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      • AlFulk Translation and Publishing

        AlFulk Translation & Publishing: An independent publishing house, launched in October 2015 and based in Abu Dhabi. It specialisation is translating children and young adult literature from different languages into Arabic. AlFulk aims for:1. To enrich the Arabic library with diverse cultural collections, in order to aware the readers of the intercultural communication importance. 2. To establish a reading habits base for children from 0-4.3. To increase the level of YA books -both Fantasy, fiction and non-fiction- in terms of their content and illustrations.As the majority in the publishing industry, we have been affected by COVID-19 epidemic. However, we have decided to participate at Frankfurter Buchmesse this year to look at what is new in the industry and to expand our network. We seek long term partnerships.

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      • Literature Translation Institute of Korea

        LTI Korea is a government-affiliated organization that aims to disseminate Korean culture and literature throughout the world in line with the government’s efforts to shape Korean literature in the world culture.  website: https://www.ltikorea.or.kr/en/main.do  Korean Literature Now(literary magazine): https://www.ltikorea.or.kr/en/board/kln_en/boardList.do

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2017

        Oceania under steam

        Sea transport and the cultures of colonialism, c. 1870–1914

        by Frances Steel

        The age of steam was the age of Britain's global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world seemed to shrink as timetabled shipping mapped out faster, more efficient and more reliable transoceanic networks. But what did this transport revolution look like at the other end of the line, at the edge of empire in the South Pacific? Through the historical example of the largest and most important regional maritime enterprise - the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand - Frances Steel eloquently charts the diverse and often conflicting interests, itineraries and experiences of commercial and political elites, common seamen and stewardesses, and Islander dock workers and passengers. Drawing on a variety of sources, including shipping company archives, imperial conference proceedings, diaries, newspapers and photographs, this book will appeal to cultural historians and geographers of British imperialism, scholars of transport and mobility studies, and historians of New Zealand and the Pacific.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2022

        Deportation limbo

        by Annika Lindberg

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        September 2009

        Odessa Transfer

        Nachrichten vom Schwarzen Meer

        by Katharina Raabe, Monika Sznajderman, Andrzej Kramarz

        Wie Raumstationen an den äußersten Ende des Universums erschienen den alten Griechen ihre Küstenstädte am Schwarzen Meers. Über Tausende von Jahren verlief hier die Grenze zwischen Europa und Asien, fast ein halbes Jahrhundert die zwischen Ostblock und westlichem Bündnis. Die dünne Schicht organischen Lebens über einer gewaltigen toten Tiefe; zwei Strömungen, deren obere westwärts, deren untere ostwärts zieht - das geheimnisvolle Meer symbolisiert geradezu die Spannung, die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen. „Last & Lost“, dem Atlas des verschwindenden Europas, folgt „Odessa Transfer“, eine Fahrt an die Grenzen früherer Imperien, an Orte des Exils und der Zuflucht. Was entsteht hier, zwischen Constanza und Odessa, Jalta und Sotschi, Batumi und Istanbul, auf den Trümmern der ältesten und der jüngsten Geschichte? In Essays, literarischen Reportagen und Erzählungen wird die Schwarzmeerregion sichtbar - als ein Raum, dessen Zauber und Zerstörtheit die poetische Einbildungskraft herausfordert. Mit Texten von Neal Ascherson, Attila Bartis, Mircea Cartarescu, Nicoleta Esinencu, Karl-Markus Gauß, Katja Lange-Müller, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Aka Morchiladze, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Katja Petrowskaja, Andrzej Stasiuk, Takis Theodoropoulos und einem Fotoessay von Andrzej Kramarz.

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        March 2017

        Transit

        Roman

        by Rachel Cusk, Eva Bonné

        „Eine Übergangsphase“ prophezeit ihr eine astrologische Spam-Mail. Und tatsächlich verändert sich für die Schriftstellerin Faye gerade vieles: Nach einer kräftezehrenden Scheidung ist sie mit ihren beiden Söhnen zurück nach London gezogen und hat bei der Suche nach einer Wohnung einem Gefühl nachgegeben, das augenblicklich verschwand. Anders als die heruntergekommene Haushälfte, die sie jetzt ihr Eigen nennt. Sie lebt auf einer Baustelle, täglich ereignet sich eine kleine Katastrophe, während sie sich einem Ort anzunähern versucht, den sie schon einmal Heimat nannte. Sie trifft Freunde von früher und knüpft neue Bekanntschaften, sie erfährt von den Schicksalen und Krisen der anderen, spricht über Wahlfreiheiten und Notwendigkeiten und gelangt nach und nach zu einer weitreichenden Erkenntnis, die alles auf den Kopf stellt. Wie können wir uns darin einrichten, wenn wir dem eigenen Leben zugleich entfliehen wollen? Mit Scharfsinn und Witz erzählt Transit von vertrackten Sehnsüchten, entscheidenden Momenten und dem Rätsel persönlicher Veränderung.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        June 2024

        The labour movement in Lebanon

        Power on hold

        by Lea Bou Khater

        The labour movement in Lebanon: Power on hold narrates the history of the Lebanese labour movement from the early twentieth century to today. Bou Khater demonstrates that trade unionism in the country has largely been a failure, for reasons including state interference, tactical co-optation, and the strategic use of sectarianism by an oligarchic elite, together with the structural weakness of a service-based laissez-faire economy. Drawing on a vast body of Arabic-language primary sources and difficult-to-access archives, the book's conclusions are significant not only for trade unionism, but also for new forms of workers' organisations and social movements in Lebanon and beyond. The Lebanese case study presented here holds significant implications for the wider Arab world and for comparative studies of labour. This authoritative history of the labour movement in Lebanon is vital reading for scholars of trade unionism, Lebanese politics, and political economy.

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        History
        July 2016

        From empire to exile

        History and memory within the pied-noir and harki communities, 1962–2012

        by Series edited by Maire Cross, David Hopkin, Claire Eldridge

        This book explores the commemorative afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), one of the world's most iconic wars of decolonisation. It focuses on the million French settlers - pieds-noirs - and the tens of thousands of harkis - the French army's native auxiliaries - who felt compelled to migrate to France when colonial rule ended. Challenging the idea that Algeria was a 'forgotten' war that only returned to French public attention in the 1990s, this study reveals a dynamic picture of memory activism undertaken continuously since 1962 by grassroots communities connected to this conflict. Reconceptualising the ways in which the Algerian War has been debated, evaluated and commemorated in the subsequent five decades, From empire to exile makes an original contribution to important discussions surrounding the contentious issues of memory, migration and empire in contemporary France that will appeal to students and scholars of history and cultural studies.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2017

        Transporting Chaucer

        by Anke Bernau, Helen Barr

        Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later - and earlier - texts. Responding to this, the book presents innovative readings of the relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, literary texts and material culture. It re-energises conventional models of source and analogue study to reveal unexpected - and sometimes unsettling - literary cohabitations. At the same time, it exposes how associations between architecture, pilgrim practice, manuscript illustration and the soundscapes of dramatic performance reposition how we read Chaucer's oeuvre and what gets made of it. An invaluable resource for scholars and students of all levels with an interest in medieval English literary studies and early modern drama, Transporting Chaucer offers a new approach to how we encounter texts through time.

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        March 2020

        The German Channel

        A Mythology from the FRG

        by Frank Uekötter

        A historic big infrastructure project in the nexus of federal government policy planning From Berlin Airport to Stuttgart 21 – public building projects seem to get out of hand with growing frequency. Frank Uekötter follows the example of the Elbe Lateral Canal, which was opened in 1976, to show that institutional failure is not a new phenomenon. The virtually forgotten story of the Elbe Lateral Canal represents an inglorious episode of German federal policy planning. The benefit of the 115 km long waterway, which connects the Mittelland Canal with the River Elbe, was completely out of proportion to the level of investment. Despite this, the project was soon unstoppable in the nexus of corporate interests, political aims and the policy for growth. A dam ruptured at Lüneburg only weeks after its opening. Uekötter argues for a social rethink based on the clear chronology of these “organized irresponsibilities”.

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        January 2018

        Schrei in der Stille

        by Slee, Carry

        Schule kann so viel Spaß machen. Doch für Jochen ist jeder neue Schultag die Hölle. Täglich wird er von seinen Mitschülern grausam gequält. Bis er nur noch einen Ausweg sieht: Er begeht Selbstmord. Auch für David ist Schule schlimm, denn er hat nicht genug Mut, um Jochen zu helfen. Doch als Jochen stirbt, wacht David auf: Er lernt, sich zu wehren und andere zu verteidigen.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2018

        Transport and the industrial city

        by Peter Maw

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