Sirkel Forlag was set up in 2016 as an author´s cooperative enterprise. As of today, we represent six authors and have a catalogue of eight books, including poetry, non-fiction, an illustrated children’s book, a screenplay and four novels. Two of our novels have been supported by the Norwegian Arts Council. While our main mission is to promote innovative and independent authorship in Norway, we also hope to reach readers abroad through high-quality translations.
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With over 120 years of experience Ernst Reinhardt GmbH & Co KG is a family owned, independent publishing company and has, as of now, 750 titles available. We specialize amongst others in the fields of psychology, education, gerontology and social work and publish an average of 45 new titles every year. Internationally known as quality research literature, our publications have been translated into over 30 languages.Reinhardt Publishing cooperates with professional institutions and associations such as the German Association for Psychology or the Association for Bodypsychotherapy and is a member of utb GmbH – a university-focused joint venture of 15 German academic publishers.
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— True crime stories from the morgue — Famous deaths and autopsy stories resolved, such as Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the case of Anne Greene, who survived her execution by hanging The post-mortem examination. A glimpse inside the interior of the human being. Many find the idea fascinating; for others it is creepy or even repugnant. There are still numerous myths and horror stories surrounding the autopsy, many of them associated with primal human fears such as that of being buried alive, which have existed since Antiquity. It is precisely for this reason that it is important to carry out the post-mortem examination with the utmost conscientiousness. Pathologist Roland Sedivy provides an exciting insight into his profession. Profound and with tremendous humour, he tells us about the early days of the autopsy, and shares with us some macabre and some mysterious cases.
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
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Ernest wuchs auf einer Farm in Irland auf. Aber es zog ihn in die weite Welt. Am liebsten las er Abenteuerromane. Schon als junger Mann nahm er an zwei Expeditionen zum Südpol teil. Ihr Ziel erreichten sie nicht, aber sein Ehrgeiz war so groß, dass er es erneut versuchte – mit einem eigenen Team. Einmal blieb ihr Schiff im Packeis stecken. In einer dramatischen Rettungsaktion gelang es ihm nach vielen Monaten, alle Männer zu retten. Die Menschen liebten ihn, denn er war nicht nur ein großer Polarforscher, sondern auch ein echter Team-Player. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonization and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests, both internal and international, that influenced the actions of the various major players, it highlights British efforts to maintain a grip on India even as the decolonization process spun out of control. Drawing on extensive archival research in India, Pakistan, and Britain, combined with innovative use of cartographic sources, the book paints a vivid picture of both the partition process and the Radcliffe line's impact on Punjab. This book will be vital reading for scholars and students of colonialism, decolonization, partition, and borderlands studies, while providing anyone interested in South Asia's independence with a highly readable account of one of its most controversial episodes.
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For the uninitiated, the Irish District Court is a place of incomprehensible, organised chaos. This comprehensive account of the court's criminal proceedings, based on an original study which involved observing hundreds of cases, aims to demystify the mayhem and provide the reader with descriptions of language, participant discourse and procedure in the typical criminal case. In addition, the book captures a recent and important change in the District Court: the advent of the immigrant or the Limited-English-proficient (LEP) defendant. It traces the rise of these defendants and explores the issues involved in ensuring access to justice across languages. It also provides an original description of LEP defendants and interpreters in District Court proceedings, ultimately considering how they have altered the institution and how the characteristics of the District Court affect how limited English proficient defendants access justice at this level of the Irish courts system.
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A hospital somewhere in remote South Sudan. A place where peoples’ lives are marked by extreme poverty, war, violence, the climate crisis and the daily struggle for survival. How does it feel to be human under these conditions? What moves someone to voluntarily go where nobody would want to? Andreas Lutz takes you on a journey to a project run by the humanitarian aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières in the northeast of South Sudan. Impressed by encounters with people who live under the precarious conditions of this crisis zone, he writes about his experiences as a caregiver and, among other things, about how healthcare provision works with very limited resources.
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People's ordinary, everyday lives - and more specifically, their leisure activities - are often obscured within existing academic research on 1920s-30s Ireland. This book seeks to redress that neglect by exploring the relationship between identity, recreation, and culture both North and South of the border, with particular attention to women's lived experiences. Leisurely pursuits during this period were commonly overshadowed by religious influence and the nation-building projects in post-partition Ireland. Nevertheless, there existed alternative spaces, where people enjoyed dancing, singing, listening to music, shopping, glamour, reading magazines, swimming, travelling, and going to the cinema. Such activities reflected international trends beyond national borders. This book documents those activities and spaces through a feminist lens and intersectional analysis of gender, class, religion and rural/urban identities. It brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, architecture, geography, fashion, and musicology. In so doing, we present new insights and advance understanding of this under-researched aspect of Irish history.
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Become an explorer! Go with Lias on an exciting mission and solve the puzzles that will lead you to your goal. Eventually you must decide: how will the adventure continue? 3 paths – 3 adventures – which of them is for YOU? Join Lias, Mojo and Cookie on a mission to the Himalayas: together they must find out what has happened to Lias’s father. He disappeared six months ago and the only thing he left behind was his expedition diary, which is full of strange clues and puzzles. The reader will be able to move onto the next stage only if you can decipher them. A great adventure awaits you! And you decide In the end, you must decide: How should the adventure continue for you and the Explorer Team? Hunt with Lias through the forgotten world. Go with Tashi to discover the eternal ice or follow Cookie and Mojo through fire and lava. You will have to choose which of the Explorers you want to accompany on the next adventure.
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New D.H. Lawrence uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain's major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence scholars, who are brought together here for the first time. Chapters include: Andrew Harrison on the marketing of Sons and Lovers; Howard J. Booth on The Rainbow, Marxist criticism and colonialism; Holly A. Laird on ethics and suicide in Women in Love; Hugh Stevens on psychoanalysis and war in Women in Love; Jeff Wallace on Lawrence, Deleuze and abstraction; Stefania Michelucci on myth and war in 'The Ladybird'; Bethan Jones on gender and comedy in the late short fiction; Fiona Becket on green cultural critique, Apocalypse and Birds, Beasts and Flowers; and Sean Matthews on class, Leavis and the trial of Lady Chatterley. New D.H. Lawrence will be of interest to all concerned with contemporary writing on Lawrence, modernism and English radical cultures. ;
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Love and anti-Judaism is a new examination of medieval romance for the questions it poses of the most significant events in Christian history. Providing new readings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther and Sir Amadace, the book argues that romance explores depictions of love-and the sacrifices it may necessitate-in the Hebrew Bible, especially where they do not easily fit into interpretations asserting that this history must prefigure Christ and the crucifixion. An examination of anti-Judaism as a discourse of violence and desire that could be turned inwardly to expose the irresolution in Christianity, this book will provoke new investigations into the religious crises of medieval romance.
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«Es ist dies ein Buch, von dem man sich nach der Lektüre nicht vorstellen kann, es jemals nicht gekannt zu haben», schrieb die FAZ über M. Blechers Sanatoriumsroman Vernarbte Herzen (BS 1399). Sein letztes Werk, die Beleuchtete Höhle, das er nicht mehr korrigieren konnte, schreibt den Roman fort. Unverhüllt autobiographisch und mit einer atemberaubenden Klarheit erzählt der noch nicht 30jährige Autor (1909 - 1938), wie ihm, dem hoffnungslos Erkrankten, in Augenblicken größten Leidens die Zusammenhänge des Lebens, die geheimnisvollen Übergänge zwischen Realität, Traum und Schreiben einsichtig werden. Blechers Poetologie des Leidens kontrapunktiert seine Erzählungen aus Berck, die expressionistischen Schilderungen von Paris oder die Reminiszenzen an ein Sanatorium in Rumänien. Ernest Wichners umfangreicher Essay gibt erstmals Einblick in die bisher nur bruchstückhaft bekannte Biographie des Autors, der heute, 70 Jahre nach seinem Tod, weltweit entdeckt wird.
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Aus der unmittelbaren Unwirklichkeit von M. Blecher (1909–1938) gilt als ein Meilenstein der mitteleuropäischen Moderne. Ernest Wichners Übersetzung – mit Herta Müllers leidenschaftlichem Plädoyer, Blecher zu lesen, als Nachwort – ist als Band 1367 der Bibliothek Suhrkamp erschienen. Nun folgt der 1937, ein Jahr nach der Unmittelbaren Unwirklichkeit, erstmals veröffentlichte autobiographische Roman Vernarbte Herzen. Erzählt wird die Geschichte des 21jährigen Emanuel, eines rumänischen Chemiestudenten in Paris, der an Knochentuberkulose erkrankt und fast ein Jahr in einem französischen Sanatorium am Atlantik verbringt. Er gerät in die Gesellschaft der Kranken, eine faszinierende Welt für sich, aus der sich selbst die Geheilten nur schwer wieder befreien können. »Das Paradox aller bedeutenden Kunst gilt auch hier, in Blechers wunderbarer Prosa: Das so suggestiv beschriebene Unglück wird zum intellektuellen Glück des Lesers.« Harald Hartung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
