Marshall Cavendish
Topical, authentic and high quality books under the Marshall Cavendish Editions imprint provide general interest content that informs, entertains and engages readers.
View Rights PortalTopical, authentic and high quality books under the Marshall Cavendish Editions imprint provide general interest content that informs, entertains and engages readers.
View Rights PortalMMC 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
View Rights PortalOnce upon a time there was a pretty house.Beside the wall there was a garden.The thin stem of ivy had spring up from the earth in the garden.One day the wall said to the ivy, “How small you look!”The ivy said, “One day I will grow big, so big that I will embrace you and all the walls in this house.The wall laughed. “Then I will become a green wall.”One day that resembled no other day the earth trembled and trembled. The house was ruined and the walls crashed over each other. The earth in the garden turned upside down...
ANDERSEN'S GOLDEN FAIRY TALES Translated by Silvana Orel Kos directly from the Danish. Illustrated by Suzi Bricelj, Jože Ciuha, Zvonko Čoh, Bojana Dimitrovski, Kostja Gatnik, Marjanca Jemec Božič, Marjan Manček, Lidija Osterc, Jelka Reichman, Marija Lucija Stupica and Marlenka Stupica. This rich and luxurious anthology of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen contains 37 fairy tales translated by Silvana Orel Kos directly from the Danish, with images by Slovenia’s finest illustrators: Suzi Bricelj, Jože Ciuha, Zvonko Čoh, Bojana Dimitrovski, Kostja Gatnik, Marjanca Jemec Božič, Marjan Manček, Lidija Osterc, Jelka Reichman, Marija Lucija Stupica, and Marlenka Stupica. “Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) is a great classical writer who addresses readers of all generations in his many stories. His view of human nature is in many ways so distinctive that it is on a level comparable to that of the world’s greatest writers and philosophers.” - Andrej Ilc"The whole world in all its diversity is to be found In Andersen's fairy tales - happy and poetic, tragic, petty, tolerant and malicious, and throughout overflowing like life itself. His tales arouse curiosity, doubt and tolerance, force us to think about how and why, and help us feel at home on this planet. It' is marvellous to have them.” - Polonca Kovač“This large, thick book is just as gorgeous as these wonderful tales deserve.” - Sonja Javornik, Vklop & Stop magazine Number of pages: 384 Format: 205 x 260 x 36 cm
Nominated for the best picture book in Slovenia in 2020 – The Kristina Brenkova Award. THE BOY WHO LIKED TO SAY HELLOWritten by Slavko PreglIllustrations by Marjan Manček A new picture book by two important and popular creators of works for young people Slavko Pregl (1945) and Marjan Manček (1948) are assuredly two of the most important and popular creators of works for children and young people. Their works are full of humour and compassion for all living creatures. In this book we learn about Taras, an ordinary boy who learns the miraculous power of greeting from his grandfather. Every child, and every adult as well, can see themselves in Slavko Pregl’s stories from everyday life.Manček’s illustrations are fresh and full of unconventional storytelling in every new book, so we eagerly await the unfolding of the story. Format: 20.5 x 26 cm32 pages | Age: 4+
Based on many years of experience in teaching and children's book practice, Michael Wrede and Annabelle von Sperber pave your way to your own children's book. Both know the German and international market and the expectations of publishers and readers. They know which basic decisions are important before you get started and how a good storyboard can guide you safely through the process of creating your book. They confidently introduce you to the basics of children's book illustration and give you the toolbox to develop your very own story and bring it to life.
The present book is a re-creation of one of Rumi's famous anecdotes. The distinctive feature of this book is that a coffeehouse painting is used for its illustration. Coffeehouse painting is one of the Iranian painting styles which is implemented by oil paint. One of the applications of coffeehouse painting is in Naghali (narration). Naghal (a narrator) is someone who recounts Iranian myths and epics in verse and prose with the help of music and slides of coffeehouse paintings live to the audience. The tradition of Naghali (narration), which is registered as an intangible cultural heritage in UNESCO is one of the oldest methods of Iranian storytelling. The parrot and the merchant, with its special illustrations, seems to be the same Naghali (narration) who has been written this time and turned into a book. A merchant living in distant lands has a beautiful talking parrot that he is very interested in. This parrot has been with him all the moments of the merchant's life and all this time he has been imprisoned in a silver cage with a golden bar. The merchant, who has to go to India for trade, asks all his relatives what souvenirs they want. When it comes to the parrot, it says, "If you go to the forests of India and see other parrots that are free and live happily on the trees, ask them what I should do with this grief of loneliness and confinement". The merchant goes to the forest and conveys his parrot message to the Indian parrots. Upon hearing this, one of the parrots falls from the tree and dies. The merchant returns regretful and upset and describes what he saw to his parrot. Upon hearing this story, the merchant’s astute parrot also falls from the gold bar and dies. The merchant opens the cage with tears and grief to get the parrot out. Unaware that the parrots have participated in making a clever plan.
Haniyeh had a shirt with many colorful umbrellas on it. she liked this shirt very much and wanted to show it to the kindergarten children the next day. When she put it, all the umbrellas laughed except the red umbrella. An umbrella for Haniyeh is a fantasy story that teaches children it is better to seek new experiences. Because it makes them to grow up. Just like the umbrella of this story.
The tempest was not over. A new terror has begun.Innocent people were brutally murdered.Even the highest leader of the Vadis Religiondid not escape the serial killings. The problem is, all the clues leadon a hero named Robert Chandler.Is it true that Robert is the perpetrator of the terror, at the same timeis the true heir to the Absolute Lord of Darkness? Look around, Knights of Light! Find the truth.
“Anyone looking for a goal will remain empty when it will be reached, but whoever finds a way, will always carry the goal inside.” Nejc Zaplotnik THE PATH is a novel by Slovenian author and climber Nejc Zaplotnik (1952-1983). It was first published in Ljubljana 1981. The book narrates, in a novelized way, Zaplotnik’s life and experiences as an alpinist in postwar Slovenia, culminating in the ascension of both Makalu and Everest. It is 41 years since Andrej Štremfelj and Nejc Zaplotnik made history as the first Slovenians who reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world. By 1979, the summit of Mount Everest had been reached by every major ridge, yet a large expedition from Yugoslavia arrived to top their last achievement of making the first ascent of Makalu South Face. The West Ridge of Everest was a long unconventional line to the top. It was first climbed by the Americans in 1963, and is still well celebrated in the United States today. Except the Americans climbed only the upper half. The Yugoslavians came to traverse it all starting at the base, low in the Lho La pass. Like many national expeditions in those days, it was huge. It included 25 Yugoslavian mountaineers, 19 Sherpas, three cooks, three kitchen boys, two mail runners, 700 porters and 18 tons of gear. The ascent had to overcome a steep and severe gap, which required a winch to overcome so it was possible to haul the gear over the broken portion of the ridge. All efforts and ingenuity combined, the Yugoslavians positioned three Slovenian climbers at Camp V who were close to each other, Nejc Zaplotnik, Andrej Stremfelj, and Andrej’s brother, Marko Stremfelj. The aim of the expedition was to climb the West Ridge, first time in history. An expedition that worked in the spirit of a time when collective consciousness ruled to achieve a goal would not work as it did if it were not logistically and organizationally well managed. From Khumbu Glacier at 5350 m, where the base camp was located, rises 700m high rock wall of the Lho La saddle, followed by a 1200-meter-high slope of the Western Shoulder, continuing into a 2500-meter long, laid but sharp and windy ridge, at the end of which is the beginning of the steep and vibrant peak of the Everest Pyramid. Because the wall of the Lho-La saddle was overhanging in the upper part, cargo could not be carried on the back, so Stefan Marenče constructed a manual ropeway at home, with the help of which more than 5 tonnes of equipment was used for the altitude supply of the camps. The goal of the expedition was reached on 13 May 1979 at 13.51, when Andrej Štremfelj and Nejc Zaplotnik stood as the first Slovenes on the roof of the world. “We sit by the Chinese pyramid and we don’t know what to do!” (Nejc Zaplotnik) On May 15, 1979 at 2.30pm, Stane Belak-Schrauf, Croat Stipe Bozic and Sherpa Ang Phu also reached the summit. Ang Phu accidentally slipped 2000 meters deep onto the Chinese side when descending. Format: 18,8 x 12,5 cm 282 pages Paperback
A literary interpretation of the Christmas story, To The Great Sea imaginatively extends, probes, conjectures about and questions the original version to provide a much fuller and more humanly plausible version. What is this man afraid of? What is he fleeing from? Where is he going? Who, indeed, is he? Having crossed the great river, he has vague notions of heading westwards towards the Great Sea – until chance intervenes. On a whim, he changes direction to follow a moving star that can stop men dead in their tracks. Crossing the vast, empty desert, he encounters another much larger group of travellers, led by a ‘seeker after truth’; the fabled magus Melichior of Ninevah. The unfolding story this man’s life spent wandering, endlessly searching, and the wisdom he has acquired, enthral the fugitive and they agree to travel on together. Melichior is also following the star, though apparently with far more knowledge about it. After strange, coincidental and inexplicable encounters, they eventually end up at an encampment of travellers outside a small town. They go up into this town to see what they can find – anything that might point to the fulfilment of the age-old prophecies of the coming of a king who will conquer and rule the whole Earth... Doug is influenced by Eliot’s poems The Journey of the Magi and Four Quartets. He also takes inspiration from Cesare Pavese, John Fowles and William Golding. To The Great Sea is a work of well-crafted prose that will be enjoyed by high-brow readers.
JUST LIKE A FILMWritten by Vinko MöderndorferIllustrated by Damijan Stepančič Gašper’s parents are getting a divorce. His mother moves out, and his father takes Gašper to stay with Max. Gašper has never seen this old man before, but he and Max become friends, and this leads to a new astonishing revelation which turns Gašper’s world upside down. Winner of all the top awards for YA literature in Slovenia (Blue Bird Award, Desetnica,Večernica). Nominated for the Book Trust fund. Format: 14 x 20 cm340 pages | Age: 10+
In recent years, a number of chronic diseases have been linked, in some cases definitively, to an infectious etiology: peptic ulcer disease with Helicobacter pylori, cervical cancer with several human papillomaviruses, Lyme arthritis and neuroborreliosis with Borrelia burgdorferi, AIDS with the human immunodeficiency virus, liver cancer and cirrhosis with hepatitis B and C viruses, to name a few. The proven and suspected roles of microbes does not stop with physical ailments; infections are increasingly being examined as associated causes of or possible contributors to a variety of serious, chronic neuropsychiatric disorders and to developmental problems, especially in children. The Infectious Etiology of Chronic Diseases: Defining the Relationship, Enhancing the Research, and Mitigating the Effects, summarizes a two-day workshop held by the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Microbial Threats to address this rapidly evolving field. Participants explored factors driving infectious etiologies of chronic diseases of prominence, identified difficulties in linking infectious agents with chronic outcomes, and discussed broad-based strategies and research programs to advance the field.
WHALE ON A BEACHWritten by Vinko Möderndorfer Whale on a Beach is a story about differentness, normality and about the many struggles involved in growing up for modern-day teenagers, caught between family and peers. Theatrical premiere in Ljubljana in September 2018. Nika, a lively, curious teenager, moves house with her parents. She goes to a new school now, in a new place with new classmates. All seems lovely and just as it should be. Nika is popular, she makes friends easily; she is outgoing and witty. But it turns out that she keeps a secret; a secret that quickly gets out of the bag and will now change the lives of everyone around her... This heartwarming story about accepting difference is bound to appeal to young adults and adults, too. Winner of the Desetnica Award 2017, IBBY Honour List 2018. Format: 14 x 20 cm224 pages | Age: 12+