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MedicineFebruary 2022Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
by Michael Robinson, Walton Schalick
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2013The House of Lords
by Donald Shell
The House of Lords has undergone significant change in recent years. The exclusion of the great majority of the hereditary peers in 1999 was intended as the first step in a two-stage reform process. But further reform has proved difficult to achieve and remains a matter of considerable controversy. Meanwhile, the present House has become more assertive, and is now widely recognised as making a substantial contribution to the overall work of parliament. This book, available in paperback for the first time, examines the role of the contemporary House. Who are the peers, and who among the total of over 700 are the active peers? How does the House work, and how effective is it in revising legislation and in scrutinising the work of government? Why has fundamental reform of the House been so long delayed, and what are the main arguments about reform today? These are among the questions discussed in this timely volume, which seeks to locate discussion about the House of Lords in the wider context of a clear understanding of the developing British constitution. This book will be of great value to students and academics in British politics, as well as to serious journalists and researchers. ;
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1986In tausend Spiegeln
Jugendliche und Erwachsene 1985 - Eine Studie wird vorgestellt
by Speichert, Horst / Herausgegeben von Jugendwerk d. Deutschen Shell
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2025Serfdom in medieval England
Theory and practice 1200 to 1500
by Mark Bailey
Serfdom was a coercive relationship between a landowner and peasant, which was widespread across medieval and early modern Europe. Itfeatures prominently in major historical debates, such as the origins of capitalism and the divergent pathways of western and eastern Europe to modernity. Scholars have paid particular attention to English serfdom, which is usually portrayed as highly oppressive and a major cause of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. This comprehensive survey draws on a vast scholarship and new research to show how, in reality, English serfdom was weak, casting new light on the nature of its society and economy when the Black Death struck in 1348-9. The pandemicnow assumesa central role in the rapid decline of serfdom, as illustrated in a case study of the estate of one of England's harshest landowners, St Albans abbey.
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MedicineManual Trigger Point Therapy and Dry Needling for Chronic Pain
Myofascial medicine as an approach to an unresolved challenge
by Beat Dejung
Medicine for the relief of pain has made little progress in the last 50 years. 16% of our population claim to suffer from chronic pain, for which no lasting help can be found, despite years of treatment by different doctors. Trigger point therapy experts have integrated myofascial techniques into their everyday therapy in recent decades and through this they have achieved good results even with complex and chronic problems. In this book, instructors from the Interest Group for Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy (IMTT) in Switzerland present 33 complex cases of patients with chronic pain, whose pain they were able to relieve permanently with manual trigger point therapy and dry needling. Using these case studies, doublepage spreads with an educational, uniform layout clearly present the diagnosis, pathophysiology and chronifcation of myofascial pain syndromes and, in conclusion, describe encouraging and surprising successes despite previous therapy resistance.
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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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1984
Jugend - vom Umtausch ausgeschlossen
Eine Generation stellt sich vor
by Herausgegeben von Jugendwerk der Deutschen Shell
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March 2016After you get what you want, you don't want it
Wunscherfüllung, Begehren und Genießen
by Herausgegeben von Pfaller, Robert; Herausgegeben von Hofstadler, Beate
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2014Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.
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June 2005Leben inmitten von Leben
Die Aktualität der Ethik Albert Schweitzers
by Beiträge von Schneider, Manuel; Beiträge von Ingensiep, Hans Werner; Beiträge von Gräßer, Erich; Beiträge von Baranzke, Heike; Beiträge von Sitter-Liver, Beat; Beiträge von Seitz-Weinzierl, Beate; Beiträge von Grober, Ulrich; Beiträge von Gottwald, Franz-Theo; Beiträge von Lenk, Hans; Beiträge von Biegert, Claus; Beiträge von Weinzierl, Hubert; Beiträge von Fuchs, Nikolai; Beiträge von Frambach, Ludwig; Beiträge von Brück, Michael von; Beiträge von Günzler, Claus; Beiträge von Altner, Günter; Beiträge von Mertens, Paul; Beiträge von Weber, Karsten; Herausgegeben von Altner, Günter; Herausgegeben von Frambach, Ludwig; Herausgegeben von Gottwald, Franz-Theo; Herausgegeben von Schneider, Manuel
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April 2009Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe
Ein großes historisches Ritterschauspiel. Berlin 1810
by Heinrich Kleist, Axel Schmitt
Diese Ausgabe der »Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek – Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium« bietet Heinrich von Kleists Drama »Das Käthchen von Heilbronn« nach dem Erstdruck des gesamten Textes aus dem Jahr 1810. Ergänzt wird diese Edition von einem Kommentar, der alle für das Verständnis des Dramas erforderlichen Informationen und Materialien enthält und den intertextuellen Charakter der Texte Kleists unterstreicht: die Entstehungsgeschichte, Dokumente zur zeitgenössischen Wirkung, einen Überblick Über die verschiedenen Deutungsansätze, Literaturhinweise sowie Wort- und Sacherläuterungen.
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August 2000
Der Klang von fallendem Schnee
Leben ohne zu hören
by Tucker, Bonnie P / Übersetzt von Wasel, Ulrike; Übersetzt von Timmermann, Klaus
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2025Mrs Dalloway
Biography of a novel
by Mark Hussey
A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.
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The ArtsMarch 2026Acting and performance in Hitchcock
by Adrian Garvey, Victoria Lowe
Hitchcock's professed disdain for actors is belied by the extraordinary range and depth of performances featured in his films. It might even be argued that many stars gave their richest and most complex performances in his work. Hitchcock's films are also imbued with the theme of performance, as when his fugitive men and errant women assume fragile new identities and move between roles. Actors and other performers also often feature as characters. However, the exhaustive academic literature on Hitchcock has to date produced surprisingly little work about acting and performance in his films. The collection includes contributions from a range of leading scholars on Hitchcock, performance, stardom, and British Cinema, including Charles Barr, David Greven, Mark Glancy, Lucy Bolton, Lawrence Napper and Michael Williams, and an interview with leading composers/accompanists Neil Brand and Stephen Horne on scoring performance in Silent Hitchcock.
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