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      • Paper Crane Agency

        A key source for ​international publishers looking for new titles from Japan, ​we facilitate collaborations ​with Japanese authors, illustrators and publishers.   We also assist publishers who are licensing Japanese content with translation, adaptation and localization to make publishing Japanese books in translation as easy as possible.   In Japan, the crane is a symbol of good fortune, happiness and longevity. Origami folded paper cranes are often given as an expression of good wishes and peace.    ​At Paper Crane, we hope that all the titles we present or create – our “good wishes” from Japan – will bring enjoyment to readers of all ages, wherever they are in the world.

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      • Gill Books

        Gill Books is an Irish publisher which produces an eclectic list of award-winningand bestselling titles from agenda-setting current affairs to absorbing history, page-turning biography to beautifully produced lifestyle. We are a division of Gill, Ireland’s largest publisher. Its origins date back to 1856 when M.H. Gill & Son, whose portfolio included printing and bookselling, wasfounded in Dublin. The bookshop, which stood on Dublin’s O’Connell Street for123 years and is referenced in James Joyce’s Ulysses, can now be found online at www.gillbooks.ie. In collaboration with some of Ireland’s best writers, brands and a network of creative talents, Gill Books creates a dynamic publishing proposition, which builds on a 150-year heritage whilst looking excitedly to the future.

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        October 2002

        Expressive Vernunft

        Begründung, Repräsentation und diskursive Festlegung

        by Robert B. Brandom, Eva Gilmer, Hermann Vetter

        Sonderausg.

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        May 2001

        Die Tücke des Subjekts

        by Eva Gilmer, Anne von der Heiden, Hans Hildebrandt, Andreas Hofbauer, Slavoj Žižek

        Slavoj Žižek wurde am 21. März 1949 in Ljubljana, Slowenien geboren und wuchs auch dort auf. Er studierte Philosophie und Soziologie an der Universität in Ljubljana und Psychoanalyse an der Universität Paris VIII. Seit den achtziger Jahren hat Žižek zahlreiche Gastprofessuren im Ausland inne, unter anderem an der Tulane University, New Orleans (1993), der Cardozo Law School, New York (1994), der Columbia University, New York (1995), in Princeton (1996) und an der New School for Social Research, New York (1997). Von 2000 bis 2002 leitete er eine Forschungsgruppe am kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Essen. Er war jahrelanger Herausgeber der Zeitschrift der slowenischen Lacan-Schule Wo Es war und setzte sich unter anderem mit der Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus, mit Hegel und mit Karl Marx auseinander, sowie mit zeitgenössischen Denkansätzen aus dem Bereich des Poststrukturalismus, der Medientheorie, des Feminismus und der Cultural Studies. Seine erste englischsprachige Buchveröffentlichung The Sublime Object of Ideology erschien 1989. Seitdem veröffentlichte Žižek über 20 Monographien, in denen er sich zunächst um eine lacanianische Lesart der Philosophie, der Populärkultur und in den letzten Jahren zunehmend der Politischen Theorie bemühte.

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        Biography & True Stories
        May 2025

        Mrs Dalloway

        Biography of a novel

        by Mark Hussey

        A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.

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        February 2005

        Der Weltbeschreiber

        Gelehrter, Ketzer, Kosmograph - Wie die Karten des Gerhard Mercator die Welt veränderten

        by Crane, Nicholas

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        Children's & YA

        I Dream of Being a Concrete Mixer

        by Hussain Al Mutawaa

        An uplifting tale about the power of friendship, finding your place in the world, and realising your dreams while remaining true to who you are. Tumbledown is a little demolition truck growing up in a loving family. His parents go to work every day demolishing buildings with their big wrecking balls. But soft-hearted Tumbledown doesn’t like to destroy. He’d rather build things. He dreams of being a cement mixer. When Tumbledown cries, his wrecking ball swings out and destroys everything it touches. When Tumbledown laughs, his wrecking ball swings out and destroys everything it touches. His soft heart can’t skip a beat without leaving a trail of destruction. At school other students laugh at him, but still he won’t let go of his dream. When Tumbledown makes friends with a feisty troop of metal springs, they hatch a plan to save him from himself. They fan out over his wrecking ball and every time it swings they do their best to absorb the shock. The day comes when the worn-out springs turn to the Wise Old Crane for help. Tumbledown can never be a cement mixer, but maybe there are other ways, better suited to his nature. After some search, the Wise Old Crane finds a new job for Tumbledown at a construction site using his wrecking ball to smooth out the cement on the ground. It’s hard work but Tumbledown is finally happy, and he grows stronger and more skillful with every passing day.

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        July 2025

        Japan's Rice Problem

        by Masayuki Ogawa

        In recent years there has been much debate in Japan over rice, which is considered the "staple food" of the Japanese people. Certain agricultural policies and traditional attitudes, the aging of farming communities and the lack of successors have become major problems, leading to the overproduction of rice and falling prices. Agricultural policy has been forced to respond to these problems. This book summarizes the changing relationship between the Japanese people and rice over the past half century, pointing out four turning points. The book then discusses in detail the "rice paddy glut" as the most recent rice problem in Japan. The book also points out that a "fifth tipping point " will come in the near future, when there will be an excess of farmland, and suggests ways to deal with this problem. Similar problems could be on the horizon in the future for developing countries that have invested heavily in increasing rice production.

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        August 2007

        Kalle Blomquist 3. Eva-Lotta und Rasmus

        by Astrid Lindgren, Rose Marie Schwerin, Karl Kurt Peters, Erich Bender, Kurt Reiss, Andreas von der Meden, Viola Altrichter, Thomas Piper, Franz Schafheitlin, Herbert A. E. Böhme, Horst Beck, Jutta Bauer

        Mit Kalle Blomquist auf Verbrecherjagd Kalle Blomquist, der Meisterdetektiv, kommt jedem Verbrechen auf die Spur! Und schon steckt er wieder mitten in einem neuen Fall: Der kleine Rasmus und sein Vater, ein berühmter Erfinder, werden entführt, und Kalle und seine Freunde Anders und Eva-Lotta sind Zeugen. Eva-Lotta gerät sogar selbst in die Fänge der Entführer! Ob es Kalle Blomquist gelingen wird, sie zu befreien?  NDR-Hörspiel aus dem Jahr 1955 - ein absoluter Hörspielklassiker aus der Glanzzeit des Radios. Erscheint erstmalig als Tonträger und vervollständigt als Band 3 die Blomquist-Hörbuchreihe bei Oetinger audio.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2025

        Critical games

        On play and seriousness in academia, literature and life

        by Tim Beasley-Murray

        Critical Games is about the games we play (whether we know it or not), the ways we play them (for fun, but also to win, and to gain approval from others), and what happens when they get out of hand. The book interrogates the theory of play and gaming, with a particular focus on the games played by literary authors and literary critics. Drawing on (often self-critical) autobiography, as well as readings in texts across a range of languages, Tim Beasley-Murray plays with academic conventions to highlight what is at stake in them, turning to the Game of Literature, from Kafka to Carrère, to seek models and warnings of the outcomes of taking games too seriously, or not taking them seriously enough.

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        The Arts
        December 2024

        The picture politics of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould

        Britain's pioneering political cartoonist

        by Mark Bryant

        This is the first major study of Britain's pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. Written by the distinguished media historian, Colin Seymour-Ure, it is essential reading for anyone interested in cartoons, caricature and illustration and will also be welcomed by students of history, politics and the media. It examines Gould's career in Fleet Street until his retirement after the First World War. It also discusses his illustrations for magazines and books and there is an analysis of his use of symbolism and literary allusion to lampoon such eminent politicians as Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. As Lord Baker says in his Foreword, this book is 'a major contribution to our knowledge of British cartooning.'

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