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Secondhand Chic

Finding Fabulous Fashion at Consignment, Vintage, and Thrift Shops

By: Christa Weil

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Secondhand Chic

Finding Fabulous Fashion at Consignment, Vintage, and Thrift Shops

By: Christa Weil

Fun, funky, and fabulous, this book offers a personal buying guide for anyone who wants to look like a million for a fraction of the cost.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671027131

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9780671027131

Faustus and the Promises of the New Science, c. 1580-1730

From the Chapbooks to Harlequin Faustus

By: Christa Knellwolf King

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Faustus and the Promises of the New Science, c. 1580-1730

From the Chapbooks to Harlequin Faustus

By: Christa Knellwolf King

Having identified the literary origins of the Faustus legend in the German Faust Book (1587) and its English translation (1592), this book argues that these works transformed a simple rogue's tale into an incisive study of morality and beliefs. The chapbooks' contrastive portrayal of an imaginary experience of hell and a pseudo-scientific journey through the cosmos is interpreted as an unconventional approach to the questions of an inquiring mind. This study offers the first analysis of the chapbooks as literary works in their own right, as opposed to simply being sources for Christopher Marlowe's play. It is also the first study to describe the Faustus typology as a vehicle by which uncompromising thinkers of early modernity and the Enlightenment questioned contemporary views about religion, morality and the possibility of experiencing transcendence. While arguing that Marlowe's Doctor Faustus primarily examines the imaginary foundations of religious rules and standards, the author suggests that the 1616 version of the play revived the chapbooks' accounts of spiritual ravishment and intellectual ecstasy. Imaginary explorations of cosmic space became popular in the seventeenth century and gave rise to strongly diverging works of literature, embracing the arcane spirituality of Milton's Paradise Lost as well as Fontenelle's sociable but essentially secular fantasy of cosmic travel. This book shows that contemporary responses to early modern science also tended to address the most urgent concerns of the Faustus legend, explaining the re-emergence of the typology in Mountfort's late seventeenth-century farcical Faustus play and early eighteenth-century harlequinades about Doctor Faustus

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Routledge

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1351936913

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9781351936910

From Expressionism to Exile

The Works of Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940)

By: Christa Spreizer

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From Expressionism to Exile

The Works of Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940)

By: Christa Spreizer

This is the first general study in English on the German Expressionist writer Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940) and the first that draws upon new materials found in his collected works, which were completed in 1997. It draws additionally on the author's archival research in eastern Germany. Spreizer's work deals with the life and writings of this major figure in the Expressionist literary movement, first known for his volume of Expressionist poetry Der Jungling (1913), and best known today for his groundbreaking Expressionist drama Der Sohn (1914).

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Camden House

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1571131302

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9781571131300

Josua und Salomo

Eine Studie zu Autorität und Legitimität des Nachfolgers im Alten Testament

By: Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger

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Josua und Salomo

Eine Studie zu Autorität und Legitimität des Nachfolgers im Alten Testament

By: Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger

Josua und Salomo puts forward the thesis that the literary figure of the successor was created by circles who strongly relied on the book of Deuteronomy. In order to construct the ideal of a successor they used the characters of Joshua and Solomon and implemented the results of their theological reflection which were unleashed by the complete destruction of the pre-exilic political, social and religious organization of the nation. The figure of Joshua combines all the treats of their theological conception of an ideal political leader, whereas the figure of Solomon demonstrates the dangers which are implied in monarchical succession. From the theological perspective of deuteronomism “Solomon” and “Joshua” are opposite characters. The deuteronomic concepts of God and authority play a central role for the reflection on both characters.

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BRILL

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9004275827

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9789004275829

Beuysian Legacies in Ireland and Beyond

Art, Culture and Politics

By: Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes,Victoria Walters

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Beuysian Legacies in Ireland and Beyond

Art, Culture and Politics

By: Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes,Victoria Walters

This collection of trans-disciplinary essays addresses the artistic, cultural, and political legacies of Joseph Beuys' expanded concept of art and its societal application, for example, through the Free International University (FIU). Since the 1980s, Beuys' practice has had a strong influence on the Peaceful Revolution, "relational aesthetics" and the "art and reconciliation" movement, attempting to bring about cultural understanding and reconciliation in situations of conflict. His work is pertinent to how we think about diversity and sustainability and may constitute an applied anthropology. (Series: European Studies in Culture and Policy - Vol. 6)

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825807614

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9783825807610

Vernon Lee

Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual

By: Christa Zorn

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Vernon Lee

Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual

By: Christa Zorn

A startlingly original study, Vernon Lee adds new dimensions to the legacy of this woman of letters whose career spans the transition from the late Victorian to the modernist period. Christa Zorn draws on archival materials to discuss Lee's work in terms of British aestheticism and in the context of the Western European history of ideas.

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Ohio University Press

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0821414976

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9780821414972

Private International Law, Art and Cultural Heritage

By: Christa Roodt

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Private International Law, Art and Cultural Heritage

By: Christa Roodt

In this timely book Christa Roodt demonstrates how the structure and method of private international law can be applied in its expanding relationship with cultural heritage law. In particular, she explores the use of private international law in the co

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781002169

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9781781002162

Shamanism and Spirituality in Therapeutic Practice

An Introduction

By: Christa Mackinnon

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Shamanism and Spirituality in Therapeutic Practice

An Introduction

By: Christa Mackinnon

Increasing numbers of professionals in the fields of psychology and therapy are seeking to incorporate elements of spirituality into their therapeutic oeuvre, addressing not only mental and emotional issues, but also the soul. This book discloses how indigenous traditions can be adapted to offer practitioners a highly effective repertoire of insights, psycho-spiritual approaches and therapeutic tools. The underlying concepts and world-views of indigenous and contemporary shamanism are explained and tied in with current developments in psychology and science. After clarifying altered states of perception, concepts of integrative wholeness of mind, body, soul and spirit and transformative shamanic 'healing' approaches, the book goes on to outline concrete contemporary tools and techniques that can be applied directly to work with clients. It presents research, examples and case studies throughout. This will be enlightening and compelling reading for psychologists, therapists, counsellors and coaches looking for profound insights and innovative methods of practice that cater for the whole human psyche, reaching beyond contemporary Western mind and body approaches.

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Singing Dragon

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0857010689

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9780857010681

Contesting Nietzsche

By: Christa Davis Acampora

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Contesting Nietzsche

By: Christa Davis Acampora

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche’s philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche. Though existence—viewed through the lens of Nietzsche’s agon—is fraught with struggle, Acampora illuminates what Nietzsche recognized as the agon’s generative benefits. It imbues the human experience with significance, meaning, and value. Analyzing Nietzsche’s elaborations of agonism—his remarks on types of contests, qualities of contestants, and the conditions in which either may thrive or deteriorate—she demonstrates how much the agon shaped his philosophical projects and critical assessments of others. The agon led him from one set of concerns to the next, from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, via Homer, Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In showing how one obsession catalyzed so many diverse interests, Contesting Nietzsche sheds fundamentally new light on some of this philosopher’s most difficult and paradoxical ideas.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226821013

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9780226821016

They Divided the Sky

A Novel by Christa Wolf

By: Christa Wolf

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They Divided the Sky

A Novel by Christa Wolf

By: Christa Wolf

First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which went up on August 13, 1961. The story is set in 1960 and 1961, a moment of high political cold war tension between the East Bloc and the West, a time when many thousands of people were leaving the young German Democratic Republic (the GDR) every day in order to seek better lives in West Germany, or escape the political ideology of the new country that promoted the "farmer and peasant" state over a state run by intellectuals or capitalists. The construction of the Wall put an end to this hemorrhaging of human capital, but separated families, friends, and lovers, for thirty years. The conflicts of the time permeate the relations between characters in the book at every level, and strongly affect the relationships that Rita, the protagonist, has not only with colleagues at work and at the teacher's college she attends, but also with her partner Manfred (an intellectual and academic) and his family. They also lead to an accident/attempted suicide that send her to hospital in a coma, and that provide the backdrop for the flashbacks that make up the narrative. Wolf's first full-length novel, published when she was thirty-five years old, was both a great literary success and a political scandal. Accused of having a 'decadent' attitude with regard to the new socialist Germany and deliberately misrepresenting the workers who are the foundation of this new state, Wolf survived a wave of political and other attacks after its publication. She went on to create a screenplay from the novel and participate in making the film version. More importantly, she went on to become the best-known East German writer of her generation, a writer who established an international reputation and never stopped working toward improving the socialist reality of the GDR.

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University of Ottawa Press

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0776620355

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9780776620350

City of Angels

or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A Novel

By: Christa Wolf

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City of Angels

or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A Novel

By: Christa Wolf

The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar—and disturbing—story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel—and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429942789

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9781429942782

Fierce Food

The Intrepid Diner's Guide to the Unusual, Exotic, and Downright Bizarre

By: Christa Weil

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Fierce Food

The Intrepid Diner's Guide to the Unusual, Exotic, and Downright Bizarre

By: Christa Weil

Bugs, brains, and boiled sheep—a truly extreme dining guide for fans of Anthony Bourdain’s Extreme Cuisine Is comfort food getting a little too comfortable? Then grab a plate at the Fierce Foodbuffet, where the world’s most extraordinary foods are dished up for your pleasure. Start the meal with Mexican chapulines, or grasshoppers, and then move along to the Kazakhstan boiled sheep’s head, where the eyeball is reserved for the most honored guest. And if necessary, ease your queasy stomach with dried clay. An alphabetical survey of the world’s most amazing and unusual edibles, Fierce Fooddescribes what these foods are and where they’re from, and how they’re captured, foraged, or, even putrefied. Readers also learn how the foods are traditionally served and eaten-and best of all, what they taste like, because if you can’t actually bring yourself to eat Filipino embryonic duck eggs, reading about it is the next best thing. Fierce Foodis a fascinating exploration of global cultures that definitively proves the old adage, “one man’s meat is another man's poison.”

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Plume

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0452287006

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9780452287006

Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art

By: Christa Grössinger

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Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art

By: Christa Grössinger

This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society.

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Manchester University Press

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0719041090

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9780719041099

In My Own Voice

Memoirs

By: Christa Ludwig

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In My Own Voice

Memoirs

By: Christa Ludwig

One of the greatest mezzo-sopranos of postwar opera, Christa Ludwig recalls her long and lustrous career singing for two generations of adoring audiences, under the batons of such conductors as Klemperer, Karajan, Solti, and Bernstein, in the great opera houses of the world. Her memoirs make clear why Bernstein said of her, "She is simply the best, and the best of all possible human beings.

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359

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879102810

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9780879102814

Hybride jüdische Identitäten

Gemischte Familien und patrilineare Juden

By: Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim,Pearl Beck,Michał Bilewicz,Christina von Braun,Micha Brumlik,Madeleine Dreyfus,Catherine Gransard,Joela Jacobs,Birgitta Scherhans,Adrian Wójcik,Christa Wohl

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Hybride jüdische Identitäten

Gemischte Familien und patrilineare Juden

By: Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim,Pearl Beck,Michał Bilewicz,Christina von Braun,Micha Brumlik,Madeleine Dreyfus,Catherine Gransard,Joela Jacobs,Birgitta Scherhans,Adrian Wójcik,Christa Wohl

Viele Jüdinnen und Juden lieben nichtjüdische Partner*innen, leben und haben Kinder mit ihnen. Die Vorstellung von 'Juden' und 'Nichtjuden' als klar unterscheidbaren Gruppen ist überholt. 'Gemischte' Familien und Partnerschaften sind stattdessen Teil der zeitgenössischen Lebensrealität im deutschsprachigen Raum und darüber hinaus. Der nicht unumstrittene Begriff des Hybriden, ursprünglich aus Botanik und Biologie entlehnt und im 19. Jahrhundert in die Rassenlehre übernommen, wo er negativ besetzt wurde, findet seit einigen Jahren in diversen Bereichen der Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften wieder Verwendung. Dort richtet sich das Interesse auf Begegnungen, Vermischungen, Übergänge, Übersetzungen und Neuschöpfungen. Daraus entstehen Fragen nach Inklusion und Exklusion, welche Formen 'Vermischungen' oder 'Hybridisierungen' in konkreten Kontexten annehmen und in welchen kulturellen Praktiken und Identitätskonstruktionen sich diese äußern. Solche Fragen stellen sich auch für zeitgenössische jüdische Lebensentwürfe: Versteht man Identitäten als reflexive Prozesse des Selbstverstehens, des Entwickelns von sich immer in Veränderung befindlichen Selbstbildern und als eine Beziehung, zeigt sich, wie bedeutsam der Kontakt mit anderen und das Erfahren von Fremdwahrnehmung durch andere sind. Widersprüchliche Definitionen von Jüdischsein führen hier zu Herausforderungen für gemischte Familien. Die Komplexität resultiert u. a. aus den verschiedenen Ebenen zeitgenössischer jüdischer Identität, wie der kulturellen, der religiösen und nach der Shoah der historischen Ebene der Familien- und Verfolgungsgeschichte. Der Band Hybride jüdische Identitäten versammelt die Vorträge der gleichnamigen internationalen Tagung, die im November 2012 am Erziehungswissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Zürich stattgefunden hat. Die Autor*innen bringen nicht nur Perspektiven unterschiedlicher wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen, wie der Psychologie, der Soziologie, der Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie der Psychoanalyse zusammen, sondern untersuchen auch unterschiedliche nationale Zusammenhänge und Spezifika. Der Sammelband bündelt damit erstmalig Forschungen zu gemischt jüdisch-nichtjüdischen Familien und deren Selbstverständnissen und Erfahrungen.

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Neofelis Verlag

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3943414760

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9783943414769

Secondhand Chic

Finding Fabulous Fashion at Consignment, Vintage, and Thrift Shops

By: Christa Weil

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Secondhand Chic

Finding Fabulous Fashion at Consignment, Vintage, and Thrift Shops

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Fun, funky, and fabulous, this book offers a personal buying guide for anyone who wants to look like a million for a fraction of the cost.

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Simon and Schuster

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Fierce Food

The Intrepid Diner's Guide to the Unusual, Exotic, and Downright Bizarre

By: Christa Weil

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The Intrepid Diner's Guide to the Unusual, Exotic, and Downright Bizarre

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It's Vintage, Darling!

How to be a Clothes Connoisseur

By: Christa Weil

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It's Vintage, Darling!

How to be a Clothes Connoisseur

By: Christa Weil

Whether rummaging in a charity shop, browsing in an antiques market or scouring the Internet in search of the perfect 1940s jacket, an original Ozzie Clarke or something to add a twist to a high street outfit, this guide to buying and wearing vintage will transform your look.

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0340922753

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