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December 2013

Rig-Veda. Das Heilige Wissen

Dritter bis fünfter Liederkreis

by Michael E. J. Witzel, Salvatore Scarlata, Toshifumi Goto

Der 'Rig-Veda' ist eines der ältesten Literaturdenkmäler der Menschheit. Seine Hymnen sind die früheste uns erhaltene religiöse Dichtung Indiens; sie sind lange vor dem Hinduismus und Buddhismus entstanden. In der neuen Übersetzung kommen sowohl das Fremde und Geheimnisvolle der Veden als auch ihre bis heute wirksame Unmittelbarkeit zum Ausdruck. Der umfassende Kommentar erläutert die Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte, die Sprache, Symbole und dichterischen Formen des 'Rig-Veda', seinen geographischen, geschichtlichen, archäologischen, kulturellen und sozialen Hintergrund, die komplexe Götterwelt und Mythologie sowie die große Bedeutung des 'feierlichen Rituals' – eines vollendeten liturgischen Systems, das noch heute Anwendung findet. Der zweite Band der Edition versammelt den dritten bis fünften der insgesamt zehn Liederkreise.

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November 2022

Rig-Veda – Das heilige Wissen

Sechster und siebter Liederkreis

by Toshifumi Gotō, Eijirō Dōyama, Toshifumi Gotō, Eijirō Dōyama

Der ›Rig-Veda‹ gehört zu den frühesten Literaturdenkmälern der Menschheit. Seine 1028 Gedichte mit ihren 10580 Versen wurden etwa zwischen 1500 und 1000 v. Chr. im archaischen Indo-Arisch, einer Vorform des klassischen Sanskrit, verfaßt. Obwohl die ältesten Handschriften erst aus dem frühen 2. Jahrtausend datieren, ist durch die teilweise bis heute praktizierte, äußerst genaue mündliche Überlieferung der ursprüngliche Wortlaut nahezu unverändert erhalten geblieben.In der neuen Übersetzung kommen sowohl das Fremde, Geheimnisvolle der Veden als auch ihre bis heute wirksame Unmittelbarkeit zum Ausdruck. Der dritte Band enthält mit den Liederkreisen 6 und 7 die Dichtungen des Bharadvāja und seiner Nachkommen (maṇḍala 6) und das Buch der Vasiṣṭhas (maṇḍala 7).

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Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

August 2016

Culture in Manchester

Institutions and urban change since 1850

by Janet Wolff, Mike Savage

This book brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution. These bring to light the remarkable range of Manchester's contribution to modern cultural life, including the role of art education, popular theatre, religion, pleasure gardens, clubs and societies. The chapters show the resilience and creativity of Manchester's cultural institutions since 1850, challenging any simple narrative of urban decline following the erosion of Lancashire's industrial base, at the same time illustrating the range of activities across the social classes. This book will appeal to everyone interested in the cultural life of the city of Manchester, including cultural historians, sociologists and urban geographers, as well as general readers with interests in the city. It is written by leading international authorities, including Viv Gardner, Stephen Milner, Mike Savage, Bill Williams and Janet Wolff.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2023

Politics, performance and popular culture

Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain

by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey, Jeffrey Richards

This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2024

British culture after empire

Race, decolonisation and migration since 1945

by Josh Doble, Liam Liburd, Emma Parker

British culture after Empire is the first collection of its kind to explore the intertwined social, cultural and political aftermath of empire in Britain from 1945 up to and beyond the Brexit referendum of 2016, combining approaches from the fields of history, English and cultural studies. Against those who would deny, downplay or attempt to forget Britain's imperial legacy, the various contributions expose and explore how the British Empire and the consequences of its end continue to shape Britain at the local, national and international level. As an important and urgent intervention in a field of increasing relevance within and beyond the academy, the book offers fresh perspectives on the colonial hangovers in post-colonial Britain from up-and-coming as well as established scholars.

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Clinical psychology

Cultural and Ethnic Diversity

How European Psychologists Can Meet the Challenges

by Alexander Thomas

Culture and diversity are both challenge and opportunity. This volume looks at what psychologists are and can be doing to help society meet the challenges and grasp the opportunities in education, at work, and in clinical practice. The increasingly international and globalized nature of modern societies means that psychologists in particular face new challenges and have new opportunities in all areas of practice and research. The contributions from leading European experts cover relevant intercultural issues and topics in areas as diverse as personality, education and training, work and organizational psychology, clinical and counselling psychology, migration and international youth exchanges. As well as looking at the new challenges and opportunities that psychologists face in dealing with people from increasingly varied cultural backgrounds, perhaps more importantly they also explain and discuss how psychologists can deepen and acquire the intercultural competencies that are now needed in our professional lives. Target Group: psychotherapists / clinical psychologists / mental health professionals

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

The harem, slavery and British imperial culture

Anglo-Muslim relations in the late nineteenth century

by Diane Robinson-Dunn

This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. This book would appeal to those with an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism, and women's studies; slavery and race; the formation of national identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern studies.

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2021

Sugar

Sweet knowledge for practice

by Reinhild Berger

A sweet treat is tempting, but the lurking dangers should not be underestimated. However, it is just as wrong to demonise all types of sugar in general as to avoid it altogether. In this entertaining mini reference book, Reinhild Berger takes the reader on an interesting journey through the labyrinth of sugar, sugar substitutes and sweeteners and gets to the bottom of many questions in the process: How much is too much? What alternatives are there, and which are advisable? How can one select the right one from the deceptive variety in the supermarket? What is the right way to read the food labels on the packaging? What knowledge does one need to be protected against misleading advertisements? - Learn how to recognise differences between the many types of sugar - Read where dangers lie, and which sugar does us good – and in what quantity - Understand how to interpret nutritional values – and that “no artificial sweetener ” does not mean “sugar-free” Welcome to the promising world of the sweet taste!

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1983

Function and Form in the -áya-Formations of the Rig Veda and Atharva Veda

by Jamison, Stephanie W

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Teaching, Language & Reference

January 2019

Global humanitarianism and media culture

by Michael Lawrence, Rachel Tavernor, Bertrand Taithe

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2024

Culture is bad for you

by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, Mark Taylor

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2024

Culture is not an industry

by Justin O'Connor

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2023

A culture of curiosity

by Leonie Hannan

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2024

Pandemic culture

by Ben Walmsley, Abigail Gilmore, Dave O'Brien

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The Arts

September 2022

High culture and tall chimneys

by James Moore

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2017

Genteel women

by Dianne Lawrence

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2020

Gentry culture and the politics of religion

by Richard Cust, Peter Lake

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2022

Civic identity and public space

Belfast since 1780

by Dominic Bryan, Sean J. Connolly, John Nagle

Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth century of the concept of public space and the development of new strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants and unionists, and the break down of that monopoly in more recent decades. Today policy makers and politicians struggle to devise a strategy for the management of public space in a divided city, while endeavouring to promote a new sense of civic identity that will transcend long-standing sectarian and political divisions.

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Literature & Literary Studies

January 2014

Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530

by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small

This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2020

Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt

by Eleanor Dobson

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Sechster und siebter Liederkreis

by Toshifumi Gotō, Eijirō Dōyama, Toshifumi Gotō, Eijirō Dōyama

Institutions and urban change since 1850

by Janet Wolff, Mike Savage

Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain

by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey, Jeffrey Richards

Race, decolonisation and migration since 1945

by Josh Doble, Liam Liburd, Emma Parker

How European Psychologists Can Meet the Challenges

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Anglo-Muslim relations in the late nineteenth century

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Sweet knowledge for practice

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