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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2020

Church polity and politics in the British Atlantic world, c. 1635–66

by Elliot Vernon, Hunter Powell, Anthony Milton

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2006

British representations of the Spanish Civil War

by Brian Shelmerdine

This book looks at the reception of the Spanish Civil War in British popular culture, and how supporters of both sides in Britain used the rhetoric and imagery of the conflict to bolster support for their respective causes in the arena of British public opinion. Brian Shelmerdine finds that traditional notions of Spain as a country of bullfighting, bandits and flamenco were pervasive and were significant in shaping wider UK government policy towards Spain. He carefully assesses the different political perceptions of the 1930s Spanish scene, the role of the Catholic Church, the depiction of the two sides in terms of class, race and ethnicity, humanitarian appeals, and the plight of the Basques. The book is fluently written, and should make fascinating and entertaining reading for scholars of British society and culture in the twentieth century, as well as those investigating international impact of the Spanish Civil War. ;

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April 2017

Ich bin Brian Wilson

by Wilson, Brian

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The Arts

November 2011

Real and Reel

The education of a film critic

by Brian McFarlane

From a little before ten years of age Brian McFarlane became addicted to stories told on the screen, and the mere fact that he had difficulty in getting to see the films he wanted - or any for that matter - only made them seem more alluring. But it wasn't just seeing the films that mattered: he also wanted, and quite soon needed, to be writing about them and these obsessions have been part of his life for the next sixty-odd years. Real and reel is a light-hearted and but deeply felt account of a lifetime's addiction. It is one particular writer and critic's story, but it will strike sparks among many others. Though many other interests have kept Brian McFarlane's life lively, nothing else has exerted such a long-standing grip on the author's imagination as film. Editor of the Encyclopaedia of British Cinema, co-editor of Manchester University Press's British Film Makers series, and author of over a dozen critical works on film and adaptation, Brian McFarlane's autobiographical Real and reel can also be read as a biography of the subject of Film Studies itself. ;

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January 1964

Prinz Albert.

by Church, Richard

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January 1971

Sprache und die Entdeckung der Wirklichkeit

Über Spracherwerb des Kleinkindes

by Church, Joseph

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Humanities & Social Sciences

August 2010

The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, 1849–1950

by Miriam Moffitt

This work details traces the origins, development and impact of the proselytizing organization, the Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, from its Protestant foundation during the famine of 1845-47 to the early decades of Irish Free State. It argues that the foundation of this ostensibly religious society was also underpinned by social, political, and economic factors and demonstrates that by the mid 1850s the mission operated on a very substantial scale. Moffitt examines the mission's role in the shifting political realities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The impact of this inter-faith power struggle and its legacy to the present day are explored by examining contemporary sources, folklore evidence, and the depiction of proselytizing missions in both Catholic and Protestant denomination literature and fictional writings. ;

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February 2023

We're Staying!

Why women won't be driven out of the Catholic Church

by Elisabeth Zoll (ed.)

— The book beyond the synodal path — Leaving is not an option for the authors of this book — 17 credible examples of consistency and daring Can the Catholic Church still be saved? There have been huge numbers of resignations; the reasons for them are well known. And yet! Committed Catholics from the worlds of politics, business, culture and society oppose this. They share how, despite their disappointments, even their anger, they are still able to find their way in the Church, walking tall and with inner freedom. These are encouraging examples of decidedly critical women who assert themselves – and who are not going anywhere: "Now, more than ever before, we need women – and men – who are prepared to confess their faith with confidence." Not out of nostalgia or any diffuse incense feelings, but out of conviction, because their faith means a lot to them.

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Literature & Literary Studies

September 2020

God's only daughter

Spenser's Una as the invisible Church

by J. B. Lethbridge, Kathryn Walls

In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine's City of God - the invisible Church, whose membership is known only to God. Una's story (its Tudor resonances notwithstanding) therefore embraces that of the Synagogue before the Incarnation as well as that of the Church in the time of Christ and thereafter. It also allegorises the redemptive process that sustains the true Church. Una is fallible in canto I. Subsequently, however, she comes to embody divine perfection. Her transformation depends upon the intervention of the lion as Christ. Convinced of the consistency and coherence of Spenser's allegory, Walls offers fresh interpretations of Abessa (as Synagoga), of the fauns and satyrs (the Gentiles), and of Una's dwarf (adiaphoric forms of worship). She also reinterprets Spenser's marriage metaphor, clarifying the significance of Red Cross as Una's spouse in the final canto.

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The Barefoot Doctor

by Can Xue

The novel tells of the story about the growth of a barefoot doctor in a village. By means of the experiences of Sister Yi the barefoot doctor, Mi Yi, Hui Ju and other characters, the author manages to expose the real dependence relationship between man and nature, and between man and man, so as to construct a new kind of relationship in the future world from a brand-new perspective with lots of astounding descriptions. The scenes depicted in the novel belong to the future world, the plots, however, firmly stick to the reality. Thus the real and free conceptions in the novel are both down-to-earth and overwhelmingly shocking, from which every ordinary reader can find resonance and gain strength for life in it. Once again, the outlook of philosophy and nature of Can Xue has delicately and simply stood out in the novel in a literary way.

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January 1990

Brians Malschule - Wir malen Haustiere

by Bagnall, Brian

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January 1990

Brians Malschule - Wir malen Autos

by Bagnall, Brian

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January 1990

Brians Malschule - Wir malen Menschen

by Bagnall, Brian

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January 1990

Brians Malschule - Wir malen Zootiere

by Bagnall, Brian

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Film theory & criticism

February 2014

The Encyclopedia of British Film

Fourth edition

by Edited by Brian McFarlane

With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with detailed listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries.

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Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

June 2024

Round our way

Sam Hanna's visual legacy

by Heather Nicholson

Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the 'Lowry of filmmaking' by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna's remarkable output. Hanna's intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers enable us to imagine the possible stories that lie behind the images. Away from mid-century exponents of documentary filmmaking and photography, Hanna shows us humanity and a microcosm of a world in change, where his subjects are caught up in issues far beyond their grasp that we, as onlookers years later, encounter and see afresh. Written and curated by historian Heather Norris Nicholson, Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document Hanna's unique visual record on film, particularly in northern England, but also further afield, during decades of profound change.

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January 1989

Wir haben uns getrennt - und was jetzt?

Der Weg aus dem Trennungsschock. Wie man das Ende einer Liebesbeziehung positiv überwinden kann

by Gullo, Stephen; Church, Connie / Übersetzt von Balkenhol, Marion

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Religion & politics

July 2013

Church, nation and race

by Ulrike Ehret

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2013

The Jews in western Europe, 1400–1600

by John Edwards

As European politics, society, economy and religion underwent epoch-making changes between 1400 and 1600, the treatment of Europe's Jews by the non-Jewish majority was, then as in later periods, a symptom of social problems and tensions in the Continent as a whole. Through a broad-ranging collection of documents, John Edwards sets out to present a vivid picture of the Jewish presence in European life during this vital and turbulent period. Subjects covered include the Jews' own economic presence and culture, social relations between Jews and Christians, the policies and actions of Christian authorities in Church and State. He also draws upon original source material to convey ordinary people's prejudices about Jews, including myths about Jewish 'devilishness', money-grabbing, and 'ritual murder' of Christian children. Full introductory and explanatory material makes accessible the historical context of the subject and highlights the insights offered by the documents as well as the pitfalls to be avoided in this area of historical enquiry. This volume aims to provide a coherent working collection of texts for lecturers, teachers and students who wish to understand the experience of Jewish Europeans in this period.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2024

Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714

by Jake Griesel, Esther Counsell

This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England. This volume enriches scholarly understandings of how Reformed identity was understood in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and how it influenced both clerical and lay attitudes towards the English Church's government, liturgy and doctrine. In a reflection of how established religion pervaded all aspects of civic life in the early modern world and was sharply contested within both ecclesiastical and political spheres, this volume includes chapters that focus variously on the ecclesio-political, liturgical, and doctrinal aspects of conformity.

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by Elliot Vernon, Hunter Powell, Anthony Milton

by Brian Shelmerdine

by Wilson, Brian

The education of a film critic

by Brian McFarlane

by Church, Richard

Über Spracherwerb des Kleinkindes

by Church, Joseph

by Miriam Moffitt

Why women won't be driven out of the Catholic Church

by Elisabeth Zoll (ed.)

Spenser's Una as the invisible Church

by J. B. Lethbridge, Kathryn Walls

by Can Xue

by Bagnall, Brian

by Bagnall, Brian

by Bagnall, Brian

by Bagnall, Brian

Fourth edition

by Edited by Brian McFarlane

Sam Hanna's visual legacy

by Heather Nicholson

Der Weg aus dem Trennungsschock. Wie man das Ende einer Liebesbeziehung positiv überwinden kann

by Gullo, Stephen; Church, Connie / Übersetzt von Balkenhol, Marion

by Ulrike Ehret

by John Edwards

by Jake Griesel, Esther Counsell

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