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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
by Ipek Demir
This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or migrancy. To reveal the much-needed transformative potential of the concept, the book looks specifically at how diasporas undertake translation and decolonisation. It offers various conceptual tools for investigating diaspora, with a specific focus on diasporas in the Global North and a detailed empirical study of the Kurdish diaspora in Europe. The book also considers the backlash diasporas of colour have faced in the Global North.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2022Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
by Ipek Demir, Gurminder Bhambra
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August 2024A Place Beyond the Heart
by Irehobhude O. Iyioha
A Place Beyond the Heart is a collection of short stories exploring issues at the intersection of war and love, terror and (dis)order, as well as identity, gender, and sexuality. The stories capture the lives of people facing personal, societal and transcultural challenges that define, transform, and ultimately create shifts in the way they see and experience the world.
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Children's & YAWorld Runner (2). The Hunted
by Thomas Thiemeyer
Tim, who with Annika and Malte has qualified for the second round, is confronted with the biggest challenge of his running career: he, his friends and their arch rivals Jeremy, Darius and Vanessa must form a team that will perform perfectly together. How well they succeed will be judged by millions of spectators, because every moment of this competition will be broadcast live by the media company Global Games. The decision as to who wins has long since ceased to be a matter of ability. Whether the prize is worth the challenge is open to question.
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Children's & YAWorld Runner (1). The Hunters
by Thomas Thiemeyer
Tim is one of them. A runner full of passion, ready to go beyond the limits. When one day he gets a letter from GlobalGames he doesn’t hesitate to accept the challenge for a second. 7 caches have been hidden in 7 locations. 100 young people are chasing after them. Each one against the others. But Tim soon realises that he can’t do it alone. He finds an ally in the fascinating Annika, known as Sakura. But can he really trust her? Or is everyone just running for themselves after all? Who’s ready to go the furthest to find the biggest cache in the world?
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionApril 2009The Kurds in Syria
Fueling Separatist Movements in the Region?
by Radwan Ziadeh
This report examines the relations between the Kurds and the Syrian state, traces the development of Kurdish political organization in Syria and the relationship between the Kurds and the Syrian prodemocracy movement, shows how the status of Syria’s Kurds has implications not only for stability within Syria but also for security throughout the region, and offers policy recommendations for the Syrian government and other international actors in the region.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionMay 2010
Turkey’s New Engagement in Iraq
Embracing Iraqi Kurdistan
by Henri J. Barkey
On the eve of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, relations among Turkey, Iraq, and the Kurdistan Regional Government have been dramatically transformed for the better. While this report examines the change in relations and what led to the improvements, it also argues that grounds remain for continued concern, as sustained attention is needed on the eve of the U.S. military’s departure to prevent events from undermining the progress achieved to date. In this respect, this report reflects on an earlier USIP report written by this author titled Turkey and Iraq: The Perils (and Prospects) of Proximity that called attention to the dangers of the thendeteriorating relations between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds to Turkey’s future political stability, Iraq’s unity, and U.S. interests.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionJanuary 2010
Iraq's Oil Politics
Where Agreement Might Be Found
by Sean Kane
This report analyzes the interplay of oil politics among Iraq’s major communities and the intersection of this interplay with the efforts of the Bush administration to achieve passage of a hydrocarbon law. The report finds that while the Bush administration understood that an oil-revenuesharing agreement is vital to achieving a political settlement in Iraq, there was a mismatch between the legislation that the United States championed—the investment and contracting focused on hydrocarbon law—and the strategic objective that it had identified, setting up a national oilrevenue- sharing system. The report finds that revenue sharing may be the only area where the desire of many Arab Iraqis for nationally led governing arrangements and the financial interests of autonomy-minded Iraqi Kurds overlap. It then recommends that U.S. political influence should be reoriented to play a supporting role in helping Iraqis come to a comprehensive legislative and constitutional agreement on how to share their oil revenues.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionMarch 2011
Iraq's Disputed Territories
A View of the Political Horizon and Implications for U.S. Policy
by Kane, Sean
The alternation of military conflict and negotiation over what areas of Iraq are Kurdish and what autonomy Kurds should exercise in them has been an episodic feature of modern Iraq’s history. A return to this pattern of struggle after the scheduled departure of U.S. forces in December 2011 could now be the greatest potential threat to Iraq’s stability. This report attempts to disaggregate Iraq’s often poorly defined disputed territories by drawing upon the political preferences expressed in these areas during Iraq’s postconstitution elections and archival records detailing the administrative history of disputed areas in Kirkuk, Ninewa, Diyala, and Saleh ad-Din. Clearly, Iraqis must decide the shape of any territorial compromise and the nature of the overall relationship between the federal government and the Kurdistan region. It is hoped, however, that the evidence gathered in this report can provide an informal view of what possible negotiated solutions to the disputed territories might look like and thereby begin to illustrate the potential parameters and compromises involved in resolving this longrunning dispute peacefully.
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Travel writingMay 2000Beyond Ararat
A Journey Through Eastern Turkey
by Bettina Selby
Beyond Ararat is a journey to the cradle of civilization, where the Tigris and the Euphrates rise. Along the corridor of ancient invasion fought over by Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Turks, Arabs, Mongols, Kurds nd Armenians, Bettina Selby follows by bicycle, travelling among today’s survivors living uneasily together under Turkish rule. An enthusiastic, perceptive and sympathetic traveller Irish Independent The journey begins along the strange and beautiful Black Sea coast of Turkey, the poath of Xenoophon and the Ten Thousand, of Jason and the Golden Fleece. From the Russian border her route swings south over vast plains and rugged mountains to the ghost town of Ani and to Ararat, the legendary resting place of Noah’s ark. It was a hard journey through some of the most magnificent scenery in the world - and some of the least predictable people, where a lone female cyclist never knew whether to expect kindness and hospitality, or stones and bullets and attacks from savage dogs. Travelling alone and by bicycle offers unique relationships with both land and people. Bettina Selby interweaves her account with insights into the problems of an area re-establishing its position as the bridge between East and West. She brings alive the rich historical background so vital for understanding this troubled part of the world. An enthusiastic, perceptive and sympathetic traveller Irish Independent
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Biography & True StoriesOctober 2020Namen und Werke. Auf 12 Bände erweiterte Neuausgabe!
Biographien und Beiträge zur Soziologie der Jugendbewegung
by Hinrich Jantzen ; Alexander Glück
Nach 35 Jahren umfassend erweitert: Die maßgebliche Personendokumentation zur deutschen Jugendbewegung. Neuausgabe mit allen (überwiegend bisher unveröffentlichten) Personenakten im Faksimile. Zusammen zwölf Bände. Gefördert von der Deutschen Stiftung Denkmalschutz. Faksimile der fünf Originalbände, ergänzt um hunderte bio-/bibliographische Fragebögen, meist in Originalhandschriften! Das gesamte verbliebene Fragebogenmaterial der Redaktion. Studienausgabe: fünf Bände mit je ca. 360 S. Ergänzungen, Manuskripte und Fragebögen: sieben Bände mit je ca. 360 S. und einem umfangreichen Nachwort im letzten Band. Namenliste: Abetz, Otto; Aff, Johannes; Ahlborn, Knud; Ahlemann, Joachim; Ahrens, Heinrich; Aigles, Alma de l‘; Alfken, Hans; Althaus, Richard; Altmann-Reich, Hilde; Altpeter, Werner; Alverdes, Paul; Amanshauser, Helmut; Apel, Fritz; Avenarius, Ferdinand; Bahner, Georg; Bahrs, Hans; Baldes, Hermann; Ballerstedt, Kurt; Ballerstedt, Walther; Barthel, Max; Baumann, Hans; Bayer, Maximilian; Becker, Marie-Luise; Behrends, Ernst; Berghäuser, Ernst; Bergstraesser, Arnold; Berthold, Jörg; Blüher, Hans; Blunck, Hans Friedrich; Böhme, Herbert; Bohnenkamp, Hans; Bojarzin, Otto; Bondy, Curt; Borinski, Fritz; Bösche, Hermann; Bötel, Fritz; Brandt, Willy; Brauns, Friedrich; Brehm, Bruno; Bresgen, Cesar; Breuer, Hans; Brües, Otto; Brundert, Willi; Brunner, Heinz; Brunotte, Heinz; Bryk, Kurd; Buber, Martin; Burger, Fritz; Burgstaller, Ernst; Burkart, Hans; Buske, Ernst; Caesar (Keyser), Julius; Chester, Richard; Christaller, Walter; Claudius, Hermann; Claussen, Wilhelm; Conti, Leonardo; Copalle, Siegfried; Cornelius, Friedrich; Cramm, Walter; Daur, Rudolf; Deckart, Martin; Degenhard, Franz Josef; Dehmel, Hans; Diederich, Werner; Diederichs, Eugen; Diehl, Guida; Dienel, Kurz; Diete, Kurt; Dietrich, Karl; Dombrowski, Hermann; Droste, Johannes; Duis, Ernst; Dwinger, Edwin Erich; Ege, Clara; Ehlen, Nikolaus; Ehrenthal, Lutz-Günther; Ehrentreich, Alfred; Eichelberg, Max; Eichen, Heinrich; Eimermacher, Harald; Engelhardt, Emil; Ewald, Otto; Fabricius, Wilhelm; Fallada, Hans; Finckh, Ludwig; Fischer, Karl; Fischer, Walter; Fitz, Oskar; Flach, Jakob; Flex, Walter; Flitner, Wilhelm; Fort, Gertrud Freiin von le; Frank, Ernst; Frank, Karl Hermann; Franz, Günther; Friederichsen, Roland; Fulda, Friedrich Wilhelm; Fulda, Leopold; Gambke, Gotthard; Gardiner, Rolf; Gast, Lise; Gättke, Walter; Geiger-Hof, Anna; Geißler, Wilhelm; Gerber, Kurt; Gerber, Walther; Gerlach, Dankwart; Gerlach, Kurt; Gerlach, Richard; Gerstner, Hermann; Geyer, Wilm; Gilardoni-Hildebrand, Hannes; Gneist, Werner; Goebel, Ferdinand; Gollwitzer, Gerhard; Gollwitzer, Helmut; Görres, Ida Friederike; Götsch, Georg; Götze, Rudolph; Gräff, Otger; Gregori, Ellen; Greiff, Walter; Groß, Julius; Grünewald, Ernst; Grzimek, Bernhard; Guardini, Romano; Haase, Hugo; Habbel, Franz Ludwig; Hachtmann, Rüdiger; Hammer, Walter; Harhammer, Leopold; Harmsen, Hans; Hauck, Ernst; Hauer, Jakob Wilhelm; Hausmann, Manfred; Heeren, Hanns; Heinrich, Fritz; Heise, Heinrich; Heisenberg, Werner; Heister, Bernhard; Hellmuth, Fritz; Helwig, Werner; Hensel, Walther; Hesse, Gerda; Hesse, Kurt-Werner; Heybey, Wolfgang; Heyck, Hans; Hockl, Hans Wolfram; Hoffmann, Adolf; Hoffmann, Fritz Hugo; Hoffmann-Fölkersamb, Hermann; Hoheisel, Will; Holtorf, Hans; Höppener, Hugo (Fidus); Horstmann, Erwin; Hubatsch, Walther; Hübotter, Wilhelm; Hüser, Fritz; Hüttenmeister, Josef; Illgen, Walter; Inderfurth, Wilhelm; Italiaander, Rolf; Iwowski, Klara; Jacob, Max; Jahn, Willie; Jannasch, Hans-Windekilde; Jansen, Willie; Jantzen, Walther; Jarmuth, Kurt; Jöde, Fritz; Jünger, Ernst; Jüngling, Eberhard; Just, Herbert; Kauenhoven, Kurt; Keil, Georg; Keil, Theo; Kistner, Albrecht; Kittel, Helmuth; Klages, Ludwig; Klönne, Arno; Klose, Werner; Kneip, Rudolf; Knoch, Willi; Knothe, Elisabeth; Köbel, Eberhard; Koch, Rudolf; König, Franz; Körber, Normann; Kötschau, Georg; Kotzde-Kottenrodt, Wilhelm; Krauss, Friedrich Emil; Krebs, Albert; Kreisky, Bruno; Kreppel, Friedrich; Kroeber-Keneth, Ludwig; Kröher, Heinrich und Oskar; Kroug, Wolfgang; Kügler, Hermann; Kuhn, Martin; Küppers-Sonnenberg, Gustav Adolf; Kurella, Alfred; Kutzleb, Hjalmar; Kynast, Karl; Lampel, Peter Martin; Laß, Werner; Lehmann, Wilhelm; Lehnartz, Emil; Leibl, Ernst; Leip, Hans; Lenk, Rudolf; Lensch, Otto; Lenzen, Heinrich Jacob; Leut geb. Buch, Dora; Licht, Ernst; Lienhard, Ludwig; Lietz, Hermann; Linz, Armin; Linz, Bernhard; Lion, Alexander; Lippe, Ferdinand v. d; Lischke, Kurt; Lißner, Hans; Löns, Hermann; Losch, Sebastian; Löwe, Hans; Luntowski, Adalbert; Luserke, Martin; Lüth, Erich; Mahraun, Artur; Manstein, Bodo; Matthes, Erich; May, Werner; Medau, Hinrich; Mehnert, Klaus; Mehnert, Rudolf; Melchers, Georg; Menzel, Wilhelm; Merkel, Heinrich Georg; Messerschmid, Felix; Metzger, Ludwig; Meusel, Anton; Mewes, Fritz; Meyer, Kurt; Meyer, Werner; Mirbt, Rudolf; Mitgau, Hermann; Mittelstraß, Gustav; Mülhause, Therese; Müller, Karl Christian; Münker, Wilhelm; Nasarski, Peter E; Nawothnig, Walter; Neuendorff, Edmund; Nitsche, Ernst; Noack, Helmut; Nöldeke-Christaller, Erika; Nolte, Heinrich; Nopitsch, Antonie; Oberländer, Theodor; Oelbermann, Karl; Oelbermann, Robert; Oertel, Hans Joachim; Ollenhauer, Erich; Oppenberg, Ferdinand; Oschilewski, Walther G; Paasche, Hans; Pabst, Helmut; Paetel, Karl O; Paetow, Karl; Perleberg, Gilbert; Pfannenstiel, Ekkehart; Pfeiffer, Hermann; Pleyer, Wilhelm; Pohl, Werner; Popert, Hermann; Poppe, Richard; Prellwitz, Gertrud; Prütz, Siegfried; Rabe, Hanns-Gerd; Rasmus, Claus Friedrich; Rehm, Max; Reichwein, Adolf; Reinemann, John Otto; Richter, Hans; Ritter, Heinz; Roßberg, Martin; Roth, Eugen; Roth, Fritz; Schafft, Hermann; Schierer, Heinz; Schirrmann, Richard; Schmid, Carlo; Schmitz, Heinz; Schneehagen, Christian; Schoeps, Hans-Joachim; Scholz, Erich (Olka); Schomburg, Burkhart; Schönfelder, Otto (Cölner); Schottky, Ernst; Schrammen, Bertchen; Schriefer, Werner; Schröcke, Helmut; Schubmehl, Emma; Schulze, Harry Paul; Schumann, Gerhard; Schumann, Heinrich; Schütte, Hermann; Schweitzer, Horst; Sckerl, Else; Sckerl, Lucie; Seidelmann, Karl; Seidler, Georg; Seiler, Karl-Günther; Severing, Adolf; Shaltiel, David; Sievers, Johannes; Sinkwitz, Paul; Sohnrey, Heinrich; Sonntag, Karl; Sperling, Erich; Springenschmid, Karl; Stachowitsch, Alexej; Staebler, Johannes; Staffen, Rudolf; Stählin, Wilhelm; Stark, Leonhard; Steglich, Arno; Stengel-v. 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War & combat fictionMay 2016Princes of War
A Novel of America in Iraq
by Claude Schmid
Two young U.S. Army officers are trying to do their duty in Iraq playing whack-a-mole with at least seven fanatical insurgent groups in the aftermath of the American invasion. Both officers serve in the Big Red One, the vaunted 1st Infantry Division. First Lieutenant Nathan Petty is stationed close to the flagpole, where he quickly learns that the situation in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq is as confusing to those who wear stars as it is to their men out on the point of the bayonet. The other, First Lieutenant Christian Winn, leads a platoon of Wolfhounds, young soldiers struggling to understand the situation and their place in it as they patrol the mean streets of a Northern Iraqi city infested with tribes, factions, and shooters who just want to kill Americans. Through their mutual support and experience with the real essence of ground combat—kill or be killed and politics be damned—they lead from the front, desperately trying to help their soldiers stay motivated and alive. The Wolfhounds, like the rest of the American Army, struggle to deal with a growing insurgency and the insurgents' weapon of choice, improvised explosive devices or IEDs. As the platoon is visiting a school construction project, a sniper's bullet sends the Wolfhounds on a days-long pursuit. Placed squarely in the American tradition of war writing such as Kevin Power’s The Yellow Birds and John Renehan’s The Valley, Schmid’s Princes of War takes its protagonists into the real Iraq: Where the enemy is elusive and danger stalks constantly. Human emotions as old as time—ambition, courage, doubt, fear—churn inside each soldier as they search for the sniper. Some men falter, some fail, and some demonstrate extraordinary courage.
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MemoirsJuly 2018Dancing on Thin Ice
Travails of a Russian Dissenter
by Arkady Polishchuk
How did a Soviet Jewish dissident, raised an atheist communist, come to be a powerful voice on behalf of Russian evangelical Christians? It’s a true story of Cold War bravery and danger. – Publishers Weekly In 1970s USSR, Arkady Polishchuk tries to emigrate. He’s a Russian Jew and journalist with critical “State secrets”—identities of KGB officers influencing foreign affairs through a state-run magazine for which he is the editor. In the course of his memoir, we are along with Polishchuk as he covers anti-Semitic show trials, writes samizdat, is arrested, followed and surveilled, collaborates with refuseniks and smuggles eyewitness testimony of persecuted Christians to the West.
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March 2010Among the Jasmine Trees
Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria
by Jonathan Holt Shannon
The first ethnographic study of music-making in modern Syria
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FictionFebruary 2019THE SNIPER
by Chang Kuo-li
Imagine Jason Bourne meets an older and grumpier John McClane, both inadvertent players in a top-secret, international arms deal scandal worth billions of dollars. Spice the story with black humor, Chinese cuisine, and secret societies, and you get THE SNIPER – a truly original take on the international thriller, Taiwanese style. Twelve days before retirement, Taipei police detective Wu is given a curious case: A Navy officer’s suicide in his hotel room. He is clearly murdered, Wu thinks, but the military wants to close the case as suicide, with no questions asked. And that is only the first of a series of suspicious deaths. At the same time, a sleeping cell is called to action. Alex is a young Taiwanese sniper, ex-Marine, ex-French Foreign Legion, currently a fried rice chef in Manarola, Italy. Ordered to assassinate a high-level Taiwanese government advisor in Rome, he is soon on the run, hunted by his old brothers-in-arms across Europe. Who is killing Navy officers in Taiwan? And who ordered the kill in Rome? As Wu races against time to solve the mounting cases before retirement, Alex embarks on a journey back to Taiwan, back to his beginning, where a group of war orphans were raised by a benevolent “grandpa” and trained to serve the nation. Based on the biggest military corruption case in Taiwan history – the murder of Navy Captain Yin Ching-feng – THE SNIPER is both a masterclass in thriller writing and a study of the heart of darkness in time of war and peace. Chang is working on the sequel, THE SNIPER AND THE MISSING BULLETS.
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June 2014Vintage Visions
Essays on Early Science Fiction
by Edited by Arthur B. Evans
Top scholars investigate the nature and variety of early science fiction
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HistoryJanuary 2008All the Shah's Men
An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
by Stephen Kinzer
All the Shah’s Men brings to life the cloak-and-dagger operation that deposed the only democractic regime Iran ever had. As zealots in Washington intensify their preparations for an American attack on Iran, the story of the CIA’s 1953 coup--with its many cautionary lessons--is more urgently relevant than ever. The coup ushered in a quarter-century of repressive rule under the Shah, stimulated the rise of Muslin fundamentalism and anti-Americanism throughout the Middle East, and exposed the folly of using violence to try and reshape Iran. Selected as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and the Economist, it’s essential reading if you want to place the American invasion of Iraq in context--and prepare for what comes next.
