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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2022

        Tempting Fate, Hardening the Will: Ukraine and Ukrainians in the XX - Early XXI Century. In Three Books

        by Larysa Yakubova (project coordinator)

        The transformation of a mental Ukraine into a real Ukraine, people - into a nation, a territory – into a state is a semantic axis of this trilogy. Book 1. Ukraine and Ukrainians in 1917-1939 The first book is devoted to the interwar period – a key stage of ethnic modernization and mobilization of Ukrainians, the culmination of the Ukrainian Revolution, and the battle for Ukraine in the context of the First World War. Book 2. Between World War II and the Cold War: Wars in the Destiny of Ukraine The second book tells about Ukrainians in the Second World War, after which the Ukrainian lands were united within one state, and in the Cold War, which made possible the sovereignty of Ukraine. Book 3. 30 Years of Independence: Challenges, Trials, Answers The third book is dedicated to the period of Ukrainian Independence and summarizes the thirty years of Ukrainian post-totalitarian transit. Contradictions of internal development, geopolitical challenges, three modern Ukrainian revolutions, and the Russian-Ukrainian war are the focus of understanding the path of Ukraine and Ukrainians in the global world.

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        The Arts
        September 2023

        The senses in interior design

        Sensorial expressions and experiences

        by John Potvin, Marie-Ève Marchand, Benoit Beaulieu

        The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters explore how the body navigates and negotiates the realities of designed interiors and challenge the traditional focus on star designers or ideal interiors that have left sensorial agency at the margins of design history. From the sensually gendered role of the fireplace in late sixteenth century Italy to the synaesthetic décors of Comte Robert de Montesquiou and the sensorial stimuli of Aesop stores, each chapter brings a new perspective on the central role that the senses have played in the conception, experiences and uses of interiors.

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        Oracle Bone Picture Book

        by Central Academy of Fine Arts Picture Book Creation Studio

        The "Oracle Bone Picture Book" series introduces children aged 5-10 to Chinese characters. It explains the connection between character shapes and meanings of the ancient oracle bone script and showcases their real-life applications, helping children understand Chinese characters from their roots and fostering an appreciation for the script, making learning fun and engaging. It contains 10 books: "A Big Deal", "Amazing Mom", "Lessons from Animals", "The Heart of Plants", "Their Family", "Feast and Song", "Under the Sky, Between Mountains and Seas", "At Your Home, At Mine", "Off to the Hunt", "Face Stories".

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        May 2024

        Number 10 2. Denn sie werden dich verraten

        by C.J. Daugherty, Leonie Landa, Rita Gravert, CSC creative sound conception, Andrea Barth, Guter Punkt GmbH

        Mörderische Machtspiele im Elite-Internat. Back to "Night School" Wenn du an einen der sichersten Orte der Welt gebracht wirst und sie dich trotzdem finden… Gray, die Tochter der Premierministerin, wird zu ihrem Schutz nach Cimmeria, einem Eliteinternat, gebracht. Es dauert jedoch nicht lange, bis ihre Feinde sie aufgespürt haben. Wird Gray fliehen oder sich der Gefahr stellen? Ungekürzt gelesen von Leonie Landa

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        Product design
        October 2018

        Creative Souvenirs Design

        by Zhu Yue, Yang Meng

        It is quite significant for the souvenirs for travellers to mould fine figures of tourism and make brands for tourism and promote the development of tourism. The souvenirs for travellers which adopt the people's ideas in particular regions, give expressions to the history of the regions, prolong the folk contradition and make the regional culture be rich and bring forth new ideas. No matter who they are, Whatever they are, famous specialized working men or new hands, they have the same wish to activate the regionous culture, then, improve people's income and raise their consumption. The author of the book collects many concrete examples showing the design of the unique keepsakes by outstanding designers from all over the world into the book. Following the publishment of this book, more and more readers  will suely become better and better designers of tourist souvenirs.

      • Fiction

        Always a Banishment

        by Gabriela Couturier

        Against the backdrop of recent large migrations to Europe, Always A Banishment is the real story of a little migration that originates in late nineteenth-century France. Forced by poverty, driven by hope, three peasants from the Upper Savoy see in the Veracruz coasts of Mexico the possible answer to their desperate situation.  Betrayals, far distances, luck and nature play, then more than ever, a decisive role in the fortunes of migrants, who see their homeland, their people and their customs fade away before they can carve a place for themselves in Mexican lands.  Based on the actual letters sent by migrants, this novel remembers a reality that shows that every migration story, regardless of its outcome, is Always A Banishment.

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        The Arts
        2011

        Signs of China

        by Project group of Picture

        Nearly fifty symbols of traditional Chinese culture with strong symbolism, high recognition and extensive influence are selected in this book, whose connotation covers the fields like architecture, collection, dress and personal adornment, military affairs, health preservance and folk arts. The symbols are of special postion and meaning in the history of traditional Chinese culture since they are stereo, multidimensional, and full of fresh color and life with profound historical origins and cultural significance; therefore they not only bring people a visional impact and enjoyment, but conform with the Chinese aesthetic ideas and cultural complex in their innermost hearts; furthermore created originally by the Chinese ethnic peoples, they have a very deep brand of traditional Chinese aesthetic sentiment and historical memory, meanwhile they make a great effect on the development of culture and arts of mankind. With a view to make the panoramic scan of “traditional Chinese cultural symbols” this time, the compilers intend to display the essence of the culture of Chinese symbols and record the new growth of traditional Chinese culture truthfully through plentiful exqusite pictures in the lively and concise language on the basis of the principle of respecting history and deep exploration.

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        The Arts
        February 2015

        Crafting design in Italy

        From post-war to postmodernism

        by Catharine Rossi, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

        Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated design episodes in the twentieth century. Craft was vital to the development of Italian design, and it has been so far overlooked. This book examines the multiple ways craft shaped Italian design from 1945 to the 1980s in the context of bigger socio-economic, cultural and political change; from post-war reconstruction to the economic 'miracle' of the 1960s, to the rise of the countercultural Radical Design movement and advent of postmodernism. It consists of case studies on design areas including product, furniture, fashion, glass and ceramics to bring to light previously unknown makers and objects as well as re-examine design 'icons' such as Gio Ponti's Superleggera chair and Ettore Sottsass's Memphisware. It also offers a model for analysing design and craft's relationship in other contexts, including today. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 1999

        Celtic Identity and the British Image

        by Murray Pittock

        This work explores the idea of the Celt and the definition of the so-called "Celtic Fringe" over the last 300 years. It is an in-depth study of the literary and cultural representation of Ireland, Scotland and Wales over this period, and is based on a wide-ranging grasp of issues of national identity and state formation. The idea of the Celt and Celticism is once again highly fashionable. Is there such a common Celtic heritage? What is the place of the "Celtic Fringe" in British identity? Pittock begins by assessing the term "Celtic" itself, by questioning its validity, going on to examine its historic uses and heroic notions of Scotland's past. The Celtic Revival of the late 19th century is examined in detail together with its impact on Irish nationalism. Pittock asks how far the "Celtic" experience in Britain can be described as a colonial one, and examines the importance of the Celtic languages in preserving a sense of identity. Contemporary issues such as the literary language of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the growth of modern Scottish nationalism are also considered. ;

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        April 2021

        Gentle armor

        by NetEase City Roaming Plan

        This book uses a real rescue case of a small pangolin called Mibao as the background of the story. Through popular language, vivid pictures and rich examples, it introduces in detail the living habits, species status, endangered causes and protection measures of pangolins, etc. Knowledge, wrote an apocalypse of warmth between man and nature, aimed at telling children that all living things are part of the earth, and calling on people to protect pangolins, jointly maintain the diverse ecology of nature, and protect wild animals.

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        The Arts
        January 2021

        Critical design in Japan

        Material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde

        by Ory Bartal

        This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today. The practice communicates a form of visual and material protest drawing on the ideologies and critical theories of the 1960s and 1970s, notably feminism, body politics, the politics of identity, and ecological, anti-consumerist and anti-institutional critiques, as well as the concept of otherness. It also presents an encounter between two seemingly contradictory concepts: luxury and the avant-garde. The book challenges the definition of design as the production of unnecessary decorative and conceptual objects, and the characterisation of Japanese design in particular as beautiful, sublime or a product of 'Japanese culture'. In doing so it reveals the ways in which material and visual culture serve to voice protest and formulate a social critique.

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        August 2006

        Mit dem Herzen denken

        Mitgefühl und Intelligenz sind die Basis menschlichen Miteinanders

        by Dalai Lama / Illustriert von Thomas & Thomas Design; Deutsch Minden, Sabine von

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        January 2005

        Das geheime Olchi-Experiment

        Hörspiel

        by Erhard Dietl, Tanja Dohse, Robert Missler, Eva Michaelis, Monty Arnold, Pia Werfel, Rainer Schmitt, Jannik Schümann, Marianne Bernhardt, Erhard Dietl, Dieter Faber, CSC creative sound conception, CSC creative sound conception, Frank Gustavus, Frank Gustavus, Erhard Dietl

        Ein Riesenspaß für alle Olchi-Fans! Muffel-Furz-Teufel! Professor Brausewein ist sich sicher, dass er mit Hilfe der Olchis ein besonders wirksames Mittel gegen Bauchschmerzen entwickeln kann. Denn die Olchis haben ja niemals Bauchweh, obwohl sie zum Beispiel Reißnagelauflauf mit Stinkersocken verdrücken. Doch die Olchis sind nun mal sehr eigenwillig und bringen die im Labor des Professors alles durcheinander! Und dann wirkt die Medizin auch noch ganz anders, als Professor Brausewein sich das vorgestellt hat! Hörspiel mit den beliebten Olchi-Sprechern.

      • Fiction

        That Other Orphanhood

        by Gabriela Couturier

        That Other Orphanhood speaks to that deeply dissatisfied inner self who feels trapped in a life that is very different from the one we intended to live.  It is, also, a novel about a coming of age of sorts: the main character stands at the threshold of mid-life, and while she is a successful career woman with a good marriage and a seemingly enviable life, she knows the decisions she makes from now on will have ever more permanent consequences. Changing course to pursue a long-coveted dream might endanger not only everything else she has achieved but the very foundations of her life. And the insistent beckoning of maternity feels more like a question than an answer in her orderly world.  With her struggle against the increasingly common nightmare of infertility as a leitmotiv, That Other Orphanhood reflects on the contradictions that threaten the harmony between our ambitions, the expectations of society and our very essence.

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