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      • Textofilia Ediciones

        Literary publisher. It has received several awards. It has the stamp Libros del Marqués, dedicated to social relevant topics of this time.

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      • The Text Publishing Company Pty. Ltd.

        At Text we want to publish books that make a difference to people’s lives. We believe that reading should be a marvellous experience, that every book you read should somehow change your life if only by a fraction. We love the phrase ‘lost in a book’—that’s where we want our readers to be. You can’t get lost in a newspaper or a magazine or even a movie. But people get lost in books every day—on the tram, on the beach, in bed. Reading is what keeps the imagination supple and challenges preconceptions and prejudices. You read at your own speed, and the world you enter courtesy of the writer is yours and yours only, even if the person next to you on the bus is reading exactly the same book. We publish a very broad range of fiction and non-fiction, international and local, books for adults and young adults.

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        December 2000

        Das Experiment und die Metaphysik

        Zur Auflösung der kosmologischen Antinomien

        by Edgar Wind, Bernhard Buschendorf, Bernhard Buschendorf, Brigitte Falkenburg

        Edgar Winds Habilitationsschrift von 1934 ist eine originelle Deutung der modernen Physik aus dem Umkreis des Neukantianismus und des amerikanischen Pragmatismus. Wind formuliert darin seine Theorie der „symbolischen Repräsentation“

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2025

        Material masculinities

        Men and goods in eighteenth-century England

        by Ben Jackson

        Material Masculinities examines the material and consumer practices of over 1000 men from the middling and upper ranks of eighteenth-century society, c.1650-1850. It draws upon evidence from over 35 archives and museum collections to detail how material objects were integral for men in forming identities and shaping experiences. For men of all social ranks, ages, and geographic locations, material knowledge was imperative for masculine social identities to operate in a commercial society. Before the centralised factory and widespread mass-produced goods, men personalised and repaired their goods; products were shaped by men's attitudes and concerns. Objects were tools in men's identity formation and the exercise of social and gendered power. There was a reciprocal relationship between men and goods in this period; men were active agents of material and commercial change driving product and aesthetic innovation.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        How to be multiple

        The philosophy of twins

        by Helena de Bres, Julia de Bres

        In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins offers remarkable insights into some of the deepest questions of our existence, from what is a person? to how should we treat one another? Deftly weaving together literary and cultural history, philosophical enquiry and personal experience, de Bres examines such thorny issues as binary thinking, objectification, romantic love and friendship, revealing the limits of our individualistic perspectives. In this illuminating, entertaining book, wittily illustrated by her twin sister, de Bres ultimately suggests that to consider twinhood is to imagine the possibility of a more interconnected, capacious human future.

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        November 1981

        Heidnische Mysterien in der Renaissance

        by Edgar Wind, Christa Münstermann, Gisela Heinrichs, Bernhard Buschendorf, Bernhard Buschendorf, Bernhard Buschendorf

        Die Heidnischen Mysterien handeln vom »Bilddenken« des Neuplatonismus und von seinem glanzvollen Ausdruck in der Renaissancekunst. Heidnische Mythologie, christliche Bildersprache, religiöse Spekulation und philosophische Reflexion verschmelzen zu jener »poetischen Theologie«, deren verschiedene Ausprägungen bei Philosophen, Dichtern und bildenden Künstlern der Renaissance (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des florentinischen Künstler- und Gelehrtenkreises um Lorenzo di Medici) aufgezeigt werden. Aus den Mosaiksteinen dieses Denkens rekonstruiert Wind allmählich das System eines »orphischen Pantheon« und lässt dabei seine ideengeschichtliche Explikation immer wieder in faszinierende Interpretationen bildkünstlerischer Werke der Renaissance münden.

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        August 2022

        Vega - Der Wind in meinen Händen

        Band 1 der neuen Klima-Saga | Folge Vega ins Auge des Sturms

        by Marion Perko

        Deutschland 2052: Die Menschen leiden unter heißen, trockenen Sommern. Um die Wasserknappheit zu lindern, arbeitet Vega als Wettermacherin – sie beeinflusst die Wolken und lässt es regnen. Doch sie hütet ein Geheimnis: Anders als ihre Kollegen benutzt sie dazu keine Chemikalien und Drohnen. Denn Vega kann mit der Kraft ihrer Gedanken Wind und Regen rufen. Als bei einem rätselhaften Wetterunfall Kinder verletzt werden, wird Vega zur Zielscheibe. Wie soll sie ihre Unschuld beweisen, wenn niemand von ihrer Gabe erfahren darf? Hilfe erhält sie unerwartet von Leo, einem jungen Wissenschaftler, der das Wesen von Stürmen erforscht. Auf ihrer Suche nach der Wahrheit gerät Vega immer tiefer in ein Netz aus einflussreichen Umweltbehörden, Aktivisten und Konzernen ... Wem kann sie noch vertrauen? Und wie die Menschen schützen, die sie liebt?

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        August 2022

        Vega – Der Wind in meinen Händen

        Band 1 der neuen Klima-Saga | Folge Vega ins Auge des Sturms

        by Marion Perko

        Deutschland 2052: Die Menschen leiden unter heißen, trockenen Sommern. Um die Wasserknappheit zu lindern, arbeitet Vega als Wettermacherin – sie beeinflusst die Wolken und lässt es regnen. Doch sie hütet ein Geheimnis: Anders als ihre Kollegen benutzt sie dazu keine Chemikalien und Drohnen. Denn Vega kann mit der Kraft ihrer Gedanken Wind und Regen rufen. Als bei einem rätselhaften Wetterunfall Kinder verletzt werden, wird Vega zur Zielscheibe. Wie soll sie ihre Unschuld beweisen, wenn niemand von ihrer Gabe erfahren darf? Hilfe erhält sie unerwartet von Leo, einem jungen Wissenschaftler, der das Wesen von Stürmen erforscht. Auf ihrer Suche nach der Wahrheit gerät Vega immer tiefer in ein Netz aus einflussreichen Umweltbehörden, Aktivisten und Konzernen ... Wem kann sie noch vertrauen? Und wie die Menschen schützen, die sie liebt?

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2015

        A Supplement of the Faery Queene

        By Ralph Knevet

        by J. B. Lethbridge

        Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles - a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power. This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2021

        A Supplement of the Faery Queene

        By Ralph Knevet

        by Christopher Burlinson, J. B. Lethbridge, Andrew Zurcher

        Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles - a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power. This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2017

        Asia in Western fiction

        by Robin Winks

        Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2020

        Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

        by Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont, Charlotte Coffin

        This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2024

        Mid-century women's writing

        Disrupting the public/private divide

        by Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, Ravenel Richardson

        The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front. But as the burgeoning field of interwar and mid-century women's writing has demonstrated, this narrative is in desperate need of re-examination. Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics.

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        October 2021

        Doppel-Galoppel 1. Zwei wie Sonne und Wind

        by Chantal Schreiber, Iris Hardt

        In "Doppel-Galoppel 1. Zwei wie Sonne und Wind" von Chantal Schreiber erleben die jungen Geschwister Fanndis und Jon aufregende Tage auf dem Bauernhof ihres Großvaters Valdi in Island. Während sie sich zunächst ständig in die Haare bekommen, bringt eine von Opa Valdi erzählte Geschichte über die isländischen Fohlen Kappi und Skoppa, die trotz ihrer Unterschiede beste Freunde sind, die beiden Geschwister einander näher. Durch dieses Abenteuer lernen sie, ihre Differenzen zu überwinden und die Bedeutung von Freundschaft und Zusammenhalt zu schätzen. Dieses herzerwärmende Pferdeabenteuer ist nicht nur eine Hommage an die Schönheit Islands und seiner Pferde, sondern auch eine lehrreiche Geschichte, die junge Leserinnen und Leser mit Witz und Charme fesselt. Perfekt für junge Pferdeliebhaber: Speziell für Vorschulkinder konzipiert, bietet das Buch spannende und altersgerechte Unterhaltung. Lehrreiche Botschaften: Vermittelt wichtige Werte wie Freundschaft und Zusammenhalt auf eine Weise, die Kinder leicht verstehen können. Fesselnde Erzählung: Eine packende Geschichte, die die Kinder dazu bringt, sich nicht mehr zu streiten und stattdessen in die Handlung vertieft zu sein. Bezaubernde isländische Kulisse: Die Geschichte gibt einen Einblick in die faszinierende Kultur Islands und seine berühmten Pferde. Von einer renommierten Autorin: Geschrieben von Chantal Schreiber, einer anerkannten Expertin für Pferdefiction. Ideal zum Vorlesen: Mit seiner einfachen Sprache und den herzhaften Momenten eignet es sich hervorragend zum Vorlesen für die ganze Familie.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2017

        The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga

        Hincmar of Rheims's De divortio

        by Rachel Stone, Charles West

        In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry. Even 'women in their weaving sheds' were allegedly gossiping about the lurid accusations made. Kings and bishops from neighbouring kingdoms, and several popes, were gradually drawn into a crisis affecting the fate of an entire kingdom. This is the first professionally published translation of a key source for this extraordinary episode: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims's De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae. This text offers eye-opening insight both on the political wrangling of the time and on early medieval attitudes towards magic, penance, gender, the ordeal, marriage, sodomy, the role of bishops, and kingship.The translation includes a substantial introduction and annotations, putting the case into its early medieval context and explaining Hincmar's sometimes-dubious methods of argument.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 1986

        Rose Ausländer. Gesammelte Werke / Wieder ein Tag aus Glut und Wind

        by Ausländer, Rose / Herausgegeben von Braun, Helmut

        Die Rechte zur Nutzung der Gedichte von Rose Ausländer vergeben wir – mit wenigen Ausnahmen – nur über die Bände der „Gesammelten Werke“. Bitte recherchieren Sie, in welchem Band sich das gewünschte Gedicht befindet, bevor Sie eine Anfrage stellen. Bitte nutzen Sie hierzu das Gesamtverzeichnis (siehe PDF unter „Supporting Information“) und stellen Sie Ihre Anfrage dann über den entsprechenden Band. Vielen Dank! | Band 1: „Die Erde war ein atlasweißes Feld. Gedichte 1927-1956“ | Band 2: „Die Sichel mäht die Zeit zu Heu. Gedichte 1957-1965“ | Band 3: „Hügel aus Äther unwiderruflich. Gedichte und Prosa 1966-1975“ | Band 4: „Im Aschenregen die Spur Deines Namens. Gedichte und Prosa 1976“ | Band 5: „Ich höre das Herz des Oleanders. Gedichte 1977-1979“. | Band 6: „Wieder ein Tag aus Glut und Wind. Gedichte 1980-1982“ | Band 7: „Und preise die kühlende Liebe der Luft. Gedichte 1983-1987“ | Band 8: „Jeden Tropen ein tag. Gedichte aus dem Nachlaß“

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        May 1992

        Beschreibung einer Form

        Versuch über Kafka

        by Martin Walser, Walter Höllerer

        Der Versuch über Kafka Beschreibung einer Form ist Martin Walsers Dissertation, sie erschien erstmals 1961 und ist eine bemerkenswerte Einführung in das Werk Franz Kafkas, das eine so tiefe und nicht nachlassende Wirkung ausübt.

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