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      • Peasoup ApS

        Read the book and solve puzzles with your smart device to chose your own way through the Smart Books. Amazing new technology mixed with storytelling for the 8-13 year old kids.

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      • Muddy Pearl Ltd.

        Muddy Pearl is an independent publisher of thoughtful Christian books and lovely general-market gift titles. Established in 2013 in Edinburgh by Richard and Stephanie Heald, our editorial policy is to invest in developing new authors who have deep insights into life or a valuable story to share. We publish on parenting, politics, technology, love, loss and belief, all from a perspective of Christian faith, and seeking to know better the Lord we love and serve. We try to produce our books to the highest standard, drawing wherever possible on the traditional skills and resources available in Scotland.

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        June 2016

        Der aufgehobene ausländische Schiedsspruch als »rechtliches nullum«?

        Eine kritische Analyse auf der Grundlage des Verfassungs- und Völkerrechts.

        by Boor, Felix

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        Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        October 2018

        Studying on Beads Unearthed in Hunan

        by Hunan Provincial Museum

        The beadwork unearthed in Hunan, to some extent, reflects the historical process of the development of beadwork in ancient China. It is an indispensable important material for studying the beadwork and jade culture in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Craftsmanship is important. The manuscript of this book is divided into two parts. The upper part details the Hunan archeological excavation beadwork and pictures. The second part introduces the research results on these unearthed beadwork. Finally, a table is attached. The manuscript data was comprehensively collected, and more than 500 jade pictures of good preservation and high research value were selected from the excavated materials over the years. The publication of this manuscript allows readers to clearly understand the history of the development of beadwork and beadwork culture in Hunan, which has a high research reference value.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2010

        Politics and provincial people

        Sligo and Limerick, 1691–1761

        by D. A. Fleming

        This ground-breaking study is the first to systematically examine the politics and political culture of provincial Ireland. The book compares two distinct localities that provide differing perspectives on how politics and power manifested itself in provincial Ireland: Sligo in the north west and Limerick in the south west. Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown and under-utilised contemporary material, David Fleming focuses on individuals who were determined to shape the political landscape and those who were affected by their actions. The book challenges many accepted models of how Ireland and the Irish were governed. While the propertied élite dominated many aspects of the political process, individuals and groups from the professional, mercantile, rural and other sections of society - the 'middling orders' - were also active in local institutions and office-holding. Their story, recounted here, reveals a far more complex set of relationships. Politics and provincial people is a carefully constructed story of people's motivations, ideas, and actions, and offers new insights into the complexity of their lives and the Irish political landscape. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2018

        Records of Reform and Opening-up in Hunan

        Volume 2018

        by Hunan Provincial Research Institue of Party History

        This book focuses on Hunan province, takes the historical development of socialism with Chinese characteristics since the reform and opening up as a clue, combines the three volumes of party history and historical research in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and selects typical events as the topics to reflect the decisions, policies, and actions that have significant influence and local characteristics in the process of reform and opening up.

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        1989

        Neu anfangen

        Ratgeber für ein aktives Leben nach dem Beruf

        by Massow, Martin; Lehr, Ursula; Boor, Ulrich

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Eternal light and earthly concerns

        Belief and the shaping of medieval society

        by Paul Fouracre

        In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.

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        August 2016

        Water Margin(Digital Edition)

        by Shi Nai An

        In the final years of the Song dynasty,China was in a state of political and social turmoil.Besides frequent foreign invasion and a large number of man made and natural disasters there were also constant peasants rebellion.In order to transform society and make it more equitable and human, 108 heroes joined together in Liang Shan to oppose the local officials and genitures.Thus began the corsages and moving drama on which the novel water margin is based.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2019 - December 2024

        Hesitate

        by Lu Xun,Fan Zeng

        " Hesitate " is a collection of novels by Lu Xun, which has a total of 11 novels from 1924 to 1925. The entire collection of novels reveals the concern for the peasants and intellectuals living under the weight of feudal forces. Every article in the book is accompanied by illustrations drawn by Mr. Fan Zeng, a famous Chinese scholar and teacher of traditional Chinese painting, which vividly presents the world in Lu Xun's novels.

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        Architectural structure & design
        July 2016

        Escape

        Designing the Modern Guest House

        by Qi Shanshan

        Guest House are good places for people to spend their holidays. Forty-three folk hostels built by different architects and artists in places over the world includung the hostels transformed from the old, new hostels of art, collective hostels for peasants and the hostels in villa style. They are attractive and touching because they are full of temperament and taste in design and building, and spacious and visional effect. The structure of each hostel described in the book is unique and so as to the position, the environment, the moving lines, the materials and the culture of the erea.

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        September 1978

        Alexander Mitscherlich zu Ehren. Provokation und Toleranz

        Festschrift für Alexander Mitscherlich zum siebzigsten Geburtstag im Namen des Sigmund-Freud-Instituts Frankfurt am Main

        by Horst Vogel, Sibylle Drews, Rolf Klüwer, Angela Köhler-Weisker, Mechthild Krüger-Zeul, Klaus Menne, Clemens Boor

        Alexander Mitscherlich wurde am 20. September 1978 70 Jahre alt. Seinem ungewöhnlichen Engagement ist es zu verdanken, dass die Psychoanalyse in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in ihren wissenschaftlichen, therapeutischen und sozialpsychologischen Wirkungsmöglichkeiten wieder Fuß fassen konnte. Mitscherlich hat nach der Periode der »Gegenaufklärung«, der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, sein ganzes Schaffen der Freiheit des Denkens und der Einübung in Toleranz gewidmet, unermüdlich gegen »hergestellte Dummheit« gekämpft und sich für den Wiederaufbau demokratischer Strukturen eingesetzt. Nach dem Studium der Geschichte, Philosophie, Kunstgeschichte und der Medizin vorm und im Krieg wurde er 1946 Privat-Dozent an der Heidelberger Universität. Zu den herausragenden Leistungen seiner weitgespannten Tätigkeiten gehört der Aufbau der Psychosomatischen Klinik Heidelberg, deren Direktor er von 1949-1967 war. Durch seine vielfältigen Kontakte zum Ausland und seinen Aufenthalt in England konnte er der psychoanalytischen Arbeit in dieser Klinik stets neue Impulse geben, sei es in Form der Vertiefung und Präzisierung psychoanalytischer Behandlungsmöglichkeiten und -techniken, sei es durch die Einführung der inzwischen auch in Deutschland etablierten Balintgruppen. Sein dominierendes wissenschaftliches Interesse galt damals der Entwicklung einer Theorie der psychosomatischen Erkrankungen, in deren Mittelpunkt er die Suche nach einem Zusammenhang zwischen körperlicher Erkrankung, (unbewussten) psychischen Prozessen und sozialen Umwelteinflüssen stellte. Seine Gabe, solchen Wechselwirkungen nachzuspüren und sie zum Gegenstand sowohl wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen als auch des öffentlichen Interesses zu machen, schlug sich in seinem kontinuierlichen Kampf gegen die »Unwirtlichkeit unserer Städte« nieder, ebenso wie in seiner Lehrtätigkeit als Professor an der Universität Heidelberg, die gekennzeichnet war vom ständigen Bemühen, eine »Medizin ohne Menschlichkeit« aus ihrer naturwissenschaftlich-einseitgen Isoliertheit in einen sozialwissenschaftlichen Kontext zu stellen – was ihm nicht nur Freunde bescherte. Noch in die Heidelberger Zeit fällt die Gründung des Sigmund-Freud-Instituts in Frankfurt, dessen Direktor Alexander Mitscherlich von 1959 bis 1976 war und das bis heute Ort seines Schaffens ist. Es war weltweit das erste staatliche Institut, das sich der psychoanalytischen Forschung und Lehre widmet. Hier gelang es Mitscherlich, die Interdisziplinarität von psychoanalytisch orientierter Medizin, Psychologie und Soziologie zu institutionalisieren. Seine Lehrtätigkeit als Psychoanalytiker konnte er am ersten deutschen Lehrstuhl für Psychoanalyse an der Frankfurter Universität fortsetzen. In der Festschrift zu seinem 70. Geburtstag wird Alexander Mitscherlich von Freunden aus der Zeit des Wiederaufbaus der Psychoanalyse in der BRD, von wissenschaftlichen Kollegen, Mitarbeitern und Schülern, die in ganz unterschiedlichem, doch stets durch die Psychoanalyse vermittelten Bezug zu ihm stehen, geehrt.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2018

        Assess on Twenty-four Seasons

        by Lai Guoqing

        Twenty-four seasons in Chinese calender was successfully affirmed as the heritage of non-material culture in the world of 2015. However, this book is published to explain the knowledge of the twenty-four seasons to the common people and to appreciate its inner-culture and the attraction of its beauty. It is the first time and the first edition to deal generally with the twenty-four seasons originally from its beginning and practically with lots of informations, life, nature, phenology, traditional farming, classic tales, popular proverbs and local customs. This book is full of knowledge, interest and good for common readers especially for farmers even for ordinary peasants and children.

      • 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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        History
        February 2017

        Gendered transactions

        The white woman in colonial India, c.1820–1930

        by Series edited by Andrew S. Thompson, Indrani Sen

        This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine.

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        The Arts
        December 2009

        Songs of protest, songs of love

        Popular ballads in eighteenth-century Britain

        by Robin Ganev, Jeffrey Richards

        Songs of Protest, Songs of Love shows how songs can bring back voices from the past in a new way. The focus of the book is on rural Britain in a time of crisis. As the traditional rights of peasants were being jettisoned to enforce a new system of enclosure, rural labourers chanted out their concerns in songs of protest. These songs became increasingly strident and popular after the 1770s as rural life became even more precarious with fluctuating grain prices and uncertain employment opportunities. Many ballads in the eighteenth century were love songs. But these are also rich in social meaning. Many of these love songs celebrated the free and easy sexuality of rural workers, especially milkmaids and ploughmen, which was contrasted with the tepid and flaccid sex life attributed to urban aristocrats. The book will be of interest to scholars, advanced students and readers with an interest in cultural history and popular ballads. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2005

        Late Imperial Russia

        Problems and prospects

        by Ian Thatcher

        This volume offers a detailed examination of the stability of the late imperial regime in Russia. Students and scholars will appreciate the lively summaries of the latest scholarship in political, economic, social, cultural, and international history. Accessible yet insightful, contributions cover the historiography of complex topics such as peasants, workers, revolutionaries, foreign relations, and Nicholas II. In addition, there are original studies of some of the leading intellectuals of the time. The late imperial economy is examined through the writings of Tugan-Baranovsky. There is an account of M. N. Pokrovskii's radical interpretation of late imperial Russia's historical path of development. The state of the Russian theatre is studied through the lives of theatrical impresarios. Each chapter also highlights a unique interpretation, suggesting new lines of inquiry and research. This book will be compulsory reading for students of Russian and European history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries seeking to better understand why Tsarism collapsed in 1917. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2021

        Ukrainian Worlds of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Stories about History

        by Natalya Starchenko

        The vision of the Ukrainian history dominant in the Russian Empire and in the Soviet Union focused exclusively on the heroic Cossacks and disenfranchised peasants. There was no room in it for the local elites: the Ukrainian aristocracy (szlachta) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As the result of this biased perspective, Ukrainians to this day know very little about the life of those people. This book invites the readers to take a closer look at the Ukrainian aristocracy. This introduction is done in a somewhat unusual form, through true anecdotes from the life of aristocracy gleaned from court records and other sources from the time. We get glimpses of the elites not only in their best garbs but also in their well-worn home clothes. The book brings together 105 brief chapters that describe how these people saw themselves, how they fought and made peace, how they fell in love and got married, how unwavering they were in the defense of their rights in court. Last not least, these essays explore whether the Ukrainian elites were mere extras and viewers in history or its active makers, resolute and strong in their insistence on defending and expanding their rights and freedoms.

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