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Promoted ContentSeptember 2021
Reminiscences of Song Dynasty: Urban Life
by Li Chuntang
No people in any dynasty knew more about life than those in the Song Dynasty.Focusing on Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty and Lin'an(Hangzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty, the political, economic, cultural, people's conditions, customs and other aspects of the city are described in this book, which shows the social development of the Song Dynasty from close to distant and from small to big.This book is divided into five chapters, including "Game of power", "Evolution of folk customs", "Awakening of culture", "Lively market" and "Secret corner", which paint an urban life drawing of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. More than 100 exquisite paintings of the Song Dynasty and the text content of this book jointly reflect the ultimate life aesthetics of the Song Dynasty.
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Promoted ContentLiterature & Literary StudiesJune 2017
Victorian demons
Medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle
by Andrew Smith
Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship. Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Dracula', increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilising these apparently dominant masculine scripts. He provides a coherent analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick ('The Elephant Man'), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes's London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.
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Trusted PartnerJune 2014
Total Recall Revisited
Die besten Stories
by Dick, Philip K. / Nachwort von Steinaecker, Thomas von
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 2021
Recollection pf Journey to the West
by Liu Zaifu
In the field of Chinese classical literature research, Mr. Liu Zaifu devoted himself to studying "Journey to the West" after the "Four Books of the Red Chamber" and "Criticism of Double Classics: A Cultural Criticism of "Water Margin" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and will spend many years in August 2018. Comprehend the cost book. This book is composed of 300 comprehensions, which not only appraise the things and plots of western tourists vertically, but also observe the four masterpieces horizontally, vividly presenting a cultural scholar's reading style, academic approach and aesthetic appeal.
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Trusted PartnerAugust 2014
My Predestined Love with High Rail
the Oral Autobiography of Zhiyun Shen
by Zhiyun SHEN, Tianming ZHANG,etc
This book is the oral autobiography of Zhiyun Shen,the senior fellow member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. By the recall of his science study life on the railway motors, communication and transportation, it veritably reflects the development of the Chinese railway vehicles, especially the high rail.
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Trusted PartnerBiography & True StoriesAugust 2014
My Predestined Love with High Rail: the Oral Autobiography of SHEN Zhiyun
by SHEN Zhiyun, ZHANG Tianming, etc.
This book is the oral autobiography of SHEN Zhiyun, the senior fellow member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. By the recall of his science study life on the railway motors, communications and transportations, it veritably reflects the development of the Chinese railway vehicles, especially the high rail.
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Trusted PartnerFictionJuly 2015
The Craftsman
by Shen Fuyu
It tells the story of the craftsmen and their families. They all come from the Shen Village, the hometown of the writer. They are gardeners, tailors and blacksmiths. From the story, we can see the change of northern Suzhou. And the writer reminisces about her hometown. The prosperity or decline of Shen Village not only shows the changes of the time, but also tells about the fate of karma.
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesOctober 2017
The Oral Autobiography of YUAN Longping
YUAN Longping
by 袁隆平
This book is the oral autobiography of YUAN Longping, a famous Chinese agricultural scientist widely known as the Father of Hybrid Rice. By the recall of little-known facts including YUAN’s family background, education experience, and scientific research experience, the book veritably reflects the development of Chinese society in the last hundred years, especially the hybrid rice.
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Trusted PartnerFebruary 2017
Photokinesis
Recall of the Spiritual View of Childhood
by Can Xue
This is a autobiography-style prose collection. Applying the unique writing technique, Can Xue has revealed the perceivable childhood inward world and all aspects of her childhood. Unlike her obscure novels, this collection attempts to grasp memory fragments through critical thinking and recall the childhood days. As a child, Can Xue is imaginative and obstinate, which has influence on her literary creation later. This spiritual autobiography serves as the key to the artistic world of Can Xue.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesAugust 2023
Klaus Babie
La ruta de la rata (The rat route)
by Jean-Claude Bauer, Frédéric Brremaud
The result of the combined work of Frédéric BRÉMAUD and Jean-Claude BAUER – the latter having covered the 1987 trial for Antenne 2 – KLAUS BARBIE, THE RAT'S ROUTE retraces the life of one of the greatest war criminals of the 20th century. Drawing on historical sources and the participation of Jean-Olivier VIOUT, the Deputy General Prosecutor during this historic trial, as well as Serge KLARSFELD, a staunch advocate for the cause of Jewish deportees – who pens the foreword to this work – they deliver a necessary narrative, bearing witness to one of the most resonant trials in history.
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Trusted PartnerCentral government policiesDecember 2009
Candide en Dannemarc, ou l’optimisme des honnêtes gens
Voltaire
by Mike Thompson, Edouard Langille
Published in Rouen in 1767 and reprinted two years later, Voltaire's Candide en Dannemarc, ou l'optimisme des honnêtes gens wraps up the adventures of Candide. Turning his back on both Voltairean satire and scepticism, the novelist proposes a moralistic fable - the focal point of which is a rehabilitation of Leibniz's Theory of Optimism. The main body of the novel tells the story of Candide and his new wife, the noble Zénoïde, in their sumptuous Copenhagen townhouse. Before achieving this happy state, however, the couple endures various trials and tribulations reminiscent of the newly minted gothic genre. Candide en Dannemarc also features a satirical portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ;
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesJune 2017
Candide en Dannemarc, ou l’optimisme des honnêtes gens
Voltaire
by Edouard Langille
Published in Rouen in 1767 and reprinted two years later, Voltaire's Candide en Dannemarc, ou l'optimisme des honnêtes gens wraps up the adventures of Candide. Turning his back on both Voltairean satire and scepticism, the novelist proposes a moralistic fable - the focal point of which is a rehabilitation of Leibniz's Theory of Optimism. The main body of the novel tells the story of Candide and his new wife, the noble Zénoïde, in their sumptuous Copenhagen townhouse. Before achieving this happy state, however, the couple endures various trials and tribulations reminiscent of the newly minted gothic genre. Candide en Dannemarc also features a satirical portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Trusted PartnerTravel & Transport2019
Ukraїner: Ukrainian Insider
by Bogdan Logvynenko
«Ukraïner. Ukrainian Insider» is the print edition of the ambitious digital media project Ukraïner (ukrainer.net) based on our 2016–2018 expedition throughout all the historic regions of Ukraine: from Sloboda Ukraine in the east to Podillia in the southwest, and Volyn in the northwest to Tavriia in the south. In this book we feature the most striking and memorable moments of our exploration as we intend to share with the world many unique places within Ukraine and the stories of the remarkable Ukrainians who live there. Evocative photography both showcases these stories and reveal Ukraine as authentic, surprising, and exciting country. Bogdan Logvinenko is the initiator of the project.
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Trusted PartnerChildren's & YA2009
Cómo construir un volcán (How to create a volcano)
by Vicente Rojo, José Emilio Pacheco, Alberto Blanco, Bárbara Jacobs, Coral Bracho, José-Miguel Ullán
This work created from drawings of volcanoes by the artist, with the collaboration of the poems of Pacheco, Bracho, Blanco, Jacobs and Millán give us clues about how to build a volcano, ink and letters. Vicente Rojo's Volcanoes are descriptive forms, which contain a deep love for the artistic profession, and reveal an external structure that speaks of the infinite complexity of the universe. They are a creative effort to unravel the mystery of volcanoes. The use of descriptive and functional forms, characteristic of Vicente Rojo's work, allows establishing an interpretive parameter, which in poetry has been reflected in mysterious and evocative ways.
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Trusted PartnerFebruary 2023
Tobias Mayer
or measuring the earth, sea and sky
by Thomas Knubben
—300th birthday of Tobias Mayer in February 2023 — The rediscovery of a great scientist — A chapter in the fascinating history of science The story of Tobias Mayer's life (1723 to 1762) is that of a child prodigy and orphan who became a pioneer of the Enlightenment as a cartographer, mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Having never been to university, at the age of 28 he was appointed a professor in Göttingen by the Elector of Hanover and King of England. He revolutionised cartography with his zeal and skill, helping sailors to find the right path across the seas and providing people with the firstever clear view of the moon. 17th February 2023 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Tobias Mayer. High time to recall this prototype of a scientist.
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Trusted PartnerJune 2024
At the Very Bottom of the System
How migrant workersensure prosperity for us
by Sascha Lübbe
The author reveals structural problems and offers solutions – an urgently necessary book, not least with a view to the acute shortage of skilled workers 450,000 migrant workers toll on German construction sites, work in sometimes inhumane conditions in meat factories or as truck drivers, and let’s not forget the hordes of cleaners in German hotels and companies. They are systematically exploited and cheated out of their wages. Sascha Lübbe exposes the octopus-like network of partly criminal companies in a shadowy world where the boundary between the legal and the illegal is blurred. In his evocative book with interviews with those aff ected, he reveals how a parallel system has established itself in the German working world, but also how those aff ected resist.
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Trusted Partner
ANOTHER ONE CASE
by Syamirulah Rahim, Zul Azlin, Onn Azli, SN Amran, Fahd Razy, Ahmad Zakimi, Mahyuddin Mohamed, Kamarul Ariffin, Ainul Arina, Rozanizam Zakaria, Khairil Idham Ismail, Rosmawati Hamzah, Norhasidah Abd Razak, Rashdan Mohamed, Noor Hayati Yasmin, Aliyya Ahmad, Adibah Abdullah, Khairy Malik, Hana Hadzrami, Bel Nawhen
Memory is a double-edged sword that is both a blessing and a curse. In the halls of a hospital, echoes of human suffering and triumph ring loudest, imprinting indelible marks upon the minds of its workers. Some memories are sweet, a blissful balm to recall; others knives-sharp, wounding the soul. Death and life, pain and healing, laughter and tears - however we choose to remember them, they remain forever unforgettable. 20 cases, 20 writers. Regardless of whether we are healthcare workers or patients, our humanity ultimately remains the same. Just one more case - that unforgettable one.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2015
Sites of imperial memory
Commemorating colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
by Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
Europe's great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us. They have left deep imprints on the different memory communities that were affected by the processes of establishing, running and dismantling these systems of imperial rule, and they are still vibrant and evocative today. This volume brings together a collection of innovative and fresh studies exploring different sites of imperial memory - those conceptual and real places where the memories of former colonial rulers and of former colonial subjects have crystallised into a lasting form. The volume explores how memory was built up, re-shaped and preserved across different empires, continents and centuries. It shows how it found concrete expression in stone and bronze, how it adhered to the stories that were told and retold about great individuals and how it was suppressed, denied and neglected. ;
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020
Death and the crown
Ritual and politics in France before the Revolution
by Anne Byrne
Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774, and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula. It reviews the state of the field in ritual studies and appraises the status of the monarchy in the 1770s, including the recall of the parlements and the many ways people engaged with royal ritual. It answers questions such as whether Louis XV died in fear of damnation, why Marie Antoinette was not crowned in 1775 and why Louis XVI's coronation was not held in Paris. This lively, accessible text is a useful tool for under- and post-graduate teaching which will also be of interest to specialists on this under-researched period.
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Trusted PartnerBusiness, Economics & LawJune 2019
TEFL Tourism
Principles, Commodification and the Sustainability of Teaching English as a Foreign Language
by Hayley Stainton
There is evident lineage between the concepts of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) and tourism, represented through evocative marketing material, the commoditisation of the TEFL product, teacher motivations and experiences. Yet, to date there has been no recognition of these links within industry or academia. This book introduces the concept of 'TEFL tourism', outlining the scale of the sector and the rapid commercialisation of TEFL teaching across the world, locating it as an emerging form of niche tourism. The text outlines the organisation types and geographical locations, emphaphising the commodification of English language teaching. It also outlines the types of TEFL tourists, the complexities of international education, links with various tourism forms and sustainability considerations of the industry. First book of its kind Case-studies throughout add context to the theoretical presentation of the industry Presents relevant industry statistics Addresses sustainability and stakeholders The book will appeal to tourism academics and students, in particular those with interests in educational and volunteer tourism as well as sustainable tourism and commodification.