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      • Left Bank Literary

        Left Bank Literary is a Sydney-based literary agency specialising in quality fiction and non-fiction.    Our name references the creative environment that blossomed in 'the city of light' nearly a century ago. These writers were a vital force in an era of rising conservatism and facism. We have created Left Bank Literary to provide a home for the fertile ideas of our clients and to ensure literature continues to contribute to the most important conversations of the world.

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        Japan Book Bank enables you to find the titles Rights Availability and the direct contact information for the buyers and agents around the world.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2024

        The business of time

        A global history of the watch industry

        by Pierre-Yves Donzé

        The business of time presents a comprehensive history of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Watch production in the twenty-first century is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. The industry is dominated by a dozen or so large companies, including the Swatch Group, Richemont, LVMH, Seiko and Fossil. But a hundred years ago the picture was dramatically different. Over the course of a century, Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia saw the manufacture of watches disappear from their territory. At the same time, Hong Kong went from being a subcontractor of watch components to an intermediary between Chinese factories and the world market. Revealing the conditions that drove the spread of watch production around the globe, The business of time explains how multinationals emerged to dominate the industry and highlights how Swiss companies were able to establish themselves as the undisputed leader in luxury watches.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2002

        American society today

        by Edward Ashbee, Bill Jones

        American society today provides a balanced introduction to the defining features of contemporary American society. Includes the ways in which the US can be considered 'exceptional' - the character of the 'American dream', the role of ethnicity and race, and the differences between the regions. Considers in depth a number of contemporary debates including the claim that the US economy has lost its capacity to generate wealth and stimulate mobility, that there has been a process of civic disengagement as voluntary organisations have lost members, and that the traditional family is in decline. Includes a thorough investigation of the effects of the terrorist attacks of September 11 and their aftermath. Looks at the arguments put forward by those who assert that a common American identity has given way to a multitude of conflicting identities structured around factors such as race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2023

        Poison on the early modern English stage

        Plants, paints and potions

        by Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus

        Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is one of a number of sinister uses of plants which comment on both the loss of horticultural knowledge resulting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and also the many new arrivals in English gardens through travel, trade, and attempts at colonisation. The fact that Old Hamlet was asleep reflects unease about soporifics troubling the distinction between sleep and death; pouring poison into the ear smuggles in the contemporary fear of informers; and it is difficult to prove. This book explores poisoning in early modern plays, the legal and epistemological issues it raises, and the cultural work it performs, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans' relationship to the environment.

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        June 2016

        »Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank?«

        Das Brecht-Brevier zur Wirtschaftskrise

        by Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kindt

        Sieben Jahre Wirtschaftskrise. Sieben Jahre Beruhigungsrhetorik und Durchhalteparolen aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft. Höchste Zeit für einen neuen Blick auf die Erschütterungen, die Banken und Börsen, Währungen und Gesellschaften seit 2008 an den Rand des Abgrunds drängen. »Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank?« zeigt, dass Bertolt Brechts Werk einen solchen Blick auf die Wirtschaftskrise bereithält. In sechs Lektionen versammelt das Brevier literarische, aphoristische und publizistische Texte Brechts, die – obgleich vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert entstanden – wie Analysen und Kommentare zu den ökonomischen Turbulenzen der Gegenwart erscheinen.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        September 2010

        The US Economy Today

        by Edward Ashbee, Bill Jones

        The US Economy Today provides an invaluable introduction to American economic history since 1929. Its coverage includes the New Deal, the post-war boom, "stagflation" in the 1970s, "Reaganomics", the Clinton and Bush years, the 2008 - 2009 economic crisis and President Obama's first hundred days. In addition, this volume considers core contemporary economic policy debates and draws conclusions about the strengths and weaknesses of the US economic "model". It looks at the causes and consequences of inequality, the extent to which there is economic mobility, and the impact of globalization and foreign trade. This book will be essential reading for those studying or teaching American economics, economic history or politics and all those looking for a thorough and comprehensive introduction to this area. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2003

        British politics today

        7th edition

        by Bill Jones, Bill Jones, Dennis Kavanagh, Caroline Wilding

        A short but comprehensive textbook for students of British politics which interprets changes over the last thirty years and analyses institutions within the context of British society and economics. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2007

        Representations of British motoring

        by David Jeremiah, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman, Alan Rutter

        Representations of British motoring provides important new insights into the established discourses of British motoring. Based on the patterns of representation that have mediated between the trade, owners and society, particularly the myths and realities generated by the advertising campaigns and motoring journals, it identifies the landmarks of change and innovation. It is not about great images as such, although some are, but particular attention has been directed towards the creative intervention of the artist-illustrators. Part One emphasises the critical significance of the emerging concerns and aspirations of the first decade of motoring, while the two subsequent parts provide a clear understanding of how the continuity of the public debate has shaped the concepts of modern and popular motoring. The new models, motorists and motoring landscape are the central themes through which it has been possible to track the preoccupation with questions regarding speed and safety, the idea of being British, the aesthetics of the car and motoring, and the family, women and the car. As such it is a design history that redefines and extends the parameters of the history of motoring, providing an overview of the place of the motor-car and motoring in British society that is relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate studies and the motoring enthusiast. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2023

        In the company of wolves

        Werewolves, wolves and wild children

        by Sam George, Bill Hughes

        In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in different media and genres. We begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consider eighteenth-century debates about wild children ­- often thought to have been raised by wolves and other animals - and their role in key questions about the origins of language and society. The collection continues with essays on werewolves and other shapeshifters as depicted in folk tales, literature, film and TV, concluding with the transition from animal to human in contemporary art, poetry and fashion.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2010

        Dictionary of British Politics

        Second edition

        by Bill Jones, Bill Jones

        From Diane Abbott to Hugo Young via Keynesianism and Thatcherism, from Major to Millbank and from New Labour to Norman Tebbitt, this book is the ultimate student reference guide to British politics. The 2nd edition has been fully updated to take account of all the changes that have taken place in British politics since 2004. With over one thousand entries, the book covers the personalities, policies and institutions that have shaped British politics, with special emphasis on developments since the beginning of the twentieth century. This is the ideal instant reference book on British politics. It provides the reader with short, authoritative explanations and definitions of key terms, institutions, offices of state, political events, processes and policies as well as biographies of well known politicians, political thinkers, movements and theorists. Any student unsure of a term, an event, the details of the life of a prominent politician, or the inner workings of an institution can turn to this book for immediate assistance. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2010

        British politics today: Essentials

        6th Edition

        by Bill Jones, Bill Jones, Dennis Kavanagh

        Short, yet comprehensive. Completely up to date. Great value for money textbook by two established scholars . ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2010

        Orangism in the Dutch Republic in word and image, 1650–75

        by Jill Stern, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        This remarkable study represents a completely original presentation of the language and imagery used by the Orangists in the critical period in the mid-seventeenth century Netherlands as they sought the restoration of the stadholderate in the person of the young prince William III. Stern argues that the Orangists had no desire for the prince to become a monarch, rather that they viewed the stadholderate as an essential component of the Dutch constitution, the Union of Utrecht, and fulfilling a key role as defender of the rights and privileges of the citizenry against an overwheening urban oligarchy. Source material is drawn not only from books and political pamphlets but also from contemporary drama, poetry, portraits, prints, and medals. This enables the author to examine the imagery used by the supporters of the House of Orange, in particular the symbols of rebirth and regeneration which were deployed to propagate the restoration of the stadholderate in the person of William III. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2023

        The fall and rise of the English upper class

        Houses, kinship and capital since 1945

        by Daniel R. Smith

        The fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. Situating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain's post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain's Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2008

        Princely power in the Dutch Republic

        Patronage and William Frederick of Nassau (1613–64)

        by Geert Janssen, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        Based on one of the richest surviving diaries of the Dutch Golden Age, Princely Power in the Dutch Republic recaptures the social world of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664). As a Stadholder and relative of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick was among the key players in a fragmented republican state system. This study offers a vivid analysis of his political strategies and reveals how unwritten codes of patronage guided his daily contacts and shaped his mental world. As a patron at his court and as a client of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick developed distinctive patronage roles, appropriate to different social spheres. By assessing these different roles, Janssen provides a unique insight into the ways in which a seventeenth-century nobleman negotiated and articulated clientage, friendship and corruption in his life. This study offers an in-depth analysis of political practices in the Dutch Republic and reconsiders the way in which patronage shaped early modern politics, affected religious divisions and framed social identities. ;

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        July 1994

        Viele Kammern im Welthaus

        Eine Auswahl aus dem Werk

        by Ernst Bloch, Friedrich Dieckmann, Friedrich Dieckmann, Jürgen Teller, Jürgen Teller

        Ernst Simon Bloch wurde am 8. Juli 1885 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein geboren und starb am 4. August 1977 in Tübingen. Er entstammte einer jüdischen Familie aus der Pfalz. Von 1905 bis 1908 studierte er Philosophie bei Theodor Lipps in München und Oswald Külpe in Würzburg und wurde im Jahr 1908 promoviert. 1913 heiratete er die aus Riga stammende Bildhauerin Else von Stritzky. Als engagierter Gegner des Krieges ging er von 1917 bis 1919 mit seiner Frau in die Schweiz und war in Bern für das Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften tätig. 1917 beendete er in Locarno sein Werk Geist der Utopie. Ein Jahr nach dem Tod seiner Frau heiratete er 1922 die Malerin Linda Oppenheimer. Die Ehe hielt bis 1928. Inzwischen war Bloch nach Berlin zurückgekehrt und der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands beigetreten. Zu seinen damaligen Freunden gehörten Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Theodor W. Adorno und Walter Benjamin. Politisch war Bloch sehr aktiv und bekämpfte schon früh die aufstrebende NSDAP. Er wurde nach Hitlers Machtübernahme ausgebürgert und emigrierte mit seiner ebenfalls jüdischen Lebensgefährtin Karola Piotrowska in die Schweiz. Sie heirateten 1934 in Wien. Von 1936 bis 1938 lebten sie in Prag und emigrierten anschließend in die USA, wo sie zehn Jahre blieben. Dort schrieb Bloch an seinen Werken Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Subjekt - Objekt. Erläuterungen zu Hegel und Naturrecht und menschliche Würde. Nach dem Krieg, 1948, erhielt er einen Ruf nach Leipzig auf den Lehrstuhl für Philosophie. 1957 geriet er jedoch in Konflikt mit der SED und wurde emeritiert. Er zog nach Frankfurt am Main. Spuren und Das Prinzip Hoffnung erschienen 1959 im Suhrkamp Verlag. 1961 nahm Bloch eine Gastprofessur in Tübingen an, wo er bis zu seinem Tod 1977 blieb. Friedrich Dieckmann, Dr.phil.h.c., wurde 1937 in Landsberg/Warte geboren. Nach dem Studium der Germanistik, Philosophie und Physik arbeitete er von 1972 bis 1976 als Dramaturg am Berliner Ensemble. Er hat Bücher über Friedrich Schiller, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Bertolt Brecht und Karl von Appen veröffentlicht sowie den Roman eines Theaterhelden (Die Geschichte Don Giovannis. 1991. Insel Verlag), einen Band mit Essays zur deutschen Oper von Mozart bis Wagner und vier Essaybände aus dem und über den Prozeß der deutschen Vereinigung (drei davon in der edition suhrkamp: Vom Einbringen. Vaterländische Beiträge. 1992; Temperatursprung. Deutsche Verhältnisse. 1995; Was ist deutsch? Eine Nationalerkundung. 2003). Friedrich Dieckmann ist Träger des Heinrich-Mann- und des Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preises und Mitglied der Akademien der Künste in Berlin, Dresden und Leipzig sowie der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. 1989/90 war er Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. 1994 bis 2000 war Friedrich Dieckmann Sprecher der Deutschen Literaturkonferenz e.V. und von 2002 bis 2012 Mitglied des Sächsischen Kultursenats. Heute lebt Friedrich Dieckmann als Schriftsteller und Publizist in Berlin-Treptow. Mitgliedschaften: Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Künste Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung Mitglied der Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg Mitglied der Freien Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig Mitglied des Internationalen P.E.N.  Friedrich Dieckmann, Dr.phil.h.c., wurde 1937 in Landsberg/Warte geboren. Nach dem Studium der Germanistik, Philosophie und Physik arbeitete er von 1972 bis 1976 als Dramaturg am Berliner Ensemble. Er hat Bücher über Friedrich Schiller, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Bertolt Brecht und Karl von Appen veröffentlicht sowie den Roman eines Theaterhelden (Die Geschichte Don Giovannis. 1991. Insel Verlag), einen Band mit Essays zur deutschen Oper von Mozart bis Wagner und vier Essaybände aus dem und über den Prozeß der deutschen Vereinigung (drei davon in der edition suhrkamp: Vom Einbringen. Vaterländische Beiträge. 1992; Temperatursprung. Deutsche Verhältnisse. 1995; Was ist deutsch? Eine Nationalerkundung. 2003). Friedrich Dieckmann ist Träger des Heinrich-Mann- und des Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preises und Mitglied der Akademien der Künste in Berlin, Dresden und Leipzig sowie der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. 1989/90 war er Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. 1994 bis 2000 war Friedrich Dieckmann Sprecher der Deutschen Literaturkonferenz e.V. und von 2002 bis 2012 Mitglied des Sächsischen Kultursenats. Heute lebt Friedrich Dieckmann als Schriftsteller und Publizist in Berlin-Treptow. Mitgliedschaften: Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Künste Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung Mitglied der Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg Mitglied der Freien Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig Mitglied des Internationalen P.E.N.

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