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      • Stanford University Press

        Stanford University Press publishes 130 books a year across the humanities, social sciences, law, and business.

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      • OB STARE

        OB STARE is a Spanish publisher specialized in conscious maternity, early childhood education and development that supports knowledge and freedom of choice. We publish inspirational books for a new way of looking, including empowerment, gender equality, self-love and sexual diversity.

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        April 2023

        Bürger-Trilogie

        by Annalena Küspert, Konstantin Küspert

        Der Reichsbürger – Wilhelm S. wehrt sich in seinem Monolog gegen diese Bezeichnung. Wilhelm S. ist ein Selbstverwalter, der stolz ist auf seine Verwandlung vom Schaf zur mündigen Person. Vor allem aber ist er kein Menschenfeind mit Aluhut, sondern jemand, »der einfach ein bisschen weiterdenkt« und Sie fragt – ja genau, Sie! –, ob Sie möchten, dass Ihr Kind das einzige in der 1. Klasse ist, das Deutsch spricht? Und, ob Sie in Frieden und Wohlstand, ohne Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung leben möchten? Was hat ein Einkaufswagenchip mit einem FDP-Politiker zu tun? Absurde Strategien zur Wählergewinnung des »einfachen Bürgers« sind Mittelpunkt der Dokuserie »Die Jürgen W. Möllemann Story« in Der Bundesbürger. Ein dreiköpfiges Writers' Room Team dokumentiert darin in Schlaglichtern den Aufstieg und Fall Möllemanns, ergänzt durch Recherchen, die die FDP als Wegbereiter für den Rechtspopulismus in Deutschland markieren. In Die Mitbürger geraten gebildete, soziale Menschen, die von sich selbst sagen würden, ihnen wäre jeder Extremismus »ob links oder rechts« zuwider, in Situationen, in denen sich unmerklich Verschiebungen mitten im vermeintlich Normalen vollziehen – ein Psychogramm des Extremismus der Mitte. Annalena Küspert und Konstantin Küspert bewegen sich auf der Deutschlandkarte zwischen den »extremen Rändern« und der »Mitte der Gesellschaft« und gehen den Verschiebungen dieser Koordinaten nach. Ihre Bürger-Trilogie ist ein Panorama bundesdeutscher Identitäten und politischer Entwicklungen – direkt an uns Bürger:innen adressiert. »die BRD-gmbh ist eine art kapitalistisches erlebniswunderland, wie ein freizeitpark. und sie alle sind gleichzeitig parkbesucher und aufsichtspersonal.« aus Teil 1, Der Reichsbürger

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy

        Aid for dominance

        by Salvador Santino Regilme, Obert Hodzi

        Aid for Dominance addresses the analytic weaknesses of mainstream analysis of foreign aid, which often focuses on its material dimensions. The book underscores the constitutive relationship between foreign aid as a material resource and the diplomatic discourses and practices that constitute complex bilateral relations between donor and recipient states. Written by two leading scholars of contemporary United States and Chinese foreign policies in the Global South, Aid for Dominance offers a pioneering, theoretically conscious, and empirically rich account of the two great powers' grand strategies in the global development sector. By deploying a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis, this book draws from a wide range of evidentiary materials from primary sources, including data from fieldwork interviews, government documents, local and international newspapers, speeches by high-ranking government officials and diplomats, and secondary data from scholarly publications and policy papers.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2026

        Translating hell

        Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

        by Stephen C. E. Hopkins

        In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belonged within the faith. This book explores how hell became a place for literary experiments with local challenges in theology and identity. Following the reception and transformations of two popular hell apocrypha, it argues that they served as this role because of their liminal textual authority. As noncanonical scriptures, apocrypha afforded medieval writers space to revise their hells (since they were not actually scripture), while also encouraging readers to revere those experiments as valid (since they seemed like scripture). The book brings together adaptations from early medieval England, Iceland, Ireland, and Wales, placing the early vernacular theologies of the North Sea in comparative conversation.

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        March 2020

        Im Alten Land

        by Birgit Haustedt

        Apfelbäume, so weit das Auge reicht, idyllische Fachwerkdörfer hinter dem Deich und am Horizont die Elbe: Das Alte Land ist eine uralte Kulturlandschaft am Wasser, die ihren eigenen Charakter bewahrt hat. Prächtige Bauernhöfe und Backsteinkirchen mit kostbaren Barockorgeln zeugen noch heute vom frühen Wohlstand der Altländer. Birgit Haustedt erzählt von den Anfängen im Mittelalter, von Deichbau und Sturmfluten, vom Alltag der kleinen Leute und von großer Handwerkskunst, von stolzen Bauern und mutigen Schiffern. Dazu ein Exkurs, welche Rolle das Alte Land in Lessings Leben und Goethes Faust spielte.

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        Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
        May 2013

        European regionalism and the left

        by Gerard Strange, Owen Worth

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy

        by Nikki Ikani

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        September 2022

        Lust

        Fuckability, orgasm gap and #metoo

        by Henriette Hell

        Lust, a mortal sin? These times are over. In today's public perception, it is more likely for a boring sex life to be categorised as that. In statistical terms, people have never had as little sex with each other as they do today. And yet tips for a good sex life are to be found on every (digital) corner. Sex has mutated into a lifestyle product, and terms like 'fuckability' and 'MILF' trip lightly off our tongues. Henriette Hell takes a closer look at the thing about sex. She traces the history and genesis of 'sexual liberation', and sheds light on the 'cheating gene' and the #metoo debate. The author asks (and answers) the question of whether sex is becoming more and more antisocial and what actually still turns us on today. In doing so, she focuses on the former mortal sin of lust, which is inseparably linked to the systematic suppression of female lust (and its liberation).

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2013

        EU foreign and security policy in Bosnia

        The politics of coherence and effectiveness

        by Ana Juncos, Emil Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen

        This book represents the first ever comprehensive study of the EU's foreign and security policy in Bosnia. Drawing on a wealth of fresh empirical material, it demonstrates that institutions are a key variable in explaining levels of common foreign security policy (CFSP) coherence and effectiveness over time. In doing so, it also sheds new light on the role that intergovernmental, bureaucratic and local political contestation have played in the formulation and implementation of a European foreign policy. The study concludes that the EU's involvement in Bosnia has not only had a significant impact on this Balkan country in its path from stabilisation to integration, but has also transformed the EU, its foreign and security policy and shaped the development of the EU's international identity along the way. The book will be of great interest to researchers and students of EU politics, International Relations and Bosnian politics. ;

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        The Arts
        December 2015

        Classical Hollywood cinema

        Point of view and communication

        by James Zborowski

        This book offers a new approach to filmic point of view by combining close analyses informed by the tools of narratology and philosophy with concepts derived from communication studies. Each chapter stages a conversation between two masterpieces of classical Hollywood cinema and one critical concept that can enrich our understanding of them: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936) are interpreted in relation to point of view; Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962) are considered with reference to the concept of distance; and Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948) and Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939) are explored through the lens of communication. Each encounter reveals new, exciting and mutually illuminating ways of appreciating not only these case studies, but also the critical concepts at stake. ;

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        January 1990

        Der Panegyricus des Jahres 310 auf Konstantin den Großen

        Übersetzung und historisch-philologischer Kommentar

        by Müller-Rettig, Brigitte

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2026

        Everyday foreign policy

        by Elizaveta Gaufman

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2025

        Britain’s 'Mr X’

        Sir Frank Roberts and the making of British foreign policy, 1930-68

        by Jonathan Colman

        Over four decades as a diplomat, Sir Frank Roberts dealt with headline issues, including policy towards Germany during the years of appeasement, the Second World War alliance with the Soviet Union, the origins of the Cold War, NATO affairs, the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crises, European integration, and relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. Collaborating with the renowned American diplomat, George F. Kennan (the cryptonymous author 'X' of an influential 1947 article), his despatches from Moscow in 1946 shaped Britain's Cold War strategy. In 1954 he played an integral part in the diplomacy behind the rearmament of the Federal Republic and her incorporation into NATO, helping to build an enduring structure of transatlantic security. Roberts' career sheds new light on British foreign policy across an era in which Britain slipped from global pre-eminence to regional power status.

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        August 2021

        Das Alien-Labor

        Ein außerirdisches Experimentierbuch

        by Marnie Willow, Diego Vaisberg

        "Das Alien-Labor" von Marnie Willows entführt Kinder im Alter von 6 bis 8 Jahren in die faszinierende Welt der Wissenschaft durch das Thema Weltraum. Das Buch kombiniert Experimentierfreude mit kreativem Basteln und bietet rund 20 einfache naturwissenschaftliche und technische Projekte. Junge Leserinnen und Leser können dabei ein 3D-Raumschiff aus Karton bauen, grünen Alienschleim herstellen oder eine eigene Mars-Kolonie kreieren. Diese Projekte, ergänzt durch Sticker und Bastelbögen, ermöglichen es Kindern, auf spielerische Weise grundlegende Konzepte des Sonnensystems und technische Fähigkeiten zu erlernen. Das Buch ist nicht nur ein Weg, um wissenschaftliches Interesse zu wecken, sondern fördert auch die Feinmotorik und das Verständnis komplexer Zusammenhänge durch praktische Anwendungen. Faszinierender Lernspaß: Kinder erkunden spielerisch das Sonnensystem und lernen naturwissenschaftliche Grundlagen kennen. Kreatives Basteln und Experimentieren: Bietet vielfältige Aktivitäten wie das Bauen eines 3D-Raumschiffs und das Herstellen von Alienschleim. Stärkung der Feinmotorik: Durch das Basteln und die handwerkliche Umsetzung der Projekte werden Feinmotorik und Koordination gefördert. Wissenschaftlich und pädagogisch wertvoll: Vermittelt technische und naturwissenschaftliche Kenntnisse in einem altersgerechten Format. Interaktive Elemente: Stickerbögen und Bastelmaterialien sorgen für lang anhaltenden Beschäftigungsspaß. Förderung von Neugier und Kreativität: Weckt das Interesse an Wissenschaft und Technik und fördert die Kreativität durch das Selbermachen von Experimenten. Ideales Geschenk für junge Entdecker: Perfekt geeignet als Geschenk, das Spaß und Bildung effektiv verbindet.

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        Children's & YA

        Terra (4). Afterglow

        by Jennifer Alice Jager

        Humankind’s battle against Nature is entering its decisive stage. Once more the explosive showdown of the apocalyptic TERRA series keeps the reader in breathless suspense. Humanity appears to be on the brink of destruction. Vast areas of land have been wiped off the face of the Earth, vegetation has reconquered its living space, but Terra Mater has by no means finished with the human bacillus. The hate-filled spirit of Nature that is claiming Younes’ body for itself, and wants to see all humans destroyed, gives him undreamt-of powers, but it also threatens to set him, his little sister and Chloe against one another. But there is even more at stake: if Younes and the other children from his visions (he had dreams about the other kids) do not stop Terra Mater soon from fulfilling her plans, every single human being will disappear from the planet. In order to prevent that from happening, they must come face to face with raging Mother Earth, and must not only conquer their fear but must also look Death in the eye.

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