Bøger af David Mitchell

This rich collection of essays of different aspects of administering a Waldorf school will provide support for the efforts to create a community of collaborative leadership and teacher administered programs. All essays are written from experience and new ideals living in Waldorf communities to find leadership and administration models that reach towards the future. A must for every Waldorf school's board, faculty and administrative staff!

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud AtlasA gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space?A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions-to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea-that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective-strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.Praise for Cloud Atlas "[David] Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel's every page."-The New York Times Book Review "One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is-and should be-read by any student of contemporary literature."-Dave Eggers "Wildly entertaining . . . a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly ruminative."-People "The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and yet-not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it, and I'm grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds."-Michael Chabon "Cloud Atlas ought to make [Mitchell] famous on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer whose fearlessness is matched by his talent."-The Washington Post Book World "Thrilling . . . One of the biggest joys in Cloud Atlas is watching Mitchell sashay from genre to genre without a hitch in his dance step."-Boston Sunday Globe "Grand and elaborate . . . [Mitchell] creates a world and language at once foreign and strange, yet strikingly familiar and intimate."-Los Angeles Times

Japan, Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts: Der junge Jacob de Zoet kommt mit einer Gruppe Handelsabgeordneter aus Niederländisch-Indien auf die Insel Dejima im Hafen von Nagasaki. Obwohl verheiratet, verliebt er sich bald unsterblich in die Hebamme Orito Aibagawa. Ihre Verbindung steht aber unter keinem guten Stern, denn Ausländern ist es verboten, das japanische Festland zu betreten. Weiterer Ärger droht, als Jacob sich gegen seine Vorgesetzten stellt und sich weigert, das gefälschte Verzeichnis einer Schiffsladung zu unterzeichnen. Aber auch Oritos Schicksal nimmt eine schreckliche Wendung ... Ein spannender und aufwühlender historischer Roman über die Liebe, gelesen von Doris Wolters und Johannes Steck.David Mitchell ist Brite und lebte sechs Jahre lang in Tokio. Er ist mit einer Japanerin verheiratet. Er gehört zu jenen polyglotten britischen Autoren, deren Thema nichts weniger als die ganze Welt ist. Für sein Werk wurde er u.a. mit dem John-Llewellyn-Rhys-Preis ausgezeichnet, zweimal stand er auf der Booker-Shortlist. 2011 erhielt er den Commonwealth Writers’ Prize für "Die tausend Herbste des Jacob de Zoet", 2015 den World Fantasy Award für "Die Knochenuhren". Sein Weltbestseller "Der Wolkenatlas" wurde von Tom Tykwer und den Wachowski-Geschwistern verfilmt.

Following the routes of two main lines that enter Devon from the east, as well as exploring the branch lines that are still open in this part of the county, this book records the changes that have taken place over the last 35 years to both infrastructure and trains. With over 180 color photos, this book covers service trains and special workings.

Life and death problems are a training tool for Go players seeking to improve their skills. This will help all players improve their skills. It contains 50 very difficult problems as well as the answers and detailed analysis

Originally published in 2005. David Mitchell provides a better understanding of the role presidents play in the decision-making process in terms of their influence on two key steps in the process: deliberation and outcome of policy making.

Through a lucid and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of perversity in Sartre and Nietzsche, Mitchell argues that understanding the human as a 'perversion' of something other than itself allows us to have a philosophy of the human without the humanist subject.

The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. Every nine years, the house's residents—an odd brother and sister—extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it's already too late. . . . Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story—as only David Mitchell could imagine it. Praise for Slade House';A fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician.'—The Washington Post ';Entertainingly eerie . . . We turn to [Mitchell] for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language.'—Chicago Tribune ';A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson's Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King's The Shining, [Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.'—San Francisco Chronicle';Like Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious.'—The Guardian (U.K.) ';A haunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them.'—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ';Tightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human . . . the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.'—The Huffington Post

TheNew York Timesbestseller by the author ofCloud Atlas*; Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize *; Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine*; A New York Times Notable Book *; An American Library Association Notable Book*; Winner of the World Fantasy Award';With The Bone Clocks, [David] Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas.'Los Angeles TimesFollowing a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as ';the radio people,' Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mysticsand their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loveseven the ones who are not yet born. A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller listall have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. Rich with character and realms of possibility,The Bone Clocksis a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writerTheWashington Postcalls ';the novelist who's been showing us the future of fiction.' An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. His hypnotic new novel,The Bone Clocks,crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasureit is fiction at its most spellbinding.Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, includingNPR*;San Francisco Chronicle*;The Atlantic*;The Guardian*;Slate*;BuzzFeed';One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I've read in a long time.'Meg Wolitzer, NPR';[Mitchell] writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience.'The New York Times Book Review ';Intensely compelling . . . fantastically witty . . . offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.'The Washington Post ';[A] time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel.'O: The Oprah Magazine ';Great fun . . . a tour de force . . . [Mitchell] channels his narrators with vivid expertise.'San Francisco Chronicle

David Mitchell's connection with cricket began when his grandad took him to Bradford in 1961 to watch Yorkshire play the Australians. It was the start of a lifelong passion for the game. Many hours were devoted to helping in the scorebox, playing Owzthat and listening to Test Match Special. 'From Snicket to Wicket' is a personal, nostalgic and whimsical view of a game once played by white-clad players with a red ball. Now it is the opposite.

Mange børn har ikke succes i skolerne, fordi de er for sårbare til at blive inkluderet i undervisningen.Dette kan skyldes alt fra køn, handicap, etniske minoriteter, socioøkonomisk status og religion. Derfor er der brug for nytænkning af vores undervisningssystemer, da dette foruden at have konsekvenser for det enkelte individ går ud over sammenhængskraften i vores samfund. Heldigvis ved vi tilstrækkeligt om årsagerne til lave præstationer og de mulige midler imod dem til at handle effektivt på denne viden.Denne bog præsenterer 60 nødvendige strategier for at skabe skoler, der forbedrer de mest sårbare børns muligheder for at lære. De fleste af dem bør være integrerede del af uddannelsespolitikken, mens andre kan være valgfrie for underviseren. Strategierne bygger på forskning og erfaringer verden over. Bogen henvender sig både til politikere, skoleledere, lærere og pædagoger, der gerne vil fremme inkluderende undervisning.Med en kort gennemgang af de 60 strategier får du som lærer og leder i skolen indblik i, hvad der har betydning på blandt andet samfunds-, skole- og klasseniveau i forhold til at sikre et inkluderende uddannelsessystem, der giver de bedste vilkår for alle børn uanset køn, handikap, religion og seksualitet.Alle børn har nemlig ret til at deltage i lærende fællesskaber, og denne bog er således et seriøst bidrag i forsøget på at skabe lighed for alle i uddannelsessystemet.Bag bogen står forfatteren David Mitchell, der har udført omfattende forskning inden for specialundervisning og inklusion og har været medleder af et professionelt udviklingsprogram om inkluderende undervisning. David Mitchell er adjungeret professor ved læreruddannelsen på University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand og konsulent i inkluderende undervisning.Det ved vi om-serienSerien Det ved vi om består af en række praksisrettede og konkrete publikationer, der bibringer viden om aktuelle udfordringer for dagens skole. Serien præsenterer aktuelle pædagogiske temaer med det formål at gøre forskningsbaseret viden om forbedringer af skolen lettere tilgængelig for pædagoger, lærere og ledere. Seriens mål er at øge sandsynligheden for, at denne viden anvendes.'Sammenfattende er det en letlæselig bog, der omformer det akademiske sprog til et letlæseligt sprog for ”lægmand”. Det er hermed en bog, der kan give en et overordnet perspektiv på ens praksis.' - Flemming Platz, folkeskolen.dk - Læs hele anmeldelsen her

Diversitet i uddannelse — hvordan man effektivt når ud til alle elever er en bog, som udfordrer, og som kan gøre lærere, studerende og andre, der arbejder i skolen, mere effektive i forhold til at undervise alle elever. Ud fra overbevisingen om, at alle mennesker har menneskerettigheder, behandler David Mitchell i denne bog fem hovedkategorier af diversitet: seksualitet og køn; socialklasse og socioøkonomisk status; race, etnicitet og kultur; tro og religion samt forskelle i evner, og han stiller en række påtrængende spørgsmål, som både politikere, undervisere og elever bør overveje: • Hvorfor bør vi sætte pris på diversitet og menneskerettigheder? • Hvordan kan inkluderende undervisning tilpasses diversitet? • Hvordan spiller samfundets forhåbning om sammenhængskraft og harmoni ind i forhold til folk, som er anderledes? • Hvilken betydning tillægges diversitet — kulturelt og historisk? • Bør uddannelsesfolk forsøge at accentuere, eliminere, reducere eller se bort fra diversitet?Gennem et imponerende overblik og grundig henvisning til den nyeste internationale forskning i de mest effektive måder at håndtere og forstå diversitet på præsenteres en lang række anbefalinger og forslag til forandringer, der kan tage udfordringerne i vores mangfoldige verden op. Denne bog er således nødvendig læsning for alle, som gerne vil omfavne diversitet og lære effektive måder at nå ud til alle elever og dermed styrke udviklingen af et mere inkluderende og harmonisk samfund og et globalt fællesskab. Besøg bogens hjemmeside på www.dafolo.dk/diversitet, hvor du blandt andet kan finde opsummerende oversigter fra bogen og se en video med David Mitchell. David Mitchell er adjungeret professor ved læreruddannelsen på University of Canterbury i Christchurch, New Zealand, og international konsulent i inkluderende og forskningsbaseret undervisning. Han er blandt andet forfatter til Hvad der virker i inkluderende undervisning, som er blevet oversat til adskillige sprog, herunder dansk i 2015. Se indholdsfortegnelse og forord til bogen'Det er en meget konkret, veldokumenteret, velstruktureret og interessant udgivelse mættet med viden.' - Lektørudtalelsen fra Dansk BiblioteksCenter

Mange børn har ikke succes i skolerne, fordi de er for sårbare til at blive inkluderet i undervisningen.Dette kan skyldes alt fra køn, handicap, etniske minoriteter, socioøkonomisk status og religion. Derfor er der brug for nytænkning af vores undervisningssystemer, da dette foruden at have konsekvenser for det enkelte individ går ud over sammenhængskraften i vores samfund. Heldigvis ved vi tilstrækkeligt om årsagerne til lave præstationer og de mulige midler imod dem til at handle effektivt på denne viden.Denne bog præsenterer 60 nødvendige strategier for at skabe skoler, der forbedrer de mest sårbare børns muligheder for at lære. De fleste af dem bør være integrerede del af uddannelsespolitikken, mens andre kan være valgfrie for underviseren. Strategierne bygger på forskning og erfaringer verden over. Bogen henvender sig både til politikere, skoleledere, lærere og pædagoger, der gerne vil fremme inkluderende undervisning.

Building with Butterflies shows you how to build stunning modular origami sculptures from simple units folded from ordinary paper without the use of cuts or glue. Clear diagrams and instructions guide you through the whole process, how to fold the very simple units (or modules), how to put them together into basic modular structures, then how to combine these basic structures into large and beautiful sculptures. This is the second and much expanded edition of this classic work which remains the out and out leader in the field.

Origami Alfresco is a quirky and unusual portfolio of clear diagrams for 50 of David Mitchell's simple yet amazing origami designs, created from the contrast between the white and coloured sides of standard origami paper, and includes sections on Animals and People, Inanimate Objects, Double Images, The Sea and Landscapes.As you would expect from the author, many of these designs are much more than just static sketches. Some, like Freefall/Limbo, can be viewed in several completely different ways, while others, like Lovebird or Dogfish turn from one thing into another. There are action designs, like Shark Attack and Hull Down, optical illusions like Head to Head and Paradozocal Object, and even a Find the Lady puzzle as well. This book is both simple enough for complete beginners but also one that the origami aficionado will cherish and enjoy.This second edition has been completely revised and expanded. Half the designs are new to this second edition.