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General & world historyMay 2005‘Ten Pound Poms’
A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia
by A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson
More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of their experience and fills a gaping hole in the literature of emigration. The authors, both leading figures in the fields of oral history and migration studies, draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and hundreds of oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original interpretations of key historical themes, including: motivations for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of migration; the 'very familiar and awfully strange' confrontation with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees, fifty years on. Accessible and appealing, this book will engage readers interested in British and Australian migration history and intrigued about the significance of migrant memories for individuals, families and nations.
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January 1988Hellwach und bewusst leben
Wege zur Entfaltung des menschlichen Potentials - die Anleitung zum bewussten Sein
by Tart, Charles / Übersetzt von Kierdorf, Theo
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017
Policing and decolonisation
by David Anderson, David Killingray
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Military historyFebruary 2017Serving the empire in the Great War
The Cypriot Mule Corps, imperial loyalty and silenced memory
by Andrekos Varnava. Series edited by Andrew S. Thompson
This book contributes to the growing literature on the role of the British non-settler empire in the Great War by exploring the service of the Cypriot Mule Corps on the Salonica Front, and after the war in Constantinople. Varnava encompasses all aspects of the story of the Mule Corps, from the role of the animals to the experiences of the men driving them both during and after the war, as well as how and why this significant story in the history of Cyprus and the British Empire has been forgotten. The book will be of great value to anyone interested in the impact of the Great War upon the British Empire in the Mediterranean, and vice- versa.
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January 1985
Psychologie in der Wende
Grundlagen, Methoden und Ziele der Transpersonalen Psychologie - eine Einführung in die Psychologie des Neuen Bewusstseins
by Beiträge von Capra, Fritjof; Beiträge von Grof, Stanislav; Beiträge von Maslow, Abraham; Beiträge von Tart, Charles; Beiträge von Wilber, Ken; Herausgegeben von Walsh, Roger N; Herausgegeben von Vaughan, Frances; Übersetzt von Eggert, Jochen
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September 1988Polen im Exil
Eine Anthologie
by Krzysztof Dybciak, Josef Bujnoch, Karl Dedecius, Armin Droß, Krzysztof Dybciak
Gallus Anonymus: König Boleslaw in Ungarn. (I.Bujnoch). Kadl'ubek, Wincenty: Der Tyrann auf der Flucht. (Ch.Reitz). Potocki, Wacl'aw: Die Verbannung der polnischen Brüder. Über die konfiszierten Güter der Arianer. Potocki, Wacl'aw: Lied I. Auf Irrfahrt während der Kriegswirren. (H.-P. Hoelscher-Obermaier). Morsztyn, Zbigniew: Emblem 3. (H.-P. Hoelscher-Obermaier). Leszczyn'ski, Stanisl'aw: An meinen lieben Primas und die polnischen Herren. (A. Lawaty). _: Erinnerung eines französischen Diplomaten (P. Tercier). (A. Lawaty). Leszczyn'ski, Stanisl'aw: Die Reise von Danzig nach Marienwerder. (A. Lawaty). Kitowicz, Je,drzej: Die Konföderierten beim Sultan und beim Kaiser. (B. Nenzel). _: Das letzte Manifest der Generalität. (A. Lawaty). _: Der Gründungsakt einer Deputation. (A. Lawaty). Wybicki, Józef: Lied der Polnischen Legionen in Italien. (H.-P. Hoelscher-Obermaier). Czartoryski, Adam J.: Am russischen Hof. (K. Staemmler). _: Erinnerungen von Soldaten der napoleonischen Kriege. Im Spanienfeldzug Napoleons 1808. Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig. (K. Staemmler). Mickiewicz, Adam: In Rußland. (W. Schamschula). _: An die polnischen Kämpfer. (W. Lipscher). _: An die deutsche Nation. Mickiewicz, Adam: Die Bücher der Polnischen Pilgerschaft. (P.J.B.-G.G.R. 1833). Slowacki, Juliusz: Gedichte. (M. Remané. H.-P. Hoelscher Obermaier. W. Panitz). _: Polnische Demokratische Gesellschaft: Das große Manifest. (W. Lipscher). Czartoryski, Adam J.: Als Zuschauer. Rede vom 29.November 1842 (K. Staemmler). Krasin'ski, Zygmunt: Memorandum an Guizot. (F. Griese). Norwid, Cyprian Kamil: Gedanken und Profile. (V. Koerner. H.-P. Hoelscher-Obermaier). Chopin, Fryderyk: Aus dem Exil. (V. Körner). Da,browski, Jarosl'aw: Zum Kampf bereit. (W. Lipscher). Pil'sudski, Bronisl'aw: Bei dem Volk der Niwchen. (A. Lawaty). Dzierz.yn'ski, Feliks: Aus der Verbannung im Wjatka-Gouvernement. (A. Lawaty). Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Offene Briefe. (V. Körner). Mil'osz, Czesl'aw: Die Reise nach As...
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2007Enthusiast
Essays on modern American literature
by David Herd
Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. Complaining that his age was 'retrospective', Emerson injected enthusiasm into American literature as a way of making it new. 'What,' he asked, 'is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but the daring of ruin for its object?' This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernized and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O'Hara, and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American Literature or Modern Poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 1997Tis Pity She's a Whore
John Ford
by Derek Roper
John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. It is one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period, and has been successfully adapted for film and radio. The Revels plays edition by Derek Roper has been the standard scholarly edition since it appeared in 1975. This new edition uses the same authoritative text, but with notes designed for modern undergraduate use. The substantial introduction has been completely rewritten to take account of the studies and new approaches of the last twenty years. It presents the play as an 'interrogative text', in which subversive meanings are inscribed within an apparently orthodox narrative; as a courageous treatment of forbidden love; and as an achieved work of Baroque art. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2024Tis Pity She's a Whore
By John Ford
by Martin White
John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. This Revels Plays edition is a scholarly, modern-spelling edition of one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period. White's critical introduction explores the textual and theatrical histories of the play, exploring closely its relationship to the particular stage and audience for which it was written. This Revels edition allows the modern reader to become, in Ford's words, an 'actor that but reads'.
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Business & managementNovember 2012Veterinary Practice Management
by Catherine R Coates, Alan Jones, Michael W Coates
Veterinarians are increasingly aware of the need to recognise they are working in a business enterprise. From operating as small practices twenty years ago, veterinary businesses are now run along sophisticated models and operate out of multi-million pound hospitals. Drawing together the latest information on practice management, this textbook provides practical and straightforward coverage of major elements, including client relationships and staff management, business and financial procedures, computer systems and project management. This book covers practice management topics as taught in veterinary schools worldwide, providing students with a textbook resource in this increasingly important subject. It is also a valuable source of information for newly qualified veterinarians, veterinarians interested in practice management and veterinary practice managers.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2009Edwin Morgan
Inventions of modernity
by Colin Nicholson
Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. Instinctively at odds with the literary politics of the Pound-Eliot axis that remained influential deep into the twentieth century, Morgan develops instead a radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon metre through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay poetry, science fiction verse and prize-winning translations into both English and Scots from numerous languages. This authoritative volume is of interest to students, teachers and academic researchers involved with strategies of reading, with cultural studies, with the politics of literary history and with gay and transgressive writing. ;
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October 2015Das Erscheinen des Dionysos
Antike Mythologie und moderne Metapher
by Karl Heinz Bohrer
Wurde Dionysos erst in der Moderne dionysisch? Dionysos, Sohn des Zeus, Gott der Ekstase, wurden viele Eigenschaften zugeschrieben. Aber nur eine unterscheidet ihn von allen anderen Göttern: sein plötzliches »Erscheinen«, jene mysteriöse Ereignishaftigkeit, die mit seinem Auftreten verbunden war und schon in den griechischen Texten thematisch wurde. Karl Heinz Bohrer begibt sich in seinem neuen Buch auf die Spuren dieser Eigenschaft des Dionysos und zeigt, wie sie sich sukzessive vom Mythos abgelöst hat und nach 1800 zum Signum der romantisch-modernen Literatur und Philosophie wurde. Hölderlins dionysischer Augenblick, Nietzsches dionysische Ästhetik und die mythopoetische Metapher der modernen Lyrik bei Pound, T. S. Eliot, Rilke und Paul Valéry sind die wichtigsten Stationen, an denen das Dionysische des modernen Dionysos erkennbar wird: als Ausdrucksform des »Ereignisses« und des »Erscheinens«, die zu zentralen Kategorien der zeitgenössischen Kunst- und Literaturtheorien werden. Die Diskussion der Theorie des »Ereignisses« im Surrealismus sowie prominent bei Martin Heidegger und Jean-François Lyotard schließt diese fesselnde Studie zum dionysischen Diskurs der Moderne ab.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 1999Introduction 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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FictionSeptember 2012Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
by YU Hua
One of the last decade's ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland's most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao. A cart-pusher in a silk mill, XU Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood chief. His visits become lethally frequent as he struggles to provide for his wife and three sons at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Shattered to discover that his favorite son was actually born of a liaison between his wife and a neighbor, he suffers his greatest indignity, while his wife is publicly scorned as a prostitute. Although the poverty and betrayals of Mao's regime have drained him, XU Sanguan ultimately finds strength in the blood ties of his family. With rare emotional intensity, grippingly raw description of place and time, and clear-eyed compassion, YU Hua gives us a stunning tapestry of human life in the grave particulars of one man's days.
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Children's & YA2020The After-Time Chronicles
One Small Spark
by Andy Woodage
In the footsteps of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series comes Andy Woodage's debut novel and our entrance into his bio-engineered fantasy world. The After-Time Chronicles: One Small Spark is a young-adult fantasy novel of good, evil, genetically engineered creatures, romance, blood, and the search for belonging. Imagine a world without oil, where metals are only available if they can be salvaged or recycled. Imagine if coal was running out. It’s a world where armies no longer build metal monsters, but biological horrors. A world where genetic engineering has become the art of war. This is 12-year-old Jothan’s world. Orphaned by a terrible accident, he dreams of leaving his uneventful life with his grandparents on the family’s griffin farm. However, when a catastrophic attack wipes out every homestead in The Zoological Zone, his world is turned upside down. He finds himself thrust into a story larger than he ever dreamed, embarking on a rough journey with a mysteriously appearing warrior to the fabled ‘Temple of Elohim’. Accompanied by his best friend, the griffin Gozell, Jothan sets off across a land ravaged by poverty and wild creatures. Battling his way across the dangerous landscape, his eyes are opened to an empire in the grip of war and unrest... with the ever increasing weight of his role in events to come. Will they make it to the Temple? Will they be welcomed when they arrive? Can Jothan unravel the secrets that seem to control the lives of everyone he meets, including his mysterious saviour?
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2017Jackie Chan：Never Grow Up, Only Get Older
by Jackie Chan, Zhu Mo
This is an autobiography of Chinese Kongfu star Jackie Chan. The book is a true recording of this international superstar’s growth and life experience for the last 50 years. It tells us the legendary actor’s stories, and also reflects a fantastic acting age.
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Children's & YAMarch 2020Amelie Trott and the Earth Watchers
by Moyra Irving
This is the extraordinary story of how one small girl stopped a planetary catastrophe. It’s a very timely book, written for the child in us all, with a forceful message about the power of young people to transform the world - a theme currently demonstrated by brave young heroes like Greta Thunberg. And with magical synchronicity, the very week Greta began her lone vigil outside the Swedish government last year, over 1,000 miles (1,897 km) away in the fictional world of books, Amelie Trott took to Parliament Square, London - on a mission to avert the End of the World. It’s a family drama with an international feel - set mainly in England but with episodes in Washington DC and around the world.
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March 2023Born Hutsi
by Fiston Mudacumura
The author was raised in a family of only survivors from the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. Even FARG (A survivors fund) allegedly paid for his school fees for some time. Through FARG reform, he learned that his father had associated with perpetrators even if he was also killed in 1994. Digesting that information as a teenager was not easy. In this book, you read about his other close-to-normal upbringing like infatuation, sex advice from fellow teenagers, getting conned in Paris and arrested on his first trip to France, his take from the "Ndi umunyarwanda" campaign, #PK saving him from getting expelled at the university, joining a political party at the university,...
