Sigrid: 273 books

Book cover of Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience
by Keith Kahn-Harris, Deena Weinstein, Esther Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016

It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical...
Book cover of Weihnachtsgeschichten am Kamin 27
by Sabine Rheinhold, Anni Wollrath, Joachim Frank
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2012

Am schönsten ist eine Weihnachtsgeschichte, wenn sie vorgelesen wird! Wenn die Christbaumkugeln im Kerzenlicht funkeln und der Blick aus dem Fenster auf die weiße Winterlandschaft fällt, dann ist der Moment gekommen, sich im Kreise der Lieben zusammenzufinden. Nichts ist dabei herrlicher, als gemeinsam...
Book cover of Deviant
by Sigrid Weidenweber
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

Carmela, Sean and Alex begin their lives seemingly as all children do, however it quickly becomes apparent that they are different from the norm. They are deviant. Their individual psychoses align them to become the perfect triumvirate for a tragic outcome. Told from the perspective of their disheartened...
Book cover of Granta 136

Granta 136

Legacies of Love

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016

What happens after you fall in love? The essays and fiction in this issue of Granta look at the risk and reward of loving someone. 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love' by the late African-American filmmaker Kathleen Collins, captures the atmosphere of the Civil Rights movement in New York...
Book cover of Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution

Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution

Science and Technology in Modern China

by Darryl E. Brock, Cong Cao, Yinghong Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012

Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in Chairman Mao’s mass science, with its origins in the May Fourth era. This collection represents...
Book cover of The Criminalization of States

The Criminalization of States

The Relationship between States and Organized Crime

by Sigrid Arzt, Bruce Bagley, Adriana Beltrán
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
Book cover of Die schönsten Erzählungen
by Lew Tolstoi, Sigrid Löffler
Language: German
Release Date: February 17, 2011

Zum 100. Todestag von Lew Tolstoi Neben den großen Romanen schrieb Lew Tolstoi einzigartige Erzählungen. »Vielleicht ist es dieser melancholisch­pragmatische Grundton, der den Stoff für die heute Jungen interessant macht.« Der Spiegel »Tolstois Charaktere sind vielschichtig und undurchschaubar,...
Book cover of Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs
by Elizabeth Edwards, Sigrid Lien
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016

Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums,...
Book cover of Analyzing Multimodal Interaction

Analyzing Multimodal Interaction

A Methodological Framework

by Sigrid Norris
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2004

Our perception of our everyday interactions is shaped by more than what is said. From coffee with friends to interviews, meetings with colleagues and conversations with strangers, we draw on both verbal and non-verbal behaviour to judge and consider our experiences. Analyzing Multimodal Interaction...
Book cover of The Concept of Intrinsic Evil and Catholic Theological Ethics
by Stephan Herzberg, Sigrid Müller, Nenad Polgar
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019

One of the most sweeping, categorical, and absolute phrases that has ever been employed by the hierarchical teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church refers to a concept called ‘intrinsic evil’. In short, intrinsic evil is invoked to describe certain kinds of human acts that can never be...
Book cover of Die Reformation
by Volker Leppin, Rita Voltmer, Stefan Weinfurter
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Die Reformation brach - nach Vorankündigungen im Spätmittelalter - die religiöse Einheit Europas auf. In der Folge entwickelten sich in Böhmen, in der calvinistischen Schweiz, in Skandinavien, den Generalstaaten der Niederlande oder in England unterschiedlichste Ausprägungen von Kirchen und Religion....
Book cover of Deutsche Außenpolitik des Wilhelminischen Kaiserreich 1890–1918
by Walter Demel, Andreas Rose, Susanne Lachenicht
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014

Die Außenpolitik des Deutschen Kaiserreiches ist fraglos eines der zentralen und bis heute umstrittensten Themenfelder der Neueren Geschichte. Die europäischen Rivalitäten, das imperiale Ringen um überseeische Besitzungen und die zunehmende Bedeutung der eigenen Öffentlichkeit für das außenpolitische...
Book cover of AEIOU

AEIOU

Glück und Unglück im österreichischen Kaiserhaus

by Sigrid-Maria Größing
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2014

"Alles Erdreich ist Österreich untertan” ist eine der Deutungen der bis heute geheimnisvollen Buchstaben AEIOU, die zu einem Markenzeichen der Habsburger geworden sind. Glück und Unglück, Freud und Leid prägten das Privatleben der Herrscher, die Österreichs Geschicke bestimmten. In farbigen,...
Book cover of "Wir hätten in einem Rosengarten sitzen können"

"Wir hätten in einem Rosengarten sitzen können"

Liebe und Leid im Hause Habsburg

by Sigrid-Maria Größing
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2014

Dieses Buch zeigt die Habsburger, deren Gestalten sehr oft hinter undurchschaubaren Masken verborgen blieben, ganz ungeschminkt und legt dem Leser dar, welche Sorgen und Nöte, welche Vorlieben und Schwächen, aber auch welche zwischenmenschlichen Probleme sie plagten. Mit einigen von ihnen meinte...
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