Thekla Verlag
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Theart Press
Theart Press is a South African publisher specialisingin inspirational books - including poetry, children's books and biography.
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Politics & governmentDecember 2009Citizenship, identity and immigration in the European Union
Between past and future
by Theodora Kostakopoulou
European citizenship, identity and immigration are constitutive issues facing the European polity and have important consequences for domestic political systems. There has been a great deal published about citizenship within the setting of the nation-state and comparative immigration policies, but relatively little has been written on their theorisation in a post-national, post-statist context, such as the EU, and on alternative European institutional designs. Now available in paperback, this volume blends normative political theory with European integration, and develops an original theoretical framework for European Union citizenship, identity and immigration as well as a set of policy proposals for institutional reform. Challenging the conventionally held views in these areas, the author argues that a constructive model of European citizenship and identity is vital to the construction of a democratic, heterogeneous and inclusive European polity. The book will appeal to academics and political actors concerned with issues of European governance as well as to undergraduate and postgraduate students of European politics, European integration, European Union Law, political theory and sociology.
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July 1979Briefe
by Madame Sévigné, Theodora Mühll, Theodora Mühll, Theodora Mühll
Wer sich ein Bild machen will über das Leben am Hofe Ludwigs XIV., über die politischen Ereignisse, vor allem über die geistige und menschliche Bildung jener Zeit in ihrer reinsten und anmutigsten Form, der greift zu diesen Briefen.
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November 2000Yann Andréa Steiner
by Marguerite Duras, Andrea Spingler
Sommer 1980. Die Geschichte »zwischen dem sehr jungen Yann Andréa Steiner und dieser Frau, die Bücher machte und die alt war und allein wie er« beginnt in Trouville. Behutsam skizziert Duras die aufkeimende Liebe, die den Tod von Anfang an in sich birgt. Parallel dazu erzählt sie von der unmöglichen Liebe zwischen dem kleinen Samuel Steiner und seiner Betreuerin Johanna Goldberg. Samuels Schwester wurde von den Nazis ermordet, seine Eltern deportiert. Yann Andréa wird zu Yann Andréa Steiner, und nicht allein der gemeinsame Name drückt die mythische Verwandtschaft zu Samuel, dem ebenfalls viel jüngeren Geliebten, aus. Duras' Erzählung von ihrer Liebe und der Angst darum schreitet mit dem Rhythmus der Wellen, des Windes und des Regens fort. Die Gespräche mit Yann führen zu einer weiteren Figur: Theodora Kats, eine in den Konzentrationslagern umgekommene junge Frau, deren Geschichte Duras nie hat aufschreiben können. Mir unbeschreiblicher Sogwirkung verknüpft die Duras Fiktion und Realität und macht aus »Yann Andréa Steiner« eine literarische Liebeserklärung an den langjährigen Gefährten.
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April 2003Laurea internationalis
Festschrift für Jochen Bleicken zum 75. Geburtstag
by Herausgegeben von Hantos, Theodora
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October 2007Das große Buch der chinesischen Astrologie
Was der Mond uns über unsere Männer, Frauen, Liebsten, Kinder, Kollegen und über uns selbst verrät
by Lau, Theodora / Englisch Wichmann, Hardo
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2010Globalisation, Integration and the Future of European Welfare States
by Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, Emil Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen
This book argues that the welfare state cannot be understood purely as a set of social policy arrangements, but must be seen as a political institution, intended to achieve certain political objectives. The political dimension of the welfare state is essential for understanding its initial emergence as well as assessing its ability to deal with contemporary challenges. Governments use welfare transfers to decrease the risk of political instability that may be politically disruptive and threaten to undermine social cohesion. The success of welfare institutions stems from their ability to foster a redistribution of resources and political consensus that has enabled long-term political stability and economic development. The book develops a general model that looks at the interactive effects between welfare transfers, political instability and state capacity. It provides a unique theoretical contribution to the study of welfare spending in the context of globalisation and integration, analyses the key politial rationale for welfare programmes, namely their role in preserving social cohesion and governance and demonstrates clearly that welfare policies can be successfully adopted to meet new challenges and that retrenchment of the welfare state is not inevitable, using Scandinavia as a leading example of modern thinking policies. ;
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July 1998
Althistorisches Kolloquium
aus Anlaß des 70. Geburtstages von Jochen Bleicken 29.-30. November 1996 in Göttingen
by Herausgegeben von Hantos, Theodora; Herausgegeben von Lehmann, Gustav Adolf
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesThe Chocolate Secret
by Anna van Lanen
Theodora has just moved to Marienwalde when mysterious events start piling up in the village: first Mrs. Knight’s pot-bellied pig disappears, then Mrs. Knight herself. Along with her new friends, Leonie, the math genius, Finn, the professor, and the handsome Jake, Theodora begins to investigate. The trail leads directly to the newly opened chocolate shop in the village. But is the always friendly shop owner, Ella Lampadius, really behind it all?
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RomanceAugust 2014Touching the Stars
by Barbara Cartland
"Justina Mansell, the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Mansell is told that her sister has been invited to visit India, but cannot accept. So Justina jumps at the chance to go in her place. Her aunt arranges for her to be chaperoned on board ship by the stately Mrs. Arbuthnot, who is travelling with her two daughters and her little terrier, Muffin. Justina is quickly attracted to the good-looking Sir Thomas Watson who is most attentive and much admires her beauty when he joins the Arbuthnot table for dinner. When the Arbuthnot ladies succumb to seasickness Justina takes Muffin for walks along the deck. There she meets the solitary figure of Lord Castleton with his own dog. He knows her father and they strike up a friendship. Justina finds herself compromised in her cabin by Sir Thomas even though she has given him no encouragement and is forced to agree to become engaged to him to prevent a scandal. Lord Castleton is not at all pleased by this turn of events, especially as Justina seemed far from happy with her engagement. How Justina is swept from despair to happiness and love after a number of surprises and unexpected twists is told in this unusual and intriguing romance by BARBARA CARTLAND."
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The Abode of Bliss
by D.C.Fernback
This book is 120,000 words long about 350 pages. The Abode of Bliss is a love story set in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, the golden age of power, that takes the reader deep into the inner sanctum of the Sultan’s palace, into the world of the harem, the true locus of power of The Ottoman Empire. We learn of the fascinating politics of this dynasty and the means of recruitment to dynastic service, and slowly its weaknesses and strengths are exposed and the menace of the ruthless Janissaries and the executioner’s silken chord becomes clear.
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FictionMay 2013Ancestors
A Tale of Two Worlds
by Rob Collinge
Genealogy, the search for one's ancestors, has become in recent years a hugely popular pastime, enjoyed by millions. Using a variety of genealogical tools, Rob Collinge has constructed a story in novel form, based on real events, that spans 1830s Germany, pioneer Texas, the Civil War, Lancashire cotton mills during the Industrial Revolution and World War 1.
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Historical fiction (Children's/YA)May 2021From far away
by Angeliki Darlasi
It was summer when Walice, along with wandering performers and the fairground, pitched up on a plot on the edge of our town. And there was a carousel at the fairground that we were dreaming of even while being awake.Walice had nothing – but we only found out about this much later.What we knew was that she was different and, as the grown-ups have told us, we should be afraid of her and avoid her. Therefore, they gave us a scarf to put it on her so that she stood out. Up until the night we found out she could do magic… This is a story on prejudice, racism, and the Romani Holocaust. On the narrow-mindedness and harshness of adults, but, also, on the intrinsic empathy of children.Mostly, it is the story of a true and generous friendship; the story of a magical summer…
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2021Reproductive Politics and the Makings of Modern India
by Mytheli Sreenivas
In modern India, reforming individual reproduction, through changing marriage practices or the introduction of birth control, became a means to shape the life of the population as a whole. Mytheli Sreenivas traces moments when social actors questioned the wide-ranging, complex, and sometimes contradictory politics of reproduction, asking how practices associated with biological reproduction, and the social meanings attached to these practices, became the target of public debate and contestation. She reveals the intimate imbrication of population concerns with reproductive politics and the economy, and suggests that the ideologies and institutions that encouraged the government to intervene in the reproductive lives of its subjects were not mid-twentieth-century inventions, but arose from concerns that first took shape in colonial India. Exploring the wide implications of these policies and programs, Sreenivas challenges some of the fundamental assumptions that underpin reproductive politics today, in India and transnationally.
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January 2011Evaporating Genres
Essays on Fantastic Literature
by Gary K. Wolfe
A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and grow
