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Promoted ContentAugust 1998
Peter Tschaikowsky
Eine Biographie
by Edward Garden, Konrad Küster
"Peter Tschaikowsky ist der berühmteste Komponist des alten Rußlands. Mit einer detaillierten Werkanalyse verknüpft Garden die farbige Schilderung des unruhigen Musikerlebens; präzise aufgehellt werden auch die Hintergründe von Tschaikowskys erzwungenem Selbstmord."
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Trusted PartnerGardens (descriptions, history etc)February 2017
The factory in a garden
A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age
by Helena Chance. Series edited by Christopher Breward
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017
Conquering nature in Spain and its empire, 1750–1850
by Helen Cowie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to survey, inventory and exploit the natural productions of her overseas possessions, orchestrating a serries of scientific expeditions and cultivating and displaying American fauna and flora in metropolitan gardens and museums. This book assesses the cultural significance of natural history, emphasising the figurative and utilitarian value with which eighteenth-century Spaniards invested natural objects, from globetrotting elephants to three-legged chickens. It considers how the creation, legitimisation and dissemination of scientific knowledge reflected broader questions of imperial power and national identity. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Spanish and Latin American History, the History of Science and Imperial Culture
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Keine Angst vor grossen Gefühlen
Schriftstellerin - ein Beruf. Elf Porträts
by Eden, Wiebke
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Trusted PartnerSeptember 2010
100 Dinge, von denen du nicht wusstest, dass du sie nicht wusstest
Wie Mathematik unsere Welt erklärt
by Barrow, John D.
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Immer nur Glück gehabt
Wie ich Deutschlands bekanntester Playboy wurde
by Eden, Rolf; Dörfler, Peter
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Ein Himmel voller Zahlen
Auf den Spuren mathematischer Wahrheit
by Barrow, John D. / Deutsch Ehlers, Anita
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