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      • Spilbulu Verlag

        Geschichten, die Dich in Deiner Identität bestärken und inspirieren, einfach Du zu sein!  Spilbulu möchte Dich auf eine humorvolle, aber tiefe Reise zum Nachdenken mitnehmen. Eine Reise, die Dich ermutigt niemals vor Deinem Herzensziel zu kapitulieren!  Es ist nur unmöglich, wenn Du aufgibst!

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      • Spicy Fish Cultural Production Ltd.

        Established in 2006 by publishing Fleurs des lettres (字花), a literary bimonthly in Chinese, Spicy Fish is a 15 year-old literary arts non-profit organization based in Hong Kong.

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        May 2019

        Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes

        by Margarete Susman, Hermann Lévin Goldschmidt

        1945, nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, schrieb in Zürich die Philosophin und Schriftstellerin Margarete Susman Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes. Es ist der Versuch angesichts der Shoah, »in diesem Augenblick einer Weltkatastrophe«, die Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes aus dem Buch Hiob zu erklären, seinem Hadern mit Gott, seinem Fragen nach Gerechtigkeit. ln einzelnen Abschnitten über den Ursprung, die Schuld, die Verfolgung, den Zionismus, die Hoffnung deutet sie das Buch Hiob neu. Die überlieferte biblische Geschichte erweist sich als unvermindert gegenwärtig. »Jude sein heißt, sich entscheiden«, heißt es am Beginn lakonisch, und im Fortgang entfaltet Margarete Susman Grenzen und Möglichkeiten einer solchen Entscheidung. Margarete Susmans Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes ist heute weithin vergessen. Ihr Beharren auf einer religiösen Substanz in Formen des alltäglichen Zusammenlebens, in der Dichtung wie Philosophie mutet fremd an. Doch es ist eine Fremdheit, mit der vertraut zu machen sich lohnt. Ihre Hiobdeutung, die sie zuerst 1929 in einem Aufsatz über Franz Kafka vorbrachte, hat Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem und Paul Celan beeinflußt. »Es gibt«, schreibt Margarete Susman, »keine große Leistung des Judentums im Exil bis in die späte Dichtung Kafkas hinein, die den Prozeßpartner nicht mehr mit Namen nennt, die nicht im Kern eine Theodizee, der Versuch einer Rechtfertigung Gottes vor seinem Volk oder eine Rechtfertigung des Volkes vor Gott wäre. Die ganze große nachbiblische Überlieferung kreist letztlich um diese Frage.«

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2024

        Ireland 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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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2014

        Court 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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        November 2011

        Die lange Welle hinterm Kiel

        Roman

        by Karl-Heinz Jähn, Pavel Kohout

        Zwei Paare auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff im Pazifik: Die junge Psychologin Sylva wird von ihrem Schwiegervater Martin Burian begleitet; die verwitwete Fabrikantin Margarete Kämmerer hat ihren Neffen Siegfried zu dieser Fahrt eingeladen. Die zufällige Begegnung der beiden Paare hat ungeahnte Folgen. Während sich Sylva und Siegfried ineinander verlieben, werden ihre Begleiter von der Vergangenheit eingeholt: Margarete und Burian lebten einst Tür an Tür im Sudentenland, waren Freunde, bis sie durch die politischen Ereignisse im Zweiten Weltkrieg zu Todfeinden wurden …

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2002

        Leicester 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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        Social services & welfare, criminology
        October 2014

        Ireland'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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        October 2014

        Ich bin Malala

        Das Mädchen, das die Taliban erschießen wollten, weil es für das Recht auf Bildung kämpft

        by Yousafzai, Malala mit Lamb, Christina

        Übersetzt von Längsfeld, Sabine; Übersetzt von Längsfeld, Margarete; Übersetzt von Liebl, Elisabeth

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2024

        A neoliberal revolution?

        Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions

        by Hugh Pemberton, James Freeman, Aled Davies

        This book examines the Thatcher government's attempt to revolutionise Britain's pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to abolish significant parts of the UK's welfare state and replace these with privatised personal pensions. Revealing a government that veered between political caution and radicalism, the book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary changes that ministers salvaged from the wreckage of their reforms. The book contributes to understanding of policy change, Thatcherism, and international neoliberalism by showing how major reforms to social security could reflect neoliberal thought and yet profoundly disappoint their architects.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2024

        ‘Survival Capitalism’ and the Big Bang

        Culture, contingency and capital in the making of the 1980s financial revolution

        by Emma Barrett

        This book about the Thatcher government and the City of London tells the compelling human story of the people and processes that made Britain's 1980s financial revolution. Fusing insider testimony with new archival discoveries, it examines high stakes and networked solutions, and uncovers new objectives that drove reforms. In so doing it demystifies a major shift in capitalism. This has implications for our understandings of government and capitalism, from the way we think about the origins of subsequent financial crises to today's growing inequalities. Survival Capitalism offers new insights into the last major restructuring of the City, disrupts myths surrounding the logics of the market, and pays attention to people and processes at a time when the City of London again faces major change as Britain seeks to find its place outside the European Union in the wake of Brexit.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        May 2025

        US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland

        by Richard Hargy

        Richard Haass and Mitchell Reiss, as autonomous diplomats in the George W. Bush State Department, were able to alter US intervention in Northern Ireland and play critical roles in the post-1998 peace process. Their contributions have not been fully appreciated or understood. The restoration of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government in 2007 was made possible by State Department-led intervention in the peace process. There are few references to Northern Ireland in work examining the foreign policy legacy of the George W. Bush presidency. Moreover, the ability to control US foreign policy towards the region brought one of George W. Bush's Northern Ireland special envoys into direct diplomatic conflict with the most senior actors inside the British government. This book will uncover the extent of this fall-out and provide original accounts on how diplomatic relations between these old allies became so fraught.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2015

        Margaret Cavendish

        by Emma Rees

        Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobbes, she was fascinated by philosophical, scientific and imaginative advances, and struggled to overcome the political and cultural obstacles which threatened to stop her engagement with such discourses. Emma Rees examines how Cavendish engaged with the work of thinkers such as Lucretius, Plato, Homer and Harvey in an attempt to write her way out of the exile which threatened not only her intellectual pursuits but her very existence. What emerges is the image of an intelligent, audacious and intrepid early modern woman whose tale will appeal to specialists and general readers alike. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2007

        Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1520

        by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small, Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean

        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 Studies
        March 2013

        The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court

        by Edited by Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Goldring and Sarah Knight

        This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. This period witnessed the height of the Inns' status as educational institutions: emerging from fairly informal associations in the fourteenth century, the Inns of Court in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had developed sophisticated curricula for their students, leading to their description in the early seventeenth century as England's 'third university'. Some of the most influential politicians, writers, and divines - as well as lawyers - of Tudor and Stuart England passed through the Inns: men such as Edward Hall, Richard Hooker, John Webster, John Selden, Edward Coke, William Lambarde, Francis Bacon, and John Donne. This is the first interdisciplinary publication on the early modern Inns of Court, bringing together scholarship in history, art history, literature, and drama. The book is lavishly illustrated and provides a unique collection of visual sources for the architecture, art, and gardens of the early modern Inns ;

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        April 2008

        Komplexitäten

        Warum wir erst anfangen, die Welt zu verstehen

        by Sandra Mitchell, Sebastian Vogel

        Eine neue Herausforderung für die Wissenschaft: Die Welt ist komplex, also sollten es auch unsere Vorstellungen von ihr sein. Viele Disziplinen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften haben sich lange an diese Maxime gehalten. Die Naturwissenschaften aber haben traditionell nach einfachen, universalen und zeitlosen Gesetzen gesucht. Damit wollten sie die "schwirrende Verwirrung" ("blooming, buzzing confusion", William James) erklären, die die ungeschulten Sinne dem Geist präsentieren. Aber dieses Unternehmen ist gescheitert. Sandra Mitchell zeigt, daß uns die Komplexität der lebendigen Welt dazu zwingt, unsere Denkmodelle radikal zu revidieren und nach einer adäquateren Erkenntnislehre zu suchen. Dazu hat die Systemtheorie Vorgaben geliefert, die seit einigen Jahren von der Komplexitätstheorie spezifiziert worden sind. Komplexe Systeme – wie die Welt, in der wir leben – zeichnen sich unter anderem durch Emergenz und Relationen aus: Was auf der Makroebene sichtbar wird, ist erst durch Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Elementen des Systems zu erklären. Wohin zum Beispiel ein Vogelschwarm fliegt, hängt nicht nur von den Individuen ab, sondern vor allem von Feedbackprozessen zwischen ihnen. Mitchell fordert deshalb: Wer die Welt verstehen will, muß auch verstehen lernen, warum das Ganze tatsächlich mehr ist als die Summe der einzelnen Teile.

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        August 1992

        Nationalsozialismus in der »zweiten Generation«

        Psychoanalyse von Hörigkeitsverhältnissen

        by Anita Eckstaedt

        Thema dieser aufschlußreichen Arbeit sind die Auswirkungen, die die Epoche des Faschismus und der Zusammenbruch des »Dritten Reiches« auf die psychische Entwicklung der während des Krieges oder unmittelbar danach geborenen Kinder der Täter gehabt haben. Dieses Buch verdient schon deshalb ein breites Interesse, weil sich Anita Eckstaedt auf ein auch von der westdeutschen Psychoanalyse bis heute weitgehend vernachlässigtes Terrain vorgewagt hat. Anita Eckstaedts Beschreibung und Analyse der psychischen Deformationen, in denen die Ideologie des Nationalsozialismus nach dem Zusammenbruch des »Dritten Reiches« bis heute überlebt und ihre unheilvolle Wirkung entfaltet hat, ist zweifellos ein wichtiger Beitrag zu der von der Nachkriegsgeneration unterlassenen Aufklärungs- und Trauerarbeit. Ihre Untersuchung gehört daher gleichwertig neben Alexander und Margarete Mitscherlichs Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern gestellt. Während deren sozialpsychologische Analyse der Abwehr- und Verleugnungsmechanismen, mit deren Hilfe sich die Nachkriegsgeneration ihrer nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit zu entledigen suchte, eher eine soziologische Bestandsaufnahme von außen war, entwickelt Anita Eckstaedt die gleiche Problematik aus der Situation der psychoanalytischen Behandlungsrealität heraus. Dadurch wird nachvollziehbar, wie die für die Kriegsgeneration von Alexander und Margarete Mitscherlich primär strukturell beschriebenen Phänomene und Symptome sich konkret auf die psychische Entwicklung der »zweiten Generation« ausgewirkt haben. (Joachim Weiner) 1991 hat Anita Eckstaedt im Suhrkamp Verlag veröffentlicht: Die Kunst des Anfangs. Psychoanalytische Erstgespräche.

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