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      • sally : deja-vu

        SALLY, a comic/manga/graphic novel author, is from Taipei, TAIWAN.Originally a student of architecture, she is currently a member of the manga colllective Club Zip and publishes her work commercially and independently. Her work "Left Hand" won the Silver Award of Japan International MANGA Award and "Going My Way?" has been serialized in Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, and Indonesia.promotion clips of work in youtube

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        Children's & YA

        The Magical Pharmacy (4). The Contest of a Thousand Talents

        by Anna Ruhe/ Claudia Carls

        A world full of scents – and an adventure full of magic, racing hearts and dangers! Luzie Alvenstein can sense it right down to her fingertips: there is something wrong with the invitation she is holding in her hand. Her rival Elodie de Richemont has invited her to enter the “Contest of a thousand talents” – a competition for the world’s finest scent pharmacists. Of course the only thing Elodie is interested in is finding new talents to run her scent pharmacies. But Luzie has no choice. Together with Mats, Leon and Daan de Bruijn she goes to England in order to take part in the competition. What begins as a great game soon develops into a fight for survival – and this threatens to rob Luzie of everything she has ever loved… This is the fourth volume in the bestselling series of children’s books for boys and girls aged 10+. Written by the highly successful author Anna Ruhe and with atmospheric and beautifully detailed black-and-white illustrations by Claudia Carls.

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        Film theory & criticism
        February 2014

        The Encyclopedia of British Film

        Fourth edition

        by Edited by Brian McFarlane

        With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with detailed listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries.

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        May 2016

        Münchnerinnen, die lesen, sind gefährlich

        by Claudia Teibler

        »Wenn München leuchtet, sind es meist die Männer, die im Licht stehen.« Ob Lion Feuchtwanger oder Erich Kästner, die großen Männer Münchens sind bestens bekannt und vielfach erwähnt. Dass es in München aber auch zahlreiche Frauen gab, die als Schriftstellerinnen, Frauenrechtlerinnen, Publizistinnen, Dramatikerinnen, Journalistinnen, Feuilleton-Chefinnen oder Verlegerinnen ihre Spuren hinterließen, lohnt einer genaueren Betrachtung: Denn unter ihnen sind erstaunlich viele ungewöhnliche Lebensläufe zu entdecken. Claudia Teibler widmet sich diesen meist in Vergessenheit geratenen Frauen und schildert so nicht nur ein Stück Stadt-, sondern auch Emanzipationsgeschichte. Mit Porträts von Anita Augspurg, Elsa Bernstein, Annette Kolb, Fanny zu Reventlow, Lena Christ, Marta Feuchtwanger, Luiselotte Enderle, Jella Lepman u. a. Mit zahlreichen Fotos und Abbildungen Durchgängig vierfarbig illustriert »Die Münchner Kunsthistorikerin und Journalistin Claudia Teibler portraitiert in dem Buch 16 beeindruckende Töchter dieser Stadt.« Bild München

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        The Arts
        November 2011

        Real and Reel

        The education of a film critic

        by Brian McFarlane

        From a little before ten years of age Brian McFarlane became addicted to stories told on the screen, and the mere fact that he had difficulty in getting to see the films he wanted - or any for that matter - only made them seem more alluring. But it wasn't just seeing the films that mattered: he also wanted, and quite soon needed, to be writing about them and these obsessions have been part of his life for the next sixty-odd years. Real and reel is a light-hearted and but deeply felt account of a lifetime's addiction. It is one particular writer and critic's story, but it will strike sparks among many others. Though many other interests have kept Brian McFarlane's life lively, nothing else has exerted such a long-standing grip on the author's imagination as film. Editor of the Encyclopaedia of British Cinema, co-editor of Manchester University Press's British Film Makers series, and author of over a dozen critical works on film and adaptation, Brian McFarlane's autobiographical Real and reel can also be read as a biography of the subject of Film Studies itself. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2003

        The poetry of Carol Ann Duffy

        Choosing tough words

        by Angelica Michelis, Anthony Rowland

        The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, including feminism, masculinity, national identity and post-structuralism. Situates Duffy's work in relation to current debates about the state, value and social relevance of contemporary British poetry. Will become the benchmark anthology on Duffy. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        'An Irish empire'?

        Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire

        by Sally Visick

        This volume, which explores aspects of the experience of Ireland and Irish people within the British Empire, addresses a central concern of modern Irish scholarship. Much academic writing about Ireland, its history and culture is dominated by the vocabulary of imperialism. Engels described Ireland as England's first colony. Contemporary observers frequently characterise it as having a post-colonial society. Ireland, on the other hand, was also part of the metropolitan core of the Empire and supplied many of its soldiers, settlers and administrators. The paradox that Ireland was both 'imperial' and 'colonial' lies at the heart of this book which includes studies of Irish service in the Empire as well as the impact of imperial concerns in Ireland. Concentrating on the period since the mid-nineteenth century, the scope of the volume is impressively broad. Popular culture, sport and film are investigated, as well as business history and the military and political 'sinews of Empire'. The book will be of particular value to institutions teaching Irish and British history to degree level and the growing number of Irish studies courses being offered in Great Britain and North America.

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        October 2014

        Legendäre Gastgeberinnen und ihre Feste

        by Claudia Lanfranconi

        Ob ein bescheidener Jour fixe im Wohnzimmer einer berühmten Salòniere oder extravagante Feierlichkeiten, bei denen der Einlass nur mit besonders auffallenden Hutkreationen gewährt wurde – wie unterschiedlich die Feste auch sein mochten: Am Ende waren es die Gastgeberinnen selbst, die mit ihrem Talent, ihrer Leidenschaft und Kreativität zum strahlenden Mittelpunkt ihrer Feste wurden und deren legendäre, luxuriöse und mitunter ruinöse Partys bis heute unvergessen sind. Claudia Lanfranconi nimmt uns mit auf einen Streifzug zu französischen Salonièren und New Yorker Millionärinnen, geistreichen Künstlerinnen und glamourösen First Ladys wie Gertrude Stein, Diana Vreeland, Marianne Fürstin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Jacqueline Kennedy, Isa Gräfin zu Hardenberg u. v. a.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 1997

        The new woman

        by Sally Ledger

        Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional representations with the lived experience of the new woman, Ledger's book makes a major contribution to an understanding of the 'woman question' at the fin de siecle. She alights on such disparate figures as Eleanor Marx, Gertrude Dix, Dracula, Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner and Radclyffe Hall. Focusing mainly on the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the book's later chapters project forward into the twentieth century, considering the relationship between new woman fiction and early modernism as well as the socio-sexual inheritance of the 'second generation' new woman writers. ;

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        May 2012

        Sally

        Ich verkaufte mich für meine Familie

        by Päsler, Elke

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        August 2002

        Litauen

        Ein literarischer Reisebegleiter

        by Claudia Sinnig

        Das Ostseeland Litauen ist geprägt von der bewegten Geschichte vieler Völker und Kulturen. Goethe und Herder studierten die Lieder der litauischen Fischer und Bauern, Thomas Mann rühmte in Nidden den »elementarischen Eindruck« der höchsten Dünen Europas. Die Sehnsucht der polnischen Dichter galt dem mythischen Land der von heidnischen Göttern bewohnten Urwälder, und als märchenhaftes »Nirgendwo« hielt es Einzug in die westeuropäische Literatur, in die Werke Stendhals, Mérimées und Jarrys. Vilnius, das in der Shoah ausgelöschte »Jerusalem des Nordens«, war eines der bedeutendsten geistigen Zentren des Judentums. Für viele russische Intellektuelle bis zu Joseph Brodsky war Litauen Exil oder Reiseland. Claudia Sinnig lädt zu einer Entdeckungsreise durch das größte der baltischen Länder ein, mit Texten berühmter Autorinnen und Autoren im Gepäck.

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        Biography & True Stories
        July 2024

        As Good as a Marriage

        by Jill Liddington

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        March 2017

        Ladys in Gummistiefeln

        Noch mehr Damen mit dem grünen Daumen

        by Claudia Lanfranconi

        Der wunderbar illustrierte Band Ladys in Gummistiefeln versammelt viele neue Damen mit grünem Daumen – bekannte und weniger bekannte, allesamt jedoch außergewöhnliche Frauen, die ihr Leben dem Garten, den Pflanzen und den Blumen widmeten. Claudia Lanfranconi begab sich erneut auf die Suche und stieß auf viele weitere Visionärinnen, die Gartengeschichte geschrieben haben: Diven in Gummistiefeln, die ihre Schlossgärten pflegen; Pflanzenjägerinnen, die – nicht selten als Mann verkleidet – um die Welt reisen auf der Suche nach neuen und besonderen Spezies; Blumendekorateurinnen aus aller Welt, die ihrem Gespür für Form, Farbe und Umgebung nachgehen; und Malerinnen, die die Welt der Pflanzen auf ganz besondere Art einfangen. Echte Gärtnerinnen lieben Lehm unter den Fingernägeln und den Geruch von feuchter Erde. Sie graben und wühlen bei Wind und Wetter. Geht es um den heißgeliebten Garten, tauschen selbst stilbewusste Ladys ihre High Heels gegen Gummistiefel!

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        Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours
        May 2015

        Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record

        by Jessica L. Malay

        In her Great Books of Record Anne Clifford places herself within the dynamic history of the ancient Clifford family, providing an unbroken view into medieval and early modern life for nearly six centuries. In this annotated edition, we glimpse the lives of simple widows, traders, farmers, and labourers juxtaposed with the adventures of soldiers, lords and ladies, princes and princesses. Throughout, Anne Clifford asserts the centrality of women to the success of noble families, including the monarchy. Her Great Books draws upon medieval traditions and early modern scholarship and builds upon these through biographies of the Clifford lords and ladies, along with an extended biography of her mother Margaret Russell and her own autobiographical 'Life of Mee'. Those interested in the lives of medieval and early modern women, changes in culture, the effect of the political upon individuals, and the inspiring life of Anne Clifford will find this a rich and rewarding book.

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