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HorticultureApril 2000Seed Biology
Advances and Applications
by Gregory E Welbaum. Edited by Michael J Black, Kent J Bradford Jorge Vázquez-Ramos.
This book discusses the biology of seeds.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024My Voice: Danny Herman
by Danny Herman
Danny Herman was born in 1935 in Königsberg in East Prussia. As the Nazis were rounding up Jews, Danny's father managed to escape to England in July 1939. He travelled to the Kitchener Camp in Kent, which helped refugees secure visas for safer places. Danny and his mother arrived in England just three days before war was declared in 1939, and his father was later sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man. Danny went on to become a successful runner, competing in many international athletics events and volunteering in many roles, including at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Danny's detailed memories of arriving in England, initially at the seaside in Kent and then moving to Manchester, create a vivid picture of life-changing events as experienced by a young child. Danny's book is part of the My Voice book collection, a stand-alone project of The Fed, the leading Jewish social care charity in Manchester, dedicated to preserving the life stories of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. The oral history, which is recorded and transcribed, captures their entire lives from before, during and after the war years. The books are written in the words of the survivor so that future generations can always hear their voice. The My Voice book collection is a valuable resource for Holocaust awareness and education.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Unfit for heroes
Reconstruction and soldier settlement in the empire between the wars
by Kent Fedorowich
Research on soldier settlement has to be set within the wider history of emigration and immigration. This book examines two parallel but complementary themes: the settlement of British soldiers in the overseas or 'white' dominions, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, between 1915 and 1930. One must place soldier settlement within the larger context of imperial migration prior to 1914 in order to elicit the changes in attitude and policy which occurred after the armistice. The book discusses the changes to Anglo-dominion relations that were consequent upon the incorporation of British ex-service personnel into several overseas soldier settlement programmes, and unravels the responses of the dominion governments to such programmes. For instance, Canadians and Australians complained about the number of ex-imperials who arrived physically unfit and unable to undertake employment of any kind. The First World War made the British government to commit itself to a free passage scheme for its ex-service personnel between 1914 and 1922. The efforts of men such as L. S. Amery who attempted to establish a landed imperial yeomanry overseas is described. Anglicisation was revived in South Africa after the second Anglo-Boer War, and politicisation of the country's soldier settlement was an integral part of the larger debate on British immigration to South Africa. The Australian experience of resettling ex-servicemen on the land after World War I came at a great social and financial cost, and New Zealand's disappointing results demonstrated the nation's vulnerability to outside economic factors.
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March 1995Insel-Geschichten
by Uwe Johnson, Eberhard Fahlke, Eberhard Fahlke
Die letzten zehn Jahre seines Lebens verbrachte Uwe Johnson in Sheerness-on-Sea, in der Abgeschiedenheit der britischen Grafschaft Kent - geleitet von der Hoffnung, im eigenen Haus jene Gelassenheit, Distanz und Konzentration wiederzufinden, die ihm für seine faktengetreue, ironisch-hintergründige Schreibweise unerläßlich waren. Indes stagnierte auch in diesem von ihm besonders geschätzten Sprachraum die Arbeit. Grund dafür war eine »Beschädigung der Herzkranzgefässe« sowie eine langdauernde Schreibhemmung. Mit der Arbeit an den Frankfurter Vorlesungen von 1979 gelang es ihm, gegen diese von ihm selbst als »writer's block« diagnostizierte Hemmung anzuschreiben. Ein Resultat seines Schreibens sind die in diesem Band versammelten Inselgeschichten. Über den Plan, Geschichten aus Mitteilungen von Einwohnern der Grafschaft Kent aufzuschreiben und zusammenzustellen, hatte Uwe Johnson schon im Rahmen des Seminars zu den Frankfurter Vorlesungen gesprochen. Materialien hierfür hatte er seit Beginn seines Aufenthalts in Sheerness aufbewahrt. Davon zeugen nicht zuletzt die etwa dreihundert Titel zur Geschichte und Soziologie der Grafschaft Kent in seiner Arbeitsbibliothek: Anfang einer Sammlung, die historisches Unterfutter zu den geplanten Inselgeschichten liefern sollte. Die Nagelprobe auf ein Gelingen dieses Projekts sei aber erst vollbracht, wenn etwa ein Dutzend solcher Geschichten geschrieben sei, gab er noch im Begleitseminar zur Vorlesung in Frankfurt zu bedenken. Allein vier Inselgeschichten wurden zu Lebzeiten veröffentlicht. Sie werden hier ergänzt durch Skizzen, Entwürfe und Materialien, die sich im Nachlaß fanden, so daß ein einprägsames Dokument zur Spätphase seines Werkes entsteht.
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March 1997Uwe Johnson: »Für wenn ich tot bin«
Mit einer Nachbemerkung 1997
by Siegfried Unseld
Uwe Johnson ist im Februar 1984 in Sheerness-on-Sea in der englischen Grafschaft Kent gestorben. Siegfried Unseld, »Freund, Leser, Verleger« nach Johnsons Worten, beschreibt Leben und Werk und die Begleitumstäne, unter denen das große Werk »Jahrestage« vollendet wurde.
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The ArtsApril 2024
Hyde Park
by James Shirley
by Eugene Giddens
Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's comic setting, London's Hyde Park, offers ample opportunity for witty dialogue. This is the first critical edition of the play, including a wide-ranging introduction and extensive commentary and textual notes. Paying special attention to the culture of Caroline London and its stage, the volume unpicks Shirley's politics of courtship and consent while also underlining the play's dynamics of class and power. A detailed performance history traces productions from 1632, across the Restoration to the present day, including that of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. A textual history of the play's first quarto determines how it was printed and what relationship Hyde Park has to other texts by Shirley.
