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June 2013Hatra
Politics, Culture and Religion between Parthia and Rome
by Herausgegeben von Dirven, Lucinda
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The ArtsNovember 2017Vivien Leigh
Actress and icon
by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale
This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era. With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the 'public ownership' of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime and beyond.
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January 1991Zeit-Räume
Zeiträume - Raumzeiten - Zeitträume
by Beiträge von Brandstetter, Gabriele; Beiträge von Brown, Trisha; Beiträge von Cage, John; Beiträge von Childs, Lucinda; Beiträge von Cunningham, Merce; Beiträge von Guggenberger, Bernd; Beiträge von Virilio, Paul; Herausgegeben von Bergelt, Martin; Herausgegeben von Völckers, Hortensia; Vorwort von Bergelt, Martin
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Freddie Mercury & Queen
by Lucinda Jordaan
The icon series reflects on the performer's stories told through reportage and images. A complete overview from the beginning until the end of their lives. Including a discography with all released albums and award wins. The book includes a DVD with exclusive footage and interviews to look back on the legacy and pays tribute to the life of the artists. A wonderful series of the world’s most iconic musicians, who unfortunately are no longer among us.
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Self-help & personal developmentDecember 2019How to Sleep
A Natural Method
by Lucinda Ford
Introducing eight easy-to-use techniques for falling asleep, How to Sleep: A Natural Method is an indispensable companion for those who find it difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep. When sleeplessness becomes a regular occurrence, it can set up a vicious cycle of fatigue, anxiety, and sleepless nights. Finding ways to turn off the racing mind and negative thoughts or stress when going to sleep is an essential step, allowing you to break that vicious cycle and move towards a place of better well-being. The eight simple sleep techniques, along with their accompanying notes, are designed to calm the mind and allow sleep to come naturally. They are distilled from the best of thinking from theEast and the West, including cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and meditation, taking lessons from each of these methods on how best to quiet your mind and find a calm place from which to fall asleep.
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FictionMarch 2022Il Varcaporta
by Laura Costantini
London, 1897.England prevails over all the countries of Europe thanks to the discovery of Kh-Ram, a mysterious source of energy that freed it from coal and steam. Of course, substance comes at a cost, but Victoria's kingdom acts pragmatically: it hides its dissimilarities and exploits them as needed. Of wretches the streets are full. Some become fodder for processing energy. Another, selected, enters an elite body that masters Kh-Ram, which is only possible for a pair, that is, a pair of young people with certain characteristics, including an exclusive, absolute, and strictly male bond. The substance, in fact, abhors women, movement, and heat. England willingly turns a blind eye to such unions; it also turns two blind eyes to the fate of the unfortunate ones. But what if that is not the only price to pay? Aster Paul, Astrea Lucinda, Zachary Tucker, Devereux Willoghby, and some old acquaintances will find out and will have to decide which side to take. It will be a struggle for survival marked by unpredictable alliances and deception, in which the most intense and purest feelings will become the only guide.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2018Gender and Migration
A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Migration Dynamics
by Christiane Timmerman, Maria Lucinda Fonseca, Lore Van Praag, Sónia Pereira (eds)
The impact of gender on migration processes Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, Gender and Migration gives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Contributors: Marianna Bacci Tamburlini (Universidade de Lisboa), Milena Belloni (University of Antwerp), Kitti Baracsi (University of Pécs), Kamila Fiałkowska (University of Warsaw), Hilde Greefs (University of Antwerp), Kenneth Hemmerechts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Alexandra Parrs (University of Antwerp), Ferruccio Pastore (Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione FIERI Torino), Alina Poghosyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia), Ilse Ruyssen (Ghent University), Sara Salomone (Ghent University and UNU-CRIS), Romina Seminario Luna (Lausanne University), Christiane Timmerman (University of Antwerp), Lore Van Praag (University of Antwerp), Thomas Verbruggen (University of Antwerp), Zeynep Zümer Batur (University of Antwerp)
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The ArtsApril 2019The Art of Feminism
Images that shaped the Fight for Equality
by Helena Reckitt, Consultant Editor, Authors Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson, and Amy Tobin
Curated and written by leading authorities on art and art history, The Art of Feminism is a comprehensive survey of the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, graphic design and public protest, this stunning volume showcases the vibrancy and daring of the feminist aesthetics over the last 150 years. The book has helped redefine the very canon of art history - a landmark publication. https://shop.tate.org.uk/the-art-of-feminism-images-that-shaped-the-fight-for-equality/22015.html
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RomanceVrij Worden
by Jan Prins
A resident of the Rosa Spier house in Laren takes us through various stages of life. It will be shown including aspects that were previously hidden from us, but they have a major impact on our daily lives, such as the Skull & Bones and Freemasonry. The book is a hybrid of the description of a part of the personal life of the author and a description of his quest for the Beautiful in all its forms. ---------------- Een bewoner van het Rosa Spier Huis in Laren voert ons door allerlei fasen van het leven. Er worden o.a. aspecten getoond die eerder voor ons verborgen waren, maar die van grote invloed zijn op ons leven van alledag, zoals die van de Skull & Bones en van de Vrijmetselarij. Het boek is een mengvorm van de beschrijving van een deel van het persoonlijke leven van de auteur en een beschrijving van zijn zoektocht naar het Schone in al zijn vormen.
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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)Granny Yaga
by Vitali Vitaliev
On a drab winter evening, an apparition of a flying old woman is spotted in Bloomsbury, an area of London well-known for its magical, masonic and shamanism associations. This is followed by the arrival of Yadwiga, alias Baba Yaga, one of the most interesting characters of East European folklore – an ambiguous witch, a sorceress and an unlikely super-heroine. She has come to London as part of the struggling Sablins family – recent migrants from a fictitious East European country. It is here that their phantasmagorical adventures really begin.Yadwiga joined the Sablins when life in the forest, where she had been dwelling inside a hut on hen’s legs for over a thousand years, became impossible due to “deforestation” and the invasion of over-curious visitors (Baba Yaga can’t take being asked questions, for each question makes her a bit older – a curse imposed on her by her former partner and now sworn enemy, Koshchei the Deathless, the incarnation of all the world’s evil). Telling the story of her life for the last 600 or so years to her long-lost sister Melissa, Yadwiga has to slow down time in Bloomsbury.The story takes the reader on a fascinating excursion through the history of Slavic and British folklore juxtaposed on the vicissitudes of modern Western life.In the first book of the series, Yadwiga is helping the Sablins to settle down in the UK and to come to grips with their new existence in the West. It will also look back at what had made them take the decision to leave their home country.The plot is riddled with revealing and funny happenings. “Granny Yaga” and her best friend and protégé Danya Sablin, a boy of 11, will have to deal with school bullies and football fans, thieves and oligarchs, politicians and policemen in their attempt to overcome injustice and to create a better world, where miracles and magic are part and parcel of everyday life.Unlike most of Baba Yaga’s folklorist portrayals, Yadwiga in "Granny Yaga" is modern, positive, witty and selfless, with all her character traits based on meticulous research of fables, history, paganism and occultism.Among other characters are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Carl Yung, students, pickpockets, ticket inspectors, British Museum curators - as well as classical literary characters and personages from East European (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish etc.), and British (Welsh, Scottish, English) folklore tales. The Writer and the book itself are also parts of the story. The main message of "Granny Yaga" is the importance and the magical power of literature.
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RomanceAugust 2014Seeking Love
by Barbara Cartland
"“No, Papa! I cannot believe that you no longer want me here.” When Marina Fullerton’s beloved mother dies in a tragic riding accident, she is horrified when her father sends her away from the family home in Harley Street, saying he is unable to bear her near him. She finds herself packed off to stay with family friends in Paris, chaperoned by her faithful maid, Ellen. Soon Marina finds herself captivated by her French host’s good-looking son – but is he what he seems? And when her father’s urgent telegram summons Marina back to London, fate conspires to intervene in the shape of the very handsome and charming Sir Peter Bailey. Love awaits Marina after she returns to France – but is it with whom she expects? Find out what happens in this intriguing romantic novel by BARBARA CARTLAND"
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Religion & beliefsSeptember 2015Fifty Two Sonnets of Glory and Grace
by Tom Chapman
Meditations in the form of classical fourteen line sonnets inspired by current events, sermon topics, personal experience etc. viewed from reformed theology perspective; i.e. absolute sovereignty of God, salvation by grace through the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus Christ. These sonnets may be used for private devotions, or group discussion, and include an appendix containing comprehensive scripture references for the doctrinal points raised.
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Children's & YAScholastic Australia
by Books From Australia
Scholastic is Australia’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books. No-one reaches kids, parents and teachers the way Scholastic does. We publish approximately 600 books a year, and in 2019, we represented approximately 35% of Australia’s best-selling children’s books. Our local imprints include Scholastic Press, Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia, Koala Books and Scholastic Australia licensed books.
