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Howard J. Erlichman
The Roman Century: How a Determined People Launched the Greatest Empire in World History should be of interest to anyone who ponders the increasingly intense competition among the United States, China and Russia. The book places the spectacular Roman advance during a single “long” century (323-188 BCE) in a much wider geo-politico-economic context than existing works; explains how the Romans perfected a three-pronged blueprint of imperial conquest which had been devised by Philip II of Macedon; and incorporates timeless observations from the likes of Appian, Arrian, Clausewitz, Diodorus, Livy, Machiavelli, Plutarch, Polybius, Sun Tzu and Thucydides. The book also explains how the Romans generated a host of lessons to be studied by anyone concerned with the processes through which overseas empires are won and lost. The ebook edition is currently available on Amazon Kindle, Apple iTunes, B&N Nook and Rakuten Kobo.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2010New D.H. Lawrence
by Howard Booth
New D.H. Lawrence uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain's major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence scholars, who are brought together here for the first time. Chapters include: Andrew Harrison on the marketing of Sons and Lovers; Howard J. Booth on The Rainbow, Marxist criticism and colonialism; Holly A. Laird on ethics and suicide in Women in Love; Hugh Stevens on psychoanalysis and war in Women in Love; Jeff Wallace on Lawrence, Deleuze and abstraction; Stefania Michelucci on myth and war in 'The Ladybird'; Bethan Jones on gender and comedy in the late short fiction; Fiona Becket on green cultural critique, Apocalypse and Birds, Beasts and Flowers; and Sean Matthews on class, Leavis and the trial of Lady Chatterley. New D.H. Lawrence will be of interest to all concerned with contemporary writing on Lawrence, modernism and English radical cultures. ;
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March 2016Bettine und Achim von Arnim
Die Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Ehe
by Hildegard Baumgart
Es war eine der großen Liebesgeschichten der deutschen Romantik: Bettine Brentano und Achim von Arnim. Ihre Ehe dauerte von 1811 bis 1831 und verband zwei eigenwillige, gegensätzliche Gefühlsmenschen in einer höchst modern anmutenden Melange aus Zärtlichkeit und Konflikten, idealistischen Höhenflügen und profanen Sachzwängen. Das ist der Ausgangspunkt der großen Erzählung dieser Ehe, die Hildegard Baumgart auf der Basis intensiver Quellenrecherche unternimmt. Nach einigen gemeinsamen Jahren lebte das Paar räumlich getrennt, Bettine mit den Kindern in Berlin, Arnim auf seinem Gut Wiepersdorf – eine Trennung aufgrund ökomischer Notwendigkeiten, aber auch aufgrund unterschiedlicher persönlicher Charaktere und Bedürfnisse. Und doch blieb ihre Gemeinschaft intensiv. Arnim wirkte weiterhin als Autor und leidenschaftlicher politischer Journalist, Bettine lebte auf im gesellschaftlich-intellektuellen Leben der Hauptstadt.In dieser Doppelbiographie gelingt Hildegard Baumgart eine wunderbare Mischung aus genauer Recherche und lebendiger Erzählfreude. Es ist, als würde man die Arnims persönlich kennen.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2000Modernism and empire
Writing and British coloniality, 1890–1940
by Howard Booth, Nigel Rigby
This is the first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire. Contributors look at works from the traditional modernist canon as well as extending the range of work addresses - particularly emphasising texts from the Empire. A key issue raised is whether modernism sprang from a crisis in the colonial system, which it sought to extend, or whether the modern movement was a more sophisticated form of cultural imperialism. The chapters in Modernism and empire show the importance of empire to modernism. Patrick Williams theorises modernism and empire; Rod Edmond discusses theories of degeneration in imperial and modernist discourse; Helen Carr examines Imagism and empire; Elleke Boehmer compares Leonard Woolf and Yeats; Janet Montefiore writes on Kipling and Orwell, C.L. Innes explores Yeats, Joyce and their implied audiences; Maire Ni Fhlathuin writes on Patrick Pearse and modernism; John Nash considers newspapers, imperialism and Ulysses; Howard J. Booth addresses D.H. Lawrence and otherness; Nigel Rigby discusses Sylvia Townsend Warner and sexuality in the Pacific; Mark Williams explores Mansfield and Maori culture; Abdulrazak Gurnah looks at Karen Blixen, Elspeth Huxley and settler writing; and Bill Ashcroft and John Salter take an inter-disciplinary approach to Australia and 'Modernism's Empire'. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2019ABBA ABBA: By Anthony Burgess
by Paul Howard, Andrew Biswell
ABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgess's most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 1970s, this delightfully unconventional book is part historical novel, part poetry collection, as well as a meditation on translation and the generating of literature by one of Britain's most inventive post-war authors. Set in Papal Rome in the winter of 1820-21, Part One recreates the consumptive John Keats's final months in the Eternal City and imagines his meeting the Roman dialect poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Pitting Anglo-Italian cultures and sensibilities against each other, Burgess creates a context for his highly original versions of 71 sonnets by Belli, which feature in Part Two. This new edition includes extra material by Burgess, along with an introduction and notes by Paul Howard, Fellow in Italian Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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March 2016Bettine Brentano und Achim von Arnim
Lehrjahre einer Liebe
by Hildegard Baumgart
Die heimliche Hochzeit Bettine Brentanos und Achim von Arnims im Jahr 1811, viele Jahre nachdem sie sich kennen- und liebengelernt haben, besiegelt das Bündnis zweier Menschen, die gegensätzlicher nicht sein konnten und die doch, jeder auf seine Weise, das Fühlen, Denken und Schreiben der Romantik verkörpern. Kenntnisreich wie niemand vor ihr beleuchtet Hildegard Baumgart die Vorgeschichte dieser Ehe und die Kristallisationspunkte der Biographien von Bettine und Arnim: Elternhaus, Erziehung, soziale Umwelt, kulturelle Einflüsse, Freunde. Die ganze Welt dieser auch politisch so ereignisreichen Jahre wird lebendig. Hildegard Baumgart zitiert ausführlich aus den zahllosen Briefen, die sich die Liebenden geschickt haben, und aus anderen, bisher weitgehend vernachlässigten Texten. Indem sie ihre Protagonisten so authentisch zu Wort kommen läßt und den vielfältigen Überschneidungen, Parallelen und Unterschieden beider Lebensstränge Raum gewährt, legt Hildegard Baumgart eine Doppelbiograhie vor, die den »romantischen« Reichtum dieses Paares noch einmal entfaltet. »Eine Studie der Menschenkenntnis.« Hanns-Josel Ortheil, Die Welt
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January 1984Sag mir dein Sternzeichen, und ich sage dir, wie du liebst
Was die Sterne über unsere Partner und über uns zum Vorschein bringen
by Greene, Liz / Übersetzt von Janus, Edda
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January 1992Der Schatten aus der Zeit
Erzählung. Deutsch von Rudolf Hermstein
by H. P. Lovecraft, Rudolf Hermstein
Howard Phillips Lovecraft wurde am 20. August 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island geboren und starb am 15. März 1937 ebenda. Im Alter von acht Jahren verlor er seinen Vater. Er wurde fortan hauptsächlich von seiner Mutter, seinem Großvater und zwei Tanten aufgezogen und zeigte bereits früh literarische Begabung. Als Kleinkind lernte er Gedichte auswendig und begann im Alter von sechs Jahren, eigene Gedichte zu schreiben. Sein Großvater unterstützte diese Neigung und erzählte ihm selbsterfundene Horrorgeschichten. 1914 wurde Lovecraft Mitglied einer Vereinigung von amerikanischen Hobbyautoren, deren Ziel es war, durch Kongresse den Austausch unter den Autoren zu fördern. Dieser Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten verlieh Lovecraft neuen Schwung: Die Kurzgeschichten The Tomb und Dagon erstanden in dieser Zeit. 1924 heiratete Lovecraft die sieben Jahre ältere jüdische Ukrainerin Sonia Greene. Einige Jahre später einigten sich die getrennt lebenden Sonia Greene und Lovecraft auf eine einvernehmliche Scheidung, die jedoch nie rechtswirksam vollzogen wurde. Lovecraft kehrte zurück nach Providence und lebte dort wieder mit seinen Tanten. Dieser letzte Abschnitt seines Lebens war der produktivste. Nahezu sämtliche seiner bekannten Erzählungen, wie Der Fall Charles Dexter Ward oder Berge des Wahnsinns stammen aus dieser Zeit. 1936 wurde bei Lovecraft Darmkrebs diagnostiziert. Bis zu seinem Tode ein Jahr später litt er an ständigen Schmerzen und Unterernährung. Rudolf Hermstein, geboren 1940 in Juliusburg in Niederschlesien, ist seit 1971 als freier Übersetzer aus dem Englischen tätig. Er lebt im oberbayerischen Bad Feilnbach.
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March 2011Robin Hood. Mit einem Vorwort von Daniel Bielenstein
Arena Kinderbuch-Klassiker
by Pyle, Howard
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MedicineOctober 2017Health Benefits of Green Tea
An Evidence-based Approach
by Yukihiko Hara, Chung S Yang, Mamoru Isemura, Isao Tomita, R Agnihotri, Z Apostolides, T Asakawa, Z. M. Chen, S Gaur, Yukihiko Hara, M Inai, Mamoru Isemura, T Kakuda, T Kan, M. J. Lee, Z Lin, M Maeda-Yamamoto, S Masuda, S Meguro, T Minami, N Miyoshi, M Monobe, H Moriwaki, Y Nakamura, O Numata, K Saeki, K Sayama, Y Shimamura, M Shimizu, T Suzuki, H Tachibana, P. W. Taylor, I Tokimitsu, I Tomita, T. A. Tomita, K Unno, H Wang, H Yamada, C. S. Yang, H Yokogoshi
This book provides evidence to support the health-promoting components of green tea for human health. It explores the significance of green tea and its catechins represented by epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), demonstrating their beneficial effects on diseases including cancer, obesity, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hepatitis, and neurodegenerative diseases. The present status of human studies and avenues for future research are discussed. It is written by a team of experts from across the globe and makes significant Japanese findings available to international researchers. It is an essential resource for researchers interested in the biochemistry and pharmacology of green tea, and functional foods and beverages.
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The ArtsMay 2022Hyde Park
by James Shirley
by Helen Ostovich, Eugene Giddens
Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's comic setting, London's Hyde Park, offers ample opportunity for witty dialogue and sport - including foot and horse races - across three love plots. This is the first critical edition of the play, including a wide-ranging introduction and extensive commentary and textual notes. Paying special attention to the culture of Caroline London and its stage, the Revels Plays edition unpicks Shirley's politics of courtship and consent while also underlining the play's dynamics of class and power. A detailed performance history traces productions from 1632, across the Restoration to the present day, including that of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. A textual history of the play's first quarto determines how it was printed and what relationship Hyde Park has to other texts by Shirley from the same publishers.
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The ArtsApril 2024
Hyde Park
by James Shirley
by Eugene Giddens
Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's comic setting, London's Hyde Park, offers ample opportunity for witty dialogue. This is the first critical edition of the play, including a wide-ranging introduction and extensive commentary and textual notes. Paying special attention to the culture of Caroline London and its stage, the volume unpicks Shirley's politics of courtship and consent while also underlining the play's dynamics of class and power. A detailed performance history traces productions from 1632, across the Restoration to the present day, including that of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. A textual history of the play's first quarto determines how it was printed and what relationship Hyde Park has to other texts by Shirley.
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October 2015New Strategies on National Rejuvenation
by Shujin HUANG
In the 18th National Congress of CPC,President Jinping Xi proposed the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy,which are the new thoughts,new claims and new requests of the country governing.This book explores these new thoughts,new claims and new requests in-depth,and explains the strategies of national rejuvenation so as to complete the new tasks of the modern society.
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August 2017Community of Common Destiny—Chinese Program in Global Governance
by Wang Fan, Ling Shengli
Chinese President Xi Jinping mentioned the community of common destiny more than 100 times on important occasions both at home and abroad and elaborated on the connotation.This book tries to "Community of Common Destiny-Chinese Program in Global Governance" as the tittle, through ‘Community of Common destiny’ to illustrates a new international outlook" "New ideas, new measures: a win-win sharing of Chinese wisdom" . In recent years, China has built its community of peripheral destinies and taken part in the practice of global governance to explain China's determination and ability to safeguard world peace, promote global development and build a new international order, and further establish a good image of China as a responsible major power.
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