beyond the small conservative Midwest town in South Dakota. The narrative expresses the young man's thoughts and actions on the new experiences and people that cross his path during his time in the military in other countries and the Vietnam War. There are many tales of combat and soldiers' experiences by the author. These stories express strength and will power. Will power and faith walk hand and hand through injury and death as a show of strength in body and soul to live or die. The living helping the wounded and dying call on the same strengths of will power and faith to be able to help someone and comfort them during their painful ordeal. The book is honest and blunt about the issues. The author grew up in a small conservative Midwest town in South Dakota. After high school he decided to enter the army to get training in a field he could use after returning home. He also needed the educational benefits to attend college. In the army he had an eye opening experience. He met many different people from different parts of the US that did not have his same values. He also observed different people from different countries and their values. He made a point to share his values and learn from others their customs and values. This gave him an insight to how to act and react with the people around him. From this point on this learning experience guided him through his life experiences when interacting with other people. His conservative upbringing projected kindness, understanding and a tolerance of other people's differences.

"Der Lauf der Dinge" erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Hübner/ Koslowski aus "Anleitung zum Glück" weiter. Rainer und Markus sind erwachsen geworden und versuchen sich in einer Punkband, während Werner und Heike ihre Kneipe unterhalten. Plötzlich taucht Jolanda auf. In den Neunzigern wird Punk und Kiffen durch Tekkno und Speed abgelöst. Markus gerät in den Strudel von Partys und Drogen und entfernt sich immer mehr von Rainer, der mittlerweile solider geworden ist. Als Markus schließlich abstürzt beschließen Rainer und Jolanda eine Familie zu gründen. Doch einfach ist das nicht ...

The twentieth century was an era of socialist revolutionary transformations and significant social-democratic reforms. By the twenty-first century, these socialist inspired movements have largely disappeared, their ideologies have been disavowed, and their institutions dismantled and replaced by global neoliberal capitalism. This book explores the social, political and economic forces driving these movements in Western Europe and in the USSR, explaining their initial triumphs and how they eventually faltered under the influence of global neoliberalism. David Lane examines the nature and appeal of neoliberal capitalism and analyses current social and political proposals for its reform or replacement, including statist forms of capitalism; social-democratic and ecological globalization reforms; self-sustaining autonomous communities; and globalised forms of social-democracy or socialism. Outlining his own proposal to replace global neoliberal capitalism with political systems based on a combination of market socialism and state planning, Lane provides important insights for ways forward, and a challenge for parties seeking political and economic alternatives.

«Paul Butler¿s monograph is a wonderful illustration of how a visual reading of McGahern can reveal previously undiscovered aspects of the writer¿s aesthetic approach. ¿The Deep Well of Want¿ of the title is an expression that captures the pain and hurt at the core of the life journey of both writer and photographer. Paul¿s exquisite photos allow us a special entry into ¿McGahern Land¿, whose landscape and people nurtured the writer¿s creative inspiration. This indispensable study will deepen McGahern readers¿ understanding of what lies at the core of his artistic quest.»(Eamon Maher, TU Dublin)This book represents a unique visualisation of the world of Irish writer John McGahern through his words and the imagery of artist Paul Butler. Traumatic events in the lives of both McGahern and Butler shaped their paths, creating a want to write in McGahern and a want to create imagery in Butler. Butler explores the difficult and complex childhood that the two shared, and through a series of beautiful images that he himself has created in McGahern¿s own part of Ireland, he draws parallels between them and, as Eamonn Wall says in his Preface, produces a rich and life-affirming appreciation of literature, art and imagery.

Confronted with rigors of war, Navy chaplain Robert Buchanan struggles with faith and fear. His determination to fulfill his mission as chaplain brings him face to face with the Devil in his dreams. He finds friendship, courage, and heartbreak in his tour of duty in Vietnam. The memory of war forever lingers in his memory.

Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new "punk audio visual aesthetic". A vital aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contemporaries worked in a pre-digital, analogue modality that nevertheless influenced the emergent digital audio visual culture of the 1990s and 2000s.

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This volume undertakes a comprehensive examination of issues of translation, adaptation, and intertextuality in Hungarian popular music. Focusing on the period of state socialism, the authors provide various examples of how musicians ¿ professionals and amateurs alike ¿ borrowed songs from distant times and places, reinventing them in a new political, technological, and esthetic environment. The case studies deal with a wide range of genresand styles that played an important role in Hungary, such as operetta, protest song, folk, jazz, pop, and rock. Placing the Hungarian experience in a regional context, the collection also gives insight into the music scenes of the neighboring countries through a major comparative study on the Beatles adaptations in the Eastern Bloc.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio proposes a perception of reality and of what lies beyond it. The rational, the irrational and the transrational are fundamentally linked to this author's writing. His writing is a philosophy of existence, with all its certainties and uncertainties. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's writing is marked by reflection and perpetual questioning. One might even say that it is writing at the frontiers of human thought in its relationship to knowledge and truth. The questions that pile up in Leclézio's novels bear witness to a kind of repeated anxiety that runs through the stories and the characters.

Stanislaw Jewgrafowitsch Petrow: Die ganze Menschheit ist ihm zu Dank verpflichtet.Geboren: 07.09.1939Rettung der Erde: 26.09.1983Gestorben: 19.05.2017Der Mensch ist ein Versuch Gottes oder der Natur. Dank der Entscheidung von Stanislaw Petrow geht dieser Versuch weiter. Hoffentlich noch ein paar hunderttausend Jahre lang. Deshalb gehört die Nacht seiner Entscheidung in jedes Geschichtsbuch.

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam,? part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At New York City's Riverside Church in 1967, Dr. King stood in front of a rapt audience and criticized the Vietnam War as a destructive act of force and a cruel manipulation of the poor?for those fighting on either side. He urged Americans to confront the harsh realities of war and consequently pursue a path where everyone is presented a choice, in his words, "a choice of nonviolent coexistence instead of violent coannihilation.?This beautifully designed hardcover edition presents Dr. King's speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.

This full color reproduction is an honest homage to the 1960s original history on the United States Army 5th Special Forces Group Airborne. 65+ full color pages of text and images made to look like the period piece.

After more than one year of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, thousands of civilians have been killed, and thousands of buildings, heritage sites, and entire cities have been damaged. Along with millions of other Ukrainian women and children, architectural historian Ievgeniia Gubkina had to leave the country, moving further away from the Russian threat in search of safety. Her hometown Kharkiv still remains a target for the Russian army. The war has dramatically changed the geographies of nearly all Ukrainians and returned the work of an archi­tec­tural critic to the traditional mainstream of journalism. This shift has taken Gubkina's thoughts from the academic context and made them more akin to war reporting. This book contains papers presented, printed, or published online by various media in different parts of the world during the first eight months of the all-out war. Most of the texts were written in late spring and summer 2022 after Ievgeniia and her teenage daughter had evacuated to Paris.

2014 war ein erstes Buch zu diesem Thema fertig geworden, seit 2020 ist es im Handel: "Geld und Preise in der DDR - Was bekamen wir für unser Geld?". Kein anderes Buch widmet sich so intensiv dem Thema Preise und der ganzen Breite der Ausgaben. Die Resonanz im Bekanntenkreis war sehr gut, alle steuerten Dokumente und Erinnerungsstücke bei. Also ging die Beschäftigung mit dem Thema weiter. Es wurde um neue Aspekte erweitert, um "Stipendium" und "Rente" als Einstieg in das Gebiet der Einkommen, ergänzt um Lohnstreifen, Lohnsteuern und SV-Beitrag. Außerdem wurde das Thema zeitlich nach "vorn" erweitert, um die Abschnitte zur Währungsreform 1948, zum Geldumtausch 1957, zu Wohnungsbau-Obligationen ab Ende der 1950er Jahre. Mit der ebenfalls behandelten Abschaffung der Lebensmittelkarten 1958 war auch eine umfassende Preisreform verbunden, viele der bis zum Ende der DDR gültigen Preise wurden damals festgelegt.Ein ebenfalls umfangreicher und sehr interessanter Abschnitt beschäftigt sich mit dem Hauskauf, dem dazu gehörigen Kredit und den notwendigen Handwerkerleistungen. Die zusammengestellten Handwerkerrechnungen machen den ungeheuren bürokratischen Aufwand deutlich, der mit dem Festhalten an konstanten Preisen für die Bevölkerung trotz steigender Material- und Personalkosten verbunden war. Der "rote Faden" wird im zweiten Teil durch das Thema "Preise" gebildet. Ein Ausweis der über lange Zeit konstant gehaltenen Preise sind die vielen heute noch vorhandenen Sachzeugen aus Kunststoff oder Metall mit "eingeprägtem" Preis. Mit vielen Dingen sind zusätzliche Erinnerungen verknüpft. Das betrifft beispielsweise Werbung / Propaganda auf Rechnungen oder das Ausfuhrverbot für hochwertige Konsumgüter. Oder einfach auch die Veränderung von Gepflogenheiten - kommt der Gasmann jeden Monat und kassiert den fälligen Beitrag oder werden Monatspauschalen vom Konto abgebucht?

Shigeko Kubota's pioneering video Sexual Healing (1998) presents an ambivalent take on her disabled husband Nam June Paik in physical therapy. Accompanied by Marvin Gaye's titular pop song, it considers love, sex, and care in old age within the much-debated field of Fluxus collaborations, and its ideal of working together as equals when fusing life and art. Worlding Love, Gender, and Care delves into the four decades of Kubota and Paik's time together, reflects on feminist worlding, and investigates the vital contribution of female Fluxus artists to art history.

An accurate representation of the struggle of Iraqi Jews in the 20th century, Halahmy sheds light on a struggle that is rarely heard, and tells a story that is hugely important.

A forensic study of war, imperial history and international relations, following the Second World War and leading into the Cold War and defeat of Western imperialism in Asia.