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      • Mainstream United

        I'm representing modern Israeli Russian-speaking writer Jonathan Vidgop. This author's first book was granted fund of Israeli president and received recognition in Israel in 1999. The author writes rarely. There are two very different books offered. One, a result of 20 years of collecting historical material, is a collection of more than 100 very funny short stories of sexuality and attitude to Jews of famous personalities of different countries and times. The other book, very recent, is a a grotesque phantasmagoria, novel "Testimony", whose style, if any, can be compared to Susskind's Perfume. See description of the books below.

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      • mairisch Verlag

        mairisch Verlag is an an independent publishing house founded in 1999 and located in Hamburg. Whether fiction, non-fiction, illustrated children's books, audio books, graphic novels or music, mairisch Velag exclusively publishes books, CDs and LPs we really care about. In 2013 mairisch Verlag invented Indiebookday.

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        March 2010

        Gründe und Zwecke

        Texte zur aktuellen Handlungstheorie

        by Christoph Horn, Guido Löhrer

        Sind Handlungen und Handlungserklärungen naturalisierbar? Wie verhalten sich alltagspsychologische und naturwissenschaftliche Erklärungen zueinander? Lassen sich Ausdrücke wie »Zielgerichtetheit«, »Angemessenheit« etc. kausal interpretieren? Gegen den philosophischen Mainstream, der alltagspsychologische Handlungserklärungen als Spielart kausaler Erklärungen betrachtet, hat sich in den letzten Jahren eine Opposition formiert, die Handlungserklärungen für irreduzibel teleologisch hält: Die Erklärung einer Handlung sollte das Ziel betrachten, auf das sich das Verhalten eines rationalen Akteurs richtet, und nicht dessen kausale Vorgeschichte. Der Band versammelt – größtenteils erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung – die wichtigsten Beiträge zur neueren analytischen Handlungstheorie, u. a. von Donald Davidson, Harry Frankfurt, Ruth Millikan und Michael Thompson, und bietet einen Überblick über die aktuelle Gründe-Zwecke-Debatte.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2003

        Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state

        by Martin Hargeaves

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2016

        The United States Supreme Court

        by Robert McKeever

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        July 2015

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        Die Wiederentdeckung des Psychedelischen

        by Paul-Philipp Hanske, Benedikt Sarreiter

        Ende der siebziger Jahre zeigte sich Albert Hofmann schwer enttäuscht vom Schicksal der von ihm entdeckten »Wunderdroge«: LSD – mein Sorgenkind lautete der Titel des damals erschienenen Erinnerungsbuchs. Hatte man die Substanz noch in den sechziger Jahren als Königsweg zur Erkundung der Psyche gefeiert, folgte bald der Rückschlag: Halluzinogene wurden flächendeckend verboten, ein Effekt des »War on Drugs«. Heute scheint das Tabu zu bröckeln: Weltweit wird über die Legalisierung von Marihuana diskutiert; junge Menschen pilgern an den Amazonas, um sich mit Ayahuasca auf Jenseitsreise zu begeben; Mediziner erforschen das therapeutische Potenzial von MDMA oder der Pilzdroge Psilocybin; selbst im Mainstream-Kino wird an den Pforten der Wahrnehmung gerüttelt. Die Autoren beleuchten die Renaissance des Psychedelischen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, sprechen mit Hirnforschern, Usern und Juristen. Sie befassen sich mit dem Menschheitsthema Rausch und erklären, warum ihm kein Verbot einen Riegel vorschieben wird.

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        June 2021

        Entweder ich habe die Fahrt am Mississippi nur geträumt, oder ich träume jetzt

        by Oswald Egger

        Fließt – alles? Wie ein fortschreitend oskulierendes Wogengewölle in Form von Worten und Formen ohne Worte, Strudelungen, Zerstreuungen und Häufungen selbstüberwälzter Vorwärtswellen von Reverien, die über die Ufer der inneren Landschaft vorüberschwimmen. Als ob Beziehungslinien im »Bewusstseinsstrom«, die einander berühren und liieren, sich schneiden, überlagern und wiederhin verlieren – wie die Linien einer Hand. Ganz unscheinbare Verursachungen, die jeweils zu Wirk- und Fließlinien führen, setzten sich fort im grellen, kruden Wechsel der Wortbewegungsbilder selbst, der Gedankenhäufung, der Winke und Unstetigkeiten abrupt wechselnder Aspekte. In seinem neuen, mit zahlreichen Zeichnungen und Malereien aufwändig gestalteten Buch folgt Oswald Egger der Erinnerung an die selber unerinnerte Erfahrung österreichischer Auswanderer nach Amerika in den Jahren 1880 bis 1919, folgt den geflüsterten und inwendigen Stimmenverbindungen, den Wirbelfäden des Erzählten durch Bergwerke und Wälder bis zum großen Gewässer: Wenn im Fließgefüge von Eindrücken und Empfindungen die Sätze, Wörter und Sachen als eine Menge kleiner Inseln erscheinen, wird der Mississippi zum Mainstream der verschwiegenen Geschichte der Ideen, die zwischen den Welten im Fluss sind.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        A history of humanitarianism, 1755–1989

        In the name of others

        by Silvia Salvatici

        The book traces the history of international humanitarianism from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. It is based on an extensive survey of the international literature and is retold in an original narrative that relies on a close examination of the sources. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long history unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. In terms of its contents, narrative style, interpretative approach the book is aimed at a large and diverse public including: scholars who are studying and teaching humanitarianism; students who need to learn about humanitarianism as part of their training or research; operators and volunteers who are engaged in the field; non-specialist readers who are interested in the topic because of its relevance to current events.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Britain in China

        by Robert Bickers

        This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.

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        May 2006

        Gender Mainstreaming

        Lernprozesse in wissenschaftlichen, kirchlichen und politischen Organisationen

        by Herausgegeben von Burbach, Christiane; Herausgegeben von Döge, Peter

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2023

        Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

        by Robert Mason

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2022

        The Moscow Factor: US Policy toward Sovereign Ukraine and the Kremlin

        by Eugene M. Fishel

        24 February 2022 was not the beginning of Russia's war on Ukraine. Back in 2014, Russia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine, bolstered a separatist conflict in the Donbas region, and attacked Ukraine with units of its regular army and special forces. In each instance of Russian aggression, the U.S. response has often been criticized as inadequate, insufficient, or hesitant. The Moscow Factor: U.S. Policy toward Sovereign Ukraine and the Kremlin is a unique study that examines four key Ukraine-related policy decisions across two Republican and two Democratic U.S. administrations. Author Eugene M. Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances Washington has considered Ukraine’s status as a sovereign nation in its decision-making regarding relations with Moscow. This study situates the stance of the United States toward Ukraine in the broader context of international relations. It fills an important lacuna in existing scholarship and policy discourse by focusing on the complex trilateral—rather than simply bilateral—dynamics among the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia, in 1991–2016. This book brings together for the first time documentary evidence and declassified materials dealing with policy deliberation, retrospective articles authored by former policymakers, and formal memoirs by erstwhile senior officials. The study is also supplemented by open-ended interviews with former and returning officials.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2024

        Settlers at the end of empire

        Race and the politics of migration in South Africa, Rhodesia and the United Kingdom

        by Jean Smith

        Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994. While South Africa and Rhodesia, like other settler colonies, had a long history of restricting the entry of migrants of colour, in the 1960s under existential threat and after abandoning formal ties with the Commonwealth they began to actively recruit white migrants, the majority of whom were British. At the same time, with the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the British government began to implement restrictions aimed at slowing the migration of British subjects of colour. In all three nations, these policies were aimed at the preservation of nations imagined as white, revealing the persistence of the racial ideologies of empire across the era of decolonisation.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2024

        US public diplomacy in socialist Yugoslavia, 1950–70

        Soft culture, cold partners

        by Carla Konta

        The first comprehensive account of the public and cultural diplomacy campaigns carried out by the US in Yugoslavia during the height of the Cold War, this book examines the political role of culture in US-Yugoslav bilateral relations and the fluid links between information and propaganda. Tito allowed the US Information Agency and the State Department's cultural programmes to enter Yugoslavia, liberated from Soviet control. The exchange of intellectual and political personnel helped foster the US-Yugoslav relationship, yet it posed severe ideological challenges for both sides. By providing new insights into porous borders between freedom and coercion in Tito's regime, this book shows how public diplomacy acted as an external input for Yugoslav liberalisation and dissident movements. Using extensive archival research and interviews, Konta analyses the links between information and propaganda, and the unintended effects of propaganda beyond the control of producers and receivers.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2021

        National perspectives on a multipolar order

        by Benjamin Zala

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        January 2019

        Nutrition and Weight Management, Third Edition

        by Lori A. Smolin, Ph.D. and Mary B. Grosvenor, M.S., R.D.

        Praise for the previous edition: "For biology, culinary arts classes, and health classes needing information about the importance of good nutrition, [this] would be valuable...Recommended."—Library Media Connection The obesity epidemic in the United States and abroad is growing, and weight has become a rising concern in today's society. Nutrition and Weight Management, Third Edition discusses the concept of weight management as well as the role that social, cultural, and genetic factors play in determining weight and body size. Coverage includes the importance of a nutritious diet and what constitutes healthy eating, the physical and psychological effects of being overweight and underweight, and the pros and cons of various diets.

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