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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2008Charitable hatred
Tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500–1700
by Alexandra Walsham, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
Charitable Hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises instead the complex interplay between these two impulses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book examines the intellectual assumptions that underpinned attitudes towards religious minorities and the institutional structures and legal mechanisms by which they were both repressed and accommodated. It also explores the social realities of prejudice and forbearance, hostility and harmony at the level of the neighbourhood and parish. Simultaneously, it surveys the range of ways in which dissenting churches and groups responded and adapted to official and popular intolerance, investigating how the experience of suffering helped to forge sectarian identities. In analysing the consequences of the advancing pluralism of English society in the wake of the Reformation, this study illuminates the cultural processes that shaped and complicated the conditions of coexistence before and after the Act of Toleration of 1689. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2024Tracking the Jews
Ecumenical Protestants, conversion, and the Holocaust
by Carolyn Sanzenbacher
This book sheds light on an unprecedented Protestant conversion initiative for the global evangelisation of Jews. Founded in 1929, the International Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews (ICCAJ) aimed to bring Jewish people to their 'spiritual destiny', a task it saw as both benevolent and essential for a harmonious society. By the time of Hitler's rise to power it was active in thirty-two countries, educating Protestant churches on the right Christian attitude towards Jews and antisemitism. Reconstructing the activities of the ICCAJ in the years before, during and immediately after the Holocaust, Tracking the Jews reveals how ideas disseminated through the organisation's discourse - 'Jewish problem', 'Jewish influence', 'Judaising threat', 'eternal Jew' - were used to rationalise, justify, explain or advance a number of deeply troubling policies. They were, for vastly different reasons, consciously used elements of argumentation in both Protestant conversionary discourse and Nazi antisemitic ideology.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2019Happy Growth from Reading
by Compile Group
This series is based on the spirit of the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Cultivating and Practicing the Socialist Core Values and Further Strengthening Moral Education in Primary and Secondary Schools", and the requirement for the Ministry of Education of "continuously strengthening and improving moral education in universities, middle and primary schools" stipulated in the "2017 Work Points of the Ministry of Education", and prepared under the guidance of "Hunan Campus Reading Project". This series advocates spiritually moral education; trying to stand on the people-centered position, it selects 12 themes, to take care of the students' spiritual growth from different aspects. Its content covers both socialist core values and traditional values such as "Benevolence, Righteousness, Courtesy and Wisdom: in traditional culture; it is a set of extracurricular readings for comprehensive counseling for teenagers' spiritual growth.
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Family & relationshipsBean Trellis, My Mother-in-law
by Ma Ruifang
As the Chinese saying goes, "mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law are natural enemies". However, Bean Trellis, My Mother-in-law depicts the close bond of the author as daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law for more than three decades. Wherein lies the secret? "仁" Benevolence, "义" righteousness, "礼" courtesy, "智" wisdom, and "信" faith are constant beliefs of the Chinese people, which in the author's eyes are also the most admirable qualities of her mother-in-law, who is illiterate, yet hardworking, kind, and full of the wisdom of simple life. Her kindness and generosity is just the secret to the well-being of the whole family. Aside from describing the unique in-law relationship, this book also looks at the ups and downs of a big Chinese family from the 1970s to the 2020s. With humorous and documentary storytelling, the author wrote her life stories just like chatting with neighbors under the bean trellis. It is all-encompassing, containing traditional Chinese wisdom about getting along with the world, educating children, and even cooking, which could provide new reading experiences and inspiration for all readers.
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Children's & YAChetaah Summer
by Katja Brandis
When a travel adventure becomes a journey to yourself! For all readers who long to follow the wide world’s call to freedom. Especially for all the WOODWALKERS fans who have grown up. An unforgettable experience is waiting for Lily: she is off to work on a farm in Namibia where they work to protect endangered cheetahs. The German vet’s daughter will help care for injured big cats, raise orphaned young animals and assist with field research in the bush. A dream comes true for her! Lily’s trip goes well until she falls in love with Eric, the son of a neighbouring farmer. His strange family and their secrets plunge her life into chaos. Katja Brandis, whose WOODWALKERS series regularly conquers the bestseller lists by storm, is back with an environmental novel about the protection of cheetahs in Namibia. Authentic, sympathetic and completely devoid of kitsch sunset pathos.
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November 2001Rechtsfähige Stiftung und Charitable Corporation.
Überlegungen zur Reform des deutschen Stiftungsrechts auf der Grundlage einer historisch-rechtsvergleichenden Untersuchung der Entstehung des modernen deutschen und amerikanischen Stiftungsmodells.
by Richter, Andreas
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Liao-Fan's Four Lessons
by Yuan Liaofan
It is the family instruction of Yuan Liaofan, a scholar of Ming Dynasty. The book is based on Confucianism, focusing on clarifying reforms, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and the learning of living in the world.
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January 2020Liao-Fan's Four Lessons
by Yuan Liaofan
The book is based on Confucianism and focuses on reformation, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and the study of life. The book is written in a simple, fresh and timeless manner and is highly readable. The author's extensive quotations and examples make this book a 'mini-encyclopaedia' of traditional Chinese culture. The Yuan Family Sermon is mainly a record of the daily teachings of Yuan's parents to their children, the contents of which can be cross-referenced with the Four Sermons of Yuan.
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Contemporary Interpretations of Confucianism
by Zeng Zhenyu
The book has a total of 22 chapters and 1.5 million words. It was written by more than 20 experts and scholars in the field of Confucianism. The book has two main lines: Confucianism of famous thinkers in the past and Confucianism of folk beliefs. It integrates and interprets Confucianism of more than two thousand years in a clear way, including thoughts of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, integrity, filial piety, friendship, shame, courage, forgiveness, happiness, natural principles, conscience and etc.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2022Missionaries and modernity
by Felicity Jensz, Alan Lester
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2023
Missionaries and modernity
Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910
by Felicity Jensz
Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for non-Europeans to be useful members of colonies under British rule. This comprehensive survey of multi-colonial sites over the long time span clearly describes the missionary paradox that to draw in pupils they needed to provide secular education, but that secular education was seen to lead both to a moral crisis and to anti-British sentiments.
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December 2014Public Enemy
by Wang Fangchen
The novel depicts the fate of a Chinese village and individual villagers in the great historical transformation, and creates the vivid image of a morally self-examining and self-reflective persona in the character of Farmer Han Dianyi. Using “benevolence and justice” as the effective weapon, Han Dianyi successfully establishes HanTong Group and leads a corrupt and degenerate life afterwards. The suicide of his former lover in despair awakens him and he retires to a seclusive life in a graveyard. His successor Tong Heizi continues his way of practice and Hantong Group still dominates the village. His elder brother Tong Chengzhi resigns from his official post and returns to the village. This causes great uneasiness to Tong Heizi, who sets off on the road of no-return on a snowy night. Han Dianyi, full of remorse, tells people the secret why he has painfully guarded the graveyard for more than ten years. Tong Chengzhi takes over Hantong Group while Han Dianyi holds the ashes of his former lover and enters the tomb he has dug for himself. The whole novel, set in a heavy and gloomy atmosphere, features sharp and poignant language.
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The Establishment of Song Dynasty: A Legend of Emperor Taizu
by Wang Lixin
The book vividly depicts the legendary Emperor Taizu (927-976) of Song Dynasty (960-1279) with a light and humorous tone. Taking his life experience as a clue, it gives an insightful description of his historical background, difficulties in his early life and his later political achievements, highlighting his practices and pursuits of benevolent governance. Therefore, it is a book of a king which virtuous people will find interesting.
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The Arts2021Icons on the Ammunition Boxes
by Sonia Atlantova, Oleksandr Klymenko
This publication is dedicated to the artistic project "Icons on the Ammunition Boxes" by Sonya Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. The icons painted on fragments of weapons boxes brought from the front lines are silent witnesses of the war in Eastern Ukraine and at the same time evidence of the victory of life over death (not only symbolic, but also real). Since the spring of 2015, the project had a charitable purpose of supporting the Mykola Pyrogov First Voluntary Mobile Hospital that provided medical assistance to the Ukrainian army and to the civilians in combat zone of Donbas.
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The Beast and the Blackberry
by Naseeba Alozaibi
A novel for young readers that explores a strange, miraculous world combining reality and myth, the book mainly focuses on the character of a beast and the physical and spiritual transformations between his huge, strong body and a blackberry plant. The focus turns to the relationship between the beast and the orphan child Salma, dealing with the love between them, which does its magic until he becomes a tree. His past is then revealed, including his suffering at the hands of humans, and how his transformations played a role in healing his wounds and grief, bringing him back to a pure, benevolent truth. Age Range: 10+ years
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March 2005Style and Meaning
Studies in the Detailed Analysis of Film
by Susan Williams
The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and filmmakers, reflecting shifts both in documentary production itself, and in ways of discussing it. Once again, the emphasis has been on clear and provocative writing, sympathetic to the practical challenges of documentary film-making but making connections with a range of work in media and communications analysis. With its wide range of contributors and the international scope of its agenda, New challenges for documentary will be essential reading for general filmmakers and documentary students both of academic and practical inclinations.
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The ArtsFebruary 2005New challenges for documentary
Second edition
by Alan Rosenthal, John Corner, Martin Hargreaves
The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and filmmakers, reflecting shifts both in documentary production itself, and in ways of discussing it. Once again, the emphasis has been on clear and provocative writing, sympathetic to the practical challenges of documentary film-making but making connections with a range of work in media and communications analysis. With its wide range of contributors and the international scope of its agenda, New challenges for documentary will be essential reading for general filmmakers and documentary students both of academic and practical inclinations. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2023
Critical theory and human rights
From compassion to coercion
by David McGrogan
This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 1999The Maid's Tragedy
Beaumont and Fletcher
by David Bevington, T. W. Craik, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich
Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid's Tragedy (1610-11) disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until recent years, when major companies have rediscovered its appeal. In this fully annotated edition, the editor has given careful attention to the sense of the lines, the stage action and the verse. Many new emendations of textual errors, as well as improvements in stage directions and lineation, are either introduced or proposed. The introduction explores Beaumont and Fletcher's use of the three known sources (two of them previously neglected) for incidents in the play, gives the fullest available account of its stage history, and provides a sympathetic interpretation of the play as a romantic tragedy. ;
