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      • Al-Alia Publishing House

        Al-Alia Publishing House produces stories for children. Not only the child enjoys the new experience of reading Alia presents, but so as everyone else.

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      • Robert Lecker Agency

        Robert Lecker Agency is a dynamic literary management and consulting firm devoted to securing and advancing the careers of its client authors. The Agency draws on 30 years of publishing experience to obtain profitable and fair contracts with North America’s fastest growing publishers. Robert Lecker has worked extensively in trade publishing and has an established track record as an editor, coordinator, and subsidiary rights manager. RLA specializes in books about entertainment, music, popular culture, popular science, intellectual and cultural history, food, and travel. However, we are open to any idea that is original and well presented. We are also receptive to books written by academics that can attract a broad range of readers.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2015

        Reading Robin Hood

        Content, form and reception in the outlaw myth

        by Stephen Knight, Anke Bernau

        Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. This analysis of the whole sequence of the adventures of Robin Hood first explores the medieval tradition from early poems into the long-surviving sung ballads, and also two variant Robins: the Scottish version, here named Rabbie Hood, and gentrified Robin, the exiled Earl of Huntington, now partnered by Lady Marian. The nineteenth century re-imagined medieval Robin as modern - he loved nature, Marian, England, and the rights of the ordinary man - and in novels and especially films he has developed further, into an international figure of freedom, just as Marian's role has grown in a modern feminist context. The vigour of the Robin Hood myth still reproduces itself, constantly with new forms and new meanings. ;

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        Politics & government
        November 2006

        The European Union and the regulation of media markets

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        by Alison Harcourt

        National broadcasting and press regulation is undergoing a process of convergence in Europe. This book, newly available in paperback, explains how this process has been shaped by the actions of the European Union (EU) institutions. Alison Harcourt observes that whilst communications is one of the EU's most successful policy areas, European decision-making is eroding the national capacity to regulate for the public interest. European-level efforts to protect public interest goals have been constrained by the European Treaties. The author argues that increased European coordination in public interest regulation could be more conducive to growth and competitiveness than the dismantling of existing national laws. This, however, would require changes to the political composition of the European Union. This book assesses the potential EU media regulation provides for market growth and the protection of media pluralism, the citizen and ultimately democracy itself. These opportunities are presented in the coming decade with the developing European Constitution, EU enlargement, and the implementation and revision of European regulation.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2009

        Illegitimate Power

        Bastards in Renaissance Drama

        by Alison Findlay

        In Renaissance Drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. We have only to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realise the challenge presented by the illegitimate child. Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England, reading them in relation to witch craft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. The characters discussed range from demi-devils, unnatural villains and clowns to outstanding heroic or virtuous types who challenge officially sanctioned ideas of illegitimacy. The final chapter of the book considers bastards in performance; their relationship with theatre spaces and audiences. Illegitimate voices, Findlay argues, can bring about the death of the author/father and open the text as a piece of theatre, challenging accepted notions of authority. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2009

        Dante and the Victorians

        by Alison Milbank

        In this ground-breaking book, Alison Milbank explains why a comprehension of the Victorian reception of Dante is essential for a full understanding of Victorianism as a whole. Her focus on this much-neglected topic allows her to reconfigure the British nineteenth-century understanding of history, nationalism, aesthetics and gender, and their often strange intersections. The account also builds towards a demonstration that the modernist perpetuation of the Dante obsession reveals an equal continuity with many aspects of Victorianism. The book provides not only an authoritative introduction to these important cultural themes, but also a re-reading of the genealogy of literature in the modern period. Instead of the Victorian realism challenged by Modernist symbolism's attempts to transcend linear time, Milbank offers us a contrary, continuous 'Danteism'. For both the Victorians and the Modernists Dante is the first writer to historicise, fictionalise and humanise the eternal role, and he becomes paradoxically the means by which history, secularised fiction and a positivist humanism could be reconnected to a lost transcendent. Dante and the Victorians provides the first comprehensive account of why the reading of Dante was central to nineteenth-century British language and culture. ;

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        The Arts
        March 2005

        French cinema in the 1970s

        The echoes of May

        by Alison Smith

        This book re-examines French cinema of the 1970s. It focuses on the debates which shook French cinema, and the calls for film-makers to rethink their manner of filming, subject matter and ideals in the immediate aftermath of the student revolution of May 1968. Alison Smith examines the effect of this re-thinking across the spectrum of French production, the rise of new genres and re-formulation of older ones. Chapters investigate political thrillers, historical films, new naturalism and Utopian fantasies, dealing with a wide variety of films. A particular concern is the extent to which film-makers' ideas and intentions are contained in or contradicted by their finished work, and the gradual change in these ideas over the decade. The final chapter is a detailed study of two directors who were deeply involved in the debates and events of the 70s, William Klein and Alain Tanner, here taken as exemplary spokesmen for those changing debates as their echoes reached the cinema. ;

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        French cinema in the 1970s

        The echoes of May

        by Alison Smith

        This book re-examines French cinema of the 1970s. It focuses on the debates which shook French cinema, and the calls for film-makers to rethink their manner of filming, subject matter and ideals in the immediate aftermath of the student revolution of May 1968. Alison Smith examines the effect of this re-thinking across the spectrum of French production, the rise of new genres and re-formulation of older ones. Chapters investigate political thrillers, historical films, new naturalism and Utopian fantasies, dealing with a wide variety of films. A particular concern is the extent to which film-makers' ideas and intentions are contained in or contradicted by their finished work, and the gradual change in these ideas over the decade. The final chapter is a detailed study of two directors who were deeply involved in the debates and events of the 70s, William Klein and Alain Tanner, here taken as exemplary spokesmen for those changing debates as their echoes reached the cinema.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2021

        Love's Victory

        Lady Mary Wroth

        by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney, Michael Brennan

        Love's Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651) is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes for the first time a fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of the Penshurst manuscript, the only copy of the play containing all five acts, handwritten by Wroth and privately owned by the Viscount De L'Isle. Edited by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney and Michael G. Brennan, their critical introduction provides details of Wroth's remarkable life and work as a member of the Sidney family, tracing connections between Love's Victory, her prose and poetry and her family's extensive writings. The editors introduce readers to the influence of court drama on Love's Victory and offer a new account of the play's stage history in productions from 1999-2018. Extensive commentary notes guiding the modern reader include explanatory glosses, literary references and staging information.

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        January 2019

        Robin Cat / Robin Cat. Hier kommt ein echter Superheld!

        by Seltmann, Christian

        Wer ist wohl der größte Held von ganz Mumpitz? Robin Cat natürlich - doch das sehen die Mitglieder der Drachenliga ganz anders. Sie fordern Robin zu einem Superhelden-Wettbewerb heraus! Ob der Kater es wohl gemeinsam mit seiner besten Freundin Marie schafft, das Rätsel um die erkältete Nixe und den erloschenen Vulkan als Erster zu lösen?

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        January 2018

        Robin Cat. Die echt katzenstarke Rettung der Minigiraffen

        by Seltmann, Christian

        Auch wenn Robin Cat am liebsten gemütlich mit seiner Gitarre am Lagerfeuer sitzt, steckt in ihm doch ein echter Abenteurer. Das beweist er seiner besten Maus - ähm, Freundin - Marie nur zu gern! Dazu hat er die allerbeste Gelegenheit, als Fanny, die Minigiraffe, seine Hilfe braucht. Robin zögert keinen Augenblick und bricht gleich auf zu einer echt katzenstarken Rettungsaktion.

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        June 2019

        Robin Cat (2). Wilde Fahrt ins Abenteuer

        by Seltmann, Christian

        Wie gut, dass Robin Cat auf der Insel Mumpitz als echter Abenteurer und größter Superheld aller Zeiten bekannt ist. Denn dort gibt es immer jemanden, der Hilfe benötigt. Zum Beispiel der kleine Seewolf, der eines Tages mutterseelenallein am Strand auftaucht. Oder die Wüstenbewohner, die nicht mehr schlafen können, weil eine geheimnisvolle Felssäule schnarchende Geräusche von sich gibt. Und selbst einen Ausflug in das schaurige Tropfsteinhöhlen-Labyrinth meistern Robin Cat und seine Freunde mit unglaublichem Heldenmut. Zur Belohnung gibt’s nach jedem Abenteuer ein Lagerfeuer mit Gitarrenmusik und Gesang: katzenstark und urgemütlich!

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        January 2013

        Am Sonntag stirbt Alison

        Thriller:

        by Klimm, Katja

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        October 2024

        Die Macht der Kritik

        Soziale Kämpfe, widerständiges Wissen und Kritische Theorie

        by Robin Celikates

        Von Black Lives Matter über Fridays for Future bis zu migrantischen Protesten: In den letzten Jahren haben zahlreiche soziale Bewegungen eine radikale Kritik unserer Gegenwart formuliert und weitgehende Veränderungen eingefordert. Das in diesen Bewegungen zum Ausdruck kommende widerständige Wissen kann auch eine Theorie revitalisieren, die ihrem Anspruch auf Verankerung in den Kämpfen ihrer Zeit und dem Ziel der gesellschaftlichen Emanzipation verpflichtet bleibt. Ausgehend von verschiedenen Praktiken des Widerstands und ihrer demokratischen und epistemischen Bedeutung, entwirft Robin Celikates Perspektiven für eine Kritische Theorie der Politik der Gegenwart.

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        June 2019

        Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie

        by Brennan, Sarah Rees; Wasserman, Robin; Johnson, Maureen; Clare, Cassandra

        Der Spin-off zur Bestsellerserie „Chroniken der Unterwelt“ - Action, Romantik, Spannung pur! Ohne Erinnerungen muss Simon, Clarys irdischer Freund, herausfinden, wer er eigentlich ist. Hat er das Zeug zum Helden und Dämonenjäger? Oder ist er doch der bleiche Comic-Fan, der nicht einmal die Kraft hat, eine Waffe der Nephilim richtig in der Hand zu führen? Seine Schattenjäger-Freunde Clary und Jace sind die einzigen, die alles über Simons Vergangenheit wissen. Und was sie erzählen, kann er kaum glauben: Simon hat als treuer Freund die Schattenjäger mehr als einmal aus tödlicher Gefahr gerettet. Jetzt muss er um Isabelle kämpfen, an deren Liebe er sich nicht erinnern kann, obwohl es in seinem Bauch kribbelt, wann immer Simon an sie denkt. War er wirklich mit diesem heldenhaften Mädchen zusammen - und wenn ja: Wie hat er das nur angestellt? 10 romantische und actionreiche Geschichten rund um die beliebten Heldengestalten Jace, Clary und Simon aus der Bestseller-Reihe „Chroniken der Unterwelt“. Von Kultautorin Cassandra Clare. Zu jeder Geschichte gibt es einen illustrativen Comic-Strip von Cassandra Jean. Dieser Band enthält die Episoden: Cassandra Clare/ Maureen Johnson, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (1): Willkommen in der Schattenjäger-Akademie Cassandra Clare/ Robin Wasserman, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (2): Der verschollene Herondale Cassandra Clare/ Maureen Johnson, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (3): Der Teufel von Whitechapel Cassandra Clare/ Sarah Rees Brennan, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (4): Nichts als Schatten Cassandra Clare/ Robin Wasserman, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (5): Das Böse, das wir lieben Cassandra Clare/ Robin Wasserman, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (6): Könige, Fürsten, so bleich Cassandra Clare/ Sarah Rees Brennan, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (7): Bittere Wahrheit Cassandra Clare/ Sarah Rees Brennan, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (8):Die Feuerprobe Cassandra Clare/Sarah Rees Brennan, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (9): Zu endloser Nacht geboren Cassandra Clare/ Robin Wasserman, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (10): Die Wiederkehr der Engel

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        July 1988

        Jüdisches Leben in der DDR

        by Robin Ostow, Wolfgang Lotz

        In diesem Buch wird die erste repräsentative Umfrage über jüdisches Leben seit der Gründung der DDR vorgelegt. Die kanadische Soziologin Robin Ostow hat jüdische Männer und Frauen unterschiedlichen Alters befragt, die auf politischem, sozialem, kulturellem und religiösem Gebiet tätig sind. Die interviewten namhaften Vertreter des öffentlichen Lebens - darunter der Vorsitzende der Jüdischen Gemeinde von Ost-Berlin, Historiker, Psychotherapeuten, Philosophen, Soziologen, Sozial- und Jugendarbeiter - äußern sich hier freimütig über ihren Lebensweg, ihre Arbeit, über Geschichte und Struktur der Jüdischen Gemeinde, über ihre Erfahrungen, als Juden in der DDR zu leben.

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        October 2005

        Die Idee der Natur

        by Robin G. Collingwood, Martin Suhr, Axel Honneth

        Robin G. Collingwood zählt zu jenen großen britischen Universalgelehrten, die auf ebenso scharfsinnige wie elegante Weise die unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen in ihren Schriften verbinden. Mit Die Idee der Natur liegt nun eines seiner Hauptwerke erstmals auf deutsch vor.Anhand der drei großen Epochen kosmologischen Denkens in Europa – der Kosmologie der Griechen, der Renaissance und der Moderne – zeichnet Collingwood die Geschichte des Naturbegriffs als eine Geschichte wachsenden Mißverstehens nach, die die zunehmende Trennung zwischen Naturwissenschaften und Philosophie dokumentiert. Diese »Kluft des Mißverstehens« muß jedoch überbrückt werden, denn sie schlägt sich in einer moralischen Korrumpierbarkeit der aus den Naturwissenschaften abgeleiteten Weltanschauungen nieder. Die Idee der Natur ist nicht nur ein Glanzstück philosophischer Literatur, sondern auch ein wichtiger Beitrag zu den aktuellen Debatten zwischen der Philosophie und den Naturwissenschaften.

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        Children's & YA

        The Candy Guild (2). The Lost Recipe

        by Tanja Voosen/ Viktoria Gavrilenko

        Magical sweets and real miracles? Elina has experienced them both in Belony, and now she can hardly wait to dip deeper into the world of the candy crafters. But it’s not long before a new problem arises, because just before Robin’s first candy crafting examination, his magic tool goes bust. Old Mr Snotty knows where they can get help, and he takes Elina and her friends to Bittersweet Avenue. It quickly becomes clear, though, that not all candy crafters are well disposed towards “ungifted” people. There are also rumours about the return of the mysterious Otherwise Society, which has tried once before to bring down the mighty Candy Guild. When Mr Snotty suddenly disappears without a trace, it’s up to Elina, Charlie and Robin to follow the clues he has left behind for them. They soon realize that there is a reason for his disappearance, because the Otherwise Society is looking for something in particular – and Elina, Charlie and Robin have the key to this something in their hands…

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