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Trusted PartnerInsecticide & herbicide technologyJanuary 1992
Principles of Acarology
by Gwilym O Evans
This book deals with the underlying principles of acarology.
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Among Fellow Primates
Views of a monkey researcher
by Volker Sommer
Man brings apocalyptic plagues to the world and his fellow primates – from global warming to the destruction of forests. While millions of monkeys and apes lived on Earth only a few decades ago, today many species are strongly endangered. In this book the anthropologist and monkey researcher Volker Sommer calls on us to finally protect the fundamental rights such as the right to life, freedom and physical integrity of the great apes. For all his seriousness, Sommer is also a great storyteller who deals with his own profession with humour, sympathy and in a highly instructive way.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2013
Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50
by Brian Maidment
Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent, but soon widespread, use of lithography and wood engraving, both capable of integrating texts and images cheaply and imaginatively on the printed page. Drawing on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures, this book traces the ways in which Regency and early Victorian visual humour both sustains some of the characteristics of an earlier caricature tradition while also beginning to develop new ways of analyzing and coping with social change through comic forms and genres. ;
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesMarch 2022
Comic empires
Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art
by Richard Scully, Alan Lester, Andrekos Varnava
Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art. Edited by leading scholars across both fields (and with contributions from contexts as diverse as Egypt, Australia, the United States, and China, as well as Europe) the volume provides new perspectives on well-known events, and illuminates little-known players in the 'great game' of empire in modern times. Some of the finest comic art of the period is deployed as evidence, and examined seriously, in its own right, for the first time. Accessible to students of history at all levels, Comic empires is a major addition to the world-leading 'Studies in Imperialism' series, as well as standing alone as an innovative and significant contribution to the ever-growing international field of comics studies.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsFebruary 2022
"I am Jugoslovenka!"
Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesOctober 2023
Spectral Dickens
The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization
by Alexander Bove
Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens' illustrated novels using three hauntological concepts: the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian real. Thus, while the current discourse on character studies, which revolves around values like realism, depth, and lifelikeness, tends to see characters as mimetic of persons, this book invents new critical concepts to account for non-mimetic forms of characterization. These spectral forms bring to light the important influence of developments in nineteenth-century visual culture, such as the lithography and caricature of Daumier and J.J. Grandville. The spectrality of novelistic characters developed here paves the way for a new understanding of fictional characters in general.
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The Archer and Ten Suns
One Story a Week
by Chen Jiafei
When Yao was the leader of the confederation of tribes,ten suns ap-geared in the sky. The crops were scorched,and the grass and treeswere destroyed. The common people were starved to death. At the same time,the monsters and demons ran wild and did great harm to the people. Yao sent Hou Yi to kill them. Hou Yi killed the sharp teeth monster in the wilderness,slew the cruel dragon in the turbulent river,captured the storm demon in the valley of Qingqiu Mountains,cut the longest snake in Dong Ting Lake and captured the lar-gest beast in the mulberry forest. After destroying all the monsters,he shot down the nine blazing suns keeping only one in the sky. Then,the mass could live a sta-ble life again. Yi became the hero eulogized by the later generations.
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Trusted PartnerMay 2009
Zwischen Roosevelt und Hitler.
Die Geheimgespräche eines amerikanischen Diplomaten in Budapest 1934-1941. Eingeleitet von Tibor Frank. Aus dem Englischen von Claus Michael Hutterer.
by Einführung von Frank, Tibor; Herausgegeben von Frank, Tibor; Übersetzt von Hutterer, Claus Michael
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