Bøger af Karen Green

"Set just before the digital revolution, Kait is a young woman searching for identity and community among the cast-outs, cast-offs, and other 'misfit toys' who refer to themselves as the Yellow Birds and follow a band called the Open Road from town to town. Just as Kait believes she has found her place among a group of Birds travelling together in a messy van, a young man with the eye-roll worthy name of Horizon sits beside her one night and alters her fragile plan for the foreseeable future. Amidst the whirlwind of the Open Road Tour, their growing feelings for one another soar to ecstatic heights, while propelling them toward an impending reckoning with their troubled pasts. Filled with sex, drugs, music, and even cults, readers won't be able to get enough of this bohemian love story, the groupie lifestyle, and the party within the party"--

This is a fantasy story about flower fairies Bluebell and Primrose, who are summoned to Never-Never land by the Fairy Queen. They are asked to go on a mission to find out what has happened to all the fairies and woodland creatures that have gone missing. Follow their adventure that shows how important friendship and bravery is.

Den politiske filosofis historie – frem til 1600 er den største kortlægning af den politiske filosofis historie på dansk. Bogen introducerer en bred palet af vigtige tænkere med en eller flere særligt udvalgte passager fra dennes forfatterskab, ledsaget af en indledende tekst, der sætter forfatterskabet i perspektiv. Her vil tænkeren og teksten blive introduceret i en bredere historisk kontekst, med særligt henblik på de argumenter, pointer og diskussioner, som det pågældende tekstuddrag lægger op til. Bogen illustrerer bredden og dybden i den politiske filosofis historie og giver inspiration til videre fordybelse, der rækker ud over værket selv.Bogen er blandt andre tiltænkt studerende på statskundskab, sociologi, filosofi, idéhistorie o.l., men værket vil også finde anvendelse i andre sammenhænge og henvende sig til et bredere publikum.Den politiske filosofis historie er redigeret af Joachim Wiewiura (f. 1987), ph.d. i politisk filosofi fra Københavns Universitet. Han er ansat ved Humanomics Research Centre, Institut for Kommunikation og Psykologi på Aalborg Universitet. Han har bl.a. redigeret bøgerne Offentlighedens rum (2019), Simmel: Sociologiens eventyrer (2019) og If Schools Didn’t Exist, der udkom på MIT Press i 2020.

Artist and writer Karen Green's second book originated in a search for a woman who had vanished: her Aunt Constance whom Green knew only from a few family photos and keepsakes. In her absence, Green has constructed an elliptical arrangement of artifacts from an untold life. In this rescued history, Green imagines for her aunt a childhood in which she is bold, reckless, perspicacious, mischievous; an adolescence ripe with desire and scarred by violation and loss; and an adulthood in which she strives to sing above the incessant din of violence. Constance is one half of a sister duo put to work performing as musical prodigies in the dirt-poor town of Oil City, Pennsylvania. during the Great Depression. She escapes as a teenager to the USO and tours a ravaged Italy during World War II. Soon after she returns to an unsparing life in New York City, she disappears. Green traces her dissolution in a deftly composed trove of letters Constance writes to her beloved sister and those she receives from dozens of men smitten by her stage persona, along with her drawings, collages and altered photographs. Though told mostly from Constance's point of view, Frail Sister is also haunted by the voices of the transient, the absent and the dead. The letters (a few real, many invented) expose not only the quotidian reality of war but also the ubiquitous brutality it throws into relief. Nimble, darkly funny and poignant, 'Frail Sister' is possessed by the disappeared, giving voice to the voiceless, bringing into a focus a life disintegrating at every edge.

Grounded in a close reading of the records of Joans trial and rehabilitation, on the early letters announcing her arrival at Chinon, and on three literary works; Christine de Pizans Ditie, Martin le Francs Le Champion des dames, and Alain Chartiers, Traite de l'Esperance, this controversial work argues that serious historians should accept that Joan was trained. It proposes that she was identified and taught how to behave in the expectation of the fulfillment of the Charlemagne Prophecy and other prophecies from the Joachite tradition. It explores the possibility that Christine de Pizan, who had been promoting these prophecies from the beginning of the century, had some hand in the process that resulted in Joans appearance and demonstrates, at the very least, that there are many links connecting Christine de Pizan to the knights who fought with Joan.