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      • Host Publishers

        Now Host publishes children’s, SF, fantasy and YA literature, too.   Host has introduced to Czech readers the crime novels of Stieg Larsson, David Lagercrantz, Lars Kepler and Jussi Adler-Olsen. Books by Czech authors Alena Mornštajnová, Kateřina Tučková, Petra Soukupová and Jiří Hájíček have also become bestsellers. But Host can of course take pride in more than just its leading role in the sales charts. The content of its catalogue of publications is of remarkably high quality and includes many leading writers from abroad, including Olga Tokarczuk, Jeffrey Eugenides and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Czech writers including Jan Němec, Jakuba Katalpa and Matěj Hořava. Host provides opportunities for début authors, too.

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      • Publishing house "OWK"

        OWK Publishing House was established in the form of a Limited Liability Company under the laws of Ukraine. The main activity of the company is publishing, namely - the publication of books on legal topics. In particular, the Publishing House is engaged in the creation of textbooks, manuals, reference books, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other legal books. The main purpose of the OWK Publishing House is to provide qualified methodological assistance to practicing lawyers and researchers by publishing new quality publications that raise current theoretical and practical issues and provide effective legal recipes for law enforcement, generalization of judicial and other legal practice. The publishing house is based on the principles of professionalism, responsibility, strict observance of the law, including legislation in the field of copyright protection. The publishing team quickly and efficiently performs the full range of work related to the preparation of the book for printing and its design. PHILOSOPHY OF PUBLISHING Our motto: "Buying our books, you do not spend money, but invest them profitably" Of course, the competition in the domestic book publishing market is huge, so each publishing entity must be different in order for consumers to pay attention to it. OWK Publishing House, in the process of preparing and releasing its products, respects its partners, readers, their time and money, and tries to publish only those books that are really useful for readers. The books of OWK Publishing House usually do not fall to the dust, lying on the shelves for years, and are not used to improve the interior of the room, but daily help professionals and ordinary citizens to solve complex practical issues in various areas of law. Publication of a legal book is usually the main activity of OWK Publishing House, but it is not the only one. The publishing house plans to publish interesting books in other fields of science and technology, as well as fiction in 2014. The main thing we plan to achieve in our activity is that the reader, buying a book by OWK Publishing House, never regrets the money spent. With the help of our books, people improve their skills, become "specialists with a capital letter." That's why we say, "By buying our books, you're not spending money, you're investing profitably."

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2017

        Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

        Passengers, pilots, publicity

        by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

        The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.

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        April 2009

        Metropolen des Geistes

        by Martin Hose, Christoph Levin

        Geist und Metropolen brauchen einander. Doch wie wird Kultur in Metropolen konstruiert? Wie werden Metropolen durch den Geist geprägt und wie der Geist durch Metropolen? Dieses Buch widmet sich den Fragen der Wechselwirkungen von Geist und Macht sowie von urbanen Zentren und ländlicher Peripherie in frühen Hochkulturen. Metropolen bilden den kulturellen Schmelztiegel, aus dem Neues erwächst. Ihre großen Bibliotheken sind der Hort der kulturellen Erinnerung. Die Zentren politischer und wirtschaftlicher Macht nähren die Kultur auch im ganz wörtlichen Sinne, indem sie die Wissenschaft und die Künste alimentieren. Der Geist wiederum macht eine Stadt erst zur »Mutterstadt« – so die originäre Bedeutung des griechischen metrópolis –, die auf ihre ökonomischen, aber vor allem auch intellektuellen Kinder ausstrahlt. In der Antike, in der der Gegensatz von Metropole und Peripherie noch viel ausgeprägter war als in der Gegenwart, läßt sich die Entwicklung besonders gut verfolgen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes zeigen anhand der großen Städte des Altertums, von Rom bis zum chinesischen Chang’an, dem heutigen Xi’an, die gegenseitige Bedingtheit von Geist und Metropole: Wie und warum entstand das geistige Zentrum Babylon, inwiefern war die in Alexandria anzutreffende Vielfalt der Kulturen Voraussetzung für das Aufblühen der Geisteswissenschaften, unter welchen Bedingungen entstand in Jerusalem die alttestamentliche Literatur?

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2012

        Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

        Passengers, pilots, publicity

        by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

        The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature. ;

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        May 2006

        Lustrum Band 47 - 2005

        Forschungsbericht zu Euripides (I) 1970–2000

        by Hose, Martin

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        January 1993

        Die Hose des Teufels

        Ein italienisches Märchen nacherzählt von Italo Calvino

        by Calvino, Italo

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        September 1998

        Jacke wie Hose

        Roman

        by Brown, Rita M

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2022

        The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters

        The influence of bureaucracy, market and psychology

        by Nanna Mik-Meyer

        This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships with welfare workers. However, other factors impact these interactions; factors which often pull in different directions. Welfare encounters are thus influenced by bureaucratic principles and market values as well. Consequently, this book engages with both Weberian (bureaucracy) and Foucauldian (market values/NPM) studies when investigating the powerful welfare encounter. The book is targeted Academics, post-graduates, and undergraduates within sociology, anthropology and political science.

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        March 1990

        Claus Peymann kauft sich eine Hose und geht mit mir essen

        Drei Dramolette

        by Thomas Bernhard

        Thomas Bernhard, 1931 in Heerlen (Niederlande) geboren, starb im Februar 1989 in Gmunden (Oberösterreich). Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten österreichischen Schriftstellern und wurde unter anderem 1970 mit dem Georg-Büchner-Preis und 1972 mit dem Grimme-Preis ausgezeichnet. Der Suhrkamp Verlag publiziert eine Werkausgabe in 22 Bänden.

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        Biography & True Stories
        September 2024

        Bedsit land

        The strange worlds of Soft Cell

        by Patrick Clarke

        A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, to follow Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career. They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene. From transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho. From the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain. He emerges on the other side with the most in-depth, innovative and entertaining account of the duo ever written.

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