The Paul Pietsch publishing houses unite the Motorbuch Verlag as well as the publishing houses pietsch, Müller Rüschlikon, transpress and the Bucheli Verlag under one roof. With a total range of over 2,700 available guidebooks, we offer our readers a wealth of specialized knowledge and information on the topics of mobility, technology and active leisure.
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A newcomer to the children’s publishing industry, Bella & Harry publish books in an informative, interactive and exciting way to introduce children to travel, different countries, customs, history and landmarks.
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Die Bilder des italienischen Photographen Pietro Donzelli (1915-1998) erzählen vom Leben der Menschen in Italien vor der Industrialisierung: Neben städtischen Zentren wie Mailand und Neapel ist die Po-Ebene Protagonist seiner metaphysischen Landschaften, in denen die Zeit still zu stehen scheint. Inspiriert von der melancholischen Atmosphäre dieser Bilder, hat Albert Ostermaier zu 24 Photographien von Pietro Donzelli Gedichte geschrieben, die von der Liebe und vom Verlassenwerden erzählen.
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Sanctity and pornography in medieval culture exposes the complexity of bodily exposure in medieval devotion and contemporary pornographic cultures. Through readings of texts and images, sacred and profane, from preimodern France and Italy as well as Anglo-American modernity, the book makes a case for paying closer attention to the surfaces of our bodies and the desires that those surfaces can articulate and arouse. From the Old French life of Saint Alexis to the work of writer-filmmaker Miranda July, from Wakefield Poole to Pietro Aretino, these are texts and images that diminish the distance between premodern Europe and contemporary California, between the sacred and the profane, as they demonstrate how, in the end as in the beginning, the surface of things is never simple. ;
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Yawning makes one yawn, crying makes one cry. In the same way, a shiver, appetite, sexual desire and confidence are transmitted from one person to another. These examples capture the contagion-like dimension of emotion, spreading rapidly among people with tangible behavioural manifestations. Emotional contagion still challenges scientific explanation, and philosophical, scientific and anthropological topics converge around this issue. In Medieval Latin, there is a specific name for this contagion: compassio ('compassion'). Etymologically, 'compassion' means the co-experience of a 'passion', involving an involuntary reaction of the soul or the body imitating the reactions of others. The book investigates how these topics were treated in medieval learned texts, and illuminates the twofold enigma, that of the trajectory of the term compassio, and that of explaining the phenomenon it denoted.
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Der Roman ›Ein Mann wird älter‹ ist immer wieder mit Prousts ›Eine Liebe Swanns› (BS 1185) verglichen worden, zu Recht, in beiden Romanen wird eine für den männlichen Partner leidvolle Liebesbeziehung geschildert. Senilität (so der Originaltitel) bedeutet nicht Senilität, sondern Greisenhaftigkeit, denn der Held, der sich in die schone Angiolina verliebt, ist -35 Jahre alt. Der Roman, dessen deutscher Titel von Joyce stammt, ist die Geschichte der Liebesleidenschaft und der Liebeshörigkeit eines Einsamen.
