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Christine Heimannsberg
Gelobtes Land, die dystopische Climate Fiction Trilogie: Mit CO2 verbindet man den Klimawandel, schmelzende Gletscher und Überflutungen. Mittlerweile ist der Klimawandel auch in der Literatur angekommen. „Climate Fiction“ oder „Cli-fi“ lautet das Stichwort, das zuletzt verstärkt in den Feuilletons auftauchte. Die deutsche Autorin Christine Heimannsberg präsentiert mit ihrer Debüt-Trilogie „Gelobtes Land“ eine ungewöhnliche, spannende Dystopie, die ökologische wie humanistische Themen geschickt im neuen Genre zusammenführt.
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September 2025Haare
Politisch, poetisch, haarig | Das neue Stück der chilenischen Theater-Philosophin
by Manuela Infante, Felicitas Arnold
Manuela Infante, eine der aufregendsten Theatermacher:innen Südamerikas, fragt in ihrem Theaterstück Haare danach, wie viel wir wirklich über die Verstrickungen des globalen Handels wissen wollen. Gekonnt zoomt Infante in die Realität einer kulturhistorischen Nische, die unmittelbar mit der Frage nach Schönheitsidealen, Alter und Krankheit verwoben ist. Philosophisch, bildstark und poetisch schreibt Manuela Infante einen polyphonen Monolog für ein kollektives Gewirr, das endlich die Stimme erhebt. Die Schauspielerin ist Anfang 60, als sie plötzlich büschelweise Haare verliert. Ohne Widerstand stoßen sich die Haare von ihr ab, wie tote Schlangen liegen sie schlaff in ihren Händen. Der Verfall hat eingesetzt, die Zeit, sie ist der Killer. Oder ist sie doch krank? So jedenfalls kann sie ihre Rollen im Theater nicht mehr spielen, vor allem nicht die der Medusa oder die der Königsmutter. Sie wird aus dem Theaterbetrieb entfernt. Zuhause erwartet sie nichts, kein Kind, kein Hund, keine Pflanze. Ihre Wohnung ist ein leerer Ort. Was tun mit all dem Nichts? Sie entwendet ihre Perücke aus dem Theater, lässt sie sich im Perückenladen aufpeppen – doch man kommt ihr und ihren unechten Haaren schnell auf die Schliche. Nur was wirklich echt ist, zählt. Doch was und vor allem wer steckt in dieser Echthaarperücke eigentlich drin? Mit einem ihr aufgedrängten DNA-Test beginnt ein Trip durch die Geschichte der Herkunft und Tradition der Perücke, die von Eitelkeiten, Raub, Gewalt und Macht geprägt ist.
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October 2020Rechte Bedrohungsallianzen
Signaturen der Bedrohung II
by Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Manuela Freiheit, Peter Sitzer
Nach Ereignissen wie dem Mord an Walter Lübcke, dem Anschlag in Halle oder den rassistischen Morden in Hanau im Februar 2020 wird regelmäßig darüber diskutiert, inwiefern es sich um isolierte Einzeltäter handelt oder ob ein Zusammenhang zu bestimmten Parteien und Ideologien besteht. Der renommierte Rechtsextremismusforscher Wilhelm Heitmeyer hat dazu bereits 2012 das Modell eines konzentrischen Eskalationskontinuums präsentiert: ganz außen stehen menschenfeindliche Einstellungen in der Bevölkerung, im Zentrum terroristische Zellen, dazwischen organisierte Akteure, »Vordenker«, systemfeindliche Milieus und Unterstützernetzwerke. Die Gewaltbereitschaft nimmt von außen nach innen zu, die jeweils äußere Schicht liefert ihrer inneren Nachbarin Legitimation. In dieser hochaktuellen Studie zeigt Wilhelm Heitmeyer zusammen mit Peter Sitzer und Manuela Freiheit u. a. am Beispiel der Ausschreitungen in Chemnitz im August 2018, wie sich innerhalb dieses Kontinuums Allianzen herausbilden und wie diese die offene Gesellschaft immer stärker bedrohen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2025A grand strategy of peace
Britain and the creation of the United Nations Organization, 1939-1945
by Andrew Ehrhardt
A grand strategy of peace is the first detailed account of Britain's role in the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War. As a work of traditional diplomatic history that brings in elements of intellectual history, the book describes how British officials, diplomats, politicians, and writers - previously seen to be secondary actors to the United States in this period - thought about, planned for, and helped to establish a future international order. While in the present day, many scholars and analysts have returned to the origins of the post- 1945 international system, this book offers an exhaustive account of how the statesmen and more importantly, the officials working below the statesmen, actually conceived of and worked to establish a post-war world order.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025The Jacobites and the Grand Tour
Educational travel and small-states' diplomacy
by Jérémy Filet
In the first monograph to fully examine the intersecting networks of Jacobites and travellers to the continent, Filet considers how small states used official diplomacy and deployed soft power - embodied by educational academies - to achieve foreign policy goals. This work uses little-known archival materials to explain how and why certain small states secretly supported the Jacobite cause during the crucial years surrounding the 1715 rising, while others stayed out of Jacobite affairs.At the same time, the book demonstrates how early modern small states sought to cultivate good relations with Britain by attracting travellers as part of a wider trend of ensuring connections with future diplomats or politicians in case a Stuart restoration never came.This publication therefore brings together a study of Britain, small states, Jacobitism, and educational travel, in its nexus at continental academies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840
by Angela McCarthy, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Russian grand strategy in the era of global power competition
by Andrew Monaghan, Richard Connolly
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January 1990Das hoffnungslose Leben der Anna M.
Bericht über eine Schizophrenie. (Persönliche Erfahrungen mit Krisen)
by Schulz, Bernd J
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The ArtsDecember 2007J. M. W. Turner
The making of a modern artist
by Sam Smiles, Alan Rutter
Alone of his contemporaries, J.M.W. Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting, as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art. This book shows how Turner was reinvented to become the artist we recognise today. On Turner's death in 1851 he was already known as an adventurous, even baffling, painter. But when the Court of Chancery decreed that the contents of his studio should be given to the nation, another side of his art was revealed that effected a wholescale change in his reputation. This book acts as a guide to the reactions of art writers and curators from the 1850s to the 1960s as they attempted to come to terms with his work. It documents how Turner was interpreted and how his work was displayed in Britain, in Europe and in North America, concentrating on the ways in which his artistic identity was manipulated by art writers, by curators at the Tate and by designers of exhibitions for the British Council and other bodies. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2026Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada’s Minor Histories
by Aymenn Al-Tamimi
This work provides the first complete English translation of works by Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170-1247 CE), whose 'Minor Histories' are sequels to his larger 'Gothic History' and thus round off his grand history of Spain project that he began at the request of King Ferdinand III. The 'Minor Histories' include Rodrigo's 'History of the Arabs' that can be considered the first surviving Western monograph focused on Arab and Islamic history and thus occupies a unique position in the medieval Latin corpus of writings. In addition to the translation, this book provides a thorough and accessible introduction to the life and works of Rodrigo, making sense of the context in which he wrote and his historical method. The translations are thoroughly annotated including cross-references to other Latin and Arabic sources for comparison.
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