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        Folk & traditional music
        April 2005

        The Kiss in history

        by Edited by Karen Harvey

        Writers have previously placed the action of kissing into categories: kisses of love, affection, peace, respect and friendship. Each of the essays in this fascinating book take a single kind of kiss and uses it as an index to the past. For rather than offering a simple history of the kiss, this book is about the kiss in history. In this collection, an eminent group of cultural historians have explored this subject using an exceptionally wide range of evidence. They explore the kiss through sources as diverse as canonical religious texts, popular prints, court depositions, periodicals, diaries and poetry. In casting the net so wide, these authors demonstrate how cultural history has been shaped by a broad concept of culture, encompassing more than simply the canons of art and literature, and integrating apparently 'historical' and 'non-historical' sources. Furthermore, this collections shows that by analyzing the kiss and its position - embedded as it is as part of our culture - history can use small gestures to take us to big issues concerning ourselves and others, the past and the present. With an afterword by Sir Keith Thomas, this book will be fascinating reading for cultural historians working on a wide range of different societies and periods.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2013

        Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World, c. 650-c. 1450

        by Janet Hamilton, Bernard Hamilton

        Christian dualism originated in the reign of Constans II (641-68). It was a popular religion, which shared with orthodoxy an acceptance of scriptual authority and apostolic tradition and held a sacramental doctrine of salvation, but understood all these in a radically different way to the Orthodox Church. One of the differences was the strong part demonology played in the belief system. This text traces, through original sources, the origins of dualist Christianity throughout the Byzantine Empire, focusing on the Paulician movement in Armenia and Bogomilism in Bulgaria. It presents not only the theological texts, but puts the movements into their social and political context.

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        Children's & YA

        A Kiss to My Mum

        by Huang Beijia

        A Kiss to My Mum is a novel that delves into the growth of a child from a single-parent family. The hero is a ten-year-old boy called Zhao Andi. He is Zhao Andi to his teacher, My Dear An to his father and Didi to his mother. At his father’s funeral, for the first time he sees his mother Shu Yimei, so beautiful as if she stepped down from a photo. At this gloomy moment Didi was pushed to an arduous cliff, on the other side of which is his mother Shu Yimei, blowing the scent of orange. The novel develops around the gradual emotional thaw of the boy and his mother. At first they cannot get along with and are watchful of each other. But distance gradually gives way to proximity and then to mutual understanding and harmony between the two on their way to the future. This is a story of a boy and his parents, singing high praise for children. It is also about our life, our minds and love. All the characters in the novel are very much realistic, including the boy of slight autism and the mother of slight depression. The atmosphere of modern life in the novel is achieved through the depiction of other characters such as the hero’s classmate and good friend Zhang Xiaochen, his sister Ke’er, his uncle Baolin and his English teacher Li Qinsong, a man of dubious identity, thus adding to the enjoyment of the book.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        The secret life of romantic comedy

        by Celestino Deleyto

        The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre.

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        June 2018

        Mit dem Dritten sieht man besser

        Triaden und Triangulierung in der Beratung

        by Stefan Busse

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        November 2009

        Deutsche Anwälte.

        Geschichte der deutschen Anwaltschaft 1945–2009. Entwicklungen in West und Ost.

        by Busse, Felix

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        April 1975

        Spectaculum 22. Spectaculum

        Sechs moderne Theaterstücke. Thomas Bernhard - Edward Bond - Bertolt Brecht - Tankred Dorst - Federico García Lorca - Ödön von Horváth. Moderne Theaterstücke

        by Christian Enzensberger

        Christian Enzensberger, geboren 1931 in Nürnberg und verstorben 2009 in München, war Professor für Englische Literaturgeschichte an der Universität München. Er übersetzte zahlreiche Werke aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche.

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        September 2004

        Ich werde sehen, schweigen und hören

        Gedichte

        by Christian Lehnert

        Christian Lehnert ist ein Dichter, der sich Zeit läßt, einer, für den Zeit offenbar in einem ganz anderen Rhythmus verläuft. Das mag damit zusammenhängen, daß die Orte seiner Gedichte mit dem hiesigen Alltag zunächst wenig zu tun zu haben scheinen: es sind Orte der geschichtlichen Überlieferung, der Bibel, Orte in Palästina, im Nahen Osten, in Spanien - Stationen seines Lebenswegs, der den noch nicht 35jährigen von Sachsen aus in die Ferne führte und wieder zurück in einen kleinen Ort bei Dresden, wo Christian Lehnert heute als Pfarrer arbeitet. Lehnert hört "auf die Sätze, die aus der Stille heraufsickern", er gibt dem Schläfer poetische Stimme, dem Soldaten, dem Physiker oder dem taubstummen Tänzer, besingt den Vulkan, die Autobahn, die Brache in einer Sprache äußerster Verdichtung, die nie auf Effekte aus ist.

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        Fiction
        November 2020

        The Guys from Mandalay , 1950

        by Khet Zaw

        The Guys of Manday ,1950s is based in the years just after independence . After Myanmar became independent from English , there were several armed conflicts in Ethnic Areas all over the world. Sein Da Myone ( Golden Dagger) was a leader of a robber gang base in Mandalay ,upper Myanmar . Nobody knows the real life of Mr Golden Dagger and he lived under the face of a gentleman . This book is related to The Guys of Rangoon 1930 as well and they have some links in stories.

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        Fiction
        May 2020

        The Guys of Rangoon 1930

        by Khet Zaw

        The Guys of Rangoon , 1930 is a record breaking bestseller book from Myanmar . It sold 16000 copies within one day during the pre order period. More than one hundred thousand copies have been sold so far. Film rights, several merchandise rights, comic rights already sold.It was based in Yangon , Myanmar during the colonial period. The main character is Pho Thoke who was a gangster and managed a lot of business by himself and his gang. He is very close with politicians as well and he is involved in several dirty political movements in Myanmar . This story is based on real characters and events.

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        September 2010

        Weihnachten mit Christian Morgenstern

        by Ute Maack

        Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) hat die Weihnachts- und Winterzeit auf viele unterschiedliche Arten bedichtet. In melancholischen wie heiteren Gedichten, stimmungsvoll und von großer Bildkraft, entstehen vor den Augen des Lesers eisige Gletscher, gewaltige Lawinen und glitzernde Fjorde, weicher Flockenflaum oder zarte Eisblumen am Fenster. Aber auch in der Morgensternschen Galgenpoesie und in seinen Kinderliedern wintert und weihnachtet es sehr, werden Tannenbäume geschmückt und Schlittenfahrten unternommen, begegnen einem Schlittschuh laufende Seufzer und fröstelnde Spatzen. Neben ernster und humoristischer Lyrik versammelt der Band aphoristische, journalistische und autobiographische Texte zur Winter- und Weihnachtszeit.

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        September 2003

        Hans Jonas – »Zusammen Philosoph und Jude«

        Essay

        by Christian Wiese

        Hans Jonas verstand sich nie als »jüdischer Philosoph«, sondern fühlte sich einem universalen philosophischen Denken verpflichtet. »Daß man zusammen Philosoph und Jude ist, darin liegt eine gewisse Spannung, das ist keine Frage.« Die gerade erschienenen Erinnerungen des großen Denkers bezeugen eindringlich sein bewußtes Jude-Sein: Das Engagement für den Zionismus, die Emigration nach Palästina, der Kampf gegen Nazi-Deutschland als Soldat der Jüdischen Brigade, die Ermordung seiner Mutter in Auschwitz sind entscheidende biographische Wegmarken. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist das Verhältnis von Leben und Werk neu in den Blick zu nehmen. Auf der Grundlage von bislang größtenteils unbekannten Zeugnissen dokumentiert Christian Wiese aufschlußreiche Facetten der Jonasschen Biographie – etwa die Freundschaft sowie den Konflikt mit Gershom Scholem und Hannah Arendt. Zudem zeigt er die Einflüsse jüdischer Traditionselemente in dessen religionsgeschichtlichen und philosophischen Schriften auf. Die von Hans Jonas zeitlebens bewahrte Bindung an das Judentum ist, wie Christian Wiese hier erstmals umfassend vor Augen führt, zentral für das Verständnis seines Lebenswerks.

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        January 2005

        Knaurs Kräuterbuch

        Kräuter für Küche, Gesundheit und Schönheit aus dem eigenen Garten Mit vielen Tipps zur Anwendung und Zubereitung

        by Busse, Birgit; Lüdicke, Constanze

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