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      • Cosmos Culture, Ltd.

        Cosmos Culture Ltd., established in March 1998, is composed of intellectuals from different professions. The staff is devoted to cultural education and hopes to make a significant contribution to the inheritance and development of world culture by providing knowledge and high quality reference books to our readers. Contributing to the world’s culture is an endless road. Today’s world is a global village. Skill with two or more languages is crucial if an individual wants to play a role in the rapid growth of worldwide human communication and cultural exchanges.

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        March 2016

        Rosenliebhaberinnen

        Ein Leben für Blüte, Duft und Dornen

        by Sabine Frank

        Immer schon war die Beziehung zwischen Rosen und Frauen eine besondere. Dabei war die »Königin der Blumen« lange Zeit kaum mehr als schmückendes Beiwerk. Doch die Frauen haben die Rose für sich selbst entdeckt – und Rosenliebhaberinnen aus aller Welt machten sich um sie verdient: Sie legten Rosengärten an, brachten neue Züchtungen hervor, beschäftigten sich mit Blütenformen und Düften, erhoben die Rosenmalerei zu hoher Kunst und widmeten sich ihr in Gedichten, Romanen und Briefen. Sabine Frank erzählt in diesem Band von leidenschaftlichen und entschlossenen Rosenliebhaberinnen und ihrem Leben für Blüten, Duft und Dornen. Über Gertrude Jekyll, Maria Sibylla Merian, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria, Louisette Meilland u. v. a. »Ein perfektes Geschenk für alle, die Rosen lieben, aber schon jedes erdenkliche Pflegebuch im Regal haben.« Börsenblatt

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        February 2020

        Jamaica Inn

        Roman

        by Daphne du Maurier, Brigitte Heinrich, Christel Dormagen

        Düstere Geheimnisse umgeben das berüchtigte Jamaica Inn, das einsam im Moor von Cornwall liegt. Dorthin verschlägt es die junge Waise Mary nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter. Bei ihrer Tante Patience und ihrem Onkel Joss soll sie ein neues Zuhause finden. Doch das Gasthaus nahe der zerklüfteten, sturmgepeitschten Küste beherbergt dunkle Gestalten, die üblen Geschäften nachgehen – und ihr Anführer scheint Marys Onkel zu sein. Mehr und mehr wird Mary in die Machenschaften der Männer verstrickt und gerät in Lebensgefahr. Welches undurchsichtige Spiel treibt dabei Joss‘ jüngerer Bruder Jem, in den Mary sich verliebt hat?

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        February 2020

        Jamaica Inn

        Roman

        by Daphne Maurier, Brigitte Heinrich, Christel Dormagen

        Düstere Geheimnisse umgeben das berüchtigte Jamaica Inn, das einsam im Moor von Cornwall liegt. Dorthin verschlägt es die junge Waise Mary nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter. Bei ihrer Tante Patience und ihrem Onkel Joss soll sie ein neues Zuhause finden. Doch das Gasthaus nahe der zerklüfteten, sturmgepeitschten Küste beherbergt dunkle Gestalten, die üblen Geschäften nachgehen – und ihr Anführer scheint Marys Onkel zu sein. Mehr und mehr wird Mary in die Machenschaften der Männer verstrickt und gerät in Lebensgefahr. Welches undurchsichtige Spiel treibt dabei Joss‘ jüngerer Bruder Jem, in den Mary sich verliebt hat?

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2021

        Language and imagination in the Gawain poems

        by J. Anderson

        This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

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        Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
        March 2005

        Language and imagination in the Gawain poems

        by J. J. Anderson

        This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

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        January 2023

        Solitaire

        by Alice Oseman

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        The Arts
        May 2010

        A loss of innocence?

        Television and Irish society, 1960–72

        by Robert Savage

        This book explores the evolution of Ireland's national television service during its first tumultuous decade, addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s. It also traces the development of the BBC and ITA in Northern Ireland, considering how television helped undermine a state that had long governed without consensus. Using a wide array of new archival sources and extensive interviews Savage illustrates how an increasingly confident television service upset political, religious and cultural elites who were profoundly uncomfortable with the changes taking place around them. Savage argues that during this period television was not a passive actor, but an active agent often times aggressively testing the limits of the medium and the patience of governments. Television helped facilitate a process of modernisation that slowly transformed Irish society during the 1960s. This book will be essential for those interested in contemporary Irish political and cultural history and readers interested in media history, and cultural studies. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2008

        Charitable hatred

        Tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500–1700

        by Alexandra Walsham, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

        Charitable Hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises instead the complex interplay between these two impulses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book examines the intellectual assumptions that underpinned attitudes towards religious minorities and the institutional structures and legal mechanisms by which they were both repressed and accommodated. It also explores the social realities of prejudice and forbearance, hostility and harmony at the level of the neighbourhood and parish. Simultaneously, it surveys the range of ways in which dissenting churches and groups responded and adapted to official and popular intolerance, investigating how the experience of suffering helped to forge sectarian identities. In analysing the consequences of the advancing pluralism of English society in the wake of the Reformation, this study illuminates the cultural processes that shaped and complicated the conditions of coexistence before and after the Act of Toleration of 1689. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Neither use nor ornament

        A cultural biography of clutter and procrastination

        by Tracey Potts

        Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, told from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life, lived in a permanent state of efficiency and flow. The book reveals how contemporary projections of the good, productive life rely on images of failure. Riffing on the aphorism 'less is more' - a dominant refrain in present day productivity advice - it tells stories about streamlining, efficiency and tidiness over a time period of around 100 years. By focusing on the shadows of productivity advice, Neither use nor ornament seeks to unravel the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficiencies and muddles.

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        February 2008

        Zephyr

        Roman

        by Albert Ostermaier

        Paris 2002: Die Schauspielerin Marie Trintignant und Bertrand Cantat, Sänger der Rockband "Noir Désir", lassen sich als frisch Verliebte durch die Nächte treiben. Um sich nicht trennen zu müssen, begleitet er sie zu Dreharbeiten nach Vilnius. Sie spielt unter der Regie ihrer Mutter in einer Verfilmung des Lebens der Schriftstellerin Colette. Es kommt zu Eifersuchtsexzessen zwischen den beiden, er erschlägt sie und schläft umstandslos neben ihr ein. In einer Villa an der Côte d'Azur liegt Cathy auf dem Bett, sie scheint zu schlafen. Neben ihr Gilles, ihr Mann. Er hat den Auftrag zu einem Drehbuch über das Paar Marie-Bertrand. Gilles fällt es immer schwerer, zwischen Wirklichkeit und Fiktion zu unterscheiden, zwischen den Schnitten ins Herz und denen seines Filmscripts, er überblendet, was er wahrnimmt, mit dem, was er vor seinem inneren Kameraauge sieht. Sein Leben läuft wie ein Film an ihm vorüber. Ist er selbst auch ein Mörder, oder schreibt er sich diese Rolle nur zu? Albert Ostermaiers erster Roman ist ein faszinierendes Vexierspiel, erzählt im raschen Perspektivenwechsel, ein rasantes Gegenstück zum "Film Noir", ein dunkler Liebessong, dessen Rhythmus und Refrain den Leser in den Sog einer Geschichte ziehen.

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        Film theory & criticism
        February 2014

        The Encyclopedia of British Film

        Fourth edition

        by Edited by Brian McFarlane

        With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with detailed listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries.

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        June 2024

        At the Very Bottom of the System

        How migrant workers ensure prosperity for us

        by Sascha Lübbe

        The author reveals structural problems and offers solutions – an urgently necessary book, not least with a view to the acute shortage of skilled workers 450,000 migrant workers toll on German construction sites, work in sometimes inhumane conditions in meat factories or as truck drivers, and let’s not forget the hordes of cleaners in German hotels and companies. They are systematically exploited and cheated out of their wages. Sascha Lübbe exposes the octopus-like network of partly criminal companies in a shadowy world where the boundary between the legal and the illegal is blurred. In his evocative book with interviews with those aff ected, he reveals how a parallel system has established itself in the German working world, but also how those affected resist.

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        October 2024

        Renunciation and Freedom

        Survivial in the future

        by Jean-Pierre Wils

        The situation in our society is precarious. The ecological shocks are omnipresent. The mere continuation of our lifestyles fixated on expansion and self-development has long since reached its limits. As if intoxicated by ourselves, we consume our world voraciously and without restraint. We need moderation and frugality that lead us out of the ecological and social dead ends and hold both the individual and Politics to account. We are by no means powerless and are perfectly capable of leading a life that offers prospects for a humane future. However, our idea of freedom needs urgent correction. For this endeavour to succeed, we need the courage to face reality and the willingness, in a spirit of solidarity, to say goodbye to a false life and join the alliance of renunciation and freedom. Then we will be free – differently and better.

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