Judith Schalansky

For each island, this book provides information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore.

Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will

Atlas of Remote Islands

Een oudere lerares biologie staat aan het eind van haar loopbaan.

Bildungsroman

Der Hals der Giraffe

A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky's beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations?from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island?and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.

Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Verzeichnis einiger Verluste

A biting allegory of the former East Germany follows the experiences of biology teacher Inge Lohmark, who wonders at a world that refutes the laws of nature she teaches before she is powerfully attracted to a ninth-grade student. By the author of Atlas of Remote Islands. 25,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Giraffe's Neck

Giraffen mit kurzen Hälsen und eine Schule ohne Kinder: drei Tage aus dem Leben einer Biologielehrerin - die letzte ihrer Art. (Buchrücken verso).

femtio öar som jag aldrig besökt och aldrig kommer att besöka

Atlas över avlägsna öar

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

An Inventory of Losses

When was the last time a book on typography made you swoon? Just wait until you feast your eyes on Fraktur MonAmour, Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky's love letter to Blackletter fonts. Blackletter, also known asFraktur or Gothic type, was commonly used throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. By the end of the Renaissance it had mostly been replaced by the typeface Latin Antiqua. The use of Blackletter type became taboo in Germany after World War II because it was incorrectly associated with the Nazis, who actually banned its use in 1941 because it was falsely believed to be a Jewish invention. Revelations about the true history and meaning of Blackletter type have resultedin a resurgence in usage by graphic designers. Companies such as Nike, Reebok, and Coca-Cola now use Fraktur intheir advertising. It decorates posters, album covers, and even skin in the form of tattoos. But a comprehensive collectionof the most beautiful classic faces, as well as the best new variations, has been missing until now. Fraktur Mon Amour reproduces 300 variations of Blackletter fonts, ranging from historical fonts to contemporary reinventions, in a sensuous, beautifully crafted, hot-pink prayer book-style catalog that is destined to become a fetish object for designers and type enthusiasts. Each Blackletter font is presented on a full page along with its complete alphabet, date of origin, the name of its designer, and its original foundry. On the facing page is a composition created fromthat font that explores the subversive beauty of this unique typeface. In addition, 137 of these fonts—including fourcreated exclusively for this book—are collected on an enclosed CD (Mac and PC) for free private and restricted commercial use. Fraktur Mon Amour is the winner of several awards, including the Type Directors Club of New York's 2007 Award for Typographic Excellence.

Fraktur Mon Amour

Atlas over fjerne øyer

Atlante delle isole remote. Cinquanta isole dove non sono mai stata e mai andrò

fünfzig Inseln, auf denen ich nie war und niemals sein werde

Taschenatlas der abgelegenen Inseln

romance de formação

Inventario de algumas perdas

Jackie Smith

Inventory of Losses

padesát ostrovů, které jsem nikdy nenavštívila a nikdy nenavštívím

Atlas odlehlých ostrovů

Inventario di alcune cose perdute

"Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been teaching biology for more than thirty years. But nothing will change the fact that her school is going to be closed in four years: In this dwindling town in the eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Inge's husband, who was a cattle inseminator before the reunification, is now breeding ostriches. Their daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the United States years ago and has no intention of having children. Everyone is resisting the course of nature that Inge teaches every day in class.When Inge finds herself experiencing intense feelings for a ninth-grade girl, her biologically determined worldview is shaken. And in increasingly outlandish ways, she tries to save what can no longer be saved"--

El cuello de la jirafa

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Warwick Prize Winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss. With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these objects speak for themselves: she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.

De lessen van mevrouw Lohmark

Biologianopettaja Inge Lohmark on ihmisvihaaja ja ääridarwinisti. Hän on opettanut samassa koulussa yli kolmekymmentä vuotta. Ingen usko luonnonvalintaan ja vahvimman voittoon on ehdoton.

Judith Schalansky

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