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      • The Lennon-Ritchie Agency

        The Lennon-Ritchie agency is a literary agency based in Cape Town. We represent a select group of international writers of literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction, and of television and film scripts. Our award-winning books include 2019 Sunday Times Fiction Prize winning THE THEORY OF FLIGHT by Gloria Siphiwe Ndlovu (Penguin Random House SA; Catalyst Press US), winner of the 2019 Sharjah best international book award THE SON OF THE HOUSE by Cheluchi Onuobia (Penguin Random House SA; Dundurn House Press US; E/O Italy; Europa Editions UK), and winner of the 2020 Humanities and Social Sciences best novel award, LACUNA by Fiona Snyckers (Picador Africa; Europa Editions US, UK). We also sell International and film rights for publishing houses including Penguin Random House South Africa, Pan Macmillan South Africa, Quivertree Publications South Africa, and Duck Creek Press, New Zealand.

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      • AlFulk Translation and Publishing

        AlFulk Translation & Publishing: An independent publishing house, launched in October 2015 and based in Abu Dhabi. It specialisation is translating children and young adult literature from different languages into Arabic. AlFulk aims for:1. To enrich the Arabic library with diverse cultural collections, in order to aware the readers of the intercultural communication importance. 2. To establish a reading habits base for children from 0-4.3. To increase the level of YA books -both Fantasy, fiction and non-fiction- in terms of their content and illustrations.As the majority in the publishing industry, we have been affected by COVID-19 epidemic. However, we have decided to participate at Frankfurter Buchmesse this year to look at what is new in the industry and to expand our network. We seek long term partnerships.

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        June 2021

        Der Unbesiegbare

        Utopischer Roman

        by Stanisław Lem, Roswitha Dietrich

        In ferner Zukunft landet das mächtige Raumschiff »Der Unbesiegbare« auf dem Planeten Regis III, um das Schicksal seines dort verschollenen Schwesterschiffes »Kondor« zu ergründen. Doch obwohl diese Welt unbewohnt ist, lauern hier Gefahren, die sich die selbstgewisse menschliche Besatzung zunächst nicht träumen lässt. Lem spinnt ein spannendes Weltraumgarn, wäre aber nicht Lem, wenn er sich nicht noch quasi nebenbei die Nanotechnologie, die Technoevolution und vieles mehr ausdenken würde. Ein Klassiker der SF.

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        March 2024

        Religious Tourism and Globalization

        The Search for Identity and Transformative Experience

        by Darius Liutikas, Razaq Raj, Vitor Ambrósio, Silvia Aulet Serrallonga, Caglar Bideci, Mujde Bideci, Elzbieta Bilska-Wodecka, Dino Bozonelos, Nour Farra-Haddad, Stephen F. Haller, Jaffer Idris, Antonietta Ivona, Isilda Leitão, Dimitrios Mylonopoulos, Polyxeni Moira, Eleanor O’Keeffe, Spyridon Parthenis, Donatella Privitera, Ricardo Nicolas Progano, Alison T. Smith

        Is it possible to identify the positive and negative effects of globalization on religious tourism or to estimate the transformation of the internal and external constructs of pilgrimage by these effects? In order to address these questions, this book highlights the importance of the search for identity and transformative experience during religious tourism. It also looks at how, recently, globalization has played a part in the changes of the concept of personal and social identity and the transformative experience of pilgrimage. The chapters, consisting of carefully selected case studies, analyse possible effects including the adoption of different new rituals, new pilgrims' values, changes of tradition, acceptance of technologic innovations, development of new business models, and other environmental and sociocultural changes. The book provides: · a conceptual framework for understanding the impacts of globalization; · integrated cross-disciplinary approaches; and · an insight into major religious travel practices in the age of identity challenges and worldwide transformations. It will be suitable for researchers and students of religious tourism, pilgrimage, identity tourism, as well as related subjects such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, theology, history and cultural studies.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        Pilgrims: Values And Identities

        by Darius Liutikas, Ali Thompson, María Ángeles Piñeiro Antelo, Pedro Azevedo, Derek Dalton, Luciana Thais Villa Gonzalez, Rubén C. Lois-González, Luis Alfonso Escudero Gómez, Rami K Isaac, Elyor E. Karimov, Kumi Kato, Darius Liutikas, Lucrezia Lopez, Dane Munro, Daniel H Olsen, Josephine Pryce, Ricardo Nicolas Progano, Xerardo Pereiro, Kip Redick, Larry Russell, Pravin S. Rana, Rana P. B. Singh, Xosé M. Santos, Augusta X. Thomson, Dallen J Timothy, Slawoj Tanas, Shin Yasuda

        Values-rich journeys can be described as pilgrimage, spiritual travel, personal heritage tourism, holistic tourism, and valuistic journeys. There are many motivations for undertaking values-rich journeys; the most important including personal values, personal and social identity, life experience, lifestyle, social and cultural influence. The main types of pilgrim journeys are traditional religious or spiritual journeys as well as secular journeys related with the expression of national, communal or personal identity, e.g. the journeys of sport and music fans. The manifestation of personal and social identity has different forms and rituals and constitutes different models of a specific behaviour. The journeys are often embraced as potential instruments for life altering experiences. This book presents contributions that address pilgrim motivation, identity and values as they are shaped by the broader sociological, psychological, cultural and environmental perspectives. With a focus on travellers themselves and their inner world through the lens of their pilgrimage. The research presented focuses on the typology of pilgrim journeys as ways in which identity and values are presented to a post-modern consumer society, providing interesting and challenging perspectives on the identity of pilgrims in the 21st century.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2023

        Transitional justice in process

        Plans and politics in Tunisia

        by Mariam Salehi

        After the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011, Tunisia swiftly began dealing with its authoritarian past and initiated a comprehensive transitional justice process, with the Truth and Dignity Commission as its central institution. However, instead of bringing about peace and justice, transitional justice soon became an arena of contention. Through a process lens, the book explores why and how the process evolved, and explains how it relates to the country's political transition. Based on extensive field research in Tunisia and the US, and interviews with a broad range of international stakeholders and decision-makers, this is the first book to comprehensively study the Tunisian transitional justice process. It provides an in-depth analysis of a crucial period, examining the role of justice professionals in different stages, as well as the alliances and frictions between different actor groups that cut across the often-assumed local-international divide.

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        Agriculture & related industries
        November 2014

        Transition Pathways towards Sustainability in Agriculture

        Case Studies from Europe

        by Edited by Ika Darnhofer, Lee-Ann Sutherland, Geoff Wilson, Lukas Zagata

        This book focuses on understanding farming transition pathways towards sustainability, using case studies from Europe. It assesses the utility of the multi-level perspective in transition theory for addressing contemporary issues and identifies future research needs, making it an essential read for researchers of rural or agricultural change.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        September 2019

        Transition Pathways towards Sustainability in Agriculture

        Case Studies from Europe

        by Lee-Ann Sutherland, Ika Darnhofer, Geoff Wilson, Lukas Zagata

        This book focuses on understanding farming transition pathways towards sustainability, using case studies from Europe. It assesses the utility of the multi-level perspective in transition theory for addressing contemporary issues and identifies future research needs, making it an essential read for researchers of rural or agricultural change.

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        January 2019

        Transition Metals, Second Edition

        by Monica Halka, Ph.D., and Brian Nordstrom, Ed.D.

        More so than any of the other major groups of elements in the periodic table, the transition metals have shaped human history and have been the workhorses of industry. The discovery of metallic copper ended the Stone Age and ushered in the Bronze Age. Alloys of iron (especially steel) later took over, and the Iron Age replaced the Bronze Age. Copper, silver, and gold—and, more recently, platinum—have been the precious metals from which coins and jewelry have been made from ancient times to the present. Each chapter in the newly updated, full-color Transition Metals, Second Edition discusses a group of elements, including their similarities and differences and current research and applications. Ideal for high school or college students interested in chemistry and physics, this straightforward resource is devoted to the chemical and physical properties of transition metals and how they are useful in everyday life. Some of the transition metals covered include scandium, titanium, manganese, cobalt, and zinc.

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        Rural planning
        January 1992

        Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition Volume 2

        Economy and Society

        by Ian R Bowler, Christopher Bryant, Duane Nellis

        This is volume two of this series on contemporary rural systems in transition

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        Tourism industry
        September 2005

        Monitoring for a Sustainable Tourism Transition

        The Challenge of Developing and Using Indicators

        by Graham Miller, Louise Twining-Ward

        Sustainable tourism is not a static target, but a dynamic process of change, a transition. This book considers how monitoring using indicators can assist tourism to make such a sustainability transition. It encourages the reader to view tourism from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective and draws on material from a wide range of sources. The book explains why monitoring is important for different groups of stakeholders; public and private sector, NGOs and communities. It also examines important monitoring considerations such as what and where to measure, how much will monitoring cost and how the data can be presented. The book puts particular emphasis on indicator use and implementation. It highlights the process and techniques to develop and use indicators and then provides clear and detailed examples of monitoring in practice around the globe at different geographic scales.

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        March 1986

        Lem über Lem

        Gespräche

        by Stanisław Bereś, Stanisław Lem, Hilde Nürenberger, Edda Werfel

        Nicht ganz verlorene Zeit. Im Spinnennetz der Bücher. Diesmal nur über »Golem«. Filmische Enttäuschungen. Genuß, Verdruß, Überdruß. Beschwerde- und Antragsbuch. In der Höhle der Zivilisation. Die Welt erklären. Die Leidenschaft des Philosophierens.

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        May 2008

        Ritual und Gewalt

        Ethnologische Studien an europäischen und mediterranen Gesellschaften

        by Thomas Hauschild

        Noch in den 1980er Jahren galten religiös motivierte Rituale hierzulande als vom Aussterben bedrohte Spezies, als archaische Reste von bestenfalls folkloristischem oder unterhaltungsindustriellem Interesse, die in einer globalisierten, hochtechnisierten und zunehmend säkularisierten Welt keine Bedeutung mehr haben würden. Zwanzig Jahre später hat sich diese Situation gründlich geändert. Alte Rituale leben weiter, neue werden erfunden, importiert oder drängen aus anderen Weltgegenden nach Europa hinein. Gewaltexzesse, die scheinbar von außen in die westlichen Gesellschaften einbrechen, erweisen sich häufig als rituell grundiert und haben ihre europäischen Resonanzen und Gegenstücke. Angesichts dessen entwickelt Thomas Hauschild eine neue Sicht auf Rituale und deren Zusammenhang mit Ressentiment und Gewalt. Jenseits von Idealisierung und Dämonisierung, von "aufgeklärtem Westen" und "rückständigem Orient", von postkolonialem Denken und Wissenschaftsgläubigkeit versteht er Rituale als im Kern politisch neutrale Grenzphänomene an den Rändern textlich überlieferten Wissens, die weniger mit abstrakten politisch-religiösen Überzeugungen zu tun haben als mit den konkreten Lebensbedingungen der Menschen. Hauschild setzt daher auf die Mikroanalyse lokaler ritueller Praktiken und präsentiert höchst anschauliche ethnologische Studien europäischer Gesellschaften und des Mittelmeerraums. Die "Kultur" von Al Qaida wird ebenso untersucht wie die der sizilianischen Mafia, der "Ehrenmord", der "böse Blick" sowie andere magische und religiöse Riten und Fetischismen. Rituale erweisen sich dabei als wertvolle Kulturgüter, die nicht per se Nährboden für Fundamentalismen und Sektierertum sind, sondern aus denen sich wie aus anderen Kulturformen auch gleichermaßen gewalttätige wie friedfertige Konsequenzen ziehen lassen.

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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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        January 2022

        Bald ist alles wieder gut

        Mit Ritualen zum Trösten

        by Katja Reider / Antje Flad

        Everything Will Be Fine Again Soon About small accidents and giving comfort Oh no! The little fox fell down while playing and hurt himself. Fortunately, other animals are on the spot right away and know exactly what to do: the bear takes the little fox in his arms, the hedgehog hums a comforting song, and the mouse brings a band-aid. And that’s how the little fox quickly gets quickly all right again! • Loving illustrations with rituals for comforting, which immediately help with everyday accidents.• Developed with psychological advice: Using rituals and rhymes to comfort and calm• Bestselling and innovative ’Ritual‘ concept: Over 50,000 copies sold of "Wenn am Himmel Sterne stehen" since 2019 and over 200,000 copies of “Der Mond ist aufgegangen” gifted to German families by the Ministry of Education

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        January 2008

        Love's Sacrifice

        by A. T. Moore

        A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer analyzes of many aspects of staging and interpretation. The text for this edition is based on a fresh study of the quarto of 1633, the only authoritative early text. In his introduction to the play, Moore reappraises the evidence for the play's date of composition. He also looks at the circumstances of the play's genesis, presenting detailed discussions of both the theater where "Love's Sacrifice" was first performed and the acting company for which it was written. Arguing that Ford's adaptation of his source materials is the key to interpreting this remarkably allusive play, Moore provides a wealth of new information about Ford's sources.The introduction also includes a survey of critical responses, an overview of the play, stage history, and a bibliography of relevant secondary material. This new volume in the "Revels Plays" series is the most detailed and comprehensive edition of "Love's Sacrifice" ever published - and the first modern-spelling edition of Ford's tragedy in more than a century. The play's textual history is discussed in an appendix. A second appendix examines possible links between "Love's Sacrifice" and the real-life story of the murdered Italian prince and musician Carlo Gesualdo. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2021

        Religion and life cycles in early modern England

        by Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine, Tessa Whitehouse

        Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c. 1550-1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, it encourages cross-confessional comparison between life stages and rites of passage that were of religious significance to all faiths in early modern England. The book considers biological processes such as birth and death, aspects of the social life cycle including schooling, coming of age and marriage and understandings of religious transition points such as spiritual awakenings and conversion. Through this inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it seeks to show that the life cycle was not something fixed or predetermined and that early modern individuals experienced multiple, overlapping life cycles.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        Realising the city

        by Camilla Lewis, Jessica Symons

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