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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2014Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2020Rethinking settlement and integration
by Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2007Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1520
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small, Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony. ;
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Children's & YAHamster Humboldt. Small and Steady Wins the Race
by Meike Betz
This intrepid hamster plunges into every adventure with full cheeks! Humboldt is a detective, adventurer and – a hamster. His size doesn’t stop him from helping the people of Villy Village out of all sorts of fixes whenever he’s not helping his owner Babs and her daughter Elli in the post office. No problem is too big for him! Only his owner’s money worries leave him flummoxed. But then Babs and Elli win the lottery and are over the moon – until they receive an anonymous postcard. Humboldt’s life is suddenly in dire straits because the unknown blackmailer wants Babs and Elli’s lottery ticket – or he’s going to hurt Humboldt. When the police refuses to get to the bottom of the case, Humboldt decides to take matters into his own paws. He’s keen to put a stop to this lottery villain’s antics! HAMSTER HUMBOLDT. SMALL AND STEADY WINS THE RACE is a detective and adventure story full of animal-entertainment for girls and boys aged 8+.
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September 2019Save me from the Night
by Kira Mohn
After a terrible blow of fate throws her life into confusion, Seanna needs desperately to get away from it all. She’s come to the village of Castledunn in the hope of getting her life back in order. The wild countryside of Ireland’s west coast and the slow pace of rural life give her new energy. Her job behind the bar in the village’s only pub provides a comforting sense of routine. Then the pub changes hands, bought by the attractive, but stubborn Neall Kennan, who throws Seanna’s feelings into turmoil. Not only is she attracted to him, she’s also reminded of her own past. It’s more than Seanna can bear. 16+ years The second volume of a unique romance trilogy about three young women, a lighthouse and love. All titles can be read separately! Rousing characters and a fine dry humor For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Colleen Hoover! More than 60.000 copies of this series were sold!
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020The end of the small party?
Change UK and the challenges of parliamentary politics
by Louise Thompson
For a brief moment in 2019 Britain's politics looked like it might be transformed. Just when it seemed that the divisions within and across British political parties over Brexit could not get any more intense, 7 Labour and 3 Conservative MPs broke away to form The Independent Group (TIG) - later Change UK. This is the first book to explore the meteoric lifespan of that party, within the wider context of the experiences of other small political groupings in the House of Commons. Ultimately, it shows why the party failed and disbanded after just a few months. Timely and thoroughly researched, Louise Thompson's book takes us deep inside the struggles facing MPs who leave behind the comforts of the large political parties. Drawing on interviews with current and former politicians, it explores the practicalities of being a small party MP in the Commons. What challenges face you? Who can you turn to? And just how can you make an impact? Crisply written for the non-specialist reader, this fascinating book opens a window onto the perilous world of parliamentary politics.
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Business, Economics & LawFebruary 2022Latin America and international investment law
by Sufyan Droubi, Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo, Jean d'Aspremont, Sufyan Droubi, Iain Scobbie
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024Rethinking untouchability
The political thought of B. R. Ambedkar
by Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar's role and the concepts he used to champion untouchability as a political problem. Ambedkar's main objective was to comprehend the numerous avatars of untouchability in order to eradicate this practice. Ambedkar understood untouchability beyond aspects of ritual purity and pollution by stressing its complex nature and uncovering the political, historical, racial, spatial and emotional characteristics contained in this concept. Ambedkar believed the abolition of untouchability depended on a widespread alteration of India's political, economic and cultural systems. Ambedkar reframed the problem of untouchability by linking it to larger concepts floating in the political environment of late colonial India such as representation, slavery, race, the Indian village, internationalism and even the creation of Pakistan.
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Children's & YAThe Soccer Gang (4). A Strong Player For The Team
by Frauke Nahrgang/ Nikolai Renger
Even the best team can’t win if the defence is weak. And that’s not surprising, because Finn the attacker now has to play as a defender. The Soccer Gang urgently needs to get a boost! Of all people, it’s Gregor – who knows nothing whatsoever about football – who knows somebody: Leo, a defender, has moved to the town. Could Leo be the answer to the Soccer Gang’s problem?
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2023
Medieval women and urban justice
Commerce, crime and community in England, 1300–1500
by Teresa Phipps
This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns - Nottingham, Chester and Winchester - and their courts to bring to life the experiences of hundreds of women within the systems of local justice. Through comparison of the records of three towns, and of women's roles in different types of legal action, the book reveals the complex ways in which individual women's legal status could vary according to their marital status, different types of plea and the town that they lived in. At this lowest level of medieval law, women's status was malleable, making each woman's experience of justice unique.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2022Stories from small museums
by Fiona Candlin, Toby Butler, Jake Watts
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350–1560
by Mairi Cowan
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Children's & YAAugust 2021Das Dorf - Gestrandet auf der Smaragdinsel (Band 1)
by Karl Olsberg / Philipp Ach
The Villagers - Stranded on Monster Island (Vol.1) Loewe Wow! meets Minecraft In the village on the edge of the canyon, there is never a dull moment. Nightwalkers (zombies), bangers (creepers) and other dangers threaten the peace, but the villagers know how to defend themselves, however, they are not armed against the pranks of Nano, the son of the village protector Primo. Nano loves to play tricks on the villagers, which leads to many exciting adventures. But this time he takes it too far and causes chaos in the village: The snow golem he built devastates the entire village! To remain undiscovered and escape punishment, Nano and and his best friend Maffi hide in a boat that suddenly drifts out to sea without a rudder! The two are stranded on an island, which is not as deserted as it seems at first. Because when it gets dark, the familiar Minecraft monsters crawl out of the caves. Maffi and Nano must now find a way to escape the monsters and, of course, find their way back home. In the end, they succeed with the help of a stranger, but when they arrive in the village, no one believes what they have experienced. Everyone thinks the adventure they have had is just a fictional story. Exciting stories, independent from the Minecraft game: not only for fans! Illustrated in b/w with an eye-catching spot color, in the familiar Minecraft look Biannual publication of new adventures
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Children's & YAJanuary 2022Die Küstencrew - Das Gold der Walfänger
Ein interaktives Krimi-Abenteuer mit kniffligen Rätsel-Bildern
by Ocke Bandixen
Coast Crew (Vol. 1) - Whaler’s Gold An interactive Crime adventure with fiddly Quiz Illustrations On the rugged North Sea coast, just behind the dike, lies the sleepy little village of Breeksiel. Apart from a few tourists and seagulls, hardly anyone strays there. But appearances are deceptive: the sea washes great secrets, old legends and real crooks into the small coastal town. Solve exciting cases together with Jan, Rocco and Nele and help the three hobby detectives in their investigations! Watching the sunset from the harbor or strolling along the dike and searching the beach for treasures from the sea - Jan and Rocco can't imagine anything better. Together with Rocco's grandpa Hannes, they regularly bring their finds to the Klabauterbude, their secret hiding place in grandpa Hannes' workshop. When the two friends, together with Nele, one day come across a mysterious box in the slack water, a completely different wind suddenly blows in Breeksiel! Three dangerous crooks appear in the small coastal village, who want to get their hands on the box and seem to stop at nothing. Ose, Bernhard and Tolek carry weapons and are anything but harmless. What is the story behind this mysterious find? The three amateur detectives learn about the legend of the whalers: In former times the captured gold was stowed away in such boxes on the whalers' ships. The nasty guys know this too - a race across Breeksiel and against time takes place, in which the children are even held. But Jan, Rocco and Nele are able to arrest the crooks and solve the riddle of the gold in the box. This must be celebrated with a homemade dyke pizza before the next case awaits the coastal crew!
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2023
Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
Emotions, ethics, dreams
by Megan Leitch
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.
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July 2022Kleiner Rüssel, großer Tag
by Steve Small, Steve Small, Birte Spreng
In "Kleiner Rüssel, großer Tag" von Steve Small steht der kleine Elefant Theodor im Mittelpunkt, der voller Vorfreude seinen Geburtstag feiert und überzeugt ist, über Nacht gewachsen zu sein. Diese Überzeugung wird jedoch auf die Probe gestellt, als er feststellt, dass sein Geburtstagsgeschenk noch zu groß für ihn scheint. Ist Theodor etwa immer noch zu klein? In dieser herzerwärmenden Geschichte findet Theodor Trost und Verständnis bei seinem Großvater, der ihm zeigt, dass die Größe nicht darüber bestimmt, wer wir sind oder was wir erreichen können. Diese liebevolle Familiengeschichte spricht sowohl Kinder an, die es kaum erwarten können, groß zu sein, als auch Erwachsene, die sich manchmal wünschen, wieder klein zu sein. Steve Smalls Familienbilderbuch ist eine charmante Erzählung über das Erwachsenwerden, Selbstakzeptanz und die Bedeutung von familiärer Unterstützung. Es zeigt auf einfühlsame Weise, wie wichtig es ist, sich selbst zu akzeptieren und die eigene Größe – egal ob groß oder klein – zu schätzen. Mit humorvollen und kreativen Illustrationen vermittelt das Buch die Botschaft, dass jeder von uns einzigartig ist und dass das Großwerden sein eigenes Tempo hat. "Kleiner Rüssel, großer Tag" ist somit nicht nur eine Geschichte über das Älterwerden, sondern auch über die kleinen Momente des Glücks und der Anerkennung im Kreis der Familie. Berührende Geschichte über das Großwerden und die Bedeutung von familiärer Liebe und Unterstützung. Humorvolle und kreative Illustrationen von Steve Small, die Kinder ab 4 Jahren und Erwachsene gleichermaßen begeistern. Vermittelt wichtige Werte wie Selbstakzeptanz, Geduld und das Wertschätzen der eigenen Einzigartigkeit. Perfekt für Vorlesestunden, bietet Anlass für Gespräche zwischen Kindern und Eltern über Wachstum und Reife. Ein ideales Geschenk für alle Kinder, die sich darauf freuen, groß zu sein, und für Erwachsene, die die Welt gerne noch einmal aus der Perspektive eines Kindes erleben möchten. Erfolgsillustrator Steve Small liefert eine zugängliche und ansprechende Erzählung, die langfristig in Kinderbibliotheken Bestand haben wird.
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May 2021Mocked, Battled, Desired
With organic pioneer Ulrich Walter through five decades
by Heike Leitschuh
The small district town of Diepholz lies between Bremen, Oldenburg and Osnabrück, and no one could possibly describe it as “well-known”. Quite unlike the Lebensbaum company, which was founded here by Ulrich Walter in 1979. Those who eat mindfully will probably also be familiar with the coffees, teas and spices of this pioneering organic company, which frequently and repeatedly receives a range of awards for sustainability and now employs around 200 people. Heike Leitschuh draws a lifelike portrait of an entrepreneur of the organic founding generation who turned a small shop into a successful medium-sized company, played a key role in shaping the organic industry, and has offered perspectives for its future.
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March 2021Mit dir ist sogar Regen schön
by Steve Small, Steve Small
"Mit dir ist sogar Regen schön" von Steve Small ist eine herzerwärmende Erzählung über die unerwartete Freundschaft zwischen Ente, die Wasser eigentlich meidet, und einem Frosch, der eines stürmischen Abends bei ihr Schutz sucht. Trotz ihrer Unterschiede entdecken beide, wie bereichernd und farbenfroh das Leben gemeinsam sein kann. Durch gegenseitige Unterstützung und das Teilen von Alltagsmomenten – vom Lesen über das gemeinsame Kochen bis hin zu nächtlichen Gesprächen – wächst zwischen ihnen eine tiefe Verbundenheit. Die Geschichte greift das Thema Freundschaft auf eine einfühlsame und humorvolle Weise auf und zeigt, dass wahre Freunde das Leben selbst an regnerischen Tagen leuchten lassen. Durch die liebevollen Illustrationen und die lebendige Erzählweise wird die Botschaft, dass Unterschiede Menschen bereichern und zusammenführen können, auf charmante Art vermittelt. Dieses Buch ist nicht nur eine Freude für Kinder, sondern spricht mit seiner tiefen Botschaft auch Erwachsene an, was es zu einem idealen Vorlesebuch für die ganze Familie macht. Herzerwärmende Freundschaftsgeschichte: Eine rührende Erzählung über die Kraft der Freundschaft und die Akzeptanz von Unterschieden. Charmante Illustrationen: Liebevoll gezeichnete Bilder, die die Geschichte lebendig machen und die Fantasie anregen. Von Paul Maar übersetzt: Qualität und Lesespaß durch die Übersetzung eines renommierten Autors. Ideal für Familien: Perfekt geeignet zum gemeinsamen Lesen und als Einschlafhilfe für Kinder ab 4 Jahren. Lebensnahe Themen: Behandelt alltagsnahe Themen wie Freundschaft und Akzeptanz auf eine kindgerechte und ansprechende Weise.
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September 2023Ich bin mutig
by Steve Small, Steve Small, Birte Spreng
Mut ist, wenn du Angst hast und dich trotzdem traust. Schau dir die kuschelige Höhle an, in der der kleine Bär Arlo mit seiner Schwester Eva und seiner Mutter lebt: hach, wie warm und gemütlich. Da fühlt Arlo sich wohl und sicher. Doch der Winter ist fast vorbei, und es wird Zeit, ins Tal zu ziehen. Dabei würde Arlo die Dinge viel lieber so lassen, wie sie waren. Die neugierige Eva dagegen freut sich und läuft aufgeregt voran. Auf dem Weg muss die kleine Bärenfamilie einen verschneiten Berg überqueren. „Bleibt in meiner Nähe“, ruft Mama-Bär, denn plötzlich kommt ein heulender Schneesturm auf. Arlo merkt sofort, dass seine Schwester zu weit vorgelaufen ist, und er hört sie rufen! Arlo hat zwar Angst, aber er weiß genau, was er tun muss und läuft mutig los. Trau dich und begleite den kleinen ängstlichen, aber mutigen Bären Arlo in den Schneesturm. Dein Bilderbuch-Abenteuer mit dem kleinen Bären Arlo. Eine mitreißende Tiergeschichte zum Liebhaben und Mitfühlen Atmosphärisch illustriertes Kinderbuch über die Themen „Angst überwinden“ und „mutig sein“ Mutig statt übermütig: Das Gefühl für den Unterschied entwickelt nur, wer auch mal Angst haben darf Vom Autor Steve Small von „Ohne dich, das geht doch nicht!“ Bilderbuch für Kinder ab 4 Jahren
