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Ediciones Uniandes / Universidad de los Andes

Ediciones Uniandes, Universidad de los Andes’s press, in Bogotá, Colombia, publishes scholarly books and music CDs, thus making available the research and arts production of professors and researchers within the university. Our aim is to consolidate a rigorous catalog with high academic and editorial standards, and to publish relevant titles while promoting collaboration with other key institutions, both in Colombia and abroad, and intercultural exchange; we also support editorial policies such as open access. Our catalog includes a wide range of topics with special emphasis on Social Sciences, Humanities and Law, but also Economics, Sciences, Management, Architecture, Design, and Medicine.
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Murray Books

Murray Books has been responsible for many creative book concepts and ideas since 1983. We have crafted books and gifts for over 30 countries and in 22 languages. We specialise in creating products for the retail customer or publisher and every one of our creations is exclusive.
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Animal husbandry

February 1999

Transgenic Animals in Agriculture

by Edited by James D Murray, Gary B Anderson, Anita M Oberbauer, Martina M McGloughlin

In the past decade, a number of advances have been made in genetic engineering as applied to farmed animals. This book has been developed from invited presentations at a conference held in California in August 1997 to address this issue. It is written by representatives from the leading laboratories involved in attempts to improve agriculturally important mammals, poultry and fish. Current knowledge, methodology, technical improvements and successes in the applications of transgenic technology to a range of animals which are important in agriculture are brought together for the first time under one cover. This book is essential reading for research workers in animal genetics, breeding and biotechnology.

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2001

Les Murray

by Steven Matthews, John Thieme

Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. The only full critical study of Murray's work available, Steven Matthews provides a complete picture of his career to date, from its early parables of national emergence to the working man's epic encounter with the major events of the twentieth century, Fredy Neptune. Provides detailed readings of key poems, as well as literary and cultural contexts for the rapid shifts in style and subject matter Murray has made from collection to collection. Gives an overview of Murray's place within Australian literature and national thought. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2020

Knowledge, mediation and empire

James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914

by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David

The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.

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Literature & Literary Studies

January 2013

The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century

Lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII

by I. Robinson

The eleventh-century papal reform transformed western European Church and society and permanently altered the relations of Church and State in the west. The reform was inaugurated by Pope Leo IX (1048-54) and given a controversial change of direction by Pope Gregory VII (1073-85). This book contains the earliest biographies of both popes, presented here for the first time in English translation with detailed commentaries. The biographers of Leo IX were inspired by his universally acknowledged sanctity, whereas the biographers of Gregory VII wrote to defend his reputation against the hostility generated by his reforming methods and his conflict with King Henry IV. Also included is a translation of Book to a Friend, written by Bishop Bonizo of Sutri soon after the death of Gregory VII, as well as an extract from the violently anti-Gregorian polemic of Bishop Benzo of Alba (1085) and the short biography of Leo IX composed in the papal curia in the 1090s by Bishop Bruno of Segni. These fascinating narrative sources bear witness to the startling impact of the papal reform and of the 'Investiture Contest', the conflict of empire and papacy that was one of its consequences. An essential collection of translated texts for students of medieval history.

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1985

Geschichten vom Tierarzt Dr. James Herriot

Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh und Dr. James Herriot, Tierarzt

by Herriot, James / Übersetzt von Kloth, Friedrich A; Übersetzt von Herrera, Ulla H de

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The Arts

October 2017

4 saints in 3 acts

A snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s

by Patricia Allmer, John Sears

Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson was a major avant-garde phenomenon of the 1930s, an experimental opera that nonetheless achieved remarkable popular success. Photography was a key element of that success, but its complex roles in the construction, representation and dissemination of the opera have hitherto received little critical attention. The photographic recording of the all-African American cast in particular affords a unique insight into the complexities of Four Saints in relation to the Harlem Renaissance and the New York avant-gardes of the time. This book, published in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, London, presents a wide selection of photographs of the cast, performances, and other material - many images reproduced for the first time - alongside essays by an international range of scholars exploring different aspects of the opera, including dance, fashion, music, and avant-garde writing, as well as photography.

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September 2019

Conga Line on the Amazon

by David Myles Robinson

David Myles Robinson was eight years old when he first got hooked on travel. Since then, he’s seen most of the world—all its continents plus, he laments, “far too many places where travel is now off-limits.”After a lifetime of visiting near and far, in heat and in cold, in comfort and in danger, Robinson has put it all together now in this unique collection of the varied travel adventures he’s found—and the lessons he’s learned from them. A Fellini-esque view of the Amazon, a Mercedes caravan to Istanbul, Jane Goodall's amazing chimps—just part of a travel trunk full of experiences guaranteed to keep you seesawing from “Boy, I'd love to do that" to “Sure glad it was him, not me.”In Conga Line on the Amazon, Robinson brings to his first travel book the same gift for intriguing narrative and sharp characterization that has won praise for his six highly successful novels. Some of his tales may be for the strong of heart, but they’re all for the reader with a yen to be entertained by one intrepid man’s adventures and misadventures exploring the strange and wonderful world we live in.

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Biography & True Stories

September 2024

Clyde Walcott

by Peter Mason

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1976

Dr. James Herriot - Tierarzt

by Herriot, James / Übersetzt von Herrera, Ulla H

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January 1998

Das Fischer Hochschullexikon

Begriffe Studienfächer Anschriften

by Turner, George; Weber, Joachim D

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2021

John Derricke's The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne

by Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney, Joshua Samuel Reid

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September 2014

Siehst du bei Nacht die Sterne - Winter und Weihnachten mit James Krüss

by Krüss, James / Illustriert von Meyer, Kerstin

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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

September 2007

Authorship 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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January 1989

In Memoriam S. Fischer

24. Dezember 1859-1959

by Herausgegeben von B. Fischer, Brigitte; Herausgegeben von Bermann Fischer, Gottfried

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November 2004

Fischer Abiturwissen Geschichte

by Fox, Angelika; Hirsch, Hans K.

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March 2022

Henriette Bimmelbahn und ihre Freunde - Der große James Krüss Bilderbuchschatz

by James Krüss

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The Arts

August 2020

Robert Lepage's original stage productions

by Karen Fricker, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

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August 2016

Henriette Bimmelbahn und ihre Freunde - Der große James Krüss Bilderbuchschatz

Neuausgabe

by Krüss, James / Illustriert von Stich, Lisl; Illustriert von Wehner, Katja

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January 1999

Die Plantagen am Cooper River

Eine Südstaaten-Dynastie und ihre Sklaven

by Ball, Edward / Englisch Holl, Hans G

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by Edited by James D Murray, Gary B Anderson, Anita M Oberbauer, Martina M McGloughlin

by Steven Matthews, John Thieme

James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David

Lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII

by I. Robinson

Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh und Dr. James Herriot, Tierarzt

by Herriot, James / Übersetzt von Kloth, Friedrich A; Übersetzt von Herrera, Ulla H de

A snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s

by Patricia Allmer, John Sears

by David Myles Robinson

by Peter Mason

by Herriot, James / Übersetzt von Herrera, Ulla H

Begriffe Studienfächer Anschriften

by Turner, George; Weber, Joachim D

by Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney, Joshua Samuel Reid

by Krüss, James / Illustriert von Meyer, Kerstin

by Jane Rickard

24. Dezember 1859-1959

by Herausgegeben von B. Fischer, Brigitte; Herausgegeben von Bermann Fischer, Gottfried

by Fox, Angelika; Hirsch, Hans K.

by James Krüss

by Karen Fricker, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

Neuausgabe

by Krüss, James / Illustriert von Stich, Lisl; Illustriert von Wehner, Katja

Eine Südstaaten-Dynastie und ihre Sklaven

by Ball, Edward / Englisch Holl, Hans G

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