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February 2012Montgomery
Roman
by Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Ein Schwabe in Rom: Der erfolgreiche Produzent Montgomery Cassini-Stahl dreht »Jud Süß«, eine Neuverfilmung des antisemitischen Machwerks, mit der er den historischen Jud Süß Oppenheimer ehren will. Mitten in den Dreharbeiten bricht der Titelheld am Morgen nach der Liebesnacht mit einer jungen Frau vor dem Pantheon tot zusammen. Erzählt wird in Rückblenden – von der Kindheit des Jungen mit dem exotischen Namen im Stuttgarter Vorort Degerloch, vom Tod des Bruders, vom Leben in Rom. Schließlich ist aus dem Außenseiter der große Filmproduzent Cassini-Stahl geworden, der sein bisher größtes Projekt verwirklicht und dabei selbst in die Rolle des Jud Süß schlüpfen muß. Montgomery ist ein Roman über den Ausbruch aus spießiger Enge, die Suche nach einer anderen Wahrheit und die Doppelbödigkeit der Dinge. Vor dem glitzernden Hintergrund der römischen Cinecittà dringt der Filmproduzent Montgomery Cassini-Stahl in die Tiefen deutscher Vergangenheit ein und wird mit den Schlüsselerlebnissen des eigenen Lebens konfrontiert.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2021The daring muse of the early Stuart funeral elegy
by James Doelman
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2017Literature of the Stuart successions
by Andrew McRae, John West
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September 2019Conga Line on the Amazon
by David Myles Robinson
David Myles Robinson was eight years old when he first got hooked on travel. Since then, he’s seen most of the world—all its continents plus, he laments, “far too many places where travel is now off-limits.”After a lifetime of visiting near and far, in heat and in cold, in comfort and in danger, Robinson has put it all together now in this unique collection of the varied travel adventures he’s found—and the lessons he’s learned from them. A Fellini-esque view of the Amazon, a Mercedes caravan to Istanbul, Jane Goodall's amazing chimps—just part of a travel trunk full of experiences guaranteed to keep you seesawing from “Boy, I'd love to do that" to “Sure glad it was him, not me.”In Conga Line on the Amazon, Robinson brings to his first travel book the same gift for intriguing narrative and sharp characterization that has won praise for his six highly successful novels. Some of his tales may be for the strong of heart, but they’re all for the reader with a yen to be entertained by one intrepid man’s adventures and misadventures exploring the strange and wonderful world we live in.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2023The break-up of Greater Britain
by Stuart Ward, Christian Pedersen
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May 2009Stuart Pigotts Weinreisen
Rheingau
by Lüer, Manfred; Pigott, Stuart / Foto(s) von Durst, Andreas
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May 2009Stuart Pigotts Weinreisen
Baden und Elsass
by Kurt, Chandra; Lüer, Manfred; Pigott, Stuart / Foto(s) von Durst, Andreas
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May 2009Stuart Pigotts Weinreisen
Rheinhessen und Nahe
by Heinzelmann, Ursula; Lüer, Manfred; Pigott, Stuart / Foto(s) von Durst, Andreas
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September 2009Stuart Pigotts Weinreisen
Schweiz
by Kurt, Chandra; Heinzelmann, Ursula; Pigott, Stuart / Foto(s) von Durst, Andreas
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2019Safe as Houses
Grenfell, disaster housing, and the outsourced state
by Stuart Hodkinson
As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of 60s and 70s social housing to make way for higher rent paying newcomers, they have been promised a higher quality of housing. Councils have passed the responsibility for this housing to private consortia who amazingly have been allowed to self-regulate on quality and safety. Residents have been ignored for years on this and only now are we hearing the truth. Stuart will weave together his research on PFIs, regulation and resident action to tell the whole story of how Grenfell happened and how this could easily have happened in multiple locations across the country.
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Business, Economics & LawApril 2017Rural Tourism and Enterprise
Management, Marketing and Sustainability
by Ade Oriade, Peter Robinson
Marketing and management processes across industries can be very similar, but contexts vary where political intervention, public interest and local sustainability are involved. The rural business setting is especially intricate due to the assortment of different business opportunities, ranging from traditional agriculture, to tourism enterprise and even high-tech business. This important new textbook on the subject: - Examines key issues affecting rural enterprise and tourism - Explores the breadth of rural enterprise management and marketing across both developed and developing economies - Discusses strategies for business growth within a rural setting, such as knowledge development, proper planning and innovation - Uses a mix of case studies and theoretical content specifically selected to appeal to both student and practitioner readers Including pedagogical features and full colour throughout, this new textbook provides an engaging and thought-provoking resource for students and practitioners of tourism, rural business and related industries. ; Marketing and management processes are especially intricate for the rural business setting due to the assortment of different business opportunities. This important new textbook examines key issues, discusses strategies for growth and uses a mix of case studies and theoretical content across developed and developing countries. ; Introduction: (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson) Part 1: Management and marketing rural tourism and enterprise in developed economies 1: Rural enterprise business development: the developed world context (Peter Robinson & Alison Murray) 2: Selling to consumers (Sammy Li, Roya Rahimi & Nikolaos Stylos) 3: Sustainability, CSR and Ethics: Developed economies perspective (Caroline Wiscombe) 4: Community engagement and rural tourism enterprise (Peter Wiltshier) 5: Social enterprise and the rural landscape (Caroline Wiscombe, Liz Heyworth, Sandy Ryder, Lucy Maynard & Charles Dobson) Part 2: Management and marketing rural tourism and enterprise: developing world context 6: The rural business environment in developing economies (Solomon Olorunfemi Olubiyo & Ade Oriade) 7: Marketing and Communications and Rural Business in developing countries (Abiodun Elijah Obayelu & Nikolaos Stylos) 8: Consumers and Rural Tourism in developing Economies (Vivienne Saverimuttu and Maria Estela Varua) 9: Sustainability and Ethics in rural business and tourism in the Developing World (Weng Marc Lim and Sine Heitman) 10: Community engagement, rural institutions and rural tourism business in developing countries (Anahita Malek, Fabio Carbone & Asia Alder) Part 3: Strategies for rural business management and growth 11: Challenges and Strategies for rural business operations in developed and developing Economies (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson) 12: Developing and Growing Knowledge within rural tourism enterprises (Tony Greenwood and Jo Tate) 13: Collaborate to Innovate: Challenges and Strategies for rural business to innovate (Ainurul Rosli, Jane Chang and Maria L. Granados) 14: Strategies for rural business growth (Crispin Dale, Neil Robinson and Mike Evans) 15: Opportunities for growth: The rural tourism policy and planning perspective (Caroline Wiscombe and Steve Gelder) Conclusion: (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson)
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2013The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court
by Edited by Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Goldring and Sarah Knight
This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. This period witnessed the height of the Inns' status as educational institutions: emerging from fairly informal associations in the fourteenth century, the Inns of Court in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had developed sophisticated curricula for their students, leading to their description in the early seventeenth century as England's 'third university'. Some of the most influential politicians, writers, and divines - as well as lawyers - of Tudor and Stuart England passed through the Inns: men such as Edward Hall, Richard Hooker, John Webster, John Selden, Edward Coke, William Lambarde, Francis Bacon, and John Donne. This is the first interdisciplinary publication on the early modern Inns of Court, bringing together scholarship in history, art history, literature, and drama. The book is lavishly illustrated and provides a unique collection of visual sources for the architecture, art, and gardens of the early modern Inns ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017British culture and the end of empire
by Stuart Ward
This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.
