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      • Holland Park Press

        Holland Park Press is a privately-owned independent company publishing and selling literary fiction: novels, novellas, short stories; and poetry. It was founded in 2009. It is run by brother and sister, Arnold and Bernadette Jansen op de Haar, who publish an author not just a book. Holland Park Press specialises in finding new literary talent by accepting unsolicited manuscripts from authors all year round and by running competitions. It has been successful in giving older authors a chance to make their debut and in raising the profile of Dutch authors in translation.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        October 2008

        Terrorism and democratic stability revisited

        by Jennifer S. Holmes

        Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdown? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences examined. In this detailed comparative study of Uruguay, Spain, and Peru, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stability, terrorism and state responses to terrorism must be studied together. This extensively revised and expanded second edition takes advantage of new historical sources, an extended time span, and new theories that have emerged since the original publication. In addition to adding new data sources in the Peruvian and Spanish cases, the time period covered has been expanded from the late 1990s to early 2007, allowing a more comprehensive treatment of the consequences of state and non-state violence on democratic stability and the prospects for stability. The literature reviews have been significantly revised and updated and an entirely new chapter covers the special case of Spain, which faces both a domestic and an international threat. ;

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        Children's & YA

        Sherlock Holmes, the Master Detective (3). The Invisble Seventh Man

        by Oliver Pautsch/ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/ Dominik Rupp

        What's going on in London? A mass breakout of prisoners, an attack on a hotel and a bank robbery - all that happens within a short while. Sherlock Holmes draws a rapid deduction: This cannot be an accident. He already has a theory what and most of all who is behind it. Remains to find out how his arch enemy managed to do that. But Sherlock is on his tracks because the thieves and their leader have left their fingerprints ...

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        August 2006

        Das gemeine Recht Englands und Nordamerikas

        (The Common Law) in elf Abhandlungen dargestellt. Mit Zustimmung des Verfassers in das Deutsche übertragen von Rudolf Leonhard.

        by Holmes Jr., O. W.

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        The Arts
        February 2025

        Screening Sherlock

        A cultural history of the Great Detective on film and television

        by James Chapman

        Screening Sherlock is the first book-length academic study of the film and television career of the most famous detective in fiction. Chapman explores the contexts, adaptation strategies and critical reception of Sherlock Holmes (and Dr Watson) on film and television in Britain and the United States. The book includes case studies of such famous Holmes impersonators as William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Brett and Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as charting a path through many lesser-known productions. From early cinema to the Hollywood studio system, and from heritage drama to contemporary postmodern television, Screening Sherlock is an indispensible work for all aficionados of Arthur Conan Doyle's consulting detective of Baker Street.

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        February 2018

        Sherlock Holmes, der Meisterdetektiv (2). Das Rätsel um den schwarzen Hengst

        Der Bücherbär. Klassiker für Erstleser:

        by Pautsch, Oliver; Rupp, Dominik; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

        Ein rätselhafter Brief erreicht Sherlock Holmes. Sein Inhalt bringt den Meisterdetektiv um den Schlaf und schürt seine Angst vor Pferden: Ein schwarzer Hengst wurde von der Rennbahn gestohlen. Der Absender des Briefes ist kein Geringerer als Professor Moriarty, Sherlocks Feind aus Kindertagen. Er hat das Rennpferd gestohlen, um sich an Sherlock zu rächen … Spannend erzählt von Oliver Pautsch

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        Living with lodgers

        Household economy and social relations in working-class Victorian England

        by Vicky Holmes

        For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else's home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on hundreds of coroners' inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses many domestic dwelling lodgings in England at this time, providing an extraordinary, intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants therein.

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        The Arts
        August 2001

        Bertrand Blier

        by Sue Harris, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram

        The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself. Provides an original and controversial discussion of Blier's alleged 'misogyny', and invites the reader to understand the scatological and corporeal aspects of Blier's filmmaking in terms of long-established traditions of popular dramatic culture. Brings to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films and identifies strategies which navigate through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years. The first book on Blier published in English. ;

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        March 2025

        RuPaul

        Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre | Die Königin der Dragqueens

        by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Wednesday Holmes, Silke Kleemann

        RuPaul wuchs mit seinen drei Schwestern und seiner Mutter in San Diego auf. Er war anders als die Jungs in seiner Klasse, die ihn immer hänselten, denn RuPaul verkleidete sich gern – als Mädchen. »Tu das, was sich für dich richtig anfühlt, und lieb dich für das, was du bist«, sagte die Mutter zu ihm. Er schmiss die Schule und zog nach Atlanta, um darstellende Kunst zu studieren. Und weiter nach New York, wo er als Schauspieler, Singer-Songwriter, Model und Performer rasch zur glänzenden »Queen of New York« aufstieg. Sich nicht in eine Schublade stecken lassen, sich lieben für das, was man ist, dafür ist RuPaul das beste Beispiel. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2012

        The Left and the European Constitution

        From Laeken to Lisbon

        by Michael Holmes, Knut Roder

        This book examines how the Left is affected by European integration. It starts from the rejection of the European Constitution in France and the Netherlands in 2005, in which left-wing parties played key roles. The book explores the level of pro- and anti-EU sentiment among left-wing parties. It discusses the left's reaction to the EU's neo-liberal policies such as Laval, the Lisbon Agenda and the Bolkestein Directive. It examines the extent to which parties are Europeanised or remain nationally-oriented. The book looks at parties from all three left-wing families -social democrats, left-socialists and left-greens. It contains case-studies of eleven EU member states, and also examines the left in the European Parliament. It provides a unique cross-national, cross-party evaluation of contemporary events. ;

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Francois Truffaut

        by Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram

        First in a series designed to situate and explain the films of French directors. A concise, accessible and original reading of Truffaut's films. A timely evaluation of the films of a popular director whose work features on most A-level French syllabuses and on the majority of University French Studies programmes both in the UK and the USA .

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