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mairisch Verlag is an an independent publishing house founded in 1999 and located in Hamburg. Whether fiction, non-fiction, illustrated children's books, audio books, graphic novels or music, mairisch Velag exclusively publishes books, CDs and LPs we really care about. In 2013 mairisch Verlag invented Indiebookday.
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This book brings together recent findings from quantitative and qualitative research from across Africa to illuminate how young men and women engage with the rural economy, imagine their futures and how development policies and interventions find traction (or not) with these realities. Through framing, overview and evidence-based chapters, it provides a critical perspective on current discourse, research and development interventions around youth and rural development. It is organised around commonly-made foundational claims: that large numbers of young people are leaving rural areas; have no interest in agriculture; cannot access land; are stuck in permanent waithood; that the rural economy provides (or can provide) a wealth of opportunity; and that they can be the engine of rural transformation. It draws from existing literature and new analysis arising from several multi-country and multi-disciplinary studies, focusing on gender and other aspects of social difference. It is a major contribution to current debates and development policy about youth, agriculture and employment in rural Africa.
A tender love story set during the building of Dublin’s iconic Ha’penny Bridge in 1816, Mairead Rooney’s debut novel THE IRONMAN is a beautiful portrayal of finding intimacy in the face of grief, and will appeal to readers of the historical fiction of Emma Donoghue or Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn.
What exactly is creativity? Adrian McKerracher travels from Vancouver to Havana to Buenos Aires, leading readers on a journey to discover poignant new insights into a life of letters. Through encounters with artists of all kinds, famous or obscure, McKerracher traces a history of the meaning of writing, each vignette a meditation on the way metaphor limits and liberates understanding. What It Means to Write is a celebration of the possibilities of both language and silence.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2K2LUuO
Mairead is 12 years old and has a lot of questions on his mind. Through the window, she observes the large factory at the end of the dike and the seagulls on the masts of the boats. Summer starts off rather well... until a stranger comes to question her about her family, a mysterious man-with-a-hat starts following her for no apparent reason, and she ventures onto a condemned industrial site. The young girl finds herself at the heart of a secret that plunges her into the most unspeakable meanders of nuclear energy...
Sarah is taking a break from her eco-warrior activities, looking after her sister's wholefood shop in a small west of Ireland town. When a dying calf is found on the local dump, she begins to make some enquiries. Before long, the dark shadow cast by modern beef production begins to emerge in another, more sinister form, and Sarah finds that her path keeps crossing that of the town butcher, Malachy Glynn. An Act of Worship explores the ethics of beef production and the treatment of cattle in mainstream processing, and in the far less conventional approach of Malachy Glynn.
