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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2025Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953
by Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, Bertrand Taithe, Raphaële Balu
This book offers a micro-global history of humanitarianism and medical care during the 'long' Second World War, which challenges the traditional and Eurocentric chronological boundaries of 1939/1945. It takes as its starting point the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which led to the progressive dislocation of the League of Nations, with the Japanese, German and Soviet departures in the 1930s. It ends with the termination of the Korean War in 1953, and the subsequent dismantlement of the first United Coalition and UN Peace enforcement operation. It considers the slow, messy and ambivalent transformation of humanitarian actors' relations to the suffering of distant others through a study of humanitarian encounters, practices, spaces and affects. Paying close attention to a variety of actors, such as French colonial doctors, Swiss ICRC delegates, Egyptian relief workers, Chinese-style physicians, Peruvian and Ecuadorian nurses or American member of the Unitarian Service Committee, the book provides a more holistic story of humanitarianism.
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Business, Economics & LawMarch 2026Humanitarianism in Civil War
The Biafra crisis, 1967-1970
by Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps
May 1967, in Nigeria, the Republic of Biafra declared its independence. Soon, civil war and famine ravaged the region and gradually entered the European and American media. Photographs of the conflict arouse considerable emotion in the West. The secessionist enclave and the areas taken over by the Nigerian army then became the scene of major relief operations, developed and financed by multiple organizations and governments. Part of a historiography of humanitarianism in full renewal, this book tells the story of the war, its metamorphosis into an international crisis and the responses that were provided. Based on a large body of sources from French, British, Swiss, Nigerian and American archives, it offers an insight into the world of humanitarian work at the end of the 1960s. It shows the reconfigurations taking place there. in the postcolonial era by proposing complementary scales of observation - international, national and local. The work also revisits some of the controversies which developed around the conflict regarding the instrumentalization of aid, its links with politics, the reception of relief operations on the ground or even the birth of borderlessness and testimony. It thus returns to the place occupied by the Biafran crisis in the history of humanitarian aid.
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March 2026Wer in meinem Herzen wohnt
by Emily Dickinson, Sonia Maria Luce Possentini, Mirko Bonné
Die stimmungsvollen Illustrationen von Sonia Maria Luce Possentini entführen in eine Welt voller Poesie und leiser Kraft. Begleitet von einem Gedicht der amerikanischen Dichterin Emily Dickinson eröffnet es eine Welt der inneren Ruhe und Reflexion und schärft das Gespür für das Unsichtbare, Verborgene und Verbindende. Es lädt dazu ein, der leisen Kraft der Stille zu begegnen und die eigenen Gefühle zu erkunden. Ein Buch für alle, die inmitten des Trubels einen Moment für sich selbst brauchen und die Stille in ihrem Inneren entdecken möchten.
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September 2025Das Geschenk der Natur
Eine Einladung, hinzuhören
by Alberto Casiraghy, Sonia Maria Luce Possentini, Gabriel Pacheco
Der Stimme der Natur lauschen Mit sanften Illustrationen und einfühlsamen Texten lädt dieses wunderbare Bilderbuch dazu ein, die Geheimnisse der Natur zu entdecken und ihre Lehren für das eigene Leben anzunehmen. Inspiriert von den vier Elementen, regt der Text zum Nachdenken an und zeigt, wie tief unsere Wurzeln mit der Welt verbunden sind. Ein Buch für all jene, die inmitten des Alltags die Nähe zur Natur suchen, Inspiration finden und sich mit der Welt um sie herum verbunden fühlen möchten. Das Geschenk der Natur. Eine Einladung, hinzuhören: Die Geheimnisse der Natur entdecken Den Herzschlag der Erde spüren: Ein poetisches Bilderbuch für Erwachsene über die Weisheiten der Natur. Achtsamkeit in der Natur: Anhand der vier Elemente beschreibt das hochwertige Geschenkbuch, wie tief die Menschen mit der Natur verbunden sind. Kraftvolle Botschaften: Die einfühlsamen Texte von Alberto Casiraghy regen zum Nachdenken über das eigene Leben an. Zauberhafte Bilder: Die sanften Illustrationen von Sonia Maria Luce Possentini und Gabriel Pacheco laden zum Entdecken, Fühlen und Staunen ein. Naturverbundenheit verschenken: Das Bilderbuch ist ein inspirierendes Geschenk für Erwachsene, die im Alltag die Nähe zur Natur suchen und sich mit ihr verbunden fühlen möchten. Die Schönheit des Lebens feiern mit DRESSLERillustro!DRESSLERillustro steht für sorgfältig kuratierte Geschenkbücher mit einzigartigen Bildern und Texten. Die reich illustrierten Bilderbücher für Erwachsene von namhaften Autor*innen und Illustrator*innen begeistern durch ihre hohe inhaltliche und optische Qualität. Bei DRESSLERillustro dreht sich alles um die großen Themen unserer Zeit: Liebe, Hoffnung, Sehnsucht, Naturverbundenheit, Selbstfürsorge. Jedes Buch ist ein kleines Kunstwerk und ein wertvolles Geschenk für einen lieben Menschen oder für sich selbst. Für kleine Auszeiten und Momente des Innehaltens und Reflektierens.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2010Defeated flesh
Welfare, warfare and the making of modern France
by Bertrand Taithe
Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune.. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siècle spirit.. Looking at the siege of Paris, the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it revises the current debates on citizenship, centralisation and modern warfare.. Looking at many untouched sources, Taithe seeks to understand why 1870-1871 became such an important phase in the making of modern France. ;
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The ArtsFebruary 2019Bertrand Tavernier
by Lynn Anthony Higgins
Bertrand Tavernier is widely recognized as the leading French filmmaker of his generation. Both a consummate artist and a controversial public figure, he is a passionate advocate for social causes and also a tireless defender of world cinema in general and the French cinematic heritage in particular. Lynn Higgins' book offers a guided tour through Tavernier's oeuvre, taking into account both its prodigious diversity and its unifying themes. It explores his use of genre and adaptation, his work with actors and his affection for characters, his treatment of France's colonial history, his explorations of the powers of art and the complexities of intergenerational relations, both among fictional characters and within French cinema history. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly book about Tavernier. Original and lively, sophisticated and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in film studies, gender studies, and French cultural studies including academics, students, cinema enthusiasts, and Tavernier fans.
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The ArtsDecember 2011Bertrand Tavernier
by Lynn Anthony Higgins, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram
Bertrand Tavernier is widely recognized as the leading French filmmaker of his generation. Both a consummate artist and a controversial public figure, he is a passionate advocate for social causes and also a tireless defender of world cinema in general and the French cinematic heritage in particular. Lynn Higgins' book offers a guided tour through Tavernier's oeuvre, taking into account both its prodigious diversity and its unifying themes. It explores his use of genre and adaptation, his work with actors and his affection for characters, his treatment of France's colonial history, his explorations of the powers of art and the complexities of intergenerational relations, both among fictional characters and within French cinema history. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly book about Tavernier. Original and lively, sophisticated and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in film studies, gender studies, and French cultural studies including academics, students, cinema enthusiasts, and Tavernier fans. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2024Marie Duval
Maverick Victorian Cartoonist
by Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian Waite
Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval's vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval's drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.
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September 1991Ethik der sexuellen Differenz
Aus dem Französischen von Xenia Rajewsky
by Luce Irigaray, Xenia Rajewsky
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October 2000Marguerite Duras
Biographie
by Laure Adler, Petra Willim
Laure Adler arbeitet als Journalistin, Historikerin und Schriftstellerin. Sie ist Autorin zahlreicher Werke, unter anderem einer Biografie über Marguerite Duras (2000). Außerdem schrieb sie das Vorwort zu der höchst erfolgreichen französischen Ausgabe von Stefan Bollmanns Frauen, die lesen, sind gefährlich (2006) und Frauen, die schreiben, leben gefährlich (2007). 2009 erschien ihr eigenes Buch, Endlose Liebe, im Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Bertrand Blier
by Sue Harris
The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself. Provides an original and controversial discussion of Blier's alleged 'misogyny', and invites the reader to understand the scatological and corporeal aspects of Blier's filmmaking in terms of long-established traditions of popular dramatic culture. Brings to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films and identifies strategies which navigate through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years. The first book on Blier published in English.
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May 1984
Autobiographie II
1914-1944. Aus dem Englischen von Julia Kirchner
by Bertrand Russell, Julia Kirchner
Bertrand Russell, geboren 1872 in Wales, studierte Mathematik in Cambridge. In seinen schriftstellerischen Tätigkeiten widmete er sich zunächst der Mathematik, später wandte er sich vermehrt philosophischen Themen zu. 1950 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Bertrand Russell verstarb 1970 in Wales.
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August 1984
Autobiographie
1872-1914. Deutsch von Harry Kahn
by Bertrand Russell, Harry Kahn
Bertrand Russell, geboren 1872 in Wales, studierte Mathematik in Cambridge. In seinen schriftstellerischen Tätigkeiten widmete er sich zunächst der Mathematik, später wandte er sich vermehrt philosophischen Themen zu. 1950 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Bertrand Russell verstarb 1970 in Wales.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceJanuary 2017Donors, technical assistance and public administration in Kosovo
by Mary Venner, Bertrand Taithe
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The ArtsJune 2025
Counterpractice
Psychoanalysis, politics and the art of French feminism
by Rakhee Balaram
Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970-81). It considers women's art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s - Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva - forcing a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years following the events of May '68. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, the book also features an illuminating foreword by art historian Griselda Pollock.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2016The humanitarian-military complex in Afghanistan
by Bertrand Taithe, Eric James, Tim Jacoby
Violent conflict brings together two seemingly disparate groups: humanitarians and soldiers. This mixes and convolutes agendas, blurring lines that are often perceived to be sacrosanct. Delving deeply into the history and reasons of why these two groups work in close proximity, this study provide a unique insight into the history, ethical dilemmas and policy conundrums when aid workers operate close to the military. Using Afghanistan as a case study, analytical rigour, deep primary research and "field" knowledge are combined in an exceptional contribution to this important area. This book gives scholars and practitioners alike a nuanced perspective on the challenges faced by aid workers, military personnel and decision-makers alike in countries affected by violent conflicts, hosting foreign military interventions and receiving international aid. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2020The military-humanitarian complex in Afghanistan
by Bertrand Taithe, Eric James, Tim Jacoby
