Maclein y Parker
Maclein y Parker is an independent publishing house born in 2014. We publish fiction, poetry, illustration (for children and for adults) and literary essays in a catalogue selected with loving care.
View Rights PortalMaclein y Parker is an independent publishing house born in 2014. We publish fiction, poetry, illustration (for children and for adults) and literary essays in a catalogue selected with loving care.
View Rights PortalHolland 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.
View Rights PortalDer vierjährige Charles ist mit dabei, als seine Mutter, Elizabeth II., 1952 gekrönt wird. Fünf Jahre später ernennt die Queen ihn zum Prince of Wales und damit offiziell zum Thronfolger. Der erste Royal mit Hochschulabschluss, der zu Schulzeiten gern Theater spielte, engagiert sich für die Benachteiligten der Gesellschaft und setzt sich sehr früh mit großem Engagement für Umweltschutz, Nachhaltigkeit und einen besseren Umgang des Menschen mit der Natur ein. Anfangs nahm man ihn nicht ernst, denn er war seiner Zeit weit voraus. Nun tritt er in die Fußstapfen seiner Mutter und wird König. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
From the illustrator of The Straw Giant & The Crow comes a new picture book, Liefie. Explore the wonders and worries of having a surprise new child with this heart-melting family of otters! 'Liefie' by Jessica Bosworth Smith is an incredibly heart-warming and humorous take on a family of otters, who have a surprise laat-lammetjie (Afrikaans term — "the late lamb" — which is a South African phrase for a surprise child born long after their siblings).
This is the most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date, based on a wider collation of the 1607 quarto and 1616 folio versions than was previously possible. It calls into question several accepted textual conclusions. The introduction sets Volpone in the context of Jonson's career at the time of writing and introduces new material on its relation to the Reynard beast epic and the commedia dell' arte. Ambiguities in the play are discussed with reference to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of the Golden Age. Particular attention is paid to the rhythmic effects of the play in performance, especially interweavings of the main plot and subplot. Fresh suggestions are made about the play's opening and its controversial conclusion in the light of experiments that have been made in performance since Volpone 's stage revival in 1921. The modernized text is accompanied by full commentary, notes and illustrations. The appendices include a discussion by John Cutts of the original music, passages translated from the original sources and analogues, and a full record of the play's modern stage history, its many adaptations, and its transformations into opera, musical comedy, film and television. ;
Manche Geschichten bedürfen nicht vieler Worte. Manchmal reichen ein, zwei Zeilen, um das Glück oder das Drama eines ganzen Lebens zu umreißen: »Die erste Liebe: eine Javanerin – seitdem liest er noch heute die javanischen Zuckerkurse.« (Kurt Tucholsky) Diese Anthologie versammelt die besten Sekundenstorys und Minutennovellen der Welt: verblüffende, atemberaubende, rasante, tieftraurige und knallkomische Geschichten. Mitunter nur sechs Worte lang, nie länger als eine Seite. Ob Lovestory, Gruselgeschichte oder Thriller, ob Momentaufnahme oder Lebensbilanz, eines haben all diese Geschichten gemeinsam: Sie sind kurz, intensiv, überraschend – und man bekommt sie nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Mit Geschichten von Friedrich Ani, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Bichsel, Bertolt Brecht, Julio Cortázar, Robert Gernhardt, A. L. Kennedy, Sarah Kirsch, Alexander Kluge, Joe R. Lansdale, Dorothy Parker, Monica Sabolo, Clemens J. Setz, Uwe Timm, Kurt Tucholsky, F. K. Waechter und vielen, vielen anderen.
Sweetpotato and potato are expanding faster than any other food crops in sub-Saharan Africa. There is growing investment in research to address bottlenecks in value chains concerning these two crops, and growing interest from the private sector in investing in them. This book addresses five major themes on sweetpotato and potato: policies for germplasm exchange, food security and trade in Africa; seed systems; breeding and disease management; post-harvest management, processing technologies and marketing systems; nutritional value and changing behaviours. Read three chapters for free.