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Examining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show how they addressed the questions of how to manage diversity.

Examining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show how they addressed the questions of how to manage diversity.

Am Anfang der europäischen Kulturgeschichte stehen die Mythen der Griechen, so wie Homer und Hesiod sie erzählen. Um Weltschöpfung, Göttergeschlechter, Helden und Monster ranken sich jene Sagen, die zu einem schriftlich fixierten Kanon wurden, der sich bis auf den heutigen Tag erhalten hat. Dass diese Geschichten nichts von ihrer Faszinationskraft eingebüßt haben, zeigt Herbert Jennings Rose in seiner unvergleichlichen Einführung, die schon la...

Wie unsere Kinder die Welt sehenObwohl wir alle einmal Kinder waren, können wir uns oft nur schwer in die Gedanken und Gefühle unseres Nachwuchses hineinversetzen - gerade in den ersten Lebensjahren entwickeln sich die Wahrnehmung und Fähigkeiten von Kindern rasant und grundlegend. Die psychologische Forschung hat maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, dass wir Kinder immer besser verstehen, doch die wenigsten Eltern sind studierte Entwicklungspsycholog...

In the small town of Taylor's Bend, some secrets are about to igniteâEUR¿ When Taylor's Bend vet Oliver Johnson attends a car accident involving a horse float from a nearby stud farm he's not prepared for an encounter with Krista Laatonen, the billionaire owner's stepdaughter. Beautiful, prickly, and entitled, she is everything he despises about the world he left behind all those years ago. But he can't neglect an injured animal, and there is ...

She's been through hell, so risking her heart should be easy... Anxious to rid herself and her twins of the dark memories from their past, twenty-three-year old Antonia moves to the small rural town of Flynn's Crossing. Antonia is frightened but determined to be independent for the first time in her life, so she rents Mango House and settles in to the community to begin the process of healing. Town councilor and local real estate agent Flynn h...

A move to a small town might provide her the solace she seeks - until the once peaceful isolation turns deadly. After her husband is controversially acquitted of multiple crimes, now-divorced Abbie Forrest escapes to the peaceful rural town of Taylor's Bend intent on focussing on her career as a landscape artist. Estranged from her sister and daughter, Abbie tries hard to forge new relationships in the small community without revealing her own...

Betrayed by her fiance, freelance musician Primrose Pretty escapes to Nirvana, her brother Danny's rural Australian commune. Although determined to live the simple life, Primrose finds the primitive conditions and slack attitude of the "residents" stressful. Her awkward relationship with her brother creates even more problems and reopens family wounds she'd sought to heal. Danny, with secrets of his own, wishes interfering Primrose would leave...

Hannah, a talented but disorganized violinist, is going on a concert tour of rural Australia. Jack, a famous wilderness photographer, agrees to accompany the musicians and provide photos of the trip, as a favour to his uncle Bernard, the tour leader. Another favour is collecting Hannah, but she isn't ready. The cat has had an accident, and any prospect of a leisurely trip alone in his car is shattered when the tour bus departs without her. Enf...

A chance sighting leads to second chances - for hope, for family, and for love. Five years ago, teenager Antonia disappeared. With no compelling evidence, the police eventually called her a run-away, and dropped the case. Her teacher, Jax, has always regretted not speaking up about the rumours she heard circling the school that day, but a random sighting at a train station raises the possibility that Antonia is still alive - and not too far aw...

When Australian violinist Nina Lee finds a piece of old sheet music at a rummage sale, she quickly discovers the music is imbued with a supernatural power. Strange dreams of a handsome, passionate, and commanding man playing a beautiful melody on violin haunt her nights and gradually consume her thoughts. Time-traveling minstrel Piers de Crespigny demands that Nina help him in his ghostly quest to be reunited with his lost love Miranda. Obsess...

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Perfekt spielt Grace Winters die glückliche Ehefrau - doch in Wahrheit ist ihr Leben die Hölle. Ihr Ehemann Robb ist ein unberechenbarer Psychopath. Schließlich setzt die junge Frau alles auf eine Karte: Sie täuscht ihren eigenen Tod vor, um endlich frei zu sein. Und der Plan geht zunächst auch auf. Doch während Grace sich in ihrem neuen Leben einrichtet und sich schließlich sogar einer neuen Liebe zu öffnen wagt, hat Robb ihre Spur aufgenomme...

Aus dem Inhalt: Geschichte der Mythologie - Der Anfang der Dinge - Die Kinder des Kronos - Die Königinnen des Himmels - Die jüngeren Götter - Geringere und fremde Gottheiten - Die großen Sagenzyklen - Die Sagen der griechischen Landschaften - Märchen in Griechenland und Italien - Italische Pseudomythologie.

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