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Diese Einführung in die Ethnografie wendet sich an alle Sozialwissenschaftler*innen, die ethnografisch forschen wollen. Ethnografie ist im strikten Sinne als Feldforschung zu verstehen. Ethnografisch Forschende müssen sich hinaus in die Sozialwelt wagen. Aus diesem Grund ist Ethnografie immer zuerst teilnehmende Beobachtung. Zugleich lässt sich diese im Rückgriff auf den empirischen Werkzeugkoffer durch eine Vielzahl an methodischen Zugängen e...

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Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolu...

A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon GarfieldThe Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that pro...

More than 3, 000 years ago, a young boy became King in ancient Egypt and his life, death and final resting place is something that has fascinated people ever since. The Legend of Tutankhamun is a sumptuous visual retelling of the story of one of the most well-known pharaoh's from ancient Egypt. As the 100th anniversary of the discovery of his tomb draws near, in 2022, powerful and vivid drawings from The Great Fire of London illustrator James ...

While the First World War has been best known for trenches, Tommies and war horses on the western front, and more widely for the Australians at Gallipoli or Lawrence of Arabia, the astonishing story of Britain's Asian great connection of 1914-18 has been neglected: the 1.5 million men of the Indian Army. Extraordinarily, this book is the first single narrative of their remarkably global war as Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs of Britain's Indian Empi...

Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages, Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But he was also, of course, attracted by the potential for social revolution in Latin America. After the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba in...

Neben der übersichtlichen Gestaltung verfügt die Straßenkarte "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Autokarte 1:200.000" über zahlreiche Zusatzinformationen wie z.B. Straßenbeschaffenheit, Sehenswürdigkeiten und Campingplätze. Mit dem umfangreichen Ortsregister gelingt zudem eine rasche Orientierung. Details: Touristische Informationen, Ortsregister mit Postleitzahlen, GPS-tauglich, Die Karte "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" ist Blatt 13 der Reihe "Deutschland 1...

Neben der übersichtlichen Gestaltung verfügt die Straßenkarte "Schleswig-Holstein - Hamburg, Autokarte 1:200.000" über zahlreiche Zusatzinformationen wie z.B. Straßenbeschaffenheit, Sehenswürdigkeiten und Campingplätze. Mit dem umfangreichen Ortsregister gelingt zudem eine rasche Orientierung. Details: Touristische Informationen, Ortsregister mit Postleitzahlen, GPS-tauglich Die Karte "Schleswig-Holstein - Hamburg" ist Blatt 12 der Reihe "Deu...

After breaking his spinal cord at seventeen, Henry Fraser had to draw on extraordinary determination and positivity to forge a career as an artist and motivational speaker, with his inspirational story of conquering adversity given here.

Updated edition of the book that explores the impact of immigration on Britain, now with a new chapter. 'Enticingly provocative... One of the most interesting of the rising generation of political writers' "Daily Telegraph

The first edition of the book was written employing mathematical techniques to formulate the physical principles involved in the structural and functional correlates of the underlying physiology.This current and self-contained second edition updates many of the new findings since its first edition a decade ago. It also includes a new chapter on the "Interaction with the Heart". The dynamics of the arterial system, the venous system, the microc...

TWO WOMEN. ONE MAN. LET THE FIGHT BEGIN . . . Josh Flynn is the king of the bare-knuckle gypsy fighters. His reputation is unblemished, his fist a deadly weapon. Claire Milo has always loved Josh – they were destined to be together from the day they met. Two gypsy lovers with their whole lives ahead of them, if only Josh can find a different way of earning a living instead of knocking the living daylights out of another man in the boxing ring....

James Delbourgo is Associate Professor in the History of Science and the Atlantic World at Rutgers. His previous books include A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America, which won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize.

The less noble side of British war history across civil wars and international struggles is revealed in this miscellany of episodes of needless arrogance, gallantry and misjudgement. Quirkily packaged to make for a good gift.

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

An einem Mittwochmorgen kann Herr Muffin nicht mehr aufstehen. Es tut so weh im Bauch und in den Beinen. Eine Tierärztin kommt und drückt und klopft auf seinen Bauch, dass er schreien muss. Danach schüttelt die Tierärztin den Kopf.Ein Bilderbuch über ein Meerschweinchen namens Herr Muffin. Ein Bilderbuch über das Altwerden und Sterben. Ein Bilderbuch über den Umgang mit dem Traurigsein. Ausgezeichnet als bestes schwedisches Kinderbuch des J...

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This "portable guide" - succinct but never superficial, precise but never pedantic, may well be the one indispensable book on the European Avant-Garde movements. Bru's concluding speculations on the future of the avant-garde and its various theorists is especially welcome. A brilliant study!' Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University The early twentieth-century avant-gardes (cubism, futurism, expressionism, Dadaism, constructivism and many other ...

International Development: A Postwar History is the first historical overview of international development policies and practices in the period between 1945 and the 1980s, studying the activities of international organizations, national governments and transnational actors. Drawing on examples of development projects in different parts of the world and with different actors involved, Corinna Unger bridges the gap between discourse and practice...