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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        Friendship among nations

        by Evgeny Roshchin

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2014

        Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530

        by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small

        This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.

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        The Arts
        August 2022

        Robert Guédiguian

        by Joseph Mai

        Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guédiguian is the result of one of the most original and coherent projects in contemporary French cinema: to make a committed, historically-conscious cinema, in a local space, over a long period of time, but most especially with friends. The account starts with in-depth consideration of friendship and its relation to philosophy, politics, time, and space. The book chronologically traces this project as it begins in Guédiguian's hometown, the Communist-leaning Marseille. It further unfolds through the political transformations of the 1980s Left and the local activism and utopias of the 1990s, and spreads into Guédiguian's varied explorations of genre and register. Close analysis is accompanied with historical and social contextualization, but also with a consistent return to the underlying, radical and philosophically rich project.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2022

        Civic identity and public space

        Belfast since 1780

        by Dominic Bryan, Sean J. Connolly, John Nagle

        Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth century of the concept of public space and the development of new strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants and unionists, and the break down of that monopoly in more recent decades. Today policy makers and politicians struggle to devise a strategy for the management of public space in a divided city, while endeavouring to promote a new sense of civic identity that will transcend long-standing sectarian and political divisions.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2017

        Visions of empire

        Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939

        by Brad Beaven

        The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages

        by Trevor Dean

        The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages. No other English language sourcebook has the same geographical or chronological range. This collection is carefully structured around the crisis of the fourteenth century and arranged in contrasting groups of texts. By connecting documents in translation to recent scholarship and debates, it addresses five key areas of medieval urban history: the physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics. Offers students well-translated and effectively contextualised documents along with some guidance to the secondary work of Italian scholars which is largely inaccessible to undergraduate students.

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        September 2018

        Assurances of Friendship

        Transnationale Wege von Metallgewerkschaftern in der Schiffbauindustrie, 1950–1980

        by Johanna Wolf

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2007

        Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1520

        by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small, Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean

        This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony. ;

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        October 2019

        Das Herz der Zeit: Die Nacht der Eulen

        The Heart of Time: The Night of the Owls

        by Monika Peetz

        Lena is having a hard time adjusting to ordinary life. How can she forget Dante, the boy whose eyes are different colours? But she soon has much bigger worries. On a school trip she realises that her pursuers haven’t given up after all. At the last minute, Lena manages to pass the chronometer she uses to travel through time to her friend Bobbie. A fateful mistake.  Fleeing, Bobbie stumbles into the past and becomes trapped in the year 1900. While she fights her way as a papergirl, Lena breaks her promise and returns to the invisible city to look for help – and Dante. Soon all three of them are on a mission to prevent their enemies from constructing chronometers to travel through time themselves. But they’re always a step ahead and the whole invisible world is in danger…   12+ years The first volume of an enthralling new fantasy trilogy with two headstrong time-travellers English sample translation available!

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        Children's & YA

        The Sparkling Ponies (3). Luna and the Moonstones

        by Emily Palmer/ Josephine Llobet

        The four friends Fiona, Aurelia, Jana and Leni thoroughly enjoy their friendship with their sparkling ponies and they’re looking forward to the festival that’s about to take place at Funfield Pony Farm. But there’s a lot to be done first. Only Aurelia can’t really enjoy the prospect because the problem she has to solve with the mare Luna is really giving her a tough time. Suddenly Fiona and Sunny are also given a tricky task. And when the secret of the sparkling ponies is then in danger of being exposed, everything goes topsy-turvy. Will the friends end up enjoying the pony festival or not?

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        Children's & YA
        March 2022

        Andro, streng geheim! - Emotionen und andere Störfaktoren (Band 2)

        by Kai Pannen

        Andro, Top Secret! - Emotions and other Disruptive Factors (Vol. 2)   Battery full and go!   At first glance, Andro Newman seems like a normal boy - but Andro is a robot who is secretly smuggled into a school class as a human boy. Mission: to explore the humans and not to be exposed under any circumstances.   Andro's undercover spy mission continues: visit the fifth grade of the Konrad Zuse School, gather information about the complicated species called "humans" and find true friends. However, one peculiarity of these humans remains a mystery to Andro: their illogical feelings. This costs the android a lot of friendship points. He installs an emotion module to connect with humans better - but secretly, of course. The ‘emotion’ module works and Andro earns a lot of friendship points! It even works too well and Andro is no longer master of his senses - sorry - of his cables and screws: Andro has to let Lilli in on it, and together they absolutely have to turn off the module.   • Situational comedy meets a great narrative voice • Varied layout with different fonts, vignettes and illustrations • Special hook: a robot goes undercover at school

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2024

        Romanticizing masculinity in Baathist Syria

        Gender, identity and ideology

        by Rahaf Aldoughli

        This book provides a novel analysis of the conceptual sources and ideological contours of the Assad regime. The book documents the Baathists' fascination with Romanticised and 'muscular' ideas of the nation that emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European social philosophy, and traces the implementation and impacts of these ideologies in the Syrian context. Emphasising the emergence of new forms of public gendered identity in Syria as a unifying feature of nationalism bound closely with the stability of the regime, the book shows how Romantic, muscular nationalism first rose to hegemony and then was shattered by its inherent violence, contradictions and inequalities. The final chapter closes by considering how a new vision of pluralism and civic belonging is today challenging the Romanticised Baathist ideal in contention for Syria's future.

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        Children's & YA
        June 2020

        Das Herz der Zeit: Die vergessenen Geschichten

        The Heart of Time: The Forgotten Stories

        by Peetz, Monika

        Everything is lost. Lena’s enemies have taken over the invisible city and launched a witch hunt for time travellers. Together with Bobbie, Lena takes refuge in the future and tries desperately to find other rebels. The near future is already very different compared to her present life: in 2031 climate change is undeniable and people pay by using implanted memory chips, which is frightening enough. Then her chronometer picks up a faint signal – from Dante. Lena can hardly wait to see him again. But can she be sure the signal is genuine?  Things take a dark turn when she is visited by a group of time tourists; in a distant future, time travel is big business. But no one seems to care about the chaos and damage this kind of tourism can cause – or even that it could destroy humanity itself.   For Lena, everything is on the line: the existence of the invisible city, the fate of humanity’s forgotten stories – and even her love for Dante.     12+ years The finale of this enthralling fantasy trilogy. English sample translation available!

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        February 2019

        Das Herz der Zeit: Die unsichtbare Stadt

        The Heart of Time: The Invisible City

        by Monika Peetz

        15 year-old Lena discovers an ancient clock among her dead parents’ old things and accidentally activates the timepiece’s mechanism. Far away in the invisible city, a place not of this world, a boy takes notice of her: Dante. He is curious to find the daughter of the legendary woman who once left the time-travellers society to live a mortal life. When Lena learns about the mechanisms of time, she decides to change her own fate and travels back to the night, her parents died. Only too late she realises that meddling in her own life automatically affects the lives of everyone else around her too. The story reaches its peak when Lena has to decide between getting her parents back and saving the life of her best friend Bobbie.   12+ years The first volume of an enthralling new fantasy trilogy with two headstrong time-travellers English sample translation available!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        Lotte, are you daydreaming again?

        A book for dreamy children and their parents

        by Stefanie Rietzler, Fabian Grolimund

        Rabbit girl Lotte, 10 years old, has a hard time: "Don't dawdle around!", "Stop dreaming!" - Her parents and the strict teacher, Mrs. Luchs, constantly have something to criticize about her. Fortunately, Lotte’s best friends stand by her side: the hard-working and somewhat anxious duck Merle and the cozy bear Frieda, who would love to be a ballerina. Lotte is close to despairing over endless homework, exams, bad grades, and her forgetfulness when she meets a strange woman who dwells in the deserted forest. She knows the value of dreaming and lets Lotte in on an ancient secret …   This book is for dreamy primary school children and their parents who would like to learn how to concentrate better when studying at home and at school why dreaming is important, too how to identify your strengths how to get better organized and forget less. A story about school, friendship, and the parent-child relationship, which makes you think and inspires discussions.   For: dreamy children and their parents parents of children diagnosed with ADHD teachers psychologists and psychotherapists psychiatrists

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        Child & developmental psychology

        Jaron on the Quest for Happiness

        by Fabian Grolimund, Stefanie Rietzler

        Things couldn’t be worse for Jaron, the young fox: His strict father makes him play soccer even though he really doesn’t like to train. His best friend suddenly prefers to spend time with two bullies, who are constantly teasing Jaron. And then the teacher also puts him in a girls’ group for the big project! But then daring hare Lotte announces: “Let’s explore what makes us happy!” She carries the distressed Jaron along – on an adventurous quest for happiness. A story about the big and small questions of life, about the courage to be true to yourself and the transformative power of friendship. For:• children of elementary school age(between 8 and 12 years)• parents and relatives• teachers• therapists• anyone who is still young at heart

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