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Julia Franck, winner of the 2007 German Book Prize for Die Mittagsfrau (The Blind Side of the Heart), puts the experience of women - and mothers - at the core of her novels and short stories. This study, the first book exclusively about Franck, addresses the various roles that women play in her oeuvre: lovers, daughters, mothers, and sisters. With an eye to the way these roles are influenced by and connected to domestic space, the author exami...

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This collection of essays addresses the perceptions of both the author and the reader. It looks at Greene's conversion to Catholicism, his subsequent struggles, and the various twists and turns that his life followed. It looks at how all of these storms and struggles affected his faith and the degree to which they influenced his work. On the other hand, these essays also take a fresh look at how Greene has been read over the years, looking at ...

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

The book is a selection of essays from the author's work since the early 1980s. It presents an analysis of political and cultural trends based upon a series of case studies drawn from the North West of England, covering mainly the years between the Third Reform Act (1884) and the outbreak of the Second World War. The region was a heavily industrialized one, seen by many as in the vanguard of changes that gave rise to what is often referred to ...

The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies is a free e-journal published by The Institute for Education Policy Studies (IEPS) IEPS is an independent Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing policy analysis and development of education policy. It is at www.ieps.org.uk The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS) seeks to develop Marxist and other Left analysis of education. The Journal for Critical Education...

Der Band vereinigt Beiträge zum Geschichtsbewußtsein verschiedener Gemeinschaften - wie Klöstern, städtischen Räten und bürgerlichen Führungsgruppen - in Niederdeutschland und dem Ostseeraum während des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. In Geschichtsbildern verdichteten und deuteten die Gemeinschaften ihre vergangenen Erfahrungen, um mit Hilfe der in Wort und Bild geformten Erinnerung die Gegenwart und Zukunft zu gestalten. Mit Altartaf...

Dienstleistungsunternehmen wurden bei der empirischen Erforschung der internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen bislang vernachlässigt. Die vorliegende Studie schliesst diese Forschungslücke. Sie untersucht in einem breit angelegten Projekt verschiedene Dienstleistungsbranchen wie Banken, Versicherungen, Wirtschaftsprüfungsfirmen, Werbeagenturen und Speditionen, wobei folgende Fragen besonders interessierten: - Wie gross ist die Bed...

Never before has the window for a far-reaching modernization process of the public sector been so open. The volume in question documents the papers of the II. and III. International Speyer Workshops in 1992 and 1993. The first part of the volume gives an overview of new developments in the modernization of the public sector such as the learning organization, the role of information technology and modernization strategies. The second part focus...

Das Mönchtum gelangte erst um 1100 nach Dänemark, erlebte aber dort während des 12. Jahrhunderts einen großen Aufschwung. Die Könige, Großen und Bischöfe gründeten und unterstützten die Klöster. Das Erkenntnisinteresse der Studie richtet sich auf die Motive der Stifter und Förderer sowie die Integration der Konvente in die Gesellschaft. Daher wird zum einen untersucht, inwieweit die dänischen Klöster aufgrund königlicher Gründung, Beschenkung ...

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This is the story, recorded in detail for the first time, of an exotic incident in African-American relations in the mid-nineteenth century. Secretly, on the night of 7-8 January 1863, an under-strength battalion of 446 officers and men with one civilian interpreter sailed from Alexandria, Egypt in a French troopship for service with the French expeditionary force in Mexico. They were being dispatched by the ruler of Egypt at the urgent reques...

Excerpt from The Catholic's Ready Answer: A Popular Vindication of Christian Beliefs and Practices Against the Attacks of Modern CriticismIn the pursuit of these aims we have not been unaware that our book has been gradually assuming the character of a new work instead of being simply an English version of the old one. If this, has been, in some sense, inevitable, and if it compasses the object we have had 1n View, our act of contrition for ha...

A comprehensive and highly readable guide to Stravinsky's most revolutionary work.

The Church of Jesus Christ faces a crisis. False prophets have invaded the Church and captivated the minds of unprepared people. This book provides a scriptural description of these frauds and the response of Christ-followers to them.

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Hill chronicles his love affair with storm chasing, taking readers on a suspenseful and dramatic ride across the Great Plains, into the Deep South, even into the eyes of such recent hurricanes as Katrina. Includes eight pages of photos taken by Hill showing many of the storms he chronicles in the book.