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The ArtsNovember 2017Vivien Leigh
Actress and icon
by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale
This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era. With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the 'public ownership' of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime and beyond.
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Children's & YASnöfrid from Meadow Valley (3). The Hectic Hunt for the River Pearl
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
What a disaster! Snöfrid’s stream has disappeared during the night! Without water there can be no porridge, and Snöfrid doesn’t have to think twice. This problem must be solved immediately! The hunt for water begins with a wet meeting at the pond of the little nymph Flumina, but when it turns into a hunt for the mysterious river pearl, involving a submersible boat, the story quickly becomes an underwater adventure, and who knows how it will end? Magical adventure, great fun for boys and girls, by Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2011Conflict, Politics and Proselytism
Methodist missionaries in colonial and postcolonial Burma, 1887–1966
by Michael D. Leigh, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
This book is a study of the ambitions, activities and achievements of Methodist missionaries in northern Burma from 1887-1966 and the expulsion of the last missionaries by Ne Win. The story is told through painstaking original research in archives which contain thousands of hitherto unpublished documents and eyewitness accounts meticulously recorded by the Methodist missionaries. This accessible study constitutes a significant contribution to a very little-known area of missionary history. Leigh pulls together the themes of conflict, politics and proselytisation in to a fascinating study of great breadth. The historical nuances of the relationship between religion and governance in Burma are traced in an accessible style. This book will appeal to those teaching or studying colonial and postcolonial history, Burmese politics, and the history of missionary work. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Conflict, Politics and Proselytism
Methodist missionaries in colonial and postcolonial Burma, 1887–1966
by Andrew Thompson, Michael D. Leigh, John M. MacKenzie
This book is a study of the ambitions, activities and achievements of Methodist missionaries in northern Burma from 1887-1966 and the expulsion of the last missionaries by Ne Win. The story is told through painstaking original research in archives which contain thousands of hitherto unpublished documents and eyewitness accounts meticulously recorded by the Methodist missionaries. This accessible study constitutes a significant contribution to a very little-known area of missionary history. Leigh pulls together the themes of conflict, politics and proselytisation in to a fascinating study of great breadth. The historical nuances of the relationship between religion and governance in Burma are traced in an accessible style. This book will appeal to those teaching or studying colonial and postcolonial history, Burmese politics, and the history of missionary work.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2002The Scottish witch-hunt in context
by Julian Goodare
A collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Includes studies of particular witchcraft panics such as a reassessment of the role of King James VI. Covers a wide range of topics concerned with Scottish witch-hunting and places it in the context of other topics such as gender relations, folklore, magic and healing, and moral regulation by the church and state. Provides a comparative dimension of witch-hunting beyond Scotland - one on the global context, and one comparing Scotland with England. It is a showcase for the latest thinking on the subject and will be of interest to all scholars studying witchcraft in early modern Europe, as well as the general reader wanting to move beyond shallow and sensational accounts of a subject of compelling in. ;
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September 2010Der Weihnachtsmann oder Das abenteuerliche Leben des Santa Claus
by Lyman Frank Baum, Hans-Christian Oeser
L. Frank Baum, der Schöpfer des Kinderbuchklassikers Der Zauberer von Oz, hat mit der Geschichte über das abenteuerliche Leben des Santa Claus ein weiteres, bezauberndes Märchen geschrieben. Und er findet wunderbare Antworten auf all das, was wir schon immer wissen wollten: Wo wohnt der Weihnachtsmann? Wie kam Santa Claus zu seinem Namen? War der Weihnachtsmann auch einmal ein kleiner Junge? Warum wird Santa Claus von Rentieren durch die Lüfte gezogen und wieso können Rentiere überhaupt fliegen?
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The ArtsJune 2023Russian Orientalism in a global context
Hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740–1940
by Maria Taroutina, Allison Leigh
This volume features new research on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule. It interrogates how Russia's perception of its position on the periphery of the west and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic, cultural and national identity as a heterogenous, multi-ethnic empire. It also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in the discursive matrices that advanced Russia's colonial machinery on the one hand and critiqued and challenged it on the other, especially in territories that were themselves on the fault lines between the east and the west.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2000Modernism and empire
Writing and British coloniality, 1890–1940
by Howard Booth, Nigel Rigby
This is the first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire. Contributors look at works from the traditional modernist canon as well as extending the range of work addresses - particularly emphasising texts from the Empire. A key issue raised is whether modernism sprang from a crisis in the colonial system, which it sought to extend, or whether the modern movement was a more sophisticated form of cultural imperialism. The chapters in Modernism and empire show the importance of empire to modernism. Patrick Williams theorises modernism and empire; Rod Edmond discusses theories of degeneration in imperial and modernist discourse; Helen Carr examines Imagism and empire; Elleke Boehmer compares Leonard Woolf and Yeats; Janet Montefiore writes on Kipling and Orwell, C.L. Innes explores Yeats, Joyce and their implied audiences; Maire Ni Fhlathuin writes on Patrick Pearse and modernism; John Nash considers newspapers, imperialism and Ulysses; Howard J. Booth addresses D.H. Lawrence and otherness; Nigel Rigby discusses Sylvia Townsend Warner and sexuality in the Pacific; Mark Williams explores Mansfield and Maori culture; Abdulrazak Gurnah looks at Karen Blixen, Elspeth Huxley and settler writing; and Bill Ashcroft and John Salter take an inter-disciplinary approach to Australia and 'Modernism's Empire'. ;
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September 2021Die Leben der Heiligen
Das wunderschön illustrierte Buch Alina Starkovs aus der »Legenden der Grisha«-Serie auf Netflix
by Bardugo, Leigh
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Michelle Gyo
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October 2022Demon in the Wood. Schatten der Vergangenheit
Die Vorgeschichte des Dunklen
by Bardugo, Leigh
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Michelle Gyo
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January 2023Wer die Hölle kennt
Roman
by Bardugo, Leigh
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Lina Robertz, Silvia Kinkel, Heike Holtsch und Constanze Wehnes
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June 2021Rule of Wolves
Thron aus Nacht und Silber
by Bardugo, Leigh
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Michelle Gyo
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September 2016Anti-Europäer
Breivik, Dugin, al-Suri & Co.
by Claus Leggewie
Die Griechenland-Krise und die mangelnde Handlungsbereitschaft im Umgang mit den Flüchtlingen haben nachdrücklich gezeigt, dass es um die Europäische Union derzeit nicht allzu gut bestellt ist. Parallel zu diesen internen Problemen mehren sich Stimmen unterschiedlichster Provenienz, die Europa attackieren und europäische Werte infrage stellen: Identitäre wie der Massenmörder Anders Breivik, Dschihadisten wie der Syrer Abu Musab al-Suri, »Eurasier« wie der Putin-Berater Alexander Dugin, illiberale Demokraten à la Viktor Orbán, aber auch einige Linkspopulisten am Rande von Syriza und Podemos. Claus Leggewie porträtiert Wortführer und politische Unternehmer, die unabhängig voneinander, aber oft in ungewollter Komplizenschaft die »Festung Europa« schleifen wollen. Er erklärt, woher sie kommen, welche Pläne sie verfolgen und welche Mächtigen sie unterstützen. Und er fordert dazu auf, sich endlich politisch mit ihnen auseinanderzusetzen.
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May 1975Berufsbildungsreform
Eine Fallstudie über Reformpolitik
by Claus Offe
Das noch zu Zeiten der Großen Koalition verabschiedete Berufsbildungsgesetz von 1969, das die Ausbildungsverhältnisse der Lehrlinge im Betrieb regelt, hat dem Status quo kaum etwas hinzugefügt. Seitdem hat die sozialliberale Koalition die Aufwertung des Status der Lehrlinge und ihrer Ausbildungsverhältnisse, die Modernisierung der Berufsausbildung und ihre Angleichung an die Bedingungen der Sekundarstufe II zu einem mit hoher Priorität ausgestatteten Programmpunkt gemacht. Bislang ist es jedoch nur zu einer Reihe von Einzelmaßnahmen und, vor allem, zu einer Polarisierung in diesem Politikbereich gekommen. Inzwischen wird die denkbare Substanz einer Novellierung immer skeptischer beurteilt. – Ausgehend von einem Strukturmodell des kapitalistischen Staates und einer Charakterisierung der spezifischen Steuerungsleistung, die ihm vom ökonomischen System abgefordert ist, untersucht Claus Offe den Politikverlauf der Berufsbildungsreform nach 1969. An einem – kaum atypischen – Fall werden allgemeine Strukturen der Politikentwicklung aufgedeckt. Damit verfolgt der Autor die Absicht, einer theoriepolitischen Tendenz entgegenzuwirken, die sich durch »Kritik der politischen Ökonomie« eine »Kritik der Politik« glaubt ersparen zu können
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Children's & YAExplorer Team (1). The Adventure Begins!
by Björn Berenz / Christoph Dittert
Become an explorer! Go with Lias on an exciting mission and solve the puzzles that will lead you to your goal. Eventually you must decide: how will the adventure continue? 3 paths – 3 adventures – which of them is for YOU? Join Lias, Mojo and Cookie on a mission to the Himalayas: together they must find out what has happened to Lias’s father. He disappeared six months ago and the only thing he left behind was his expedition diary, which is full of strange clues and puzzles. The reader will be able to move onto the next stage only if you can decipher them. A great adventure awaits you! And you decide In the end, you must decide: How should the adventure continue for you and the Explorer Team? Hunt with Lias through the forgotten world. Go with Tashi to discover the eternal ice or follow Cookie and Mojo through fire and lava. You will have to choose which of the Explorers you want to accompany on the next adventure.
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December 2007Die Zeit der Gaben
Zu Fuß nach Konstantinopel: Von Hoek van Holland an die mittlere Donau Der Reise erster Teil
by Fermor, Patrick Leigh / Englisch Allié, Manfred
