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      • Angelo Pontecorboli Editore Firenze - EDAP

        Angelo Pontecorboli Editore - Florence – ItalyAcademic Contents, Professional Editing, Premium Design, Online Distribution and Marketing. Editore indipendente con sede a Firenze.  Le riviste e gli articoli pubblicati riguardano principalmente l’Antropologia, l’Architettura, il Giardino e le Scienze Umane. Independent publisher based in Florence (Italy). The Journals and Articles it publishes are concentrated mainly in the areas of Anthropology, Architecture, Gardens, and Human Sciences.

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        July 2016

        The Last Love

        by Can Xue

        This novel by Can Xue presents a whole range of characters with strong personality, such as Joe, Maria, Vincent, Lisa, Reagan and Ida. They are full of vitality and are accordingly unsatisfied with their present status. They actively explore unknown field of life and firmly embark on the journey of spiritual exploration. The novel focuses the complicated and intertwining relationship between husbands, wives and lovers to uncover the hidden inner desire of each character. Boiling wild nature and advanced civilization collide with each other before they finally become one unity. For the readers, entering the world of these characters is like entering their own inner world.

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        April 1991

        Hugo Ball

        Sein Leben in Briefen und Gedichten

        by Emmy Ball-Hennings, Hermann Hesse

        Hermann Hesse, geboren am 2.7.1877 in Calw/Württemberg als Sohn eines baltendeutschen Missionars und der Tochter eines württembergischen Indologen, starb am 9.8.1962 in Montagnola bei Lugano. Er wurde 1946 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur, 1955 mit dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet. Nach einer Buchhändlerlehre war er seit 1904 freier Schriftsteller, zunächst in Gaienhofen am Bodensee, später im Tessin. Er ist einer der bekanntesten deutschen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts.

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        The Wrecking Crew

        by Hugo N. Gerst

        g on for a wild ride! The craziest “coalition” in history is out to destroy ISIS!Forty years ago, Don Tommy Aiello was the most feared mafia leader in the United States. Each week, he counted the number of bodies he was responsible for killing. Each week, he counted the number of women he had slept with. But that was forty years ago. Today, he counts the number of pills he takes and the pennies left over from his small Social Security check so he might buy a cheap set of dentures – not covered by Medicare. Life is pretty awful. Twenty miles away, Pedro Sanchez, twenty, has already done two of his three strikes in prison. He can’t find a job. His seventeen-year-old girlfriend has just told him she’s pregnant. Life is pretty awful.Sister Maureen Richards is about to be dumped from her position as head of a prestigious private girls’ school. And FBI middle-manager Dennis O’Brien, 63, knows he’s on the way out the door. But he’s got an idea, which he shares with Ezra Caen, the hero of Gerstl’s Assassin. Five thousand miles away, a group of malcontents calling themselves the Islamic State (ISIS) is stirring up a worldwide bag of problems. Boots on the ground can’t stop them, aircraft in the air have no effect. The U.S. is spending $14 million a day and going nowhere.What if 15 “retired” Mafia Dons under the leadership of Sister Maureen are tasked with destroying ISIS? In exchange, their criminal records will be erased, and each will get $75,000 tax free a year for the rest of their lives. Their “army” will consist of young Hispanics who aren’t going anywhere except to the bottom … they’ll be given a four-year free college education and guaranteed government employment. Of course, the good, moral U.S. of A. can’t be seen to have a hand in this, so it will all be funded through La Società di Religione – the Vatican Bank.Hugo N. Gerstl, international bestselling author, steps into a wacky world that only his imagination could devise. Beneath the outrageous hilarity lies a much more serious message – how seniors we’ve put out to pasture, and those who are socially disadvantaged, become “invisible” in our world. As this splendidly entertaining novel makes clear, “Old age and treachery will defeat youth and vigor every time.” Published By Pangæa Publishing Group, 2019. 252 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm

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        March 2021

        Collector's Edition of Can Xue's Works: Huangni Street

        by Can Xue

        "Huang Ni Street" is Can Xue's debut novel. The work describes people on a street and many things on Huangni Street. Huangni Street is always dirty, even the rain is gray. Can Xue made a detailed description of this street, but this description is different from the description of ordinary writers, with a big jump in thinking and no consistent storyline. There are simple characters and simple stories. Can Xue's first novel constructed Can Xue's very significant writing characteristics later, and these rich images give readers a very special reading experience. Can Xue breaks the usual thinking and framework of traditional novels, and has the typical characteristics of Can Xue from the beginning.

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        June 1988

        Der Künstler und die Zeitkrankheit

        Ausgewählte Schriften. Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Burkhard Schlichting

        by Hugo Ball, Hans Burkhard Schlichting, Hans Burkhard Schlichting

        Dieses Buch mit seinen vierzig, teils unveröffentlichten, teils in entlegene Zeitungen und Zeitschriften verstreuten Schriften ist eine Entdeckung. Denn die Brisanz von Hugo Balls zeit- und kulturkritischen Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1909-1925 kommt erst heute, nachdem die meisten seiner Prognosen eingetroffen sind und seit der Studentenrevolte der sechziger Jahre nicht nur die kulturpolitische Diskussion, sondern auch unser Lebensgefühl bestimmen, zu voller Geltung. Es ist der im Ersten Weltkrieg in die Schweiz Emigrierte, der Nachbar und Mitarbeiter von Walter Benjamin und Ernst Bloch bei der oppositionellen »Freien Zeitung«, der Verfasser eines »Bakunin-Breviers«, der Sympathisant von Kurt Eisner, der Autor eines Essays über Thomas Münzer, welcher Ernst Bloch zu seinem Münzer-Buch anregte, aber auch der Verfasser von brisanten Angriffen gegen Wilhelm II., Hindenburg und von Thesen über die verhängnisvollen Folgen Kantscher Philosophie für den preußischen Militarismus. »Ball würde – wäre der Begriff schon damals bekannt gewesen – ein leidenschaftlicher Gegner der modernen Leistungsgesellschaft samt ihren sozialpsychologischen Folgen gewesen sein. Seine eminente Bildung, sein glühender politisch-sozialer Erneuerungswille und die Kraft seiner Sprache entheben ihn dem Vorwurf, ein anarchistischer Agitator zu sein. Ansatzpunkt ist der erste deutsche ›Zusammenbruch‹ 1918/19. Das heißt die Frage nach den geschichtlichen Ursachen der deutschen Katastrophe. Thomas Münzer sieht Ball in Luthers Preisgabe der aufrührerischen Bauern und in der Tragödie der Bauernkriege einen Schlüssel zur deutschen Geschichte. Ball hat mit wenigen Gleichgesinnten Dada und den Surrealismus ›als Hingabe an den Gegensatz alles dessen, was brauchbar und nutzbar ist‹, in den Jahren vor dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges vorweggenommen.« ›Karl Korn in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung‹

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        February 2017

        Photokinesis

        Recall of the Spiritual View of Childhood

        by Can Xue

        This is a autobiography-style prose collection. Applying the unique writing technique, Can Xue has revealed the perceivable childhood inward world and all aspects of her childhood. Unlike her obscure novels, this collection attempts to grasp memory fragments through critical thinking and recall the childhood days. As a child, Can Xue is imaginative and obstinate, which has influence on her literary creation later. This spiritual autobiography serves as the key to the artistic world of Can Xue.

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        December 2015

        Gift of the Dark Mother Earth

        by Can Xue

        Gift of the Dark Mother Earth, the latest novel by Can Xue, is a profound metaphor of her hometown. It follows her usual magical style in the sense that it vividly unfolds the complex and delicate inner world of the characters. The story takes place in the remote Wuliqu School, with such distinctive characters as Teacher Meiyong, Zhang Danzhi, Yutian, Xiao Man, Uncle Yun and Sha Men presented one after another. The personality and human nature exposed through unique dialogues enable the readers to feel a return to simplicity so that they want to explore human soul and nature and start in-depth reading and thinking. The book depicts petty matters in a great age. The author’s ambition is to create a feeling for the pattern of the whole universe through the structure of an ordinary tree leaf, and to unify the arbitrarily split world through the narration of various folk sundries so that different characters can all become the center of this unity and their performance can have a universality. As the only Chinese writer who has won the Best Translated Book Award in the United States, Can Xue was nominated for the foreign novel prize of The Independent of the UK and shortlisted in the Neustadt International Prize for Literature of the US. As the Chinese woman writer, whose works have been translated and published the most abroad, Can Xue has been called the most creative Chinese writer by overseas critics.

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        Biography & True Stories
        September 2024

        Bedsit land

        The strange worlds of Soft Cell

        by Patrick Clarke

        A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, to follow Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career. They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene. From transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho. From the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain. He emerges on the other side with the most in-depth, innovative and entertaining account of the duo ever written.

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        November 1985

        Hermann Hesse

        Sein Leben und sein Werk

        by Hugo Ball

        Hugo Balls faszinierende Biographie erschien 1927 zu Hermann Hesses 50. Geburtstag, und sie ist bis heute weder überholt noch übertroffen. Denn Hugo Ball war zu sehr selber Künstler, als daß ihm die Problematik Hesses aus seinem eigenen Leben nicht vertraut gewesen wäre. Seit 1920 war er mit Hesse bekannt und hat mehrere Jahre zunächst als kritischer Augenzeuge, später als Freund und vertrautester Gesprächspartner in Hesses unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft gelebt.

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        February 2017

        Wuxiang Street

        by Can Xue

        The novel narrates the “possible” amour of Lady X, which arouses the discussion of local people. Every character has his own view towards this event which even acquires a more vital status than the event itself. The characteristic narration style of Can Xue has imbued the ordinary event with distinct aesthetic connotation.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        June 2024

        The labour movement in Lebanon

        Power on hold

        by Lea Bou Khater

        The labour movement in Lebanon: Power on hold narrates the history of the Lebanese labour movement from the early twentieth century to today. Bou Khater demonstrates that trade unionism in the country has largely been a failure, for reasons including state interference, tactical co-optation, and the strategic use of sectarianism by an oligarchic elite, together with the structural weakness of a service-based laissez-faire economy. Drawing on a vast body of Arabic-language primary sources and difficult-to-access archives, the book's conclusions are significant not only for trade unionism, but also for new forms of workers' organisations and social movements in Lebanon and beyond. The Lebanese case study presented here holds significant implications for the wider Arab world and for comparative studies of labour. This authoritative history of the labour movement in Lebanon is vital reading for scholars of trade unionism, Lebanese politics, and political economy.

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        Lady Lv Fangshi

        by Can Xue

        Lady Lv Fangshi is born in a family with many siblings. She was not a good-looking girl and no one in her family cared about her. All her family lived in two small and dark rooms with both warmness and horror. As a 21-year-old lady, Lv Fangshi had already met some guys. Zeng Laoliu, the carpet dealer, was quite mysterious to her though he was not the one that excited her most. Is the lifestyle of Lady Lv Fangshi ever possible? We could frequently be face with this kind of question in our daily life.

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        The Borderland

        by Can Xue

        The Borderland has narrated the weird life of several strangers in Xiaoshi Town in the border area. Years ago, Liujin’s parents came to Xiaoshi Town in pursuit of love. They found that Xiaoshi Town was a place where everything was invisible rather than visible, and they had gradually discovered the way how the anomalies impacted people’s life. As an adult, Liujin decides to trace the road that her parents had taken in Xiaoshi Town. By virtue of contacts with various people in the borderland who possess unique sensory ability, she even gains some absurd and fantastic perspectives and imaginations towards things in the borderland such as snow mountains, snow leopards, geckos, birds and rocks.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        January 2024

        Welcome to the club

        The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ

        by DJ Paulette

        In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman's perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But, as Paulette reveals, it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women. Part personal account, part call to arms, Welcome to the club exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.

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        IF YOU TELL ME, I CAN FLY

        by Sharon Thayer

        A tale of inspiration and empowerment through examples of creatures who really do learn to fly. The perfect gift for times when loved ones are on the brink of change.

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        January 1987

        Blume und Flamme

        Geschichte einer Jugend

        by Emmy Ball-Hennings, Hermann Hesse

        Mit Emmy Ball-Hennings gilt es eine bemerkenswerte Dichterin wiederzuentdecken, deren 100. Geburtstag große Beachtung fand. »Blume und Flamme« ist der erste Teil ihrer dreibändigen Autobiographie, die, seit vielen Jahren vergriffen, nun wieder zugänglich gemacht werden soll. Er schildert die abenteuerliche Kindheit dieser in Flensburg als Tochter eines Seemanns geborenen Dichterin, ihre Jahre als Dienst-, Zimmer- und Küchenmädchen, bevor sie sich einer Wanderbühne anschloß. »Es wäre schwer zu sagen, was wir an ihren Büchern so sehr lieben. Es sind Bücher, die alle den Charakter von Bekenntnissen haben, und dennoch scheinen sie dann oft wieder wie aus Spiel und reiner Künstlerfreude am Schönen entstanden, aus Freude am Bild, aus Freude an der Sprache, aus zartestem Gehör für ihre Unterströmungen und Melodien ... Sie sind das Gegenteil von l'art pour l'art, sie sind ein Kampf um Wahrheit ... Sie liebt die Leidenden, sie fühlt für die Verfolgten und Rechtlosen.« ›Hermann Hesse‹

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        May 1999

        Das Brandmal

        Ein Tagebuch

        by Emmy Ball-Hennings, Erika Süllwold

        »Was in meinen Papieren steht, nämlich daß ich Schauspielerin, Fabrikarbeiterin, Fotografin usw. bin, das besagt nicht viel. Auch ist es nicht wichtig, zu wissen woher ich gekommen bin. Was hat die geographisches Lage meiner Herkunft, mein Geburtsort, mit meiner Heimatlosigkeit zu tun? Auch bin ich nicht Schauspielerin von Beruf, denn ich liebe nicht den falschen Schein, und mein einziger Beruf ist, das zu erkennen, was ich bin«, schreibt Emmy Hennings in »Das Brandmahl«, über das Hugo Ball bei Erscheinen 1920 sagt:»Emmys »Brandmal« ist erschienen. Hier ist nicht mehr Debatte. Hier ist die Zeit, am Körper erlebt und erlitten.« Auf beeindruckende Weise beschreibt Emmy Hennings ihr eigensinniges, widersprüchliches und faszinierendes Leben in den ersten zehn Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts, als Armut die Wanderschauspielerin zeitweise zum Hausieren und zur Prostitution zwang, die erniedrigenden Lebenserfahrungen ihr zum Brandmahl wurden: »Wenn ich am Fenster stehe, denke ich, die obere Hälfte, Herz und Brust, gehört Gott, die untere Hälfte mag der Teufel nehmen.«

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