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Our original card sets are a way for any parent to play and interact with their child in a way that stimulates learning, improving cognitive skills and, perhaps more importantly, create a positive parent-child relationship. With the Carrot Cards both the parent and the child are engaged in an activity and they explore, learn, try, and experience together. We create every card set with a goal to make it as useful as possible, combining pedagogy and psychology, as well as aesthetics, creative writing and original concepts. Thus, allowing every child who opens a box of Carrot cards to experience a whole new learning experience. We have thousands of parents using the cards all over the world, sharing the excitement of learning and being curious together with their children. While striving to give more and more parents the opportunity to support their children’s development, we have also been recognized as a trustworthy partner for almost any kind of professionals working with children. From pre-school teachers to therapists, hundreds of experts use our cards in classrooms, offices, at presentations or as home assignments daily. Our contribution to early childhood development and our role as a supporter for parents were recognized in 2018 when we were selected as “Champions of Change” by the Reach for Change Foundation – Bulgaria, and we have been a part of the Reach for Change Global Network ever since.
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April 2000Albertina.
Zur Geschichte der Albertus-Universität zu Königsberg in Preußen. Hrsg. von Dietrich Rauschning.
by Lawrynowicz, Kasimir / Herausgegeben von Rauschning, Dietrich
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June 1996Liebesbriefe an Albertina Rosa
by Pablo Neruda, Curt Meyer-Clason
Es versteht sich, daß diese Briefe nicht den Anspruch erheben wollen, literarisches Dokument zu sein — sie werfen Licht auf eine Beziehung, auf ein kurzes Stück Leben, auf eine große Liebe.
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September 2019Die Prinzessinnenbibliothek
Die Bücher der Sofia Albertina von Schweden
by Silke Trojahn, Andreas Wittenberg
Die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preußischer Kulturbesitz und die Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg konnten 2017 mit großzügiger Unterstützung von Stiftungen und Mäzenen eine Privatbibliothek hochadliger Damen, die sogenannte Prinzessinnenbibliothek, erwerben. Es handelt sich um die Bücher der Prinzessin Sofia Albertina von Schweden, Tochter der schwedischen Königin Luise Ulrike und somit der Nichte von Friedrich dem Großen von Preußen. Die Sammlung enthält sowohl Bücher, die sie selbst erworben hat oder geschenkt bekam, als auch von ihrer Mutter und Großmutter ererbte Bände. Fast komplett erhalten, ist diese Bibliothek in ihrer Gesamtheit ein einmaliges kulturelles Vermächtnis. Der vorliegende Band stellt ausgewählte Beispiele in Wort und Bild vor.
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June 2020Wien Reiseführer LIEBLINGSORTE
Entdecken Sie das Lebensgefühl einer Stadt! | Mit vielen Insider-Tipps, farbigen Fotografien und ausklappbaren Karten
by Susanne Schaber, Karl Mühlbeger
Sie planen einen Städtetrip nach Wien? Oder lieben Sie die Stadt der Kaffeehäuser bereits und kennen sie wie Ihre Westentasche? Sie werden überrascht sein, was es in Wien (noch) alles zu entdecken gibt! Wie könnte ein perfekter Tag in Wien aussehen? Zum Beispiel so: Beginnen Sie Ihren Tag in einem der ältesten und charmantesten Kaffeehäuser der Stadt, im Café Korb nahe dem Stephansdom. Entdecken Sie anschließend die Schönlaterngasse – klein, verwinkelt, aus der Zeit gefallen und spüren Sie zwischen Ahorn und Flieder Mozarts (leeres) Grab auf dem St. Marxer Friedhof auf. Fahren Sie mit der Straßenbahn wieder zurück in den 1. Bezirk und spazieren Sie zum Museumsquartier, vorbei an der Wiener Staatsoper, wo alljährlich der Wiener Opernball stattfindet, der Albertina und der Hofburg. Am Abend kehren Sie ein ins Schwarze Kameel, eine Oase in der Wüste der Großstadt, wo Sie den Tag bei einem Diplomatensandwich und einem Glas Grünen Veltliner ausklingen lassen können. Unser Reiseführer führt Sie auf Ihrer Städtereise zu Orten, von denen viele bald zu Ihren Lieblingsorten werden und zu denen Sie immer wieder zurückkehren möchten. Erkunden Sie beliebte und außergewöhnliche Sehenswürdigkeiten, genießen Sie die besten Cafés, Restaurants und Bars, flanieren Sie über die schönsten Märkte und entdecken Sie versteckte Plätze und Parks.
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April 2015Wien Reiseführer LIEBLINGSORTE
Entdecken Sie das Lebensgefühl einer Stadt! | Mit vielen Insider-Tipps, farbigen Fotografien und ausklappbaren Karten
by Susanne Schaber
Sie planen einen Städtetrip nach Wien? Oder lieben Sie die Stadt der Kaffeehäuser bereits und kennen sie wie Ihre Westentasche? Sie werden überrascht sein, was es in Wien (noch) alles zu entdecken gibt! Wie könnte ein perfekter Tag in Wien aussehen? Zum Beispiel so: Beginnen Sie Ihren Tag in einem der ältesten und charmantesten Kaffeehäuser der Stadt, im Café Korb nahe dem Stephansdom. Entdecken Sie anschließend die Schönlaterngasse – klein, verwinkelt, aus der Zeit gefallen und spüren Sie zwischen Ahorn und Flieder Mozarts (leeres) Grab auf dem St. Marxer Friedhof auf. Fahren Sie mit der Straßenbahn wieder zurück in den 1. Bezirk und spazieren Sie zum Museumsquartier, vorbei an der Wiener Staatsoper, wo alljährlich der Wiener Opernball stattfindet, der Albertina und der Hofburg. Am Abend kehren Sie ein ins Schwarze Kameel, eine Oase in der Wüste der Großstadt, wo Sie den Tag bei einem Diplomatensandwich und einem Glas Grünen Veltliner ausklingen lassen können. Unser Reiseführer führt Sie auf Ihrer Städtereise zu Orten, von denen viele bald zu Ihren Lieblingsorten werden und zu denen Sie immer wieder zurückkehren möchten. Erkunden Sie beliebte und außergewöhnliche Sehenswürdigkeiten, genießen Sie die besten Cafés, Restaurants und Bars, flanieren Sie über die schönsten Märkte und entdecken Sie versteckte Plätze und Parks.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2023Politics, performance and popular culture
Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain
by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey, Jeffrey Richards
This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.
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The ArtsSeptember 2020Science in performance
Theatre and the politics of engagement
by Simon Parry
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change. The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from Somali drama to grime videos. It features work by pioneering companies including Gob Squad, Headlong Theatre and Theatre of Debate as well as offering fresh analysis of global blockbusters such as Wicked and Urinetown. The book offers detailed description and analysis of theatre and performance practices as well as broader commentary on the politics of theatre as public engagement with science. Science in performance is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners working between science and the arts within fields such as theatre and performance studies, science communication, interdisciplinary arts and health humanities.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021Post-everything
An intellectual history of post-concepts
by Herman Paul, Adriaan van Veldhuizen
Postmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this? Post-everything examines why post-Christian, post-industrial and post-bourgeois were terms that resonated, not only among academics, but also in the popular press. It delves into the historical roots of postmodern and poststructuralist, while also subjecting more recent post-constructions (posthumanist, postfeminist) to critical scrutiny. This study is the first to offer a comprehensive history of post-concepts. In tracing how these concepts found their way into a broad range of genres and disciplines, Post-everything contributes to a rapprochement between the history of the humanities and the history of the social sciences.
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The ArtsJune 2021Genre and performance: film and television
by Christine Cornea
Looking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. Previous studies of screen performance have tended to fix upon star actors, directors, or programme makers, or they have concentrated upon particular training and acting styles. Moving outside of these confines, this book provides a truly interdisciplinary account of performance in film and television and examines a much neglected area in our understanding of how popular genres and performance intersect on screen. Each chapter concentrates upon a particular genre or draws upon generic case studies in examining the significance of screen performance. Individual chapters examine contemporary film noir, horror, the biopic, drama-documentary, the western, science fiction, comedy performance in 'spoof news' programmes and the television 'sit com' and popular Bollywood films.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Child, nation, race and empire
Child rescue discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915
by Margot Hillel, Shurlee Swain, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire. It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of contemporary practice in the publications of the prominent English Child rescuers, Dr Barnardo, Thomas Bowman Stephenson, Benjamin Waugh, Edward de Montjoie Rudolf and their colonial disciples and literature written for children, it shows how the vulnerable body of the child at risk came to be reconstituted as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. Yet, as the shocking testimony before the many official enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home 'care' held in Britain, Ireland, Australia and Canada make clear, there was no guarantee that the rescued child would be protected from further harm.
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The ArtsSeptember 2020Science in performance
by Maggie B. Gale, Maria M. Delgado, Peter Lichtenfels, Simon Parry
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The ArtsSeptember 2024The renewal of post-war Manchester
Planning, architecture and the state
by Richard Brook
A compelling account of the project to transform post-war Manchester, revealing the clash between utopian vision and compromised reality. Urban renewal in Britain was thrilling in its vision, yet partial and incomplete in its implementation. For the first time, this deep study of a renewal city reveals the complex networks of actors behind physical change and stagnation in post-war Britain. Using the nested scales of region, city and case-study sites, the book explores the relationships between Whitehall legislation, its interpretation by local government planning officers and the on-the-ground impact through urban architectural projects. Each chapter highlights the connections between policy goals, global narratives and the design and construction of cities. The Cold War, decolonialisation, rising consumerism and the oil crisis all feature in a richly illustrated account of architecture and planning in post-war Manchester.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2018The Conservative Party and the nation
by Arthur Aughey, Richard Hayton
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The ArtsDecember 2022D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
by Jenny Barrett, Douglas Field, Ian Scott
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August 2020Seduced into Darkness
by Carrie Ishee
Seduced Into Darkness: Transcending My Psychiatrist's Sexual Abuse is a vivid and captivating story of hope for survivors of abuse as well as a case study in a skilled manipulator's tragic exploitation of his professional power.This poignant memoir chronicles the traumatic psychological abduction and sexual exploitation of depressed college student Carrie Tansey at the hands of her psychiatrist, Dr. Anthony Romano―thirty-one years her senior. For three years, their secret “affair” was carefully calculated and controlled by Romano, as Carrie's mental and emotional health continued to deteriorate, bringing her closer and closer to the edge.Their dual-relationship―clinical and clandestine―finally came to light when Carrie's suicide attempts landed her in a world-renowned psychiatric hospital. Gradually, she began to reclaim her power, reported Romano to the state licensing board, successfully sued him for malpractice, and testified before the state legislature to help pass a law aimed at curbing such abuses.As Carrie tells her tale, it is a journey paralleling that of the mythical archetype Persephone, the naive innocent who was abducted into darkness, reemerged and regenerated herself, then fearlessly returned to the prison she had fled, this time to help free others. Today, Carrie Ishee is a widely respected art therapist and life coach as well as a teacher specializing in the issues of ethics and boundaries for mental health professionals.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Reframing difference
Beur and banlieue filmmaking in France
by Carrie Tarr
Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, cinema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful account draws on a wide range of films, from directors such as Mehdi Charef, Mathieu Kassovitz and Djamel Bensalah. Her analyses compare the work of male and female, majority and minority film-makers, and emphasise the significance of authorship in the representation of gender and ethnicity. Foregrounding such issues as the quest for identity, the negotiation of space and the recourse to memory and history, she argues that these films challenge and reframe the symbolic spaces of French culture, addressing issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means to be French. This timely book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between cinema and citizenship in a multicultural society.
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The ArtsJuly 2005Reframing difference
by Carrie Tarr
Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, cinema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful account draws on a wide range of films, from directors such as Mehdi Charef, Mathieu Kassovitz and Djamel Bensalah. Her analyses compare the work of male and female, majority and minority film-makers, and emphasise the significance of authorship in the representation of gender and ethnicity. Foregrounding such issues as the quest for identity, the negotiation of space and the recourse to memory and history, she argues that these films challenge and reframe the symbolic spaces of French culture, addressing issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means to be French. This timely book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between cinema and citizenship in a multicultural society. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa
by Carrie Beneš, Rosemary Horrox
This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints' lives, the Golden legend. Jacopo's Chronicle presents a coherent vision of Genoa's place in history, the cosmos and Creation as written by the city's own archbishop - mixing eyewitness accounts with scholarly research about the city's origins and didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life. Accompanied by an extensive introduction, this complete translation provides a unique perspective on a dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, broadening the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life.
