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      • Claire Roberts Global Literary Management LLC

        We provide every client with detailed editing and marketing advice, and we match our clients with the best publishers in the US and Canada as well as around the world. Authors have many opportunities for publication beyond North America and due to our experience at the forefront of international literary markets, we are uniquely positioned to manage a writer's career globally, from print to television and film rights, to translated editions, audio and e-book editions. With nearly three decades of experience in publishing, Claire Roberts knows the industry from both the publisher side and the agency side of the business, and has negotiated many major contracts for authors.  She has held executive positions at Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and worked most recently at a major literary agency, Trident Media Group.  At Trident she was Vice-President and Managing Director of the Foreign Rights department and developed her own client list.  Claire Roberts has handled the international literary careers of many authors, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the Booker Prize.  Among the many authors she has worked with are Marilynne Robinson, Esi Edugyan, Justin Cronin, Michael Ondaatje, Marlon James, Jokha Alharthi, Elizabeth George, former Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Ayana Mathis, Jon Krakauer, Paul Harding, and W. Bruce Cameron.

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        February 2002

        Hilary Putnam und die Tradition des Pragmatismus

        by Marie-Luise Raters, Marcus Willaschek, Richard J. Bernstein, Jennifer Case, Axel Mueller, Christopher Hookway, Karl-Otto Apel, Kathrin Glüer, David Macarthur, James Conant, Ruth Anna Putnam, Ralph Schumacher, Hans Joas, Jürgen Habermas, Hilary Putnam, Klaus Oehler, Michael Quante, Günter Abel, Robert B. Brandom, Steven Gross

        Hilary Putnam ist einer der originellsten Philosophen Amerikas. Seit Beginn der 80er Jahre hat sich sein Denken zunehmend pragmatistischen Positionen angenähert und damit maßgeblich zur gegenwärtigen Renaissance des Pragmatismus beigetragen. In diesem Sammelband setzen sich führende Philosophen aus den USA, England und Deutschland mit Putnams Werk und dessen Verhältnis zum Pragmatismus auseinander (u. a. G. Abel, K.-O. Apel, R. Bernstein, R. Brandom, J. Conant, J. Habermas, C. Hookway, H. Joas, K. Oehler, R. A. Putnam). Putnam hat eigens für diesen Band eine Replik auf die Kritik von Jürgen Habermas verfaßt.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan

        The cult of the Two Grand Elders

        by Fabian Graham

        In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.

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        December 1998

        Repräsentation und Realität

        by Hilary Putnam, Joachim Schulte

        »Hilary Putnam, einer der größten Philosophen dieses Jahrhunderts, ist der Erfinder des Funktionalismus, einer der einflußreichsten Ideen in der Philosophie des Geistes. In Repräsentation und Realität zeigt er nun unter anderem, warum der Funktionalismus nicht richtig sein kann.« (Stephen Schiffer).

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        January 2003

        »Ich sehne mich sehr nach Deinen blauen Briefen«

        Briefwechsel

        by Rainer Maria Rilke, Claire Goll, Barbara Glauert-Hesse, Barbara Wiedemann, Barbara Glauert-Hesse

        Schön, wenn einmal so ein Herz über einem aufgeht, gar nicht erst in seinem ersten Viertel, gleich wie der ganze Mond in seiner vollkommensten Nacht ...«, schrieb Rilke später über seine erste Begegnung mit Claire Goll.Claires und Rilkes Korrespondenz beginnt 1918 und zeigt trotz ihrer Verhaltenheit, daß den 43jährigen und die 28jährige bald eine innige Freundschaft und mehr verbindet. Sie tauschen sich über ihre Werke aus, spenden einander Trost und schreiben sich mit leidenschaftlicher Sehnsucht. Der vorliegende Band enthält außerdem sieben französischsprachige Gedichte, die Rilke als kleines handgebundenes Buch an Claire gesandt hatte, sowie das lange unveröffentlicht gebliebene und verschollen geglaubte Manuskript Gefühle. Verse von Claire Studer, das sich im Archiv des Insel Verlages, Leipzig, wiederfand.

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        May 2022

        Der Schlaf in den Uhren

        Roman

        by Uwe Tellkamp

        August 2015: Fabian Hoffmann, der einstige Dissident, steht als Chronist in Diensten der »Tausendundeinenachtabteilung« von Treva. Hier, in den Labyrinthen eines unterirdischen Reichs, arbeitet die »Sicherheit« an Aktivitäten, zu denen einst auch die Wiedervereinigung zweier geteilter Staaten gehörte. In diese Welt ist Fabian einem ihrer Kapitäne, Deckname »Nemo«, gefolgt, um herauszufinden, wer seine Schwester und seine Eltern verraten hat. Zugleich ist Fabian mit einer Chronik befasst, die zum 25. Jahrestag der Wiedervereinigung erscheinen soll. Doch es kommt anders. Fabian gerät auf eine Reise, die ihn tief in die trevische Gesellschaft und ihre Utopien hineinführt. Er analysiert Ordnungsvorstellungen und Prinzipien der Machtausübung, die Verflechtungen von Politik, Staatsapparat und Medien, beobachtet die Veränderungen im alltäglichen Leben. Immer mehr löst sich dabei seine Chronik von ihrem ursprünglich amtlichen Auftrag, streift zurück bis in das Dresden seiner Kindheit, in die stillstehende Zeit vor zwei Epochenjahren. Auf seiner Suche nach Ordnung und Sinn kämpft Fabian gegen die Windmühlen der Macht, die Fälschungen der Wirklichkeit, den Verlust aller Sicherheiten – und gibt doch den Traum von einer befreiten Zukunft nicht verloren.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2024

        False profits of ethical capital

        Finance, labour and the politics of risk

        by Claire Parfitt

        False profits of ethical capital is a thought-provoking approach to understanding stakeholder capitalism. Rather than focusing on the inadequacies of corporate responsibility, sustainable investment and consumer politics, this book grapples with the technical and rhetorical functions of ethical capital for profit and accumulation. It provides a unique and eclectic analysis of the political dynamics between finance, capital and labour, offering a refreshing perspective on struggles interlocking social, ecological and economic crises, and suggesting new ways of thinking about sustainability politics.

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        Children's & YA
        2015

        The War that Changed Rondo

        by Art studio Agrafka (Authors), Art studio Agrafka (Illustrators)

        Danko, Zirka and Fabian live peacefully in the small town of Rondo. They have their work and hobbies that always keep them busy... until War comes. The three friends have never experienced War before, and they don’t know how to act. In hopes of stopping War, they talk to it and fight it, but all in vain. Eventually, they discover an effective defense against the darkness of War — the power of Light. With the help of all the residents of Rondo, Danko, Zirka and Fabian build a huge light machine that disperses the darkness and stops War. The War that Changed Rondo reflects the ambiguities of war and it is a touching tribute to peace.   From 4 to 7 years, 1585 words. Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2023

        Negotiating relief and freedom

        Responses to disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907

        by Oscar Webber

        Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. It shows that British approaches to disaster 'relief' prioritised colonial control and 'fiscal prudence' ahead of the relief of the relief of suffering. In turn, that this pattern played out continuously in the long nineteenth century is a reminder that in the Caribbean the transition from slavery to waged labour was not a clean one. Times of crisis brought racial and social tensions to the fore and freedoms once granted, were often quickly curtailed.

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        October 2021

        Mathematical Modeling and Thinking

        by Zhang Chunhong

        This book is based on thinking and mathematical thinking, and focuses on mathematical modeling thinking ability. In recent years, the papers of the National College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition and the "Teddy Cup" Data Analysis Professional Skills Competition of the Higher Education Club Cup are selected as examples for research and analysis. Cultivation and flexible use of thinking ability in mathematical modeling. The first chapter of this book gives an overview of thinking; the second and third chapters introduce mathematical thinking and mathematical thinking ability; the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh chapters have carried out detailed research from mathematical modeling thinking to mathematical modeling ability. The participating papers are examples of concrete analysis of the cultivation and application of mathematical modeling thinking ability. This book attaches importance to the cultivation of mathematical modeling ability in higher vocational colleges, expands the dimension of mathematics learning thinking, enhances the enthusiasm and initiative of learning, and guides the integration of mathematics teaching with social life and scientific research.

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        2014

        Chinese Folk Fine Art Modeling

        by Zuo Hanzhong

        This is China’s first monograph on  the study of folk fine art modeling. It expounds the relationship between folk fine art modeling and the primitive culture and the folk culture from a macroscopic point of view, and traces the path of the inheritance, blending and variation of folk fine art modeling. It also analyzes the basic characteristics and modeling methods of folk fine art modeling in a microscopic way, and explores the aesthetic implication of folk fine art modeling. It also enriches interesting legends with creative ideas, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of the true meaning of Chinese folk fine art modeling and obtain inspiration of artistic creation therefrom.

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        Medicine

        Screaming and Shouting

        Challenging Vocalization Behavior in People with Dementia

        by Hans-Werner Urselmann, Jürgen Georg

        Screaming and shouting is a common and very stressful, challenging behav­ior of people with dementia. The author provides a clear description of the phenomenon and illustrates its various aspects. He analyzes causes and infl­encing factors that evoke or deescalate screaming and shouting and identifes possible interventions and mitigation options for caregivers and relatives.

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        Health systems & services
        July 2015

        Making the patient-consumer

        by Alex Mold

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