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A travel series unlike any other, Insight Guides go beyond the sights and into reality. Their incomparable photojournalistic approach captures the uniqueness of each culture they cover: their traditions, their arts, their history, their lives. The stunning photography is married to compelling text, written by local writers; the people most qualified to convey their culture's "secrets". Yes, Insight Guides will tell you which attractions to visit, but they'll also tell you a whole lot more. From the most popular resort cities to the world's most remote and exotic villages, Insight Guides will give you the insider's perspective you need to truly experience any destination you visit. Insight Guides serve many purposes. They are ideal for planning a trip. And, they're wonderful souvenirs to treasure for years after. Even the armchair traveler can be swept away by their magnificent content and experience the world from the comfort of home. Many international and domestic and domestic destinations also offer companion FlexiMaps, an innovative laminated folding map specially designed for the discriminating traveler.
A travel series unlike any other, Insight Guides go beyond the sights and into reality. Their incomparable photojournalistic approach captures the uniqueness of each culture they cover: their traditions, their arts, their history, their lives. The stunning photography is married to compelling text, written by local writers; the people most qualified to convey their culture's "secrets". Yes, Insight Guides will tell you which attractions to visit, but they'll also tell you a whole lot more. From the most popular resort cities to the world's most remote and exotic villages, Insight Guides will give you the insider's perspective you need to truly experience any destination you visit. Insight Guides serve many purposes. They are ideal for planning a trip. And, they're wonderful souvenirs to treasure for years after. Even the armchair traveler can be swept away by their magnificent content and experience the world from the comfort of home. Many international and domestic and domestic destinations also offer companion FlexiMaps, an innovative laminated folding map specially designed for the discriminating traveler.
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From broadcast to social media, comedy plays a prominent role in Japan’s cultural landscape and political landscape. The Time of Laughter explores how comedy grew out of the early days of television to become a central force in shaping Japanese media over the past half-century. Comedy and its impact, David Humphrey argues, established a “time of laughter” in the media of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in Japan. Through masterful interrogation of Japanese televisual archives and media discourse, Humphrey demonstrates that the unique temporality of laughter has had a profound role in the cultural atmosphere of Japan’s recent past. Laughter both complemented and absorbed the profound tensions and contradictions that emerged in Japanese television. Joyous and cacophonous, reaffirming and subverting, laughter simultaneously alienated and unified viewers. Through its exploration of the influence of comedy and the culture of laughter, The Time of Laughter presents a vibrant new take on Japan’s recent media history.
Erstmals erscheinen ihre Gedichte auf Deutsch: Die 2019 verstorbene Mary Oliver war eine Verfechterin von Demut und Dankbarkeit, jetzt gehört sie zu den meistgelesenen amerikanischen Lyrikerinnen der Gegenwart, Splitter ihrer Texte zieren inspirational memes und digitale Pinnwände; Joanna Bator besticht mit einem großem Roman über vier Generationen von Frauen im polnisch-deutschen Grenzland und verwebt Tradition und Moderne auf unnachahmliche Weise; und Mönche mögen's heiß: 750 Jahre hat es gedauert, bis der bekannteste Roman Japan erstmals ins Deutsche übersetzt wurde. Ein weiteres, bis es zum zweiten Mal geschah – wir haben das »Heike Monogatari« wiedergelesen. Von den Fesseln ...
Die Forschung zum bisher wenig aufgearbeiteten "Radikalenerlass" zielt ins Herz der westdeutschen Demokratiegeschichte. Der 1972 unter Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt verabschiedete "Radikalenerlass" war politisch umstritten. Wissenschaftlich wurde seine Geschichte bislang kaum untersucht. Schützte der "Extremistenbeschluss" die Demokratie vor ihren Feinden von rechts und links - oder war er ein Instrument von Repression und Bespitzelung? Grad und Intensität der Umsetzung unterschieden sich je nach Bundesland: So galt Baden-Württemberg – zentraler Untersuchungsgegenstand dieses Bands – mit dem landeseigenen "Schiess-Erlass" als "Bollwerk" der "Radikalen-Abwehr" oder als "schwarze Berufsver...
Portugal remains one of the least known of West European states. The dictionary fills the knowledge gap with hundreds of entries and the most extensive multilingual bibliography of any English-language book in print on Portugal. Among topics covered are biographies, institutions, customs, trends, socio-economic conditions, emigration, tourist and historic sites and buildings, and Portugal's 500-year old colonial empire--the first established, the last to be decolonized.