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Founded in 1905, Princeton University Press is a nonprofit publisher with close connections to Princeton University. The Press brings influential voices and ideas to the world stage through their academic scholarship, advancing the frontiers of scholarly knowledge and promoting the human conversation. PUP have offices in Princeton in the US, Oxford in the UK where the rights team is based, and in Beijing. We all work together to make Princeton a truly global publisher. We publish peer-reviewed books across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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January 2019Mein großer Arena Malblock. Pferde und Ponys
by Be-bop
Mit tollen Motiven einzigartige Kunstwerke schaffen! Im Stall, beim Ausritt und auf dem Springturnier - viele pferdestarke Ausmalmotive im extragroßen Format für kleine und große Pferdefans. So entstehen wunderschöne Bilder zum Aufhängen, Sammeln und Verschenken. Durch das Ausmalen wird ganz nebenbei Kreativität, Konzentration und Motorik gefördert.
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The ArtsJune 2017Popular television drama
Critical perspectives
by Jonathan Bignell, Stephen Lacey
Popular television drama: critical perspectives' is a collection of essays examining landmark programmes of the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office', and from 'The Demon Headmaster' to 'Queer As Folk'. Contributions from prominent academics focus on the full range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama, and challenge received wisdom by reconsidering how British television drama can be analysed. Each section is preceded by an introduction in which the editors discuss how the essays address existing problems in the field and also suggest new directions for study. The book is split into three sections, addressing the enduring appeal of popular genres, the notion of 'quality' in television drama, and analysing a range of programmes past and present. Popular television drama: critical perspectives will be of interest to students and researchers in many academic disciplines that study television drama. Its breadth and focus on popular programmes will also appeal to those interested in the shows themselves.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2026A sociology of kindness as everyday enchantment
On making the world go our way
by Julie Brownlie
This book asks us to consider how and why the notion of random acts of kindness and the idea of kindness more generally have come to take a hold in many contemporary English-speaking societies. By introducing and mapping the contours of an emergent kindness industry, marshalling empirical research on contemporary framings of everyday kindness and theoretical resources from cultural sociology to the sociology of emotions and relationships, Brownlie makes the case for a critical sociological engagement with the idea of kindness. In doing so, she argues for kindness to be seen as a form of everyday enchantment - one that, like all enchantments, is ultimately ambivalent.
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2024The business of time
A global history of the watch industry
by Pierre-Yves Donzé
The business of time presents a comprehensive history of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Watch production in the twenty-first century is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. The industry is dominated by a dozen or so large companies, including the Swatch Group, Richemont, LVMH, Seiko and Fossil. But a hundred years ago the picture was dramatically different. Over the course of a century, Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia saw the manufacture of watches disappear from their territory. At the same time, Hong Kong went from being a subcontractor of watch components to an intermediary between Chinese factories and the world market. Revealing the conditions that drove the spread of watch production around the globe, The business of time explains how multinationals emerged to dominate the industry and highlights how Swiss companies were able to establish themselves as the undisputed leader in luxury watches.
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2019The Clock Can Go
The end of the culture of obedience
by Karlheinz A. Geißler
For more than 500 years, the clock has dictated the rhythm of life in the Western World. Clocks were impossible to miss: they were on church towers, at railway stations and factories, they struck the hours and urged people to hurry. But these days, clocks and the punctuality they insisted upon are on the retreat. Nowadays, we are rarely asked “What is the time?” and it is no longer customary to present golden watches or clocks to commemorate important life events. Now we rely on mobile devices and displays to tell us the time, the steady stroke of the rigid clock has been replaced by a more flexible network: we stream TV programmes when we feel like it, we listen to podcasts at any time; chatting, flirting and dating no longer requires prior agreement on time and place. However, what will follow after we have freed ourselves from the chains of the clock god? Emeritus Professor of Economics and time expert Karlheinz A. Geißler shows us that when the influence of the clock disappears, liberating perspectives emerge for experiencing time in social relationships – beyond time pressure and dictates of punctuality.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2014Citizen convicts
Prisoners, politics and the vote
by Cormac Behan
Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in twenty-first-century democracies. It is at the intersection of punishment and representative government. Many jurisdictions remain divided on whether or not prisoners should be allowed access to the franchise. This book investigates the experience of prisoner enfranchisement in the Republic of Ireland. It examines the issue in a comparative context, beginning by locating prisoner enfranchisement in a theoretical framework, exploring the arguments for and against allowing prisoners to vote. Drawing on global developments in jurisprudence and penal policy, it examines the background to, and wider significance of, this change in the law. Using the Irish experience to examine the issue in a wider context, this book argues that the legal position concerning the voting rights of the imprisoned reveals wider historical, political and social influences in the treatment of those confined in penal institutions. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2020Play time
by Daisy Black, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2024Walking in the dark
James Baldwin, my father and I
by Douglas Field
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.
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PsychologySentence Completions for Adults
by Melanie Gräßer, Eike Hovermann
Sentence completions can be used toderive important starting points fortherapeutic work, which is why they areoften used in diagnostics. The card setcontains 180 cards with sentence beginningsin 17 categories such as familyand origin, love and identity or beliefsand values, which provide informationabout conflicts, resources, problems,fears, hopes and wishes of people aged18 and over. The cards are the idealcompanion for diagnostics and the furthercourse of treatment thanks to thewide range of possible uses and applicationsin individual or group settings,which are described in detail in the accompanyingbooklet, as well as extensiveonline materials. The card set particularlyenriches work in the fields ofpsychotherapy, counseling, couplestherapy, supervision and coaching.Various online materials complementthe card set. Adults can fill in the sentencestarters at home and people whouse the card set can write down the answersto the sentence starters directly.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024My Voice: Danny Herman
by Danny Herman
Danny Herman was born in 1935 in Königsberg in East Prussia. As the Nazis were rounding up Jews, Danny's father managed to escape to England in July 1939. He travelled to the Kitchener Camp in Kent, which helped refugees secure visas for safer places. Danny and his mother arrived in England just three days before war was declared in 1939, and his father was later sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man. Danny went on to become a successful runner, competing in many international athletics events and volunteering in many roles, including at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Danny's detailed memories of arriving in England, initially at the seaside in Kent and then moving to Manchester, create a vivid picture of life-changing events as experienced by a young child. Danny's book is part of the My Voice book collection, a stand-alone project of The Fed, the leading Jewish social care charity in Manchester, dedicated to preserving the life stories of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. The oral history, which is recorded and transcribed, captures their entire lives from before, during and after the war years. The books are written in the words of the survivor so that future generations can always hear their voice. The My Voice book collection is a valuable resource for Holocaust awareness and education.
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PsychologySentence Completions for Adolescents
by Melanie Gräßer, Eike Hovermann
Sentence completions provide importantstarting points for therapeuticwork with children and adolescentsand are therefore often used in thecontext of diagnostics. The card setcontains 180 cards with sentencestarters for 17 categories, such as familyand origin, love and identity or beliefsand values, which provide informationon conflicts, resources,problems, fears, hopes and wishes ofadolescents aged 12 to 18. The cardsare the ideal companion for diagnosticsand the further course of treatmentthanks to the various possible uses andapplications in individual or group settings,which are described in detail inthe accompanying booklet, as well asextensive online materials. This meansthat children and young people cancomplete the sentence starters as anat-home task and people using thecard set can write down the answers tothe sentence starters directly.
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PsychologySentence Completions for Children
by Melanie Gräßer, Eike Hovermann
Sentence completions provide importantstarting points for therapeutic workwith children and adolescents and aretherefore often used in the context of diagnostics.The card set contains 160cards with sentence starters for 16 categories,such as family and origin, loveand identity or beliefs and values, whichprovide information on conflicts, resources,problems, fears, hopes andwishes of children and young peopleaged 5 to 13. The cards are the idealcompanion for diagnostics and the furthercourse of treatment thanks to thevarious possible uses and applicationsin individual or group settings, which aredescribed in detail in the accompanyingbooklet, as well as extensive online materials.This means that children andyoung people can complete the sentencestarters as an at-home task andpeople using the card set can writedown the answers to the sentencestarters directly.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2008Time and world politics
Thinking the present
by Kimberly Hutchings, Simon Tormey, Jon Simons
This book offers the first authoritative guide to assumptions about time in theories of contemporary world politics. It demonstrates how predominant theories of the international or global 'present' are affected by temporal assumptions, grounded in western political thought, that fundamentally shape what we can and cannot know about world politics today. The first part of the book traces the philosophical roots of assumptions about time in contemporary political theory. The second part examines contemporary theories of world politics, including liberal and realist International Relations theories and the work of Habermas, Hardt and Negri, Virilio and Agamben. In each case, it is argued, assumptions about political time ensure the identification of the particular temporality of western experience with the political temporality of the world as such and put the theorist in the unsustainable position of holding the key to the direction of world history. In the final chapter, the book draws on postcolonial and feminist thinking, and the philosophical accounts of political time in the work of Derrida and Deleuze, to develop a new 'untimely' way of thinking about time in world politics. ;
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Biography & True StoriesSeptember 2024Bedsit land
The strange worlds of Soft Cell
by Patrick Clarke
A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, to follow Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career. They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene. From transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho. From the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain. He emerges on the other side with the most in-depth, innovative and entertaining account of the duo ever written.
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February 2019Das 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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MedicineThe Anatomy of Time – Self-Management for Doctors
A Guide to Effectively Prepare Time Slots
by Alexander Ghanem
Doctors fnd themselves caught between the growing demands of having to learn more and more plus physical and mental stress, and the needs of a fulflling private life. Previously, there was no selfhelp guide focused on how to effectively improve the wellbeing of physicians (and patients). Doctors fnd themselves caught between the growing demands of having to learn more and more plus physical and mental stress, and the needs of a fulflling private life. Previously, there was no selfhelp guide focused on how to effectively improve the wellbeing of physicians (and patients). Over the course of their careers, physicians often lose momentum, become exhausted and subsequently lack meaning in their life. This can even culminate in burnout. To prevent this, it is important to continually refocus, adapting your goals to circumstances. With this in mind, time management for physicians becomes more than just normal planning.
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March 2023Prison Healer (Band 3) - Die Schattenerbin
Lies jetzt das große Finale der Trilogie! - Ein Fantasyroman über Vergebung, Vertrauen und den Glauben an das Gute
by Lynette Noni, Sandra Knuffinke, Jessika Komina
Sie hat ihn verraten. Doch was, wenn sie seine einzige Hoffnung ist? Kivas Leben liegt in Schutt und Asche. Nach jener verhängnisvollen Nacht im Palast ist sie zurück in Zalindov. Viel schlimmer jedoch: Jaren weiß nun, wer sie wirklich ist – und dass sie ihn hintergangen hat. Wozu also noch kämpfen? Doch ehe Kiva aufgeben kann, befindet sie sich wieder in einem gefährlichen Strudel aus Intrigen. Und ausgerechnet sie soll Evalons einzige Chance auf Rettung sein … Das fulminante Finale der Fantaystrilogie Im dritten und letzten Band der Prison Healer -Trilogie erschafft Lynette Noni eine spannungsgeladene Handlung rund um eine magische Quest . Dabei muss die Protagonistin nicht nur nach Vergebung suchen, sondern auch sich selbst verzeihen und lernen, ihren Fähigkeiten zu vertrauen . Ein emotionales Finale voller fesselnder Plottwists .
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October 2019Das 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!
