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April 2007Über Moral
by David Hume, Theodor Lipps, Herlinde Pauer-Studer
Die neue Reihe Suhrkamp Studienbibliothek ist ideal als erste Orientierung für Theorieeinsteiger und schafft eine fundierte Grundlage für Lektürekurse an Schulen und Universitäten.
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March 2024FamilyFlow. Ab ins Grüne!
30 x Entspannen & Entdecken in der Natur für die ganze Familie
by Mareike Gohla, Viktoria Heyn, Martina Stuhlberger
Natur erleben mit Kindern Raus ins Grüne mit der ganzen Familie! Diese hochwertige Kartenbox für Kinder ab 3 Jahren ist bis prall gefüllt mit jeder Menge Draußenzeit. Vom Regenbogensammeln in den Farben der Natur über spannende Tier- und Pflanzen-Challenges bis hin zum gemeinsamen Outdoor-Yoga: Die 30 Inspirationen für Auszeiten im Grünen lassen Groß und Klein durchatmen und die Natur in den Familienalltag einziehen. Die hochwertige Box enthält 30 stabile Karten, die sich ganz bequem überall hin mitnehmen lassen. Ein inspirierendes Produkt für gemeinsame Rituale zum Entschleunigen und Entspannen. Ab ins Grüne: 30 Ideen zum Entspannen, Entdecken und Erforschen Spiel und Spaß im Freien: 30 originelle Ideen für Familien mit Kindern ab 3 Jahren. Natur im Familienalltag: Von Outdoor-Yoga bis hin zu Tier- und Pflanzen-Challenges - die Karten bieten Spaß und Spannung für Groß und Klein. Hochwertig ausgestattet: Praktische Kartenbox mit stabilen Karten, die in jede Tasche und in jeden Rucksack passt. Beim Picknick, im Park oder im Wald: Gemeinsame Aktivitäten in der Natur bringen Familien näher zusammen. Ab in die Natur mit der praktischen Kartenbox! Die 30 stabilen Karten bieten spannende Draußen-Aktivitäten für Kinder ab 3 Jahren - vom Regenbogensammeln bis zu Outdoor-Yoga. Ein inspirierendes Produkt für entspannte Familienmomente im Grünen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2023Critical theory and human rights
From compassion to coercion
by David McGrogan
This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2026
Latin America and international investment law
A mosaic of resistance
by Sufyan Droubi, Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo
Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law. While some governments and non-state actors have remained true to the Latin American tradition of resistance towards the international investment law regime, other governments and actors have sought to accommodate said regime in the region. Consequently, a profusion of theories and doctrines, too often embedded in clashing narratives, has emerged. In Latin America, the practice of international investment law is the vivid amalgamation of the practice of governments sometimes resisting and sometimes welcoming mainstream approaches; the practice of lawyers assisting foreign investors from outside and within the region; and the practice of civil society, indigenous peoples and other actors in their struggle for human rights and sustainable development. Latin America and international investment law describes the complex roles that governments have played vis-à-vis foreign investors and investments; the refreshing but clashing forces that international organizations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples have brought to the field; and the contribution that Latin America has made to the development of the theory and practice of international investment law, notably in fields in which the Latin American experience has been traumatic: human rights and sustainable development. Latin American scholars have been contributing to the theory of international investment law for over a century; resting on the shoulders of true giants, this volume aims at pushing this contribution a little further.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Carol Reed
by Peter William Evans
Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis of twenty films, both acknowledged masterpieces and lesser-known works. Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others. Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!.
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January 2023Leselöwen 3. Klasse - Dem Autoknacker auf der Spur
Die Nr. 1 für den Leseerfolg - Mit Leselernschrift ABeZeh - Lesespaß für Kinder ab 8 Jahren
by Anni Möwenthal, Philipp Ach
Die neuen Leselöwen für die 3. Klasse richten sich an ältere Kinder, die sich mit dem Lesen noch schwertun. Spannende Geschichten treffen hier auf coole Illustrationen und ein innovatives Layout. Das motiviert und sorgt für extraviel Lesespaß. Johnny ist ratlos. Auf dem Schulhof seiner Schule werden Autos aufgebrochen und daraus Dinge gestohlen! Und nicht nur das: In den Autos finden sich immer Gegenstände, die ihm gehören: sein Füller, seine Mütze … aber er hat damit nichts zu tun! Die Lehrer und seine Pflegeeltern sind keine große Hilfe. Im Gegenteil, die glauben, dass er das war! Was soll er bloß tun? Zum Glück hilft ihm Samira, ein Mädchen, das auf die benachbarte Grundschule geht. Samira kennt sich aus! Sie weiß, dass Detektive mit Fingerabdruck-Pulver arbeiten, und ist überhaupt richtig klug. Gemeinsam machen sie sich auf die Suche nach dem Autoknacker und versuchen, Johnnys Unschuld zu beweisen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World, c. 650-c. 1450
by Janet Hamilton, Bernard Hamilton
Christian dualism originated in the reign of Constans II (641-68). It was a popular religion, which shared with orthodoxy an acceptance of scriptual authority and apostolic tradition and held a sacramental doctrine of salvation, but understood all these in a radically different way to the Orthodox Church. One of the differences was the strong part demonology played in the belief system. This text traces, through original sources, the origins of dualist Christianity throughout the Byzantine Empire, focusing on the Paulician movement in Armenia and Bogomilism in Bulgaria. It presents not only the theological texts, but puts the movements into their social and political context.
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Children's & YAWild Claws (3). A Target for the Sharks
by Max Held/ Timo Grubing
While diving offshore, Logan, Charlotte and Jack discover a shipwreck. Very interesting – but extremely dangerous. Because while the friends are examining it, they are attacked by a shark! Then more and more sharks approach and circle the wreck, as if they are watching over it. What lies inside the sunken ship, and what secret is being concealed by the underwater explorer Thornton, who is staying as a guest at the Wild Claws sanctuary? When Logan dives again, the sharks attack and Logan is trapped in the wreck. His air supply is running short, and time is racing by. Can Jack and Charlotte rescue him in time?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2026Migration and social policy in a changing world
Histories, challenges and dilemmas
by Bryan Fanning
Migration and social policy in a changing world bridges the generally separate fields of social policy and migration studies. This book traces social policy responses to migration from the Industrial Revolution to today's era of globalisation and large-scale migration. Through case studies from across the globe, the book explores key themes including rural-urban migration, social citizenship, welfare internationalism and diasporic care systems. It examines how migrants are included in or excluded from social citizenship in host societies, and how they become providers of welfare services such as health and social care. Moving beyond a methodological nationalist focus, the book investigates migrant incorporation into welfare states through family networks, faith communities, and other informal welfare structures. It combines migrants' experiences with host societies' immigration politics, institutional perspectives and policies to present a comprehensive analysis of the migration-welfare relationship. This volume fills a gap in academic literature and offers policymakers, practitioners and scholars a framework for understanding the interplay between migration and social policy in our changing world.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2021
A precarious equilibrium
Human rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet policy
by Umberto Tulli
Human rights and détente inextricably intertwined during Carter's years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for détente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of détente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.
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July 2022Grummeln, weinen, lachen – was kleine Monster so machen
Soundbuch für Kinder ab 3 Jahren mit lustigen Monstern und ihren Gefühlen
by Susanne Böse, Christine Faust
In diesem frechen Soundbuch für Kinder ab 3 Jahren zeigen lustige Monster, wie die Gefühle Angst, Wut, Langeweile und Glück klingen können. Was ist denn hier los? Wuseli gähnt vor Langeweile, Stierchen faucht vor Wut und Zwicki bibbert vor Angst. Die drei Monster lassen ihren Gefühlen freien Lauf und machen dabei die wildesten Geräusche. Man muss nur auf den Knopf drücken und schon geht es los! Zum Glück sind die monstermäßigen Freunde am Schluss alle wieder gut gelaunt: „Schon schneiden die drei die lustigsten Grimassen und machen einen richtigen Monsterlärm. Denn so ist das mit Freunden: Sie halten zusammen. Sie helfen sich. Und sie haben ganz viel Spaß. Jappadappadu – So fri-fra-fröhlich klingt es, wenn sich alle freuen!“
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2025A grand strategy of peace
Britain and the creation of the United Nations Organization, 1939-1945
by Andrew Ehrhardt
A grand strategy of peace is the first detailed account of Britain's role in the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War. As a work of traditional diplomatic history that brings in elements of intellectual history, the book describes how British officials, diplomats, politicians, and writers - previously seen to be secondary actors to the United States in this period - thought about, planned for, and helped to establish a future international order. While in the present day, many scholars and analysts have returned to the origins of the post- 1945 international system, this book offers an exhaustive account of how the statesmen and more importantly, the officials working below the statesmen, actually conceived of and worked to establish a post-war world order.
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September 2023Mein lustiger Bastelspaß zum Ausschneiden, Malen und Kleben. Weihnachten
20 weihnachtliche Bastelprojekte, für Kinder ab 3 Jahren
by Silke Reimers, Silke Reimers
20 weihnachtliche Bastel-Projekte: Ausschneiden, malen und kleben für Kinder ab 3 Jahren. Einfach ein Lieblingsbild aussuchen, die kleinen Motive entlang der extradicken Linien ausschneiden, bunt anmalen und auf das Lieblingsbild kleben - fertig ist das Bastelwerk! Die einzelnen Seiten können kinderleicht aus dem Block herausgetrennt werden. Das erleichtert das Basteln und die Bilder können aufgehängt oder verschenkt werden. So sammeln Kinder ab 3 Jahren erste Erfahrungen mit Schere, Stift und Kleber und am Ende winkt der Scherenführschein! Ideal als Geschenk für Kindergartenkinder: zum Nikolaus, für Weihnachten oder einfach so. Weitere Titel in der Reihe:Mein lustiger Bastelspaß zum Ausschneiden, Malen und Kleben (978-3-401- 71917-7)Mein lustiger Bastelspaß zum Ausschneiden, Malen und Kleben. Tiere (978-3-401- 71918-4)Mein lustiger Bastelspaß zum Ausschneiden, Malen und Kleben. Ostern (978-3-401-71919-1)
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May 2021On the Amazement of the World
(Im-)Possibilities of science
by Ernst Peter Fischer
The current debate on the corona virus shows that knowledge, and with that science, plays a central role in the struggle to preserve humanity. Knowledge provides opportunities to influence the world, for better or worse. In times when emotions and appeals to baser instincts often triumph over reason and humanity, Ernst Peter Fischer reminds us of the goal of science that has been pursued since the Enlightenment: “to facilitate the conditions of human existence”. In his new book, the bestselling author takes us on an instructive, varied and enjoyable journey through the history of knowledge and science.
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February 2023FamilyFlow. Schlaf ein wie dein Lieblingstier
Einschlafübungen für eine ruhige Nacht
by Daniela Heidtmann, Daniela Heidtmann
Schlaf ein und durch wie ein Murmeltier. Ich bin klein, ich schlaf ein – und durch! Fantasiereisen, Übungen zur Körperwahrnehmung, Atemübungen, Streichel- und Massageelemente: Einschlafroutinen helfen Kindern dabei, schneller einzuschlafen und häufiger durchzuschlafen. Verpackt in kurze Geschichten, die von verschiedenen Lieblingstieren erzählen, sind sie ein ideales Einschlafritual. Vor allem in Kombination mit der beruhigenden Musik sind sie so konzipiert, dass Kinder ganzheitlich entspannen. Gute Geschichte, gute Übung, gute Nacht! - Schneller einschlafen und häufiger durchschlafen mit Achtsamkeits-Übungen. - Kleine Geschichten mit Entspannungsübungen für Kinder ab 3 Jahren. - Mental und physisch die beste Vorbereitung auf eine ruhige Nacht.
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2022aporello: Human Parasites
by Christine Bender-Leitzig, Dr. Reiner Pospischil
Infestation with parasites usually causes revulsion in those affected and many infections are kept secret through shame. In recent times there has also been a rise in non-native parasites, which often remain undetected. This book gives an overview of the most significant human parasites as well as their - prevalence - symptoms - treatment possibilities. The text is accompanied by illustrations that help when giving everyday advice. Practical icons show at a glance when, for example, the authorities must be notified and what special things need to be considered. Highly concentrated knowledge in an instant? That’s aporello!
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2021Critical theory and human rights
by David McGrogan, Darrow Schecter
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2020A history of humanitarianism, 1755–1989
In the name of others
by Silvia Salvatici
The book traces the history of international humanitarianism from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. It is based on an extensive survey of the international literature and is retold in an original narrative that relies on a close examination of the sources. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long history unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. In terms of its contents, narrative style, interpretative approach the book is aimed at a large and diverse public including: scholars who are studying and teaching humanitarianism; students who need to learn about humanitarianism as part of their training or research; operators and volunteers who are engaged in the field; non-specialist readers who are interested in the topic because of its relevance to current events.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026Negotiating identity conflicts in a fragmenting world order
by Paul Willem Meerts, Mark Anstey
At every level of human interaction new levels of identity-based tension are in evidence. Contributors to this book explore facets of fragmentation processes within systems of state and interstate organisation, how they influence the use of negotiation, and how negotiation might be used to effect renewed coherence. Following Anstey's (Ch1) introductory chapter framing the nature and shape of fragmentation dynamics, Zartman (Ch 2) argues that the use of negotiation as a process of conflict resolution is deeply shaped by identity groups whose internal coherence is dependent on sustaining a negative identity of others. International relations are no longer solely the realm of experienced diplomats but are shaped as Meerts (Ch3) points out by politicians seeking to be responsive to voting publics rather than wider concerns. Anstey digs into problems of fragmentation (Ch. 4) and Troitskiy (Ch 5) points out how a reluctant acceptance of the power of 'the other' can lead to a form of strategic stability in relations. Anstey and Meerts (Ch 6) point out in their analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian case as an identity conflict turned very bad. Guggenbuhl (Ch 7 ) reveals how structures and processes have been designed within the EU to prevent, contain and regulate conflicts to limit risks of confrontation and fragmentation. Schuessler (Ch 8) to advocates a shift away from a template or roadmap approach to EU membership to a cohesion based on non-dominance. There is still a strong desire on the part of some states, like Northern Macedonia, to become EU members, as reflected in Manton's (Ch 9). Paula Garzon and Frans Schram explain the success of the Colombia Peace Negotiations (Ch 10), while Odigie and da Rocha (Ch 11) analyse the struggle faced by ECOWAS to influence coup leaders in Mali to return to constitutional government and changes of government by constitutional means. Liang (Ch12) discusses how the internet as the modern vehicle of inter-state, inter-group and interpersonal communication has become weaponised. In Ch 13 Anstey draws some lessons from contributions to the compilation.
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January 2024Die kleine Eule zieht um
by Susanne Weber, Tanja Jacobs
Ein Umzug steht an! Die kleine Eule sucht ein neues Zuhause. Eines Morgens wacht die kleine Eule auf und bemerkt, dass ihr Nest ganz schön klein geworden ist. Außerdem schwankt der Baum so komisch. Ziemlich schnell wird Familie Eule klar, dass sie umziehen muss. Der kleinen Eule gefällt das ganz und gar nicht, liebt sie doch ihr Nestchen mit der Haselmaus als Nachbarin. Aber der Baum ist einfach schon zu morsch und kein sicherer Ort mehr für die Eule. Zum Glück verrät ihr die Haselmaus ein Geheimnis: Da wo deine Lieben sind, wirst auch du dich wohlfühlen. Mit diesem Wissen und der Hilfe von ihren Freunden fällt der kleinen Eule der Umzug viel leichter. Als sie dann auch noch alle Freunde im neuen Nest besuchen, merkt die kleine Eule: Umziehen ist eigentlich doch was Tolles! Neues Nest, neues Glück: Die kleine Eule zieht um. Du wünschst dir eine längere Geschichte mit der kleinen Eule? Hier ist sie: das erste Vorlesebuch für alle Fans der kleinen Eule. Genau wie die kleine Eule lernen Kinder hier: Hab keine Angst vor Veränderungen wie einem Umzug! Fröhliche Reime von Susanne Weber machen Mut, vermitteln ein schwieriges Thema kindgerecht und verleihen ihm Leichtigkeit. Zum Vorlesen für Kinder ab 3 Jahren – herzerwärmendes Happy End inklusive.
