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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2024

        A book of monsters

        Promethean horror in modern literature and culture

        by David Ashford

        This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious.

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        October 2015

        John Maynard Keynes.

        Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Richard Barth.

        by Davidson, Paul / Übersetzt von Barth, Richard

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        June 1997

        Ein Traktat über Währungsreform.

        In der einzig autorisierten Übersetzung von Ernst Kocherthaler.

        by Keynes, John Maynard

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        February 1983

        Vom Gelde (A Treatise on Money).

        Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Carl Krämer unter Mitwirkung von Louise Krämer.

        by Keynes, John Maynard

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        February 2002

        Annies Schatulle

        Charles Darwin, seine Tochter und die menschliche Evolution

        by Keynes, Randal

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        January 1980

        Weltmacht ohne Politik?

        Das amerikanische Regierungssystem nach den Wahlen von 1976. Jahrbuch 1978.

        by Herausgegeben von Kaltefleiter, Werner; Herausgegeben von Keynes, Edward

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2012

        The Second Labour Government

        A reappraisal

        by John Shepherd

        This new edited collection of essays focuses on the history of Labour's second period in office during the 1929-1931 global financial crisis. Contributions by leading historians and younger academics bring fresh perspectives to Labour's domestic problems, electoral and party matters, relations with the Soviet Union and ideological questions. An important range of new historical research provides a much-needed reappraisal of Ramsay MacDonald's second Labour government, which impressed few with its conventional policies for tackling mass unemployment. Oswald Mosley, John Maynard Keynes and Ernest Bevin's alternative economic strategies are critically studied in key essays. A more positive side of the government's policies is also adeptly revealed on consumerism and agriculture. Significant new light is adroitly shed on the 1929 general election, the first fought on a universal franchise. The intricate politics of the Parliamentary Labour Party and the disaffiliation of the Independent Labour Party are convincingly explored. The influence of the Soviet Union on Labour's thoughts and actions is analysed in valuable accounts of Labour's foreign policy and Labour's turn to socialism after 1931. An important fresh account of opposition politics breaks new ground on the reaction of Tory politicians, including Harold Macmillan, to MacDonald's government. The volume concludes with an absorbing analysis of the myths surrounding '1931' in Labour history. This timely volume makes accessible a major reassessment of existing knowledge and new scholarship that will appeal to students and teachers of British political and social history. It is essential reading for sixth form and university courses on twentieth-century history. ;

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        July 2019

        Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen

        Grundlagentexte

        by Philip Kovce, Birger P. Priddat

        Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen wird vielerorts diskutiert. Was würden wir tun, wenn unsere Existenz bedingungslos gesichert wäre? Wären wir fleißiger oder fauler? Experimente versuchen inzwischen, darauf eine Antwort zu geben, und Plädoyers für oder gegen das Grundeinkommen finden breites Gehör. Doch wie hat sich diese Idee entwickelt? Wer hat sie mit welchen Argumenten vorangebracht? Anhand von Schlüsseltexten unterschiedlichster Vordenker des bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens, darunter Thomas Morus, Charles Fourier, Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes und Philippe Van Parijs, dokumentiert dieser Band umfassend die wechselvolle Geschichte einer Idee, die uns auch künftig beschäftigen wird.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2009

        The silence of Barbara Synge

        by Bill McCormack

        'The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (née Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. Key events in the family's history are carefully documented, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play, the effects of the famine which influenced 'The playboy of the western world' in 1907, and the behaviour of Francis Synge at the time of the union. 'The silence of Barbara Synge' is a unique work of cultural enquiry, combining archival research, literary criticism, and religious and medical history to pull the strands together and relate them to the family's literary descendent J.M. Synge. ;

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