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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2009

Food, risk and politics

Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety

by Ed Randall

This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open public debate about food safety issues. He argues that this is the true antidote to the politics of scare, scandal and crisis. The book skilfully weaves together the many different threads of food safety and risk politics and offers a particularly rewarding read for academics and students in the fields of politics and media studies. It will also appeal to scholars from other disciplines, particularly social psychology and the food sciences. The book is a lively and exceptionally readable account of food safety and risk politics that will engage policy makers and the general reader. It promises to help us all manage food safety issues more intelligently and successfully. ;

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November 2022

Der Einfall der Geister

Roman | Ein Meisterwerk Schwarzen Erzählens

by Randall Kenan, Eva Bonné, Aminata Cissé

Die Schuld austreiben, das ist der Plan, als Horace in einer Frühlingsnacht in den Garten seines Großvaters hinaustritt. Ein Ritual soll Horace befreien. Von den Erwartungen, die seine Familie an ihn und seine Begabung stellt, von den rasenden Gedanken, vom Begehren, das ihn Mitte der Achtziger in dieser Schwarzen Baptistengemeinde im Süden alles kosten kann. Doch die Befreiung missglückt, und Horace, getrieben von den erlittenen Ungerechtigkeiten aus Hunderten von Jahren, irrt gefährlich durch die Nacht. Bis ein anderer Mann aus seiner Familie, am Glauben verzweifelt wie er, dem berechtigten Wahnsinn Einhalt gebieten will … Entdeckt von Toni Morrison, als sein Jünger mit James Baldwins Nachlass betraut, so stand Randall Kenan 1989 nach Erscheinen seines Romans an der Spitze der nachfolgenden Generation, einsam und zu früh. Mehr als dreißig Jahre mussten vergehen, damit Der Einfall der Geister international gefeiert werden kann, als ein Meisterwerk Schwarzen Erzählens, über die Gefahren der Erlösung, über Wünsche, die an Grenzen stoßen.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2021

Insanity, identity and empire

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

by Catharine Coleborne

Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2023

New Zealand's empire

by Katie Pickles, Catharine Coleborne

This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country's spheres of internal imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire and its outreach to Antarctica. The book critically revises our understanding of the range of ways that New Zealand has played a role as an imperial power, including the cultural histories of New Zealand inside the British Empire, engagements with imperial practices and notions of imperialism, the special significance of New Zealand in the Pacific region, and the circulation of ideas of empire both through and inside New Zealand over time. The essays in this volume span social, cultural, political and economic history, and in testing the concept of New Zealand's empire, the contributors take new directions in both historiographical and empirical research.

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

July 2013

David Malouf

by Don Randall

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November 2006

Verborgene Universen

Eine Reise in den extradimensionalen Raum

by Randall, Lisa

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Cultural studies

July 2013

Food, risk and politics

by Ed Randall

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Randale, Randale, Trekkingsandale

Kleinstadt-Wahnsinn mit den Ahlmanns. Von den Macher:innen von alman_memes2.0

by Scherzant, Sina Notter, Marius

1. Auflage

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August 2015

Soziologiegeschichte

Wege und Ziele

by Stephan Moebius, Christian Dayé

Warum beschäftigen sich Soziologinnen und Soziologen mit der Geschichte ihres eigenen Faches? Ist eine Disziplingeschichte bloß akademischer Tand oder benötigt die Gesellschaft tatsächlich eine Geschichte ihrer professionellen Selbstreflexion und Selbstbeobachtung? Und: Wie kann Soziologiegeschichte in einer Weise betrieben werden, die die Existenz des Fachs in einem über die akademische curiositas hinausgehenden Rahmen rechtfertigt? Diesen Fragen gehen namhafte Soziologiehistorikerinnen und -historiker wie Andrew Abbott, Randall Collins, Dirk Kaesler, Donald N. Levine, Jennifer Platt, Karl-Siegbert Rehberg u. a. in diesem Band nach, der in seiner Verbindung von klassischen und neueren Texten als Einführung in die Soziologiegeschichte dienen kann.

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January 1994

Nur Worte

by MacKinnon, Catharine A / Englisch Baer, Susanne

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January 1984

Falle Alkohol

Roman

by Randall, Thomas

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Literature & Literary Studies

August 2003

Comrade heart

A life of Randall Swingler

by Andy Croft

Tells the extraordinary story of the English poet Randall Swingler, godson of the Archbishop of Canterbury, communist, librettist, publisher, propagandist, poet and war-hero. Focuses on the Second World War and the story of the African and Italian campaigns, recorded uniquely through the eyes of the ordinary soldier. A case-study of the intellectual consequences of the Cold War in Britain, McCarthyism AND Zhdanovism. It is a book about poetry and music. And it is a love story. A wholly original contribution to an area of literary history which reclaims the lost history of the London literary Left. Differs from most other books about poetry and politics in Britain in the middle decades of the twentieth century by drawing on new and original sources. ;

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Medicine

May 2016

Insanity, identity and empire

by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

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The Arts

February 2015

Crafting design in Italy

From post-war to postmodernism

by Catharine Rossi, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated design episodes in the twentieth century. Craft was vital to the development of Italian design, and it has been so far overlooked. This book examines the multiple ways craft shaped Italian design from 1945 to the 1980s in the context of bigger socio-economic, cultural and political change; from post-war reconstruction to the economic 'miracle' of the 1960s, to the rise of the countercultural Radical Design movement and advent of postmodernism. It consists of case studies on design areas including product, furniture, fashion, glass and ceramics to bring to light previously unknown makers and objects as well as re-examine design 'icons' such as Gio Ponti's Superleggera chair and Ettore Sottsass's Memphisware. It also offers a model for analysing design and craft's relationship in other contexts, including today. ;

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January 1993

Die Senyora

Roman

by Clément, Catharine / Übersetzt von Broggi Beckmann, Giuliana

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January 1996

Randale

Roman

by Blanc, Henri F / Übersetzt von Thill, Beate

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2020

History, empire, and Islam

by Vicky Randall, Alan Lester

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January 1993

Das Teddybären Buch

Bärenstarke Geschichten für jung und alt

by Herausgegeben von Taylor, Catharine; Übersetzt von Bean, Gerda

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Literature & Literary Studies

May 2007

David Malouf

by Don Randall, John Thieme

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Literature & Literary Studies

January 2004

Theatre and religion

Lancastrian Shakespeare

by Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Richard Wilson

This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic. In the Introduction, Richard Wilson reviews the history of the debate over Shakespeare's religion, while Arthur Marotti and Peter Milward offer current perspectives on the subject. Eamon Duffy offers a historian's view of the nature of Elizabethan Catholicism, complemented by Frank Brownlow's study of Elizabeth's most brutal enforcer of religious policy, Richard Topcliffe. Two key Catholic controversialists are addressed by Donna Hamilton (Richard Vestegan) and Jean-Christophe Mayer (Robert Parsons). Robert Miola opens up the neglected field of Jesuit drama in the period, whilst Sonia Fielitz specifically proposes a new, Jesuit source-text for Timon of Athens. Carol Enos (As You Like It), Margaret Jones-Davies (Cymbeline), Gerard Kilroy (Hamlet) and Randall Martin (Henry VI 3) read individual plays in the light of these questions, while Gary Taylor's essay fittingly investigates the possible influence of religious conflicts on the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio. Theatre and religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare as a whole represents a major intervention in this fiercely contested current debate. ;

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Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety

by Ed Randall

Roman | Ein Meisterwerk Schwarzen Erzählens

by Randall Kenan, Eva Bonné, Aminata Cissé

Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

by Catharine Coleborne

by Katie Pickles, Catharine Coleborne

by Don Randall

Eine Reise in den extradimensionalen Raum

by Randall, Lisa

by Ed Randall

Kleinstadt-Wahnsinn mit den Ahlmanns. Von den Macher:innen von alman_memes2.0

by Scherzant, Sina Notter, Marius

Wege und Ziele

by Stephan Moebius, Christian Dayé

by MacKinnon, Catharine A / Englisch Baer, Susanne

Roman

by Randall, Thomas

A life of Randall Swingler

by Andy Croft

by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

From post-war to postmodernism

by Catharine Rossi, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

Roman

by Clément, Catharine / Übersetzt von Broggi Beckmann, Giuliana

Roman

by Blanc, Henri F / Übersetzt von Thill, Beate

by Vicky Randall, Alan Lester

Bärenstarke Geschichten für jung und alt

by Herausgegeben von Taylor, Catharine; Übersetzt von Bean, Gerda

by Don Randall, John Thieme

Lancastrian Shakespeare

by Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Richard Wilson

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