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Belcastro Agency is a full-service literary agency representing authors writing adult and young adult fiction. We are a passionate, hands-on, editorially-focused agency and work closely with our writers in developing manuscripts and proposals for submission. In addition, we actively manage subsidiary rights for the projects we represent including foreign translation, audio, and film/television rights.
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2025Among Neighbours
The strangest relationship of our lives
by Bernd Imgrund
There are many things in life that we are (more or less) free to choose: our circle of friends, our workplace, our place of residence. However, we have to take some communities as they come: We cannot choose our family or our neighbours, for example. Why this does not only lead to the much-vaunted idyllic sense of belonging and what tensions forced social relationships can cause: This is the subject of this fascinating collection of essays by Bernd Imgrund. It sheds light on a piece of social history that we all know from our own experience: who hasn't had an argument with their immediate neighbour or made fun of the residents of the neighbouring district? But it is by no means only negative aspects that characterise neighbourly relations. Pride in one's neighbourhood, help within a village community: the many advantages of a social community, its importance and its representation in art and literature have also found their way into this book.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2024Brexit and citizens’ rights
History, policy and experience
by Djordje Sredanovic, Bridget Byrne
The book offers interdisciplinary analyses of the impact of Brexit on the rights of EU27 citizens in the UK, Britons in the UK and the EU, and third-country nationals. It combines a historical examination of citizenship and migration between the UK, Europe and the Commonwealth with the analysis of policies and of the experiences of the different groups impacted by Brexit. The book discusses Brexit within the larger history and dynamics of UK and EU citizenship and migration. The individual chapters look at how Brexit is transforming the citizenship rights of different groups, including issues of loss of citizenship and experiences of naturalisation. They further examine the fears of the groups impacted, and larger issues of belonging, marginalisation, political orientations and mobilisations that cross legal status, nationality, ethnicity, race and class.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2025The politics of Unbelonging
Understanding and challenging racialisation of Roma in Europe and beyond
by Andreja Zevnik, Andrew Russell
This book offers a comprehensive study of racialisation of Romani communities in Europe (and beyond). Drawing on the idea of unbelonging it demonstrates how Romani communities are placed in a position of visceral visibility by local, national and international institutions as well as public media discourses. It shows how such positionality impacts the ability of Roma to self-represent politically and build capacity for change. From the position of unbelonging the book offers an account of Romani agency which both challenges the mainstream representations of Roma but also develops an alternative none-nation-state sense of belonging. In doing so the book outlines an account of Romani alternative expressions in order to take control of their relationship with their own history, future, knowledge, and identity, and the rest of the society.
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Should I Stay or Shoul I Go?
20 Fragen an deine Beziehung
by Hallet, Thomas & Kieselbach, Dagmar
Die Liebe neu entfachen oder sich doch verabschieden? 20 klärende Fragen für Frauen in langjährigen Beziehungen. Fühlen Sie sich in Ihrer Beziehung festgefahren oder stecken gar in einer Ehekrise?Haben Sie das Gefühl, nur noch nebeneinanderher zu leben?Fehlt die Leidenschaft, und der Zweifel an der Partnerschaft nagt an Ihnen? Besonders Frauen in der Lebensmitte stellen sich oft die Frage: War das schon alles oder kommt da noch was? Soll ich gehen oder bleiben? In »Should I Stay or Should I Go?« stellen die erfahrenen Paartherapeuten Dagmar Kieselbach und Thomas Hallet, selbst seit über 30 Jahren verheiratet, 20 essenzielle Fragen, die Ihnen dabei helfen, ehrlich Bilanz zu ziehen. Anhand von aufschlussreichen Fallbeispielen aus ihrer Praxis und konkreten Hilfestellungen zeigen sie Wege auf, wie Sie Ihre Beziehung wieder mit Leben füllen können – oder woran Sie erkennen, dass es Zeit ist, loszulassen und über eine Scheidung oder Trennung nachzudenken. Persönlich, provokant und praxisnah liefert dieses Buch wertvolle Einsichten statt plumpe Ratgeberfloskeln. »Das Einzige, was nachweislich glücklich macht, sind gute Beziehungen. Dank dieses Buches wissen wir, ob unser Miteinander überhaupt ›gut‹ ist und wie wir es vor allem besser machen können. Ein Muss für alle, die Liebe in ihrem Leben haben möchten!« Nicole Staudinger
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Engendering whiteness
White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865
by Cecily Jones
Engendering whiteness represents a comparative analysis of the complex interweaving of race, gender, social class and sexuality in defining the contours of white women's lives in Barbados and North Carolina during the era of slavery. Despite their gendered subordination, their social location within the dominant white group afforded all white women a range of privileges. Hence, their whiteness, as much as their gender, shaped these women's social identities and material realities. Crucially, as the biological reproducers of whiteness, and hence the symbolic and literal embodiment and bearers of the state of freedom, they were critical to the maintenance and reproduction of the cultural boundaries of 'whiteness', and consequently the subjects of patriarchal measures to limit and control their social and sexual freedoms. Engendering whiteness draws on a wide variety of sources including property deeds, wills, court transcripts, and interrogates the ways in which white women could be simultaneously socially positioned within plantation societies as both agents and as victims. It also reveals the strategies deployed by elite and poor white women in these societies to resist their gendered subordination, to challenge the ideological and social constraints that sought to restrict their lives to the private domestic sphere, to protect the limited rights afforded to them, to secure independent livelihoods, and to create meaningful existences. A fascinating study that with be welcomed by historians of imperialism as well as scholars of gender history and women's studies.
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June 2009Go crazy
Unterwegs zu Europas verrücktesten Veranstaltungen
by Prestenbach, Ralf; Denzer, Wolfram
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February 2014Heimat to go
Von der Kunst, sich immer zu Hause zu fühlen
by Nadolny, Petra / Illustriert von Karla-Jean von Wissel
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November 2016Pokémon GO
Das ultimative inoffizielle Handbuch
by Copperman, Cara / Englisch Scheweling, Nina; Englisch Holtsch, Heike; Englisch Thiele, Ulrich
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October 2015Don't Go Veggie!
75 Fakten zum vegetarischen Wahn.
by Pollmer, Udo; Keckl, Georg; Alfs, Klaus
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