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We manage rights for science-fiction and fantasy legend Jack Vane (1916 - 2013) and selected titles by Tanith Lee, Michael Shea, Matthew Hughes, and others.
View Rights PortalWe manage rights for science-fiction and fantasy legend Jack Vane (1916 - 2013) and selected titles by Tanith Lee, Michael Shea, Matthew Hughes, and others.
View Rights PortalSparsile Books is an independent publisher, based in Glasgow, specialising in high quality fiction and non-fiction. We see publishing as an art in itself, and work closely with our authors to ensure that the books we publish give readers a unique vision of the world. Since our beginning in 2018, we have been fortunate to discover some truly exceptional writers, and look forward to developing many more.
View Rights PortalThis book consists of selected, edited and revised papers from a workshop held at ICRAF (International Centre for Research in Agroforestry) in July 2000.
In this book the artist makes an essay about the different shapes of the turtles by going around space and folding the paper. Eight turtle sculptures made of paper and created by Manuel Marín shows us by constructing step by space each piece the basics of concave or convex since they can be assembled either from outside or inside.
Mars mission is off.Starteam selection is over.My father and I are the candidates.In fact, Father is ready for space after his work,Still I am free at any time till the beginning of school.We should hurry up! From 3 to 6 years, 587 words. Rightsholders: n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua
Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth century of the concept of public space and the development of new strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants and unionists, and the break down of that monopoly in more recent decades. Today policy makers and politicians struggle to devise a strategy for the management of public space in a divided city, while endeavouring to promote a new sense of civic identity that will transcend long-standing sectarian and political divisions.
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.
Edmund Spenser and the romance of space advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations. The book looks to the work of cultural and historical geographers in order to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in the development of geographical knowledge: contexts ultimately employed by the study to achieve a better understanding of the place of Ireland in Spenser's writing. The study also engages with recent ecocritical approaches to literary environments, such as coastlines, wetlands, and islands, thus framing fresh readings of Spenser's handling of mixed genres.
The line is the protagonist of this book. She explores the pages and forms figures, colors herself, creates landscapes, characters and, with them, stories that narrate the reflections and joys that creation brings. This book, the third in a growing collection, is a catalog of the possibilities that lie at the base of all art. In the blank pages of this book, lines, figures, shadows, textures, colors, unpublished worlds were born that, in their capricious forms, hide beings that reflect on everything visible, on everything that surrounds them and is the framework for their adventures, which are the adventures of creative thinking in all its simple splendor: space: line, movement, rhythm: seeing, looking, reading: imagining, thinking, doing. Here everything is created and everything is arranged for the creation of the reader, the artist.
Aimed at inspiring students in high school and college to become the space experts of tomorrow, this eBook discusses the history of the space shuttle, its basic features, missions—both successful and unsuccessful—involving space shuttles, and the legacy of the space shuttle missions. A wealth of images help bring the era of the space shuttle to life.
Aimed at inspiring students in high school and college to become the space experts of tomorrow, this eBook describes in detail the challenges of living in outer space—including dealing with microgravity, wearing space suits, the hazards of space travel, space food, and radiation—complete with a wealth of images that help recreate the experience of living in space.
Aimed at inspiring students in high school and college to become the space experts of tomorrow, this eBook discusses and recounts the histories of the animals used in early space missions to test space travel technology, including the "astrochimps" and rhesus monkeys used in American test flights, the dogs used in Soviet tests, and 21st-century space research involving spiders, fish, and rodents.
Aimed at inspiring students in high school and college to become the space experts of tomorrow, this eBook describes early efforts to build an orbiting space system designed to accommodate human habitation in space over a long period of time, including NASA's Skylab and Russia's Mir Space Station. A wealth of images help bring this period of history to life.
This eBook explores the basic functions of a launch vehicle and offers examples of historically significant or currently operational rockets used to place objects into outer space. Special emphasis is given to past, current, and future American space launch vehicles, including the mighty Saturn V Moon rocket, NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet, the contemporary Delta IV and Atlas V launch vehicles, and NASA’s new Space Launch Vehicle (SLV). Readers will explore two famous rocket engineers who helped transform the use of powerful rockets into space launch vehicles: German-American Wernher von Braun (1912‒77) and Russian Korolev (1907-1966).
This book brings together for the first time five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting and significant working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. Whatever their chosen habitats or shifting terrains, each of these highly distinctive auteurs has developed unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. The book proposes that we think about cinematographic space in its many different forms simultaneously (screenspace, landscape, narrative space, soundscape, spectatorial space). Through a series of close and original readings of selected films, it posits a new 'space of the cinematic subject'. Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume opens up new areas of critical enquiry in the expanding interdisciplinary field of space studies. It will be of immediate interest to students and researchers working not only in film studies and film philosophy, but also in French/Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, gender and cultural studies. Listen to James S. Williams speaking about his book http://bit.ly/13xCGZN. (Copy and paste the link into your browser) ;
Aimed at inspiring students in high school and college to become the space experts of tomorrow, this eBook introduces some of the exciting space settlement concepts that have arisen as a result of the American human spaceflight programs, including the astropolis and androcell. A wealth of images helps bring these concepts to life.
Dedicated to the scientists who explore the frontiers of this rapidly advancing field, Space and Astronomy, Revised Edition explores a wide range of topics—from the evolution of galaxies to the potential colonization of space. This newly revised edition covers the latest developments in the field, as scientists learn more and more about space every day, making it an essential read for any student interested in the expansive field of space and astronomy. Chapters include: Extrasolar Planets—Worlds Beyond the Solar System Colonization in Space and On Other Worlds Traveling Among the Stars Gravitational Waves Formation and Evolution of Galaxies The Hidden Universe—Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
Space Age Planetary Astronomy offers a look at some of the most fascinating early American space robot programs like the Pioneer, Viking, and Voyager. With a focus on early robot spacecraft that came out of the Space Age, readers will be taken through the period of exploration from the past six decades, during which time the United States became the first country to reach every major planet from Mercury to Neptune. This eBook provides a historic snapshot of how space robots emerged from simple, often unreliable exploring devices into sophisticated scientific platforms that now extend human consciousness and intelligent inquiry to the edges of the solar system and beyond.
The Space Age is known as a period of space exploration and technological innovation beginning with the historic launch of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union in 1957. Rise of Space Age Astronomy explores humanity’s journey starting from ancient astronomy, all the way to contemporary astronomy. Readers will learn about the intellectual awakening that was the Space Age through selected human-crewed and robotic missions within the solar system. This eBook, filled with spectacular visuals, highlights some of the milestones, discoveries, and renowned scientists that led to space-based astronomy, making it an essential read for students interested in the history of astronomy.