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Martini Maria Cristina | MMC Edizioni
MMC EDIZIONI is a publishing house based in Rome.Born in 2001 as a generalist, along the time it has specialized almost exclusively in non-fiction, dedicated in particular (but not only) to the city of Rome.The main series, called "A walk with history" offers an alternative vision of the city through the historical reconnaissance and analysis of some of its urban furnishings that are not taken into consideration such as small fountains, clocks, inscriptions, sacred shrines, plaques. This series stands out for a particular graphic style and for the abundance of photographs, specially made for these books.Other series on Rome are instead dedicated to in-depth studies on specific historical and customs themes, or on the mysterious aspects of the city that also reveal its dark side.In the MMC catalogue are other non-fiction books on topics such as Music, Interculture, Anthropology and a series of stories for children encouraging solidarity, non-violence and respect for the environment
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2023Transitional justice in process
Plans and politics in Tunisia
by Mariam Salehi
After the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011, Tunisia swiftly began dealing with its authoritarian past and initiated a comprehensive transitional justice process, with the Truth and Dignity Commission as its central institution. However, instead of bringing about peace and justice, transitional justice soon became an arena of contention. Through a process lens, the book explores why and how the process evolved, and explains how it relates to the country's political transition. Based on extensive field research in Tunisia and the US, and interviews with a broad range of international stakeholders and decision-makers, this is the first book to comprehensively study the Tunisian transitional justice process. It provides an in-depth analysis of a crucial period, examining the role of justice professionals in different stages, as well as the alliances and frictions between different actor groups that cut across the often-assumed local-international divide.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2022Transitional justice in process
by Mariam Salehi, Simon Mabon
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February 2003Der Mann aus Mesopotamien
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by Amin Maalouf, Gerhard Meier
»Von heute ab wirst du keinen Wein mehr trinken, kein Fleisch mehr essen und dich keiner Frau mehr nähern, denn die Wahrheit ist eine anspruchsvolle Geliebte, Pattig, sie duldet keine Untreue, deine ganze Ergebenheit darf nur ihr gelten, und ihr, nur ihr gehört jeder Augenblick deines Lebens.« Pattig verläßt seine hochschwangere Frau Mariam, um sich einer Gemeinschaft von Gläubigen anzuschließen. Das Kind, das Mariam erwartete, ist Mani, nach christlicher Zeitrechnung geboren am 14. April 216 in Mesopotamien. Vier Jahre später wird er von seinem Vater in die Sekte der Weißgewandeten eingeführt. »Inmitten dieser Männer ging ich weise und listig meinen Weg«, erinnerte sich Mani, der Begründer des Manichäismus, der mit 24 Jahren die Sekte verläßt, um »durch die Welt einen Ruf ertönen zu lassen«. In Ägypten wird er »der Apostel Jesu«, in China »der Buddha des Lichts« und »seine Hoffnung erblühte an den drei Weltmeeren«. Seine Anhängerschaft wächst ständig, schließlich gerät der Verfechter einer liberalen Religion in die Schlingen der politisch Mächtigen, wird inhaftiert und stirbt am 2. März 274.»Dieses Buch ist Mani gewidmet. Es sollte sein Leben erzählen. Beziehungsweise das, was nach so vielen Jahrhunderten der Lüge und des Vergessens noch davon zu erahnen ist«, schreibt Amin Maalouf über seine abenteuerliche Biographie über den »Mann aus Mesopotamien«.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2024Dog politics
Species stories and the animal sciences
by Mariam Motamedi Fraser
Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-human relations are naturalised with reference to dogs' evolutionary becoming, suggest that they do. Dog politics dissects this story. This book offers a rich empirical analysis and critique of the development and consolidation of dogs' species story in science, asking what evidence exists to support it, and what practical consequences, for dogs, follow from it. It explores how this story is woven into broader scientific shifts in understandings of species, animals, and animal behaviours, and how such shifts were informed by and informed transformative political events, including slavery and colonialism, the Second World War and its aftermath, and the emergence of anti-racist movements in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book pays particular attention to how species-thinking bears on 'race,' racism, and individuals.
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September 2018Pilates für Männer
"Alles, nur kein Pillepalle." Muskelaufbau, Stabilität, Prävention
by Opdenhövel, Matthias; Younossi, Mariam
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Children's & YA2009House Without a Roof
by Alexander Asatiani
The House Without a Roof is an engaging story not just because of the plot but also because of its interactive narrative. Can you imagine an agitated beetle? There is a reason for his agitation. He has a problem and the narrator as well as the reader must take part in helping him solve it.
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Children's & YA2009Flying Piglets
by Alexander Asatiani
Have you ever heard of piglets so clean that they’re as white as the clouds? Flying piglets are hard to imagine but the difficulty that the little piglet faces is easy to relate to for anybody who has tried to learn a new skill. The story is about finding a voice and direction as an exceptional figure. The little piglet learns how to fly not in the traditional ways but through his own observation of the unusual.
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Children's & YA2009Tamaras Book
by Alexander Asatiani
Tamara’s book is something you can hold in your hands and read now but before it was just a dream. Tamara’s dream was kept in a beautiful box and when the box was opened up, it became possible for the dream to come true. This book is evidence that dreams can come true.
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Children's & YA2009Old Camera
by Alexander Asatiani
When Tamta’s parents decide to have friends over at their house, Tamta decides to take their picture. Little Tamta has a little friend who lives in her camera and who pulls pranks on people. It annoys adults but Tamta has no care- she loves her little friend for his pranks. Old Camera describes the adult world through a child’s lens and fills it with fun, joy and insight.
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Children's & YA2009An Ancient Telescope
by Alexander Asatiani
When the telescope accidentally changes his perspective one day, he finds a whole new wave of curiosity, forgetting about the old and the familiar.
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Children's & YA2009Museum for Old Things
by Alexander Asatiani
The museum keeps not just objects and things but also their past and their memories of the past. That is how it keeps its inhabitants alive.
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Children's & YA2009Broken Heart
by Alexander Asatiani
Cracked Heart tells the entire life story of a heart-shaped jewel box that becomes more and more precious for the reader, the older it gets. Even though it breaks and loses some of its external beauty, it gains a different kind of aesthetic when it’s put back together.
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Children's & YA2009Strange book
by Alexander Asatiani
All books have either writing, pictures or both in it, but the book that Ellen got as a gift has neither. It does, however, have extraordinary recording powers. Like in so many of Sandro’s stories, in The Strange Book it is completely natural for dreams to merge with reality. Through the matter-of-fact occurrence of unlikely events, The Strange Book tells a story of growing up without abandoning the inner child.
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Grandma Mariam and the Barley Soup
by Hala Abu Saad
Grandma Mariam loves it when Angie and her friends visit her. Even though she is old and and tired and can’t walk around a lot anymore, she shakes off her feelings of loneliness and sadness and truly enjoys every moment she spends with them. Angie and her friends see how Grandma Mariam wistfully remembers the past. When Grandma Mariam tells them stories, her face lights up and her eyes dance with energy. The girls are determined to make Grandma Mariam feel happy and useful at an upcoming party. They convince her to prepare her famous barley soup! Will cooking the soup lift Grandma Mariam’s spirit and make her heart full of happiness once again?
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Genius Neema Book Four: School Ditching Reptiles
by Written by: Atoosa Salehi, Illustrated by: Nassim Bahari
Genius Neema is one of those unruly kids who like to experience everything themselves. Good thing his teacher, Ms. Bala, herself does not like the dry teachings in her classroom. That is why Neema and his classmates are often out and about the city, looking for ways to be mischievous. They love going on field trips. Atoosa Salehi, the The author of this new, fun series has tried to capture the true essence of city life for today’s children. She also was inspired by her son’s and his friends’ fun stories from school. The first book of this series, The Littler Collecting Athletes, is the story of that time Neema and his classmates go hiking. This is also an environmental field trip, full of fun and exciting events. There are supposed to collect the litter other people have left in the mountain. However, their teacher sprains her ankle and eventually, nothing goes on as planned. The second book, Going to the Museum, is about the kids’ trip to the museum. They are excited to wander around the labyrinth of history and learn lots of new things. Yet again, Neema’s nosey friend, and the new exchange student who is from Japan, get trapped in a hidden room at the museum. The third book, as you can guess from the title, is about a food festival. Neema and his friends decide to make a Japanese cuisine called Economy Yaki and a series of fun things happen. The fourth and last book of this series will be published in Summer 2020. This series is ideal for children who enjoy reading graphic novels. In all four books, there are ten fun suggestions and activities for kids like Neema, who like reading books, laughing out loud, and learn. Through reading this series, students can create interesting experiences in and out of school. Atoosa Salehi is an award winning, well-known Iranian author, translator, and poet. She is Ofoq Publishers’ editor for children and young adults’ section. She started writing this series when her older son was the same ag as Neema and finished it, when her younger son was about Neema’s age. As a kid, she loved skating and her knees were almost always scarred. She has written and translated over 60 books and won numerous awards, such as Book of the Year. Some of her works have been translated to English, German, and Arabic. She lives with her husband and two sons in Tehran. Naseem Bahari, the series’ illustrator, was born in Tehran (1987). She holds the BA in Graphic Design. Bahari has been working in this field since 2006.
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Kindred Creation
Parables and Paradigms for Freedom
by Aida Mariam Davis
This book is not written for settler consumption. Kindred Creation is a call and response to dream and design better worlds rooted in African lifeways: a path to Black freedom, a love letter to Black futures, and a blueprint to intergenerational Black joy and dignity—all (and always) on Black terms.Author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways that extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empire—not least by severing ancestral connections and disrupting profound and ancient relationships to self, nature, and community.Structured in three parts—Remember, Refuse, and Reclaim—Kindred Creation is a philosophical guidebook and a vital invitation to power and reconnection. Davis employs parable, poetry, theory, memory, narrative, and prophecy to help readers: -Remember: By unforgetting the unending and cascading violence of settler colonialism and other forms of domination and exploring the ways that African land, language, lifestyle, and labor are stolen, distorted, and repackaged for colonial consumption to extract capital and sever ties to ancestral knowledge, lifeways, and dignity -Refuse: By rejecting and interrupting death-making institutions and relationships and choosing kinship and self-determination in the face of settler colonial violence -Reclaim: By revealing that freedom is within us—and within reach. Davis shares how the reader can birth new worlds and relationships and offers strategies for reclaiming land, language, lifestyle, and labor. The colonial violence and dispossession of African land, language, and labor is inflicted intentionally—and by design. Reclaiming African lifeways and remembering what was forcibly forgotten must be by creation: a re-membering of our interconnectedness and kinship.
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Children's & YAStories from Shahnameh
The Book of Kings
by Rewritten: Atoosa Salehi
Among the Iranian literary works, the Shahnameh is a masterpiece especially due to its epical nature. The rich Persian prose and language of Shahnameh, written by the great Persian poet, Ferdousi, is still a reliable literary source for researchers and professors of the Persian Literature. This epic enjoys several stories within itself, which can be hard for a young adult to read. The author of this series has adapted Shahnameh with having the keen young adults in mind as the major audience of these six books. The author has avoided repetition of the fairy tales in order to create them through a new point of view.
