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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2024Ireland and the Renaissance court
by David Edwards, Brendan Kane
Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cúirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of 'early modern' Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives. This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.
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The ArtsSeptember 2017100 Best Photographic Places in Western Hunan: A Photography Collection
by Ma Shujun
This book is an excellent photography collection of "Mysterious Xiangxi" Top 100 Tourism Photographic Places. The book contains 100 best photographic spots in western Hunan (Fenghuang County, Jishou City, Yongshun County, Longshan County, Guzhang County, Huayuan County, Luxi County, Baojing County) selected in this event. Each photo is presented with a brief description to the content of the photo, highlighting the history, humanities, and natural beauty of western Hunan.
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FictionJanuary 2009Library of Chinese Classics :The Romance of West Chamber
by Wang Shifu
The "West Chamber" of Wang Shih-fu in the Yuan Dynasty was a masterpiece of Chinese classical opera and a masterpiece of Chinese literature. The theme of the drama is the love story of the young scholar Zhang Huan and the late Ying-Ying, the daughter of the 19-year-old Cui Xianguo. The whole play is divided into five (screen) twenty (field). The first Zhang Ying and Ying Ying in the temple at first sight. The second to write Zaibing siege filled homes, Zhangsheng rescue, Mrs. Cui allow her daughter Yingying with Zhangsheng wife, then eat their own words. The third one to write a pair of lover Acacia sponge. The fourth the first Valentine's tryst Valentine's Day; the second letter of Mrs. Choi to Changsheng Beijing exam, the high school after the wedding; the third Valentine's leave, Zhang went to Beijing to attend the meeting; the fourth fold of the lover dream phase Will be done. The fifth to write a couple reunion. In short, "The Romance of the West Chamber" wrote the contradiction between love and family honor. The result was that Zhang Sheng would try high school, winning the honor and winning the love.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2014Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2018European Erotic Romance
by Victor Skretkowicz, J. B. Lethbridge
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Calligraphy collection character creation collection
by Hu Zigui
Based on ancient classical poetry and modern computer technology, the classical tablet cursive style of the past dynasties is collected in more than 2,000 calligraphy works. It strives to unify the style, smooth the lines and various forms of chapters, which can not only be directly copied by calligraphy lovers, but also provide references for their calligraphy creation, integrating calligraphy and literary value. This collection is a collection of the series of "Classic Tablet scriptions Collection of Writing Blueprints", the content is divided into "Vegetable Root Tan", "Small Window You", "human words", "Literary heart Carving dragon", landscape poetry, patriotic poetry, immortal poetry, painting poetry, calligraphy, painting, essay, "New words of the world", legal poetry, quatrains, Song Ci, Qu Fu essays and other articles, respectively in the form of running script and cursive. It is a collection of 8 volumes. This collection is intended to be printed on better paper and the case case is designed to be portable for the convenience of purchasers.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council strike and the struggle for democracy in Northern Ireland
by David McCann, Cillian McGrattan
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2002Leicester and the court
Essays on Elizabethan politics
by Simon Adams, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
Now back in print, this comprehensive collection of essays by Simon Adams brings to life the most enigmatic of Elizabethans--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Adams, famous for the unique depth and breadth of his research, has gathered here his most important essays looking at the Elizabethan Court, and the adventures and legacy of the Earl. Together with his edition of Leicester's accounts and his reconstruction of Leicester's papers, Adams has published much upon on Leicester's influence and activities. His work has reshaped our knowledge of Elizabeth and her Court, Parliament, and such subjects of recent debate as the power of the nobility and the noble affinity, the politics of faction and the role of patronage. Sixteen essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. This volume will be essential reading for academics and students interested in the Elizabethan Court and in early modern British politics more generally. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2025Pink-pilled
Women and the far right
by Lois Shearing
A daring investigation that explores how women are targeted and recruited by the far right. As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting as propagandists, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled, Lois Shearing provides a cutting-edge account of how the far right has used the internet to recruit women, while shedding light on what life is like for women within these movements, including their experiences of misogyny and violence. Understanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women's radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought.
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Social services & welfare, criminologyOctober 2014Ireland's District Court
Language, immigration and consequences for justice
by Kate Waterhouse
For the uninitiated, the Irish District Court is a place of incomprehensible, organised chaos. This comprehensive account of the court's criminal proceedings, based on an original study which involved observing hundreds of cases, aims to demystify the mayhem and provide the reader with descriptions of language, participant discourse and procedure in the typical criminal case. In addition, the book captures a recent and important change in the District Court: the advent of the immigrant or the Limited-English-proficient (LEP) defendant. It traces the rise of these defendants and explores the issues involved in ensuring access to justice across languages. It also provides an original description of LEP defendants and interpreters in District Court proceedings, ultimately considering how they have altered the institution and how the characteristics of the District Court affect how limited English proficient defendants access justice at this level of the Irish courts system.
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Ying Tianqi sketch collection
by Ying Tianqi
This series is a guide book tailored for art beginners, including gypsum geometry, gypsum head portrait, sketch still life, sketch portrait, sketch landscape, Yingtianqi sketch collection, Yingtianqi comprehensive materials and techniques altogether 7 books. Yingtianqi sketch Collection with hundreds of YingTianqi sketch works in the past 20 years, selected the best of them, edited and published a unique sketch collection. The book provides an appendix to Ying Tianqi's unique marker sketching techniques, as well as the painting process, the comparison between live photos and sketching works, and the author's own interpretation of his work. It can guide the learners to sketch some basic methods in a more comprehensive way, and cultivate the ability of the painter to deal with the picture. The contents of the works included in the sketchbook. It is composed of sketches of Xidi Village and Hui-style dwellings in southern Anhui province, combined with the author's foreign sketches. The works are rich in content and diverse in techniques, which have some intuitive and practical significance for beginners.
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January 2021Li Zehou Collection
by Li Zehou
The manuscript was personally selected by the renowned scholar Mr Li Zehou, and contains his own discourses and dialogues on ethics since 2016. The 200,000-word collection is included in the "Library of Contemporary Hunan Ethics" series.
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January 2017Blue Bird Short Story Collection
by Li Jingze
Blue Bird Short Story Collection is a collection of proses and reviews, a verification and analysis of history and also an imaginary fction. Li Jingze explored into the historical texts like an archaeologist, collecting their traces and fragments and composed a picture of China’s complicated past. He looked for people hidden in history who bridged communications between Eastern and Western civilizations. With “Sinking, dragon Saliva and roses”, he draws our eyes to the ancient past; we are likely to be fascinated with “silver trees in Buxie district” or go on a long journey with “Eight Beats of Ganzhou Song” in our mind; most probably, we would pay attention to Matteo Ricci, the Christian missionary. In imagination, the past things vividly present themselves before our eyes and the ancient people fly across like blue birds, their routes and gestures deeply engraved in our minds.
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FictionOctober 2008The Passion Collection
by Natalka Sniadanko
You are about to see the passion collection of a girl "from a decent Galician family" during her coming-of-age years. It contains not only common passions in Ukrainian and Russian but also more exotic ones, in Italian and German and a few aristocratic passions as well. Every time the girl tries to understand whether it is passion or love? And whether you can distinguish passion from love is up to you.
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The ArtsThe Complete Collection of Calligraphic Works by Su Dongpo
by Wang Lianqi
The Complete Collection of Calligraphic Works by Su Dongpo was edited by Mr. Wang Lianqi of the Palace Museum in China and jointly published by the Palace Museum Press and Qingdao Publishing House. It is the first comprehensive collection of Su Dongpo's surviving calligraphic works of handwritings, copybooks and inscriptions collected by the Palace Museums on both sides of the Taiwan Straits and museums at home and abroad, and the first comprehensive collection of Su Dongpo's surviving calligraphic works in the cultural and artistic circles, with unprecedented quantity and quality rarely seen in previous publications. The Complete Collection is a set of 6 volumes, including 2 volumes of handwritings, 3 volumes of copybooks and 1 volume of inscriptions. The book consists of 43 handwritings, 15 copybooks and 8 inscriptions of Sudongpo scattered in major museums, collection units and libraries in China and abroad. The inscription of ChenKui pavilion tablet rubbing of Song Dynasty (Song Ta Chen Kui Ge Bei) collected in the Book Mausoleum Department (Shoryobu) of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan was published publicly for the first time in China; The inscription of Mr. Zhao Qingxian’s tombstone rubbing of Ming Dynasty of China (Ming Ta Zhao Qing Xian Gong Bei) collected in Shanghai Library in China has not been published in recent years and this is the first publication since the Republic of China; The copybook of Sudongpo's tablets published by Wanxiangtang in Ming Dynasty of China (Ming Ta Wan Xiang Tang Su Tie) collected in the Palace Museum in China is the largest work of in this book and this is also the first time that this masterpiece has been published publicly in China.
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April 2023Posthuman Journey Trilogie
by Pat To Yan, John Birke, Ulrike Syha
Das zentrale Motiv der Reise verbindet diese Trilogie: Wohin die Figuren auch gehen, sie sind in einem Transitzustand, in Umbruchssituationen, auf der Flucht und auf der Suche nach den Bedingungen für eine freie Gesellschaft. Eine kurze Chronik des künftigen China erzählt eine Bewegung gegen den Strom: Alle fliehen vor dem Krieg in den Süden des Landes, während »Der Außenstehende« die Rückreise antritt ins Zentrum der Katastrophe, um sich mit seiner verdrängten traumatischen Geschichte zu konfrontieren. Eine posthumane Geschichte beginnt mit einem Soldaten, der vom Homeoffice aus feindliche Gebiete bombardiert. Als sein Sohn ohne Gesäß geboren wird, reist er an den Kriegsort und versucht Verantwortung für die eigene Schuld zu übernehmen. Überall im Universum Klang ist der philosophischste Teil der Trilogie. Er spielt im All und auf einem noch unbekannten Planeten. Die Erde wird von einem schwarzen Loch geschluckt. Ein Mann versucht seine Geliebte wiederzufinden, die dabei in einen anderen Bewusstseinszustand transformiert wurde. Pat To Yans Szenarien sind bevölkert von mythologisch inspirierten und allegorischen Figuren, zwischen Mensch und Tier, zwischen Mensch und Androide. Sie bewegen sich stets in parallel existierenden Bewusstseinsebenen und Timelines. Seine vom magischen Realismus beeinflusste Schreibweise erzählt vom Sterben, Leben und Überleben in politisch repressiven Systemen. »Wenn du über die Grausamkeit der Realität schreiben willst, darf es nicht realistisch sein.« Das unheimliche Mädchen aus Teil 1, Eine kurze Chronik des künftigen China
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2005Pat Barker
by John Brannigan, Daniel Lea
This book provides a comprehensive account and critical analysis of the literary career of Pat Barker. It offers readings of Barker's innovations in narrative form, her revisionist perspectives on history, class and gender, and her preoccupation with themes of trauma, haunting and terror. It also analyses the reasons for her success and significance as a novelist. The chapters draw on contemporary theories of critical realism, gender and social identities, memory and narrative, in order to outline the debates with which Barker's work has consistently engaged. Brannigan argues that Barker is one of the most important writers in modern English literary history. She is principally renowned and widely acclaimed for her 'Regeneration' trilogy, the last volume of which, 'The Ghost Road', won the Booker Prize in 1995. In recent novels, Barker has continued to deal with controversial and shocking themes, including child murderers and the meanings of 'terror' in the contemporary world. ;
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November 2017Zum Aufgeben ist es zu spät!
Fünf Dinge, die Pferde uns über das Leben lehren
by Ameruoso, Timo / Zusammen mit Mendlewitsch, Doris; Fotos von Tap, Jürgen
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July: Collection of original watercolor coloring lines
by ZHiGengBu
Line sketches can be said to be the first step in painting, line sketches are the skeleton, color is the flesh and makeup, bones are ready, just wait for you to pick up the paint, give these line sketches flesh and makeup again. Many beginner watercolor readers who have no art foundation encounter difficulties in the first step of making line drafts in watercolor painting. This book is a collection of watercolor coloring tutorials and line drafts. The cases in the book involve watercolor coloring tutorials for plants, animals, food, objects and figures, basic line drawing teaching and line filling, which can be used as color filling exercises or line copying. Make it easy for zero-base readers to draw complete watercolors. The collection includes 50 highly completed illustrations, which are both visually enjoyable and hands-on.
