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      • Island Press

        Island Press began with a simple idea:knowledge is power—the power to imagine a better future and find ways for getting us there. Founded in 1984, Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems. We elevate voices of change, shine a spotlight on crucial issues, and focus attention on sustainable solutions. Our network of authors includes E.O. Wilson, Paul Ehrlich, Sylvia Earle, Gretchen Daily, Jan Gehl, Daniel Pauly, and many others. By working closely with experts like these, Island Press has developed a comprehensive and growing body of knowledge—vital resources for all those working to protect the environment and create healthy communities.

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        Die schönsten Erzählungen Islands
        July 2011

        Die schönsten Erzählungen Islands

        by Soffía Auður Birgisdóttir, Gert Kreutzer, Halldór Guðmundsson

        Die vorliegende Anthologie vermittelt dem Leser ein neues Bild von Island, eines, das weit über die alten Mythen von Elfen und über stolze Wikingersagen hinausgeht. Halldór Laxness, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, Hallgrímur Helgason, Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir und Sjón, um nur einige der besten Erzähler Islands zu nennen, präsentieren das moderne Island des 20. Jahrhunderts und erzählen uns vom Land der Sagen und Wunder, seiner Natur, vor allem aber von seinen Bewohnern und ihren Geschichten.

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        The language of empire
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        The language of empire

        Myths and metaphors of popular imperialism, 1880-1918

        by Robert Macdonald

        The debate about the Empire dealt in idealism and morality, and both sides employed the language of feeling, and frequently argued their case in dramatic terms. This book opposes two sides of the Empire, first, as it was presented to the public in Britain, and second, as it was experienced or imagined by its subjects abroad. British imperialism was nurtured by such upper middle-class institutions as the public schools, the wardrooms and officers' messes, and the conservative press. The attitudes of 1916 can best be recovered through a reconstruction of a poetics of popular imperialism. The case-study of Rhodesia demonstrates the almost instant application of myth and sign to a contemporary imperial crisis. Rudyard Kipling was acknowledged throughout the English-speaking world not only as a wonderful teller of stories but as the 'singer of Greater Britain', or, as 'the Laureate of Empire'. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the Empire gained a beachhead in the classroom, particularly in the coupling of geography and history. The Island Story underlined that stories of heroic soldiers and 'fights for the flag' were easier for teachers to present to children than lessons in morality, or abstractions about liberty and responsible government. The Education Act of 1870 had created a need for standard readers in schools; readers designed to teach boys and girls to be useful citizens. The Indian Mutiny was the supreme test of the imperial conscience, a measure of the morality of the 'master-nation'.

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        Die schönsten isländischen Sagas
        July 2011

        Die schönsten isländischen Sagas

        by Rolf Heller, Arthúr Björgvin Bollason

        Wikinger, Abenteurer, tapfere Helden, Ausgestoßene und Geächtete – vielfältig sind die Gestalten, deren Geschichten und Schicksale in den berühmten Isländersagas erzählt werden. Die unterhaltsamen Geschichten aus dem alten Island erzählen von starken, mutigen und waghalsigen Männern und Frauen, die sich vor über tausend Jahren dort niederließen. Sie hatten Fehden und Konflikte zu bestehen und ehrenhafte Heldentaten zu begehen. Und mußten nicht nur gegen Wind, Wetter und die rauhe Natur, sondern auch gegen verfeindete Wikinger und Gesetzeslose ankämpfen … Dieser Band versammelt die berühmtesten und schönsten Isländersagas – unvergleichliche literarische Zeugnisse eines fernen Landes in einer fernen Zeit.

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        Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2017

        Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840

        by Angela McCarthy, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

        This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand.

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        Tristan Island
        August 1992

        Tristan Island

        Roman

        by Erich Wolfgang Skwara

        Der österreichische Diplomat Dr. Anselm Traurig verbrachte seine ereignislose Dienstzeit in Afrika vor einer Karte des Südatlantiks, auf der er eines Tages Tnstan Island entdeckte – die entlegenste bewohnte Insel der Welt. Er vergaffte sich in die Insel. Er hatte endlos Zeit, von ihr zu träumen. Klein war sie und in der Mitte gelegen – wie Österreich, dessen armselige Realität ihn schmerzte. Auf dieser Insel wäre der Traum einer anarchistischen Glücksgemeinschaft fast in Erfüllung gegangen. Jahre später zur Vertretung an die Pariser Botschaft seines Landes entsandt, beschwor Traurig mit seinem resoluten Versuch, größte Nähe zu einem geliebten Menschen herzustellen, eine Katastrophe herauf. Seither lebt der in den vorzeitigen Ruhestand Versetzte in Südkalifornien, als »Legationsrat in Ruhe«. Am liebsten sitzt er auf der Terrasse eines italienischen Restaurants mit Blick auf den Pazifik. In seine träumende Betrachtung des Meers stehlen sich Überlegungen, wie Tristan Island aus dem Südatlantik in den Pazifik zu schleppen wäre, an den Rand des Blickfelds, in greifbare Nähe. In Gedanken rüstet er eine Expedition aus, stellt er eine Schiffsbesatzung zusammen, trifft er bereits seine Auswahl unter den Ballspielern am Strand...

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        The Story of a Love Song
        March 2021

        The Story of a Love Song

        by Vi Keeland

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        Blackout Island
        August 2018

        Blackout Island

        Roman

        by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir, Tina Flecken

        Was passiert, wenn ein ganzes Land plötzlich von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten ist? Die Ressourcen knapp werden? Nicht alle überleben können? Die Menschen zu Selbstversorgern werden, Eltern ihre Kinder suchen, die in Banden hungernd durchs Land irren. Milizen marodieren. Bürgerkriegsähnliche Verhältnisse herrschen. In einem abgelegenen isländischen Fjord lebt der ehemalige Journalist Hjalti aus Reykjavik unter primitiven Bedingungen auf dem alten Hof seines Großvaters. Er versorgt die Schafe, bewirtschaftet das karge Land und lebt von dem, was er dem Boden und dem Meer abtrotzt. Gesellschaft leistet ihm neben den Schafen nur noch sein Hund. Hjalti führt einen harten Kampf ums Überleben, denn Island ist seit geraumer Zeit von der Außenwelt abgeschottet, seine Lebensgefährtin Maria und deren Kinder von ihm getrennt, ihr Schicksal ungewiss. An den langen, einsamen Abenden protokolliert er die Ereignisse, die zu dieser Situation geführt und die ehrgeizige Innenministerin Elín Olafsdottir dazu gezwungen haben, den Ausnahmezustand auszurufen.

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        Charlemagne
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2005

        Charlemagne

        Empire and society

        by Edited by Joanna Story

        The age of Charlemagne was a crucible for change in the history of Europe, bridging the divide between the medieval and the classical worlds and setting the political and cultural tone for centuries to come. This book focuses directly on the reign of Charlemagne, bringing together a wide range of approaches and sources from the diverse voices of fifteen of the top scholars of early medieval Europe. The contributors have taken a number of original aproaches to the subject, from the fields of archaeology and numismatics to thoroughly-researched essays on key historical texts. The essays are embedded in the scholarship of recent decades but also offer insights into new areas and new approaches for research. A full bibliography of works in English as well as key reading in European languages is provided, making the volume essential reading for experienced scholars as well as students new to the history of the early middle ages. ;

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        New Zealand's empire
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2023

        New Zealand's empire

        by Katie Pickles, Catharine Coleborne

        This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country's spheres of internal imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire and its outreach to Antarctica. The book critically revises our understanding of the range of ways that New Zealand has played a role as an imperial power, including the cultural histories of New Zealand inside the British Empire, engagements with imperial practices and notions of imperialism, the special significance of New Zealand in the Pacific region, and the circulation of ideas of empire both through and inside New Zealand over time. The essays in this volume span social, cultural, political and economic history, and in testing the concept of New Zealand's empire, the contributors take new directions in both historiographical and empirical research.

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        Finnegans Wake
        October 1989

        Finnegans Wake

        Gesammelte Annäherungen

        by James Joyce, Fritz Senn, Klaus Reichert, Reinhard Markner, Harald Beck, Kurt Jauslin, Friedhelm Rathjen, Helmut Stoltefuß, Ingeborg Horn, Robert Weninger, Klaus Hofmann, Birgit König, Peter Otto, Klaus Reichert, Georg Goyert, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Hans Wollschläger, Dieter H. Stündel, Ulrich Blumenbach, Wolfgang Schrödter, Robert Motherwell

        Das Werk gilt als unübersetzbar, und dennoch, oder gerade deshalb, hat es immer wieder Übersetzer und Schriftsteller, Außenseiter und Fachleute gereizt, Übersetzungen zu probieren. Gerade die Unterschiedlichkeit der übersetzerischen Ansätze - vom genauen Zusammentragen der einzelnen Sinnschichten bis hin zu einem eleganten Darüberhinhuschen - vermag einen Eindruck dieses rätselhaften Buches zu vermitteln.

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        'Adolf Island'
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2022

        'Adolf Island'

        by Caroline Sturdy Colls, Kevin Colls

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        Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan

        The cult of the Two Grand Elders

        by Fabian Graham

        In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.

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        Die Weisheit der Wikinger
        August 2011

        Die Weisheit der Wikinger

        by Arnulf Krause

        Vieles können wir lernen von den als wild und grausam geltenden Seefahrern. Auf ihren langen Fahrten ins Unbekannte, über unerforschte Meere auf der Suche nach neuen Ländern entstand diese Sammlung von Lebensweisheiten und wertvollen Ratschlägen. Sie vermitteln uns auf wunderbare Weise die Lebensanschauung der Wikinger. Sie erzählen von Gastfreundschaft und guten Sitten, aber auch von Vertrauen und dem Mut, Entscheidungen zu treffen. Und sie bieten Rat für alltägliche Probleme, auf die schon diese wilden Männer im Umgang mit ihren Zeitgenossen gestoßen sind. Dieser Schatz an wertvollen Ratschlägen wird häufig mit dem altchinesischen Werk des Lao-tse verglichen - als das Tao des Nordens.

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        Authorship and authority: the writings of James VI and I
        Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
        September 2007

        Authorship and authority: the writings of James VI and I

        by Jane Rickard

        James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance, not only as a monarch and patron, but as an author in his own right, publishing extensively in a number of different genres over four decades. As the first monograph devoted to James as an author, this book offers a fresh perspective on his reigns in Scotland and England, and also on the inter-relationship of authorship and authority, literature and politics in the Renaissance. Beginning with the poetry he wrote in Scotland in the 1580s, it moves through a wide range of his writings, including scriptural exegeses, political, social and theological treatises and printed speeches, concluding with his manuscript poetry of the early 1620s. The book combines extensive primary research into the preparation, material form and circulation of these varied writings, with theoretically informed consideration of the relationship between authors, texts and readers. The discussion thus explores James's responses to, and interventions in, a range of literary, political and religious debates, and reveals the development of his aims and concerns as an author.

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        Edmund Spenser and the romance of space
        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2022

        Edmund Spenser and the romance of space

        by Tamsin Badcoe

        Edmund Spenser and the romance of space advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations. The book looks to the work of cultural and historical geographers in order to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in the development of geographical knowledge: contexts ultimately employed by the study to achieve a better understanding of the place of Ireland in Spenser's writing. The study also engages with recent ecocritical approaches to literary environments, such as coastlines, wetlands, and islands, thus framing fresh readings of Spenser's handling of mixed genres.

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        Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2010

        Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840

        by Angela McCarthy, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

        This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand. ;

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        Vom Flügelschlag des Sterntauchers
        May 2019

        Vom Flügelschlag des Sterntauchers

        by Unnur Jökulsdóttir, Tina Flecken

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        Lost Island
        March 2015

        Lost Island

        Expedition in den Tod

        by Preston, Douglas; Child, Lincoln / Übersetzt von Benthack, Michael

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