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      • Trusted Partner
        May 2012

        Der Geograph des Papstes

        Leo Africanus

        by Amin Maalouf, Nicola Volland, Bettina Klingler

        »Ich bin ein Sohn der Straße, meine Heimat ist die Karawane, und mein Leben ist eine Reise voller Überraschungen.« Hassan al-Wazzan, ein gebildeter junger Mann und gläubiger Muslim, bereist als Kaufmann den Maghreb und hat den großen Wunsch, nach Mekka zu pilgern. Doch es sind unruhige Zeiten in einer unruhigen Gegend, es herrschen Überfälle und Kriege. Wie aus dem Nichts taucht eines Tages eine Bande sizilianischer Piraten auf, die Hassan nach Rom verschleppen und versklaven. Er ist ein Glücksgriff für die Piraten, denn Hassans wacher Verstand und seine außergewöhnliche Klugheit machen ihn zu einem besonderen Geschenk für den mächtigsten Mann der christlichen Welt: Papst Leo X. Dieser ernennt ihn zu seinem Geographen – doch wird er dem Vatikan jemals wieder entkommen können, seine Freiheit zurückerlangen und in seine Heimat, den Maghreb, zurückkehren? »Der Geograph des Papstes« ist ein ungemein packender historischer Roman, der die ereignisreiche und hochspannende Epoche der Renaissance lebendig werden läßt.

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        1993

        Ausbruch aus dem Bann der Sekten

        Psychologische Beratung für Betroffene und Angehörige

        by Hassan, Steven

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        June 2024

        Geist und Imagination

        Zur Bedeutung der Vorstellungskraft für Denken und Handeln

        by Serena Gregorio, Gerson Reuter, Matthias Vogel, Christiana Werner

        Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie wachten eines Tages auf und hätten die Fähigkeit verloren, sich etwas vorzustellen. Wie sähe Ihr Alltag aus? Wie fänden Sie heraus, was Sie gerne zu Abend essen würden? Könnten Sie sich noch in eine andere Person hineinversetzen? Die Texte des Bandes, u. a. von Emmanuel Alloa, Margherita Arcangeli, Robert Hopkins, Amy Kind, Julia Langkau, Peter Langland-Hassan, Bence Nanay und Íngrid Vendrell Ferran, beleuchten aus philosophischer Perspektive unterschiedliche Kontexte, in denen unsere Vorstellungskraft am Werk ist. Sie gehen der Idee nach, dass diese Fähigkeit eine weit wichtigere Rolle für unser Denken und Handeln spielt, als für gewöhnlich angenommen wurde. Die Vorstellungskraft gehört zu jenen Vermögen, welche die menschliche Lebensform grundlegend prägen.

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        Heute fühlt sich alles an wie Krieg

        Ein Drohneneinsatz, ein Trauma und seine Folgen

        by Hassan Khan, André Böss, Gideon

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Air power and colonial control

        by David Omissi

        Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.

      • Trusted Partner
        February 2020

        Der Tag des Königs

        by Abdellah Taïa, Andréas Riehle

        An der Straße von Rabat nach Salé wartet eine Menschenmenge auf die Ankunft Hassans II., des Königs von Marokko. Mitten darin zwei Jungen.Khalid stammt aus einem herrschaftlichen Haus im reichsten Viertel der Stadt, Omar aus der armen Vorstadt. Dennoch sind sie unzertrennlich. Omar liebt Khalid, den feingliedrigen Jungen mit der zarten Haut und den überspannten Ideen. Und Khalid Omar, der mit seinen vierzehn Jahren schon die Verantwortung für seinen Vater trägt. Der ist wie ein kleines Kind, seit Omars Mutter die Familie verlassen hat. Doch unter dieser Beziehung der beiden ungleichen Jungen lauern Abgründe. Und jetzt ist überdies Khalid ausgewählt, als reichster und bester Schüler der Klasse dem König die Hand zu küssen. Er hat Omar nichts davon gesagt. Dieser Verrat läßt die Kluft zwischen beiden aufbrechen – und verlangt ein Opfer. Lakonisch, dramatisch, mit kunstvoller Theatralik erzählt der marokkanische Autor Abdellah Taïa, wie Liebe umschlägt in Gewalt unter einem von sozialer Ungleichheit und Tabus geprägten despotischen Regime.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2007

        Religion in Revolutionary England

        by Christopher Durston, Judith Maltby

        This book offers a collection of essays tightly focused around the issue of religion in England between 1640 and 1660, a time of upheaval and civil war in England. Edited by well-known scholars of the subject, topics include the toleration controversy, women's theological writing, observance of the Lord's Day and prayer books. To aid understanding, the essays are divided into three sections examining theology in revolutionary England, inside and outside the revolutionary National Church and local impacts of religious revolution. Carefully and thoughtfully presented, this book will be of great use for those seeking to better understand the practices and patterns of religious life in England in this important and fascinating period. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        November 2021

        The Forest of the Future – A New Reality

        Understanding the ecosystem

        by Hans Jürgen Böhmer

        What happened with forest dieback? The predictions of the 1980s that forests would be in decline across Europe have not come true. Currently, attention again focuses on the doom scenarios of the loss of entire forests and cultural landscapes in an emotional and sometimes hysterical debate. Biogeographer Hans Jürgen Böhmer refers to updated case studies and his 30 years of research experience on global ecosystems to demonstrate extremely complex interrelations of the natural world that various actors monitor in contrasting ways and characterized by different times and ideologies. Böhmer advocates to embed the sustainability debate more strongly in the living environment, rather than relying exclusively on model calculations.

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        The Arts
        February 2022

        "I am Jugoslovenka!"

        Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism

        by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon

        "I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.

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        The Arts
        November 2017

        Vivien Leigh

        Actress and icon

        by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale

        This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era. With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the 'public ownership' of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime and beyond.

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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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