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      • National University of Singapore Press

        The NUS Press Story NUS Press publishes academic books and journals, as well as general non-fiction. Our home market is Singapore and Southeast Asia, but our books are distributed internationally. We publish books of special relevance to Southeast Asia and we maintain a disciplinary focus on the humanities and social sciences. Books and memoirs meant mostly for a general audience and to be sold in bookshops are published under our Ridge Books imprint. We publish some 30 books a year.   NUS Press currently publishes two academic journals: China: An International Journal (for the East Asian Institute at NUS) and Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia.  We are accepting new journal proposals. Please contact us at npubox5@nus.edu.sg if you are interested to start a new journal. For more, see Journals.   The National University of Singapore Press is heir to a tradition of academic publishing in Singapore that dates back some 60 years, starting with the work of the Publishing Committee of the University of Malaya, beginning in 1954. Singapore University Press was created in 1971 as the publishing division of the University of Singapore. The University of Singapore merged with Nanyang University in 1980 to become the National University of Singapore, and in 2006 Singapore University Press was succeeded by NUS Press, bringing the name of the press in line with the name of the university.   Our publishing mission is to enable the dissemination and creation of knowledge through the publishing of scholarly and academic books; and to empower learning, innovation and enterprise for the Singapore- and Asia-focused global community. All NUS Press books must be approved by a Publishing Committee, drawn from the ranks of the academic staff at the National University of Singapore. NUS Press is currently managed by Peter Schoppert. Previous Director Paul Kratoska remains onboard as Publishing Director.

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      • Singapore Book Publishers Association (SBPA)

        The Association represents the interests of Singapore publishers who are engaged in a wide range of publishing, marketing and distribution activities in both print and digital formats. From 22 member companies at its inception, the Association has grown to accommodate more than 70 members who publish in all four official languages of Singapore. Since its inception, the SBPA's objective has been to develop and strengthen the book ecosystem of Singapore in partnership with other like-minded organisations.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2020

        Race talk

        Languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets

        by Antonia Lucia Dawes

        This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Race talk is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors work alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper. As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.

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        August 2019

        Die Kosmos-Vorlesung an der Berliner Sing-Akademie

        by Alexander Humboldt, Henriette Kohlrausch, Christian Kassung, Christian Thomas

        Alexander von Humboldts legendäre Kosmos-Vorträge in der Berliner Sing-Akademie waren Sternstunden in der Geschichte der Wissenschaftspopularisierung. Tausende Berlinerinnen und Berliner zogen im Winter 1827/28 in den damals größten Vortragssaal der Stadt, um sie zu hören. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert erstmals den zuverlässigen, vollständigen, anhand der Handschrift korrigierten Text der sechzehn Vorträge. Ein ausführliches Vorwort der Herausgeber erläutert allgemeinverständlich den Hintergrund und den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu den Vorträgen sowie deren Bedeutung aus heutiger Sicht. Ausgewählte Faksimiles aus der Handschrift selbst und aus Humboldts Nachlass vermitteln einen Eindruck der historischen Quellen.

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        Children's & YA

        Grandma Doesn't Talk

        China Story Picture Books

        by Lyu Lina

        China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories.   The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters.   Grandma Doesn't Talk tells the story of "little Heidi" in China. Mai Xiaoduo's grandmother is wordless but has many skills. She can cut window flowers for the neighbors, knit sweaters, make medicine for Heidi's ailing grandfather, and take Mai Xiaoduo to the mountain to collect medicine and watch the sunset. Although grandma doesn't talk too much, her scissors, needles and frying pans can talk. In the process of accompanying her grandmother, Mai Xiaoduo heard the sound of life, history, and flowers, trees and the wind in nature.

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        Peach Boy

        One Story a Week

        by Chen Jiafei

        Momotaro, the brave samurai born from a peach, journeys to Ogre Island to battle the evil oni in this classic Japanese folktale. With the help of a giant dog, a clever monkey, and a courageous pheasant, the young warrior fights to rescue his family and village from plunder. But will his strength and loyalty overcome the ogres' evil powers.

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        Horticulture
        September 2008

        Peach

        Botany, Production and Uses

        by Edited by Desmond R Layne, Daniele Bassi.

        The Peach provides a comprehensive up to date reference work, summarizing our knowledge of peaches and their production worldwide and includes an extensive colour plates section. Chapters written by international authorities address botany and taxonomy, breeding and genetics of cultivars and rootstocks, propagation, physiology and planting systems, crop and pest management and postharvest physiology. The book also includes a contribution on the history of cultivation and production trends in China with historical references dating back to 1100 B.C for the first time in the English language.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2017

        Sing, Sadness

        by Lan Lan

        This is a poem collection of modern Chinese poet Lan Lan, who chooses about 200 works from 1983-2014. Her poems are characterized with strong emotion, sharp thoughts, and lyrical expression.

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        Biography & True Stories
        May 2025

        Mrs Dalloway

        Biography of a novel

        by Mark Hussey

        A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.

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        March 2016

        Bettine und Achim von Arnim

        Die Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Ehe

        by Hildegard Baumgart

        Es war eine der großen Liebesgeschichten der deutschen Romantik: Bettine Brentano und Achim von Arnim. Ihre Ehe dauerte von 1811 bis 1831 und verband zwei eigenwillige, gegensätzliche Gefühlsmenschen in einer höchst modern anmutenden Melange aus Zärtlichkeit und Konflikten, idealistischen Höhenflügen und profanen Sachzwängen. Das ist der Ausgangspunkt der großen Erzählung dieser Ehe, die Hildegard Baumgart auf der Basis intensiver Quellenrecherche unternimmt. Nach einigen gemeinsamen Jahren lebte das Paar räumlich getrennt, Bettine mit den Kindern in Berlin, Arnim auf seinem Gut Wiepersdorf – eine Trennung aufgrund ökomischer Notwendigkeiten, aber auch aufgrund unterschiedlicher persönlicher Charaktere und Bedürfnisse. Und doch blieb ihre Gemeinschaft intensiv. Arnim wirkte weiterhin als Autor und leidenschaftlicher politischer Journalist, Bettine lebte auf im gesellschaftlich-intellektuellen Leben der Hauptstadt.In dieser Doppelbiographie gelingt Hildegard Baumgart eine wunderbare Mischung aus genauer Recherche und lebendiger Erzählfreude. Es ist, als würde man die Arnims persönlich kennen.

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        March 1977

        Pragmatische Semiotik und Handlungstheorie

        by Charles W. Morris, Achim Eschbach, Stefan Eschbach, Achim Eschbach, Achim Eschbach

        Dieser Band stellt einen in der deutschen Diskussion bisher weitgehend vernachlässigten Aspekt des Werkes von Charles W. Morris dar, nämlich seine Beziehung zur pragmatischen Bewegung in der amerikanischen Philosophie. In seiner Einleitung diskutiert Achim Eschbach nach einer wissenschaftshistorischen und systematischen Charakterisierung der ausgewählten Texte, inwiefern Morris' Begründung der Zeichentheorie den Forderungen moderner Pragmasemiotik genügt.

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        March 2016

        Bettine Brentano und Achim von Arnim

        Lehrjahre einer Liebe

        by Hildegard Baumgart

        Die heimliche Hochzeit Bettine Brentanos und Achim von Arnims im Jahr 1811, viele Jahre nachdem sie sich kennen- und liebengelernt haben, besiegelt das Bündnis zweier Menschen, die gegensätzlicher nicht sein konnten und die doch, jeder auf seine Weise, das Fühlen, Denken und Schreiben der Romantik verkörpern. Kenntnisreich wie niemand vor ihr beleuchtet Hildegard Baumgart die Vorgeschichte dieser Ehe und die Kristallisationspunkte der Biographien von Bettine und Arnim: Elternhaus, Erziehung, soziale Umwelt, kulturelle Einflüsse, Freunde. Die ganze Welt dieser auch politisch so ereignisreichen Jahre wird lebendig. Hildegard Baumgart zitiert ausführlich aus den zahllosen Briefen, die sich die Liebenden geschickt haben, und aus anderen, bisher weitgehend vernachlässigten Texten. Indem sie ihre Protagonisten so authentisch zu Wort kommen läßt und den vielfältigen Überschneidungen, Parallelen und Unterschieden beider Lebensstränge Raum gewährt, legt Hildegard Baumgart eine Doppelbiograhie vor, die den »romantischen« Reichtum dieses Paares noch einmal entfaltet. »Eine Studie der Menschenkenntnis.« Hanns-Josel Ortheil, Die Welt

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        August 2015

        Li Ethnic Group: Sing and Dancing on the Third Day of the Third Month

        by Bing Bo, Zheng Xiaojuan

        Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2022 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        October 2004

        Qualities of food

        by Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin, Alan Warde

        In this book, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgments about taste? How do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? What alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different answers to such questions. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the third part examines social and political responses to industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human nutrition or economics.

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