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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2021

        Populism in Europe

        Lessons from Umberto Bossi's Northern League

        by Davide Vampa, Daniele Albertazzi

        Populism in Europe offers a detailed and systematic analysis of the ideology, electoral and governmental performances, organisational model, type of leadership and member activism of the Northern League under its founder, Umberto Bossi (1991-2012). Based on a wealth of original research, the book identifies the Northern League's consistent and coherent ideology, its strong leadership and its ability to create communities of loyal partisan activists as key ingredients of its success. Through their in-depth analysis, Albertazzi and Vampa show that the League has much to teach us about how populists can achieve durability and rootedness and how parties of all kinds can still benefit from a committed and dedicated membership today.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Leos Carax

        by Fergus Daly, Garin Dowd

        The first book in any language to study the films of this enfant terrible of contemporary French cinema, best known for his film Les Amants du Pont Neuf. Examines key ingredients in the worlds of Carax's films - Paris, pop music, 'flânerie' and 'amour fou', 'mannerist' and 'neo-baroque' aesthetics, the Nouvelle Vague and contemporary 'naturalist' cinema - making the book a good primer of contemporary French film and culture. Draws on a variety of intellectual sources, such as the philosophy of Deleuze, film criticism, theory of art, and literary monographs. Argues that the recent history of maverick mannerist and baroque auteurs, from Ruiz & Rivette to Garrel and Techine, and their explorations of the 'powers of the false' are key to Carax's cinema. Examines Carax's contribution to the strand of cinema which is focused on chance and destiny, from Wong Kar-Wai and David Lynch to films such as Serendipity and Sliding doors.

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        January 2023

        Käpten Kiwi

        Kleiner Held für großen Mut

        by Barbara Supel, Agata Dobkowska, Joanna Manc

        Mit Cape und Propeller-Helm: Käpten Kiwi, der kleine Angstbezwinger Angst vor der Dunkelheit, Monstern oder Fahrradfahren: Der kleine Kiwi weiß genau, wie es ist, wenn Sorgen die Stimmung verdüstern. Eines Tages hat er genug davon, Trübsal zu blasen, und beschließt, stattdessen ein Held zu werden! Mit Cape und Propellerhelm macht sich Kapitän Kiwi auf den Weg, anderen Tieren zu helfen: dem Strauß, der Angst im Dunkeln hat, dem Pfau, der die Schattenmonster fürchtet, dem Flamingo, der sich vor dem Gewitter versteckt. Das klappt auch ganz wunderbar – bis er wieder mit seinen eigenen Ängsten konfrontiert wird. Aber: Freundschaft ist das beste Sicherheitsnetz (nicht nur) für ängstliche Vögel. Neuer, ungewöhnlicher Protagonist: ein kleiner Piepmatz im Superhelden-Look Schöne Reime und niedliche Tiere von Kiwi über Pinguin bis Flamingo Ein Mutmach-Bilderbuch für Kinder ab 4 Jahren Wichtige Themen: Kinderangst, Anderssein und Mut finden

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        Politics & government
        November 2012

        Understanding AS-Level Government and Politics

        Second edition

        by Moyra Grant

        This is a clearly written, comprehensive and topical textbook on UK government and politics for AS and A Level students. It is suitable for the A Level Edexcel, OCR and AQA exam boards. The content of the book is structured according to the boards' specifications. It covers: political power, participation and democracy; the UK constitution; elections and referenda; MPs, parties and pressure groups; Parliament and government; the courts, judges and civil liberties; local government and devolution; and the European Union. All key terms and concepts are highlighted and succinctly defined. The book has an accessible style and very user-friendly format. It includes sample exam questions with answers, and fun quizzes with answers, plus features such as 'Talking Point' and 'Analyse This' to encourage class discussion and exploration of core topics. Each chapter begins with a summary of contents and ends with sample exam questions and useful websites.

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        Geography & the Environment
        November 2013

        1 Angel Square

        The Co-operative Group's new head office

        by Len Grant

        This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, architects, engineers, project managers and builders - and has had unreserved access to document the creation of this already award-winning structure. The design of 1 Angel Square by the architects 3DReid, is currently the UK's highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) rated office building to date, and it is set to be one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe. 1 Angel Square, the book, is an intimate record of this fascinating building. Some of the impressive facts include: 3,157 internal and external window panels make up the façade; there are 10,500 data and power outlets; it sits on 539 foundation piles, with an average depth of 18 metres below ground; and there are approximately 22km of power cables. This book will be required reading for students of architecture and construction, sustainability studies and urban planning, and for those with an interest in the history of one of the world's great businesses. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2007

        Public issue television

        World in Action' 1963–98

        by Peter Goddard, John Corner, Kay Richardson

        Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. Based on full access to the archives, it offers a fascinating historical account of how one television series, Granada's World in Action, celebrated for its tough journalism, visual directness and public impact, functioned and developed over its run across 35 years between 1963 and 1998. In a succession of chapters looking at different periods in the series' development and at key dimensions of its distinctive identity, it gets deep inside the making of factual television and examines how a particular culture of production works within broader conditions of possibility and constraint. In particular, it charts the interwoven processes of change - technological, professional, aesthetic, institutional, economic, social and political. As well as discussing achievement and success, it examines the tensions, the debates and open conflicts that formed part of the context within which the series was made and transmitted across four decades. ;

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        Children's & YA

        The Enchanting Three (1). Hoggs and Bear Courage

        by Stefanie Dahle

        Hoggs the bear would love to be brave. But he is afraid of spiders and ghosts. And so Hoggs and his best friend Poki the skunk decide to go on an adventure in order to practise being brave. They head for the abandoned witch’s house behind the bee field. Ugh, it’s certainly ghostly! In fact there’s a kettle bubbling quite scarily…”Anybody there?” asks Hoggs cautiously. Yes! Fips the rabbit urgently needs help. And – whoosh! – suddenly the friends find themselves right in the middle of a stormy but magical adventure…

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2025

        The return of the housewife

        Why women are still cleaning up

        by Emma Casey

        An illuminating look at the world of cleanfluencers that asks why the burden of housework still falls on women. Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy. Housework is beautiful. Housework is glamorous. Housework is key to a happy family. Housework shows that you care. Housework is women's work. Social media is flooded with images of the perfect home. TikTok and Instagram 'cleanfluencers' produce endless photos and videos of women cleaning, tidying and putting things right. Figures such as Marie Kondo and Mrs Hinch have placed housework, with its promise of a life of love and contentment, at the centre of self-care and positive thinking. And yet housework remains one of the world's most unequal institutions. Women, especially poorer women and women of colour, do most low-paid and unpaid domestic labour. In The return of the housewife, Emma Casey asks why these inequalities matter and why they persist after a century of dramatic advances in women's rights. She offers a powerful call to challenge the prevailing myths around housework and the 'naturally competent' woman homemaker.

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        2023

        Medicinal Drugs

        406 index cards

        by Prof. Dr. Matthias F. Melzig and Dr. Joscha Kummer

        Eyebright, Asian holly oak, butcher‘s broom – pharmaceutical drugs play an important role in the studies and profession of pharmacists, and must be learned. The author duo has compiled profiles for 406 important medicinal drugs, including - coloured image of the physical appearance, - name, family, ingredients, effect, application, - synonyms and instructions for use. New in the 2nd edition: - update of all profiles, - over 80 new drugs, including TCM and homeopathy. Thanks to the photo and fact sheet, the drugs can be internalised in no time at all – optimal for exams and practice!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Emigrant homecomings

        The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000

        by Marjory Harper

        Emigrant Homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite evidence that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between a quarter and a third of all emigrants from many parts of Britain and Europe ultimately returned to their countries of origin. Emigrant Homecomings analyses the motives, experiences and impact of these returning migrants in a wide range of locations over four hundred years, as well as examining the mechanisms and technologies which enabled their return. The book examines the multiple identities that migrants adopted and the huge range and complexity of homecomers' motives and experiences. It also dissects migrants' perception of 'home' and the social, economic, cultural and political change that their return engendered.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2024

        Conceiving bodies

        Reproduction in early medieval English medicine

        by Dana Oswald

        Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns. Previous translators reduced the remedies to a general category of women's medicine, but sustained examination of language reveals important distinctions: remedies for menstruation indicate social concerns about fertility, where remedies for 'cleansing' do not provide a clear path to conception, but rather foreclose it. Rarest of all are the remedies for childbirth, but their rarity is compounded by the practices of translators who conflate the language for women's reproduction into an amorphous singularity. Through an original method of hysteric philology-the combining of traditional philology with contemporary feminist and medical epistemologies-this book situates itself in the historical treatment of reproductive people as both objects and subjects of medical practice, and gestures forward in time to the contemporary struggle for bodily autonomy.

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        August 2023

        Room for Love 2. Three with a Key

        by Laura Labas, Moon Notes

        Mit schönem Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage – Lieferung je nach Verfügbarkeit Bronwyn und Nick – Es ist kompliziert. Was denkst du über Friends with Benefits, über Freundschaft plus? Kann klappen, ja, aber nur, wenn die Liebe nicht dazwischen funkt. Das genau scheint bei Bronwyn und Nick das (ziemlich knisternde) Problem zu sein. Die beiden sind seit ihren Kindertagen in Louisiana befreundet, nun sind sie mit ihrer gemeinsamen Freundin Claire nach New York gezogen, raus aus den beengten Verhältnissen in den Südstaaten. Heimlich schlägt Bronwyns Herz schon lange für ihren Freund, den attraktiven Stuntman Nick. Doch ein vor Jahren geschlossener Pakt macht ihre Liebe unmöglich: als Vierzehnjährige schwören sich Bronwyn, Nick und Claire für immer Freunde zu bleiben, ohne andere Gefühle. Nachdem Claire New York wieder verlassen hat und nach Louisiana zurückgegangen ist, bekommen Bronwyn und Nick überraschend eine Einladung zu ihrer Hochzeit. Zurück in der Kleinstadt, in der alles begann, müssen die beiden sich endlich ihren Gefühlen und der Frage stellen: Wagen sie den gefährlichen Sprung von der Freundschaft in die Liebe? Room for Love 2. Three with a Key: Kann aus Freundschaft Liebe werden? Für Fans der New Adult Romane Room for Love von Laura Labas Three with a Key (Band 2) als Fortsetzung von Two in a Room (Band 1) Neue Gefühle zwischen alten Freunden – eine Lovestory, in die du dich verlieben wirst. Deine Lieblings-Tropes Slow Burn, Liebe gegen alle Widerstände und Forbidden Love. Andere Leser*innen liebten die authentischen Figuren der Young Adult Bücher und die intensive Spannung zwischen den Protagonist*innen. Traum-Setting zwischen dem coolen New York und Amerikas schwülen Südstaaten.

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        1988

        Ganzheit und Element

        Zwei kontroverse Entwürfe einer Gegenstandsbildung in der Psychologie

        by Baßler, Wolfgang

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        1976

        On the Measurement of Factor Productivities

        Theoretical Problems and Empirical Results (Papers and Proceedings of the 2nd Reisensburg Symposium, June 23-27, 1974)

        by Herausgegeben von Altmann, Franz L; Herausgegeben von Kyn, Oldrych; Herausgegeben von Wagener, Hans J

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