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Prometheus Publishers is a Dutch publisher that publishes a wide variety of quality fiction and non-fiction titles. Prometheus’s catalogue balances established talents with new voices that we introduce into the literary market. Amongst our fiction authors are renowned Dutch-language authors such as Connie Palmen, Griet Op de Beeck, Tom Lanoye, Tim Krabbé, and Esther Verhoef. Prometheus also publishes the Dutch translations of great international voices like Umberto Eco, Sandro Veronesi, Margaret Atwood, and Zadie Smith. Our non-fiction catalogue is filled with experts from across the scientific spectrum. Ranging from history to psychology and from physics to literary studies, Prometheus offers exciting new insights into a wide range of disciplines. Prometheus also publishes a philosophical series with musings on subjects that are relevant to our society today.
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Head in the game brings together international scholars from multiple humanities, social science, and scientific disciplines to critically examine one of the most vexing issues in global sport: concussion. It argues that science and medicine alone cannot solve the concussion crisis: sociocultural factors must also be considered. This edited collection draws attention to the ways that social, cultural, historical, political, literary, philosophical, and legal factors have shaped the concussion crisis in sport. Head in the game is essential reading for those who want to understand how the concussion crisis came to be, and provides guidance for developing ethical and evidence-based solutions in the future.
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In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.
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This book examines how Ireland's relationship with the EU was affected by a succession of crises in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The financial crisis, the Brexit crisis and the migration crisis were not of equal significance on the island of Ireland. The financial crisis was a huge issue for the Republic but not Northern Ireland, Brexit had a major impact in both polities, the migration and populism issues were less controversial, while foreign policy challenges had a minimal impact. The book provides a summary of the main features of each of the crises to be considered, from both the EU and the Irish perspective. Ireland and the European Union is the first volume of its kind to provide a comprehensive analysis on British-Irish relations in the context of Brexit. It assesses the Withdrawal Agreement and Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, the devolution settlement and the 1998 Agreement, as well as the European dimension to Northern Ireland's peace process. The contributors explore a number of policy areas that are central to the understanding of each of the crises and the impact of each for Ireland. Chapters examine issues such as security, migration and taxation as well as protest politics, political parties, the media, public opinion and the economic impact of each of these crises on Ireland's relationship with the EU.
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Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis of twenty films, both acknowledged masterpieces and lesser-known works. Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others. Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!.
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Oliver Cromwell has been both applauded and reviled and his memory invoked in periods and in countries other than his own. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions of Cromwell as man, general and statesman of which the conflicting images are the subject of this book. Available in paperback for the first time, this classic study is based on the unfinished magnum opus of the leading scholar of seventeenth-century history, Roger Howell (1936?89). It includes chapters by a team of leading international experts on a broad range of subjects originally planned by Howell himself. It includes Howell's studies of the reactions to Cromwell in the Restoration period and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Added to these are reprints of his essays on psychohistorical approaches to Cromwell and on Cromwell's contribution to English liberty. Further historiographical portraits of the Protector are offered in chapters which consider Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution; Carlyle's Cromwell; Irish images of the Protector; American interpretations; and the comparisons made between Cromwell and the twentieth-century dictators. ;
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This important book offers a refreshing and challenging perspective on the nature of history by analysing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies towards European integration since the Second World War as a case study, the author demonstrates how its interpretation and reportage over time is subject to changing trends. Seeking to explain these trends in terms of the different conceptions of the past which are maintained by different schools of writing, it forces us to confront the fundamental difficulties we encounter in undertaking studies in history. It draws attention to the impact on historical interpretation of changing times, political discourse, the opening of archives, and of subjects being brought to the fore by professional historians. ;
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Eine Ode an die Menschheit Oliver Jeffers ist Geschichtenerzähler, Weltenentdecker und picture book maker, wie er sich selbst nennt. Mit diesem außergewöhnlichen und eindrucksvollen Bilderbuch betrachtet Jeffers die Geschichte der Menschheit von ihren Anfängen bis hin zu Gegenwart und stellt die Frage über unsere Zukunft: "Wohin gehen wir von hier aus?" Durch die besondere Verbindung von Kunst und Storytelling entsteht ein Werk, das berührt, inspiriert und neue Perspektiven eröffnet. Noch einmal...: Eine Reise durch die Menschheitsgeschichte Poetisch, pointiert, provokant: Visionäres Bilderbuch über die Geschichte der Menschen von Ausnahmekünstler Oliver Jeffers. Von der Entstehung der Erde bis heute: Ein kraftvoller Blick auf die großen Meilensteine der Geschichte. Neue Perspektiven: Das Bilderbuch für Erwachsene regt dazu an, sich mit der Vergangenheit, der Gegenwart und der Zukunft der Menschheit auseinanderzusetzen. Große Illustrationskunst: Die Kombination aus Bildern und Storytelling macht das Meisterwerk des international gefeierten Erfolgsautors zu einem einmaligen visuellen Erlebnis. Mit Tiefgang: Das einzigartige Bilderbuch ist ein ganz besonderes Geschenk für Erwachsene, das zum Nachdenken über den Sinn des Lebens einlädt. Die Schönheit des Lebens feiern mit DRESSLERillustro!DRESSLERillustro steht für sorgfältig kuratierte Geschenkbücher mit einzigartigen Bildern und Texten. Die reich illustrierten Bilderbücher für Erwachsene von namhaften Autor*innen und Illustrator*innen begeistern durch ihre hohe inhaltliche und optische Qualität. Bei DRESSLERillustro dreht sich alles um die großen Themen unserer Zeit: Liebe, Hoffnung, Sehnsucht, Naturverbundenheit, Selbstfürsorge. Jedes Buch ist ein kleines Kunstwerk und ein wertvolles Geschenk für einen lieben Menschen oder für sich selbst. Für kleine Auszeiten und Momente des Innehaltens und Reflektierens.
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Was es heißt, jenen einzigen Menschen zu finden, der die große Liebe bedeutet: Nichts Geringeres beschreibt Oliver Polak in seinem neuen Buch L’amour numérique. Oder, um es mit der Band Toto zu sagen: Hold the line. Love isn’t always on time. In verschiedenen Episoden erzählt er von den erhebenden und ernüchternden Herausforderungen der modernen Liebe. Search, Swipe and Date – so beginnen immer wieder die Abenteuer vor der Kulisse des romantischsten aller Orte, dem Pariser Café. Und die so arrangierten Begegnungen enden mal im Fauxpax, dann wieder entwaffnend menschlich. L’amour numérique ist wahrheitsgetreu erfunden und zugleich erfahrungsgesättigt. Ein tiefer Seelenstriptease des inneren Ichs, denn am Ende begegnet der Protagonist nur einer Person: sich selbst. Trifft er die Frauen, um sie zu lieben, oder trifft er sie nur, um sich selbst nicht zu lieben? Ein Buch über Sehnsucht, Verlangen und Zärtlichkeit in einer ungewissen Welt. Leonard Cohen, Batman, Oliver Polak: die großen Liebhaber mit durstigen Herzen.
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On 16 March 1968, two US infantry companies entered a Vietnamese village and in the course of a single morning killed over 400 of its unarmed, unresisting inhabitants . . . This is the first book to examine the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. Kendrick Oliver argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled. It was only when the soldiers most immediately responsible came to be tried that opposition to the conflict grew, for these prosecutions were regarded by supporters of the war as evidence that the national leaders no longer had the will to do what was necessary to win. Oliver goes on to show that, contrary to interpretations of the Vietnam conflict as an unhealed national trauma or wound, many Americans have assimilated the war and its violence rather too well, and they were able to do so even when that violence was most conspicuous and current. US soldiers have been presented as the conflict's principal victims, and this was true even in the case of My Lai. It was the American perpetrators of the massacre and not the Vietnamese they brutalized who became the central object of popular concern. Both the massacre and its reception reveal the problem of human empathy in conditions of a counter-revolutionary war - a war, moreover, that had always been fought for geopolitical credibility, not for the sake of the Vietnamese. This incisive enquiry into the moral history of the Vietnam war should be essential reading for all students of the conflict, as well as others interested in the war and its cultural legacies. ;
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Fernab vom alltäglichen Wortge- und -verbrauch schafft José F.A. Oliver, Chamisso-Preisträger von 1997, Klanggehäuse, in denen sich die Laute scheinbar spielend zu neuen Bedeutungen zusammenschließen. Die Gedichte sprechen vom Unterwegssein und vom Ankommen, von einer Sehnsucht nach Ursprünglichkeit, vom Pulsen im »sprachherztakt«. Olivers sprachmagische Gedichte wollen »uns lösen / vom schweren zungenschlag«, also von der tagtäglichen Sprache und zurückführen zu ihrem eigentlichen Ursprung: dem Klang. Der 1961 geborene Lyriker andalusischer Herkunft, aufgewachsen im Schwarzwald, moduliert die Sprachpartikel auf immer überraschende Weise; mit feinem Sensorium spürt er den Faltenwürfen der Wörter nach und stößt dabei auf bislang Ungehörtes. »José Oliver hat seine Poesie ganz tief in die deutsche Sprache eingeschrieben, eingegraben, ja, die deutsche Sprache mit ihr umgegraben«, schrieb Harald Weinrich.
