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      • Sainted Media

        The Bongles are a brand new series of illustrated children's books delivering a green environmental message across various platforms.  The series includes animated audio ebooks, STEM interactive booklets, games and printed books. The Bongles series explores the world of the magical Bongle Planet with its colourful bouncy creatures and delivers an eco-friendly message presented in an offbeat and fun way.

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        September 2012

        Paris. Eine Liebe

        Erzählung

        by Urs Faes, Nanne Meyer

        Milde Septembertage in Paris: Nach fast dreißig Jahren kehrt Eric zurück in die Stadt, von der er einmal gehofft hatte, sie würde ihm die Erfüllung bringen. Statt dessen brachten ihn die Tage mit Claudine an den Rand der Verzweiflung – Claudine mit ihren hellen, fast weißblonden Haaren, die Hände in den Taschen ihres grünen Mantels vergraben. Jetzt scheint eine Wiederbegegnung möglich. Und es stellt sich die Frage, ob »einer nicht genauso aus dem besteht, was er nicht gelebt hat, wie aus dem, was durch Zufall seine Wirklichkeit geworden ist«. -- Mit Zeichnungen von Nanne Meyer.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2026

        Christ’s war

        Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian poetry, c.730-c.900 CE

        by Matthew Bryan Gillis

        Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the late ninth century during the Northmen's attacks. It argues that the Franks understood their wars to be holy when their soldiers were without sin and, therefore, were holy themselves. God heard their prayers as they begged for divine aid, and he helped them overcome and slaughter their foes. Therefore, the Carolingian vision of holy war differed from the pious, apocalyptic military pilgrimages of the subsequent Crusades. Latin poetry serves as an important source in this study for understanding holy war, including how poets dramatized glorious victories or horrifying defeats for their audiences. The book offers important insights into the religious nature of Frankish warfare, while also contributing a fresh and innovative perspective on medieval holy war overall.

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        May 2019

        Paris, links der Seine

        by Hanns-Josef Ortheil

        Hanns-Josef Ortheil durchstreift das alte »Paris, links der Seine« mit dem Blick eines Flaneurs von heute und erlebt seine verführerischen Winkel abseits von den touristischen Ecken auf intensive Weise neu.Seit Jahrhunderten haben die Straßen von Saint-Germain-des-Prés sowie die Terrains rund um das Quartier Latin Künstler, Musiker und Schriftsteller aus aller Welt in ihren Bann gezogen. Auf kleinem Raum entstand eine einzigartige, lebendige Atmosphäre, die vom intellektuellen Milieu der Pariser Universität ebenso lebte wie von den Salons, Ateliers, Studios und Cafés der künstlerischen Moderne. Sie ließ jenes für Paris typische Lebensgefühl eines melancholisch durchtränkten Glücks entstehen, das in den Pariser Chansons besungen wurde und das Ernest Hemingway in seinen Skizzen Paris – ein Fest fürs Leben beschrieben hat.

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        August 2023

        Paris

        Mein Leben

        by Hilton, Paris

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2021

        The Massacre at Paris

        By Christopher Marlowe

        by Martin White, Mathew R. Martin

        This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily shocking and intellectually gripping, the play's dramatic action spans a tumultuous two decades in French history to unfold for its audience the tragic consequences of religious fanaticism, power politics, and dynastic rivalry. Comprehensively introduced and containing full commentary notes, this edition opens up this frequently neglected but historically significant and dramatically powerful play to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the history of the massacre, the play's treatment of its sources, the play's dramatisation of trauma, and the play's exploration of notions of religious toleration.

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        June 1980

        Paris. Ein Städte-Lesebuch

        Deutsche Republikaner reisen

        by Karsten Witte, Karsten Witte

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2025

        The Massacre at Paris

        By Christopher Marlowe

        by Mathew R. Martin

        This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily shocking and intellectually gripping, the play's dramatic action spans a tumultuous two decades in French history to unfold for its audience the tragic consequences of religious fanaticism, power politics, and dynastic rivalry. Comprehensively introduced and containing full commentary notes, this edition opens up this frequently neglected but historically significant and dramatically powerful play to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the history of the massacre, the play's treatment of its sources, the play's dramatisation of trauma, and the play's exploration of notions of religious toleration.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2026

        Black socialities

        Urban resistance and the struggle beyond recognition in Paris

        by Vanessa Eileen Thompson

        From author: This is a cutting-edge exploration of black urban politics in Parisian racialized working class and working poor districts, the formation of abolition geography, and the possibilities of new forms of political blackness. In Black Socialities. Urban resistance and the struggle beyond recognition in Paris, Vanessa E. Thompson argues that black urban politics in the French banlieues are multi-racial and spatially grounded towards abolition. Based on a close engagement with urban black activist practices against racial imagery in the city, policing and state racism, and housing insecurity, she shows how radical anti-racism goes beyond struggles for recognition and unfolds alongside new formations of political blackness that is based on urban conviviality. This form of black politics has much to teach us in this current conjuncture of liberal anti-racism and state recognition politics.

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        The Arts
        December 2019

        Screening the Paris suburbs

        From the silent era to the 1990s

        by Philippe Met, Annie Fourcaut, Roland-François Lack, Jean-Louis Pautrot, Keith Reader, Margaret Flinn, Eric Bullot, Tristan Jean, Malcolm Turvey, Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck, Térésa Faucon, Philippe Met, Camille Canteux, Derek Schilling, Guillaume Soulez, David Vasse, Derek Schilling

        Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content. In the Paris suburbs they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions, from bourgeois villas and bucolic riverside cafés to post-war housing estates and postmodern new towns. For the first time in English, contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long film history, marked by such towering figures as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati and Jean-Luc Godard. Idyllic or menacing, expansive or claustrophobic, the suburb served divergent aesthetic and ideological programmes across the better part of a century. Themes central to French cultural modernity - class conflict, leisure, boredom and anti-authoritarianism - cut across the fifteen chapters.

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        May 1999

        Paris, Paris

        by Etel Adnan, Nicolaus Bornhorn

        Etel Adnan, Malerin und Schriftstellerin mit Wohnsitz in Beirut, San Francisco und Paris, beschreibt ihr Paris, das sie liebt wie keine andere Stadt. Ihr Paris ist auch das Paris von Baudelaire und Delacroix, Mallarmé und Picasso, Sartre und Djuna Barnes, das Paris der vietnamesischen und afrikanischen Einwanderer, der Revolutionäre und Bohemiens. Die gebildete und belesene Kosmopolitin nimmt uns mit zu einem Rundgang durch die Stadt, zeigt uns die schönsten Plätze, Parks, Cafés und Restaurants und klärt uns ganz en passant und mit einem sehr weiblichen Blick über Geschichte, Literatur, Kunst und politisches Geschehen in dieser Stadt auf.

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        The Arts
        April 2002

        The Paris jigsaw

        Internationalism and the city's stages

        by Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

        Paris has always exerted a magnetic force on artists; it has historically offered safety to those escaping oppressive regimes in Europe and farther afield. In recent years it has welcomed performers, artists and intellectuals from all over the world, offering strategies for the practice of theatre in a new Europe of ever-shifting boundaries. This book, once again available in paperback, examines the creation and development of communities of actors, directors, designers and playwrights in Paris over the past thirty years. It shows how the willingness of the city to welcome international influences has enriched its creative life. Many of the most important trends and new developments in the art of theatre have been the direct result of the creative combination of influences from all over the world. This study demonstrates how the pioneering work of Brook, Boal, Mnouchkine, Lecoq and many others has been able to draw on this vibrant, multi-cultural mix, in turn creating new work that has enriched theatre's potential to enlarge our thinking and our imagination. ;

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        November 1987

        Rayuela. Himmel und Hölle

        Roman

        by Julio Cortázar, Fritz Rudolf Fries

        „Der Stoff, aus dem Cortázar diesen Labyrinth-Traum von einem wundersamen und herrlich gewitzten Buch knetet, ist fast bieder und einfach: Ein Boheme-Zirkel im Paris der fünfziger Jahre, Schriftsteller, Künstler, verkrachte Genies aus verschiedener Herren Länder und deren Freundinnen; Gespräche über Kultur und Philosophie, Liebe und Jazz. Der ›Klub der Schlange‹ wird von dem Mate trinkenden Oliveira, einem Argentinier, und seiner Freundin ›Maga‹ dominiert. Sie kommt aus Uruguay; für den geistig gespaltenen, zynischen Freund ist sie so etwas wie die Unschuld des Lebens, sinnliche Identität. Aber er verliert sie (wie, warum, ja, das müssen Sie schon lesen). Der Klub zerfällt, Maga verschwindet, und Oliveira, von der Polizei bei einem öffentlichen Sexualakt mit einer Clocharde ertappt, wird ausgewiesen. Zurück in Buenos Aires, trifft er seinen alten Freund Traveler wieder, in dessen Frau imaginiert er sich sehnsüchtig seine Maga. Zuerst im Zirkus beschäftigt, treffen wir die drei zuletzt als Bedienstete und Wärter eines privaten Irrenhauses und den immer tiefer in seine Wünsche verstrickten Oliveira schließlich als Patienten, der sich von einer Fensterbrüstung stürzt ...

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2007

        Paris and the Commune 1871–78

        The politics of forgetting

        by Bertrand Taithe, Colette Wilson, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind-spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised aspects of the illustrated press, early photography and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city's turbulent past. ;

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        Social & cultural history
        October 2016

        Paris and the Commune 1871–78

        The politics of forgetting

        by Series edited by Bertrand Taithe, Colette Wilson, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones

        Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind-spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised aspects of the illustrated press, early photography and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city's turbulent past.

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        February 2021

        Paris denken – Penser Paris

        Deutsch-französische Annäherungen

        by Karlheinz Stierle

        In Paris kommt die Stadt zu Bewußtsein. Keine andere Stadt hat mit vergleichbarer Intensität versucht, ihre eigene Identität in der Literatur zu erfassen. In seinem neuen Buch analysiert Karlheinz Stierle neue Aspekte der Parisliteratur und schlägt dabei einen Bogen bis ins 21. Jahrhundert. Dabei geht es ihm auch um deutsch-französische Interferenzen. So macht er zum Beispiel Peter Handke als den Kolumbus der Pariser Banlieue aus, die dieser in seinem Roman Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht beschwört. Er fragt, ob Friedrich Schlegels Vorstellung einer grenzenlos wachsenden Universalpoesie ein Modell war für die Stadtvision Victor Hugos. Stierle erläutert, inwiefern die Begegnung mit Paris Rainer Maria Rilke erst eigentlich zu seiner eigenen dichterischen Sprache geführt hat. Und wie Walter Benjamin in seinem berühmten Passagenwerk die Hauptstadt des 19. Jahrhunderts entdeckte.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2017

        Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200–1300

        by John H. Arnold, Peter Biller

        Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200-1300 is an invaluable collection of primary sources in translation, aimed at students and academics alike. It provides a wide array of materials on both heresy (Cathars and Waldensians) and the persecution of heresy in medieval France. The book is divided into eight sections, each devoted to a different genre of source material. It contains substantial material pertaining to the setting up and practice of inquisitions into heretical wickedness, and a large number of translations from the registers of inquisition trials. Each source is introduced fully and is accompanied by references to useful modern commentaries. The study of heresy and inquisition has always aroused considerable scholarly debate; with this book, students and scholars can form their own interpretations of the key issues, from the texts written in the period itself.

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        September 2021

        Paul Valéry: Zur Ästhetik und Philosophie der Künste

        by Paul Valéry, Jürgen Schmidt-Radefeldt, Jürgen Schmidt-Radefeldt, Max Looser, Karl August Horst, Clemens Par, Carlo Schmidt, Achim Russer, Bernd Schwibs, Rainer Maria Rilke, Werner Zemp, Friedhelm Kemp

        Band 6 der Gesamtausgabe legt Valérys Schriften und Vorträge zur Ästhetik und Philosophie der Künste vor. Zu Beginn stehen die drei einflussreichen Essays zu Leonardo da Vinci, in denen Kunst und Wissenschaft, Erfindung und Erkenntnis ineinandergreifen, und die den interdisziplinären Geist Valérys vergegenwärtigen. Im Weiteren werden theoretische Grundfragen und Wirkungsweisen der Kunst verhandelt, von Architektur, Malerei, Musik bis hin zu Tanz. Es folgen kunstgeschichtliche Kommentare, u. a. zu Degas, Manet, Renoir und Morisot. In seinen Betrachtungen zur Kunst geht Valéry nicht zuletzt den wechselseitigen Wirkungen zwischen Werk und Künstler oder Betrachter nach: »Alle Künste leben von Worten. Jedes Kunstwerk verlangt, daß man ihm antworte.«

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