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January 2013

The world of El Cid

Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest

by Simon Barton, Richard Fletcher

Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fascinating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes.

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November 2021

Die Hydra des Dschihadismus

Entstehung, Ausbreitung und Abwehr einer globalen Gefahr

by Asiem El Difraoui

Nachdem der »IS« in Trümmern lag und »Kalif« al-Baghdadi im Oktober 2019 von US-Truppen getötet wurde, schien der »Krieg gegen den Terror« einmal mehr beendet. Aber der Dschihadismus ist längst eine globale Bewegung geworden, der Dutzende von Organisationen angehören – und mit Gewalt allein ist ihr nicht beizukommen.Seit drei Jahrzehnten verfolgt Asiem El Difraoui als Filmemacher, Journalist und Wissenschaftler diese Entwicklung. Er traf Kampfgefährten bin Ladens in Khartum und PR-Strategen, die in Berlin-Charlottenburg Propagandavideos produzierten. In Kriegsgebieten wie Bosnien, dem Irak oder in Afghanistan hat er selbst den Terror gegen die Bevölkerung miterlebt. Und immer wieder kam der Terror auch zu ihm, wie in Gestalt der Anschläge 1995 und 2015 in Paris, die sich in seiner unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft ereigneten. Kenntnisreich und anschaulich schildert Difraoui, wie der Dschihadismus entstanden ist, wie seine Denkmuster und PR-Strategien sich gewandelt haben und woraus die Hydra ihre Kraft bezieht. Was macht die todbringende Ideologie gerade auch für junge Menschen in Europa attraktiv? Welchen Anteil hat der Westen, haben die Medien an ihrem Erfolg? Und wie kann es gelingen, ihre Macht zu brechen? Ein aufrüttelnder Appell, sich einer der größten Gefahren der Gegenwart zu stellen.

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2015

El castigo sin venganza

Lope de Vega Carpio

by Jonathan Thacker, Catherine Davies, Jonathan Thacker

El castigo sin venganza (1631) is Lope de Vega's greatest tragedy. The play dramatises the story of the adulterous relationship between the beautiful Casandra, Duchess of Ferrara, and her step-son, Federico, and the reaction of her husband, the Duke, himself a flawed and ambiguous figure. The dramatist, at the height of his powers, re-works an earlier Italian short story to explore the complexities of human desire and the grim consequences of giving in to temptation. Aimed principally at undergraduates who are new to Spanish Golden Age drama, this edition includes a substantial commentary on the text, explanatory footnotes and a selected vocabulary. The introduction sets the play in its contexts - historical and dramatic - and focuses too on elements of the genre with which new readers might be unfamiliar: performance norms, the poetry of the play and the linguistic differences in Golden Age Spanish. It is informed by up-to-date scholarship on the play from Spain and the Anglophone world. ;

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Teaching, Language & Reference

November 2010

El Camino by Miguel Delibes

by Catherine Davies, Jeremy Squires

Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing boundaries in pursuit of maturity and social advancement, whilst also implying that real education is the unfolding of the human heart among friends and sweethearts within a shared social and natural space. This new annotated version of the text comprises an introductory essay discussing green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy. It also contains explanatory notes on the text, discussion topics and an extensive Spanish-English glossary. This edition is intended primarily for English-speaking students of Spanish literature and culture at school and university. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2000

The world of El Cid

Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest

by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean

Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fasincating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 1981

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Giovanni Pontiero

Gabriel García Márquez has been described as the greatest writer in Spanish since Cervantes, and El coronel no tiene quien le escriba is considered to be one of his best works. This reflective and atmospheric novel is set in a small Colombian town where the frustrated and stubborn Colonel, a veteran of the 'War of a Thousand Days', is still, after thirty years, waiting for the letter authorising payment of his war pension. The old soldier and his wife mourn the brutal killing of their only son, and the story of their struggle against poverty and sickness culminates in the Colonel's defiant refusal to part with his cherished fighting cock, however serious the consequences. The moving narrative pays tribute to the resilience of human nature and man's will to survive in the face of heavy odds. The novel also throws light on the turbulent religious and political troubles in Latin America. Now revised to include an updated chronology and bibliography, Giovanni Pontiero's acclaimed critical edition provides English-speaking students with an introduction to, and notes on the text, and a selected vocabulary. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2006

El Caballero de Olmedo by Lope de Vega Carpio

by Catherine Davies, Anthony Lappin

El Caballero de Olmedo is a history play, a retelling of a folk talk, a celebrated piece of Golden Age drama, and also an intense mediation upon the power of desire, the deceits of eroticism and literary convention, the injustice of a world obsessed with appearance, and the tragic potential inherent in the courting of beautiful women. The introduction sets this play within the context of Baroque eroticism and sexual mores as well as dramatic practice. The text is presented with glosses to words unfamiliar to undergraduate students; the notes comprise summaries of acts and scenes from a dramatic point of view, and in-depth notes to problematic passages in the text, written with an undergraduate readership in mind. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2008

El laberinto de la soledad by Octavio Paz

by Catherine Davies, Anthony Stanton

If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Paz´s famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This fully annotated edition includes the complete text in Spanish (with the author's final revisions), and notes and additional material in English. The editor's introduction contextualizes the essay and discusses central features: autobiographical and textual origins, intellectual sources, reception and canonization, generic ambiguity, structure, and governing symbols. The intellectual sources identified range from Marx, Nietzsche and Freud to the more contemporary ones of the French College of Sociology (Caillois), the Surrealist movement, the ideas of D. H. Lawrence, previous essays from writers in Mexico (such as Samuel Ramos) and Latin America. Several lines of interpretation are examined to show how the work can be read as a psycho-historical essay, an autobiographical construct or a modern literary myth. Transdisciplinary by nature, this literary essay is both an imaginative construction of personal and national identity, and also a critical deconstruction of dominant stereotypes. It seeks to redefine the complex relationships that exist between psychology, myth, history and Mexican culture. This edition also includes excerpts of the author's opinions on his essay, a time-line of Mexican history, a selected vocabulary, and themes for discussion and debate. Paz's first full-length prose work remains his most well-known and widely read text, and this edition will appeal to sixth-form and university students, teachers, researchers and general readers with a knowledge of Spanish. ;

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August 2023

Regenbogenbunte Geschichten

von Kirsten Boie, Cornelia Funke, Paul Maar u.a.

by Kirsten Boie, Cornelia Funke, Paul Maar, Sinem Sasmaz, Susanne Weber, Mascha Matysiak, Maren von Klitzing, Regina Feldmann, Kathrin Lena Orso, Jasmin Schaudinn, Hartmut El Kurdi, Martin Baltscheit, Astrid Göpfrich, Leanna Arnold, Daniela Kunkel, Yayo Kawamura, Kai Schüttler, Nima Kellner, Leonard Erlbruch, Naeko Ishida, Tatjana Beimler, Caroline Opheys, Rike Janßen, Stéffie Becker, Petra Eimer, Pina Gertenbach, Dorothée Böhlke

Vorlesegeschichten so vielfältig und bunt wie das Leben. So viele Geschichten tummeln sich in diesem wunderbar prallen Kinder-Vorlesebuch! Die Sammlung für gemütliche Lesezeit mit den Kleinen ist so farbenfroh und abwechslungsreich wie das Leben selbst. In diesem Buch stecken die unterschiedlichsten Abenteuer aus dem Kinderalltag, aber auch von Prinzessinnen und Prinzen. Tiere spielen in den Erzählungen ebenso mit wie Dinosaurier, die Feuerwehr und Piraten. Eine bunte Mischung vieler zukünftiger Lieblingsgeschichten, aufgeschrieben von namhaften Kinderbuchautorinnen und -autoren. Große Anthologie für Kleine: Geschichten von Paul Maar, Kirsten Boie, Cornelia Funke und anderen. Dieser Mix aus Geschichten von vielfältigen Lebensrealitäten und solchen, die der Fantasie entspringen, feiert die Diversität. Entdecke Wort für Wort, Seite für Seite den dicken Vorleseschatz, prall voll mit kleinen Abenteuern, die dich ins Leben begleiten, dich träumen und lachen lassen. Lesezeit ist Kuschelzeit – vorm Schlafengehen, auf Reisen oder in Spielpausen. Für Kinder ab 2 Jahren. Farbig und fantasievoll illustriert von Daniela Kunkel, Yayo Kawamura und Kai Schüttler. Es sind folgende Geschichten enthalten: Und wo sind meine Punkte? Sinem Sasmaz Ein Bett für Schoko Susanne Weber Die Frühlingsmaus Mascha Matysiak Wo ist Hada? Maren von Klitzing Die große Abholung Regina Feldmann Stella Strauß und die mürrischen Schafe Mascha Matysiak Die Ritterin Kathrin Lena Orso Der kleine Pirat Kirsten Boie Die Schaumparty Jasmin Schaudinn Siebeneinhalb Stunden bis Mitternacht Susanne Weber Ein Stier im Wohnzimmer Kirsten Boie Urlaub im U-Boot Kathrin Lena Orso Prinzessin Himmelblau kann nicht einschlafen Margit Auer Das Unterwasser-SchaSuGe Astrid Göpfrich »Bahn frei, Kartoffelbrei!« Hartmut El Kurdi Der Vulkan Jasmin Schaudinn Seeröschens Abenteuer Kathrin Lena Orso Wenn ein Riese Kopfstand macht Martin Baltscheit Der Schatz des Klabautermanns Kathrin Lena Orso Die Fieberfeuerwehr Maren von Klitzing Die Froschkönigin Paul Maar Rosannas großer Bruder Cornelia Funke

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Ritter, Räuber, Spökenkieker

Die besten Sagen aus dem Ruhrgebiet

by El Kurdi, El

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March 1981

Strategie der wirtschaftlichen Integration.

by El-Shagi, El-Shagi

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2020

(B)ordering Britain

Law, race and empire

by Nadine El-Enany

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Britain cut itself off symbolically and physically from its colonies and the Commonwealth, taking with it what it had plundered. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain's colonial history into the shadows. The British Empire, about which Britons know little, can be remembered fondly as a moment of past glory, as a gift once given to the world. Meanwhile immigration laws are justified on the basis that they keep the undeserving hordes out. In fact, immigration laws are acts of colonial seizure and violence. They obstruct the vast majority of racialised people from accessing colonial wealth amassed in the course of colonial conquest. Regardless of what the law, media and political discourse dictate, people with personal, ancestral or geographical links to colonialism, or those existing under the weight of its legacy of race and racism, have every right to come to Britain and take back what is theirs.

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September 2015

Flammenwüste - Der Gefährte des Drachen

Roman

by El-Bahay, Akram

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August 2014

Flammenwüste

Roman

by El-Bahay, Akram

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August 2017

Die Bibliothek der flüsternden Schatten - Bücherstadt

Roman

by El-Bahay, Akram

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September 2016

Flammenwüste - Der feuerlose Drache

Roman

by El-Bahay, Akram

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August 2018

Die Bibliothek der flüsternden Schatten - Bücherkönig

by El-Bahay, Akram

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2021

Bordering Britain

by Nadine El-Enany

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Johnny Hübner greift ein

by El Kurdi, Hartmut

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December 2012

Das regimen morum der Zensoren.

Die Konstruktion des römischen Gemeinwesens.

by El Beheiri, Nadja

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