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The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation.A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As the evening wears on, we glimpse the issues that are tearing this family apart.'I wrote this book in August 1989, just before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I wanted to understand how revolutions start. It seemed logical to use the figure of a tyrannical father...

The Dead Guest – An Amsterdam Mystery (A2 English Reader)A mysterious death in the heart of Amsterdam. A quiet hotel. And a detective who knows that something is not right.When a guest is found dead in a small hotel near the canals of Amsterdam, the case seems simple at first. But detective Jan van der Weert quickly realizes that the story is more complicated. The victim had secrets, and several people in the hotel seem to know more than they say.As...

The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and Hegel praised him in the same breath with Kant as having launched the philosophical revolution they sought to complete. Yet for more than a century, misrepresentations of Jacobi's thought have stood in the way of a proper appreciation of his insights. In her study of this long-neglected German philosopher, internationally-renowned Jacobi expert Birgit Sandkaulen interpre...

All he needs is the sword of a true warrior – or so he thinks.England AD 1070. In the fenlands of East Anglia, the Saxon resistance against the Norman king smoulders.Loïc, a young squire, knows that every man has to stand their ground against the rebels, but he only attracts the scorn and spite of the other squires during fighting practice. He must prove himself in combat if he wants to teach the others a lesson and survive a hostile onslau...

A thrilling true story that follows the adventures of three medical professionals and their dog as they leave behind a thriving practice and head off on the journey of their lives aboard a 52-foot yacht named Nessie. With little experience aside from research and sailing lessons, they pack up two years’ worth of food and embark from Holland onto the North Sea. With new experiences, stunning landscapes and unexpected danger around every corner, the trio sails around Europe and Africa. As pa...

How would you feel if, at eight years old, you lost your parents, a war began, and you were declared an enemy of the state? This is the reality for a young boy named Victor on the brink of WWII. Even Without Blood is a profoundly moving debut novel based on a true story of familial displacement spanning Indonesia, Austria, Holland, and Canada. This novel was first published in Dutch as Schuilen tussen bamboe by HarperCollins Holland and praised by Dutch readers as...

Set sail on a bubbly adventure with Leona and her cuddly friend Sam the teddy bear! One ordinary bath turns into an extraordinary journey across a magical ocean filled with rainbow skies, talking goldfish, dancing flamingos, and even an island that moves! But when a red balloon sweeps Sam into the sky, Leona must hold on tight and believe in the magic around her. Was it all a dream... or something more?Perfect for young readers ages 2 to 5, The Adventures of Leona is a gen...

Russia's New Fin de Siècle brings together a range of texts on contemporary Russian culture – literary, cinematic and popular – as artists and writers try to situate themselves within the traditional frameworks of past and present, East and West, but also challenge established markers of identity. Investigating Russian culture at the turn of the 21st century, scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States explore aspects of culture with regards to one overarching ques...

Peter Manner, known by his codename Madman, leads a glorious life as a military pilot. Together with his team, he has a reputation for being unbeatable at the most difficult missions. But then the base receives a mission that is beyond even their abilities: America is to become the target of a test of a new bio-weapon, which the team must incapacitate. Their only option is to use stealth bombers, but this raises a problem: none of them has any experience with this aircraft...

'I can't remember what it was like being born, but from what they used to tell me it seemed almost as if everything had been fine up to that point.'Standing in her family's two-bedroom flat in the Promised Land, a little girl realizes that once again she won't be getting a cat for her birthday. She's been wanting one ever since she was five – all the way back to when they were living in the refugee camp. In the East, her Grandma made cakes and kept rabbits; now ther...

Patterns of im/mobility, collective identity and conflict are highly entangled. The im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives, a sense of belonging and relationships to ‘others’ are shaped, and vice versa. These dynamics are closely interlinked with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion between groups and power structures that involve a broad variety of actors from local populations, to migrants, government institutions and other intermediaries.

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage sensitively yet thoroughly with the regulatory, disciplinary, and exclusionary effects of human righ...