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Qingdao Publishing House is a state-owned publisher of China founded in 1987. It has published nearly 20,000 titles covering the complete publication spectrum.
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Agencia Literaria Latinoamericana
The Latin American Literary Agency (ALL) was founded in 1986 with headquarters in Havana. It exercises, in matters of copyright, the legal representation of Cuban writers and other Latin American countries for all the languages and regions of the world. Represents and promotes authors in the fields of fiction and nonfiction, children and youth, scientific-technical and social sciences. The ALL has a wide catalog that includes writers of universal stature, several National Literature Awards and recognized contemporary authors and new generations.
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March 2026Railway imperialism in China
A political biography
by Yangwen Zheng
Railway Imperialism in China: a Political Biography is the first and most comprehensive book on history and politics of all major railways in China from the late Qing to the post-Mao era. It investigates the transformation of railways from a bête noire within discussions about reform to the emblematic "engines for empire" as foreign powers used it to carve outspheres of control and exploit the late Qing, and as an instrument of nation making for Chinese regimes. The book introduces new archival sources and a wide range of secondary materials. Boldly conceived, it situates the making of modern China in the context of British, Russian, German, Japanese, American expansion. It traces China's transformation from a victim of railway imperialism in the Age of Empireto a railway expansionist in the twenty-first century.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013Late Merovingian France
by Paul Fouracre, Richard A. Gerberding
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 1996Late Merovingian France
by Paul Fouracre
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages. ;
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January 1994Das Qing-Imperium als Vision und Wirklichkeit
Tibet in Laufbahn und Schriften des Song Yun (1752-1835)
by Dabringhaus, Sabine
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013History and politics in late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe
by Simon Maclean
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2025
Law, society and political culture in late medieval and Reformation Germany
by Duncan Hardy
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July 2018Die wertvolle Medizin des Waldes
Wie die Natur Körper und Geist stärkt
by Qing Li / Übersetzt von Förs, Katharina
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February 2022Ice Song
by Miriam Körner
In Miriam Körners "Ice Song" wird die Geschichte der 15-jährigen Emmylou entfaltet, die zunächst widerwillig in Churchill, Kanada, ankommt. Als Ort, der für seine Nähe zu Eisbären bekannt ist, bietet Churchill eine karge und eiskalte Umgebung, die Emmylou zunächst fremd ist. Ihre Sichtweise beginnt sich zu ändern, als sie Barnabas, einen jungen Inuk, trifft, der intensiv seine Schlittenhunde auf das anspruchsvolle Arctic Quest, ein herausforderndes Schlittenhunderennen, vorbereitet. Die Begegnung mit einem bezaubernden Welpen aus dem Rudel weckt nicht nur ihre Zuneigung für die Tiere, sondern auch tiefergehende Gefühle. Der Roman kombiniert Elemente der Romance mit dem aufregenden Kontext des Schlittenhundrennens und bietet Einblicke in die Kultur der Inuit. Durch Körners authentische Darstellung der arktischen Landschaft und die Verwendung ihrer persönlichen Erfahrungen, entsteht eine packende Lektüre, die sowohl bildend als auch unterhaltsam ist. Authentische Darstellung: Bietet fundierte Einblicke in die Inuit-Kultur und das Schlittenhunderennen, angereichert durch die realen Erfahrungen der Autorin. Fesselnde Handlung mit Romance: Verbindet das Abenteuer in der Arktis mit einer jugendlichen Liebesgeschichte, ideal für Leser*innen ab 12 Jahren. Resilienz und Selbstfindung: Inspiriert junge Leser*innen dazu, Herausforderungen zu meistern und sich selbst sowie neue Leidenschaften zu erkunden. Bildungswert: Bietet neben einer fesselnden Story auch wichtige Erkenntnisse über Umweltschutz und traditionelle Lebensweisen. Perfekt für Tier- und Naturfreunde: Ein Muss für junge Leser, die eine Leidenschaft für Tiere, insbesondere Schlittenhunde, und die Natur haben.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013Popular protest in late-medieval Europe
Italy, France and Flanders
by Samuel Kline Cohn
The documents in this stimulating volume span from 1245 to 1424 but focus on the 'contagion of rebellion' from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their authors range across a wide political and intellectual horizon and include revolutionaries, the artistocracy, merchants and representatives from the church. They tell gripping and often gruesome stories of personal and collective violence, anguish, anger, terror, bravery, and foolishness. Of over 200 documents presented here, most have been translated into English for the first time, providing students and scholars with a new opportunity to compare social movements across Europe over two centuries, allowing a re-evaluation of pre-industrial revolts, the Black Death and its consequences for political culture and action. This book will be essential reading for those seeking to better understand popular attitudes and protest in medieval Europe.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Revolution in China and Russia
Reorganizing empires into nation states
by Luyang Zhou
Most scholars believe that China's nationality policy, like that of other socialist states, imitated the Soviet nationality model, a system which has been termed an "affirmative action empire." This book offers two contributions to the literature which run counter to this convention. First, it argues that the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union (USSR) were different; while the PRC was aimed to build an ideal-typical nation-state, the USSR was an open union of nation-states that was only temporarily confined to a physical territory. Second, while scholars who have noted this difference attribute it to contextual factors, such as ethnic structure, geopolitical status, and Russia's intervention into the Chinese Revolution, this book contends that context shaped the Sino-Soviet difference, yet it did not determine it. Rather, there was significant leeway between the implications of the contextual factors, and what the policy-designers ultimately established. This book probes who held agency, and how these individuals bridged this gap.
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Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groupsOctober 2010The Beethoven song companion
by Paul Reid
This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven's songs. All the composer's songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethoven's compositional methods. An introductory essay considers reasons for the relative neglect of the songs, the significance of Beethoven's choice of texts, his crucial role in the development of German art-song and specific aspects such as choice of key. Throughout the book, poetic and musical texts are discussed in their historical context, and in the overall context of Beethoven's life and music. It is anticipated that this book, like its predecessor The Schubert Song Companion, will encourage the performance and study of an important but comparatively neglected aspect of the work of the world's most celebrated composer.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024
A savage song
Racist violence and armed resistance in the early twentieth-century U.S.–Mexico Borderlands
by Margarita Aragon
This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence invigorated racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them. Bringing anti-Mexican violence into a common analytical framework with anti-black violence, A savage song examines several focal points in this oft-ignored history, including the 1915 rebellion of ethnic Mexicans in South Texas, and its brutal repression by the Texas Rangers and the 1917 mutiny of black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment in Houston, Texas, in response to police brutality. Aragon considers both the continuities and stark contrasts across these different moments: how were racialized constructions of masculinity differently employed? How did African and Mexican American men, including those in uniform, respond to the violence of racism? And how was their resistance, including their claims to manhood and nation, understood by law enforcement, politicians, and the press? Building on extensive archival research, the book examines how African and Mexican American men have been constructed as 'racial problems', investigating, in particular, their relationship with law enforcement and ideas about black and Mexican criminality.
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November 2022Die tausend Verbrechen des Ming Tsu
Thriller | Ein Rachefeldzug durch den Wilden Westen
by Tom Lin, Thomas Wörtche, Volker Oldenburg
1869, als der Westen der USA durch den Bau der Eisenbahnstrecken erschlossen wird. Der chinesische Gangster und Hitman Ming Tsu ist auf einem Rachefeldzug: Weil er Ada, eine weiße Frau, heiraten wollte, wurde er von deren Vater, einem Eisenbahnbaron, beinahe umgebracht und an eine Eisenbahngesellschaft als Arbeitssklave verkauft. Aber Ming Tsu lässt sich nicht unterkriegen, schließlich ist er ein professioneller Killer mit sehr eigener Moral. Mit Hilfe eines greisen Chinesen, genannt »Der Prophet«, und einer gemischten Zirkustruppe, deren Personal zu veritablen Wundern fähig ist, liquidiert er nach und nach seine Peiniger. Er arbeitet sich dabei zielstrebig nach Kalifornien vor, wo er Ada wiederzutreffen hofft. Dort erwartet ihn ein explosiver und unerwarteter Showdown …
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2006Gentry culture in late-medieval England
by Raluca Radulescu, Steve Rigby, Alison Truelove
Essays in this fascinating and important collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late medieval England. They consider the emergence of the gentry as a group distinct from the nobility, and explore the various available routes to gentility. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behaviour, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved, and how it was disseminated. Studies of the gentry's literacy, creation and use of literature, cultural networks, religious activities and their experiences of music and the visual arts more directly address the practice and expression of this culture, exploring the extent to which the gentry's activities were different from those of the wider population. Joining the editors in contributing essays to this collection is an impressive array of eminent scholars, all specialists in their respective fields: Christine Carpenter, Peter Fleming, Maurice Keen, Philippa Maddern, Nicholas Orme, Tim Shaw, Thomas Tolley and Deborah Youngs. As a whole, the book offers a broad view of gentry culture that explores, reassesses, and sometimes even challenges the idea that members of the gentry cultivated their own distinctive cultural identity. It will appeal to students looking for a comprehensive introduction to late medieval gentry culture, as well as to researchers interested in gentry studies more generally. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages
by Trevor Dean
The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages. No other English language sourcebook has the same geographical or chronological range. This collection is carefully structured around the crisis of the fourteenth century and arranged in contrasting groups of texts. By connecting documents in translation to recent scholarship and debates, it addresses five key areas of medieval urban history: the physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics. Offers students well-translated and effectively contextualised documents along with some guidance to the secondary work of Italian scholars which is largely inaccessible to undergraduate students.
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October 2008Insel-Almanach auf das Jahr 2009
China
by Christian Lux, Hans-Joachim Simm
Gastland der Frankfurter Buchmesse im Jahr 2009 ist China. Mit seiner reichen kulturellen und religiösen Tradition und mit seiner literarischen Vielfalt, nicht zuletzt aber auch mit seiner erstarkenden Wirtschaftskraft wird das Land zu einem der mächtigsten Faktoren in der globalisierten Welt. Die chinesische Literatur blickt auf eine 3000jährige Geschichte zurück, und meist war sie nicht nur Reflexion des Lebens und der Gesellschaft, sondern auch ein Politikum. Philosophische Abhandlungen, Geschichtsbücher, Gedichte, später auch Romane und Novellen sind die vorrangigen literarischen Genres, von den Anfängen über die Dynastien der Han, der Tang, der Song, der Ming bis zur Qing-Dynastie und der Moderne des 20. Jahrhunderts, von der Literatur unter der kommunistischen Doktrin über die vorsichtige politische Öffnung 1979, die neuerlichen Restriktionen nach 1989 bis heute. Der Insel-Almanach auf das Jahr 2009 gibt mit exemplarischen Texten einen Überblick über die chinesische Literatur in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Dazu kommen Abbildungen, die einen Eindruck chinesischer Kunst und Kalligraphie vermitteln.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 1997Picturing women in late medieval and renaissance art
by Christa Grossinger
This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages
by Anthony Musson, Edward Powell
This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied. Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array of contemporary literary texts, it guides readers towards an understanding of prevailing notions of law and justice and expectations of the law and legal institutions. Tensions are shown emerging between theoretical ideals of justice and the practical realities of administering the law during an era profoundly affected by periodic bouts of war, political in-fighting, social dislocation and economic disaster. Introductions and notes provide both the specific and wider legal, social and political contexts in addition to offering an overview of the existing secondary literature and historiographical trends. This collection affords a valuable insight into the character of medieval governance as well as revealing the complex nexus of interests, attitudes and relationships prevailing in society during the later Middle Ages.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Marguerite Duras
by Renate Gunther
The first book in English to deal exclusively with Duras' cinema, including such films as India Song, Le Camion, and Nathalie Granger. Provides a lucid and stimulating introduction to her films, which is accessible to a wide readerhip, both specialist and non-specialist.. Locates the films in their autobiographical as well as social and historical context, making the book broadly interesting to students and teachers in all areas of French Studies.. The book's empahasis on gender issues widens it's appeal to include those working in Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Gay and Lesbian Studies.
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April 2025Für immer seh ich dich wieder
Vom Verlust eines Kindes, von Elternschaft, Trauer und Liebe
by Yannic Han Biao Federer
»Ein herzzerbrechendes, ein wichtiges Buch.« Daniel Schreiber Charlotte und Yannic erwarten ein Kind. Zwischen Pränatalscreening, Projektabschlüssen und Elterngeldrechner richten sie sich ein auf ein neues Leben als Familie. Doch dann ereignet sich die Katastrophe, ihr Sohn, Gustav Tian Ming, stirbt. Eben noch haben sie Wickeltische gegoogelt, Stillkissen angeschafft, plötzlich müssen sie einen Kindersarg aussuchen, ein Grab kaufen. Alles fühlt sich falsch an, verrückt und wie ausgedacht, aber es passiert wirklich. Erschütterte Verwandte und Freunde reisen an oder nehmen Anteil aus der Ferne, tragen Opferschalen in den Tempel. Und während Charlotte und er mit einer Bürokratie zu kämpfen haben, die mit totgeborenen Kindern kaum umzugehen weiß, beginnt Yannic aufzuschreiben, was um ihn her geschieht. Es ist ein Versuch zu begreifen, was ihnen widerfahren ist, eine Sprache zu finden für die Trauer und den Schmerz, aber auch für die Wärme und Liebe, die sich darin verbirgt. Präzise und eindringlich erzählt Yannic Han Biao Federer vom Verlust seines Sohnes, von Abschied und Carearbeit, von Elternschaft und Liebe. Für immer seh ich dich wieder ist ein Dokument der Trauer – und der heilenden Kraft des Erzählens.
