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      • Zhu Yingchun Studio

        Zhu Yingchun is a book designer and artist based in Nanjing, China.    He was awarded silver medal at the Leipzing Book Fair for 'the most beautiful book in the world' in 2017. Honoured with many titles, including the 'Chinese Government Award for Publishing' and the 'Outstanding Editor' prize, Yingchun nevertheless credits nature as his sole source of inspiration, and is at his happiest while studying the patterns and rituals of bugs and flowers in his own wild garden.   His creations express his inquisitive approach to the world and his belief that every part of nature has a distinctive beauty.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Marguerite Duras

        by Renate Gunther

        The first book in English to deal exclusively with Duras' cinema, including such films as India Song, Le Camion, and Nathalie Granger. Provides a lucid and stimulating introduction to her films, which is accessible to a wide readerhip, both specialist and non-specialist.. Locates the films in their autobiographical as well as social and historical context, making the book broadly interesting to students and teachers in all areas of French Studies.. The book's empahasis on gender issues widens it's appeal to include those working in Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Gay and Lesbian Studies.

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        Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
        October 2010

        The Beethoven song companion

        by Paul Reid

        This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven's songs. All the composer's songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethoven's compositional methods. An introductory essay considers reasons for the relative neglect of the songs, the significance of Beethoven's choice of texts, his crucial role in the development of German art-song and specific aspects such as choice of key. Throughout the book, poetic and musical texts are discussed in their historical context, and in the overall context of Beethoven's life and music. It is anticipated that this book, like its predecessor The Schubert Song Companion, will encourage the performance and study of an important but comparatively neglected aspect of the work of the world's most celebrated composer.

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        Colonialism & imperialism
        May 2017

        Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97

        by Mark Hampton. Series edited by Andrew S. Thompson, John Mackenzie

        This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britain's decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain's own culture during a period of perceived stagnation and decline. Drawing on a wide range of archival and published primary sources, Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 investigates such themes as Hong Kong as a site of unrestrained capitalism, modernisation, and good government, as well as an arena of male social and sexual opportunity. It also examines the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese embraced British culture, and the competing predictions that British observers made concerning the colony's return to Chinese sovereignty. An epilogue considers the enduring legacy of British colonialism.

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        August 2009

        Aufstieg und Abstieg der Seele

        Diesseitigkeit und Jenseitigkeit in Plotins Ethik der Sorge

        by Song, Euree

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 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.

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        November 1988

        Spirit Song

        Der Weg einer Medizinfrau

        by Summer Rain, Mary / Übersetzt von Roethe, Angela

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        Fiction
        August 2019

        September Song

        by Modick, Klaus

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        December 2009

        Dawn Song

        by Michael Marano, Eva Bauche-Eppers

        Berückend schön, unvorstellbar grausam. Boston in der Vorweihnachtszeit 1990: Lawrence, ein melancholischer, verletzlicher Buchverkäufer, der vergeblich versucht, über die Trennung von seinem Liebhaber hinweg zu kommen, ahnt nicht, daß die sehr attraktive junge Frau, die in sein Haus zieht, ein mächtiger Sukkubus ist – eine Kreatur des Bösen, die ihre Erscheinung wechselt und menschliche Seelen aufsaugt. Und so werden die Straßen von Boston zum Austragungsort eines uralten Kampfes zwischen zwei verfeindeten Kräften des Bösen.

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        October 2015

        Im Garten der Zeit

        Eine Phantasiereise zum Ausmalen

        by Illustriert von Song, Daria

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        October 2008

        Insel-Almanach auf das Jahr 2009

        China

        by Christian Lux, Hans-Joachim Simm

        Gastland der Frankfurter Buchmesse im Jahr 2009 ist China. Mit seiner reichen kulturellen und religiösen Tradition und mit seiner literarischen Vielfalt, nicht zuletzt aber auch mit seiner erstarkenden Wirtschaftskraft wird das Land zu einem der mächtigsten Faktoren in der globalisierten Welt. Die chinesische Literatur blickt auf eine 3000jährige Geschichte zurück, und meist war sie nicht nur Reflexion des Lebens und der Gesellschaft, sondern auch ein Politikum. Philosophische Abhandlungen, Geschichtsbücher, Gedichte, später auch Romane und Novellen sind die vorrangigen literarischen Genres, von den Anfängen über die Dynastien der Han, der Tang, der Song, der Ming bis zur Qing-Dynastie und der Moderne des 20. Jahrhunderts, von der Literatur unter der kommunistischen Doktrin über die vorsichtige politische Öffnung 1979, die neuerlichen Restriktionen nach 1989 bis heute. Der Insel-Almanach auf das Jahr 2009 gibt mit exemplarischen Texten einen Überblick über die chinesische Literatur in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Dazu kommen Abbildungen, die einen Eindruck chinesischer Kunst und Kalligraphie vermitteln.

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