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      • David and Charles Ltd

        David and Charles is an independent publisher of non-fiction books, predominantly in art, craft and creative categories. Our titles feature industry-leading authors and award-winning editorial and design, commissioned for commercial success in all markets. Category focus on practical how-to books in art, crochet, knitting, general crafts, patchwork & quilting, sewing and wellbeing. Cornerstone titles which are highly illustrated, project, technique and trend orientated.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Policing and decolonisation

        by David Anderson, David Killingray

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Policing the empire

        by David Anderson, David Killingray

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        The Arts
        June 2025

        Toronto New Wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse

        by David Christopher

        The Toronto New Wave (TNW) comprises a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics. Several of the TNW filmmakers openly identify as anarchists and/or acknowledge a debt to anarchism in their production of highly apocalyptic narratives as part of their cinematic political projects. However, recognition of anarchism's progressive apocalyptic theoretical relevance has yet to be substantially taken up by scholarship in cinema analysis. This analysis introduces an anarchist-inflected analytical methodology to understand the apocalyptic-revelatory political work these films attempt to accomplish in the perceptual space between the filmic texts and both their auteurs and potential viewers, and to re-locate the TNW within cinema history as an ongoing phenomenon with new significance in an apocalyptic era of digital distribution.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2009

        John Ashbery and American Poetry

        by David Herd

        starting point. David Herd sets out to provide readers with a new critical language through which they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery's writing. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp - the book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poets desire to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion. Tracing Ashbery's development in the light of this idea, and from its origins in the dazzling artistic environment of 1950's New York, the book evaluates his poetry against the aesthetic, literary and historical backgrounds that have informed it. The story of a brilliant career, and a history of the period in which that career has taken shape, John Ashbery and American Poetry provides a compelling account of Ashbery's importance to Twentieth Century Literature. ;

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        July 2022

        Next-generation Sequencing and Agriculture

        by Philipp Bayer, David Edwards

        This book summarises the impacts that the genome sequencing revolution has had in all areas across animal and plant agriculture, including cattle, orphan crops, cash crops, and more, with reference to applications in many species and locations. It explains new techniques and their use in understanding epigenetics, breeding and conservation.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 1999

        Volpone

        Ben Jonson

        by David Bevington, Brian Parker, David Bevington

        This edition contains in distilled form the insight and learning found in the fuller Revels critical editions, but with less of the learning apparatus that is appropriate to a critical edition. Compact and up to date introduction and commentary. The price and format are designed to be competitive with any paperback teaching edition of this play. ;

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        »Ich wandle Einsamkeit um in Worte«

        Gedichte

        by David Rokeah

        David Rokeah und sein Werk stehen für eine ganze Generation israelischer Dichter und Dichterinnen. Er wurde 1916 in eine Vielsprachenwelt im damaligen Lemberg, dem heutigen Lwiw hineingeboren. Er beherrschte Jiddisch, Hebräisch, Polnisch und Deutsch.1934 wanderte er ins damalige Palästina aus und entwickelte sich zu einem der bedeutendsten Dichter des jungen Staates. Seine Gedichte wurzeln in der jüdischen Tradition der Kabbala, des Chassidismus und nehmen zugleich die Erfahrung des 20. Jahrhunderts mit auf: die Verfolgung und Vernichtung des europäischen Judentums, den mühsamen Aufbau eines neuen Staates, die Vielsprachigkeit. Die größte Wirkung entfalteten David Rokeahs Gedichte in Deutschland. Wie ist das zu erklären? Michael Krüger, der Übersetzer, Autor, Verleger und nahe Freund des Dichters, zeigt, wie Rokeah seine Gedichte im Wesentlichen selbst ins Deutsche übersetzte – zusammen mit der lyrischen Avantgarde jener Zeit: Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Paul Celan, Erich Fried und anderen. Im Rückblick zeigt Michael Krüger eine einzigartige historische Konstellation auf: Zur modernen hebräischen Lyrik gehört wesentlich die Zweisprachigkeit – ein Brückenschlag vom Deutschen ins Hebräische. David Rokeah starb bei einer seiner zahlreichen Reisen nach Deutschland 1985 in Duisburg.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2007

        Enthusiast

        Essays on modern American literature

        by David Herd

        Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. Complaining that his age was 'retrospective', Emerson injected enthusiasm into American literature as a way of making it new. 'What,' he asked, 'is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but the daring of ruin for its object?' This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernized and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O'Hara, and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American Literature or Modern Poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work. ;

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        The Arts
        December 2013

        Simulating the marvellous

        Psychology - surrealism - postmodernism

        by David Lomas

        Simulating the marvellous presents important new research on Surrealism and the culture from which it arose. Offering fresh interpretations of Surrealist art and literature based around the theme of simulation, the book shows, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that the notion of simulation arose in a number of discrete contexts, in relation to hysteria and war neuroses; more broadly it shadows the emergence of our concept of 'the unconscious'. Acknowledging simulation's relevance to Surrealism, this book argues, radically alters our understanding of the Surrealists' project and the terms in which one gauges its success or failure. It leads one to question the naïve assumption that automatic writing or drawing represent an authentic outpouring of the unconscious and gives renewed significance to a figure such as Salvador Dalí who embraced simulation and made it the basis of his art and aesthetic. Resonances are also explored with postmodern theory and art practice, around the themes of simulation and the simulacrum.It also points to one of the ways in which Surrealism chimes with a core preoccupation of contemporary art and theory. Written accessibly, and ranging across many of the core ideas of Surrealism, David Lomas balances coverage of both Surrealist art and literature, looking at such figures as Dalì, Eluard, Masson, Desnos, Brouillet, Picasso, Tanning and Janet, as well as Glenn Brown, Douglas Gordon and Sarah Lucas. The book will interest not only art historians and theorists, but also students and those with a general interest in Surrealism. ;

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        January 2003

        Level X

        by Ambrose, David

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        January 2001

        Epsilon

        Roman

        by Ambrose, David

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