Burnet Media
Burnet Media is an independent publisher based in Cape Town, South Africa. We specialise in forging close author-publisher partnerships for trade and customised projects.
View Rights PortalBurnet Media is an independent publisher based in Cape Town, South Africa. We specialise in forging close author-publisher partnerships for trade and customised projects.
View Rights PortalBurleigh Dodds Subliscience Publishing was established in 2015 by former staff at the award-winning Woodhead Publishing. Our vision is to help solve one of the world’s greatest challenges: to feed the world’s growing population. There is an urgent need for a more climate-smart agriculture able to feed a growing population whilst, at the same time, adapting to (and not exacerbating) climate change. Our goal is to build collections of research on key topics in agricultural science so that researchers can build on existing work and collaborate more effectively. We are achieving this by using ’smart-publishing’ to help achieve ’climate-smart’ agriculture.
View Rights PortalThis fascinating book looks at the phenomenon of murder and poisoning in the nineteenth century. Focusing on the case of William Palmer, a medical doctor who in 1856 was convicted of murder by poisoning, it examines how his case baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges. The investigation commences with an overview of the practice of toxicology in the Victorian era, and goes on to explore the demands imposed by legal testimony on scientific work to convict criminals. In addressing Palmer's trial, Burney focuses on the testimony of Alfred Swaine Taylor, a leading expert on poisons, and integrates the medical, legal and literary evidence to make sense of the trial itself and the sinister place of poison in wider Victorian society. Ian Burney has produced an exemplary work of cultural history, mixing a keen understanding of the contemporary social and cultural landscape with the scientific and medical history of the period. ;
This unique book contains the never before published script of the first ever one-woman show, written by Fanny Kelly. The script was performed in Britain in the 1830s and 40s, based on Kelly's own experiences and offers a picture of the exuberant and often bizarre Georgian entertainment world. The performance text is introduced, edited and explained by Gilli Bush-Bailey, who focuses 21st-century revisionist scholarship on Kelly's story. It is an innovative contribution to the modern debate on biographical and autobiographical writing, whilst also being a valuable text for those who wish to study comedy and women's performance. The materials and methods of the modern stand-up routine are already to be seen in this unusual text. This book will appeal to students and scholars who are involved in performance, theatre history, or biography. It is also an accessible text for the interested general reader. ;
Der scharlachrote Buchstabe ist Hawthornes erster und berühmtester Roman. Ergebnis einer langen Auseinandersetzung mit der Welt seiner puritanischen Vorfahren, ist er zugleich der klassische amerikanische Ehebruchroman. Ehebruch wird in der puritanischen Gesellschaft der Siedlerzeit nach starren Moralvorstellungen geahndet: So muß die Ehebrecherin Hester Prynne nach Verbüßung einer Gefängnisstrafe drei Stunden am Pranger stehen. Zudem ist sie dazu verurteilt, für den Rest ihres Lebens das Mal der vermeintlichen Schande – den scharlachroten Buchstaben A (für adulteress: Ehebrecherin) – auf der Brust zu tragen. überzeugt von der Würde ihrer Liebe, weigert sie sich, den Namen von Pearls Vater preiszugeben: Arthur Dimmesdale, Pfarrer der Gemeinde. Dimmesdale, schwächer und abhängiger vom Denken der Gesellschaft als Hester, wagt es nicht, sich zu seiner Schuld zu bekennen. Besessen von Rachegedanken, versucht ihn Hesters Ehemann, unter dem falschen Namen Chillingworth, zu einem Geständnis zu drängen.Mit seinen dramatischen Szenen und Konstellationen, den Reflexionen zu Schuld und Sühne sowie der melodramatischen Zuspitzung des Geschehens ist Der scharlachrote Buchstabe nicht nur ein Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur, sondern auch eine überaus spannende Lektüre.
Barbara Cramer-Nauhaus, geboren 1927 in Brandenburg an der Havel, studierte Anglistik und Germanistik in Halle und Heidelberg und war seit 1951 als freiberufliche Übersetzerin tätig. Sie übertrug Belletristik, Lyrik und Essays verschiedener englischer und amerikanischer Autoren des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts ins Deutsche. Barbara Cramer-Nauhaus verstarb im März 2001 in Halle an der Saale.
This is the sweet sweet story of Mark, a little boy who shared a special bond with his dog Pluto. Unfortunately, one day Mark lost his best friend. Mark missed Pluto very much and came up with the idea that the dog was now residing on the small planet of the same name, Pluto... Until one day mom came home with a little fluffy present: a new puppy friend, and the beginning of a new story. From 3 to 5 years, 2034 words Rightsholders: info@vivat.factor.ua or miroshnik@vivat.factor.ua