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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        May 2025

        US 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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        January 1995

        Ich bin Wolfram, sexsüchtig

        Bekenntnisse eines Freiers

        by Jehser, Wolfram M

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        October 2007

        Etwas fehlt immer

        Erzählungen

        by Guy Helminger

        Guy Helmingers Erzählungen sind für vieles gelobt worden: den nachtschwarzen, grandios trockenen Humor, die Raffinesse, die so brutale wie komische Abgründigkeit und nicht zuletzt die Tatsache, daß hier endlich einmal jemand eine stichhaltige Erklärung dafür gibt, warum manche Männer vom Zigarettenholen nicht mehr zurückkommen.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        November 2024

        The Island Book of Records Volume II

        1969-70

        by Neil Storey

        The second volume of this highly collectable series, covering the pivotal years of 1969-70. The Island Book of Records Volume II documents the years 1969-70, during which Island sought to build on its success with the Spencer Davis Group by seeking out new British rock talent. By the end of the period, Island was emerging as a major British label, one that could boast releases from Jethro Tull, Nick Drake, King Crimson, John and Beverley Martyn, Fairport Convention and Cat Stevens. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and including a comprehensive discography of 45s, The Island Book of Records Volume II is lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues that no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera collector's dream.

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        The Arts
        June 2021

        Algerian national cinema

        by Guy Austin

        This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film has represented this often misunderstood nation. Algerian National Cinema explores key films from The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Mascarades (2007). Introductions to Algerian history and to the national film industry are followed by chapters on the essential genres and themes of filmmaking in Algeria, including films of anti-colonial struggle, representations of gender, Berber cinema, and filming the 'black decade' of the 1990s. This thoughtful and timely book will appeal to all interested in world cinemas, in North African and Islamic cultures, and in the role of cinema as a vehicle for the expression of contested identities. By the author of the critically-acclaimed Contemporary French Cinema.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Algerian national cinema

        by Guy Austin

        This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film has represented this often misunderstood nation. Algerian National Cinema explores key films from The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Mascarades (2007). Introductions to Algerian history and to the national film industry are followed by chapters on the essential genres and themes of filmmaking in Algeria, including films of anti-colonial struggle, representations of gender, Berber cinema, and filming the 'black decade' of the 1990s. This thoughtful and timely book will appeal to all interested in world cinemas, in North African and Islamic cultures, and in the role of cinema as a vehicle for the expression of contested identities. By the author of the critically-acclaimed Contemporary French Cinema.

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        January 1997

        Gesamtausgabe in 24 Bänden

        Band 9: Kant. Die Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie (1905/1907)

        by Georg Simmel, Guy Oakes, Kurt Röttgers, Otthein Rammstedt

        Zu Kant (aus dem Vorwort von Georg Simmel, S. 9): »Die Absicht dieses Buches ist keine philosophie-geschichtliche, sondern eine rein philosophische. Es gilt ausschließlich, diejenigen Kerngedanken, mit denen Kant ein neues Weltbild gegründet hat, in das zeitlose Inventar des philosophischen Besitzes – und wenigstens annäherungsweise wird ein solcher auch zeitlich bedingten Wesen erwerbbar sein – einzustellen, unabhängig von allen Anwendungen und Ergänzungen, die zwar innerhalb des Kantischen Gesamtsystems, nicht aber nach den für die Weltanschauung entscheidenden Gesichtspunkten mit jenen Hauptsachen verbunden sind; es gilt, die Kantischen Probleme und Lösungen an dem zu messen, was man wohl die Lebensfragen der Philosophie nennen kann.« Die Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie (aus dem Vorwort von Georg Simmel, S. 229): »Den Gegenstand dieses Buches bildet das Problem: wie aus dem Stoffe der unmittelbaren gelebten Wirklichkeit das theoretische Gebilde werde, das wir Geschichte nennen. Es will zeigen, daß diese Umbildung eine radikalere ist, als das naive Bewußtsein anzunehmen pflegt.«

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        Till Stress Do Us Part

        Resilience in Relationships

        by Guy Bodenmann

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2024

        The Legacy of John Polidori

        The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

        by Sam George, Bill Hughes

        John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2018

        David 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 Studies
        August 2022

        David 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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        Sociology
        January 2017

        Sport in the Black Atlantic

        Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora

        by Janelle Joseph. Series edited by John Horne

        This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies.

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        September 2009

        The Spirit World in the Letters of Paul the Apostle

        A Critical Examination of the Role of Spiritual Beings in the Authentic Pauline Epistles

        by Williams, Guy

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        The Arts
        August 2016

        Algerian national cinema

        by Guy Austin

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        April 2024

        Niederwald

        by Wolfram Höll

        Ob es eine gute Idee ist, von Deutschland aus in dieses Schweizer Dorf auszuwandern? Nach dem Unfalltod der Mutter ziehen ein überforderter Vater mit der Tochter im Säuglingsalter und ihrer beherzten Urgroßmutter in den Heimatort der Toten, richten sich, argwöhnisch belauert von der Dorfgemeinschaft, in ihrem neuen Leben ein. Hier haben selbst die Häuser Augen, hier wird das Leben der Menschen durch jahrhundertealte Rituale zusammengehalten und Fremde sollen erst einmal Schweizerdeutsch lernen. Mit groteskem Humor, scharf gezeichneten Figuren, mitreißender Bildkraft und seinem eigenwilligen Erzählsound lässt Wolfram Höll eine magische Kulisse auferstehen, schildert die Geschichte der Überwindung von Trauer, erzählt von Integration und Ankommen in einer Welt, die von Überalterung und Klimawandel gezeichnet ist.

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        September 1994

        Federico Sánchez verabschiedet sich

        by Wolfram Bayer, Jorge Semprún

        'Federico Sánchez verabschiedet sich' erzählt die neue Karriere des Ex-Kommunisten und einstigen Untergrundkämpfers Semprun im Arkanum der offiziellen Politik - und ihr Scheitern. Der Autor legt zugleich die Bruchstücke seines vergangenen Lebens vor, sein assoziatives Gedächtnis wandert zu verschiedenen Stationen seiner Biographie, zu Büchern und Bildern, die sein Leben begleiteten, zu Freunden und Gegnern. So entschieden er dabei in seinen Urteilen ist, so ironisch, ja sarkastisch zuweilen - so unverkennbar ist zugleich die Wehmut in vielen seiner Schilderungen und Erinnerungen. Bilden die Erfahrungen mit der Macht, die politischen Ränkespiele und Intrigen, die Begegnungen mit Mächtigen und Berühmten den äußeren Rahmen des Buches, so ist es doch mehr als das, nämlich Lebensbericht, Rückblick auf die exemplarische Biographie eines europäischen Intellektuellen dieses Jahrhunderts.

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        September 2003

        Adorno in Frankfurt

        Ein Kaleidoskop aus Texten und Bildern

        by Wolfram Schütte, Wolfram Schütte

        Frankfurt am Main war für Theodor W. Adorno der Ort, »wo die eigene Erfahrung ihr Zentrum hat«. An keinem Ort hat er länger gelebt als in seiner Geburtsstadt. Hier wollte er, als er 1949 nach fünfzehnjähriger Emigration zurückkehrte, den Versuch unternehmen, »die Kindheit verwandelnd einzuholen«.Was weltweit »Frankfurter Schule« genannt wurde, war gewiß er nicht allein; aber ohne ihn und seine von Frankfurt aus in alle kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Bereiche ausstrahlende geistige Produktivität und Präsenz hätten Ruf und Name der »Frankfurter Schule« einen anderen Klang.Adorno in Frankfurt sowie Frankfurt in Adorno: Das stiftet ein Geflecht von subtilen Beziehungen, offenbaren und subkutanen, privaten und öffentlichen. Gerade im Autobiographischen war er diskret. Dennoch hat der Ort Spuren hinterlassen – und Frankfurt in ihm.Aus einer Vielzahl der Text- und Bildzeugnisse, aus Frankfurter Anlässen und Möglichkeiten, aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen und aus Dokumenten seiner Frankfurter Geistesgegenwärtigkeit entsteht das Kaleidoskop von Berührungen und Koinzidenzen, ein Mosaik von Erinnerungen und Mutmaßungen.

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