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Die Dokumentation des Designpreises der Schweiz 2007 – ein Einblick in die aktuelle Designszene
'Both heartbreaking and heartwarming' - ***** Amazon reviewer 'Emotional, charming and uplifting' -***** Amazon reviewer A message in a bottle. One summer. A family to reunite. Lou suffers from a rare type of dementia and dies in her fifties. She leaves behind a message in a bottle, charging her husband Joe with a challenging task: he has two months to reunite their patchwork family whose members have fallen out with each other. Luckily for him, Lou has thought of everything and helps him along with a list of family activities and recipes. Slowly but surely, they all find their way back to each other: Joe's son Cyrian and his two daughters Apple and Charlotte. Cyrian's second wife who can't stand Apple because she isn't her own. Joe's stunning daughter Sarah who has lost the love of her life and seeks solace in one-night stands. But Joe is running out of time. Will his efforts pay off before it is too late? And most importantly: what's in the mysterious letter?
One of the prevailing myths about the American family is that there once existed a harmonious family with three generations living together, and that this "ideal" family broke down under the impact of urbanization and industralization. The essays in this volume challenge this myth and provide dramatic revisions of simplistic notions about change in the American family. Based on detailed research in a variety of sources, including extensive oral history interviews of ordinary people, these essays examine major changes in family life, dispel myths about the past, and offer new directions in research and interpretation. The essays cover a wide spectrum of issues and topics, ranging from the organization of the family and household, to the networks available to children as they grow up, to the role of the family in the process of industralization, to the division of labor in the family along gender lines, and to the relations between the generations in the later years of life. While discussing family relations in the past and revising prevailing notions of social change, these interdisciplinary essays also provide important perspectives on the present.
Hommes et femmes ont-ils des vies de couple et une histoire parentale semblables? Quels sont les principaux changements en matière de formation des couples et de fécondité ces dernières années? Quel est l'impact d'une mesure de politique familiale sur l'activité des femmes? La part des familles monoparentales ou recomposées progresse-t-elle? Quelle histoire familiale pour ceux qui ont dépassé 50 ans ? Comment, au sein des familles, mesurer le veuvage, l'orphelinage et le décès des jeunes enfants? Quel accès les enfants d'immigrés ont-ils au marché du travail? Comment s'opère la transmission familiale des langues? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions abordées dans cet ouvrage de référence qui réunit plus d'une trentaine de recherches et met en relief toute la richesse de l'enquête " Etude de l'histoire familiale ", dite encore " enquête Famille ", de 1999. Avec des éclairages divers et des thèses très nouvelles, Histoires de familles, histoires familiales constitue un outil précieux à toute personne, chercheur, étudiant ou grand public, s'intéressant aux évolutions de la famille en France.
John George Schnegelberger (1873-1948) was born in Beideck, Volga, Russia and died in Nebraska. His wife, Mary Amalia Pabst (1881-1973) was born in Friend, Nebraska. Ancestry is traced to Hans Schnegelberger (1602-1662) of Rixfield, Hessen, Germany and Conrad (1855-1933) and Marie Roth (1856-1931) Pabst who immigrated from Beideck, Russia in 1876 to Nebraska. Descendants and family members lived in Russia, Colorado, Nebraska, California, Kansas, New Jersey, and elsewhere.
This historical bibliography provides an entirely new foundation for the literary history of the late eighteenth century and the Romantic age, reconstructing the full cast of British novelists of the period, their publishers and reviewers. It provides full transcriptions of titles and imprint lines, together with much other bibliographical and historical information, including contemporary reviews (with generous quotations), dedications, and pricing and printing details, as well as an introductory historical essay on the different themes embraced by the novel, profiles of popular authorship, translation, the economics and circumstances of novel production and design, and the scope of literary circulation and reception.
Noted social scientist Eviatar Zerubavel casts a critical eye on how we trace our past-individually and collectively arguing that rather than simply find out who our ancestors are from genetics or history, we actually create the stories that make them our ancestors.
