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January 1990Wenn die Wahrheit lockt
Herausforderungen für Ihr gesundes Ego
by Brilliant, Ashleigh / Herausgegeben von Karrer, Volker Z; Andere Adaption von Juckoff, Gerhard; Übersetzt von Ifang, Erika
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 1998The debate on the English Revolution
by R Richardson, Roger Richardson
The debate on the English Revolution is firmly established as an essential guide to the literature in its field and appears here in a much revised third edition. Three new chapters are included on twentieth-century historians' treatments of social complexities, politics, political culture and revisionism, and on the Revolution's unstoppable reverberations. All the other chapters have been amended and recast to take account of recent publications. The book provides a searching re-examination of why the English Revolution remains such a provocatively controversial subject and analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain its causes, course and consequences. Claredon, Hume, Macaulay, Gardiner, Tawney, Hill, and the present-day revisionists are given extended treatment, while discussion of the work of numerous other historians is integrated into a coherent, informative readable survey. ;
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The ArtsJuly 2024Italian graphic design
Culture and practice in Milan, 1930s-60s
by Chiara Barbieri
Italian graphic design offers a new perspective on the subject by exploring the emergence and articulation of graphic design practice, from the interwar period through to the appearance of an international graphic design discourse in the 1960s. The book asks how graphic designers learned their trade and investigates the ways in which they organised and made their practice visible while negotiating their collective identity with neighbouring practices such as typography, advertising and industrial design. Attention is drawn to everyday design practice, educational issues, mediating channels, networks, design exchange, organisational strategies and discourses on modernism. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources and placing an emphasis on visual analysis, this book provides a model for a contextualised graphic design history as an integral part of the history of design and visual culture.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018Noble society
Five lives from twelfth-century Germany
by Jonathan R. Lyon
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and noblewomen from Rome to the Baltic coast and from the Rhine River to the Alpine valleys of Austria. To read these five sources together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of medieval German society-and for the authors who wrote about them. Whether fighting for the emperor in Italy, bringing Christianity to pagans in what is today northern Poland, or founding, reforming and governing monastic communities in the heartland of the German kingdom, the subjects of these texts call attention to some of the many ways that noble life shaped the world of central medieval Europe.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Science and society in southern Africa
by Saul Dubow
This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination. Not only did science assist in bolstering aspects of colonial power and exploitation, it also possessed a significant ideological component: it offered a means of legitimating colonial authority by counter-poising Western rationality to native superstition and it served to enhance the self-image of colonial or settler elites in important respects. This innovative volume ranges broadly through topics such as statistics, medicine, eugenics, agriculture, entomology and botany.
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Political ideologiesMay 2017Neoliberal power and public management reforms
by Professor Peter Triantafillou. Series edited by Mark Haugaard
This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative power. The book examines the quest for accountability, credibility and evidence in the public sector. It asks whether this quest may be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? The book makes the argument that while current administrative reforms are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they evolve above all around a particular form of neoliberalism: constructivist neoliberalism. The book analyses the dangers of the kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering capacities of society and administration itself.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2024
Unofficial peace diplomacy
Private peace entrepreneurs in conflict resolution processes
by Lior Lehrs
This book analyses the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs. These are private citizens with no official authority who initiate channels of communication with official representatives from the other side of a conflict in order to promote a conflict resolution process. It combines theoretical discussion with historical analysis, examining four cases from different conflicts: Norman Cousins and Suzanne Massie in the Cold War, Brendan Duddy in the Northern Ireland conflict and Uri Avnery in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The book defines the phenomenon, examines the resources and activities of private peace entrepreneurs and their impact on the official diplomacy, and examines the conditions under which they can play an effective role in peace-making processes. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16, Peace, justice and strong institutions.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2024She played and sang
Jane Austen and music
by Gillian Dooley
Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them. Until recently, our knowledge of Austen's musical inclinations was limited to the recollections of relatives who were still in their youth when she passed away. But with the digitisation of music books from her immediate family circle, a treasure trove of evidence has emerged. Delving into these books, alongside letters and other familial records, She played and sang unveils a previously unknown facet of Austen's world. This insightful work not only uncovers the music closely associated with Austen, but also unravels her musical connections with family and friends, revealing the intricate ties between her fiction and the melodies she performed. With these revelations, Austen's musical legacy comes to life, granting us a deeper understanding of her artistic prowess and the influences that shaped her literary masterpieces.
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Children's & YAApril 2024Smart Pickings
2nd Edition
by Lynne Bianchi
Smart Pickings (2nd Edition) further engages young readers with the world of science. It promotes talk between children, their classmates, teachers, parents, family and friends. The book introduces a range of diverse and inspirational scientists who have or are making a difference through their innovations and research. A book to encouraging us all to wonder, ask questions and ask 'Who are they?', 'How might I be like them?'
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The ArtsSeptember 2020Science in performance
Theatre and the politics of engagement
by Simon Parry
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change. The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from Somali drama to grime videos. It features work by pioneering companies including Gob Squad, Headlong Theatre and Theatre of Debate as well as offering fresh analysis of global blockbusters such as Wicked and Urinetown. The book offers detailed description and analysis of theatre and performance practices as well as broader commentary on the politics of theatre as public engagement with science. Science in performance is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners working between science and the arts within fields such as theatre and performance studies, science communication, interdisciplinary arts and health humanities.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2023Politics, 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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July 2021Kurt, Einhorn wider Willen 3. EinHorn – eine Mission
by Chantal Schreiber, Ralf Kiwit, Arndt Schmöle, Ralf Kiwit, Rudi Mika, Stephan Pricken
Von freundschaftlichen Verpflichtungen hält Grummeleinhorn Kurt eigentlich nicht viel. Aber als Fred, der Anführer der Ninjagoldfische, dringend seine Hilfe braucht, ist er zur Stelle. Freds Kompanie wird unerklärlicherweise immer kleiner. Kurzerhand wird Kurt zum ersten Ninjaeinhorn der Welt. Die beiden machen sich auf eine turbulente und amüsante Suche nach den verschwundenen Ninjas, und als es brenzlig wird, bekommen sie Veilchenduft pupsende Hilfe von einem besonders charmanten Zweihorn. Brilliant gelesen von Arndt Schmöle!
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October 2021Kurt, Einhorn wider Willen 3. EinHorn – eine Mission
by Chantal Schreiber, Arndt Schmöle, Ralf Kiwit, Rudi Mika, Stephan Pricken
Von freundschaftlichen Verpflichtungen hält Grummeleinhorn Kurt eigentlich nicht viel. Aber als Fred, der Anführer der Ninjagoldfische, dringend seine Hilfe braucht, ist er zur Stelle. Freds Kompanie wird unerklärlicherweise immer kleiner. Kurzerhand wird Kurt zum ersten Ninjaeinhorn der Welt. Die beiden machen sich auf eine turbulente und amüsante Suche nach den verschwundenen Ninjas, und als es brenzlig wird, bekommen sie Veilchenduft pupsende Hilfe von einem besonders charmanten Zweihorn. Brilliant gelesen von Arndt Schmöle!
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Air empire
British imperial civil aviation, 1919–39
by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain's development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages
by Anthony Musson, Edward Powell
This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied. Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array of contemporary literary texts, it guides readers towards an understanding of prevailing notions of law and justice and expectations of the law and legal institutions. Tensions are shown emerging between theoretical ideals of justice and the practical realities of administering the law during an era profoundly affected by periodic bouts of war, political in-fighting, social dislocation and economic disaster. Introductions and notes provide both the specific and wider legal, social and political contexts in addition to offering an overview of the existing secondary literature and historiographical trends. This collection affords a valuable insight into the character of medieval governance as well as revealing the complex nexus of interests, attitudes and relationships prevailing in society during the later Middle Ages.
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August 2020Kurt, Einhorn wider Willen 1. Wer möchte schon ein Einhorn sein?
by Chantal Schreiber, Arndt Schmöle, Ralf Kiwit, Rudi Mika, Stephan Pricken
Ein nerviger Vogel, eine Prinzessin, die den Prinzen vermöbelt und Kurt, ein widerwilliges Einhorn, das rosa Glitzersternchen und Pupse mit Rosenduft voll peinlich findet – da bleibt kein Auge trocken. Aber was hilft´s, am Ende wird Einhorn Kurt mithilfe von Vogel Trill und den Ninja-Goldfischen die entführte Prinzessin Floh natürlich doch retten, rosa Fell hin oder her. Brilliant gelesen von Arndt Schmöle!
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June 2006Buddy Holly auf der Wilhelmshöhe
Drei Romane
by Wolfgang Welt
Aus kleinen Verhältnissen stammend und mit einem abgebrochenen Studium im Gepäck gerät Wolfgang Welt als Musikjournalist Anfang der achtziger Jahre in die Pop-Maschinerie. New Wave, Neue Deutsche Welle, Marabo, Sounds, Musik Express, Rockpalast, Herbert Grönemeyer, Dallas,Frauengeschichten, DJ-Dasein und immer wieder Buddy Holly sind Begleiterscheinungen einer kurzen, steilen Szenekarriere. Sie endet im Wahnsinn.Welt wird verhaftet und in die Psychiatrie gesteckt. Wieder halbwegs normal, schreibt er in großen Abständen drei autobiographische Romane, die hier vereint vorgelegt werden, der dritte als Erstveröffentlichung. 2002 erhält er ein Stipendium der Hermann- Lenz-Stiftung. Seit langen Jahren arbeitet er als Nachtportier im Schauspielhaus seiner Heimatstadt Bochum und hört regelmäßig WDR 4. Wolfgang Welt, geboren 1952 in Bochum, lebt dort (in seinem Elternhaus in der Bergarbeitersiedlung Wilhelmshöhe). Peggy Sue, erschienen zuerst 1986 im Konkret Literatur Verlag, kam 1997 erweitert und mit einem Vorwort von Leander Haußmann als Taschenbuch heraus. Der Tick wurde 2001 veröffentlicht. Der Tunnel am Ende des Lichts ist, wie gesagt, eine Erstveröffentlichung »Im ganzen: eine Version des Lebens, die man sich im Lesen nicht nur gefallen läßt, sondern die einen, schön holprig und schön schnittig, eine Zeitlang mitnimmt, und nicht bloß ins Ruhrgebiet.« Peter Handke
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February 2009Doris hilft
Roman
by Wolfgang Welt, Willi Winkler
»Doris hilft« steht an einer Wand der Bochumer Uni, an der Wolfgang Welt in seinem Wahn vorbeiläuft. Doris, so hieß doch die Bedienung in seinem Stammlokal, die er geliebt hatte – Doris hilft ist der vierte Roman, den Welt seinem Leben als Autor, Biertrinker, Dauersohn und Nachtwächter auf der Bochumer Wilhelmshöhe und in deren Umgebung widmet. Lauter Nachrichten aus der Wirklichkeit (um 1990), aber es braucht jemanden wie Welt, den »größten Erzähler des Ruhrgebiets« (Willi Winkler), der sie uns aufgreift, »anleuchtet«, sichtbar macht. Im Anhang: »Bob Dylan & Buddy Holly. Kein Vergleich«, einer der besten Artikel des Musikjournalisten Wolfgang Welt aus dem Jahr 1991.
