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Elefanta Editorial
Elefanta Editorial is a Mexican company born in 2011 and based in Mexico City. It publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, illustrations and photography.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2009Edwin Morgan
Inventions of modernity
by Colin Nicholson
Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. Instinctively at odds with the literary politics of the Pound-Eliot axis that remained influential deep into the twentieth century, Morgan develops instead a radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon metre through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay poetry, science fiction verse and prize-winning translations into both English and Scots from numerous languages. This authoritative volume is of interest to students, teachers and academic researchers involved with strategies of reading, with cultural studies, with the politics of literary history and with gay and transgressive writing. ;
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Forestry & related industriesMay 1999Russian-English, English-Russian Forestry and Wood Dictionary, 2nd Edition
by William Linnard, David Darrah-Morgan
Russia and the other republics of the former USSR are now more accessible than at any other time in history. In the future, the forest resource of Russia, easily the greatest of any country in the world, will become even more globally important both environmentally and commercially.This new dictionary incorporates an updated and enlarged version of the first Russian-English edition, published in 1966, plus an entirely new English-Russian section of similar size. It contains many new terms, species names, acronyms and abbreviations to account for the great changes which have taken place in Russian forestry in terms of mechanization, woodworking technology, forest management and economics, environmental pollution and conservation. A list of the botanical names of trees and shrubs, with their Russian and English equivalents has also been included.The book has been compiled by Dr William Linnard, former Assistant Director of the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, with over forty years’ experience of abstracting and translating forestry literature and David Darrah-Morgan, M.A. (Translation), a full-time translator, specializing in forestry and related fields.
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October 2008Die Engel von Morgan Hill
Eine Geschichte voller Hoffnung.
by VanLiere, Donna / Übersetzt von Krätzer, Anita; Übersetzt von Krätzer, Anita; Gelesen von Rudolph, Liane
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The ArtsJuly 2024
Pasticcio opera in Britain
History and context
by Peter Morgan Barnes
This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera. This radical way of creating opera formed a counterweight, even a relief, to the trenchant masculinity of literate culture in the seventeenth century. It undermined the narrowing of nationalism in the eighteenth century, and was an act of gross sacrilege against the cult of Romantic genius in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, it found itself on the wrong side of copyright law. However, in the twenty-first century it is enjoying a tentative revival. This book redefines pasticcio as a method rather than a genre of opera and aligns it with other art forms which also created their works from pre-existing parts, including sculpture. A pasticcio opera is created from pre-existing music and text, thus flying in face of insistence on originality and creation by a solo genius.
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April 2004Die Verbindlichkeit des Vorübergehenden: Paradoxien der Mode
by Alessandra Corti, Elena Esposito, Elena Esposito
Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia. Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia.
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Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)January 2011Querido Diego, Te abraza Quiela by Elena Poniatowska
by Elena Poniatowska
by Nathanial Gardner
One of the threads that runs through Elena Poniatowska's oeuvre is that of foreigners who have fallen in love with Mexico and its people. This is certainly the case of Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela - a brief novel (so short it was originally published in its entirety in Octavio Paz's literary magazine Vuelta). The Russian exile and painter Angelina Beloff writes from the cold and impoverished post-war Paris to Diego Rivera, her spouse of over ten years. Beloff sends these letters to which there is no response during a time when the emancipation of women has broken many of the standard models and the protagonist struggles to fashion her own. Elena Poniatowska has (re)created these letters and within them one finds the unforgettable testimony of an artist and her lover during the valuable crossroads of a new time when Diego Rivera was forging a new life in his native country. In this edition, Nathanial Gardner comments on the truth and fiction Poniatowska has woven together to form this compact, yet rich, modern classic. Using archives in London, Paris and Mexico City (including Angelina's correspondence held in Frida Kahlo's own home) as well as interviews from the final remaining characters who knew the real Angelina, Gardner offers a mediation of the text and its historical groundings as well as critical commentary. This edition will appeal to both students and scholars of Latin American Studies as well as lovers of Mexican Literature and Art in general.
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August 2016Meine geniale Freundin
Roman
by Elena Ferrante
In einem volkstümlichen Viertel Neapels wachsen sie auf, derbes Fluchen auf den Straßen, Familien, die sich seit Generationen befehden, das Silvesterfeuerwerk artet in eine Schießerei aus. Hier gehen sie gemeinsam in die Schule, die unangepasste, draufgängerische Lila und die schüchterne, beflissene Elena, beide darum wetteifernd, besser zu sein als die andere. Bis Lilas Vater sein brillantes Kind zwingt, in der Schusterei mitzuarbeiten, und Elena mit dem bohrenden Verdacht zurückbleibt, das Leben zu leben, das eigentlich ihrer besten, ihrer so unberechenbaren Freundin zugestanden hätte.
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August 2017Die Geschichte der getrennten Wege
Roman
by Elena Ferrante
Das letzte Mal habe ich Lila vor fünf Jahren gesehen. Wir schlenderten früh am Morgen unsere Straße, den Stradone, entlang, und wie nun schon seit Jahren gelang es uns nicht, uns miteinander wohlzufühlen. Elena und Lila sind inzwischen erwachsene Frauen. Lila hat einen Sohn bekommen und sich von allem befreit, von der Ehe, von ihrem neuen Namen, vom Wohlstand. Sie hat ihrem alten Viertel den Rücken gekehrt, arbeitet unter entwürdigenden Bedingungen in einer Wurstfabrik und befindet sich unversehens im Zentrum politischer Tumulte. Elena hat Neapel ganz verlassen, das Studium beendet und ihren ersten Roman veröffentlicht. Als sie in eine angesehene norditalienische Familie einheiratet und ihrerseits ein Kind bekommt, hält sie ihren gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg für vollendet. Doch schon bald muss sie feststellen, dass sie ständig an Grenzen gerät.
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December 1988
Lieber Diego
Aus dem mexikanischen Spanisch von Astrid Schmitt
by Elena Poniatowska, Astrid Schmitt
Elena Poniatowska wurde 1932, als Tochter des exilierten polnischen Thronerben Jean Evremont Poniatowski Sperry und einer Mexikanerin, in Paris geboren. 1941 floh die Familie nach Mexiko. Schon früh solidarisierte sie sich mit den Unterdrückten und verleiht ihnen eine literarische Stimme. Elena Poniatowska wurde u.a. mit dem Mexikanischer Nationalpreis für Journalismus ausgezeichnet und 2013 mit dem Cervantes-Preis. Sie lebt in Chimalistac in Mexiko.
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April 2007Die Fiktion der wahrscheinlichen Realität
by Elena Esposito, Nicole Reinhardt
In ihrem neuen Buch geht die italienische Soziologin Elena Esposito von der Parallelität zwischen der modernen fiction und der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie aus, die sich beide Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts entwickelt haben. Grundthese des Buches ist, daß es sich in beiden Fällen um moderne Formen der Realitätsverdopplung handelt, die auf Veränderungen der Gesellschaft reagieren. Die fiction entwickelt sich als explizit erfundene, alternative Realität, die dennoch zum Verstehen und zur Erfahrung aller Mitglieder der Gesellschaft beiträgt. Wahrscheinlichkeit und Statistik hingegen sind auf die gegenwärtige Zukunft bezogene Fiktionen, die es erlauben, in der Gegenwart Entscheidungen zu treffen, aus denen künftige Gegenwarten entstehen – die dann andere sein werden, als man vorher dachte. Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia.
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October 2008Robert Walser
Sein Leben in Bildern und Texten
by Bernhard Echte, Bernhard Echte
Robert Walsers Biographie ist von spannender Rätselhaftigkeit. Zeit seines Lebens verlief sein Weg am Rande der literarischen und bürgerlichen Welt, so daß er in den Zeugnissen seiner Zeitgenossen kaum Niederschlag fand. Und Walser seinerseits vermied es, sein Leben irgendwie anders zu dokumentieren als in seiner Literatur. Dort aber spielt er mit seiner Biographie – phantasierend und verwandelnd, so daß die Texte von seinen Lebensumständen mehr verschweigen als verraten. In mehr als 20jähriger Forschung ist es dem Herausgeber gelungen, eine Fülle unbekannter Materialien und Bilder zusammenzutragen. Annähernd 1000 zeitgenössische Bilddokumente erlauben es, Walsers Lebenswelt in einer Nähe und Dichte kennenzulernen, wie es bislang nicht möglich war. »Sein Lebensbild wird nie komplett geschrieben werden können. Schon scheint mancher seinen Charakter zu umkleiden versucht zu haben.« Robert Walser
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Science & MathematicsHydroponics and Protected Cultivation
A Practical Guide
by Lynette Morgan
A comprehensive, practical text which covers a diverse range of hydroponic and protected cropping techniques, systems, greenhouse types and environments. It also details the use of indoor plant factories, vertical systems, organic hydroponics and aquaponics.Worldwide hydroponic cropping operations can vary from large, corporate producers running many hectares of greenhouse systems particularly for crops such as tomato, cucumber, capsicum and lettuce, to smaller-scale growers growing fresh produce for local markets.Included in this book:Detailed technical information to help growers and students to design and run their own hydroponic operations.In-depth research to explain the factors that influence plant growth, produce quality, post-harvest life and hydroponic plant nutrition.New advances such as the use of organic nutrients and substrates, completely enclosed indoor plant factories and the growing number of small-scale, non-commercial applications.Hydroponics and Protected Cultivation is fully illustrated with colour images and photographs to illustrate key topics and help identify problem areas. It is suitable for growers, researchers and students in horticulture. Table of contents 1: Background and History of Hydroponics and Protected Cultivation 2: Greenhouses and Protected Cropping Structures 3: The Greenhouse Environment and Energy Use 4: Greenhouse Operation and Management 5: Hydroponic Systems – Solution Culture 6: Substrate-based Hydroponic Systems 7: Organic Soilless Greenhouse Systems 8: Propagation and Transplant Production 9: Plant Nutrition and Nutrient Formulation 10: Plant Health, Plant Protection and Abiotic Factors 11: Hydroponic Production of Selected Crops 12: Plant Factories – Closed Plant Production Systems 13: Greenhouse Produce Quality and Assessment 14: Harvest and Postharvest Factors
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True stories (Children's/YA)August 2018Niños
by María Jose Ferrada, María Elena Valdez
Thirty-four poems, one for each of the young children (all under the age of 14) that were executed, arrested or disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship. A book dedicated to all those little Chilean victims, but also to all the children that each day suffer the consequences of violence.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Robert Bresson
by Keith Reader
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his little-seen early short Affaires publiques and his short treatise Notes on cinematography.. The films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.. The major critical responses to his work, from the adulatory to the dismissive, are summarized and analyzed.. The work includes a full filmography and a critical bibliography.
