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February 2021Götter des Olymp
by Dimiter Inkiow, Peter Kaempfe, Jette Kaempfe, Ralf Kiwit, Holger Rink, Holger Rink, Norbert Lorenz, Max Meinzold, Barbara Asbeck
Die Griechen verehrten und fürchteten eine Vielzahl von Göttern. Manche waren Berge oder Flüsse, wie der Fluss Skamandros. Andere waren Halbgötter, die wie Fabeltiere aussahen. Die mächtigsten Götter aber lebten auf dem Olymp und über sie alle herrschte Zeus, der zwölf der wichtigsten Götter zu seinen Beratern machte. Sie bildeten den Rat der Götter. Und um sie herum ranken sich zahlreiche Mythen. Mit Geschichten über Aphrodite, Ares, Athene, Hermes, Poseidon und vielen weiteren! Gelesen von Peter Kaempfe.
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March 2017Ich, Zeus, und die Bande vom Olymp
Götter und Helden erzählen griechische Sagen
by Frank Schwieger, Rudi Mika, Friedhelm Ptok, Cathlen Gawlich, Robert Missler, Sabine Falkenberg, Nils Kreutinger, Ingeborg Wunderlich, Robert Missler, Romanus Fuhrmann, Anne Horstmann, Rudi Mika, James Cotterell, Christoph Haberer, Ralf Kiwit, Reinhold von Brünninghaus, Ramona Wultschner
Eine spannende Reise zum sagenumwobenen Olymp! Warum trägt Achill Mädchenkleider? Wieso umarmt Apollon einen Baum? Was haben Beauty Queen Aphrodite und ein goldener Apfel mit dem Trojanischen Krieg zu tun? Und natürlich: wo überall hat Zeus seine Hände mit im Spiel? Dies und mehr beantworten die Götter und Helden der griechischen Sagen höchst selbst und zwar in spannenden Geschichten aus ihrem Leben. Dicht am Original und trotzdem humorvoll!
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September 2018Ich, Zeus, und die Bande vom Olymp
Götter und Helden erzählen griechische Sagen
by Frank Schwieger, Matthias Haase, Friedhelm Ptok, Cathlen Gawlich, Ralf Kiwit, Ramona Wultschner
Eine spannende Reise zum sagenumwobenen Olymp! Warum trägt Achill Mädchenkleider? Wieso umarmt Apollon einen Baum? Was haben Beauty Queen Aphrodite und ein goldener Apfel mit dem Trojanischen Krieg zu tun? Und natürlich: wo überall hat Zeus seine Hände mit im Spiel? Dies und mehr beantworten die Götter und Helden der griechischen Sagen höchst selbst und zwar in spannenden Geschichten aus ihrem Leben. Dicht am Original und trotzdem humorvoll!
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2023What a waste
Outsourcing and how it goes wrong
by Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Nick Tsitsianis, Karel Williams
This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum-seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine 'follow the money' research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2025Critical games
On play and seriousness in academia, literature and life
by Tim Beasley-Murray
Critical Games is about the games we play (whether we know it or not), the ways we play them (for fun, but also to win, and to gain approval from others), and what happens when they get out of hand. The book interrogates the theory of play and gaming, with a particular focus on the games played by literary authors and literary critics. Drawing on (often self-critical) autobiography, as well as readings in texts across a range of languages, Tim Beasley-Murray plays with academic conventions to highlight what is at stake in them, turning to the Game of Literature, from Kafka to Carrère, to seek models and warnings of the outcomes of taking games too seriously, or not taking them seriously enough.
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The ArtsDecember 2025The double game of music
Paradoxes of power, status and class in music education
by Live Weider Ellefsen, Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Siw Graabræk Nielsen
The double game of music imagines music education as a series of games - each with its own rules, play currency and players - to challenge readers to rethink the significance of music and musical upbringing in shaping social structures. Drawing on their own empirical research and a wide range of international contributions, the authors unravel the intertwining of social positioning and power hierarchies with players beliefs in the pure values and virtues of their games, whether these relate to parenting, children's play, schooling, academic pursuits, musical leisure activities or the television and music industries. In a world where music is often celebrated as an important tool for inclusion and democratisation, this groundbreaking book offers a timely critique, revealing complexities and contradictions that tend to be overlooked by teachers, researchers, politicians and others interested in the powers of music education.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Passing into the present
Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing
by Sinead Moynihan
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2023
Pasts at play
Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914
by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling
This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
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May 2005Broken Music
Die Autobiographie
by Sting / Englisch Allié, Manfred; Englisch Kempf-Allié, Gabriele
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1991Feuer vom Olymp
Die moderne Welt und die Kultur der Griechen
by Taplin, Oliver / Übersetzt von Polter, Stefan B
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January 1986
Die Kinder des Olymp
Der Triumph der Schaulust. Texte, Dokumente, Kommentare
by Schneider, Manfred
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December 2003Broken Music
Die Autobiographie
by Sting / Übersetzt von Allié, Manfred; Übersetzt von Kempf-Allié, Gabriele
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2020Pasts at play
by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling, Anna Barton
