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        July 2015

        Sounds of Hollywood

        Wie Emigranten aus Europa die amerikanische Filmmusik erfanden

        by Hope, Daniel; Knauer, Wolfgang

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Science and society in southern Africa

        by Saul Dubow

        This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination. Not only did science assist in bolstering aspects of colonial power and exploitation, it also possessed a significant ideological component: it offered a means of legitimating colonial authority by counter-poising Western rationality to native superstition and it served to enhance the self-image of colonial or settler elites in important respects. This innovative volume ranges broadly through topics such as statistics, medicine, eugenics, agriculture, entomology and botany.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2024

        Downward spiral

        Collapsing public standards and how to restore them

        by John Bowers

        The Johnson era will be remembered for a series of scandals that severely eroded trust in the British government. From questionable PPE tenders and public appointments to the 'partygate' fiasco, every aspect of public life seemed tainted. How did this downward spiral begin, and what can be done to reverse it? In this eye-opening book, veteran KC John Bowers presents a fearless examination of the decline in ethical standards before, during and after the Johnson government. He focuses on the institutions responsible for holding the government accountable, exposing how they have been bypassed by prime ministers determined to impose their agenda. Through interviews with political insiders, Bowers provides analysis of scandals such as partygate, Greensill and the revolving door with the private sector. He shines a light on a culture of favouritism, where standards are upheld based on little more than the assumption those in power can be trusted to behave. Rishi Sunak entered Number 10 on the promise of restoring integrity, but it is clear major problems remain. Confronting the failings of the current system, Downward spiral presents concrete proposals for creating an alternative that is more transparent and accountable.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2023

        Borders of desire

        by Elissa Helms, Tuija Pulkkinen

      • Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        March 1905

        The First Book of Farming

        by Charles L. Goodrich

        This book is a result of the author's search for these facts and truths as a student and farmer and his endeavor as a teacher to present them in a simple manner to others. The object in presenting the book to the general public is the hope that it may be of assistance to farmers, students and teachers, in their search for the fundamental truths and principles of farming.

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        February 2020

        Was wir sind

        by Anna Hope

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        January 1994

        Der Biberlilienteich

        Roman

        by Ryden, Hope

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        August 2021

        Niemandsmeer

        Roman

        by Adams, Hope

        Aus dem Englischen von Leonie von Reppert-Bismarck und Anja Kirchdörfer Lee

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2021

        Critical theory and feeling

        The affective politics of the early Frankfurt School

        by Simon Mussell

        This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent 'affective turn' within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of political philosophy, it argues that critical theory actively cultivates a powerful connection between thinking and feeling, and rediscovers a range of often neglected concepts that were of vital importance to the first generation of critical theorists, including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects and mimesis. In doing so, it brings the dynamic work of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer into conversation with more recent debates around politics and affect. An important intervention in the fields of affect studies and social and political thought, Critical theory and feeling shows that sensuous experience is at the heart of the Frankfurt School's affective politics.

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        March 2011

        Toi, toi, toi!

        Pannen und Katastrophen in der Musik

        by Hope, Daniel

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        September 2009

        Wann darf ich klatschen?

        Ein Wegweiser für Konzertgänger

        by Hope, Daniel

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        July 1997

        So wird Ihre Psyche fit

        Selbstvertrauen stärken, Probleme lösen, Ziele erreichen

        by Butler, Gillian; Hope, Tony / Englisch Hummel, Angelika

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        December 1986

        Geisterpiraten und andere schauerliche Seegeschichten

        Ausgewählt von Kalju Kirde. Aus dem Englischen von Friedrich Polakovics

        by William Hope Hodgson, Kalju Kirde, Friedrich Polakovics

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