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      • Robert Lecker Agency

        Robert Lecker Agency is a dynamic literary management and consulting firm devoted to securing and advancing the careers of its client authors. The Agency draws on 30 years of publishing experience to obtain profitable and fair contracts with North America’s fastest growing publishers. Robert Lecker has worked extensively in trade publishing and has an established track record as an editor, coordinator, and subsidiary rights manager. RLA specializes in books about entertainment, music, popular culture, popular science, intellectual and cultural history, food, and travel. However, we are open to any idea that is original and well presented. We are also receptive to books written by academics that can attract a broad range of readers.

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        July 1988

        Jüdisches Leben in der DDR

        by Robin Ostow, Wolfgang Lotz

        In diesem Buch wird die erste repräsentative Umfrage über jüdisches Leben seit der Gründung der DDR vorgelegt. Die kanadische Soziologin Robin Ostow hat jüdische Männer und Frauen unterschiedlichen Alters befragt, die auf politischem, sozialem, kulturellem und religiösem Gebiet tätig sind. Die interviewten namhaften Vertreter des öffentlichen Lebens - darunter der Vorsitzende der Jüdischen Gemeinde von Ost-Berlin, Historiker, Psychotherapeuten, Philosophen, Soziologen, Sozial- und Jugendarbeiter - äußern sich hier freimütig über ihren Lebensweg, ihre Arbeit, über Geschichte und Struktur der Jüdischen Gemeinde, über ihre Erfahrungen, als Juden in der DDR zu leben.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2017

        Asia in Western fiction

        by Robin Winks

        Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2018

        Unearthing childhood

        by Robin Derricourt

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2021

        Creating God

        by Robin Derricourt

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2024

        Ideas of poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

        by Niall O’Flaherty, Robin Mills

        This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe. It brings together experts with a wide range of expertise to offer pathbreaking discussions of how eighteenth-century thinkers thought about the poor. Because the theme of poverty played important roles in many critical issues in European history, it was central to some of the key debates in Enlightenment political thought throughout the period, including the controversies about sovereignty and representation, public and private charity, as well as questions relating to crime and punishment. The book examines some of the most important contributions to these debates, while also ranging beyond the canonical Enlightenment thinkers, to investigate how poverty was conceptualised in the wider intellectual culture, as politicians, administrators and pamphlet writers grappled with the issue.

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        October 2005

        Die Idee der Natur

        by Robin G. Collingwood, Martin Suhr, Axel Honneth

        Robin G. Collingwood zählt zu jenen großen britischen Universalgelehrten, die auf ebenso scharfsinnige wie elegante Weise die unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen in ihren Schriften verbinden. Mit Die Idee der Natur liegt nun eines seiner Hauptwerke erstmals auf deutsch vor.Anhand der drei großen Epochen kosmologischen Denkens in Europa – der Kosmologie der Griechen, der Renaissance und der Moderne – zeichnet Collingwood die Geschichte des Naturbegriffs als eine Geschichte wachsenden Mißverstehens nach, die die zunehmende Trennung zwischen Naturwissenschaften und Philosophie dokumentiert. Diese »Kluft des Mißverstehens« muß jedoch überbrückt werden, denn sie schlägt sich in einer moralischen Korrumpierbarkeit der aus den Naturwissenschaften abgeleiteten Weltanschauungen nieder. Die Idee der Natur ist nicht nur ein Glanzstück philosophischer Literatur, sondern auch ein wichtiger Beitrag zu den aktuellen Debatten zwischen der Philosophie und den Naturwissenschaften.

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        January 2017

        Berührt

        by Lyall, Robin

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        February 2017

        Tigerherz

        Die Insel der Schatten

        by Dix, Robin

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        June 2005

        »Failed States«.

        Die normative Erfassung gescheiterter Staaten.

        by Geiß, Robin

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        June 2014

        Autonome unbemannte bewaffnete Luftsysteme im Lichte des Rechts des internationalen bewaffneten Konflikts.

        Anforderungen an das Konstruktionsdesign und Einsatzbeschränkungen.

        by Borrmann, Robin

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        October 1999

        Lernen mit Lösungsbeispielen

        Einfluss unvollständiger Lösungsbeispiele auf Beispielelaboration, Lernerfolg und Motivation

        by Stark, Robin

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        September 2007

        Familie für Einsteiger

        Ein Überlebenshandbuch

        by Alexander, Robin

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