Silke Heiss (Give Your Writing The Edge)
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View Rights PortalSilkworm Books is a general publisher based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We specialize in select markets and quality English-language books, primarily on topics related to mainland Southeast Asia. Founded in 1989, we are the foremost publisher of serious books on Thailand in English. To date, we have published more than 300 English titles. We have licensed English-language rights, purchased translation rights, and less frequently commissioned writers. Our books are distributed in North America, and U.K., through the University of Washington Press, and in Asia by local distributors.
View Rights PortalTablets, capsules and suppositories – ointments, creams and gels – solutions, emulsions and suspensions – extracts, tinctures and distillates – inhalants and aerosols – the variety of solid, semisolid, liquid and gaseous medications is enormous, and ingenious new solutions for the optimisation of drug delivery are developed every day. For over 50 years, Voigt has set standards in pharmaceutical technology, both in the classroom and at the workplace. For the new edition, all contents have been thoroughly updated, the illustrations modernised and supplemented with many graphics and photos from industrial practice. Devices, methods and pharmacopoeia boxes are thus up to date. Take advantage of the authors’ compiled expertise on both fundamentals and the latest developments in the field.
In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship were all part of the Anglo-Indian silk trade and were nurtured in the era of empire through mutually beneficial collaboration. The trade operated within and without the empire, according to its own dictates and prospered in the face of increasing competition from China and Japan. King presents a new picture of the trade, where the strong links between Indian designs, the English silk industry and prominent members of the English the arts and crafts movement led to the production of beautiful and luxurious textiles. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be of interest to those interested in the relationship between the British Empire and the Indian subcontinent, as well as by historians of textiles and fashion.
— An overall presentation of the history of anti-Semitism based on the latest research — A necessary book that helps to recognise (and combat) anti-Jewish attitudes and patterns of behaviour even in the present day The Hamas attack on Israel is further aggravating the situation in the Middle East, and will continue to intensify anti-Semitism. And this plague, combined with Israel’s denied right to exist; the attacks in Brussels and Paris; the aggressive violence against everything Jewish in the Islamic world – is as dangerous as ever. Hatred of the Jews is old, vast and strong. The anamnesis began 2500 years ago in the Middle Ages, and came to head in the 18th and 19th centuries. It culminated ideologically in the Wannsee Conference, and became murderous in Auschwitz. Historian Sebastian Voigt provides a dense history of the hatred of the Jews – and combines it with a passionate call for courageous resistance.
Émile Durkheim zufolge besteht die wichtigste Regel soziologischen Denkens darin, soziale Phänomene »wie Dinge zu betrachten«, ihnen also den gleichen Wirklichkeitsgrad wie den Gegenständen, die wir anfassen können, zuzuschreiben. Was aber passiert, wenn wir diese Regel umkehren und die materiellen Dinge – zum Beispiel diejenigen, die die Architektur hervorbringt – als soziale Tatsachen verstehen? Ausgehend von einer brillanten theoriegeschichtlichen Aufarbeitung des soziologischen Nachdenkens über Architektur entwirft Silke Steets eine Soziologie der gebauten Welt. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele zeigt sie, wie Dinge und Gebäude in soziales Handeln einbezogen werden und als sicht- und anfassbare gesellschaftliche Strukturen fungieren.
Eigentlich ist die Nachtigall ein unscheinbarer kleiner, brauner Vogel. Von Aussehen, Gewicht, Verhalten absoluter Durchschnitt. Doch wenn die Männchen in lauen Frühlingsnächten zu singen anfangen, dann schlagen die Herzen der Verliebten ebenso höher wie die der Ornithologen. Denn der Gesang der Nachtigall ist alles andere als Durchschnitt und stellt in seiner Komplexität mit sage und schreibe zweihundert verschiedenen Strophentypen den anderer Singvögel komplett in den Schatten. Doch was singt die Nachtigall eigentlich und warum? Und was sahen Generationen von Dichtern und Komponisten in ihrem Gesang? Die Biologin Silke Kipper beforscht die Nachtigall seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren, sie hat unzählige Frühlingsnächte lauschend in Berliner Parks verbracht und geht in ihrem Buch dem Nachtigallengesang und unserer Faszination daran auf den Grund. Ein kenntnisreiches und doch leichtfüßiges Porträt des wohl beliebtesten Singvogels, seines Gesangs, und zugleich ein fundierter Einblick in die Nachtigallforschung und -rezeption.