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The savage struggle to take control of the North American wilderness during the epic Seven Years War (1756-63) between France and England is a gripping tale. As the two European powers battled each other for global economic, political and military supremacy in what some have called the first world war, the brutal conflict took on a unique North American character, particularly in the role Native allies played on both sides.

Formal European tactics and military protocols were out of place in the harsh, unforgiving forests of the New World. Cavalry, mass infantry columns, and volley fire proved less effective in the heavily wooded terrain of North America than it did in Europe. What mattered in the colonial hinterland of New France and the British American colonies was an ability to navigate, travel, and survive in the uncharted wilderness. Equally important was the capacity to strike at the enemy with surprise, speed, and violence.

After all, the reward for victory was substantial – mastery of North America.

Ben and Charity Muldoon are 15-year-old twins who find themselves in the midst of politically charged events in the Saskatchewan River Valley in 1885. One day, as Ben is walking through a ravine, he encounters a Cree boy named Red Eagle, who quickly becomes his friend after a hair-raising rescue.

Ben eventually discovers that a confrontation between the North-West Mounted Police and the Natives, led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont, is imminent. As events unfold, Ben and Red Eagle witness the struggles of the Metis and Cree for recognition and the failed efforts to negotiate a settlement that ultimately lead to tragedy and war. Caught between his loyalty to Red Eagle and the authority of a Hudson's Bay Company uncle he has never trusted, Ben must decide where his allegiance lies. But as he soon learns, when it comes to friendship, there is no taking sides.

A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen’s Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.

The history of two hospitals formed for service in London, Ontario, in the First and Second World Wars. This story of sacrifice, hardship, and dedication is largely unknown and will inspire and inform the interested general reader.
Published by the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies and distributed by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the “Mountain of the Kurds” (Kurd Dagh) as the area has been called for centuries, had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war.

After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army withdrew from the region in 2012, enabling the Party of Democratic Union (PYD), the Syrian sister party of Abdullah Öcalan’s outlawed Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to first introduce a Kurdish self-administration and then, in 2014, to establish the Canton Afrin as one of the three parts of the heavily Kurdish Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, which is better known under the name Rojava.

This self-administration—which had seen multiparty municipal and regionwide elections in the summer and autumn of 2017, which included a far-reaching autonomy for a number of ethnic and religious groups, and which had provided a safe haven for up to 300,000 refugees from other parts of Syria—is now at risk of being annihilated by the Turkish invasion and occupation.

Thomas Schmidinger is one of the very few Europeans to have visited the Canton of Afrin. In this book, he gives an account of the history and the present situation of the region. In a number of interviews, he also gives inhabitants of the region from a variety of ethnicities, religions, political orientations, and walks of life the opportunity to speak for themselves. As things stand now, the book might seem to be in danger of becoming an epitaph for the “Mountain of the Kurds,” but as the author writes, “the battle for the Mountain of the Kurds is far from over yet.”

In the spring of 1971, the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history unfolded at a site nationally celebrated as the birthplace of freedom and democracy. With peace efforts at a standstill, the New England chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War had organized an event to rouse public support for their cause. Over the course of the long Memorial Day weekend, a band of more than two hundred young, fatigue-clad veterans sounded the alarm for peace and patriotism by marching—in reverse—the path Paul Revere had taken two centuries earlier when he called on the American colonists to rise against their British oppressors.

Enacting the parts of colonial militiamen, the veterans set off in patrol formation along the famed Battle Road, a route calculated to take them past Concord's Old North Bridge, onto Lexington's Battle Green, and up to Bunker Hill. Determined to reanimate the patriotic sentiments expressed by the area's many Revolutionary War memorials, they revealed how far the nation had veered from its ideals by staging reenactments of the brutal atrocities they had witnessed and perpetrated in the name of freedom on the other side of the world. "With an ironic twist," the fliers they distributed explained, "our presence in Indochina as viewed by a native of an occupied village easily coincides with the British army in America." To the selectmen of the town of Lexington who ordered their mass arrest, the veterans were defiling spaces sacred to the nation's Revolutionary past; to the hundreds of bystanders who fed, sheltered, and committed civil disobedience with them, they were an inspiration.

Elise Lemire tells this extraordinary story from the perspective of six men who played central roles in the events of May 1971. Based on more than one hundred interviews with participants and accompanied by nearly forty photographs and maps, Battle Green Vietnam demonstrates the power of mobilizing history, myth, and memorials to effect revolutionary change.

In the spring of 1971, the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history unfolded at a site nationally celebrated as the birthplace of freedom and democracy. With peace efforts at a standstill, the New England chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War had organized an event to rouse public support for their cause. Over the course of the long Memorial Day weekend, a band of more than two hundred young, fatigue-clad veterans sounded the alarm for peace and patriotism by marching—in reverse—the path Paul Revere had taken two centuries earlier when he called on the American colonists to rise against their British oppressors.

Enacting the parts of colonial militiamen, the veterans set off in patrol formation along the famed Battle Road, a route calculated to take them past Concord's Old North Bridge, onto Lexington's Battle Green, and up to Bunker Hill. Determined to reanimate the patriotic sentiments expressed by the area's many Revolutionary War memorials, they revealed how far the nation had veered from its ideals by staging reenactments of the brutal atrocities they had witnessed and perpetrated in the name of freedom on the other side of the world. "With an ironic twist," the fliers they distributed explained, "our presence in Indochina as viewed by a native of an occupied village easily coincides with the British army in America." To the selectmen of the town of Lexington who ordered their mass arrest, the veterans were defiling spaces sacred to the nation's Revolutionary past; to the hundreds of bystanders who fed, sheltered, and committed civil disobedience with them, they were an inspiration.

Elise Lemire tells this extraordinary story from the perspective of six men who played central roles in the events of May 1971. Based on more than one hundred interviews with participants and accompanied by nearly forty photographs and maps, Battle Green Vietnam demonstrates the power of mobilizing history, myth, and memorials to effect revolutionary change.

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period’s poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to stock shelves with war poetry. Readers bought thousands of volumes of poetry. Twenty years later, by the time Canada went to war again, no one remembered any of it.

Battle Lines traces the rise and disappearance of Canadian First World War poetry, and offers a striking and comprehensive account of its varied and vexing poetic gestures. As eagerly as Canadians took to the streets to express their support for the war, poets turned to their notebooks, and shared their interpretations of the global conflict, repeating and reshaping popular notions of, among others, national obligation, gendered responsibility, aesthetic power, and deathly presence.

The book focuses on the poetic interpretations of the Canadian soldier. He emerges as a contentious poetic subject, a figure of battle romance, and an emblem of modernist fragmentation and fractiousness. Centring the work of five exemplary Canadian war poets (Helena Coleman, John McCrae, Robert Service, Frank Prewett, and W.W.E. Ross), the book reveals their latent faith in collective action as well as conflicting recognition of modernist subjectivities. Battle Lines identifies the Great War as a long-overlooked period of poetic ferment, experimentation, reluctance, and challenge.

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period’s poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to stock shelves with war poetry. Readers bought thousands of volumes of poetry. Twenty years later, by the time Canada went to war again, no one remembered any of it.

Battle Lines traces the rise and disappearance of Canadian First World War poetry, and offers a striking and comprehensive account of its varied and vexing poetic gestures. As eagerly as Canadians took to the streets to express their support for the war, poets turned to their notebooks, and shared their interpretations of the global conflict, repeating and reshaping popular notions of, among others, national obligation, gendered responsibility, aesthetic power, and deathly presence.

The book focuses on the poetic interpretations of the Canadian soldier. He emerges as a contentious poetic subject, a figure of battle romance, and an emblem of modernist fragmentation and fractiousness. Centring the work of five exemplary Canadian war poets (Helena Coleman, John McCrae, Robert Service, Frank Prewett, and W.W.E. Ross), the book reveals their latent faith in collective action as well as conflicting recognition of modernist subjectivities. Battle Lines identifies the Great War as a long-overlooked period of poetic ferment, experimentation, reluctance, and challenge.

During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. As poetry's compressed forms traveled more quickly and easily than stories, novels, or essays through ephemeral print media, it moved alongside and engaged with news reports, often taking on the task of imagining the mental states of readers on receiving accounts from the war front. Newspaper and magazine poetry had long editorialized on political happenings—Indian wars, slavery and abolition, prison reform, women's rights—but the unprecedented scope of what has been called the first modern war, and the centrality of the issues involved for national futures, generated a powerful sense of single-mindedness among readers and writers that altered the terms of poetic expression.

In Battle Lines, Eliza Richards charts the transformation of Civil War poetry, arguing that it was fueled by a symbiotic relationship between the development of mass media networks and modern warfare. Focusing primarily on the North, Richards explores how poets working in this new environment mediated events via received literary traditions. Collectively and with a remarkable consistency, poems pulled out key features of events and drew on common tropes and practices to mythologize, commemorate, and ponder the consequences of distant battles. The lines of communication reached outward through newspapers and magazines to writers such as Dickinson, Whitman, and Melville, who drew their inspiration from their peers' poetic practices and reconfigured them in ways that bear the traces of their engagements.

During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. As poetry's compressed forms traveled more quickly and easily than stories, novels, or essays through ephemeral print media, it moved alongside and engaged with news reports, often taking on the task of imagining the mental states of readers on receiving accounts from the war front. Newspaper and magazine poetry had long editorialized on political happenings—Indian wars, slavery and abolition, prison reform, women's rights—but the unprecedented scope of what has been called the first modern war, and the centrality of the issues involved for national futures, generated a powerful sense of single-mindedness among readers and writers that altered the terms of poetic expression.

In Battle Lines, Eliza Richards charts the transformation of Civil War poetry, arguing that it was fueled by a symbiotic relationship between the development of mass media networks and modern warfare. Focusing primarily on the North, Richards explores how poets working in this new environment mediated events via received literary traditions. Collectively and with a remarkable consistency, poems pulled out key features of events and drew on common tropes and practices to mythologize, commemorate, and ponder the consequences of distant battles. The lines of communication reached outward through newspapers and magazines to writers such as Dickinson, Whitman, and Melville, who drew their inspiration from their peers' poetic practices and reconfigured them in ways that bear the traces of their engagements.

The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused?

An immense canvas in miniature, this central section of the ancient text is timeless and contemporary, asking how we can find inner peace in a world riven with conflict.

This volume addresses the politicization of linguistic features indexing sexual and gender non-normativity at the phonological, morphological, and discursive levels. In the context of masculinist, heteronormative, and transphobic backlash around the world, these groundbreaking studies adopt queer, trans, and feminist linguistic perspectives to examine how normativity is resisted and identity is stylized, negotiated, and reproduced in everyday text and talk. Part 1 focuses on self-determination/identification through phonetic and other resources. Part 2 focuses on debates over language reform and change. Part 3 examines the contestation of gender ideology using critical linguistic analytical tools.

War and conflict have always been a recurring aspect of human history with a considerable impact on the countries involved, the formation of communities, and the global regulations. Battlefield Tourism offers a holistic approach to tourism in locations affected by conflict, an underdeveloped area of research in the tourism and hospitality sector.

Using Leiper’s tourism system model, the authors examine battlefield tourism in terms of the demand, supply, intermediaries, supporting institutions, and tourist flows. The chapters comprise of a range of perspectives on different elements of battlefield tourism, including topics such as Special Interest Tourism, Tourism Development, Stakeholders, Sustainability, Marketing, and Reenactment. Introducing real-world case studies from across the globe, Battlefield Tourism contributes to the growing fields of dark tourism, destination and risk management, and tourism security.

The Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations series provides an insightful guide for policy makers, specialists and social scientists interested in the future of tourism in a society where uncertainness, anxiety and fear prevail.

Battlefields of Canada encompasses nearly 300 years of history and features sixteen of the most significant Canadian battles as well as some of the most comic or bizarre. Profusely illustrated with sketches, photographs, and detailed maps, each chapter sets the context of the battle in terms of the struggle of which it was part, and then describes the hour-by-hour events. A brief conclusion to each chapter assesses the consequences for the victors and losers, assigning its place in Canadian history. A chronology provides a comprehensive list of every Canadian battle since the early 1600s.

Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title

Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United States, and to a lesser extent Germany and Belgium, Lisa Namikas addresses the crisis from the perspectives of the two superpowers and explains with superb clarity the complex web of allies, clients, and neutral states influencing U.S.-Soviet competition.

Unlike any other work, Battleground Africa looks at events leading up to independence, then considers the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the series of U.N.-supported constitutional negotiations, and the crises of 1964 and 1965. Finding that the U.S. and the USSR each wanted to avoid a major confrontation, but also misunderstood its opponent's goals and wanted to avoid looking weak or losing its political standing in Africa, Namikas argues that a series of exaggerations and misjudgements helped to militarize the crisis, and ultimately, helped militarize the Cold War on the continent.

Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title

Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United States, and to a lesser extent Germany and Belgium, Lisa Namikas addresses the crisis from the perspectives of the two superpowers and explains with superb clarity the complex web of allies, clients, and neutral states influencing U.S.-Soviet competition.

Unlike any other work, Battleground Africa looks at events leading up to independence, then considers the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the series of U.N.-supported constitutional negotiations, and the crises of 1964 and 1965. Finding that the U.S. and the USSR each wanted to avoid a major confrontation, but also misunderstood its opponent's goals and wanted to avoid looking weak or losing its political standing in Africa, Namikas argues that a series of exaggerations and misjudgements helped to militarize the crisis, and ultimately, helped militarize the Cold War on the continent.

In recent years, Peter N. Stearns has established himself as the foremost historian of American emotional life. In books on anger, jealousy, "coolness," and body image, he has mapped out the basic terrain of the American psyche.
Now Stearns crowns his work of the past decade with this powerful volume, in which he reveals the fundamental dichotomy at the heart of the national character: a self-indulgent hedonism and the famed American informality on the one hand, and a deeply imbedded repressiveness on the other.
Whether hunting and gathering tribe or complex industrial civilization, every social group is governed by explicit and implicit guidelines on how to behave. But these definitions vary widely. The Japanese worry less about public drunkenness than Americans. Northern Europeans adhere to stricter standards than Americans when it comes to littering. Today, we swear more now and spit less, discuss sex more and death less.
With an emphasis on sex, culture, and discipline of the body, Stearns traces how particular anxieties take root, and how they express inherent tension in contemporary standards and a stubborn nostalgia for the previous nineteenth century regime.
Battleground of Desire explodes common wisdom about Americans in the twentieth century as normless and tolerant, emphasizing that most of us follow a litany of rules, governing everything from adultery to bad breath.

In recent years, Peter N. Stearns has established himself as the foremost historian of American emotional life. In books on anger, jealousy, "coolness," and body image, he has mapped out the basic terrain of the American psyche.
Now Stearns crowns his work of the past decade with this powerful volume, in which he reveals the fundamental dichotomy at the heart of the national character: a self-indulgent hedonism and the famed American informality on the one hand, and a deeply imbedded repressiveness on the other.
Whether hunting and gathering tribe or complex industrial civilization, every social group is governed by explicit and implicit guidelines on how to behave. But these definitions vary widely. The Japanese worry less about public drunkenness than Americans. Northern Europeans adhere to stricter standards than Americans when it comes to littering. Today, we swear more now and spit less, discuss sex more and death less.
With an emphasis on sex, culture, and discipline of the body, Stearns traces how particular anxieties take root, and how they express inherent tension in contemporary standards and a stubborn nostalgia for the previous nineteenth century regime.
Battleground of Desire explodes common wisdom about Americans in the twentieth century as normless and tolerant, emphasizing that most of us follow a litany of rules, governing everything from adultery to bad breath.

In the fifth book of this action-packed fantasy series, a young Earthling continues his seemingly endless quest for glory . . . but to what end?

It feels like a lifetime ago that the young, irreverent Victor Sandoval was pulled from Earth into an existence of battle and brutality in a mystifyingly magical world where the more one fights, kills, and survives, the greater their levels, class, skills, and attributes. And right now, things are pretty freaking great for Victor.

After causing the usual amount of mayhem elsewhere, he and his warrior-maiden ally, Valla, have finally taken a portal back to Fanwath—loaded up with more powers and treasure than they know what to do with. But stumbling upon Fainhallow, a school for studying the art of magic, Victor uncovers a revelation that shakes him to his very core.

And such personal chaos couldn’t come at a worse time. Because the advances Victor has made are pushing him to the brink of losing all control, awakening hidden aspects of his spirit and threatening to transform him into something very dark and very, very deadly. But then again, on Fanwath the deadlier you are now, the more alive you’re bound to be later . . .

The fifth volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with more than 750,000 views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

In the 21st century, it is no longer just the battles of the sexes, but individual battles of the sexes that pose challenges to how men and women relate to each other. Battles of the Sexes helps men and women understand their own sexual nature, as well that of the opposite sex, and develop sexual empathy for each other. Leading young adult health experts, Joe Malone, PhD and Sarah Harris, MS, RDN, provide insight into the mismatch both sexes endure between our rapidly changing culture and our inherited nature and the resulting battles both genders fight. Cutting-edge, yet understandable science is used to illustrate things like the effect of women’s menstrual cycles and the chemical and visual laws of attraction. Malone and Harris lay out what motivates the genders inside relationships, particularly men and their relationship with women and women and their relationship with food, in a way that encourages sexual empathy. Battles of the Sexes illuminates how couples can recognize chemical dangers to their bonds and gives singles valuable insights for dating, empowering loving, lasting, committed romance between men and women that will benefit not only individuals, but also our entire species.

Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to radical revolutions that were raging in other parts of the world. In the decades leading up to the Nineteenth Amendment, women activists had enjoyed great success as reformers, creating a political subculture with settlement houses and women's clubs as its cornerstones. Female volunteers piloted welfare programs as philanthropic ventures and used their organizations to pressure state, local, and national governments to assume responsibility for these programs.

These female activists perceived their efforts as selfless missions necessary for the protection of their homes, families, and children. In seeking to fulfill their "maternal" responsibilities, progressive women fundamentally altered the scope of the American state, recasting the welfare of mothers and children as an issue for public policy. At the same time, they carved out a new niche for women in the public sphere, allowing female activists to become respected authorities on questions of social welfare. Yet in the aftermath of the suffrage amendment, the influence of women reformers plummeted and the new social order once envisioned by progressives appeared only more remote.

Battling Miss Bolsheviki chronicles the ways women conservatives laid siege to this world of female reform, placing once-respected reformers beyond the pale of political respectability and forcing most women's clubs to jettison advocacy for social welfare measures. Overlooked by historians, these new activists turned the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Legion Auxiliary into vehicles for conservative political activism. Inspired by their twin desires to fulfill their new duties as voting citizens and prevent North American Bolsheviks from duplicating the success their comrades had enjoyed in Russia, they created a new political subculture for women activists. In a compelling narrative, Delegard reveals how the antiradicalism movement reshaped the terrain of women's politics, analyzing its enduring legacy for all female activists for the rest of the twentieth century and beyond.

Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to radical revolutions that were raging in other parts of the world. In the decades leading up to the Nineteenth Amendment, women activists had enjoyed great success as reformers, creating a political subculture with settlement houses and women's clubs as its cornerstones. Female volunteers piloted welfare programs as philanthropic ventures and used their organizations to pressure state, local, and national governments to assume responsibility for these programs.

These female activists perceived their efforts as selfless missions necessary for the protection of their homes, families, and children. In seeking to fulfill their "maternal" responsibilities, progressive women fundamentally altered the scope of the American state, recasting the welfare of mothers and children as an issue for public policy. At the same time, they carved out a new niche for women in the public sphere, allowing female activists to become respected authorities on questions of social welfare. Yet in the aftermath of the suffrage amendment, the influence of women reformers plummeted and the new social order once envisioned by progressives appeared only more remote.

Battling Miss Bolsheviki chronicles the ways women conservatives laid siege to this world of female reform, placing once-respected reformers beyond the pale of political respectability and forcing most women's clubs to jettison advocacy for social welfare measures. Overlooked by historians, these new activists turned the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Legion Auxiliary into vehicles for conservative political activism. Inspired by their twin desires to fulfill their new duties as voting citizens and prevent North American Bolsheviks from duplicating the success their comrades had enjoyed in Russia, they created a new political subculture for women activists. In a compelling narrative, Delegard reveals how the antiradicalism movement reshaped the terrain of women's politics, analyzing its enduring legacy for all female activists for the rest of the twentieth century and beyond.

Die wohl spektakulärste archäologische Entdeckung der vergangenen Jahrzehnte in der hellenistischen Metropole Pergamon ist der sog. Bau Z. Im Rahmen der Stadtgrabung unter der Leitung von Wolfgang Radt wurde dieses große Peristylgebäude in den Jahren 1990‒1993 ausgegraben. Die dabei entdeckten Ausstattungsbefunde – farbig gefasste Stukkaturen, Wandmalereien und Bodenmosaiken – geben intensive Einblicke in die antike Wohnkultur von Pergamon. Im Zentrum des vorliegenden Bandes stehen die Architektur und die Baugeschichte dieses Peristylhauses. Die komplexe bauliche Entwicklung der großen Anlage wird dabei über einen Zeitraum von nahezu fünfhundert Jahren minutiös verfolgt. Neben den Kontinuitäten einer Langfristnutzung ist ein bemerkenswerter Bedeutungswandel der Anlage festzustellen. Der Baukomplex scheint sich ‒ in seinen Anfängen wohl als Bestandteil von Sakralanlagen zwischen der Kultstätte der Demeter und dem Hera-Heiligtum konzipiert ‒ immer mehr zu einem repräsentativen Wohnhaus entwickelt zu haben, ohne die kultischen Funktionen ganz zu verlieren. Deutlich ablesbar ist dabei der Paradigmenwechsel in Anordnung, Gestaltung und Hierarchie von Räumen zur Zeit des Übergangs von den hellenistischen in die römischen Nutzungsphasen des Gebäudes. Die hellenistische Stuckausstattung von Bau Z, die zu den bemerkenswertesten Beispielen des sog. Ersten Pompejanischen Stils in Kleinasien gehört, steht im Fokus der Untersuchungen zum Wanddekor des Gebäudes. Aus zahllosen Kleinfragmenten geborgen, ließ sich der architektonisch gestaltete, plastische Schmuck in der Anordnung seiner Elemente und in seiner Farbigkeit rekonstruieren. Die Ergebnisse von Materialstudien zum Wandaufbau und zur Machart der Stuckteile unterstreichen die hohen technischen Fertigkeiten und die virtuose Gestaltung dieser Wandausstattung. Insgesamt entsteht ‒ erstmalig für Pergamon – ein äußerst intensives, dichtes und facettenreiches Bild eines antiken Peristylgebäudes.

Zweisprachige Ausgabe(deutsch/englisch): Armin Linkes Nachtaufnahmen zeigen die Leerstelle der Bauakademie als
Teil einer Schinkel-Spur im Berliner Stadtraum: Die rudimentäre Replik der
Gebäudeecke provoziert Fragen nach der künftigen Nutzung und Gestalt
dieses zentralen Orts. Trotz der gegenwärtigen Bundestagsmehrheit für eine
Rekonstruktion der historischen Fassaden – analog zur gerade fertiggestellten
Schlosskopie des Humboldt Forums – gibt es unter Architekt*innen und in der
Berliner Stadtgesellschaft deutlich differenziertere Vorstellungen zum Umgang
mit der Bauakademie. Es regt sich Widerstand gegen eine Vereinnahmung
dieser wichtigen Institution und Bauaufgabe durch eine Repräsentationspolitik,
die unter dem Motto „So viel Schinkel wie möglich“ mehr historische Spuren zu
verwischen droht als sie vorgeblich sichtbar machen will. Zu einem kritischen
Zeitpunkt liefert Bauakademie Berlin konzeptuelle Perspektiven für eine zeitgenössische
Bauakademie in Form von Texten, Architekturzeichnungen und
Künstlerfotos.
Mit Texten von Sandra Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Tanja Scheffler,
Dubravka Sekulić, Axel Sowa, Stephan Trüby

English description: Armin Linke’s night photography reveals the vacancy of the Bauakademie as a trace of Schinkel in Berlin’s urban fabric. The rudimentary replica of the corner construction raises questions about the future use and form of this centrally located site. Despite current majority support in Parliament for a reconstruction of the historical envelope―analogous to the recently completed Humboldt Forum―there are clearly more differentiated ideas among architects and urban society in Berlin about the future of the Bauakademie building. There is strong resistance to the appropriation of this important institution and building task by representational politics, that actually threaten to obscure more historical traces than they are supposed to make visible with the motto “As much Schinkel as possible”. At this important moment, Bauakademie Berlin offers conceptual perspectives for a contemporary Bauakademie in the form of texts, architectural drawings, and artist’s photographs.

With texts by Sandra Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Philipp Oswalt, Tanja Scheffler, Dubravka Sekulić, Axel Sowa, Stephan Trüby, and Andreas Zeese. Photographs by Armin Linke and Gili Merin

Gesundheit und Umweltverträglichkeit stehen im Fokus der Gesellschaft. Das Buch zeigt, wie gebaute Umwelt ästhetisch modern und zugleich gesund und umweltfreundlich sein kann. Es schlägt den Bogen zwischen Architektur als gestalterischer Aufgabe und baubiologischen Denkweisen.

Baubiologie ist die Lehre von den ganzheitlichen Wechselbeziehungen des Menschen und seiner gebauten Umwelt. Sie verbindet Baukultur mit Ökologie und Disziplinen wie Chemie, Biologie, Geologie und Psychologie.

Am Modell des Instituts für Baubiologie + Nachhaltigkeit (IBN) werden baubiologische Kriterien und Ansätze detailliert erläutert. Zahlreiche weitere aktuelle Projekte verdeutlichen, wie diese in verantwortungsbewusster, gesunder und damit nachhaltiger Architektur umgesetzt sind.

This is a study of Baudelaire's canonization in the critical debates of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on his role in the development of a modernist consciousness. Much recent work on Baudelaire assumes his modernism by emphasizing his relationship to current critical preoccupations—by sounding him out on issues of race and gender, for example, or by "correcting" his politics. The author begins from the premise that this updating of Baudelaire mistakenly takes him for our contemporary. Instead, she attempts to treat modernism as a historical problem by seeing Baudelaire as engaged in a more difficult dialogue with twentieth-century critics.

The book concentrates on two key moments in the literary history of the twentieth century, the periods following each world war. At these junctures French intellectuals intensely reconsidered their cultural patrimony and articulated something like a modernist consciousness. Baudelaire stood at the center of this process, becoming a sacred figure of modernism, and his poetry contributed to a radical reorienting of aesthetic sensibilities.

For the post-World War I period, the author focuses on Paul Valéry's essay "Baudelaire's Situation"; for post-World War II, on the virulent debate between Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Bataille over the question of Baudelaire's "bad faith." She argues that Sartre's resistance to the sacralization of Baudelaire and to the continuing formulation of a modernist ideology actually suggests a valuable way of rethinking Baudelaire's poetry and critiquing the modern consciousness. She attempts to show that something like an "aesthetics of bad faith" exists, and that it is a useful concept for understanding modernism in relationship to its own history.

Throughout, Baudelaire's poetry is examined in detail, with a focus on its relationship to his writings on caricature, on the problem of the "secret architecture," and on the place of allegory in a symbolist poetics. In the closing chapter, the author analyzes Baudelaire's denunciation of photography, which reveals the various tensions (or "bad faith") implicit in the modernist consciousness.

Vanessa Freerks analyzes how Baudrillard re-actualizes Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, investigating how themes and approaches in Baudrillard’s Consumer Society, Simulacra and Simulations and Symbolic Exchange and Death resonate with Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. This book fills a gap in the limited literature available on the relation between Baudrillard’s thought to that of Nietzsche and Heidegger.
Baudrillard with Nietzsche and Heidegger: A Contrastive Analysis is essential reading for students and scholars of Continental Philosophy, sociology, and cultural theory.

Zum Dimensionieren eines elektronischen Gerates reicht die Kenntnis der Schaltungstechnik allein nicht aus. Man muss auch die Eigenschaften der erforderlichen Bauelemente, also der Widerstande, Kondensatoren, Transistoren usw. genau kennen. Solche Angaben findet man nur in den Datenblattern der Hersteller oder in den einschlagigen Normen. Welche Bauelemente es gibt, wie sie funktionieren, was die Daten bedeuten und in welcher Grosenordnung sie liegen, davon ist in diesem Fachbuch die Rede.
Das Buch ermoglicht den Einstieg in die analoge Schaltungssimulation mit dem Netz werkanalyseprogramm MultiSimBlue und demonstriert an zahlreichen Beispielen, wie man auf diese Weise die charakteristischen Eigenschaften aus der Bibliothek von uber 100.000 Bauelementen simulieren und erklaren kann. Das Verstandnis fur die Funktionsweise der untersuchten Bauelemente und Schaltungen kann so auf eine sehr anschauliche Weise weiterentwickelt werden.
Den Abschnitten mit der Beschreibung der eigentlichen Bauelemente wurde ein theoretischer Teil vorangestellt, um die hierzu notwendigen Grundlagen zu vermitteln.
Mit diesem Buch gibt der Autor sein gesamtes Wissen, das er sich im Laufe der Zeit in der Industrie und dem Unterricht an einer Technikerschule angeeignet hat, an den Leser weiter.

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Angestoßen durch die Entwicklung neuer Baustoffe wie Stahl und Stahlbeton und ermöglicht durch immer zuverlässigere ingenieurwissenschaftliche Modelle strebten Konstrukteure in der Hochmoderne (etwa 1880–1970) wie nie zuvor nach immer größeren Weiten und Höhen bei gleichzeitiger Minimierung des Materialeinsatzes. Dem Erkunden struktureller Grenzen am Limit des Möglichen stand die zunehmende Eingrenzung in kodifizierte Limits des Zulässigen durch wachsende Regelungsapparate gegenüber. Der Band versammelt unterschiedliche Beiträge zu den Praktiken, Denkmustern und Haltungen von Konstrukteuren im Spannungsfeld dieser gegensätzlichen Facetten hochmodernen Konstruierens. Den neuartigen Zugang zur jüngeren Baugeschichte ergänzen Erkundungen zu den Kontinuitäten und Brüchen hochmodernen Effizienzdenkens im heutigen Bauwesen.

• Neue Reihe zum Bauen und Konstruieren in der Hochmoderne
• Ein neuartiger Zugang zur jüngeren Baugeschichte mit Beiträgen ausgewiesener Expert:innen
• Ergebnisse der Denkwerkstatt "Bauen am Limit" des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Kulturerbe Konstruktion"

Spurred by the development of new building materials such as steel and reinforced concrete, and facilitated by ever more reliable structural engineering models, designers in the high modernity (around 1880-1970) strove as never before to increase buildings’ width and height while minimising their use of materials. This exploration of structural boundaries at the limit of what was possible contrasted with an increase in confining, codified limits to what was permitted by growing systems of regulation. This volume brings together various contributions examining the practices, thought patterns and attitudes of designers and builders in the tension between these contrasting facets of high-modern construction. This novel approach to recent construction history is complemented by exploration of continuities and breaks between high-modern notions of efficiency and today’s building industry.

• Building and construction in the high modernity
• A new approach to the recent history of construction with contributions by recognized experts
• Results of the DFG priority program "Construction as cultural heritage"

Das 1918 gegründete südslawische Königreich hatte seine Eisenbahnlinien aus verschiedenen Reichen und Nationalstaaten geerbt. Der damals begonnene Ausbau eines „organischen" jugoslawischen Eisenbahnnetzes dauerte fast sechs Jahrzehnte. Er wurde erst im sozialistischen Jugoslawien mit der Fertigstellung der größten, teuersten und spektakulärsten Eisenbahnstrecke in Jugoslawien beendet. Der 25-jährige Ausbau dieser Verbindung zwischen Belgrad und der montenegrinischen Adriaküste steht im Fokus dieses Buches. Außer einer Planungs-, Bau-, Institutionen- und Finanzierungsgeschichte des sozialistischen Großvorhabens bietet es auch den Einblick in die Erfahrungen der am Bau beteiligten Unternehmen. Mit gleichem Gewicht thematisiert der Autor auf der Makroebene die Prozesse der ökonomischen und politischen Dezentralisierung bzw. Desintegration Jugoslawiens während jener Zeit, und wie diese Prozesse den Bau der Strecke beeinflusst haben. Der Prozess der Konföderalisierung Jugoslawiens in den 1960er Jahren wird dabei aus der ökonomischen Perspektive analysiert und anders als in der vorherrschenden Literatur a priori als Folge der gescheiterten Wirtschaftsreformen betrachtet.

Mit einem spektakulären Bauprojekt wollte die UNESCO in den 1950er Jahren der Idee internationaler Völkerverständigung durch Kultur Ausdruck verleihen. Für dessen Realisierung wandte sie sich an die führenden Vertreter moderner Architektur, die CIAM, vertreten durch Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer u. a. Die Publikation legt durch eine detaillierte Quellenrecherche die Netzwerkstrukturen beider Organisationen offen. Sie zeigt auf, wie die UNESCO einen internationalen Kulturkanon auf der Basis moderner kunsttheoretischer Ideen und Konzepte der Vorkriegszeit zu etablieren versuchte. Dabei arbeitet sie nicht zuletzt das Interesse der CIAM an dem prestigeträchtigen Bauprojekt heraus: eine für alle Welt sichtbare Ablösung des historischen Akademismus durch die moderne Architektur.

Das rechtliche und wirtschaftliche Umfeld für Planer in der Schweiz wird vermittelt und projektbezogene Rahmenbedingungen wie Planverträge, Haftung/Versicherung, das Vergabewesen, Honorare oder die Bürotätigkeit, aber auch das besondere Verhältnis der Schweiz zur EU erläutert.

Nicht nur Peter Zumthor und Herzog & de Meuron, auch andere Schweizer Architekten prägen die zeitgenössische Architekturszene. Das Buch dokumentiert 25 Gebäude in der Schweiz von 15 einflussreichen Schweizer Architekten: vom dichten urbanen Raum bis ins alpine Umfeld; Ingenieurs- und Handwerkskunst mit traditionellen Materialien und moderner Bautechnik. 4 Autoren analysieren die Vielfalt und Qualität der Schweizer Baukultur.

Das Interesse am Baustoff Lehm, der seine Nachhaltigkeit über Jahrhunderte bewiesen hat, wächst. Leichtlehm, leicht und auch leicht verarbeitbar, wird als vielseitiger und zukunftweisender Lehmbaustoff für den modernen computergestützten Holzbau oder die Erneuerung historischen Lehmfachwerks dargestellt. Ausgewogene, durch das Mischungsverhältnis steuerbare bauphysikalische Eigenschaften ermöglichen klimagerechtes, ressourcenschonendes Bauen in den verschiedensten Klimazonen. Wärmespeicherung, Feuchte-, Schall- und Brandschutz des üblichen Holzbaus werden verbessert, die Konstruktionen vereinfacht.

Das Standardwerk beschreibt detailliert Herstellungsverfahren, gibt praktische Tipps für den Selbstbau und zeigt die Anwendung von Fertigbaustoffen in zeitgemäßer Bauabwicklung.

Die 8. Auflage wurde aktualisiert und um neue internationale Beispiele erweitert. Das Buch richtet sich an Bauherren, Architekten und Ingenieure, Denkmalpfleger, Hersteller und Handwerker sowie an Selbstbauer.

Volhards Standardwerk kann als umfassende, gut verständliche und sichere Einführung in das Thema nur empfohlen werden. Eine bessere Darstellung ist auf dem deutschen Buchmarkt nicht zu haben. (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schulze)

Das Interesse an Lehm als Material ist ungebremst. Leichtlehm, leicht wiegend und auch leicht zu verarbeiten, ist ein vielseitiger und zukunftweisender Baustoff für den modernen computergestützten Holzbau wie für die Erneuerung historischen Lehmfachwerks. Ausgewogene, durch das Mischungsverhältnis steuerbare bauphysikalische Eigenschaften ermöglichen klimagerechtes, ressourcenschonendes Bauen in den verschiedensten Klimazonen. So werden Wärmespeicherung, Feuchte-, Schall- und Brandschutz des üblichen Holzbaus verbessert, die Konstruktionen vereinfacht.

Volhards anerkanntes Standardwerk beschreibt detailliert die Herstellungsverfahren, gibt praktische Tipps für den Selbstbau und zeigt die Anwendung von Fertigbaustoffen in zeitgemäßer Bauabwicklung. Die 9. Auflage wurde korrigiert und aktualisiert.

Das natürliche Material Papier ist derzeit Gegenstand der Forschung und Erprobung in der Baupraxis. Es ist kostengünstig herstellbar, besteht aus nachwachsendem Rohstoff und ist vollkommen rezyklierbar.

Der Schwerpunkt der Verwendung liegt dabei auf der temporären Nutzung, etwa in Übergangsbauten für Schulen, Notunterkünfte oder „Microhomes". Richtig vor Nässe und Feuer geschützt, erweist sich das Material als fest und haltbar. Und auch der architektonische Anspruch kommt dabei keineswegs zu kurz, wie Beispiele von Pritzker-Preisträger Shigeru Ban zeigen: die Grundschule Chengdu, die Paper Concert Hall in Aquila oder die Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch waren jeweils ein Zeichen der Hoffnung nach verheerenden Erdbeben.

Die Einführung erklärt die Grundlagen des Bauens mit Papier und zeigt spannende Anwendungen.

Wie und warum bauen und wohnen immer mehr Menschen in Gemeinschaft? Welche Ausprägungen dieses Phänomens existieren und was können Architektur und Baukultur in diesem Zusammenhang leisten?

Das Buch zeigt 26 in Deutschland und überwiegend im europäischen Ausland realisierte Bauten, die als Baugruppenprojekte, von Genossenschaften oder Wohnungsbaugesellschaften errichtet wurden und Antwort auf diese Fragen geben. Sie reagieren mit unterschiedlichen Konzepten auf veränderte Lebensentwürfe und vielfältige Standorte. Mithilfe von innovativen Planungs- und Bauprozessen werden Lösungen entwickelt, die unmittelbar auf die Wünsche und Anforderungen der Bewohner ausgerichtet sind. Dabei steht die Idee im Zentrum, in individuellen Wohnungen und zugleich gemeinschaftlich unter einem Dach zu leben, Nachbarschaft und Freundschaft zu pflegen sowie Raum und soziale Verantwortung zu teilen. Klassische und moderne Lebensmodelle lassen sich somit verbinden.

In vertiefenden Essays werden Hintergrundinformationen zum gemeinschaftlichen Bauen und Wohnen gegeben: vom volkswirtschaftlichen Nutzen dieser Wohnformen, über Fragen der Grundstücksvergabe bis hin zu sozialen Anliegen und rechtlichem Reglungsbedarf.

Die urbane Landschaft der Peloponnes befand sich am Anbruch der römischen Kaiserzeit im Wandel. Die alten griechischen Poleis sahen sich nicht zuletzt durch die Neugründung der römischen coloniae Korinth und Patrai mit den geänderten soziokulturellen Konstellationen des Imperium Romanum konfrontiert. Mit der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird erstmals eine komplexere Beurteilung der inneren Urbanisierung auf der Peloponnes, verstanden als kulturhistorischer Entwicklungsprozess urbaner Lebensformen, für den Zeitraum vom ausgehenden 1. Jh. v. Chr. bis in flavisch-trajanische Zeit vorgenommen. Zu diesem Zweck werden die Veränderungen innerhalb der materiellen Existenzgrundlagen der colonia Korinth sowie der beiden griechischen Poleis Sparta und Argos exemplarisch analysiert und hinsichtlich ihrer Implikationen für die Sinnstiftung einer städtischen Identität hinterfragt. Die zuvor beobachteten beobachteten urbanistischen Phänomene werden schließlich in den weiter gefassten Rahmen der peloponnesischen Städtelandschaft im kulturellen Wandel eingeordnet und die dabei zu Tage tretenden regionalen Divergenzen begründet.