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  Life on Mars: Poems , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

  In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracy K. Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001379/bk_high_001379_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Immaterial Photograph

  The Immaterial Photograph ab 48.99 € als Taschenbuch: The Obsolescence of the Photograph as Object in the Digital Era. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Kunst & Musik,

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  The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media

  The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media ab 40.49 € als epub eBook: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium (eBook, PDF)

  This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.

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  Displaced: Alternate Reality, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 602min

  The year is 2040, and Eric Ryan hates technology. In an era where automated systems and AI robots perform most work obligations, scores of humans have lost their societal value. As these displaced people struggle with their new reality, Eric sympathizes with their hardship.Once a neuropsychologist, his career ended when medical tech pushed him into obsolescence. Now a community therapist, he spends his days working with the displaced, helping them craft meaning in a world that no longer needs them. Then one day, a robot unexpectedly marches into the counseling center for mental health services. Eric is forced to work with the embodiment of what he loathes, and while doing so, he uncovers a damning secret. With his life at a low point, he shelves his professional obligations and investigates the revelation. However, he quickly learns that solving the mystery will only be possible with help from an unlikely source. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Posvistak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193114/bk_acx0_193114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Analogue Men , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 529min

  Do you ever feel like you might have just one more chance to get on top of your life and make things happen? Andrew Van Fleet and Bamberg Davis Kirchner have parted company. Private equity has let him go without a fuss, and he's opting for a job that will let him spend more time at home. But the house is overrun by iPads and teenage hormones and conversations that have moved on without him. Plus his ailing father is now lodged in the granny flat, convalescing from surgery with his scrappy bulldog in tow. And then there's Brian Brightman, the expensive fading star at the radio station Andrew's signed up to manage, still gotcha-calling and dropping single entendres as if it's the '80s. He, too, is starting to wonder if the 21st century might prove to be his second best. He's Andrew's worst nightmare, but they're thrown together on a road trip to face their shared fear of obsolescence, with hilarious consequences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rhys Muldoon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026085/bk_adbl_026085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction

  This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and contact-induced language change. It also shows how close interwoven fields such as social history, contact linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics are in accounting for their formation and maintenance, providing a thorough description of the lesser-known varieties of English and their relevance for language spread and change.

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  Shady Characters (eBook, ePUB)

  Keith Houston's entertaining book, inspired by his popular blog shadycharacters.co.uk, tells the unexpected stories of some unusual, and familiar, typographical marks and reveals a fascinating history of writing.Every character we write or type is a link to the past, and in today's printed, electronic and scrawled writing their history stares right back at us. This book charts the lives of some of the most intriguing examples, like how the pilcrow went from its noble origins in ancient Greece to near obsolescence, only to be revived again in word processing software. Each character reflects the bust and boom endured by punctuation with each new technological innovation and together they form a rich history of written communication.Keith Houston is the founder of ShadyCharacters.co.uk, where he writes about the unusual stories behind some well-known - and some rather more outlandish - marks of punctuation.

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  Freud (eBook, ePUB)

  The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait of the creator of psychoanalysis, this book explores the man in all his complexity alongside an interpretation of his theories that cuts through the stereotypes that surround him. The development of Freud's thinking is addressed not only in the context of his personal life, but also in that of society and culture at large, while the impact of his thinking on subsequent issues of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory is fully examined. Whitebook demonstrates that declarations of Freud's obsolescence are premature, and, with his clear and engaging style, brings this vivid figure to life in compelling and readable fashion.

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  Economics of Fulfillment

  Economics of Fulfillment ab 20.99 € als epub eBook: The Obsolescence of Socialism and Capitalism and an Economic Philosophy for the Future. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Religion,

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