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      • Michael O'Mara Books Ltd.

        The Michael O’Mara imprint has illustrated and non- illustrated non-fiction titles for adults on history, sciences, marketing and management, biographies, humour and gift. The Buster imprint develops activity and reference titles for kids. The innovative range of this list develops the curiosity, knowledge and artistic fibre of our little ones. Finally, LOM Art includes a carefully curated list of artist-led titles. We have collaborated with talented illustrators from around the globe to create exquisite titles on drawing, painting, colouring, dot to dot, stickers and so much more!

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        September 2001

        Das Bild

        Geschichte einer Obsession

        by Berg, Jean de / Deutsch Killisch-Horn, Michael von

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        January 2001

        Paratexte

        Das Buch vom Beiwerk des Buches

        by Gérard Genette, Dieter Hornig, Harald Weinrich

        Genettes Interesse gilt den Elementen, die zwar zum Buch, nicht aber zum „Werk“ gehören. Seine Studie ist eine regelrechte Kulturgeschichte des Buches.

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        February 1996

        Grünes Aquarium. Griner Akwarium

        Kurze Beschreibungen. Kurtse Baschrajbungen. Prosastücke. Jiddisch und deutsch. Übersetzt von Jost G. Blum, Michael von Killisch-Horn und Mirjam Pressler. Umschrift und Nachwort von Jost G. Blum

        by Abraham Sutzkever, Mirjam Pressler, Jost G. Blum, Michael Killisch-Horn, Jost G. Blum

        Mirjam Pressler, geboren 1940 in Darmstadt, war eine der namhaftesten Übersetzerinnen des Hebräischen. Sie übersetzte Werke von Aharon Appelfeld, Lizzie Doron, Batya Gur und David Grossman. Ihre große, sprachlich wie literarisch weite Erfahrung war von größtem Wert auch für die Erschließung der israelischen Lebenswelt, wie Amos Oz sie überliefert. Für die Übersetzung von Oz’ Roman Judas erhielt sie 2015 den Internationalen Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Pressler starb am 16. Januar 2019 in Landshut.

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        December 2002

        Horns Ende

        Roman

        by Christoph Hein

        Thomas war damals noch fast ein Kind, aber an die Ereignisse im verschlafenen Bad Guldenberg, während des Sommers 1957, erinnert er sich genau: wie er sich bei den Zigeunern verdingte und dafür von seinem Vater, dem Apotheker, bestraft wurde und wie er seine erste, schüchterne Liebe zu Elske erlebte. Aber auch andere erinnern sich: Bürgermeister Kruschkatz, Dr. Spodeck, der alteingesessene Arzt, und die sanfte Krämersfrau Gertrude Fischlinger. Und da ist auch Marlene, die nur durch den Opfertd ihrer Mutter den faschistischen Terror überlebt hat. Sie alle tragen ihren Teil bei zur Erinnerung an jenen Sommer, als Zigeuner ihr Lager mitten in der Stadt aufschlugen, als eine Untersuchungskommission vom Bezirk kam und Horn sich das Leben nahm.»Ein meisterhafter Roman«, urteilte Hans Ulrich Probst in seiner Laudatio zum Solothurner Literaturpreis 2000, »den ich für eines der wichtigsten Bücher aus 40 Jahren DDR-Literatur überhaupt halte.«

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        September 2000

        Der Rath Horn. Was toben die Heiden?

        Zwei Erzählungen aus dem Nachlaß

        by Rainer Maria Rilke, Moira Paleari

        Rilke erzählt in beiden Novellen tragische Lebensgeschichten: die des Sonderlings Kaspar Hörn, der aus Liebe zu einer Frau zum Dichter wurde, in der einen und die eines Arbeiters in armseligsten Verhältnissen, der aus Liebe zu einer Frau zum Mörder wurde, in der anderen.

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        March 2010

        Gründe und Zwecke

        Texte zur aktuellen Handlungstheorie

        by Christoph Horn, Guido Löhrer

        Sind Handlungen und Handlungserklärungen naturalisierbar? Wie verhalten sich alltagspsychologische und naturwissenschaftliche Erklärungen zueinander? Lassen sich Ausdrücke wie »Zielgerichtetheit«, »Angemessenheit« etc. kausal interpretieren? Gegen den philosophischen Mainstream, der alltagspsychologische Handlungserklärungen als Spielart kausaler Erklärungen betrachtet, hat sich in den letzten Jahren eine Opposition formiert, die Handlungserklärungen für irreduzibel teleologisch hält: Die Erklärung einer Handlung sollte das Ziel betrachten, auf das sich das Verhalten eines rationalen Akteurs richtet, und nicht dessen kausale Vorgeschichte. Der Band versammelt – größtenteils erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung – die wichtigsten Beiträge zur neueren analytischen Handlungstheorie, u. a. von Donald Davidson, Harry Frankfurt, Ruth Millikan und Michael Thompson, und bietet einen Überblick über die aktuelle Gründe-Zwecke-Debatte.

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        Children's & YA

        A Case for Kwiatkowski (28). The Nose of the Goddess

        by Jürgen Banscherus/Ralf Butschkow

        Private detective Kwiatkowski never fails to solve a case! A trip to Athens? Kwiatkowski can hardly believe his luck when Olga, an old friend, sends him an invitation. But no sooner has he arrived in Greece than he finds himself caught up in a very tricky case: a greenhorn detective named Hercules needs his help to expose the handiwork of two unscrupulous fraudsters. It is a matter of honour that even during his holidays Kwiatkowski must use his superskills. Soon the two detectives are on the move among the ancient temple walls in their search to solve the mystery of the goddess Athene’s nose…

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2020

        The Trump revolt

        by Edward Ashbee

        This book considers the reasons for Donald Trump's surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election. It charts the prolonged campaign and the realigning processes that took place, analysing the ideas that defined the Trump platform, the electoral shifts in states regarded as solid 'firewalls' for the Democratic Party and the responses of Republican Party elites. Although he is subject to contradictory pressures, the book places Trump firmly within the right-wing populist tradition. However, it argues that the sentiments that drove his campaign were not only a response to economic fears, high levels of inequality and racial resentment - they were also shaped by the structural character of American governance, which fuels hostility towards Washington DC and the 'political class'. The book concludes by assessing the extent to which Trump's victory and parallel developments in Europe mark a reconfiguration of neoliberalism.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Michael Winterbottom

        by Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard

        This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an impressive body of work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema and the world at large. With this in mind, the realist elements of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo are examined in the light of a long history of cinema's dealings with realism, as far back as post-war Italian neo-realist filmmaking; whereas Jude and The claim are approached as both literary adaptations (a continuing strand in British cinema history) and examples of other reworked genres (the road movie, the western). This lively study of his work, written in a wholly accessible style, will engage all those who have followed his career as well as those with a wide-ranging interest in British cinema.

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        The Arts
        September 2008

        Thorold Dickinson

        A world of film

        by Philip Horne, Peter Swaab

        The films of Thorold Dickinson (1903-1984), now being rediscovered, engage with major issues including national identity, the post-colonial world, and political violence - and they also show a rare mastery of style, a thrilling eroticism, a preoccupation with the psychology of betrayal. But the director of Gaslight, The Next of Kin and The Queen of Spades was also an editor, documentarist, trade unionist, film producer (for the British Army and the UN), pioneering academic and controversialist. His adventurous and truly global involvement in film took him to Paris in the heyday of silent cinema in the 1920s, to Stalin's USSR in 1937, to the Spanish Civil War, to Africa, India, Israel and America. This book gives a lively, multi-angled account of Dickinson's works, life and times, conveying a sense of his own voice and fascinating character. It includes a richly detailed introduction, a film-by-film discussion of Dickinson with Scorsese, vivid personal memoirs of the director, a dossier of Dickinson's original writings and interviews from 1924 to 1973 (some never previously published), critical essays on all the feature films, and a ground-breaking reference section. The book draws on extensive archival research and close consultation with those who knew Dickinson well. Contributors include: Martin Scorsese, Gavin Millar, Lutz Becker, Charles Barr, Laura Marcus, Kevin Jackson, Kevin Gough-Yates, Ian Christie, Gregory Dart, Hillel Tryster, Janet Moat. ;

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