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      • Jill Marshall Books

        Jill Marshall is the author of the popular middle-grade series about Sensational Spylet, Jane Blonde, and many other titles and series for tweens, teens, YA and adult.   Jill’s books have been published by Macmillan Children’s Books, Penguin and Hachette, in 22 countries, 11 languages and paperback, ebook and audio formats. Jane Blonde has been optioned for film and TV, with significant film interest in other Jill Marshall titles. Jill has also been an editor and manuscript assessor for trade publishers and societies, a creative writing teacher for over 1000 clients, and works in corporate communications.   During lockdown in 2020, and with all rights for all titles successfully re-acquired, Marshall fulfilled two long-term ambitions. The first – to create an independent publishing house of her own titles, rebranded and re-imagined for a digital world. The second – to pull together Jane Blonde and three other ‘superhero’ characters, all with their own origin series, into an ensemble series, S*W*A*G*G (swaggbooks.com). The third ambition was one that she couldn’t have foreseen: the wish to provide quality fiction for tween readers and upwards, in readily accessible digital formats and for free, in a world ravaged by a global pandemic.   In May 2020, Jill Marshall Books was born, and all three ambitions met. JMB has gathered momentum and fandom during those months, and it’s now time to partner with like-minded book people – innovative, passionate, caring – to extend the reach of JMB titles across formats, locations and media. Welcome to Jill Marshall Books. We look forward to connecting at Frankfurt 2020.

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        September 2013

        Frauen, die lesen, sind gefährlich

        Lesende Frauen in Malerei und Fotografie

        by Stefan Bollmann, Elke Heidenreich

        Frauen, die lesen, galten lange Zeit als gefährlich – denn lesend konnten sie sich Wissen aneignen, das nicht für sie bestimmt war, und die enge Welt des Heims, der Kindererziehung und der Hausarbeit mit der unbegrenzten Welt der Gedanken und der Phantasie eintauschen. Doch während es Jahrhunderte dauerte, bis es Frauen tatsächlich erlaubt war zu lesen, was sie mochten, waren Künstler von jeher fasziniert von ihnen. Frauen, die ein Buch in Händen halten und tief in die Lektüre versunken sind, begegnen uns in meisterhaften und weltberühmten Werken aus allen Epochen. Stefan Bollmann führt feinsinnig und anregend durch die Geschichte weiblichen Lesens und erklärt uns, warum große Maler wie Corinth, Boucher, Rembrandt, Tissot, van Gogh, Vermeer u. v. a. lesenden Frauen nicht widerstehen konnten.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        Out of the depths

        The first collection of Holocaust songs

        by Joseph Toltz, Anna Boucher

        Available for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project. While documenting the experiences of Jewish refugees, they began to collect songs composed and sung in the Nazi camps and ghettos. The resulting book, Mima'amakim (Out of the depths), was published in a short run of 500 copies. Today, only a handful survive. Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs presents the contents of this extraordinary document for a new generation of readers. Based on a copy of Mima'amakim discovered in 2013, it contains not only the songs' melodies and lyrics, the latter in a new translation by Joseph Toltz, but also short biographies of the composers, drawn from painstaking original research. Introductory essays provide historical and musicological background, deepening our knowledge of this terrible event and the creative means by which the Jewish people responded to and endured it. Described by the original editor, Yehuda Eismann, as a 'memorial stone for Polish Jewry', the songbook is a timeless document of a people's despair, hope and strength.

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        September 1998

        Die Entfaltung des Lotus

        Der weibliche Weg zum Buddhismus

        by Boucher, Sandy / Englisch Kahn-Ackermann, Susanne

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2014

        Vanishing for the vote

        by Jill Liddington

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        February 2012

        Vorsätzlich verliebt

        Roman

        by Mansell, Jill

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2022

        Female Fortune

        by Jill Liddington

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        Feeling the strain

        A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain

        by Jill Kirby

        Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

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        Biography & True Stories
        July 2024

        As Good as a Marriage

        by Jill Liddington

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        Picture books, activity books & early learning material
        2013

        trazando x (x times x)

        by Jill Hartley

        An intersection is an encounter, but also an unknown. The precise point where the intersection is both a here and now. Lines that randomly cross, X’s that from frameworks, Xs that warn, that structure, that trace and adjust, X’s to play or to step on, others that we twist and weave. ¿How many X’s can you find around you?

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        Picture books
        2007

        rayas flechas (stripes arrows)

        by Jill Hartley

        Although the two are formed by lines, do they serve the same purpose? The little ones will develop notions and mathematical skills by finding the differences and similarities between the figures.

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        Picture books
        2006

        ¿círculo o cuadro? (circle or square?)

        by Jill Hartley

        Colors, shapes and textures combined in a beautiful design invite the child to identify which figures are in the shape of a circle or box. So they can rediscover the beauty of the objects around them.

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        Picture books

        colores sabores (colors flavors)

        by Jill Hartley

        C’mon, c’mon… Mmm... it smells delicious! Dare and try the colours - these photos are a feast that awakens the senses. The little reader can learn the names of fruits, their different colours, textures and shapes.

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        History & the past: general interest (Children's/YA)

        Lotería fotográfica Mexicana

        by Jill Hartley

        How to play Mexican Bingo and other random entertainments gives an account of the text. It portrays the Mexican everyday universe: landscapes, people, customs ... The Mexican Photographic Lottery is a lesson in ethnography and art.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2015

        Workers and politics in occupied Austria, 1945–55

        by Jill Lewis

        In March 1946 Winston Churchill warned the world about the 'Iron Curtain' that had descended across Europe and behind which now lay, he said, the eight capitals of the ancient states of central and Eastern Europe. In fact, one of these eight, Vienna, escaped absorption into the Soviet bloc. Between 1945 and 1955, Austria and its capital were occupied by the Four (increasingly mutually antagonistic) Allied Powers. During this decade of confusion, insecurity, suspicion and fear, and confronted by poverty and the threat of famine, Austria's political and economic elites joined forces to promote a culture of political unity and harmony from which eventually emerged the Austrian model of corporatism, commonly referred to as the Social Partnership. This book sets the social and economic difficulties that Austria encountered in this crucial decade in their international context and examines how they were contained. The author also discusses the long-term implications of the Austrian culture of consensus, not only for the way in which the country dealt with its recent past, but also for present-day political developments. A remarkable study that will be essential reading for students and scholars of twentieth-century European history. ;

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