Colmena Editores
Colmena Editores is an independent Peruvian publishing house based in Lima and founded in 2012. Since its inception, it has prioritized the publication of classic authors.
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November 2001Wissenschaft und Zivilisation in China
Band 1 der von Colin A. Ronan bearbeiteten Ausgabe
by Joseph Needham, Colin A Roman
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Joseph Losey
by Colin Gardner
The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.
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June 1993Wissenschaftlicher Universalismus
Über Bedeutung und Besonderheit der chinesischen Wissenschaft
by Joseph Needham, Tilman Spengler, Tilman Spengler, Tilman Spengler
Die in diesem Band vereinigten Arbeiten Joseph Needhams stehen in enger thematischer Beziehung zu seinem Hauptwerk »Science and the Civilisation in China«, der ersten maßgeblichen Gesamtdarstellung des chinesischen Beitrags zur Universalgeschichte von Wissenschaft und Technik. Needham begreift das Zustandekommen der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaft als einen universalen Vorgang, zu dessen Entstehen Beiträge aus vielen Zivilisationen zusammenkommen mußten, der aber erst durch die Entdeckung und sozio-kulturellen Neuausrichtung im Europa der Renaissance die für ihn bestimmende Dynamik erhielt. »Wissenschaftlicher Universalismus« als konkretes Forschungsprogramm zielt demnach ebenso auf die Beschreibung einzelner Komponenten wie auf eine Kennzeichnung des Milieus, innerhalb dessen eine Kombination der Einzelteile des Unternehmens »moderne Wissenschaft« in Gang setzte. Wenn der Durchbruch zur modernen Wissenschaft allein in Europa gelang, in anderen Kulturen dazu aber die kognitiven Vorraussetzungen genauso vorhanden waren, dann müssen, folgert Needham, sozio-kulturelle Unterschiede die entscheidenden Hemm- bzw. Beschleunigungsfaktoren bezeichnen.
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November 1984Wissenschaft und Zivilisation in China
by Joseph Needham, Rainer Herbster
Joseph Needhams monumentales Standardwerk Wissenschaft und Zivilisation in China gibt dem westlichen Leser eine detaillierte und zusammenhängende Darstellung der chinesischen Wissenschaft und Technik seit frühester Zeit bis zum späten 17. Jahrhundert, als die jesuitischen Missionare die moderne europäische Wissenschaft nach China brachten.
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The ArtsDecember 2024The picture politics of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould
Britain's pioneering political cartoonist
by Mark Bryant
This is the first major study of Britain's pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. Written by the distinguished media historian, Colin Seymour-Ure, it is essential reading for anyone interested in cartoons, caricature and illustration and will also be welcomed by students of history, politics and the media. It examines Gould's career in Fleet Street until his retirement after the First World War. It also discusses his illustrations for magazines and books and there is an analysis of his use of symbolism and literary allusion to lampoon such eminent politicians as Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. As Lord Baker says in his Foreword, this book is 'a major contribution to our knowledge of British cartooning.'
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceFebruary 2020A writer's guide to Ancient Rome
by Carey Fleiner, Jerome de Groot
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September 2015Joseph A. Schumpeter.
Eine Theorie der gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Evolution. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Thomas Atzert.
by Andersen, Esben Sloth / Übersetzt von Atzert, Thomas
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2021The Red and the Black
The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not just a world-historical event in its own right, but also struck powerful blows against racism and imperialism, and so inspired many black radicals internationally. This edited collection explores the implications of the creation of the Soviet Union and the Communist International for black and colonial liberation struggles across the African diaspora. It examines the critical intellectual influence of Marxism and Bolshevism on the current of revolutionary 'black internationalism' and analyses how 'Red October' was viewed within the contested articulations of different struggles against racism and colonialism. Challenging European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left, The Red and the Black offers new insights on the relations between Communism, various lefts and anti-colonialisms across the Black Atlantic - including Garveyism and various other strands of Pan-Africanism. The volume makes a major and original intellectual contribution by making the relations between the Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic central to debates on questions relating to racism, resistance and social change.
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FictionNovember 2018Beard's Roman Women
By Anthony Burgess
by Graham Foster
Anthony Burgess draws upon an autobiographical episode to create Beard's Roman Women, the story of a man haunted by his first wife, presumed dead. But is she? A marvellously economical book, full-flavoured, funny, and heartfelt, showing its author at the height of his powers. This new edition is the first to be published with David Robinson's photographs for over 40 years. The text of the novel has been restored using the original typescripts, and Graham Foster's new introduction provides valuable insight into the fictional and biographical contexts of the novel. The text is fully annotated with a detailed set of notes and this edition includes the previously unpublished script for Burgess's television film By the Waters of Leman: Byron and Shelley at Geneva, and a rare piece of Burgess's writing about Rome.
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FictionSeptember 2017A Vision of Battlements
by Anthony Burgess
by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake
A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2025Mrs Dalloway
Biography of a novel
by Mark Hussey
A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.
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January 1987
Hermann Hesse
Dichter, Sucher, Bekenner. Biographie
by Joseph Mileck, Jutta Knust, Theodor A. Knust, Joseph Mileck
Joseph Mileck, der Verfasser der bislang vollständigsten, zweibändigen Hesse-Bibliographie, sagt über seine Hesse-Biographie: »Bei meinem Unterfangen ging es mir in erster Linie darum, den Menschen Hesse und seine Gedankenwelt zu zeigen, seine Schriften nach Gehalt und Gestalt zu kennzeichnen und die Aufmerksamkeit auf die enge Beziehung zwischen seinem Leben und seinem Werk zu lenken. Mein Ziel war es, den eigentlichen Hesse darzustellen, und nicht, mir einen Hesse vorzustellen, seine Werke so zu verstehen, wie er sie selber verstand, und nicht so, wie ich sie lieber verstanden hätte, und den schöpferischen Prozeß bei ihm ein wenig zu beleuchten.« Seine Studien belegen, wie eng Leben und Werk Hesses ineinandergreifen und wie hilfreich und notwendig es ist, beide gleichzeitig zu betrachten, um zu einer haltbaren Interpretation zu kommen. Damit ein möglichst umfassendes Bild des Autors entsteht, nimmt Mileck alle fiktionalen und autobiographischen Schriften Hesses in den Blick: also neben den Romanen, Gedichten und Erzählungen auch die politischen wie literarischen Aufsätze, Briefe, Tagebücher und Gedenkblätter.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2023Golden Mummies of Egypt
Interpreting identities from the Graeco-Roman period
by Campbell Price, Julia Thorne
Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE-200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia Thorne, accompanies Manchester Museum's first-ever international touring exhibition. Golden Mummies of Egypt is a visually spectacular exhibition that offers visitors unparalleled access to the museum's outstanding collection of Egyptian and Sudanese objects - one of the largest in the UK.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018The Kosovo crisis and the evolution of a post-Cold War European security
by Martin A Smith, Paul Latawski
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SociologyJanuary 2017Sport in the Black Atlantic
Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora
by Janelle Joseph. Series edited by John Horne
This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies.
