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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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      • Veronika Engler

        Best-selling author Veronika Engler was born in 1982 in the beautiful state capital of Munich. Even today she lives and works there with her husband and their son. As the daughter of an Oscar winner in film technology, she came into contact with the world of stories and entertainment at an early age. One day, her love of reading gave her the idea of ​​writing a novel according to her wishes. This is how her first love story came about in 2014, which was published that same year. Today she inspires a wide readership in all age groups 18+ with her romance novels from the genres of erotic, new adult and romantasy.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        Death and the crown

        Ritual and politics in France before the Revolution

        by Anne Byrne

        Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774, and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula. It reviews the state of the field in ritual studies and appraises the status of the monarchy in the 1770s, including the recall of the parlements and the many ways people engaged with royal ritual. It answers questions such as whether Louis XV died in fear of damnation, why Marie Antoinette was not crowned in 1775 and why Louis XVI's coronation was not held in Paris. This lively, accessible text is a useful tool for under- and post-graduate teaching which will also be of interest to specialists on this under-researched period.

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        April 2011

        Die Geheimnisse des schwarzen Turms

        Ein Roman aus dem Paris des Jahres 1818

        by Louis Bayard

        »Vidocq!« Der Name bringt die Pariser Unterwelt des Jahres 1818 zum Erzittern. Denn der Chef der Geheimpolizei hat die berüchtigsten Verbrecher des Landes hinter Schloß und Riegel gebracht. Nun ist er einem Fall auf der Spur, bei dem das Schicksal ganz Frankreichs auf dem Spiel steht. Paris 1818: Die Rufe nach Revolution sind längst verklungen, Napoleon endgültig vertrieben und die Bourbonen wieder an der Macht. Doch die neue, noch fragile Ordnung wird bedroht: Louis-Charles, Sohn Marie Antoinettes und Ludwigs XVI., scheint wieder unter den Lebenden zu weilen. Dabei gilt der einstige Kronprinz, der die letzten Monate seines jungen Lebens in einem schwarzen Turm gefangengehalten wurde, schon seit Jahren als tot. François Vidocq, Chef der Geheimpolizei und Schrecken der Pariser Unterwelt, folgt den Gerüchten durch die dunklen Gassen des Quartier Latin und die verwahrlosten Salons des alten Adels. Dabei trifft er auf den verwirrten Charles Rappskeller. Und tatsächlich spricht einiges dafür, daß der junge Mann der verschollene Königssohn ist. Während Vidocq versucht herauszufinden, was damals im schwarzen Turm wirklich geschehen ist, setzt ein gewisser »Monsieur« alles daran, Charles Rappskeller wieder verschwinden zu lassen.

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        November 1997

        Wien. Eine Musikgeschichte

        by Henri-Louis La Grange, Christina Mansfeld

        In neun großen Kapiteln, voll von Fakten und mit Passion vorgetragenen Geschichten und Anekdoten, spürt Henry-Louis de La Grange dem ›Musikwunder Wien‹ nach, bietet einen Überblick über das gesamte Wiener Musikleben und seine Geschichte von den Minnesängern im Hochmittelalter über die Wiener Klassik und Romantik und den Siegeszug des Wiener Walzers bis zu den Kompositionen eines Ligeti, Cerha oder Schwertsik in unserer Zeit.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2024

        David, Donne and Thirsty Deer

        Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott

        by Anne Lake Prescott, Roger Kuin, William A. Oram

        For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott's immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.

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        March 2008

        Türkei

        Ein Reisebegleiter

        by Barbara Yurtdas

        Traumhafte Strände und Buchten und die sprichwörtliche Gastfreundschaft locken jährlich Tausende von Touristen in die Türkei. Doch darüber hinaus gibt es sehr viel mehr zu entdecken: Der Reisebegleiter Türkei lädt ein, das Land, seine faszinierende Kultur und Literatur kennenzulernen. Einheimische und ausländische Autoren begleiten uns auf der Reise durch das Land und erzählen vom Alltag und vom Leben in der heutigen Türkei: Auf dieser abwechslungsreichen Reise begleiten uns Klassiker wie Homer und Sappho ebenso wie Franz Werfel, Christa Wolf, Louis de Bernières, Giorgos Seferis bis hin zu den großen Autoren der türkischen Gegenwartsliteratur - der Nobelpreisträger Orhan Pamuk, Adalet Agaoglu, Bilge Karasu und Mario Levi.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2018

        David and Bathsheba

        By George Peele

        by Mathew R. Martin, David Bevington

        David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.

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