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      • Wilkinson Publishing

        Wilkinson Publishing is an independent Australian Publisher with over 40 years of experience. We are passionate about books and sharing great stories that entertain and inspire, and information that helps bring about change and creates opportunities to learn and belong.

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      • Diametric Verlag Jutta A. Wilke e.K.

        Diametric Verlag is an independent publisher founded by Jutta A. Wilke providing high-quality specialized literature focused on women's issues like Women's Health, Gender Medicine and Feminism. All titles are published in German and available in print and digital editions.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        Joan of Arc

        La pucelle

        by 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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        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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        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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        October 2025

        A Dancer's Kiss (Broken Artists, Band 2)

        Berührende Liebesgeschichte im traumhaften Schweden mit Wohlfühlvibes und Tiefgang - Mit Farbschnitt in der 1. Auflage

        by Rebekka Weiler

        „Ich kann mich nicht daran erinnern, ob mich jemals schonmal ein Buch bereits im Prolog absolut abgeholt hat. A DANCERS KISS hat das geschafft. Und da wusste ich dann eigentlich schon, dass ich es erst weglegen kann, wenn ich alles gelesen habe.“ - reading_with_anita „A Dancer’s Kiss ist eine Geschichte, die Ruhe, Wärme und Freude beim Lesen bringt, aber es dabei auch schafft, ein sehr wichtiges Thema in unserer Gesellschaft feinfühlig und respektvoll darzustellen und uns den Glauben daran schenkt, dass es auch gute Männer wie Mats gibt, die nicht besitzergreifend, toxisch und manipulativ sind.“ – francescasworte

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        Psychology

        A Fox in Your Mind

        A Book for Children with Social Anxiety

        by Joan Schaaf, Wiebke Andersen, Meera Roth, Marie-Luise Salzmann

        Lea sometimes is afraid to talk to other children and adults or speak in front of the class.  She prefers to run to her toy kangaroo Pocci rather than face frightening situations. If Lea avoids her fears, she turns into a fox, which makes everything worse. She is not the courageous and cheerful girl she would like to be. But luckily Pocci can help her, and together they thoroughly straighten up Lea’s thoughts and free her from her fears. The aim of this book is to make it easier for affected children to understand their fears. They are taught that they are not alone and how to overcome their fears. The book provides parents, siblings, and therapists with important information about emotional  isorders as well as practical tasks and exercises.   For: • children of primary school age (between 6 and 12 years) who suffer from social        anxiety • parents, relatives• therapists

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        The Arts
        December 2007

        J. M. W. Turner

        The making of a modern artist

        by Sam Smiles, Alan Rutter

        Alone of his contemporaries, J.M.W. Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting, as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art. This book shows how Turner was reinvented to become the artist we recognise today. On Turner's death in 1851 he was already known as an adventurous, even baffling, painter. But when the Court of Chancery decreed that the contents of his studio should be given to the nation, another side of his art was revealed that effected a wholescale change in his reputation. This book acts as a guide to the reactions of art writers and curators from the 1850s to the 1960s as they attempted to come to terms with his work. It documents how Turner was interpreted and how his work was displayed in Britain, in Europe and in North America, concentrating on the ways in which his artistic identity was manipulated by art writers, by curators at the Tate and by designers of exhibitions for the British Council and other bodies. ;

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        October 2024

        William Turner

        Biografie | Ein Leben aus der Perspektive seiner Bilder | Mit zahlreichen farbigen Abbildungen

        by Boris von Brauchitsch

        Von seinen Zeitgenossen entweder gefeiert oder für verrückt erklärt, gilt William Turner heute längst als der bedeutendste Künstler Großbritanniens. Kein anderer Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts hat die weitere Entwicklung der Kunst stärker geprägt als er – ob Impressionismus, Abstraktion oder Futurismus, Turner hat vieles vorweggenommen, was erst Jahrzehnte nach seinem Tod Furore machen sollte. William Turner (1775-1851), Sohn eines Barbiers, verfolgte seinen Traum von Anerkennung und Wohlstand erfolgreich mit den Mitteln der Kunst. Wohl keiner reiste und zeichnete so viel wie er, bediente einerseits gekonnt den Kunstmarkt und schuf zugleich Werke, von denen der Autor und Sammler William Beckford sagte, Turner »malt, als ob sein Hirn und seine Fantasie auf der Palette mit Seifenlauge und Schaum vermischt wären.« Zu seinem 250. Geburtstag folgt Boris von Brauchitsch dem exzentrischen Maler in dieser atmosphärisch dichten Biografie vor gesellschaftspolitisch geweitetem Horizont auf seinen abenteuerlichen Reisen durch Europa, beobachtet ihn bei seinem Wettstreit mit den Großen der Kunstgeschichte, begleitet ihn beim Kampf für die Ebenbürtigkeit der Landschaftsmalerei und geht so manchem Geheimnis nach, das ihn umgibt.

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        October 2024

        William Turner

        Biografie | Ein Leben aus der Perspektive seiner Bilder | Mit zahlreichen farbigen Abbildungen

        by Boris Brauchitsch

        Von seinen Zeitgenossen entweder gefeiert oder für verrückt erklärt, gilt William Turner heute längst als der bedeutendste Künstler Großbritanniens. Kein anderer Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts hat die weitere Entwicklung der Kunst stärker geprägt als er – ob Impressionismus, Abstraktion oder Futurismus, Turner hat vieles vorweggenommen, was erst Jahrzehnte nach seinem Tod Furore machen sollte. William Turner (1775-1851), Sohn eines Barbiers, verfolgte seinen Traum von Anerkennung und Wohlstand erfolgreich mit den Mitteln der Kunst. Wohl keiner reiste und zeichnete so viel wie er, bediente einerseits gekonnt den Kunstmarkt und schuf zugleich Werke, von denen der Autor und Sammler William Beckford sagte, Turner »malt, als ob sein Hirn und seine Fantasie auf der Palette mit Seifenlauge und Schaum vermischt wären.« Zu seinem 250. Geburtstag folgt Boris von Brauchitsch dem exzentrischen Maler in dieser atmosphärisch dichten Biografie vor gesellschaftspolitisch geweitetem Horizont auf seinen abenteuerlichen Reisen durch Europa, beobachtet ihn bei seinem Wettstreit mit den Großen der Kunstgeschichte, begleitet ihn beim Kampf für die Ebenbürtigkeit der Landschaftsmalerei und geht so manchem Geheimnis nach, das ihn umgibt.

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        October 2025

        A Theory of Dreaming (A Study in Drowning, Band 2)

        Träume aus Schatten und Sehnsucht - Historische Fantasy über die Macht der Mythen, Träume und Literatur - Mit Farbschnitt in der 1. Auflage

        by Nadine Mannchen

        JEDER TRAUM HAT EIN ENDE Effy hat es geschafft: Endlich darf sie als erste Frau in Llyr Literatur studieren! Doch die Ereignisse der letzten Zeit lasten schwer auf ihr. Zumal ihre männlichen Kommilitonen sie alles andere als herzlich willkommen heißen. Einzig Preston gibt ihr Halt – der jedoch selbst zu kämpfen hat. Vor allem, als seine Träume ihn plötzlich in eine versunkene Stadt entführen. Was hat das zu bedeuten? Und wieso verfolgen ihn die Visionen sogar in der Realität? In der Fortsetzung des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers A Study in Drowning zeigt Ava Reid, welche Macht Mythen, Träume und Literatur besitzen. Dabei behandelt sie wichtige Themen wie Mental Health, Feminismus, Nationalismus und Propaganda und verwebt sie gekonnt mit einer berührenden Romantasygeschichte.

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        January 2023

        Das Dorf (Band 4) - Im Reich des Enderdrachen

        Für Minecraft-Fans und alle, die spannende Abenteuergeschichten lieben - Wow! Das will ich lesen!

        by Karl Olsberg, Philipp Ach

        Abenteuer in Ende In einer dunklen Höhle in der Nähe des Dorfs entdecken Nano und Maffi einen verzweifelten kleinen Enderman. Er scheint ein verstoßenes Enderkind zu sein. Dabei bekommen Endermen doch gar keine Kinder! Nano und Maffi müssen der Sache auf den Grund gehen. Doch als die beiden ihrem neuen Freund dabei helfen wollen, in seine Heimat zurückzukehren, geraten sie in ernsthafte Schwierigkeiten ... Das Abenteuer für Minecraft-Fans geht weiter! Loewe Wow! meets Minecraft : Der vierte Band der spannenden Kinderbuchreihe für Kinder ab 8 Jahren überzeugt durch ganz viel Action , Humor und coole Schwarz-Weiß- Illustrationen in der bekannten Minecraft-Optik. SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Karl Olsberg schafft es, Gaming und ein spannendes Kinderbuch zu vereinen. Die perfekte Mischung für alle Fans des Computerspiels und von Abenteuergeschichten ! So werden auch Lesemuffel zu echten Leseratten! 98,9% aller Leser*innen würden Loewe Wow! -Bücher weiterempfehlen* (*basierend auf einer Umfrage mit 1.263 Teilnehmer*innen)

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2026

        Translating hell

        Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

        by Stephen C. E. Hopkins

        In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belonged within the faith. This book explores how hell became a place for literary experiments with local challenges in theology and identity. Following the reception and transformations of two popular hell apocrypha, it argues that they served as this role because of their liminal textual authority. As noncanonical scriptures, apocrypha afforded medieval writers space to revise their hells (since they were not actually scripture), while also encouraging readers to revere those experiments as valid (since they seemed like scripture). The book brings together adaptations from early medieval England, Iceland, Ireland, and Wales, placing the early vernacular theologies of the North Sea in comparative conversation.

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