Under the Flavian Emperors the Roman public's hunger for gladiatorial combat has never been greater. The Emperor Domitian's passion for novelty and variety in the arena has given rise to a very different kind of warrior: the Gladiatrix. Lysandra, member of an ancient Spartan sect of warrior priestesses, is the sole survivor of a shipwreck off the coast of Asia Minor who finds herself the property of Lucius Balbus owner of the foremost Ludus for female gladiators in the Eastern Empire. Lysandra's Spartan pride refuses to accept her new status as a slave. Her deadly combat skills not only enable her to survive but win the adoration of the crowds, the respect of her Lanista, Balbus, and the admiration of Sextus Julius Frontinus, the provincial governor. But Lysandra's hubris has stirred up the ethnic factions of the ludus attracting the enmity of the Dacian warrior, Sorina, Gladiatrix Prima and leader of the Barbarian faction as well as inciting the hatred of the sadistic Numidian trainer Nastasen. Meanwhile Frontinus and Balbus plan the ultimate combat spectacle for the visit of the emperor's emissary, Trajanus, that will involve Lysandra in her greatest and deadliest trial. Autorid: Russell Whitfield
Vulcana is a fictional telling of the real story of Victorian 'strongwoman' Kate Williams (born 1874) starting when she runs away from home at 16 to travel with the love her life, William Roberts. They perform in music halls as Atlas and Vulcana -the climax of their act is that Kate can lift William over her head. She and William present themselves to the public as brother and sister as they travel the world because William is already married, and William's wife brings up Kate's children on her own. How long can this secret be kept? Kate is driven by love: for William, for her children, for performing, and for life, and Rebecca's gorgeous, immersive writing fits perfectly this brave, unconventional woman and her amazing story. Autorid: Rebecca F. John
From the depths of Space a new foe rises to do battle with mankind: the British Space Empire is threatened by the lemming-people of Yull, ruthless enemies who attack without mercy or fear. At the call of their war god, the Yull have turned on the Empire, hell bent on conquest and destruction in their rush towards the cliffs of destiny. From the depths of Space a new foe rises to do battle with mankind: the British Space Empire is threatened by the lemming-people of Yull, ruthless enemies who attack without mercy, fear, or any concept of self preservation. At the call of their war god, the Yull have turned on the Empire, hell-bent on conquest and destruction in their rush towards the cliffs of destiny. When the Yullian army is forced to retreat at the battle of the River Tam, the disgraced Colonel Vock swears revenge on the clan of Suruk the Slayer, Isambard Smith's homicidal alien friend. Now Smith and his crew must defend the Empire and civilize the stuffing out of a horde of bloodthirsty lemming-men—which would be easy were it not for a sinister robotics company, a Ghast general with a fondness for genetic engineering, and an ancient brotherhood of Morris Dancers—who may yet hold the key to victory. Autorid: Toby Frost
Take the mystery out of the paleo diet by discoveringand enjoyingthese super-nutritious and easy-to-fix low-carb, high-protein, and incredibly flavorful recipes. Pioneering paleo food blogger Becky Winkler has introduced hundreds of thousands of people to the benefits and pleasures of paleo cooking and eating. Specifically for people new to paleo, she has crafted Quick and Easy Paleo Recipes for Beginners. With amazing recipes (most of which are not available on her blog), sage advice on nutrition and well-being, and clear explanations of what kinds of food the paleo diet focuses on, you will be both a well-informed reader and a well-fed one with this book as your companion. Winkler takes a global approach to paleo food, with scrumptious dishes from the cuisines of East, South, and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the US. In the chicken chapter alone, to take one example, you will find: Yu Hsiang Chicken and Eggplant Indochinese Chile Chicken Roast Chicken with Zaatar and Yogurt Sauce Chiles Rellenos with Pepita-Avocado Crema Chicken Meatballs with Garlic-Kale Marinara Aside from these and other main courses featuring meat and fish, there are chapters devoted to vibrantly flavored appetizers, soups, sides, and desserts. Whether you come to paleo cooking for general health reasons, as part of a weight-loss effort, or as part of a cross-fit or other fitness routine, this book will convince you that you made the right choicefor your well-being and for your taste buds. It has a lifetime of ideas for amazing meals. Autorid: Becky Winkler
Documents on Contemporary Crafts is a book series published by Norwegian Crafts in collaboration with arnoldsche Art Publishers. The series provides a critical reflection of contemporary crafts in a wider context and in doing so asks questions about the ties between contemporary craft, fine art and design, thus helping to redefine the concept of crafts as such. The five volumes discuss such topics as skills, materiality, curating, collecting, perception and New Materialism. The more than thirty contributors range from leading craft theorists, such as Jorunn Veiteberg, Glenn Adamson and Liesbeth den Besten, via academics outside the craft tradition, such as Roger L. Kneebone, professor of surgical education, Trevor Marchand, professor of social anthropology, and Margaret Wasz, consultant psychological therapist, to emerging voices like Sarah R. Gilbert, Marianne Zamecznik and Stephen Knott.
Hans Hansen's Analog Project, which the artist has been engaged with since the 1990s, comprises a more or less complete document of all the equipment, utensils, and materials that he has needed and accumulated over his many years as a photographer making analogue prints. Is this collection an evidential record of a world-or rather a photographic practice-documented before it disappears, perhaps for good? Does it address a time of upheaval, in which digital media have begun to dominate the world? Would we use the terminology of crisis and catastrophe to describe this revolution, which is akin to the turmoil that photography once brought about? And what kind of archive is being created in the process? (Reinhard Braun) Hans Hansen, b. 1940 in Bielefeld, completed a training as a lithographer before going on to study applied graphics at the Kunstakademie Dü sseldorf. In 1962 he became a freelance (self-taught) photographer. He has lived and worked in Hamburg since 1967.
Bannkörbe waren eine einzigartige Form der Bienentechnologie, die vom 17. bis zum frühen 20. Jahr- hundert u. a. in Norddeutschland, insbesondere in Niedersachsen, verbreitet war. Neben ihrer Funktion als Nistkorb dienten Bannkörbe mit ihren bizarren charakteristischen Masken der Abwehr von bösen Geistern. Ihr Aussehen sollte im Halbdunklen zudem Honigdiebe und Bären vertreiben. Aladin Borioli hat eine umfangreiche Feldforschung in Text und Bild zu Bannkörben angefertigt, die heute noch existieren. Mit der tiefen Verwurzelung im magischen Glauben stellt diese Tradition einen außergewöhnlichen Gegenentwurf zum "modernen" Bienenstock und zur ökonomischen Optimierung von Bienenhaltung und Honigernte dar. Die Publikation mit Texten von Bas Blaasse erscheint anlässlich des C/O Berlin Talent Award 2023 und begleitet die Ausstellung Aladin Borioli. Bannkörbe bei C/O Berlin. Der C/O Berlin Talent Award wird durch die Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung ermöglicht. Aladin Borioli, geb. 1988 in der Schweiz, ist Künstler und arbeitet seit 2014 an dem Projekt Apian, das die jahrhundertealte Beziehung zwischen Bienen und Menschen erforscht. Er lebt und arbeitet in der französischen Schweiz. Sebastiaan ("Bas") Blaasse, geb. 1991 in den Niederlanden, lebt in Belgien und schreibt über Kunst und Kultur, kamerabasierte Medien und darstellende Künste.
The photobook Permanent Concern consists of a series of smartphone photographs that Cavalier took in the Netherlands in 2021. The objects and situations that he portrays are often recognizable and ordinary: from a plastic table to a brick wall blotched with paint or a girl's skipping rope. The full zoom used by Cavalier reveals-in much the same way as his presentation of the photographs as monochrome laser prints does-the inherent structure of his subjects and how, as "foreign objects", they break with the original order. In this way, Cavalier emphasizes the various aspects of urban planning, including among them the unintentional, the "mishap", which he characterizes as a quality that allows room for a subjective and personal use of the cities in which we live. Bertrand Cavalier, b. 1989 in France, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels.
Pan Daijing devises performances and exhibitions as Gesamtkunstwerke, total works of art in which architectural intervention, light, sound, and movement interact to tell stories that go beyond language. Her haunting compositions for voice and electronic instruments combine opera and noise music. Mute-in which the artist and composer examines silence and liveness-is Pan's biggest solo exhibition to date. This monograph is published in conjunction with the exhibition and in collaboration with Tai Kwun Contemporary is the first comprehensive presentation of Pan's work in the dynamic zone straddling music and visual art. Pan Daijing, b. 1991 in Guiyang, China, lives as an artist and composer in Berlin. She is one of the winners of the prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024. Sarah Johanna Theurer, b. 1988, is a curator, whose focus is on time-based arts and techno-social entanglements. She is currently working in the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.The third annual Alchemy Lecture took place in the fall of 2024 at York University, to a sold-out in-person audience and hundreds of online viewers tuning in from multiple continents. Gathered by Dr. Christina Sharpe, these Alchemistsfour thinkers and practitioners who work across a range of disciplines and geographiesshared their ideas of city life, its structures and architectures, and how radically different these can and should be organized to support community needs. Their urgent, poignant, and inventive lectures have been captured and expanded in these pages.Princeton assistant professor of architecture V. Mitch McEwen borrows the language of the swamp to suggest a city modeled on buoyancy: Lets dream a physicswhich is to say a calculability or maybe a comprehension towards calculabilitythat considers floating as something other than displacement. Iranian-American writer and professor Laleh Khalili dreams a city of radical kinship, in which even strangers have the means and desire to share a table; she suggests that (h]ospitality does not presume pre-existing bonds. It is about creating the bond through the rituals of reciprocal giving. In the Bantu/Kongo tradition, Brazilian architect and professor Gabriela Leandro Pereira points to dreams as the site from which all Black emancipation begins: Building and ruining, refusing and dissembling, cultivating and creating. What cities emerge from dreams that find their foundation in these gestures? And Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson examines how collectives form at the thresholds between things; this city of my dreaming is one that relentlessly chooses life, Black life, Palestinian life, Indigenous life, the life of the watered, aired and landed, the life of snow crystals, over and over again, across every scale, temporality and spatiality. Relentlessly.Conveyed here are clarion calls for new conceptions of the city. The four Alchemists in The City of Our Dreaming imagine the architectures and infrastructures that make possible, inevitable, and irresistible gestures of freedom, modes of sustenance, and the necessity and pleasure of breaking bread, together. Autorid: Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Pereira Leandro Gabriela
Four years have passed since Lysandra's epic but inconclusive battle with her hated rival Sorena in the arena of Halicarnassus and after which both combatants were granted their freedom by the ambitious consul, Trajanus. Now Sorena has found refuge among the Dacian hordes of Decebalus where she leads a vicious troop of horsewomen. Into her hands falls the young tribune Gaius Minervius Valerian and she ponders whether to deal him a slow and painful death or release him to journey back to Rome in shame and ignominy as the sole survivor of the empire's most humiliating defeat for half a millennium. Meanwhile, back in Halicarnassus, Lysandra has become accustomed to easy living and suffered a creeping and insidious addiction to alcohol that, together with her unabated hubris, is sapping both her self esteem and the friendship of those she loves most. But now the Emperor Domitian has called for a command performance at Rome's newly built Flavian Amphitheatre known to history as the Coliseum. Lysandra is invited to fight Rome's adored Gladiatrix Prima, the beautiful and deadly Illeana known as Aesalon Nocturna, the Midnight Falcon.Her record is devastating: thirty bouts; thirty wins- no draws or losses. Lysandra has to face up to all that she is and all that she must become as all roads lead to Rome.
As the largest alpine valley in the world, the San Luis Valley is a land of sand dunes, wetlands, and farmland-nearly all of it above 8,000 feet in elevation. It is characterized by an unparalleled range of physical geography, social, cultural, and economic diversity, and extraordinary environmental phenomena-all within a footprint of roughly 150 by 75 miles. Only sparsely covered by historians and geoscientists, the San Luis Valley has been home to mixed Hispanic ancestral villages, Spanish and Anglo settlements, Indigenous territories, and Catholic, Mormon, Amish, Hindu, and Buddhist communities. Today, the vast majority of land is owned by state or federal agencies or is used for agricultural production. Dominated by the presence of the Rio Grande, one of the main rivers in the American Southwest, the San Luis Valley is the headwaters of many lifeways that flow and branch out across the region. This publication summarizes M12 studio's Landlines Initiative, a multi-year engagement with Colorado's rural San Luis Valley, which took place from 2018 to 2022. M12 is a collaborative studio known for art projects that explore public space, rural cultures, and landscapes. Richard Saxton is an artist and University of Colorado professor whose work focuses primarily on rural knowledge and landscape. He is the Founder and Creative Director of M12 Studio. Margo Handwerker is a practitioner with M12 Studio and serves as Chief Curator and Director of the Texas State Galleries at Texas State University. Trent Segura is a practitioner with M12 Studio and independent graphic designer.
Neu gestaltet, überarbeitet und aktualisiert: die Neuausgabe von Marcella Hazans unvergänglichem Klassiker.§§Marcella Hazan ist eine der wichtigsten Kochbuchautorinnen der Welt. "Die klassische italienische Küche" ist ihr Meisterwerk. Hazan, im kulinarischen Eldorado der Emilia-Romagna aufgewachsen, wanderte in die USA aus, wo sie zur unangreifbaren Autorität der wahren, italienischen Geschmäcker aufstieg. Ihre Kochkurse sind Legende. Ihre Bücher sind Welterfolge, und das hat einen guten Grund: Marcellas Rezepte inspirieren kulinarische Analphabeten ebenso wie mit allen Wassern gewaschene Profis.§§"Ich lese dieses Kochbuch wie andere Menschen Romane." Fergus Henderson§"Wirklich unentbehrlich" Nigel Slater§"Wäre in meiner Küche nur Platz für ein Buch, es wäre dieses." Christian Seiler
Kommst du mit auf einen Spaziergang durch den Urwald? Ein Ameisenbär kommt daher, dicht gefolgt von einem Panther. Der Kolibri schwirrt über der Schildkröte, und wo will das Gürteltier denn hin? Oh, die Schwanzspitze einer Schlange, Gefahr?§Aber nanu, da taucht eine Hand auf. Wir folgen der Farbspur. Tatsächlich, einen ganzen Topf mit roter Farbe hat der Meister zur Hand. Alle wollen etwas davon: Der Papagei, der Marienkäfer und der Leopard. Jeder Einzelne bekommt eine prächtige Gestalt. Hier ein Federkleid, dort eine gestreiftes Fell, ein schillernder Panzer und prächtige Borsten. He, bitte nicht drängeln, alle kommen dran!§Die ganze farbige Pracht leuchtet unter der Sonne. "Bin ich schön?", fragt sich nicht nur der Tukan. Doch dann zieht eine dicke Regenwolke auf. Das ist nun mal der Lauf der Dinge ... Ein grosser Kreislauf ist hier im Gange und das Ende des Buches führt uns direkt an seinen Anfang zurück. Die Geschichte beginnt auf jeder Seite neu und ist nie zu Ende. Ganz ohne Worte ist doch alles gesagt.
