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2019

Conspiracy Myths

How we are deceived by twisted facts

by Holm Gero Hümmler

The twin towers of the World Trade Center were blown up on behalf of the US government. Vapour trails in the sky contain chemicals that cause disease. The moon landing never took place; it was staged in a studio. Many people believe in conspiracy theories: supporting evidence can seem plausible, until you look closely. To refute conspiracy theories often requires scientific and technical knowledge. Dr. Holm Gero Hümmler has precisely this sort of knowledge, and he is able to communicate it clearly for laypeople. In his book “Conspiracy Myths” he provides guidelines on how to deal with questionable facts. He gives valuable tips for personal research and shows how to deconstruct well-known conspiracy theories – from 9-11 to the “earthquake machine” HAARP, to chemtrails and “Nazi UFOs”. Sometimes, refutation is easy: you only need a sand pit and game pieces ...

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2020

Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

by Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont, Charlotte Coffin

This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.

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Mytes et Legendes Africains (African Myths and Legends)

by Adotévi Joël, Kanad Sambiani Tani, Gilka, Assem, Anani Accoh, Adomayakpo Papi

Six stories to make young and old travel through history, the imaginations of Africa. The myth of Shango, the legend of the buffalo woman, the legend of the mother of the Tuaregs, the story of King Agokoli, then that of the Amazons of Dahomey and finally that of the Ablafo

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2024

Myth and (mis)information

Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

by Allan Ingram, Helen Williams, Clark Lawlor

This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.

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Mind, Body, Spirit

The Way of Inanna

A Heroine’s Guide to Living Unapologetically

by Seana Zelazo

Myth Made ManifestOver 4000 years ago in ancient Sumer, some of the first mythographers inscribed the stories and myths of the Goddess Inanna on clay tablets in cuneiform. These incredible findings were unearthed, and the fragments were painstakingly pieced together and translated. What they discovered were the ways Inanna was heralded as a goddess who embodies polarities: impatient and deliberate, an attentive lover and fierce warrior, connected to fertility as well as death-making her an accessible, relatable, and inspiring representation of the Divine Feminine as she stands in her power and multidimensionality. The Way of Inanna is a field guide to heart-centered living through the wisdom of the Sumerian Goddess of Love. Each chapter deconstructs sacred narratives in which the Goddess navigates the seven gates of her soul's journey from awakening to ascension. More than a simple retelling, the book is myth made manifest in which Inanna becomes a means to accessing our own ascension and alchemical magic within our modern, contemporary context.

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Monfay chez lez les magiciens du fer (Monfay chez lez the iron wizards)

by Koffivi Assem & Kanad

A city girl gets lost while visiting her grandparents. Accompanied by a young native, she must pass several trials to find her way back.

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2000

Myth, legend, dust

Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy

by Rick Wallach

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December 2000

Homeopathy - Science or Myth?

by Gray, Bill

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June 2013

The Myth of the Reformation

by Herausgegeben von Opitz, Peter; Beiträge von Campi, Emidio; Beiträge von van der Pol, Frank; Beiträge von Klinge, Hendrik; Beiträge von Wilczek, Piotr; Beiträge von Huijgen, Arnold; Beiträge von Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara; Beiträge von Ballor, Jordan J.; Beiträge von Balserak, John; Beiträge von Petersen, Rodney L.; Beiträge von Wangsgaard Jürgensen, Martin; Beiträge von Heal, Bridget; Beiträge von Christ-von-Wedel, Christine; Beiträge von Kolbe, Rainer; Beiträge von Terricabras, Ignasi Fernández; Beiträge von Garcia Archilla, Aurelio A.; Beiträge von Roberts, Paul W.; Beiträge von Timmerman, Daniël; Beiträge von Acs, Pal; Beiträge von Dreyer, Rasmus C.H.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2022

Creating the people’s war

by Jessica Hammett, Penny Summerfield

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October 2020

Turning Men into Pigs and Staying Safe from Such Trickery

A Scientific Foray into the World of Ancient Greek Legends

by Monika Niehaus, Michael Wink

The adventures of Odysseus are not just a classic literary epic but also shine a light on intriguing questions for geography, archaeology and biology. Phenomena like the Cyclops and magic potions were only understood in recent decades thanks to phytochemical and pharmacological research that enabled new insights into the effect of plant substances on the mind and body. Monika Niehaus and Michael Wink embark on an enjoyable excursion in their book on a scientific foray for knowledge – from ancient myths to medieval drug excesses and the world of comics.

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1987

Diaeresis and Myth in Plato's Statesman

by Scodel, Harvey R

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History

2019

250 years of lies: Russian myths about the history of Crimea

by Serhii Hromenko

The book analyses more than 20 Russian myths fabricated to legitimise the annexation of Crimea. The annexation of the Ukrainian peninsular of Crimea by Russia in 2014 caused the largest political crisis in Europe since the Second World War. It also gave rise to the unprecedented growth of propaganda to justify the aggressive policy of the Russian Federation in the eyes of the world. Is Crimea really an original Russian land? Is it true that the Crimean Tatars are all traitors? Was the peninsula really integrated into Ukraine illegally? And what, after all, were the events of February–March 2014–the illegal occupation of the foreign territory or the “restoration of historical justice”?

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British & Irish history

July 2013

Myth and materiality in a woman’s world

by Lynn Abrams

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2005

Myth and materiality in a woman’s world

by Lynn Abrams, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Rebecca Mortimer

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2005

Myth and materiality in a woman’s world

by Lynn Abrams, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie

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1983

Myth and Personal Experience in Roman Love-Elegy

A Study in Poetic Technique

by Whitaker, Richard

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Popular imperialism and the military, 1850-1950

by John M. MacKenzie

Colonial war played a vital part in transforming the reputation of the military and placing it on a standing equal to that of the navy. The book is concerned with the interactive culture of colonial warfare, with the representation of the military in popular media at home, and how these images affected attitudes towards war itself and wider intellectual and institutional forces. It sets out to relate the changing image of the military to these fundamental facts. For the dominant people they were an atavistic form of war, shorn of guilt by Social Darwinian and racial ideas, and rendered less dangerous by the increasing technological gap between Europe and the world. Attempts to justify and understand war were naturally important to dominant people, for the extension of imperial power was seldom a peaceful process. The entertainment value of war in the British imperial experience does seem to have taken new and more intensive forms from roughly the middle of the nineteenth century. Themes such as the delusive seduction of martial music, the sketch of the music hall song, powerful mythic texts of popular imperialism, and heroic myths of empire are discussed extensively. The first important British war correspondent was William Howard Russell (1820-1907) of The Times, in the Crimea. The 1870s saw a dramatic change in the representation of the officer in British battle painting. Up to that point it was the officer's courage, tactical wisdom and social prestige that were put on display.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

The language of empire

Myths and metaphors of popular imperialism, 1880-1918

by Robert Macdonald

The debate about the Empire dealt in idealism and morality, and both sides employed the language of feeling, and frequently argued their case in dramatic terms. This book opposes two sides of the Empire, first, as it was presented to the public in Britain, and second, as it was experienced or imagined by its subjects abroad. British imperialism was nurtured by such upper middle-class institutions as the public schools, the wardrooms and officers' messes, and the conservative press. The attitudes of 1916 can best be recovered through a reconstruction of a poetics of popular imperialism. The case-study of Rhodesia demonstrates the almost instant application of myth and sign to a contemporary imperial crisis. Rudyard Kipling was acknowledged throughout the English-speaking world not only as a wonderful teller of stories but as the 'singer of Greater Britain', or, as 'the Laureate of Empire'. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the Empire gained a beachhead in the classroom, particularly in the coupling of geography and history. The Island Story underlined that stories of heroic soldiers and 'fights for the flag' were easier for teachers to present to children than lessons in morality, or abstractions about liberty and responsible government. The Education Act of 1870 had created a need for standard readers in schools; readers designed to teach boys and girls to be useful citizens. The Indian Mutiny was the supreme test of the imperial conscience, a measure of the morality of the 'master-nation'.

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May 2021

The Truth about American History You Didn't Know

by Wang Ying, Wang Yongyi

American history has its glorious side, but also its obscure, dark, and even cruel and bloody side. The book begins with "Brilliant Indian Civilization", and then begins with "The Tragic Indians", "The B-side of Washington's Life", "The Myth of the American Constitution", "The Long Road to Black Liberation", "The Faces of All Living Beings in the Mirror of Democracy", and "The Blood under the Stars and Stripes" As the theme, it uses a large number of unknown, vivid images, and narrative specific historical facts. From different historical perspectives, it exposes the obscure, dark, cruel and bloody history of the United States. thousand.

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by Holm Gero Hümmler

by Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont, Charlotte Coffin

by Adotévi Joël, Kanad Sambiani Tani, Gilka, Assem, Anani Accoh, Adomayakpo Papi

Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

by Allan Ingram, Helen Williams, Clark Lawlor

A Heroine’s Guide to Living Unapologetically

by Seana Zelazo

by Koffivi Assem & Kanad

Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy

by Rick Wallach

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by Jessica Hammett, Penny Summerfield

A Scientific Foray into the World of Ancient Greek Legends

by Monika Niehaus, Michael Wink

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