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January 1995Krankhafte Ängste
Selbsthilfe bei Phobien
by Anneese, Cor; Pol, Tino / Niederländisch George, Susanne
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018David and Bathsheba
By George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin, David Bevington
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022David and Bathsheba
George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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The ArtsJune 2002American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr
by Philip Davies, Paul Wells
Covers a crucial two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington DC were at their strongest.. The period is 'book-ended' by the mighty political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton.. Covers a period in which movies have become targets of political rhetoric of 'family values'.. Essays examine cinematic views of key American political institutions - the presidency and electoral process, politically significant places such as New York City and the American South, the promotion of major issues like gender, family and race. This is a subject which has gained new significance in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC, which have changed both the political climate, and the priorities of the movie industry. ;
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July 2006Shaw für Boshafte
by George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Kluge, Thomas Kluge
Für Liebhaber des boshaften Humors: George Bernard Shaw. »Die Beziehung des Vorgesetzten zum Untergebenen schließt gute Manieren aus.«
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The ArtsOctober 20174 saints in 3 acts
A snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s
by Patricia Allmer, John Sears
Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson was a major avant-garde phenomenon of the 1930s, an experimental opera that nonetheless achieved remarkable popular success. Photography was a key element of that success, but its complex roles in the construction, representation and dissemination of the opera have hitherto received little critical attention. The photographic recording of the all-African American cast in particular affords a unique insight into the complexities of Four Saints in relation to the Harlem Renaissance and the New York avant-gardes of the time. This book, published in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, London, presents a wide selection of photographs of the cast, performances, and other material - many images reproduced for the first time - alongside essays by an international range of scholars exploring different aspects of the opera, including dance, fashion, music, and avant-garde writing, as well as photography.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2025Criminality, political power and conflict
Critical perspectives
by José Antonio Gutiérrez Danton, Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
In the aftermath of the greed vs. grievance debate and the new wars paradigm, the focus of conflict studies shifted decisively to understanding "predatory" behaviours as the raison d'etre of contemporary conflict. Conflict was viewed as a continuum in which the more you engage in criminal behaviour, the less political you are.This approach has been robustly criticised over the past 15 years; however, in the process, we have been left with unsuitable concepts to handle the complex interactions between civil war, political power and criminality. The departure point here is the understanding of politics and criminality as two historically differentiated domains of human activity. Different, but interrelated, often co-constitutive and overlapping. Here, we empirically and theoretically explore their interactions, connections, and convergences, not focusing solely on irregular actors, thus bringing back the State and elites into this debate.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2026Massacres in Early Modern Drama
by Georgina Lucas
Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of massacres, and attests to their brutally diverse stage representations. Anchored by the contention that the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris (1572) was instrumental to early modern understandings of massacre, the book uses this atrocity, and its most famous dramatic depiction - Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris - as a hook to explore larger concerns about massacre in plays by Robert Greene, George Chapman, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare. Thus, Massacres in Early Modern Drama considers how early modern drama forms part of a continual cultural process of trying to piece together the contentious and traumatic phenomenon of massacre.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2023David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
by Nicholas Royle
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2021Revolutionising politics
by Paul D. Halliday, Eleanor Hubbard, Scott Sowerby, Jason Peacey
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The ArtsJanuary 2019The war that won't die
The Spanish Civil War in cinema
by David Archibald
The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.
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The ArtsJune 2021The war that won't die
The Spanish Civil War in cinema
by David Archibald
The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceMay 2025US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland
by Richard Hargy
Richard Haass and Mitchell Reiss, as autonomous diplomats in the George W. Bush State Department, were able to alter US intervention in Northern Ireland and play critical roles in the post-1998 peace process. Their contributions have not been fully appreciated or understood. The restoration of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government in 2007 was made possible by State Department-led intervention in the peace process. There are few references to Northern Ireland in work examining the foreign policy legacy of the George W. Bush presidency. Moreover, the ability to control US foreign policy towards the region brought one of George W. Bush's Northern Ireland special envoys into direct diplomatic conflict with the most senior actors inside the British government. This book will uncover the extent of this fall-out and provide original accounts on how diplomatic relations between these old allies became so fraught.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2025Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 101/2
Imaging Heritage Science Initiatives at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library
by Stefan Hanß, James Robinson
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. An electronic edition of this issue is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
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January 2019Paul, gar nicht faul!
by Susanne Weber, Martina Leykamm
"Paul, gar nicht faul!" taucht ein in das unerwartet aufregende Leben des Faultiers Paul, der mit seiner Energie und Abenteuerlust alle Erwartungen sprengt. Anders als seine träge wirkenden Artgenossen verbringt Paul seine Tage mit einer Reihe von Aktivitäten, die Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen faszinieren. Gemeinsam mit seinem besten Freund, dem verspielten Affen, erkundet er die Welt des Kletterns, des Bananenessens und des Wettschwimmens. Die von Susanne Weber geschaffenen Reime sind nicht nur unterhaltsam, sondern auch lehrreich, und zusammen mit den farbenprächtigen Illustrationen entsteht ein Bilderbuch, das zum Immer-wieder-Lesen einlädt. Dieses Buch ist ein echtes Juwel für Vorlesestunden und bietet neben Spaß auch wertvolle Lerneffekte für Kleinkinder, indem es Themen wie Freundschaft, Aktivität und das Überwinden von Stereotypen aufgreift. Ideal für Kleinkinder: Mit seinen robusten Pappseiten und den kindgerechten Reimen eignet sich "Paul, gar nicht faul!" hervorragend für Kinder ab 2 Jahren, die die Welt um sich herum entdecken. Fördert die Vorstellungskraft: Die abenteuerlichen Geschichten von Paul und seinem Freund regen die Fantasie an und inspirieren Kinder dazu, eigene Abenteuer zu träumen. Unterstützt Sprachentwicklung: Die eingängigen Reime und die wiederholte Lektüre unterstützen spielerisch den Spracherwerb und das Sprachverständnis bei jungen Zuhörern. Bindet alle Sinne ein: Neben dem Zuhören können Kinder auch die bunten Bilder betrachten und die Seiten umblättern, was die Feinmotorik und die sensorische Wahrnehmung fördert. Stärkt die Eltern-Kind-Bindung: Gemeinsame Lesezeiten fördern nicht nur die sprachliche Entwicklung, sondern auch das Gefühl der Nähe und Geborgenheit zwischen Eltern und Kind. Einzigartiges Geschenk: Als Geschenkidee bietet "Paul, gar nicht faul!" eine willkommene Abwechslung zu den üblichen Spielzeugen und fördert gleichzeitig die Liebe zum Lesen. Lehrreiche Unterhaltung: Durch die charmanten Geschichten lernen Kinder auf natürliche Weise die Bedeutung von Freundschaft und die Freude an der Bewegung kennen.
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August 2018Emmi & Einschwein 2. Im Herzen ein Held!
by Anna Böhm, Susanne Göhlich
"Emmi & Einschwein 2. Im Herzen ein Held!" setzt die bezaubernde Geschichte von Emmi und ihrem ungewöhnlichen Fabeltier Einschwein fort. Nachdem die Fabelwesen von Antonia und Herrn Bockel durch einen magischen Zwischenfall vertauscht wurden, stehen Emmi und Einschwein vor der Herausforderung, den Tausch rückgängig zu machen. Die Mission führt sie nicht nur auf ein neues Abenteuer, sondern auch zum lang gehüteten Geheimnis der Familie Bockel. Dabei entdecken sie, dass der von Antonia ungewollte Spuckewurm ungeahnte Fähigkeiten besitzt. Diese Geschichte ist nicht nur witzig und turbulent, sondern trägt auch eine wunderbare Botschaft in sich: Es geht darum, zu zeigen, was in einem steckt. Die Leser folgen Emmi und Einschwein durch spannende und humorvolle Situationen, lernen dabei aber auch wichtige Lektionen über Freundschaft, Akzeptanz und die Erkenntnis, dass jeder auf seine Weise ein Held sein kann. Der unerschöpfliche Einfallsreichtum von Anna Böhm sorgt erneut für eine temporeiche und unterhaltsame Geschichte, die von den außergewöhnlichen und liebevoll gezeichneten Charakteren lebt. Die Illustrationen von Susanne Göhlich bereichern das Buch visuell und tragen zur lebendigen Darstellung der Geschichte bei. Bezauberndes Kinderbuch: "Emmi & Einschwein 2. Im Herzen ein Held!" ist eine herzerwärmende Fortsetzung der beliebten Reihe von Anna Böhm, ideal für Kinder ab 6 Jahren zum Vorlesen und ab der dritten Klasse zum Selbstlesen. Begleite Emmi und ihr einzigartiges Fabeltier Einschwein auf einem spannenden Abenteuer, um einen unglücklichen Tausch magischer Fabelwesen rückgängig zu machen. Eine Geschichte, die wichtige Werte wie Freundschaft, Akzeptanz und den Mut, die eigene Besonderheit zu zeigen, vermittelt. Genieße eine Mischung aus humorvollen Szenen und spannenden Momenten, die Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen unterhalten. Entdecke außergewöhnliche und liebevoll gezeichnete Charaktere, die zeigen, dass jeder auf seine Weise ein Held sein kann. Die charmanten Schwarz-Weiß-Illustrationen von Susanne Göhlich bereichern das Leseerlebnis und bringen die magische Welt von Wichtelstadt zum Leben. Gelobt von der Presse und Familien für den unerschöpflichen Einfallsreichtum und die gelungene Vermittlung wichtiger Lebenslektionen. Der zweite Band der "Emmi & Einschwein"-Reihe, der Fans und neue Leser gleichermaßen begeistert. Ermutigende Botschaft: Inspiriert junge Leser dazu, zu erkennen, dass jeder seine eigenen Stärken hat und etwas ganz Besonderes ist. Gut geeignet für Mädchen und Jungen, mit wichtigen Botschaften für jedes Kind. Fördert die Lesekompetenz und die Freude am Lesen durch eine fesselnde Geschichte und leicht verständliche Sprache. Ideal als Geschenk für junge Leser*innen, die Abenteuer, Magie und die Kraft der Freundschaft lieben. Alle Bände der Reihe: Band 1: Einhorn kann jeder!Band 2: Im Herzen ein Held!Band 3: Ganz vorn mit Horn!Band 4: Kein Weihnachten ohne Puddingschuhe!Band 5: Ein Fall für Sherlock Horn!Band 6: Fabelwesen zelten selten Als Erstlesebücher sind darüber hinaus erschienen: Für die Vorschule Schulstart mit Eierkuchen Lesen macht lustig Lesen + Stickern. Einschweins erster Schultag Emmi & Einschwein. Das fabelhafte Mal- und Rätselbuch Für die 1. Klasse Hoppla, eine Hochzeit! Für die 2. Klasse Fröhliche Schweinachten!
