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      • Smart English Company Limited

        Smart English Company Limited is committed to developing a line of fun and educational products, which currently includes Inspirational English and Robin Education, to help young learners acquire the four skills in the English language. With 'Baby Animals', 'Dinosaurs in my Garden', and 'Mirabelle and Milo', Robin Education aims to develop young learners’ ability to use authentic English language in line with the Cambridge English Qualifications syllabus, as they explore the fascinating stories in each series.

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      • Cambridge University Press

        The Cambridge story began in 1534 when Henry VIII granted us letters patent, allowing the Press to print 'all manner of books'. Cambridge published its first book in 1584 making it the oldest publishing house in the world. Over the next four centuries the Press's reputation spread throughout Europe, based on excellence in scholarly publishing of academic texts, poetry, school books, prayer books and Bibles. Along the way Cambridge published ground-breaking works such as Newton's Principia Mathematica, Milton's Lycidas, Ernest Rutherford'sRadio-activity, and Noam Chomsky's Language and Mind. In the 20th century Cambridge extended that influence to become a global publisher. Today Cambridge has over 50 offices across the globe, employs over 2,000 people, publishes over 50,000 titles by authors from over 100 countries, and is still growing, bringing thousands of subjects and millions of ideas to the world.

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        February 2010

        Die Cambridge School der politischen Ideengeschichte

        by Martin Mulsow, Andreas Mahler

        In den späten 1960er Jahren haben Quentin Skinner, John G. A. Pocock und ihre Schüler an der Universität von Cambridge eine neue Form der Ideengeschichte entwickelt. Sie begreifen politische Ideen nicht als überzeitliche Entitäten, sondern als Teil kommunikativer Prozesse in konkreten historischen Situationen. Angeregt durch die Theorie der Sprechakte, interessieren sie sich für die Intentionen und Zwecke, die historische Akteure mit ihren politischen Äußerungen verfolgt haben, und für die Einbettung von Argumenten in »politische Sprachen«. Komplexe Diskurszusammenhänge von Äußerungen auch jenseits der Entwürfe großer Denker sind ihr Thema. Diese Konzeption ist heute einer der einflußreichsten Ansätze zur Erforschung neuzeitlichen politischen Denkens. Der Band präsentiert Skinners und Pococks maßgebliche Texte zur Theorie der Ideengeschichte erstmals vollständig in deutscher Sprache. Darüber hinaus gibt er einen Einblick in die Weiterentwicklung und kritische Modifikation der Cambridge School.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2023

        The fall and rise of the English upper class

        Houses, kinship and capital since 1945

        by Daniel R. Smith

        The fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. Situating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain's post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain's Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England.

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        August 2022

        Der Klang der Erinnerung

        Roman | Coming-of-Age-Geschichte über die Kraft der Musik und der Freundschaft

        by Jo Browning Wroe

        Birmingham, 1966: William feiert gerade seinen Abschluss als Einbalsamierer, als ihn die Nachricht erreicht, dass im walisischen Aberfan ein Haldenrutsch unzählige Menschen unter sich begraben hat und freiwillige Helfer gesucht werden. Er macht sich umgehend auf den Weg, und während er gemeinsam mit den Bestattern vor Ort arbeitet, ruft ein Musikstück im Radio schmerzhafte Erinnerungen in ihm wach: Erinnerungen an seine Zeit als Chorknabe in Cambridge, die er versucht hatte, zu vergessen. Damals hatte er nur einen Wunsch gehabt: das berühmte Solo in Allegris Miserere zu singen, das in ihm schon als kleines Kind die Liebe zur Musik entfacht hatte. Doch an dem großen Tag kommt es zu einem tiefen Zerwürfnis mit seiner Mutter und einer Entscheidung, die seinen weiteren Weg bestimmen wird.Als er nun aus Aberfan nach Birmingham zurückkehrt, mit Bildern im Kopf, die ihn sein Leben lang nicht loslassen werden, ist er bereit, sich seiner Vergangenheit zu stellen und sich mit seiner Mutter, mit der ihn einst eine liebevolle Beziehung verband, zu versöhnen. Ein bewegender Coming-of-Age-Roman über die fragilen Bande, die uns mit geliebten Menschen verbinden – darüber, dass es möglich ist, die Vergangenheit und die eigene Schuld zu überwinden und Vergebung und Trost zu finden.

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        Medicine

        Theory and Clinical Practice of Modern Acupuncture and Moxibustion (in Chinese and English)

        by Chen Shaozong

        For decades, Prof. Chen Shaozong has been dedicating to the research on the modern acupuncture and moxibustion system that is different from the traditional paradigm. As early as 1990, he published Theory and Clinical Application of Modern Acupuncture and Moxibustion. The book is the prototype of the modern acupuncture and moxibustion system, though it contains merely 100,000 Chinese characters. 21 years later in 2011, Prof. Chen Shaozong published Modern Acupuncture and Moxibustion that contains nearly 1 million Chinese characters with more informative content and a more comprehensive theoretical system. At the same time, as acupuncture and moxibustion grows into a more international discipline, the European and American community of acupuncture and combustion is going beyond the study of traditional acupuncture and moxibustion to start exploring into the acupuncture and moxibustion system in the context of modern science and technology. In recent years, they have gradually developed "western acupuncture and moxibustion" represented by "dry needling". As a response to the huge challenges brought by the evolution of western acupuncture and moxibustion, we published the six-volume Modern Acupuncture and Moxibustion by Prof. Chen Shaozong in 2018. Containing more than 3 million Chinese characters, this book features richer content and a further improved theoretical system.   A few foreign universities have expressed their hope to have a compact edition of Modern Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Chinese and English languages based on the original edition so that they can use it as a textbook in teaching. This is how this Theory and Clinical Practice of Modern Acupuncture and Moxibustion (in Chinese and English) comes into being. It is believed that the publication of this book not only benefits the international exchange and communication on acupuncture and moxibustion, but also produces positive impact on the orientation of the discipline.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2013

        Friars’ Tales

        by David Jones

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2021

        Bad English

        by Rachael Gilmour

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        August 2011

        A history of English spelling

        by D. G. Scragg

        This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day. It shows the respective influences on modern usage of native French and Latin orthographies and attempts a definition of the manner in which spelling stabilised. A final chapter traces changing notions of correctness in spelling during the last four centuries, and also gives a summary of the principle movements for its reform in favour of a more consistent and phonetic system of notion. Students in higher education specialising in English or linguistics and also those studying other languages at an advanced level should find this a useful book. The general reader with an interest in the history of his language or the question of spelling will find it most readable ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        The English manor c.1200–c.1500

        by Mark Bailey

        Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records. Offers translations of, and commentaries upon, each category of document to illustrate their main features. Examples of each category of record are provided in translation, followed by shorter extracts selected to illustrate interesting, commonly occurring, or complex features. A valuable source of reference for undergraduates wishing to understand the sources which underpin the majority of research on the medieval economy and society.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        The harem, slavery and British imperial culture

        Anglo-Muslim relations in the late nineteenth century

        by Diane Robinson-Dunn

        This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. This book would appeal to those with an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism, and women's studies; slavery and race; the formation of national identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern studies.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 1999

        Introduction to English Renaissance comedy

        by Alexander Leggatt

        Introduction to English Renaissance comedy provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, emphasising the eclectic, experimental nature of this comedy: its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition, its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and country. This book makes a close analysis of some of the richest comedies of the period, making unexpected connections between them: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, Lyly's Endymion, Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Marston's The Malcontent, Middleton's Michaelmas Term, Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure and Brome's A Jovial Crew. Through these plays the reader is given a comprehensive picture of English comedy in one of its most creative periods. ;

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        November 2022

        Die Dreitagemordgesellschaft

        Agatha Christies Haushälterin ermittelt

        by Colleen Cambridge

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2019

        These Englands

        A conversation on national identity

        by Arthur Aughey

        The term 'conversation' is one of today's jargon terms. This book explores in depth what conversation means in national terms. Its premise is that to be English is to participate in a conversation about the country's history, politics, culture and society. The conversation changes, of course, but there is also continuity which illustrates a distinct tradition. It is a conversation, the book argues, which requires the plural notion of these Englands rather than the singularity of this England. Englishness, then, is the tone, register and idiom of it subject matters, its anxieties and certainties, differences and commonalities. The book explores the English conversation through historical, political, literary and popular voices and tries to identify the character of contemporary Englishness.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        English nationalism, Brexit and the Anglosphere

        Wider still and wider

        by Ben Wellings

        This is the first book to examine the relationship between English nationalism, Brexit and 'the Anglosphere' - a politically-contested term used to denote English-speaking countries sharing cultural and historical roots with the UK. In the aftermath of the UK's EU referendum some pointed to a 'revolt' of those 'left behind' by globalisation. Ben Wellings argues instead that Brexit was and is an elite project, firmly situated within the tradition of an expansive English nationalism. Far from being parochial 'Little Englanders', elite Brexiteers sought to replace the European Union with trade and security alliances between 'true friends' and 'traditional allies' in the Anglosphere. Brexit was thus reassuringly presented as a giant leap into the known. As the UK's future relationship with the rest of the world is negotiated, the need to understand this 'English moment' has never been more pressing.

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        ENGLISH FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF MATHEMATICS

        by Prof. J. Golan and Dr. M. Bensoussan

        ENGLISH FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF MATHEMATICS Prof. J. Golan and Dr. M. Bensoussan The purpose of this concise 64-page workbook, designed especially for foreign-language students who plan to pursue advanced studies in mathematics at English-speaking universities, is to teach them how to comprehend technical writing in mathematics. The book is composed of twelve texts in university-level mathematics, especially written to highlight different aspects of technical mathematical style. Each text is followed by exercises intended to check the students’ comprehension of the text, acquisition of vocabulary, and awareness of some of the fine points of mathematical writing.  A bilingual Japanese-language edition of this title was published  and reprinted in Tokyo by Maruzen Co., Ltd. 160 pages, 15X23 cm

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        English for University Student of Mathematics

        by Prof. J. Golan and Dr. M. Bensoussan

        The purpose of this concise 64-page workbook, designed especially for foreign-language students who plan to pursue advanced studies in mathematics at English-speaking universities, is to teach them how to comprehend technical writing in mathematics. The book is composed of twelve texts in university-level mathematics, especially written to highlight different aspects of technical mathematical style. Each text is followed by exercises intended to check the students’ comprehension of the text, acquisition of vocabulary, and awareness of some of the fine points of mathematical writing.  A bilingual Japanese-language edition of this title was published  and reprinted in Tokyo by Maruzen Co., Ltd.  160 pages, 15X23 cm

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2021

        Making home

        Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

        by Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom, Maria Holmgren Troy

        Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison. The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children's books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.

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