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July 2001Iwan S. Turgenjew
Eine Biographie
by Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, V. A. Brobor, Peter Schwaar
Peter Schwaar, geboren 1947 in Zürich, dort Gymnasium und Abitur, literatur- und musikwissenschaftliche Studien in Zürich und Berlin, Redakteur Kultur und Lokales beim Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger. Seit 1987 freier Übersetzer und Autor. Übertragungen aus dem Spanischen von Eduardo Mendoza, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Juan José Millás, David Trueba, Zoé Valdés, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Francisco Ayala, Javier Tomeo, Álvaro Mutis, Jorge Ibargüengoitia u.a. Lebt in Barcelona.
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January 1989Der Fluch der achten Fee
Ein Märchen
by Wilson, David H / Zeichnungen von Hentschel, Claus D; Illustriert von Harksen, V C
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International lawApril 2012Law on the battlefield
Third edition
by A. P. V. Rogers
This book, now fully updated and in its third edition, explains the law relating to the conduct of hostilities and provides guidance on difficult or controversial aspects of the law. It covers who or what may legitimately be attacked and what precautions must be taken to protect civilians, cultural property or the natural environment. It deals with the responsibility of commanders and how the law is enforced. There are also chapters on internal armed conflicts and the security aspects of belligerent occupation.
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May 2025Eine Welt nur für uns
Roman | Eine historische Liebesgeschichte mit einer Prise Spannung
by Claire Deya, Elisabeth Liebl
Hyères an der Côte d’Azur, 1945: Vincent, ein Überlebender aus deutscher Kriegsgefangenschaft, kehrt nach Frankreich zurück, entschlossen, die Frau wiederzufinden, die ihm alles bedeutet: Ariane. Seit zwei Jahren ist sie verschollen, zuletzt gesehen bei den deutschen Besatzern. Um sie aufzupüren, schließt er sich einer Gruppe von Minenräumern an, die die tödlichen Hinterlassenschaften des Krieges an den Stränden der Côte d’Azur beseitigen. Unter ihnen: Die ehemaligen deutschen Besatzer, nun Internierte. Besonders einer, Lukas, scheint mehr zu wissen, als er zunächst preisgibt. Während die Bedrohung durch die Minen allgegenwärtig ist, wird Vincents Suche nach Ariane und nach einem Platz im neuen Frieden immer verzweifelter … Claire Deya entspannt das Panorama einer Dorfgemeinschaft zwischen Aufbruch und Zerstörung. Bildreich erzählt sie von der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit, von einer leidenschaftlichen Liebe, von Vergeben, Vergessen und Versöhnung. Ein kraftvoller, schillernder, explosiver Roman.
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October 1998Das Handbuch der Edelsteine und Kristalle
700 Heilsteine und ihre spirituellen Kräfte
by Melody / Englisch Stendel-King, C; Englisch Bischoff, U; Englisch Griese, A; Englisch Jung, C
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May 1992Beschreibung einer Form
Versuch über Kafka
by Martin Walser, Walter Höllerer
Der Versuch über Kafka Beschreibung einer Form ist Martin Walsers Dissertation, sie erschien erstmals 1961 und ist eine bemerkenswerte Einführung in das Werk Franz Kafkas, das eine so tiefe und nicht nachlassende Wirkung ausübt.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Feeling the strain
A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain
by Jill Kirby
Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Class, work and whiteness
Race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79
by Nicola Ginsburgh
This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and nationally heterogeneous formation comprised of both men and women, and emphasises the active participation of white workers in the ongoing and contested production of race. White wage labourers' experiences, both as exploited workers and as part of the privileged white minority, offer insight into how race and class co-produced one another and how boundaries fundamental to settler colonialism were regulated and policed. Based on original research conducted in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK, this book offers a unique theoretical synthesis of work on gender, whiteness studies, labour histories, settler colonialism, Marxism, emotions and the New African Economic History.
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. Die Spiele von Solstasia
Roman | Fulminantes Fantasy-Highlight mit farbigem Buchschnitt. Von der New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin.
by Brown, Roseanne A.
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Diana Bürgel
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2014A strained partnership?
US–UK relations in the era of détente, 1969–77
by Thomas Robb
This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath's government to follow a more amenable course throughout the 'Year of Europe' and to convince Harold Wilson's governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts. Such diplomacy proved effective against Heath but rather less so against Wilson. It is argued that relations between the two sides were often strained, indeed, to the extent that the most 'special' elements of the relationship, that of intelligence and nuclear co-operation, were suspended. Yet, the relationship also witnessed considerable co-operation. This book offers new perspectives on US and UK policy towards British membership of the European Economic Community; demonstrates how US détente policies created strain in the 'special relationship'; reveals the temporary shutdown of US-UK intelligence and nuclear co-operation; provides new insights in US-UK defence co-operation, and re-evaluates the US-UK relationship throughout the IMF Crisis. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017'The better class' of Indians
Social rank, Imperial identity, and South Asians in Britain 1858–1914
by A. Wainwright
This is the first book-length study to focus primarily on the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. In a departure from previous scholarship on the South Asian presence in Britain, 'The better class' of Indians emphasizes the importance of class as the register through which British polite society interpreted other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion. Drawing mainly on unpublished material from the India Office Records, the National Archives, and private collections of charitable organizations, this book examines not only the attitudes of British officials towards South Asians in their midst, but also the actual application of these attitudes in decisions pertaining to them. This fascinating book will be of particular interest to scholars and general readers of imperialism, immigration as well as British and Indian social history.
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MedicineOctober 2015Burnout and Chronic Occupational Stress
A Guide for Those Affected and Their Relatives
by Andreas Hillert/Stefan Koch/Dirk Lehr
In today’s work environment, which is dominated by high pressure, many professionals are experiencing chronic stress, some even "burn out". This guide provides information about the connection between occupational stress and burnout. It presents scientifically sound and proven strategies for counteracting chronic stress. The model of the “gratification crisis”, which states that an imbalance between professional engagement and the obtained gratifications, e.g. salary and appreciation, leads to persistent stress and an increased risk of physical and mental illness, is the focus of this guide. Based on case studies and concrete instructions, readers are supported in reviewing their own situation. The guide goes on to present coping strategies, e.g. how important decisions can be made in high stress situations, how to avoid vague assessments, how to strengthen the ability to distance oneself after work, and how to improve quality of leisure time. This title can be used as a stand-alone guide as well as supplemental material to coaching or therapy. Target Group: psychotherapists, specialists for psychiatry and psychotherapy, specialists for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, clinical and health psychologists, occupational and organizational psychologist, rehabilitation psychologist, coaches, students and teachers of psychology, supervisors
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Air empire
British imperial civil aviation, 1919–39
by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain's development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentMore Peace, Less Stress
A Step-by-Step Guide for Adults with ASD
by Marja Boxhoorn
When you have autism, you probably have to cope with stress on a daily basis. Often, people with autism do not know how to recognize stress, what causes stress, and what they can do to reduce it. More peace, less stress offers a useful step-by-step plan. In seven steps, the reader learns what causes stress, how to recognise stress signals, and what they can do to feel more at ease. The book includes practical exercises so new knowledge can be applied right away. Being more at ease means to be able to: have better relationships with a partner, family, friends and colleagues, focus attention to get things done more easily, have a grip on life, instead of experiencing chaos, restlessness and insecurity and feel more powerful and have more self-esteem.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024
A savage song
Racist violence and armed resistance in the early twentieth-century U.S.–Mexico Borderlands
by Margarita Aragon
This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence invigorated racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them. Bringing anti-Mexican violence into a common analytical framework with anti-black violence, A savage song examines several focal points in this oft-ignored history, including the 1915 rebellion of ethnic Mexicans in South Texas, and its brutal repression by the Texas Rangers and the 1917 mutiny of black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment in Houston, Texas, in response to police brutality. Aragon considers both the continuities and stark contrasts across these different moments: how were racialized constructions of masculinity differently employed? How did African and Mexican American men, including those in uniform, respond to the violence of racism? And how was their resistance, including their claims to manhood and nation, understood by law enforcement, politicians, and the press? Building on extensive archival research, the book examines how African and Mexican American men have been constructed as 'racial problems', investigating, in particular, their relationship with law enforcement and ideas about black and Mexican criminality.
