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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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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018David and Bathsheba
By George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin, David Bevington
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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Mycology, fungi (non-medical)January 1970Revision of the Genus Ascotricha Berk
by David L Hawksworth
A Paper discussing a revision of the genud Ascotricha Berk.
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Mycology, fungi (non-medical)January 1997Meliolaceae and Asterinaceae of the Shimba Hills, Kenya
by David L Hawksworth
Mycological papers on the Meliolaceae and Asterinaceae of the Shimba Hills
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Microbiology (non-medical)January 1973Ornamentation on the terminal hairs in Chaetomium Kunze ex Fr. and some allied genera
by H Wells, David L Hawksworth
Mycological paper discussing the ornamentation on the terminal hairs in Chaetomium Kunze ex. Fr.
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September 2019Conga Line on the Amazon
by David Myles Robinson
David Myles Robinson was eight years old when he first got hooked on travel. Since then, he’s seen most of the world—all its continents plus, he laments, “far too many places where travel is now off-limits.”After a lifetime of visiting near and far, in heat and in cold, in comfort and in danger, Robinson has put it all together now in this unique collection of the varied travel adventures he’s found—and the lessons he’s learned from them. A Fellini-esque view of the Amazon, a Mercedes caravan to Istanbul, Jane Goodall's amazing chimps—just part of a travel trunk full of experiences guaranteed to keep you seesawing from “Boy, I'd love to do that" to “Sure glad it was him, not me.”In Conga Line on the Amazon, Robinson brings to his first travel book the same gift for intriguing narrative and sharp characterization that has won praise for his six highly successful novels. Some of his tales may be for the strong of heart, but they’re all for the reader with a yen to be entertained by one intrepid man’s adventures and misadventures exploring the strange and wonderful world we live in.
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Globale Verschwörung
by David Shomron
Globale Verschwörung / David Shomron Nur ein einst gesuchter Untergrundaktivist, der später als leitender Ex-Mossad-Agent tätig war, konnte sich diesen Plot ausdenken. Eine Gruppe europäischer Wissenschaftler und Ex-Militärs sind der Ansicht, dass westliche Demokratien und die Vereinten Nationen nicht in der Lage sind, aggressiven Diktaturen etwas entgegenzusetzen. Keine der verhängten Sanktionen scheint die Tyrannen zu beeindrucken. Die Gruppe ist entsetzt über die Vorstellung einer verheerenden Atomkatastrophe in zwei oder drei Jahren, die Hunderte von Millionen Menschenleben fordern würde. Sie beschließen, vorbeugende Maßnahmen zu ergreifen und mit ungewöhnlichen und originellen Methoden gegen diese Bedrohung vorzugehen, ohne Gewalt, Propaganda oder Provokation und dennoch wirksam. Die Anführerin der Gruppe ist eine Frau (Professorin für Geschichte an der Sorbonne in Paris). Die Gruppe besteht aus einem pensionierter Admiral, einer Wissenschaftlerin und einem Ex-Kommandooffizier – allesamt Briten. Fachleute aus verschiedenen europäischen Ländern setzen sich für die Anliegen der Gruppe ein, die durch diese Unterstützung über erhebliche technische Mittel verfügt. Doch es gibt unvorhergesehene Probleme, die das gesamte Projekt gefährden könnten. David Shomron wurde in Istanbul geboren, wo seine Eltern während der kommunistischen Revolution in Russland Zuflucht gefunden hatten, und wanderte 1934 mit ihnen nach Israel (damals Palästina) aus. Der Autor hat zehn Jahre vor der Gründung des Staates Israel in die Untergrundbewegung investiert und später mehr als zwanzig Jahre lang als hochrangiger Offizier im Mossad gedient. Anschließend leitete er 13 Jahre lang eine zivile Sicherheitsfirma als CEO von „BRINKS Israel Ltd.“. In den neunziger Jahren war David Shomron ein gefragter Dozent über die Zeit des britischen Mandats. Er hat vier Bücher veröffentlicht – zwei über sein Leben als Geheimagent und zwei Romane. Weitere sind in Arbeit. David Shomron lebt mit seiner Frau in Jerusalem. Sie haben zwei Töchter, neun Enkel und neun Urenkel. Eine englischsprachige E-Book-Ausgabe wurde im Herbst 2016 von Samuel Wachtmans Sons, Inc., CA, veröffentlicht. 460 Seiten, 15 x 22 cm.
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Zwei Fürsten und eine Königin
by Shmuel David
Zwei Fürsten und eine Königin: Ein menschliches Drama über die Donau von Shmuel David Alans sterbender Vater erzählt traurig über seine erste Liebe, Inge, die er unter tragischen Umständen verlassen musste. Er fleht Alan an, herauszufinden, was aus ihr geworden ist. Alan zieht es daraufhin unaufhaltsam in die Vergangenheit. Er studiert die Tagebücher seines Vaters sowie andere Interviews, Briefe sowie Tagebücher von Überlebenden, einschließlich der Briefe von Inges Freund und Inges Todeslagertagebuch. Stück für Stück deckt er die schreckliche Geschichte des Leidensweges der jungen Liebenden entlang der Donau auf, zusammen mit Hunderten anderen, die versuchten, in dem historischen Fiasko der „Kladovo-Sabac-Affäre“ vor den Nazis nach Israel zu fliehen. In diesem historischen Roman geht es nicht nur um eine berührende Liebesgeschichte, sondern es werden auch die unglückseligen, realen Geschichten anderer Personen erzählt, die die Reise geprägt haben. Das Schreiben war für Shmuel David, einem leidenschaftlichen Softwareentwickler und Schriftsteller, schon immer eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Dieser erste Roman in voller Länge basiert auf der wahren, herzzerreißenden Geschichte des Schicksalswegs seines Vaters durch das im Krieg zerrissene Jugoslawien in den Staat Israel.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2009John Ashbery and American Poetry
by David Herd
starting point. David Herd sets out to provide readers with a new critical language through which they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery's writing. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp - the book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poets desire to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion. Tracing Ashbery's development in the light of this idea, and from its origins in the dazzling artistic environment of 1950's New York, the book evaluates his poetry against the aesthetic, literary and historical backgrounds that have informed it. The story of a brilliant career, and a history of the period in which that career has taken shape, John Ashbery and American Poetry provides a compelling account of Ashbery's importance to Twentieth Century Literature. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Policing and decolonisation
by David Anderson, David Killingray
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HorticultureNovember 2010Temperate and Subtropical Fruit Production
by David Penman, R Bruce Chapman, Peter Lyford, William Atkinson, Roy Edwards, John Palmer, David L. McNeil. Edited by David I Jackson, Graham Thiele, Norman E Looney, Michael Morley-Bunker.
Effective fruit production requires general knowledge of fruit husbandry such as nutrition, propagation, pruning and training, effects of climate and crop protection as well as specific cultivation techniques for each fruit. Fully revised and expanded to include organic fruit production, this new edition provides a thorough introduction to the cultivation of fruit found throughout the temperate and subtropical regions of the world.
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Science & MathematicsSeptember 2019Diseases and Disorders of Finfish in Cage Culture
by Patrick T K Woo, David W Bruno, L H S Lim
This second edition looks at important advances in the understanding of infectious diseases of finfish. The content has been significantly updated to reflect current knowledge and the developments in the fish production industry, including the dramatic increases in production in the Asia-Pacific region. An important resource for aquaculturalists, fish health consultants and fish pathologists.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 1999Volpone
Ben Jonson
by David Bevington, Brian Parker, David Bevington
This edition contains in distilled form the insight and learning found in the fuller Revels critical editions, but with less of the learning apparatus that is appropriate to a critical edition. Compact and up to date introduction and commentary. The price and format are designed to be competitive with any paperback teaching edition of this play. ;
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Global Conspiracy
by David Shomron
Only a once wanted underground activist, who later operated as a senior ex-Mossad agent, could have imagined this tantalizing plot. A group of European scientists and retired military personnel believe that western democracies and the United Nations are incapable of facing aggressive dictatorships. None of the imposed "sanctions" seem to impress the tyrants. The group members are horrified with the notion of a devastating nuclear disaster in a matter of two or three years that would claim the lives of hundreds of millions. They decide to take preventive action, and contend with this threat employing unusual and original methods, without the use of force or violence, propaganda or incitement, and yet with no less effective results. The group’s leader is a woman (a history professor at the Sorbonne in Paris), a retired admiral, a scientist and an ex-commando officer – all British. Professionals from various European countries join them in their cause, and together they reach amazing levels of technological sophistication though have to overcome unforeseen problems – or else the entire project would be jeopardized. David Shomron was born in Istanbul, where his parents had found refuge during the Communist Revolution in Russia, and immigrated with them in 1934 to Israel (then Palestine). The author has invested ten years in the underground movements before the State of Israel was established, and later served as a high ranking officer in the Mossad during more than twenty years. Subsequently, he headed for 13 Years a civilian security company as the C.E.O. of "BRINKS Israel Ltd.". In his 90's, David Shomron is a much sought-after lecturer on the time of the British Mandate. He has published four books – two on his life as an underground operator, and two novels – and continues to write to this day. David, now remarried, lives with his wife in Jerusalem. They have two daughters, nine grand children and nine great-grandchildren. An English-language eBook edition was published in fall 2016 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.,CA. 460 Pages, 15X22 cm
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024After the end
Cold War culture and apocalyptic imaginations in the twenty-first century
by David L. Pike
After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape in the global North in the 1960s and that spread globally into the twenty-first century. After the End reminds us not only that most of the world's peoples have lived with or died from apocalyptic conditions for centuries, but that the Cold War imaginaries that grew from and fed those conditions, continue to survive as well.
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March 2009Suchmaschinen.
Die Welt als Datenbank
by David Gugerli
Plötzlich diese Übersicht. Milliarden von Seiten, in Sekundenbruchteilen durchsucht, als Trefferliste sauber angezeigt, mit der größten Selbstverständlichkeit sortiert nach Rang und Namen. Google bestimmt die Routinen des Alltags und ist dennoch nicht die Suchmaschine schlechthin. Auch außerhalb des World Wide Web gibt es zahllose, technisch hochgerüstete Prozeduren des Suchens. Die gegenwärtige Selbstverständlichkeit der einen Suchmaschine läßt leicht übersehen, daß Suchmaschinen einen Interessenkonflikt induzieren zwischen jenen, die sie einsetzen wollen, und jenen, auf die sie angesetzt werden. Ihr prekärer Status im Spannungsfeld zwischen Übersicht und Überwachung wird verdrängt. Anhand von vier Fallstudien zeigt David Gugerli die Entwicklung der Suchmaschine auf, von den frühen Fernseh-Ratespielen, von Robert Lembkes Unterhaltungsshow »Was bin ich?«, über Eduard Zimmermanns Fahndungssendung »Aktenzeichen XY« und Horst Herolds »Kybernetik der Polizei« bis zu der von Ted Codd ausgehenden Entwicklung der relationalen Datenbank. Während Lembke auf die Feststellung von Normalität ausgerichtet war, suchte Zimmermann die Devianz, Herold die Muster und Codd die allgemeingültige Such- und Abfragesprache für in Form gebrachte Wissensbestände, die man seit Mitte der sechziger Jahre Datenbanken nennt. »Die Geschichte der Suchmaschine ist eine eminent politische. Mit Suchmaschinen lassen sich Hoffnungen auf Fundamentaldemokratisierung und informationelle Emanzipation ebenso verbinden wie Horrorvisionen eines Orwellschen Überwachungsstaats, der über ein technokratisches Wissensmonopol verfügt.«
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The ArtsDecember 2013Simulating the marvellous
Psychology - surrealism - postmodernism
by David Lomas
Simulating the marvellous presents important new research on Surrealism and the culture from which it arose. Offering fresh interpretations of Surrealist art and literature based around the theme of simulation, the book shows, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that the notion of simulation arose in a number of discrete contexts, in relation to hysteria and war neuroses; more broadly it shadows the emergence of our concept of 'the unconscious'. Acknowledging simulation's relevance to Surrealism, this book argues, radically alters our understanding of the Surrealists' project and the terms in which one gauges its success or failure. It leads one to question the naïve assumption that automatic writing or drawing represent an authentic outpouring of the unconscious and gives renewed significance to a figure such as Salvador Dalí who embraced simulation and made it the basis of his art and aesthetic. Resonances are also explored with postmodern theory and art practice, around the themes of simulation and the simulacrum.It also points to one of the ways in which Surrealism chimes with a core preoccupation of contemporary art and theory. Written accessibly, and ranging across many of the core ideas of Surrealism, David Lomas balances coverage of both Surrealist art and literature, looking at such figures as Dalì, Eluard, Masson, Desnos, Brouillet, Picasso, Tanning and Janet, as well as Glenn Brown, Douglas Gordon and Sarah Lucas. The book will interest not only art historians and theorists, but also students and those with a general interest in Surrealism. ;
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Fishes (ichthyology)July 2014Diseases and Disorders of Finfish in Cage Culture
by Edited by Patrick T K Woo, David W Bruno, L H S Lim
This new edition is a timely update on important advances in the understanding of infectious diseases of finfish. The content has been significantly updated to reflect current knowledge and the developments in the fish production industry, including the dramatic increases in production in the Asia-Pacific region. An important resource for aquaculturalists, fish health consultants and fish pathologists.
