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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2007Paul Auster
by Mark Brown, Sharon Monteith, Nahem Yousaf
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Economic theory & philosophyJuly 2013Innovation by demand
by Andrew McMeekin, Ken Green, Mark Tomlinson, Vivien Walsh
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2007Paul Auster
by Mark Brown, Sharon Monteith, Nahem Yousaf, Rebecca Mortimer
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2018Innovation by demand
by Andrew McMeekin, Stan Metcalfe, Mark Tomlinson, Mark Harvey, Ken Green, Vivien Walsh
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April 2018The Shadow of the Flower
by Ye Zhaoyan
Lady Yu has become the head of the Zhens since her father died and her brother got paralyzed. She intently strives for the long-gone youthful days and the free and happiness she never had before. Nevertheless, the harmful influence of the feudal family on her is deep-rooted and the shadows of her father and brother have always haunted her. In the end, she fights against the evil feudal ethical code at the cost of her youth, passion and life. The novel sets in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River during 1920s which has been no longer in existence and turned into a part of historical relics.
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January 2023Wigglers: The Survival of Small-town People in the City
by Yi Hong, a reporter for Hunan Broadcasting System, has devoted himself to TV programs and copywriting related to art all year round. He has published the novels Endless Love to Changsha and Love is a Ghost, and compiled the books Bright Future and Absolute Loyalty. He won the first “Taofen Award for New Talents” in China.
It is a realistic novel with unique characteristics in content and text. The novel describes the different lives of the hero and Brother Liaoliao, his fellow villager and classmate, two young people who came from a small town. The town and the city work as mirror images of each other, as was the case with the two main characters. They share common childhood and juvenile memories, which are the source of life that has been turned into fantasy stories over time. As friends, they went out to college together and lived in the city after graduation. One got promoted, while the other spent time in a mediocre position...
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December 2014The Shadow of a River
by Qiu Shanshan
After I Wait for You in Heaven has sold well for more than ten years, Qiu Shanshan again presents a heart-warming work The Shadow of a River. The novel starts with dreams and memories and tells the ever-changing youth of Taoshu and the frustrations of her family by using the four seasons as the timeline and adopting the double perspectives of a child and an adult. The novel gives an euphemistic and unhurried account of the confusion and fragility of time as well as the tenacity of life, reflecting the ways of life during a historical period and highlighting the good and evil nature of ordinary people. The work, with proper rhythm, fluent and simplistic language, and well-balanced structure, is like a well-crafted long scroll of painting.
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January 2023Clouded Leopard Shadow
by Mu Ling
A pair of domestic cats fed the big clouded leopard was mistaken for a "wildcat" offspring. Identified by experts, the sister clouded leopard strayed into the city and was sent to a nature reserve, while the brother clouded leopard "Shadow" ran away on his own and began to wander the mountains and forests. ...... This special experience makes it different from its wild counterparts, but it still grows up in the competition for survival and defeats strong enemies, and later on, it befriends a young macaque that escaped from a monkey class and another clouded leopard. Later, he befriends a young macaque monkey that escaped from a monkey playing class and another clouded leopard......
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February 2023Night Shadow 2. She Who Alights The Night
by Laura Cardea, Moon Notes
Die das Licht beherrscht … Magisches Finale in Paris. Du liebst den Mix aus verbotener Liebe, Geheimbünden und historischen Settings? Für Fans wie dich, die romantische Fantasy-Romane für junge Erwachsene suchen, gibt es aktuell nur eins: Laura Cardeas Dilogie Night Shadow. Hier ist der finale zweite Band aus dem historischen Paris an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert – eine Zeit, in der alles möglich schien, auch für Odette und Eugéne. Licht oder Dunkelheit, Freund oder Feind? Noch immer stecken Odette und Eugéne mitten im Kampf gegen die Nyx. Diese haben inzwischen eine bedrohliche neue Technologie entwickelt. Sie ruft noch mehr machtgierige Männer auf den Plan, die ihre Finger im Spiel haben. Ein Spiel, in dem kaum noch zu erkennen ist, wem die beiden überhaupt noch vertrauen können – außer einander. Dabei weiß Eugéne noch immer nicht, wer Odette in Wahrheit ist. Der historische Stoff, aus dem Romantasy-Träume sind. Nach Nachtschwarz nun Lichtweiß: Freu dich auf Band 2 der New Adult-Dilogie mit dem Mond-Cover. Wow-Setting: das historische Paris des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts. Für Fans von „Babylon Berlin“ oder „Bridgerton“, gepaart mit einer originellen Fantasy-Idee. Mit wunderschön illustriertem Stadtplan, Stammbaum und großem Glossar. Deine Lieblingsthemen „Girl disguised as boy“ und „Forbidden love“. Wieder fesselnd geschrieben von Laura Cardea, der Autorin von „Splitter aus Silber und Eis“.
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October 2022Night Shadow 1. They Who Guard The Night
by Laura Cardea, Moon Notes
In "Night Shadow 1: They Who Guard The Night" von Laura Cardea entführt die Autorin ihre Leser*innen ins Paris an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert, wo die mittellose Odette in der rauschhaften Welt des Pariser Nachtlebens ihre magischen Fähigkeiten entdeckt. Als sie sich als Mann verkleidet ins Vergnügen stürzt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie zu einer seltenen Gruppe von Menschen gehört, die nachtbezogene Kräfte besitzen. Diese Entdeckung führt sie zur Bruderschaft der Nachtschwärmer, einem Männerbund, der die Dunkelheit beherrscht. Doch Odette ist einzigartig, denn sie kontrolliert das Licht. Gemeinsam mit Eugène, einem wohlhabenden Mitglied der Bruderschaft, nimmt sie den Kampf gegen einen finsteren Orden auf, der es auf ihre Kräfte abgesehen hat. Dabei müssen sie nicht nur gegen äußere Feinde kämpfen, sondern auch für ihre Liebe, die sich über Standesschranken hinwegsetzt. Die Geschichte bietet eine fesselnde Mischung aus historischem Setting und Fantasy-Elementen, angereichert mit einer Liebesgeschichte, die vor dem Hintergrund von Klassenunterschieden und magischen Fähigkeiten erblüht. Odette, als starke weibliche Protagonistin, bricht mit traditionellen Rollenbildern und fügt der Erzählung eine Schicht der Emanzipation hinzu. Ihre Entwicklung von einer mittellosen jungen Frau zu einer mächtigen Kämpferin, die ihre Fähigkeiten entdeckt und einsetzt, bildet das Herzstück der Geschichte. Eugène, als ihr Verbündeter und Liebhaber, unterstützt sie auf diesem Weg, während beide gegen dunkle Mächte und gesellschaftliche Konventionen ankämpfen. "Night Shadow 1" ist nicht nur ein Abenteuer durch die magische Unterwelt von Paris, sondern auch eine Geschichte über Selbstfindung, Mut und den Kampf für Gerechtigkeit und Liebe. Die vielschichtigen Charaktere und das lebendige historische Setting machen das Buch zu einem unvergesslichen Leseerlebnis für Fans von historischer Fantasy und Romantasy. Laura Cardea erschafft eine Welt, in der die Nacht nicht nur ein Schleier der Dunkelheit, sondern auch ein Ort der Magie, der Geheimnisse und der unerwarteten Verbündeten ist. Einzigartige Mischung aus historischer Fantasy und Romantasy: Tauche ein in eine Welt voller Magie und romantischer Verwicklungen vor der Kulisse des historischen Paris. Detailreiches historisches Setting: Lasse dich von der lebendigen Atmosphäre der Belle Époque und Steampunk-Elementen verzaubern. Empowerment und Selbstbehauptung: Inspirierende, starke weibliche Protagonistin, die entschlossen und mutig ihre eigene Stärke entdeckt. Für Fans von tiefgründigen Liebesgeschichten, magischen Heldinnen und den Autorinnen Julia Dippel, Emily Bold und Jennifer Armentrout. Spannende Handlung mit überraschenden Wendungen: Freue dich auf ein Leseabenteuer voller unerwarteter Entwicklungen. Teil einer fesselnden Dilogie: Beginne eine epische Reise, die mit Spannung auf die Fortsetzung warten lässt.
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July 2016The Last Love
by Can Xue
This novel by Can Xue presents a whole range of characters with strong personality, such as Joe, Maria, Vincent, Lisa, Reagan and Ida. They are full of vitality and are accordingly unsatisfied with their present status. They actively explore unknown field of life and firmly embark on the journey of spiritual exploration. The novel focuses the complicated and intertwining relationship between husbands, wives and lovers to uncover the hidden inner desire of each character. Boiling wild nature and advanced civilization collide with each other before they finally become one unity. For the readers, entering the world of these characters is like entering their own inner world.
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The ArtsJanuary 2013Chinese Arts and Crafts Masters
Wang Tianwen—Shadow Puppet
by Cheng Wanli
This set of book introduces 60 artists who were conferred “Chinese Arts and Crafts Master”. They all have their unique skills with outstanding contributions. Each book has an interview with the master to show the unique technique and design concept to the readers.
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FRÄULEIN GOLD: SHADOW AND LIGHT (Vol. I)
Schatten und Licht
by Anne Stern
1922: Hulda Gold is a midwife and she is smart, fearless and extremely popular in the neighbourhood since the fate of her female patients is extremely close to her heart. Especially as she encounters not only new life, but also death. In the notorious Bülowbogen, one of the city's many slums, Hulda looks after a pregnant woman. The young woman is devastated because her neighbour was found dead in the Landwehrkanal; allegedly a tragic accident. But why is the opaque detective commissioner Karl North so interested in the case? And why is Hulda so attracted to him? She investigates and gets deeper and deeper into the abysses of a city where shadow and light are so close together.
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2024Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, Alan Rice
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2021The Red and the Black
The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not just a world-historical event in its own right, but also struck powerful blows against racism and imperialism, and so inspired many black radicals internationally. This edited collection explores the implications of the creation of the Soviet Union and the Communist International for black and colonial liberation struggles across the African diaspora. It examines the critical intellectual influence of Marxism and Bolshevism on the current of revolutionary 'black internationalism' and analyses how 'Red October' was viewed within the contested articulations of different struggles against racism and colonialism. Challenging European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left, The Red and the Black offers new insights on the relations between Communism, various lefts and anti-colonialisms across the Black Atlantic - including Garveyism and various other strands of Pan-Africanism. The volume makes a major and original intellectual contribution by making the relations between the Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic central to debates on questions relating to racism, resistance and social change.
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2024Walking in the dark
James Baldwin, my father and I
by Douglas Field
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.
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Children's & YA2020The Light in the Shadow
by Susana Aliano Casales
Living in the light sounds compelling. Living in the shade is a bit scary. But there is no need to worry, because it is not possible to live alone in one way or another. We generally travel between the two until we find our balance, something that the girl in this story has just discovered.
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FictionMay 2008A Flower’s Shadow
by YE Zhaoyan
The small town of 1920s Jiangnan is the setting and subject of this story. Small towns like this no longer exist in the modern age; they have become a thing of the past. However, people’s thoughts can be like an arrow piercing through the fabric of time, reviving an era that ended long ago. As time flows backward, old dreams gain new vigor, and the small town of 1920s Jiangnan finally begins to take shape in the minds of the reader.
