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      • Regio Ltd.

        Regio has nearly 30 years of experience in the publication of maps and atlases of all kinds, which have been internationally recognised and awarded on numerous occasions. Regio has two main fields of activity: mapping and geospatial data. We design accurate, up-to-date maps at all scales and for all purposes. In addition to printed maps we provide maps for internet applications, GPS and mobile devices. We are flexible and will assist you in the planning, consultation anddevelopment of all cartographic products. In geospatial data area Regio owns and maintains the most detailed geospatial database of Estonia and the Baltic States, including buildings, address data, points of interest, land cover, road network and navigation datasets.

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      • University of Regina Press

        University of Regina Press is located on Treaty 4 Territory, the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, and Assiniboine, and the homelands of the Métis. A little house on the prairie with big ambitions, University of Regina Press (URP) publishes books that matter--in both academic and trade formats. Our non-fiction trade books tend towards the hard-hitting, while most of our scholarly titles are accessible to non-specialists. We endeavour to develop writers into public intellectuals, encourage debate, and inspire young people to study the humanities by publishing books that are both seen and relevant.  Since our launch in 2013, University of Regina Press has published seven national bestsellers:  After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture by Stéphane Grenier, with Adam Montgomery (2018) Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Culinary Journey by Lenore Newman (2017) Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (And Yours) by Harold Johnson (2016) Otto & Daria: A Wartime Journey into No Man's Land by Eric Koch (2016) The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste Merasty, with David Carpenter (2015) Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus (2015) Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk (2014)

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      • Children's & YA
        April 2014

        Sweet Tooth's Atlas

        by Maris Pruuli, Regina Lukk-Toompere

        Nearly all of us love sweets. There is a popular joke about chocolate – nine people out of ten love it and the tenth person is a liar. The map makers at Regio know this and have published a good-looking and amusing Sweet Tooth's Atlas precisely because of it. We have charted a large number of sweets and confections of different countries. Efforts have been put into identifying the definitive confections or sweets in each country that could best represent the area in a sweet manner.  A lover of sweets will learn where chewing gum was first chewed, when people learned to turn melted chocolate into glossy smooth chocolate bars, how surrealism and the sweet wrapper of Chupa Chups are connected, which sweet has been taken to court, which country has banned Kinder Eggs, where sweets of moss are eaten, and much more. Besides countries with a well-known culture of confectionery, Easter Island, Bangladesh and several African countries are represented. Maps help sweet tooths keep track of which corner of the world one sweet or another emerged from and where people feast on them. The Estonian Children's Literature Centre gave its annual award for the Book of the Year 2014 to Regio's Sweet Tooth's Atlas. The prize is awarded to the book, which has an outstanding work of a writer and an artist. As for the Sweet Tooth's Atlas – in addition to the fascinating text and amusing pictures, the jury has highlighted the new and fresh idea of the book, beautiful desing and also the fact that the book is an enjoyable reading for the whole family, regardless of the age of the reader.

      • The Arts

        Milano e La Scala

        (1778 - 1920) Nascita dell'industria lirica

        by Antonio Schilirò

        Nineteenth-century musical Italy is, according to Bruno Barilli's famous definition, 'the country of melodrama', and the theatre is its space par excellence, and La Scala favoured the establishment of Milan as the capital of the opera industry. This requires an articulate and complex organisation that, in addition to the artists, includes agents, impresarios and technical personnel in the sector and enables the 'turnkey' transfer of Italian opera performances to the other side of the planet. And in Milan, the Teatro alla Scala was built with the intention of being the centre of this production system. The theatre, inaugurated in 1778, was built thanks to the obstinate, tenacious and passionate determination of the most illustrious families of the Lombard aristocracy, after a fire had destroyed the Regio Ducal Teatro on the night of 25 February 1776. It was the nobles who entirely financed the construction of the new Teatro Grande at La Scala, receiving in exchange a box with an adjoining dressing room.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2018

        Byzantine Venice

        From the foundation myth to 1082

        by Nicola Bergamo

        Nicola Bergamo's in-depth study proposes an historical excursus on the evolution of relations between the nascent city of Venice and the powerful Byzantine empire, from the first Venetian settlements in the lagoon eaves of the Augustan X Regio Venetia et Histria, through the devastating gothic wars and the Longobard invasion, until the fiscal liberation of 1082 with the chrysobolla granted by the basileus Alessio I Comneno, which greatly increased the commercial fortune of the Venetians within the Mediterranean, consolidating what would become a shining thousand-year-old republic. A change also in the political power that from the exarch, the tribune and the magister militum would pass to the elite families who elected the first duces, and would move its centre of gravity from the primitive capital Civitanova on the mainland to the lagoon nucleus of Rivoalto around which the city would develop, seeking a solution to the continuous struggles between the patriarchates of Grado and Aquileia and the assaults of the Narentan pirates who crossed the ships on their way to Constantinople.The essay is accompanied by an introductory text by PierAlvise Zorzi.

      • Geography & the Environment

        IGMI Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano

        Topographic and relief maps, antique maps, aerial photos

        by Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano

        L'Istituto Geografico Militare (I.G.M.) ha il compito di fornire supporto geotopocartografico alle Unità e ai Comandi dell'Esercito Italiano.   L'istituto svolge le funzioni di Ente Cartografico dello Stato ai sensi della Legge n. 68 in data 2 febbraio 1960. L'Istituto opera, quindi, per assicurare ai numerosi utenti, sia pubblici che privati, prodotti cartografici che offrano la totale garanzia sia in termini di contenuti sia di ufficialità per la descrizione del territorio. Trae le sue origini dall'Ufficio del Corpo di Stato Maggiore del Regio Esercito che nel 1861 aveva riunito in sè le tradizioni e le esperienze dell'omologo Ufficio del Regno Sardo, del Reale Officio Topografico Napoletano e dell'Ufficio Topografico Toscano. Trasferito da Torino a Firenze nel 1865, nella sede attualmente occupata, fu trasformato in Istituto Topografico Militare nel 1872 per assumere, 10 anni più tardi, l'attuale denominazione.   Le attività principali dell'Istituto sono: - produzione, aggiornamento e cessione di cartografia a media e piccola scala - copertura aerofotogrammetrica del territorio nazionale - costituzione e gestione della banca dati geografica - manutenzione dei confini di stato - conservazione della cartografia storica nazionale   Il personale dell'Istituto è impegnato nella operazioni a supporto della Pace.I principali prodotti IGM proposti da Cartageo:• Serie 25/25DB piegata / stesa / stesa plastificata• Serie 50 piegata / stesa / stesa plastificata• Serie 50L piegata / stesa / stesa plastificata     Cartageo è rivenditore autorizzato della cartografia dell'Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano.    Cartageo is the Italian reseller for IGMI Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano.

      • History
        June 2014

        Seks, drugs en rock en roll in de gouden eeuw

        by Benjamin Roberts

        In Seks, Drugs en Rock 'n' Roll in de Gouden Eeuw (‘Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Golden Age’), historian Benjamin B. Roberts paints a fascinating portrait of the lives of young men int he first half of the seventeenth century. He describes the riotous behaviour of prominent figures such as Rembrandt – born in 1606 – and brings the values of his rebellious peers to life. Roberts convincingly demonstrates that young men rebelled then as they do now, and moved against previous generations. They grew out their hair, wore outrageous clothes, smoked, drank too much, got into fights with the city guards, cheated, and sang bawdy songs. This accessibly written book paints a vivid portrait of youth culture in the Golden Age; a time when the advent of printing allowed for a rapid spread of a culture of permissiveness. The spread of liberal ideas, together with the rising incomes, created a new generation of ‘bad boys’. Using hilarious examples, Roberts shows that deviant behaviour is timeless.

      • Family history, tracing ancestors

        EVA

        by Jan Prins

        This book outlines the lives of the Jewish woman Eva in time for World War II, fleeing for the Nazi `s, from Germany to the Red Light District in Amsterdam, and it ends up on the fringes of society, in the Life ended. A dramatic encounter with a namesake a result both shall live. Continue with a terrible secret their whole life continues in the spirit of this secret and the cause of suffering the consequences. From different points of this drama comes to life in this novel, and has a surprisingly end ---------------- In dit boek wordt het leven geschetst van de Joodse vrouw Eva die in de tijd voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog, op de vlucht voor de Nazi`s, vanuit Duitsland op de Wallen in Amsterdam terecht komt en daar aan de zelfkant van de maatschappij, in Het Leven, beland. Een dramatische ontmoeting met een naamgenoot heeft tot gevolg dat beiden met een verschrikkelijk geheim verder moeten leven. Hun hele verdere leven blijft in het teken staan van dit geheim en ook de oorzaak daarvan ervaart de gevolgen. Vanuit verschillende invalshoeken komt dit drama in deze roman tot leven en kent een verrassend slot.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2019

        Resistance and practices of rebellion at the age of Reformations (16th-18th centuries)

        by Rocío G. Sumillera, Manuela Águeda García-Garrido, José Luis Martínez-Dueñas

        The chapters in this volume examine various understandings of theories of political resistance and obedience on the part of myriad authors, Catholic as well as Protestant, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They consider how the Reformation spurred reflections on the concept of resistance, pondering over the circumstances that would call for resistance and that would sanction it, and the agents who could legitimately initiate and manage the deposition of political, religious and royal authorities. From sixteenth-century Spanish readings of the Reformation, to different episodes of active resistance through France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, to the experience of religious exiles in the English colonies in North America, this volume provides an illustrative sample of case studies on, on the one hand, processes of construction of the rhetoric of resistance, and, on the other, instances of actual uprisings.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2015

        Het jaar dat de muur viel

        De val van het communisme in het Oostblok

        by Jule Hinrichs

        November 2014 saw the quarter-century anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most poignant events in the past century. The inhabitants of Berlin broke the graffiti-covered concrete down with hammers or pickaxes and climbed over the wall. The historic milestone was followed on televisions around the world. After forty years of separation between communism and capitalism, the Iron Curtain opened on November 9th 1989. Which economic and political developments preceded this event? The arrival of Gorbachev in 1985 ushered in the Glasnost period. With this, hope for more liberty of action in Eastern Europe grew in satellite states such as Poland and Hungary. In 1989, the Communists in Hungary decided to hold free elections. In the summer of that year, the same happened in Poland. That same summer, the Hungarians began to remove the barbed wire at the Hungarian-Austrian border. Through this gap, East Germans fled en masse from Hungarian campsites to the West. It was the prelude to the dramatic decision of the GDP to open the border on November 9th 1989.

      • Historical fiction
        September 2019

        Nigrinus. The condemnation of memory

        by Xavier N. Cervera

        The greatest Roman of his time, Marco Cornelio Nigrino Curiacio Materno, suffers the damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of memory) for posing a threat to Trajan aspirations, the other candidate to Caesar’s chair. Nigrino carved the most brilliant military career of his time, became the most awarded general, was named consul and ruled the Aquitaine, Moesia, and Syria provinces. However, the emperor Nerva is forced to choose Trajan as his successor. The chance of a civil war disappears with a quick movement that leads to the cessation of Nigrino, his forced exile and the prohibition of mentioning his name. Nigrino and his family, from Edeta, fought to keep their memory alive no matter how regardless of the difficulties imposed by those who saw their disgrace as a chance to inherit their influences and great fortune. Historical novel thoroughly set in the 1st century, retrieving the character of one of the most important personalities of our history, forgotten during nearly twenty centuries. The Edetan Marco Cornelio Nigrino, condemned to memory due to his rivalry with Trajan to gain Caesar’s chair.

      • September 2019

        WUESTEN - Lebensraum der Extreme

        by Markus Eisl, Gerald Mansberger

        The satellite image book WÜSTEN – Lebensraum der Extreme from the series Human Footprint covers a theme that does not seem to be related to the Human Footprint. Nevertheless, during millennia of history humans have developed a wealth of different relations to deserts, despite natural limitations from the lack of water and from extreme temperatures. Deserts are places without liquid water and by that extremely hostile to life. Yet this hostile character has contributed to the fascination exerted by these harsh landscapes over people. The presentation of deserts in this book starts with examples of natural landscapes from the Sahara to the polar desert of Antarctica. Structures such as wadis, yardangs, and sand dunes reflect the forces of water and wind, by which they were formed. The next section highlights margins of deserts and oases, which up to now are of vital importance also for man.

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