Annina Safran
Eine Jugendbuchfantasy-Saga ab 10 Jahre: Der Spiegelwächter, Die Suche nach dem Schattendorf, Im Land der Nuria. Insgesamt wird es fünf Bände zu dieser Saga geben.
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At Anness Publishing we have just celebrated our 30th anniversary and we are one of the largest independent book publishers in the UK having produced over 3000 titles, many of which have sold a million copies. In total we have sold in excess of 225,000,000 heavily-illustrated books, with subjects spanning cooking and crafts, gardening, new age, reference, hobbies and transport as well as a lively and successful list of pre-school activity and home study reference books for children. LORENZ BOOKS, our trade sales imprint for hardback non-fiction titles, has justifiably forged a reputation as one of the foremost imprints in illustrated publishing worldwide, with award-winning titles that cover the widest range of practical and reference subjects. SOUTHWATER is our trade sales paperback imprint, renowned for its extremely competitive pricing policy, fantastic packaging and quality, and the depth of its list. ARMADILLO is our trade imprint for illustrated children's fiction and non-fiction titles. We publish a wide range of traditional children's story books, pre-school and novelty books, as well as highly illustrated information books in the areas of science, history and natural history, and practical and creative project and activity books.
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September 2020Zauberhafte Weihnachten. Die schönsten Klassiker für Erstleser
by Andersen, Hans Christian; Dickens, Charles; Hodgson Burnett, Frances
Drei der schönsten Klassiker der Weltliteratur zum Weihnachtsfest, für Erstleser nacherzählt und wunderschön illustriert, in einem Band! So wird das Warten auf Weihnachten ein bisschen einfacher. Kay und Gerda müssen beweisen, dass ihre Freundschaft stärker ist als die Zauberkräfte der Schneekönigin. Ein Geist lässt den Geizhals Ebenezer Scrooge in die Vergangenheit und in die Zukunft blicken. Da erkennt Scrooge, wie wichtig es ist, dass er sich ändert. Noch ist es nicht zu spät. Cedric wird über Nacht zu einem englischen Lord und zieht in ein echtes Schloss. Sein griesgrämiger Großvater macht es ihm allerdings zunächst nicht leicht. Dieser Sammelband enthält folgende Geschichten: Hans Christian Andersen: Die Schneekönigin Charles Dickens: Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte Frances Hodgson Burnett: Der kleine Lord Durch die große Schrift ideal für Leseanfänger, aber auch zum Vorlesen bestens geeignet für Kinder ab 7 Jahren.
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2003The 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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October 2017Not Our Day to Die
by Michael Sullivan
It was work for Mike Sullivan–a flying job like the ones he'd done most of his life in many parts of the world–ferrying people, medicine, crops, supplies and almost anything else you can think of among the isolated jungle villages of Guatemala. Life in the farming co-ops there was simple, peaceful, and good, based on bedrocks of family, community, and faith.Then the repression began. A failed attempt at a coup had led to continued fighting between rebels and government, though in areas far from the almost-utopian Ixcan region. U.S. military and CIA intervention helped defeat the insurgency, but the social inequalities that had led to the movement remained, and the revolution went underground. The Guatemalan army, searching everywhere for those who opposed it, increased its control over the isolated jungle area. Co-op directors, teachers, catechists, and then anyone suspected of being one of or assisting the guerrillas was selectively "disappeared." The army turned to a scorched-earth policy, killing animals, burning crops, uprooting fruit trees, destroying towns, massacring their people. Throughout the Ixcan, those who survived fled. Some returned to their original mountain villages, others crossed the border into Mexico, and a third group survived for sixteen years hiding in the jungle–men, women, and children. Primeval growth took over the land as the war with the guerrilla movement raged on to encompass the entire nation.When finally peace accords were signed, the people of the Ixcan returned. Homes were rebuilt, land reclaimed, the area thrived again. But sixteen years were lost, along with countless lives. For Mike Sullivan, who had returned there when his help was needed, the story of those years–of how the people of the Ixcan survived, and of the many who didn't–was one that had to be told. In three visits, he conducted the interviews that form this book, talking with the villagers he'd known long before. At first, they spoke hesitantly, then with the flood force of vivid memory, telling of their first arrival at the Ixcan, the lives they'd made, and the years of the repression and worse. Their stories are gripping, fascinating, painful–but most of all, deeply human as we witness their struggle to survive and feel the force of the simple values that ultimately carried them through to a new and better life.
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March 2016Verbannt!
Versepos
by Ann Cotten, Ann Cotten
Tosende Palmen, ein Rascheln im Sellerie, ein Tiger verschwindet, in der Ferne detoniert eine Atombombe, und das Bewusstsein beginnt, rückwärts zu laufen. Es gehört einer Fernsehmoderatorin, die aufgrund wiederholten Fehlverhaltens auf eine einsame Insel verbannt wurde, ausgestattet nach eigener Wahl mit Messer, Schleifstein und Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Doch sie ist nicht allein. Hier sind schon fünfundzwanzig Matrosen, die in den Jahren seit ihrem Schiffbruch eine beachtliche kleine Parallelgesellschaft aufgebaut haben, sie heißt Hegelland. Ursprünglich Quäker, hängen sie jetzt der selbsterfundenen Schraubenreligion an und unterhalten in arbeitsamer Kulturleistung drei Pressen von kontinuierlich steigender Druckqualität. Was wird nun angesichts der ersten Frau passieren, und was, wenn mehr kommen? In 399 Neo-Spenser-Strophen schildert Ann Cotten die Turbulenzen, die nach einer weiblichen Flüchtlingswelle aus dem Internet in Hegelland entstehen. Die verschuldeten Prothesenträgerinnen werden unwillentlich zum Katalysator einer schon lange schwelenden Konterrevolution. Mithilfe von Reimen, Anspielungen, synästhetischen Zwängen und großer Anschaulichkeit wird dieser luzide Alptraum auch in Ihr Bewusstsein gehämmert.
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April 2007Fremdwörterbuchsonette
Gedichte
by Ann Cotten
Mit wenig Assoziationen beschwert; künstlich, neu oder nur vorübergehend im Sprachgebrauch – Fremdwörter scheinen sich für ihre Existenz zu entschuldigen: »Ich erfülle hier nur Begriffsfunktion, habe einen Arbeitsplatz inne, für den es im Moment keinen qualifizierten Deutschen gibt.« Können sie das ernst meinen? Ann Cotten baut sie in die ratternden Denkmaschinen ihrer Gedichte ein: jugendliches Ungestüm im sonettischen Gewand, das klipp und klar Gedachte, die Liebe mit ihren Rückkopplungen. Pete Doherty, Patti Smith und Sappho geistern mit unbekannten DJs und freundlichen Allegorien durch die nächtlichen Verse und wachen am anderen Tag in einem Sprachsubstrat auf, das ihnen ganz fremd vorkommen muß.
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Children's & YA2018The Magic Bird
by Ken Spillman and Malavika PC
A lone bird hungry for magic pecks at alphabet shapes. It looks through glass windows of book stores and glances at the t-shirts of pedestrians with the hope of solving the mystery hidden behind those letters. Soon, the words become familiar and the bird determinedly starts collecting scraps of paper to build a nest, wanting to hatch its ideas with warmth and nurture them through potential and free imagination. The unusual combination of Ken Spillman’s simple yet eloquent prose and Malavika PC’s inspired images combine in perfect harmony to express the powerful story of The Magic Bird. The bird reminds the reader of the extraordinary components which create something as ordinary as language, and the value of spreading our wings to take stories to others.
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Children's & YAMarch 2021My Upside Down World
by Ken Spillman and Silvana Giraldo
“This is a TRUE story. It’s about my world” There’s smoke in the kitchen. Dad acts normal but Mom is worried her head might explode. Even so, the biggest problem is global. You-Know-Who has been at it again and the world must be put right. Today! Big brothers are mean. Big brothers spell trouble. And Big Brothers are not to be trusted, especially if they turn your world upside down. Or is it downside up? In this book where the parallel crazy worlds with their upside-downness and downside-upness weave a fantastic, troubled, creased co-existence, nothing is what it seems like and everything is up for wonder. Ken Spillman adroitly plays around with words and situations both believable and unbelievable, while Silvana Giraldo spins a splendidly broken-but-beautiful world to bring alive an Orwellian dystopia into this picture book.
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October 2013Der schaudernde Fächer
Erzählungen
by Ann Cotten
»Ein paar Geliebte hatte ich, die wie Teeschalen waren, in die ich mich jeden Abend vertiefen wollte.« Die das sagt, ist nicht die Sorte Mensch, sich von Rührung beeindrucken zu lassen. Aber der traurige Student im Pierrotkostüm fällt ihr auf. Und als er eines Abends auf der Treppe vor ihr sitzt, nimmt sie ihn mit. Der Hof einer japanischen Universität, ein abgelegenes Dorf in der Ukraine, Berliner Clubs, ein Bus, der sich seinen Weg durch die nächtliche algerische Wüste sucht – das sind nur ein paar der Orte, an denen die Helden dieser Erzählungen unterwegs sind, immer in den einen oder anderen Anblick versunken, immer bereit, vor der Liebe die Flucht zu ergreifen, um der Schönheit selbst ins Gesicht zu sehen. Schwungvoll spannt Ann Cotten einen schillernden Fächer auf – aquarellierte Seegurken auf der einen Seite, auf der anderen Menschen in Liebeswirren. Die Wendigkeit ihrer Lyrik findet sich auch in diesen Erzählungen: Sie sind verspielt und zynisch, offenherzig und doch unwiderstehlich.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2016EcoGothic
by Elisabeth Bronfen, William Hughes, Andrew Smith, Steven Bruhm, Ken Gelder, Jerrold Hogle, Avril Horner, William Hughes
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse - images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.
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Politics & governmentFebruary 2014Fighting fascism: the British Left and the rise of fascism, 1919–39
by Keith Hodgson
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Politics & governmentFebruary 2014Fighting fascism: the British Left and the rise of fascism, 1919–39
by Keith Hodgson
In the years between the two world wars, fascism triumphed in Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere, coming to power after intense struggles with the labour movements of those countries. This book, available in paperback for the first time, analyses the way in which the British left responded to this new challenge. How did socialists and communists in Britain explain what fascism was? What did they do to oppose it, and how successful were they? In examining the theories and actions of the Labour Party, the TUC, the Communist Party and other, smaller left-wing groups, the book explains their different approaches, while at the same time highlighting the common thread that ran through all their interpretations of fascism. The author argues that the British left has been largely overlooked in the few specific studies of anti-fascism that exist, with the focus being disproportionately applied to its European counterparts. He also takes issue with recent developments in the study of fascism, and argues that the views of the left, often derided by modern historians, are still relevant today.
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April 2021Pippins Tochters Taschentuch
Roman
by Rosmarie Waldrop, Ben Lerner
Hätten Josef und Frederika Seifert mal besser nicht geheiratet!? Der Ort ist Kitzingen am Main, es sind die späten Zwanziger. Josef ist Kriegsveteran und Lehrer, sehr ins Metaphysische entrückt, Frederika rasend frustrierte Sängerin, rasend frustrierte femme fatale, die, unfähig zu den spirituellen Sublimationen ihres Mannes, bereits wenige Wochen nach der Trauung eine Affäre mit seinem besten Freund beginnt. Ist dieser Seitensprung an allem schuld, was folgen wird? Das fragt – ein halbes Jahrhundert später – Lucy, die älteste Tochter, in Briefen an ihre Schwester (oder ist es ihre Halbschwester?). Hätte ihre Mutter nur ein Machtwort sprechen müssen, was die Musik Richard Wagners angeht, damit sich alles ganz anders entwickelt? Und hat der Umstand, dass Frederikas Liebhaber Jude war, Josefs Faszination für den Nationalsozialismus weiter entfacht? Rosmarie Waldrop hat einen agilen, feinsinnigen und derben Roman geschrieben. Über eine marode Familie im anschwellenden Nationalsozialismus. Über Sehnsüchte, Enttäuschungen und Verrat. Über kleine Ursachen und große Wirkungen. Und über die beharrliche Ambivalenz einer nicht wirklich zu bewältigenden Vergangenheit.
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Genealogy, heraldry, names & honoursMay 2015Anne 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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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2014Riches of the Rylands
The Special Collections of The University of Manchester Library
by John Hodgson
Riches of the Rylands explores and celebrates the outstanding Special Collections of The University of Manchester Library. These collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, maps and visual materials are extraordinarily rich and diverse. They span 5,000 years and six continents, and include almost every format ever used for written communication. Many derive from the superlative collections purchased by Enriqueta Rylands for the magnificent library she founded as a memorial to her husband John. The book features over 150 key items from across the collections. Thirteen thematic chapters contain short essays on individual items by over sixty contributors - curators and experts in particular fields. Every item is beautifully illustrated in full colour and an extended introduction charts the history and context of the collections. Riches of the Rylands will appeal to a broad readership - lovers of books and libraries, and anyone interested in literature, art, history, the history of ideas and collecting. ;
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DARI SEBALIK KELIR WAYANG KULIT TOK DALANG CHE ANN
by LIM SWEE TIN, LILY KANG, FATINAH BINTI ILIAS
Kelantan is rich in traditional art such as dikir barat, makyung, menora, shadow play, main peteri, bageh and a few others. These arts are among those that have been established for centuries in the state of Kelantan, growing and not only nationally but internationally, for example dikir barat, makyung and shadow play. Even Makyung in 2005, was named as UNESCO's World Intangible Cultural Heritage. The book attempts to explore the art of shadow play through the highlight of the involvement of a mastermind, the now-famous Tok Dalang Che Ann in Kelantan state. The art of ever- refreshing shadow play is a very unique performing art. Using beautifully carved statues, the use of curtains and the effects of shadows, shadow play has been presented for public viewing since time immemorial, as well as famous among local and foreign tourists. The book was produced in conjunction with the launch of the National Cultural Policy or DAKEN (2021) last October that emphasized the importance of art and heritage.
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August 2009Der kleine Lord
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Angelika Beck
In neuer Übersetzung: Die Geschichte von Kleinen Lord, der mit kindlichem Charme seinen grimmigen Großvater bezaubert, gehört zu den bekanntesten und beliebtesten Kinderbüchern der Welt und wurde vielfach verfilmt. Der kleine Cedric wächst bei seiner Mutter in New York auf. Er ist ein ganz normaler amerikanischer Junge, bis ihn eines Tages sein Großvater, Graf von Dorincourt, zu sich auf sein Schloß nach England holt. Da es in der Familie keine anderen männlichen Nachkommen gibt, soll Cedric zu einem würdigen Nachfolger und Erben erzogen werden. Für den Jungen brechen harte Zeiten an, denn der alte Mann ist griesgrämig und kaltherzig, doch schon bald gelingt es Cedric, sein Herz zu gewinnen.
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