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Founded in 1993, Ultreya has a staff who love well-made books, love to read them and to create them. When we plan a book, we look for well-written texts with a substantial content and iconographical documentation of the highest quality in order to create prestigious books with a meticulous attention to detail. Ultreya’s clients include some of the leading publishers in Europe and throughout the world, who have found in our catalogue titles which are never banal, discovered unknown splendors, seen themes approached in new and original ways – a catalogue whose growth is justifiably slow in order to maintain the highest level of quality in every phase of production.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureNovember 2025Dirtbag dreams
A history of mountain, ultra and trail running
by Carl Morris
The first book to share the untold story of this unique sport, from its origins in the Victorian era to the present day. Over the past two decades, mountain, ultra and trail running has experienced a massive boom in participation, media attention and corporate consumerism. Once little more than an oddball recreation for mountain athletics romantics, the sport has become a mass activity in ways that were previously unimaginable. In Dirtbag dreams, Carl Morris offers the first complete account of mountain, ultra and trail running in North America and Britain. Revealing the sport's eccentric Victorian origins, he traces its development through 200 years of history, travelling from the Sierra Nevada and the English Lake District to the streets of London and New York. Packed with gripping races and colourful characters, Dirtbag dreams is the essential companion for anyone who wants to understand this unique endurance sport.
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The ArtsMarch 2026Acting and performance in Hitchcock
by Adrian Garvey, Victoria Lowe
Hitchcock's professed disdain for actors is belied by the extraordinary range and depth of performances featured in his films. It might even be argued that many stars gave their richest and most complex performances in his work. Hitchcock's films are also imbued with the theme of performance, as when his fugitive men and errant women assume fragile new identities and move between roles. Actors and other performers also often feature as characters. However, the exhaustive academic literature on Hitchcock has to date produced surprisingly little work about acting and performance in his films. The collection includes contributions from a range of leading scholars on Hitchcock, performance, stardom, and British Cinema, including Charles Barr, David Greven, Mark Glancy, Lucy Bolton, Lawrence Napper and Michael Williams, and an interview with leading composers/accompanists Neil Brand and Stephen Horne on scoring performance in Silent Hitchcock.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2023Pasts at play
Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914
by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling
This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2023Time and radical politics in France
From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
by Alexandra Paulin-Booth
This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions. Using French thinkers and activists of the radical left and right between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War as a case study, it argues that time provides an important means of exploring how concepts such as nationalism, revolution and social change were understood at the turn of the century. Attending to different experiences of time - the speed at which it was perceived to move, the extent to which the future was near and graspable, the ways in which the past was seen to impinge on the present - opens up exciting new possibilities for analysing politics, ideologies and worldviews.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2022Sport and physical culture in Occupied France
by Keith Rathbone, Maire Cross
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2020Pasts at play
by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling, Anna Barton
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June 2022Tillys Kinderkram. Tilly und der Sport
by Jasmin Schaudinn, Angela Gstalter
In "Tillys Kinderkram. Tilly und der Sport" von Jasmin Schaudinn erleben junge Leserinnen und Leser zusammen mit der quirligen Tilly die Welt des Sports aus der Perspektive eines Kindes. Während Erwachsene Sport oft mit dem Ziel betreiben, Gewicht zu verlieren oder Muskeln aufzubauen, entdeckt Tilly die Freude an der Bewegung ohne Leistungsdruck. Ihre Verwunderung über die Erwachsenenwelt und deren Sportgeräte, wie zum Beispiel der Heimtrainer ihres Vaters, der trotz Anstrengung nirgendwohin führt, bringt Kinder zum Schmunzeln. Tillys Abenteuer im Kindergarten mit ihrem Freund Luan und die spielerischen Aktivitäten mit ihrem Bruder Bruno zeigen, dass Sport vor allem Spaß machen und kreativ sein soll. Die Geschichte ist eine Erinnerung daran, dass kindliche Fantasie und die Freude an der Bewegung Hand in Hand gehen. Mit einem Augenzwinkern auf Trends wie Home Fitness und liebevollen Tipps von Tilly selbst, ist dieses Buch ein charmantes Leseerlebnis für Kinder und ihre Eltern, angereichert durch einen begleitenden Podcast „Kinderkram“. Kindgerechte Erzählweise: Vermittelt die Freude an Bewegung und Sport auf eine Weise, die Kinder direkt anspricht und begeistert. Humorvoller Blick auf Erwachsenensport: Bietet lustige Einblicke in die Sportwelt der Erwachsenen aus der Sicht eines Kindes. Förderung von Kreativität und Fantasie: Ermutigt Kinder ab 4 Jahren, ihre eigene Fantasie zu nutzen und selbst kreative Wege zu finden, um aktiv zu sein. Vielseitige Unterhaltung: Ergänzt durch einen Podcast, der die Geschichten von Tilly lebendig werden lässt und für zusätzlichen Spaß sorgt. Ideal für Vorlesestunden: Ein wunderbares Buch für gemeinsame Leseerlebnisse in der Familie, das sowohl Kindergartenkinder als auch Grundschüler anspricht.
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2024Walking in the dark
James Baldwin, my father and I
by Douglas Field
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2020Play time
by Daisy Black, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz
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March 2025Meine Freunde (Sport)
Cooles Eintragbuch für die besten Schulfreund*innen - Das perfekte Geschenk für alle Sport-Fans
by Kaja Reinki
Sportfans aufgepasst! Dieses Freundebuch mit Eintragseiten zu coolen Sportarten wie Football oder BMX bietet viel Platz für alle deine Schulfreund*innen. Hier können sie ein Foto von sich einkleben und ihren Lieblingssportverein, ihren Traumberuf oder ihren allergrößten Wunsch eintragen. So bleiben Freundinnen und Freunde aus der Schulzeit in ganz besonderer Erinnerung.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Class, work and whiteness
Race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79
by Nicola Ginsburgh
This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and nationally heterogeneous formation comprised of both men and women, and emphasises the active participation of white workers in the ongoing and contested production of race. White wage labourers' experiences, both as exploited workers and as part of the privileged white minority, offer insight into how race and class co-produced one another and how boundaries fundamental to settler colonialism were regulated and policed. Based on original research conducted in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK, this book offers a unique theoretical synthesis of work on gender, whiteness studies, labour histories, settler colonialism, Marxism, emotions and the New African Economic History.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Class, work and whiteness
by Nicola Ginsburgh, Alan Lester
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2024Act now
by Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Danny Dorling, Richard Wilkinson
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The ArtsDecember 2022D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
by Jenny Barrett, Douglas Field, Ian Scott
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2026Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer
Anniversary edition
by Sonja Tiernan
An acclaimed biography of poet, pacifist and political firebrand Eva Gore-Booth. The Irish poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) led a life defiantly at odds with her aristocratic origins. Choosing to live and work among the poor of Manchester, she campaigned on behalf of barmaids, circus performers, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses, her partner, Esther Roper, at her side. Gore-Booth was tireless in her pursuit of justice. She was a militant pacifist during the First World War, a champion of Irish independence and a pioneering thinker on gender and sexuality. She was also a prolific author, publishing nineteen volumes of poetry and prose that reflect the full force of her radical convictions. Featuring a new preface that situates Gore-Booth's life and work in the context of our current political climate, this biography reclaims her place as a significant figure of Anglo-Irish letters and an unsung hero of LGBT+ history.
