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      • Balans Publishers

        Balans is an independent publisher of quality non-fiction in the areas of history, politics, economy, biography, science, nature writing, memoirs, current affairs, religion and psychology. With our dedicated team, we publish approximately 40 new titles per year.

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      • Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics

        One of our main goals is the consolidation of the Balearic Islands as a structured cultural market, the promotion of the islands' music, performing arts, literature and visual arts by means of grants, international actions and formative seminars in cultural affairs. The Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics coordinates, alone or in partnership with other departments of the Government of the Balearic Islands, the Institut Ramon Llull or the Institut Català d'Empreses Culturals, the institutional presence of the Balearic Islands in strategic events for the promotion of our culture overseas.   Every year, our area of literature, thought, comics and illustration calls for grants to cover travelling and accommodation expenses of Balearic authors, and expenses for publishing books and producing promotional material for Balearic authors. Please, check our calls on our webpage for literature grants.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2011

        Containing trauma

        Nursing work in the First World War

        by Christine Hallett, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of 'containing trauma'. Broad in its scope and detailed in its research, the book analyses the work of nurses from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the United States of America. It draws on highly personal writings: letters and diaries drawn from archives and libraries throughout the world. This wide-ranging book explores a range of treatment scenarios, from the Western and Eastern Fronts to the Eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and India. It considers both the efforts of nurses to provide physical, emotional and moral containment to their patients, and the work they did to maintain their own physical and emotional integrity. ;

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        July 1995

        Monsieur Teste

        by Paul Valéry, Bernd Schwibs, Max Rychner, Achim Russer

        Paul Valéry wird 1871 im südfranzösischen Sète als Sohn von Barthélémy Valéry, einem Beamten bei der französischen Zollverwaltung, und der Italienerin Fanny Grassi geboren. Bereits als Schüler tritt Valéry mit Dichtungen hervor und setzt diese während des Jurastudiums in Montpellier fort. Die sogenannte Nacht von Genua (1892) führt jedoch zunächst zu der Entscheidung, sich vom praktischen Dichten ab- und der bedingungslosen Selbstanalyse des Geistes und Bewußtseins zuzuwenden. 1894 beginnt Paul Valéry seine Cahiers zu schreiben: längere und kürzere Gedanken zu allen Bereichen des intellektuellen Lebens und der Wissenschaften. Bekannt wird er schon früh durch seinen Essay Einführung in die Methode des Leonardo da Vinci, 1894, und durch das Prosawerk Der Abend mit Monsieur Teste, 1895. Ein verändertes Umfeld in Paris führt zur Eheschließung mit Jeannie Gobillard, zu einer bürgerlichen Lebensweise, zum Besuch literarischer und intellektueller Salons. Nach großen dichterischen Erfolgen mit La jeune Parque 1917 (ins Deutsche übertragen durch Paul Celan) und der Sammlung Charmes 1922 (durch Rilke), was Valéry Anfang der zwanziger Jahre laut Umfrage zum größten lebenden Dichter Frankreichs avancieren läßt, folgen große kulturpolitische und dichtungspoetische Essays  und zwei Jahrzehnte Vortragsreisen durch ganz Europa. Seit 1926 ist Paul Valéry Mitglied der Académie française, 1931 wird ihm die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Oxford verliehen, 1933 wird er Administrator des neugegründeten Centre Universitaire méditerranéen in Nizza, 1937 Inhaber eines eigens für ihn eingerichteten Lehrstuhls für Poetik am Collège de France. Nach Paul Valérys Tod am 20. Juli 1945 ordnet de Gaulle ein Staatsbegräbnis an.   Bernd Schwibs, geboren 1945, ist nach Stationen an der Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, beim Suhrkamp Verlag, bei den Zeitschriften Psyche und Westend jetzt freier Übersetzer.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2010

        The secret battle

        Emotional survival in the great war

        by Michael Roper, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining the morale of this largely young, amateur army. And it shows how soldiers, in their turn, sought to adapt domestic habits to the trenches. Pursuing the unconscious clues within a rich collection of letters and memoirs with the help of psychoanalytical ideas, including those formulated by the veteran tank commander Wilfred Bion, this study asks fundamental questions about the psychological resources of this generation of young men. It reveals how the extremities of battle exposed the deepest emotional ties of childhood, and went on marking the post-war domestic lives of those who returned. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2016

        The People's Armies

        A history of the Greek resistance

        by Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Spiros Tsoutsoumpis

        The people's armies discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle against the axis as members of the armed partisans of ELAS and EDES. Using a wide range of previously unused sources, the book reconstructs daily life in the guerrilla armies and explores the complex reasons that led the partisans to enlist and fight. It also discusses the relations between the guerrillas and the civilian population, and examines how the guerrillas' experience of combat, hardship and loss shaped their understanding of their task and social attitudes. The book makes fascinating reading both for academics and for lay readers who are interested in modern Greek history, military history and the history of the Second World War. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2013

        Civvies

        Middle–class men on the English Home Front, 1914–18

        by Laura Ugolini, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, 'unmanly' status? ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2007

        Paris and the Commune 1871–78

        The politics of forgetting

        by Bertrand Taithe, Colette Wilson, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind-spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised aspects of the illustrated press, early photography and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city's turbulent past. ;

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