Títulos em Ciências e Engenharia

Das neue Alphabet versammelt Gespräche und Anekdoten, in denen Alexander Kluge Zusammenhänge herstellt, die man ohne ihn kaum erkannt hätte. Man folgt ihm gerne durch die Menschheitsgeschichte sowie kreuz und quer durch unsere Gegenwart - bis an die Grenzen der Digitalisierung. Dabei wird ein ungemein scharfes Bild von unserer Welt vermittelt, die sich im Zuge der Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche wieder einmal verwandeln muss.

Dr. Melanie Laidlaw is a scientist developing the first use of ICSI, short for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Her collaborator, Dr. Felix Krankenthaler, turns out to have his own ideas about how to implement their new procedure. The wild card is Melanie's new lover, Menachem Dvir, a fellow scientist. This darkly comic ménage à trois plays out not only in bedrooms and labs, but also in test tubes and under the microscope. A Brave New World indeed!

In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity. Her essay is both a portrait of the Murray–Darling Basin and an explanation of its woes. It looks at rural Australia and the failure of politics over decades to meet the needs of communities forced to bear the heaviest burden of change.

Rafe Martin shares some of his own stories and poems in this collection, such as "Belugas of Mystic", based on an experience he had at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, and "Digit", based on the famous gorilla whose story is told in Gorillas in the Mist.