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January 2020Rachel Carson, Updated Edition
by Marie-Therese Miller
Rachel Carson was a nature lover since childhood. As an adult, she became a marine biologist and wrote award-winning books about the ocean, capturing the imagination of her readers with her poetic descriptions of the sea and its inhabitants. But it was her book Silent Spring that thrust Carson and the hazards of using pesticides into the national consciousness. Silent Spring sounded the alarm about the threat chemical pesticides posed to wildlife and made people sensitive to the ways they impacted the earth. Carson—and her book—are often credited with inspiring the modern environmental movement. Rachel Carson, Updated Edition illustrates how this writer was able to bring national attention to a growing environmental crisis.
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September 2020Alan Turing
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Ashling Lindsay, Svenja Becker
Von klein auf waren Alans beste Freunde ein Junge namens Christopher und die Zahlen. Als Christopher starb, war die Mathematik Alans Trost. Er entwickelte Schachprogramme und schaffte es, komplizierte Codes zu knacken, die niemand zuvor entschlüsselt hatte. Seine Beiträge machten später die Erfindung des Computers möglich. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Malerin, Sänger oder Architektin, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2000Contemporary British poetry and the city
by Peter Barry, Kim Latham
Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include: Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns. Includes 'loco-specific' chapters, on cities including Hull, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on 'post-industrial' cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee. ;
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Veterinary medicineMarch 2013Animal Machines
by Ruth Harrison, Marian Stamp-Dawkins
Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines now a unique historical classic, had a profound impact on public opinion and the quality of life of farmed animals when it was published in 1964. * Reprinted in its entirety, gives an accurate, and sometimes shocking, account of intensive farming in the 1960's, still current in large parts of the world today. * Harrison's work greatly increased public awareness of animal welfare and led to legal reforms, shaping our closer understanding of farm conditions today. * Provides a fascinating insight into the system we continue to live with as the global population increases. * Includes foreword by Rachel Carson and new chapters by international experts in animal welfare including Marion Stamp Dawkins, discussing the book's significant legacy and impact today.
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May 2005Berühmte Frauenpaare
by Joey Horsley, Luise F. Pusch
Für eine Frau, die etwas werden will, ist die traditionelle Ehe ein stabiles Hindernis. Viele Frauen, die das erkannt haben, taten sich lieber mit einer anderen Frau zusammen – zur Steigerung der Lebensfreude und Schaffenskraft und zum Schutz gegen gesellschaftliche Härten. Acht Frauenpaare werden in diesem Band vorgestellt: alte Bekannte wie Gertrude Stein und Alice B. Toklas, Anita Augspurg und Lida Gustava Heymann, Unbekannte wie Eugenie Schumann und Marie Fillunger sowie leuchtende Sterne am Frauenhimmel mit ihren Gefährtinnen im Hintergrund: die Malerin Rosa Bonheur mit Nathalie Micas und später Anna Klumpke, die Dichterin Amy Lowell mit Ada Russell, die Biologin Rachel Carson mit Dorothy Freeman. Notgemeinschaften wie Milena Jésenska und Margarete Buber-Neumann oder Katherine Mansfield mit Ida Baker runden das Bild ab.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2004A history of the Ulster Unionist Party
Protest, pragmatism and pessimism
by Graham Walker
This is the first substantial history to trace the political development of the Ulster Unionist Party through the years of protest and opposition to Irish Home Rule to the half-century as a governing party within Northern Ireland, and beyond to the current attempts to bring peace to the Province. It demonstrates why the Party is so central to efforts to reach a political settlement, and explains why it has for so long been the main political voice of the pro-Union electorate in Northern Ireland. An important and scholarly work based on extensive primary source research, it brings to light forgotten historical episodes of contemporary political significance, and provides new angles on old controversies and debates. The book discusses the evolution of the Ulster Unionist Party with reference to competing ideological currents, class and social tensions within the Unionist movement, and the role of leadership figures and maverick personalities. This is a book that maps the party's historical journey from the dramatic days of Carson to the current predicaments of Trimble. ;
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September 2015Die Wunder zu Weihnachten
Geschichten, die glücklich machen
by Clara Paul
Weihnachten ist die Zeit der Wunder. Das größte aller Wunder feiern wir Jahr für Jahr. In der Weihnachtszeit geschehen aber auch andere Wunder, kleine und nicht ganz so kleine: Wunder der Freundschaft und Freundlichkeit, Wunder der Liebe, Wunder, die man nicht erklären kann, und Wunder, die keiner Erklärung bedürfen. Die schönsten dieser Wunder sind hier versammelt: Erzählungen über einen zauberschönen Tag, an dem mit einem Mal sich alles zum Besseren wenden kann. Mit Geschichten von Thomas Bernhard, Bertolt Brecht, Truman Capote, Axel Hacke, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Erich Kästner, Alexander Kluge, Siegfried Lenz, Paul Maar, Carson McCullers, Eugen Roth, Patrick Roth, William Saroyan, Urs Widmer, Barbara Wood und vielen anderen.
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May 1994Handbuch für WahnsinnsFrauen
by Luise F. Pusch, Luise F. Pusch
Bachmann, Ingeborg: Hommage à Maria Callas. Fleißer, Marieluise: Ein Portät Buster Keatons. Dohm, Hedwig: Weib contra Weib. Plath, Sylvia: Papi. Lange, Helene: "Paten" der Mädchenbildung. Rich, Adrienne: Unsichtbarkeit in der Hochschule. Kaléko, Mascha: Die Leistung der Frau in der Kultur. Popp, Adelheid: Als ich von der Schule mein Übersiedlungszeugnis erhalten hatte. Glückel von Hameln: Einen Tag nach der Hochzeit. Glückel von Hameln: Ich will, meine lieben Kinder. Glückel von Hameln: Als wir nach Hamburg kamen. Bombeck, Erma: Drei klassische Mütter-Ansprachen. Baur, Margrit: Ich habe lange überlegt. Baur, Margrit: Vor dem Fenster. Keun, Imgard: Ich spiele nicht mit Männern. McCullers, Carson: Der Tod bleibt sich immer gleich. Haushofer, Marlen: Die Ratte. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: Die gelbe Tapete. Dickinson, Emily: Die Seele wählt. Droste-Hülshoff, Annette: Das Spiegelbild. Droste-Hülshoff, Annette: Feuer. Kempner, Friederike: Kennst Du das Land. Kempner, Friederike: Vogelin-Prinzeß. Woolf, Virginia: Berufe für Frauen. Kaschnitz, Marie Luise: Nicht gesagt. Baur, Margrit: Ich halte mich an das Beschreibbare. Schwarz-Bart: Die ganze Woche über. LeFort, Gertrud_von: Hymnen an die Kirche. Dickinson, Emily: Er tappt auf deiner Seele. Hildegard von Bingen: Hymnus zu Ehren des Heiligen Geistes. Bachmann, Ingeborg: Auf das Opfer darf sich keiner berufen. Achmatowa, Anna: Im Jahr vierzig. Achmatowa, Anna: Die Dritte. Klüger, Ruth: Noch jetzt, wenn ich Güterwagen sehe. Domin, Hilde: Wen es trifft. Lasker-Schüler, Else: Der Letzte. Sachs, Nelly: Chor der Geretteten. Kolmar, Gertrud: Verwandlungen. Bachmann, Ingeborg: Innen sind deine Augen Fenster. Loos, Cécile Ines: Die Hochzeitsreise. Barrett-Browning, Elizabeth: Wie ich dich liebe? Roten, Iris_von: Der konventionelle Altersvorsprung der Männer in erotischen Beziehungen. Dickinson, Emily: Wilde Nächte. Parker, Dorothy: Der Walzer. Labé, Louise: Küß mich noch.
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FictionMay 2019Mozart and the Wolf Gang
By Anthony Burgess
by Alan Shockley
Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art. This is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of even Anthony Burgess's fiction in an attempt to understand Mozart through celestial dialogue, an opera libretto, and fragments of a film script. As gracefully witty as it is daringly experimental, Mozart and the Wolf Gang is one of Burgess's late, great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, which nevertheless remains accessible, entertaining and yet refreshingly original to this day. This new critical edition with analysis from noted musicologist and a first-class literary critic Alan Shockley enables this work's significance within the fields of literary modernism, fictional biography, and fiction about music, to be assessed by a new generation of readers and scholars.
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April 2023J. R. R. Tolkien
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Aaron Cushley, Silke Kleemann
Schon in der Schule hatte er ein Faible für alte Sprachen. Er lernte nicht nur Latein und Griechisch, sondern auch Alt- und Mittelenglisch. Und er malte Karten, auf denen er die Welt des Mittelalters wieder zum Leben erweckte. Später erfand der Professor für Sprachwissenschaft für seine Kinder fantastische Geschichten. Und so entstand die Welt der Hobbits, Elben, Zwerge und Zauberer - und die Saga vom »Herrn der Ringe«. Das Buch und seine Verfilmungen schlagen bis heute ein Millionenpublikum in Bann. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024Manchester minds
A university history of ideas
by Stuart Jones
A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history. The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest form. The first of England's civic universities, Manchester has been home and host to a huge number of influential thinkers and generated world-changing ideas. This book presents a rich account of the remarkable contribution that people associated with The University of Manchester have made to human knowledge. A who's who of Manchester greats, it presents fascinating snapshots of pioneering artists, scholars and scientists, from the poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth to the economist Arthur Lewis, the computer scientist Alan Turing and the physicist Brian Cox.
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The ArtsThe Complete Collection of Calligraphic Works by Su Dongpo
by Wang Lianqi
The Complete Collection of Calligraphic Works by Su Dongpo was edited by Mr. Wang Lianqi of the Palace Museum in China and jointly published by the Palace Museum Press and Qingdao Publishing House. It is the first comprehensive collection of Su Dongpo's surviving calligraphic works of handwritings, copybooks and inscriptions collected by the Palace Museums on both sides of the Taiwan Straits and museums at home and abroad, and the first comprehensive collection of Su Dongpo's surviving calligraphic works in the cultural and artistic circles, with unprecedented quantity and quality rarely seen in previous publications. The Complete Collection is a set of 6 volumes, including 2 volumes of handwritings, 3 volumes of copybooks and 1 volume of inscriptions. The book consists of 43 handwritings, 15 copybooks and 8 inscriptions of Sudongpo scattered in major museums, collection units and libraries in China and abroad. The inscription of ChenKui pavilion tablet rubbing of Song Dynasty (Song Ta Chen Kui Ge Bei) collected in the Book Mausoleum Department (Shoryobu) of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan was published publicly for the first time in China; The inscription of Mr. Zhao Qingxian’s tombstone rubbing of Ming Dynasty of China (Ming Ta Zhao Qing Xian Gong Bei) collected in Shanghai Library in China has not been published in recent years and this is the first publication since the Republic of China; The copybook of Sudongpo's tablets published by Wanxiangtang in Ming Dynasty of China (Ming Ta Wan Xiang Tang Su Tie) collected in the Palace Museum in China is the largest work of in this book and this is also the first time that this masterpiece has been published publicly in China.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2024A book of monsters
Promethean horror in modern literature and culture
by David Ashford
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 1994Political Shakespeare
Essays in cultural materialism
by Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield
The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents additional essays by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. ;
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May 2008Vom Geist des Zen
by Alan Watts, Julius Schwabe
Zen ist keine theoretische Belehrung, es ist kein Studium von Schriften. Zen gründet sich vielmehr auf Praxis und auf persönliches Erleben der Wirklichkeit. Es bedeutet den unmittelbaren Kontakt mit dem Leben mit dem Ziel, eine nahtlose Verbindung zwischen Ich und Leben zu schaffen. Der große amerikanische Religionsphilosoph Alan Watts (1915-1973) hat diese Einführung in den Geist des Zen und den Zen-Buddhismus eigens für westliche Leser verfaßt und zeigt ihnen Wege auf, wie sie sich dem Denken des Zen nähern können. Das Buch wurde zum Klassiker.
