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Gill Books is an Irish publisher which produces an eclectic list of award-winningand bestselling titles from agenda-setting current affairs to absorbing history, page-turning biography to beautifully produced lifestyle. We are a division of Gill, Ireland’s largest publisher. Its origins date back to 1856 when M.H. Gill & Son, whose portfolio included printing and bookselling, wasfounded in Dublin. The bookshop, which stood on Dublin’s O’Connell Street for123 years and is referenced in James Joyce’s Ulysses, can now be found online at www.gillbooks.ie. In collaboration with some of Ireland’s best writers, brands and a network of creative talents, Gill Books creates a dynamic publishing proposition, which builds on a 150-year heritage whilst looking excitedly to the future.
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Reclaiming The Gods
Magic, Sex, Death and Football
by Nicholas Mann
In the same way as the Goddess has been reclaimed in recent years this book reclaims the archetypal God. Nicholas Mann, in this vibrant new work shows how the figure of the God has become monopolised, marginalised and corrupted to our great loss. In this important and original new work Nicholas Mann establishes himself as one of our most provocative commentators on contemporary spirituality.
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Children's & YAHohoho, Here Comes Father Christmas!
by Katja Richert/Denitza Gruber
Soon it’ll be Christmas! It’s time to load the sleigh with presents, thinks the reindeer. But Father Christmas wants to decorate his house first, and build a snowman, and have a nice cup of tea. Then suddenly it’s almost too late! All his friends must help, so that children can get their presents on time.
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March 2003Der goldene Skarabäus
Roman
by Nicholas Drayson, Sonja Schuhmacher, Rita Seuß
Nicholas Drayson wurde 1954 in England geboren. Er studierte Geschichte sowie Wissenschaftsphilosophie in London und absolvierte eine Ausbildung als Journalist. Seit 1982 lebt der Autor in Australien. Er schrieb Kolumnen und Artikel für verschiedene Zeitschriften und Magazine, daneben beschäftigte er sich mit dem Studium der Zoologie und Naturgeschichte, das er 1997 abschloß. Anschließend verbrachte er zwei Jahre in Kenia. In dieser Zeit entstand sein erster Roman Der goldene Skarabäus, nachdem bereits 1988 das Sachbuch Wildlife: Australia's flora and fauna gently erschienen war. Heute lebt Nicholas Drayson wieder in Canberra, wo er zunächst einige Zeit als Kurator am National Museum of Australia arbeitete. Inzwischen ist er freier Schriftsteller.
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May 1998Santa Evita
Roman
by Tomás Eloy Martínez, Peter Schwaar
Eva Perón starb 1952 im Alter von nur 33 Jahren; eine bombastische Zeremonie des langsamen Abschieds nahm ihren Lauf. Evita war eine aus der Provinz auf- und von der Leinwand herabgestiegene Göttin, eine lebende Heilige. Was jedoch nach ihrem Tode geschah, scheint jedes Maß der Verehrung zu sprengen: Ihr Leib wurde einbalsamiert, versteckt, gejagt, ging auf eine makabre Wanderschaft und wurde zum Objekt unglaublicher Intrigen und Obsessionen – mehr noch als Evita selbst. »›Santa Evita‹ hat mich von der ersten Seite an überwältigt – ich war gerührt, litt, genoß, eignete mir schändliche Laster an und verriet meine heiligsten Prinzipien. Wenn ein Roman es fertigbringt, einen Sterblichen mit festen Grundsätzen und strengen Gewohnheiten zu derartigem Unfug zu verleiten, dann kann es keinen Zweifel geben: Er gehört entweder verboten, oder er muß unverzüglich gelesen werden.« »Mario Vargas Llosa« »Hier ist endlich der Roman, den ich immer lesen wollte.« »Gabriel García Márquez«
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2001Aspects of English Protestantism C.1530–1700
by Nicholas Tyacke, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
During the sixteenth century, England underwent a religious revolution. This book examines the reverberations of this Protestant Reformation, which continued to be felt until at least the end of the seventeenth century. Brings together twelve essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, which range from the Reformation itself, and the new market-place of ideas opened up, to the establishment of freedom of worship for Protestant nonconformists in 1689. For this collection the author has written a substantial introduction, and updated the essays by incorporating new research. ;
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November 2023Envy
The secret feeling
by Bettina Schulte
Envy is a relationship drama. The other is the thorn in the flesh. The first murder in the Bible is when Cain killed Abel: out of envy. And today, influencers dazzle their followers with their enviable lives. Bettina Schulte's essay spans an arc from the gruelling agony of subjective envy to the question of its legitimate social role. And of course, it's also about jealousy as a form of envy ...
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December 2016Unter Menschen
Roman
by Bettina Balàka
Berti heißt auch Fekete, Robert Pattinson, Ricky, Zorro und Bagheera. Er ist das Ergebnis der Liaison eines Jack-Russell-Terriers mit einem Straßenköter. Der übermütige Welpe ruiniert die Geschäfte eines ungarischen Hundehändlers, bricht einer Zwölfjährigen das Herz, weckt die Lebensgeister eines neurotischen Physikers und landet auf der Müllhalde eines Haustiermessies. Überall, wo er hinkommt, hinterlässt er seine Spuren in den Herzen und in den Leben seiner Menschen, die er als kleiner Schatten ihres Glücks und Unglücks begleitet. Bettina Balàka erzählt in ihrem Roman nicht nur die Geschichte eines Hundelebens: Unter Menschen ist zugleich ein Reigen zwischenmenschlicher Tragödien und Komödien – grandios komponiert, ironisch und unterhaltsam, voll überraschendem Witz und geistreicher Erkenntnis.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2023David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
by Nicholas Royle
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Suitcases and Backpacks
by Chava Kohavi Pines
Suitcases and Backpacksis a testimony of intricate detail that describes a young girl’s survival in ghettos and concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Readers follow her journey from Vienna to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, then to Auschwitz and to a labor camp near Breslau, followed by the alienation she feels upon returning to Vienna, her subsequent journey to Prague, and, finally, the realization of her dream to immigrate to Palestine. The original edition published in Hebrew has proved interesting to readers of all ages. Chava Kohavi Pines was born Eva Hirsch in 1927 in Vienna, Austria, to a middle-class Jewish family. Since immigrating to Palestine in 1946, the author has resided in Kibbutz Dorot in the northern Negev where she worked as a teacher and counselor for years. Only with forty years’ distance from the trauma of her youth has she been able to write an account of some of her experiences during the Holocaust. An English-language eBook edition was published in late 2014 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons Inc., CA. An Italian edition was published in early 2017 by Edizioni Terra Santa, Milano. 80 pages, 14 x 21.5 cm
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Children's & young adult fiction & true stories2020A flamboyant father christmas
by Fabienne Jonca, Iloë
In January, the most elegant Father Christmas decides to explore the world, in search of an outfit for the next holiday season. On board his sleigh, he flies to Scotland, Japan, the Ivory Coast, and many more countries. During this round-the-world-trip, he tries on clothes, from the plainest to the most dazzling. What will he decide to wear this year? A Scottish kilt or an African boubou?
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September 2010Der Weihnachtsmann oder Das abenteuerliche Leben des Santa Claus
by Lyman Frank Baum, Hans-Christian Oeser
L. Frank Baum, der Schöpfer des Kinderbuchklassikers Der Zauberer von Oz, hat mit der Geschichte über das abenteuerliche Leben des Santa Claus ein weiteres, bezauberndes Märchen geschrieben. Und er findet wunderbare Antworten auf all das, was wir schon immer wissen wollten: Wo wohnt der Weihnachtsmann? Wie kam Santa Claus zu seinem Namen? War der Weihnachtsmann auch einmal ein kleiner Junge? Warum wird Santa Claus von Rentieren durch die Lüfte gezogen und wieso können Rentiere überhaupt fliegen?
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August 1988
Achim und Bettina in ihren Briefen
Briefwechsel Achim von Arnim und Bettina Brentano. Herausgegeben von Werner Vordtriede. Mit einer Einleitung von Rudolf Alexander Schröder. (2 Bde.)
by Bettina Brentano, Achim Arnim, Werner Vordtriede
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February 1981
Achim und Bettina in ihren Briefen
Briefwechsel. Zwei Bände im Schuber
by Achim Arnim, Bettina Brentano, Werner Vordtriede
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August 2014Mit Hunden durch das Jahr
Ein immerwährender Kalender
by Gesine Dammel, Bettina Strauss
»Natürlich kann man ohne Hund leben - es lohnt sich nur nicht.« Heinz Rühmann Dieser Kalender versammelt für jeden Tag des Jahres ausgewählte Zitate aus der Weltliteratur und präsentiert die schönsten Geschichten und Anekdoten um den besten Freund des Menschen. Von Lassie, Laika, Haichiko und anderen außergewöhnlichen Vierbeinern wird erzählt, von berühmten Hundeliebhabern und von Menschen, die mit Hunden auf besondere Weise verbunden waren. Zahlreiche Farbfotografien von Bettina Strauss illustrieren diesen Band. Ein ebenso praktischer wie unterhaltsamer Begleiter durchs ganze Jahr!
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SEX CULTURE
What is sex? Or: why don't we just let it be?
by Bettina Stangneth
Above all else, and despite all the enlightenment of the age, sex in the 21st century seems to be a problem. Abuse, MeToo, human trafficking, circumcision, role-playing, body cult... But if sex is a mere abyss for modern humans, then why not just let it be? We are the first generation that could actually do it without endangering the survival of the species. And voices are getting louder that once again call for abstinence in a supposedly over-sexualised society. Artificial insemination and artificially intelligent technology for the safe removal of instincts should finally pacify what humans cannot control: instinctive nature. Sex is not the epitome of our animal nature. Every attempt to control the animal in us, either by taming it or by freeing it from tamers in a sexual revolution, inevitably misses the point. Bettina Stangneth asks the quite simple question: what is sex? If every culture of prohibition has failed so far, clearer ideas are obviously needed. Even if we prefer to ignore it, attempts to establish a culture through desire instead of the cultivation of desire have been around for a long time. After all, if you don't want to learn to talk positively about sex, you can't talk meaningfully about coercion and violence.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2024A book of monsters
Promethean horror in modern literature and culture
by David Ashford
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2023The gift of narrative in medieval England
by Nicholas Perkins
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring.
