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Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House

Nashre-Cheshmeh is a family business with more than 100 employees. It is one of the most active private publishing houses of the country with more than 1500 books, an annual number of 130 new ones, and six bookstores. The house has been working for more than 35 years, publishing the works of the most significant Iranian writers, poets, and translators, and the young generation of the best Iranian literary figures of the country. Many of these writers have novels, short stories, or poems published, or going to be published, in the European countries, the US, and Asia. We have always supported Iran’s joining the Berne Convention, thus tried to acquire the Persian translation rights for the titles we publish, such as the books by Orhan Pamuk, Steve Toltz, Patrick Modiano, Javier Marias, Rolf Dobelli, Alain Badiou, Klaus Modick, Ben Clanton, Siri Kolu.
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Le Cheval d'août

Le Cheval d'août is an independent publishing company located in Montréal (Québec, Canada) that specializes in fictional contemporary literature, from the novel to non-fictional genres. Passionate about new voices, original and pertinent forms, its catalog has quickly acquired a name for itself and has won the favors of critics and readers. Its authors have earned several distinctions, are translated in Canada and in Europe, and have seen their books enjoy a second life through various adaptations.
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Literature & Literary Studies

February 1997

A Game at Chess

Thomas Middleton

by T.H. Howard-Hill

For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James' reign on account of its unprecedented representation of matters of state usually forbidden on the stage. The King's Men performed the play uninterruptedly between 5th and 14th August, 1624 at their Globe Theatre, attracting large audiences, before the Privy Council closed the theatre by the King's command. More recently, growing interest in the connections of economics and politics with authorship have promoted readings that locate the play so firmly within its historical context as propaganda that, again, its worthwhile literary and theatrical qualities are neglected. In writing "A Game at Chess", Middleton employed the devices of the neoclassical comedy of intrigue within the matrix of the traditional oral play. What might have seemed old-fashioned allegory was rejuvenated by his adoption of the fashionable game of chess as the fiction within which the play was set. The product of Middleton's experienced craftsmanship is at once deceptively simple and surprisingly complex. ;

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May 2009

Leben wär eine prima Alternative

Tagebücher und Briefe

by Maxie Wander, Fred Wander

Im Sommer 1976 bestätigt sich der schlimme Verdacht: Maxie Wander leidet an Krebs und wird ein Jahr später daran sterben. Die vorliegende Sammlung von Tagebucheinträgen und Briefen ermöglicht es dem Leser, sie auf diesem Lebensabschnitt zu begleiten. Mit klarem Blick und scharfer Selbstironie schildert sie ihre Odyssee durch die Behandlungsräume verschiedener Ärzte, die Sprachlosigkeit im Angesicht der Krankheit und die Intensität, die das Leben bekommt, wenn es nicht länger selbstverständlich ist. Maxie Wander bezaubert auch in den schwärzesten Augenblicken mit ihrer Faszination für die kleinen Dinge des Lebens, mit ihrem Lebenswillen und mit ihrer Selbsterkenntnis: Leben wär eine prima Alternative. Ein Titel, der für Leserinnen und Leser in Ost und West zur Maxime wurde und ihre Aufzeichnungen zum Kultbuch machte.

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October 2007

Ein Leben ist nicht genug

Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Briefe

by Maxie Wander, Fred Wander, Fred Wander

»Ein Leben reicht nicht aus, alle guten Bücher zu lesen, alle Menschen kennenzulernen, alle Länder, die ich sehen möchte.« Maxie Wanders Aufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1964 bis 1968 beeindrucken: Ob sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann durch die französische Metropole streift, in billigen Hotels wohnt und das »berühmte Pariser Licht« entdeckt oder sich mit den alltäglichen Aufgaben zu Hause, mit den Kindern, den vielen Freunden, der eigenen Arbeit befaßt – ihr Thema ist die »Suche nach einer neuen Art zu leben, anders zu leben, aufrichtig und schöpferisch zu leben«, wie es im Vorwort von Fred Wander heißt. Maxie Wanders Briefe und Tagebuchnotizen zeichnen das Bild einer klugen, neugierigen, impulsiven Frau, die das Leben mit Leidenschaft betrieb.

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Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

September 2017

A cultural history of chess-players

by John Sharples

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August 1996

Dirty Games

by Zahavi, Helen / Englisch Schmidt, Sibylle

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December 2013

Rig-Veda. Das Heilige Wissen

Dritter bis fünfter Liederkreis

by Michael E. J. Witzel, Salvatore Scarlata, Toshifumi Goto

Der 'Rig-Veda' ist eines der ältesten Literaturdenkmäler der Menschheit. Seine Hymnen sind die früheste uns erhaltene religiöse Dichtung Indiens; sie sind lange vor dem Hinduismus und Buddhismus entstanden. In der neuen Übersetzung kommen sowohl das Fremde und Geheimnisvolle der Veden als auch ihre bis heute wirksame Unmittelbarkeit zum Ausdruck. Der umfassende Kommentar erläutert die Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte, die Sprache, Symbole und dichterischen Formen des 'Rig-Veda', seinen geographischen, geschichtlichen, archäologischen, kulturellen und sozialen Hintergrund, die komplexe Götterwelt und Mythologie sowie die große Bedeutung des 'feierlichen Rituals' – eines vollendeten liturgischen Systems, das noch heute Anwendung findet. Der zweite Band der Edition versammelt den dritten bis fünften der insgesamt zehn Liederkreise.

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2025

Critical games

On play and seriousness in academia, literature and life

by Tim Beasley-Murray

Critical Games is about the games we play (whether we know it or not), the ways we play them (for fun, but also to win, and to gain approval from others), and what happens when they get out of hand. The book interrogates the theory of play and gaming, with a particular focus on the games played by literary authors and literary critics. Drawing on (often self-critical) autobiography, as well as readings in texts across a range of languages, Tim Beasley-Murray plays with academic conventions to highlight what is at stake in them, turning to the Game of Literature, from Kafka to Carrère, to seek models and warnings of the outcomes of taking games too seriously, or not taking them seriously enough.

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1982

Foul Play

by Wahlöö, Per

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November 2017

Foul Play

by Wahlöö, Per / Übersetzt von Barnutz, Inge

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November 2022

Rig-Veda – Das heilige Wissen

Sechster und siebter Liederkreis

by Toshifumi Gotō, Eijirō Dōyama, Toshifumi Gotō, Eijirō Dōyama

Der ›Rig-Veda‹ gehört zu den frühesten Literaturdenkmälern der Menschheit. Seine 1028 Gedichte mit ihren 10580 Versen wurden etwa zwischen 1500 und 1000 v. Chr. im archaischen Indo-Arisch, einer Vorform des klassischen Sanskrit, verfaßt. Obwohl die ältesten Handschriften erst aus dem frühen 2. Jahrtausend datieren, ist durch die teilweise bis heute praktizierte, äußerst genaue mündliche Überlieferung der ursprüngliche Wortlaut nahezu unverändert erhalten geblieben.In der neuen Übersetzung kommen sowohl das Fremde, Geheimnisvolle der Veden als auch ihre bis heute wirksame Unmittelbarkeit zum Ausdruck. Der dritte Band enthält mit den Liederkreisen 6 und 7 die Dichtungen des Bharadvāja und seiner Nachkommen (maṇḍala 6) und das Buch der Vasiṣṭhas (maṇḍala 7).

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Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

February 2012

Foreign players and football supporters

The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain

by David Ranc

'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2021

Passing into the present

Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

by Sinead Moynihan

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.

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Medicine

January 2025

Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820

by Alannah Tomkins

This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if little-recognised presence. It finds that women and men undertook caring work to the best of their ability, and often performed well, despite multiple threats to nurse reputations on the grounds of gender norms and social status. Chapters consider nursing in the home, in general hospitals, in specialist institutions like the Royal Chelsea Hospital and asylums, plus during wartime, illuminated by multiple accounts of individual nurses. In these settings, it employs the sociological concept of 'dirty work' to contextualise the challenges to nurses and nursing identities.

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July 2023

Khaby Lame – Das Leben kann so einfach sein!

by Khaby Lame, Simone Laudiero

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January 1994

Hotel Baalbek

Roman

by Wander, Fred

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January 1995

Ein Zimmer in Paris

Erzählung

by Wander, Fred

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January 1999

Das gute Leben

Erinnerungen

by Wander, Fred

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October 2019

Guten Morgen, du Schöne

by Maxie Wander

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Literature & Literary Studies

May 2023

Pasts 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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January 2010

Die Songs

by Sting / Englisch Allié, Manfred

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by T.H. Howard-Hill

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by Maxie Wander, Fred Wander

Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Briefe

by Maxie Wander, Fred Wander, Fred Wander

by John Sharples

by Zahavi, Helen / Englisch Schmidt, Sibylle

Dritter bis fünfter Liederkreis

by Michael E. J. Witzel, Salvatore Scarlata, Toshifumi Goto

On play and seriousness in academia, literature and life

by Tim Beasley-Murray

by Wahlöö, Per

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Sechster und siebter Liederkreis

by Toshifumi Gotō, Eijirō Dōyama, Toshifumi Gotō, Eijirō Dōyama

The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain

by David Ranc

Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

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Roman

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Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914

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