For the first time, the story of Leonida's wife, the hero of Thermopilai, recreated according to Herodotus's texts. This is a very strong woman, educated, emancipated. She lives in Sparta 2500 years ago and fights for women's rights. She lives during the wars between Greeks and Persians and she'll lose her husband in the war, but her bravery and love for the homeland will always remain.
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»Ich lade dich ein.« Ein Satz, der Vorfreude weckt: auf einen anregenden Abend bei leckerem Essen und guten Gesprächen. Doch die berühmte Gastfreundschaft ist noch viel mehr als das –sie ist ein vielseitiges Geben und Nehmen, das Familie, Freunde und Fremde einschließt und in jeder Kultur etwas anders ist. Die in London geborene, in Kenia aufgewachsene und heute in Berlin lebende Autorin Priya Basil erzählt von den indisch-kenianischen Traditionen ihrer Familie, von einer unerwarteten Einladung zum Spargelessen und einer Massenspeisung in einem Sikh-Tempel mitten in Berlin. Sie hält ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer für ein gastfreundliches Europa und lädt dabei immer wieder in ihre eigene Küche ein. Denn die besten Gespräche führt man bekanntlich an einem reich gedeckten Tisch: über Gott und die Welt, Politik und Kultur und über die Frage, ob es eigentlich bedingungslose Gastfreundschaft gibt.
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This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to the Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek epistolographers. Published in Venice in 1499 by Aldus Manutius, the Aldine edition was the first printed edition of most of the thirty-six Greek letter collections that it contains. As such, it embodies the intersection between the medieval epistolary anthologies that predated it and the printed editions of Greek epistolographic collections that followed, which were primarily based on its text. In recent decades, the Aldien edition has been the subject of important works, which have sought to analyse its contents and sources. This issue explores the Aldine edition from three perspectives: its relationship to the epistolary collections found in medieval manuscripts, its relationship to the printed editions that followed it and its legacy and value for the modern scholar studying Ancient Greek epistolography.
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Forker's critical edition fills the need for a fully annotated, historically contextualised and modernised text of the most important Elizabethan chronicle play apart from Shakespeare and Marlowe's Edward II. Now attributed definitely to George Peele, this drama helped to establish a major theatrical genre, raising contemporary political and religious issues through the dramatisation of medieval history in a compelling and popular fashion. A major source for Shakespeare, it throws new light on the bard's adaptation of earlier drama and helps to illustrate his working methods. With the full introduction and generous notes this Revels Plays edition will be the first port of call for students and enthusiasts of Elizabethan and early modern drama. ;
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Screening Sherlock is the first book-length academic study of the film and television career of the most famous detective in fiction. Chapman explores the contexts, adaptation strategies and critical reception of Sherlock Holmes (and Dr Watson) on film and television in Britain and the United States. The book includes case studies of such famous Holmes impersonators as William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Brett and Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as charting a path through many lesser-known productions. From early cinema to the Hollywood studio system, and from heritage drama to contemporary postmodern television, Screening Sherlock is an indispensible work for all aficionados of Arthur Conan Doyle's consulting detective of Baker Street.
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Der Hexenmeister Basil Humbuck hat einen schrecklichen Plan: Er will die Magische Quelle zerstören – und damit den gesamten Zauberwald! Doch Humbuck hat die Rechnung ohne Zauberschüler Flo und Elfe Ava gemacht. Noch immer schwimmt der riesige Giftwurm des Hexenmeisters durch den Zauberwald. Flo und seine Freunde müssen ihn einholen, bevor er die Magische Quelle erreicht. Zum Glück kennt Troll Minu eine Abkürzung. Doch da werden sie auf einmal von einem Schatten verfolgt. Ein Drache! Und er ist hinter ihnen her!
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The Student Magician – The Sorcerer's Curse (Vol. 1) Warlock Basil Humbuck has a terrible plan: he wants to destroy the Magic Spring -and with it the entire Enchanted Forest! But Humbuck has not factored in the interference of student magician Flo and elf Ava.Ever since Flo can remember, he has lived with the nasty warlock Basil Humbuck. He is supposed to learn the Great Magic from him. And help him destroy the magical source of the Enchanted Forest. With a giant poison worm, the Great Grol! But when they want to put the plan into action, the worm bites Flo and he drops it in the forest. Furious, the master demands that Flo find the Grol and complete the mission. Alone in the Enchanted forest, full of evil creatures and elves! But in the forest Flo is amazed to find that it is beautiful. Flo gathers all his courage and decides to save the Enchanted Forest from the warlock, together with elf Ava and his new friends.• Start of a High Fantasy series with a cool forest setting, great protagonists and exciting magical creatures• Cool and gripping fantasy adventure about a student magician who recognizes step by step that he is able to do much more than he ever thought – about courage to stand up to evil forces, even the "little ones" can become heroes!• Short chapters in an easy-to-read font, for children aged 7 and up• Lots of great four-color illustrations that punctuate the story and support reading, by the ilustrator of highly popular Leselöwen title "The Mysterious Dragon Egg" (more than 60,000 copies sold)
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Gemeinsam für die Zauberberge! Der Hexenrat hat die Zaubermelodie eingesperrt und den Bergwesen die Magie geraubt. Alle sind in großer Gefahr! Doch der Rat hat die Rechnung ohne Zauberschüler Flo und Elfe Ava gemacht. Vor Jahren ist die Prinzessin der Waldfeen verschwunden – Flos Mutter. Jetzt hofft der Zauberschüler, sie in Ondas Schloss zu finden. Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden macht er sich auf den Weg. Doch da tauchen der fiese Meister Basil Humbuck und Hexe Ekla auf und Flo wird von einem Fluch getroffen. Kann er den Zauber besiegen und Humbuck entkommen? Und wird er seine Mutter endlich wiedersehen?
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The Student Magician – Under the Spell of the Sea Monster (Vol. 2) Warlock Basil Humbuck has a terrible plan: he wants to destroy the Magic Spring - and with it the entire Enchanted Forest! But Humbuck has not factored in the interference of student magician Flo and elf Ava.What happens in Volume 2:The Great Grol has reached the Magical Forest Lake! The elves quickly build a dam against the poisonous water of the giant worm. But against the Grol itself they are powerless, only Flo can help them. To free the worm from its curse, however, he would have to touch it - impossible. So instead, Flo casts a protective spell, and with the help of Ava and the magic of the Enchanted Forest, he manages to secure the lake.• High Fantasy series with a cool forest setting, great protagonists and exciting magical creatures• Cool and gripping fantasy adventure about a student magician who recognizes step by step that he is able to do much more than he ever thought – about courage to stand up to evil forces, even the "little ones" can become heroes!• Short chapters in an easy-to-read font, for children aged 7 and up• Lots of great four-color illustrations that punctuate the story and support reading, by the ilustrator of highly popular Leselöwen title "The Mysterious Dragon Egg" (more than 60,000 copies sold)
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This is the first book to survey in comparative form the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapters, focusing on France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, provide parallel studies of the manner in which colonial ambitions and events in the respective European empires were given wider popular visibility. The international group of contributors, who are all scholars working at the cutting edge of these fields, place their work in the context of governmental policies, the economic bases of imperial expansion, major events such as wars of conquest, the emergence of myths of heroic action in exotic contexts, religious and missionary impulses, as well as the new media which facilitated such popular dissemination. Among these media were the press, international exhibitions, popular literature, educational institutions and methods, ceremonies, church sermons and lectures, monuments, paintings and much else.
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Ankommen im Leben Ein wunderschön illustriertes Bilderbuch, dass uns dazu auffordert, das Leben mit all seinen Abenteuern, Überraschungen, Herausforderungen und unendlich vielen Möglichkeiten als Reise zu begreifen. Es beleuchtet Momente des Aufbruchs, der Orientierungslosigkeit, des Findens und des Ankommens.Beatrice Masini ermutigt Leserinnen und Leser jeden Alters, mit Offenheit und Mut neue Wege zu gehen und das Unbekannte zu entdecken. Eine wahre Quelle der Inspiration. Ein idealer Begleiter für alle, die sich auf eine äußere oder innere Reise begeben möchten. Die Reise zum Glück: Ein kraftvoller Begleiter in Zeiten des Wandels Das Leben ist eine Reise: Stimmungsvoll illustriertes Bilderbuch für Erwachsene, das Mut für Aufbruch und Veränderung schenkt. Neue Wege gehen: Das Buch über Selbstfindung lädt Leser*innen ein, offen und mutig unbekannte Wege zu gehen und neue Dinge auszuprobieren. Inspirationen für jeden Tag: Die poetischen Texte von Beatrice Masini schenken Freude und Zuversicht. Mut zur Veränderung: Die atmosphärischen Illustrationen von Gianni de Conno visualisieren die kraftvolle Botschaft eines Neuanfangs. Lebensfreude wiederfinden: Das Wohlfühlbuch ist ein inspirierendes Geschenk für liebe Menschen, die das Leben als eine abenteuerliche Reise verstehen. 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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Writing power radically rethinks the place of the canon and canonicity as objects and concepts in contemporary academia and the everyday intellectual practices of academics. It is distinctive in its demonstration of how academics' engagements with canons shape their writing practices but also how scholars' writing practices, spaces, proclivities, and desires shape the canon and changing ideas of value in canonicity. The book thinks through frequently discussed problems of legitimacy and knowledge production from fresh perspectives of lived experience and the everyday to offer new insights into the politics of knowledge in contemporary social sciences.
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As the twentieth century drew to a close, people in all parts of Ireland began to recover the memory of the First World War as the last great common experience of the island as a whole. Brings together research whilst re-evaluating older assumptions about the immediate and continuing impact of the war on Ireland. Explores some lesser-known aspects of Ireland's war years as well as including studies of more traditional areas: military, social, cultural, political and economic aspects. Analyses how the experience and memory of the War have contributed to identity formation and the legitimisation of political violence. ;
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This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.
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This book compares the use of 'terrorism' by states in the Global North (Britain in Northern Ireland) and South (Nepal), examining particular events over time. As such, it questions conventional understandings that states cannot be 'terrorists' and that post '9/11' terrorism is new. It does so by outlining how states have used the label of 'terrorism' to establish a specific 'counterterrorist' identity for themselves and by indicating how similar strategies of representation were used by the British and Nepali states while labeling others as 'terrorist'. Because it draws on rhetorical analysis, discursive psychology and critical security studies to analyze the politics of labelling, it is expected this book will be useful to a wide range of readers from political science, international relations, terrorism studies and also media, cultural and area studies. ;
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The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. An electronic edition of this issue is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
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In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Haugaard examines the interrelation between domination and empowerment. Building upon the perspectives of Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Hannah Arendt, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and others, he offers a clear theoretical framework, delineating power in four interrelated dimensions. The first and second dimensions of power entail two different types of social conflict. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth and reification. Drawing upon genealogical theory and accounts of slavery as social death, the fourth dimension of power concerns the power to create social subjects. The book concludes with an original normative pragmatist power-based account of democracy. Offering lucid and entertaining illustrations of complex theoretical perspectives, this book is essential reading for scholars and activists.
