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      • Serpentine Books

        Independent publisher of crime, thrillers, sci-fi, mysteries, romantic comedies and mash-ups.

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      • E-planet Educational Services

        About E-planet E-planet Educational Services is an international organisation created by a dedicated and enthusiastic team of experts on education, marketing and development. Our goal is to provide our partners, students and customers with top-level services and products. That is why we have developed a unique, fully integrated company for ESL (English as a Second Language) educational services and business training. We combine traditional methods with cutting-edge technology to achieve a variety of purposes!

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      • Trusted Partner
        September 2010

        Kosovo

        Geschichte eines Konflikts

        by Erich Rathfelder

        Kosovo, die zwischen Albanern und Serben umstrittene autonome Provinz des früheren Jugoslawiens, hat sich gegen den Widerstand Serbiens 2008 für unabhängig erklärt. Erich Rathfelder, seit 1987 immer wieder als Korrespondent vor Ort, hat den Konflikt zwischen Serben und der albanischen Bevölkerungsmehrheit hautnah verfolgt: die Aufhebung des Autonomiestatuts 1989, den gewaltlosen Widerstand der Albaner, den bewaffneten Kampf der UÇK, die Intervention der NATO im Jahr 1999, anschließend die Phase der zivilen Übergangsverwaltung. Im Zentrum seines Buches steht das Schicksal der Menschen. Die wichtigsten lokalen und internationalen Akteure reflektieren, durchaus selbstkritisch, die politische Entwicklung und ihr eigenes Handeln.

      • Travel & Transport

        Freytag & Berndt maps

        Travel and geographical folded maps

        by Freytag & Berndt

        You can find the CATALOG 2023 of Freytag & Berndt maps in the "VIEW CONTENT SAMPLE".     Cartageo is the Italian reseller for Freytag & Berndt.

      • March 2020

        Dobrudja

        German Settlers between the Danube and the Black Sea

        by Josef Sallanz

        The historical region between the Danube delta and the mountainous landscape Ludogorie today is structured as a result of the demarcation of 1940 which divided the region into the North Dobrudja in Romania and the South Dobrudja in Bulgaria. Since ancient times, people have roamed the steppes at the Black Sea towards the south and left a mixture of languages, denominations and everyday culture. From the 7th century BC Greek sailors founded trading colonies on the coast such as Tomis, the present day Constanta, Romanian Constanţa. After 500 years under Ottoman rule in the middle of the 19th century the first Germans came from Bessarabia, bordering the Danube to the north, from the governorate Kherson, from Poland, Volhynia, Galicia and the Caucasus. Reasons were land scarcity, loss of privileges and a intensified russification policy. Today in the Dobrudja live Tatars, Bulgarians, Turks, Lipovans, Ukrainians, Greeks, Germans and Roma next to more than ninety percent Romanians. The historian Josef Sallanz shows which cultural traditions still today shape the region.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2018

        Danube Swabians

        German Settlers in Southeast Europe

        by Gerhard Seewann, Michael Portmann

        In the 18th century, ships regularly sailed downstream from German Danube ports. People who promised themselves a better future in Southeastern Europe allowed themselves to be embarked. Most of them came from the southwestern countries of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Their destination was the Kingdom of Hungary, where after liberation from Turkish occupation manpower was needed. The immigrants were called “Swabians” regardless of their origin. They were economically successful and left their mark on large areas of the country. After 1918 these groups, now called “Danube Swabians”, belonged to three different states: Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Starting in 1944, hundreds of thousands lost their homes and thousands their lives through flight, expulsion, persecution and deportation. The majority of the uprooted found refuge in southern Germany. Only the Swabians in Romania and a part of the Hungarian Germans were allowed to stay. Many of them came to Germany as late repatriates, the remaining ones today form active German minorities in their home countries.

      • Fiction

        Sie waren nie weg

        by Paul Kohl

        Sie waren nie weg Paul Kohl Deutschland 1951: Die Republik ist im Aufbruch. Menschen kehren heim aus Krieg und Emigration. Auch die alte Naziriege ist wieder da. Sie war nie weg. Mit ihren alten Zielen wird sie wieder eingesetzt in ihre Ämter, in die Presse, Parteien, in Parlamente. Und mittendrin der jugendliche Ludwig, benebelt von den Heimatfilmen "Schwarzwaldmädel", "Grün is die Heide" und vom Wirtschaftswunder. Als er erkennt, was um ihn herum geschieht und was sein eigener Vater getan hat, handelt er. Wirtschaftswunder zwischen Kriegsruinen: ein gesellschaftliches Panorama Nachrkriegsdeutschland. In Sie waren nie weg entwirft der Autor und Zeitzeuge Paul Kohl ein Sittengemälde der Nachkriegszeit. Die größten Trümmerberge sind abgetragen, die Baulücken werden emsig geschlossen, über die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit wird geschwiegen. Aus historischen Quellen, Erinnerungsfragmenten und fiktiven Elementen entfaltet Kohl einen mitreißenden Entwicklungsroman, der hineinsticht in das damalige Deutschland. Paul Kohl zeigt die Fünzigerjahre als das Jahrzehnt des großen Verdrängens, das die Täter und Mitläufer der NS-Zeit wieder in die Mitte der Gesellschaft aufnimmt. Im Zentrum des Romans steht der junge Ludwig, der die Zerrissenheit der Zeit deutlich spürt und bald bemerkt, dass mit den Heimatfilmen und der Schlagermusik etwas nicht stimmen kann. Er lernt den Verleger Middelhauve kennen, der seine FDP auf Rechtskurs trimmt, prominente Nazis in seine Partei aufnimmt und den nationalsozialistischen Naumann-Kreis unterstützt. Und er lernt die in ihre Heimatstadt zurückgekehrte 18-jährige jüdische Buchhändlerin Luise kennen, die mit ihrem Vater in belgischen KZs gefangen war. Seine Freundschaft mit ihr öffnet ihm die Augen. Durch sie beginnt Ludwig die kritischen Autoren Böll, Andersch und Koeppen und Bücher über Widerstand und die Wiederbewaffnung der Bundesrepublik zu lesen. Paul Kohl schildert eindrucksvoll die verstörende Kontinuität vom NS-Staat zur jungen Republik im Zeichen des Aufschwungs. Brillant recherchiert, lakonisch, gesellschaftskritisch.

      • The Arts

        The Marvels of the World

        Die Reisen des Ritters Jean de Mandeville

        by Jean de Mandeville

        The Livre de Mandeville (Book of Mandeville) is integrated into a composite manuscript - held today at the Bibliothèque national de France under the shelfmark Fr. 2810 - containing a number of texts about the countries of the Middle and Far East which was given the name Livre de merveilles, on account of the wonders described therein, but also because of its wonderful decorations. The author, Jean de Mandeville, refers to himself as a knight who embarked on his journey in the year 1322 and that he travelled not only to see the sites of the Holy Land, but also to countless far countries of the world and many wondrous regions. By combining seemingly familiar elements with mysterious narratives, he achieves an immediacy and freshness that would be enthusiastically welcomed by a wide readership. It is not only the enthusiastic reception of the text, but also the development of a rich iconographic programme that make the Livre de Mandeville such an impressive example of medieval world and travel literature and the most dazzling work representative of the genre.

      • October 2020

        Aufbruch am Ararat

        Das neue Armenien

        by Amalia Van Gent

        The dream of a less corrupt, democratic Armenia drove hundreds of thousands onto the streets across the country in the spring of 2018. This peaceful mass movement actually succeeded in driving the corrupt government out of office. But what has become of the great promise in the meantime? Which changes are sustainable and how does the Karabach Conflict affect social developments? This book is a highly topical encounter with modern Armenia, a valuable continuation of the author's first book (Den Ararat in front of her eyes - with Christina Leumann), but also an excitingly written examination of the history of this fascinating, but largely unknown country.

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