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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2018Understanding the imaginary war
by Matthew Grant, Benjamin Ziemann, Max Jones
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
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June 2009Max Frisch. Citoyen
by Max Frisch, Matthias Gunten
»Wir riefen Gastarbeiter, und es kamen Menschen.« Mit Sätzen wie diesem griff Max Frisch immer wieder in das öffentliche Leben der Schweiz ein. Als politischer Intellektueller war er auch in anderen Ländern ein gefragter Gesprächspartner: Er diskutierte mit Henry Kissinger über den Krieg in Vietnam, war 1977 in der Nacht, in der die »Landshut« gestürmt wurde, bei Helmut Schmidt in Bonn. Dem Citoyen, dem engagierten Bürger Max Frisch hat Matthias von Gunten sein Porträt gewidmet. Zu Wort kommt, neben Kissinger und Schmidt sowie Schriftstellerkollegen wie Christa Wolf, Günter Grass und Peter Bichsel, auch der Autor Max Frisch selbst – seine Tagebucheinträge und Reden werden gelesen von Reto Hänny. »Solche Stimmen fehlen heute in der Schweiz«, sagte von Gunten dazu der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung. Man möchte ergänzen: und anderswo.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2024The Legacy of John Polidori
The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny
by Sam George, Bill Hughes
John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 100/2
Higher Learning and Civic Cultures of Knowledge: Manchester 1824–2024
by Stuart Jones
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections.
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March 2011Max-Frisch-DVD-Box zum 100. Geburtstag
by Max Frisch
Zu Max Frischs 100. Geburtstag versammelt eine DVD-Box in der filmedition suhrkamp auf fünf DVDs die wichtigsten Filme von, mit und über den großen Schweizer Schriftsteller: ein Porträt des öffentlichen Intellektuellen Frisch (Matthias von Guntens Dokumentation "Max Frisch. Citoyen"), die vielfach ausgezeichnete Verfilmung "Holozän" von Heinz Bütler und Manfred Eicher, Richard Dindos "Journal I-III" (eine filmische Lektüre der Erzählung Montauk) sowie die Gespräche im Alter, die Philippe Pilliod in den Jahren 1985/1986 geführt hat. Vervollständigt wird das Paket durch ein besonderes Extra: Volker Schlöndorffs "Homo faber"-Adaption. Die Verfilmung mit internationaler Starbesetzung macht die Box zu einem Ereignis. Ein einzigartiger Zugang zu Leben und Werk des großen Autors.
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2023Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 99/2
by Stephen Mossman, Cordelia Warr
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.
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June 1991
Briefe
Herausgegeben und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Gershom Scholem und Theodor W. Adorno. (2 Bde.)
by Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Gershom Scholem
Walter Benjamin wurde am 15. Juli 1892 als erstes von drei Kindern in Berlin geboren und nahm sich am 26. September 1940 in Portbou/Spanien das Leben. Benjamins Familie gehörte dem assimilierten Judentum an. Nach dem Abitur 1912 studierte er Philosophie, deutsche Literatur und Psychologie in Freiburg im Breisgau, München und Berlin. 1915 lernte er den fünf Jahre jüngeren Mathematikstudenten Gershom Scholem kennen, mit dem er zeit seines Lebens befreundet blieb. 1917 heiratete Benjamin Dora Kellner und wurde Vater eines Sohnes, Stefan Rafael (1918 –1972). Die Ehe hielt 13 Jahre. Noch im Jahr der Eheschließung wechselte Benjamin nach Bern, wo er zwei Jahre später mit der Arbeit Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik bei Richard Herbertz promovierte. 1923/24 lernte er in Frankfurt am Main Theodor W. Adorno und Siegfried Kracauer kennen. Der Versuch, sich mit der Arbeit Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels an der Frankfurter Universität zu habilitieren, scheiterte. Benjamin wurde nahegelegt, sein Gesuch zurückzuziehen, was er 1925 auch tat. Sein Interesse für den Kommunismus führte Benjamin für mehrere Monate nach Moskau. Zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre verfolgte Benjamin gemeinsam mit Bertolt Brecht publizistische Pläne und arbeitete für den Rundfunk. Die Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten zwang Benjamin, im September 1933 ins Exil zu gehen. Im französischen Nevers wurde Benjamin 1939 für drei Monate mit anderen deutschen Flüchtlingen in einem Sammellager interniert. Im September 1940 unternahm er den vergeblichen Versuch, über die Grenze nach Spanien zu gelangen. Um seiner bevorstehenden Auslieferung an Deutschland zu entgehen, nahm er sich das Leben. Theodor W. Adorno wurde am 11. September 1903 in Frankfurt am Main geboren und starb am 06. August 1969 während eines Ferienaufenthalts in Visp/Wallis an den Folgen eines Herzinfarkts. Von 1921 bis 1923 studierte er in Frankfurt Philosophie, Soziologie, Psychologie und Musikwissenschaft und promovierte 1924 über Die Transzendenz des Dinglichen und Noematischen in Husserls Phänomenologie. Bereits während seiner Schulzeit schloss er Freundschaft mit Siegfried Kracauer und während seines Studiums mit Max Horkheimer und Walter Benjamin. Mit ihnen zählt Adorno zu den wichtigsten Vertretern der »Frankfurter Schule«, die aus dem Institut für Sozialforschung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt hervorging. Sämtliche Werke Adornos sind im Suhrkamp Verlag erschienen. Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) begründete mit seinen Werken einen neuen Forschungszweig: die wissenschaftliche Erforschung der jüdischen Mystik, die ein neues Verständnis des Judentums und der jüdischen Geschichte eröffnet hat.
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June 1992Der Zeitgenosse Walter Benjamin
by Hans Mayer
Hans Mayer hat Benjamin nicht gekannt, die Zeitgenossenschaft ist dennoch ablesbar. Hier werden geistige Entwicklungen, Übereinstimmungen und Konfrontationen aufgezeigt in einer von Schrecken gezeichneten Epoche. Aufgezeigt von Hans Mayer, einem Zeugen des Jahrhunderts, einem Mit-Denker, der imstande ist, Jahrhunderterfahrungen zu überliefern und den Blick zurückzuwerfen, auf der Suche nach der »Hoffnung im Vergangenen«.
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January 2013The Madmen of Bethlehem
by Osama Alaysa
Adopting the story-within-a-story structure of Arabian Nights, author Osama Alaysa weaves together a collection of stories portraying centuries of oppression endured by the Palestinian people. This remarkable novel eloquently brings together fictional characters alongside real-life historical figures in a complex portrayal of Bethlehem and the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. The common thread connecting each tale is madness, in all its manifestations. Psychological madness, in the sense of clinical mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, finds expression alongside acts of social and political madness. Together, these accounts of individuals and communities provide a gateway into the histories of the city of Bethlehem and Palestine. They paint a picture of the centuries of political oppression that the Palestinian people have endured, from the days of the Ottoman Empire to the years following the Oslo Accords, and all the way to 2012 (when the novel was written). The novel is divided into three sections, each containing multiple narratives. The first section, “The Book of a Genesis,” describes the physical spaces and origins of Bethlehem and Dheisheh Refugee Camp. These stories span the 19th and 20th centuries, transitioning smoothly from one tale to another to offer an intricate interpretation of the identity of these places. The second section, “The Book of the People Without a Book”, follows parallel narratives of the lives of the patients in a psychiatric hospital in Bethlehem, the mad men and women roaming the streets of the city, and those imprisoned by the Israeli authorities. All suffer abuse, but they also reaffirm their humanity through the relationships, romantic and otherwise, that they form. The third and final section, “An Ephemeral Book,” follows individuals—Palestinian and non-Palestinian—who are afflicted by madness following the Oslo Accords in 1993. These stories give voice to the perspectives of the long-marginalized Palestinian population, narrating the loss of land and the accompanying loss of sanity in the decades of despair and violence that followed the Nakba, the 1948 eviction of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. The novel’s mad characters—politicians, presidents, doctors, intellectuals, ordinary people and, yes, Dheisheh and Bethlehem themselves—burst out of their narrative threads, flowing from one story into the next. Alaysa’s crisp, lucid prose and deft storytelling chart a clear path through the chaos with dark humor and wit. The result is an important contribution to fiction on the Palestinian crisis that approaches the Palestinians, madness, and Palestinian spaces with compassion and depth.
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Biography & True StoriesJune 2014A Biography of Paul Watzlawick
The Discovery of the Present Moment
by Andrea Köhler-Ludescher
This book, the world's first biography of Paul Watzlawick, written by his great-niece, describes the life of this philosopher, therapist, and best-selling author. Paul Watzlawick had a talent for languages and he led an adventurous life, from his childhood in Villach to studying in Venice after the war, to analyst training under C. G. Jung in Zurich, an attempt at establishing himself in India and then in El Salvador as a therapist, and finally to the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in the United States, headed by Don D. Jackson, a venerable scientist. This marked the beginning of the second half of his life, his amazing career as a communication researcher, a pioneer of systemic therapy, a radical constructivist, and a great thinker regarding the divisions between East and West. With many letters, lectures, interviews, and statements from contemporary witnesses and family members, this book makes Paul Watzlawick accessible as a human being and as a spiritually inspired, leading 20th century thinker. It includes a variety of unpublished material from Watzlawick, and introduces a comprehensive and exciting picture of the scientist and cosmopolitan person, Paul Watzlawick. Target Group: For people interest in Paul Watzlawick, communication sciences, systemic therapy, and constructivism.
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December 2009Walter Benjamin
Lumpensammler, Engel und bucklicht Männlein Ästhetik und Politik bei Walter Benjamin
by Jean-Michel Palmier, Florent Perrier, Horst Brühmann
Jean-Michel Palmiers monumentale Studie über Walter Benjamin ist das Lebenswerk eines Gelehrten, der den zahlreichen Benjamin-Interpretationen nicht eine neue hinzufügt, sondern schlicht den Schlüssel zum Verständnis dieses enigmatischen Autors liefert. Minutiös zeichnet Palmier den philosophischen, politischen und ästhetischen Denkweg Benjamins nach und beseitigt zahlreiche Mißverständnisse und Klischees, etwa das des »marxistischen Rabbiners«, der die Alternative zwischen historischem Materialismus und Theologie in ein unauflösliches Dilemma verwandelt. Vor allem aber schließt Palmier die Lücken einer oft simplifizierenden und immer wieder um dieselben Themen kreisenden Rezeption. Der Lumpensammler, der Engel und das »bucklicht Männlein« werden so zu Grundfiguren einer philosophischen Erzählung, die nicht hagiographisch, sondern systematisch die Komplexität von Benjamins Denken erschließt. Ein Standardwerk.
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MedicineApril 2018Bovine Tuberculosis
by Mark Chambers, Stephen Gordon, Francisco Olea-Popelka, Paul Barrow
This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing human infection through consumption of unpasteurised milk or by close contact with infected animals. Following a systematic approach, expert international authors cover epidemiology and the global situation; microbial virulence and pathogenesis; host responses to the pathogen; and diagnosis and control of the disease. Aimed at researchers and practising veterinarians, this book is essential for those needing comprehensive information on the pathogen and disease, and offers a summary of key information learned from human tuberculosis research. It will be useful to those studying the infection and for those responsible for controlling the disease.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024Manchester minds
A university history of ideas
by Stuart Jones
A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history. The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest form. The first of England's civic universities, Manchester has been home and host to a huge number of influential thinkers and generated world-changing ideas. This book presents a rich account of the remarkable contribution that people associated with The University of Manchester have made to human knowledge. A who's who of Manchester greats, it presents fascinating snapshots of pioneering artists, scholars and scientists, from the poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth to the economist Arthur Lewis, the computer scientist Alan Turing and the physicist Brian Cox.
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July 2016Walter Benjamin – die Geschichte einer Freundschaft
by Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholems Bericht ist mehr als eine Biographie. Mit teilweise unbekannten Dokumenten belegt, leuchtet der intimste Kenner des Lebens und des Werkes von Walter Benjamin dieses Leben und Werke aus. Die Geschichte der Freundschaft beginnt mit den ersten Berührungen im Jahre 1913 und 1915, sie schildert die Jahre in der Schweiz von 1918 bis 1919, sie schildert Scholems nimmermüde Bemühungen, den Freund nach Jerusalem zu holen, und sie liefert einen bedeutenden Kommentar zu Benjamins marxistischen wie metaphysisch-jüdischen Vorstellungen.
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March 2005Walter Benjamin
by Momme Brodersen
Walter Benjamin gehört zu den meistdiskutierten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts – in Wissenschaft, Literatur und Kunst. Seine eigenwilligen und unkonventionellen Schriften sind ein unablässiges Nachdenken über seine großstädtische, seine Berliner Herkunft: darüber, wie man sich im Labyrinth ständig wechselnder Eindrücke zurechtfinden kann.
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Geography & the EnvironmentNovember 20131 Angel Square
The Co-operative Group's new head office
by Len Grant
This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, architects, engineers, project managers and builders - and has had unreserved access to document the creation of this already award-winning structure. The design of 1 Angel Square by the architects 3DReid, is currently the UK's highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) rated office building to date, and it is set to be one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe. 1 Angel Square, the book, is an intimate record of this fascinating building. Some of the impressive facts include: 3,157 internal and external window panels make up the façade; there are 10,500 data and power outlets; it sits on 539 foundation piles, with an average depth of 18 metres below ground; and there are approximately 22km of power cables. This book will be required reading for students of architecture and construction, sustainability studies and urban planning, and for those with an interest in the history of one of the world's great businesses. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2024Shakespeare's borrowed feathers
How early modern playwrights shaped the world's greatest writer
by Darren Freebury-Jones
A fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays. Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him? Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers a fresh look at William Shakespeare and the community of playwrights that shaped his work. This compelling book argues that we need to see early modern drama as a communal enterprise, with playwrights borrowing from and adapting one another's work. From John Lyly's wit to the collaborative genius of John Fletcher, to Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers fresh insights into Shakespeare's artistic development and shows us new ways of looking at the masterpieces that have enchanted audiences for centuries.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2021John Derricke's The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne
by Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney, Joshua Samuel Reid
