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Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to be a double-thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands, they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditio...

Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to be a double-thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands, they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditio...

This book offers an important and timely critique of expertise, showing how it is a 'keyword' shaped by social, historical, and political debates about what counts as knowledge and truth, and who counts as experts. Using teacher expertise as an illustrative case, Jessica Gerrard and Jessica Holloway reflect on recent events, including COVID-19 and the climate crisis, to examine how expertise is never neutral, objective, or fixed. They argue th...

Bringing debates surrounding teacher expertise into conversation with wider debates surrounding expertise, Jessica Gerrard and Jessica Holloway reflect on recent events, including COVID-19 and the climate crisis. Drawing on international research, this book places experience within global context, attending to the ways in which teacher expertise itself is subject to struggles and contestations in power in different ways across different nation...

Appreciating the power of language, and how discriminatory words can have deadly consequences, is pivotal to our understanding of the Holocaust. Engaging with a wealth of primary sources and significant Holocaust scholarship, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust traces the historical tradition of anti-Semitism to explore this in detail. From religious anti-Semitism in ancient Rome to racially-led anti-Semites focused on building superior nation-s...

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An unsettling, gripping and original novel by Jessica Fellowes, author of the Mitford Murders series, telling the story of a toxic friendship

Beschrieben werden die einzigartigen Erkenntnisse und Funde, die die archäologischen Ausgrabungen auf dem Petriplatz in Berlin-Mitte (2007 bis 2009) erbrachten. Am Petriplatz war das Zentrum des Ortes colonia, später Cölln genannt, eine der beiden mittelalterlichen Keimzellen Berlins. Es wurden 3 126 Gräber am Petriplatz geborgen, die eine der besterhaltenen und umfangreichsten Skelettserien Deutschlands enthielten. Der Leser wird von der Grün...

Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, eithe...

Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, eithe...

Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic-skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies and rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites as foreign treachery and promoting themselves on Facebook. How does a regime that originally derived its hegemony from the ability to mass communicate its ideology protect its ideological ...

This Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience. It presents the work of some of today's most accomplished literary translators who translate classics into English or who work closely with translation in the US context and magnifies translators' knowledge, skills, creat...

What does it mean to translate an established or future literary classic, and how is it done by some of today's most celebrated translators? This is a Classic brings together translators who have created English versions of canonical works from a variety of languages, including Spanish, French, Yiddish, Turkish, Catalan, Greek, Serbian, German, Italian, Icelandic, Russian, Romanian, Portuguese, and Ancient Greek. They offer insights into their...

Join a group of friends as they go exploring on the way to their campsite. Reminiscent of We're Going on a Bear Hunt and A Summery Saturday Morning, A Stick and a Stone is simple and brilliant - and is sure to delight parents and children alike.

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Your favourite Scottish detective returns in 2023 in an enthralling new mystery'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH 'Move over Rebus' Daily Mail 'Exciting, pacy, authentic' ANGELA MARSONSHOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER, WHEN ALL YOU HAVE ARE QUESTIONS?___________When a prominent MSP goes missing, DSI William Lorimer wastes no time in investigating. Robert Truesdale was fronting the controversial campaign to legalise drugs in S...

Traditional crime in the spirit of Agatha Christie, Rev Richard Coles and M C Beaton written by TV celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager

DUMONT Bildatlas Korsika - weitestgehend unberührte Natur und hübsche kleinen Städte mit viel Flair hat diese Mittelmeerinsel zu bieten. In fünf Kapiteln nimmt Sie unser Autor Christian Nowak mit auf eine Reise, die nicht nur durch schöne Fotos, sondern auch durch kenntnisreiche und kritische Reportagen und Specials die Besonderheiten dieser Insel wiedergeben, dazu reisepraktische Tipps rund um Ausflüge und Märkte, Museen und ausgesuchte Hotel...

Um zu herrschen, musst du genau zu dem werden, was du fürchtest: Du musst zu deinem eigenen Monster werden. Nur wenn du deine Ängste umfassend kennst, kannst du sie kontrollieren und sie gegen andere richten. Willkommen zum ultimativen Führer zur Camarilla, dem erschreckendsten Geheimbund, den die Geschichte je gesehen hat. Dieses Buch zur Camarilla wurde als Grundbuch und Zusammenstellung von Dokumenten erstellt, die von der schillernden Pers...

The new book from the bestselling author of Why Women Are Blamed for Everything.