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      • Penned in the Margins

        Penned in the Margins creates award-winning publications and performances for people who are not afraid to take risks.   From modest beginnings as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London, Penned in the Margins has grown over the last 15 years into an award-winning independent publisher of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and cross genre work.    "A marvellously exciting venture, bringing together the worlds of experimentalism and performance, always looking for new ways to present the spoken and written word in a time of artistic flux. The mainstream will, in the future, be redefined and enriched by companies like Penned in the Margins." Ian McMillan, poet and broadcaster

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      • University of Pennsylvania Press

        Founded in 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press is one of the oldest scholarly imprints in North America. Penn Press publishes rigorous and thought-provoking work in the humanities and social sciences designed to advance knowledge, dialogue, and understanding.A member of the Association of University Presses, the Press now publishes upward of 140 new books and periodical issues a year, with an active backlist of more than 3000 titles. The Press also publishes 19 academic journals, mostly in the humanities.Areas of special interest include American history and culture; ancient, medieval, and Renaissance studies; anthropology; landscape architecture; studio arts; human rights; Jewish studies; and political science.

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        The Arts
        September 2012

        Tony Richardson

        by Robert Shail, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard

        Tony Richardson was a key figure in British cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Having established himself in the theatre with the first production of John Osborne's landmark play Look Back in Anger, he became a central director in the New Wave, bringing greater realism to British cinema. He went on to make some of the most significant films of the 1960s including the multi Oscar-winning Tom Jones. This detailed and authoritative account of Richardson's career provides a reassessment of his achievements. As well as looking at his best known films, it considers neglected works such as Ned Kelly and Joseph Andrews, illustrating how Richardson remained a champion of the socially marginalised. In mapping out his life and work, from the English Stage Company to his final films in America, Shail re-establishes Richardson's at the front rank of British film directors, confirming his contribution to a period of dynamic change in British culture. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2023

        The penny politics of Victorian popular fiction

        by Rob Breton

        Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan's longest and most significant people's movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.

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        March 1987

        Four Penny Shockers

        Vier kurze Krimis

        by Doyle, Arthur Conan

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        Does Movement Really Make Us Smart?

        by Petra Jansen, Stefanie Richter

        Media reports often praise movement as a cure-all. But apart from its undisputed positive effect on health, does movement really make us smarter? Consider a national football team, for example – are these excessively sports-driven players automatically the smartest people? Should we simply replace all school subjects with sports? The authors provide a detailed summary of the latest scientific findings on the influence of movement on cognitive ability. They describe the effects of movement, on old age, embodiment, emotion, school as well as other factors that influence cognition. Target Group: teachers, lecturers, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychotherapists, movement therapists.

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        October 2001

        Rainer Maria Rilke

        Der junge Dichter 1875–1906

        by Ralph Freedman, Heinrich Vogeler, Hanna Pauli, F. Simon, Curdin Ebneter, Emil Orlik

        Rainer Maria Rilke, dessen Todestag sich am 29. Dezember 2001 zum 75. Male jährt, galt über Jahrzehnte als »der Dichter« schlechthin. Ralph Freedman hat sich dem Leben dieses Dichters – das reich ist an äußeren Stationen, an Begegnungen, an abrupten Veränderungen, Leiden und Freuden – und dessen wirkungsmächtigem Werk aus doppelter Distanz genähert: Mehr als 70 Jahre nach Rilkes Tod sind die Dokumente seines Lebens, eigene und fremde, dem forschenden Biographen größtenteils verfügbar; und von Amerika aus gesehen ist der kosmopolitische Rilke, der in deutscher und französischer Sprache schrieb, ein Dichter und Repräsentant Europas. Wie schon in seiner Biographie Hermann Hesse. Autor der Krise geht es Freedman um den Menschen, der hinter dem Werk und den öffentlichen Masken verborgen ist. Er wagt dabei mitunter überraschende Rückschlüsse von der Dichtung auf den Menschen und umgekehrt; so sieht er Leben und Werk, insbesondere des jungen Dichters, von einer Grundkonstellation bestimmt: dem Kontrast zwischen der tristen Heinrichsgasse in Prag, in der er geboren wurde, und dem prächtigen Palais in der benachbarten Herrengasse, in der die wohlhabende Familie seiner Mutter lebte, zu der er nie ganz gehörte. Freedman schildert das Leben des jungen René Rilke, der sich, nach einer schweren Kindheit in der gestörten Ehe seiner Eltern und in Militärschulen, früh zum Dichter bestimmt fühlte und seine ganze Kraft immer ausschließlicher auf ein Ziel zu richten begann: ein Dichter von Rang zu werden. Ob er als Halbwüchsiger mit einem Kindermädchen durchbrennt, sich verlobt und entlobt, die Lebensorte, die Universitäten und die Liebschaften wechselt, verschiedenste Brotarbeiten übernimmt oder Sponsoren umwirbt, er hat dabei letztlich eines im Blick: das Wachsen seines dichterischen Werkes.Der erste Teil der Biographie umgreift die Jahre der Kindheit, der Jugend - mit ersten Veröffentlichungen von Gedichten, Erzählungen, Künstlermonographien und Essays - und der beginnenden Meisterschaft der Neuen Gedichte. Er reicht bis zum Bruch mit dem Bildhauer Auguste Rodin, für den Rilke eine Zeitlang als Sekretär tätig war.Die Biographie ergänzt das Standwerk des Insel Verlages zu Rilkes Leben, die Rilke-Chronik von Ingeborg Schnack, um die überzeugende subjektive Deutung der Persönlichkeit des Dichters.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 1998

        Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives

        Discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War

        by Penny Summerfield

        Examines the effects of the Second World War on women's sense of themselves. Using oral history it explores the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in the war, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives. ;

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        1988

        Mit 35 das erste Kind

        Überlegungen und Erfahrungen. (Mit Kindern leben)

        by Blackie, Penny

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        October 2007

        Das Geheimnis der Schicksalsrhythmen

        Wie 7-Jahres-Schritte unser Leben bestimmen

        by McLean, Penny

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