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        September 2008

        Die Darwin-DNA

        Wie die neueste Forschung die Evolutionstheorie bestätigt

        by Carroll, Sean B. / Englisch Vogel, Sebastian

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        June 2009

        Charles Darwin und seine Wirkung

        by Eve-Marie Engels

        Mit seiner Abstammungstheorie legte Charles Darwin den Grundstein für die Herausbildung der Biologie als Naturwissenschaft. Er schuf damit einen Rahmen, der es ermöglichte, die verschiedenen biologischen Disziplinen in einen systematischen Zusammenhang zu bringen, ihre Ergebnisse aus einer einheitlichen Perspektive neu zu deuten und weitere Forschungsfelder zu erschließen. Dieser Prozeß der theoretischen Integration verlief nicht immer reibungslos. Darwins revolutionäre Wirkung betrifft neben der Biologie auch unser Menschen- und Naturbild. Die Einbettung des Menschen in die Evolution des Lebendigen beinhaltet Herausforderungen für Ethik, Erkenntnistheorie und andere Geistes- und Humanwissenschaften. Der Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über Darwins Wirkung in diesen verschiedenen Kontexten.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2025

        The Derby philosophers

        Science and culture in British urban society, 1700–1850

        by Paul A. Elliott

        The Derby Philosophers focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev. Thomas Gisborne the evangelical philosopher and poet, Robert Bage the novelist, Charles Sylvester the chemist and engineer, William George and his son Herbert Spencer, the internationally renowned evolutionist philosopher who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest', and members of the Wedgwood and Strutt families. The book explores how, inspired by science and through educational activities, publications and institutions including the famous Derbyshire General Infirmary (1810) and Derby Arboretum (1840), the Derby philosophers strove to promote social, political and urban improvements with national and international consequences. Much more than a parochial history of one intellectual group or town, this book examines science, politics and culture during one of the most turbulent periods of British history.

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        March 1993

        Mein Leben 1809 - 1882

        Herausgegeben von seiner Enkelin Nora Barlow. Mit einem Vorwort von Ernst Mayr. Aus dem Englischen von Christa Krüger

        by Charles Darwin, Nora Barlow, Christa Krüger, Ernst Mayr

        Charles Darwin wurde am 12. Februar 1809 in Shrewsbury geboren. Sein Großvater war der bekannte englische Naturwissenschaftler und Dichter Eramus Darwin (1731-1802), mit dessen geologischen und zoologischen Schriften sich Charles schon zu Jugendzeiten beschäftigte. Er studierte zunächst Medizin in Edinburgh und später Theologie in Cambridge, sein eigentliches Interesse galt jedoch der Biologie. 1831 bot sich ihm die Gelegenheit, an einer wissenschaftlichen Expeditionsreise nach Südamerika teilzunehmen. Die fünf Jahre an Bord der HMS Beagle, insbesondere der Aufenthalt auf den Galapagos-Inseln, lieferten ihm wertvolles Studienmaterial, das er nach seiner Rückkehr theoretisch und wissenschaftlich auszuwerten begann. Mit der Veröffentlichung seines Hauptwerkes „Über den Ursprung der Arten“ wartete er allerdings – aus Angst vor kirchlicher Kritik – bis 1859. Dann brachte der Austausch mit dem Naturforscher Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), der zeitgleich ebenfalls an der Herleitung einer Evolutionstheorie arbeitete, den entscheidenden Anstoß und Darwin ging mit seinen Thesen an die Öffentlichkeit. Das Buch hatte einen überwältigenden Erfolg und machte den Autor auf einen Schlag berühmt. Die renommierte Royal Society und die französische Akademie der Wissenschaften nahmen ihn als Mitglied auf. Darwin veröffentlichte weitere Abhandlungen, in denen er seine Evolutionstheorie aufgriff und weiterentwickelte. Nach seinem Tod, am 19. April 1882, wurde er in der Westminster Abbey, der Grabkirche der englischen Könige, bestattet.   Christa Krüger übersetzte u.a. Werke von Louis Begley, Penelope Fitzgerald und Richard Rorty. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

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        Classic fiction (Children's/YA)
        August 2018

        Alice's Adventure in Wonderland

        A South African Edition

        by Carroll, Lewis / Bird, Megan

        Megan Bird has re-imagined this wonderful children's tale by Lewis Carroll to be a modern twist of maddened adventure. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland is about a curious little girl called Alice, whose curiousity leads her to fall down a rabbit hole and into a marvelously troublesome world. What follows is a series of colourful, excited, mad, and sometimes unfortunate, events... where Alice must decide of just what mind she's made up of, and how to get home.

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        November 2008

        Reise eines Naturforschers um die Welt

        by Charles Darwin, Julia Voss, J. Victor Carus

        Im Alter von 22 Jahren nahm Charles Darwin an einer fünfjährigen Forschungsreise auf der HMS Beagle teil. Diese Jahre prägten sein Leben entscheidend: "Ich habe das sichere Gefühl, daß ich alles, was ich in der Wissenschaft geleistet haben mag, dieser Reise verdanke." Julia Voss, Darwin-Spezialistin und Kunstredakteurin der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, hat aus dem umfangreichen Reisetagebuch Darwins die schönsten und bedeutendsten Passagen ausgewählt: das Zusammentreffen mit den Feuerländern, das Erdbeben in Chile oder der Besuch der Galápagosinseln. In ihrem Nachwort gibt sie einen Überblick über Leben und Werk des großen Naturforschers.

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        May 2022

        Tourism Transformations in Protected Area Gateway Communities

        by Susan L Slocum, Peter Wiltshier, John Basil Read IV, Dorothee Bohn, Andrea Zita Botelho, Kelly S. Bricker, Robert S. Bristow, Karina H. Casimiro, Rosa Suárez Chaparro, Ana Cristina Costa, Kynda R. Curtis, Margaret J. Daniels, Edieser Dela Santa, C. Michael Hall, Manuel Ramón Gonzalez Herrera, Russell M. Hicks, Julie Judkins, N. Qwynne Lackey, Natalya Lawrence, Gustavo C. X. M. P. Machado, Gianna Moscardo, Jake Powell, Sidnei Raimundo, Mary Anne Ramos-Tumanan, Milena Manhães Rodrigues, Chris Ryan, Renato de Oliveira dos Santos, Jessica A. Schottanes, Ole R. Sleipness, Maria Anunciação Ventura, Therez B. Walker

        Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of works in this edited book provide bottom-up, informed, and nuanced approaches to tourism management using local experiences from gateway communities and protected areas management emerging from a decade of guidelines, rulemaking, and exclusive decision-making. Global perspectives are presented and contextualized at the local level of gateway communities in an attempt to balance nature, community, and commerce, while supporting the triple bottom line of sustainable tourism. While anticipating a post-COVID 19 global shift, readers are encouraged to think through transformation and resiliency in regard to how the flux of supply vs demand alters gateway community perspectives on tourism. Specific features of this book include: · Focus on transformations, which provides insight into the complex and dynamic nature of gateway communities. · Multidisciplinary, multi-cultural insights into protected area management. · Applied and conceptual chapters from global perspectives.

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        April 2009

        Zur Evolution der Arten und zur Entwicklung der Erde

        Frühe Schriften zur Evolutionstheorie

        by Charles Darwin, Rita Seuß, Uwe Hoßfeld, Lennart Olsson

        Die erste öffentliche Darstellung von Darwins Evolutionstheorie erfolgte 1858 vor der Linnean Society in London zusammen mit einer Arbeit des Naturforschers Alfred Russel Wallace, der unabhängig von Darwin zu ähnlichen Einsichten gekommen war. Der Band präsentiert ebenjene berühmte Darwin-Wallace-Papers und weitere frühe Schriften Darwins, die seine ersten Schritte zu einer umfassenden Theorie der Evolution markieren und gewissermaßen die Vorgeschichte der Origins of Species erzählen. Der Kommentar beleuchtet nicht nur die historischen Hintergründe, begrifflichen Weichenstellungen und Darwins Arbeitsweise, sondern dokumentiert auch einen seltenen Fall echter wissenschaftlicher Fairneß.

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        January 2022

        Forty Years of Stage Life -- Mei Lanfang's Statement

        by Mei Lanfang ,Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall

        Mei Lanfang's surviving literature amounts to more than 6 million words. Forty Years of Stage Life is the core of his works. It is a self-description of Mr. Mei Lanfang's life. It is the most convenient and reliable way to approach the master and understand his artistic life. The previous editions of the book were arranged according to the published versions under certain historical conditions. This is the first time for Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall to arrange the book according to the original manuscript, which is an original publication returning to the master's original intention based on the accumulation of long-term academic research and the revision of new materials. A large number of pictures of Mei Lanfang's stage performances, artistic creations and reports will be added to the book, as well as some hand-drawn illustrations restoring historical situations, in an effort to show and reproduce the radiance and splendor of the master artist and his unparalleled artistic life in a more comprehensive, full, real and beautiful way.

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        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        2017

        No Entry to the Performance Hall after the Third Bell. Short stories

        by Oksana Zabuzhko

        This collection includes the best short prose by the most successful Ukrainian female author. The reader will find here both recognized masterpieces that have been translated into many languages and sperformed on numerous European stages ("Alien", "Girls", "The Tale of the Guelder Rose Flute"), and little-known youthful attempts in various prose genres. The book concludes with a recently written story, which sums up the history of an entire generation, the "deferred war generation", through the drama of the misunderstanding between a mother and her daughter.

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        October 2008

        »Nichts ist beständiger als der Wandel«

        Briefe 1822 - 1859

        by Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Ursula Gräfe, Stephen Jay Gould, Frederick Burkhardt

        Charles Darwin war ein fleißiger Briefeschreiber. Er hat im Laufe seines Lebens mit über 2000 Personen korrespondiert und mehr als 7500 Briefe verfaßt. Die von Frederick Burckhardt vorgelegte repräsentative Edition versammelt Briefe aus den Jahren 1822 bis 1859. Sie setzt ein mit einigen erst jüngst entdeckten Briefen, die Darwin als 12jähriger schrieb und die hier erstmals veröffentlicht werden, und begleitet die weiteren Stationen seines Lebens, die Universitätszeit in Edinburg und Cambridge, die fünfjährige Weltumsegelung auf der Beagle bis zur Publikation der Entstehung der Arten. Anders als das sorgfältig überarbeitete Tagebuch der Beagle-Reise oder die wissenschaftlichen Werke zeigen die oft begeisterten Schilderungen von Erlebnissen und Entdeckungen Darwin als einen Menschen von besonderer Spontaneität. Die Briefe – lebendig und anschaulich geschrieben – eröffnen einen faszinierenden Blick nicht nur auf den Forscher und seine wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse, sondern auch den Privatmann, den Sohn, Bruder, Familienvater und Ehemann. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar und eine Übersicht über die Briefpartner ordnen die Briefe in ihren historischen Kontext ein. Das Vorwort von Stephen Jay Gould führt in Leben und Werk Charles Darwins ein.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2013

        The annals of St-Bertin

        Ninth-century histories, volume I

        by Janet L. Nelson

        The Annals of St-Bertin, covering the years 830 to 882, are the main narrative source for the Carolingian world in the ninth century. This richly-annotated translation by a leading British specialist makes these Carolingian histories accessible in English for the first time, encouraging readers to reassess and evaluate a crucially formative period of European history. Produced in the 830s in the imperial palace of Louis the Pious, The Annals of St-Bertin were continued away from the Court, first by Bishop Prudentius of Troyes, then by the great scholar-politician Archbishop Hinemar of Rheims. The authors' distinctive voices and interests give the work a personal tone rarely found in medieval annals. They also contain uniquely detailed information on Carolingian politics, especially the reign of the West Frankish king, Charles the Bald (840-877). No other source offers so much evidence on the Continental activities of the Vikings. Janet L. Nelson offers in this volume both an entrée to a crucial Carolingian source and an introduction to the historical setting of teh Annals and possible ways of reading the evidence. The Annals of St-Bertin will be valuable reading for academics, research students and undergraduates in medieval history, archaeology and medieval languages. It will also fascinate any general reader with an interest in the development of European culture and society.

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        September 2016

        Darwin City

        Die Letzten der Erde

        by Hough, Jason M. / Übersetzt von Heller, Simone

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2000

        Cultures of Empire

        A reader

        by Catherine Hall, Meg Davies

        Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A substantial introduction by the distinguished historian, Professor Catherine Hall, discusses new approaches to the history of empire and establishes a narrative frame through which to read the essays which follow.. The volume is clearly divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasising concepts and approaches; the colonisers 'at home', focusing on how empire was lived in Britain; and 'away' - the attempt to construct new cultures through which the colonisers defined themselves and others in varied colonial sites. A useful guide to recent scholarship on the culture of imperialism. ;

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        Business, Economics & Law
        January 2017

        Tourism and Geopolitics

        Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe

        by Derek R Hall

        With 29 contributors from across Europe and beyond, this work represents a unique and important resource that examines the many relationships between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experiences drawn from Central and Eastern Europe. It begins by assessing the changing nature of 'geopolitics', from pejorative associations with Nazism to the more recent critical and feminist geopolitics of social science's 'cultural turn'. The book then addresses the important historical role of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in geopolitical thinking, before exemplifying a range of contemporary interactions between tourism and geopolitics within this critical region. Edited by a renowned authority on tourism geopolitics, this book: · Provides the most comprehensive overview of tourism and geopolitics available · Applies a range of geopolitical concepts and approaches to empirical experiences of tourism and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe · Embraces contributions from both established and new academic voices. Pursuing innovative analytical paths, the book demonstrates the interrelated nature of tourism and geopolitics and emphasizes the freshness of this research area. Addressing key principles and ideas which are applicable globally, it is an essential source for researchers, teachers and students of tourism, geography, political science and European studies, as well as for diplomatic, business and consultant practitioners. ; This book is a unique and important resource that discusses the relationship between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experience from Central and Eastern Europe ; Part I: Introduction and Overviews1: Bringing geopolitics to tourism2: Tourism and geopolitics: the political imaginary of territory, tourism and space3: Tourism in the geopolitical construction of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)Part II: Reconfiguring Conceptions and Reality4: The Adriatic as a (re-)emerging cultural space5: Crimea: geopolitics and tourism6: The geopolitical trial of tourism in modern Ukraine7: Under pressure: the impact of Russian tourism investment in MontenegroPart III: Tourism and Transnationalism8: Large-scale tourism development in a Czech rural area: contestation over the meaning of modernity9: The expansion of international hotel groups into Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 – strategic couplings and local responses10: Conceptualising trans-national hotel chain penetration in Bulgaria11: New consumption spaces and cross-border mobilitiesPart IV: Borderlands12: From divided to shared spaces: transborder tourism in the Polish-Czech borderlands13: Finnish-Russian border mobility and tourism: localism overruled by geopolitics14: Kaliningrad as a tourism enclave/exclave?15: An evaluation of tourism development in KaliningradPart V: Identity and Image16: Mutli-ethnic food in the mono-ethnic city: tourism, gastronomy and identity in central Warsaw17: Rural tourism as a meeting ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina?18: Interrogating tourism’s relevance: mediating between polarities in Kosovo19: European Night of Museums and the geopolitics of events in Romania20: The power of the Web: blogging destination image in Bucharest and SofiaPart VI: Mobilities21: The role of pioneering tour companies22: The geopolitics of low-cost carriers in Central and Eastern Europe23: Tourism and a geopolitics of connectivity: the Albanian nexus24: Heroes or ‘Others’? A geopolitics of international footballer mobility25: Tourism, mobilities and the geopolitics of erasurePart VII: Conclusions26: In conclusion

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        The Passengers’ Hall

        by Ezzat El-Kamhawi

        A text that transcends literary genres, this book concludes a path that runs through the author’s previous books: Al Ike fe Al Mabahej was Al Ahan (The Ike in the Joys and Sorrows) 2002, Kitab Al Ghewaya (The Book of Seduction) 2007, and Al Aar men Al Difatayn... Abeed Al Azmenah Al Hadethah fee Marakeb Al Tholomat (Shame on the Two Banks: Slaves of Modern Times in the Boats of Darkness) 2011.   The theme of the book focuses on travel as a human activity and an example of human life. Hence the novel’s philosophical approach manifests itself as an examination of the different stages of travel as a metaphor for man’s journey from life to death. With this philosophical view the writer's prose fuses with cities and travel experiences, diving deep to describe the souls of the cities, going far beyond what can be captured by a camera.   The book contemplates the styles of architecture and the meanings they represent, reflecting on the meaning of beauty and perfection, as well as the nature of aggression that resides in them. It reflects, too, on the meaning of living on an island and the symbolism of water, which makes travel a unique experience that increases the depth of life and compensates us for our short existence.   The writer examines his visions by invoking publications that highlight travel, including The Thousand and One Nights, which he considers to be a travel book.

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