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Editora Jaguatirica

The independent publisher Jaguatirica works since 2012 in the Brazilian market and has spread its wings to Portugal and USA, with Gato-Bravo Publishing and Felis Press Books labels. Today, the group has more than 400 titles in humanities, social sciences, fiction and literature, every one of them availableindigital formats. The company is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, with offices inLisbon and New York. Jaguatirica has already sold rights to Sweden, Mexico and Portugal andwe'relooking for more partners primarily at Great Britain, France, Spain, Mexico, USA and United Arab Emirates. For license requests please contact:editora@editorajaguatirica.com.br
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Martini Maria Cristina | MMC Edizioni

MMC EDIZIONI is a publishing house based in Rome.Born in 2001 as a generalist, along the time it has specialized almost exclusively in non-fiction, dedicated in particular (but not only) to the city of Rome.The main series, called "A walk with history" offers an alternative vision of the city through the historical reconnaissance and analysis of some of its urban furnishings that are not taken into consideration such as small fountains, clocks, inscriptions, sacred shrines, plaques. This series stands out for a particular graphic style and for the abundance of photographs, specially made for these books.Other series on Rome are instead dedicated to in-depth studies on specific historical and customs themes, or on the mysterious aspects of the city that also reveal its dark side.In the MMC catalogue are other non-fiction books on topics such as Music, Interculture, Anthropology and a series of stories for children encouraging solidarity, non-violence and respect for the environment
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March 2005

Russische Bücher

Erzählungen

by Jagoda Marinic

»Jeder neue Verlust wiegt schwerer als der letzte, geht eine Schicht tiefer.«Und um Verlust geht es in diesem Buch. Ob es nun eine Frau ist, die, weil ihre erste Liebe wiederkehrt, die Illusion einer glücklichen Ehe aufgeben muß, oder eine andere, die meint, dem Handeln aus dem Weg gehen zu können, indem sie sich einen Schutzschild aus Angst vor den Körper hält, oder ob es Hannah und Jonás sind, ein Zwillingspaar aus dem Hinterland Dalmatiens, deren Vater auf einer Bohrinsel verunglückt, noch bevor die beiden ihn wirklich kennengelernt haben.All diese Figuren eint die Suche nach dem wirklichen Leben. Doch erst, als sie vom Suchen ablassen, begegnen sie einander wirklich, »nicht aus Notwehr, nicht als Mittel wider die Verlassenheit, sondern trotz der Verlassenheit«.In drei Erzählungen schreibt Jagoda Marinic von Momenten, vor denen man sprachlos bleibt, von Menschen, die leben und sich begegnen möchten, und auch von dem, was sie daran hindert. Der Blick dieser Autorin liegt auf dem Unsichtbaren, auf dem, was uns in rätselhafter Weise prägt. Warum der Titel? In russischen Büchern hätte ein Mädchen, das in Kroatien groß geworden ist, seine Pflichtlektüre gefunden, es wären ihre Geschichten geworden, groß genug für die Phantasie, schmerzhaft genug für das Leben.

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February 2001

Eigentlich ein Heiratsantrag

Geschichten

by Jagoda Marinic

'Ich gehe zu meinem Leben. Es ist da, wo Du nicht bist', heißt es in einem Brief einer jungen Frau, der, obschon er von Trennung spricht, Eigentlich ein Heiratsantrag ist. Irrungen und Wirrungen, die seltsamen Wege der Liebe und Begegnungen voller Zauber, die oft in Fluchten münden – davon erzählt Jagoda Marini in ihrem ersten Buch.Wenn jemand Geschichten schreibt, weiß er wohl, wie Peter Bichsel sagt, daß eine Geschichte 'nie so schlimm ist wie die Realität. Eine Geschichte trägt die Besänftigung der Welt in sich. Sie ist – und das ist oft ärgerlich – tröstlich.' Indem jemand Figuren und Situationen erfindet, rettet er sie vor dem Vergessenwerden, bannt sie in Wort und Bild, versucht, im Erzählen das ihnen Besondere zu entfalten. So sind die Geschichten von Jagoda Marini ganz unprätentiöse und doch höchst kunstvolle Versuche, dem Gewöhnlichen und Alltäglichen mit Phantasie zu begegnen – um das, was das wirkliche Leben 'als Stoff für Geschichten' zu bieten hat, ins Außergewöhnliche, Einmalige zu wenden.'Sie war, wo sie war, das hatte sie begriffen. Sie war immer, wo sie war, und ob sie dabei in dieser oder jener Stadt war, war egal, weil sie immer war, wo sie war.' Mit Eigentlich ein Heiratsantrag stellt sich eine junge kroatisch-deutsche Erzählerin vor, die für alte Themen der Literatur einen wundersam eigenen Blick hat.

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Sheroes . Neue Held*innen braucht das Land

by Jagoda Marinić

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

From Jack Tar to Union Jack

Representing naval manhood in the British Empire, 1870–1918

by Mary A. Conley

Jack Tar to Union Jack examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Through analysis of sources that include courts-martial cases, sailors' own writings, and the HMS Pinafore, Conley charts new depictions of naval manhood during the Age of Empire, a period which witnessed the radical transformation of the navy, the intensification of imperial competition, the democratisation of British society, and the advent of mass culture. Jack Tar to Union Jack argues that popular representations of naval men increasingly reflected and informed imperial masculine ideals in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Conley shows how the British Bluejacket as both patriotic defender and dutiful husband and father stood in sharp contrast to the stereotypic image of the brave but bawdy tar of the Georgian navy. This book will be essential reading for students of British imperial history, naval and military history, and gender studies.

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The Arts

January 2019

Jack Clayton

by Neil Sinyard

In François Truffaut's opinion The Innocents was 'the best English film after Hitchcock goes to America'. Tennessee Williams said of The Great Gatsby: 'a film whose artistry even surpassed the original novel'. The maker of both films was Jack Clayton, one of the finest English directors of the post-war era and perhaps best remembered for the trail-blazing Room at the Top which brought a new sexual frankness and social realism to the British screen. This is the first full-length critical study of Clayton's work. The author has been able to consult and quote from the director's own private papers which illuminate Clayton's creative practices and artistic intentions. In addition to fresh analyses of the individual films, the book contains new material on Clayton's many unrealised projects and valuably includes his previously unpublished short story 'The Enchantment' - as poignant and revealing as the films themselves. This is a personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director that should appeal to students and film enthusiasts.

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March 2016

Aquarium

by David Vann, Miriam Mandelkow

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Literature & Literary Studies

March 2021

The Victorian aquarium

by Silvia Granata, Andrew Smith

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2009

From Jack Tar to Union Jack

Representing naval manhood in the British Empire, 1870–1918

by Andrew Thompson, Mary A. Conley, John Mackenzie

Jack Tar to Union Jack examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Through analysis of sources that include courts-martial cases, sailors' own writings, and the HMS Pinafore, Conley charts new depictions of naval manhood during the Age of Empire, a period which witnessed the radical transformation of the navy, the intensification of imperial competition, the democratisation of British society, and the advent of mass culture. Jack Tar to Union Jack argues that popular representations of naval men increasingly reflected and informed imperial masculine ideals in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Conley shows how the British Bluejacket as both patriotic defender and dutiful husband and father stood in sharp contrast to the stereotypic image of the brave but bawdy tar of the Georgian navy. This book will be essential reading for students of British imperial history, naval and military history, and gender studies. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2017

From Jack Tar to Union Jack

Representing naval manhood in the British Empire, 1870–1918

by Andrew Thompson, Mary A. Conley, John M. MacKenzie

Jack Tar to Union Jack examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Through analysis of sources that include courts-martial cases, sailors' own writings, and the HMS Pinafore, Conley charts new depictions of naval manhood during the Age of Empire, a period which witnessed the radical transformation of the navy, the intensification of imperial competition, the democratisation of British society, and the advent of mass culture. Jack Tar to Union Jack argues that popular representations of naval men increasingly reflected and informed imperial masculine ideals in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Conley shows how the British Bluejacket as both patriotic defender and dutiful husband and father stood in sharp contrast to the stereotypic image of the brave but bawdy tar of the Georgian navy. This book will be essential reading for students of British imperial history, naval and military history, and gender studies.

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May 2010

Die Verschollene Flotte: Black Jack

Roman

by Campbell, Jack / Übersetzt von Sander, Ralph

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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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October 1981

Literalität in traditionalen Gesellschaften

by Jack Goody, Friedhelm Herborth, Thomas Lindquist, Jack Goody

"Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Reihe von Fallstudien, die die Nutzung der Literalität in traditionalen Gesellschaften illustrieren; es werden nicht nur Gesellschaften untersucht, in denen es seit langem eine partielle Literalität gibt, die Untersuchung bezieht sich auch auf den Einfluß der Schrift in nicht-literalen Gesellschaften. Zusätzlich zu den Fallstudien enthält der Band die inzwischen berühmt gewordene Studie von Jack Goody und lan Watt über »Konsequenzen der Literalität«."

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2022

A new naval history

by Quintin Colville, James Davey, Katherine Parker, Elaine Chalus, Evan Wilson, Barbara Korte, Cicely Robinson, Cindy McCreery, Ellie Miles, Mary A. Conley, Jonathan Rayner, Daniel Spence, Emma Hanna, Ulrike Zimmerman, Max Jones, Jan Rüger

A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines - through the prism of naval affairs - issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life in ships and naval bases; and the processes of commemoration, journalism and stage-managed pageantry that plotted the interrelationship of ship and shore. This bold and original publication will be essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students of naval and maritime history. Beyond that, though, it marks an important intervention into wider historiographies that will be read by scholars from across the spectrum of social history, cultural studies and the analysis of national identity.

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2023

The penny politics of Victorian popular fiction

by Rob Breton

Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan's longest and most significant people's movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2021

Acts of supremacy

by J. Bratton, Richard Cave, Brendan Gregory, Michael Pickering

Imperialist discourse interacted with regional and class discourses. Imperialism's incorporation of Welsh, Scots and Irish identities, was both necessary to its own success and one of its most powerful functions in terms of the control of British society. Most cultures have a place for the concept of heroism, and for the heroic figure in narrative fiction; stage heroes are part of the drama's definition of self, the exploration and understanding of personal identity. Theatrical and quasi-theatrical presentations, whether in music hall, clubroom, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre or the streets and ceremonial spaces of the capital, contributed to that much-discussed national mood. This book examines the theatre as the locus for nineteenth century discourses of power and the use of stereotype in productions of the Shakespearean history canon. It discusses the development of the working class and naval hero myth of Jack Tar, the portrayal of Ireland and the Irish, and the portrayal of British India on the spectacular exhibition stage. The racial implications of the ubiquitous black-face minstrelsy are focused upon. The ideology cluster which made up the imperial mindset had the capacity to re-arrange and re-interpret history and to influence the portrayal of the tragic or comic potential of personal dilemmas. Though the British may have prided themselves on having preceded America in the abolition of slavery and thus outpacing Brother Jonathan in humanitarian philanthropy, abnegation of hierarchisation and the acceptance of equality of status between black and white ethnic groups was not part of that achievement.

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Children's & YA

Wild Claws (3). A Target for the Sharks

by Max Held/ Timo Grubing

While diving offshore, Logan, Charlotte and Jack discover a shipwreck. Very interesting – but extremely dangerous. Because while the friends are examining it, they are attacked by a shark! Then more and more sharks approach and circle the wreck, as if they are watching over it. What lies inside the sunken ship, and what secret is being concealed by the underwater explorer Thornton, who is staying as a guest at the Wild Claws sanctuary? When Logan dives again, the sharks attack and Logan is trapped in the wreck. His air supply is running short, and time is racing by. Can Jack and Charlotte rescue him in time?

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Film, TV & radio

July 2013

Jack Rosenthal

by Sue Vice

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The Arts

May 2012

Jack Rosenthal

by Sue Vice, Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell, Steven Peacock

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May 2015

Jack

by Riley, Tess; Brandt, Christian

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Jack

by Robinson, Marilynne (Autorin) / Strätling, Uda (Übersetzung)

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Representing naval manhood in the British Empire, 1870–1918

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by Silvia Granata, Andrew Smith

Representing naval manhood in the British Empire, 1870–1918

by Andrew Thompson, Mary A. Conley, John Mackenzie

Representing naval manhood in the British Empire, 1870–1918

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Roman

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

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by Quintin Colville, James Davey, Katherine Parker, Elaine Chalus, Evan Wilson, Barbara Korte, Cicely Robinson, Cindy McCreery, Ellie Miles, Mary A. Conley, Jonathan Rayner, Daniel Spence, Emma Hanna, Ulrike Zimmerman, Max Jones, Jan Rüger

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