Helen Binns Agency
Foreign Rights Agency specialising in picture books, board books, novelty, activity, craft and children's/ YA fiction titles from UK and North American Children's Publishers and Literary Agencies.
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Helen Edwards Rights Agency
I launched my agency earlier this year on the back of over 25 years of experience selling international rights for Headline and Transworld Publishers (a division of Penguin Random House UK). I am delighted to be representing the following agencies in North America: Kate Barker Literary Agency, Bell Lomax Moreton, D.H.H. Literary Agency, Kate Hordern Literary Agency (please refer to my website for available titles www.helenedwardsrights.co.uk) and in all languages throughout the world: A for Authors, Barbican Press, Keane Kataria, Peony Agency and Storyline Agency (titles available for translation are listed on this portal too).
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June 2010Helena
by Euripides, Peter Handke
Durch seine Neuübersetzung der "Helena" des Euripides hat Peter Handke, zusammen mit "Prometheus, gefesselt" von Aischylos und "Ödipus in Kolonos" von Sophokles, eine Trilogie ganz eigener Art geschaffen: drei eminente Stücke der drei großen griechischen Tragödiendichter. "Helena" zählt zu den weniger bekannten Stücken – 412 v. Chr. in Athen zum ersten Mal vor Publikum gebracht, entfaltet Euripides seine eigene Geschichte der schönen Helena. Bei ihm wird sie von Hera auf der ägyptischen Insel Pharos in Sicherheit gebracht, sie selbst ist also nicht in Troja, sondern nur ihr Ebenbild. Kurz bevor sie die Gattin von König Theoklymenos werden soll, landet Menelaos auf der Insel, uns es gelingt beiden, in diesem Spiel von Sein und Schein durch Vorspiegelung von Tatsachen nach Griechenland zurückzukehren. Peter Handke schreibt über seine Methode bei der Neuübersetzung: »Offen gesagt: keine – bis vielleicht auf das Befolgen jenes Leitsatzes, mir auf den Weg gegeben von einem Altphilologen schon vor der Übersetzung des Prometheus, gefesselt: ›Einfach laufen lassen!‹ […] Einfach? Ja – aber vorher hatte eben das Verstehen jedes einzelnen Wortes, jeder Wendung, eines jeden Satzes sich zu ereignen – und solch ein Verstehen, nach einem doch immer langwierigen Grübeln, Erwägen, Abwägen, solch ein Verstehensaugenblick, von Wort zu Wort, von Vers zu Vers, gab dann jeweils den Takt für das Deutsche an. Dem ›Laufen lassen‹ hatte der Rhythmus des Verstehens, schön notwendig, vorauszugehen.«
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2024Coup in Damascus
Husni al-Za'im and the birth of Syrian military rule
by Carl Rihan
Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria's first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria's democracy and the rise of its military rulers, particularly Husni al-Zaim, whose brief rule in 1949 represented a profoundly transformative moment for the Syrian nation. It is a history of the thoughts, intentions and motives of political actors underpinning the events that have marked Syria's history after the first Arab-Israeli war, and focuses mainly on the interaction between local, regional and international actors. Unlike most histories of the modern Middle East that tackle broad intervals and that focus on the sequences of events, this history seeks to reconstruct the thought processes behind the events, and anchor them within the epoch's existing political and socioeconomic conditions. It draws on several methodological influences, particularly R.G. Collingwood's 'history as re-enactment of the past'.
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June 2018Helena und die Ratten in den Schatten
by Marzi, Christoph
„Du musst vorsichtig sein“, warnen die anderen Kinder Helena. „Da sind Ratten in den Schatten.“ Und vor denen, das weiß jeder in der Stadt, muss man sich in Acht nehmen. Doch dann fällt eines Nachts Chico, das Stoffäffchen, vom Fensterbrett - und mitten hinein in den wilden und dunklen Garten. Da macht Helena sich auf den Weg, dorthin, wo die Schatten am tiefsten sind, um ihren Freund zu retten.
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October 2017Not Our Day to Die
by Michael Sullivan
It was work for Mike Sullivan–a flying job like the ones he'd done most of his life in many parts of the world–ferrying people, medicine, crops, supplies and almost anything else you can think of among the isolated jungle villages of Guatemala. Life in the farming co-ops there was simple, peaceful, and good, based on bedrocks of family, community, and faith.Then the repression began. A failed attempt at a coup had led to continued fighting between rebels and government, though in areas far from the almost-utopian Ixcan region. U.S. military and CIA intervention helped defeat the insurgency, but the social inequalities that had led to the movement remained, and the revolution went underground. The Guatemalan army, searching everywhere for those who opposed it, increased its control over the isolated jungle area. Co-op directors, teachers, catechists, and then anyone suspected of being one of or assisting the guerrillas was selectively "disappeared." The army turned to a scorched-earth policy, killing animals, burning crops, uprooting fruit trees, destroying towns, massacring their people. Throughout the Ixcan, those who survived fled. Some returned to their original mountain villages, others crossed the border into Mexico, and a third group survived for sixteen years hiding in the jungle–men, women, and children. Primeval growth took over the land as the war with the guerrilla movement raged on to encompass the entire nation.When finally peace accords were signed, the people of the Ixcan returned. Homes were rebuilt, land reclaimed, the area thrived again. But sixteen years were lost, along with countless lives. For Mike Sullivan, who had returned there when his help was needed, the story of those years–of how the people of the Ixcan survived, and of the many who didn't–was one that had to be told. In three visits, he conducted the interviews that form this book, talking with the villagers he'd known long before. At first, they spoke hesitantly, then with the flood force of vivid memory, telling of their first arrival at the Ixcan, the lives they'd made, and the years of the repression and worse. Their stories are gripping, fascinating, painful–but most of all, deeply human as we witness their struggle to survive and feel the force of the simple values that ultimately carried them through to a new and better life.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024How to be multiple
The philosophy of twins
by Helena de Bres, Julia de Bres
In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins offers remarkable insights into some of the deepest questions of our existence, from what is a person? to how should we treat one another? Deftly weaving together literary and cultural history, philosophical enquiry and personal experience, de Bres examines such thorny issues as binary thinking, objectification, romantic love and friendship, revealing the limits of our individualistic perspectives. In this illuminating, entertaining book, wittily illustrated by her twin sister, de Bres ultimately suggests that to consider twinhood is to imagine the possibility of a more interconnected, capacious human future.
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October 2009Unhaltbar
Meine Abenteuer als Welttorhüter
by Pfannenstiel, Lutz / Zusammen mit Putsch, Christian
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March 1998Der Putsch, der nie stattfand
Roman
by Muñoz Molina, Antonio / Übersetzt von Zurbrüggen, Willi
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2006Maxine Hong Kingston
by Helena Grice, John Thieme, Martin Hargreaves
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January 2000Die schöne Helena
Von Sparta über Troja nach Europa und Amerika
by Glücklich, Hans-Joachim
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January 2000Die schöne Helena
Texte von Hygin, Ovid, Vergil und Seneca. Rezeptionsdokumente aus Musik und Film
by Andere Adaption von Glücklich, Hans-Joachim
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2006Maxine Hong Kingston
by Helena Grice, John Thieme, Rebecca Mortimer, Martin Hargreaves
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September 2009Helena, genannt die Schöne
Mein Leben zwischen Sparta und Troja. Roman
by George, Margaret / Übersetzt von Schmidt, Rainer
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