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Material cultureJanuary 2002The study of dress history
by Lou Taylor
Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies. Raises a series of frank and fresh issues surrounding approaches to the history of dress, including analysis of the academic gender and subject divides that have riven it in the past. Comprehensive, engaging and trenchant, this will become the benchmark volume in the study of dress history.
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October 2025A Theory of Dreaming (A Study in Drowning, Band 2)
Träume aus Schatten und Sehnsucht - Historische Fantasy über die Macht der Mythen, Träume und Literatur - Mit Farbschnitt in der 1. Auflage
by Nadine Mannchen
JEDER TRAUM HAT EIN ENDE Effy hat es geschafft: Endlich darf sie als erste Frau in Llyr Literatur studieren! Doch die Ereignisse der letzten Zeit lasten schwer auf ihr. Zumal ihre männlichen Kommilitonen sie alles andere als herzlich willkommen heißen. Einzig Preston gibt ihr Halt – der jedoch selbst zu kämpfen hat. Vor allem, als seine Träume ihn plötzlich in eine versunkene Stadt entführen. Was hat das zu bedeuten? Und wieso verfolgen ihn die Visionen sogar in der Realität? In der Fortsetzung des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers A Study in Drowning zeigt Ava Reid, welche Macht Mythen, Träume und Literatur besitzen. Dabei behandelt sie wichtige Themen wie Mental Health, Feminismus, Nationalismus und Propaganda und verwebt sie gekonnt mit einer berührenden Romantasygeschichte.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2005Reading Walter Benjamin
Writing through the catastrophe
by Richard Lane
'Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. The book examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the 'Georgekreis'; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order. Chapters cover: 'Kulturpessimismus' and the new thinking; metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and 'Rausch'; history: surreal Messianism; Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'; Kant's experience; casting the work of art; disrupting textual order; and exile and the time of crisis. The book uses new translations of Benjamin's essays, fragments and his 'Arcades Project', and makes substantial reference to previously untranslated material. Lane's text allows the non-specialist entry into complex areas of critical theory, simultaneously offering original readings of Benjamin and twentieth-century arts and literature. ;
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The ArtsJune 2021Cinesonica
Sounding film and video
by Andy Birtwistle
Cinesonica: sounding film and video explores previously neglected and under-theorised aspects of film and video sound, drawing on detailed case study analyses of Hollywood cinema, art cinema, animated cartoons, and avant-garde film and video. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the soundtrack, and breaking away from the focus on narrative and signification that has tended to dominate the study of film sound, the book examines the way in which sound's materiality figures within audiovisual experience. Through a close examination of sound-image relations in a range of film and video forms and genres - including Warner Bros. cartoons, scratch video, and artist's film and video - Cinesonica recasts the film and video text as the meeting point of audio and visual materialities, cultural practices and perceptual activity. The interdisciplinary approach adopted by the book makes its discussion of sound of interest to those studying and working in a range of subject disciplines, including film studies, sound studies, sonic arts, cultural studies, music and art history.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2026Elites in civil society
A comparative perspective
by Niklas Altermark, Malin Arvidson, Jayeon Lee, Roberto Scaramuzzino
Where civil society is often seen as a driving force for equality, this book addresses a challenging topic: civil society elites. Drawing on a comprehensive study of Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, this ground-breaking research investigates the often-overlooked power structures within civil society. By combining elite studies with civil society research, the book uncovers how a distinct civil society elite emerges and how it interacts with leaders in politics and business. The findings reveal a fascinating paradox. While this elite may be a powerful engine for social change, its integration into wider power circles risks reproducing the very inequalities it seeks to dismantle. By exploring how this elite can become disconnected from its grassroots, the book provides essential insights into the future of civil society and its democratic promise.
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August 1995London Sketches
Londoner Skizzen
by Dickens, Charles; Raykowski, Harald
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017A history of the case study
by Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi, Alison Lewis
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February 2005Sketche für die Hochzeit
Heiteres,lustiges und komisches von der Partnersuche bis zum Eheleben
by Perlowski, Dieter
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January 1994Constituting Families: A Study in Governance
Association for Legal and Social Philosophy. 19th Annual Conference at Cardiff, April 1993
by Herausgegeben von Morgan, Derek; Herausgegeben von Douglas, Gillian
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November 2025Die Bildergedichte
Von Künstlern, Dichtern und Bösewichten, von Heiligen und Unheiligen
by Hans Traxler, Nikolaus Heidelbach
Über 100 Bildergedichte aus Hans Traxlers umfangreichem Werk stellt dieses Buch vor – von den berühmten, längst zu Klassikern gewordenen bis hin zu den neuen, in den letzten Jahren entstandenen. In der Bilderserie Die Dünen der Dänen tollt ein lustiges nacktes Völkchen über den Strand und aalt sich im Meer, auf anderen Bildern hat er das Leben diverser Heiliger beleuchtet. Und wir ahnen es schon, in was der heilige Bernhard von Bordeaux den edlen Tropfen seiner Heimat verwandelt – in klares Wasser! Während Antonius von Padua den Tieren predigt, darunter auch den Walen; die Hafengebühren allerdings sind astronomisch! Wir erleben Goethe auf seiner Italienreise – »Herr Goethe stand in Rom ständig unter Strom« – und Einsteins Liebe zum Geigenspiel, das von seiner Frau unterbunden wurde. Und er enthüllt, welche Zufälle den Gang der Geschichte nachhaltig beeinflusst haben. Mit scharfem Blick und großer Sympathie hält Hans Traxler die kleinen Schwächen seiner Figuren in wunderbar hintersinnigen Reimen und Bildern fest. Dabei entlarvt er auch lustvoll die Großen aus Kunst, Philosophie und Politik – und nicht zuletzt sich selbst.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland
by Timothy J. White
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