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Penned in the Margins
Penned in the Margins creates award-winning publications and performances for people who are not afraid to take risks. From modest beginnings as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London, Penned in the Margins has grown over the last 15 years into an award-winning independent publisher of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and cross genre work. "A marvellously exciting venture, bringing together the worlds of experimentalism and performance, always looking for new ways to present the spoken and written word in a time of artistic flux. The mainstream will, in the future, be redefined and enriched by companies like Penned in the Margins." Ian McMillan, poet and broadcaster
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2024The Malleus Maleficarum
by Peter Maxwell-Stuart
A shocking glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter. In 1487, the zealous Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer wrote a treatise that would have a remarkable influence on European history. Blaming women for his own lust, and frustrated by official complacency before what he saw as a monstrous spiritual menace, Kramer penned a practical guide to aid law officers in the identification and prosecution of witches. Fusing theology, lurid anecdotes and advice for those engaged in combating sorcery, The Malleus Maleficarum transports the reader into the dark heart of medieval belief - where fear of the supernatural provokes a gripping struggle for understanding and control. Kramer's book led to the burning of numerous innocents and had a lasting impact on the popular image of witchcraft. It remains a sinister symbol of fanaticism and cruelty to this day.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2024A neoliberal revolution?
Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions
by Hugh Pemberton, James Freeman, Aled Davies
This book examines the Thatcher government's attempt to revolutionise Britain's pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to abolish significant parts of the UK's welfare state and replace these with privatised personal pensions. Revealing a government that veered between political caution and radicalism, the book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary changes that ministers salvaged from the wreckage of their reforms. The book contributes to understanding of policy change, Thatcherism, and international neoliberalism by showing how major reforms to social security could reflect neoliberal thought and yet profoundly disappoint their architects.
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August 2005Schriften zur Ethnologie
by Fritz Kramer, Tobias Rees, Tobias Rees
Die eigene Welt mit den Augen einer fremden Welt zu sehen, das ist identisch mit der Anstrengung, eine andere Gesellschaft aus sich selbst heraus zu verstehen. Zur Frage steht also: Wie sehen wir außereuropäische Kulturen, wie stellen wir sie dar — und umgekehrt, wie sehen andere Kulturen uns? In den hier gesammelten Essays geht Fritz Kramer diesen Fragen sowohl in ethnographischer wie genealogischer Perspektive nach.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2014Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.
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February 1992»Das Nah- und Fernsein des Fremden«
Essays und Briefe
by Margarete Susman, Ingeborg Nordmann, Ingeborg Nordmann
Mit diesem Band wird die Physiognomie einer Philosophin des 20. Jahrhunderts vorgestellt. Margarete Susman (1872-1966) war Malerin, Lyrikerin, Philosophin, Privatgelehrte und wählte für ihre Arbeiten den Essay als offene »Versuchsanordnung«, um eine Antwort auf die Fragen ihrer Zeit als Jüdin aus Deutschland, als Frau, als Gesprächspartnerin und häufiger Widerpart bedeutender Philosophen dieses Jahrhunderts zu finden. Die Auswahl zeigt die Kontinuität dieser Fragen, die Vielfalt, den inneren Reichtum von Margarete Susmans Antworten in ihren Essays über Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács und Georg Simmel, mit denen Margarete Susman eine Korrespondenz führte, die hier zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht wird. In ihren Aufsätzen über »Kriegsbriefe deutscher Studenten«, »Die Revolution und die Frau« oder über »Das Frauenproblem in der gegenwärtigen Welt« geht Margarete Susman von konkreten, einzelnen Erfahrungen aus. Sie analysiert Phänomene ihrer Gegenwart, deutet Werke von Zeitgenossen und von historischen Vorläufern, Vorläuferinnen, denen sie sich nahe fühlt.
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May 2019Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes
by Margarete Susman, Hermann Lévin Goldschmidt
1945, nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, schrieb in Zürich die Philosophin und Schriftstellerin Margarete Susman Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes. Es ist der Versuch angesichts der Shoah, »in diesem Augenblick einer Weltkatastrophe«, die Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes aus dem Buch Hiob zu erklären, seinem Hadern mit Gott, seinem Fragen nach Gerechtigkeit. ln einzelnen Abschnitten über den Ursprung, die Schuld, die Verfolgung, den Zionismus, die Hoffnung deutet sie das Buch Hiob neu. Die überlieferte biblische Geschichte erweist sich als unvermindert gegenwärtig. »Jude sein heißt, sich entscheiden«, heißt es am Beginn lakonisch, und im Fortgang entfaltet Margarete Susman Grenzen und Möglichkeiten einer solchen Entscheidung. Margarete Susmans Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes ist heute weithin vergessen. Ihr Beharren auf einer religiösen Substanz in Formen des alltäglichen Zusammenlebens, in der Dichtung wie Philosophie mutet fremd an. Doch es ist eine Fremdheit, mit der vertraut zu machen sich lohnt. Ihre Hiobdeutung, die sie zuerst 1929 in einem Aufsatz über Franz Kafka vorbrachte, hat Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem und Paul Celan beeinflußt. »Es gibt«, schreibt Margarete Susman, »keine große Leistung des Judentums im Exil bis in die späte Dichtung Kafkas hinein, die den Prozeßpartner nicht mehr mit Namen nennt, die nicht im Kern eine Theodizee, der Versuch einer Rechtfertigung Gottes vor seinem Volk oder eine Rechtfertigung des Volkes vor Gott wäre. Die ganze große nachbiblische Überlieferung kreist letztlich um diese Frage.«
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March 2024Today 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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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2024Ireland and the Renaissance court
by David Edwards, Brendan Kane
Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cúirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of 'early modern' Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives. This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022A new naval history
by Quintin Colville, James Davey, Katherine Parker, Elaine Chalus, Evan Wilson, Barbara Korte, Cicely Robinson, Cindy McCreery, Ellie Miles, Mary A. Conley, Jonathan Rayner, Daniel Spence, Emma Hanna, Ulrike Zimmerman, Max Jones, Jan Rüger
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines - through the prism of naval affairs - issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life in ships and naval bases; and the processes of commemoration, journalism and stage-managed pageantry that plotted the interrelationship of ship and shore. This bold and original publication will be essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students of naval and maritime history. Beyond that, though, it marks an important intervention into wider historiographies that will be read by scholars from across the spectrum of social history, cultural studies and the analysis of national identity.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureSeptember 2018A History of Pesticides
by Graham A Matthews
In this fascinating book, Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds, and vectors of disease. Prior to 1900 only a few chemicals had been employed as pesticides but in the early 1940s, as the Second World War raged, the insecticide DDT and the herbicide 2-4-D were developed. These changed everything. Since then, farmers have been using a growing list of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides to protect their crops. Their use has undoubtedly led to significant gains in agricultural production and reduction in disease transmission, but also to major problems: health concerns for both users of pesticides and the general public, the emergence of resistance in pest populations, and environmental problems. The book examines the development of legislation designed to control and restrict the use of pesticides, the emergence of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and the use of biological control agents as part of policy to protect the environment and encourage the sustainable use of pesticides. Finally, the use of new technologies in pest control are discussed including the use of genetic modification, targeted pesticide application and use of drones, alongside basic requirements for IPM such as crop rotations, close seasons and adoption of plant varieties with resistance to pests and diseases.
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1970A. W. Schlegels Shakespeare-Übersetzung
Untersuchungen zu seinem Übersetzungsverfahren am Beispiel des Hamlet
by Gebhardt, Peter A
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Children's & YAMarch 2020Amelie Trott and the Earth Watchers
by Moyra Irving
This is the extraordinary story of how one small girl stopped a planetary catastrophe. It’s a very timely book, written for the child in us all, with a forceful message about the power of young people to transform the world - a theme currently demonstrated by brave young heroes like Greta Thunberg. And with magical synchronicity, the very week Greta began her lone vigil outside the Swedish government last year, over 1,000 miles (1,897 km) away in the fictional world of books, Amelie Trott took to Parliament Square, London - on a mission to avert the End of the World. It’s a family drama with an international feel - set mainly in England but with episodes in Washington DC and around the world.
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Children's & YAOctober 2021The Lost Smile
by Nadia L. King / Nelli Aghekyan
When Zaytoon wakes up feeling sad, she goes on a search to find her smile. From the kitchen to the garden, Zaytoon searches high and low,and eventually discovers her smile — it’s smiling at her from her reflection in the window! The Lost Smile is beautifully illustrated colourful picture book that demonstrates the importance of accepting our emotions. Zaytoon’s journey shows children it’s okay to be sad and reassures young readers that sadness can be temporary. Themes include cultural diversity, emotional intelligence, family life and the importance of connecting with nature and animals.
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Children's & YAA oficina do Cambeva (Cambeva's workshop)
by Lido Loschi
Cambeva's workshop is the first of four books of the collection "Presente de Vô" in partnership with Grupo Ponto de Partida. The book is a mixture of colours and elements that highlight the memory of the world, in which seekers of memories have the mission of bringing light and life to objects found in the travels of two characters: Zalém and Calunga. Cambeva is a restorer who, when the world lost its embrace, tried to reinvent it; he is the grandfather who mends dreams, forgotten things and lost emotions, to whom the seekers ask for help to fix something. In a magical universe, full of children, grandchildren, stories and memories of his lineage of restorers, when faced with this request for restoration, he makes room to bring back an emblematic figure who can no longer sing. A story about memories, care and affection...
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Born in A Great Era
by A Record of Changes in Contemporary Lifestyle
1978-2018, a big era. Reform and opening up have profoundly affected the changes in the way of life of the Chinese people. The manuscript replays the development of social life in China over the past 40 years of reform and opening up. It mainly sorts out the great changes in our lives in the past 40 years from the aspects of clothing, food, housing, market, love, and play. Adhering to the purpose of "a magazine and the body temperature of an era", the manuscript has a unique perspective and rich details, which can be regarded as a brief history of alternative life with warmth in this era.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2018A new naval history
by James Davey, Quintin Colville, Katherine Parker, Elaine Chalus, Evan Wilson, Barbara Korte, Cicely Robinson, Cindy McCreery, Ellie Miles, Mary A. Conley, Jonathan Rayner, Daniel Spence, Emma Hanna, Ulrike Zimmerman, Max Jones, Jan Rüger
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. Die Spiele von Solstasia
Roman | Fulminantes Fantasy-Highlight mit farbigem Buchschnitt. Von der New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin.
by Brown, Roseanne A.
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Diana Bürgel
