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EXTRAIT: C’est terrible, comme le soleil brûle dans les pays chauds ! Les gens y deviennent bruns comme de l’acajou, et, dans les plus chauds, noirs comme des nègres. Un savant était arrivé de son pays froid dans un de ces pays chauds, où il pensait...

EXTRAIT: Devant un riche château seigneurial s’étendait un beau jardin, bien tenu, planté d’arbres et de fleurs rares. Les personnes qui venaient rendre visite au propriétaire exprimaient leur admiration pour ces arbustes apportés des pays lointains pour...

EXTRAIT: « Chaque fois qu’un bon enfant meurt, un ange de Dieu descend sur la terre, prend l’enfant mort dans ses bras, ouvre ses larges ailes, parcourt tous les lieux que l’enfant a aimés, et cueille une poignée de fleurs. Ces fleurs, tous deux les portent au bon Dieu pour qu’il les fasse refleurir là-haut plus belles que sur la terre. 

What are the foundations of human self-understanding and the value of responsible philosophical questioning? Focusing on Heidegger's early work on facticity, historicity, and the phenomenological hermeneutics of factical-historical life, Hans-Helmuth Gander develops an idea of understanding that reflects...

Suchtstoff Zucker: Forschungen zeigen, dass schon Kinder auf Abhängigkeit programmiert werden, oft bereits im Mutterleib. Viele essen Zucker, ohne es zu wollen, versteckt als Konservierungsstoff in Industrienahrung. Die Lawine rollt: Weltweit leiden immer mehr Menschen an den Folgen des Zuckerkonsums....

What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step further, exploring the substance and reality of language...

In this definitive analysis of the Weimar Republic, Hans Mommsen surveys the political, social, and economic development of Germany between the end of World War I and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933. His assessment of the German experiment with democracy challenges many long-held...

Hans Christian Asbosen is back with more wickedly witty tales of ASBO (Anti-Social Behavior Order) England.

Dit is een verhaal over solidariteit en moed, maar ook over lafheid en verraad. Over `goede en `foute vrouwen, maar vooral over een verzetsstrijdster en een SS-bewaakster. Voor beiden zou de nacht van 15 op 16 januari 1944 de belangrijkste van hun leven worden. In die nacht werden 91 vrouwen door...

The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. The ensuing years have brought immense change for the Cree, who now live with the consequences of Quebec's massive development of hydroelectricity,...

A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday AnthologyA CHRISTMAS TALEby HANS M HIRSCHIImagine meeting Santa Claus for real and being granted a wish on Christmas Eve... This sweet little story will take you back to a time, not all that long ago, when life for gays was quite different...

Love is love and dragons are evil or are they really? The Dragon Princess is a story about love and how it holds the power to transform even the coldest of hearts. A classic bedtime story for children of all ages written by bestselling author Hans M Hirschi and beautifully illustrated by Felicity Swan.

This is the story of Nilas and how he navigates life, trying to reconcile being gay as well as being Sami. Set over several decades, we follow Nilas and his Swedish husband Casper, as they build a life amid the shallows of bigotry, discrimination, and the onset of the AIDS crisis.Last Winter’s...

Radical youth work is gaining popularity as a means of teaching adults how, in collaboration with youth, they can challenge dominant ways of knowing. This study uses two particular subcultures, skinheads and punks, to explore how constructions of subcultures in time, language, space, body practice,...