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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2020

Knowledge, mediation and empire

James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.

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Technology, Engineering & Agriculture

December 2018

Air Pollution

Sources, Impacts and Controls

by Pallavi Saxena, Naik Vaishali, Amit Awasthi, Sangeeta Bansal, Monojit Chakraborty, Naveen Chandra, Arti Choudhary, Manisha Gaur, Vineet Goswami, Tarun Kumar Gupta, Harpreet Kaur, Priyanka Kulshrestha, Amit Kumar, Ruchi Kumari, Chinmay Mallick, Renu Masiwal, Vandana Maurya, Neha Mishra, Naik Vaishali, Prashant Rajput, Anuradha Shukla, Gyanesh Kumar Singh, Ravi Prakash Singh, Ruchi Singh, Saumya Singh, Saurabh Sonwani, Shani Tiwari

Air pollution has become a major global issue due to rapid industrialization, human population growth and increasing urbanization. The various sources of atmospheric pollutants, both those created by human activity and those from natural physical and biological processes, have become the focus of much scientific research and analysis. An understanding of how these many pollutants are affecting air quality is essential in order to design strategies to mitigate them. Written by a team of international experts, this book aims to provide a broad overview of the issues surrounding air pollution and how to control and monitor pollution levels. Beginning with a brief background on the subject, the book moves on to discuss global emissions, with an emphasis on megacities and their effects. Possible pollution control measures and methods of air pollution measurement and modelling are also explored. The book ends with descriptions of the various indices used for assessing air quality with a focus on human health impacts, and a discussion on policy making to control air pollution. The book will be useful to students of environmental science and atmospheric science, as well as environmental consultants and researchers interested in air quality . Key Features: Comprehensive introduction to the primary causes of air pollution today with an emphasis on growing urban populations and megacities Discusses both anthropogenic and biogenic emissions and their effects on human health and the environment Gives an overview of indices used today for assessing air quality and describes current methods for air pollution monitoring and modelling Discusses new technologies for mitigating the effects of air pollution and policy making for implementation of controls

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Half the Quilt(Youth Edition)

by Xiaoxiang Film Group Co., Yang Fei

Half of the Quilt(Youth Edition) is based on the movie Heart for Heart (produced by Xiaoxiang Film Group and directed by Meng Qi). In October 1934, the fifth anti-encirclement failed, the Central Red Army evacuated the Soviet Union and began the Long March. The Red Army field hospital was bombed by enemy planes and suffered heavy casualties. Dong Xiuyun, a female soldier who stayed at the field hospital to look after the wounded, decided to take the wounded with her and chase the troops. Dong Xiuyun took in the soldiers of the various units who were left alone along the road, forming a special team. After the team came to Shazhou Village, the three female Red Army lived in Xu Xiexiu's house. When parting, Dong Xiuyun cut the only one quilt in half to Xu Xiexiu. This book nourishes the young people's spiritual world with red culture, inherits the red gene, and allows the spirit of the Long March to be passed on from generation to generation among children.

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Half the Quilt(Picture Book Edition)

by Xiaoxiang Film Group Co., Yang Fei

Half of the Quilt(Picture Book Edition) is based on the movie Heart for Heart (produced by Xiaoxiang Film Group and directed by Meng Qi). In October 1934, the fifth anti-encirclement failed, the Central Red Army evacuated the Soviet Union and began the Long March. The Red Army field hospital was bombed by enemy planes and suffered heavy casualties. Dong Xiuyun, a female soldier who stayed at the field hospital to look after the wounded, decided to take the wounded with her and chase the troops. Dong Xiuyun took in the soldiers of the various units who were left alone along the road, forming a special team. After the team came to Shazhou Village, the three female Red Army lived in Xu Xiexiu's house. When parting, Dong Xiuyun cut the only one quilt in half to Xu Xiexiu. This book nourishes the young people's spiritual world with red culture, inherits the red gene, and allows the spirit of the Long March to be passed on from generation to generation among children.

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April 2017

The Song of the Long March

The Spirit of Long March to Victory

by Hongxi LI

This book describes the whole process of the Red Army’s long march in an all-round and multi-perspective way,and it reflects the long march spirit by using typical examples,plain text,and appropriate pictures.It’s a book with correct direction,full and accurate historical data,and proper analysis.It’s of great enlightenment to modern peple,especially teenagers.

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Is the Brain Rational?

The Findings of a Neuropsychologist

by L. Jäncke

This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey, demonstrating in an understandable and entertaining way how the brain affects our thoughts, actions, and feelings - and that this sometimes only peripherally involves reason. It shows, that the subconscious actually exists and how it affects us, how we arrive at both right and wrong decisions, how our memory works, how fragile it can be, and yet also how robust. Using insightful experiments and the latest research results, including many examples, this book presents the reader what an incredibly impressive thinking organ the brain actually is – even if it is not a purely “rational machine”. Target Group: For people interested in the results of research into the workings of the brain in the areas of decision-making, memory, and consciousness.

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2018

Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century

by John Baker, Allan Ingram, Marion Leclair, Anne Dunan-Page

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January 2012

Sex and the Kitty

Roman

by the Cat, Nancy / Übersetzt von Hofmann Mund, Christiane

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2018

The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

How to Achieve the Great Transition.

by Zhang Shujun

Based on the the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, describing this great turning point, the developing track and historical events before the meeting.

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Literature & Literary Studies

February 2023

Imagining the Irish child

Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

by Jarlath Killeen

This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers, theologians, philosophers, educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth century up to the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion. The book is structured around a detailed examination of six 'versions' of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the political child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles), showing how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish nationality, politics and history across these two centuries.

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La faim justifie les moyens (Hunger justifies the means)

by Gilka

Elo the crocodile finds himself in a small dilemma: he must choose between his stomach and his heart. But hungry for several days, he will not hesitate long.

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The Arts

September 2023

Performing the testimonial

by Amanda Stuart Fisher

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The Arts

July 2020

Performing the testimonial

by Amanda Stuart Fisher, Maggie B. Gale

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Business, Economics & Law

April 2022

The law of the sea

by Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe and Amy Sander

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Business, Economics & Law

April 2022

The law of the sea

by Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe, Amy Sander, Iain Scobbie

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April 2023

Purveyors to the Court

How politics makes use of science and breaks down because of it

by Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz

— Astute analysis of the relationship between politics and the natural sciences — Danger of undermining democratic processes Today, political decision-making processes are closely intertwined with processes of scientific knowledge generation. The natural sciences play a central role in politics. This became particularly clear during the corona pandemic and in the regular press conferences in which politicians largely narrowed their course to scientific findings. The consequence of this maxim is that the rationalisation of politics is accompanied by a politicisation of science. Science is exploited, and sometimes allows itself to be exploited. In his equally brilliant and sharp analysis, Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz explains the consequences of this development for the democratic process in particular.

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Swallows Singing Brightly

by Wang Yuewen, Zhao Ronghao

The Swallows Singing Brightly, written by the famous best-seller Wang Yuewen, is about a series of historical changes in the development of Manshui Village, and the renewed vitality and vigor of the village in the concept of "comprehensively push forward rural vitalization and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas". Manshui Village has gone from old wooden houses and narrow stone paths to fashionable houses and flat concrete and asphalt roads; from cutting firewood in the mountains at dawn to using natural gas stoves in every families; from a little few swallows flying on the fields to swallows flying all over the sky and singing brightly. Nowadays, Manshui Village has become a National Forest Village, every family has become rich through hard work.

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November 2023

On the Life and Death of Insects

The world of Jean-Henri Fabre

by Stephan Krall

— 200th anniversary of the birth of Jean-Henri Fabre on 21 December 2023 — First all-encompassing biography of the entomologist — Biodiversity as a hot topic Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) was a French teacher, scientist and researcher. At a time when insects were not among the preferred biological objects of study (and if they were, it was only for them to be collected, pinned and identified), Fabre began to conduct behavioural research on insects. This was not appreciated until very late in his life, so Fabre and his family were largely destitute most of the time. Stephan Krall provides a very personal account of this extraordinary and passionate researcher of insects, spiders and scorpions, who managed to publish scientific documents, complete his doctorate and write books on the side. Today he is considered as one of the founding fathers of the behavioural biology of insects.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2024

Tracking the Jews

Ecumenical Protestants, conversion, and the Holocaust

by Carolyn Sanzenbacher

This book sheds light on an unprecedented Protestant conversion initiative for the global evangelisation of Jews. Founded in 1929, the International Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews (ICCAJ) aimed to bring Jewish people to their 'spiritual destiny', a task it saw as both benevolent and essential for a harmonious society. By the time of Hitler's rise to power it was active in thirty-two countries, educating Protestant churches on the right Christian attitude towards Jews and antisemitism. Reconstructing the activities of the ICCAJ in the years before, during and immediately after the Holocaust, Tracking the Jews reveals how ideas disseminated through the organisation's discourse - 'Jewish problem', 'Jewish influence', 'Judaising threat', 'eternal Jew' - were used to rationalise, justify, explain or advance a number of deeply troubling policies. They were, for vastly different reasons, consciously used elements of argumentation in both Protestant conversionary discourse and Nazi antisemitic ideology.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2025

Entertaining the empire

London music hall and the export of Britishness

by Andrew Horrall

The stage entertainments known as music hall emerged in mid-Victorian London just as the British began colonising large parts of the world.Settlers recreated this metropolitan popular culture throughout the empire and in places under foreign control. They erected music halls resembling those at home, imported songs and sketches, performed inamateur shows and watched touring professionals. London originals were rewritten as commentaries on local conditions. This activity transformed music hall into a marker of an exclusionary British identity overseas and made colonies look and sound more like Britain. The result was that settlers separated by vast distances were linked by a shared popular culture. The touring circuits and cultural affinities the Victorians created endure to this day.

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James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Sources, Impacts and Controls

by Xiaoxiang Film Group Co., Yang Fei

by Xiaoxiang Film Group Co., Yang Fei

The Spirit of Long March to Victory

by Hongxi LI

The Findings of a Neuropsychologist

by L. Jäncke

by John Baker, Allan Ingram, Marion Leclair, Anne Dunan-Page

Roman

by the Cat, Nancy / Übersetzt von Hofmann Mund, Christiane

How to Achieve the Great Transition.

by Zhang Shujun

Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

by Jarlath Killeen

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by Amanda Stuart Fisher

by Amanda Stuart Fisher, Maggie B. Gale

by Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe and Amy Sander

by Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe, Amy Sander, Iain Scobbie

How politics makes use of science and breaks down because of it

by Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz

by Wang Yuewen, Zhao Ronghao

The world of Jean-Henri Fabre

by Stephan Krall

Ecumenical Protestants, conversion, and the Holocaust

by Carolyn Sanzenbacher

London music hall and the export of Britishness

by Andrew Horrall

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