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      • Proverse Hong Kong

        Proverse Hong Kong is a Hong Kong-based press publishing local and international authors with local and international content, including:  English-language and translated literary novels, short story and poetry collections, detective stories, mysteries and thrillers, non-fiction (biography, memoirs, travel, china missionary, education and law-court history; source materials including annotated archival transcriptions) ; poetry anthologies; YA fiction; books for students; academic studies (mainly with a Hong Kong and Hong Kong China focus). Formats: paperback, hardback, POD, e-books, audio. Publication awards: from local and international cultural bodies. Events: Spring and Autumn Receptions in Hong Kong with prize announcements and awards, book launches, authors’ brief talks. Prizes: We offer two annual international prizes for writing previously unpublished in English: 1) the Proverse Prize  for book-length works of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry; 2) the Proverse Poetry Prize  for single poems (max 30 lines). Open to all, 18+ irrespective of residence, nationality or citizenship.  Annual entry periods: 7 May-30 June. More information: proversepublishing.com

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      • Trusted Partner
        September 2022

        Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors

        Ein lässiger Generationenroman aus Indien

        by Aravind Jayan, Daniel Beskos

        Es ist mehr als nur ein neues Auto. Für Appa und Amma der indischen Kleinfamilie beglaubigt der weiße Honda Civic – »Weiß ist gut. Das wirkt sauber« – den Aufstieg. Mittelschicht, harter Arbeit Lohn, die Kinder werden es mal besser haben. Natürlich sollen die Nachbarn das sehen! Doch Sreenath, ihr Ältester, verhält sich seltsam, kommt nicht mal runter in die Einfahrt, und sehr bald wissen sie und ihr Jüngster sowieso: Ein Video ist aufgetaucht, eins von Sreenath und seiner Freundin, auf einer dieser Seiten. Seit Jahren sind sie ein Paar, trotzdem bedeutet dieses heimlich gefilmte Video eine unerhörte Schande, und eine sagenhafte Eskalation nimmt seinen Lauf … Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors ist ein beißender Generationenroman aus Indien. Aravind Jayan erzählt darin mit der Lässigkeit der Jungen von Scham, Repression und Tradition im Angesicht von Klasse, Sex, dem Internet. Und doch beschreibt er mit Zärtlichkeit eine Heimat, die fortwährend mit der eigenen Modernisierung kämpft.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        2022

        The Big Book of Curiosities

        by Julia Kislitsyna (Author), Hanna Nekrasova (Author), Stanislav Dvornitskyi (Author), Julia Budnik (Author), Iryna Rutylo (Illustrator)

        This book is a real treasure for young readers, who are constantly asking “why?” and are curious about absolutely everything that surrounds them. This visually astonishing volume takes children on a journey through different facts about our World. - Who can hold its breath for the longest time under water? - Why is plastic dangerous? - Which tree is the biggest on the Earth? - Who are the members of a symphony orchestra? - When will we be able to fly into space? Young readers can find answers to all these questions — and more — in The Big Book of Curiosities.   From 5 to 12 years, 9000 words Rightsholders: Olga Popovych, olga@kalamar.ua

      • April 2021

        Little Honda

        The Legendary Mini-Motorbikes Super Cub, Dax and Monkey

        by Gerfried Vogt-Möbs

        The brand Honda is mainly known as a manufacturer of cars and full-blown motorcycles. But only a few people know that they also have produced the best-selling motorized two-wheeler ever: the Honda Super Cub. More than 100 million lightweight motorcycles have been produced worldwide since its presentation in 1958. However, a second family of mopeds, which Honda has invented more by accident, still sets the tone today. Actually intended as an attraction for children in an amusement park, the Honda Monkey became a true hit from 1961 on. Even though the rider looks like the eponymous monkey thanks to the tiny dimensions, things didn’t get much cooler than riding a Monkey or its bigger brother Gorilla. From 1969 onwards, the Honda Dax joined in with progressive design and foldable handlebars, a popular "range extender" for many RVs. While Chinese replicas of these cult bikes have been flooding the market for the last decade or two, Honda stayed quiet for a long time. Until in 2018 the completely new Monkey finally arrived and is set to continue what its predecessors started. Complete model history of Honda's light motorcycles Many historical photos from the archives Detailed technical data With contemporary tests and driving reports

      • Travel & Transport
        November 2020

        The Book of the Honda S2000

        by Brian Long

        Researched and written in Japan with the full co-operation of the factory, here in definitive detail is the story of the Honda S2000 - a series of open two-seaters that built on the success of the NSX, helping the company justify its on-track exploits with a proper line of sporting machinery. Successful immediately, the S2000 models defended Honda's honour on the tracks, but it was in the showrooms where the S2000 excelled. After a major face-lift, it was eventually killed off in 2009, but is as popular today as it ever was as a modern classic for enthusiasts.

      • September 2017

        Ishiro Honda

        by Ryfle, Steve

      • Cultural studies
        March 2015

        In Search of the Village Distilleries of Maramures

        A Romanian Odyssey

        by Ian Macilwain

        This photographic portrait of the Village fruit brandy distilleries of the remote inaccessible northernmost province of Romania has taken the author five years to complete. He first went to the neighbouring province of Transylvania in 1968 on a Honda 50. After a career in Psychiatry , he has specialised in the photography of Scottish malt whisky distilleries , producing several books, of which the best known is ‘Bottled History’.  He has found in Maramures a process remarkably similar to the family distilling tradition in Scotland which died out after 1820. The photographs capture the atmospheric interiors and the people who work in them.  The author tries to distil the essence of this deeply traditional place before it disappears for ever.

      • Business, Economics & Law

        Work Made Fun Gets Done

        Easy Ways to Boost Energy, Morale, and Results

        by Bob Nelson and Mario Tamayo

        Every business needs happy, engaged, and motivated employees, whether it’s a major corporation or one of the over thirty million small businesses in America today. Most elements in modern business work against this basic need: constant change and increasing stress from both the speed of business and its complexity, as well as the expansive application of technology to all aspects of business. Work Made Fun Gets Done gives the reader simple, practical ideas for instantly bringing fun into the workplace. Based on examples from scores of real companies like Pinterest, Asana, Bank of America, Genentech, Zappos, Honda, General Mills, Microsoft, and many more, as well as the authors’ collective experience, this book provides clear behavioral examples on exactly what managers can do to immediately lighten the tone of the work environment and excite their teams. The book, written in a fun style, contains lighthearted illustrations and callout boxes to highlight fun practices.

      • February 2018

        Hit the Road

        Vans, Nomads and Roadside Adventures

        by gestalten

        Hit the Road – and leave your comfort zone behind. Step aboard a four-wheeled home that allows you the freedom to stay wherever you want, whenever you want, and however you want. Watch the passing landscapes, follow the desire to see what is just over the horizon line, and escape from modern monotony. Be it the story of a couple that traveled across Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom in a Volkswagen T4 on a journey to enrich their culinary education to a trek from one tip of Canada to the other behind the wheel of a Honda Element with the aurora borealis as a guiding light to a group of friends who perseveringly drove a Porsche 944 from England to Cape Town: Hit the Road welcomes you to follow these nomads and their journeys with stunning photography and details of their intrepid transportation. Rides range from classic Volkswagen Bullis to refurbished Airstream trailers and unstoppable 4x4s. From the deserts of Africa to the snow-capped mountains of Mongolia: prepare to hit the road.

      • December 2020

        Heading Over The Hill

        by Judy Leigh

        Anyone can grow old disgracefully — and have a grand old time doing it. Sparkling humour with a streak of wisdom from an internationally acclaimed author.  Billy and Dawnie may be in their seventies, but that won’t stop them taking chances or starting again. Their grown-up children have families and lives of their own, so now it’s Billy and Dawnie’s turn, and a life near the sea in Devon beckons.  But the residents of Margot Street (or Maggot Street as Dawnie insists on calling it), don’t quite know what to make of their new neighbours. Billy’s loud, shiny and huge Harley Davidson looks out of place next to the Honda Jazz next door, and Dawnie’s never-ending range of outrageous wigs and colourful clothes, means she’s impossible to miss.  As new friendships are formed and new adventures are shared, Billy and Dawnie start winning their neighbours’ affection. And when life teaches them all a terrible lesson, the folks of Margot Street are determined to live every day as if it’s their last. Judy Leigh returns with a soul-warming, rib-tickling, timeless tale of true love, true friendship and happy-ever-afters.

      • Children's & YA

        The Guest and Other Sinister Stories

        by Dávila, Amparo

        Through a selection of thrilling and exciting illustrated stories, Mexican author, Amparo Dávila, and Argentinian illustrator, Santiago Caruso, create a fascinating reading spectrum for young audiences. This set combines classic tales of the author: “Petrified trees” and “Concrete music”, alongside with fantastic stories as “The guest”, the story of an ordinary woman hunted by an unknown creature; “High kitchen”, a short story where miniature beings confront their inevitable fate, among others.

      • Business, Economics & Law

        Well Spent

        How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment

        by Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, Geneviève Verdier

        The book covers critical issues such as infrastructure investment and Sustainable Development Goals, controlling corruption, managing fiscal risks, integrating planning and budgeting, and identifying best practices in project appraisal and selection. It also covers emerging areas in infrastructure governance, such as maintaining and managing public infrastructure assets and building resilience against climate change.

      • Y todo por una canción

        by Biadiu Llorente, Marta

        Desalentada por un nuevo engaño amoroso y por la reciente muerte de su querida abuela, la insípida y desesperanzada vida de Sara se ve sacudida cuando una canción, una popular habanera, irrumpe en su vida de forma casual y enigmática una tarde de verano. Sara no entiende por qué se estremece cada vez que escucha la popular melodía, pero sí recuerda que sonreía cada vez que su abuela se la cantaba. Ya no hay marcha atrás, la canción parece perseguirla allá donde va y acaba formando parte de su existencia. Sara decide a toda costa seguir las huellas de la canción emprendiendo un viaje  hacia las raíces más hondas del pueblo cubano en búsqueda de un secreto sellado entre abuela y nieta, un secreto transmitido al filo de los años y que ahora ella tratará de esclarecer sorteando toda clase de obstáculos y vivir así la historia más apasionante de su vida.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        El arte de la cháchara - La poética de lo abigarrado en las novelas de Enrique Lihn

        La poética de lo abigarrado en las novelas de Enrique Lihn

        by Daniel Rojas Pachas

        La trilogía sobre la retórica del poder, que Enrique Lihn nos ha legado, fue creada bajo el signo del bufón y la podemos entender como literatura plural y abigarrada. Antonio Cornejo Polar señala en torno a estos dos conceptos: "corresponde a una especie de supradiscurso multiétnico que acumula, sin sintetizarlas, sus hondas y extensas contradicciones".  En ese tenor, Enrique Lihn señala en uno de sus versos, dedicados al ocio increíble del que somos capaces: “el estilo que por lo cierto no es el hombre / sino la suma de sus incertidumbres”.  En busca de la contradicción inherente, el autor chileno crea realidades ficcionales, que se apartan de lo documental y privilegia generar efectos de enmascaramiento y una comunicación que se da en términos de una combinación de estados neuróticos y paranoides. Habla que remite a un marco de censura y vigilancia, al punto de extremar el locus horridus propiciado por un poder corrupto e irrefrenable. Se trata del reino en que prevalece la palabra vacía e impotente que surge de la censura. Daniel Rojas Pachas nos entrega en este ensayo, una visión profunda y crítica de la narrativa, de uno de los escritores chilenos más importantes del siglo XX.

      • Culiacán, culiacanes, culiacanazos

        Thirteen culichis writings / Trece escritos culichis

        by Ronaldo González Valdés

        This collection of thirteen writings is an analytical journey of one of the most relevant cities in northern Mexico. It would not be inaccurate to say that Ronaldo is a contemporary Virgil, but the itinerary he proposes is not only a descent into the proverbial hell. He guides us through the lateral findings of his home studio in the midst of the pandemic, to some corner of cherished historical value while the bullets of military operatives whiz by, along with the gaze of his students stunned by terrible and false news, between the literary genealogy that imagined the city throughout the 20th century, to the tenderness of feeding stray cats while reading George Steiner and listening to corridos outside in the street.A professor, researcher and columnist who wrote early versions of this book in Nexos magazine, Ronaldo joins the acute interpretation of Mexican reality by Carlos Monsivaís, Roger Bartra and Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, among others, with his essay on Sinaloa, a lt;>. The essays that Ronaldo dedicates to the two evets know as >, are of utmost importance to the radical resignation they've triggered. Between chronicle, journal entries and academic analysis, Ronaldo builds a personal view of different narrative genres all converging to dismantle the erratic readings that the violence in the streets on October 17, 2019, and then on January 5, 2023, provked. Also known as > due to the coincidence of that day of the week, these episodes generated a state of siege that left deep emotional scars on the population. Oswaldo Zavala   Sinopsis    Esta colección de trece “escritos culichis” es un viaje iniciático a una de las ciudades más relevantes del norte de Mexico. No sería impreciso decir que Ronaldo es un Virgilio contemporáneo, pero el itinerario que propone no es solamente un descenso hacia el proverbial infierno. Nos guía por los hallazgos laterales del estudio de su casa en medio de la pandemia, hacia alguna esquina de apreciado valor histórico mientras zumban las balas de los operativos militares, junto a la mirada de sus alumnos atónitos ante terribles y falsas noticias, entre la genealogía literaria que imaginó la urbe a lo largo del siglo XX, hasta la ternura de alimentar gatos callejeros mientras se lee a George Steiner y se escuchan corridos.Profesor, investigador y articulista que ensayó primeras versiones de este libro en la revista nexos, Ronaldo se suma a la aguda interpretación de la realidad mexicana de Carlos Monsiváis, Roger Bartra y Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, entre otros, con su examen de Sinaloa como una “sociedad demediada”.Son centrales los ensayos que Ronaldo dedica a los dos “Culiacanazos”, detonadores radicales de re-signaciones. Entre la crónica, la entrada de diario y el análisis académico, Ronaldo construye una mirada personal de géneros narrativos en convergencia para desmontar las lecturas erráticas que suscitó la violencia en las calles el 17 de octubre de 2019 y luego el 5 de enero de 2023. También llamados los “jueves negros” por la coincidencia de ese día de la semana, estos episodios generaron un estado de sitio que dejó hondas secuelas emocionales en la población. Oswaldo Zavala

      • Biography & True Stories
        May 2011

        The Sex Slave Murders

        The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego

        by R. Barri Flowers

        The Sex Slave Murders is an international bestselling true crime book.   A marriage made in hell... Barely five feet tall, sweet and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her lethal husband, Gerald, lay waiting. A killer couple bound together by secrets, lies, and sex slave fantasies... Married multiple times and still in his early thirties, Gerald Gallego found the perfect companion in Charlene. Over a grisly period of twenty-six months, their bloody and brutal rampage of kidnapping, rape, and murder spanned three states and claimed eleven lives. In this much more frightening than fiction tale of domination, depraved lust, substance abuse, violence, and murder, award winning, bestselling criminologist R. Barri Flowers tells the whole story of a couple's twisted relationship, their ghastly crimes and ability to elude the law, how they were finally captured, and the two riveting trials that ultimately pitted wife against husband with the stakes higher than either once imagined in their murderous bond.   "Selected as one of Suspense Magazine's Best of 2011 books." -- John Raab, CEO/Publisher, Suspense Magazine   "A gripping account of the murders committed by husband-and-wife serial killers Gerald and Charlene Gallego. Top true crime author and criminologist R. Barri Flowers provides his keen insight and expertise into what made these killing partners tick. Flowers knows his stuff. Compelling reading." -- Gary C. King, author of Blood Lust

      • November 2019

        Bible City

        A guide in which to delve, lose and find oneself in the biblical books

        by Xabier Pikaza Ibarrondo

        BIBLE CITY is infinite, unforeseen, unique, eternal, surprising, inexhaustible, vital. God willing, this biblical adventure will make the reader repeat those impassionedwords of Saint John Chrysostom: «I hold the Scripture in my hands: this is my staff, my safety, my quiet harbour».

      • Children's & YA

        WHEN THE MOON RISES

        Federico García Lorca for kids

        by Author: Federico García Lorca / Selection and editing by Marta Mearin / Illustrations: Carolina Monterrubio

        Cuando sale la luna (When the moon rises) is an anthological selection of poetry and a play by the great Spanish writer Federico García Lorca. This selection has been specially designed to bring his poetry and drama closer to the world of children and young people, making it accessible to a greater number of boys, girls and young people so that they can discover his work, get to know it and enjoy it. Precisely because of this, some modifications have been made that seek to avoid macho expressions (socially accepted at the time the book was written) and to bring the characters of the play closer to children and young people today. The beautiful illustrations play with the poet’s words, bringing imagination and humor.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        2022

        Damaged Deer. Anthology

        by Rafael Rubio

        This poetic anthology by Rafael Rubio, without a doubt one of the most relevant poetic voices nowadays in Chile, is of greatest relevance to invite teenagers to approach to poetry and helping them to face directly their pains and joys, with that which tears the apart and also with that which enlightens their path. This anthology includes a selection of poems made by the author himself. It includes poems published in Arbolando (1998), Luz rabiosa (2007), Mala siembra (2013) and Viernes santo (2019), as well as 17 unpublished poems.

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