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A Walk through History
A Walk Through History is a Russian publishing house specializing in children’s nonfiction. Since 2011 it has created and designed about 50 titles on various periods of history and other subjects such as mathematics, sport, plants and animals.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Distant sisters
Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–1914
by James Keating
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women's electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns, Distant Sisters uncovers the personal and material networks that transformed feminist organising. Considering intimate and institutional connections, well-connected elites and ordinary women, this book argues developments in Auckland, Sydney, and Adelaide-long considered the peripheries of the feminist world-cannot be separated from its glamourous metropoles. Focusing on Antipodean women, simultaneously insiders and outsiders in the emerging international women's movement, and documenting the failures of their expansive vision alongside its successes, this book reveals a more contingent history of international organising and challenges celebratory accounts of fin-de-siècle global connection.
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The ArtsNovember 2020Stage rights!
The Actresses’ Franchise League, activism and politics 1908–58
by Naomi Paxton
Stage rights! explores the work and legacy of the first feminist political theatre group of the twentieth century, the Actresses' Franchise League. Formed in 1908 to support the suffrage movement through theatre, the League and its membership opened up new roles for women on stage and off, challenged stereotypes of suffragists and actresses, created new work inspired by the movement and was an integral part of the performative propaganda of the campaign. Introducing new archival material to both suffrage and theatre histories, this book is the first to focus in detail on the Actresses' Franchise League, its membership and its work. The volume is formulated as a historiographically innovative critical biography of the organisation over the fifty years of its activities, and invites a total reassessment of the League within the accepted narratives of the development of political theatre in the UK.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2009The Women's Suffrage movement
*New feminist perspectives*
by Maroula Joannou, June Purvis
Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement. Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women's suffrage movement, this volume offers a unique focus. It includes studies of the fascinating, but neglected groups that participated in the campaign: the Women's Franchise League; the Women's Freedom League; the Women's Tax Resistance League and the United Suffragists. This is accompanied by feminist research on the poetry, fiction and drama that emerged from women's struggle for the vote. In addition there are reappraisals of two leading figures in the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union, an illuminating analysis of the relationship between suffrage and sexuality, and a discussion of what happened away from the metropolis, as well as of the little known campaign to extend the vote after 1918. ;
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May 2007Briefe an Freunde
1942–1999
by Jürgen Teller, Hubert Witt, Johanna Teller, Hubert Witt, Johanna Teller
Jürgen Teller war ein außerordentlicher Briefschreiber. Die vorliegende Sammlung enthält Briefe an seine Familie, an Ernst und Karola Bloch und ihren Sohn Jan Robert; an Sigrid Damm, Volker Braun, Friedrich Dieckmann, an Freunde und Schüler. Die in den Briefen geäußerte Kritik an Politik und Gesellschaft der DDR und auch der Bundesrepublik beruht auf dem Glauben an die Unzerstörbarkeit humanistischer Traditionen. Jürgen Teller wurde 1926 bei Leipzig geboren. Nach Krieg und Gefangenschaft gaben Literatur und Philosophie und neue Freundschaften seinem Leben eine andere Richtung. Die Begegnung mit Ernst Bloch war für ihn bestimmend, sie wurde ihm zur »Kopernikanischen Wende«. »Ernst hatte einen Assistenten«, schreibt Karola Bloch, »Jürgen Teller, den wir besonders schätzten. Als die Kampagne gegen Bloch entbrannt war, verlangte die Parteileitung der Universität auch von Teller eine negative Stellungnahme. Doch Teller weigerte sich, seinen Lehrer zu verleumden. Er wurde aus der SED ausgeschlossen und entlassen. Er fand Arbeit in einem Stahlwerk. Dort verunglückte er und verlor seinen linken Arm. Der Fall Teller führte zu erheblicher Unruhe in Kreisen der Intelligenz.
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June 2021Words Kill
by David Myles Robinson
Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It may have been an accident, but then again, it may have been murder. Russ' son Cody finds Russ's unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 16, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The sentence was, "Someone should kill that motherf***er.As Cody delves into the memoir, a window opens into a tragic past and thrusts the still-burning embers of another time's radical violence into the political reality of the present. History that once seemed far away becomes a deeply personal immersion for Cody into the storied heyday of Haight-Ashbury: drugs, sex, war protesters, right-wing militias, ground-breaking journalism-and the mysterious Gloria, who wanders into Russ' pad one day just to "crash here for a while until things calm down."Cody discovers aspects of his father's life he never knew, and slowly begins to understand the significance of those words his father spoke in 1968.Words Kill is a story of loss, violence, and racism; love, hate, and discovery. It is a story of then . . . and now.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fiction2021A Cool History of UkraineFrom Dinosaurs Till Now
by Inna Kovalyshena
Do you really think that history is boring and hard to under- stand? The heroes of this book thought so, too, at first. But just one interesting discovery pushed them to get to know history better — and to see that it can be fascinating, vibrant and so close to each of them. Four friends decide to explore the Ukrainian history and learn the truth: what kind of dino- saurs lived on our lands, who fought for Ukraine’s independ- ence, and why Ukrainians are the way they are. It turns out that history can be exciting and very important, even if it was back in the days of the dinosaurs. The subject of the book is the history of Ukraine from dinosaurs to today, which is interestingly and directly revealed. The main characters are children, in whom readers can recognize themselves. The text is written with humor and simple words, which makes the perception of information interactive. The book touches on important points of Ukraine's struggle for independence over many years.
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September 2016Kill your Darling!
13 Trennungsstorys, die Geschichte machten
by Jennifer Wright, Jenny Merling
Stell dir vor, du sitzt mit einer Packung Eiscreme in der einen, einer Flasche Gin in der anderen Hand auf dem Sofa, Tränen rinnen deine Wangen hinab und du wiederholst mantrahaft, wie sehr du deinen Ex geliebt hast. Lass dir gesagt sein: Es könnte viel schlimmer sein! Du könntest beispielsweise von deinem Verflossenen enthauptet werden, aus Rache fremde Männer kastrieren oder das Leben mit einer Sexpuppe verbringen. In Kill your Darling! präsentiert die New Yorker Journalistin Jennifer Wright die dreizehn skurrilsten und blutigsten Schlussmachepisoden der Geschichte – vom Massenmörder Nero bis hin zu Oskar Kokoschka –, boshaft-ironisch und doch mit der richtigen Dosis Empathie. Ein Buch für alle, die geliebt haben und verlassen wurden; für alle, die spätnachts zu viele Wut-E-Mails an ihre Verflossenen geschickt haben. Mit diesen Storys wird schnell klar: Was auch immer passiert ist, es hätte noch viel, viel schlimmer kommen können …
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Politics & governmentJune 2001From votes to seats
The operation of the UK electoral system since 1945
by Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, Danny Dorling, David Rossiter
The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the fourteen general elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias in those election results increased substantially over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour's advantage peaked at the 1997 general election when, even assuming there had been an equal share of the votes for the two parties, it would have won 82 more seats than its opponents. This situation came about because of different aspects of two well-known electoral abuses - malapportionment and gerrymandering. With the use of imaginative diagrams the book examines these processes in detail, illustrating how they operate and stresses the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2019 - December 2024Concise history of China
by Yang Ningyi，Zhao Shiyu, etc
According to the chronological order, the book introduces the history of China from ancient times to modern society. It is rich in content, concise in writing and exquisite in pictures. It is a good book to understand the history of China.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fiction2021A Delicious History of Ukraine
by Masha Serdiuk
What is Ukrainian cuisine? Who invented borscht? Where did the holubtsi (cabbage rolls) come from? And why are Ukrainian varenyky (dumplings) called relatives of Chinese dim sums? Answers to these questions can be found in this book. In an interesting accessible form, we tell children the history of the Ukrainian gastronomy. They will find out what famous Ukrainians loved to eat. We will explain in a plain way how the cuisine of Halychyna differs from that of Volyn and Polissya regions. We will also map all the “delicious” places in the country. Furthermore, of course, young readers will learn how to cook cult Ukrainian dishes.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2014History of Ukraine from KGB Secret Files
by Volodymyr Viatrovych
The unknown and classified KGB history of the largest country in Europe - Ukraine is the history of people, events, documents and files. The files have answers to many questions. The most important of which - why did a war begin again in Europe? Why is it so important for Russia to conquer Ukraine? Why are Ukrainians putting up such a powerful resistance? Historian Volodymyr Viatrovych, who declassified the secret archives of the Soviet special services from the Cheka to the KGB, talks about the history of Ukraine, the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1918 to 1991. The reader, is offered, along with various heroes and traitors, those who thought they were in control of events, and those who thought they had no power over them, to recreate the nearly century-old chess game between the Ukrainian liberation movement and the creators of the "prison of nations." Described in reports and recreated by a historian, this work looks at the cunning “special operations”, deadly moves, information wars and complex games among several players that are all an attempt to find an answer to the question: what creates our destiny - human will or circumstances?
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2025An unorthodox history
British Jews since 1945
by Gavin Schaffer
A bold, new history of British Jewish life since the Second World War. Historian Gavin Schaffer wrestles Jewish history away from the question of what others have thought about Jews, focusing instead on the experiences of Jewish people themselves. Exploring the complexities of inclusion and exclusion, he shines a light on groups that have been marginalised within Jewish history and culture, such as queer Jews, Jews married to non-Jews, Israel-critical Jews and even Messianic Jews, while offering a fresh look at Jewish activism, Jewish religiosity and Zionism. Weaving these stories together, Schaffer argues that there are good reasons to consider Jewish Britons as a unitary whole, even as debates rage about who is entitled to call themselves a Jew. Challenging the idea that British Jewish life is in terminal decline. An unorthodox history demonstrates that Jewish Britain is thriving and that Jewishness is deeply embedded in the country's history and culture.
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October 1998Ich sehe so viel Schönes, leider ohne Dich
Briefe an Johanna
by Otto von Bismarck, Jürgen Teller, Jürgen Teller
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Children's & YAJune 2016The Story of Birth
by CAI Gao
The Story of Birth is quite unique among Cai Gao’s works. This is the latest picture book of Ms. Cai, both its words and illustrations were created by herself. In this book, she describes the process of a baby' s birth by wax crayon, depicting the joy of life’s birth and expressing a high tribute to all mothers.
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FictionMay 2020The Guys of Rangoon 1930
by Khet Zaw
The Guys of Rangoon , 1930 is a record breaking bestseller book from Myanmar . It sold 16000 copies within one day during the pre order period. More than one hundred thousand copies have been sold so far. Film rights, several merchandise rights, comic rights already sold.It was based in Yangon , Myanmar during the colonial period. The main character is Pho Thoke who was a gangster and managed a lot of business by himself and his gang. He is very close with politicians as well and he is involved in several dirty political movements in Myanmar . This story is based on real characters and events.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2023Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s
by Lucy Robinson
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July 1994Viele Kammern im Welthaus
Eine Auswahl aus dem Werk
by Ernst Bloch, Friedrich Dieckmann, Friedrich Dieckmann, Jürgen Teller, Jürgen Teller
Ernst Simon Bloch wurde am 8. Juli 1885 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein geboren und starb am 4. August 1977 in Tübingen. Er entstammte einer jüdischen Familie aus der Pfalz. Von 1905 bis 1908 studierte er Philosophie bei Theodor Lipps in München und Oswald Külpe in Würzburg und wurde im Jahr 1908 promoviert. 1913 heiratete er die aus Riga stammende Bildhauerin Else von Stritzky. Als engagierter Gegner des Krieges ging er von 1917 bis 1919 mit seiner Frau in die Schweiz und war in Bern für das Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften tätig. 1917 beendete er in Locarno sein Werk Geist der Utopie. Ein Jahr nach dem Tod seiner Frau heiratete er 1922 die Malerin Linda Oppenheimer. Die Ehe hielt bis 1928. Inzwischen war Bloch nach Berlin zurückgekehrt und der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands beigetreten. Zu seinen damaligen Freunden gehörten Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Theodor W. Adorno und Walter Benjamin. Politisch war Bloch sehr aktiv und bekämpfte schon früh die aufstrebende NSDAP. Er wurde nach Hitlers Machtübernahme ausgebürgert und emigrierte mit seiner ebenfalls jüdischen Lebensgefährtin Karola Piotrowska in die Schweiz. Sie heirateten 1934 in Wien. Von 1936 bis 1938 lebten sie in Prag und emigrierten anschließend in die USA, wo sie zehn Jahre blieben. Dort schrieb Bloch an seinen Werken Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Subjekt - Objekt. Erläuterungen zu Hegel und Naturrecht und menschliche Würde. Nach dem Krieg, 1948, erhielt er einen Ruf nach Leipzig auf den Lehrstuhl für Philosophie. 1957 geriet er jedoch in Konflikt mit der SED und wurde emeritiert. Er zog nach Frankfurt am Main. Spuren und Das Prinzip Hoffnung erschienen 1959 im Suhrkamp Verlag. 1961 nahm Bloch eine Gastprofessur in Tübingen an, wo er bis zu seinem Tod 1977 blieb. Friedrich Dieckmann, Dr.phil.h.c., wurde 1937 in Landsberg/Warte geboren. Nach dem Studium der Germanistik, Philosophie und Physik arbeitete er von 1972 bis 1976 als Dramaturg am Berliner Ensemble. Er hat Bücher über Friedrich Schiller, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Bertolt Brecht und Karl von Appen veröffentlicht sowie den Roman eines Theaterhelden (Die Geschichte Don Giovannis. 1991. Insel Verlag), einen Band mit Essays zur deutschen Oper von Mozart bis Wagner und vier Essaybände aus dem und über den Prozeß der deutschen Vereinigung (drei davon in der edition suhrkamp: Vom Einbringen. Vaterländische Beiträge. 1992; Temperatursprung. Deutsche Verhältnisse. 1995; Was ist deutsch? Eine Nationalerkundung. 2003). Friedrich Dieckmann ist Träger des Heinrich-Mann- und des Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preises und Mitglied der Akademien der Künste in Berlin, Dresden und Leipzig sowie der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. 1989/90 war er Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. 1994 bis 2000 war Friedrich Dieckmann Sprecher der Deutschen Literaturkonferenz e.V. und von 2002 bis 2012 Mitglied des Sächsischen Kultursenats. Heute lebt Friedrich Dieckmann als Schriftsteller und Publizist in Berlin-Treptow. Mitgliedschaften: Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Künste Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung Mitglied der Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg Mitglied der Freien Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig Mitglied des Internationalen P.E.N. Friedrich Dieckmann, Dr.phil.h.c., wurde 1937 in Landsberg/Warte geboren. Nach dem Studium der Germanistik, Philosophie und Physik arbeitete er von 1972 bis 1976 als Dramaturg am Berliner Ensemble. Er hat Bücher über Friedrich Schiller, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Bertolt Brecht und Karl von Appen veröffentlicht sowie den Roman eines Theaterhelden (Die Geschichte Don Giovannis. 1991. Insel Verlag), einen Band mit Essays zur deutschen Oper von Mozart bis Wagner und vier Essaybände aus dem und über den Prozeß der deutschen Vereinigung (drei davon in der edition suhrkamp: Vom Einbringen. Vaterländische Beiträge. 1992; Temperatursprung. Deutsche Verhältnisse. 1995; Was ist deutsch? Eine Nationalerkundung. 2003). Friedrich Dieckmann ist Träger des Heinrich-Mann- und des Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preises und Mitglied der Akademien der Künste in Berlin, Dresden und Leipzig sowie der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. 1989/90 war er Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. 1994 bis 2000 war Friedrich Dieckmann Sprecher der Deutschen Literaturkonferenz e.V. und von 2002 bis 2012 Mitglied des Sächsischen Kultursenats. Heute lebt Friedrich Dieckmann als Schriftsteller und Publizist in Berlin-Treptow. Mitgliedschaften: Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Künste Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung Mitglied der Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg Mitglied der Freien Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig Mitglied des Internationalen P.E.N.
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Historical fiction2022HERON’S WAY
by Do Taij Mogul
The hero’s story is told in an ancient, secret chronicle... A white falcon flew across the Eternal Blue Sky. His flight was long and beautiful, binding together the patchwork of lands; his life was full of victories and defeats. Soaring high, then falling like a stone, the falcon darted from place to place. He threaded his way from the colored Jin Empire to that of the daring Naimans; from the lands of the Karakitai Khanate to the territories of the rebellious Tangut; from the highlands of the warlike Taichuds to the floodplains of the unruly Tatars.... From north to south, from east to west, no man or beast in the world knew what the falcon was really like: how his heart ached; how fears clutched his chest; what nightmares visited his sleep; what treacherous winds lurked at every takeoff of his daily journey—a journey from nothing to everything. But as he flew, paying for his power over the world with his loneliness, the world was falling to pieces. When the falcon ceased flying, the Great Destruction came, and only the memory of the people for him kept the Mongol flame burning across the centuries—all while people went about their daily routines, and did all the unbearable and great things that give man his destiny...
