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Editions Larousse SAS
Major French publisher of books on cooking, crafts and hobbies, gardening, health and well-being, gardening nature and animals, art and history, essays as well as children's books and games for all ages. Around 600 new titles each year. Since 1852.
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September 2008Sichere Siege
Fußball und organisiertes Verbrechen Oder wie Spiele manipuliert werden
by Hill, Declan
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 1997A Game at Chess
Thomas Middleton
by T.H. Howard-Hill
For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James' reign on account of its unprecedented representation of matters of state usually forbidden on the stage. The King's Men performed the play uninterruptedly between 5th and 14th August, 1624 at their Globe Theatre, attracting large audiences, before the Privy Council closed the theatre by the King's command. More recently, growing interest in the connections of economics and politics with authorship have promoted readings that locate the play so firmly within its historical context as propaganda that, again, its worthwhile literary and theatrical qualities are neglected. In writing "A Game at Chess", Middleton employed the devices of the neoclassical comedy of intrigue within the matrix of the traditional oral play. What might have seemed old-fashioned allegory was rejuvenated by his adoption of the fashionable game of chess as the fiction within which the play was set. The product of Middleton's experienced craftsmanship is at once deceptively simple and surprisingly complex. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2018English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine, 1550–1700
by Louise Hill-Curth
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1984Tödliche Wissenschaft
Die Aussonderung von Juden, Zigeunern und Geisteskranken 1933-1945
by Müller-Hill, Benno
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May 2015Was mach ich hier eigentlich?
So 'ne Art Chinareiseroadmoviebildertagebuch
by Hill, Martina; Musienko, Marco