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Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)
Welcome International Rights Agents and Publishers!The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), representing 3,600 independent publishers from the U.S., has been attending the Frankfurt International Book Fair for more than 30 years. While we wish we could be meeting with you in person this year, we are excited to present to you some new and innovative titles from our members all the same, some of which are certain to be of interest to your company. If you would like to set up an appointment to meet with us, or are interested in a review copy of any of the books listed in this online catalog, please contact Terry Nathan at terry@ibpa-online.org.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024Critical theory and Independent Living
by Teodor Mladenov
Critical theory and Independent Living explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and disabled people's struggle for self-determination. The book highlights the affinities between the Independent Living movement and studies of epistemic injustice, biopower, and psychopower. It discusses in depth the activists' critical engagement with welfare-state paternalism, neoliberal marketisation, and familialism. This helps develop a pioneering comparison between various welfare regimes grounded in Independent Living advocacy. The book draws on the activism of disabled people from the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) by developing case studies of the ENIL's campaigning for deinstitutionalisation and personal assistance. It is argued that this work helps rethink independence as a form of interdependence, and that this reframing is pivotal for critical theorising in the twenty-first century.
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MedicineHow to Deal With Cutting in Adolescents
A Guide for Families, Educators, and Adolescents Who Self-harm
by Dr. Eduardo Aratangy
This guide provides patients with self-harming behavior as well as their families with information on the possible causes, progression, and treatment options. The content of this book is clearly structures and outlines different strategies to deal with cutting. Additionally, an informative overview of the complexity of the disorder, written for non-professionals, helps readers gain a better insight into the different characteristics. Target Group: teens exhibiting self-harming behavior, relatives and laypersons interested in the subject, clinical psychologists, mental health professionals
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013The world of El Cid
Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest
by Simon Barton, Richard Fletcher
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fascinating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes.
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January 2018Mandalas - Harmonie und Farbenzauber
Zeit zum Entspannen:
by la Baleine, Lili; de Moulor, Claire; Siléo, Cinzia
Mandalas sind seit jeher Quelle der Ruhe und Kraft. In diesem hochwertig ausgestatteten Band laden vorkolorierte Motive ein in die Welt der grenzenlosen Fantasie.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2024Thomas Nashe and literary performance
by Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Rachel Willie
As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions. Nashe's often incongruous authorial characteristics suggest that, as a 'King of Pages', he not only courted controversy but also deliberately cultivated a variety of public personae, acquiring a reputation more slippery than the herrings he celebrated in print. Collectively, the essays in this book illustrate how Nashe excelled at textual performance but his personae became a contested site as readers actively participated and engaged in the reception of Nashe's public image and his works.
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March 1999Die Geburt des Mondes
Schwarze Geschichten aus Kuba
by Lydia Cabrera, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Susanne Lange
Guillermo Cabrera Infante wurde 1929 in Gibara, Kuba, geboren. Mit 12 Jahren kam er nach Havanna und nach einem kurzen Studium an der Escuela de Periodismo, der Journalistenschule, arbeitete er als Journalist. Er war Mitgründer der Cinemateca de Cuba und leitete diese von 1951 bis 1956. Ab 1954 schrieb er, unter dem Pseudonym "G. Caín", Filmkritiken für die Wochenzeitschrift Carteles. Er kämpfte gegen das diktatorische Regime Batistas, und seine Eltern waren Mitgründer der kubanischen Kommunistischen Partei. Nach der kubanischen Revolution war er einige Jahre Direktor des nationalen Filminstituts und Chefredakteur der Literaturbeilage Lunes de Revolución, die 1962 eingestellt wurde. Guillermo Cabrera Infante wurde im gleichen Jahr zum Kulturattaché der kubanischen Botschaft in Belgien ernannt. 1965 legte er sein Amt nieder und ging ins freigewählte Exil. Der Autor brach damals, noch vor dem berühmten Padilla-Fall, mit dem Regime Fidel Castros, das die Intellektuellen auf Kuba immer stärker verfolgte und zensierte. Seit 1967 lebte Cabrera Infante in London. Der Autor wurde mit seinem Roman Tres tristes tigres, 1967, (dt. Drei traurige Tiger, 1987) bekannt, der den Preis Biblioteca Breve in Spanien 1964 gewann. Dieser Roman gilt als eines der Hauptwerke der lateinamerikanischen Literatur. Zu den bedeutenden Werken Cabrera Infantes gehören außerdem: Holy smoke (dt. Rauchzeichen, 1990), Vista del amanecer en el trópico (dt. Ansicht der Tropen im Morgengrauen, 1995), Así en la paz como en la guerra (dt. Wie im Kriege also auch im Frieden, 1996), La Habana para un Infante difunto und Cine o sardina (dt. Nichts als Kino, 2001), eine mitunter giftige Liebeserklärung an das Kino. 1997 erhielt Guillermo Cabrera Infante den renommierten Premio Cervantes. Guillermo Cabrera Infante starb am 21. Februar 2005 in London.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Spanish cinema 1973–2010
Auteurism, politics, landscape and memory
by Maria M. Delgado, Robin Fiddian
This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espíritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of 'national' cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodóvar, José Garci, Carlos Saura) and younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenábar, Bollaín) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. The result is a bold new study of the ways in which film has created new prisms that have determined how Spain is positioned in the global marketplace.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800September 2007Authorship and authority: the writings of James VI and I
by Jane Rickard
James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance, not only as a monarch and patron, but as an author in his own right, publishing extensively in a number of different genres over four decades. As the first monograph devoted to James as an author, this book offers a fresh perspective on his reigns in Scotland and England, and also on the inter-relationship of authorship and authority, literature and politics in the Renaissance. Beginning with the poetry he wrote in Scotland in the 1580s, it moves through a wide range of his writings, including scriptural exegeses, political, social and theological treatises and printed speeches, concluding with his manuscript poetry of the early 1620s. The book combines extensive primary research into the preparation, material form and circulation of these varied writings, with theoretically informed consideration of the relationship between authors, texts and readers. The discussion thus explores James's responses to, and interventions in, a range of literary, political and religious debates, and reveals the development of his aims and concerns as an author.
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The ArtsJune 2012The cinema of Iciar Bollaín
by Isabel Santaolalla, Nuria Triana-Toribio, Andy Willis
Director, actress, scriptwriter and producer, Iciar Bollaín is one of the liveliest of contemporary young Spanish filmmakers and the first female director to have had a film (También la lluvia, 2010) shortlisted by the American Film Academy. Through detailed analysis of film form, socio-cultural contexts and conditions of production and consumption, the book opens up key issues on gender, production, film authorship, the mediation of socio-historical realities and the whole question of 'women's cinema'. Covering all aspects of her career, this book begins by taking in her work in front of the camera, beginning with her emergence as a teenage star in Victor Erice's El Sur (1983), and following on with discussions of her mature roles, such as Un paraguas para tres and Leo . Discussion of her work as a producer and director focus on production and form, as well as on the socio-historical contexts to which they belong. Film scholars and students interested in the increasingly prominent place of modern Spanish cinema will find this highly readable book an indispensable guide to an outstanding film-maker who in her directed films addresses some of the more vibrant of contemporary themes: female friendship in Hola, ¿estás sola?, immigration in Flores de otro mundo, domestic violence in Te doy mis ojos, tensions between public and private commitments in Mataharis, and socio-economic exploitation in También la lluvia. ;
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The ArtsSeptember 2017The cinema of Iciar Bollaín
by Nuria Triana-Toribio, Isabel Santaolalla, Andy Willis
Director, actress, scriptwriter and producer, Iciar Bollaín is one of the liveliest of contemporary young Spanish filmmakers and the first female director to have had a film (También la lluvia, 2010) shortlisted by the American Film Academy. Through detailed analysis of film form, socio-cultural contexts and conditions of production and consumption, the book opens up key issues on gender, production, film authorship, the mediation of socio-historical realities and the whole question of 'women's cinema'. Covering all aspects of her career, this book begins by taking in her work in front of the camera, beginning with her emergence as a teenage star in Victor Erice's El Sur (1983), and following on with discussions of her mature roles, such as Un paraguas para tres and Leo . Discussion of her work as a producer and director focus on production and form, as well as on the socio-historical contexts to which they belong. Film scholars and students interested in the increasingly prominent place of modern Spanish cinema will find this highly readable book an indispensable guide to an outstanding film-maker who in her directed films addresses some of the more vibrant of contemporary themes: female friendship in Hola, ¿estás sola?, immigration in Flores de otro mundo, domestic violence in Te doy mis ojos, tensions between public and private commitments in Mataharis, and socio-economic exploitation in También la lluvia.
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August 2023Regenbogenbunte Geschichten
von Kirsten Boie, Cornelia Funke, Paul Maar u.a.
by Kirsten Boie, Cornelia Funke, Paul Maar, Sinem Sasmaz, Susanne Weber, Mascha Matysiak, Maren von Klitzing, Regina Feldmann, Kathrin Lena Orso, Jasmin Schaudinn, Hartmut El Kurdi, Martin Baltscheit, Astrid Göpfrich, Leanna Arnold, Daniela Kunkel, Yayo Kawamura, Kai Schüttler, Nima Kellner, Leonard Erlbruch, Naeko Ishida, Tatjana Beimler, Caroline Opheys, Rike Janßen, Stéffie Becker, Petra Eimer, Pina Gertenbach, Dorothée Böhlke
Vorlesegeschichten so vielfältig und bunt wie das Leben. So viele Geschichten tummeln sich in diesem wunderbar prallen Kinder-Vorlesebuch! Die Sammlung für gemütliche Lesezeit mit den Kleinen ist so farbenfroh und abwechslungsreich wie das Leben selbst. In diesem Buch stecken die unterschiedlichsten Abenteuer aus dem Kinderalltag, aber auch von Prinzessinnen und Prinzen. Tiere spielen in den Erzählungen ebenso mit wie Dinosaurier, die Feuerwehr und Piraten. Eine bunte Mischung vieler zukünftiger Lieblingsgeschichten, aufgeschrieben von namhaften Kinderbuchautorinnen und -autoren. Große Anthologie für Kleine: Geschichten von Paul Maar, Kirsten Boie, Cornelia Funke und anderen. Dieser Mix aus Geschichten von vielfältigen Lebensrealitäten und solchen, die der Fantasie entspringen, feiert die Diversität. Entdecke Wort für Wort, Seite für Seite den dicken Vorleseschatz, prall voll mit kleinen Abenteuern, die dich ins Leben begleiten, dich träumen und lachen lassen. Lesezeit ist Kuschelzeit – vorm Schlafengehen, auf Reisen oder in Spielpausen. Für Kinder ab 2 Jahren. Farbig und fantasievoll illustriert von Daniela Kunkel, Yayo Kawamura und Kai Schüttler. Es sind folgende Geschichten enthalten: Und wo sind meine Punkte? Sinem Sasmaz Ein Bett für Schoko Susanne Weber Die Frühlingsmaus Mascha Matysiak Wo ist Hada? Maren von Klitzing Die große Abholung Regina Feldmann Stella Strauß und die mürrischen Schafe Mascha Matysiak Die Ritterin Kathrin Lena Orso Der kleine Pirat Kirsten Boie Die Schaumparty Jasmin Schaudinn Siebeneinhalb Stunden bis Mitternacht Susanne Weber Ein Stier im Wohnzimmer Kirsten Boie Urlaub im U-Boot Kathrin Lena Orso Prinzessin Himmelblau kann nicht einschlafen Margit Auer Das Unterwasser-SchaSuGe Astrid Göpfrich »Bahn frei, Kartoffelbrei!« Hartmut El Kurdi Der Vulkan Jasmin Schaudinn Seeröschens Abenteuer Kathrin Lena Orso Wenn ein Riese Kopfstand macht Martin Baltscheit Der Schatz des Klabautermanns Kathrin Lena Orso Die Fieberfeuerwehr Maren von Klitzing Die Froschkönigin Paul Maar Rosannas großer Bruder Cornelia Funke
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July 2003Abschied von Don Juan
Roman
by Angelica Ammar, Esther Tusquets
Esther Tusquets wurde am 30.8.1936 in Barcelona geboren. Dort besuchte sie die Deutsche Schule. Später studierte sie in Barcelona und Madrid Philosophie, Geschichte und Literatur. 1960 übernahm sie den Verlag Lumen, den sie bis zum Jahr 2000 leitete. Mit 42 Jahren veröffentlichte sie ihren ersten Roman El mismo mar de todos los veranos (dt. Aller Sommer Meer, Reinbek, 1981, Berlin, 2002), es folgten die Romane El amor es un juego solitario (dt. Die Liebe ein einsames Spiel, Reinbek, 1982), Varada tras el último naufragio, Para no volver, Con la miel en los labios und mehrere Erzählbände sowie das hoch gelobte Kinderbuch La reina de los gatos. 2001 erschien ihr Briefroman Correspondencia privada (dt. Abschied von Don Juan, Frankfurt, 2003), der in Spanien große Anerkennung fand. Ihre Bücher sind in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt worden. Ester Tusquets verstarb am 23.07.2012 im Alter von 75 Jahren in Barcelona.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2024
Marie Duval
Maverick Victorian Cartoonist
by Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian Waite
Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval's vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval's drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.
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November 2021Die Hydra des Dschihadismus
Entstehung, Ausbreitung und Abwehr einer globalen Gefahr
by Asiem El Difraoui
Nachdem der »IS« in Trümmern lag und »Kalif« al-Baghdadi im Oktober 2019 von US-Truppen getötet wurde, schien der »Krieg gegen den Terror« einmal mehr beendet. Aber der Dschihadismus ist längst eine globale Bewegung geworden, der Dutzende von Organisationen angehören – und mit Gewalt allein ist ihr nicht beizukommen.Seit drei Jahrzehnten verfolgt Asiem El Difraoui als Filmemacher, Journalist und Wissenschaftler diese Entwicklung. Er traf Kampfgefährten bin Ladens in Khartum und PR-Strategen, die in Berlin-Charlottenburg Propagandavideos produzierten. In Kriegsgebieten wie Bosnien, dem Irak oder in Afghanistan hat er selbst den Terror gegen die Bevölkerung miterlebt. Und immer wieder kam der Terror auch zu ihm, wie in Gestalt der Anschläge 1995 und 2015 in Paris, die sich in seiner unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft ereigneten. Kenntnisreich und anschaulich schildert Difraoui, wie der Dschihadismus entstanden ist, wie seine Denkmuster und PR-Strategien sich gewandelt haben und woraus die Hydra ihre Kraft bezieht. Was macht die todbringende Ideologie gerade auch für junge Menschen in Europa attraktiv? Welchen Anteil hat der Westen, haben die Medien an ihrem Erfolg? Und wie kann es gelingen, ihre Macht zu brechen? Ein aufrüttelnder Appell, sich einer der größten Gefahren der Gegenwart zu stellen.
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January 2019
Die schönsten Mandalas zum Entspannen
Zeit zum Entspannen
by Coster, Patience
Vor allem Mandalas sind seit jeher Quellen der Ruhe und Kraft. In diesem Band laden 60 traumhafte Motive ein in die Welt der freien Fantasie.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2008El laberinto de la soledad by Octavio Paz
by Catherine Davies, Anthony Stanton
If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Paz´s famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This fully annotated edition includes the complete text in Spanish (with the author's final revisions), and notes and additional material in English. The editor's introduction contextualizes the essay and discusses central features: autobiographical and textual origins, intellectual sources, reception and canonization, generic ambiguity, structure, and governing symbols. The intellectual sources identified range from Marx, Nietzsche and Freud to the more contemporary ones of the French College of Sociology (Caillois), the Surrealist movement, the ideas of D. H. Lawrence, previous essays from writers in Mexico (such as Samuel Ramos) and Latin America. Several lines of interpretation are examined to show how the work can be read as a psycho-historical essay, an autobiographical construct or a modern literary myth. Transdisciplinary by nature, this literary essay is both an imaginative construction of personal and national identity, and also a critical deconstruction of dominant stereotypes. It seeks to redefine the complex relationships that exist between psychology, myth, history and Mexican culture. This edition also includes excerpts of the author's opinions on his essay, a time-line of Mexican history, a selected vocabulary, and themes for discussion and debate. Paz's first full-length prose work remains his most well-known and widely read text, and this edition will appeal to sixth-form and university students, teachers, researchers and general readers with a knowledge of Spanish. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2006El Caballero de Olmedo by Lope de Vega Carpio
by Catherine Davies, Anthony Lappin
El Caballero de Olmedo is a history play, a retelling of a folk talk, a celebrated piece of Golden Age drama, and also an intense mediation upon the power of desire, the deceits of eroticism and literary convention, the injustice of a world obsessed with appearance, and the tragic potential inherent in the courting of beautiful women. The introduction sets this play within the context of Baroque eroticism and sexual mores as well as dramatic practice. The text is presented with glosses to words unfamiliar to undergraduate students; the notes comprise summaries of acts and scenes from a dramatic point of view, and in-depth notes to problematic passages in the text, written with an undergraduate readership in mind. ;
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January 2019
Fabelhafte Welt der Mandalas. Eine Entspannungsreise
by Rosengarten, Johannes
Mandalas sind seit jeher Quellen der Kraft und Entspannung. In diesem Band sind 48 traumhafte Motive von der Fantasie inspiriert. Da ist für jeden Geschmack und jedes Temperament etwas dabei.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Contemporary Spanish cinema
by Barry Jordan, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas
Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.
