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David and Charles Ltd
David and Charles is an independent publisher of non-fiction books, predominantly in art, craft and creative categories. Our titles feature industry-leading authors and award-winning editorial and design, commissioned for commercial success in all markets. Category focus on practical how-to books in art, crochet, knitting, general crafts, patchwork & quilting, sewing and wellbeing. Cornerstone titles which are highly illustrated, project, technique and trend orientated.
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The ArtsMay 2026Feminist substances
Plastics in art of the 1960s and 1970s
by Charlotte Matter
Numerous women artists engaged with industrial materials such as plastics in the 1960s and 1970s, contrary to what the discourse of the time would have us believe. As Feminist substances shows, their works offered unique approaches to plastics in art, introducing new material meanings through a feminist lens. With a focus on Europe and Latin America, the book discusses the practices of Carla Accardi, Lea Lublin and Alina Szapocznikow, combining close readings of selected artworks with broader considerations of their social contexts. It explores their use of Sicofoil, plexiglass, plastic inflatables, polyester resin and polyurethane foam to address key concerns of feminist thought in relation to social reproduction, motherhood, memory, desire and illness. Beyond commonplaces of plastics as generic bad materials, Feminist substances considers more complex ways of engaging with synthetic matter, taking into account our messy relationships with these controversial materials.
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The ArtsJanuary 2003'Anagrams of desire'
Angela Carter's writing for radio, film and television
by Charlotte Crofts
Angela Carter is best known for her novels, short fiction and journalism, but she also produced a substantial body of writing for media other than the printed page, including five radio plays, two film adaptations, an original television documentary and a number of unrealised scripts for stage and screen. Despite increasing academic interest in Carter's work, these dramatic writings have largely been ignored. In this book, Charlotte Crofts redresses this lack of critical attention by examining Carter's dramatic writings together for the first time (including two unpublished works), giving them a more central position in the Carter canon. Divided into three sections on radio, film and television, the book's interdisciplinary approach is underpinned by reference to exclusive interviews with the directors and producers with whom Carter collaborated, giving a unique insight into processes of adaptation and the technologies of media production. The author demonstrates how, far from being an aberration from her real vocation as a writer of fiction, Carter's writing for radio, film and television is an extension of her self-professed demythologising practice. ;
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September 2008Security in a greater Europe
The possibility of a pan-European approach
by Charlotte Wagnsson
Can Russia, the European Union and the three major EU member states adopt a unified policy line in the global arena? Charlotte Wagnsson investigates the cohesiveness of 'greater Europe' through the detailed scrutiny of policy statements by the leadership elites in the UK, France, Germany, Russia and the EU in connection with three defining events in international security: the crisis in Kosovo of 1999; the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq crisis of 2003. This extensive empirical enquiry results in a critical constructivist response to neorealist understandings of European security. The book contrasts the EU's new way of 'doing security' with the established, competitive bilateral interplay in the European security sphere and provides a clue to the kind of security politics that will prevail in Europe. It considers the extent to which the major European players pursue similar objectives, and assesses the possible implications for, and the chances of, greater Europe emerging as a cohesive global actor. ;
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July 1994Das Dritte Reich des Traums
Mit einem Nachwort von Reinhart Koselleck
by Charlotte Beradt, Reinhart Koselleck
»Das Dritte Reich des Traums«, 1962 erstmals in Deutschland erschienen, ist heute aktueller denn je. Charlotte Beradt hat Träume aufgezeichnet, Träume, die zwischen 1933 und 1939, in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, geträumt wurden. Fünfzig solcher »von der Diktatur diktierte Träume« hat sie in ihrem Buch notiert. Hat »Schneiderin, Nachbar, Tante, Milchmann, Freund« zu Wort kommen lassen. Hat aufgezeigt, wie nationalsozialistische Propaganda und Terror in die Nischen des scheinbar privaten Alltags eindringen und wie die Träumer auf den enormen Außendruck reagieren; wie scheinbar unbescholtene Bürger in ihrer Traumwelt zu Verfolgten werden, die unter dem Verfolgungsregime leiden. Ein beklemmendes, ein wichtiges Buch, das uns Zugang verschafft zu historischer Zeitgeschichte und nachdenklich stimmt in Anbetracht der aktuellen politischen Situation.
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The ArtsMarch 2006Art history
A critical introduction to its methods
by Michael Hatt, Charlotte Klonk
Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary debates. By explaining the underlying philosophical and political assumptions behind each method, along with clear examples of how these are brought to bear on visual and historical analysis, the authors show that an adherence to a certain method is, in effect, a commitment to a set of beliefs and values. The book makes a strong case for the vitality of the discipline and its methodological centrality to new fields such as visual culture. This book will be of enormous value to undergraduate and graduate students, and also makes its own contributions to ongoing scholarly debates about theory and method. ;
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July 2013Fröhliche Weihnachten!
Mein liebster Wimmelbilder-Spaß
by Wagner, Charlotte / Illustriert von Wagner, Charlotte
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September 2016Das Dritte Reich des Traums
by Charlotte Beradt, Barbara Hahn
Charlotte Beradt, die als Journalistin in Berlin arbeitete, wurde ab 1933 nicht mehr beschäftigt, floh 1939 nach England und 1940 weiter nach New York. Charlotte Beradt sammelte Träume, die zwischen 1933 und 1939 geträumt wurden, und befragte dazu Menschen ihrer Umgebung: Schneiderin, Nachbar, Tante, Milchmann, den befreundeten Unternehmer, den Arzt … Fünfzig „von der Diktatur diktierte Träume“ hat sie in ihren 1966 erstmals erschienenen Klassiker der Traumdokumentation aufgenommen. Eine erste Auswahl, 1943 in einer amerikanischen Zeitschrift erschienen, begann mit den Sätzen: „Ich erwachte schweißgebadet, mit zusammengebissenen Zähnen. Wieder, wie in zahllosen Nächten davor, war ich in einem Traum von einem Ort zum nächsten und immer weiter gejagt worden – angeschossen, gefoltert, skalpiert. Aber in dieser Nacht kam mir in den Sinn, daß ich wohl nicht die einzige unter Abertausenden war, die durch die Diktatur zu solchen Träumen verurteilt wurde. Was meine Träume beherrschte, mußte auch ihre beherrschen – atemlose Flucht über Felder, Versteck auf schwindelerregend hohen Türmen, Sichverkriechen in Gräbern, die SS-Männer stets auf den Fersen. Ich begann, andere Leute nach ihren Träumen zu befragen.“
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August 2005Geschichte meines Lebens
Mozarts Librettist erinnert sich
by Lorenzo Ponte, Charlotte Birnbaum, Charlotte Birnbaum, Jörg Krämer
Lorenzo Da Pontes Leben verlief wahrlich nicht geradlinig. Aus einfachen Verhältnissen stammend, führte ihn sein Weg über die Priesterweihe und Tätigkeit als Literaturprofessor bis in die Neue Welt, wo er die Oper populär machte.Er traf auf berühmte Zeitgenossen wie Casanova, Salieri oder Cagliostro, die er in seinen Memoiren treffend porträtiert, und natürlich auf Mozart. Für ihn schrieb er drei Libretti, durch die sie beide unsterblich wurden: Die Hochzeit des Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787) und Così fan tutte (1790).
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025
Living with water
Everyday encounters and liquid connections
by Charlotte Bates, Kate Moles
Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and drought impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation
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March 2009Ja, unsere Kreise berühren sich
Briefe
by Christa Wolf, Charlotte Wolff
Im Frühjahr 1983 hat Christa Wolf gerade die aufsehenerregenden Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen und ihre große Erzählung Kassandra veröffentlicht. Zur gleichen Zeit arbeitet die Psychologin und Ärztin Charlotte Wolff – eine deutsche Jüdin, die 1933 zuerst nach Paris und dann nach London emigrierte – an einer umfangreichen Monographie zu Magnus Hirschfeld, dem Pionier der Erforschung menschlicher Sexualität. Zwei Frauen, die sich nie persönlich begegnen werden. Aber in den drei Jahren ihres Austauschs entsteht ein so engagierter wie anrührender Briefwechsel über Arbeitsvorhaben, über den Alltag, über die Stellung der Künstlerin in einer männlich bestimmten Gesellschaft – und es ergibt sich das Bild einer stetig wachsenden Freundschaft.
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