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David and Charles is an independent publisher of non-fiction books, predominantly in art, craft and creative categories. Our titles feature industry-leading authors and award-winning editorial and design, commissioned for commercial success in all markets. Category focus on practical how-to books in art, crochet, knitting, general crafts, patchwork & quilting, sewing and wellbeing. Cornerstone titles which are highly illustrated, project, technique and trend orientated.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
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August 2008Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945
by Alexander Kluge, W. G. Sebald
Alexander Kluges Erzählung Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945 erschien 1977. Genau zwanzig Jahre später wurde sie zu einem der wichtigsten Bezugspunkte jener Diskussion, die den Luftangriff auf deutsche Städte und ihre Zivilbevölkerung aus der Rolle des Anathemas befreite. Völlig vorläuferlos war eine solche literarische Gestaltung des Luftkriegs und seiner Auswirkungen nicht, doch gab erstmals Kluge – nach Hans Erich Nossacks melancholischem Bericht über den Untergang Hamburgs und Gert Ledigs furios-desillusionistischer Vergeltung – eine analytisch-kühle Darstellung des Zerstörungswerks und sondierte inmitten des Infernos jenen Rest an Selbstbehauptung und Rationalität, der noch die Zusammenhänge der Katastrophe als verständlich und künftige Auswege als möglich erscheinen ließ. »Gerade Kluges detaillierte Beschreibung der gesellschaftlichen Organisation des Unglücks beinhaltet die Konjektur, daß ein richtiges Verständnis der von uns in einem fort inszenierten Katastrophen die erste Voraussetzung darstellt für die gesellschaftliche Organisation des Glücks.« (W. G. Sebald) Aus dem zeitlichen Abstand von 30 Jahren beleuchtet Alexander Kluge mit einigen neueren Texten nochmals die Erzählung von 1977. Sebalds Würdigung dieses Textes wird der Neuausgabe beigegeben.
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February 1982Das Problem der Relevanz
by Alfred Schütz, Richard M. Zaner, Alexander Baeyer, Richard M. Zaner, Thomas Luckmann
»In seinen Bemühungen um eine exakte Analyse der Konstitution von Typisierungen, die der Orientierung und der Praxis in der vergesellschafteten Alltagswelt zugrundeliegen, [drängte sich Alfred Schütz] die Notwendigkeit einer Relevanztheorie auf. Die selektive Aufmerksamkeit des Bewußtseins, die Typisierungen der Welt in der natürlichen Einstellung wie auch die Kategorien ›theoretischer‹ Interpretation, der eigentümliche Rhythmus von Phantasie und praktischem Handeln, das Wirken auf die Außenwelt – all diese Vorgänge führen früher oder später auf Interessenkonstellationen zurück. Aber was ist das ›Interesse‹ bzw. was sind die ›Interessen‹, die sowohl hinter gleichsam automatischen kognitiven Vorgängen, verwickelten Handlungsmotiven und theoretischen Bewußtseinsleistungen stehen? Die vorliegende Studie stellt den ersten – und mit Ausnahme einer auf dieser Studie beruhenden Skizze für die »Strukturen der Lebenswelt« einzigen – Versuch von Schütz dar, diese Fragen systematisch zu behandeln.« (Thomas Luckmann)
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2019The Scots in early Stuart Ireland
by Micheál Ó Siochrú, David Edwards, Simon Egan, David Edwards
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2020Play time
by Daisy Black, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017
Guardians of Empire
The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, C.1700-1964
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, David Killingray
For imperialists, the concept of guardian is specifically to the armed forces that kept watch on the frontiers and in the heartlands of imperial territories. Large parts of Asia and Africa, and the islands of the Pacific and the Caribbean were imperial possessions. This book discusses how military requirements and North Indian military culture, shaped the cantonments and considers the problems posed by venereal diseases and alcohol, and the sanitary strategies pursued to combat them. The trans-border Pathan tribes remained an insistent problem in Indian defence between 1849 and 1947. The book examines the process by which the Dutch elite recruited military allies, and the contribution of Indonesian soldiers to the actual fighting. The idea of naval guardianship as expressed in the campaign against the South Pacific labour trade is examined. The book reveals the extent of military influence of the Schutztruppen on the political developments in the German protectorates in German South-West Africa and German East Africa. The U.S. Army, charged with defending the Pacific possessions of the Philippines and Hawaii, encountered a predicament similar to that of the mythological Cerberus. The regimentation of military families linked access to women with reliable service, and enabled the King's African Rifles to inspire a high level of discipline in its African soldiers, askaris. The book explains the political and military pressures which drove successive French governments to widen the scope of French military operations in Algeria between 1954 and 1958. It also explores gender issues and African colonial armies.
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December 2014Der Mann, der nur die Bücher liebte
Biblio-Mysteries 11
by Bell, David / Übersetzt von Clewing, Ulrike
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July 1998Elvis, der vergessliche Elefant
Zehn fabelhaft freche Tiergeschichten
by Wilson, David H / Englisch Winter, Helmut
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018
Equal subjects, unequal rights
by Julie Evans, Andrew Thompson, Patricia Grimshaw, John M. MacKenzie, David Philips, Shurlee Swain
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2017
Exhibiting the Empire
Cultures of display and the British Empire
by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, John M. MacKenzie
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and 'popular' texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture - were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.
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January 1986
Ashmadi
Ein Märchen
by Wilson, David H / Zeichnungen von Hentschel, Claus D; Englisch Böll, Annemarie
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Agriculture & related industriesJuly 2003Advances in Stored Product Protection
by Edited by Peter F Credland, David M Armitage, Christopher H Bell, Paul M Cogan, Ed Highley
The International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection, held every four years, is the premier world forum for the presentation of research results and reviews on the safe storage of durable foodstuffs, of which cereal grains, pulses and oilseeds make up the largest components. This book presents the proceedings of the 8th conference, held in York, UK, in July 2002. This book highlights work on the pests and diseases that may cause spoilage, adverse health effects and loss of the crop after harvest, and discusses new techniques for the safe, effective and environmentally friendly management of stored commodities. With nearly 200 keynote, oral and poster papers and contributions from leading experts from around the world, the contents cover the future of stored product protection and the impacts of global issues, food safety, chemical and physical control, and processing and applications.The volume will interest applied entomologists, plant pathologists, postharvest biologists, and agricultural engineers.
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January 1989
Der Fluch der achten Fee
Ein Märchen
by Wilson, David H / Zeichnungen von Hentschel, Claus D; Illustriert von Harksen, V C
