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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Taking travel home
The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750–1830
by Emma Gleadhill
In the late eighteenth-century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taking travel home uncovers the souvenir culture these women developed around the texts and objects they brought back with them to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, friendship and science. Key characters include forty-three-year-old Hester Piozzi (Thrale), who honeymooned in Italy; thirty-one-year-old Anna Miller, who accompanied her husband on a Grand Tour; Dorothy Richardson, who undertook various tours of England from the ages of twelve to fifty-two; and the sisters Katherine and Martha Wilmot, who travelled to Russia in their late twenties. The supreme tourist of the book, the political salon hostess Lady Elizabeth Holland, travelled to many countries with her husband, including Paris, where she met Napoleon, and Spain during the Peninsular War. Using a methodology informed by literary and design theory, art history, material culture studies and tourism studies, the book examines a wide range of objects, from painted fans "of the ruins of Rome for a sequin apiece" and the Pope's "bless'd beads", to lava from Vesuvius and pieces of Stonehenge. It argues that the rise of the souvenir is representative of female agency, as women used their souvenirs to form spaces in which they could create and control their own travel narratives.
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August 2011Miss Winter lässt nicht locker
Ein neuer Fall für Rosie Winter
by Kathryn Miller Haines, Kirsten Riesselmann
Rosie Winter bricht in die Südsee auf, um ihre große Liebe wiederzufinden. Seekrankheit, Kugelhagel, ein unliebsamer Verehrer und eine mörderische Verschwörung – nichts kann sie in diesem Juni 1943 aufhalten, denn Miss Winter läßt nicht locker. Rosie Winter ist auf dem Weg in die Südsee. Zusammen mit ihrer Freundin Jayne und einer Gruppe Tänzerinnen soll sie in diesem Juni 1943 bei den Soldaten an der Front für gute Laune sorgen. Doch das erweist sich als gar nicht so einfach: Die Überfahrt ist turbulent, die Feldbetten hart und das Essen schlecht. Außerdem stiehlt der Hollywood-Star Gilda DeVane den anderen Frauen die Show, und Rosies große Liebe Jack gilt seit Wochen als vermißt. Während Rosie zwischen Tanzeinlagen und Luftangriffen versucht, mehr über Jacks Verschwinden herauszufinden, wird Gilda bei einem ihrer Auftritte erschossen …
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May 2021Escapades in Evolution
Of humans, chimps and other capers of nature
by Matthias Glaubrecht
Humans are rapidly changing the conditions of evolution, and while many species have not yet been discovered, the extinction of numerous species is becoming more and more dramatic. In this book, Matthias Glaubrecht contrasts the impending “end of evolution”, of which the evolutionary biologist writes in his bestseller of the same name, with the beauty, diversity and also the whims of nature. In 36 short chapters, the zoologist presents the animal and the all-tooanimal from the curiosity cabinet of evolution, easy to understand and with a good touch of humour – from dinosaurs with four wings to the annual new “Minnelied” hit of the humpback whale to the women’s communes of bonobos who use sex as a form of social bonding.
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March 2023Why We Need Comfort
On the trail of a human need
by Jean-Pierre Wils
— The accompanying book to the Kassel exhibition "Trost" ("Comfort") in spring 2023 — A book to counter desolation in these challenging times — What comfort is and why people need it "Comfort" is one of those words that has a somewhat tarnished reputation: cold comfort, false comfort, consolation prize, someone is not to be comforted ... "Action instead of comfort" is the maxim; "therapy instead of resignation" the variant. There is something old-fashioned about comfort. And still we long for it; people have always looked for "sources of comfort". In the midst of the climate and global political upheavals of our time, in the middle of a Ukraine war, a play recently celebrated at the Salzburg Festival is called, "Crazy for Consolation". People seek comfort because just helping is no longer helping; they are at the end of their abilities. "Comfort" would appear to be a gift in both senses of the word. But "comfort" is a mystery. Jean-Pierre Wils attempts to solve it in this essay.
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January 1992Locker auf dem Hocker
60 unkomplizierte Dehn-, Atem- und Augenübungen, die sich am Arbeitsplatz ausführen lassen
by Friedeberger, Julie / Übersetzt von Balkenhol, Marion
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November 2020Kings of Chaos (3). Bleib locker, Stinktier!
by Jakob M. Leonhardt, Sebastian Seidel
Wer ist der größte Chaot? Garantiert zum Totlachen! Die Kings of Chaos! Yeah! Klassenfahrt! Wir sind für eine Woche auf dieser spukigen Burg irgendwo mitten im Wald. Weit weg von Direktor Kakadu und unseren Eltern. Wann könnten Abdi und ich unseren Battle besser zu Ende bringen, wenn nicht jetzt!? Abdi ist allerdings echt genial, das muss ich zugeben! Er ist mir immer einen Schritt voraus. Wie macht er das nur? Oder steckt vielleicht noch jemand ganz anderes hinter den Streichen? Weitere Bände der Reihe: Kings of Chaos (1). Zahm wie Schulhofhaie Kings of Chaos (2). Fit wie ein Faultier Außerdem vom Autor beim Arena Verlag erschienen: Knapp vorbei ist auch daneben. Ein genialer Chaot packt aus (1) In der Faulheit liegt die Kraft. Geniale Chaoten fallen nicht vom Himmel (2) Chaos ist das halbe Leben. Ein verkanntes Genie auf der Überholspur (3) Erst der Spaß, dass das Vergnügen. Geniale Chaoten bringt nichts auf die Palme (4) Chillen macht den Meister. Ein genialer Chaot startet durch (5)
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 1999British Politics in an Age of Reform
by Michael J. Turner, Mark Greengrass
This work is a detailed examination of principal themes in the political history of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. It evaluates much recent research, links the politics of the elite with the politics of the people and seeks to explain significant developments with reference to both their long- and short-term causes. Among the issues addressed are the relative powers of crown, cabinet and parliament between 1760 and 1832; the impact on domestic politics of revolution and war abroad; the growth of radicalism and popular political activity; agitation for reform and the responses of government; the rise of party; the connections between extra-parliamentary pressure and instability; at the centre of power. ;
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April 2019
Kings of Chaos / Kings of Chaos (3). Bleib locker, Stinktier!
by Leonhardt, Jakob M.
Yeah! Klassenfahrt! Wir sind für eine Woche auf dieser spukigen Burg irgendwo mitten im Wald. Weit weg von Direktor Kakadu und unseren Eltern. Wann könnten Abdi und ich unseren Battle besser zu Ende bringen, wenn nicht jetzt!? Abdi ist allerdings echt genial, das muss ich zugeben! Er ist mir immer einen Schritt voraus. Wie macht er das nur? Oder steckt vielleicht noch jemand ganz anderes hinter den Streichen?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2024Peace and the politics of memory
by Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Timothy Williams
This important book provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It does so by developing a theoretical approach focusing on the intersection of sites, agency, narratives, and events in memory-making. Drawing on rich empirical studies of mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia, the book speaks to a broad audience. The in-depth, cross-case analysis shows that inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity in memory politics are key to the construction of a just peace. The book contributes crucial and timely knowledge about societies that grapple with the painful legacies of the past and advances the study of memory and peace.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2025Industrial memory in North East England
Negotiating northernness
by Victoria Allen
Industrial memory in North East England examines how the region's industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness. The book offers a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North, and an introduction to the concept of the PopCultural Portfolio, a mixed-methods approach to conjunctural analysis in cultural and memory studies. The book provides six richly illustrated case studies to demonstrate the practical application of cultural studies' expansive and inclusive understanding of texts, bringing together materials from North East football, folk, indie and exhibition culture to establish how the North East's industrial past continues to be remembered and functionalised as industrial memory. In turn, the conjunctural analysis demonstrates how industrial memory is articulated and mythologised as north(east)ernes in contemporary popular culture.
