Representations of Global Civility: English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863, Klement Sascha R.

Sascha Martin is eight years old, but he's not your average Year Two schoolboy. He lives in the spookiest part of town near his best friend Luca and his not-friend Mary-Alice, and he invents amazing things in a secret lab beneath his room.

Sascha's first News of the year is a thumping great rocket that towers over everyone, including the teacher, and there's a button on the side that says: "Don't touch " Well in a class full of children, that's just a red rag to a bull, isn't it?

This maiden flight is a delicious journey into chaos as Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship crashes through buildings and roars into the skies above Landfill Public School with Sascha, two screaming teachers, an oven full of pies and a growing tail of books and toys and classroom equipment swept along in its wake.

With beautiful illustrations by Manuela Pentangelo, and a foreword written by record-breaking rocketeer Sam Ridgway (the first woman in Australia internationally accredited to fly Level 3 High Powered rockets), this is a book to surprise and delight children and their parents.

Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship is filled with mayhem and laughter, and for children craving inspiration it opens up a world of real life rocketry and science that will power their imaginations far into the future.

"I am constantly looking for new titles that we can read together and I believe I have struck gold with this one 'Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship' is an adorable story about an imaginative student who takes his class (teachers and all) on a ride they won't soon forget." Thomai Dion, scientist and author of Think-a-Lot Tots.

"Delightful, rhyming story that keeps your fingers turning the pages. John Arthur Nichol and Manuela Pentangelo are a synchronized pair I read this story again and again." E. C. Kraeft, author of White Castle (Elf Kingdoms #1)

The avant-garde and modernism take centre-stage within European academia today. The experimental literatures and arts in Europe between ca. 1850 and 1950, and their aftermath, figure prominently on curricula, while modernism and avant-garde studies have come to form distinct yet interlocking disciplines within the humanities in recent years. These disciplines take on various guises on the continent. Within French and German academia, "modernism" remains a term rather alien – "die Moderne" and "modernite" coming perhaps the closest to what is meant by "modernism" within the English context. Here, indeed, modernism has acquired a firm place in research, signaling above all a period in modern poetics and aesthetics, roughly between 1850 and 1950, during which a revolt against prevalent traditions in art, literature and culture took shape. Similarly, the term "avant-garde" comes with an array of often conflicting connotations. For some, the avant-garde marks the most radically experimental arts and literatures in modernism from the nineteenth century onward – the early twentieth-century vanguard movements of Futurism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism, among others, coinciding with the avant-garde's most "heroic" phase. For others, the avant-garde belongs to a cultural or conceptual order differing altogether from that of modernism – the vanguard exploits from the 1950s onward marking that avant-garde arts and literatures can also perfectly abide outside modernism.

European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, far from aiming to reduce the complexity of various European research traditions, aspires to embrace the wide linguistic, terminological and methodological variety within both fields. Publishing an anthology of essays in English, French and German every two years, the series wishes to compare and relate French, German and British, but also Northern and Southern as well as Central and Eastern European findings in avant-garde and modernism studies. The series gathers the best and most thought-provoking recent research and devotes itself to the study of the European avant-garde and modernism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies promotes interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics, and aims to encourage an interest in the cultural dimensions and contexts of the avant-garde and modernism in Europe. Essays accepted by the editorial board are subjected to blind peer-review by international experts.

Editors-in-chief: Sascha Bru (Leuven University) and Peter Nicholls (New York University).

Editorial Board: Jan Baetens (Leuven University), Hubert van den Berg (University of Groningen), Benedikt Hjartarson (University of Iceland) and Tania Orum (University of Copenhagen).

Advisory Board: Dawn Ades (University of Essex), Wolfgang Asholt (Universitat Osnabruck), Karlheinz Barck (Zentrum fur Literaturforschung Berlin), Henri Behar (Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle), Timothy O. Benson (LACMA), Gunter Berghaus (University of Bristol), Stefano Boeri (Multiplicity & Universita luav di Venezia), Endre Bojtar (Central European University, Budapest), Christina von Braun (Humboldt Universitat), Peter Burger (Universitat Bremen), Matei Calinescu (University of Indiana), Claus Cluver (University of Indiana), Antoine Compagnon (College de France), Maria Delaperriere (INALCO, Paris), Pascal Dethurens (Universite de Strasbourg), Eva Forgacs (College of Design, Pasadena), Hans Gunther (Bielefeld University), Cornelia Klinger (Eberhard-Karls Universitat Tubingen), Rudolf Kuenzli (University of Iowa), Bruno Latour (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris), Paul Michael Lutzeler (Washington University of St. Louis), Laura Marcus (University of Edinburgh), Richard Murphy (University of Sussex), Francois Noudelmann (Universite de Paris VIII), Krisztina Passuth (University of Budapest), Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University/University of Southern California), Michel Poivert (Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne), Susan Rubin-Suleiman (Harvard University), Rainer Rumold (Northwestern University), Jean-Yves Tadie (Paris IV, Sorbonne), Brandon Taylor (University of Southhampton), Andrew Webber (Churchill College, Cambridge).