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        Children's & YA

        The Sparkling Ponies (4). Jana in Search of Happiness

        by Emily Palmer/Josephine Llobet

        Fiona simply doesn’t know what she should do first: Leo, the owner of the farm, is very depressed, and even the funny tricks of Sunny, the sparkling pony, can’t cheer her up. What’s more, the mysterious island on Lake Sparkle is to be sold, and that would be a disaster! There are so many sparkling tasks to be performed that Fiona almost overlooks a vital clue. But fortunately, her sparkling pony Sunny is still there. Just like the black horse Opal and his friend Jana, who together show that with the right amount of sparkling magic, all problems finally disappear…

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2022

        Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts

        by Aeron Davis, Karel Williams

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2024

        Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts

        by Aeron Davis

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        DUNIA LELAKI

        by S. M. ZAKIR, EYQA ZAQUE

        Zahir, Syed and Ake are inhabitants of low-cost flats in a Malaysian city. The three men embodied different ideologies: Zahir is an elder who depicts the conservative society, Syed is a progressive man trapped in the dust of modernity, while Ake is a 90s guy preoccupied with anarchy. They became part of a new community that struggles to survive while adapting to modernity. Unwittingly, these three men are sucked into the vortex of reformation which shaped Malaysia’s modern history. Tales of their daily lives are often ignored and forgotten by history; much like the frothy waves that eventually disappeared after crashing against the shores.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2020

        Fictional television and American politics

        by Jack Holland

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        Picture books, activity books & early learning material

        El espacio entre la hierba

        by María José Ferrada, Andrés López

        This book object, composed of 30 cards, invites the reader to stop in the poetry that surrounds us.

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        December 2023

        Quirky Block Town

        by Pi Zhaohui

        Dr. Bald has a new invention: building tall buildings like building blocks. Later, the tall buildings are moved to the suburbs and turned into the town of Blocks. There are many residents in the town: Pete the Bread Wolf, who runs a bakery; Raggedy Bear, who runs a junk store; Gorilla, the dutiful mayor; Bubble Cat, the pilot; Gray Hedgehog, the toll collector; Woofy Dog, the security guard; and Croaking Frog, the announcer. ...... They all live together, build the Block Town, and put on a wonderful and interesting saga.

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        March 2022

        Franz Anton Mesmer

        Or Exploring the Dark Side of the Moon

        by Thomas Knubben

        Mozart and Hegel, Jean Paul and Edgar Allan Poe: they were all fascinated by Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815). The forester’s son from Lake Constance was regarded as one of the most controversial doctors of his time. Some celebrated him as a miracle healer for his theory of “Animal Magnetism”, while others discredited him as a fraud. Thomas Knubben wonderfully narrates this scintillating life story set in a turbulent time of change. A story of exceptional giftedness and tragedy ... Mesmer left his mark on the epoch: his theory became the original source for concepts in psychoanalysis, hypnosis and psychotherapy.

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        September 2021

        Tolerating Democracy!

        About arguing in a society of indignation

        by Karoline M. Preisler

        Are we all still only moving around in our bubbles, unwilling and unprepared to engage in the positions of "the others"? Will only someone be heard who polarises and defames loudly enough, who ignores facts, denies them, twists them, who even calls for violence? The debate over the corona measures has given a new urgency as we address the question of how democracy can be lived and protected in times of an erosion of the centre and social cohesion. Karoline M. Preisler asks herself these questions and, as a passionate democrat, advocates creating new tools and meeting places for the necessary dialogue on controversial topics such as the limits of freedom, religion, climate crisis, immigration and the family.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        August 2010

        Markets, rules and institutions of exchange

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        by Stan Metcalfe, Mark Harvey, Mark Harvey

        This book is about how to understand the huge variety of markets and market organisation in contemporary economies through a dialogue between a group of UK and French scholars. It presents a critique and development of institutional views of markets, and 'puts markets in their place' in a wider political and social context. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis in markets, the book makes a topical and significant contribution on the importance of the rules and regulations that constitute markets, and their broader political and legal frameworks. Moreover, the disruption of markets brings to the fore their interconnection with the broader economy, with production, distribution and consumption in a way often ignored at the height of market bubbles. Both theoretical and empirical, a wide range of markets are considered, capital markets for new technology and venture capital, for food, domestic services and scientific knowledge. The authors address how markets emerge and disappear, or indeed why they fail to appear, as well has how they become stable and institutionalised. ;

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        Media studies
        June 2014

        Show me the money

        The image of finance, 1700 to the present

        by Edited by Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight and Nicky Marsh

        What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States. It tells the story of how artists have grappled with the increasingly intangible and self-referential nature of money, from the South Sea Bubble to our current crisis. Show me the money sets out the history and politics of representations of finance through five essays by academic experts and curators, and is interspersed with provocative think pieces by notable public commentators on finance and art. The book, and the exhibition on which it is based, explore a wide range of images, from satirical eighteenth-century prints by William Hogarth and James Gillray to works by celebrated contemporary artists such as Andreas Gursky and Molly Crabapple. It also charts the development of an array of financial visualisations, including stock tickers and charts, newspaper illustrations, bank adverts and electronic trading systems.

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        September 1996

        Die menschliche Komödie. Die großen Romane und Erzählungen

        Pierrette. Roman

        by Honoré Balzac, Eberhard Wesemann, Christina Mansfeld

        Balzac erzählt hier die tragische Geschichte des vierzehnjährigen Waisenmädchens Pierrette, das zusammen mit dem Gespielen Jacques Brigaut unter der liebevollen Obhut der Großmutter eine sorglose und glückliche Kindheit verlebt. Das ändert sich, als es unter die Vormundschaft von Verwandten nach Provins in der Champagne gerät, zu einem unverheirateten Geschwisterpaar, deren menschliche Gefühle sich lediglich auf Egoismus und Geiz beschränken. Im immer sauber geputzten Haus dieser kleinbürgerlichen Ungeheuer und Despoten wird aus dem fröhlichen und sonst von allen geliebten Kind ein geducktes Wesen, das man zu Magddiensten mißbraucht und das die schrecklichsten psychischen und physischen Mißhandlungen zu ertragen hat, bis es am Ende zu Tode gepeinigt wird. Der Mißhandlungsfall löst schließlich noch einen politischen Intrigenkampf um die Machtposition des Provinzstädtchens aus. Richard Wagner hob die unvergleichliche Kunst Balzacs hervor, sich bei Pierrette so in das Detail eines anscheinend unbedeutenden Wesens zu versetzen und aus ihm heraus die Natur allen Menschenschicksals zu deuten.

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