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Silkworm International Co., Ltd.
Silkworm Books is a general publisher based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We specialize in select markets and quality English-language books, primarily on topics related to mainland Southeast Asia. Founded in 1989, we are the foremost publisher of serious books on Thailand in English. To date, we have published more than 300 English titles. We have licensed English-language rights, purchased translation rights, and less frequently commissioned writers. Our books are distributed in North America, and U.K., through the University of Washington Press, and in Asia by local distributors.
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September 2018Allgemeinbildung. Weltgeschichte
Das muss man wissen
by Zimmermann, Martin (Hrsg.)
Die Geschichte des Menschen ist geprägt von sozialen, technischen und kulturellen Errungenschaften, aber auch von Krieg und Leid. Der Herausgeber Martin Zimmermann hat spannende Beiträge von Experten zusammengestellt, die ein farbenprächtiges Bild einer jahrtausendelangen Entwicklung zeichnen - der Geschichte der Menschheit. Wichtige Themen der Allgemeinbildung sind in diesem Band kompakt zusammengefasst. Die Texte sind wissenschaftlich fundiert, aber klar und verständlich geschrieben - so macht Bildung Spaß und kann begeistern.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Silk and empire
by Brenda King
In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship were all part of the Anglo-Indian silk trade and were nurtured in the era of empire through mutually beneficial collaboration. The trade operated within and without the empire, according to its own dictates and prospered in the face of increasing competition from China and Japan. King presents a new picture of the trade, where the strong links between Indian designs, the English silk industry and prominent members of the English the arts and crafts movement led to the production of beautiful and luxurious textiles. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be of interest to those interested in the relationship between the British Empire and the Indian subcontinent, as well as by historians of textiles and fashion.
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May 2022Betrachtungen zur Musik
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Zimmermann
Bemerkungen zur Musik ziehen sich durch Wittgensteins gesamtes Werk. Das Hören einer Melodie und die Unmöglichkeit, ihren Eindruck zu beschreiben, beschäftigte den Philosophen im Zuge seiner endlosen Versuche, sich über den Charakter des Verstehens und des Meinens klar zu werden. Ob der Wechsel einer Tonart mit der Veränderung des Gesichtsausdrucks vergleichbar ist oder ob Musik überhaupt etwas mitteilt – durch die Hintertür der philosophischen Untersuchung kommt Wittgenstein ihrem Sprachcharakter auf die Spur. Der Komponist Walter Zimmermann hat die Notizen thematisch geordnet und aus Stichwörtern wie »Gesang«, »Grammophon«, »Harmonik« bis »Stille«, »Thema« und »Töne« ein musikalisches Wittgenstein-ABC geschaffen. Das inspirierende, höchst originelle Buch ist unentbehrlich für alle, die noch immer rätseln, warum es so schwer ist, sich redend über musikalische Eindrücke zu verständigen, während beim Spielen alles ganz klar und einfach ist.
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May 2015Der sinnhafte Aufbau der gebauten Welt
Eine Architektursoziologie
by Silke Steets
Émile Durkheim zufolge besteht die wichtigste Regel soziologischen Denkens darin, soziale Phänomene »wie Dinge zu betrachten«, ihnen also den gleichen Wirklichkeitsgrad wie den Gegenständen, die wir anfassen können, zuzuschreiben. Was aber passiert, wenn wir diese Regel umkehren und die materiellen Dinge – zum Beispiel diejenigen, die die Architektur hervorbringt – als soziale Tatsachen verstehen? Ausgehend von einer brillanten theoriegeschichtlichen Aufarbeitung des soziologischen Nachdenkens über Architektur entwirft Silke Steets eine Soziologie der gebauten Welt. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele zeigt sie, wie Dinge und Gebäude in soziales Handeln einbezogen werden und als sicht- und anfassbare gesellschaftliche Strukturen fungieren.
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April 2022Die Nachtigall
Ein legendärer Vogel und sein Gesang
by Silke Kipper
Eigentlich ist die Nachtigall ein unscheinbarer kleiner, brauner Vogel. Von Aussehen, Gewicht, Verhalten absoluter Durchschnitt. Doch wenn die Männchen in lauen Frühlingsnächten zu singen anfangen, dann schlagen die Herzen der Verliebten ebenso höher wie die der Ornithologen. Denn der Gesang der Nachtigall ist alles andere als Durchschnitt und stellt in seiner Komplexität mit sage und schreibe zweihundert verschiedenen Strophentypen den anderer Singvögel komplett in den Schatten. Doch was singt die Nachtigall eigentlich und warum? Und was sahen Generationen von Dichtern und Komponisten in ihrem Gesang? Die Biologin Silke Kipper beforscht die Nachtigall seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren, sie hat unzählige Frühlingsnächte lauschend in Berliner Parks verbracht und geht in ihrem Buch dem Nachtigallengesang und unserer Faszination daran auf den Grund. Ein kenntnisreiches und doch leichtfüßiges Porträt des wohl beliebtesten Singvogels, seines Gesangs, und zugleich ein fundierter Einblick in die Nachtigallforschung und -rezeption.
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Journey in Trumplandia: The Rise of Populism in America
by Tiberiu Dianu
The book is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever. Some pundits predict that, if things don’t change, another civil war could occur. Have we reached a point of no return? Hopefully, America is mature enough to learn from its mistakes and avoid further scars along its evolving history. "Trumplandia is a welcome addition toward understanding current events, Washington’s international policy, and the present American society; a society polarized and divided as it has not been since the Civil War.” NICHOLAS DIMA, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, Nelson Institute, James Madison University, Virginia. "The book is fascinating. It provides background to, and insights into [the] current and past political history as well as offering a personal view... of the country and society. Presented in thematic form in chapters and sections, the insights offered provide a suggestive radiography...” Dr. DENNIS DELETANT, OBE, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC. "There has been this backsliding in... what a truly functioning rule-of-law state is, that has proper separation of co-equal powers, which, if you don’t keep working on that, you backslide. And I am even worried about that here, in the United States right now, about backsliding.” OBIE MOORE, Esq., OLM Advisors LLC, Washington DC “Indeed, Trumplandia should be a welcome addition to any scholar, student or layman’s library, especially in its international edition. If anyone loses sleep over its challenging assertions, then it will have been well worth it.” ERNESTO MORALES HIZON, Ph.D. Candidate in American and Comparative Politics at Claremont Graduate University, Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TIBERIU DIANU has practiced law in Romania (as a corporate lawyer, judge, senior counselor at the Ministry of Justice, university professor and senior legal researcher), and in the United States (as a legal expert for the judiciary). He published several books and a host of articles in law, politics, and post-communist societies. Tiberiu currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
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September 2021Spices, Scents and Silk
Catalysts of World Trade
by James F Hancock
Spices, scents and silks were at the center of world trade for millennia. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury products of far off lands and established long-reaching trade networks. Over time, great powers fought mightily for the kingdoms where silk, spices and scents were produced. The New World was accidentally discovered by Columbus in his quest for spices. What made trade in these products so remarkable was that the plants producing them grew in very restricted areas of the world, distant from the wealthy civilizations of northern Africa, Greece and Europe. These luxuries could be carried from mysterious locations on the backs of camels or in the holds of ships for months on end, and arrived at their final destination in nearly perfect condition. Once the western world discovered the intoxicating properties of these products, their procurement became a dominant force in the world economy. Nothing else compared with their possible profit returns. In this book, eminent horticulturist and author James Hancock examines the origins and early domestication and culture of spices, scents and silks and the central role these exotic luxuries played in the lives of the ancients. The book traces the development of the great international trade networks and explores how struggles for trade dominance and demand for such luxuries shaped the world.
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Children's & YABenny Beaver. The Great Forest Adventure
by Inga Maria Ramcke/Christine Kugler
Benny Beaver is involved in every adventure. Among other things, he’s a master builder. He’s always eager to learn something new – in the forest and anywhere else. There’s a lot to learn about our environment and Nature. This eventful tale about Benny Beaver and his friends Daisy Duck, Sally Squirrel and Manny Mole is great fun, as is the CD with its sounds of Nature. What happens in the forest? Who creeps, crawls and flies here? And what trees, bushes and fungi grow here? A lively tale about the environment and Nature for nursery school and first year primary school. A picture-book tale, exciting and entertaining – as is the CD with its sounds from Nature. Welcome to the world of Benny Beaver and his friends! Share their adventures in the forest and elsewhere!
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January 1991Sophie Dorothea
Die verhängnisvolle Liebe und das tragische Schicksal der Prinzessin von Hannover
by Lehr, Helene / Übersetzt von Naujack, Peter
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September 2012Zwei lange Unterhosen der Marke Hering
Die erstaunliche Geschichte meiner Großmutter
by Magnus, Ariel / Übersetzer Kleemann, Silke
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2014The Silk Road
by Liu Yingsheng
This book provides a professional and academic introduction on the Silk Road with regards to its formation, routes, related cultural events and historical figures. It includes two sections: the grassland Silk Road,and the oceanic Silk Road, giving a rather profound and detailed discussion on the significance of the Silk Road in the communication betweenmainland China and overseas. This book is currently the most authoritative work about the Silk Road in China.
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October 1976Hermann und Dorothea
by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Catel, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hermann Hettner, Werner Berthel
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, am 28. August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main geboren, absolvierte ein Jurastudium und trat dann in den Regierungsdienst am Hof von Weimar ein. 1773 veröffentlichte er Götz von Berlichingen (anonym) und 1774 Die Leiden des jungen Werthers. Es folgte eine Vielzahl weiterer Veröffentlichungen, zu den berühmtesten zählen Italienische Reise (1816/1817), Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1798) und Faust (1808). Johann Wolfgang Goethe starb am 22. März 1832 in Weimar. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel wurde am 27. August 1770 in Stuttgart geboren und starb am 14. November 1831 in Berlin. Er wuchs in einem pietistischen Elternhaus auf. Vermutlich ab 1776 besuchte Hegel ein Gymnasium in Stuttgart, seit 1784 das Obergymnasium. Seine Interessen waren breit gestreut. Besonderes Augenmerk widmete er der Geschichte, insbesondere der Antike und den alten Sprachen. Ein weiteres frühes Interesse bildete die Mathematik. 1788 nahm Hegel an der Tübinger Universität das Studium der Theologie auf. Im September 1790 erhielt er den Grad eines Magisters der Philosophie, 1793 wurde ihm das theologische Lizenziat verliehen. Hegel profitierte viel von dem intellektuellen Austausch mit seinen später berühmten Zimmergenossen Hölderlin und Schelling. Sie hegten große Sympathie für die revolutionären politischen Ereignisse in Frankreich. Jedoch fand später durch das Scheitern Napoleons eine politische Umorientierung bei Hegel statt. Er wurde ein Anhänger der konstitutionellen Monarchie Preußens und söhnte sich mit den politischen Gegebenheiten aus. Hegels Philosophie erhebt den Anspruch, die gesamte Wirklichkeit in der Vielfalt ihrer Erscheinungsformen einschließlich ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung zusammenhängend, systematisch und definitiv zu deuten. In ihrer Wirkung auf die westliche Geistesgeschichte ist sie mit dem Werk von Platon, Aristoteles und Kant vergleichbar. Sein philosophisches Werk Phänomenologie des Geistes aus dem Jahre 1807 zählt zu den wirkmächtigsten Werken der Philosophiegeschichte überhaupt.
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1999
Hermann und Dorothea
Zweites Buch der Ernst-Ludwig-Presse Darmstadt
by Johann W von Goethe, C H Kleukens, F W Kleukens
Bd 2 d. "Jubiläums-Edition", siehe auch 3-458-17002-2. Nur bis 31.12.1999 lieferb.
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September 2021Spices, Scents and Silk
Catalysts of World Trade
by James Hancock
Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury products of far-off lands and established long-reaching trade networks. Over time, great powers fought mightily for the kingdoms where silk, spices and scents were produced. The New World was accidentally discovered by Columbus in his quest for spices. What made trade in these products so remarkable was that the plants producing them grew in very restricted areas of the world, distant from the wealthy civilizations of northern Africa, Greece and Europe. These luxuries could be carried from mysterious locations on the backs of camels or in the holds of ships for months on end, and arrived at their final destination in nearly perfect condition. Once the western world discovered the intoxicating properties of these products, their procurement became a dominant force in the world economy. Nothing else compared with their possible profit returns. In this book, eminent horticulturist and author James Hancock examines the origins and early domestication and culture of spices, scents and silks and the central role these exotic luxuries played in the lives of the ancients. The book also traces the development of the great international trade networks and explores how struggles for trade dominance and demand for such luxuries shaped the world. Recommended for academics, students and general readers with an interest in crop and agricultural development, world trade, economic botany, history of food, and global economics and public policy, Spices, Scents and Silk offers a fascinating and insightful history.
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May 2024Funny Story
Roman
by Henry, Emily
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Katharina Naumann und Silke Jellinghaus
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April 2021Our Inventions and Their Inventions:The Silk
by Shi Yunli, Zhou Zhe
Our Inventions and Their Inventions is a set of popular science picture books introducing the encounter and exchange of ancient Chinese and Western civilizations. It traces the birth process of the great inventions in history and their influence on the civilization process, and uses the contrast between the East and the West to show the convergence and collision of human civilizations. While cultivating children's national self-confidence and pride, it also broadens their horizons and encourages them to look at the historical process and future development of human civilization with an open, humble and tolerant mind. The series consists of 5 volumes, the themes of which are "gunpowder", "compass", "silk", "iron" and "clock"."The Silk" introduces the invention, use and dissemination process of silk with both pictures and texts.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2008Silk and empire
by Brenda King, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship were all part of the Anglo-Indian silk trade and were nurtured in the era of empire through mutually beneficial collaboration. The trade operated within and without the empire, according to its own dictates and prospered in the face of increasing competition from China and Japan. King presents a new picture of the trade, where the strong links between Indian designs, the English silk industry and prominent members of the English the arts and crafts movement led to the production of beautiful and luxurious textiles. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be of interest to those interested in the relationship between the British Empire and the Indian subcontinent, as well as by historians of textiles and fashion. ;
