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Baree is the curious and kind offspring of Kazan and Gray Wolf. Happy in their home, Baree spends his day going on small adventures, until one day he wanders off a little too far. Lost and unable to find his way back home, Baree is tragically separated from his family, and is forced to find his own refuge. Though he tries to find his own pack, Baree is quickly shunned. In search of a new community and home, Baree begins friendships with bears, beavers, and other animals until he meets his closest friend of all—a young girl named Nepeese. Welcomed into the home of she and her trapper father, Pierrot, Nepeese and Baree share an intense bond. However, when another accident occurs, Baree finds himself once again separated from his family, but this time, he will stop at nothing to reunite with Nepeese.

Featuring themes of friendship and chosen family, James Oliver Curwood’s Baree, Son of Kazan is a touching adventure tale, full of emotion and action. Told through the lively narration of Baree, Baree, Son of Kazan depicts a thought-provoking perspective of humankind while also allowing readers to fully invest in the unique views of the young wolfdog. First published in 1917, this 20th century adventure novel has inspired two film adaptations, proving the strength of this timeless tale.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Baree is the curious and kind offspring of Kazan and Gray Wolf. Happy in their home, Baree spends his day going on small adventures, until one day he wanders off a little too far. Lost and unable to find his way back home, Baree is tragically separated from his family, and is forced to find his own refuge. Though he tries to find his own pack, Baree is quickly shunned. In search of a new community and home, Baree begins friendships with bears, beavers, and other animals until he meets his closest friend of all—a young girl named Nepeese. Welcomed into the home of she and her trapper father, Pierrot, Nepeese and Baree share an intense bond. However, when another accident occurs, Baree finds himself once again separated from his family, but this time, he will stop at nothing to reunite with Nepeese.

Featuring themes of friendship and chosen family, James Oliver Curwood’s Baree, Son of Kazan is a touching adventure tale, full of emotion and action. Told through the lively narration of Baree, Baree, Son of Kazan depicts a thought-provoking perspective of human kind while also allowing readers to fully invest in the unique views of the young wolfdog. First published in 1917, this 20th century adventure novel has inspired two film adaptations, proving the strength of this timeless tale.

This edition of Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood now features a new, eye-catching cover design and is printed in a font that is both modern and readable. With these accommodations, this edition of Baree, Son of Kazan crafts an accessible and pleasant reading experience for modern audiences while restoring the original beauty of James Oliver Curwood’s literature.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Barefoot in the Boardroom is a practical change management manual for executives looking for a proven methodology that can break down a huge vision into manageable chunks. 

Certified as a Change Management Practitioner and Talent Optimization Consultant, Shara Hutchinson demonstrates how to assess one’s leadership capacity, change impact, and organizational health and reveals the strategies and tactics necessary to achieve a leader’s most audacious goals. By following Shara’s proactive measures and techniques outlined in this book, business professionals will expand their leadership skills while simultaneously encouraging the growth of others. Barefoot in the Boardroom will scale an organization, team, or department to not only identify the right strategic initiatives but to execute those initiatives and sustain success.

Within Barefoot in the Boardroom, business leaders will find a vast array of proven techniques and strategies to apply. Shara Hutchinson’s “Exposeyour™” Leadership Capacity approach includes the nine leadership competencies needed to develop a high-performing team, while her encouragement of vision teaches leaders how to align their business strategy with their team, ensuring that they have the right people in the right seats to get the right results. Shara also introduces the “Barefoot Method™”—which is her signature change management strategy that can be applied to any organization, team, or department to ensure it is future-proofed. Barefoot in the Boardroom will challenge business professionals to break out of the box and innovate with the times. Each chapter offers clarity for strategic initiatives, key objectives, operational tactics, and measurable outcomes that encourages leaders to implement change and innovation in order to sustain professional longevity.

'Like the Psalms in honesty and depth, these are poems that can help us pray, and prayers that can awaken us to the poetry in everyday life.'
Dame Laurentia Johns

From the introduction:

'Barefoot Ways offers the reader a poetic, prayerful meditation for every day of December and January. It connects with the spiritual themes of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany and takes the reader from the first days of a new Christian year to the feast of Candlemas on February 2nd. These three great Christian seasons are divided into thematic areas, each of which is given a brief introduction... The distance from Advent to Candlemas is considerable, and there are many ways across its fearful and fascinating terrain. I offer here some 'barefoot' ways - by which I mean ways that are both down to earth and yet full of spiritual aspiration and hope.'

Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century. The lingering illness devastated the lives of patients and families, and by the turn of the century, fears of infectiousness compounded their anguish. Historians have usually focused on the changing medical knowledge of tuberculosis or on the social campaigns to combat it.

Using a wide range of sources, especially the extensive correspondence of a Philadelphia physician, Lawrence F. Flick, in Bargaining for Life Barbara Bates documents the human story by chronicling how men and women attempted to cope with the illness, get treatment, earn their living, and maintain social relationships.

Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century. The lingering illness devastated the lives of patients and families, and by the turn of the century, fears of infectiousness compounded their anguish. Historians have usually focused on the changing medical knowledge of tuberculosis or on the social campaigns to combat it.

Using a wide range of sources, especially the extensive correspondence of a Philadelphia physician, Lawrence F. Flick, in Bargaining for Life Barbara Bates documents the human story by chronicling how men and women attempted to cope with the illness, get treatment, earn their living, and maintain social relationships.

In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non-voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink-swathed Americans abroad." However, the image of a life of luxury abroad is usually a harsher reality complicated by income taxes, military duty, and legal jurisdiction. What exactly is the obligation of a state toward citizens who live outside its borders?

Bargaining with the State from Afar traces the relationship between the United States federal government and sojourning Americans living in the colonial enclaves of pre-World War II China. This group of Americans was not subject to Chinese law, but rather to an amalgam of laws borrowed from the District of Columbia and other territorial codes, as well as to local ordinances enacted by foreigners themselves. Scully explores U.S. government efforts to police this anomalous zone in the American policy and places the struggle between federal officials and sojourning U.S. nationals in the larger context of changing international law and modern citizenship regimes.

She argues that the American experience with extraterritorial justice in China offers an important new vantage point from which to examine a singular area in the history of modern states. This case study of U.S. consular jurisdiction reveals the legal, political, and cultural process through which modern states have struggled to govern citizens outside their borders. Scully's examination of the U. S. Court for China is one of the first serious analysis of this anomalous institution.

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The Cause of the foundation of schools, which has been written around 600 by the East Syriac author Barhadbeshabba, is practically unique in intellectual history by explaining the anthropological phenomenon of schools.

The author, who was himself a teacher at the famous School of Nisibis in Upper Mesopotamia, describes the history of divine and human schools until his own lifetime by renarrating important parts of biblical history as forms of teachings, paying attention to the Greek philosophical tradition and the teachings of Persian Zoroastrianism. He introduces his work by a sketch of his own philosophical convictions regarding our knowledge of God, the necessity of logic and the status of our soul. Due to its diverse contents, the work finds since a long time the interest not only of specalists of Eastern Christianity, but also of ancient historians, of historians of philosophy and of researchers in the field of religion, esp. Coranic and Zorostrian Studies. A new critical edition of this important text is been for a long time a desideratum, because the first editor Addai Scher could not use all extant manuscripts. For this reason, the text is re-edited here with introduction, translation and notes, using four extant manuscripts as well as the documentation of three, last one’s given by Addai Scher in its 1907 edition. The introduction describes the manuscripts and their relationship as well as the circumstances of the text’s composition.

Thus, this new edition will be an indispensable tool for anybody working in the field of intellectual history of the Near East immediately before the rise of Islam.

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• How to keep your dog, yourself, and others safe when they are fearful or reactive.
• How to create safe havens for your dog, and make yourself a secure base for them no matter where they are.

• How to tackle common canine fears, such as loud noises, the vet, separation anxiety, and other dogs.
• How to manage a dog’s natural fear responses through positive reinforcement.
• How to keep your dog, yourself, and others safe when they are fearful or reactive.
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This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras’s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential blog-turned-literary-magazine, Lemon Hound, published up-and-coming writers as well as work by established literary figures in Canada and abroad.
The title, Barking & Biting, makes reference to the tagline of Lemon Hound: “more bark than bite.” Erin Wunker’s introduction situates Queyras’s poetry within ongoing debates around genre and gender. It suggests that Queyras’s writing, be it literary critical, poetic, or prose, is precise and probing but avoids toothless critical positioning. It pays particular attention to Queyras’s poetic innovations and intertextual references to other women writers, and suggests that read together Queyras’s oeuvre embodies an engaged feminist attention—what Joan Retallack has called a “poethics,” where poetry and ethics are bound together as a mode of inquiry and aesthetics.
Queyras’s poems trace a consistent concern with both poetic genealogies and the status of women. Thus far, twenty-first century poetics have been preoccupied with two ongoing conversations: the perceived divide between lyric and conceptual writing, and the underrepresentation of women and other non-dominant subjects. While these two topics may seem epistemologically and ethically separate, they are in fact irrevocably intertwined. Questions of form are, at their root, questions of visibility and recognizability. Will the reader know a poem when she sees it? And will that seeing alter her perception of the world? And how is the form of the poem altered, productively or un-, by the identity politics of its author? These are the questions that undergird Queyras’s poetry and guide the editorial selections.
Queyras’s poetics pay dogged attention to questions of both representation and genre. In each of her poetry collections she inhabits tenets of the traditional lyric but leverages the genre open to let conceptualism in. This is demonstrated in her afterword, “Lyric Conceptualism, a Manifesto in Progress,” which was first published on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet the Blog. In it Queyras puts forward a set of maxims about the possibilities of a new hybrid, the conceptual lyric poem.

Die kulturellen Phänomene des europäischen Mittelalters, die die Dimensionen der Barlaam und Josaphat-Legende erreichen konnten, sind selten. Der hier vorgelegte Band umfasst Beiträge zu verschiedenen Aspekten dieses Phänomens sowie eine bislang unedierte lateinische Fassung.
Aufgrund des interdisziplinären Charakters der Publikation richtet sie sich an Germanisten, Romanisten, Mittellatinisten, Byzantinisten und Kunsthistoriker.

Die Legende von Barlaam und Josaphat - von der Forschung in der Regel als eine aus Indien stammende Legende gehalten - verbreitete sich nach Byzanz und Europa, wo sie zu einem regelrechten Bestseller des Mittelalters wurde. Seit dem 12. Jahrhundert und nach verschiedenen lateinischen Vorlagen - der so genannten Vulgata, deren Epitomen in der Legenda aurea des Jacobus de Voragine und im Speculum historiale des Vinzenz von Beauvais (13. Jh.) - sind in praktisch allen europäischen Volkssprachen Vers-, Prosa- und Dramenfassungen entstanden.
Der erste Teil dieses Buches bietet eine Darstellung der Stofftraditionen von den orientalischen Fassungen bis zu den okzidentalischen volkssprachlichen Versionen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Für ca. 60 Versionen in über 200 Handschriften und Frühdrucken bietet dieser handbuchartige Teil Informationen zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung und zur Forschungsgeschichte sowie eine kurze Textbeschreibung.
Anhand eines kleineren Textkorpus, das eine mittelhochdeutsche (13. Jh.), eine altfranzösische (13. Jh.) und eine altkastilische (14. Jh.) Fassung beinhaltet, widmet sich der zweite Teil mit kulturwissenschaftlichen und poetologischen Interpretationsfragen.

For fans of Narwhal and Jelly, this hilarious new graphic novel from the Little Habitats series explores the ecosystem of a bay and the marine creatures and plant life that call it home.

Crab is fed up with the bay. Each day is the same; nobody cares for him or appreciates his sense of humor. So he’s leaving. Just when he is about to go, he bumps into Larva, who is looking for a home. Crab agrees to show Larva around the bay, exploring its many places and residents, on his way out.

Together, Crab and Larva visit the sea kelp, a fine shell-ection of oysters, mussels, clams, and a bickering group of sea anemones, amongst many more neighbors in the bay.

Will Larva find the perfect spot to settle here? And if he does, what will Crab do?

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Packed with humor, playful jokes, and fun facts about marine life, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel dives into the fascinating world hidden within this tiny, often overlooked, ecosystem.

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Der Band beleuchtet die Literatur- u. Wissensgeschichte kleiner Formen in der Konstellation Barock–Moderne. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Verhandlung von Lizenzen kleiner Formen in sowie jenseits kodifizierter Poetiken des Barock. Vor dem Hintergrund historischer Umbrüche werden die Potenziale u. die Attraktivität barocker Kleinformen für die literarische Moderne herausgestellt, in der das Barock zur maßgeblichen Reflexionsepoche wird.

Der Band beleuchtet die Literatur- u. Wissensgeschichte kleiner Formen in der Konstellation Barock–Moderne. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Verhandlung von Lizenzen kleiner Formen in sowie jenseits kodifizierter Poetiken des Barock. Vor dem Hintergrund historischer Umbrüche werden die Potenziale u. die Attraktivität barocker Kleinformen für die literarische Moderne herausgestellt, in der das Barock zur maßgeblichen Reflexionsepoche wird.

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Martin Opitz, der »Mars« der Musen (Zesen), nutzte die Krisenzeit von Krieg und Konfessionalisierung als Chance zur Einführung einer nationalsprachlichen Dichtkunst im Geiste eines aus der Renaissance erneuerten Humanismus. Opitz wollte mit seiner Reform dazu beitragen, Religionsfreiheit zu erstreiten und dadurch Frieden und Eintracht zu stiften. Die Bände zeichnen den beachtlichen Erfolg dieser 'humanistischen Reformation' nach und bieten eine umfassende kulturgeschichtliche Darstellung aller wichtigen deutschsprachigen Lyriker des 17. Jahrhunderts. Jedem Autor ist ein Kapitel gewidmet mit Hinweisen zu Forschung, Rezeption, Biographie und einem Werküberblick zur geistlichen und weltlichen Lyrik mit exemplarischen Gedicht-Analysen.

Band IV/1 führt in die Epoche sowie in die Gattungstheorie und -geschichte ein und behandelt das Werk von Weckherlin, Opitz, Logau, Gryphius und den Pegnitz-Schäfern.

Band IV/2 bietet einen Einblick in die kulturgeschichtlichen Bedingungen frühneuzeitlicher Liebesdichtung (Frauenbild, Geschlechterbeziehungen, Sexualität und ihre Tabuisierung bzw. Dämonisierung) und analysiert sodann die Liebeslyrik von Opitz, Dach, Fleming, Zesen, Hoffmannswaldau, Lohenstein, den 'Galanten' und Günther. Zahlreiche weitere Autoren sind in gattungsgeschichtlichen Überblicken und einzelnen Kapiteln mitberücksichtigt.

Die Bände sind separat benutzbar. Mit ihnen liegt das zehnbändige Werk »Deutsche Lyrik der frühen Neuzeit« nunmehr abgeschlossen vor.

Martin Opitz, der »Mars« der Musen (Zesen), nutzte die Krisenzeit von Krieg und Konfessionalisierung als Chance zur Einführung einer nationalsprachlichen Dichtkunst im Geiste eines aus der Renaissance erneuerten Humanismus. Opitz wollte mit seiner Reform dazu beitragen, Religionsfreiheit zu erstreiten und dadurch Frieden und Eintracht zu stiften. Die Bände zeichnen den beachtlichen Erfolg dieser 'humanistischen Reformation' nach und bieten eine umfassende kulturgeschichtliche Darstellung aller wichtigen deutschsprachigen Lyriker des 17. Jahrhunderts. Jedem Autor ist ein Kapitel gewidmet mit Hinweisen zu Forschung, Rezeption, Biographie und einem Werküberblick zur geistlichen und weltlichen Lyrik mit exemplarischen Gedicht-Analysen.

Band IV/1 führt in die Epoche sowie in die Gattungstheorie und -geschichte ein und behandelt das Werk von Weckherlin, Opitz, Logau, Gryphius und den Pegnitz-Schäfern.

Band IV/2 bietet einen Einblick in die kulturgeschichtlichen Bedingungen frühneuzeitlicher Liebesdichtung (Frauenbild, Geschlechterbeziehungen, Sexualität und ihre Tabuisierung bzw. Dämonisierung) und analysiert sodann die Liebeslyrik von Opitz, Dach, Fleming, Zesen, Hoffmannswaldau, Lohenstein, den 'Galanten' und Günther. Zahlreiche weitere Autoren sind in gattungsgeschichtlichen Überblicken und einzelnen Kapiteln mitberücksichtigt.

Die Bände sind separat benutzbar. Mit ihnen liegt das zehnbändige Werk »Deutsche Lyrik der frühen Neuzeit« nunmehr abgeschlossen vor.

Martin Opitz, der »Mars« der Musen (Zesen), nutzte die Krisenzeit von Krieg und Konfessionalisierung als Chance zur Einführung einer nationalsprachlichen Dichtkunst im Geiste eines aus der Renaissance erneuerten Humanismus. Opitz wollte mit seiner Reform dazu beitragen, Religionsfreiheit zu erstreiten und dadurch Frieden und Eintracht zu stiften. Die Bände zeichnen den beachtlichen Erfolg dieser 'humanistischen Reformation' nach und bieten eine umfassende kulturgeschichtliche Darstellung aller wichtigen deutschsprachigen Lyriker des 17. Jahrhunderts. Jedem Autor ist ein Kapitel gewidmet mit Hinweisen zu Forschung, Rezeption, Biographie und einem Werküberblick zur geistlichen und weltlichen Lyrik mit exemplarischen Gedicht-Analysen.

Band IV/1 führt in die Epoche sowie in die Gattungstheorie und -geschichte ein und behandelt das Werk von Weckherlin, Opitz, Logau, Gryphius und den Pegnitz-Schäfern.

Band IV/2 bietet einen Einblick in die kulturgeschichtlichen Bedingungen frühneuzeitlicher Liebesdichtung (Frauenbild, Geschlechterbeziehungen, Sexualität und ihre Tabuisierung bzw. Dämonisierung) und analysiert sodann die Liebeslyrik von Opitz, Dach, Fleming, Zesen, Hoffmannswaldau, Lohenstein, den 'Galanten' und Günther. Zahlreiche weitere Autoren sind in gattungsgeschichtlichen Überblicken und einzelnen Kapiteln mitberücksichtigt.

Die Bände sind separat benutzbar. Mit ihnen liegt das zehnbändige Werk »Deutsche Lyrik der frühen Neuzeit« nunmehr abgeschlossen vor.

Die Forschung hat über ihrem Interesse an der humanistischen Gelehrtenpoesie des 17. Jahrhunderts die vielfach häretische religiöse Dichtung der Barock-Mystik seit längerem zu Unrecht vernachlässigt. Dabei kommt dieser im Rahmen der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik-Geschichte ein bedeutsamer Stellenwert zu, den der vorliegende Band im Epochen-Kontext des Konfessionalismus (vgl. Bd. 2) neu zu bestimmen sucht: In gelehrtem Rückgriff auf Traditionen außerchristlicher Religiosität, aber auch auf die 'Künste' der Magie und Alchimie macht sich die Phantasie des Barock-Mystikers das Göttliche im Medium der Poesie verfügbar. Dabei wird Christus nicht mehr nur als Seelen-Bräutigam, sondern auch als Schöpfungs-'Wort' Gottes bereits naturmystisch-pantheistisch erfahren. Indem sich die Vereinigung mit dem Numinosen als magisch inszenierter Vergottungsprozeß in einer vieldeutig-hermetischen Lyrik ereignet, heiligt diese auch sich selbst. Damit ästhetisiert und säkularisiert sie zugleich die christlich-konfessionelle Heilsaneignung 'von innen' und bildet somit das Pendant zur weltlich-humanistischen Gelehrtenpoesie, welche den Geltungsanspruch der kirchlichen Orthodoxien 'von außen' infragestellt. Humanismus und Mystik bereiten so gleichermaßen der Aufklärung den Boden.

Heroische Entwürfe sind in der Barockzeit in allen Abteilungen der "Künste und Wissenschaften" reich vertreten. Worin ihr Wesen besteht, scheint unmittelbar einsichtig zu sein. Wenigstens in politischen Zusammenhängen, die hier im Mittelpunkt stehen, wird aber bei näherem Hinsehen vieles unklar. Vor allem naheliegende moralische Definitionsversuche erweisen sich als unzulänglich, sobald das Heroische in den Dienst der "Politik" genommen wird. Zwar ordnet sich dem Helden eine funktionale Bestimmung zu: Als Statthalter des Ursprünglichen und Allgemeinen erfüllt er eine wichtige Legitimationsaufgabe. Doch in der Zeit der Interessenpolitik und des Zerfalls abendländischer Universalität in auseinanderstrebende Partialgebilde verliert gerade die Behauptung interessenübergreifender Integrität an Überzeugungskraft. "Politische" Mittel müssen deshalb die moralische Überlegenheit glaubwürdig machen. So wird das Heroische Teil einer auf Konkurrenz und Überbietung angelegten politischen Psychologie. So sehr es sich der Stabilisierung einer unüberschaubar gewordenen politischen Szenerie verschreibt, so sehr partizipiert es doch selbst an Modernisierungs- und Dynamisierungsprozessen. Daß das 17. Jahrhundert einen Gipfelpunkt, zugleich aber auch eine Selbstauflösung heroischer Symbolik in der Politik erlebt, möchte das Buch an Ethiken, Politiken, Hofmannslehren, heroischen Romanen und genealogischer Literatur zeigen.

This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more here.

Dieser Titel aus dem De Gruyter-Verlagsarchiv ist digitalisiert worden, um ihn der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Da der Titel erstmals im Nationalsozialismus publiziert wurde, ist er in besonderem Maße in seinem historischen Kontext zu betrachten. Mehr erfahren Sie hier.

Große Teile der deutschen Barockliteratur sind schon im 19. Jahrhundert und dann seit der Entstehung des literarischen Barockbegriffs immer wieder als "rhetorisch" bezeichnet worden, bisweilen auch mit abwertendem Beiton. Die Erforschung der antik-humanistischen Theoriegeschichte von Poetik und Rhetorik seit den 1960er Jahren hat dann zu Präzisierungen geführt. Die Untersuchungen der »Barockrhetorik« rekonstruieren die sozial- und bildungsgeschichtlichen Grundlagen im europäischen Kontext. Ein einleitendes Kapitel zu Nietzsches "Barock"-Begriff führt in die Begriffs- und Wertungsgeschichte zurück. Ein längeres Exkurs zum bekannten Bild des theatrum mundi demonstriert die Verankerung des Rhetorischen im Welt- und Menschenbild des 17. Jahrhunderts. Die institutionengeschichtlichen Untersuchungen erstrecken sich vor allem auf vier Bereiche: protestantische Gelehrtenschule, Jesuitenkolleg, Adelserziehung, Universitätsunterricht. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt hierbei den vielfältigen Formen des Theaterspielens. Das System der literaturbezogenen Institutionen des 17. Jahrhunderts bildet zusammen mit der Geschichte der "Muster" (seit der Antike) und der Theorien einen neuen Bezugsrahmen zur Interpretation der Barocktexte selbst.

Baroness Cox of Queensbury was appointed a Life Peer in 1982. A former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, she is a tireless advocate for international human rights.

She visits the most forgotten people in the world, often in highly dangerous conditions, to carry their stories of abuse and persecution back to the West. She has been under fire many times while taking aid to war victims in Armenia, Sudan and Indonesia. 

Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, recipient of the Wilberforce Award and of the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, she has also received honorary degrees from universities on three continents. 

Her motivation is profoundly Christian: "Faith without deeds is dead; love without action is dead."

In the seventeenth century, even as the Spanish Habsburg monarchy entered its irreversible decline, the capital of its most important overseas territory was flourishing. Nexus of both Atlantic and Pacific trade routes and home to an ethnically diverse population, Mexico City produced a distinctive Baroque culture that combined local and European influences. In this context, the American-born descendants of European immigrants—or creoles, as they called themselves—began to envision a new society beyond the terms of Spanish imperialism, and the writings of the Mexican polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) were instrumental in this process. Mathematician, antiquarian, poet, and secular priest, Sigüenza authored works on such topics as the 1680 comet, the defense of New Spain, pre-Columbian history, and the massive 1692 Mexico City riot. He wrote all of these, in his words, "out of love for my patria."

Through readings of Sigüenza y Góngora's diverse works, Baroque Sovereignty locates the colonial Baroque at the crossroads of a conflicted Spanish imperial rule and the political imaginary of an emergent local elite. Arguing that Spanish imperialism was founded on an ideal of Christian conversion no longer applicable at the end of the seventeenth century, More discovers in Sigüenza y Góngora's works an alternative basis for local governance. The creole archive, understood as both the collection of local artifacts and their interpretation, solved the intractable problem of Spanish imperial sovereignty by establishing a material genealogy and authority for New Spain's creole elite. In an analysis that contributes substantially to early modern colonial studies and theories of memory and knowledge, More posits the centrality of the creole archive for understanding how a local political imaginary emerged from the ruins of Spanish imperialism.

In the seventeenth century, even as the Spanish Habsburg monarchy entered its irreversible decline, the capital of its most important overseas territory was flourishing. Nexus of both Atlantic and Pacific trade routes and home to an ethnically diverse population, Mexico City produced a distinctive Baroque culture that combined local and European influences. In this context, the American-born descendants of European immigrants—or creoles, as they called themselves—began to envision a new society beyond the terms of Spanish imperialism, and the writings of the Mexican polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) were instrumental in this process. Mathematician, antiquarian, poet, and secular priest, Sigüenza authored works on such topics as the 1680 comet, the defense of New Spain, pre-Columbian history, and the massive 1692 Mexico City riot. He wrote all of these, in his words, "out of love for my patria."

Through readings of Sigüenza y Góngora's diverse works, Baroque Sovereignty locates the colonial Baroque at the crossroads of a conflicted Spanish imperial rule and the political imaginary of an emergent local elite. Arguing that Spanish imperialism was founded on an ideal of Christian conversion no longer applicable at the end of the seventeenth century, More discovers in Sigüenza y Góngora's works an alternative basis for local governance. The creole archive, understood as both the collection of local artifacts and their interpretation, solved the intractable problem of Spanish imperial sovereignty by establishing a material genealogy and authority for New Spain's creole elite. In an analysis that contributes substantially to early modern colonial studies and theories of memory and knowledge, More posits the centrality of the creole archive for understanding how a local political imaginary emerged from the ruins of Spanish imperialism.

“The Bars represent me finding my people. We were like a tribe. Together we are strong whereas before we felt weak and ostracized.”

Barred for Life is a photo documentary cataloging the legacy of Punk Rock pioneers Black Flag, through stories, interviews, and photographs of diehard fans who wear their iconic logo, The Bars, conspicuously tattooed upon their skin. Author Stewart Ebersole provides a personal narrative describing what made the existence of Punk Rock such an important facet of his and many other people’s lives, and the role that Black Flag’s actions and music played in soundtracking the ups and downs of living as cultural outsiders.

“The Bars say ‘I’m not one of them,’ and it also lets the right people know that I am one of them.”

Stark black-and-white portraits provide visual testimony to the thesis that Black Flag’s factual Punk-pioneering role and their hyper-distilled mythology are now more prevalent worldwide then when the band was in service. An extensive tour of North America and Western Europe documents dedicated fans bearing Bars-on-skin and other Black Flag iconography. Nearly four hundred “Barred” fans lined up, smiled/frowned for the camera, and issued their stories for the permanent record.

“It is the black flag of anarchism, and that is the opposite of the white flag of surrender.”

Barred for Life expands its own scope by presenting interviews with former Black Flag members and those close to the band. Interviews with alumni Dez Cadena, Ron Reyes, Kira Roessler, Keith Morris, and Chuck Dukowski, as well as photographers Glen E. Friedman and Ed Colver, and the man responsible for tattooing The Bars on more than a few Black Flag players, Rick Spellman, round out and spotlight aspects of Black Flag’s vicious live performances, forward-thinking work ethic, and indisputable reputation for acting as both champions and iconoclastic destroyers of the Punk Rock culture they helped to create.

“When I see The Bars I think ‘Black Flag the band,’ but they also represent an entire movement of people that are not going to conform. They are part of a culture of people that stand up for themselves.”

Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Writer Award, Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection from one contemporary fiction’s newest literary star.

Eva Crocker sees life in sharper focus than the rest of us. The objects, rituals, and scenes of everyday life take on an almost mythic quality in these stories, even while remaining intimately recognizable to us all. Crocker peers at the underbelly of poverty and work, ambition and apathy, loneliness and love, to find the sliver of beauty in each spot. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems: the boundaries between friendship and sex dissolve; power relationships are turned on their heads, if only long enough to examine them from all angles; transgressions and escapes become new kinds of traps. In “Auditioning,” a young twin makes a desperate attempt to reclaim her individuality. In “Serving,” a father and a son give parallel accounts of what it looks like when you let life eat you from the inside out. In “Star of the Sea,” a man watches his past get literally torn down before his eyes. And in the Cuffer Prize-winning “Dead Skin,” an after-school walk through the barrens leaves two boys forever changed.

In stories that ache with longing even as they pulse with new possibilities, Crocker gives us an unforgettable array of ordinary people, sometimes soaring, sometimes sinking, but always, ultimately, barrelling forward towards what’s next.

This book explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world by examining legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching. Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate.

Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate.

In so doing, she highlights underappreciated vulnerabilities and opportunities for women’s autonomy within the system of Islamic family law, and explores the diverse marketplace of medical ideas in the medieval world and the perceived connection between women’s health practices and religious heterodoxy.

Featuring copious translations of primary sources and minimal theoretical jargon, Barren Women provides a multidimensional perspective on the experience of infertility, while also enhancing our understanding of institutions and modes of thought which played significant roles in shaping women’s lives more broadly.

This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.

Barrett Fuller’s privileged life is about to change radically … or else.

Barrett Fuller is a world-famous and very wealthy children’s author who writes under a pseudonym because he’s a self-absorbed womanizer and drug-user. His life changes when he receives an extortion letter, challenging him to live up to the morals he currently espouses in his books. He is presented with a series of tasks to complete or face having his identity revealed to the public, resulting in the ruin of his financial empire.

Richard Fuller, Barrett’s nephew, has a secret too, and it’s one no kid should bear. He knows why his father left the family and he’s never told his mother.

When the extortionist challenges Barrett to spend time with his nephew, their respective secrets move towards a collision that will change their lives forever.

This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for collective and individual order gave birth to the new institutions, organizations, and practices that would define modern Jewish society and politics for the remainder of the twentieth century.

"Building for everyone" – that is the best definition of what lies behind the unwieldy concept of "barrier-free design": the complete and total usability of buildings, including for those with disabilities, for the integration of all of society’s members can only succeed when their environment is made accessible to them.
Demographic changes demand new qualities of private and public space, qualities that are also required by new legislation. The Detail Practice volume "Barrier-Free Design" provides all planners and architects, but also interested building sponsors, with basic practical information and a range of possible planning implementations in the domain of barrier freedom. It shows how corresponding requirements can be turned into aesthetically distinguished architecture. And it demonstrates that taking barrier freedom into account in the early planning stages of a project need not lead to additional costs compared to "classical" construction and design. In addition to an overview of planning fundamentals, the book also includes the associated body of rules and regulations as well as examples of how they are embodied in actual projects and perspectives on their development in the larger European context.

In Zeiten, in denen soziale Einbindung immer häufiger mit digitaler Partizipation einhergeht, hat der barrierefreie Zugang zum Internet und anderen zentralen Informations- und Kommunikationssystemen eine nicht zu unterschätzende Bedeutung für die gleichberechtigte Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft. Dieser Sammelband stellt die Grundlagen barrierefrei gestalteter Informationssysteme als elementaren Bestandteil einer inklusiven Informationsgesellschaft in Theorie und Praxis vor. Neben grundlegenden Fragestellungen barrierefreier Information und Kommunikation werden auch die konkrete Umsetzung von Barrierefreiheit beispielhaft an ganz unterschiedlichen Informationssystemen diskutiert sowie Möglichkeiten zur Evaluierung der Zugänglichkeit vorgestellt. Das Buch wendet sich insbesondere an Wissenschaftler, Studierende und Information Professionals aus den Bereichen Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Web-Design und -Entwicklung und bietet auch Entscheidungsträgern und Anbietern von Informationssystemen einen - längst nicht abschließenden - Überblick über ganz unterschiedliche Facetten von Barrierefreiheit.

Freedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States’ First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. Barriers Down reveals its unexpected origins in political, economic, and cultural battles over analog media in the mid-twentieth century. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world after 1945 under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power.

Barriers Down considers debates over civil liberties and censorship in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere alongside Americans’ efforts to circumvent foreign regulatory systems in the quest to expand markets and bring their ideas to new publics. Lemberg shows how in the decades following the Second World War American free-flow policies reshaped the world’s information landscape, though not always as intended. Through burgeoning information diplomacy and development aid, Washington diffused new media ranging from television and satellite broadcasting to global English. But these actions also spurred overseas actors to articulate alternative understandings of information freedom and of how information flows might be regulated. Bridging the historiographies of the United States in the world, human rights, decolonization and development, and media and technology, Barriers Down excavates the analog roots of digital-age debates over the politics and ethics of transnational information flows.

Freedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States’ First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. Barriers Down reveals its unexpected origins in political, economic, and cultural battles over analog media in the mid-twentieth century. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world after 1945 under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power.

Barriers Down considers debates over civil liberties and censorship in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere alongside Americans’ efforts to circumvent foreign regulatory systems in the quest to expand markets and bring their ideas to new publics. Lemberg shows how in the decades following the Second World War American free-flow policies reshaped the world’s information landscape, though not always as intended. Through burgeoning information diplomacy and development aid, Washington diffused new media ranging from television and satellite broadcasting to global English. But these actions also spurred overseas actors to articulate alternative understandings of information freedom and of how information flows might be regulated. Bridging the historiographies of the United States in the world, human rights, decolonization and development, and media and technology, Barriers Down excavates the analog roots of digital-age debates over the politics and ethics of transnational information flows.