Michael Schreiber – författare

Complete with never-before-seen photos and a selection of iconic artworks, an unfiltered and intimate chronicle of the storied Hollywood life of Don Bachardy, the acclaimed portrait artist who, as famed author Christopher Isherwood's life partner, was half of America's most famous gay couple for over three decades, and whose subjects and friends include an astounding array of Hollywood and literary celebrities.';Believe me baby, this is notjust a book, sugar, its a marvelous dance with words,enchanting, heady and daring!' LizaMinnelli A figure as fascinating as any of his celebrated subjects, Don Bachardy has lived an extraordinary life at the heart of Hollywood, literary, and artistic circles. His drawings and paintings reside in museums throughout Europe and the United States, and include portraits of movie stars, writers, artists, and public and private figures of every backgroundfrom Bette Davis and Joan Crawford to Tennessee Williams and Truman Capoteall rendered in a candid, expressive style unmistakably the artist's own. In this unique oral biography, Bachardy recounts his astonishing story, providing illuminating recollections of celebrity portrait sittings and revelations about his 30-year relationship with Christopher Isherwood. From their meeting in the 1950s until Isherwood's death in 1986, theirs was a legendary love story, courageous and uncompromising for its time, and remarkable in any era for the creative collaborations and art it continues to inspire. Drawn from one-on-one interviews and conversations conducted at the Santa Monica home Bachardy shared with Isherwood, Michael Schreiber has crafted a biography unlike any other, filled with tantalizing celebrity tales set against the backdrop of Bachardy's artistic and personal journey. Wise, warm, and thoroughly unflinching, this is a fresh and revealing portrait of a life lived with boundless bravery, curiosity, and love.

Lauded by Jerry Saltz as “one of the most reactionary yet radical visions of art,” The Young and Evil tells the story of a group of artists and writers active during the first half of the twentieth century, when homosexuality was as problematic for American culture as figuration was for modernist painting.These artists—including Paul Cadmus, Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein, Charles Henri Ford, Jared French, Margaret Hoening French, George Platt Lynes, Bernard Perlin, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Alexander Jensen Yow, and their circle—were new social creatures, playfully and boldly homosexual at a time when it was both criminalized and pathologized. They pursued a modernism of the body—driven by eroticism and bounded by intimacy, forming a hothouse world within a world that doesn’t nicely fit any subsequent narrative of modern American art. In their work, they looked away from abstraction toward older sources and models—classical and archaic forms of figuration and Renaissance techniques. What might be seen as a reactionary aesthetic maneuver was made in the service of radical content—endeavoring to depict their own lives. Their little-known history is presented here through never-before-exhibited photographs, sculptures, drawings, ephemera, and rarely seen major paintings—offering the first view of its kind into their interwoven intellectual, artistic, and personal lives. Edited by Jarrett Earnest, who also curated the exhibition, The Young and Evil features new scholarship by art historians Ann Reynolds and Kenneth E. Silver and an interview with Alexander Jensen Yow by Michael Schreiber.

The Romanistische Arbeitshefte (Romance Studies Textbooks), edited by Georgia Veldre-Gerner and Volker Noll since 2004, have been constant and reliable companions for students of Romance Studies for more than fifty years. In their conception, they are designed as a reflection of the present state of research with an orientation towards application and the specific needs and difficulties of students. Thus they provide a reliable instrument for getting to grips with various areas of Romance linguistic studies and encourage students to utilise their newly-acquired knowledge with integrated exercises.

Dieses 2006 in erster Auflage erschienene Arbeitsheft hebt sich von anderen Einführungen in die Übersetzungs- bzw. Translationswissenschaft in folgenden Punkten ab: Es ist sprachbezogen (Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch, z.T. im Kontrast zum Deutschen), und es beschränkt sich auf ausgewählte Grundlagen (Geschichte der Übersetzungstheorie und -praxis; Grundfragen der Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschwissenschaft; sprachenpaarbezogene Übersetzungswissenschaft).

Für die vorliegende zweite Auflage, wurden – neben zahlreichen bibliographischen Aktualisierungen – mehrere Erweiterungen vorgenommen: So wurden u.a. eigene Teilkapitel zur Translationsethik, zur korpusbasierten Translationswissenschaft und zur Rhetorik und Stilistik aufgenommen.

Alle Kapitel enthalten bibliographische Hinweise und Arbeitsaufgaben.

Das Arbeitsheft richtet sich an BA- und MA-Studierende in Studiengängen zum Übersetzen und Dolmetschen sowie an interessierte Romanistinnen und Romanisten.

Dieses 2006 in erster Auflage erschienene Arbeitsheft hebt sich von anderen Einführungen in die Übersetzungs- bzw. Translationswissenschaft in folgenden Punkten ab: Es ist sprachbezogen (Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch, z.T. im Kontrast zum Deutschen), und es beschränkt sich auf ausgewählte Grundlagen (Geschichte der Übersetzungstheorie und -praxis; Grundfragen der Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschwissenschaft; sprachenpaarbezogene Übersetzungswissenschaft).

Für die vorliegende zweite Auflage, wurden – neben zahlreichen bibliographischen Aktualisierungen – mehrere Erweiterungen vorgenommen: So wurden u.a. eigene Teilkapitel zur Translationsethik, zur korpusbasierten Translationswissenschaft und zur Rhetorik und Stilistik aufgenommen.

Alle Kapitel enthalten bibliographische Hinweise und Arbeitsaufgaben.

Das Arbeitsheft richtet sich an BA- und MA-Studierende in Studiengängen zum Übersetzen und Dolmetschen sowie an interessierte Romanistinnen und Romanisten.

Das Arbeitsheft, das sich primär an Studierende und Lehrende in den Studiengängen für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen sowie an interessierte RomanistInnen richtet, unterscheidet sich von anderen Einführungen und Lehrbüchern vor allem in den folgenden Punkten: Es ist sprachbezogen, ohne sich auf ein einziges Sprachenpaar zu beschränken, denn es bezieht sich auf drei romanische Sprachen (Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch) sowie auf das Deutsche (als Vergleichsgrundlage). Und es konzentriert sich auf ausgewählte Grundlagen aus drei Themenbereichen: Das erste Kapitel ist den historischen Grundlagen gewidmet und bietet einen Abriss der Geschichte der Übersetzungstheorie und -praxis in Frankreich, Spanien und Italien. Kapitel 2 gilt den theoretischen Grundlagen der modernen Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschwissenschaft. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf französisch-, italienisch- und spanischsprachigen Autoren, welche in deutschsprachigen Einführungen ansonsten oft nur am Rande oder gar nicht behandelt werden. Das dritte Kapitel befasst sich mit Grundlagen der sprachenpaarbezogenen Übersetzungswissenschaft und zeigt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele sprachlich bedingte Probleme der romanisch-deutschen und innerromanischen Übersetzung auf. Alle Kapitel enthalten gezielte bibliographische Hinweise sowie Arbeitsaufgaben, die zu einer vertiefenden Beschäftigung mit der Materie anregen sollen.

An overview of the latest computational materials science methods on an atomic scale. The authors present the physical and mathematical background in sufficient detail for this highly current and important topic, but without unnecessary complications. They focus on approaches with industrial relevance, covering real-life applications taken from concrete projects that range from tribology modeling to performance optimization of integrated circuits. Following an introduction to the fundamentals, the book describes the most relevant approaches, covering such classical simulation methods as simple and reactive force field methods, as well as highly accurate quantum-mechanical methods ranging from density-functional theory to Hartree-Fock and beyond. A review of the increasingly important multiscale approaches rounds off this section. The last section demonstrates and illustrates the capabilities of the methods previously described using recent real-life examples of industrial applications. As a result, readers gain a heightened user awareness, since the authors clearly state the conditions of applicability for the respective modeling methods so as to avoid fatal mistakes.

An overview of the latest computational materials science methods on an atomic scale. The authors present the physical and mathematical background in sufficient detail for this highly current and important topic, but without unnecessary complications. They focus on approaches with industrial relevance, covering real-life applications taken from concrete projects that range from tribology modeling to performance optimization of integrated circuits. Following an introduction to the fundamentals, the book describes the most relevant approaches, covering such classical simulation methods as simple and reactive force field methods, as well as highly accurate quantum-mechanical methods ranging from density-functional theory to Hartree-Fock and beyond. A review of the increasingly important multiscale approaches rounds off this section. The last section demonstrates and illustrates the capabilities of the methods previously described using recent real-life examples of industrial applications. As a result, readers gain a heightened user awareness, since the authors clearly state the conditions of applicability for the respective modeling methods so as to avoid fatal mistakes.

In recent years statistical physics has made significant progress as a result of advances in numerical techniques. While good textbooks exist on the general aspects of statistical physics, the numerical methods and the new developments based on large-scale computing are not usually adequately presented. In this book 16 experts describe the application of methods of statistical physics to various areas in physics such as disordered materials, quasicrystals, semiconductors, and also to other areas beyond physics, such as financial markets, game theory, evolution, and traffic planning, in which statistical physics has recently become significant. In this way the universality of the underlying concepts and methods such as fractals, random matrix theory, time series, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, becomes clear. The topics are covered by introductory, tutorial presentations.

Materials science has assumed a key position for new technological dev- opments, and is therefore strongly supported by industry and governments. Nowadays it occupies a bridging position between physics, chemistry and - gineering and extends from basic science in physics and chemistry on the atomic scale to large-scale applications in industry. The increasing number of materials science study courses at universities underlines the present and future importance of understanding and developing materials for the future. The contributions to this book evolved from the lectures of such a course, namely the Heraeus summer school on “New Materials for Today, Tomorrow and Beyond”, held at Chemnitz University of Technology in October 2004. Looking at the rapidly developing communications industry, it is obvious that a large part of current research for future materials is devoted to the understanding of materials to be used in nanometer (nm) scale devices. It is therefore not surprising that ?ve of the six lectures collected in this volume aredevotedmoreor less directly to the nm scale,while the ?rstonetreats one ofthecentralunsolvedproblemsofcondensedmatterphysicsand–becauseof thewidespreadindustrialapplicationofglassesineverydaylife–touchingalso materialsscience.Someofthematerialsdiscussedherearealreadyusedtoday, for others the development has proceeded far enough that their application can be expected in the near future. Yet others, however, we will not be ready to use until some years from now, assuming that the di?culties connected with their application are solved in the near future.

Materials science has assumed a key position for new technological dev- opments, and is therefore strongly supported by industry and governments. Nowadays it occupies a bridging position between physics, chemistry and - gineering and extends from basic science in physics and chemistry on the atomic scale to large-scale applications in industry. The increasing number of materials science study courses at universities underlines the present and future importance of understanding and developing materials for the future. The contributions to this book evolved from the lectures of such a course, namely the Heraeus summer school on “New Materials for Today, Tomorrow and Beyond”, held at Chemnitz University of Technology in October 2004. Looking at the rapidly developing communications industry, it is obvious that a large part of current research for future materials is devoted to the understanding of materials to be used in nanometer (nm) scale devices. It is therefore not surprising that ?ve of the six lectures collected in this volume aredevotedmoreor less directly to the nm scale,while the ?rstonetreats one ofthecentralunsolvedproblemsofcondensedmatterphysicsand–becauseof thewidespreadindustrialapplicationofglassesineverydaylife–touchingalso materialsscience.Someofthematerialsdiscussedherearealreadyusedtoday, for others the development has proceeded far enough that their application can be expected in the near future. Yet others, however, we will not be ready to use until some years from now, assuming that the di?culties connected with their application are solved in the near future.

In recent years statistical physics has made significant progress as a result of advances in numerical techniques. While good textbooks exist on the general aspects of statistical physics, the numerical methods and the new developments based on large-scale computing are not usually adequately presented. In this book 16 experts describe the application of methods of statistical physics to various areas in physics such as disordered materials, quasicrystals, semiconductors, and also to other areas beyond physics, such as financial markets, game theory, evolution, and traffic planning, in which statistical physics has recently become significant. In this way the universality of the underlying concepts and methods such as fractals, random matrix theory, time series, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, becomes clear. The topics are covered by introductory, tutorial presentations.