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      • Magic Author

        We are a one-stop platform to read, write, self-publish and sell ebooks in any of the Indian languages. Our mission is to empower the author's community with the digital tools and techniques, and we take care of the online presence of professionals in the publishing landscape, be they authors, publishers, editors, designers, publicists, etc.

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      • The Authors Show ®

        We present during this event a handful of authors who appeared on our show, and who have expressed an interest in selling the international rights to their work.

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        Children's & YA
        2018

        What on Earth am I?

        by Lara Salomon

        What on Earth am I? is Lara Salomon's and Megan Bird's first children's book together, investigating complex topics, like identity, diversity, and existentialism, for kids. It is a wonderful picture book for children with more questions than answers about the world. The book follows a young child’s over-active imagination, which often leaves them confused as to what kind of creature they are. They try their very best to discover the answer by recalling the many creatures that they've read about in their storybooks and fairytales. "I've been reading all these stories, and they've got me quite confused. Because they feature all these creatures, and I'm really not amused."

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        The Arts
        October 2015

        Film light

        Meaning and emotion

        by Lara Thompson

        In one of the first monographs of its kind to focus on the aesthetic and emotional impact of lighting in cinema, Lara Thompson looks at the way light informs the cinematic experience, from constructing star identities, sculpting natural light and creating imaginary worlds, to the seductive power of darkness, fading representations of the past and arresting twilight encounters. This groundbreaking and accessible introductory study offers a unique insight into the way illumination has transcended its diffuse functional boundaries and been elevated to a position of narrative and emotional importance, transforming it from an unobtrusive element of film style to an expressive and essential component. It includes analyses of over fifty renowned international films, discussed in inventive and illuminating combinations, from cinema's earliest moments to its most recent digital manifestations, and is essential reading for all those who want to understand what film light means and how it makes us feel. ;

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        The Arts
        September 2017

        Film light

        by Lara Thompson

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        November 1996

        Frauen mit Flügel

        Lebensberichte berühmter Pianistinnen. Von Clara Schumann bis Clara Haskil

        by Eva Rieger, Monica Steegmann, Eva Rieger, Monica Steegmann

        Tagebucheintragungen, Briefe, Autobiographien berichten von acht großen Musikerinnenkarrieren: Clara Schumann, Amy Fay, Mathilde Verne, Adelina de Lara, Clara Haskil, Lili Kraus, Rosalyn Tureck und Moura Lympany.

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        September 1980

        Emma

        Roman

        by Jane Austen, Hugh Thomson, Charlotte Gräfin Klinckowstroem

        Mit der Ehe hat Emma, die Titelheldin in Jane Austens viertem großen Roman, erklärtermaßen nichts im Sinn. Doch andere zu verkuppeln ist geradezu ihr Steckenpferd, das sie bravourös zu beherrschen glaubt. So greift sie in das Leben der 17jährigen Harriet Smith ein, will sie mit dem allseits begehrten Mr. Elton verheiraten und verkennt darüber deren wirkliche Gefühle – sowie ihre eigenen. Emma ist eine satirische »Komödie der Irrungen«, die ein realistisches Bild des englischen Landadels um 1800 zeichnet.

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        Film, TV & radio
        May 2012

        Screening songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema

        by Edited by Lisa Shaw and Robert Stone

        In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hierarchy of the visual over the aural, thereby rendering their hearing a complex and rich subject for analysis. Screening songs... constitutes a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary collection. Of particular interest to scholars and academics in the areas of Film Studies, Hispanic Studies, Lusophone Studies and Musicology, this volume opens up the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cinema to vital, new, critical approaches. The soundtracks of films as varied as City of God, All About My Mother, Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s. Fiction films are studied alongside documentaries, the work of established directors like Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura and Nelson Pereira dos Santos alongside that of emerging filmmakers, and performances by iconic stars like Caetano Veloso and Chavela Vargas alongside the songs of Spanish Gypsy groups, Mexican folk songs and contemporary Brazilian rap.

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        August 2002

        Zwei Brüder

        Roman

        by Milton Hatoum, Karin von Schweder-Schreiner

        Milton Hatoum wurde am 19. August 1952 als Kind libanesischer Einwanderer im brasilianischen Manaus geboren. 1968 verließ er seine Heimatstadt, lebte für kurze Zeit in Brasília und ging dann nach São Paulo, wo er Architektur studierte. 1979 kam er mit einem Stipendium nach Madrid und Barcelona, anschließend als Postgraduierter an die Sorbonne in Paris. 1984 kehrte er nach Manaus zurück und unterrichtete französische Literatur an der Universidade Federal do Amazonas sowie als Gastdozent brasilianische Literatur an der University of California in Berkeley. Seit 1999 wohnt er wieder in São Paulo. 1989 erschien sein erster Roman Relato de um certo Oriente (dt. Emilie oder der Tod in Manaus, Piper, München 1992, bzw. Brief aus Manaus, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2002), für den er 1990 den angesehenen brasilianischen Jabuti-Literaturpreis erhielt und internationale Anerkennung gewann. Dois irmãos (dt. Zwei Brüder, 2002) ist der in Brasilien lang erwartete zweite Roman von Milton Hatoum, der 2000 in São Paulo erschien und für den er im folgenden Jahr ebenfalls den Jabuti-Preis bekam. Die beiden Bücher von Hatoum spielen im Spannungsfeld zweier Welten: der tropischen des Amazonasgebietes und der orientalischen der libanesischen Einwanderung. Vor dem Hintergrund des teilweise gewaltsamen Eindringens moderner Lebensmuster geben sie einen aufschlußreichen Einblick in die brasilianische Wirklichkeit.

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        History of LSD in Brazil

        the first medicinal uses and the beginning of repression

        by Julio Delmanto

        In História social do LSD no Brasil, Júlio Delmanto analyzes the details of the first court case for trafficking lysergic acid diethylamide in the country, which took place thirteen months after the dictatorship was hardened by AI-5. The book covers the long road between the discovery of LSD in Switzerland in 1943 and the arrest of a young artist in the city of São Paulo in 1970, a case crossed by episodes of torture and journalistic sensationalism. In this journey, the author discusses the first uses of the substance in Brazil - in scientific research that, as early as the 1950s, sought to investigate the effects of the new drug on the human mind - and the political and social background that made acid an icon of counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, playing a catalyzing role in artistic movements that influenced generations.

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