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      • Walker Books Ltd.

        The Walker Books Group is one of the world’s leading creatively-led, independent publishers of books and content for children. This vibrant international group includes Walker Books UK, London; Candlewick Press, Somerville, Massachusetts; and Walker Books Australia, based in Sydney and Auckland. Renowned for its truly original publishing and outstanding quality, the Walker Books Group is home to books for readers of all ages.Award-winning authors and illustrators for the group include National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature emerita, Kate DiCamillo, M. T. Anderson, Patrick Ness, and Jon Klassen, and major brands for the group are Maisy, Guess How Much I Love You, Tilly and Friends, the widely acclaimed Judy Moody and the bestselling Where’s Wally/Waldo?

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        1987

        Liebe in Ruinen

        Die Abenteuer eines schlechten Katholiken kurz vor dem Ende der Welt. Roman

        by Walker Percy, Hanna Muschg

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        September 2019

        Conga Line on the Amazon

        by David Myles Robinson

        David Myles Robinson was eight years old when he first got hooked on travel. Since then, he’s seen most of the world—all its continents plus, he laments, “far too many places where travel is now off-limits.”After a lifetime of visiting near and far, in heat and in cold, in comfort and in danger, Robinson has put it all together now in this unique collection of the varied travel adventures he’s found—and the lessons he’s learned from them. A Fellini-esque view of the Amazon, a Mercedes caravan to Istanbul, Jane Goodall's amazing chimps—just part of a travel trunk full of experiences guaranteed to keep you seesawing from “Boy, I'd love to do that" to “Sure glad it was him, not me.”In Conga Line on the Amazon, Robinson brings to his first travel book the same gift for intriguing narrative and sharp characterization that has won praise for his six highly successful novels. Some of his tales may be for the strong of heart, but they’re all for the reader with a yen to be entertained by one intrepid man’s adventures and misadventures exploring the strange and wonderful world we live in.

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        The Arts
        November 2007

        So exotic, so homemade

        Surrealism, Englishness and documentary photography

        by Ian Walker, John Taylor

        In his previous book City Gorged with Dreams (2002), Ian Walker challenged established ideas about Surrealist photography by emphasising the key role played by documentary photographs in Parisian Surrealism. Now Walker turns his attention to the arrival of Surrealism in England in 1936. Examining for the first time the surprising relationship between Surrealism and English documentary photography and film, the book shows that some of the most interesting work of the period was made in the ambiguous spaces between them. One of the key themes in this book is the relationship between the 'homely' and the 'exotic', in the innovative mix of poetry and ethnography in Mass-Observation for example, or the shadowed England constructed in the work of Bill Brandt. Based on extensive archival research, interviews and visits to sites where the photographs were made, this book is rich in detailed analysis yet written in an accessible and often witty style. ;

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        Business, Economics & Law
        April 2017

        Rural Tourism and Enterprise

        Management, Marketing and Sustainability

        by Ade Oriade, Peter Robinson

        Marketing and management processes across industries can be very similar, but contexts vary where political intervention, public interest and local sustainability are involved. The rural business setting is especially intricate due to the assortment of different business opportunities, ranging from traditional agriculture, to tourism enterprise and even high-tech business. This important new textbook on the subject: - Examines key issues affecting rural enterprise and tourism - Explores the breadth of rural enterprise management and marketing across both developed and developing economies - Discusses strategies for business growth within a rural setting, such as knowledge development, proper planning and innovation - Uses a mix of case studies and theoretical content specifically selected to appeal to both student and practitioner readers Including pedagogical features and full colour throughout, this new textbook provides an engaging and thought-provoking resource for students and practitioners of tourism, rural business and related industries. ; Marketing and management processes are especially intricate for the rural business setting due to the assortment of different business opportunities. This important new textbook examines key issues, discusses strategies for growth and uses a mix of case studies and theoretical content across developed and developing countries. ; Introduction: (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson) Part 1: Management and marketing rural tourism and enterprise in developed economies 1: Rural enterprise business development: the developed world context (Peter Robinson & Alison Murray) 2: Selling to consumers (Sammy Li, Roya Rahimi & Nikolaos Stylos) 3: Sustainability, CSR and Ethics: Developed economies perspective (Caroline Wiscombe) 4: Community engagement and rural tourism enterprise (Peter Wiltshier) 5: Social enterprise and the rural landscape (Caroline Wiscombe, Liz Heyworth, Sandy Ryder, Lucy Maynard & Charles Dobson) Part 2: Management and marketing rural tourism and enterprise: developing world context 6: The rural business environment in developing economies (Solomon Olorunfemi Olubiyo & Ade Oriade) 7: Marketing and Communications and Rural Business in developing countries (Abiodun Elijah Obayelu & Nikolaos Stylos) 8: Consumers and Rural Tourism in developing Economies (Vivienne Saverimuttu and Maria Estela Varua) 9: Sustainability and Ethics in rural business and tourism in the Developing World (Weng Marc Lim and Sine Heitman) 10: Community engagement, rural institutions and rural tourism business in developing countries (Anahita Malek, Fabio Carbone & Asia Alder) Part 3: Strategies for rural business management and growth 11: Challenges and Strategies for rural business operations in developed and developing Economies (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson) 12: Developing and Growing Knowledge within rural tourism enterprises (Tony Greenwood and Jo Tate) 13: Collaborate to Innovate: Challenges and Strategies for rural business to innovate (Ainurul Rosli, Jane Chang and Maria L. Granados) 14: Strategies for rural business growth (Crispin Dale, Neil Robinson and Mike Evans) 15: Opportunities for growth: The rural tourism policy and planning perspective (Caroline Wiscombe and Steve Gelder) Conclusion: (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson)

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        June 2003

        Musk

        by Kemp, Percy

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        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2023

        Decolonisation in the age of globalisation

        by Chi-kwan Mark

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        December 1984

        Die kleinen Störungen der Menschheit

        Geschichten vom Lieben. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Hanna Muschg

        by Grace Paley, Hanna Muschg-Johansen

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        September 1981

        Literatur als Therapie?

        Ein Exkurs über das Heilsame und das Unheilbare. Frankfurter Vorlesungen

        by Adolf Muschg

        »Die meisten Erklärungen, die dieser Text nötig haben mag, stehen in seinen ersten Kapiteln. Er entspricht nur zum geringeren Teil der Gastvorlesung für Poetik, die ich im Januar/Februar 1980 an der Frankfurter Universität gehalten habe. Was hier steht, ist in der Hauptsache meine Rechenschaft von den Folgen jener Gastvorlesungen für andere und für mich, also ein Bericht über die Fortsetzung des Prozesses, den ich dem Thema »Literatur als Therapie?«« gemacht habe, und das Thema mir. Daß es unerschöpflich ist, muß ich nicht rechtfertigen. Schon eher, daß das Sieb, mit dem ich geschöpft habe, wie ein systematisches Werkzeug aussieht. Der erste Teil bis Ziffer 25 setzt sich mit Therapie-Erwartungen auseinander, die heute bei Schreibern und Lesern in der Luft liegen. Ziffern 26 bis 41 berichten aus der Vorgeschichte meiner eigenen Schreib- und Therapiebedürftigkeit. Der dritte Teil probiert einen historisch-anthropologischen Zugang zum Thema aus und ist, weil man sich dabei nur übernehmen kann, der feierlichste geworden, aber auch, um Konsequenz bemüht, der am wenigsten konsequente. Daß das Thema Gründe hat, einer zusammenhängenden Behandlung zu spotten, halte ich immer deutlicher gespürt und wünschte, ich hätte noch mehr Mut zu Aus- und Abschweifungen gehabt. Ich stelle mir Leser vor, die die Überschriften als Wegweiser im Dickicht verstehen und ihre Komik ebenso freundschaftlich deuten wie mein Ordnungsbedürfnis.« (Aus der Vorbemerkung des Verfassers)

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        April 2020

        Aussteigen, einsteigen, los!

        Eine Familie tauscht Hamsterrad gegen große Freiheit

        by Johannsen, Diana; Johannsen, Percy

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        August 1998

        O mein Heimatland!

        150 Versuche mit dem berühmten Schweizer Echo

        by Adolf Muschg

        In seinem Buch zeigt Muschg, daß die Schweiz in den letzten Jahrzehnten entscheidende Weichenstellungen wie die, sich zu Europa zu bekennen, verpaßt und obendrein ihre eigene europäische Geschichte um das Revolutionsjahr 1848 uminterpretiert hat. Aber Muschg wäre nicht Muschg, wenn er diesen Sachverhalt nicht mit literarischen, also erzählerischen Mitteln ins Bild brächte: anhand von drei Figuren, von denen der Gründer Alfred Escher die mächtigste, der Dichter Gottfried Keller die bekannteste, beider Gegenspieler aber, der Advokat Friedrich Locher, die eigentliche Entdeckung des Buches ist. Im Spannungsfeld dieser drei entsteht (oder verfällt) »republikanische Kultur«. Sie ist der hartnäckig festgehaltene Orientierungspunkt des Schweizers Muschg. O mein Heimatland! ist ein streitbares Buch, das die Geschichte des Bundesstaates seit seiner Gründung 1848 auf ganz besondere Weise erzählt.

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