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April 2018Sika, die weiße Königin
Wie die Liebe mich rettete und mir ein ganzes Volk schenkte
by Samlan, Manuela / Zusammen mit Bell, Victoria
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January 1998Das Handbuch deer chinesischen Ernährungslehre
Die moderne Umsetzung ihrer Grundlagen, Methoden und Rezepte
by Flaws, Bob; Wolfe, Honora L / Übersetzt von Kierdorf, Theo
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2026Histories of international legal theories in Japan
From dialogue to conversation
by Maiko Meguro, Yota Negishi
This volume presents the first systematic account of Japanese international legal theory; edited by Japanese scholars, the volume traces thirteen influential scholars and spans over a century. It examines how theorists positioned outside international law's Western centre developed sophisticated frameworks to address tensions between Western modernity and their own experiences. The book's central contribution proposes 'conversation'-continuous engagement that respects differences between legal traditions-as an alternative to 'dialogue', which often reproduces existing hierarchies by assuming all perspectives can be reconciled. Through detailed intellectual biographies across six historical periods, contributors reveal how Japanese scholars strategically employed legal positivism, articulated transcivilizational perspectives, and developed concepts of normative multilateralism. Addressed at scholars of international law, legal theory, and comparative legal traditions, this volume demonstrates that the discipline's future requires genuinely reciprocal exchange where diverse perspectives can coexist productively.
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June 2015Mein Herz in deinem weiten Land
Als weiße Indianerin in den kanadischen Bergen
by Seven Deers, Sanna
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2026
David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer
Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott
by Anne Lake Prescott, Roger Kuin, William A. Oram
For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott's immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2024David, Donne and Thirsty Deer
Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott
by Anne Lake Prescott, Roger Kuin, William A. Oram
For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott's immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.
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September 2021Woodwalkers & Friends. Zwölf Geheimnisse
Das Special zur Bestseller-Reihe: Zwölf Kurzgeschichten aus der Welt der Woodwalkers
by Katja Brandis, Claudia Carls
Bühne frei für Holly, Brandon, Jeffrey und Co.: 12 Hintergrundgeschichten zu den beliebtesten Woodwalkers-Figuren Zwölf Geschichten aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zeigen dir die Welt der Woodwalkers, wie du sie noch nie gesehen hast. Begleite deine Lieblingscharaktere bei ihren Abenteuern abseits der Clearwater-High! Triste Weihnachtstage im Waisenhaus? Nicht mit Rothörchen Holly! Sie hat einen Plan für das schönste Fest aller Zeiten. Jeffrey muss seine Wolfsgestalt an der Menschenschule geheim halten. Ob er mit einer waghalsigen Mutprobe endlich erreichen kann, dass ihn seine Mitschüler akzeptieren? Wapiti-Wandlerin Lou hat schlechte Erfahrungen mit Raubtieren gemacht. Trotzdem kann sie nicht aufhören, an den Pumajungen Carag zu denken. Und Brandon? Während eines Urlaubs auf Hawaii wächst der schüchterne Bison-Wandler über sich hinaus. Eines haben alle gemeinsam: Für Gestaltwandler wird das Leben nie langweilig! Mit einzigartigen, noch nie gesehenen Illustrationen von Claudia Carls. Bisher erschienen sind: Woodwalkers, Staffel 1 Woodwalkers (1). Carags Verwandlung Woodwalkers (2). Gefährliche Freundschaft Woodwalkers (3). Hollys Geheimnis Woodwalkers (4). Fremde Wildnis Woodwalkers (5). Feindliche Spuren Woodwalkers (6). Tag der Rache Woodwalkers, Staffel 2 Woodwalkers - Die Rückkehr (1). Das Vermächtnis der Wandler Woodwalkers & Friends Woodwalkers & Friends. Katzige Gefährten Woodwalkers & Friends. Zwölf Geheimnisse Woodwalkers & Friends. Wilder Kater, weite Welt Seawalkers Seawalkers (1). Gefährliche Gestalten Seawalkers (2). Rettung für Shari Seawalkers (3). Wilde Wellen Seawalkers (4). Ein Riese des Meeres Seawalkers (5). Filmstars unter Wasser Seawalkers (6). Im Visier der Python Weitere Bücher sind in Vorbereitung. Gedruckt auf Umweltpapier und zertifiziert mit dem „Blauen Engel“. Alles über die Serie und viele Extras zum Buch unter www.woodwalkers.de
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July 2022So verfliegt die Wut im Nu
Mit praktischen Tipps für Eltern
by Katja Reider
That's How Anger Flies Away in a Flash About releasing anger and giving comfortThe little hedgehog is terribly angry! The sparrow has just sat down in hedgehog's little house and that belongs to the hedgehog alone! He rages and cries from all the anger. Fortunately, the other animals know what to do: Bear brings a pillow for him to punch, Deer stomps the anger into the ground and Mouse shows how to catch his breath again. So even the biggest anger is quickly gone.• Loving illustrations with practical tips, which immediately help with feelings of anger• Developed with psychological advice: Using rituals and rhymes to comfort and calm• Bestselling and innovative ’Ritual‘ concept: Over 55,000 copies sold of the series and over 200,000 copies gifted to German families by the Ministry of Education
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June 2012Geschichten aus Japan
by Hermann Hesse
»Das Japan, von welchem diese Geschichten erzählen, existiert heute nicht mehr. Die Ideale, auf welchen der Bau jener überaus kraftvollen, dabei so schönheitsfrohen Kultur errichtet war, sind heute zum Teil schon veraltet und vergessen, zum Teil bestehen sie noch als Reste der Vergangenheit, deren Macht täglich mehr schwindet. … Die Geschichten unsres Buches zeigen das alte, vergangene, schöne Japan, wie es einmal war, das Japan der adligen, kriegerischen, aristokratischen Ideale.« Hermann Hesse
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April 1988Denken in Japan
by Masao Maruyama, Wolfgang Seifert, Wolfgang Schamoni, Wolfgang Schamoni, Wolfgang Seifert, Wolfgang Schamoni
Die vorliegende Arbeit gilt in Japan seit ihrer Veröffentlichung im Jahre 1957 als eine der wichtigsten kritischen Untersuchungen der intellektuellen Struktur des modernen Japan und ist gleichzeitig selbst ein bedeutendes Dokument der japanischen Geistesgeschichte nach dem Kriege.
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The ArtsJanuary 2021Critical design in Japan
Material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde
by Ory Bartal
This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today. The practice communicates a form of visual and material protest drawing on the ideologies and critical theories of the 1960s and 1970s, notably feminism, body politics, the politics of identity, and ecological, anti-consumerist and anti-institutional critiques, as well as the concept of otherness. It also presents an encounter between two seemingly contradictory concepts: luxury and the avant-garde. The book challenges the definition of design as the production of unnecessary decorative and conceptual objects, and the characterisation of Japanese design in particular as beautiful, sublime or a product of 'Japanese culture'. In doing so it reveals the ways in which material and visual culture serve to voice protest and formulate a social critique.
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April 1989Im Schatten des Siegers: Japan
by Ulrich Menzel
Im August 1945 lag das japanische Kaiserreich am Boden zerstört und hatte keine andere Wahl, als sich in die (fast) bedingungslose Kapitulation zu fügen. 50 Jahre später, am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts, stand Japan im Zenit seines wirtschaftlichen Erfolges, und die USA, ebenso wie Europa, sah sich erneut der »japanischen Herausforderung« ausgesetzt. Wie war dieser welthistorisch so bemerkenswerte Aufstieg im Schatten des Siegers möglich? Was sind seine kulturellen, politischen und sozialen Grundlagen?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2022Understanding governance in contemporary Japan
by Masahiro Mogaki
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2025Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953
by Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, Bertrand Taithe, Raphaële Balu
This book offers a micro-global history of humanitarianism and medical care during the 'long' Second World War, which challenges the traditional and Eurocentric chronological boundaries of 1939/1945. It takes as its starting point the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which led to the progressive dislocation of the League of Nations, with the Japanese, German and Soviet departures in the 1930s. It ends with the termination of the Korean War in 1953, and the subsequent dismantlement of the first United Coalition and UN Peace enforcement operation. It considers the slow, messy and ambivalent transformation of humanitarian actors' relations to the suffering of distant others through a study of humanitarian encounters, practices, spaces and affects. Paying close attention to a variety of actors, such as French colonial doctors, Swiss ICRC delegates, Egyptian relief workers, Chinese-style physicians, Peruvian and Ecuadorian nurses or American member of the Unitarian Service Committee, the book provides a more holistic story of humanitarianism.
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April 2022Fritz, the Gorilla
Biography of a Fascinating Ape
by Jenny von Sperber
When Jenny von Sperber first met Fritz, the gorilla didn’t let her out of his sight. He was already over 50 years old then, but he was still extremely charismatic. One thing matters for the journalist: she wants to find out everything about Fritz’s life. Born in 1963, he was captured in the wild and came from Cameroon to Germany in 1966. At that time, apes were still regarded as a curiosity in zoos. When a ban was declared on the wild gorilla trade, Fritz was already a father of many youngsters. This fascinating gorilla-family saga not only recounts the eventful life of Fritz, but also shows the development in European zoos in handling wild animals. Nowadays, things have certainly improved. But there are still questions, for example, what does it do to us when we marvel at our closest relatives behind glass? And is it even still current to confine apes ... was it ever?
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017New frontiers
Imperialism's new communities in East Asia, 1842–1953
by Robert Bickers, Christian Henriot
In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-nineteenth century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and Korea. New identities were constructed, new modes of collaboration formed and new boundaries between the indigenous and foreign communities were literally and figuratively established. Newly available in paperback, this pioneering and comparative study of Western and Japanese imperialism examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the history and anthropology of imperialism, colonialism's culture and East Asian history, as well as contemporary Asian affairs.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2017
Asia in Western fiction
by Robin Winks
Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.
