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A Walk through History
A Walk Through History is a Russian publishing house specializing in children’s nonfiction. Since 2011 it has created and designed about 50 titles on various periods of history and other subjects such as mathematics, sport, plants and animals.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2015A History of Western Historical Thought
by Pei YU
This book is an intellectual history of Western theory, it focuses on describing the thoughts development and process in different historical periods. It is guided by historical materialism to reveal the evolution of the western theories, and illuminates development of west history thoughts. To some extent, this book reflects Chinese history researchers’ recent development on western historic thoughts research.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022Edmund Spenser and the romance of space
by Tamsin Badcoe
Edmund Spenser and the romance of space advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations. The book looks to the work of cultural and historical geographers in order to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in the development of geographical knowledge: contexts ultimately employed by the study to achieve a better understanding of the place of Ireland in Spenser's writing. The study also engages with recent ecocritical approaches to literary environments, such as coastlines, wetlands, and islands, thus framing fresh readings of Spenser's handling of mixed genres.
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November 2019Find me in the Storm
by Kira Mohn
Not a single soul as far as the eye can see. Just sea, cliffs and the beach. And a lighthouse. It’s a wondrously beautiful place – not that Airin has a chance to enjoy it. The lighthouse has been converted into a cosy living space available for rent, and 24-year-old Airin has to look after the property while at the same time running her own bed and breakfast in Castledunn. It’s a lot of work for one person, but normally everything runs smoothly. Until Joshua, the nephew of the lighthouse owner, moves in. Arrogant and priggish, he complains ceaselessly about everything. Airin feels like strangling him. Or kissing him. Who cares, just as long as he stops talking! 16+ years The third volume of a unique romance trilogy about three young women, a lighthouse and love. All titles can be read separately! Rousing characters and a fine dry humor For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Colleen Hoover! More than 60.000 copies of this series were sold!
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September 2019Save me from the Night
by Kira Mohn
After a terrible blow of fate throws her life into confusion, Seanna needs desperately to get away from it all. She’s come to the village of Castledunn in the hope of getting her life back in order. The wild countryside of Ireland’s west coast and the slow pace of rural life give her new energy. Her job behind the bar in the village’s only pub provides a comforting sense of routine. Then the pub changes hands, bought by the attractive, but stubborn Neall Kennan, who throws Seanna’s feelings into turmoil. Not only is she attracted to him, she’s also reminded of her own past. It’s more than Seanna can bear. 16+ years The second volume of a unique romance trilogy about three young women, a lighthouse and love. All titles can be read separately! Rousing characters and a fine dry humor For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Colleen Hoover! More than 60.000 copies of this series were sold!
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July 2019Show me the Stars
by Kira Mohn
Take Some Time Out! The headline grabs Liv’s attention as she browses, depressed, through the job ads. Although she’s only 22 and just starting out in journalism, a recent disastrous interview cost her a new job. The ad sounds like a dream come true: someone needs a house-sitter to mind a lighthouse on the Irish coast for six months! Taking time out is exactly what Liv needs to clear her head and recharge her batteries. She sends off her application and a few weeks later finds herself standing in front of her new home. Next to a good-looking Irishman who makes her heart beat faster. She doesn’t know it yet, but he’ll break her heart, too… 16+ years The beginning of a unique romance trilogy about three young women, a lighthouse and love. All titles can be read separately. Rousing characters and a fine dry humor For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Colleen Hoover! More than 60.000 copies of this series were sold!
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2023Pasts at play
Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914
by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling
This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2018European Erotic Romance
by Victor Skretkowicz, J. B. Lethbridge
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2017Liang Comments Historical Figures of China
by Liang Heng
This book selects 32 pieces of prose written by Liang Heng from 1996 to 2011, and the main content is the comment and reflection on historical figures including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Zhang Wentian, Qu Qiubai, Fang Zhimin, Deng Xiaoping, Zhuge Liang, Tao Yuanming, Han Yu, Fan Zhongyan, Wen Tianxiang, Liu Yong, Li Qingzhao , Lin Zexu, Wang Luobin, Ji Xianlin, Zhao Puchu, Wu Wenji and other celebrities.
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FictionJanuary 2009Library of Chinese Classics :The Romance of West Chamber
by Wang Shifu
The "West Chamber" of Wang Shih-fu in the Yuan Dynasty was a masterpiece of Chinese classical opera and a masterpiece of Chinese literature. The theme of the drama is the love story of the young scholar Zhang Huan and the late Ying-Ying, the daughter of the 19-year-old Cui Xianguo. The whole play is divided into five (screen) twenty (field). The first Zhang Ying and Ying Ying in the temple at first sight. The second to write Zaibing siege filled homes, Zhangsheng rescue, Mrs. Cui allow her daughter Yingying with Zhangsheng wife, then eat their own words. The third one to write a pair of lover Acacia sponge. The fourth the first Valentine's tryst Valentine's Day; the second letter of Mrs. Choi to Changsheng Beijing exam, the high school after the wedding; the third Valentine's leave, Zhang went to Beijing to attend the meeting; the fourth fold of the lover dream phase Will be done. The fifth to write a couple reunion. In short, "The Romance of the West Chamber" wrote the contradiction between love and family honor. The result was that Zhang Sheng would try high school, winning the honor and winning the love.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2023
Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
Emotions, ethics, dreams
by Megan Leitch
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.
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July 2016The Last Love
by Can Xue
This novel by Can Xue presents a whole range of characters with strong personality, such as Joe, Maria, Vincent, Lisa, Reagan and Ida. They are full of vitality and are accordingly unsatisfied with their present status. They actively explore unknown field of life and firmly embark on the journey of spiritual exploration. The novel focuses the complicated and intertwining relationship between husbands, wives and lovers to uncover the hidden inner desire of each character. Boiling wild nature and advanced civilization collide with each other before they finally become one unity. For the readers, entering the world of these characters is like entering their own inner world.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2024Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
by Carolyne Larrington
Over the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature - in particular secular literature - as evidence-source and object of emotion study. Secular literature, whether fable, novel, fantasy or romance, has been understood as prone to exaggeration, hyperbole, and thus as an unreliable indicator of the emotions of the past. The aim of this book is to decentre history of emotion research and asks new questions, ones that can be answered by literary scholars, using literary texts as sources: how do literary texts understand and depict emotion and, crucially, how do they generate emotion in their audiences - those who read them or hear them read or performed?
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Historical fiction2021Roksolana. Union with the Jagiellonians: a historical novel: book. 1
by Oleksandra Shutko
The novel covers the events in the life of the Ukrainian Roksolana (Hürrem Sultan) - the wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, which took place in 1540-1551, when she was at the zenith of glory and power. This woman had a significant influence on the policy of the Ottoman Empire. She mediated the Sultan's man to establish good neighborly relations with the Polish Jagiellonian dynasty, Queen Isabella of Hungary, her mother Bona Sforza, and her brother, King Sigismund II of Poland. The novel is based on Roksolana's love and diplomatic correspondence, archival documents, reports of European ambassadors in Istanbul, Ottoman chroniclers, and information from thorough investigations by Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, German, Italian, and American historians. In the novel, not only the events and characters are real, but even their dialogues, which history has preserved to this day.
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AdventureApril 2024I love you…
by Julien Tănase
The book "I Love You..." is part of the trilogy..., "I love you, till death..." and "I love you, as long as my heart beats”, autobiographical love novels which include chapters from life in a couple of the writer Julien Tănase and his wife, Magdi, with whom he has been in a relationship for 30 years, all against the background of the events that Romania has gone through in recent decades, after the Revolution of '89. A trilogy about the endurance over time of a young couple in love, who have gone through events that are out of touch with reality in Romania where sleeping with a gun under the pillow, the fear of having their child kidnapped, and even the "wars" waged against the corruption of magistrates, politicians and the information systems of a civil society gripped by the widespread corruption in Romania, including the lawsuit invented by the DNA (National Anticorruption Directorate) to stop his work as a journalist and finally won by the writer, makes the autobiography of writer Julien Tănase a fascinating one that leaves you with a bitter taste in your mouth and a big question mark; ... "such things have happened and continue to happen in Romania"?... The writer Julien Tănase: "A friend in the Italian Police told me, and I quote him: "... if you had done in Italy what you did for your country, today a street would bear your name! But you had been dead!"
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Science & MathematicsSeptember 2020Butterfly Biology Systems
Connections and Interactions in Life History and Behaviour
by Roger L H Dennis, Ali Thompson
Butterflies, among key animals for assessing environmental changes have consequently also become prominent model organisms for the study of trade-offs in life history and behavioural traits. Examples include factors affecting the size of egg batches, fast or slow larval growth, waiting or searching for mates, migrating or staying put in the habitat, roosting alone or together in aggregations, and the development of different defence mechanisms. The book focusses on the factors and trade-offs leading to the development and evolution of distinct traits emerging in the life cycle of butterflies within their habitats. In this book the reader is taken systematically through research findings in each life history stage, on the links identified between different aspects of butterfly biology that have been discovered, and introduced to novel ideas emerging from taking an integrative view of butterfly life history and behaviour. The book is divided into four sections: A: Language and concepts of system's theory, B: Perspectives on butterfly biology, C: Butterfly life history - basic trade-offs in reproduction, development and survival, and D: Butterfly behaviour - interactive adjustments in the habitat. The first section deals with the study of relationships in biological systems. The second is an introduction to key aspects of butterfly biology, such as broad issues in taxonomy, the fossil record, variation in space-time, habitat and niche, and the butterfly body frame. The last two longer sections deal directly with the key puzzles in life history and behaviour. The book has been composed primarily for students and researchers in butterfly biology, but it should be of interest to all those who enjoy observing butterflies. For the researcher into butterfly biology it is supported by an extensive glossary and bibliography and, to encourage incentives for ideas, it is liberally illustrated with diagrams for exploring in greater depth the relationships in butterfly biology.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2019Historical Essays. Volume 2
by Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytskyi
The second volume of "Historical Essays" includes works on the history of modern Ukraine. They analyze the legacy of the most influential trends in Ukrainian political thought of the 20th century: conservative, national-communist, nationalist, and liberal. Key issues of the historiography of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921, the role of historical myths in Russian-Ukrainian relations during the USSR, discussions among the Ukrainian diaspora after the Second World War, and the evolution of the political consciousness of dissidents in post-Soviet Ukraine are highlighted.
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The ArtsMarch 2017Make up of Ancient Chinese Ladies
by Li Ya
With large number of pictures, this book introduces the development of makeups from Shang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty of ancient China. The book is divided into three parts: cosmetics, hairdressing, and body fragrance. Apart from the list of ancient makeups, this book also provides interesting historical stories, and even gradients of makeups for DIY.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019The eye of history
how we read history today
by Yu Pei
his book takes historiography as the research object, and takes Marxist historical materialism as its main content. It elaborates on the basic theories of historical science, Marxist historical materialism, and the basic laws and motives of historical development. China's Marxist history is in the stage of democratic revolution. The development and achievements of different historical stages of China. The book also expounds the viewpoint of the "Global Community of Destiny" from the perspective of historical learning.
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When love has wandered off
by Edna Buchman
When love has wandered off by Edna Buchman Edna Buchman's work will immediately inspire its readers. These texts are simply amusing or sad anecdotes, of the kind known all too well to every woman. The first part of the book focuses on situations between women and men, some of which actually happened and others that almost did… Men analyzed from a woman's perspective, examined by her critical eye, frankly and with appealing humor. The second part of the book consists of very personal, revealing stories: childhood spent in a home where the only thing missing was a caressing hand; the eternal struggle against overweight caused by overeating, as a compensation for the lack of love. The book concludes with a selection of texts of a different nature, dealing with coming of age, forgiveness, and happiness. The natural humanity of this lyrical collection will win the heart of every woman, and probably of quite a few men as well… Edna Buchman was born in Israel to German-speaking parents; the family immigrated to Israel in 1939. She is the third generation of a textile-manufacturing family, and was educated in Israel, Switzerland and England. The author drew her inspiration from personal observations of the lives of her friends... single, married, divorced and widowed. "A book like Edna Buchmann’s Die Wandernde Liebe will certainly speak to a fair amount of people, since it describes poetically some of the emotional pitfalls and typical dynamics between romantically involved couples… Just the emotional ups and downs of a woman in her romantic encounters, sharply observed, with a hefty pinch of feminism. It is well written, quite sensitively, with some subtle humor and some nice, unexpected turns." Matthias Schossig, a noted German-English translator, California.
