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        December 2011

        Occupy!

        Die ersten Wochen in New York. Eine Dokumentation

        by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, Christopher Glazek, Mark Greif, Sarah Leonard, Kathleen Ross, Nikil Saval, Eli Schmitt, Astra Taylor

        Nach Tunis, Kairo, Madrid, Tottenham und Athen hat die globale Welle der Empörung nun auch das Auge des Sturms erreicht, die Wall Street in New York. Die Aktivisten, die am 17. September 2011 den Zuccotti Park im Financial District besetzten, kämpfen unter dem Motto »We are the 99 percent« für soziale Gerechtigkeit, die strikte Trennung von Wirtschaft und Politik und entwerfen Modelle für eine humanere Gesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Unmittelbar nach dem Beginn der Proteste haben sich junge Publizisten und Aktivisten zusammengetan, um die Entwicklungen vor Ort zu dokumentieren. Neben atmosphärisch dichten Reportagen enthält dieser Band Essays über die Hintergründe und Aussichten der Bewegung, darunter Texte von Judith Butler, Joseph E. Stiglitz und Slavoj Žižek.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        December 2020

        Women before the court

        Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800

        by Lindsay R. Moore

        Women before the court offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2018

        Something before and after Translation

        by Cao Naiyun

        The author of this bokk is a translater while the book Something before and after Translation comes from the author's notes dealing with the comprehension of the original works, the interesting things which take place in the work of translation and the comments on both original and translated works. It is a good reader and coference for middle school students, university students, teachers and researchers on the subjects of European and American culture and literature. This book can also make a firm foundtion and good preparation in life and knowledge about the western countries for the travellers, students and traders.

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        August 2010

        Berühmte Frauen. Kalender 2011

        by Luise F. Pusch

        Berühmte Frauen ist der Klassiker unter den Taschenkalendern. Der Kalender Berühmte Frauen 2011 erinnert an große Frauen der Geschichte und an Zeitgenossinnen: Agnes von Böhmen, Louise Bourgeois, Julie Christie, Melissa Etheridge, Ulrike Folkerts, Heike Makatsch, Anna Netrebko, Ginger Rogers, Arundhati Roy und andere. Monat für Monat werden bemerkenswerte Frauen vorgestellt, eine ausführliche Literaturliste lädt zum Weiterschmökern ein.

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        August 2010

        Hermann Hesse Insel-Kalender für das Jahr 2011

        by Hermann Hesse

        Ein literarischer Begleiter durch das Jahr mit Texten und Aquarellen von Hermann Hesse. Der Insel-Kalender für das Jahr 2011 versammelt wie jedes Jahr Gedanken, Geschichten und Gedichte Hesses über das Leben und den Wechsel der Jahreszeiten. Mit einem Kalendarium, das Raum bietet für eigene Notizen und neben Geburtstagen wichtiger Autorinnen und Autoren auch die Mondphasen verzeichnet. Im Anhang finden sich ein Übersichtskalender der Jahre 2011 und 2012, eine Tabelle der Schulferien sowie ein Adreß- und ein Telefonverzeichnis. In eleganter Ausstattung, flexibel gebunden und mit einem Lesebändchen.

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        Children's & YA

        The Night Before Chinese New Year

        by Qi Zhi

        This is a heart-warming story about a group of childhood friends. The winter vacation comes. Trickle, a primary school student, has much fun with his classmates – he has no alternative in that his family left him for breadwinning in other cities. Much happy as they are, these children miss their parents very much. For Trickle, the day before New Year is when he finally gets to be reunited with his beloved father.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2013

        Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race

        The Irish and the English in the seventeenth century

        by Ian Campbell

        The modern ideology of race, so important in twentieth-century Europe, incorporates both a theory of human societies and a theory of human bodies. Ian Campbell's new study examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism. Emphasising the education of all of early modern Ireland's antagonistic ethnic groups in common European university and grammar school traditions, Campbell explains both the workings of the learned English critique of Irish society, and the no less learned Irish response. Then he turns to Irish debates on nobility, medicine and theology in order to illuminate the problem of human heredity. He concludes by demonstrating how the Enlightenment swept away these humanist theories of body and society, prior to the development of modern racial ideology in the late eighteenth century. ;

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        Business, Economics & Law
        May 2019

        Women before the court

        by Lindsay R. Moore, Pamela Sharpe

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        December 2018

        Preparation and care before pregnancy

        by Shi Honghui

        This book carefully designs the pre pregnancy preparation plan, analyzes and solves the related problems, guides the pre pregnancy daily life and daily life, psychological preparation, physical care, nutritional diet and other aspects, makes full preparation for pregnancy, and helps the pregnant women to understand the focus issues such as pre pregnancy examination, disease treatment that hinders pregnancy, the care of infertile families and the means of assisted reproduction.

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        October 2010

        "Küsse, Bisse" Insel-Almanach auf das Jahr 2011: Heinrich von Kleist

        by Jens Bisky

        Heinrich von Kleist, der schon früh gelernt hatte, „Bisse“ auf „Küsse“ zu reimen, war ein Fachmann für extreme Emotionen. Intensive Empfindungen, das Aufbrausen wie das rasche Verebben, die starke Seelenbewegungen begleiten, kannte er aus eigenem Erleben. Und er hat dieses Auf und Ab, dieses Schwanken von einem Extrem ins andere kaum einem seiner Helden erspart. Indem er den Mittelweg ablehnte, sich selbst und seine Figuren zur Konsequenz zwang, stand er gegen die lebenskluge, aufgeklärte Moral seiner Zeit. Ihr setzte er seine Kunst der Extreme entgegen. Der Almanach zum Kleist-Jahr 2011 lädt ein, den unglücklichen Dichter als Virtuosen der großen Gefühle zu entdecken. Porträtiert werden der Liebhaber Kleist, der Freund, der Propagandist des Hasses und der Ruhmbegierige. In der Inszenierung des Doppelselbstmords am Wannsee kommen sie alle zusammen, vereinen sich Liebe, Vertrauen, Entsetzen und Ehrgeiz. „Der Mensch“, heißt es im Käthchen von Heilbronn, "wirft alles, was er sein nennt, in eine Pfütze, aber kein Gefühl.“

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        June 2013

        Nach Marx

        Philosophie, Kritik, Praxis

        by Rahel Jaeggi, Daniel Loick

        Indem die kapitalistische Produktionsweise in den letzten Jahren ihre Selbstverständlichkeit eingebüßt hat, sind auch der rein individualistische Freiheitsbegriff und mit ihm das gesamte normative Gerüst des Liberalismus in die Krise geraten. Die Gesellschaftskritik von Karl Marx stellt nach wie vor attraktive Alternativen bereit. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erörtern systematisch Aktualität, Relevanz und Grenzen der Marx’schen Philosophie. Sie untersuchen Marx’ Bedeutung für den philosophischen Zusammenhang von Freiheit und Gemeinschaft und diskutieren politische Konsequenzen hinsichtlich der rechtlichen, ideologischen und ökonomischen Analyse und Kritik der Gegenwart.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2024

        Home front heroism

        Civilians and conflict in Second World War London

        by Ellena Matthews

        Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how heroism was manufactured as civilians adopted roles in production, protection and defence, through the use of uniforms and medals, and through the way that civilians were injured and killed. This book makes a novel contribution to the study of heroism by exploring the spatial, material, corporeal and ritualistic dimensions of heroic representations. By tracing the different ways that Home Front heroism was cultivated on a national, local and personal level, this study promotes new ways of thinking about the meaning and value of heroism during periods of conflict. It will appeal to anyone interested in the social and cultural history of Second World War as well as the sociology and psychology of heroism.

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        Social & cultural history
        January 2014

        Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race

        by Ian Campbell

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2024

        White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages

        by Wan-Chuan Kao

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        Poetry (Children's/YA)
        2015

        Antes no había nada, después comencé a imaginar mi propio jardín (There was nothing before. Then I began to imagine my own garden)

        by Chiara Carrer

        Collection of beloved things, of techniques, and various artistic instruments ( from naturalist and abstract illustration) with which Carrer brings various plants and trees to life. An open garden to every reader curious about shapes and colors, those who like to ponder, who want to know more about the.

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        Children's & YA

        Todo lo que pasó antes de que llegaras (Everything that happened before you arrived)

        by Yael Frankel

        A boy tells his little brother-on-the-way of all he hopes for when the baby comes and everything that has transpired leading up to the birth. A book that—from the funny, ingenuous and Frank point of view of the impatient little narrator—delves deeply into questions of time, change and family relationships.

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