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Kia Persia Literary Agency
KIA Literary Agency was founded in 2002 in Tehran with the aim of promoting and supporting fine literary works in all forms throughout the world. It brings about opportunities for authors, illustrators, publishers, translators, and those involved in this field to meet their counterparts. And at the same time, it introduces them to the world and will inform them of all the related events which take place in the world of art and literature.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/2
by Stephen Mossman, Cordelia Warr
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia 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. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.
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February 2017Halt auf Verlangen
Ein Fahrtenbuch
by Urs Faes
Halt auf Verlangen ist Urs Faes' intimstes Buch, gewachsen aus der autobiographischen Erfahrung der Krankheit, geschrieben, um sich festzuhalten an Worten und Erinnerungen – und darin ganz dem Leben zugewandt. Kurz nach der Diagnose findet er keine Worte. Erst später, bei der täglichen Fahrt quer durch die Stadt, beginnt er, zu beschreiben, was ihm geschieht: die Unterwelt der Onkologie, die Müdigkeit nach der Bestrahlung, die Erinnerung an Kindheit und Herkunft, an Straßenbahnfahrten mit dem Vater und Kino mit der Jugendfreundin Mile, an Verlassenwerden in Paris und den Abschied von seiner Geliebten. Den möglichen Tod vor Augen, stellt er sich die Frage nach dem Gelebten und dem Versäumten, nach dem, was Begehren war und was Liebe.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2023
Pasts at play
Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914
by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling
This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
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July 2019Show me the Stars
by Kira Mohn
Take Some Time Out! The headline grabs Liv’s attention as she browses, depressed, through the job ads. Although she’s only 22 and just starting out in journalism, a recent disastrous interview cost her a new job. The ad sounds like a dream come true: someone needs a house-sitter to mind a lighthouse on the Irish coast for six months! Taking time out is exactly what Liv needs to clear her head and recharge her batteries. She sends off her application and a few weeks later finds herself standing in front of her new home. Next to a good-looking Irishman who makes her heart beat faster. She doesn’t know it yet, but he’ll break her heart, too… 16+ years The beginning of a unique romance trilogy about three young women, a lighthouse and love. All titles can be read separately. Rousing characters and a fine dry humor For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Colleen Hoover! More than 60.000 copies of this series were sold!
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2024Ideas of poverty in the Age of Enlightenment
by Niall O’Flaherty, Robin Mills
This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe. It brings together experts with a wide range of expertise to offer pathbreaking discussions of how eighteenth-century thinkers thought about the poor. Because the theme of poverty played important roles in many critical issues in European history, it was central to some of the key debates in Enlightenment political thought throughout the period, including the controversies about sovereignty and representation, public and private charity, as well as questions relating to crime and punishment. The book examines some of the most important contributions to these debates, while also ranging beyond the canonical Enlightenment thinkers, to investigate how poverty was conceptualised in the wider intellectual culture, as politicians, administrators and pamphlet writers grappled with the issue.
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Humanities & Social SciencesPreparing Children for School Through Play
by Astrid Wirth, Efsun Birtwistle, Anna Mues, Frank Niklas
Playful learning is an excellent way to help children acquire skills from an early age. This book illustrates ways to promote the development of preschool- age children through play in everyday family and kindergarten life – entirely without expensive resources! Promotion of (written) language development and mathematical development forms a focus of this book, while preparing your child optimally for the two school subjects English and Mathematics. For:• parents and guardians• interested laypeople• educational specialists (such asteachers, childcare workers, socialworkers)
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September 2023Being Able to Stop
Against the delusion of permanent growth
by Edited by Jean-Pierre Wils
We moderns were the inhabitants of an age of impetuous forward movement and voracious discontent. Our main virtue was to increase our reach. Increasing our having and accelerating our being were the signposts towards the future. We just could not get enough. Using the blinkers of ignorance and self-anaesthesia, however, we managed to forget the tremendous costs incurred by this intoxication. Now disillusionment has set in. We look to the future with anxiety. We know that we have long since crossed a line and that a revision of our lifestyle is imminent. We have a bad feeling, and doubts about progress often give way to anger and rebellion. Which stocks of the modern narrative should we defend; which would we do better to let go? How will we even "be able to stop"? The path to a different society needs an attractive goal, because without the prospect of a different, better life, we will not move forward. We should start practising immediately. There is no time to lose.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2020Play time
by Daisy Black, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz
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January 2012Das Ur-Ur-Urschleimbuch - Warum Ur-Ur-Opa ein Nager war
Das Wissenschaftsmuseum: Evolution
by Murphy, Glenn / Übersetzt von Seeberg, Helen; Illustriert von Philips, Mike
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October 2023Zeilen und Tage III
Notizen 2013-2016
by Peter Sloterdijk
Seit einem halben Jahrhundert hält Peter Sloterdijk jeden Morgen Gedanken, Erlebnisse und Kommentare zum Zeitgeschehen fest; seit 2012 hat er zwei Bücher mit datierten Notizen aus diesem Fundus publiziert – zur Begeisterung seiner Leser und der Kritik: »Ansichten, die zu verblüffen wissen, ein- und aufleuchten.« (FAZ) Mit der nun erscheinenden Fortsetzung decken die Aufzeichnungen einen großen Teil des langen Jahrzehnts zwischen der Lehman-Pleite und Wladimir Putins Angriff auf die Ukraine ab. Dabei bietet auch dieser Band weit mehr als die Chronik einer Abfolge politischer Krisen um Krim (2014), Migration (2015) und Brexit (2016). Zeilen und Tage III bleibt der polythematischen, weitwinkligen und mit dem Zufall sympathisierenden Grundhaltung des Notizen-Projekts verpflichtet. Sloterdijk ist beim Leben, Denken und Lesen stets in Bewegung, stellt Campusromanszenen neben Kurzrezensionen, funkelnde Aphorismen neben szintigrafisch protokollierte Vitalfunktionen. So drückt sich in diesem Band erneut eine chronische Reizbarkeit aus, die unabhängig von der Jahreszeit auf den Pollenflug der Themen reagiert.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2024Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714
by Jake Griesel, Esther Counsell
This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England. This volume enriches scholarly understandings of how Reformed identity was understood in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and how it influenced both clerical and lay attitudes towards the English Church's government, liturgy and doctrine. In a reflection of how established religion pervaded all aspects of civic life in the early modern world and was sharply contested within both ecclesiastical and political spheres, this volume includes chapters that focus variously on the ecclesio-political, liturgical, and doctrinal aspects of conformity.
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June 1977Theorien des Historischen Materialismus
by Axel Honneth, Urs Jaeggi, Axel Honneth
Urs Jaeggi, geboren 1931 in Solothurn (Schweiz), ist Ordinarius für Soziologie an der Freien Universität Berlin (Fachbereich 11, Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften). Wissenschaftliche Publikationen u.a.: Kapital und Arbeit in der Bundesrepublik (1973); Literarut und Politik (1972); Für und wider die revolutionäre Ungeduld, Aufsätze und Notizen (1972); Theoretische Praxis. Probleme eines strukturalen Marxismus (1976); Die SPD in der Krise (zus. mit J. Brauns u.a.) (1976). Axel Honneth, geboren 1949 in Essen, studierte Philosophie, Soziologie und Germanistik in Bochum und Berlin und ist heute Assistent am Institut für Soziologie der Freien Universität Berlin. Der von Marx und Engels begründete »Historische Materialismus« ist die historisch folgenreichste und bis heute einzige Theorie, die aus einer universalgeschichtlichen Erklärung sozio-ökonomischer Prozesse praktische Perspektiven für gesellschaftliche Emanzipation ableitet. Zugleich gibt es kaum eine andere Theorie, die nicht nur von der Seite ihrer Gegner her, sondern auch bei denen, die sie vertreten, auf vergleichbare Weise umstritten wäre. So möchte der Band die vier Interpretationsansätze dokumentieren, von denen her die derzeitige Diskussion über den »Historischen Materialismus« geführt wird, und von denen anzunehmen ist, daß sie auch die Diskussion der nächsten Jahre beherrschen werden: (I) die Tradition des (orthodoxen) Marxismus-Leninismus, (II) der »westeuropäische« kritische Marxismus, (III) der (französische) strukturale Marxismus und (IV) die materialistische Theorie der sozialen Evolution (im Rahmen der »Kritischen Theorie«).
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2015The reign of Richard II
From minority to tyranny 1377–97
by Alison McHardy
The long-awaited prequel to Chronicles of the revolution covers the first twenty years (1377-97) of Richard II's reign. This richly-documented period offers exceptional opportunities and challenges to students, and the editor has selected material from a wide range of sources: well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles and legal, administrative and financial records. These are arranged chronologically to form a coherent narrative of the reign. Clear and lively commentary and notes enable readers to make the fullest use of each document. The introduction describes the complex domestic and international situation which confronted the young king and offers guidance on the strengths and weaknesses of the reign's leading chronicles. The dramatic and diverse politics of the reign of Richard II make this the ideal special subject and an accessible, affordable, student-friendly documentary history of Richard II's reign has long been needed. This book is designed to fill that gap.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2020Pasts at play
by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling, Anna Barton
