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New Release Tuesday: April 6th 2021
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Young Adult New Releases for April 6th 2021
Welcome April New Releases! Today is a big release day and there are many amazing books to choose from and if you need any suggestions, I can tell you what I bought, haven't read any yet though!
Also be sure to check out which books you can buy signed through participating indie bookstores and preorder campaigns!
The Cost of Knowing
by Brittney Morris
Genres: Young Adult
Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he foresees his younger brother's imminent death, from the acclaimed author of SLAY.
Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend he can be to his amazing girlfriend, Talia; the best protector he can be over his little brother, Isaiah. But as much as Alex tries, he often comes up short.
It's hard to for him to be present when every time he touches an object or person, Alex sees into its future. When he touches a scoop, he has a vision of him using it to scoop ice cream. When he touches his car, he sees it years from now, totaled and underwater. When he touches Talia, he sees them at the precipice of breaking up, and that terrifies him. Alex feels these visions are a curse, distracting him, making him anxious and unable to live an ordinary life.
And when Alex touches a photo that gives him a vision of his brother's imminent death, everything changes.
With Alex now in a race against time, death, and circumstances, he and Isaiah must grapple with their past, their future, and what it means to be a young Black man in America in the present.
The Infinity Courts (The Infinity Courts, #1)
Eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto is certain her life is just beginning. She has a great family, just graduated high school, and is on her way to a party where her entire class is waiting for her—including, most importantly, the boy she's been in love with for years. The only problem? She's murdered before she gets there.
When Nami wakes up, she learns she's in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. She quickly discovers that Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife and is now posing as a queen, forcing humans into servitude the way she'd been forced to serve in the real world. Even worse, Ophelia is inching closer and closer to accomplishing her grand plans of eradicating human existence once and for all.
As Nami works with a team of rebels to bring down Ophelia and save the humans under her imprisonment, she is forced to reckon with her past, her future, and what it is that truly makes us human.
From award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes an incisive, action-packed tale that explores big questions about technology, grief, love, and humanity.
Westworld meets Warcross in this high-stakes, dizzyingly smart sci-fi about a teen girl navigating an afterlife in which she must defeat an AI entity intent on destroying humanity, from award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman.
Zara Hossain Is Here
by Sabina Khan
Published by: Scholastic Press
Zara's family has waited years for their visa process to be finalized so that they can officially become US citizens. But it only takes one moment for that dream to come crashing down around them.
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her family moved there for her father to work as a pediatrician. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their family's dependent visa status while they await their green card approval, which has been in process for almost nine years.
But one day her tormentor, star football player Tyler Benson, takes things too far, leaving a threatening note in her locker, and gets suspended. As an act of revenge against her for speaking out, Tyler and his friends vandalize Zara's house with racist graffiti, leading to a violent crime that puts Zara's entire future at risk. Now she must pay the ultimate price and choose between fighting to stay in the only place she's ever called home or losing the life she loves and everyone in it.
From the author of the "heart-wrenching yet hopeful" (Samira Ahmed) novel, The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali, comes a timely, intimate look at what it means to be an immigrant in America today, and the endurance of hope and faith in the face of hate.
The Sky Blues
by Robbie Couch
Sky's small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the entire school in this witty, heartfelt, and ultimately hopeful debut novel for fans of What if it's Us? and I Wish You All the Best.
Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high school's annual beach bum party by asking his crush, Ali, to prom—and he has thirty days to do it.
What better way to start living loud and proud than by pulling off the gayest promposal Rock Ledge, Michigan, has ever seen?
Then, Sky's plans are leaked by an anonymous hacker in a deeply homophobic e-blast that quickly goes viral. He's fully prepared to drop out and skip town altogether—until his classmates give him a reason to fight back by turning his thirty-day promposal countdown into a school-wide hunt to expose the e-blast perpetrator.
But what happens at the end of the thirty days? Will Sky get to keep his hard-won visibility? Or will his small-town blues stop him from being his true self?
Where the Road Leads Us
by Robin Reul
A beautiful, tender and thoughtful meditation on finding your way.--Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star
Sometimes the best path is the unexpected one.
Jack is on the verge for leaving for college, but before he does, he wants to track down his estranged brother, Alex and find some closure in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, Hallie has just found out some upsetting news about a friend in Oregon, and she has a small window to go see him before it's too late.
Jack and Hallie are practically strangers. They shared a class together years ago and haven't seen each other since, though they have more in common than they'd ever imagine. And when fate puts them into the same rideshare to the bus terminal, it kicks off an unconventional and hysterical adventure that may lead them to their own true selves...and maybe to each other.
Kisses and Croissants
by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
As sweet as a macaron from Laduree, with writing as crisp as a freshly baked baguette, this romantic novel set in Paris about an American ballerina and a charming French boy is parfait for fans of American Royals and Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before.
Mia Jenrow has always known she's destined to be a professional ballerina. In fact, it's in her blood--according to family legend, her too-many-greats-to-count-grandmother once danced for the Paris Opera and was painted by Degas himself! Her parents say it's just a fantasy, but to Mia it's so much more than that. It's her fate.
Mia is planning to spend a magical summer in France pursuing her dream, but as she pirou-ettes into Paris, she soon realizes it may be a bit more complicated than she hoped. For starters, there's her rival, Audrey, who will stop at nothing to show her up. There's her ballet instructor, whose impossibly high standards push her to the breaking point. And then . . . there's Louis.
Devastatingly, distractingly charming Louis. He's eager to show Mia his city--and Mia is more than happy to hop on his Vespa and wrap her arms around him as they pass the gleaming lights of the Eiffel Tower.
Mia's summer was supposed to be about ballet--but there's a reason Paris is called the City of Love. . . .
House of Hollow
by Krystal Sutherland
Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can't quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats.
Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister's ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.
As Iris retraces Grey's last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.
The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.
Hello, Cruel World
by Maureen Johnson, Disney Books
Published by: Disney Press
Genres: Young Adult, Retellings
An electric new story of teenage Cruella de Vil in an original novel inspired by the upcoming Walt Disney Studios Live Action Film, Cruella.
Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and partners-in-(petty)-crime. How can Estella dedicate herself to joining the ranks of the London design elite when she's sewing endless costumes and disguises for the trio's heists?
When a chance encounter with Magda and Richard Moresby-Plum, two young scions of high society, vaults Estella into the world of the rich and famous, she begins to wonder whether she might be destined for more after all. Suddenly, Estella's days are filled with glamorous parties, exclusive eateries, flirtations with an up-and-coming rock star, and, of course, the most cutting-edge fashions money can buy. But what is the true cost of keeping up with the fast crowd-and is it a price Estella is willing to pay?
My Epic Spring Break (Up)
by Kristin Rockaway
Published by: Underlined
A fun and upbeat paperback original romance about a girl who finds a cheat sheet for love.
Spring break . . . heartache?
For coder extraordinaire Ashley, high school is all about prepping for college. Her love life? Virtually nonexistent. She's never been on a date. Never been kissed. Never been in love.
When her plans veer off course, Ashley realizes she might be missing out on her high school experience. Now that spring break is finally here, Ashley vows to have fun . . . and, for the first time, follow her heart.
Starting with Walker Beech, her gorgeous, maybe-not-so-unrequited crush. But with Jason Eisler--her childhood friend turned prankster--in the picture, trouble is bound to follow. Will Ashley's epic spring break lead her to love, or will her heart crash and burn?
"Smart, fun, fast-paced." --USA Today bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang on Kristin Rockaway's How to Hack a Heartbreak
Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good
by Nancy Werlin
Published by: Candlewick Press
A buttoned-up overachiever works overtime to keep her inner nerd at bay—failing spectacularly—in Nancy Werlin's hilarious and heartfelt return to contemporary realistic fiction.
Planning is Zoe Rosenthal's superpower. She has faith in a properly organized to-do list and avoids unnecessary risks. Her mental checklist goes something like this: 1) Meet soulmate: DONE! 2) Make commitment: DONE! 3) Marriage: TO COME! (after college). She isn't sure which college yet, but it will have a strong political science department, since her perfect boyfriend, Simon, plans to "save the country," as his sister puts it, "and the planet and everything." Zoe will follow along, the perfect serious, supportive girlfriend. It's good to have her love life resolved, checked off, done. But speaking of unnecessary risks, Zoe's on a plane to Atlanta, sneaking off to Dragon Con for the second season premiere of Bleeders. The show is subject to her boyfriend's lofty scorn, but Zoe is nothing like these colorful hordes "wearing their inside on their outside." Once her flirtation with fandom is over, she will get back to the important business of planning a future with Simon. The trouble is, right now, Bleeders—and her fellow "Bloodygits"—may just mean the world to her. Will a single night of nerdery be enough?
Best-selling and award-winning author Nancy Werlin is best known for science fiction, fantasy, and suspense, but here she turns her pen to realistic fiction with broad appeal. Confirmed nerds will revel in a diverse cast, zany fandoms, and cosplaying crowds, but this is for any reader seeking a smart, breezy coming-of-age story about finding your friends—and your inconvenient self.
Oculta (A Forgery of Magic, #2)
by Maya Motayne
The exhilarating sequel to the #1 Sunday Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller Nocturna, about a face-changing thief and a risk-taking prince who must reunite when a deadly enemy threatens their kingdom's chance at establishing a global peace. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Sabaa Tahir, and Stephanie Garber.
After joining forces to save Castallan from an ancient magical evil, Alfie and Finn haven't seen each other in months. Alfie is finally stepping up to his role as heir and preparing for an International Peace Summit, while Finn is traveling and reveling in her newfound freedom from Ignacio.
That is, until she's unexpectedly installed as the new leader of one of Castallan's powerful crime syndicates.
Just when Finn finds herself back in San Cristobal, Alfie's plans are also derailed. The mysterious organization responsible for his brother's murder has resurfaced--and their newest target is the summit. And when these events converge, Finn and Alfie are once again forced to work together to follow the assassins' trail and preserve Castallan's hopes for peace with Englass.
But will they be able to stop these sinister foes before a new war threatens their kingdom?
Between the Bliss and Me
by Lizzy Mason
Published by: Soho Teen
Acclaimed author Lizzy Mason delivers a moving contemporary YA novel about mental illness, young romance, and the impact of family history on one teen's future, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, Robin Benway, and Kathleen Glasgow.
When eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman announces that she has decided to attend NYU, her overprotective mom is devastated. Her decision means she will be living in the Big City instead of commuting to nearby Rutgers like her mom had hoped. It also means she'll be close to off-limits but dreamy Grayson—a guitar prodigy who is going to Juilliard in the fall and very much isn't single.
But while she dreams of her new life, Sydney discovers a world-changing truth about her father, who left when she was little due to a drug addiction—that he has schizophrenia and is currently living on the streets of New York City. She seizes the opportunity to get to know him, to understand who he is and learn what may lie in store for her if she, too, is diagnosed.
Even as she continues to fall for Grayson, Sydney is faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay close to home so her mom can watch over her, or follow the desire to take risks and discover her true self?
The Murder Game
by Carrie Doyle
A murder at a boarding school is gruesome enough, but what if the murderer is your roommate? Perfect for fans of A Study in Charlotte comes a gripping prep school novel filled with dark mystery and suspense.
What if your best friend and roommate killed a teacher at your prep school? Or what if he didn't do it, but he's being framed, and you're the only person who can save him? What if you aren't sure which it is?
Luke Chase didn't mean to get caught up solving the mystery of Mrs. Heckler's murder. He just wanted to meet up with the new British girl at their boarding school, and if that meant sneaking out to the woods after hours, then so be it.
Little did he know someone would end up dead right next to their rendezvous spot, and his best friend and roommate Oscar Weymouth would go down for it. With suspects aplenty and a past that's anything but innocent, Luke Chase calls on his famous survival skills to solve the mystery and find the true killer.
Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
by Laekan Zea Kemp
I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets Emergency Contact in this stunning story of first love, familial expectations, the power of food, and finding where you belong.
As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her mom and dad have different plans -- leaving Pen to choose between disappointing her traditional Mexican-American parents or following her own path. When she confesses a secret she's been keeping, her world is sent into a tailspin. But then she meets a cute new hire at Nacho's who sees through her hard exterior and asks the questions she's been too afraid to ask herself.
Xander Amaro has been searching for home since he was a little boy. For him, a job at Nacho's is an opportunity for just that -- a chance at a normal life, to settle in at his abuelo's, and to find the father who left him behind. But when both the restaurant and Xander's immigrant status are threatened, he will do whatever it takes to protect his new found family and himself.
Together, Pen and Xander must navigate first love and discovering where they belong -- both within their families and their fiercely loyal Chicanx community -- in order to save the place they all call home.
Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers, #2)
by Lana Popović
Published by: Amulet Books
Book 2 in the Lady Slayers series, about French murderess and fortune teller Catherine Monvoisin
In 17th-century Paris, 19-year-old Catherine Monvoisin is a well-heeled jeweler's wife with a peculiar taste for the arcane. She lives a comfortable life, far removed from a childhood of abject destitution—until her kind spendthrift of a husband lands them both in debt. Hell-bent on avoiding a return to poverty, Catherine must rely on her prophetic visions and the grimoire gifted to her by a talented diviner to reinvent herself as a sorceress. With the help of the grifter Marie Bosse, Catherine divines fortunes in the IIle de la Citee—home to sorcerers and scoundrels.
There she encounters the Marquise de Montespan, a stunning noblewoman. When the Marquise becomes Louis XIV's royal mistress with Catherine's help, her ascension catapults Catherine to notoriety. Catherine takes easily to her glittering new life as the Sorceress La Voisin, pitting the depraved noblesse against one other to her advantage. The stakes soar ever higher when her path crosses with that of a young magician. A charged rivalry between sorceress and magician leads to Black Masses, tangled deceptions, and grisly murder—and sets Catherine on a collision course that threatens her own life.
Go the Distance (A Twisted Tale: Hercules)
by Jen Calonita
What if Meg had to become a god?
After Hercules proves he's a true hero and regains his godship, all seems right in the world. That is, until Zeus tells Meg that she can't be with Hercules because she's, well, mortal. Luckily, Hera has a solution, offering Meg a chance to prove herself worthy of a spot on Mt. Olympus--as a god. All Meg has to do is complete a mysterious quest.
The mission? Oh, just to rescue her ex's current wife from the Underworld. The ex-boyfriend she saved by selling her soul to Hades. The ex-boyfriend who immediately moved on to someone else while she was stuck in the Underworld. Can Meg put her past behind her and use her quick-wit to defeat monsters and gods alike, including the nefarious Hades? Will she finally figure out her place and contribution to the world? Or will her fear of commitment have her running away from an eternity of godhood with Herc?
Written by the author of Mirror, Mirror and Conceal, Don't Feel, Jen Calonita's latest twist is sure to delight and surprise.
Pride and Premeditation (Jane Austen Murder Mystery, #1)
by Tirzah Price
Genres: Young Adult, Retellings, Mystery
Perfect for fans of the Lady Janies and Stalking Jack the Ripper, the first book in the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries series is a clever retelling of Pride and Prejudice that reimagines the iconic settings, characters, and romances in a thrilling and high-stakes whodunit.
When a scandalous murder shocks London high society, seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seizes the opportunity to prove herself, despite the interference of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the stern young heir to the prestigious firm Pemberley Associates.
Convinced the authorities have imprisoned the wrong person, Lizzie vows to solve the murder on her own. But as the case—and her feelings for Darcy—become more complicated, Lizzie discovers that her dream job could make her happy, but it might also get her killed.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition
by Anton Treuer
From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween? to Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'? to What's it like for natives who don't look native? to Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?, and beyond, Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition) does exactly what its title says for young readers, in a style consistently thoughtful, personal, and engaging.
Updated and expanded to include:
- Dozens of New Questions and New Sections--including a social activism section that explores the Dakota Access Pipeline, racism, identity, politics, and more!
- Over 50 new Photos
- Adapted text for broad appeal
by Eireann Corrigan
Genres: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller
Cara's been sick all her life . . . but in this case the cause might be more shocking than the cure. A creepy, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller perfect for fans of true crime.
It's a mystery - why is Cara so sick? It feels like she's been sick all her life . . . but she and her mom have never stayed in one place long enough for doctors to really understand what's happening to her. Now, at fourteen, Cara is tired of being tired, and sick of being sick. She's trying to get better . . . but it's only getting worse.
Unable to afford the care she needs, Cara's mom starts a Caring for Cara campaign online. The money starts pouring in. But something's not right to Cara. And the harder she looks, the less she understands.
From Eireann Corrigan, the spellbinding author of Creep and You Remind Me of You, Remedy is the gripping story of a girl solving the mystery of her own health . . . before it's too late.
Mirror's Edge (Impostors, #3)
by Scott Westerfeld
The danger rises and the deception grows in the heartstopping third book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series!
Frey and Rafi have never been closer to their goal of defeating their father, a man whose evil threatens to spread unchecked. But they've also never been in more danger.
Frey's sister Rafi -- no longer a twin in features, but still a twin by birth -- is the wild card. Are the sisters on the same side . . . or are they playing to their own agendas? If their father is deposed from Shreve, who will take control? And what other forces may be waiting in the wings?
Mirror's Edge is another brilliant blockbuster from one of the greatest speculative writers YA fiction has ever seen, set within the world of Uglies . . . and about to converge with Uglies in a spectacular way.
The Flipside of Perfect
by Liz Reinhardt
Published by: Inkyard Press
A heartfelt, fun, and romantic novel about balancing who we are with who we're expected to be, perfect for fans of Jenna Evans Welch, Morgan Matson and Jenn Bennett!
What happens when her two worlds collide?
AJ is a buttoned-up, responsible student attending a high-achieving high school in Michigan. She lives with her mother, stepfather, and two younger half sisters.
Della spends every summer with her father in Florida. A free-spirited wild child, she spends as much time as possible on the beach with her friends and older siblings.
But there's a catch: AJ and Della are the same person. Adelaide Beloise Jepsen to be exact, and she does everything she can to keep her school and summer lives separate.
When her middle sister crashes her carefree summer getaway, Adelaide's plans fall apart. In order to help her sister, save her unexpected friendship with a guy who might just be perfect for her, and discover the truth about her own past, Adelaide will have to reconcile the two sides of herself...and face the fact that it's perfectly okay not to be perfect all the time.
What Beauty There Is (What Beauty There Is, #1)
by Cory Anderson
Genres: Young Adult, Thriller, Mystery
What Beauty There Is is Cory Anderson's stunning YA novel about brutality and beauty, and about broken people trying to survive--perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Laura Ruby, and Meg Rosoff.
To understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning.
Winter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.
Living in harsh poverty, Jack Dahl is holding his breath. He and his younger brother have nothing--except each other. And now Jack faces a stark choice: lose his brother to foster care or find the drug money that sent his father to prison.
He chooses the money.
Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father, a merciless man, has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Now Victor Bardem is stalking the same money as Jack. When he picks up on Jack's trail, Ava must make her own wrenching choice: remain silent or speak, and help the brothers survive.
Choices. They come at a price.
Star Wars Skywalker a Family at War
by D.K. Publishing
Published by: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Uncover the secrets of the Skywalkers: the family that shaped a galaxy far, far away ...
The Skywalker story has everything: passion, intrigue, heroism, and dark deeds.
This revelatory biography explores every twist and turn of the Skywalker dynasty: the slow seduction to the dark side of Anakin; his doomed marriage to Padme Amidala; the heroics of Luke and Leia; the fall and redemption of Han Solo and Princess Leia's son, Ben; and the struggles of his dyad in the Force, Rey.
Leaving no stone unturned in tracing the dynasty's trials and tribulations, this definitive biography of Star Wars' first family explores and explains the deeper, more personal story of the Skywalkers, their characters, motivations, and, against seemingly impossible odds, their ultimate triumph.
(c) AND TM 2021 LUCASFILM LTD.
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Apocalypso
Label: Sony Release Date: 11/07/2005
by Mike Diver July 11th, 2005
Mew have been sending their epic rumblings towards the mainstream for as long as this beer-decayed brain can recall (that'll be two or three years then), but with Frengers, 2003's much-acclaimed debut album, still riding high among indie popularity contests in magazine offices and student unions alike, this year looks likely to be the final make-or-break for the Danes.
'Apocalypso', a digital download release primarily but also available on limited-edition 7", is everything the lay person wants from a return-marking single - it gushes in all the appropriate places, triggers a million effects pedals and propels itself skyward when necessary, and ultimately occupies its five minutes with enough dignity and grace to have the listener demanding more. Jonas Bjerre only sings one way - like his clothes have caught alight and the nearest pond is blocked by a thousand indifferent faces. He needs to move them. Now.
In short, it's make not break. Or is that t'other way around? I've never known nor cared, much.
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Eugénie Sokolnicka, geborne Kutner (* 14. Juni 1884 in Warschau; † 19. Mai 1934 in Paris) war eine polnisch-französische Psychoanalytikerin. Als Analysandin von Freud half sie in den 1920er Jahren, die Psychoanalyse nach Frankreich zu bringen. Als Lehranalytikerin analysierte mehrere der jüngeren Psychiater aus dem Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne in Paris.

Leben und Wirken
Sie wurde als Tochter einer angesehenen jüdisch-intellektuellen Familie in Warschau geboren. Ihr Vater war der Bankangestellte und Prokurist Maurycy Kutner (um 1837–1897) und ihre Mutter Paulina Flejszer (1846–1929). Ihre Mutter erhielt bei ihrem Tod als polnische Freiheitskämpferin und Beteiligung am Januaraufstand 1863 ein Staatsbegräbnis. Die frühe schulische Ausbildung ihrer Tochter fand hauptsächlich zu Hause statt, auch unter Beteiligung einer französischen Gouvernante. Mit 20 Jahren zog sie nach Paris, wo sie einen Abschluss in Naturwissenschaften und Biologie an der Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften an der Sorbonne absolvierte und die Kurse bei Pierre Janet, Théodule Ribot und Jean-Martin Charcot belegte. In Paris begegnete sie auch ihren zukünftigen Ehemann Michel Sokolnicki (1880–1967), einem Historiker. Nach ihrem akademischen Abschluss kehrte Eugenia Kutner nach Warschau zurück, wo sie am 27. Oktober 1903 in der Pfarrei Allerheiligen heiratete. Er war ein polnischer Gutsbesitzer und zukünftiger Historiker, Politiker und Privatsekretär von Józef Piłsudski.

Sie widmete sich dem Familienleben bis 1911, als sie eine Ausbildung bzw. Praktikum in Psychiatrie an der Burghölzli-Klinik bei Eugen Bleuler begann, wo sie auch Carl Gustav Jung kennenlernte und eine tiefenpsychologische Ausbildung unter seiner Leitung erhielt. In Zürich wohnte sie in der Susenbergstr. 167. Nach dem Zusammenbruch der Beziehungen zwischen Jung und Freud reiste Sokolnicka nach Wien, wo sie sich einer persönlichen Analyse von Sigmund Freud unterzog. Nach Freuds Terminkalender begann ihre Analyse am 19. März 1914 und dauerte nicht ganz drei Monate. Die psychoanalytischen Sitzungen gestalteten sich durch zum Teil nicht auflösbare Übertragungs-Gegenübertragungs Konstellationen als problematisch.

Zu dieser Zeit nahm Sokolnicka auch an Sitzungen der Wiener Psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft teil. Im gleichen Zeitraum ließ sie sich von ihrem Ehemann scheiden.
Von 1913 an blieb sie in Wien und wurde im November 1916 Mitglied der dortigen Psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft. 1914 gründete sie ihre eigene Psychoanalytische Praxis in München, wo sie die Lehranalyse von Felix Boehm durchführte. Sie kehrte zu Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs nach Warschau zurück und versuchte dort vergeblich eine psychoanalytische Gesellschaft aufzubauen. Den Verlauf des Ersten Weltkriegs verbrachte sie in Warschau und Zürich. Anfang 1920 reiste sie nach Budapest und absolvierte ein knappes Jahr lang eine weitere Lehranalyse bei Sándor Ferenczi, von der Ferenczi Elemente in seine Korrespondenz mit Freud berichtete. Sie lebte in Paris in der Rue Chevert 30, im 7. Arrondissement (Paris). In den Jahren zwischen 1922 und 1923 hielt sie Vorlesungen an der École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. René Laforgue ein Psychiater zählte zu einer ihrer ersten Lehranalysanten in Frankreich.

Sokolnicka unterhielt enge Beziehungen zum Diplomaten Władysław Baranowski (1885–1939) und der Mutter von Hanna Segal, Isabella Poznanska, geborene Weintraub. Sie war Gründungsmitglied der Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP) am 4. November 1926. Weitere waren, um einige zu nennen, Marie Bonaparte, Adrien Borel, Edouard Pichon, Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein, Georges Parcheminey und weitere. Sie führte mit André Gide eine Psychoanalyse durch und war mit vielen Literaten der Nouvelle Revue Française befreundet.

Obgleich sie eine Klinikerin mit hoher Expertise war, verlor Eugénie Sokolnicka 1923 ihre Stelle am Sainte-Anne, auf Betreiben des neuen Direktors Henri Claude, der keine nicht-ärztlichen Analytiker akzeptierte. Eugénie Sokolnicka beendete ihr eigenes Leben durch eine Gasvergiftung. Sie wurde am 26. Mai auf dem Friedhof Cimetière parisien de Bagneux beigesetzt.

Publikationen (Auswahl)
 L'analyse d'un cas de névrose obsessionnelle infantile. (1920)
 Analyse einer infantilen Zwangsneurose. Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse 6, S. 228–241, 1920
 On the diagnosis and symptomatology of the psycho-analytical theory of the neuroses. Résumé des actes du 6ème Congrès de l'IPA, La Haye, 8–12 septembre 1920 S. 355–356
 Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis in a Child. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 3, S. 306–319, 1922
 Quelques problèmes de technique psychanalytique. Revue Française de Psychanalyse 3 (1), S. 1–49, 1929
 Le dynamisme des névroses et la psychanalyse. Prophylaxie mentale, S. 417–425, 1931
 Sur un cas de guérison rapide. Revue Française de Psychanalyse 5 (3), S. 440, 1932
 À propos de l'article de M. René Laforgue. Revue Française de Psychanalyse 6, S. 361–363, 1933

Literatur
 Jarosław Groth: Eugenia Sokolnicka – A Contribution to the History of Psychoanalysis in Poland and France. January 2015, Psychoanalysis and History 17(1):59–86, DOI:10.3366/pah.2015.0160 ( auf researchgate.net)
 Eugenia Sokolnicka, in: Elke Mühlleitner: Biographisches Lexikon der Psychoanalyse. Tübingen : Ed. Diskord, 1992 ISBN 3-89295-557-3, S. 304f.
 Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester: Die Frauen Sigmund Freuds. Übersetzung Brigitte Rapp, Uta Szyszkowitz. München : List, 1994, S. 478–480
 Élisabeth Roudinesco; Michel Plon: Wörterbuch der Psychoanalyse : Namen, Länder, Werke, Begriffe. Übersetzung. Wien : Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5

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From Business Insider to the National Post in Canada, numerous news outlets all across the world have published stories about the horrific phenomenon of drivers in China preferring to "Hit to Kill" than "Hit to "Injure". You could almost say that in this kind of situation, drivers in China are indeed the worst type of drivers to ever hit the roads. I can't imagine what would possesses them to be so cruel towards poor pedestrians who were at the wrong place at the wrong time?
If the pedestrian is killed, the driver only has to "pay once, like a burial fee" and that only ranges from $30,000 to $50,000 in compensation. Horrifying, I know.
The top 3 causes of mortality in China are strokes, coronary heart diseases and road injuries. Another disturbing fact is that nearly half of suicides around the world take place in China and India. The mortal road incidents in China are backed up by security camera footage of drivers that intentionally drive to kill and tons of it. Furthermore, some drivers happen to put their cars into reverse then run over the poor pedestrian to make certain that the injured pedestrian never lives to tell their side of the story.
With just 16% of the world's cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles, Asia accounts for more than half of the roughly 1.2 million traffic fatalities that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates occur globally every year. More than 600,000 Asians are killed and another 9.4 million are severely injured in traffic accidents annually. Those statistics make Asia's highways the meanest streets in the world.
Both China and Taiwan have passed legislative acts to help deal with hit-to-kill cases. Taiwan's legislature reformed Article 6 of its Civil Code, which had long restricted the ability to bring civil lawsuits on behalf of the family of those that were killed. Meanwhile, China's legislature has emphasized that multiple-hit cases should be treated as murders. Yet even when a driver hits a victim multiple times, it can be hard to prove the intent and causation—at least to satisfy Chinese laws and courts.
5,000 years of civilization? and it results into this?


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Humanitarian aid for Venezuela met with troops, teargas and gunfire on borders
CUCUTA, Colombia/URENA, Venezuela — Venezuelan troops loyal to President Nicolas Maduro fired tear gas and rubber pellets at opposition supporters seeking to bring foreign aid over the Colombian border on Saturday, as the country's socialist government defied international pressure to step down.The clashes occurred as Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who most Western nations recognize as Venezuela's legitimate leader, gave a personal send off to an aid caravan from the Colombian city of Cucuta.Guaido briefly boarded one of a dozen trucks carrying U.S.-backed humanitarian aid before they set off towards the border, where they were pushed back by Venezuelan security forces.Colombia's government said their contents would be unloaded and transported by "human chains" that have formed on the road that leads toward Venezuela.But in the towns of San Antonio and Urena, just across the border, troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets at opposition activists including lawmakers walking towards the frontier who were waving Venezuelan flags and chanting "freedom."Witnesses reported constant gunfire without being able to identify the origin."They started shooting at close range as if we were criminals," said shopkeeper Vladimir Gomez, 27, wearing a white shirt stained with blood. "I couldn't avoid the (rubber) bullets and they hit me in the face and my back. We have to fight."Many of the demonstrators said they were peaceful civilians who simply wanted aid because of widespread food and medicine shortages in the once-prosperous country suffering an unprecedented economic meltdown."I'm a homemaker, and I'm here fighting for my family, for my children and parents, resisting the military's tear gas and soldiers on motorbikes," said Sobeida Monsalve, 42.Others barricaded streets with burning tires, set a bus alight and hurled stones at security forces to demand that Maduro allow aid into a country ravaged by food and medicine shortages in the wake of an economic meltdown.National guard troops also fired tear gas in Santa Elena near the Brazilian border where people tried set up barricades to prevent armed pro-government agitators from entering.On Friday, troops had opened fire in a village in the area killing a woman and her husband. Thirty-five National Guard troops are being held by the indigenous community in protest, the mayor of the broader Gran Sabana municipality said.Two humanitarian aid trucks crossed the Brazilian border although they had not passed through the Venezuelan customs checkpoint, according to a Reuters witness.Embarrass the militaryA social media video showed troops who defected on Saturday driving armored vehicles across a bridge linking Venezuela and Colombia, knocking over metal barricades in the process, and then jumping out of the vehicles and running to the Colombian side."What we did today, we did for our families, for the Venezuelan people," said one of the four men in a video televised by a Colombian news program, which did not identify them. "We are not terrorists."Colombian television also showed images of what it said was a Venezuelan officer who identified himself as Major Hugo Parra, recognizing Guaido as president.	Thirteen members of Venezuelan securities forces had defected on Saturday, including 10 members of the National Guard officers and two police officers, Colombia's migration authority said.Leaders of Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party call Guaido's aid effort a veiled invasion backed by Washington, and insist that the United States should instead help Venezuela by lifting crippling financial and oil sector sanctions. Maduro blames the country's dire situation on U.S. sanctions that have blocked funds and hobbled the OPEC member's oil industry.Thousands of government supporters clad in signature red shirts led a rally in downtown Caracas to denounce intimidation by the United States and to demand that the Trump administration halt sanctions."The humanitarian aid they want to bring is a fraud, those products are no apt for human consumption," said Maryori Romero, 56, who works at a state-run supermarket.While the need for basic food and medicines is desperate, Venezuela's opposition also hopes the operation will embarrass military officers who continue to support Maduro.Thousands of white-clad protesters gathered at a military base in Caracas to demand that the armed forces allow the aid in, after declaring the aid on its way in a news conference flanked by three Latin American presidents, including Colombia's Ivan Duque."This is the biggest battle that the armed forces can win," said Sheyla Salas, 48, who works in advertising. "Please join this struggle, get on the right side (of history), allow the humanitarian aid to enter."U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton canceled plans to travel to South Korea to prepare for a summit addressing North Korea's nuclear program in order to focus instead on events unfolding in Venezuela, his spokesman said on Friday.


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Gibson writes: "The natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has simultaneously become a cash cow for unimaginably wealthy energy companies, a brutally efficient destroyer of limited natural resources depended upon by the rest of us, and a disturbing new trend that will lead to massive social instability."
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9 Good Reasons to Ban Fracking Immediately
By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
"When the last tree is cut, the last fish caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money."
~ Alanis Obomsawin
"The United States is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas."
~ General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt
he natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has simultaneously become a cash cow for unimaginably wealthy energy companies, a brutally efficient destroyer of limited natural resources depended upon by the rest of us, and a disturbing new trend that will lead to massive social instability. Until we come together and put a stop to fracking by direct action, banning fracking in our cities and states and using clean energy, fracking will continue to deplete every everything we have until it's too late.
Most important, fracking shouldn't be seen as just a niche cause for environmentalists, but as a huge intersectional issue that affects everyone, no matter which issue you're most passionate about. Fracking hurts all of us, and it will take all of us to come together and end it for good. Here are nine perfectly good reasons fracking needs to end immediately and permanently.
1. Fracking Results in Unprecedented Amounts of Earthquakes
Oklahoma, home to hundreds of fracking sites, is now more earthquake-prone than California. Between 1990 and 2008, Oklahoma had only three earthquakes per year that registered at 3.0 or more on the Richter scale. In 2013, Oklahoma had 109 earthquakes. That number has increased to 238 as of June 2014. One quake caused by drilling destroyed 14 homes in Oklahoma City, injured two people and buckled pavement. Additional, persistent quakes will undoubtedly cause more injuries, potential deaths, and damage to infrastructure, costing taxpayers millions. EPA seismologists acknowledge a very clear correlation between fracking and earthquakes, saying the quakes would stop as soon as wells were turned off.
2. Fracking Results in Extreme Water Contamination
Fracking wells, which inject water, sand, and chemicals deep into the ground to extract natural gas, inevitably create significant runoff into groundwater systems. 40,000 gallons of 600 different kinds of chemicals are used in each fracking well, including formaldehyde, mercury, uranium, and hydrochloric acid. To run all the fracking wells in the United States, it takes 360 BILLION gallons of those harmful chemicals. And only 30 to 50 percent of those chemicals are reclaimed, while the rest is left in the ground, not biodegradable. Pennsylvania, a major fracking state, has just admitted that fracking has contaminated local water supplies 243 times in 22 counties.
In California, where a historic drought has already started water rationing in major population centers (more on that in section 3), 3 billion gallons of fracking waste just leaked into aquifers containing precious drinking water reserves for residents. Josh Fox's film "Gasland" illustrates that homes affected by fracking have flammable water. Drinking the water can cause respiratory, sensory, and neurological issues. And the situation in California is just a prelude to what's to come if fracking is allowed to continue. In West Virginia, where 300,000 people had their drinking water contaminated by a chemical used by the coal industry this January, government officials are weighing proposals to frack under the Ohio River, which supplies drinking water to 3 million people.
3. Fracking Is Responsible for Record Droughts
Each fracking project in the United States requires as much as 8 million gallons of water to complete. Taking the U.S.'s 500,000 fracking sites into account, with each site being fracked 18 times, that translates to a whopping 72 TRILLION gallons of water to maintain every fracking well. That's over half of the water in Lake Erie. In the meantime, states with huge and growing populations like Texas and California are experiencing exceptional drought conditions, causing food prices to rise as more crops and livestock die off. Towns along the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas are seeing 45 to 50 percent of total water usage come from fracking companies. California's water reservoirs are at less than 50 percent, and water officials say that there's maybe 12 to 18 months of water left if strict conservation measures are implemented. Once those reservoirs run out, nobody is sure what will happen next, given how little rain California has seen in recent years.
4. Fracking Exacerbates Climate Change
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that as you deplete water supplies by the trillions of gallons, there's less water in the ground to continue the natural cycle of water. An interrupted water cycle means less water in the air, which means fewer rain clouds, fewer crops, more deserts, and entire population centers without a critical resource, leading to widespread social instability. Fracking also puts an exponential amount of greenhouse gases into the air. Each of America's 500,000 gas wells requires 400 tanker trucks to carry water and supplies to and from the site – that's quantified to 200 million tanker trucks dumping tons of additional CO2 into the atmosphere every day. Methane, which traps even more sunlight in the atmosphere than CO2 and contributes even more to climate change, regularly leaks from fracking sites. As investigative journalist Steve Horn reported for DeSmogBlog, Mark Boling, an executive at Southwestern Energy, admitted that the amount of leaking methane at fracking sites concerned him greatly. One recent study that linked fracking to climate change illustrated that fracking was even worse for the climate than coal. So much for the "natural gas is cleaner than coal" argument.
5. Fracking Leads to Further Exploitation of Immigrant Workers
If you care about immigration, then you should care about fracking. Companies drilling new wells looking to skimp on labor costs have been caught trucking in undocumented workers to do the hard labor. These workers are often paid poverty wages and put in unsafe environments, with the underlying threat of deportation if they speak out about the insufficient pay and grueling working conditions. One example is GPX, of Sealy, Texas, which was accused of trucking in undocumented workers to perform seismic and surface surveying in Pennsylvania. A local pipe-building union fighting for its 700 members to have good-paying jobs claims the immigrant workers are given a less-stringent test on welding, which can lead to faulty well construction, greatly increasing the chances of a pipeline leaking into a water system. If GPX is found guilty of hiring undocumented immigrants, they face a $10 million fine, and five years of probation on each of the 20 counts.
6. Fracking Displaces Poor Communities
Pennsylvania, which houses the Marcellus Shale, is home to thousands of fracking operations. As more companies come in to drill new wells, they often displace entire communities of people who are then left homeless and broke, forced to uproot themselves for an out-of-state industry. One example is in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, where 32 families didn't even know they were going to be evicted from their trailer park until they read about it in the Williamsport Gazette. Aqua America, a water company dedicated to fracking, bought the piece of land that housed the trailer park, and families were told they would be paid $2,500 if they moved out by April 1, 2012; $1,500 if they moved out by May 1, 2012; and paid nothing if they moved out after that date. As Mother Jones reported, the cost of moving each family's trailer was between $8,000 and $10,000 on average. Residents staged a blockade of the construction, and state troopers were eventually called in to arrest anyone who refused to move. Construction has since begun where those 32 families used to live.
7. Fracking Makes Economic Inequality Even Worse
By investing in some professions that are labor-intensive, like education and construction, you can be assured that the money will create lots of jobs. But fracking is an industry that's capital-intensive, meaning most of the investment goes toward the equipment and technology, rather than the people. And when fracking wells become profitable, most of the profit goes to the owners of the equipment, not the workers who did the drilling. In addition, jobs on drilling sites are only temporary, since wells can only be fracked up to 18 times. Fracking makes it possible for people like Richard Kinder of Kinder Morgan to make out like bandits, whereas immigrants and other non-union employees who work on drilling sites get crumbs and are routinely exposed to lethal chemicals like benzene.
While there were 135,000 more people working in the oil and gas industry in 2012 than there were in 2007, that number of jobs is negligible compared to the jobs created through sustainable energy. The solar industry alone employs over 140,000 Americans and is outpacing national job growth in other sectors by a factor of ten. The U.S. economy added one million new green jobs in 2013 alone, for a total of 6.5 million green jobs in the U.S. today. If you want an energy source that's great for job creation, look to wind energy – wind turbines alone create thousands of permanent jobs through their production, transportation, installation, and continued maintenance. More important, wind and solar power don't contaminate water supplies.
8. Fracking Depletes the Value of Your Home
Exxon is one of the largest companies that engages in fracking. And in an ironic twist, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson became a fracking protester when well drilling was about to happen next to his home. Through his attorney, Tillerson said he wasn't concerned about the environmental impact, but rather the impact to his property values. As I've written in the previous sections, Tillerson is obviously wrong to not be worried about the environmental costs of fracking, but he's 100 percent correct about what fracking does to homes. A study by the University of Denver found that fracking can reduce a home's value by 25 percent on average. And of 550 people surveyed, most wouldn't buy a home near a fracking site. Researchers looking at 43 counties in New York and Pennsylvania also learned that a house within 0.6 miles of a fracking site that depends on wells for its drinking water rather than municipal sources saw the value of their home plummet by 16.7 percent.
9. Fracking Encourages Crony Capitalism and Monopolies
Right now, the incentives for using clean energy to heat and light our homes are next to none. Oklahoma and Arizona are even penalizing homeowners with fines for installing rooftop solar panels. This is the result of a model bill written up by the Koch Brothers-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) aimed at giving oil and gas companies a monopoly on residential markets.
Kansas governor Sam Brownback, a Republican, was originally for wind energy, before the Kochs twisted his arm. Kansas currently gets 11 percent of its energy from wind farms, and the state has invested $7 billion to date in installing and maintaining wind turbines. Kansas farmers receive a healthy $8 million in lease payments every year in exchange for allowing wind turbines to be built on their land. This all started in 2009, when Governor Mark Parkinson, who replaced Governor Kathleen Sebelius when she went to Washington, signed legislation stating that power companies must have power grids consisting of 20 percent sustainable energy by 2020.
But the Koch Brothers started aggressively lobbying against wind energy tax credits in 2013, and called for Kansas' renewable energy benchmark to be frozen at 16 percent in 2016. Koch-funded groups spent $383,000 in ads calling for the repeal of the 2009 legislation. On July 23 of this year, Brownback began calling for a phase-out of the program, in the midst of his re-election campaign, likely caving to pressure from the Kochs. Even though Charles and David Koch are already worth over $100 billion, they still insist on closing off all avenues for cost-effective sustainable energy and steamrolling politicians who get in their way.
Whether you're passionate about the environment, housing markets, immigration, economic inequality, or ending crony capitalism, ending fracking is a major step toward solving those social ills. It'll take a combination of direct action, new ordinances and laws, and us generating our own sustainable energy to do it. Let's get to work.
Carl Gibson, 27, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nonviolent grassroots movement that mobilized thousands to protest corporate tax dodging and budget cuts in the months leading up to Occupy Wall Street. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary We're Not Broke, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Carl is also the author of How to Oust a Congressman, an instructional manual on getting rid of corrupt members of Congress and state legislatures based on his experience in the 2012 elections in New Hampshire. He lives in Sacramento, California.
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The next day, January 27 at 09:00 hours will take place on the Avenida de Carlos III in Seville the departure of the twenty-fourth edition of the EDP Media Marathon 2019.
It is a fantastic flat race and for the people from outside it presents a great interest, since in its route of 21 kilometers it crosses the historical helmet of the city. This makes it very attractive for runners because it gives them the opportunity to know some of the most beautiful monuments of Seville. The goal will be located on the athletics track of the Olympic Stadium in La Cartuja.
The duration of the race is limited to two hours and thirty minutes and can take part people of all ages from 18 years.
The registration period is now open until December 31, 2018. You can register on the official half marathon website of Seville in the "inscriptions" section, which appears on the main page.
Carlos III Avenue (Exit), Cádiz-Huelva Highway, Rubén Darío, Blas Infante, López de Gomara, Ronda de Triana, Torre Pelli Roundabout, Camino de los Descubrimientos, Rey Pastor and Castro Mathematicians, Isla Magica Roundabout, Puente de la Barqueta, Tournament, Arjona, Paseo de Cristóbal Colón, Paseo de las Delicias, Eritaña Avenue, Borbolla Avenue, Plaza de América, Don Pelayo Avenue, Glorieta de Covadonga, Isabel "La Católica" Avenue, Plaza de España, Avenida Isabel "La Católica ", Avenida del Cid, Plaza Juan de Austria, San Fernando, Puerta de Jerez, Avenida de La Constitución, Plaza Nueva, Tetouan, Velázquez, Campana, Martín Villa, Laraña, Plaza de la Encarnación-Las Setas, Imagen, Plaza San Pedro, Admiral Apodaca, Juan de Mesa, Jerónimo de Córdoba Square, Jáuregui, Puñonrostro, María Auxiliadora, Ronda de Capuchinos, Muñoz León, Parliament of Andalucía, Resolana, Puente de la Barqueta, Glorieta Isla Mágica, José Gálvez, Juan Bautista Muñoz , Américo Vespucio, Glorieta Higher School of Engineers, Camino de los Descubrimientos, Zona La Cartuja Stadium (road to the stadium), South Tunnel, Track Athletics of the Cartuja Stadium (Meta).
Join this great sporting event! Book your stay with us in the center of Seville. You can find better prices and discounts on our official website.


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The triumph of vegetation is total.
The work that occupied the last years of Jed Martin's life can thus be seen – and this is the first interpretation that springs to mind – as a nostalgic meditation on the end of the Industrial Age in Europe, and, more generally, on the perishable and transitory nature of any human industry. This interpretation is, however, inadequate when one tries to make sense of the unease that grips us on seeing those pathetic Playmobil-type little figurines, lost in the middle of an abstract and immense futurist city, a city which itself crumbles and falls apart, then seems gradually to be scattered across the immense vegetation extending to infinity. That feeling of desolation, too, that takes hold of us as the portraits of the human beings who had accompanied Jed Martin through his earthly life fall apart under the impact of bad weather, then decompose and disappear, seeming in the last videos to make themselves symbols of the generalized annihilation of the human species. They sink and seem for an instant to put up a struggle, before being suffocated by the superimposed layers of plants. Then everything becomes calm. There remains only the grass swaying in the wind. The triumph of vegetation is total.
Final paragraph of Michel Houellebecq's The Map and The Territory, p. 269. First Vintage International Edition, November 2012. Trans. Gavin Bowd.
2012 may mark the year that New York City's High Line became too big to fail. This is exactly why it must. Let's start with the basics. Friends of the High Line (FoHL), which is the first organization in the New York to license a public park from the city, listed 84 people on its staff in 2010 to manage and operate a 6.7 acre park (12.5 staff per acre). Compared to the Friends Hudson River Park and the Hudson River Park Trust combined (17 staff for 550 acres = .03 staff per acre), the Central Park Conservancy (367 staff for 843 acres = .4 staff per acre), or the Prospect Park Alliance (263 staff for 585 acres = .44 staff per acre), this is the most highly staffed particular park per acre in the City. [Sources: 2010 Federal 990 filings for individual organizations, except HRPT, for which I used the website to count the staff.] Then there's the park's capital requirements for the construction of the third and final section of the High Line: $90 million dollars. This brings the total cost of construction for the park close to $250 million dollars, slightly less than the estimated $266 million (inflation adjusted) that it cost to build Central Park in the 1850s. An estimated 3.7 million visitors in the past year. But I'm already getting too mired in the gargantuan numbers, numbers that will surely continue to pile up before the park is completed. What 2012 really represents for the High Line is the year of gentrification.
Now, nobody could argue that 2012 is the first year that the überpark has been entangled with the ongoing third-wave gentrification of Chelsea, the West Village, and the Meatpacking District. These neighborhoods each have complex and specific histories of first- and second-wave gentrification (look into Neil Smith if you're unsure about this periodization) into which the Friends of the High Line stepped when they began their effort to save the rail line in 1999. Increasingly incredulous is the Friend's narrative of grassroots advocacy, considering that the not-for-profit development juggernaut has not only accelerated, consolidated, aspirationally depoliticized, and deeply institutionalized the gentrification of these neighborhoods, it has also set a global precedent for how-to-gentrify the innumerable disabused transportation lines that span many miles of urban space. Who would have thought that a copycat organization advocating for an as-yet unproven light filtering technology to support photosynthesis in an underground park below Delancey Street – a.k.a. the Low Line – would have ever been taken seriously in prevanchist New York? 2012: the year gentrification went underground. These new modes of ecological, state-supported gentrification need closer analysis, and, as the global standard-bearer of this experiment, the High Line is ground zero.
The biggest stories for the High Line in 2012 fall into two categories: development and media criticism. From a development perspective, the last year witnessed two landmark events. The groundbreaking of the new Whitney Museum, a $720 million, 200,000 square foot, Renzo Piano building at the foot of the park on Gansevoort Street. If the High Line's feet are in the art world, its head is undoubtedly ballooning into the vast empty spaces of big league real estate development. Here, on the account of its convergence with the Hudson Yards development project, or what I like to call 'the new midtown' (the amount of office space under development is roughly twice the amount in all of downtown Seattle) the High Line's pro-development stance takes on a new order of magnitude.
American cities are always looking for quick fixes to revive their moribund downtowns. Sadly, the dismal record of failed urban design strategies is long: downtown shopping malls, pedestrianized streets, underground passages, skyways, monorails, festival marketplaces, downtown stadiums — and that most elusive fix of all, iconic cultural buildings. It appears likely that we will soon be adding elevated parks to the list.
Rybczynski's op-ed seemed but a fly on the fresh pile of enthusiasm expressed for the opening of the park's second phase and its purported $2 billion in affiliated real estate development; he can be read as a curmudgeonly planner unwilling to jump on the glittering green growth wagon. Indeed, it seems he was as much responding to another trend as he was predicting the High Line's efflorescence in an ever-expanding list of copies: Philadelphia's Reading Viaduct, London's Fungus Tunnel (my favorite name), Atlanta's Beltline (in which HR&A Advisors, the High Line's power consultant – its chairman, John Aslchuler, is the current President of the board of directors of FoHL – is also involved), Chicago's Bloomingdale Trail, and Toronto's West Toronto Rail Path, to name a select few. But this simultaneous Bilbao-esque global diffusion (As Roger Keil suggested in a November 2012 tweet responding to this article on a Sydney version) and northward march of the überpark in 2012 has been greeted with another kind of response: finally naming the park's unique brand of gentrification.
I intervene with an 'o' to suggest that the eruption, capture, and management of wild urban naturecultures, to use Donna Haraway's wonderfully conflated term, has much to do with the politics and anxieties of displacement as the effect of gentrification. Those 'disturbed' post-industrial spaces which so often are the next gentrified neighborhood are characterized by a quality of weediness and seediness; something and someone appears to be out of place. The vitality of claims to abandoned spaces reflects their relative openness to being repurposed for new needs and desires emerging in the post-industrial city. The empirical displacements both of the High Line's queer ecology and the residents and businesses of adjacent neighborhoods calls for a concept which can attend to the relationship between these phenomena over a specific period of time, one which I typically delimit in terms of abandonment. In short, ec[o]topia is an attempt to describe the anomalous relation of sexuality to nature in the midst of a real urbanization process. It is further a gesture toward linking political possibilities for human resistance to particular forms of displacement to the ontological conditions and material realities of existing urban-natures. Here, the 'displacement' of former uses and significations helps to create not only new imaginative possibilities, but also new or revived forms of material engagement with and in nature and the city alike, including sexual relations.
[T]he High Line, whatever else you can say about it, is a sincere and original response to a genuine social phenomenon. It does what any great work of visual art does, which is to take an inchoate emotional sense shared by a large group of people and make it concrete, visible in three dimensions. What you make of it is largely determined by what you think of its underlying subject, which in this case is gentrification. If you are part of the community pushed out by the new wealth gentrification inevitably brings, then no doubt the High Line's precious attention to symbols of decay and ruin — all those meticulously landscaped weeds — will seem calculated to piss you off. If, on the other hand, you are part of a gentrifying wave, as so much of young New York now is, then the High Line will seem to be singing from your hymnal, and you will revel in the distressed steel girders and exposed brick walls.
I give Bourne serious points for naming gentrification as the issue, but I think that his poorly divided, artificially coherent camps 'for' and 'against' gentrification – not to mention his unaddressed foundationalism – invents a non-existent duality and loses the complexity of the dynamic of gentrification. I mean, of course, that he too easily makes gentrification a phenomenon owned (unambiguously) by 'the young,' missing both important points of resistance in the very same neighborhood and opting out of a more highly differentiated reading of the racialized, classed, and gendered dynamics at work. I'm thinking here of the efforts of Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE!) who, with their LGBTQ youth of color focus and grassroots politics, have actively resisted gentrification, have continually named the racialized and gendered components that drive or accompany gentrification, and have pushed for spaces that are explicitly rather than incidentally queer. Emerging in response to the threats to queer space and queer lives on the west side piers and to the increase of police profiling and violence in the West Village and NYC more broadly (remember Amadou Diallo and Abner Louima?), FIERCE! first grabbed my attention between 2006 and 2008, when I was doing research for a major paper on the queer and environmental history of the west side waterfront and the present Hudson River Park. For me, FIERCE!'s politics get at two important questions about the convergence of sexuality and public space development: What is it about the creation of parks that naturalizes the displacement of queer uses and bodies, including racialized bodies, from public space? And: What might a queer politics of urban public spaces of nature look like if it were to be democratically shaped by radical politics? For me, both of these questions take on a unique character in the context of the High Line's gloss on ecologies of public space.
I had often wondered what it would be like to climb that graffiti-marked trestle with its wild urban meadow. Of course, I'd seen the architectural renderings and knew not to expect a wilderness. Still, the idea was enticing: a public park above the hubbub, a contemplative space where nature softens the city's abrasiveness.
Inspired by the melancholic, unruly beauty of the High Line, where nature has reclaimed a once-vital piece of urban infrastructure, the team retools this industrial conveyance into a post-industrial instrument of leisure, life, and growth. By changing the rules of engagement between plant life and pedestrians, our strategy of agri-tecture combines organic and building materials into a blend of changing proportions that accommodates the wild, the cultivated, the intimate, and the hyper-social. In stark contrast to the speed of Hudson River Park, this parallel linear experience is marked by slowness, distraction and an other-worldliness that preserves the strange character of the High Line. Providing flexibility and responsiveness to the changing needs, opportunities, and desires of the dynamic context, our proposal is designed to remain perpetually unfinished, sustaining emergent growth and change over time.
The designers worked with a narrow vision of landscape, that familiar idiom, to stage an intervention that would call upon the power of the vegetal-ecological imagination to distract from the harsh socioeconomic realities of the High Line's redevelopment. On the one hand, this scrubbed the High Line of its industrial past while, on the other, it obscured the various destructions undertaken in the name of improvement. The latter obscures and deemphasizes the radical potential of cruising the space while deemphasizing so-called 'unruly' ecological figures like invasive species and urban animals. None of these destructions are registered in the non-existent list of losses (costs?), even among vocal critics of gentrification. If we are to try to take full account of the historical memory, we must also include the AIDS genocide among the forces that make the High Line both so 'successful' and so powerful a displacement in the city of queer historical memory. The AIDS genocide played a huge factor in making various parts of Lower Manhattan 'open' for new residents (See Sarah Schulman's book Gentrification of the Mind for both concrete figures and more lyrical and textured analysis on this point. I might add that I have often wondered what an effort to establish the High Line as a memorial to the AIDS genocide might have looked like. I'm thinking here of Derek Jarman's gardens in Dungeness.) A version of the project which focused more centrally on the enmeshed queer ecosystem of the abandoned High Line might have yielded a notion of value quite different than the one that is presently being enshrined in the park's glittering and untouchable planting beds.
In a constantly changing city, with soul-destroying development running rampant, we might look at this project another way: how lucky we are that the team that restored the High Line did so with such sensitivity, innovation, and authenticity. Other neighborhoods will not be so lucky.
So, because the High Line itself so carefully reconstructed an urban pastoral, we cannot hold 'it' responsible for any of the negative effects issuing forth. Green is good, and only that. 'Other neighborhoods' (or does La Farge mean to say, neighborhoods of the other) will simply miss out on luck. This argument serenely obscures the incredible powerbrokerage of the whole undertaking with an endlessly Instagrammed planting bed. Remember, ecology is about human and non-human interaction in systems of constant change, but simply labeling the city as a space of constant change is not enough to bypass the political and personal responsibility that the Friends, its boosters, and city politicians actively claimed for themselves, often times against existing, if fledgling, community efforts to envision alternatives for the space. They were for it before they will be against it.
The Times itself printed several responses to Moss (to which, if you want to go down the rabbit hole, Moss responded here), including from David and Hammond themselves. The co-founders retort: "To claim, as Mr. Moss does, that the High Line was never about the neighborhood is not true and an unfortunate simplification of our past and current reality." A veritable no-comment, backed up by a series of less noteworthy respondents who seek to undercut Moss's gentrification argument through Darwinization ("cities evolve"), an argument for organicized self-policing ("Jeremiah Moss's appreciation for the High Line will most certainly blossom the moment he begins to manage his expectations about living in New York."), and with expressly ambivalent sympathy on account of the "inevitability" of gentrification.
Of course, David and Hammond's 2011 'tell-all' book on the project, High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky, is where the real defense is to be found. In it, the duo seem to be at great pains to suggest not only their generally progressive politics (David recounts attending anti-Iraq war protests), but also their specific disagreements about the involvement of developers and real estate power-players in the High Line process (with Hammond more in favor than David in early phases). When I attended a reading of the new book in November 2011 at Chelsea's 192 Books, Josh David started by reciting a long passage from the beginning of the book in which he firmly placed the High Line at the center of a certain bygone era of gay grit in Chelsea by situating it among the Spike (closed) and the Eagle (relocated), two well-known leather bars. So, it seems that my desire to talk about the High Line as queer gay urban ecology, might fly just alongside the Friend's own melancholic narrative of loss and reinvention. A narrative, not insignificantly, which reached full flower only after the earliest phases of the project opened. This timeline seems to affirm the notion of inevitability which is trotted out in front of anyone who remains attached to the idea that the High Line might have been 'saved' with a lighter touch, or even no touch at all.
LUNCH BREAK My favorite place to eat is a restaurant called Moustache. It has been in the neighborhood since I moved in. If I want to eat outside, I'll go to the Christopher Street pier in Hudson River Park. If I go to the High Line, it feels like work. I see things I want to change and end up sending e-mails to people. It's not as much of a break for me or my staff. Christopher Street used to be this crumbling pier. I was sad when they were going to turn it into a park, because it was such a great ruin and I thought it would change the dynamics. You had these transsexual kids and then yuppies like me. I had a picnic there recently and it's still this great cross-section.
Here again, the handsome Hammond (several paparazzi-style shots in the article flatter the formerly named 'most eligible confirmed bachelor;' he's got a boyfriend that makes him açai smoothies now.) displays a pathos confirmed by the Inside Story anecdote in which Hammond saves "his favorite" comment card from an early exhibition on the High Line Ideas Competition. The anonymous commenter wrote: "The High Line Should be preserved, untouched, as a wilderness area. No doubt you will ruin it. So it goes." Hammond explains his preference for the sentiment: "It spoke to my biggest fear: I loved what it was like up there, as it was. I was afraid that no matter what we designed, it would lose that magic. Until the day we opened, I was secretly scared that we were going to ruin it" (p. 61). Read alongside the Times piece, in which Hammond lumps himself in among the 'great cross-section' of the piers, we can infer a certain amount of exhaustion with being held responsible for every effect of the project. And what of the extended period of struggle in which those 'transsexual' (a term in waning use in these communities) 'kids' on the pier are presently engaged? Hammond deploys the Hudson River Park as a foil to his own overblown project. It's hardly a secret that in the years since the park opened, the well compensated Executive Director, has put a lot of experiential distance between himself and the project, taking up the American Academy's Rome Prize, among other diversions. One wonders where the postcard hangs today.
On the other end of things, Liz Diller, professional partner and wife of Ricardo Scofidio, is introduced by a recent Guardian profile (more bombastically titled "Liz Diller: 'We thought we would have been fired a long time ago") as "One of the few people not completely mesmerized by [the High Line] and ready to move on from it – who, indeed, believes it is not replicable…" Nevertheless, she professes to be "totally amazed by now many New Yorkers are really thankful and love to go" (my emphasis). With little more than a semicolon, she follows up with her concern that the High Line is "almost too popular for its own good. It could easily consume itself." Would that be the completion of an ecological feedback loop embedded in the sustainable design of the project? No further reflection required; Ms. Diller "Has other things on her mind." Indeed, any professional whose project spawns endless copies is likely to move on as quickly as possible to commissions and recognitions, while doing little to account for the localized implications of their work.
1. What would a politics of non-intervention in abandoned urban spaces look like? How is it complicated by that-which-remains and that-which-emerges in every abandoned place?
2. Are queer urban ecologies worth 'preserving' as such? Is it possible to imagine doing this without bloated, institutionally managed, politically narrow-minded advocacy? Can we do this without creating golden calfs?
3. How might a sensitivity to the particular relations of sexuality, nature, and urban spatial politics in historically specific settings inform a radical agenda of anti-gentrification?
4. Is it still possible to imagine a High Line which isn't rendered moribund by tightly scripted regimes of capital accumulation and real estate development?
5. How can an explicit politics of anti-homonormativity (normalization of white, male, bourgeois, sexual citizenship) be translated into tactical and strategic political actions for radical spaces and natures in the central city?
6. How can scholars, activists, and people of radical persuasion disentangle themselves from co-opted 'artistic' and 'ecological' development schemes while still retaining a discourse and practice of affirmative artistic and ecological resistance to such schemes? In other words: How do we stop this from happening again, let alone from becoming a global model for development? Can someone be held responsible for this?
It strikes me that there are two thematic lines emerging from this sextet of questions. The first involves a more thorough exploration of the dynamics and politics of abandonment. While accepting the reality that abandoned properties are part of the circulation of global capital (dross), we might consider how recent tactical and strategic efforts by Occupy and other mid-crisis public-space activisms inform our ability to critique gentrifying projects which mask themselves in discourses of 'public access,' 'sustainability,' and 'community input.' If Friends of the High Line is a community organization, then why is it necessary to name and confine its formal interactions with the community to a model based on meaningless consultation of expert-backed plans? If neighborhood residents claim the power of abandonment or, better yet, radically refuse institutionalized reclamation, it might be possible to politicize the alliance of soon-to-be-displaced residents with soon-to-be-displaced ecologies in which they are enmeshed.
The second involves continual poetic, literary, and artistic efforts at engaging with the ecology of ruins. From Walter Benjamin onward, ruins have remained a captivating thoughtspace for the 'return to/of nature' from some of the most materially developed circumstances. The quality of being unmade by forces of vegetality and animality grants ruins a unique position in both cultural and natural imaginaries and in the purview of geophilosophical inquiries into the shape of a posthuman world. We have seen that such power is readily co-opted by capitalist processes of real estate development, which are always on the lookout for 'new desires' to commodify. How might a necropolitical embrace of the ruin, one which imagines a responsible and respectful lâcher politique, return us to the forgotten politics of death in the central city? Rather than developing for one-who-might-arrive in response to the clarion call of gentrified streets (messianic development), what if we sought to take responsibility for our hand in the death of previously vital incarnations of those same spaces (an ethics of care)?
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, in which the hardscape of the High Line fared relatively well even as Chelsea was ravaged, ecological design is likely to be put forward as a necessary part of infrastructural preparedness for the next natural disaster. Inevitability in another guise. The securitization of the cityscape through ecological intervention will doubtless represent a more tightly scripted regime of security-nature-development in which the needs and interests of particular communities will be overrun by the Green Greater Good. Indeed, we are witnessing the beginning of a public dialogue in which some prominent environmental voices are willing to argue against a right to return. The politics of this position are not wholly obvious. On the one hand, it enforces consequential responsibility on the displaced, implying that the state has no responsibility for the suffering of these people. On the other hand, it contains a strong argument in which the naturalization of human intervention in spaces which appear to belong only to culture is no longer taken for granted. While anthropogenic factors have an undeniable role in the very forces which rendered Sandy so destructive, we may begin to wonder how the immanent struggle to remain in one place and to determine the material conditions of one's own life – arguably the core of any anti-gentrification effort – stacks up in the new era of intensified gentrification and increased urban vulnerability.
Writ small, the High Line demonstrates what happens when these forces operate at a vegetal, rather than a climactic pace and scale. With a sincere desire to avoid depoliticized apocalyptic narratives, I have offered ec[o]topia in the spirit of thinking through the experience and reality of being constantly out-of-place. Any attempt to locate a group with the most legitimate claim to a 'right to the city' is already caught up in the ongoing reality of displacements of one kind or another. This does not make all claims to a place equal; gentrification and displacement are real and must be resisted in situ. It does, however, suggest, that, as our cities produce increasingly entangled and novel ecologies, what I call queer urban ecologies, we will need to draw on both familiar and queer tactics, both involving closer attention to the ground on which we stand and consequential awareness of the long line of displacement from which we all descend to the streets to fight. If what we seek is justice, then we must be prepared to work with the unruly figures to whom 'the next big thing' is constantly being abandoned.
† I should point out one of the more interesting aspects of the HY + HL convergence, the "Save the Spur" campaign. This instance of institutional activism can be traced back to the earliest days of the Friends of the High Line. In this 2009 video, which is perhaps worthy of its own substantial analysis, everyone from Rep. Nadler to a red-t-shirted Robert Hammond jumps in on spur-related advocacy even before the rest of the park had been secured for redevelopment. This brings to mind an action by FIERCE! (Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment) just a few months earlier to oppose overblown development as part of the Pier 40 / Hudson River Park redevelopment. (More on this above…) Related Companies, which won the initial bid to redevelop Pier 40, would later become the lead developer on the Hudson Yards, after Tishman Speyer withdrew their initial winning bid. Related's proposal for the pier – dubbed Vegas on the Hudson – was later found to be financially unfeasible for the cash-strapped park. The future of the space is still unresolved following the resignation of power-developer Douglas Durst from the Friends of the Hudson River Park Board of Directors.
†† Here, I am talking about the abandoned High Line; the lost space which existed between 1980 and the opening of the park.


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In analisi funzionale, il teorema della funzione aperta o teorema dell'applicazione aperta, altrimenti noto come teorema di Banach-Schauder, stabilisce che un operatore lineare continuo suriettivo tra spazi di Banach è una funzione aperta.

Enunciato
Sia  un operatore lineare continuo suriettivo tra spazi di Banach  e . Allora  è una funzione aperta, ovvero se  è un insieme aperto in , allora  è aperto in .

Dimostrazione
La dimostrazione fa uso del teorema della categoria di Baire, e si può suddividere in tre parti.

Parte 1
Occorre provare che per ogni  e per ogni , intorno di ,  è un intorno di . Per linearità risulta  (, ), per cui è sufficiente provare l'affermazione per . Poiché un intorno dello zero contiene necessariamente una palla , è sufficiente provare che per ogni  esiste un  tale che . Osserviamo inoltre che  ed anche, per linearità, che  per ogni .

Per la suriettività di  si ha:

.

Per il teorema della categoria di Baire esiste  tale che: ha interno non vuoto e pertanto, essendo:

deduciamo che  ha interno non vuoto.

Parte 2
Sia  un aperto di  tale che:

Ovviamente  contiene lo zero, ma occorre provare che esiste  tale che:

Siano  e . Poiché l'applicazione  è un omeomorfismo, esiste un intorno  di zero in  tale che:

Si ha:

poiché  implica che . Pertanto abbiamo provato che:

e quindi:

e  è un intorno di zero in . Pertanto esiste  tale che:

Parte 3
Si vuole provare che , cosa che conclude la dimostrazione poiché ne segue che  risulta contenuto in . Sia . Si scelga  tale che , cioè . Per quanto detto in precedenza risulta:

quindi possiamo scegliere  tale che:

, cioè

Iterando il procedimento risulta definita una successione  in  tale che:

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Risulta:

quindi esiste:

e si ha:

Quindi  e, per la continuità di , risulta . Da ciò segue che

ed il teorema è provato.

Corollari

Il teorema della funzione aperta ha due importanti conseguenze:
 Il teorema della funzione inversa afferma che se  è un operatore lineare continuo e bigettivo tra gli spazi di Banach  e , allora l'operatore inverso  è anch'esso continuo.
 Il teorema del grafico chiuso afferma che se  è un operatore lineare tra gli spazi di Banach  e , e se per ogni successione  in  tale che  e  segue che , allora  è continuo.

Bibliografia
  Krantz, S. G. "The Open Mapping Theorem." §5.2.1 in Handbook of Complex Variables. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, pp. 73-74, 1999.
  Zeidler, E. Applied Functional Analysis: Applications to Mathematical Physics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995.
  M. de Wilde, Closed graph theorems and webbed spaces , Pitman (1978)
  H.H. Schaefer, Topological vector spaces , Springer (1971)
  H. Jarchow, Locally convex spaces , Teubner (1981)

Voci correlate
Funzione aperta
Operatore lineare continuo
Teorema del grafico chiuso
Teorema della categoria di Baire
Teorema della funzione aperta (analisi complessa)

Teoria degli operatori
Funzione aperta

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