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This guidebook describes 38 walking routes in Ticino, the Swiss
canton with a Mediterranean twist. Towering snowcapped mountains
and lush, narrow valleys overlook stylish lakeside resorts with
palm-fringed promenades and handsome Italianate architecture. It's
not just the Italian language that sets Ticino apart: the food,
sunny weather and stunning landscapes attract millions of visitors
to this part of the southern Alps every year. As for the walks,
it's the variety - as much as the fabulous scenery - that provides
the draw. In this book you'll find everything from level walks
along the shores of Lakes Lugano and Maggiore, to more challenging
trails through craggy, forested valleys with gushing waterfalls and
ancient stone-built villages, to isolated mountain huts right at
the permanent snowline. If you think you already know Switzerland,
but haven't walked in Ticino, a stunning experience awaits you -
and all of the routes are easily accessible through a network of
buses, trains, funiculars, cable cars and chairlifts.
The Alps are Europe's highest mountain range: their broad arc
stretches right across the center of the continent, encompassing a
wide range of traditions and cultures. Andrew Beattie explores the
turbulent past and vibrant present of this landscape, where early
pioneers of tourism, mountaineering, and scientific research, along
with the enduring legacies of historical regimes from the Romans to
the Nazis, have all left their mark.
After Germany's reunification in 1989-90, the country faced not
only the history and consequences of the nation's division during
the Cold War but also the continuing burdensome legacy of the Nazi
past and the Holocaust. This book explains why concerns that the
Nazi past would be marginalized by the more recent Communist past
proved to be misplaced. It examines the delicate East-West dynamics
and the notion that the West sought to impose "victor's justice"
(or history) on the East. More specifically, it examines, for the
first time, the history and significance of two parliamentary
commissions of inquiry created in the 1990s to investigate the
divided past after 1945 and its effects on the reunified country.
Not unlike "truth commissions" elsewhere, these inquiries provided
an important forum for renegotiating contemporary Germany's
relationship with multiple German pasts, including the Nazi period
and the Holocaust. The ensuing debates and disagreements over the
recent past, examined by the author, open up a window into the
wider development of German memory, identity, and politics after
the end of the Cold War.
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Prague (Paperback)
Andrew Beattie
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R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
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Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way
above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city
s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and
film are well known: Mozart staged the premiere of his opera Don
Giovanni here; in the early twentieth century Franz Kafka was at
the forefront of the city's intellectual life, while later writers
such as Milan Kundera and film directors such as Milos Forman
chronicled Prague's fortunes under communism. Yet the city has a
cultural heritage that runs far deeper than Kafka museums and
Mozart-by-candlelight concerts. It encompasses the avant-garde punk
group Plastic People of the Universe, the 'new wave' film directors
of the 1960s who made their striking movies in the city's famed
Barrandov studios, and artists such as Alfons Mucha and Frantisek
Kupka whose revolutionary canvases fomented Art Nouveau and
abstract art at the dawn of the twentieth century. Beyond art
galleries, concert halls and cinemas the history of Prague has been
one of invasion and sometimes brutal oppression. The great German
chancellor Otto von Bismarck once commented that 'whoever controls
Prague, controls mid-Europe' and a succession of imperialist powers
have taken this advice to heart, most recently Nazi Germany and the
Soviet Union. Opposition has taken many forms, from the religious
reformer Jan Hus in the fifteenth century to playwright and
dissident Vaclav Havel, whose elevation to the Czechoslovak
presidency in 1990 made him a symbol of the rebirth of democracy in
Eastern Europe. In this book Andrew Beattie also reflects on the
modern city, where bold new buildings such as Frank Gehry's
'Dancing House' rub shoulders with monuments from the Gothic and
Baroque eras such as the Charles Bridge and St. Vitus' Cathedral.
He considers the suburbs too, home to world-renowned football and
ice hockey teams, gleaming shopping centres and grim communist-era
apartment blocks that are often home to Vietnamese, Romany and
Muslim minority groups who live in a city with a growing
international outlook. The Prague he reveals is an increasingly
confident and diverse city of the new Europe.
Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an
invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live
radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand
them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the world,
and in dialogue with current work in psychology and philosophy,
Andrew Beatty develops an anthropological perspective on the
affective life, showing how emotions colour experience and
transform situations; how, in turn, they are shaped by culture and
history. In stark contrast with accounts that depend on lab
simulations, interviews, and documentary reconstruction, he takes
the reader into unfamiliar cultural worlds through a 'narrative'
approach to emotions in naturalistic settings, showing how emotions
tell a story and belong to larger stories. Combining richly
detailed reporting with a careful critique of alternative
approaches, he argues for an intimate grasp of local realities that
restores the heartbeat to ethnography.
The Scottish Highlands form the highest mountains in the British
Isles, a broad arc of rocky peaks and deep glens stretching from
the outskirts of Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen to the remote and
storm-lashed Cape Wrath in Scotland's far northwest. The Romans
never conquered the region - according to the historian Tacitus,
the Highland warrior chieftain Calgacus dubbed his people 'the last
of the free' - and in the Dark Ages the island of Iona became home
to a Celtic Church that was able to pose a serious challenge to the
Church of Rome. Few travellers ever ventured there, however,
disturbed by the tales of wild beasts, harsh geography and the
bloody conflicts of warring families known as the clans. But after
the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the Battle of Culloden the
influence of the clans was curbed and the Scottish Highlands became
celebrated by poets, writers and artists for their beauty rather
than their savagery. In the nineteenth century, inspired by the
travel reportage of Samuel Johnson, the novels of Walter Scott, the
poems of William Wordsworth and the very public love of the
Highlands espoused by Queen Victoria, tourists began flocking to
the mountains - even as Highlanders were being removed from their
land by the brutal agricultural reforms known as the Clearances.
With the popularity of hiking and the construction of railways,
including the famed West Highland line across Rannoch Moor, the
fate of the Highlands as one of the great tourist playgrounds of
the world was sealed. Andrew Beattie explores the turbulent past
and vibrant present of this landscape, where the legacy of events
from the first Celtic settlements to the Second World War and from
the construction of military roads to mining for lead, slate and
gold have all left their mark.
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Cairo (Paperback)
Andrew Beattie
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R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Cairo is a city of extremes. On its chaotic streets BMWs driven by
sharp-suited businessmen compete for road space with donkey carts
laden with farm produce; in its mosques the wealthy and the
destitute pray next to each other. The largest conurbation in
Africa since the Middle Ages, it was in Ibn Battutah's words "the
mother of cities". With a present-day population of around eighteen
million, this sprawling metropolis is home to one thousand new
migrants every day, drawn to the seething intensity of a modern,
cosmopolitan capital that blends together the cultures of the
Middle East and Europe. The fabled city on the banks of the River
Nile, once home to pharaohs and emperors, now forms a focal point
of the Islamic faith and of the Arab world. Andrew Beattie explores
the turbulent past and vibrant present of this city where the
enduring legacies of the ancient Egyptians, the early Coptic
Church, British colonial rule and the modernist zeal of the
post-independence era have all left their mark. THE CITY OF
WRITERS, CONQUERORS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: From Mark Twain and
Thackeray to Paul Theroux and Naguib Mahfouz, Alexander the Great
to Napoleon, and Lawrence of Arabia to Colonel Nasser. THE CITY OF
MONUMENTS AND SPECTACLE: From the Pyramids of Giza and Saqqara to
the Mosque of Mohammed Ali, dominating the Cairo skyline; from the
teeming bazaars of the muski to Coptic and Islamic festivals. THE
CITY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN: Where ancient churches and mosques sit
cheek-by-jowl with modern skyscrapers and busy highways; where
prosperous suburbs lie close to areas of third world poverty and
deprivation.
The story of Henry VIII is well known: he is famed throughout the
world as the charismatic king of England who married six wives (and
executed two of them), who broke with Rome and dissolved England's
monasteries, and who grew from a Renaissance prince into a lustful,
egotistical and callous tyrant. He is the subject of scholarly and
popular biographies and of numerous fictional works, from John
Fletcher and William Shakespeare's jointly authored play Henry VIII
to contemporary novels, films and TV series. But this book tells
the story of Henry VIII in a very different way to any of these:
through the places where the events of his life unfolded. From
Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London to the site of the Field
of the Cloth of Gold near Calais where Henry met the French King
Francis I for a week of pageantry in 1520, and from his lavish
palaces in London to quieter manor houses in the English
countryside which he visited during his annual summer "progress", a
whole new light is thrown on this most compelling of historical
figures. Whilst some sites associated with Henry are now very
ruinous - such as Woking Palace in Surrey, which Henry remodelled
into a lavish royal residence but which is now little more than a
few tumbledown walls, or Greenwich Palace, where he was born, of
which only a few remnants from his era remain - others, most
famously Hampton Court, are much more substantial; the book looks
at Henry's connections with each site in turn, along with the
conditions that today's visitors to the site can expect, beginning
with the Thames-side palaces from Greenwich upstream to Hampton
Court, before broadening its scope to include properties and sites
outside London, in the West and North of England and in Northern
France.
Set on an isolated Indonesian island, this is the gripping true
story of a fieldworker's experience of living in a tribal society
during a period of crisis. Featuring a cast of unforgettable
characters, After the Ancestors follows a bitter feud between
rivals as it escalates into murder, intrigue and revenge. A vivid
account of life within a radically different world, it also
portrays a unique culture undergoing the transition from tribalism
to modernity. A century of alien rule has left the island, once
famous for its warrior ethos, with a hybrid culture. As the
possibilities for heroic action recede, men raised to be orators
and over-reachers rather than church elders and peasants find
themselves occupying a stage too small for their personalities.
'Where can we turn', asks one tribesman, 'we who come after the
ancestors?' A revenge tragedy for modern times, After the Ancestors
will be enjoyed by anthropologists and general readers alike.
Java is famous for its combination of diverse cultural forms and religious beliefs. In this most comprehensive study of Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's classic study, Andrew Beatty considers Javanese solutions to problems of cultural difference, and how villagers make sense of their complex, multi-layered culture. Pantheist mystics, supernaturalists, orthodox Muslims and Hindu converts at once construct contrasting faiths and create a common ground through syncretist ritual. Vividly evoking the local religious life, this book probes beyond the surface of ritual and cosmology, revealing the compromise inherent in practical religion.
Java is famous for its combination of diverse cultural forms and religious beliefs. In this most comprehensive study of Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's classic study, Andrew Beatty considers Javanese solutions to problems of cultural difference, and how villagers make sense of their complex, multi-layered culture. Pantheist mystics, supernaturalists, orthodox Muslims and Hindu converts at once construct contrasting faiths and create a common ground through syncretist ritual. Vividly evoking the local religious life, this book probes beyond the surface of ritual and cosmology, revealing the compromise inherent in practical religion.
Andrew Beatty gives us what no Western writer has been able to do:
an intimate picture of how Islamic fundamentalism can displace
older and more easygoing forms of belief. He has also written an
unforgettably human story set in a beautiful place. Andrew Beatty
lived with his family for two and a half years in a village in East
Java. When he arrived, he was entranced by a strange and sensual
way of life, an unusual tolerance of diversity. Mysticism, Islamic
piety and animism coexisted peacefully; the ancient traditions of
the shadow play, of spirit beliefs and were-tigers seemed set to
endure. Java appeared a model for our strife-ridden world, a recipe
for multiculturalism. But a harsh and puritanical Islamism, fed by
modern uncertainties, was driving young women to wear the veil and
young men to renounce the old rituals. The mosque loudspeakers grew
strident, cultural boundaries sharpened. As a wave of
witch-killings shook the countryside, Beatty and his family began
to feel like vulnerable outsiders. Set among Java's rice fields and
volcanoes, this is the story of how one of the biggest issues of
our time plays out in ordinary lives.
Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an
invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live
radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand
them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the world,
and in dialogue with current work in psychology and philosophy,
Andrew Beatty develops an anthropological perspective on the
affective life, showing how emotions colour experience and
transform situations; how, in turn, they are shaped by culture and
history. In stark contrast with accounts that depend on lab
simulations, interviews, and documentary reconstruction, he takes
the reader into unfamiliar cultural worlds through a 'narrative'
approach to emotions in naturalistic settings, showing how emotions
tell a story and belong to larger stories. Combining richly
detailed reporting with a careful critique of alternative
approaches, he argues for an intimate grasp of local realities that
restores the heartbeat to ethnography.
From the development of the scientific understanding of storms to
their representation in literature, art and music, from the
destruction of the storm-tossed Spanish Armada to the devastation
wrought by tornadoes, and from the early development of windmills
to the contemporary furore surrounding wind turbines, this book
shows how the wind has had a surprising and profound impact on
Britains landscape, history, wildlife, economy and culture.
The Alps are Europe's highest mountain range; their broad arc
stretches right across the centre of the continent, encompassing a
wide range of traditions and cultures. In former times the
mountains were feared as the realm of wild and dangerous beasts,
and the few travellers who ventured over high passes such as the
Simplon or the Great St. Bernard expected to encounter tempests and
torments of hellish proportions. But over time the Alps became
celebrated by writers for their beauty rather than their savagery.
In the nineteenth century, inspired in part by the work of poets
such as Byron and Shelley, tourists began flocking to the
mountains, and with the development of winter sports a hundred
years ago the fate of the Alps as one of the great tourist
playgrounds of the world was sealed. Andrew Beattie explores the
turbulent past and vibrant present of this landscape, where early
pioneers of tourism, mountaineering and scientific research, along
with the enduring legacies of historical regimes from the Romans to
the Nazis, have all left their mark. Historical Figures: From
Julius Caesar and Hannibal to Napoleon and William Tell, the
position of the Alps at the heart of Europe has led to centuries of
war and conflict. Folklore and Tradition: The wildness of the
mountains has inspired a unique popular culture, from legendary
tales of dragons flying among the peaks to performances of
religious passion plays in valley towns. Writers, Artists and
Film-Makers: From the Romantic poets to Charles Dickens and Mark
Twain; from Turner and Ruskin to the film-maker Leni Riefenstahl;
from James Bond to Heidi and The Sound of Music; the beautiful
scenery of the Alps has provided the setting for dozens of books,
poems, films and paintings through the centuries.
A historical fiction book based on the famous story of The Princes
in the Tower - perfect for children aged 9-14 years. 1485. Richard
III is King of England. Henry Tudor's invasion looms. Jack Broom
thinks that war and politics have nothing to do with him. He is a
simple apothecary's boy dreaming of becoming a surgeon - until
soldiers mistake him for a boy of noble birth. Narrowly avoiding
being dragged to the Tower of London, Jack sets out on a perilous
mission to find out who he truly is. With the help of his new
friend Alice, he uncovers conspiracies, treason, and the deadly
lengths people will go to for power.
The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe.
Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany s Black Forest,
it touches or winds its way through ten countries and four capital
cities before emptying into the Black Sea through a vast delta
whose silt-filled channels spread across eastern Romania. From
earliest times the river has provided a route from Europe to Asia
that was followed by armies and traders, while empires, from the
Macedonian to the Habsburg, rose and fell along its length. Then,
in the middle of the twentieth century, the Danube took on the role
of a watery thread that unified a continent divided by the Iron
Curtain. In the late 1980s the Iron Curtain lifted but the Danube
valley soon became an arena for conflict during the violent
break-up of the former Yugoslavia. Now, passing as it does through
some of the world s youngest nations, including Slovakia, Croatia,
Serbia, Moldova and Ukraine, the river is a tangible symbol of a
new, peaceful and united Europe as well as a vital artery for
commercial and leisure shipping. Andrew Beattie explores the
turbulent past and vibrant present of the landscape through which
the Danube flows, where the enduring legacies of historical regimes
from the Romans to the Nazis have all left their mark. HISTORICAL
FIGURES: From the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to Richard the
Lionheart, and from Alexander the Great to Napoleon, the position
of the Danube at the heart of Europe has led to centuries of war
and conflict. LANDSCAPE AND CITIES: From the imperial grandeur of
Budapest to the charm of medieval Passau, from grim river ports in
Romania to the austere fortress cities of Belgrade and Bratislava,
and from the plains of Hungary to the dramatic scenery of the Iron
Gates gorge, the Danube flows through a remarkable variety of
cities and landscapes. WRITERS AND ARTISTS: From the anonymous
author of the Song of the Nibelungs to Patrick Leigh Fermor, and
from Albrecht Altdorfer to Johann Strauss the Younger, the
beautiful scenery of the Danube valley has provided inspiration for
writers, artists and composers through the centuries.
The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe.
Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany's Black Forest,
it touches or winds its way through ten countries and four capital
cities before emptying into the Black Sea through a vast delta
whose silt-filled channels spread across eastern Romania. From
earliest times, the river has provided a route from Europe to Asia
that was followed by armies and traders, while empires, from the
Macedonian to the Habsburg, rose and fell along its length. Then,
in the middle of the twentieth century, the Danube took on the role
of a watery thread that unified a continent divided by the Iron
Curtain. In the late 1980s the Iron Curtain lifted but the Danube
valley soon became an arena for conflict during the violent
break-up of the former Yugoslavia. Now, passing as it does through
some of the world's youngest nations, including Slovakia, Croatia,
Serbia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the river is a tangible symbol of a
new, peaceful, and united Europe as well as a vital artery for
commercial and leisure shipping.
Andrew Beattie explores the turbulent past and vibrant present of
the landscape through which the Danube flows, where the enduring
legacies of historical regimes from the Romans to the Nazis have
all left their mark.
Foreword by Penelope Lively Cairo is a city of extremes. On its
chaotic streets BMWs driven by sharp-suited businessmen compete for
space with donkey carts laden with farm produce. In its mosques the
wealthy and the destitute pray side by side. The largest metropolis
in Africa since the Middle Ages, it was in Ibn Battutah's words
"the mother of cities." With a present-day population of around
eighteen million, this sprawling metropolis is home to one thousand
new migrants every day, drawn to the seething intensity of a
modern, cosmopolitan capital that blends together the cultures of
the Middle East and Europe. The fabled city on the banks of the
River Nile, once home to pharaohs and emperors, now forms a focal
point of the Islamic faith and of the Arab world. Andrew Beattie
explores the turbulent past and vibrant present of this city where
the enduring legacies of the ancient Egyptians, the early Coptic
Church, British colonial rule and the modernist zeal of the
post-independence era have all left their mark. -- CITY OF WRITERS,
CONQUERORS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: From Mark Twain and William
Thackeray to Paul Theroux and Naguib Mahfouz, Alexander the Great
to Napoleon, and Lawrence of Arabia to Colonel Nasser. -- CITY OF
MONUMENTS AND SPECTACLE: From the Pyramids of Giza and Saqqara to
the Mosque of Mohammed Ali; from the teeming bazaars of the muski
to Coptic and Islamic festivals. -- CITY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN:
Where ancient churches and mosques sit cheek-by-jowl with modern
skyscrapers and busy highways; where prosperous suburbs lie close
to areas of third world poverty and deprivation.
Set on an isolated Indonesian island, this is the gripping true
story of a fieldworker's experience of living in a tribal society
during a period of crisis. Featuring a cast of unforgettable
characters, After the Ancestors follows a bitter feud between
rivals as it escalates into murder, intrigue and revenge. A vivid
account of life within a radically different world, it also
portrays a unique culture undergoing the transition from tribalism
to modernity. A century of alien rule has left the island, once
famous for its warrior ethos, with a hybrid culture. As the
possibilities for heroic action recede, men raised to be orators
and over-reachers rather than church elders and peasants find
themselves occupying a stage too small for their personalities.
'Where can we turn', asks one tribesman, 'we who come after the
ancestors?' A revenge tragedy for modern times, After the Ancestors
will be enjoyed by anthropologists and general readers alike.
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Berichte und Studien. - Entschuldungsnarrative, populAre Mythen, europAische Erinnerungsdiskurse (German, Paperback)
Andrew Beattie, Gerhard Salter, Dana Schlegelmilch, Mike Schmeitzner, Jan Erik Schulte, …
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R1,237
R1,174
Discovery Miles 11 740
Save R63 (5%)
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In this fascinating and abundantly illustrated book, two eminent
ecologists explain how the millions of species living on
Earth2;some microscopic, some obscure, many threatened2;not only
help keep us alive but also hold possibilities for previously
unimagined products, medicines, and even industries. In an
Afterword written especially for this edition, the authors consider
the impact of two revolutions now taking place: the increasing rate
at which we are discovering new species because of new technology
available to us and the accelerating rate at which we are losing
biological diversity. Also reviewed and summarized are many 0;new1;
wild solutions, such as innovative approaches to the discovery of
pharmaceuticals, the 0;lotus effect,1; the ever-growing importance
of bacteria, molecular biomimetics, ecological restoration, and
robotics.
0;An easy read, generating a momentum of energy and excitement
about the potential of the natural world to solve many of the
problems that face us.1;2;E. J. Milner-Gulland, "Nature
"0;Must-reading for everyone.1;2;Simon A. Levin, author of "Fragile
Dominion: Complexity and the Commons
"0;An engaging book clearly intended to impress upon a lay audience
the practical value of biological diversity. . . . An outstanding
work.1;2; "Ecology
"0;A most stimulating read for all those budding science students
from secondary through graduate schools.1;2; "Science Books &
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