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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Sex, politics and empire

        A postcolonial geography

        by Richard Phillips

        Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Sexual politics in revolutionary England

        by Sam Fullerton

        Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom's mid-seventeenth-century civil wars. In early Stuart England, explicit sexual language was largely confined to manuscript and oral forms by the combined regulatory pressures of ecclesiastical press licensing and powerful cultural notions of civility and decorum. During the early 1640s, however, graphic sex-talk exploded into polemical print for the first time in English history. Over the next two decades, sexual politics evolved into a vital component of public discourse, as contemporaries utilized sexual satire to reframe the English Revolution as a battle between licentious Stuart tyrants and their lecherous puritan enemies. By the time that Charles II regained the throne in 1660, this book argues, sex was already a routine element of English political culture.

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        DESERT PASSIONS - Wild Love in Sinai

        by Robert Bettelheim

        Desert Passions unfolds tales of wild, dramatic transformations that may occur to people in Sinai due to a mixture ofcravings, sexual arousal, spontaneity, love, rapture, hopes and dreams—conflicting forces that are often at odds with our current lifestyles. New motivations appear, behavioral patterns might shift or completely change, sex and romance easily flourish, often unrestrained by former inhibitions. This explains why seekers trying to find their way in this puzzled, crazy world travel to the Sinai Desert where secret passions, hidden sexual fantasies, and lust that have been long subdued suddenly emerge and rule. Since ancient times, the Sinai Desert has been a place for spiritual and mental metamorphosis, initiating its powerful impact on anyone who wanders there. When Western ideas and habits first met traditional, tribal Bedouins after the Six-Day War in 1967, it created a unique cultural divergence. Many Westerners, too, have been deeply influenced by the raw nature revealed to them.  Robert Bettelheim was born in Vienna, but after his parents fled the Nazi Anschluss of Austria to China, he grew up in Shanghai Ghetto under Japanese rule during WWII. Bettelheim later served in the IDF as a paratrooper, and soon became an ardent scuba diver on the enchanting shores of the Sinai Desert. A musicology graduate and teacher, the author lives with his wife in Kibbutz Zikim, which is not infrequently under shell fire. He has six grandchildren. An English-language eBook edition was published in Summer 2018.  326 Pages, 15X22.5 cm.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2025

        Teenage intimacies

        Young women, sex and social life in England, 1950-80

        by Hannah Charnock

        Teenage Intimacies offers a new account of 'sexual revolution' in mid-twentieth century England. Rather than focusing on 'Swinging London', the book reveals the transformations in social life that took place in school playgrounds, local cinemas, and suburban bedrooms. Based on over 300 personal testimonies, Teenage Intimacies traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls, illuminating how romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. The book shows how sex became embedded in ideas about 'growing up' and explores how heterosexuality influenced young women's social lives and vice versa. It offers new explanations of why sexual mores shifted in this period, revealing the pivotal role that young women played in changing sexual values, cultures and practices in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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        June 2011

        Mücki und Max. Die schönsten Kinderwitze

        Eine Geschichte für Erstleser

        by Arena Verlag

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        For Love and Faith BringUs Together

        Letters from Home in Hunan during the Fight against COVID-19

        by Xiaoxiang Family Letter Activity Committee

        This book contains 81 letters written by medical care staff, police officers, journalists, community workers, volunteers and others during their fight novel coronavirus time. Together with photos and letters, it records ordinary true stories one by one, showing people what love is and what national spirits is.

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        January 2008

        Im Land der magischen Geheimnisse

        Bunter Geschichtenspaß mit TV-Hexe Lilli

        by Arena Verlag

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        The Arts
        June 2011

        From Perversion to Purity

        The stardom of Catherine Deneuve

        by Lisa Downing, Sue Harris, author arranging

        Catherine Deneuve is indisputably one of the world's most celebrated actresses, both in her native France and throughout the world. Her career has spanned five decades during which she has worked with the most significant of French auteurs, as well as forging partnerships with international directors such as Buñuel and Polanski. The Deneuve star persona has attained such iconic status that it now symbolises the very essence of French womanhood and civic identity. In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection of essays by a selection of international film academics and writers, the Deneuve persona is scrutinised and illuminated. Beyond the glamorous iconographic status of Yves Saint Laurent's muse, and the epitome of sexual inviolability, Deneuve's status as actress is foregrounded. The book will be essential reading for students and lecturers in star studies. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2022

        Class, 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 Sciences
        February 2006

        Sex, politics and empire

        A postcolonial geography

        by Richard Phillips, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Caroline Wilding

        Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. ;

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        January 2021

        Everyone is amazing-Xiaoxiang Family Letters 2020

        by Xiaoxiang Family Letters Activity Organization

        In the context of the "Xiaoxiang Family Letters" activity carried out across the province, the organizing committee extensively collected family letters and selected 100 family letters to show the spirit of the people in the new era. The main content of the letter includes the gratifying changes in the fight against poverty in Sanxiang, the affectionate concern of the wandering children and the fathers and elders in the hometown, the home and country feelings of heroes and the most beautiful people, and the silent persistence of various industries in specific positions, and so on. The structure of each chapter of the book is divided into two parts: introduction (mainly including the information of the writer and recipient, refer to "Anti-epidemic") and the main text. The structure of the whole book includes the preface, table of contents, main text, and postscript. Further reading or content links. The structure is characterized by conciseness, conciseness and conciseness.

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        August 2019

        Wild Claws (2). Der Biss des Alligators

        by Held, Max

        Wilde Tiere und gefährliche Abenteuer: Auf zu WILD CLAWS, der Wildtierstation in den Everglades! Ein Alligator im Swimmingpool oder eine riesige Python in den Sümpfen - bei Jack und Logan von der Wildtierstation Wild Claws kann das schon mal vorkommen, denn hier wartet jeden Tag ein tierisches Abenteuer auf die Freunde! Jack und Logan von der Wildtierstation Wild Claws machen eine schreckliche Entdeckung: Ein Alligator im Sumpf wurde getötet und aufgeschlitzt. Wer tut so etwas und sind auch andere Tiere in Gefahr? Mit ihrer Freundin Charlotte machen sich die zwei auf Spurensuche und geraten dabei gefährlichen Tierschmugglern in die Quere. Oder sind die Verbrecher hinter etwas ganz anderem her? Eine spannende Jagd durch die Sümpfe Floridas beginnt! Band 2 der neuen Actionreihe von Max Held rund um Abenteuer und wilde Tiere in den Sümpfen der Everglades. Die realistische und spannende Kinderbuchreihe ist besonders für Jungs ab 9 Jahren geeignet. Mit schwarz-weiß Illustrationen von Timo Grubing. Alle Bände der Reihe: Wild Claws. Im Auge der Python (1) Wild Claws. Der Biss des Alligators (2) Weitere Bände sind in Vorbereitung. Max Held wurde in Nairobi geboren. Schon immer interessierte er sich für Tiere, und so verbrachte er endlose Stunden mit der Beobachtung von Gorillas, Krokodilen und Jaguaren. Als Erwachsener arbeitete er in Nationalparks rund um die Welt, bevor er sich schließlich in Deutschland niederließ und damit begann, seine Abenteuer in Form von Kinderbüchern niederzuschreiben. Treue Begleiterin seit vielen Jahren ist seine Vogelspinne Elfriede.

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        March 2019

        Wild Claws / Im Auge der Python

        Wild Claws (1)

        by Held, Max

        Dass morgens ein Alligator im Swimmingpool schwimmt, das kann in Homestead/Florida schon mal vorkommen. Aber wenn eine Horde Wildschweine eine Tierstation angreift und eine Python von riesigem Ausmaß die Sümpfe der Everglades unsicher macht, dann stimmt etwas nicht. Die Freunde Jack und Logan von der Wildtierstation Wild Claws glauben nicht, dass dieses Verhalten sich mit zu viel Hitze erklären lässt. Erst recht nicht, seit dieser mysteriöse Forscher aus Miami aufgetaucht ist und in den Sümpfen sein Lager aufgeschlagen hat. Das Wohl der Tiere hat dieser McRibbon bestimmt nicht im Sinn. Ob er schuld daran ist, dass die Wildtiere plötzlich alle verrücktspielen?

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