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      • The Shoestring Publisher

        The Shoestring Publisher is an independent publisher of illustrated books on India’s history and cultural heritage, with a particular focus on the visual arts including architecture, fine art, design, film, photography and textiles.   Founded by Meera Ahuja in 2006, it has received the Indian Tourism Award for Excellence in Publishing for its panoramic limited editions The Monumental India Book (acclaimed as one of the world’s ten best coffee-table books of 2009) and The Sacred India Book. Its most recent publications are America: Films from Elsewhere (2019) and the monograph Mrinalini Mukherjee, published in conjunction with the exhibition “Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee” at The Met Breuer, NY, in 2019.   Shoestring’s numerous international co-editions include The Monumental India Book (Citadelles & Mazenod, 2007; Schirmer Mosel Verlag, 2008; The Vendome Press, 2008; and Constable & Robinson, 2008), Western Artist and India: Creative Inspirations in Art and Design (Thames & Hudson, 2013) and Mughal Architecture and Gardens (Antique Collectors’ Club, 2011; and Éditions de La Martinière, 2013).

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        We present during this event a handful of authors who appeared on our show, and who have expressed an interest in selling the international rights to their work.

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        Does Movement Really Make Us Smart?

        by Petra Jansen, Stefanie Richter

        Media reports often praise movement as a cure-all. But apart from its undisputed positive effect on health, does movement really make us smarter? Consider a national football team, for example – are these excessively sports-driven players automatically the smartest people? Should we simply replace all school subjects with sports? The authors provide a detailed summary of the latest scientific findings on the influence of movement on cognitive ability. They describe the effects of movement, on old age, embodiment, emotion, school as well as other factors that influence cognition. Target Group: teachers, lecturers, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychotherapists, movement therapists.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2025

        Living with water

        Everyday encounters and liquid connections

        by Charlotte Bates, Kate Moles

        Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and drought impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation

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        Business, Economics & Law
        September 2024

        Global solidarities against water grabbing

        by Caitlin Schroering

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        April 2023

        The Battle for Water

        In the century of drought

        by Jürgen Rahmig

        — Water as a reason for war and a political instrument of power — Unique overview of global water conflicts — Foreword by Wolfgang Ischinger Every year, droughts in African countries cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and much suffering. Europe also experienced drought in 2022's summer of record temperatures. Without water, there can be no life. More and more people are suffering from water shortages. Climate change is fuelling the distribution battles for water; violent conflicts over this precious resource are the order of the day. Whether the protests in Iraq, the war in Syria, in the Himalayas, the Nile conflict and in many other places, water is already a reason for war and is being misused as a political instrument of power. The construction of huge dams, the targeted closure of locks, river diversions, water and land grabbing bring wars over the "blue gold" with them. In a unique overview, journalist Jürgen Rahmig describes the struggle for water in the 21st century. Where do dangers lurk today; where will they be tomorrow, and how can we prevent wars over precious water?

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        Biography & True Stories
        September 2024

        Bedsit land

        The strange worlds of Soft Cell

        by Patrick Clarke

        A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, to follow Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career. They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene. From transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho. From the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain. He emerges on the other side with the most in-depth, innovative and entertaining account of the duo ever written.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2023

        Living with water

        by Kate Moles, Charlotte Bates

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        February 2016

        Alea Aquarius 2. Die Farben des Meeres

        by Tanya Stewner, Laura Maire, Tanya Stewner, Guido Frommelt, Alea Aquarius, Antje Seibel, Frank Gustavus, Claudia Carls

        Seit die zwölfjährige Alea bei einem Sturm von Bord der Crucis fiel, weiß das Meermädchen endlich, wer sie ist und wo sie hingehört. Doch was geschah vor elf Jahren mit ihrer Mutter? Warum wirkt die Unterwasserwelt so ausgestorben? Und weshalb fühlt sie eine so starke Verbindung zu dem dreizehnjährigen Lennox, als hätten sie sich schon immer gekannt? Eine magische Botschaft aus dem Bauch eines Wales führt Alea und die Alpha Cru zu unglaublichen Antworten, die neue Fragen aufwerfen. Inklusive Alea Aquarius- Song, komponiert und gesungen von der Autorin.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Crossing the floor

        by Geoff Horn

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        The Arts
        April 2025

        Studio Electrophonique

        The Sheffield space age, from The Human League to Pulp

        by Jamie Taylor

        The amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain's most beloved bands. The Sheffield space age began in 1961, when local mechanic Ken Patten won a tape-recording competition by recreating the sound of a rocket launch using a pencil and a bicycle pump. In the decades that followed, the makeshift home studio he constructed became the launch pad for a group of young musicians who would shape the futuristic sound of 1980s pop. The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and others made their early recordings with Ken, whose DIY ethic was the perfect fit for a city facing industrial decline but teeming with ideas. Studio Electrophonique tells the story of a generation seeking new frontiers in music, using everything they could lay their hands on - from science fiction novels to glam rock, Dada art and cheap electronics - to get there. Drawing on original interviews with Jarvis Cocker, Martyn Ware, Mark White and others, it brings to light a world of humour, charm, creativity and unfounded yet undaunted self-belief.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2021

        Water and fire

        by Daniel Anlezark

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2022

        Ice humanities

        by Klaus Dodds, Sverker Sörlin

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2024

        Murky waters

        British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature

        by Sophie Vasset

        Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of 'murkiness', it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the gender fluidity of users to the local and national political dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a pinch of salt to health-related discourses.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2025

        Tadeusz Kowalik and Poland’s return from socialism to capitalism

        Full circle

        by Gavin Rae

        Tadeusz Kowalik lived through ten decades and three economic and political systems in Poland. He combined his academic study of economic ideas with his socialist ideals of building a fairer and more just society. This book covers the intellectual and political work of Kowalik, within the context of modern Polish history. Kowalik was part of a Polish School of critical left-wing political economists, that included Michal Kalecki and Oskar Lange. Kowalik contributed to the body of work produced by this group, which included his interpretation of their work. Kowalik participated in some of the most momentous events in post-war Polish history, helping to organise a group of intellectuals to advise the shipyard workers at the Gdansk shipyards in 1980. He became a vehement opponent of Poland's neoliberal form of capitalism and left a body of work that illuminates our understanding of capitalism and socialism today.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        October 2004

        Qualities of food

        by Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin, Alan Warde

        In this book, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgments about taste? How do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? What alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different answers to such questions. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the third part examines social and political responses to industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human nutrition or economics.

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        June 2022

        You make my Dreams

        by Gabriella Santos de Lima, Moon Notes

        In "You Make My Dreams" von Gabriella Santos de Lima folgen wir der 19-jährigen Audrey, die sich nichts sehnlicher wünscht, als Schauspielerin zu werden. Um ihren Traum zu verwirklichen, zieht sie von Florida nach New York, um an der renommierten Juilliard School of Performing Arts zu studieren, trotz ihrer Abneigung gegen die Stadt, die durch die Trennung von ihrer Mutter, einer Frau, die ihre Familie für ihre Karriere verlassen hat, verstärkt wird. In New York fühlt sich Audrey verloren und allein, bis sie durch ein anonymes Mailprogramm namens NewInYork Bennett29 kennenlernt. Trotz eines zunächst fast abweisenden Austauschs entwickelt sich schnell eine tiefe und persönliche Verbindung zwischen ihnen, die Audrey dazu bringt, ihre Wächter herunterzulassen und zu glauben, dass sie vielleicht doch nicht die Einzige mit Geheimnissen ist. Während die Beziehung zwischen Audrey und Bennett29 wächst, wird Audrey mit den Herausforderungen konfrontiert, die sowohl ihr Studium als auch das komplizierte Verhältnis zu ihrer Mutter und ihrer neuen Umgebung mit sich bringen. Der anonyme Austausch wird zu einem sicheren Hafen, in dem sie sich gegenseitig unterstützen und ermutigen, aber auch Audrey dazu bringen, sich ihren Ängsten und der Realität ihres Lebens in New York zu stellen. Das Mysterium um Bennetts wahre Identität und Audreys Kampf, ihre Träume zu verfolgen, während sie versucht, ihre Vergangenheit zu bewältigen und zu verstehen, was Familie und Liebe wirklich bedeuten, treibt die Handlung voran. "You Make My Dreams" ist eine Geschichte über das Erwachsenwerden, die Suche nach Identität und die Macht der Liebe und Freundschaft, die uns hilft, unsere tiefsten Träume zu verwirklichen. Entdecke die Welt der Schauspielkunst an der renommierten Juilliard School durch die Augen der jungen, ambitionierten Audrey. Eine Geschichte über Träume, Entschlossenheit und die unerwarteten Wendungen des Lebens. Tauche ein in die komplexe Dynamik zwischen persönlichen Ambitionen und familiären Bindungen. Erlebe eine moderne Liebesgeschichte, die sich in der Anonymität des Internets entfaltet. Begleite Audrey auf ihrer Reise der Selbstfindung, Konfrontation mit der Vergangenheit und dem Streben nach Vergebung. Für Fans von emotionalen Geschichten über junge Menschen an der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden. Ein Roman über die Kraft der Freundschaft, die Bedeutung von Vertrauen und die Suche nach der eigenen Identität. Faszinierendes Setting in New York City, das die Herausforderungen und Chancen des Großstadtlebens einfängt. Ein packendes Leseerlebnis, das zeigt, wie wichtig es ist, für seine Träume zu kämpfen und sich selbst treu zu bleiben.

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