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      • Editora Jandaíra (Pólen Producao Editorial Ltda.)

        Jandaíra is an independent publisher of books by Brazilian authors who are thought-provoking and daring for children and adults.Originally Pólen Livros, it was born to explore new horizons, to establish partnerships, new ideas and to value voices. With a focus on women, contemplating the greatest diversity of feminine universes, she started her catalog with works written by and for women, to tell the feminine vision of stories, the world, society. And as a perspective for a new future, children came with themes to be discussed by people of all ages.In 2020, in partnership with the Sueli Carneiro seal, we achieved wide reach in bookstores throughout Brazil! With the seal coordinated by the philosopher and writer Djamila Ribeiro and with eight titles published initially; the diversity most present in our books, made us recognized as the publisher that embraces causes, from motherhood to self-knowledge, from feminism to anti-racism, from literature to non-fiction and children.

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      • Edizioni Horti di Giano

        We are looking for that flame that ignites our authors’ emotions. We dream of an editorial world where those who deserve can express themselves freely and not thanks to a payment. Horti di Giano offers books with attention to the smallest detail, where Editing is the heart of a work done with passion and the publications are enriched by several hand-made illustrations, in order to give life to a book which is an artistic and complete experience. in every respect. You can find Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, Crime and Mistery, Coming-on-age novel, Poetry and Graphic Novel.

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        Sociology: sport & leisure
        February 2017

        Localizing global sport for development

        by Iain Lindsey. Series edited by John Horne

        This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. Drawing on nearly a decade of wide-ranging multidisciplinary research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia, the book presents a localised account that locates sport for development in historical, political, economic and social context. A key feature of the book is its detailed examination of the lives, experiences and responses of young people involved in sport for development activities, drawn from their own accounts. The book's unique approach and content will be highly relevant to academic researchers and post-graduate students studying sport and development in across many different contexts.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2024

        The Legacy of John Polidori

        The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

        by Sam George, Bill Hughes

        John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2023

        Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 99/2

        by Stephen Mossman, Cordelia Warr

        The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2024

        Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 100/2

        Higher Learning and Civic Cultures of Knowledge: Manchester 1824–2024

        by Stuart Jones

        The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2022

        The correspondence of John Dryden

        by Stephen Bernard, John McTague

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        Political ideologies
        May 2017

        Neoliberal power and public management reforms

        by Professor Peter Triantafillou. Series edited by Mark Haugaard

        This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative power. The book examines the quest for accountability, credibility and evidence in the public sector. It asks whether this quest may be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? The book makes the argument that while current administrative reforms are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they evolve above all around a particular form of neoliberalism: constructivist neoliberalism. The book analyses the dangers of the kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering capacities of society and administration itself.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Carol Reed

        by Peter William Evans

        Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis of twenty films, both acknowledged masterpieces and lesser-known works. Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others. Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!.

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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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        January 2019

        Emmi & Einschwein 3. Ganz vorn mit Horn!

        by Anna Böhm, Susanne Göhlich

        In "Emmi & Einschwein 3. Ganz vorn mit Horn!" von Anna Böhm erleben Emmi und ihr Fabeltier Einschwein ein neues, aufregendes Abenteuer. Emmi ist der Meinung, dass Einschwein, welches sich meist unmagisch verhält und bei dem Zaubern mit seinem Horn eher Chaos anrichtet, dringend Unterricht von einem echten Einhorn benötigt. Als in Wichtelstadt ein Einhorn auftaucht, scheint dies die perfekte Gelegenheit zu sein. Doch schnell stellen Emmi und Einschwein fest, dass das Leben eines Einhorns alles andere als einfach ist, da es ständig von Fans umringt wird und kaum Privatsphäre genießt. Auch Henry, dem Besitzer des Einhorns, wird der Trubel um sein Fabelwesen zu viel. Die Situation eskaliert, als eine Brausefirma versucht, das Einhorn für Werbezwecke zu vereinnahmen, und alle Beteiligten in ernste Schwierigkeiten bringt. Die Geschichte zeichnet sich durch ihren Humor, die liebenswerten Charaktere und die chaotischen, aber herzerwärmenden Ereignisse aus. Emmi und Einschwein, unterstützt von neuen und alten Freunden, müssen all ihre Kräfte und ihr Geschick einsetzen, um das Einhorn vor den Machenschaften der Brausefirma zu schützen. Dabei lernen sie wichtige Lektionen über Freundschaft, Zusammenhalt und die Akzeptanz der eigenen Unzulänglichkeiten. Das Buch besticht durch seine fantasievolle Welt, in der Fabelwesen und Menschen Seite an Seite leben, und vermittelt subtil gesellschaftskritische und moralische Botschaften, ohne belehrend zu wirken. Mit viel Witz und Charme entführt Anna Böhm junge wie alte Leser in ein magisches Abenteuer, das nicht nur unterhält, sondern auch zum Nachdenken anregt und zeigt, dass jeder auf seine Weise besonders ist und dass wahre Magie in der Einzigartigkeit jedes Einzelnen liegt. Bezaubernde Freundschaftsgeschichte: Emmi und ihr Fabeltier Einschwein erleben gemeinsam magische und humorvolle Abenteuer, die Kinderherzen höher schlagen lassen. Einschwein muss lernen, seine magischen Fähigkeiten zu kontrollieren, während die Geschichte eine wichtige Botschaft über Selbstakzeptanz und das Wertschätzen der eigenen Einzigartigkeit vermittelt. Die Suche nach einem echten Einhorn, um Einschwein Zauberunterricht zu erteilen, führt zu einer Reihe von lustigen und spannenden Ereignissen. Von Fans beschrieben als "chaotisch, witzig und liebenswert". Neben Unterhaltung enthält das Buch subtile gesellschaftskritische Anspielungen und moralische Lektionen, die kindgerecht aufbereitet sind. Die Charaktere sind sympathisch und vielschichtig, sodass sich Kinder leicht mit ihnen identifizieren können. Wunderschöne Illustrationen von Susanne Göhlich ergänzen die Geschichte perfekt und machen das Buch auch visuell zu einem Genuss. Das Buch thematisiert die Bedeutung von Freundschaft, Zusammenhalt und den Mut, zu sich selbst zu stehen. Eine reiche Auswahl an Fabelwesen macht die Welt von Emmi und Einschwein besonders lebendig und faszinierend. Für Vor- und Selbstleser geeignet: Die Geschichte und die Sprache sind so gestaltet, dass das Buch sowohl zum Vorlesen als auch für junge Selbstleser ab der dritten Klasse ideal ist. Alle Bände der Reihe: Band 1: Einhorn kann jeder!Band 2: Im Herzen ein Held!Band 3: Ganz vorn mit Horn!Band 4: Kein Weihnachten ohne Puddingschuhe!Band 5: Ein Fall für Sherlock Horn!Band 6: Fabelwesen zelten selten Als Erstlesebücher sind darüber hinaus erschienen: Für die Vorschule Schulstart mit Eierkuchen Lesen macht lustig Lesen + Stickern. Einschweins erster Schultag Emmi & Einschwein. Das fabelhafte Mal- und Rätselbuch Für die 1. Klasse Hoppla, eine Hochzeit! Für die 2. Klasse Fröhliche Schweinachten!

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        Anthropology
        March 2017

        Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

        Years in the making

        by Series edited by Alexander Smith, Cathrine Degnen

        Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire, England, Cathrine Degnen explores how the category of 'old age' comes to be assigned and experienced in everyday life through multiple registers of interaction, including that of social memory, in a postindustrial context of great social transformation. Degnen argues that the complex interplay of social, cultural and physical attributes of ageing means that older people can come to have a different position in relation to time and to the self than younger people, unseating normative conventions about narrative and temporality.

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        December 2020

        Emmi & Einschwein 3. Ganz vorn mit Horn!

        by Anna Böhm, Anna Schudt, Emmi und Einschwein, Susanne Göhlich

        Einschwein benimmt sich mal wieder vollkommen unmagisch. Deshalb findet Emmi, dass es Unterricht von einem richtigen Einhorn braucht, um zu lernen, wie man anständig mit Horn zaubert. Aber da ahnen die beiden noch nicht, wie anstrengend so ein Promi-Leben als Einhorn ist, denn das beliebte Fabelwesen kann sich vor Fans kaum retten. Auch seinem Besitzer Henry ist der Trubel gründlich zu viel. Schließlich kommen alle vier in ernste Schwierigkeiten, als eine Brausefirma dem Einhorn nachstellt. Da gibt es nur noch eins: Das Einhorn braucht die Hilfe vom kleinen Einschwein. Gutgelaunt und bezaubernd unmagisch: Band 3 der fabelhaften Einschwein-Reihe

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914

        by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David

        The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Joseph Losey

        by Colin Gardner

        The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2023

        Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 99/1

        The Aldine Edition of the Ancient Greek Epistolographers: Roots and Legacy

        by Julene Abad Del Vecchio

        This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to the Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek epistolographers. Published in Venice in 1499 by Aldus Manutius, the Aldine edition was the first printed edition of most of the thirty-six Greek letter collections that it contains. As such, it embodies the intersection between the medieval epistolary anthologies that predated it and the printed editions of Greek epistolographic collections that followed, which were primarily based on its text. In recent decades, the Aldien edition has been the subject of important works, which have sought to analyse its contents and sources. This issue explores the Aldine edition from three perspectives: its relationship to the epistolary collections found in medieval manuscripts, its relationship to the printed editions that followed it and its legacy and value for the modern scholar studying Ancient Greek epistolography.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2024

        Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 100/1

        by Fred Schurink, Rachel Winchcombe

        The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections.

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