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Film theory & criticism

February 2014

The Encyclopedia of British Film

Fourth edition

by Edited by Brian McFarlane

With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with detailed listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2010

The European Union, counter terrorism and police co–operation, 1991–2007

Unsteady foundations?

by David Brown

This volume examines the underlying foundations on which the European Union's counter-terrorism and police co-operation policies have been built since the inception of the Treaty on European Union, questioning both the effectiveness and legitimacy of the EU's efforts in these two critically important security areas. Given the importance of such developments to the wider credibility of the EU as a security actor, this volume adopts a more structured analysis of key stages of the implementation process. These include the establishment of objectives, both at the wider level of internal security co-operation and in terms of both counter-terrorism and policing, particularly in relation to the European Police Office, the nature of information exchange and the 'value added' by legislative and operational developments at the European level. It also offers a more accurate appraisal of the official characterisation of the terrorist threat within the EU as a 'matter of common concern'. In doing so, not only does it raise important questions about the utility of the European level for organising internal security co-operation, but it also provides a more comprehensive assessment of the EU's activities throughout the lifetime of the Third Pillar, placing in a wider and more realistic context the EU's reaction to the events of 11 September 2001 and the greater prominence of Islamist terrorism. ;

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Business, Economics & Law

September 2016

Mainstreaming co-operation

by Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh

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2021

General Pharmacy

A textbook for pharmacy interns, continuing professional development and pharmacy practice

by Patrick Schäfer (ed.)

Guide for pharmacy interns First-hand knowledge makes preparation for the 3rd State Examination easier. Each chapter ends with tips for pharmacy interns and – if appropriate – links to the worksheets of the BAK (Federal Chamber of Pharmacists) guidelines for practical training. Requirement for continuing professional development In-depth content supports those undertaking CPD in the area of general pharmacy. Each chapter contains additional proposals, such as participation in suitable seminars organised by the Chambers of Pharmacists, topics for the practical tasks or the project work. All-round talent for routine pharmacy practice Case examples link theoretical knowledge with actual patient counselling situations. Tips for practice, drug profiles and various boxes promote rapid and easy reference. New: The 2nd edition expands the proven, practical concept by chapters such as vaccination, hyperlipidaemia or dealing with adverse drug reactions.

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March 2024

Today Is a Good Day to Abolish the Patriarchy

by Bettina Schulte (ed.)

Do we still need feminism in Europe? Equality or difference feminism? A new generation of feminists has now broken away from the feminism of the 1960s. The old white Cis man has been discredited, by the "#MeToo" movement at the latest. Sexualised violence against women has been outlawed, perpetrators taken to court. So everything’s good? No, of course not. Men still dominate public discourse; men are unchallenged in leadership positions in politics, society and business; male power still prevails in the domestic environment as well. The extent to which men fight back when they feel threatened by feminism is also evident in the revival of authoritarian nationalist politicians in Europe and around the world. The seven authors shed light on feminist struggles in different areas of life, and illustrate the range of feminism today.

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September 2022

The Great Deception

How we put our future at risk and sleep through the necessary transformation

by Deutsche Umweltstiftung (ed.)

More and more companies are becoming sustainable. More and more products are being produced sustainably. But things that are called climate-neutral or sustainable today often are not. Then there are the catchy phrases like 'electric mobility belongs to the future' or 'there's enough food on the planet for everyone'. These statements are not true, and are referred to in science as 'frames'. This book provides a guide that enables us to free ourselves from these ecological frames, to see through them. Because only a policy that understands the connections is able to develop perspectives. Numerous experts uncover the biggest lies about the future in this book, refute them and explain what we need to change. Because we can lie to ourselves, but we cannot lie to nature.

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February 2023

We're Staying!

Why women won't be driven out of the Catholic Church

by Elisabeth Zoll (ed.)

— The book beyond the synodal path — Leaving is not an option for the authors of this book — 17 credible examples of consistency and daring Can the Catholic Church still be saved? There have been huge numbers of resignations; the reasons for them are well known. And yet! Committed Catholics from the worlds of politics, business, culture and society oppose this. They share how, despite their disappointments, even their anger, they are still able to find their way in the Church, walking tall and with inner freedom. These are encouraging examples of decidedly critical women who assert themselves – and who are not going anywhere: "Now, more than ever before, we need women – and men – who are prepared to confess their faith with confidence." Not out of nostalgia or any diffuse incense feelings, but out of conviction, because their faith means a lot to them.

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September 2022

Identity or Not?

by Jean-Pierre Wils (ed.)

Questions of identity trigger controversial and highly emotional discussions in the political and social debate. The positions range from radically emancipatory perspectives to authoritarian and restorative efforts on the far right wing of politics. Liberal democracies are now opening up – slowly – as identity- and gender-sensitive forums. Opposite them are the 'new ethics' of illiberal democracies and totalitarian states that are aimed at ethnic homogeneity and gender uniformity. But that's not to say that there is unity in the liberal settings on the necessary degree of identity politics. Both language and gender politics are deeply controversial. Do we need an 'identity' and, if so, which one or how many? Can the identity debate be extended by means of other concepts?

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2021

Nutritional Practice Elderly People

Concise advisory knowledge

by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich (ed.)

The physiology and living conditions of people change as they grow old, whereas it is often more difficult to adapt eating habits to the new requirements. Psychological aspects come to the fore. The challenge for giving specific nutritional advice is therefore particularly great. This volume in the book series Nutritional Practice provides all the information needed for the competent care of elderly people. It deals with general aspects of nutrition in old age, as well as specific nutritional situations such as poor diet, dehydration, chewing and swallowing problems, dementia, mobility, oral and food hygiene or nutrition at the end of life. A further section is concerned with communal catering.

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Biography & True Stories

Wenn es aufklart

Werkausgabe Band 3. Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe

by Boris Pasternak / Christine Fischer (ed.)

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2022

How Blair killed the co-ops

by Leslie Huckfield

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SACRED CIRCLES

Sacred spaces for med-itation, Yoga, tai chi, drumming and healing with crystals

by Karen L. Redmond

Sacred Circles teaches you how to create sacred space using crystal energy for spir-itual healing and awakening. It draws upon the layout and philosophy of the Native American medicine wheel, which is a sacred circle that symbolizes unity throughout all of creation.Circles are formed using carefully select-ed stones and crystals to create specific synergy. Readers learn to create their own sacred circles or use circles predesigned to bring about spiritual enlightenment, spiritual healing, or success and abun-dance in life.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2014

A strained partnership?

US–UK relations in the era of détente, 1969–77

by Thomas Robb

This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath's government to follow a more amenable course throughout the 'Year of Europe' and to convince Harold Wilson's governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts. Such diplomacy proved effective against Heath but rather less so against Wilson. It is argued that relations between the two sides were often strained, indeed, to the extent that the most 'special' elements of the relationship, that of intelligence and nuclear co-operation, were suspended. Yet, the relationship also witnessed considerable co-operation. This book offers new perspectives on US and UK policy towards British membership of the European Economic Community; demonstrates how US détente policies created strain in the 'special relationship'; reveals the temporary shutdown of US-UK intelligence and nuclear co-operation; provides new insights in US-UK defence co-operation, and re-evaluates the US-UK relationship throughout the IMF Crisis. ;

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Tourism industry

May 2011

Tourist Destination Governance

Practice, Theory and Issues

by Edited by Eric Laws, Harold Richins, Jerome F Agrusa, Noel Scott.

Managing and co-ordinating tourism in a destination requires the organisation and co-operation of a large number of sectors, businesses, local authorities and individuals. Since tourism is an important driver in many economies destination governance in tourist destinations needs to be done well, to achieve economic aims and maintain sufficient infrastructure. This book provides a guide to the theoretical and methodological understanding of how to implement best practice governance procedures, with case studies illustrating good performance.

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Aquaculture & fish-farming: practice & techniques

December 2005

Fishery Co-Management

A Practical Handbook

by Robert S Pomeroy, Rebecca Rivera-Guieb

During the last decade, there has been a shift in the governance and management of fisheries to a broader approach that recognizes the participation of fishers, local stewardship, and shared decision-making. Through this process, fishers are empowered to become active members of the management team, balancing rights and responsibilities, and working in partnership with government. This approach is called co-management. This handbook describes the process of community-based co-management from its beginning, through implementation, to turnover to the community. It provides ideas, methods, techniques, activities, checklists, examples, questions and indicators for the planning and implementing of a process of community-based co-management. It focuses on small-scale fisheries (freshwater, floodplain, estuarine, or marine) in developing countries, but is also relevant to small-scale fisheries in developed countries and to the management of other coastal resources (such as coral reefs, mangroves, sea grass, and wetlands). This handbook will be of significant interest to resource managers, practitioners, academics and students of small-scale fisheries.

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July 2021

My Life with Viruses

A researcher’s history of the fascinating world of pathogens

by Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker in association with Jeanne Rubner

In times of the coronavirus pandemic many people have certainly condemned them, but Professor Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker has dedicated his life to researching them and is intrigued by viruses – even if sometimes he is keenly aware of their fatal effects. To mark his 80th birthday the biochemist describes the co-evolution and co-existence as well as the eternal ‘battle’ between humans and viruses. Winnacker takes up the cause of these ‘biological elements between animate and inanimate nature’ because they play an important role in fundamental research and genetic technology, and without them human beings would not be what they are.

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Historiography

July 1992

The Historian's craft

by Marc Bloch

This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school. ;

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The Arts

November 2009

René Magritte

Beyond painting

by Patricia Allmer

René Magritte: Beyond painting offers a rethinking of Magritte's art from a position informed by contemporary developments in art theory. The book employs a wide range of literary and philosophical/cultural theoretical frameworks to analyse Magritte's art. It offers close readings of specific images, paying attention to neglected aspects of Magritte's work, discussing the significance of cabinets of curiosities and encyclopaedias, trompe l'oeil, framing and forgeries. It addresses a range of intertextual relations between Magritte's work and that of other Surrealist artists and the art-historical tradition. This book explores how Magritte's art challenges conventional notions of originality, canonicity and coherence, revealing his work as being shaped by co-operations and co-options. It demonstrates that uncertainty, incoherence and negation lie at the core of Magritte's oeuvre. ;

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Political oppression & persecution

July 2014

Co-memory and melancholia

Israelis memorialising the Palestinian Nakba

by Ronit Lentin

The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their 'War of Independence' and the Palestinians their 'Nakba', or catastrophe. After many years of Nakba denial, land appropriation, political discrimination against the Palestinians within Israel and the denial of rights to Palestinian refugees, in recent years the Nakba is beginning to penetrate Israeli public discourse. This book, available at last in paperback, explores the construction of collective memory in Israeli society, where the memory of the trauma of the Holocaust and of Israel's war dead competes with the memory claims of the dispossessed Palestinians. Against a background of the Israeli resistance movement, Lentin's central argument is that co-memorating the Nakba by Israeli Jews is motivated by an unresolved melancholia about the disappearance of Palestine and the dispossession of the Palestinians, a melancholia that shifts mourning from the lost object to the grieving subject. Lentin theorises Nakba co-memory as a politics of resistance, counterpoising co-memorative practices by internally displaced Israeli Palestinians with Israeli Jewish discourses of the Palestinian right of return, and questions whether return narratives by Israeli Jews, courageous as they may seem, are ultimately about Israeli Jewish self-healing rather than justice for Palestine.

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Business, Economics & Law

June 2020

Civilising rural Ireland

by Patrick Doyle

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Fourth edition

by Edited by Brian McFarlane

Unsteady foundations?

by David Brown

by Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh

A textbook for pharmacy interns, continuing professional development and pharmacy practice

by Patrick Schäfer (ed.)

by Bettina Schulte (ed.)

How we put our future at risk and sleep through the necessary transformation

by Deutsche Umweltstiftung (ed.)

Why women won't be driven out of the Catholic Church

by Elisabeth Zoll (ed.)

by Jean-Pierre Wils (ed.)

Concise advisory knowledge

by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich (ed.)

Werkausgabe Band 3. Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe

by Boris Pasternak / Christine Fischer (ed.)

by Leslie Huckfield

Sacred spaces for med-itation, Yoga, tai chi, drumming and healing with crystals

by Karen L. Redmond

US–UK relations in the era of détente, 1969–77

by Thomas Robb

Practice, Theory and Issues

by Edited by Eric Laws, Harold Richins, Jerome F Agrusa, Noel Scott.

A Practical Handbook

by Robert S Pomeroy, Rebecca Rivera-Guieb

A researcher’s history of the fascinating world of pathogens

by Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker in association with Jeanne Rubner

by Marc Bloch

Beyond painting

by Patricia Allmer

Israelis memorialising the Palestinian Nakba

by Ronit Lentin

by Patrick Doyle

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