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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2021A precarious equilibrium
Human rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet policy
by Umberto Tulli
Human rights and détente inextricably intertwined during Carter's years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for détente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of détente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2001Railways and culture in Britain
The epitome of modernity
by Ian Carter, Jeffrey Richards
The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? The book's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. The second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, then this does not mean that all British culture ignored this revolutionary artefact. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres. A final chapter contemplates cultural correlations of the steam railway's eclipse. If this was the epitome of modernity, then does the triumph of diesel and electric trains, of cars and planes, signal a decisive shift to postmodernity? ;
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Agronomy & crop productionApril 2015The Nature of Crops
How we came to eat the plants we do
by Professor John Warren
Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops John Warren reveals: -Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; -Why red-flowering runner beans provide fewer beans than white-flowering; -The inherent dangers of being a pineapple worker; and -Why a bird will always beat you in a chilli pepper eating competition!
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureApril 2015The Nature of Crops
How we came to eat the plants we do
by John Warren
Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops John Warren reveals: -Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; -Why red-flowering runner beans provide fewer beans than white-flowering; -The inherent dangers of being a pineapple worker; and -Why a bird will always beat you in a chilli pepper eating competition! ; Our ancestors chose to cultivate some plant species and not others. Through years of association with humans, these wild plants have been changed so that the crops we eat often hardly resemble their wild progenitors. Arranged into broad themes depicting the history of domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 40 crops. ; 1: Introduction: The Nature of Natural - What does domestication involve?2: Wild Things - Recently domesticated crops and crops that have returned to the wild3: Learning to Live with Exotic Sexual Practices - How plant breeding systems limit domestication4: Storing up Trouble - Plants with storage organs5: The Weird and Wonderful - Herbs, spices and crops with exotic phytochemicals6: Accidents of History - The role of chance events in domestication7: Classic Combinations and Reoccurring Themes - Plant families that have been repeatedly domesticated8: Ownership and Theft - How the economic value of crops has influenced their domestication9: Fifty Shades of Green - Nutrient rich crops and the next generation
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 1998Angela Carter
by Aidan Day
This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the medieval through de Sade to Foucault. ;
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September 2016Erfolgreich denken lernen - Meine Warren-Buffett-Bibel
Die Grundsätze des Starinvestors
by Bloch, Robert L. / Englisch Schmalen, Elisabeth
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June 1986Frau Warrens Beruf
Stück in vier Akten
by George Bernard Shaw, Martin Walser
Frau Warrens Beruf gehört zu den Unerquicklichen Stücken Shaws. Es wurde bereits 1894 geschrieben, jedoch nicht sofort von der Zensur verboten und erst 1903 in einer privaten Aufführung der Stage Society in London zugelassen. Die erste öffentliche Aufführung fand 1905 in New York statt, wo nach einem tumultartigen Premierenabend gleich die Hauptdarsteller verhaftet wurden. Um welche Laster geht es hier? »Die Gründe, aus denen dieses Stück verboten und danach heftig umstritten wurde, kann man als viktorianische oder britische oder bürgerliche Heuchelei mißverstehen. Die Gegner dieses Stücks mögen selber geglaubt haben, sie kämpften gegen ein Stück, in dem die Prostitution verteidigt wird. In Wirklichkeit haben sie gegen ein Stück gekämpft, in dem die Prostitution erklärt wird; erklärt als ein Beruf, in dem die Ausbeutung der Frau deutlich wird. Mögen sie geglaubt haben, Sitte und Anstand gegen dieses Stück in Schutz nehmen zu müssen, sie haben in Wirklichkeit reagiert auf die Darstellung eines Geschäfts«, schrieb Martin Walser anlässlich seiner Neuübersetzung des Stücks.
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January 1995
Nah und doch so fern
Beziehungsangst und ihre Folgen
by Carter, Steven; Sokol, Julia / Englisch Englich, Volker
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January 2006Angriff der Killer-Burger
Wie Fast Food uns krank macht
by Spurlock, Morgan / Übersetzt von Kreissl, Reinhard
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