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A dream. Our publisher exists for the purest desire to be here and do things our way: rocker and insubstantial, but also professionally and creatively. Yes, because more than "selling things", we want to add value and make every adventure worth embarking on, inaugurating a new style in Brazilian literature. They are frank and pretentious longings, it is true, but they are not asking anyone for permission to exist: they already are. Believe me, you didn't get here by chance ... so be welcome: take your seat and enjoy the trip! "If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, sharpened to cut you down, ready to cut you down" (Small Axe - music by Bob Marley)
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2020Rethinking settlement and integration
by Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska
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Children's & YAHamster Humboldt. Small and Steady Wins the Race
by Meike Betz
This intrepid hamster plunges into every adventure with full cheeks! Humboldt is a detective, adventurer and – a hamster. His size doesn’t stop him from helping the people of Villy Village out of all sorts of fixes whenever he’s not helping his owner Babs and her daughter Elli in the post office. No problem is too big for him! Only his owner’s money worries leave him flummoxed. But then Babs and Elli win the lottery and are over the moon – until they receive an anonymous postcard. Humboldt’s life is suddenly in dire straits because the unknown blackmailer wants Babs and Elli’s lottery ticket – or he’s going to hurt Humboldt. When the police refuses to get to the bottom of the case, Humboldt decides to take matters into his own paws. He’s keen to put a stop to this lottery villain’s antics! HAMSTER HUMBOLDT. SMALL AND STEADY WINS THE RACE is a detective and adventure story full of animal-entertainment for girls and boys aged 8+.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2014Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020The end of the small party?
Change UK and the challenges of parliamentary politics
by Louise Thompson
For a brief moment in 2019 Britain's politics looked like it might be transformed. Just when it seemed that the divisions within and across British political parties over Brexit could not get any more intense, 7 Labour and 3 Conservative MPs broke away to form The Independent Group (TIG) - later Change UK. This is the first book to explore the meteoric lifespan of that party, within the wider context of the experiences of other small political groupings in the House of Commons. Ultimately, it shows why the party failed and disbanded after just a few months. Timely and thoroughly researched, Louise Thompson's book takes us deep inside the struggles facing MPs who leave behind the comforts of the large political parties. Drawing on interviews with current and former politicians, it explores the practicalities of being a small party MP in the Commons. What challenges face you? Who can you turn to? And just how can you make an impact? Crisply written for the non-specialist reader, this fascinating book opens a window onto the perilous world of parliamentary politics.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2007Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1520
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small, Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony. ;
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July 2022Kleiner Rüssel, großer Tag
by Steve Small, Steve Small, Birte Spreng
In "Kleiner Rüssel, großer Tag" von Steve Small steht der kleine Elefant Theodor im Mittelpunkt, der voller Vorfreude seinen Geburtstag feiert und überzeugt ist, über Nacht gewachsen zu sein. Diese Überzeugung wird jedoch auf die Probe gestellt, als er feststellt, dass sein Geburtstagsgeschenk noch zu groß für ihn scheint. Ist Theodor etwa immer noch zu klein? In dieser herzerwärmenden Geschichte findet Theodor Trost und Verständnis bei seinem Großvater, der ihm zeigt, dass die Größe nicht darüber bestimmt, wer wir sind oder was wir erreichen können. Diese liebevolle Familiengeschichte spricht sowohl Kinder an, die es kaum erwarten können, groß zu sein, als auch Erwachsene, die sich manchmal wünschen, wieder klein zu sein. Steve Smalls Familienbilderbuch ist eine charmante Erzählung über das Erwachsenwerden, Selbstakzeptanz und die Bedeutung von familiärer Unterstützung. Es zeigt auf einfühlsame Weise, wie wichtig es ist, sich selbst zu akzeptieren und die eigene Größe – egal ob groß oder klein – zu schätzen. Mit humorvollen und kreativen Illustrationen vermittelt das Buch die Botschaft, dass jeder von uns einzigartig ist und dass das Großwerden sein eigenes Tempo hat. "Kleiner Rüssel, großer Tag" ist somit nicht nur eine Geschichte über das Älterwerden, sondern auch über die kleinen Momente des Glücks und der Anerkennung im Kreis der Familie. Berührende Geschichte über das Großwerden und die Bedeutung von familiärer Liebe und Unterstützung. Humorvolle und kreative Illustrationen von Steve Small, die Kinder ab 4 Jahren und Erwachsene gleichermaßen begeistern. Vermittelt wichtige Werte wie Selbstakzeptanz, Geduld und das Wertschätzen der eigenen Einzigartigkeit. Perfekt für Vorlesestunden, bietet Anlass für Gespräche zwischen Kindern und Eltern über Wachstum und Reife. Ein ideales Geschenk für alle Kinder, die sich darauf freuen, groß zu sein, und für Erwachsene, die die Welt gerne noch einmal aus der Perspektive eines Kindes erleben möchten. Erfolgsillustrator Steve Small liefert eine zugängliche und ansprechende Erzählung, die langfristig in Kinderbibliotheken Bestand haben wird.
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March 2021Mit dir ist sogar Regen schön
by Steve Small, Steve Small
"Mit dir ist sogar Regen schön" von Steve Small ist eine herzerwärmende Erzählung über die unerwartete Freundschaft zwischen Ente, die Wasser eigentlich meidet, und einem Frosch, der eines stürmischen Abends bei ihr Schutz sucht. Trotz ihrer Unterschiede entdecken beide, wie bereichernd und farbenfroh das Leben gemeinsam sein kann. Durch gegenseitige Unterstützung und das Teilen von Alltagsmomenten – vom Lesen über das gemeinsame Kochen bis hin zu nächtlichen Gesprächen – wächst zwischen ihnen eine tiefe Verbundenheit. Die Geschichte greift das Thema Freundschaft auf eine einfühlsame und humorvolle Weise auf und zeigt, dass wahre Freunde das Leben selbst an regnerischen Tagen leuchten lassen. Durch die liebevollen Illustrationen und die lebendige Erzählweise wird die Botschaft, dass Unterschiede Menschen bereichern und zusammenführen können, auf charmante Art vermittelt. Dieses Buch ist nicht nur eine Freude für Kinder, sondern spricht mit seiner tiefen Botschaft auch Erwachsene an, was es zu einem idealen Vorlesebuch für die ganze Familie macht. Herzerwärmende Freundschaftsgeschichte: Eine rührende Erzählung über die Kraft der Freundschaft und die Akzeptanz von Unterschieden. Charmante Illustrationen: Liebevoll gezeichnete Bilder, die die Geschichte lebendig machen und die Fantasie anregen. Von Paul Maar übersetzt: Qualität und Lesespaß durch die Übersetzung eines renommierten Autors. Ideal für Familien: Perfekt geeignet zum gemeinsamen Lesen und als Einschlafhilfe für Kinder ab 4 Jahren. Lebensnahe Themen: Behandelt alltagsnahe Themen wie Freundschaft und Akzeptanz auf eine kindgerechte und ansprechende Weise.
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September 2023Ich bin mutig
by Steve Small, Steve Small, Birte Spreng
Mut ist, wenn du Angst hast und dich trotzdem traust. Schau dir die kuschelige Höhle an, in der der kleine Bär Arlo mit seiner Schwester Eva und seiner Mutter lebt: hach, wie warm und gemütlich. Da fühlt Arlo sich wohl und sicher. Doch der Winter ist fast vorbei, und es wird Zeit, ins Tal zu ziehen. Dabei würde Arlo die Dinge viel lieber so lassen, wie sie waren. Die neugierige Eva dagegen freut sich und läuft aufgeregt voran. Auf dem Weg muss die kleine Bärenfamilie einen verschneiten Berg überqueren. „Bleibt in meiner Nähe“, ruft Mama-Bär, denn plötzlich kommt ein heulender Schneesturm auf. Arlo merkt sofort, dass seine Schwester zu weit vorgelaufen ist, und er hört sie rufen! Arlo hat zwar Angst, aber er weiß genau, was er tun muss und läuft mutig los. Trau dich und begleite den kleinen ängstlichen, aber mutigen Bären Arlo in den Schneesturm. Dein Bilderbuch-Abenteuer mit dem kleinen Bären Arlo. Eine mitreißende Tiergeschichte zum Liebhaben und Mitfühlen Atmosphärisch illustriertes Kinderbuch über die Themen „Angst überwinden“ und „mutig sein“ Mutig statt übermütig: Das Gefühl für den Unterschied entwickelt nur, wer auch mal Angst haben darf Vom Autor Steve Small von „Ohne dich, das geht doch nicht!“ Bilderbuch für Kinder ab 4 Jahren
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024Rethinking untouchability
The political thought of B. R. Ambedkar
by Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar's role and the concepts he used to champion untouchability as a political problem. Ambedkar's main objective was to comprehend the numerous avatars of untouchability in order to eradicate this practice. Ambedkar understood untouchability beyond aspects of ritual purity and pollution by stressing its complex nature and uncovering the political, historical, racial, spatial and emotional characteristics contained in this concept. Ambedkar believed the abolition of untouchability depended on a widespread alteration of India's political, economic and cultural systems. Ambedkar reframed the problem of untouchability by linking it to larger concepts floating in the political environment of late colonial India such as representation, slavery, race, the Indian village, internationalism and even the creation of Pakistan.
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January 2023Ohne dich bin ich nicht ich
by Smriti Halls, Steve Small, Cornelia Boese
Ohne dich: Party bei Hörnchen und Bär, die gemeinsam alles schaffen. Neues von Eichhörnchen, genannt Hörnchen, und Bär, den zwei tierischen Freunden, die so perfekt zusammen passen wie Eiskrem mit Schlagsahneschaum. Nach langer Zeit wollen die beiden endlich mal wieder eine richtig große Party feiern und bereiten begeistert alles vor. Bär backt Apfelkuchen und presst Zitronen für die selbstgemachte Limonade aus. Doch dann lädt Hörnchen immer mehr Gäste ein, besorgt Ballons, bereitet einen Band-Auftritt vor. Vor lauter Aufregung bemerkt es nicht, dass Bär ein mulmiges Gefühl beschleicht. Ihm wird das alles zu viel. Und als die Feier startet, ist es Hörnchen, das sich im Haus voller Gäste plötzlich irgendwie allein fühlt. Doch die beiden wären ja nicht beste Freunde, wenn sie die Gefühle des anderen nicht verstehen würden. Und so schaffen es die zwei, doch noch gemeinsam mit allen ein großartiges Fest zu feiern. Eine fabelhafte Geschichte mitten aus dem Hier und Jetzt. Nach „Ohne dich, das geht doch nicht!“ und „Ich und du und Huhn dazu“ das dritte Bilderbuch mit Hörnchen und Bär über freundschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. Erzählt einfühlsam von den gemischten Gefühlen, nach der Pandemie wieder unter vielen Freunden und Freundinnen zu sein. Witzige, empathische Reime von Smriti Halls und hinreißende, ausdrucksstarke Illustrationen von Steve Small für Kinder ab 4 Jahren. Wunderschönes Mitbringsel zur nächsten Party – nicht nur für Kinder, auch für alle Erwachsenen mit „Bauchgefühl“.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350–1560
by Mairi Cowan
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2023
Medieval women and urban justice
Commerce, crime and community in England, 1300–1500
by Teresa Phipps
This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns - Nottingham, Chester and Winchester - and their courts to bring to life the experiences of hundreds of women within the systems of local justice. Through comparison of the records of three towns, and of women's roles in different types of legal action, the book reveals the complex ways in which individual women's legal status could vary according to their marital status, different types of plea and the town that they lived in. At this lowest level of medieval law, women's status was malleable, making each woman's experience of justice unique.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2022Stories from small museums
by Fiona Candlin, Toby Butler, Jake Watts
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May 2021Mocked, Battled, Desired
With organic pioneer Ulrich Walter through five decades
by Heike Leitschuh
The small district town of Diepholz lies between Bremen, Oldenburg and Osnabrück, and no one could possibly describe it as “well-known”. Quite unlike the Lebensbaum company, which was founded here by Ulrich Walter in 1979. Those who eat mindfully will probably also be familiar with the coffees, teas and spices of this pioneering organic company, which frequently and repeatedly receives a range of awards for sustainability and now employs around 200 people. Heike Leitschuh draws a lifelike portrait of an entrepreneur of the organic founding generation who turned a small shop into a successful medium-sized company, played a key role in shaping the organic industry, and has offered perspectives for its future.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2000The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages
by Rosemary Horrox, Trevor Dean, Simon Maclean
The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages. No other English language sourcebook has the same geographical or chronological range. This collection is carefully structured around the crisis of the fourteenth century and arranged in contrasting groups of texts. By connecting documents in translation to recent scholarship and debates, it addresses five key areas of medieval urban history: the physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics. Offers students well-translated and effectively contextualised documents along with some guidance to the secondary work of Italian scholars which is largely inaccessible to undergraduate students. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages
by Trevor Dean
The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages. No other English language sourcebook has the same geographical or chronological range. This collection is carefully structured around the crisis of the fourteenth century and arranged in contrasting groups of texts. By connecting documents in translation to recent scholarship and debates, it addresses five key areas of medieval urban history: the physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics. Offers students well-translated and effectively contextualised documents along with some guidance to the secondary work of Italian scholars which is largely inaccessible to undergraduate students.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2020Race talk
Languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets
by Antonia Lucia Dawes
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Race talk is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors work alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper. As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.
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Children's & YAAugust 2021Das Dorf - Gestrandet auf der Smaragdinsel (Band 1)
by Karl Olsberg / Philipp Ach
The Villagers - Stranded on Monster Island (Vol.1) Loewe Wow! meets Minecraft In the village on the edge of the canyon, there is never a dull moment. Nightwalkers (zombies), bangers (creepers) and other dangers threaten the peace, but the villagers know how to defend themselves, however, they are not armed against the pranks of Nano, the son of the village protector Primo. Nano loves to play tricks on the villagers, which leads to many exciting adventures. But this time he takes it too far and causes chaos in the village: The snow golem he built devastates the entire village! To remain undiscovered and escape punishment, Nano and and his best friend Maffi hide in a boat that suddenly drifts out to sea without a rudder! The two are stranded on an island, which is not as deserted as it seems at first. Because when it gets dark, the familiar Minecraft monsters crawl out of the caves. Maffi and Nano must now find a way to escape the monsters and, of course, find their way back home. In the end, they succeed with the help of a stranger, but when they arrive in the village, no one believes what they have experienced. Everyone thinks the adventure they have had is just a fictional story. Exciting stories, independent from the Minecraft game: not only for fans! Illustrated in b/w with an eye-catching spot color, in the familiar Minecraft look Biannual publication of new adventures
