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PLAY! Der unverzichtbare LEGO Serious Play Praxis-Guide für Trainer, Coaches und Moderatoren
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by Hillmer, David
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PLAY! Der unverzichtbare LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Praxis-Guide für Trainer, Coaches und Moderatoren
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by Hillmer, David
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September 2023PLAY! Der unverzichtbare LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Praxis-Guide für Workshops, Coachings und Moderation
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by Hillmer, David
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November 2024How Big Things Get Done
Wie Projekte gelingen: von der Küchenrenovierung bis zur Marsmission
by Flyvbjerg, Bent
Aus dem Englischen von Anke Wagner-Wolff und Gisela Fichtl
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The ArtsJune 2017Popular television drama
Critical perspectives
by Jonathan Bignell, Stephen Lacey
Popular television drama: critical perspectives' is a collection of essays examining landmark programmes of the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office', and from 'The Demon Headmaster' to 'Queer As Folk'. Contributions from prominent academics focus on the full range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama, and challenge received wisdom by reconsidering how British television drama can be analysed. Each section is preceded by an introduction in which the editors discuss how the essays address existing problems in the field and also suggest new directions for study. The book is split into three sections, addressing the enduring appeal of popular genres, the notion of 'quality' in television drama, and analysing a range of programmes past and present. Popular television drama: critical perspectives will be of interest to students and researchers in many academic disciplines that study television drama. Its breadth and focus on popular programmes will also appeal to those interested in the shows themselves.
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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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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 1999French society in revolution 1789–1799
by David Andress, Mark Greengrass
French society in revolution aims to retrieve the social history of the French Revolution from unjustified neglect. This study examines both the structural and cultural elements behind the breakdown of the eighteenth-century monarchic state and its aris. . . . ;
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The ArtsJune 2017Gothic television
by Helen Wheatley
Gothic television is the first full length study of the Gothic released on British and US television. An historical account, the book combines detailed archival research with analyses of key programmes, from Mystery and Imagination and Dark Shadows, to The Woman in White and Twin Peaks, and uncovers an aspect of television drama history which has, until now, remained critically unexplored. While some have seen television as too literal or homely a medium to successfully present Gothic fictions, Gothic television argues that the genre, in its many guises, is, and has always been, well-suited to television as a domestic medium, given the genre's obsessions with haunted houses and troubled families. This book will be of interest to lecturers and students across a number of disciplines including television studies, Gothic studies, and adaptation studies, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the Gothic, and in the history of television drama.
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March 2020Im Alten Land
by Birgit Haustedt
Apfelbäume, so weit das Auge reicht, idyllische Fachwerkdörfer hinter dem Deich und am Horizont die Elbe: Das Alte Land ist eine uralte Kulturlandschaft am Wasser, die ihren eigenen Charakter bewahrt hat. Prächtige Bauernhöfe und Backsteinkirchen mit kostbaren Barockorgeln zeugen noch heute vom frühen Wohlstand der Altländer. Birgit Haustedt erzählt von den Anfängen im Mittelalter, von Deichbau und Sturmfluten, vom Alltag der kleinen Leute und von großer Handwerkskunst, von stolzen Bauern und mutigen Schiffern. Dazu ein Exkurs, welche Rolle das Alte Land in Lessings Leben und Goethes Faust spielte.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026Negotiating identity conflicts in a fragmenting world order
by Paul Willem Meerts, Mark Anstey
At every level of human interaction new levels of identity-based tension are in evidence. Contributors to this book explore facets of fragmentation processes within systems of state and interstate organisation, how they influence the use of negotiation, and how negotiation might be used to effect renewed coherence. Following Anstey's (Ch1) introductory chapter framing the nature and shape of fragmentation dynamics, Zartman (Ch 2) argues that the use of negotiation as a process of conflict resolution is deeply shaped by identity groups whose internal coherence is dependent on sustaining a negative identity of others. International relations are no longer solely the realm of experienced diplomats but are shaped as Meerts (Ch3) points out by politicians seeking to be responsive to voting publics rather than wider concerns. Anstey digs into problems of fragmentation (Ch. 4) and Troitskiy (Ch 5) points out how a reluctant acceptance of the power of 'the other' can lead to a form of strategic stability in relations. Anstey and Meerts (Ch 6) point out in their analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian case as an identity conflict turned very bad. Guggenbuhl (Ch 7 ) reveals how structures and processes have been designed within the EU to prevent, contain and regulate conflicts to limit risks of confrontation and fragmentation. Schuessler (Ch 8) to advocates a shift away from a template or roadmap approach to EU membership to a cohesion based on non-dominance. There is still a strong desire on the part of some states, like Northern Macedonia, to become EU members, as reflected in Manton's (Ch 9). Paula Garzon and Frans Schram explain the success of the Colombia Peace Negotiations (Ch 10), while Odigie and da Rocha (Ch 11) analyse the struggle faced by ECOWAS to influence coup leaders in Mali to return to constitutional government and changes of government by constitutional means. Liang (Ch12) discusses how the internet as the modern vehicle of inter-state, inter-group and interpersonal communication has become weaponised. In Ch 13 Anstey draws some lessons from contributions to the compilation.
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October 2008LIMIT
Reich - Gewissenlos - Tot Thriller
by Sullivan, Mark T. / Englisch Gabler, Irmengard
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July 20255 Worlds (Band 1) - Der Sandkrieger
Entfache die Leuchtfeuer und rette die fünf Welten! - Ein mitreißendes Comic-Buch für Fantasy-Fans ab 10 Jahren
by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, Boya Sun, Julia Augustin
Fünf Welten, drei Helden, eine Mission Mit dem Verschwinden der Götter sind auch die Leuchtfeuer der Fünf Welten erloschen. Sie geraten immer mehr aus dem Gleichgewicht und scheinen dem Untergang geweiht. Es gibt nur einen, der die Feuer wieder entzünden könnte: den Auserwählten. Oona ist die tollpatschigste Sandtänzerin der Akademie und damit das große Gegenteil ihrer Schwester Jessa. Die wurde vor vier Jahren zur Auserwählten bestimmt, doch ausgerechnet am Leuchtfeuertag ist sie spurlos verschwunden. Als sich die Lage jetzt zuspitzt, ist Oona klar: Sie muss ihre Schwester zurückholen! Hilfe bekommt sie unerwarteterweise von An Tzu, einem Jungen aus den Slums, und der Starball-Legende Jax Amboy. Wird das ungleiche Trio Jessa rechtzeitig finden, um das Leuchtfeuer zu entzünden und die Fünf Welten zu retten? „Umwerfend schön … Ein Must-Read.“ R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times -Bestsellerautorin von Wunder Der Auftakt einer mitreißenden Fantasy-Reihe Star Wars trifft auf Avatar – Der Herr der Elemente : Begleite Oona, An Tzu und Jax im ersten Band der mitreißenden Comicbuch-Reihe für Mädchen und Jungen ab 10 Jahren durch die erste der Fünf Welten . Atemberaubende Illustrationen , liebenswerte Charaktere und ein großes Abenteuer warten auf dich! Fesselnde Geschichte : In dieser actionreichen Graphic Novel trifft Fantasy auf Dystopie. Spannendes Setting : Jeder Band spielt in einer anderen der Fünf Welten, die durch großartiges Worldbuilding überzeugen. Überzeugende Figuren : Die ungleichen Protagonist*innen bieten ein hohes Identifikationspotential für Mädchen und Jungen und überzeugen durch ihre unterschiedlichen Stärken und Schwächen. Das mythische Pflanzenvolk verleiht der Geschichte eine ganz besondere Magie, während sich die Abgründe der Feinde nur erahnen lassen. Wichtige Themen : Umweltschutz und soziale Ungerechtigkeiten sind ebenso Teil der Geschichte wie Freundschaft und Zusammenhalt – über alle Grenzen hinweg.
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The ArtsJune 2021Genre and performance: film and television
by Christine Cornea
Looking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. Previous studies of screen performance have tended to fix upon star actors, directors, or programme makers, or they have concentrated upon particular training and acting styles. Moving outside of these confines, this book provides a truly interdisciplinary account of performance in film and television and examines a much neglected area in our understanding of how popular genres and performance intersect on screen. Each chapter concentrates upon a particular genre or draws upon generic case studies in examining the significance of screen performance. Individual chapters examine contemporary film noir, horror, the biopic, drama-documentary, the western, science fiction, comedy performance in 'spoof news' programmes and the television 'sit com' and popular Bollywood films.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013The English manor c.1200–c.1500
by Mark Bailey
Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records. Offers translations of, and commentaries upon, each category of document to illustrate their main features. Examples of each category of record are provided in translation, followed by shorter extracts selected to illustrate interesting, commonly occurring, or complex features. A valuable source of reference for undergraduates wishing to understand the sources which underpin the majority of research on the medieval economy and society.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2019Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920–60
by Jeffrey Richards
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Business, Economics & LawApril 1905The Acquisitive Society
by R.H. Tawney
This 1926 survey, written by a distinguished social and economic historian, examines the role of religion in the rise of capitalism. Arguing that material acquisitiveness is morally wrong and a corrupting social influence, the author draws upon his profound knowledge of labor and politics to show how concentrated wealth distorts economic policies. Colorful but credible, this study offers a timeless vision of alternative means toward a just economic, social, and intellectual order.
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2019History of the Throw-Away Society
The drawback of consumption
by Wolfgang König
Sooner or later everything is thrown away. In the consumer society, however, usable and serviceable products that may be as good as new are also thrown away. Such behaviour is the result of a long-term process that has developed over a period of one-and-a-half centuries. The change was led by the USA, and the Federal Republic of Germany followed. It started at the turn of the last century with personal hygiene: articles such as toilet paper, sanitary towels, nappies and paper handkerchiefs. After the Second World War, a large number of other disposable articles were soon added, such as paper cups and plastic dishes, nylon stockings and pens, razor blades, beverage cans and much more besides. Wolfgang König shows how business and consumers have together made throwing things away perfectly normal – and discusses how the throwaway society may be overcome.
