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The ArtsJune 2017Monstrous adaptations
Generic and thematic mutations in horror film
by Richard Hand, Jay McRoy
The fifteen groundbreaking essays contained in this book address the concept of adaptation in relation to horror cinema. Adaptation is not only a key cultural practice and strategy for filmmakers, but it is also a theme of major importance within horror cinema as a hole. The history of the genre is full of adaptations that have drawn from fiction or folklore, or that have assumed the shape of remakes of pre-existing films. The horror genre itself also abounds with its own myriad transformations and transmutations. The essays within this volume engage with an impressive range of horror texts, from the earliest silent horror films by Thomas Edison and Jean Epstein through to important contemporary phenomena, such as the western appropriation of Japanese horror motifs. Classic works by Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg and Abel Ferrara receive cutting-edge re-examination, as do unjustly neglected works by Mario Bava, Guillermo del Toro and Stan Brakhage.
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January 1997Cicero, De re publica
Texte mit Erläuterungen. Arbeitsaufträge, Begleittexte, Vokabular und Stilistik
by Andere Adaption von Glücklich, Hans-Joachim
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
Passengers, pilots, publicity
by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.
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January 1997Ciceros 'De re publica' im Unterricht
Interpretationen und Unterrichtsvorschläge
by Glücklich, Hans-Joachim
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2009Re-evaluating Irish national security policy
Affordable threats?
by Michael Mulqueen
On the afternoon of September 11 2001 the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), Bertie Ahern ordered the 'heads of the security services of key government departments' to undertake a complete re-evaluation of measures to protect the state from attack. Hence, underway within hours of the 9/11 outrage in the United States was potentially the most far-reaching review of Irish national security in decades. This book, the first major academic investigation of Irish national security policy as it has operated since 9/11, provides a theoretically informed analysis of that re-evaluation and the decisions which have been taken as a consequence of it up until September 2008. In so doing it draws on unprecedented access to Ireland's police, security and intelligence agencies; over twenty senior personnel agreed to be interviewed. Theoretically the author demonstrates the utility to the analysis of national security policy of three conceptual models of historical institutionalism, governmental politics and threat evaluation. The text is of interest to scholars of Security Studies, International Relations and Politics, as well as state and NGO personnel, journalists and general readers. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016The same-sex unions revolution in Western democracies
by Kelly Kollman
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September 2014Re-Naturierung
Gesellschaft im Einklang mit der Natur - Jahrbuch Ökologie 2015
by Herausgegeben von Simonis, Udo Ernst; Herausgegeben von Leitschuh, Heike; Herausgegeben von Michelsen, Gerd; Herausgegeben von Sommer, Jörg; Herausgegeben von Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich von
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October 2000Eigentum und Zeitablauf - das dominium sine re im Grundstücksrecht.
Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Enstehungsgeschichte des BGB.
by Finkenauer, Thomas
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2024Coup in Damascus
Husni al-Za'im and the birth of Syrian military rule
by Carl Rihan
Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria's first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria's democracy and the rise of its military rulers, particularly Husni al-Zaim, whose brief rule in 1949 represented a profoundly transformative moment for the Syrian nation. It is a history of the thoughts, intentions and motives of political actors underpinning the events that have marked Syria's history after the first Arab-Israeli war, and focuses mainly on the interaction between local, regional and international actors. Unlike most histories of the modern Middle East that tackle broad intervals and that focus on the sequences of events, this history seeks to reconstruct the thought processes behind the events, and anchor them within the epoch's existing political and socioeconomic conditions. It draws on several methodological influences, particularly R.G. Collingwood's 'history as re-enactment of the past'.
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October 2018Handke Bibliothek I
Bde. 1-9 Prosa, Gedichte, Theaterstücke
by Peter Handke
Im Alter von 25 Jahren – Peter Handke hatte den ersten Roman veröffentlicht, einen öffentlich-provokanten Auftritt in Princeton, vier Schauspieler im Theater das Publikum beschimpfen lassen – formulierte er seine schriftstellerische Maxime, die für ihn bis heute Gültigkeit hat: »Ich erwarte von einem literarischen Werk eine Neuigkeit für mich (…). Eine Möglichkeit besteht für mich jeweils nur einmal. Die Nachahmung dieser Möglichkeit ist dann schon unmöglich.« Bei jedem Buch, jedem Theaterstück, jedem Essay kann der Leser demnach das Unerwartete erwarten. Jede Lektüre bedeutet den Vorschlag zu einer Neuentdeckung der Welt, der Innenwelt und der Außenwelt wie der Innenwelt der Außenwelt der Innenwelt, jede Veröffentlichung überrascht, verschlägt den Atem, selbst dem geübten Handke-Leser, jede Publikation schlägt Umwege ins Zentrum neuer Erfahrungen ein, jede überkommene literarische Form wird durch erprobt und zugleich erweitert, und das in Titelformulierungen, die inzwischen Eingang in die alltägliche Sprache gefunden haben: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied, Langsame Heimkehr, Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht, Untertagblues… Die Handke Bibliothek unterbreitet ein nicht abzulehnendes Angebot: Sie enthält alles, was der Autor während seines gesamten Schreiberlebens in Buchform veröffentlicht hat, ermöglicht die Konzentration der Lektüre auf einzelne Gattungen, lädt dazu ein, blätternd-lesend die mäandernden (Schreib)Versuche zu verfolgen. Kurz: Die Handke Bibliothek ist für Leser unumgänglich.
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The ArtsJanuary 2025Refashioning the Renaissance
Everyday dress in Europe, 1500–1650
by Paula Hohti
How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and shopkeepers? Did they rely on affordable alternatives to the silks, jewellery, and decorations favoured by the wealthy elite? Or did those with modest means find innovative ways to express their fashion sense? This book provides new perspectives on early modern clothing and fashion history byinvestigating the consumption and meaning of fashionable clothing and accessories among the 'popular' classes. Through a close examination of the materials, craftsmanship and cultural significance of fashion items owned by and available to a broad group of consumers, it challenges conventional assumptions that the everyday dress of ordinary families was limited to a narrow selection of garments made of coarse textiles, often produced at home and resistant to change.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2025Straight nation
Heteronormativity and other exigencies of postcolonial nationalism
by Pavan Mano
In Straight Nation, Pavan Mano reveals the logic of straightness that sits at the heart of postcolonial nationalism in Singapore. Mano rejects the romantic notion of the nation as a haven of belonging, showing it to be a relentless force that is allied with heteronormativity to create a host of minoritized and xenologized figures. Through meticulous exploration and close reading of a swathe of texts, Mano unveils the instrumental role of sexuality in structuring the national imaginary. The book adroitly demonstrates how queerness is rendered foreign in postcolonial Singapore and functions alongside technologies of "race", gender, and class. A provocative critique of narrow contemporary identity politics and its concomitant stymying of a more ambitious political critique, Straight Nation sets out an argument that moves beyond the negativity of traditional critique into a space of (re)thinking, (re)building and (re)imagining.
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April 1996The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft, Rudolf Hermstein, H. C. Artmann
Mit seinem Cthulu-Mythos wollte H. P. Lovecraft eine Atmosphäre kosmischen Grauens schaffen, die Archaisches mit den modernen Erkenntnissen der Wissenschaft verbindet und unserer Zeit angemessen ist. Die Angst hielt er für das älteste und stärkste Gefühl, mit dem er in seinen Erzählungen gerne spielte. Die besten Erzählungen von H. P. Lovecraft sind in diesem Rand zusammengefaßt.
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Basic Stimulation in Nursing
by Christel Bienstein
This bestselling title is a practical handbook on the concept of basic stimulation in nursing and its application for patients suffering from perceptional deficits, developmental delays and mental handicaps. It enables nurses to develop, improve and stabilize physically and mentally handicapped people with impaired perceptional, communicative and motor skills. Target Group: Nurses
