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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2020

        Jews on trial

        The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598–1638

        by Joseph Bergin, Katherine Aron-Beller, Penny Roberts, William G. Naphy

        Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's history: the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews' enclosure in the ghetto. Scholars have in the past tended to group trials of Jews and conversos in Italy together. This book emphasises the fundamental disparity in Inquisitorial procedure, as well as the evidence examined, and argues that this was especially true in Modena where the secular authority did not have the power during the period in question to reject, or even significantly monitor, Inquisitorial trial procedure. It draws upon the detailed testimony to be found in trial transcripts to analyse Jewish interaction with Christian society in an early modern community. This book will appeal to scholars of inquisitorial studies, social and cultural interaction in early modern Europe, Jewish Italian social history and anti-Semitism.

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        January 2020

        The Hunt for Life on Mars

        by Joseph A. Angelo, Jr.

        This eBook summarizes the major space exploration efforts to find life on Mars. Emphasis is placed on current and near-future NASA robot spacecraft missions, which respond to the central scientific theme of "Follow the water." Students will learn about the importance of water as an indicator of extraterrestrial life, giving rise to the compelling scientific argument that microscopic life could have emerged on the Red Planet.

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        2020

        Chemistry I: Examination Questions

        Original annotated questions through autumn 2017. General and inorganic chemistry for pharmacists

        by Prof. Dr. Eberhard Ehlers

        This catalogue of examination question is the ideal companion to the Short Textbook on Chemistry I. Together, both volumes help you prepare effectively for semester finals and for the first section of the German pharmaceutical licensing examination. ■ 1788 original IMPP questions from the years 1979–2017 ■ With annotated solutions ■ Covers Pharmacy I, or arranged by examination ■ Comments use the same chapter numbering as the Short Textbook on Chemistry I ■ Highlighting marks questions which have appeared more than once in the same wording.   Ace your exams with Ehlers!

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        November 2013

        The Imperial Examination Pictorial(The color graphic version)

        by Yang Xue Wei Qiao Li Juan Li Bing

        Imperial examination system, as a main examination system, had exerted its great influence home and abroad. A large number of pictures and documents, such as documentary archives, exam halls, exam papers, exam tools, exam artifacts, exam wood carvings and exam preparations etc, about the changes of Chinese ancient imperial examination over the history are collected in this book and arranged into different categories according to their features. In addition, the simple text introductions to these materials are available. The book presents the development history of several thousands years and system construction of imperial examination, and also its profound influence on Chinese ancient societies to the readers.

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        The Arts
        October 2018

        Study on Survival of Chinese Classical Opera

        by Wang Fuya

        The book mainly explores Chinese classical opera in terms of the existence, cutural essence and functions, artistic features, and the position in Chinese traditional culture. The author conducts study based on theories of popular culture and folk culture, historical resources of Chinese classical opera, along with various survival tactics for opera like opera adptation and opera prohibition.

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        The Arts
        June 2016

        The British monarchy on screen

        by Mandy Merck

        Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. And from 1896, actual British monarchs appeared in the new 'animated photography', led by Queen Victoria. Half a century later the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century's end, Princess Diana's funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. In the first book length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyze the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to 'William and Kate'. Seventeen essays by Ian Christie, Elisabeth Bronfen, Andrew Higson, Karen Lury, Glynn Davies, Jane Landman and other international commentators examine the portrayal of royalty in the 'actuality' picture, the early extended feature, amateur cinema, the movie melodrama, the Commonwealth documentary, New Queer Cinema, TV current affairs, the big screen ceremonial and the post-historical boxed set. A long overdue contribution to film and television studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of British media and political history.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2013

        Contemporary history on trial

        Europe since 1989 and the role of the expert historian

        by Harriet Jones, Kjell Ostberg, Nico Randeraad

        Is it right for historians to serve as 'expert witnesses' to past events? Since the end of the Cold War, a series of heated and politicised debates across Europe have questioned the 'truth' about painful episodes in the twentieth century. From the Holocaust to Srebrenica, inquiries and fact-finding commissions have become a common device employed by governments to deal with the pressure of public opinion. State-sponsored programmes of education and research attempt to encourage a common moral understanding of the lessons we learn from these painful memories. Contemporary historians have increasingly been drawn into these efforts since 1989 - in the courtroom, in the media, on commissions, as advisers. In a series of thoughtful essays, written by leading historians from across Europe, this volume considers the ethics and responsibilities that this new role entails. For anyone concerned with the role of the historian in contemporary society and how we arrive at a public understanding of history, this book is essential reading. ;

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        Mind, Body, Spirit

        Science, Being, & Becoming

        The Spiritual Lives of Scientists

        by Paul J. Mills, Ph.D.

        Spirituality is the Final Frontier for ScienceContrary to popular belief, not all scientists are materialists fervently discounting the spiritual. Science, Being, & Becoming is about the spiritual lives of scientists, their actual transpersonal, metaphysical and mystical experiences. The book's material is derived from intimate interviews with over 30 scientists as they describe the circumstances under which they had the experiences and how those experiences changed their consciousness, transformed their belief systems about the nature of the world, and changed their scientific work.

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        Literature: history & criticism
        July 2013

        Beckett on Screen

        by Jonathan Bignell

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2022

        Men on trial

        by Katie Barclay, Lynn Abrams

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        Business, Economics & Law
        May 2022

        Madness on trial

        by James Moran, Keir Waddington

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        October 2008

        Hellas on Screen

        Cinematic Receptions of Ancient History, Literature and Myth

        by Herausgegeben von Berti, Irene; Herausgegeben von García Morcillo, Marta

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Study on Literary Anthropology in Shen Congwen's Works

        by He Xiaoping

        This book takes the homogeneous, isomorphic, and mutual relationship of Shen Congwen's aesthetic thoughts, artistic thoughts and cultural anthropological thoughts as the starting point, and then explores the anthropological characteristics of Shen Congwen's works from the perspective of anthropological ontology, methodology and axiology. The following analyses focusing on the expression form, ideological root, and value and significance to literary creation and cultural construction are an extended study of Shen Congwen's cultural thought, aesthetic thought, artistic creation thought and value.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2018

        Race and the Yugoslav region

        Postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?

        by Catherine Baker, Gurminder Bhambra

        This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of 'race in translation' and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. In doing this, it considers the everyday geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity, nationhood and migration; transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement; and post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the present refugee crisis.

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