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Sounds True was founded in 1985 by Tami Simon with a clear mission: to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Since starting out as a project with one woman and her tape recorder, we have grown into a multimedia publishing company with more than 110 employees, a library of more than 3000 titles featuring some of the leading teachers and visionaries of our time, and an ever-expanding family of customers from across the world. From bestselling authors to new voices in spiritual wisdom, our products represent a variety of popular topics, including meditation, mindfulness, yoga, shamanism, psychology, health and healing, along with a line of children’s books.
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January 2012Auf dem Flughafen
Sachwissen für Erstleser
by Patchett, Fiona / Übersetzt von Grunewald, Harriet; Illustriert von King, Colin; Illustriert von McNee, Ian; Illustriert von Ruffle, Mark
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February 2012Das knallt dem Frosch die Locken weg
Experimente für kleine und große Forscher
by Mark Benecke, Max Fiedler
In "Das knallt dem Frosch die Locken weg" präsentiert der renommierte Kriminalbiologe und Bestseller-Autor Dr. Mark Benecke eine Sammlung seiner Lieblingsexperimente, die nicht nur Wissbegierige und naturwissenschaftlich Begeisterte ansprechen, sondern auch all jene, die Freude an unkonventionellen und überraschenden wissenschaftlichen Erkundungen haben. Benecke führt durch eine Welt voller faszinierender Phänomene – von Schleimschwimmen in der Badewanne über Malen mit Maden bis hin zu Geheimbotschaften mit brennender Tinte und Spiralgalaxien im Waschbecken. Diese Experimente, die einfach zu Hause nachzumachen sind, bieten nicht nur großen Spaß, sondern vermitteln auch grundlegende naturwissenschaftliche Prinzipien. Dabei legt Benecke Wert darauf, die Neugier der Leser zu wecken und zu fördern, indem er sie ermutigt, die Welt der Wissenschaft durch spielerisches Experimentieren selbst zu entdecken. Das Buch besticht durch seine lockere und freche Erzählweise, die wissenschaftliche Konzepte auf unterhaltsame Weise näherbringt. Es ist nicht nur für junge Entdecker konzipiert, sondern spricht auch Erwachsene an, die sich für Naturwissenschaften interessieren oder einfach Spaß am Ausprobieren und Tüfteln haben. Mit einer Vielzahl von Versuchen, die mit alltäglichen Gegenständen durchgeführt werden können, zeigt Benecke, dass spannende wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse oft nur eine kreative Idee entfernt sind. Das Buch dient somit als Inspirationsquelle und Anleitung zugleich, um die faszinierende Welt der Chemie und Physik mit einfachen Mitteln zu Hause zu erkunden. Einzigartige Experimente: Von Schleimschwimmen bis hin zu Spiralgalaxien im Waschbecken – entdecke die spannende Welt der Wissenschaft durch außergewöhnliche Experimente. Einfach nachzumachen: Alle Experimente sind mit alltäglichen Gegenständen durchführbar. Ideal für neugierige Entdecker ab 10 Jahren. Spielerisches Lernen: Vermittelt naturwissenschaftliche Grundprinzipien auf eine unterhaltsame und zugängliche Weise. Von einem Experten geschrieben: Dr. Mark Benecke, bekannter Kriminalbiologe und Bestseller-Autor, teilt seine Begeisterung und sein Wissen. Für die ganze Familie: Bietet kreativen und lehrreichen Spaß für Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen. Inspirierend und motivierend: Ermutigt zum selbstständigen Experimentieren und fördert die naturwissenschaftliche Neugier. Humorvoll und unterhaltsam: Beneckes lockerer und frecher Schreibstil macht das Buch zu einem Vergnügen für Leser aller Altersstufen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2016The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare
by Susanne Martin, Max Taylor, Mark Currie, John Hogan, Leonard Weinberg
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2020The Trump revolt
by Edward Ashbee
This book considers the reasons for Donald Trump's surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election. It charts the prolonged campaign and the realigning processes that took place, analysing the ideas that defined the Trump platform, the electoral shifts in states regarded as solid 'firewalls' for the Democratic Party and the responses of Republican Party elites. Although he is subject to contradictory pressures, the book places Trump firmly within the right-wing populist tradition. However, it argues that the sentiments that drove his campaign were not only a response to economic fears, high levels of inequality and racial resentment - they were also shaped by the structural character of American governance, which fuels hostility towards Washington DC and the 'political class'. The book concludes by assessing the extent to which Trump's victory and parallel developments in Europe mark a reconfiguration of neoliberalism.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017'The better class' of Indians
Social rank, Imperial identity, and South Asians in Britain 1858–1914
by A. Wainwright
This is the first book-length study to focus primarily on the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. In a departure from previous scholarship on the South Asian presence in Britain, 'The better class' of Indians emphasizes the importance of class as the register through which British polite society interpreted other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion. Drawing mainly on unpublished material from the India Office Records, the National Archives, and private collections of charitable organizations, this book examines not only the attitudes of British officials towards South Asians in their midst, but also the actual application of these attitudes in decisions pertaining to them. This fascinating book will be of particular interest to scholars and general readers of imperialism, immigration as well as British and Indian social history.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Class, work and whiteness
Race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79
by Nicola Ginsburgh
This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and nationally heterogeneous formation comprised of both men and women, and emphasises the active participation of white workers in the ongoing and contested production of race. White wage labourers' experiences, both as exploited workers and as part of the privileged white minority, offer insight into how race and class co-produced one another and how boundaries fundamental to settler colonialism were regulated and policed. Based on original research conducted in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK, this book offers a unique theoretical synthesis of work on gender, whiteness studies, labour histories, settler colonialism, Marxism, emotions and the New African Economic History.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024The construction of public opinion in a digital age
by Catherine Happer
This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure. Drawing on a series of empirical studies conducted over nearly a decade, Happer deploys evidence of a 'disconnect' between neoliberal media and the public which is rooted in a disaffection with a mainstream political culture which has failed to deliver the societal outcomes promised. As people are pushed towards alternative digital sources, new communities of opinion are produced in ways which polarise publics and ultimately limit the potential for social change. Offering an innovative and urgently needed new sociological analysis, this book is required reading for an inter-disciplinary field of media, journalism, and politics/IR which has largely abandoned questions of media power and public opinion management, as well as policymakers, science communicators and journalists. Key points of the book: 1) public opinion formation and why people may come to different positions through the development of a new model 2) the societal outcomes produced when a widespread disconnect between journalism and public opinion emerges 3) the atomisation of opinion and its relations to newly constructed opinion communities (with consideration of the role of class) 4) the turn to digitally available alternatives which enable new, less visible power agents to exert control.
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Journey in Trumplandia: The Rise of Populism in America
by Tiberiu Dianu
The book is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever. Some pundits predict that, if things don’t change, another civil war could occur. Have we reached a point of no return? Hopefully, America is mature enough to learn from its mistakes and avoid further scars along its evolving history. "Trumplandia is a welcome addition toward understanding current events, Washington’s international policy, and the present American society; a society polarized and divided as it has not been since the Civil War.” NICHOLAS DIMA, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, Nelson Institute, James Madison University, Virginia. "The book is fascinating. It provides background to, and insights into [the] current and past political history as well as offering a personal view... of the country and society. Presented in thematic form in chapters and sections, the insights offered provide a suggestive radiography...” Dr. DENNIS DELETANT, OBE, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC. "There has been this backsliding in... what a truly functioning rule-of-law state is, that has proper separation of co-equal powers, which, if you don’t keep working on that, you backslide. And I am even worried about that here, in the United States right now, about backsliding.” OBIE MOORE, Esq., OLM Advisors LLC, Washington DC “Indeed, Trumplandia should be a welcome addition to any scholar, student or layman’s library, especially in its international edition. If anyone loses sleep over its challenging assertions, then it will have been well worth it.” ERNESTO MORALES HIZON, Ph.D. Candidate in American and Comparative Politics at Claremont Graduate University, Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TIBERIU DIANU has practiced law in Romania (as a corporate lawyer, judge, senior counselor at the Ministry of Justice, university professor and senior legal researcher), and in the United States (as a legal expert for the judiciary). He published several books and a host of articles in law, politics, and post-communist societies. Tiberiu currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
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The ArtsRepresentative Works of Chinese Woodblock New Year Paintings
by Feng Jicai
Woodblock new year painting is an old handicraft of China, going back thousands of years. People celebrate the Spring Festival by posting up woodblock new year paintings, praying for their good wishes. Chief edited by the contemporary Chinese author, artist, and cultural scholar Feng Jicai, the Representative Works of Chinese Woodblock New Year Paintings is a collection of the masterpieces selected out of over ten thousand woodblock new year paintings. It has two volumes, the Northern and the Southern, from which one can see the differences in the custom of the two regions. The book has received support from scholars and institutions worldwide, among which the Japanese museums' collections of Gusu woodblock new year paintings in the early Qing Dynasty and the Russian museums' collections of late Qing and early Republic China are disclosed to the world for the first time. So the book is not only a historical art collection, but also of high cultural heritage significance.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Class, work and whiteness
by Nicola Ginsburgh, Alan Lester
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2008'The better class' of Indians
by A. Wainwright, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2012'The better class' of Indians
by A. Wainwright, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2025Mrs Dalloway
Biography of a novel
by Mark Hussey
A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2020The United States in the Indo-Pacific
by Oliver Turner, Inderjeet Parmar
