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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24
by Elisabeth Piller, Neville Wylie
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March 2024Mayfair House
Oben lädt Madam zum Ball der Saison, unten planen die Dienstmädchen den Raub des Jahrhunderts
by Alex Hay
London, Mayfair 1905: Die Villa der Familie de Vries ist die prachtvollste auf der Park Lane, außen weißer Marmor, innen kostbare Möbel, funkelnde Kronleuchter, Kristallschalen und edle Kunstgegenstände, Silber und Gold glänzen um die Wette. Es ist Mrs Kings ganzer Stolz, für die exzellente Haushaltsführung der noblen Residenz zu sorgen – bis sie beim Tod des Hausherrn nach Jahren treuer Dienste kurzerhand entlassen wird. Doch Mrs King denkt gar nicht daran, sich der Willkür der Erbin de Vries zu fügen. Sie will nur eins – Gerechtigkeit. Mit einer bunten Truppe von Komplizinnen plant sie den Coup ihres Lebens: In der Nacht des großen Kostümballs werden sie unter den Augen der vornehmen Gäste das Haus bis auf den letzten Silberlöffel ausräumen. Und während sich im Obergeschoss die High Society amüsiert, beginnt ein Stockwerk tiefer der kühnste Raubüberfall, den London je gesehen hat … Alex Hay erzählt in diesem Heist-Roman voller Eleganz und Esprit die Geschichte eines atemberaubenden Rachefeldzugs und einer schillernden Gruppe Frauen, die sich nehmen, was ihnen zusteht.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020The Red Cross Movement
by Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer, James Crossland, Davide Rodogno, Jon Arrizabalaga, Julia Marzoner, Caroline Reeves, Branden Little, Margaret Tennant, Sarah Glassford, Rebecca Gill, Kerrie Holloway, Leo van Bergen, Richard Slade, Francisco Javier Martinez, Yoshiya Makita, Rosemary Wall, Eldrid Mageli, Bertrand Taithe
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March 2025Furchtlose Federviecher (2). Schlimmer Fall im Hühnerstall
Die stark illustrierte, humorvoll-witzige Fortsetzung der Arena-Fun-Reihe für Kinder ab 8 Jahren
by Alex Gross, Claudia Gotthardt
Flattert schnell los, denn die schrägsten Hühner aller Zeiten sind hier! Unglaublich witzig illustriert für alle Kinder ab 8 Jahren! Die Hühner-Gäng (Superbrain Holly, Karate-Huhn-Henriette, Spionage-Küken Klein Hilde und natürlich Hahn Hayo) möchte ein ruhiges Leben in ihrem schönen, gemütlichen Rotzbach verbringen, nachdem alle wieder glücklich sind. Doch dann schlägt kurz nach dem jährlichen Kostümfest plötzlich Hofhund Albert Alarm: Kater Katastrophe wurde von seinem Besitzer ins Tierheim gebracht! Angeblich, weil er die teure Vase kaputt gemacht haben soll … So ein Käse! Katastrophe hält sich, wie jedes Tier in Rotzbach weiß, fern von jedem Porzellan, damit es keine Katerstrophe gibt … Da verschwindet noch dazu Schmuck in Rotzbach. Hayo & Co. sind sich sicher: Ein übler Schurke steckt dahinter! Oder vielleicht Waschbär Bill? Der hat die Hühner nämlich angelogen – er kommt gar nicht aus Hollywood! Sie sind fest entschlossen, die Wahrheit herauszufinden, und geraten dabei in die Hände der fiesesten Viecher überhaupt … Mit viel Liebe zum Detail, Witz und skurrilen Situationen: Das Duo Alex Gross und Claudia Gotthardt begeistert Groß und Klein! **Die Arena-Fun-Bücher** Altersübergreifende Geschichten Für alle von 8-11 Jahren Ansprechendes Text-Bild-Leseerlebnis Kurze Kapitel, überschaubare Textmenge Fördert die Lesebegeisterung und Lesekompetenz Beschert schnell Erfolgserlebnisse Weitere Bücher in der Reihe Arena Fun: Donnie & Jan – Ziemlich beste Brüder (1). Angriff der Gangster-Kühe von Sabine ZettDonnie & Jan – Ziemlich beste Brüder (2). Party-Hotspot Hühnerstall von Sabine ZettOzeanis (1). Mit Karacho in die Tiefe von Anna Ruhe und Max MeinzoldOzeanis (2). Wettlauf durch die Brandung von Anna Ruhe und Max MeinzoldOzeanis (3). Im Turbogang auf Tauchmission von Anna Ruhe und Max MeinzoldFurchtlose Federviecher (1). Alarm auf der Hühnerfarm
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The ArtsMarch 2026Abnormal peripheries
Slovak and Czech performance art in the 1960s and 70s
by Sam Cermak
This book traces an early history of performance art from the former Czechoslovakia, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of the Prague Spring and the subsequent policy of Normalization that brought on cultural censorship, prosecution, and state violence against artists. The book draws on Czech and Slovak scholarship as well as primary research in archives, interviews, and fieldwork to dispel misreadings of visual and cultural idioms in pre-existing Anglophone scholarship about the region. Although the former Soviet Bloc is often equated with repression and lack of experimental art in public spaces, performance artists within the former Socialist Czechoslovakia often used public, semi-public and clandestine spheres to create their performances. By analysing both works of established artists such as Aktual, Alex Mlynárcik, Petr Stembera, Jan Mlcoch, as well as under-theorised practitioners including Luba Lauffová, Karel Miler, Temporary Society of Intense Living, and Crusaders School of Pure Humour with no Joke, this book analyses how performance can survive and sometimes even thrive on the background of a politically oppressive regime. Cermak tells a unique story of localised resistance to a monolithic public sphere through artistic intervention, a closely knit community, artistic exchange, and agonistic reframing of socialism as a philosophy rather than state ideology.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017
Travellers in Africa
British travelogues, 1850-1900
by Timothy Youngs
Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
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June 2012Stanley Cavell
Philosophy, literature and criticism
by James Loxley
Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature, and criticism is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the celebrated philosophical work of Stanley Cavell and the discipline of literary criticism. In this volume, the editors have assembled an impressive range of interlocutors who set out to explore the shape and substance of Stanley Cavell's persistent acknowledgement of the literary as a category in which, and through which, philosophical work can be undertaken. A number of essays address his engagements with modernism, tragedy, and romanticism, while others consider Cavell's own aesthetic modes as a writer. Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature, and criticism will be of interest to all those who are concerned with the ways in which the reading of literature, and the practice of philosophy, might continue both to influence each other across disciplinary boundaries, and to challenge the internal topographies of those disciplines. ;
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September 2005Alex, Dafi und ich
Roman über die Freundschaft
by Almagor, Gila / Übersetzt von Mirjam, Pressler
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Children's & YASilver Flood (1). The Mystery of Ray´s Rock
by Alex Falkner/ Torben Weit
The seven children are completely cut off from civilisation, mobile phones don’t work anymore and there’s no sign of help. Strange things happen on the island. Plants and animals grow unnaturally fast, their supplies are raided ... And as other groups of school children emerge, a life and death race begins for Eddie, Milla and their classmates to be rescued from the island. The first instalment of the ‘Silver Flood’ duology: a dangerous adventure with exciting plot twists and scare-factor. For all readers of survival and adventure stories aged 10+. Fast-paced reading for boys and girls, for outdoor kids and all those on their way! The final volume 2, GONE MISSING ON RAY’S ROCK, will be published on 7th April 2020!
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June 2024Dark Scar
A psychological Thriller. Dr. Evelin Wolf and Alex Gutenberg 2
by Roxann Hill, Paul Wagle, Rebecca Steinberg, John Julian, Nicholas Mockridge, Alexios Saskalidis
Death lurks in the shadows Who are you? Hamburg Criminal Psychologist Dr. Evelin Wolf wonders as she examines the severely disturbed homeless man with the conspicuous scar across his face. The extremely aggressive man with no memory or identity is alleged to have committed a brutal murder. But Evelin and Assistant District Attorney Alex Gutenberg doubt his guilt and suspect there is something more behind the supposedly crystal-clear case. Shortly thereafter, Hamburg is shaken by a series of murders unparalleled in cruelty and sadism. The perverted killer draws a bloody trail across the Hanseatic city and links it with a clear message to Alex and Evelin: Revenge. Alex and Evelin work feverishly to solve both cases. In the process, they make a fatal mistake. And the killer exploits it mercilessly…
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May 2024Moonslaughter
A psychological Thriller. Dr. Evelin Wolf and Alex Gutenberg 1
by Roxann Hill, Paul Wagle, Rebecca Steinberg, John Julian, Nicholas Mockridge, LiveLive Media GmbH, Torsten Schwiemann, Alexios Saskalidis
Some deserve to live. Others deserve to die. A lunar eclipse hovers above Hamburg and bathes houses and streets in an unearthly light. In the exclusive district of Blankenese, four men are brutally murdered in the basement of a villa. Only the granddaughter of the owner survives the bloody massacre. Severely traumatized and completely listless, she is found sitting in the middle of the corpses. She cannot remember anything. Assistant District Attorney Alex Gutenberg, who has to struggle with a number of personal issues himself, asks the criminal psychologist Dr. Evelin Wolf for support. When Evelin succeeds in penetrating the buried memories of the key witness piece by piece, she and Alex begin to disclose not only the motives for the massacre, but also the unimaginable extent of cruelty and depravity behind it. And Alex suddenly finds himself confronted with his own guilt-ridden past...
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April 2005Im Reich des Goldenen Drachen
Roman
by Isabel Allende, Svenja Becker
Wer hätte schon erwartet, daß sich in dem friedlichen Reich des Goldenen Drachen, in das es die Reiseschriftstellerin Kate, ihren Enkel Alex und dessen Freundin Nadia diesmal zieht, die Ereignisse auf einmal zu überstürzen beginnen? Denn Alex und Nadia haben sich in den Kopf gesetzt, einer internationalen Verbrecherbande das Handwerk zu legen, die den Raub des Goldenen Drachen plant, der Statue, die durch ihre Weissagungen den Königen des Reiches jahrhundertelang geholfen hat, Unheil abzuwehren. Und dabei geraten sie in so manches Abenteuer …Wie schon in ihrem Bestseller Die Stadt der wilden Götter taucht man nur zu gerne ein in eine fremde, mystische Welt, die Isabel Allende in diesem schwungvollen Abenteuerroman einfühlsam und gleichzeitig humorvoll zu schildern weiß.
