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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Representing Africa

Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position. Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, contemporary travelogues and visual images, many of which have not previously been published in this context, this book posits landscape as a useful prism through which to view changing British attitudes towards Africa. Richly illustrated, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British, African, imperial and exploration history, art history, and landscape and environment studies.

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The Arts

April 2002

The Paris jigsaw

Internationalism and the city's stages

by Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

Paris has always exerted a magnetic force on artists; it has historically offered safety to those escaping oppressive regimes in Europe and farther afield. In recent years it has welcomed performers, artists and intellectuals from all over the world, offering strategies for the practice of theatre in a new Europe of ever-shifting boundaries. This book, once again available in paperback, examines the creation and development of communities of actors, directors, designers and playwrights in Paris over the past thirty years. It shows how the willingness of the city to welcome international influences has enriched its creative life. Many of the most important trends and new developments in the art of theatre have been the direct result of the creative combination of influences from all over the world. This study demonstrates how the pioneering work of Brook, Boal, Mnouchkine, Lecoq and many others has been able to draw on this vibrant, multi-cultural mix, in turn creating new work that has enriched theatre's potential to enlarge our thinking and our imagination. ;

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February 2022

Jigsaw Man - Der tote Priester

Thriller

by Nadine Matheson

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August 2020

Jigsaw Man - Im Zeichen des Killers

by Matheson, Nadine

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Children's & YA

January 2011

The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air

by Abdo Wazen

In his first YA novel, cultural journalist and author Abdo Wazen writes about a blind teenager in Lebanon who finds strength and friendship among an unlikely group. Growing up in a small Lebanese village, Bassim’s blindness limits his engagement with the materials taught in his schools. Despite his family’s love and support, his opportunities seem limited. So at thirteen years old, Bassim leaves his village to join the Institute for the Blind in a Beirut suburb. There, he comes alive. He learns Braille and discovers talents he didn’t know he had. Bassim is empowered by his newfound abilities to read and write. Thanks to his newly developed self-confidence, Bassim decides to take a risk and submit a short story to a competition sponsored by the Ministry of Education. After winning the competition, he is hired to work at the Institute for the Blind. At the Institute, Bassim, a Sunni Muslim, forms a strong friendship with George, a Christian. Cooperation and collective support are central to the success of each student at the Institute, a principle that overcomes religious differences. In the book, the Institute comes to symbolize the positive changes that tolerance can bring to the country and society at large. The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air is also a book about Lebanon and its treatment of people with disabilities. It offers insight into the vital role of strong family support in individual success, the internal functioning of institutions like the Institute, as well as the unique religious and cultural environment of Beirut. Wazen’s lucid language and the linear structure he employs result in a coherent and easy-to-read narrative. The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air is an important contribution to a literature in which people with disabilities are underrepresented. In addition to offering a story of empowerment and friendship, this book also aims to educate readers about people with disabilities and shed light on the indispensable roles played by institutions like the Institute.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2010

Representing Africa

Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position. Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, contemporary travelogues and visual images, many of which have not previously been published in this context, this book posits landscape as a useful prism through which to view changing British attitudes towards Africa. Richly illustrated, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British, African, imperial and exploration history, art history, and landscape and environment studies. ;

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Fiction

November 2022

In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw

by Barbara Adair

This ethnographic novel explores and tells the stories of the people who live in the Art Deco buildings of Springs now. It is the imagined lives of those who live in a space that is not theirs historically but one that they have reclaimed. In times of doom and complaint, here is a new narrative: one of revival, vigour and celebration.

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May 1997

Auf ein Sprichwort! In a byword! En un proverbe!

333 Sprichwörter in drei Sprachen

by Couzereau, Béatrice / Illustriert von Hütter, Mathias

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K u n s t / A n g s t

by DAVID BAYLES & TED ORLAND

K u n s t / A n g s t EIN ÜBERLEBENSHANDBUCH FÜR DEN KÜNSTLER Von DAVID BAYLES & TED ORLAND Worum geht es bei Kunst? Wohin bewegt sie sich? Welche Widerstände gibt es? DAS SIND DIE FRAGEN, AUF DIE ES ANKOMMT, wiederkehrende Fragen, die sich in jedem Stadium der künstlerischen Entwicklung stellen. Sie sind der Ursprung für dieses Kompendium scharfsinniger Beobachtungen. Kunst & Angst erforscht, wie Kunst geschaffen wird, die Gründe, warum Kunstwerke oft nicht entstehen und die Art der Schwierigkeiten, die so viele Künstler dazu bringt, auf der Wegstrecke aufzugeben. Dieses Buch handelt davon, was du fühlst, wenn du in deinem Atelier oder im Lehrsaal sitzt, du an der Töpferscheibe oder am Keyboard, vor der Staffelei oder hinter deiner Kamera stehst und du versuchst, das Werk, das dir bestimmt ist, zu schaffen. Es geht darum, dass du deine Zukunft in die Hand nimmst, den Freien Willen über Vorherbestimmung, die Wahl vor den Zufall stellst. Es geht darum, dein eigenes Werk zu finden.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2017

We are no longer in France

Communists in colonial Algeria

by Andrew Thompson, Allison Drew, John M. MacKenzie

This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement. Meticulously researched - and the only English-language book on the Parti Communiste Algérien - it explores communism's complex relationship with Algerian nationalism. During international crises, such as the Popular Front and Second World War years, the PCA remained close to its French counterpart, but as the national liberation struggle intensified, the PCA's concern with political and social justice attracted growing numbers of Muslims. When the Front de Libération Nationale launched armed struggle in November 1954, the PCA maintained its organisational autonomy - despite FLN pressure. They participated fully in the national liberation war, facing the French state's wrath. Independence saw two conflicting socialist visions, with the PCA's incorporated political pluralism and class struggle on the one hand, and the FLN demand for a one-party socialist state on the other. The PCA's pluralist vision was shattered when it was banned by the one-party state in November 1962. This book is of particular interest to students and scholars of Algerian history, French colonial history and communist history.

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January 1991

Sekondeleutnant Saber

Erzählung

by Tynjanow, Jurij / Russisch Einstein, Maria

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May 1985

S. Fischer, Verlag

Von der Gründung bis zur Rückkehr aus dem Exil Eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Literaturarchivs im Schiller-Nationalmuseum Marbach am Neckar

by Herausgegeben von Zeller, Bernhard

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2013

Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats

Unfinished business

by Frances Babbage, Matt Cole

Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business now available in paperback, offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. Wainwright grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wilson's landslide of 1966. He then played a key role in the fall of Jeremy Thorpe, the Lib-Lab Pact and the formation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Liberal Democrats; he represented a unique Yorkshire constituency which reflected his pride and hope for society; and though he gave his life to the battle to be in the Commons, he refused a seat in the Lords. Richard Wainwright's story is central to the story of the Liberal Party and sheds light on the reasons for its survival and the state of its prospects. At the same time this book is a parable of politics for anyone who wants to represent an apparently lost cause, who wants to motivate people who have been neglected, and who wants to follow their convictions at the highest level. ;

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The Arts

October 2009

Journeyman

An autobiography

by Ewan Maccoll, Peggy Seeger

This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. MacColl, a singer, songwriter, actor, playwright and broadcaster, begins this fascinating account with his working class Salford childhood, traces the founding and life of Theatre Workshop, one of Britain's most innovative theatre companies, then moves on to his work with folksingers, the Radio Ballads and his ascent into old age. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger were among the main leaders of the UK folksong revival. Journeyman documents their struggle to secure the integrity of that revival as the popular media appropriated and re-created traditional music for commercial gain. An entertaining and thought-provoking slice of British history, it will appeal to those interested in the histories of folk music, theatre, radio, left-wing politics and the Manchester area. ;

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The Arts

September 2009

Journeyman

An autobiography

by Ewan Maccoll, Peggy Seeger, Peggy Seeger

This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. MacColl, a singer, songwriter, actor, playwright and broadcaster, begins this fascinating account with his working class Salford childhood, traces the founding and life of Theatre Workshop, one of Britain's most innovative theatre companies, then moves on to his work with folksingers, the Radio Ballads and his ascent into old age. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger were among the main leaders of the UK folksong revival. Journeyman documents their struggle to secure the integrity of that revival as the popular media appropriated and re-created traditional music for commercial gain. An entertaining and thought-provoking slice of British history, it will appeal to those interested in the histories of folk music, theatre, radio, left-wing politics and the Manchester area. ;

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August 1970

S. Fischer und sein Verlag

by Mendelssohn, Peter de

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February 2005

Gute Mädchen haben´s schwer

Roman

by Bradfield, Scott / Übersetzt von Allié, Manfred

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November 2009

S. Fischer, der Verleger 1859-1934

Eine Lebensbeschreibung

by Hoffmeister, Barbara

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January 1989

In Memoriam S. Fischer

24. Dezember 1859-1959

by Herausgegeben von B. Fischer, Brigitte; Herausgegeben von Bermann Fischer, Gottfried

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January 1990

Katze fängt mit S an

by Tropp Erblad, Ingrid

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Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Internationalism and the city's stages

by Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

Thriller

by Nadine Matheson

by Matheson, Nadine

by Abdo Wazen

Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

by Barbara Adair

333 Sprichwörter in drei Sprachen

by Couzereau, Béatrice / Illustriert von Hütter, Mathias

by DAVID BAYLES & TED ORLAND

Communists in colonial Algeria

by Andrew Thompson, Allison Drew, John M. MacKenzie

Erzählung

by Tynjanow, Jurij / Russisch Einstein, Maria

Von der Gründung bis zur Rückkehr aus dem Exil Eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Literaturarchivs im Schiller-Nationalmuseum Marbach am Neckar

by Herausgegeben von Zeller, Bernhard

Unfinished business

by Frances Babbage, Matt Cole

An autobiography

by Ewan Maccoll, Peggy Seeger

An autobiography

by Ewan Maccoll, Peggy Seeger, Peggy Seeger

by Mendelssohn, Peter de

Roman

by Bradfield, Scott / Übersetzt von Allié, Manfred

Eine Lebensbeschreibung

by Hoffmeister, Barbara

24. Dezember 1859-1959

by Herausgegeben von B. Fischer, Brigitte; Herausgegeben von Bermann Fischer, Gottfried

by Tropp Erblad, Ingrid

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