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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2023Creating character
Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction
by Helena Ifill
This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of seven sensation novels explore how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of 'nature' versus 'nurture', Braddon and Collins show the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the intersections of established and developing, conservative and radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity could be made and modified.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2023Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature
by Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero, Adriano Ardovino
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The ArtsSeptember 2024The renewal of post-war Manchester
Planning, architecture and the state
by Richard Brook
A compelling account of the project to transform post-war Manchester, revealing the clash between utopian vision and compromised reality. Urban renewal in Britain was thrilling in its vision, yet partial and incomplete in its implementation. For the first time, this deep study of a renewal city reveals the complex networks of actors behind physical change and stagnation in post-war Britain. Using the nested scales of region, city and case-study sites, the book explores the relationships between Whitehall legislation, its interpretation by local government planning officers and the on-the-ground impact through urban architectural projects. Each chapter highlights the connections between policy goals, global narratives and the design and construction of cities. The Cold War, decolonialisation, rising consumerism and the oil crisis all feature in a richly illustrated account of architecture and planning in post-war Manchester.
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PsychologyHarm Reduction Treatment for Substance Use
by Susan E. Collins / Seema L. Clifasefi
Concrete guidance on harm reduction treatment (HaRT) with substance-using patients:• Written by experts from the field• Details a unique evidence-based approach• Includes example scripts• Provides case studies• Includes downloadable handouts Harm reduction approaches are effective alternatives to abstinence-based treatment for people who are not ready, willing, or able to stop using substances. This volume outlines the scientific basis and historical development of these approaches, and reviews why abstinence-based approaches often do not work. The authors then share their expertise about harm reduction treatment (HaRT), an empirically based approach co-developed with community members impacted by substance-related harm – a first of its kind. The reader learns in detail about the pragmatic mindset and compassionate heartset of HaRT and the three treatment components: measurement and tracking of patient-preferred substance-related metrics, harm-reduction goal setting and achievement, and discussion of safer-use strategies. In addition, the book provides example scripts for use in daily practice.
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2022Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature
by Nicholas Taylor-Collins
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Children's & YAO sumiço do tatu (The disappearance of the armadillo)
by Marília Moreira
Haroldo, a minho, who as he relates to other animals in the garden brings to light issues such as friendship and respect, mixing a harmonic field with an inside-out view of the garden of a house inhabited by some strange animals, among them the (human) balance-beast.
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January 2018Ein Pferd für mich
by de Cesco, Federica
Cathys Vater hat eine Ranch im Reservat der Navajo-Indianer. Nach seinem Tod würde die unbezähmbare Cathy viel lieber bei den Indianern bleiben, als bei Mrs. Collins in Santa Fe zu leben. Als ihr eine Heirat aufgezwungen wird, flieht sie mit ihrem wilden Pferd Buster. Onathi, der Sohn des Häuptlings, hilft ihr, die Freiheit zu bewahren.
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March 1984Im Lande Israel
Herbst 1982
by Amos Oz, Raya Natenbruk
Um die Gesellschaft eines Landes zu beschreiben, kann man sich, grob gesagt, zweier Methoden bedienen: Man kann, mit dem Anspruch auf Repräsentativität, ihre unterschiedlichen Bereiche und deren Zusammenhänge analysieren; oder man kann, durch eine Beschäftigung mit einem Ausschnitt der Realität einer Gesellschaft, eine bestimmte Dimension in ihren unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen deutlich machen. Amos Oz –, der bekannte israelische Autor, erkundetet die Vorstellungen, Hoffnungen, Ängste und Vorurteile einiger Bewohner Israels gegen Ende des Jahres 1982. Er unterhielt sich mit Siedlern auf der Westbank, einem noch vor der Zeit des britischen Mandats eingewanderten Landwirt, einem Professor für Philosophie der Universität von Jerusalem, dem Chefredakteur einer in Jerusalem erscheinenden Palästinenser-Zeitung u.a. In diesen Gesprächen treten die unterschiedlichen Haltungen zu den in Israel virulenten Problemen zutage: zu Fragen der Siedlungspolitik, zum Verhältnis Juden–Araber, zu den Beziehungen zwischen orientalischen und eingewanderten europäischen Juden, ›orthodoxe‹ und nicht-orthodoxe Meinungen über die Juden als das »auserwählte Volk« werden vertreten und die Beziehungen zwischen Zionisten, Nicht-Zionisten und Anti-Zionisten thematisiert. Da der Autor auf interpretierende Eingriffe weitgehend verzichtet hat, können die Darlegungen der jeweiligen Gesprächspartner als Momentaufnahmen über den geistig-politischen Zustand Israels gelesen werden.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2024Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
by Linda Levy Peck, Adrianna E. Bakos
Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women's experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women's agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women's experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.
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February 2019Collins geheimer Channel - Wie ich die Schule rockte
Comic-Roman
by Zett, Sabine / Illustriert von Zapf; Illustriert von Holzapfel, Falk
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February 2019Collins geheimer Channel 2 - Wie ich die Schule rockte
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by Zett, Sabine / Illustriert von Holzapfel, Falk
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