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December 2020
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Children's & YAHamster Humboldt. Small and Steady Wins the Race
by Meike Betz
This intrepid hamster plunges into every adventure with full cheeks! Humboldt is a detective, adventurer and – a hamster. His size doesn’t stop him from helping the people of Villy Village out of all sorts of fixes whenever he’s not helping his owner Babs and her daughter Elli in the post office. No problem is too big for him! Only his owner’s money worries leave him flummoxed. But then Babs and Elli win the lottery and are over the moon – until they receive an anonymous postcard. Humboldt’s life is suddenly in dire straits because the unknown blackmailer wants Babs and Elli’s lottery ticket – or he’s going to hurt Humboldt. When the police refuses to get to the bottom of the case, Humboldt decides to take matters into his own paws. He’s keen to put a stop to this lottery villain’s antics! HAMSTER HUMBOLDT. SMALL AND STEADY WINS THE RACE is a detective and adventure story full of animal-entertainment for girls and boys aged 8+.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024Rethinking untouchability
The political thought of B. R. Ambedkar
by Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar's role and the concepts he used to champion untouchability as a political problem. Ambedkar's main objective was to comprehend the numerous avatars of untouchability in order to eradicate this practice. Ambedkar understood untouchability beyond aspects of ritual purity and pollution by stressing its complex nature and uncovering the political, historical, racial, spatial and emotional characteristics contained in this concept. Ambedkar believed the abolition of untouchability depended on a widespread alteration of India's political, economic and cultural systems. Ambedkar reframed the problem of untouchability by linking it to larger concepts floating in the political environment of late colonial India such as representation, slavery, race, the Indian village, internationalism and even the creation of Pakistan.
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March 1979Papa Hamlet
by Arno Holz, Johannes Schlaf, Theo Meyer, Theo Meyer
Der »große, unübertroffene Hamlet«, ein Schmierenschauspieler, ein Komödiant, der mit seiner schwindsüchtigen Frau in Schmutz, Hunger und Kälte ein erbärmliches Leben in der Dachstube fristet, geht zugrunde am Alkohol, nachdem er in der Wut sein schreiendes Kind erwürgt hat. In den drei Erzählungen, die sich hinter dem Titel Papa Hamlet verbergen, ist es vor allem der neue Stoff- und Themenbereich, der 1889 bei Erscheinen des Bandes Aufsehen erregte: das soziale Elend des großstädtischen Industrieproletariats und die triste Schattenwelt von Armut und Laster, erzählt mit einer sprachlichen Sensibilität, die fähig war, alle Details der Alltagswelt aufzunehmen.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 1997Hamlet
by Anthony Dawson
Links acting traditions with cultural milieu.. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground.. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography . ;
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November 2014Hamlet
Prinz von Dänemark
by Norbert Kohl, William Shakespeare, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Norbert Kohl, Levin Ludwig Schücking
»Hamlet« gehört zu den großen Dramen der Weltliteratur. Wenn die Vielfalt der Deutungen, zu denen eine Bühnenschöpfung herausfordert, als Maßstab ihrer künstlerischen Vitalität gelten kann, dann ist dieses Stück gewiß ein lebender Klassiker geblieben.
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January 1980Hamlet
Prinz von Dänemark
by William Shakespeare, Norbert Kohl, Eugène Delacroix, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Levin Ludwig Schücking, Norbert Kohl
»Hamlet« gehört zu den großen Dramen der Weltliteratur. Wenn die Vielfalt der Deutungen, zu denen eine Bühnenschöpfung herausfordert, als Maßstab ihrer künstlerischen Vitalität gelten kann, dann ist dieses Stück gewiß ein lebender Klassiker geblieben.
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October 2011Hamlet
Prinz von Dänemark
by William Shakespeare, August Wilhelm Schlegel
»Hamlet« gehört zu den großen Dramen der Weltliteratur. Wenn die Vielfalt der Deutungen, zu denen eine Bühnenschöpfung herausfordert, als Maßstab ihrer künstlerischen Vitalität gelten kann, dann ist dieses Stück gewiß ein lebender Klassiker geblieben.
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September 1904Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play, and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". The play likely was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime, and still ranks among his most performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. It has inspired many other writers—from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and Iris Murdoch—and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella"
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March 2002Christoph Schlingensiefs »Nazis rein«
by Christoph Schlingensief, Thekla Heineke, Sandra Umathum, Markus Boestfleisch, Jens Roselt, Alexander Kluge, Christoph Schlingensief, Boris Groys, Carl G. Hegemann, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Zürich Express, Blick, Peter Kern, Uwe Mattheiss, Matthias Ehlert, Sebastian Rudolph, Helmut Schödel, Georg Diez, Diedrich Diederichsen, Cem Özdemir, Melanie Dittmer, Bodo Jentzsch, Torsten Lemmer, Ellen Ringier, Antje Vollmer, Jan Zobel, Michael Hug, Ralph Pöhner, Ernst Corinth, Franz Wille, Pierre Briegert
Im Frühjahr 2001 hat Christoph Schlingensief mit seiner Hamlet-Inszenierung am Zürcher Schauspielhaus für öffentliches Aufsehen gesorgt - weil er aussteigewillige Neonazis in seine Theaterarbeit integrierte, weil er bei seinen Straßenaktionen unter anderem zum Verbot der Schweizerischen Volkspartei aufrief, weil er den deutschen Innenminister Otto Schily dazu aufforderte, die Mehrheitsanteile von Torsten Lemmer, dem Produzent und Teilhaber des weltgrößten Vertriebes für rechtsradikale Musik, zu kaufen, und zuletzt, weil er zusammen mit dem Ensemble den Verein „REIN e.V.“ für weitere aussteigewillige Neonazis gründete.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2014Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2023Imagining the Irish child
Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
by Jarlath Killeen
This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers, theologians, philosophers, educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth century up to the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion. The book is structured around a detailed examination of six 'versions' of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the political child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles), showing how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish nationality, politics and history across these two centuries.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Emigration from Scotland between the wars
by Marjory Harper
Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left? Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration.
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October 2015Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Jürgen Krätzer
In der Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek erscheinen literarische Hauptwerke aller Epochen und Gattungen als Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium. Sie bietet die besten verfügbaren Texte aus den großen Editionen des Suhrkamp Verlages, des Insel Verlages und des Deutschen Klassiker Verlages, ergänzt durch anschaulich geschriebene Kommentare.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Child, nation, race and empire
Child rescue discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915
by Margot Hillel, Shurlee Swain, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire. It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of contemporary practice in the publications of the prominent English Child rescuers, Dr Barnardo, Thomas Bowman Stephenson, Benjamin Waugh, Edward de Montjoie Rudolf and their colonial disciples and literature written for children, it shows how the vulnerable body of the child at risk came to be reconstituted as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. Yet, as the shocking testimony before the many official enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home 'care' held in Britain, Ireland, Australia and Canada make clear, there was no guarantee that the rescued child would be protected from further harm.
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