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The ArtsDecember 2024Becoming couture
The Italian fashion industry after the Second World War
by Chiara Faggella
Becoming couture is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second World War. It draws on a wide range of primary sources, some of them newly unearthed, to demonstrate that the Italian fashion industry in the Republican era continued to rely on business practices and professionals established during Fascism. Analysing changes in promotional discourses and press coverage, the book traces the shift that occurred when manufacturers were encouraged to expand their exports of accessories to include sportswear, knitwear and moda boutique. This ultimately led to the legitimisation of Italian dressmaking as creatively independent of French influences and therefore worthy of the label 'couture'.
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Children's & YAA Case for Kwiatkowski (28). The Nose of the Goddess
by Jürgen Banscherus/Ralf Butschkow
Private detective Kwiatkowski never fails to solve a case! A trip to Athens? Kwiatkowski can hardly believe his luck when Olga, an old friend, sends him an invitation. But no sooner has he arrived in Greece than he finds himself caught up in a very tricky case: a greenhorn detective named Hercules needs his help to expose the handiwork of two unscrupulous fraudsters. It is a matter of honour that even during his holidays Kwiatkowski must use his superskills. Soon the two detectives are on the move among the ancient temple walls in their search to solve the mystery of the goddess Athene’s nose…
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The ArtsMay 2021Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran
A vital past
by Ali Mozaffari, Nigel Westbrook
This book analyses the use of the past and the production of heritage through architectural design in the developmental context of Iran, a country that has endured radical cultural and political shifts in the past five decades. Offering a trans-disciplinary approach toward complex relationship between architecture, development, and heritage, Mozaffari and Westbrook suggest that transformations in developmental contexts like Iran must be seen in relation to global political and historical exchanges, as well as the specificities of localities. The premise of the book is that development has been a globalizing project that originated in the West. Transposed into other contexts, this project instigates a renewed historical consciousness and imagination of the past. The authors explore the rise of this consciousness in architecture, examining the theoretical context to the debates, international exchanges made in architectural congresses in the 1970s, the use of housing as the vehicle for everyday heritage, and forms of symbolic public architecture that reflect monumental time.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2020Political theologies and development in Asia
by Giuseppe Bolotta, Philip Fountain, R. Michael Feener
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May 2021Escapades in Evolution
Of humans, chimps and other capers of nature
by Matthias Glaubrecht
Humans are rapidly changing the conditions of evolution, and while many species have not yet been discovered, the extinction of numerous species is becoming more and more dramatic. In this book, Matthias Glaubrecht contrasts the impending “end of evolution”, of which the evolutionary biologist writes in his bestseller of the same name, with the beauty, diversity and also the whims of nature. In 36 short chapters, the zoologist presents the animal and the all-tooanimal from the curiosity cabinet of evolution, easy to understand and with a good touch of humour – from dinosaurs with four wings to the annual new “Minnelied” hit of the humpback whale to the women’s communes of bonobos who use sex as a form of social bonding.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2024
Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism
Political ecology, power and the crisis of legitimacy
by Maria Gloria Polimeno
Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism focuses on the struggle of the post-2013 political authorities for internal political legitimacy after the crisis following the 2013 coup d'état. It explores the microstructural and macro-systemic dynamics of leadership, power, protests and the authority-making process in political systems. These cannot simply be defined as structural, political, social and economic projections of the authoritarianism of the past, but rather as a rupture with that past. The book offers a complex, ground-breaking socio-political and economic analysis into how the forging of an internal political legitimacy claim has eventually modified the regime in Egypt along the authoritarian spectrum, turning into a fluid autocracy closer to a non-exclusivist personalist regime. This shift had implications that resonated both politically and economically.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceFebruary 2012Workers, state and development in Brazil
Powers of labour, chains of value
by Benjamin Selwyn
How do changing class relations contribute to processes of capitalist development? Within development studies the importance of class relations is usually relegated to lesser status than the roles of states and markets in generating and allocating resources. This book argues that the changing class relations are central to different patterns of capitalist development and that processes and outcomes of class struggle co-determine the form that development takes. Workers, State and Development in Brazil, nominated for the International Political Economy Group (IPGG) Book Prize 2013 and now available in paperback, illuminates these claims through a detailed empirical investigation of class dynamics and capitalist development in North East Brazil's São Francisco valley. It details how workers in the valley's export grape sector have won significant concessions from employers, contributing to a progressive pattern of regional capitalist development. The book will appeal to students and researchers interested in processes of capitalist development, agrarian political economy and international political economy. ;
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November 2021The Metropolitan Age
The decisive force in the Anthropocene
by German Environmental Foundation (Ed.)
Three quarters of the world’s population live in cities. One in eight people lives in a metropolitan area. Megacities swallow up land, energy and resources – and at the same time are particularly hard hit by the current climate crisis that they fuel. However, in the metropolises of the overcrowded world plenty of committed people have heard the warning signals and establish networks to use the potential of cities to reorganize the participative and social-ecological activity that is urgently needed. The contributions to this Yearbook for Ecology focus on the present and future of cities from wide-ranging viewpoints and highlight perspectives for their creative transformation towards liveable sustainability.
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SchoolsSeptember 2010Training Program for Adolescents - Development of Work and Social Behavior
Aufbau von Arbeits- und Sozialverhalten
by Franz Petermann, Ulrike Petermann
This training program helps teenagers between the ages of 13 and 20 years to practice competent work and social behavior in their daily routines, reducing aggressive, antisocial and unsafe behavior and raising the teenagers’ self-confidence. The training can be used both in school and therapeutic settings, and may also be used as an additional tool in centers for vocational training and juvenile detention. The book includes a CD-Rom that contains all materials needed in the training program. Target Group: For psychologists, educators, school psychologists, counselors, child and adolescent psychologists and psychotherapists, and pedagogues working with teenagers with social behavioral issues.
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October 2000Sustainable Development durch Raumplanung.
Am Beispiel der Rohstoffgewinnung.
by Frenz, Walter
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2020The military-humanitarian complex in Afghanistan
by Bertrand Taithe, Eric James, Tim Jacoby
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September 2008Leichtes Spiel
Roman
by Ida Jessen, Angelika Gundlach
Gesucht wird: alleinstehender Mann mittleren Alters, wohlhabend, gutmütig Der 40jährige Joachim hat einen guten Job, eine attraktive Eigentumswohnung im Zentrum von Kopenhagen, ein hübsches Sommerhaus im Grünen. Da lernt er die zehn Jahre jüngere, alleinerziehende Susan kennen. Bald kommt der gemeinsame Sohn Jacob zur Welt, und Joachim wähnt sich am Ziel seiner Wünsche: Teil einer glücklichen Familie zu sein. Aber in Susan hat er sich getäuscht. Wie weit wird Susan gehen? Wie weit wird Joachim nachgeben? Ida Jessen hat mit Leichtes Spiel einen dramatischen Beziehungsthriller geschrieben, der einen nicht mehr losläßt.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2011History, Historians and Development Policy
by Edited by C.A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao, Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2020History, Historians and Development Policy
by C.A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao, Simon Szreter, Michael Woolcock
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December 2010Das Erste, woran ich denke
Roman
by Ida Jessen, Angelika Gundlach
Es ist Spätsommer. In der kleinen Stadt Hvium in der dänischen Provinz wird Gustav, der Sohn der Pastorin, sieben Jahre alt. Zur selben Zeit taucht die Kindheitsfreundin der Pastorin auf. Sie lebt als Schriftstellerin in Kopenhagen und kommt weder mit ihrer Arbeit noch mit ihrer Beziehung zu einem verheirateten Mann zurecht. In der Gesellschaft ihrer Freundin will sie etwas Ruhe finden. Zum Geburtstag bekommt Gustav ein schönes, neues Fahrrad. Da passiert ein schreckliches Unglück, und das beschauliche Leben auf dem Pfarrhof wird brutal zerstört. Gustav wird von einem Auto überfahren. Der Fahrer flüchtet. Gefühle von Trauer, Schuld, Zorn – und der Wunsch nach Vergebung beherrschen Gustavs Mutter. Aber nicht die Pastorin und ihr Mann, ein ganzes Dorf ist auf der Suche nach dem Mörder. Aus der ländlichen Idylle wird ein Ort des Horrors. Und Brigitte, die Kindheitsfreundin, ist nicht länger Gast, sondern Therapeutin - und Sündenbock. Ida Jessen erzählt die Geschichte eines tragischen Verlustes und einer Freundschaft zwischen zwei Frauen, deren Lebenspläne nicht unterschiedlicher sein könnten.
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