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      • Afram Publications

        Afram Publications is an indigenous publishing house in Ghana. Afram Publication is specialized in publishing materials for pre-school and basic education in Ghana. The special focus is the development of local authorship.

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      • Furaha Publishers

        Furaha Publishers founded in 2014 is an independent children’s book publishing house based in Kigali Rwanda. It publishes 30 to 40 titles a year in both Kinyarwanda and English. Two titles were among the top 10 favorite children’s books in 2017.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Politics, performance and popular culture

        Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain

        by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey, Jeffrey Richards

        This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Peace and the politics of memory

        by Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Timothy Williams

        This important book provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It does so by developing a theoretical approach focusing on the intersection of sites, agency, narratives, and events in memory-making. Drawing on rich empirical studies of mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia, the book speaks to a broad audience. The in-depth, cross-case analysis shows that inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity in memory politics are key to the construction of a just peace. The book contributes crucial and timely knowledge about societies that grapple with the painful legacies of the past and advances the study of memory and peace.

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        September 1975

        Gedichte in zwei Bänden

        Erster Band

        by Paul Celan

        Celans Gedichtbücher sind in einer zweibändigen Ausgabe gesammelt (BS 412 und BS 413).

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        September 1975

        Gedichte in zwei Bänden

        Zweiter Band

        by Paul Celan, Beda Allemann

        Celans Gedichtbücher sind in einer zweibändigen Ausgabe gesammelt (BS 412 und BS 413).

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2024

        The construction of public opinion in a digital age

        by Catherine Happer

        This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure. Drawing on a series of empirical studies conducted over nearly a decade, Happer deploys evidence of a 'disconnect' between neoliberal media and the public which is rooted in a disaffection with a mainstream political culture which has failed to deliver the societal outcomes promised. As people are pushed towards alternative digital sources, new communities of opinion are produced in ways which polarise publics and ultimately limit the potential for social change. Offering an innovative and urgently needed new sociological analysis, this book is required reading for an inter-disciplinary field of media, journalism, and politics/IR which has largely abandoned questions of media power and public opinion management, as well as policymakers, science communicators and journalists. Key points of the book: 1) public opinion formation and why people may come to different positions through the development of a new model 2) the societal outcomes produced when a widespread disconnect between journalism and public opinion emerges 3) the atomisation of opinion and its relations to newly constructed opinion communities (with consideration of the role of class) 4) the turn to digitally available alternatives which enable new, less visible power agents to exert control.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2022

        The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters

        The influence of bureaucracy, market and psychology

        by Nanna Mik-Meyer

        This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships with welfare workers. However, other factors impact these interactions; factors which often pull in different directions. Welfare encounters are thus influenced by bureaucratic principles and market values as well. Consequently, this book engages with both Weberian (bureaucracy) and Foucauldian (market values/NPM) studies when investigating the powerful welfare encounter. The book is targeted Academics, post-graduates, and undergraduates within sociology, anthropology and political science.

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        October 1992

        Ein strenger Winter

        Roman. Aus dem Französischen von Eugen Helmlé

        by Raymond Queneau, Eugen Helmlé

        Raymond Queneau, geboren 1903 in Le Havre, gestorben 1976 in Paris, hinterließ ein umfangreiches, vielgestaltiges Werk. Von 1924 bis 1929 gehörte er zur Gruppe der Surrealisten, ab 1961 zu der avantgardistischen Literatengruppe »Oulipo«. 1938 wurde er Lektor des Verlags Gallimard. 1948 veröffentlichte er den Roman Heiliger Bimbam (BS 951), 1958 Zazie in der Metro (suhrkamp taschenbuch 3474), den Roman, der ihn, spätestens mit der Verfilmung durch Louis Malle, berühmt machte.

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        March 2000

        Bach-Stätten

        Ein Reiseführer zu Johann Sebastian Bach

        by Martin Petzoldt

        Was diesen Reiseführer zu den Orten Bachs von anderen Reiseführern unterscheidet, ist der Versuch, mit der Beschreibung der Orte und Örtlichkeiten eine Einführung zu Bachs musikalischem Werk und zu dessen innerem Gehalt zu verbinden.

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        The Arts
        July 2024

        Public information films

        British government film units, 1928–52

        by Alan Harding

        In the years after the First World War the British government had to adapt its communication policy to connect with the new mass electorate. This book examines the government's own Film Units and their slow development of the Public Information Film. By reviewing the entire film catalogue produced by the Empire Marketing Board, the General Post Office and Crown Film Units, particular themes are identified which not only reflect the demands of the Units' sponsors but also the anxieties and concerns of the 1930s and 1940s. The impact of the films is explored through the contemporary reaction of the audiences to them. By the time the Crown Film Unit was closed in 1952 a style of Public Information Film had been developed and continued into the 1970s.

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        April 1972

        Antiphon

        by Djuna Barnes, Christine Koschel, Inge Weidenbaum

        1958, mehr als zwanzig Jahre nach dem Erscheinen des meisterhaften Romans Nachtgewächs (BS 293), sorgte Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) mit der Veröffentlichung des Schauspiels Antiphon, einer Familientragödie von klassischem Ausmaß, erneut für Aufsehen. Der Ort des Geschehens ist bizarr: die große Eingangshalle eines ehemaligen Chorherrenstifts. Eine Familie – vielmehr das, was von ihr übriggeblieben ist – trifft sich. Die Zeit der Abrechnung ist gekommen. Immer mehr spitzt sich die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Mutter und Tochter zu.

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        January 1970

        Ein Mann wird älter

        by Italo Svevo, Pietro Rismondo, Stanislaus Joyce

        Der Roman ›Ein Mann wird älter‹ ist immer wieder mit Prousts ›Eine Liebe Swanns› (BS 1185) verglichen worden, zu Recht, in beiden Romanen wird eine für den männlichen Partner leidvolle Liebesbeziehung geschildert. Senilität (so der Originaltitel) bedeutet nicht Senilität, sondern Greisenhaftigkeit, denn der Held, der sich in die schone Angiolina verliebt, ist -35 Jahre alt. Der Roman, dessen deutscher Titel von Joyce stammt, ist die Geschichte der Liebesleidenschaft und der Liebeshörigkeit eines Einsamen.

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        July 1996

        Reden über Deutschland (1945–1993)

        by Hans Mayer

        Es handelt sich bei dieser Sammlung um die wichtigsten politischen und kulturpolitischen Reden, die Hans Mayer gehalten hat. Als Zeitzeuge, als Aufklärer und Mahner spricht Mayer zum Beispiel über ›Das deutsche Selbstempfinden‹ (1977), ›Über die Einheit der deutschen Literatur‹ (1991) oder über ›Deutsche und Juden nach dem Widerruf‹ (1993). Das Buch möchte auch gelesen werden als Gegenstück zu den Ansichten von Deutschland (BS 984), die einige der besten Arbeiten des Literaturwissenschaftlers und streitbaren Publizisten zur deutschen Literatur des späten 19. und des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts vereinigen.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2008

        Time and world politics

        Thinking the present

        by Kimberly Hutchings, Simon Tormey, Jon Simons

        This book offers the first authoritative guide to assumptions about time in theories of contemporary world politics. It demonstrates how predominant theories of the international or global 'present' are affected by temporal assumptions, grounded in western political thought, that fundamentally shape what we can and cannot know about world politics today. The first part of the book traces the philosophical roots of assumptions about time in contemporary political theory. The second part examines contemporary theories of world politics, including liberal and realist International Relations theories and the work of Habermas, Hardt and Negri, Virilio and Agamben. In each case, it is argued, assumptions about political time ensure the identification of the particular temporality of western experience with the political temporality of the world as such and put the theorist in the unsustainable position of holding the key to the direction of world history. In the final chapter, the book draws on postcolonial and feminist thinking, and the philosophical accounts of political time in the work of Derrida and Deleuze, to develop a new 'untimely' way of thinking about time in world politics. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2025

        Local government and democracy in Britain

        by Neil Barnett, J. Chandler

        Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over the previous 200 years local government has moved from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government and national and multi-national agencies such as corporate businesses hold governance over local and community decision-making. These changes seriously undermine the important role that local government can play in liberal democracy in the UK. The book explains the nature of local government today and asks if there is any possibility of change.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        July 2015

        Politics and peace in Northern Ireland

        Political parties and the implementation of the 1998 Agreement

        by David Mitchell

        Politics and peace in Northern Ireland analyses the complex and contradictory process of implementing the Good Friday Agreement. Using the lens of security dilemma theory, it begins with an original overview of the conflict, the Agreement and post-1998 politics. The book then explores post-Agreement Northern Ireland through the eyes of each of the four main political parties, showing how they tried to shape the course of peace implementation, and how implementation, in turn, shaped the fates and fortunes of the parties. Drawing on extensive original research, this book explains the promise and limits of the Agreement. It shows how and why the two sides' mutual insecurities repeatedly derailed peace implementation, and reflects on the likely direction of parties and politics in the future. This clearly written and up-to-date book will be of interest to scholars and students of recent Northern Irish history, ethnic conflict and peace-making. ;

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        March 2016

        Beleuchtete Höhle

        Sanatoriumstagebuch

        by M. Blecher, Ernest Wichner, Ernest Wichner

        «Es ist dies ein Buch, von dem man sich nach der Lektüre nicht vorstellen kann, es jemals nicht gekannt zu haben», schrieb die FAZ über M. Blechers Sanatoriumsroman Vernarbte Herzen (BS 1399). Sein letztes Werk, die Beleuchtete Höhle, das er nicht mehr korrigieren konnte, schreibt den Roman fort. Unverhüllt autobiographisch und mit einer atemberaubenden Klarheit erzählt der noch nicht 30jährige Autor (1909 - 1938), wie ihm, dem hoffnungslos Erkrankten, in Augenblicken größten Leidens die Zusammenhänge des Lebens, die geheimnisvollen Übergänge zwischen Realität, Traum und Schreiben einsichtig werden. Blechers Poetologie des Leidens kontrapunktiert seine Erzählungen aus Berck, die expressionistischen Schilderungen von Paris oder die Reminiszenzen an ein Sanatorium in Rumänien. Ernest Wichners umfangreicher Essay gibt erstmals Einblick in die bisher nur bruchstückhaft bekannte Biographie des Autors, der heute, 70 Jahre nach seinem Tod, weltweit entdeckt wird.

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        April 2009

        Der Stoff zum Leben 1-4

        Gedichte

        by Volker Braun

        »Die ›Definition‹ eines ersten Trainings des aufrechten Gangs hatte noch geschwankt zwischen den Formeln ›Stoff zum Schreiben, zum Leben‹. Inzwischen scheint es sich für den Lyriker geklärt zu haben: Leben ist Schreiben. Alle ›Materialien‹ von I bis – vorerst – XIV, Landschaft und Dichtung, Taten wie Untaten, erfüllte Augenblicke und der Wutausbruch im ›Material‹ VI (›Der Frieden‹): alles Stoff zum Leben in der geformten Sprache des Gedichts. Hier wird alles zum Material. Zeilen großer Dichtung und große Gedanken eines unglücklichen Bewußtseins, Schrei und Gelächter, sound and fury«, schrieb Hans Mayer im Nachwort der 1990 unter dem Titel Der Stoff zum Leben 1–3 erschienenen Erstausgabe (BS 1039). Voker Brauns Zyklus wird in dem neuen Band erweitert und abgeschlossen durch einen vierten Teil »Der Stoff zum Leben 4: TUMULUS«, der zuerst separat veröffentlicht wurde (Tumulus, 1999).

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