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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Welsh missionaries and British imperialism
The Empire of Clouds in north-east India
by Andrew May
In 1841, the Welsh sent their first missionary, Thomas Jones, to evangelise the tribal peoples of the Khasi Hills of north-east India. This book follows Jones from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, the wettest place on earth and now one of the most Christianised parts of India. As colonised colonisers, the Welsh were to have a profound impact on the culture and beliefs of the Khasis. The book also foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial control. Its themes are universal: crises of authority, the loneliness of geographical isolation, sexual scandal, greed and exploitation, personal and institutional dogma, individual and group morality. Written by a direct descendant of Thomas Jones, it makes a significant contribution in orienting the scholarship of imperialism to a much-neglected corner of India, and will appeal to students of the British imperial experience more broadly.
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The Geography of Health
The Spatial Dimension of Epidemiology and Treatment
by Jobst Augustin, Daniela Koller
This title is the first interdisciplinary book about geography and health that takes scientific methods and questions into account making it a great manual of international health geography research. The topics include: • spatial statistical analysis • mobility analysis in health research • GIS and mapping tools • cartographic visualization • health mapping • cancer epidemiology • morbidity • climate change and health – the example of Germany • global change and infectious diseases Target Group: Health scientists, geographers, doctors (epidemiologists)
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2024Off white
Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race
by Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre, James Mark
This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged foundation of semi-peripheral nation-states and national identities, and of the region's current status as a global stronghold of unapologetic white, Christian nationalisms. Contributions address the pivotal role of whiteness in international diplomacy, geographical exploration, media cultures, music, intellectual discourses, academic theories, everyday language and banal nationalism's many avenues of expressions. The book offers new paradigms for understanding the relationships among racial capitalism, populism, economic peripherality and race.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019The secret life of romantic comedy
by Celestino Deleyto
The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022Edmund Spenser and the romance of space
by Tamsin Badcoe
Edmund Spenser and the romance of space advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations. The book looks to the work of cultural and historical geographers in order to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in the development of geographical knowledge: contexts ultimately employed by the study to achieve a better understanding of the place of Ireland in Spenser's writing. The study also engages with recent ecocritical approaches to literary environments, such as coastlines, wetlands, and islands, thus framing fresh readings of Spenser's handling of mixed genres.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017
Air power and colonial control
by David Omissi
Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.
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MedicineHumanity in the Crisis Zone
Field Report of a Nurse on H umanitarian Aid with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in South Sudan
by Andreas F. Lutz
A hospital somewhere in remote South Sudan. A place where peoples’ lives are marked by extreme poverty, war, violence, the climate crisis and the daily struggle for survival. How does it feel to be human under these conditions? What moves someone to voluntarily go where nobody would want to? Andreas Lutz takes you on a journey to a project run by the humanitarian aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières in the northeast of South Sudan. Impressed by encounters with people who live under the precarious conditions of this crisis zone, he writes about his experiences as a caregiver and, among other things, about how healthcare provision works with very limited resources.
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February 2025Mi mittendrin. Eine Katze hat Geheimnisse (und alle anderen auch)
Zauberhaftes Kinderbuch von Bestsellerautorin Isabel Abedi für alle ab 9 Jahren mit ganz viel Herz, Katze und einem Hauch Magie
by Isabel Abedi, SaBine Büchner
Mi lügt fast nie – aber heute will ihr niemand glauben. Zu Hause beschuldigt Mama sie, ihrer übelsten Nachbarin eine Regenbogenzwergin ins Gartenbeet gepflanzt zu haben. In der Schule behauptet ihr Lehrer, dass sie schummelt. Unfair! Als sich Mi auf Polly (so heißt ihr Bike) die Wut aus dem Leib strampelt, bricht ein gigantisches Gewitter los. So landet sie bei Kafka, einem geheimnisvollen Laden mit einem noch geheimnisvolleren Inhaber, der Mi den geheimnisvollsten Kaffeesack mit auf den Heimweg gibt. Und dann ist Mi plötzlich mittendrin in Geschichten, die sie selbst kaum glauben kann. Warum schleicht sich ihre große Schwester nachts heimlich raus? Was sind das auf einmal für seltsame Gerüche im Haus? Und was verbirgt Uroma Urmel? Die Geheimnisse zu lüften, ist Mis Mission. Zum Glück hat sie Kafkatz, Roya und Isso … oder haben die etwa auch was zu verbergen? Der Auftakt einer neuen Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Isabel Abedi, die alle ab 9 Jahren mit auf die Reise nimmt. Es geht um Freundschaft und Familie , um Kinderrechte – und um das kleine Glück , das unser Leben liebenswerter macht. Und mittendrin ist Mi – die man nach dieser Geschichte nicht mehr missen möchte.
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May 2012Der Geograph des Papstes
Leo Africanus
by Amin Maalouf, Nicola Volland, Bettina Klingler
»Ich bin ein Sohn der Straße, meine Heimat ist die Karawane, und mein Leben ist eine Reise voller Überraschungen.« Hassan al-Wazzan, ein gebildeter junger Mann und gläubiger Muslim, bereist als Kaufmann den Maghreb und hat den großen Wunsch, nach Mekka zu pilgern. Doch es sind unruhige Zeiten in einer unruhigen Gegend, es herrschen Überfälle und Kriege. Wie aus dem Nichts taucht eines Tages eine Bande sizilianischer Piraten auf, die Hassan nach Rom verschleppen und versklaven. Er ist ein Glücksgriff für die Piraten, denn Hassans wacher Verstand und seine außergewöhnliche Klugheit machen ihn zu einem besonderen Geschenk für den mächtigsten Mann der christlichen Welt: Papst Leo X. Dieser ernennt ihn zu seinem Geographen – doch wird er dem Vatikan jemals wieder entkommen können, seine Freiheit zurückerlangen und in seine Heimat, den Maghreb, zurückkehren? »Der Geograph des Papstes« ist ein ungemein packender historischer Roman, der die ereignisreiche und hochspannende Epoche der Renaissance lebendig werden läßt.
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September 2017Die Wege der Tiere
Ihre Wanderungen an Land, zu Wasser und in der Luft – in 50 Karten
by Cheshire, James; Uberti, Oliver / Übersetzt von Block, Claudia
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2018Qualities of food
by Mark Harvey, Stan Metcalfe, Andrew McMeekin, Mark Harvey, Alan Warde
In this book, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgments about taste? How do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? What alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different answers to such questions. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the third part examines social and political responses to industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human nutrition or economics.
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February 2026Mi mittendrin (2). Alle stellen sich quer (nur ein paar stellen was an)
Zauberhaftes Kinderbuch von Bestsellerautorin Isabel Abedi mit einem Hauch Magie, einem spannenden Fall und jeder Menge Freundschaft. Perfekt für alle ab 9 Jahren!
by Isabel Abedi, SaBine Büchner
Zauberhaftes Sommerabenteuer mit einer Riesenportion Freundschaft, einer Prise Krimi und einem Hauch Magie So sollen Sommerferien sein: ein ultrablauer Himmel, eine ultrawarme Sonne und ein ultraneues Wohnwagen-Café, das Mis Wahl-Opa Emil Knopf neu eröffnet. Das Allerbeste: Mi darf mitmachen, zusammen mit ihrer Freundin Roya, ihren Freunden Isso und Elliot und natürlich ihrer Katze Kafkatz, die stets den richtigen Riecher hat.Das Allerschlimmste: Mi hat einen Albtraum und der droht wirklich wahr zu werden: Die schönen Schrebergärten ringsum sollen dem Erdboden gleichgemacht werden und noch dazu wird Mis Nachbarin Frau Wagner angefahren. So ist Mi mit ihren Lieben mittendrin in einem großen Sommerabenteuer: auf der Spur von vierundzwanzig ungeahnten Fakten, einem feigen Fahrer und einem raschelnden Rätsel. Denn manchmal kommt das Glück auf leisen Pfoten ... Band zwei der neuen Reihe von Bestsellerautorin Isabel Abedi, die alle ab 9 Jahren mit in einen großen Sommer nimmt. Es geht um Freundschaft und Familie, ums Zusammenhalten und auch mal Querstellen – und darum, dass die Kleinsten manchmal das Größte bewirken können. Und mittendrin ist wieder Mi – eine Freundin, die das Leben liebenswerter macht.
