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        We love books about everything and can’t get enough of them. Because books are much more than letters and colours on paper. Books are adventures, experiences and feelings. In books you can find friends, like-minded people or evil villains against whom you can defend yourself. Every time you read a book, a spark of magic jumps over into our “real” life and enriches it. As passionate graphic designers we not only care about stories, but also about the beauty, diversity and creativity of a book. We love to invent new fantasy worlds and to design figures. We also want our stories to make you smile and invite you to immerse yourself in unknown worlds and simply give you pleasure.

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      • Kalem Agency

        Founded in Istanbul, Turkey, Kalem Literary Agency represents numerous renowned Turkish authors among them the most prominent and established assets of contemporary Turkish literature and classical masters. Our search for emerging voices and perseverance to support and nurture newly developing talents goes hand in hand with our respect for the roots of Turkish Literary tradition. The number of the contracts Kalem Literary Agency has made to represent and disseminate Turkish literature abroad in 53 languages has exceeded 2.106 by 2017. Even if our focus is on fiction that ranges from high-quality literary works to commercial titles with mass-market appeal, we also represent non-fiction titles. Besides representing Turkish language rights, Kalem Agency also works as a sub-agent for publishers and literary agencies abroad. Our main objective is to match the right publishers with just the right titles. Kalem Agency organizes the first and only international literary festival in Turkey: Organized in 2009 for the first time, ITEF-Istanbul International Literature Festival creates a space that ensures the cooperation of Turkish authors and publishers with foreign publishers, editors, translators and authors.

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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
        November 2019

        Byron and Italy

        by Alan Rawes, Diego Saglia

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        January 1984

        Cervantes

        Der Dichter des Don Quijote und seine Zeit

        by Byron, William

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        International law
        September 2009

        War crimes and crimes against humanity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

        by Christine Byron

        This book provides a critical analysis of the definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity as construed in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Each crime is discussed from its origins in treaty or customary international law, through developments as a result of the jurisprudence of modern ad hoc or internationalised tribunals, to modifications introduced by the Rome Statute and the Elements of Crimes. The influence of human rights law upon the definition of crimes is discussed, as is the possible impact of State reservations to the underlying treaties which form the basis for the conduct covered by the offences in the Rome Statute. Examples are also given from recent conflicts to aid a 'real life' discussion of the type of conduct over which the International Criminal Court may take jurisdiction. This will be relevant to postgraduates, academics and professionals with an interest in the International Criminal Court and the normative basis for the crimes over which the Court may take jurisdiction.

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        Literary theory
        November 2015

        Globalgothic

        by Edited by Glennis Byron

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        November 1989

        Ausgewählte Werke, 2 Bde.

        Gedichte und Poeme; Prosa und Dramatik

        by Michail Lermontow

        Michail Lermontow, geboren am 15. Oktober 1814 in Moskau, ist neben Puschkin der wichtigste Vertreter der russischen Romantik. Seine Lyrik ist stark von Byron beeinflusst. Ein Held unserer Zeit ist sein einziges vollendetes Prosawerk und der erste große russische realistische Roman. Lermontow starb am 27. Juli 1841 im Duell in Pjatigorsk.

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        September 2015

        Die Lilienhand

        Sämtliche Sonette

        by Edmund Spenser, Alexander Nitzberg

        Sämtliche Sonette von Edmund Spenser Seine gedankliche Raffinesse, formale Perfektion und schier unerschöpfliche Phantasie faszinierten ganze Generationen von Literaten: Ob Milton, Pope, Shelley, Byron, Yeats oder Conrad, niemand konnte sich dem Klangzauber Edmund Spensers, dieser »silbernen Trompete« (Keats), entziehen. Und nirgends tritt die Meisterschaft des Dichters deutlicher zutage als in dessen filigranen Sonetten. Eros und Melancholie, Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit, Zorn und Milde werden hier in immer neuen, oft paradoxen Bildern zusammengefügt und zur sprachlichen Vollendung gebracht.

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        Biography: historical, political & military
        2021

        Mazepa. Rights to the sabre

        by Vira Kuryko

        An outstanding Cossack figure, romanticized in European culture: his image was inspired by Voltaire, Hugo, Liszt, and Byron. Even during the hetman's life, the Russian tsar launched an information war against Mazepa, and for the fourth century, he has been cursed by Moscow and glorified by Ukrainians. Who is he? A hero of his homeland, a traitor, a romantic lover? This book is an attempt to look once again at what we know about Mazepa, his significant role in the history of Europe, his difficult decisions and his bright life.

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        Fiction
        November 2018

        Beard's Roman Women

        By Anthony Burgess

        by Graham Foster

        Anthony Burgess draws upon an autobiographical episode to create Beard's Roman Women, the story of a man haunted by his first wife, presumed dead. But is she? A marvellously economical book, full-flavoured, funny, and heartfelt, showing its author at the height of his powers. This new edition is the first to be published with David Robinson's photographs for over 40 years. The text of the novel has been restored using the original typescripts, and Graham Foster's new introduction provides valuable insight into the fictional and biographical contexts of the novel. The text is fully annotated with a detailed set of notes and this edition includes the previously unpublished script for Burgess's television film By the Waters of Leman: Byron and Shelley at Geneva, and a rare piece of Burgess's writing about Rome.

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        June 1989

        Vathek

        by William Beckford, Franz Blei, Robert Picht, Reinhold Grimm, Stéphane Mallarmé

        An Weihnachten 1781 veranstaltete Beckford – laut Byron der reichste aller Söhne Englands – auf seinem Landsitz Fonthill ein ausgelassenes Fest, dessen Teilnehmer das einzige Ziel haben sollten, »sich an allem zu erfreuen, was Geld und Macht ihnen geben konnte«. Fonthill verwandelte sich während der drei Tage des Festes in einen Palast der fünf Sinne: Zärtliche und schmachtende Blicke, ins Ohr geflüsterte Worte, das bezaubernde Lächeln auf den Gesichtern, der süße Duft der Rosen, all das erzeugt eine wollüstige Stimmung …« Unmittelbar nach dem Fest schrieb Beckford seinen »Vathek« nieder, und zwar innerhalb von drei Tagen! Er vertraute das Manuskript seinem Freund Samuel Henley an, der das Werk ohne Namen und ohne Beckfords Einverständnis 1786 veröffentlichte, und zwar in einer englischen Übersetzung (Beckford hatte das Buch in französischer Sprache geschrieben). Diese französische Urfassung erschien im folgenden Jahr in Lausanne und Paris. Das Buch erwies sich als großer Erfolg, und weitere Ausgaben wurden gedruckt in den Jahren 1809, 1815, 1819 und 1876, mit einem Vorwort von Stéphane Mallarmé. Vathek ist ein Kalif, der sich über alle göttlichen und irdischen Gesetze erhaben glaubt. Giaour, der Bote der Mächte der Finsternis, verspricht ihm den Palast des Unterirdischen Feuers zu öffnen und ihm die darin enthaltenen Schätze und Geheimnisse zu übergeben, unter der Bedingung, daß er ihm und seiner Gier die Kinder seiner Höflinge ausliefere. Vathek erfüllt die schreckliche Bedingung und gelangt nach vielen Abenteuern in der Gesellschaft einer kleinen Prinzessin, die als Knabe verkleidet ist, in den Palast von Eblis, wo er das furchtbare Los derer teilt, die sich wie er ganz den weltlichen Freuden verschrieben haben.

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        Medicine
        April 2018

        Bovine Tuberculosis

        by Mark Chambers, Stephen Gordon, Francisco Olea-Popelka, Paul Barrow

        This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing human infection through consumption of unpasteurised milk or by close contact with infected animals. Following a systematic approach, expert international authors cover epidemiology and the global situation; microbial virulence and pathogenesis; host responses to the pathogen; and diagnosis and control of the disease. Aimed at researchers and practising veterinarians, this book is essential for those needing comprehensive information on the pathogen and disease, and offers a summary of key information learned from human tuberculosis research. It will be useful to those studying the infection and for those responsible for controlling the disease.

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