Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties (Smith Carrie)(Pevná vazba)

Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties (Smith Carrie)(Pevná vazba)

Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private

Between Families and Frankenstein: The Politics of Egg Donation in the United States (Heidt-Forsythe Erin)(Pevná vazba)

The Origins of the Literary Vampire (Crawford Heide)(Pevná vazba)

The long and distinguished tradition of the literary vampire began in Germany during the Age of Enlightenment. German literature was the first to adapt the vampire figure from central European folklore and superstition and give it literary form. Despite these German origins, scholarly attention

Writing in Red: The East German Writers Union and the Role of Literary Intellectuals (Goldstein Thomas W.)(Pevná vazba)

In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, then, that the ruling SED party created a Writers Union to mold what writers publicly wrote and said. Its chief task was ideological: creating a socialist and antifascist

Twilight of the Merkel Era: Power and Politics in Germany After the 2017 Bundestag Election (Langenbacher Eric)(Pevná vazba)

Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life (Steinlight Emily)(Pevná vazba)

Politics and Affect in Black Women's Fiction (Glass Kathy)(Pevná vazba)

Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women's text-in particular Frances Harper's 'The Two Offers' (1859), Julia Collins's The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998)-as richly creative documents saturated with

Compromising Positions: Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity (Smith Leslie Dorrough)(Pevná vazba)

Americans have long believed that the private lives of their politicians are important indicators of their fitness to lead and of their ability to defend and uphold American values. For many, a sex scandal renders a person ineligible, or at the very least questionably qualified, for public service

Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union (Balci Bayram)(Pevná vazba)

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the

Bitten By Witch Fever - Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home (Hawksley Lucinda)(Pevná vazba)

In Germany, in 1814, Wilhelm Sattler created an extremely toxic arsenic and verdigris compound pigment, Schweinfurt green-known also as Paris, Vienna, or emerald green-which became an instant favorite amongst designers and manufacturers the world over, thanks to its versatility in creating enduring

Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains (Bank Muoz Carolina)(Pevná vazba)

As the largest private employer in the world, Walmart dominates media and academic debate about the global expansion of transnational retail corporations and the working conditions in retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart

The wolves are coming back: The Politics of Fear in Eastern Germany (Pates Rebecca)(Pevná vazba)

The wolves are coming back moves beyond stereotypic representations of East Germany, and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. It seeks to explain the extraordinary success of new far right parties in a vivid ethnographic recounting of the local politics of fear, hope

Paradoxes of Stasis: Literature, Politics, and Thought in Francoist Spain (Gajic Tatjana)(Pevná vazba)

Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regime's supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana

Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 (O'Sullivan Michael E.)(Pevná vazba)

Disruptive Power examines a surprising revival of faith in Catholic miracles in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s. The book follows the dramatic stigmata of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth and her powerful circle of followers that included theologians, Cardinals, politicians, journalists,

The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity (Gress Carrie)(Pevná vazba)

The Demonic Influence on Women Today In the late '60s, a small group of elite American women convinced an overwhelming majority of the country that destroying the most fundamental of relationships--that of mother and child--was necessary for women to have productive and happy lives. From the

Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth Age (Davies Thom)(Pevná vazba)

Post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Toxic Truths examines enduring issues and new challenges for tackling environmental injustice in a post-truth

Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City (Smith Macs)(Pevná vazba)

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In

Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (Hankins James)(Pevná vazba)

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance--from Petrarch to Machiavelli--that reveals the all-important role of character in shaping society, both in citizens and in their leaders. Convulsed by a civilizational

The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men (Bell Peter Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

As the Allies advanced into Germany in April 1945, General Patton's Third Army discovered the collections of the Berlin museums hidden in a salt mine 2,100 feet underground. Placed in the care of the Monuments Men, the collections were sent to the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point, directed by

Dating Beowulf: Studies in intimacy (Remein Daniel C.)(Pevná vazba)

Dating Beowulf explores the difficulties and pleasures of intimacy with Beowulf -philological and speculative, playful and serious - and how they organise themselves in an array of interrelated critical practices. Opening avenues for future work, it complicates urgent questions in the discourses of

The Presentation of Authorship in Medieval German Narrative Literature 1220-1290 (Coxon Sebastian)(Pevná vazba)

This book sheds light on the complexity of medieval German literary culture as it evolved in the course of the thirteenth century (c. 1220-1920) by analysing the attitudes of narrative poets towards the issue of authorship. It describes the various ways in which vernacular writers couldaddress the

Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres (Segal Marcia Texler)(Pevná vazba)

This volume examines the ways individuals, families and societies strive to balance paid and unpaid labor, engage in parenting and accomplish other care-work, seek education for themselves and their children and respond to the mass media, sometimes under conditions of poverty or

The Unspoken: An Ashe Cayne Novel (Smith Ian K.)(Pevná vazba)

In this new series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian K. Smith, an ex-cop turned private investigator seeks justice on the vibrant, dangerous streets of Chicago.Former Chicago detective Ashe Cayne is desperate for redemption. After refusing to participate in a police department cover-up

The Private Life of Spies - Alexander McCall Smith

During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June 1943, much against his will, and sent on his first, and only, mission in late September that year. He failed to send a