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      • GemmaMedia

        GemmaMedia publishes cultural memoirs for young people and adults, literary fiction, and current affairs content with diversity at its heart.The Gemma Open Door for Literacy imprint offers engaging,unabridged works exploring sophisticated topics in simple language. High-interest, low-reading leveloriginalstories come from best-selling authors and important new voices. Named for the brightest star in the Northern Crown, Gemma explores the brilliance of our shared and diverse experience.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2006

        Joan of Arc

        La pucelle

        by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean, Craig Taylor

        This sourcebook collects together for the first time in English the major documents relating to the life and contemporary reputation of Joan of Arc. Also known as La Pucelle, she led a French Army against the English in 1429, arguably turning the course of the war in favour of the French king Charles VII. The fact that she achieved all of this when just a seventeen-year-old peasant girl highlights the magnitude of her achievements and also opens up other ways of looking at her story. For many, Joan represents the voice of ordinary people in the fifteenth century; the victims of high politics and warfare that devastated France. Her story ended tragically in 1431 when she was put on trial for heresy and sorcery by an ecclesiastical court and was burned at the stake. This book shows how the trial, which was organised by her enemies, provides an important window into late medieval attitudes towards religion and gender, as Joan was effectively persecuted by the established Church for her supposedly non-conformist views on spirituality and the role of women. Presented within a contextual and critical framework, this book encourages scholars and students to rethink this remarkable story. It will be invaluable reading for those working in the fields of medieval society and heresy, as well as the Hundred Years' War. ;

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        April 2021

        Sylvia und der Vogel

        by Gemma Koomen, Martina Tichy

        Versteckt hinter Blättern und Zweigen leben die Baumhüter. Sie sind nur daumengroß und kümmern sich darum, dass es dem Baum gutgeht. Am liebsten sammeln sie Früchte und Nüsse und spielen dann alle gemeinsam. Nur die kleine Baumhüterin Sylvia ist lieber für sich allein. Bis ein Vogelkind ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Die beiden freunden sich miteinander an, und die schüchterne Sylvia erkennt, dass es zu zweit noch viel mehr Spaß macht, die Welt zu entdecken, denn mit dem munteren Zausel ist immer etwas los. Bis sie bei einem Ausflug einen Vogelschwarm entdecken. Sind das Zausels neue Freunde? In poetischen Bildern erzählt Gemma Koomen von den kleinen Geheimnissen, die man hinter jedem Zweig entdecken kann. Und dass man manchmal einfach einen Freund braucht, der einem Mut macht, aus seinem Versteck zu kommen.

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        The Arts
        June 2021

        The war that won't die

        The Spanish Civil War in cinema

        by David Archibald

        The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        The war that won't die

        The Spanish Civil War in cinema

        by David Archibald

        The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.

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        January 1996

        Kindheit des Nivasio Dolcemare

        by Alberto Savinio, Sigrid Vagt, Martina Kempter

        Alberto Savinio (geboren 1891 in Athen, gestorben 1952 in Rom), der hierzulande vor allem durch seine Neue Enzyklopädie und sein großes Mailand-Buch Stadt, ich lausche deinem Herzen bekannt geworden ist, erzählt in seinem geistvoll unterhaltenden, kritisch funkelndem autobiographischen Roman von der Kindheit eines Italieners um die Jahrhundertwende in Griechenland.

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        January 1987

        Alberto Giacometti

        Der Mensch und sein Lebenswerk. Die erste umfassende Biographie eines der genialsten Plastiker, Maler und Zeichner unserer Zeit

        by Lord, James / Übersetzt von Mulch, Dieter

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        1990

        Der Junge Alberto

        Gespräche mit Alberto Moravia

        by Maraini, Dacia

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        Mind, Body, Spirit

        SHAMANISM

        Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation

        by Oscar Miro-Quesada

        Awaken Your Shamanic Soul Respected kamasqa curandero Oscar Miro-Quesada teaches shamanism as a tradition of healing, power, and wisdom that sees all life as interconnected and sacred. Understand the shamanic art of a noble death, becoming a hollow bone, traveling through the three worlds, and how to embrace the imaginal beauty of a living, sentient, and ever-evolving cosmos. Feel soul-animating moments with Creation itself as don Oscar and selected sacred storytellers share their transformative experiences. Cultivate spiritual discernment, learn how to consecrate your shamanic ceremonial space, practice an ancient Andean earth walk ritual, internalize the soul-nurturing beauty of Mother Earth with the Pachamama Renewal Process, work with the five principal animal allies of Universal Shamanism, and discover the loving grace that sparked the emergence of shamanism as a universal path of healing service. You must live the path to understand it. SHAMANISM is the medicine our world needs for seven generations and beyond.

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