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April 2021

Among Fellow Primates

Views of a monkey researcher

by Volker Sommer

Man brings apocalyptic plagues to the world and his fellow primates – from global warming to the destruction of forests. While millions of monkeys and apes lived on Earth only a few decades ago, today many species are strongly endangered. In this book the anthropologist and monkey researcher Volker Sommer calls on us to finally protect the fundamental rights such as the right to life, freedom and physical integrity of the great apes. For all his seriousness, Sommer is also a great storyteller who deals with his own profession with humour, sympathy and in a highly instructive way.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2013

Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50

by Brian Maidment

Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent, but soon widespread, use of lithography and wood engraving, both capable of integrating texts and images cheaply and imaginatively on the printed page. Drawing on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures, this book traces the ways in which Regency and early Victorian visual humour both sustains some of the characteristics of an earlier caricature tradition while also beginning to develop new ways of analyzing and coping with social change through comic forms and genres. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2022

Comic empires

Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art

by Richard Scully, Alan Lester, Andrekos Varnava

Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art. Edited by leading scholars across both fields (and with contributions from contexts as diverse as Egypt, Australia, the United States, and China, as well as Europe) the volume provides new perspectives on well-known events, and illuminates little-known players in the 'great game' of empire in modern times. Some of the finest comic art of the period is deployed as evidence, and examined seriously, in its own right, for the first time. Accessible to students of history at all levels, Comic empires is a major addition to the world-leading 'Studies in Imperialism' series, as well as standing alone as an innovative and significant contribution to the ever-growing international field of comics studies.

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2023

Spectral Dickens

The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization

by Alexander Bove

Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens' illustrated novels using three hauntological concepts: the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian real. Thus, while the current discourse on character studies, which revolves around values like realism, depth, and lifelikeness, tends to see characters as mimetic of persons, this book invents new critical concepts to account for non-mimetic forms of characterization. These spectral forms bring to light the important influence of developments in nineteenth-century visual culture, such as the lithography and caricature of Daumier and J.J. Grandville. The spectrality of novelistic characters developed here paves the way for a new understanding of fictional characters in general.

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The Arts

December 2024

The picture politics of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould

Britain's pioneering political cartoonist

by Mark Bryant

This is the first major study of Britain's pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. Written by the distinguished media historian, Colin Seymour-Ure, it is essential reading for anyone interested in cartoons, caricature and illustration and will also be welcomed by students of history, politics and the media. It examines Gould's career in Fleet Street until his retirement after the First World War. It also discusses his illustrations for magazines and books and there is an analysis of his use of symbolism and literary allusion to lampoon such eminent politicians as Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. As Lord Baker says in his Foreword, this book is 'a major contribution to our knowledge of British cartooning.'

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April 2022

Fritz, the Gorilla

Biography of a Fascinating Ape

by Jenny von Sperber

When Jenny von Sperber first met Fritz, the gorilla didn’t let her out of his sight. He was already over 50 years old then, but he was still extremely charismatic. One thing matters for the journalist: she wants to find out everything about Fritz’s life. Born in 1963, he was captured in the wild and came from Cameroon to Germany in 1966. At that time, apes were still regarded as a curiosity in zoos. When a ban was declared on the wild gorilla trade, Fritz was already a father of many youngsters. This fascinating gorilla-family saga not only recounts the eventful life of Fritz, but also shows the development in European zoos in handling wild animals. Nowadays, things have certainly improved. But there are still questions, for example, what does it do to us when we marvel at our closest relatives behind glass? And is it even still current to confine apes ... was it ever?

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2012

Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

Passengers, pilots, publicity

by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature. ;

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August 2001

Missing Link

by Becker, Walt

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March 2021

Robert Koch's Ape

The great mistake of the famous physician

by Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff

During the corona crisis, Robert Koch‘s name has been on everyone‘s lips: Robert Koch is regarded as one of the shining lights in German medical history. However, the expedition that he undertakes in 1906 to the “protected area” of German East Africa even the institute named after him describes as the darkest chapter in Koch‘s history. Lichtwarck-Aschoff‘s oppressive book tells how the Nobel laureate conducted medical tests on people suffering from the sleeping sickness transmitted by the tsetse fly, and recommended the internment of sick people in camps. The aim was to preserve the labour power of the healthy colonised – even if that were at the cost of the infected suffering damage to their body and soul or even dying.

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March 2004

Hallo Tarzan!

Durch bessere Kommunikation zu einer glücklichen Beziehung: Die PowerConnections®-Methode

by Tomasek, Gigi; Engel, Birgit Claire / Illustriert von Rae, Donald

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January 2013

Tarzan am Main

by Genazino, Wilhelm

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April 2009

Das Missing-Link-Prinzip

by Fink, Dietmar; Hartmann, Matthias

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2015

The republican line

Caricature and French republican identity, 1830–52

by Laura O'Brien, Maire Cross, David Hopkin

The years between 1830 and 1852 were turbulent ones in French politics - but were also a golden age for French political caricature. Caricature was wielded as a political weapon, so much so that in 1835 the French politician Adolphe Thiers claimed that 'nothing was more dangerous' than graphic satire. This book is the first full study of French political caricature during the critical years of the July Monarchy (1830-48) and the Second Republic (1848-52). Focusing on the crucial question of republicanism, it shows how caricature was used - by both republicans and anti-republicans - to discuss, define and articulate notions of republican identity during this highly significant period in modern French and European history. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2017

Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50

by Brian Maidment

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January 1999

Bildergeschichten mit Tobi Tarzan

by Frey, Jana / Illustriert von Feldhaus, Hans J

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2018

The Yesterday Snake

by Lofu

This poem collection is selected and arranged by Mr. Lofu himself. During 70 years of writing career, Lofu produced poems with various themes, one of which is “animal”. Butterfly, fish, bird, cricket, clam, ape, snake, cicada, raccoon, spider, fly, earthworm, silkworm, crab...all of them acquire new life under the poet’s pen.

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Literature & Literary Studies

February 2021

Spectral Dickens

by Alexander Bove, Anna Barton, Andrew Smith

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2019

Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920–60

by Jeffrey Richards

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June 2009

Antisemitismus und Gesellschaftstheorie

Die Frankfurter Schule im amerikanischen Exil

by Eva-Maria Ziege

Während Horkheimer und Adorno an der Dialektik der Aufklärung schrieben, begannen sie mit Vorarbeiten zu einem heute vergessenen empirischen Großprojekt: Bereits 1944 untersuchte das Institut für Sozialforschung in enger Kooperation mit dem Jewish Labor Committee, wie sich der Weltkrieg und der Völkermord an den Juden Europas auf den amerikanischen Antisemitismus auswirkten. Diese Konfrontation mit der Gesellschaft ihres Exils veranlaßte die Protagonisten der Kritischen Theorie zu einer wesentlichen Veränderung ihrer Theoriebildung. Zieges Buch deckt das »missing link« zwischen der Dialektik der Aufklärung und The Authoritarian Personality auf. Es rekonstruiert die Exilarbeiten der Frankfurter Schule nicht nur im wissenschaftlichen, sondern auch im politischen Feld und macht sichtbar, inwiefern sich die »amerikanische Erfahrung« produktiv in ihren Werken niederschlug.

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Fiction

THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY ISLANDS

by Lukas Maisel

Almost every Asian culture has a name for this particular creature – Yeren in China, Chemo in Tibet or Orang Pendek on Sumatra. For centuries it has had a place in myths and imaginations. Only the scientific world is not interested in the missing link between man and beast. A Swiss cryptozoologist is determined to change this. He sets off on an expedition to central Papua New Guinea. By his side is a man from the ethnic group of the Bugis; at the helm of the boat is someone who calls himself Jonah. And then there is Blum, in his mid-twenties, faint-hearted, but with a pronounced awareness of proper etiquette. Together they set off on a journey into well-measured uncertainty. With a self-welded cage on the bow…

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Views of a monkey researcher

by Volker Sommer

by Brian Maidment

Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art

by Richard Scully, Alan Lester, Andrekos Varnava

The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization

by Alexander Bove

Britain's pioneering political cartoonist

by Mark Bryant

Biography of a Fascinating Ape

by Jenny von Sperber

Passengers, pilots, publicity

by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

by Becker, Walt

The great mistake of the famous physician

by Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff

Durch bessere Kommunikation zu einer glücklichen Beziehung: Die PowerConnections®-Methode

by Tomasek, Gigi; Engel, Birgit Claire / Illustriert von Rae, Donald

by Genazino, Wilhelm

by Fink, Dietmar; Hartmann, Matthias

Caricature and French republican identity, 1830–52

by Laura O'Brien, Maire Cross, David Hopkin

by Brian Maidment

by Frey, Jana / Illustriert von Feldhaus, Hans J

by Lofu

by Alexander Bove, Anna Barton, Andrew Smith

by Jeffrey Richards

Die Frankfurter Schule im amerikanischen Exil

by Eva-Maria Ziege

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