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      • Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press

        Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) is a world-class publishing house founded on international best practices, excellence and innovation. It strives to be a cornerstone of Qatar’s knowledge-based economy by providing a unique local and international platform for literature, discovery and learning. Headquartered in Doha, Qatar, HBKU Press publishes a wide range of texts including fiction and non-fiction titles, children’s books, collections, and annual reports. In addition, HBKU Press publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly research in the natural and social sciences through academic books, open-access reference materials and conference proceedings. HBKU Press consistently follows international best practices in its publishing procedures, ethics and management, ensuring a steadfast quality of production and a dedication to excellence.

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      • Gilam Agency - Giovanni Lamanna Agenzia Letteraria

        The Gilam Agency – founded by Giovanni Lamanna – is based in Italy and is specialized in Italian Fiction and Non-Fiction, and Children's Books. We represent about 25 authors, some already established (such as Attilio Del Giudice, Francesco Forlani, Peppe Lanzetta, Gianfranco Pecchinenda, Felice Piemontese, Elena Starace, Giulia Bracco, Roger Salloch), some beginners. We also hold the rights to Non-Fiction books (books about Maria Montessori, pedagogy, sport, social science, philosophy...) The Gilam Agency is partner of some Italian publishers (Neo Edizioni, Lavieri, Funambolo, Dalia, Fefé) in selling translation rights on foreign market. We are also going to represent foreign publishers for selling translation rights in Italy. The Gilam Agency takes part in the most important book fairs and exhibitions in Italy and in Europe. In 2020 the Agency has created a new brand (with its own dedicated staff) for Children's and Illustrated Book Rights (the Wrong Cat Rights Agency).

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        September 2023

        Being Able to Stop

        Against the delusion of permanent growth

        by Edited by Jean-Pierre Wils

        We moderns were the inhabitants of an age of impetuous forward movement and voracious discontent. Our main virtue was to increase our reach. Increasing our having and accelerating our being were the signposts towards the future. We just could not get enough. Using the blinkers of ignorance and self-anaesthesia, however, we managed to forget the tremendous costs incurred by this intoxication. Now disillusionment has set in. We look to the future with anxiety. We know that we have long since crossed a line and that a revision of our lifestyle is imminent. We have a bad feeling, and doubts about progress often give way to anger and rebellion. Which stocks of the modern narrative should we defend; which would we do better to let go? How will we even "be able to stop"? The path to a different society needs an attractive goal, because without the prospect of a different, better life, we will not move forward. We should start practising immediately. There is no time to lose.

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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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        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
        March 2025

        Straight nation

        Heteronormativity and other exigencies of postcolonial nationalism

        by Pavan Mano

        In Straight Nation, Pavan Mano reveals the logic of straightness that sits at the heart of postcolonial nationalism in Singapore. Mano rejects the romantic notion of the nation as a haven of belonging, showing it to be a relentless force that is allied with heteronormativity to create a host of minoritized and xenologized figures. Through meticulous exploration and close reading of a swathe of texts, Mano unveils the instrumental role of sexuality in structuring the national imaginary. The book adroitly demonstrates how queerness is rendered foreign in postcolonial Singapore and functions alongside technologies of "race", gender, and class. A provocative critique of narrow contemporary identity politics and its concomitant stymying of a more ambitious political critique, Straight Nation sets out an argument that moves beyond the negativity of traditional critique into a space of (re)thinking, (re)building and (re)imagining.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        Victorian demons

        Medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle

        by Andrew Smith

        Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship. Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Dracula', increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilising these apparently dominant masculine scripts. He provides a coherent analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick ('The Elephant Man'), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes's London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.

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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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        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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        February 2017

        Halt auf Verlangen

        Ein Fahrtenbuch

        by Urs Faes

        Halt auf Verlangen ist Urs Faes' intimstes Buch, gewachsen aus der autobiographischen Erfahrung der Krankheit, geschrieben, um sich festzuhalten an Worten und Erinnerungen – und darin ganz dem Leben zugewandt. Kurz nach der Diagnose findet er keine Worte. Erst später, bei der täglichen Fahrt quer durch die Stadt, beginnt er, zu beschreiben, was ihm geschieht: die Unterwelt der Onkologie, die Müdigkeit nach der Bestrahlung, die Erinnerung an Kindheit und Herkunft, an Straßenbahnfahrten mit dem Vater und Kino mit der Jugendfreundin Mile, an Verlassenwerden in Paris und den Abschied von seiner Geliebten. Den möglichen Tod vor Augen, stellt er sich die Frage nach dem Gelebten und dem Versäumten, nach dem, was Begehren war und was Liebe.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        The imperial game

        by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

        This anthology examines the fortunes of cricket in various colonies as the sport spread across the British Empire. It helps to explain why cricket was so successful, even in places like India, Pakistan and the West Indies where the Anglo-Saxon element remained in a small minority. It demonstrates, perhaps better than any other single work, how awesome was the power of cultural imperialism. Even when former subjects threw off the political yoke of the Europeans, they still adhered tenaciously to the sporting and recreational models that the imperialists had introduced. 'The Imperial Game' provides an invaluable insight into how cricket developed powerful social, cultural and even political connotations in a colonial environment. This is a fascinating study of cricket as a cultural phenomenon, and traces its changing meaning in all the continents in which Britain once exercised power. The book is a collection of essays by six of the world's leading scholars in the field of sports history, and will be of value not onle to students examining the historical sociology of sport, but also to those with a general interest in social history. This study will also appeal to cricket enthusiasts the world over.

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        October 2021

        The Dating Game

        by Kathy Tailor, Moon Notes

        Tilda findet sich widerwillig in der verrückten Welt der Reality-TV-Dating-Shows wieder, als sie ihrer Zwillingsschwester Maxime einen großen Gefallen tut. Maxime, die sich unerwartet in den charmanten Junggesellen Florian während ihrer Teilnahme an "The Dating Game" in Portugal verliebt hat, muss überraschend zurück nach Deutschland und überredet Tilda, in der Show ihre Rolle einzunehmen und Florian für sich zu gewinnen. Trotz ihrer anfänglichen Abneigung gegen das Vorhaben – und dem Fakt, dass sie ihr Jurastudium und den Job in einer Kneipe hat – lässt Tilda sich auf das Abenteuer ein, getrieben von der Enttäuschung über ihren Mitbewohner Nik, mit dem sie eine leidenschaftliche Nacht verbracht hat, der nun jedoch andere Frauen datet. Die Teilnahme an der Show entpuppt sich als ein Spießrutenlauf voller Täuschungen und Emotionen, vor allem, da Tilda ständig in Gefahr läuft, enttarnt zu werden – nicht zuletzt durch den aufmerksamen Kameramann Ben, der ihr Lügengerüst gefährlich ins Wanken bringt. Während sie versucht, Florian zu umgarnen, findet Tilda sich in einem Wirbel aus Gefühlen, Lügen und der bedrohlichen Nähe der ständigen Überwachung durch Kameras wieder. Die Herausforderung, sich als ihre Schwester auszugeben, führt sie nicht nur zu unerwarteten Einsichten über sich selbst und das, was sie wirklich vom Leben will, sondern stellt auch ihre Gefühle, ihre Werte und letztlich ihre Entscheidungen über Liebe und Loyalität auf die Probe. Turbulente emotionale Achterbahnfahrt, die Tilda vor die Herausforderung stellt, ihre Identität zu verbergen, während sie von Kameras umgeben ist und ständig Gefahr läuft, entlarvt zu werden. Tauche ein in die Welt des Reality-TV, wo Tilda nicht nur mit der Aufgabe kämpft, Florian für sich zu gewinnen, sondern auch mit ihren eigenen Gefühlen und der Enttäuschung über ihren Mitbewohner Nik konfrontiert wird. Geschichte voller Humor, Herz und der Suche nach der wahren Liebe, die zeigt, wie weit man für Geschwister und für die Chance auf Glück zu gehen bereit ist. Entdecke in diesem romantischen New-Adult-Liebesroman wie Tilda durch ihre Teilnahme an der Show wichtige Erkenntnisse über sich selbst, das Leben und die Liebe gewinnt, während sie versucht, das Lügengerüst vor dem kritischen Blick des Kameramanns Ben zu schützen.

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        Geography & the Environment
        November 2013

        1 Angel Square

        The Co-operative Group's new head office

        by Len Grant

        This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, architects, engineers, project managers and builders - and has had unreserved access to document the creation of this already award-winning structure. The design of 1 Angel Square by the architects 3DReid, is currently the UK's highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) rated office building to date, and it is set to be one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe. 1 Angel Square, the book, is an intimate record of this fascinating building. Some of the impressive facts include: 3,157 internal and external window panels make up the façade; there are 10,500 data and power outlets; it sits on 539 foundation piles, with an average depth of 18 metres below ground; and there are approximately 22km of power cables. This book will be required reading for students of architecture and construction, sustainability studies and urban planning, and for those with an interest in the history of one of the world's great businesses. ;

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        August 2024

        Knacks! 2 Halt den Schnabel, Tier!

        by Claudia Scharf, Barbara Fisinger

        Ein vorlautes Schnabeltier, das scheinbar alles kann und weiß. Schon wieder hat eines der Schulhühner in Toms Schule ein buntes Ei gelegt. Dabei hat Tom doch schon einen kleinen T-Rex zu Hause! Was für ein Wesen schlüpft diesmal? Fell, Schwimmflossen und Biberschwanz – Pepe, das plappernde Schnabeltier, ist da! Und Pepe kann einfach alles: schwimmen, rechnen, rennen, fliegen... Aus Eifersucht auf Rexi versucht Pepe, Tom zu beeindrucken. Wie wird das wohl enden? Das lustige Kinderbuch ab 7 Jahren erzählt eine rasante Geschichte über ein seltsames Ei, aus dem ein vorlautes kleines Schnabeltier schlüpft. Ein leicht zu lesendes Abenteuer mit hohem Suchtfaktor! Perfekt geeignet für kleine Lesemuffel. Knacks! 2 Halt den Schnabel, Tier!: Tierischer Lesespaß für Leseanfänger*innen Einfach, rasant, witzig: Eine leicht lesbare Abenteuergeschichte mit einem frechen kleinen T-Rex für Kinder ab 7 Jahren. Perfekt für leseungeübte Kinder: Humorvoll und einfach geschrieben, mit kurzen Kapiteln und überschaubarer Textmenge. Kunterbunter Lesespaß: Die vielen lustigen Illustrationen lassen die Kinder auch visuell in die Geschichte eintauchen. Zwei tolle Themen in einem: Die witzige Freundschaftsgeschichte erzählt von einem anstrengenden kleinen Tier, das ständig quasselt, um gesehen zu werden. Mit kurzen Texten, vielen lustigen Bildern und einer rasanten Handlung ist die neue KNACKS!-Reihe der perfekte Leseeinstieg für Kinder ab 7 Jahren. Eine leicht lesbare Reihe, deren Fans schon sehnsüchtig auf das nächste Abenteuer warten! Denn, die Schulhühner legen auf einmal seltsame Eier – und Tom hat ein Riesenproblem.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2008

        Eleventh-century Germany

        The Swabian chronicles

        by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean, I. Robinson

        Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The chronicles reveal how between 1049 and 1100 the centripetal attraction of the reform papacy became the dominant fact of intellectual life in German reformed monastic circles. In the abbey of Reichenau Herman 'the Lame' composed a chronicle of the reign of Emperor Henry III (1039-56). His pupil, Berthold of Reichenau, continued his master's work, composing a detailed account of 1076-1079 in Germany. Bernold, a clergyman of Constance, continued the work of Herman and Berthold in a text containing the fullest extant account of 1080-1100. Herman's waning enthusiasm for the monarchy and growing interest in the newly reformed papacy were intensified in Berthold's chronicle, and writing in the new context of the reformed monasteries of south-western Germany, Bernold preached total obedience to the Gregorian papacy. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        Eleventh-century Germany

        The Swabian chronicles

        by I. Robinson

        Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The chronicles reveal how between 1049 and 1100 the centripetal attraction of the reform papacy became the dominant fact of intellectual life in German reformed monastic circles. In the abbey of Reichenau Herman 'the Lame' composed a chronicle of the reign of Emperor Henry III (1039-56). His pupil, Berthold of Reichenau, continued his master's work, composing a detailed account of 1076-1079 in Germany. Bernold, a clergyman of Constance, continued the work of Herman and Berthold in a text containing the fullest extant account of 1080-1100. Herman's waning enthusiasm for the monarchy and growing interest in the newly reformed papacy were intensified in Berthold's chronicle, and writing in the new context of the reformed monasteries of south-western Germany, Bernold preached total obedience to the Gregorian papacy. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany.

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