Alison Lewis

Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy. This is the first study of its kind to explore this secret surveillance society, its arcane rituals, and the secret lives it fostered. Through a series of interlocking, in-depth case studies of informers in literature and the arts, A State of Secrecy seeks answers to the question of how the collusion of the East German intelligentsia with the Stasi was possible and sustainable. It draws on extensive original archive research conducted in the BStU (Stasi Records Agency), as well as eyewitness testimony, literature, and film, and uses a broad array of methods from biography, sociology, cultural studies, and literary history to political science and surveillance and intelligence studies. In teasing out the various kinds of entanglements of intellectuals with power during the Cold War, Lewis presents a microhistory of the covert activities of those writers who colluded with the secret police.

America as we know it is gone, consumed and torn apart by its citizens own lack of empathy, and unwillingness to work together. The old welfare system has collapsed, in its place is a new system that is as inefficient as it is unfair. Pearl Wood is an introverted, yet passionate, housing clinic employee, working in the system. She sees the injustice in the system, but can't seem to find the strength to assert herself. One day, a confident, abrasive, "all-American" reporter named Luke Matthews comes in to research a documentary on the new welfare system. Through Luke we are introduced to the system, meeting the employees and really seeing the horrible conditions that people are forced to live in. Pearl encounters many different people in her day to day job, but she is most intrigued by Luke, who possesses a confidence and detachment to the people around him, and Dr. James, who reflects Pearl's empathy for people and desire to fight the injustice of the system. Although this is set in the future, this is a story about the attitude of American society today, and what it will become if we don't learn to listen to each other, and form a new, more inclusive and empathetic American Dream. All proceeds will benefit The Bally Foundation, Inc, a community fund dedicated to providing immediate funds to people facing financial obstacles from underemployment or unemployment, and who are trying to rebuild their lives. The community fund was started to inspire a new American dream, about sharing not getting, about real community.

This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany and to the United States of America in the post-war years. Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and highlighting their often radical engagements with the genre, the book scrutinises the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers including Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Alfred Döblin; Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen and psychoanalyst Viola Bernard. The results are important new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this text provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of industrial crystallization. Newcomers will learn all of the most important topics in industrial crystallization, from key concepts and basic theory to industrial practices. Topics covered include the characterization of a crystalline product and the basic process design for crystallization, as well as batch crystallization, measurement techniques, and details on precipitation, melt crystallization and polymorphism. Each chapter begins with an introduction explaining the importance of the topic, and is supported by homework problems and worked examples. Real world case studies are also provided, as well as new industry-relevant information, making this is an ideal resource for industry practitioners, students, and researchers in the fields of industrial crystallization, separation processes, particle synthesis, and particle technology.

One of the most innovative examples of the use of fantastic forms in recent feminist fiction can be found in the work of Irmtraud Morgner. Little-known outside German-speaking countries, her unique blend of fantastic realism testifies both to the subversive nature of a literature of fantasy and the transgressive power of a feminist writing practice. This book looks at the way Morgner uses fantasy both as a feminist critique of the history of patriarchy and as a test of the viability of feminist alternatives.