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      • Trusted Partner
        January 1982

        Sargassomeer

        Roman

        by Rhys, Jean

      • Trusted Partner
        October 2003

        Rot oder weiß?

        Geschichten vom Wein

        by Susanne Gretter, Hans-Ulrich Müller-Schwefe

        Wer nur Wasser trinkt, hat etwas zu verbergen«, schrieb Baudelaire. Dieses Buch aber plaudert aus, welche Wirkungen Schriftstellerinnen und Dichter dem Wein, ob rot oder weiß, allein in den letzten hundert Jahren angedichtet, nachgesagt und zugesungen haben: wieviel an Hochstimmung, Witz und Glück – aber auch an Melancholie und Verzweiflung. Von Weinkultur und Weingenuß, von geselligen Trinkern und Trinkgelagen, von Weinliebhabern und Quartalssäufern erzählen Sherwood Anderson, Marguerite Duras, Patricia Highsmith, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Clarice Lispector, Fernando Pessoa, Jean Rhys, Georges Simenon und viele andere.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2012

        Rescaling the state

        Devolution and the geographies of economic governance

        by Mark Goodwin, Martin Jones, Rhys Jones

        Rescaling the state provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of economic governance. Using case studies from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the book examines the purported reasons for, and the unintended consequences of, devolution. As well as comparing policy and practice across the four devolved territories, the book also explores the pitfalls and instances of good practice associated with devolution in the UK. Rescaling the state is an important text for all social scientists - particularly political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and human geographers - interested in the devolution of power in the UK and, indeed, all instances of contemporary state restructuring. It is also a significant book for all policy-makers interested in understanding the increasing complexity of the policy landscapes of economic governance in the UK. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2017

        Rescaling the state

        by Mark Goodwin, Martin Jones, Rhys Jones

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      • Hideout

        by Elene Japaridze

        The short novel Hideout is Elene Japaridze’s debut in fiction. The story of Aniko and her family begins in 1992 when the 8-year old girl leaves her war-stricken home town in Abkhazia with her mother and younger brother and embarks on a perilous journey to safety. Her life is full of pain, fear, injustice, love and great hope. And all the while, crossing the Chuberi pass isn’t the hardest experience she is to have. Aniko encounters more difficult and painful challenges: leaving her homeland, adapting to living in a foreign country, fighting to establish herself and care for her family. She also meets her true love, the unexpected feeling that turns her orderly life upside down. Her positive outlook and strong spirit help her to stay optimistic even when everything seems hopeless. But will she be able to free herself from the ghost haunting her from the past? Will she be able not to hide into herself and face the reality after unbearable disappointment? An extraordinary twist awaits one at the end of the novel.

      • Novelty, toy & die-cut books
        October 2019

        Colours

        by Nathalié Bélineau, Elen Lescoat

        Early-learning book with an original format where pages fit together like dominoes so toddlers can discover colours in a playful way.

      • Art of indigenous peoples
        April 2013

        A Celtic Canvas

        by Rhys, Glyn

        Carey Morris was a man endowed with many gifts, as painter, illustrator, author and cellist, but he has not perhaps received the recognition which he deserves, prompting no less a figure than Sir Kyffin Williams to write: "He is a very talented profession

      • Biography: historical, political & military
        July 2008

        Gwynfor Evans: A Portrait of a Patriot

        Portrait of a Patriot

        by Evans, Rhys

        Gwynfor Evans propelled Welsh politics onto the UK stage in the second half of the twentieth century. This award-winning biography of an iconic figure examines his complex character and dissects his personal and political relationships to reveal, for the

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        July 2015

        The Bookshop Hotel

        by A. K. Klemm

        "The Bookshop Hotel took a deep breath... For so long, the building had longed for heavy hearts to grow light and for weary souls to find laughter."Returning to her hometown of Lily Hollow, AJ Rhys sets out to fulfill her childhood dream of restoring the old hotel on Aspen Court. With nothing but the legacy of her great-grandfather and the help of two dedicated strangers, she begins transforming the once-grand hotel into her ideal refuge.Only after the renovations are in full swing does it become clear that the hotel is having an effect on the town and everyone in it. Memories still haunt both AJ and Lily Hollow, but they begin to release their grip as the hotel binds its patrons together.The first book in a series, The Bookshop Hotel is a story of family, tragedy, forgiveness and the power of books. Join AJ and the residents of a small town where the past is never far away and secrets remain just below the surface.

      • Adventure
        June 2011

        The Salt-Stained Book

        vol 1 in Strong Winds Series

        by Julia Jones, illustrated by Claudia Myatt

        Much-praised, well-reviewed winner of a People's Book Prize. The Salt-Stained Book is a sailing adventure novel which has proved popular with adults and older children alike. The Salt-Stained Book pays homage to Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons but remains completely comprehensible to people who have never read Ransome or stepped on board a boat. The action is deliberately kept local and specific as the teenage hero, Donny, awaits the arrival of his unknown great aunt from Shanghai. Issues of disability and abuse of power are important themes within the novel but primarily it's an exciting story with characters to touch the heart and an powerful emotional range. Sailors and Ransome lovers additionaly relish the authors lifelong relationship with his yacht Peter Duck. This has already gained the Salt-Stained Book readers in Japan and New Zealand. A translation into German is in progress and the book was recently read at the Flensburg Book Festival (Sept 2014) The Salt-Stained Book has sold almost 4000 copies in its print edition and is also popular as a Kindle ebook and an audio download. It should be welcome wherever outdoor adventure is enjoyed. "I loved it," said Griff Rhys Jones, author, TV presenter and sailor.

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        Literature & Literary Studies

        Sheer Bliss

        by Michaela A. Calderaro

        “We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, white creole, Jamaican, lesbian writer. Bliss: whose out-of-print 1931 novel Saraband Calderaro first stumbles across in a bookshop in New York in 1998. Bliss: the absent figure Calderaro pursues throughout this book. The scholar Michela Calderaro reads into the past to recover Bliss, a writer she reveals as ahead of her time and not fit for her time or place in the world. Calderaro delivers Bliss back to the present, through interviews conducted across many years with Bliss’s lifelong partner Patricia Allan-Burns, through the recollections of editors and friends painstakingly tracked down, through letters and diaries discovered and meticulously pored over and pieced together. Calderaro’s book is, like Bliss’s own novels as we come to learn, genre-defying. One part biography, one part criticism, one part memoir, one part detective story, Sheer Bliss carries us on the ‘treasure hunt’ Calderaro enacted over twenty years of research and personal devotion to solving a literary puzzle: Who exactly was Eliot Bliss and why were she and her work forgotten? Calderaro answers in luminous prose and what amounts to the most suspenseful excavation of a writer’s life and lost-then-recovered legacies I’ve yet encountered.” —Shara McCallum, Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State University

      • Sporting venues

        100 YEARS OF TWICKENHAM - MICK CLEARY

        by Mick Cleary

        Billy Williams? Cabbage Patch? was bought by the RFU for just short of £5573 in 1907 and within three years it had hosted its first rugby international ? England v Wales in January 1910 in the newly expanded International Championship, the Five Nations. Now 100 years later it has become the largest dedicated rugby union venue in the world, seating 82,000 spectators, and in 2015 will host its second Rugby World Cup final. Twickenham is synonymous with the game of rugby and embodies the spirit of the game and its followers. Despite the intensity of modern-day competition, opposing fans of all ages mix freely in the stands. Banter is exchanged in the car parks and the bars, and after the drama of the game on the pitch, players shake hands while above them the colours of both sides mingle as the stadium empties. Post-match celebration and debate continue in and around the ground, but the dejection of defeat is mostly short-lived on a Twickenham evening. 100 Years of Twickenham and the Five/Six Nations Championshiptells the story of Twickenham?s relationship with international rugby?s oldest competition. Mick Cleary, rugby correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, provides the narrative, while leading rugby historian and statistician Chris Rhys provides an authoritative record of every game played in each decade of the competition plus additional records and tables. The tale begins in the early years of the championship, disrupted by two World Wars and to some extent marred by the absence of France for most of the 1930s. Nevertheless every period has its legends and this was the time of Ronnie Poulton, Wavell Wakefield and Alex Obolensky, George Stephenson of Ireland, Scotland?s Oxford Four and Welshmen Wilf Wooller, Cliff Jones and Vivian Jenkins ? great players who dominated the game in their time. In the post-war era, the championship, France and the crowds returned to Twickenham. Grand Slams were won and lost at the stadium as the game?s famous names paraded their talents in front of knowledgeable and appreciative spectators. Jackie Kyle was the inspiration for Ireland in the late 1940s; Cliff Morgan led the way for the Welsh, to be followed by the likes of Gareth Edwards, Barry John and J.P.R. Williams in the 1970s; Jean Prat and Guy Basquet brought France to the fore; Jim Aitken and David Sole enjoyed great moments for Scotland; Bill Beaumont and Will Carling led England revivals. In 2000 Italy joined the competition ? now the Six Nations ? and have already enjoyed their own special days and the talents of Diego Domínguez and Sergio Parisse.  Over the past 30 years Twickenham has steadily evolved from a traditional rugby ground into a multi-purpose modern arena. But throughout all the changes it has managed to retain its special, indeed unique, atmosphere. A huge international event can still be a memorable day out for the family ? a tradition that Twickenham will carry with pride into its preparations for Rugby World Cup 2015.

      • The Arts
        April 2018

        NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA I

        by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)

        In this series, a compilation of texts by researchers and specialists seeks to sketch an updated and detailed panorama of Brazilian cinema. In this first volume, Brazilian cinema is analyzed from the 1910s onwards, addressing silent movies, the beginning of sound film, the chanchada (musical comedies) and the independent cinema of Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s-1950s, and the educational role of cinema in Getúlio Vargas’s government. The book concludes with an essay on Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz, an important Brazilian film studio of the 1950s. Ebook version brings aditional texts: “Cinema in Rio Grande do Sul (1918-1934), by Glenio Povoas, and “Massaini, producer and distributor (1935-1992): a lesser known aspect of Brazilian cinema”, by Luciano Ramos.

      • The Arts
        April 2018

        NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA II

        by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)

        This second volume of New History of Brazilian Cinema covers Brazilian cinema from the postwar period up to the present, discussing the Cinema Novo and Cinema Marginal movements, the state-owned producer Embrafilme, pornochanchada (soft-core sex comedies) and the crisis and revival of Brazilian film production from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, ending with an overview of experimental filmmaking, documentary film and contemporary film fiction up to 2016. Ebook version brings additional texts: “Brazilian New Cinema (1960-1972)”, by Bertrand Ficamos, and the extensive filmography “Brazilian films released from 1969 to 2016”, by Luiz Felipe Miranda

      • Children's & YA
        October 2019

        Kai Flammersfeld und das Erwachen der Geysira

        by Hagen Röhrig

        Die Vampirgeschwister laden Kai und Sandra in ihre Gruft ein, um ihnen zu zeigen, wie schön Vampire wohnen. Dabei entdecken sie tief unter der Erde einen geheimen Raum, in dem die Vampireltern gerade mit einigen anderen versammelt sind. Kai traut seinen Augen nicht: unter den Anwesenden ist auch sein Vater! Die Kinder werden entdeckt und es stellt sich heraus, dass Kais Vater für die Vampire als Spion in der Menschenwelt tätig ist. Doch dies ist nicht die einzige Überraschung für Kai. Er muss in ein Versteck, eine alte Kirche, umziehen. Die von Greifendorfs organisieren auf einer Burg eine internationale Vampirkonferenz. Währenddessen entdecken Kai und seine Freunde, dass im Wald etwas Seltsames vorgeht. Aus Erdspalten dringen Licht und Geräusche. Sie steigen in das Höhlensystem hinab und entdecken, dass Rufus Wankelmann und Wieland von Wünschelsgrund dort mit Hilfe der Hexe Cylinda Krieger herstellen, die gegen die Vampire kämpfen sollen. Da die Konferenz nicht mehr abgesagt werden kann, gilt es, Wankelmanns und von Wünschelsgrunds Pläne zu durchkreuzen. Doch dies gelingt nur teilweise. Eine ganze Horde Krieger zieht zur Vampirburg. Der unausweichliche Kampf beginnt. Kai, seine Großmutter und seine Freunde werden zur Sicherheit in Kais Versteck gebracht – und laufen direkt in eine Falle, denn dort wartet von Wünschelsgrund auf sie. Der Vampirjäger erkennt in Kais Oma die verschollene Tante Geysira der Vampirkinder wieder. Einst jagte er sie und wollte sie mit dem Trunk der Trautelbeere vernichten. Doch versehentlich gab er ihr den Saft der Trügerischen Trautelbeere, der Geysira zu einem Tagvampir machte und alles Vampirische in ihr erlöschen ließ. Die anderen Vampire kommen Kai und seinen Freunden zu Hilfe und schlagen Wieland in die Flucht. Für Kai hat sich alles verändert. Er ist mit den von Greifendorfs verwandt, sein Vater spioniert für die Vampire in der Menschenwelt, seine Oma ist Tagvampirin. Und auch er kann Tagvampir werden – wenn er die Trügerische Trautelbeere findet.

      • People & places (Children's/YA)
        October 2019

        50 Real Heroes for Boys

        True Stories of Courage, Integrity, Kindness, Empathy, Compassion, and More!

        by Christy Monson

        50 Real Heroes for Boys teaches young boys everywhere that being a man only requires being yourself—but your best self. Bright, colorful portraits by over a dozen international artists accompany true stories of men who knew that character—things like integrity, kindness, empathy, courage, respect for women, and more—mixed with their own unique gifts—art, athletics, creativity, dance, music, curiosity, and more—could make the world a better place. Readers will find Jackie Robinson, who used courage to break barriers in sports; Jim Henson, who used humor to uplift the lives of millions; Dav Pilkey, who used perseverance to push through dyslexia and become one of the world's most successful children's book authors; and many more! The book also includes dozens of stories of women like Marie Curie, Mary Anning, and Jane Goodall, because boys can have women heroes too! Written by marriage and family therapist Christy Monson, 50 Real Heroes for Boys reminds boys everywhere what true masculinity is all about.

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