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      • Smart English Company Limited

        Smart English Company Limited is committed to developing a line of fun and educational products, which currently includes Inspirational English and Robin Education, to help young learners acquire the four skills in the English language. With 'Baby Animals', 'Dinosaurs in my Garden', and 'Mirabelle and Milo', Robin Education aims to develop young learners’ ability to use authentic English language in line with the Cambridge English Qualifications syllabus, as they explore the fascinating stories in each series.

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      • Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

        Evan-Moor is an award-winning educational publisher based in the U.S. We support parents and educators with resources that develop important academic and life skills for children.

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        Kriminalroman

        by Maxwell, Jessa

        Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Kristina Lake-Zapp

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        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        June 2024

        Round our way

        Sam Hanna's visual legacy

        by Heather Nicholson

        Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the 'Lowry of filmmaking' by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna's remarkable output. Hanna's intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers enable us to imagine the possible stories that lie behind the images. Away from mid-century exponents of documentary filmmaking and photography, Hanna shows us humanity and a microcosm of a world in change, where his subjects are caught up in issues far beyond their grasp that we, as onlookers years later, encounter and see afresh. Written and curated by historian Heather Norris Nicholson, Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document Hanna's unique visual record on film, particularly in northern England, but also further afield, during decades of profound change.

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        January 1970

        Giacomo Joyce

        by James Joyce, Richard Ellmann, Klaus Reichert, Fritz Senn

        »Joyce, Sie wissen doch, dieser irische Gigant … Der Zeitpunkt liegt so um 1909 herum. Da lebte der wortgewaltige Romancier in Triest und fristete sein Leben mühsam mit Sprachunterricht. Ja, und da hatte er eine Affäre mit einer Schülerin, kindjung anscheinend, doch von überzeugender Weiblichkeit. Ihr zuliebe schrieb er eben jenes Novellchen. Es steht alles drin, was einem reifen Mann passiert, wenn er sich vergißt. Und es ist eine Poesie, in eine feine Lieblichkeit eingefangen, wie sie nur Joyce vermag, wenn er verliebt ist.« – Werner Helwig

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2024

        The Malleus Maleficarum

        by Peter Maxwell-Stuart

        A shocking glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter. In 1487, the zealous Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer wrote a treatise that would have a remarkable influence on European history. Blaming women for his own lust, and frustrated by official complacency before what he saw as a monstrous spiritual menace, Kramer penned a practical guide to aid law officers in the identification and prosecution of witches. Fusing theology, lurid anecdotes and advice for those engaged in combating sorcery, The Malleus Maleficarum transports the reader into the dark heart of medieval belief - where fear of the supernatural provokes a gripping struggle for understanding and control. Kramer's book led to the burning of numerous innocents and had a lasting impact on the popular image of witchcraft. It remains a sinister symbol of fanaticism and cruelty to this day.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2009

        The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne

        Bearing blindness

        by Catherine Maxwell

        This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition. The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. ;

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        September 2023

        Ein Weihnachtsgast

        by Selma Lagerlöf, Ulrike Möltgen, Hanna Granz

        Weihnachten in Schweden, als es noch richtige Winter gab: Der Band versammelt die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten von Selma Lagerlöf, der Autorin von »Die wunderbare Reise des kleinen Nils Holgersson mit den Wildgänsen«. Ihre Erzählungen gehören zu den Klassikern des Genres. Die Ausgabe der Insel-Bücherei enthält u.a. »Die Heilige Nacht«, »Der Traumpfannkuchen« und »Die Legende von der Christrose«. Alle Texte wurden neu übersetzt von Hanna Granz und mit den stimmungsvollen Bildern von Ulrike Möltgen kann man die Geschichten in der Adventszeit gemeinsam anschauen und lesen: Weihnachten, wie es früher war!

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        September 2022

        Night of Lies

        by Hanna Bergmann, Moon Notes

        In "Night of Lies" von Hanna Bergmann wird die 17-jährige Leah unfreiwillig Schülerin des geheimnisumwobenen Eliteinternats Elm Castle in North Carolina. Schnell findet sie sich in einem Netz aus Lügen, Bedrohungen und Geheimnissen wieder. Ihre Mitbewohnerin Carter zeigt sich ihr gegenüber feindselig, und im Wald begegnet Leah einem blutverschmierten Jungen, der scheinbar verwirrt ist. Nur Reese und der charmante Jasper scheinen Verbündete zu sein in einem Internat, das von den Nachwehen des Verschwindens eines Mädchens zwei Jahre zuvor geprägt ist. Leahs detektivischer Spürsinn ist geweckt, und sie beginnt, die düsteren Geheimnisse von Elm Castle zu entwirren, was sie selbst in Gefahr bringt. "Night of Lies" fesselt mit einer atmosphärisch dichten Erzählung, die Leser*innen in die abgeschiedene und mysteriöse Welt von Elm Castle entführt. Die Geschichte vereint Elemente eines Thrillers mit denen eines Coming-of-Age-Romans, wobei die Protagonistin Leah eine beeindruckende Charakterentwicklung durchmacht. Von einer rebellischen Jugendlichen, die vor den Problemen mit ihrer Familie flieht, wächst sie zu einer mutigen Ermittlerin heran, die bereit ist, für die Aufklärung der Wahrheit erhebliche Risiken einzugehen. Die Handlung besticht durch zahlreiche Wendungen und bietet eine spannende Mischung aus Geheimnissen, übernatürlichen Andeutungen und zwischenmenschlichen Dramen, die bis zum überraschenden Ende Hochspannung garantieren. Fesselnde Atmosphäre: Das Eliteinternat Elm Castle, umgeben von den dunklen Wäldern North Carolinas, bietet den perfekten Schauplatz für eine Geschichte voller Geheimnisse und Spannung. Starke weibliche Protagonistin: Leah ist eine rebellische und mutige Figur, deren Entwicklung von einer Jugendlichen zu einer entschlossenen Ermittlerin die Leser*innen inspiriert und mitreißt. Verschwundene Schüler, unerklärliche Ereignisse und dunkle Geheimnisse halten die Spannung von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite aufrecht. Unerwartete Wendungen: Die Story überrascht mit unvorhersehbaren Plottwists, die sicherstellen, dass man das Buch kaum aus der Hand legen kann. Andeutungen auf übernatürliche Geschehnisse verleihen der Geschichte eine zusätzliche faszinierende Ebene. Eine vielfältige Besetzung von Figuren, von der bedrohlichen Mitbewohnerin bis hin zum charmanten Jasper, bietet eine komplexe soziale Dynamik, die zum Miträtseln einlädt. Neben dem spannenden Thriller-Plot bietet das Buch auch eine tiefgründige Erzählung über Wachstum, Mut und die Suche nach der eigenen Identität. Ideal für Leser*innen, die nach einem packenden Jugendthriller mit starken Charakteren und einer düsteren, geheimnisvollen Atmosphäre suchen. Vielfach gelobt für seine süchtig machende Erzählweise, seinen rasanten Page-Turner-Charakter und die gelungene Mischung aus Spannung und Charakterentwicklung.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2021

        Language and imagination in the Gawain poems

        by J. Anderson

        This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

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        Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
        March 2005

        Language and imagination in the Gawain poems

        by J. J. Anderson

        This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

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        September 2020

        Die Diebin des Teufels

        Roman

        by Maxwell, Lisa

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        Science & Mathematics
        September 2024

        Pistols in St Paul's

        by Fiona Smyth

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        Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
        January 2013

        Second sight

        by Catherine Maxwell

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2020

        The Malleus Maleficarum

        by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

        The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich Institoris, following his failure to prosecute a number of women for witchcraft, it is in many ways a highly personal document, full of frustration at official complacency in the face of a spiritual threat, as well as being a practical guide for law-officers who have to deal with a cunning, dangerous enemy. Combining theological discussion, illustrative anecdotes, and useful advice for those involved in suppressing witchcraft, its influence on witchcraft studies has been extensive. The only previous translation into English, that by Montague Summers produced in 1928, is full of inaccuracies. It is written in a style almost unreadable nowadays, and is unfortunately coloured by his personal agenda. This new edited translation, with an introductory essay setting witchcraft, Institoris, and the Malleus into clear, readable English, corrects Summers' mistakes and offers a lean, unvarnished version of what Institoris actually wrote. It will undoubtedly become the standard translation of this important and controversial late-medieval text.

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