<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648</id><updated>2012-04-28T10:38:42.781+01:00</updated><title type='text'>exlibris</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>144</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-1208490715578566502</id><published>2012-04-28T10:38:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-04-28T10:38:42.818+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Statistical Methods for Psychology, David C. Howell, 4/2012</title><content type='html'>A thorough and rounded discussion of &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; statistics, mostly&lt;br&gt;related to the general linear model and its offshoots (ANOVA, ANCOVA,&lt;br&gt;single and multiple linear regression, logistic regression, log-linear&lt;br&gt;analysis, ...) from the perspective of a psychologist analysing&lt;br&gt;experimental data. Could be slightly less repetitive and a bit more&lt;br&gt;exhaustive in the mathematical treatment of statistical methods.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-1208490715578566502?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/1208490715578566502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/1208490715578566502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#1208490715578566502' title='Statistical Methods for Psychology, David C. Howell, 4/2012'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-8372522240282336926</id><published>2012-03-18T20:13:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-03-18T20:13:50.695Z</updated><title type='text'>Building a Meal, Herve This, 3/2012</title><content type='html'>Herve This is a scientist, food-lover and co-founder of the discipline now called Molecular Gastronomy. He writes from within a French culinary tradition, but sometimes acknowledges aspects of other national cuisines. This book is organised like a meal into appetisers, main courses and desserts, and in each section he discusses two dishes from a scientific (chemical/physical) and cultural perspective. Interspersed are excerpts from a series of interviews he has given on topics related to Molecular Gastronomy.&lt;div&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Near the end of the book he says &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s better to understand what one is doing and then to decide, in perfect liberty, what one wishes to do.&amp;quot;. This is a fitting motto for this book (as well as to his approach to cooking, I assume. It also strikes me as a fruitful and rewarding approach to life in general, greatly preferably to blindly following cargo cults.). He is a scientist, after all, and wishes to understand and explain. Therefore he often discusses experiments to investigate certain cooking phenomena and dictums, and summarises and explains their outcome in order to instill in the reader curiosity and an appreciation of a rational approach to cooking. He obviously cherishes French culinary tradition and the social aspects of cooking and eating in general, but at the same time he puts a scientists mind and approach to work on the phenomena involved in preparing food. The result is a ruthlessly questioning of what one might call culinary superstition, and a fundamentally positivistic belief in progress and improvement - all of it routed in tradition. Nostalgia is definitely not his thing.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The book to me strikes a perfect balance between, on the one hand, credibly transmitting love and appreciation of food, well-prepared dishes and the important social role that these play, and, on the other hand, employing physical and chemical principles to explain the forces at work in the kitchen. To be sure, this is a small book and therefore cannot and does not discuss chemical phenomena in any great detail, but Herve This is scientifically precise enough to make the reader appreciate the principles and reap benefits in terms of increased understanding.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-8372522240282336926?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8372522240282336926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8372522240282336926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#8372522240282336926' title='Building a Meal, Herve This, 3/2012'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-4518772053891086784</id><published>2012-03-10T11:43:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-03-10T11:43:42.113Z</updated><title type='text'>Die Vorzuege der Halbinsel, Dieter Bachmann, 3/2012</title><content type='html'>Der Autor ist Schweizer, der im fortgeschrittenen Alter einer lange gehegten Sehnsucht folgend zuerst nach Rom und nach Umbrien zieht. Das Buch erzaehlt aber nicht seine Lebensgeschichte, sondern ist letztlich eine im Wesentlichen ungeordnete Sammlung von relativ unzusammenhaengenden Eindruecken, Meditationen, Schilderungen und Kurzberichten aus seinem Leben in Italien.&lt;div&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Das Format ist fuer den Leser verwirrend, weil kaum Kontinuitaet besteht. Der Inhalt aber, die Form der Auseinandersetzung mit Italien, ist bewundernswert: hier versucht einer, all die widerspruechlichen Eindruecke und Erfahrungen, die er im Umgang mit einem weiten Spektrum der italienischen Kultur macht, ehrlich zu reflektieren und aufzuarbeiten. Seine Liebe zur italienischen Lebensart, zu Literatur, Film (Fellini!) und natuerlich Essen&amp;amp;Trinken kommt dabei genau so klar zum Ausdruck wie seine Abscheu vor Schlamperei, Umweltverschmutzung und Verbrechen, mit denen er konfrontiert wird. Der Autor versucht ganz klar, diese Zwiespaeltigkeit in fairer und ausgewogener Weise abzuhandeln, und ist dabei nicht unerfolgreich. Allerdings zieht sich ein negativer bis depressiver Grundton durch einen Grossteil des Buches, der bei aller Begeisterung fuer die positiven Aspekte Italiens doch die Ueberhand behaelt. Wenn de Autor zum Beispiel Brandstiftung auf seinem Grundstueck in Umbrien beschreibt, so ist ein gehoeriges Mass an Verbitterung durchaus verständlich; aber weshalb die Beschreibung eines Ausflugs zum Capo Santa Maria di Leuca zu einer Meditation ueber Muellströme verkommen muss, weiss wohl nur der Autor selbst - und ist wohl kaum als faire oder auch nur nachvollziehbare Aufarbeitung des Ausblicks auf das Meer von dort zu bezeichnen.&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;Das Buch endet mit einem Nachwort in Form eines Dialogs zwischen dem Autor und einem deutschen Soziologen, der seit Jahrzehnten in Italien lebt. Hier kommen tiefes Verständnis für die italienische Kultur zum Vorschein, die die vorhergehenden Schilderungen des Autors in ein milderes Licht tauchen, weil sie sie aus einem groesseren, geschichtlicheren, abgehobeneren Blickwinkel betrachten.&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;Letztlich bleibt ueber: Akkulturation ist ein langwieriger und fuer das Individuum sehr oft schmerzvoller Prozess, weil sie notwendiger an den Grundfesten des eigenen Wertesystems ruettelt - und mit steigendem Alter wird das nicht leichter. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-4518772053891086784?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/4518772053891086784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/4518772053891086784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#4518772053891086784' title='Die Vorzuege der Halbinsel, Dieter Bachmann, 3/2012'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-568082061696336967</id><published>2012-02-26T20:19:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-02-26T20:19:15.987Z</updated><title type='text'>Ich nannte ihn Krawatte, Milena Michiko Flasar, 2/2012</title><content type='html'>&amp;#220;ber weite Strecken ein unvergleichlich trauriges Buch: der Hikikomori&lt;br&gt;und der gefeuerte Salaryman im Park einer japanischen Gro&amp;#223;stadt fassen&lt;br&gt;ganz langsam und zart Vertrauen zueinander, und erz&amp;#228;hlen einander -&lt;br&gt;durchwegs kompromisslos tragische - Geschichten aus ihrem Leben.&lt;br&gt;Zumindest der junge Hikikomori lernt dadurch wieder Anteilnahme am&lt;br&gt;Geschick seiner Mitmenschen, und kann so aus seiner Apathieblase&lt;br&gt;ausbrechen und wieder am Leben teilnehmen. Ein ausgesprochen&lt;br&gt;bewegendes Hohelied auf Empathie und zwischenmenschliche Bande,&lt;br&gt;letztlich erf&amp;#252;llend, aber auch strapazi&amp;#246;s aufgrund der hohen&lt;br&gt;emotionalen Anforderungen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-568082061696336967?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/568082061696336967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/568082061696336967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#568082061696336967' title='Ich nannte ihn Krawatte, Milena Michiko Flasar, 2/2012'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-6539892189867390709</id><published>2012-01-15T21:09:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-15T21:09:57.642Z</updated><title type='text'>Ich und Kaminski, Daniel Kehlmann, 01/2012</title><content type='html'>Der unsympathische Kunstjournalist Sebastian Zoellner moechte eine Biographie ueber den alten und in Vergessenheit geratenen Maler Manuel Kaminski schreiben. Das Zusammentreffen der beiden wird zum Katalysator fuer einen glatten Neubeginn von Zoellner&amp;#39;s in allen Aspekten misglueckten Leben. Brutal zynisch, trotzdem oft auch humorvoll, mit reichlich Gelegenheit zum Fremdschaemen. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-6539892189867390709?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/6539892189867390709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/6539892189867390709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#6539892189867390709' title='Ich und Kaminski, Daniel Kehlmann, 01/2012'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-1019054595712939715</id><published>2011-12-30T10:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-30T10:43:00.564Z</updated><title type='text'>Vom Systemtrottel zum Wutbuerger, Eugen Maria Schulak und Rahim Taghizadegan, 12/2011</title><content type='html'>EIn bemerkenswertes philosophisches Buechlein, das, ausgehend vom nicht naeher argumentierten (unmittelbar?) bevorstehenden Zusammenbruch der staatlichen und herkoemmlichen privatwirtschaftlichen Systeme einen gesellschaftlichen und beruflichen Gegenentwurf skizziert. Dies geschieht in zwei Teilen, erstens einer karikierten Uebersteigerung der jetzigen Lebens- und Arbeitsverhaeltnisse, die dem Leser einen Spiegel vorhalten soll, um ihm die Sinnlosigkeit und Entmenschlichung seines derzeitigen Daseins klar zu machen. Zweitens dem groben Aufzeigen eines Auswegs, der im Wesentlichen aus vier Aspekten besteht: 1. einer Normalisierung des Konsums (auch um die drohende Einkommensreduzierung zu kompensieren); 2. einer Abnabelung von staatlichen Stellen und deren Leistungen; 3. einer Verweigerung der herkoemmlichen Politik und ihrer medialen Inszenierung; und letztlich 4. die selbstaendige berufliche Betaetigung als Ausleben einer Berufung - noetiger Weise schlecht bezahlt, aber postulierter Weise sinnstiftend. Dieser Gegenentwurf wird mit der Metapher des Gartens beschrieben. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Die Sprache der Autoren ist entzueckend: einerseits blumig und poetisch, andererseits direkt und beinahe brutal. Der Inhalt ist in erster Linie polemisch: die Praemisse des Buches, also der nahende Zerfall der westlichen Systeme, wird niemals erklaert oder plausibel gemacht. Der Ausweg wird zwar beschrieben und unter haeufigem Verweis auf die Natur des Menschen als ueberlegen praesentiert, aber auch das bleiben letztlich Behauptungen, von denen, zumindest fuer mich, nicht klar ist, wieso sie eine glaubwuerdige und langfristig taugliche Loesung darstellen. Dies trifft vor Allem auf das Hohelied auf die Selbstaendigkeit zu, das mir so nicht haltbar erscheint, insbesondere wenn man von einem Zerfall der bestehenden System, und folglich doch sicher auch der Nachfrage nach nicht-trivialen Produkten und Leistungen ausgeht. Hingegen ist die Analyse des Konsum- und Schuldenwahns sehr praegnant und die Loesung - weitgehender Konsumverzicht - naheliegend, wenn auch nicht ueberraschend. Ebenso erfrischend ist die Tabulosigkeit mit der das Scheitern der westlichen Auspraegung von Demokratie blossgelegt wird. Hinzugefuegt werden muss, dass die Autoren selbst sagen: &amp;quot;Begruendungen blieben wir schuldig, denn wir wollten kein Buch fuer Gelehrte schreiben&amp;quot;. Insofern freue ich mich auf dieses Buch fuer Gelehrte!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-1019054595712939715?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/1019054595712939715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/1019054595712939715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#1019054595712939715' title='Vom Systemtrottel zum Wutbuerger, Eugen Maria Schulak und Rahim Taghizadegan, 12/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-6583806272726917997</id><published>2011-12-28T22:31:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-28T22:31:24.500Z</updated><title type='text'>Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking, Simon Quellen Field, 12/2011</title><content type='html'>Assorted simple chemical and physical facts with relevance for cooking, food handling and food preparation, narrated in a simplistic, functional prose, augmented with a handful of recipes. Topics covered include acids/bases, oxidation/reduction, heating, cooling, crystallisation, emulsions, foams, and a few more. The book feels very much like an introductory chemistry text that happens to pick examples from the area of food and cooking - rather than a book about food and how to prepare it well using insights from chemistry. Consequently, the recipes (red-white-blue cheese for 4th of July!) are more like chemical experiments with foodstuff rather than culinary explorations. It seems fair to say that Simon Quelling Field is primarily a chemist who happens to enjoy tinkering with food: gourmets write differently about cooking. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-6583806272726917997?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/6583806272726917997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/6583806272726917997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#6583806272726917997' title='Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking, Simon Quellen Field, 12/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-4746155918164294618</id><published>2011-12-27T13:25:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-27T13:25:46.096Z</updated><title type='text'>Vater Morgana, Michael Niavarani, 12/2011</title><content type='html'>Eine wilde G&amp;#39;schicht um den persisch-oesterreichischen Vater des Erzaehlers, der unerwartet verstirbt, und wie dieser Umstand vor seiner in den USA lebenden Mutter verheimlicht werden soll. Ziemlich unterhaltsam, vor Allem aber mit einer g&amp;#39;sunden Portion schwarzem Humor und sehr viel wirklich interessanten Impressionen des Lebens von Exil-Persern im Westen geschmueckt. Und, nicht zuletzt, ein Loblied auf den erfrischenden und bereichernden Einfluss des Multikulturalismus. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-4746155918164294618?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/4746155918164294618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/4746155918164294618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#4746155918164294618' title='Vater Morgana, Michael Niavarani, 12/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-4478280118645281399</id><published>2011-12-26T10:07:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-26T10:07:49.136Z</updated><title type='text'>Real World Java EE Night Hacks, Adam Bien, 12/2011</title><content type='html'>An elegantly lean book about Java EE 6 development and architecture: no repetitions, no fluff, no self-aggrandising. A simple yet well-rounded server-side Java EE 6 application is discussed from all angles and in sufficient level of detail (read: code) to appreciate architectural and design decisions and, most importantly, the &amp;quot;Java EE 6 way&amp;quot; of enterprise Java software development. Beautiful! &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-4478280118645281399?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/4478280118645281399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/4478280118645281399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#4478280118645281399' title='Real World Java EE Night Hacks, Adam Bien, 12/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-4217074383802993083</id><published>2011-11-12T11:49:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-11-12T11:49:01.403Z</updated><title type='text'>Die Moeglichkeit einer Insel, Michel Houellebecq, 10/2011</title><content type='html'>Ein scheinbar grossteils autobiographisch inspiriertes Buch von Houellebecq, in dem er auf sehr nachvollziehbare und konsequente Art und Weise eine zukuenftige Existenzform der Menschheit schildert. Gepraegt ist diese durch die Moeglichkeiten des Klonens (wenn auch nicht im biotechnologischen Sinn des Wortes) und die daraus erwachsende Einsamkeit, Isolation, und Sinnlosigkeit der &amp;quot;Neo-Menschen&amp;quot;. Ausgangspunkt der Geschichte ist der Lebensweg eines erfolgreichen franzoesischen Kabarettisten und seine Auseinandersetzung mit einer Sekte. Zynisch, boesartig, erbarmungslos - aber sehr oft aus purer Konsequenz des Denkens (und fehlender Hemmung diesen Weg zu beschreiten und die Ergebnisse zu formulieren). Das Ende ist eine Huldigung an das embryonale  Dahindaemmern. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-4217074383802993083?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/4217074383802993083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/4217074383802993083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#4217074383802993083' title='Die Moeglichkeit einer Insel, Michel Houellebecq, 10/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-7093449443883385005</id><published>2011-11-12T11:37:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-11-12T11:37:07.828Z</updated><title type='text'>Embassytown, China Mieville, 9/2011</title><content type='html'>Sometimes, events from the outside world resonate so strongly with one&amp;#39;s own current state of mind and awareness, that these events get an eerie significance just because of that. Such was the case with this book: China Mieville has written a book about linguistics, starting from the signifier-signified relationship of structural linguistics, moving on to how &amp;quot;la langue&amp;quot; is nevertheless not a fixed entity but malleable through social action - through the use of language and &amp;quot;la parole&amp;quot;. He managed to embed this in a thrilling, epic science fiction novel that describes the complex relationship between the alien host society on a planet at the edge of the known universe and a small human settlement around an embassy on that planet. By some unexplained accident of nature, the aliens are biologically and socially configured to equate signifier and signified. One is reminded of one of the tenets of discursive psychology, namely that there is no distinction between inner psychological states and those displayed in language use. The central topic of the book is the tensions that arises from two societies - human and alien - with such incongruent conceptions of what it means to use language and construct meaning and reality coming into contact with each other and having to confront and - ultimately - resolve those differences. That Mieville uses German words for the technical terms of futuristic science is just adds to the mystery. A truly remarkable book and an enormously satisfying story. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-7093449443883385005?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/7093449443883385005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/7093449443883385005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#7093449443883385005' title='Embassytown, China Mieville, 9/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-5481487275100589603</id><published>2011-11-12T11:04:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-11-12T11:04:29.893Z</updated><title type='text'>Ruhm, Daniel Kehlmann, 8/2011</title><content type='html'>Grandiose Konstruktion von neun sehr unterschiedlich angelegten Geschichten (Ellipsen?), die manchmal eindeutige, ein ander Mal nur zarte Anknuepfungspunkte an eine gemeinsame Realitaet haben. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-5481487275100589603?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/5481487275100589603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/5481487275100589603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#5481487275100589603' title='Ruhm, Daniel Kehlmann, 8/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-8220074832801325166</id><published>2011-11-12T11:02:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-11-12T11:02:01.698Z</updated><title type='text'>The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi, 8/2011</title><content type='html'>Science fiction novel set in post-WWIII Bangkok. Messy politics, competing factions of society, racism, exploitation of minorities and &amp;quot;new humans&amp;quot;; food, fuel and energy shortages. Beautifully and lovingly constructed, epic story design. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-8220074832801325166?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8220074832801325166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8220074832801325166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#8220074832801325166' title='The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi, 8/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-553446783979106430</id><published>2011-06-25T21:00:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-06-25T21:00:56.977+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Die sechste Laterne, Pablo de Santis, 6/2011</title><content type='html'>Die Lebensgeschichte des (fiktiven) Architekten Silvio Balestri und seines lebensbestimmenden Projektes &amp;quot;Zikkurat&amp;quot;, eines gigantischen Turm-artigen Hochhauses, das nie gebaut wurde. Orte der Handlung sind Rom, wo Balestri aufwuchs und Architektur studierte, New York, wo er sich als Architekt einen Namen machte und beinahe die Verwirklichung von Zikkurat erwirkte, und schliesslich Buenos Aires, wo er mit seiner viel juengeren Frau Anna seinen Lebensabend verbrachte. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-553446783979106430?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/553446783979106430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/553446783979106430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#553446783979106430' title='Die sechste Laterne, Pablo de Santis, 6/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-6929585353983090097</id><published>2011-06-25T20:55:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-06-25T20:55:03.382+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fashion in Focus, Tim Edwards, 5/2011</title><content type='html'>A Foucauldian analysis of the meaning fashion (and not just dress), in particular men&amp;#39;s, women&amp;#39;s and children&amp;#39;s fashion and designer label culture. Insightful and accessible, containing reviews of a wide range of related publications. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-6929585353983090097?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/6929585353983090097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/6929585353983090097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#6929585353983090097' title='Fashion in Focus, Tim Edwards, 5/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-3500847855076447998</id><published>2011-04-24T10:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T10:21:37.990+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Der Kameramoerder, Thomas Glavinic, 4/2011</title><content type='html'>Ein origineller kleiner Roman mit unglaublich vielen Facetten: Der Besuch eines oberoesterreichischen Paares bei einem befreundeten Ehepaar in der Steiermark; die selbstverstaendlich sexistische Aufgabenverteilung zwischen Maennern und Frauen; die provinzielle Enge der Einheimischen; der unbeholfene Berichtsstil des Erzaehlers, der die sehr amuesante Angewohnheit hat, umgangssprachliche Redewendungen woertlich in&amp;#39;s Hochdeutsche zu uebersetzen; natuerlich der Kriminalfall des Kameramoerders; die knapp unter der Oberflaeche schlummernde und schamlos-naiv kommunizierte Neigung der Einheimischen zur Lynchjustiz; der Umgang der Medien mit dem Verbrechen; die Unfaehigkeit der Polizei. Sehr interessant! &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-3500847855076447998?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/3500847855076447998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/3500847855076447998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#3500847855076447998' title='Der Kameramoerder, Thomas Glavinic, 4/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-3726114363564103688</id><published>2011-04-02T09:16:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T09:16:14.185+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Bridge, Ian Banks, 4/2011</title><content type='html'>A 1986 book of dreams by Ian Banks: imaginative to the extreme, as always; beautiful and haunting mental pictures conjured by rich prose. But ultimately this is more of a collection of short stories which are loosely held together by the fact that they are all hallucinations of the same mind. I didn&amp;#39;t feel this was enough to make a convincing novel, let alone an enthralling story. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-3726114363564103688?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/3726114363564103688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/3726114363564103688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#3726114363564103688' title='The Bridge, Ian Banks, 4/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-5142633796452939584</id><published>2011-04-02T09:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T09:11:38.396+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The meaning of Cooking, Jean-Claude Kaufmann, 3/2011</title><content type='html'>It&amp;#39;s meant to be a popular and entertaining writeup of a sociological study of eating and cooking, but the text and its author come across as arrogant, vacuous, self-important, opinionated, judgmental and denigrating. The book lacks any useful description of the scientific procedure followed; only in a short note at the end do we learn that the author has not actually himself performed the scientific interviews that are referred to throughout the book. You would think that the two interviewers Esther Esnault and Cedric Touquet would deserve more prominent acknowledgement than that! Mr Kaufmann is prone to sweeping generalisations about culture and society, when in fact his data is about a group of 20 Frenchmen and -women. And it is a special breed of sociologist indeed who makes fun of the attitudes and opinions expressed by the subjects of a study, pours scorn on their beliefs and ridicules their convictions and actions. Jean-Claude Kaufmann is a professor of sociology at the Sorbonne. I&amp;#39;m sure he has been entertaining for many years legions of students in introductory sociology courses with his little anecdotes at the expense of what he obviously thinks of as the &amp;quot;little man&amp;quot;. Unfortunately, this approach is a bit of a disgrace in a book. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-5142633796452939584?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/5142633796452939584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/5142633796452939584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#5142633796452939584' title='The meaning of Cooking, Jean-Claude Kaufmann, 3/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-2084163218320862705</id><published>2011-04-02T08:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T08:45:01.241+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Brooklyn, Colm Toibin, 3/1011</title><content type='html'>In the 1950s, Eilis Lacey, a teenage girl from a poor village in Ireland, is pushed by her family into emigrating to New York. She falls in love, has to move back to Ireland as her sister unexpectedly dies, and falls in love there as well. Some tension is derived from the question of whether she will move back to Brooklyn.&lt;div&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Colm Toibin gives the reader privileged insight into the psychological world of Eilis and thereby establishes a strong and intimate bond between the two. His language, in contrast, is strangely detached, as if he were writing an ethnographic report. What i found astonishing is how much in the life of this girl was decided and determined by other people, primarily her family but also the priest, her land-lady and what would seem to be random people who just happened to enter her sphere. Not a strong case for the Cartesian subject!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-2084163218320862705?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/2084163218320862705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/2084163218320862705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#2084163218320862705' title='Brooklyn, Colm Toibin, 3/1011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-8867040865202080409</id><published>2011-03-12T18:23:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-03-12T18:23:28.012Z</updated><title type='text'>Kraken, China Mieville, 3/2011</title><content type='html'>Truly remarkable, even if not beautiful: less gifted authors (think: Dan Brown) would have spun a thousand novels from the ideas in this one book. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Billy the curator at the Darwin Centre, Dan the Krakenist, Wati the Egyptian slave ghost, Marge the too-old goth, Collingswood the young knacking police officer, Londonmancers, Gunfarmers, and watching over everything, like an organism in its own right, London.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But what language!: Hurried, breathless, cryptic, foul, vague, metaphorical, matter-of-factly, never in the slightest lyrical, but always with a slightly melancholic undertone. And a true challenge to follow.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-8867040865202080409?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8867040865202080409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8867040865202080409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#8867040865202080409' title='Kraken, China Mieville, 3/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-8084674944657221216</id><published>2011-03-12T18:12:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-03-12T18:12:44.685Z</updated><title type='text'>Discourse as Data, Margaret Wetherell, Stephanie Taylor and Simeon J Yates, 2/2011</title><content type='html'>Worked, annotated discourse analyses following the discourse traditions discussed from a more theoretical perspective in the accompanying study book. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-8084674944657221216?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8084674944657221216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8084674944657221216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#8084674944657221216' title='Discourse as Data, Margaret Wetherell, Stephanie Taylor and Simeon J Yates, 2/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-404388768488689504</id><published>2011-03-12T18:10:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-03-12T18:10:24.487Z</updated><title type='text'>Discourse Theory and Practice, Margaret Wetherell, Stephanie Taylor and Simeon J Yates, 2/2011</title><content type='html'>Conversation Analysis, (&lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;Critical) Discursive Psychology, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis et al. at the state of 2001. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-404388768488689504?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/404388768488689504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/404388768488689504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#404388768488689504' title='Discourse Theory and Practice, Margaret Wetherell, Stephanie Taylor and Simeon J Yates, 2/2011'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-8015181304657401043</id><published>2010-12-30T15:10:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-12-30T15:10:52.636Z</updated><title type='text'>Geh mit mir, Michael Koehlmeier, 12/2010</title><content type='html'>Ein kurzer Roman ueber Wiese Fink, seine halbseitig gelaehmte Mutter, seinen Hasch rauchenden Hippie-Vater und ein klein wenig ueber seine Freundin und ihre 2 Kinder, bei denen er in Giessen lebt. Den Hauptteil der Erzaehlung macht eine Auto-Reise nach Deutschland aus, die Wiese mit seiner Mutter unternimmt, als der Vater nach einem Herzinfarkt zur Kur faehrt. Die Behinderung der Mutter und wie es zu ihr kam werden in Gespraechen und Erinnerungen aufegearbeitet. Der Roman &amp;quot;endet&amp;quot; in einem merkwuerdigen fade-out. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-8015181304657401043?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8015181304657401043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/8015181304657401043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#8015181304657401043' title='Geh mit mir, Michael Koehlmeier, 12/2010'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-7945663715551240849</id><published>2010-12-21T17:25:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-12-21T17:25:56.654Z</updated><title type='text'>The Birthday Party, Panos Karnezis, 10/2010</title><content type='html'>The life of a ruthless Greek shipping tycoon and his inner circle of friends and family, strangely captivating, an immersion into an utterly unfamiliar life order. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2243558551505636648-7945663715551240849?l=gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/7945663715551240849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2243558551505636648/posts/default/7945663715551240849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gerald-loeffler-exlibris.blogspot.com/index.html#7945663715551240849' title='The Birthday Party, Panos Karnezis, 10/2010'/><author><name>Gerald Loeffler</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17446481329996940750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdPk6qg74BU/SiLBBVfV2yI/AAAAAAAAACY/_pfviDaycxw/S220/gerald_loeffler_2009-05_165x220.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243558551505636648.post-5763205511823087548</id><published>2010-12-21T17:22:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-12-21T17:22:25.837Z</updated><title type='text'>Wellenschlag, Georges Simenon, 10/2010</title><content type='html'>Wie immer bei Simenon ein glaubwuerdiger, nachvollziehbarer Einblick in eine laengst untergegangene Welt - hier die von Muschelzuechtern. 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