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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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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020How media and conflicts make migrants
by Kirsten Forkert, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Federico Oliveri, Janna Graham
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2005Graham Swift
by Daniel Lea, Susan Williams
This book offers an accessible critical introduction to the work of Graham Swift, one of Britain's most significant contemporary authors. Through detailed readings of his novels and short stories from 'The Sweet Shop Owner' (1980) to 'The Light of Day' (2003), Daniel Lea lucidly addresses the key themes of history, loss, masculinity and ethical redemption, to present a fresh approach to Swift. This study proposes that one of the side-effects of modernity has been the destruction of traditional pathways of self and collective belief, leading to a loss of understanding between individuals about their duties to each other and to society. Swift's writing returns repeatedly to the question of what we can believe in when all the established markers of identity - family, community, gender, profession, history - have become destabilised. Lea suggests that Swift increasingly moves towards a notion of redemption through a lived ethical practice as the only means of finding solace in a world lacking a central symbolic authority. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2023Rethinking Norman Italy
Studies in honour of Graham A. Loud
by Joanna Drell, Paul Oldfield
This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000-1200) honours and reflects the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses and recasts the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been conventionally understood, addressing varied subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identities and communities, religion and Church, and conquest. The chapters revise and refine our understanding of Norman Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, demonstrating that it was not just a parochial Norman or Mediterranean entity but also an integral player in the medieval mainstream.
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FictionNovember 2018Beard'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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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2024Barbara Comyns
A savage innocence
by Avril Horner
The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels that are unique in the English language. Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist's model to restoring pianos. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society. While working as a housekeeper in her mid-thirties, Comyns began transforming the bleak episodes of her life into compelling fictions streaked with surrealism and deadpan humour. The Vet's Daughter (1959), championed by Graham Greene, brought her fame, although her use of the gothic and macabre divided readers and reviewers. This biography not only excavates Comyns's life but also reclaims her fiction, providing a timely reassessment of her literary contribution. It sheds new light on a remarkable author who deftly captured the complexities of human life.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
The cult of the Two Grand Elders
by Fabian Graham
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureSeptember 2018A History of Pesticides
by Graham A Matthews
In this fascinating book, Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds, and vectors of disease. Prior to 1900 only a few chemicals had been employed as pesticides but in the early 1940s, as the Second World War raged, the insecticide DDT and the herbicide 2-4-D were developed. These changed everything. Since then, farmers have been using a growing list of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides to protect their crops. Their use has undoubtedly led to significant gains in agricultural production and reduction in disease transmission, but also to major problems: health concerns for both users of pesticides and the general public, the emergence of resistance in pest populations, and environmental problems. The book examines the development of legislation designed to control and restrict the use of pesticides, the emergence of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and the use of biological control agents as part of policy to protect the environment and encourage the sustainable use of pesticides. Finally, the use of new technologies in pest control are discussed including the use of genetic modification, targeted pesticide application and use of drones, alongside basic requirements for IPM such as crop rotations, close seasons and adoption of plant varieties with resistance to pests and diseases.
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March 2016Bell Tower and Drum Tower
by Liu Xinwu
A story within one day – from 5 a. m. to 5 p. m. A vivid picture of secular life in Beijing. Winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize. Everything begins in an archaic quadrangle dwelling in Beijing, where Xue Jiyue’s mother gets up early to prepare for the son’s wedding banquet.Other characters show up one after another. After narrating their behaviors during the day, the author goes back and tells about their past, with a special concern about the influences from vicissitudes of time, especially how the Cultural Revolution changed those individuals’ courses of life.The Bell Tower and Drum Tower stand there still, witnessing all of those earthshaking changes.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Go home?
The politics of immigration controversies
by Hannah Jones, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Gargi Bhattacharyya, William Davies, Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Kirsten Forkert, Emma Jackson, Roiyah Saltus
'Go Home? The politics of Immigration Controversies is a thorough and informative publication which provides a distinctive insight into immigration policy and research debates. Operation Vaken should be considered a product of all that which has come before it, this research does well in outlining the current complexities of politics and immigration. Additionally, this book includes a complete snapshot of society with an engaging and pluralist commentary on the politics of immigration, allowing for meaningful and new conclusions to be made and new ideas to come to the forefront. Meanwhile, the book's honest exploration of the role, limitations and challenges within social research when exploring issues such as immigration will engage other researchers to evaluate and improve techniques.' Samiha Begum, Institute of Race Relations, June 2017
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October 2023Post-Mortem
Autopsy stories: the unusual experiences of a pathologist
by Roland Sedivy
— True crime stories from the morgue — Famous deaths and autopsy stories resolved, such as Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the case of Anne Greene, who survived her execution by hanging The post-mortem examination. A glimpse inside the interior of the human being. Many find the idea fascinating; for others it is creepy or even repugnant. There are still numerous myths and horror stories surrounding the autopsy, many of them associated with primal human fears such as that of being buried alive, which have existed since Antiquity. It is precisely for this reason that it is important to carry out the post-mortem examination with the utmost conscientiousness. Pathologist Roland Sedivy provides an exciting insight into his profession. Profound and with tremendous humour, he tells us about the early days of the autopsy, and shares with us some macabre and some mysterious cases.
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July 2011Federico Garcia Lorca
by Karen Genschow
Federico García Lorca gilt als vielseitiges Wunderkind: hochbegabter Lyriker und Dramatiker, Musiker, Zeichner, Vortragsredner und nicht zuletzt Märtyrer für ein besseres Spanien, ermordet von den Franquisten kurz nach Beginn des Bürgerkriegs. Die einen halten ihn für unbeschwert und von geradezu kindlich staunender Fröhlichkeit, die anderen sehen in ihm einen tiefen Melancholiker. Seine Homosexualität wurde über Jahrzehnte totgeschwiegen, obwohl sie auch in seinem Werk Niederschlag fand. Lorca ist nicht nur einer der bedeutendsten Autoren, sondern zählt auch zu den faszinierendsten Künstlerpersönlichkeiten, die Spanien im 20. Jahrhundert hervorgebracht hat.
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June 2018Die besten Kinderbuchklassiker zum Vorlesen
Der Wind in den Weiden, Peter Pan und Grimms Märchen
by Barrie, James Matthew; Grahame, Kenneth; Grimm, Jacob und Wilhelm
Die Kinderbuchklassiker „Der Wind in den Weiden“, „Peter Pan“ und die beliebtesten Märchen der Brüder Grimm - liebevoll und kindgerecht nacherzählt und wunderschön illustriert. Maulwurf, Ratterich und der Dachs müssen ihrem Freund, dem Kröterich, mal wieder aus der Patsche helfen. Er kann einfach nicht auf seine halsbrecherischen Abenteuer verzichten. Zahllose Abenteuer warten auch auf Wendy und ihre Brüder. Denn Peter Pan und die Fee Tinker Bell nehmen sie mit auf eine fantastische Reise nach Nimmerland. Und Dornröschen, Hänsel und Gretel, die Bremer Stadtmusikanten und viele andere bekannte Figuren entführen in märchenhafte Welten. Wunderbare Bilderbuchklassiker zum Vorlesen ab 4 Jahren!
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013Tyrants of Sicily by Hugo Falcandus
by Graham Loud, Thomas Wiedemann
This book is our principal source for the history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the troubled years between the death of its founder, King Roger, in February 1154 and the spring of 1169. It covers the reign of Roger's son, King William I, known to later centuries as 'the Bad', and the minority of the latter's son, William II 'the Good'. The book illustrates the revival of classical learning during the twelfth-century renaissance. It presents a vivid and compelling picture of royal tyranny, rebellion and factional dispute at court. Sicily had historically been ruled by tyrants, and that the rule of the new Norman kings could be seen, for a variety of reasons, as a revival of that classical tyranny. A more balanced view of Sicilian history of the period 1153-1169 has been provided as an appendix to the translation in the section of the contemporary world chronicle ascribed to Archbishop Romuald II of Salerno, who died in April 1181. In particular the chronicle of Romuald enables us to see how the papal schism of 1159 and the simultaneous dispute between the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the north Italian cities affected the destiny of the kingdom of Sicily. In contrast to the shadowy figure of Hugo Falcandus, the putative author of the principal narrative of mid-twelfth-century Sicilian history, Romuald II, Archbishop of Salerno 1153-1181, is well-documented.
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September 1994Federico Sánchez verabschiedet sich
by Wolfram Bayer, Jorge Semprún
'Federico Sánchez verabschiedet sich' erzählt die neue Karriere des Ex-Kommunisten und einstigen Untergrundkämpfers Semprun im Arkanum der offiziellen Politik - und ihr Scheitern. Der Autor legt zugleich die Bruchstücke seines vergangenen Lebens vor, sein assoziatives Gedächtnis wandert zu verschiedenen Stationen seiner Biographie, zu Büchern und Bildern, die sein Leben begleiteten, zu Freunden und Gegnern. So entschieden er dabei in seinen Urteilen ist, so ironisch, ja sarkastisch zuweilen - so unverkennbar ist zugleich die Wehmut in vielen seiner Schilderungen und Erinnerungen. Bilden die Erfahrungen mit der Macht, die politischen Ränkespiele und Intrigen, die Begegnungen mit Mächtigen und Berühmten den äußeren Rahmen des Buches, so ist es doch mehr als das, nämlich Lebensbericht, Rückblick auf die exemplarische Biographie eines europäischen Intellektuellen dieses Jahrhunderts.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Rethinking Norman Italy
by Joanna Drell, Paul Oldfield, C. E. Beneš
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April 1992Tragikomödie des Don Cristóbal und der Doña Rosita
Farce für Puppen in sechs Bildern und einem Vorspiel
by Federico García Lorca, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Ramírez, Herbert Meier, Herbert Meier, Pedro Ramírez
Federico García Lorca, geboren 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros , Granada, beginnt nach dem Studium eine Ausbildung als Musiker. 1918 veröffentlicht er sein erstes Buch Impresiones y Paisajes (Impressionen und Landschaften), 1920 folgt die Uraufführung seines ersten Theaterstücks El maleficio de la mariposa (Die Verwünschung des Schmetterlings). 1929 reist der Dichter nach New York. Es entsteht der weltberühmte Lyrikband Dichter in New York. 1930 begibt er sich nach Kuba. Ab 1931 arbeitet er für die regierenden Republikaner in Spanien. Von 1933 bis 1934 bereist er Südamerika. 1936 beginnt der Spanische Bürgerkrieg. Federico García Lorca stellt zur gleichen Zeit sein Hauptwerk Das Haus von Bernarda Alba fertig. Als er sich zu seinen Eltern nach Granada ins Einflussgebiet der Falange begibt, wird er verhaftet und am 19. August 1936 an der Friedhofsmauer von Fuente Grande erschossen. Er gilt heute als einer der wichtigsten Dramatiker und Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts, zu einem seiner berühmtesten Werke zählen die Zigeunerromanzen. Federico García Lorca, geboren 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros , Granada, beginnt nach dem Studium eine Ausbildung als Musiker. 1918 veröffentlicht er sein erstes Buch Impresiones y Paisajes (Impressionen und Landschaften), 1920 folgt die Uraufführung seines ersten Theaterstücks El maleficio de la mariposa (Die Verwünschung des Schmetterlings). 1929 reist der Dichter nach New York. Es entsteht der weltberühmte Lyrikband Dichter in New York. 1930 begibt er sich nach Kuba. Ab 1931 arbeitet er für die regierenden Republikaner in Spanien. Von 1933 bis 1934 bereist er Südamerika. 1936 beginnt der Spanische Bürgerkrieg. Federico García Lorca stellt zur gleichen Zeit sein Hauptwerk Das Haus von Bernarda Alba fertig. Als er sich zu seinen Eltern nach Granada ins Einflussgebiet der Falange begibt, wird er verhaftet und am 19. August 1936 an der Friedhofsmauer von Fuente Grande erschossen. Er gilt heute als einer der wichtigsten Dramatiker und Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts, zu einem seiner berühmtesten Werke zählen die Zigeunerromanzen.
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