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Was J. K. Rowling für England war, war J. J. Voskuil für die Niederlande: Sein siebenbändiger Monumentalroman Het Bureau löste dort in den späten 1990ern eine wahre "Büromanie" aus, mit landesweiten Fanklubs und langen Schlangen vor den Buchhandlungen. Het Bureau schildert das Leben und Treiben an einem, übrigens real existierenden, Volkskundeinstitut in Amsterdam. Der höchst amüsante Roman lieferte die Grundlage für einen Übersetzungsworkshop des Masterstudiengangs "Literarisches Übersetzen und Kulturtransfer" der Universität Münster sowie für einen literarischen "Abend mit J.J. Voskuil" im Haus der Niederlande. Hierzu waren u.a. die Witwe des Autors, Lousje Voskuil-Haspers, und der Literaturkritiker der Tageszeitung De Volkskrant Arjan Peters eingeladen. Dieser Band präsentiert Übersetzungen, Vorträge sowie ein Interview mit Lousje Voskuil und bietet zugleich die erste Veröffentlichung von Texten des Erfolgsautors außerhalb seines Sprachraums. So kann sich nun auch der deutschsprachige Leser einen Einblick in die Welt eines scheinbar normalen Bureaubetriebs verschaffen, der schon vielen Niederländern manch schlaflose Lesenacht beschert hat.

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Was J. K. Rowling für England war, war J. J. Voskuil für die Niederlande: Sein siebenbändiger Monumentalroman Het Bureau löste dort in den späten 1990ern eine wahre "Büromanie" aus, mit landesweiten Fanklubs und langen Schlangen vor den Buchhandlungen. Het Bureau schildert das Leben und Treiben an einem, übrigens real existierenden, Volkskundeinstitut in Amsterdam. Der höchst amüsante Roman lieferte die Grundlage für einen Übersetzungsworkshop des Masterstudiengangs "Literarisches Übersetzen und Kulturtransfer" der Universität Münster sowie für einen literarischen "Abend mit J.J. Voskuil" im Haus der Niederlande. Hierzu waren u.a. die Witwe des Autors, Lousje Voskuil-Haspers, und der Literaturkritiker der Tageszeitung De Volkskrant Arjan Peters eingeladen. Dieser Band präsentiert Übersetzungen, Vorträge sowie ein Interview mit Lousje Voskuil und bietet zugleich die erste Veröffentlichung von Texten des Erfolgsautors außerhalb seines Sprachraums. So kann sich nun auch der deutschsprachige Leser einen Einblick in die Welt eines scheinbar normalen Bureaubetriebs verschaffen, der schon vielen Niederländern manch schlaflose Lesenacht beschert hat.

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The Nazis caught him, but they couldn't hold him--a gripping WWII memoir from a D-Day paratrooper and American hero. A paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, James Sheeran was just a kid when he floated into Normandy on D-Day-only to be captured soon afterward by the Germans. Escaping from a POW train bound for Germany, Sheeran traveled behind enemy lines in France, eventually fighting alongside the French Resistance. After hooking up with Patton's advancing army, he fought admirably in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, and was ultimately awarded the Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and the Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor. Sheeran's breathtaking chronicle of his capture, daring escape, fierce guerilla resistance, and valor under fire is an unforgettable testament to the spirit of the American soldier.

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Este livro revela a importância do Daime na formação da identidade acreana. Destaca detalhes do caminho percorrido por Mestre Irineu e seus companheiros; aborda questões como sua relação com espíritas, esotéricos, militares e políticos e as estratégias de defesa utilizadas por este líder para proteger sua comunidade das perseguições. Todo o texto é ilustrado com fotos e mapas, além de reunir depoimentos dos primeiros participantes deste movimento religioso, muitos já falecidos ou com idades avançadas.

Santo Daime (Cult) --- Irineu Serra, Raimundo, --- Daime, Santo (Cult) --- Cults --- Serra, Raimundo Irineu, --- Mestre Irineu, --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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Marking the tercentenary of David Hume's birth, Annette Baier has created an engaging guide to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume's autobiography together with his writings and correspondence, finding in these personal experiences new ways to illuminate his ideas about religion, human nature, and the social order.Excerpts from Hume's autobiography at the beginning of each chapter open a window onto the eighteenth-century context in which Hume's philosophy developed. Famous in Christian Britain as a polymath and a nonbeliever, Hume recounts how his early encounters with clerical authority laid the foundation for his lifelong skepticism toward religion. In Scotland, where he grew up, he had been forced to study lists of sins in order to spot his own childish flaws, he reports. Later, as a young man, he witnessed the clergy's punishment of a pregnant unmarried servant, and this led him to question the violent consequences of the Church's emphasis on the doctrine of original sin. Baier's clear interpretation of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature explains the link between Hume's growing disillusionment and his belief that ethics should be based on investigations of human nature, not on religious dogma.Four months before he died, Hume concluded his autobiography with a eulogy he wrote for his own funeral. It makes no mention of his flaws, critics, or disappointments. Baier's more realistic account rivets our attention on connections between the way Hume lived and the way he thought-insights unavailable to Hume himself, perhaps, despite his lifelong introspection.

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