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Genetics (non-medical)October 2004Saving Seeds
The Economics of Conserving Crop Genetic Resources Ex Situ in the Future Harvest Centres of CGIAR
by Bonwoo Koo, Philip G Pardey, Brian D Wright
The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the world’s ability to feed its growing population. There are now more than a thousand genebanks worldwide involved in the ex situ (meaning “away from the source”) storage of particular classes of crops. Since the 1970s, the eleven genebanks maintained by the centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) have become pivotal to the global conservation effort. However, key policy and management issues – usually with economic dimensions – have largely been overlooked.This provided the impetus for a series of detailed economic studies, led by IFPRI, in collaboration with five CGIAR centres: CIAT (based in Colombia), CIMMYT (Mexico), ICARDA (Syria), ICRISAT (India) and IRRI (Philippines). This book reports these studies and discusses their wider implications.
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Children's & YASeeing the Sea
by Koos Meinderts
They were both going to climb the chimney. That was what they had agreed. They wanted to know if you could see the sea from up there, beyond the dunes. In the end, only John climbs up. Con watches him fall to his death and runs off. Hours later, when he’s told that his friend is dead, he pretends to be shocked, as if he knows nothing about it. Years later, looking back on that traumatic event from his youth, the time has come to tell the story.I stood below and watched while John climbed the chimney, singing as he went. When he got to the top, he waved triumphantly. He shouted something that I couldn’t quite understand – ‘I saw the sea!’, could that have been it? – and then he fell and I ran home: nothing happened, nothing happened.
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Children's & YAMay She Live Happily Ever After
by Koos Meinderts
‘I just wanted to ask you something else,’ I say. ‘That time on the tracks,didn’t you hear me calling?’Mrs Earl looks shocked. ‘Did you call?’‘I screamed. But you never looked back.’On her way to school, Eva sees an old woman standing on the railroad tracks, while the barrier is dropping down and the warning bells are ringing. Without hesitation she pulls the woman from the oncoming train just at the last second. At school, she’s a hero. She’s in the newspaper and on TV. Curious about the person she’s saved, she decides to visit the woman, at which point she is confronted with the shocking truth.
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Children's & YAJune 2014Koo Kaa & Burra: The Rescue
by Judith Price author and illustrator
Koo, Kaa and Burra: The Rescue is a delightful story about a family of kookaburras living in the heart of the great Tingle forest in the deep south of Western Australia and how they sacrifice the chance to win the annual mushroom hunt competition in order to save a drowning possum. Features illustrations of Australian birds and animals and bush. Suitable for children as a read-to book and a read alone book, ages 3-9 years.
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FictionFebruary 2018Kumakana
A Gronups Tale
by Kevin Price (author), Judith Price (Illustrator)
At thirteen, Lavender Jensen is headstrong and determined, bored and reckless, until one day she crosses the line … This magical realism adventure takes the reader into the spiritual wonderland of the Australian bush in a way that has never before been explored. Dynamic illustrations by Judith Price add to the way allegory bends the real.
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Children's & YAThe Moon is Like a Golden Boat
by Juhani Püttsepp, Gundega Muzikante
White Raven 2021Every time Keete looks at pictures from her childhood where she’s holding her teddy bear Pätsu in her lap, she wonders what life would have been like without war. Her parents would certainly have been able to keep working as teachers without living in terror of the communists deporting them to Siberia. The whole family could have spent nights without having to hurry to the bomb shelter or see their precious hometown in ruins. In peacetime, she could have kept living on the second floor of their cherry-red home instead of setting off on a harrowing journey across the Baltic Sea to Sweden. Years and years later, Keete thinks about how lucky today’s kids are to grow up without war. And she still cradles Pätsu in her arms – a teddy bear who helped her get through life’s perils.
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Children's & YAOctober 2001Paula Finishes Kindergarten. Paula Moves to the City
Paula's Life
by Aino Pervik, Piret Raud
Paula lives in a little village that has a glass factory, a post office, and a shop. The village lies on the shore of a pretty lake; everything there is familiar and feels like home. Paula doesn’t live alone, of course – she has a mother, a father, a little brother named Patrick, a dog named Rex, and a cat named Kitty. She’s turning seven soon, which means she won’t go to kindergarten anymore next autumn. Instead, Paul will go to school – first grade! But before that happens, she has to finish kindergarten. After their graduation party, it turns out that Paula and her friends will be going to different schools. The glass factory has been shut down and Paula’s dad needs to find another job, so their family is moving to the city. Thus, Paula becomes a city girl who starts attending a city school.
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Children's & YAThe Potato’s Kingdom
by Helena Koch, Anne Pikkov
There sure is a lot going on in auntie Tiia's vegetable patch! The cauliflower's deepest desire is to get married, the carrots are solving the mystery of the baby carrots, the onion wants to become a stand-up comedian and the tiny pea is crying her eyes out from loneliness. The chili and the bell pepper cannot figure out who is related to whom, the pumpkin growing in the far corner yearns for a more central position, the radish however does not want to become a salad, but to go on a round-the-world trip. It's no wonder that the potato who rules over this kingdom is completely exhausted by the autumn.
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Business strategySeptember 2017Unleash Your Family Business DNA
Building a family legacy that lasts generations
by Reg Athwal
Global family business advisor and authority Reg Athwal delivers the ultimate how-to guide, drawing upon his extensive global expertise and international research. Athwal shares with you the basics relevant to all first-generation entrepreneurs who are thinking about their next generation, combined with insights for well-established family firms who need to understand the pitfalls and legacy blockages that prevent 97% of family businesses from lasting beyond the 4th generation. In this book, you’ll learn: About your “DNA Profile” and how it impacts other family members, professional teams and your overall business How to build family structures and create the right job roles aligned to multi-generational challenges and your succession planning needs How to build a family vision and values charter
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialFebruary 2022Nenek Tata and the Mangrove Menace
by Judith Vun Price, Jacqui Vun
Stories about grandparents delight children. So, when children read how Nenek Tata’s adventure on what started out as a normal day turns a bit scary, their delight will explode. It’s all because this day turns out to be not-so-normal. When Nenek Tata gets inside the gloomy jungles of the swamp, a huge, dripping, brown monster emerges. And, when the monster follows her, she must defend her home to the last … until she discovers the monster’s identity. This scary story is set in Malaysia’s eastern-most state of Sabah and is told in the style of a Malaysian hantu folk tale. Its little bit of fright delights children because of the funny twist in the end. In the way many stories grandparents tell young children, this one entertains while teaching them about the dangers of the swamps and jungles. Illustrations show reflections of stories about grandparents. Dynamic, full-colour illustrations transform the tranquil landscape as the storm approaches and the drama unfolds. Consequently, the growing mystery draws the reader in: What is this monster, where did it come from? Artful storytelling captures north Borneo’s beautiful native vegetation and animals, and exquisite textures and patterns. It shows children and adults interested in distant times and places a melding of cultures. This fine attention to detail offers young readers a wild and rollicking adventure, keeping them on the edge of their seats to the very end.
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Art Styles Not Defined by DateNovember 2013De wereld vanuit een luchtballon
by Robert Verhoogt
The invention of the hot air balloon in 1783 caused a sensation which would last for more than a century. The great aeronaut Jean-Pierre Blanchard and his fellow pioneers were followed by many others, whose lift-off attracted masses of people again and again. The subsequent “balloon mania” created a new element in cultural history: the third dimension, reflected in the literary and visual arts as well as in high culture and popular imagination. Scenes from a Balloon skilfully endeavours to reconstruct the sensation the balloon caused in cultural history of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century in Europe and the United States. After Thomas Baldwin produced the first image from a balloon in 1785, reproduction of remarkable prints, paintings, and photographs gained widespread popularity. Balloons inspired well-known photographers and artists, including Nadar, Spelterini, Goya, Manet, Daumier, and Redon, but they also led to a wealth of arts & crafts and popular souvenirs. The adventures of Blanchard, Nadar and other balloonists were a source of inspiration for popular writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, and Mark Twain.
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Children's & YAEia’s Wintertime Adventure
by Anu Aun, Sirly Oder
Drawing – especially nature and animals – is ten-year-old Eia’s favorite activity. When the girl’s mother, a ballet dancer, has to substitute for an injured colleague on a tour abroad and her father has no way of getting out of work, she is sent to spend winter break in the snowy countryside. There, deep in the woods, lives a warm-hearted man named Ott who is tasked with looking after Eia. The girl’s days are filled with fun activities, particularly when she makes friends with the neighbors. Soon, however, Eia and the villagers face the fight of their lives: saving the wild environment around them from clearcutting. In the process, Eia also discovers a closely guarded family secret.
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On women and jewellery
by MYLO FREEMAN
Mylo Freeman chose fifty inspiring women from all over the world who’ve got something to say through their jewellery. Meet style icon Iris Apfel (‘More is more and less is a bore’), queen Farah Diba and her huge collection of tiaras and Madeleine Albright, who communicates through her intriguing collection of brooches. But you’ll also find women who wear their culture’s traditional jewellery with pride – from Rajasthani women wearing glass bangles, to the silver-adorned Tuareg woman and the Tibetan woman whose turquoise stones protect her from harm. Their jewellery tells something about who they are or who they want to be. SUITABLE FOR ALL FASHION LOVERS AGED 10 AND UP!
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Children's & YAThe Elephant
by Kadri Hinrikus, Kadi Kurema
Kärt feels that she doesn’t really belong anywhere. Her relationship with her classmates is not a happy one- either she is being bullied for the way she looks or taunted because she knows the answers to teacher’s questions. It’s not going much better at home either- her father is not exactly happy about Kärt preferring books and reading to maths and computers. Her support from her mum is nonexistent as well as she just starts to cry and despair hearing about Kärt’s problems.Alas, after a particularly bad day at school, Kärt meets a spunky Croatian girl Lucija who slowly helps Kärt to realise that exactly her kind of girl is needed and cherished in different situations.
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Children's & YADachshund and Dane
by Kadri Hinrikus, Elina Sildre
Dane has recently moved in near Dachshund, and has already won over the hearts of many with his kind nature. Husky and Basset, Bernard and Corgi, Labrador and Collie—all the neighbors are blown over! Dachshund likes Dane so much that she wants to invite him over for Christmas, to go sledding, to sniff spring scents, and to dig up flower beds, just the two of them! At the same time, their friends just want to lie on the couch and think about everything beautiful in the world.
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October 2017The Art of Horror Movies
An Illustrated History
by Edited by Stephen Jones; foreword by John Landis
The follow-up title to the award-winning The Art of Horror and compiled by the same creative team as that ground-breaking original volume, this lavishly illustrated sequel takes on the entire history of the horror movie genre, charting the evolution of horror films from the early 1900s to the latest releases. The book is illustrated with over 600 rare and unique images, including posters, lobby cards, advertisements, promotional items, tie-in books and magazines – not to mention original artwork inspired by classic movies (some created especially for this book and published here for the first time). Editor is multiple award-winning Stephen Jones, who has assembled a stellar team of contributors and sourced visuals from all over the world. Foreword is by John Landis. Winner of the 2018 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award
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Children's & YAJohn the Skeleton’s Goings-On
by Triinu Laan, Marja-Liisa Plats
White Raven 2021The skeleton model used for teaching anatomy at school is sent into retirement. Gramps reckons that every hardworking employee deserves to relax after years spent on the job, so he brings Juhan the skeleton back to his farm. Also there are Gramma, a hen and a rooster, a cat and a dog, and even the old couple’s grandchildren from time to time. Gramps takes the skeleton pretty much everywhere he goes, be it to trim the apple trees, listen to a bedtime story, or hear the way the lake sings. Juhan is unbelievably happy, and so is everyone else around him – especially the grandkids!
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Children's & YAApril 2019What Do You Dream About?
by Kadri Hinrikus, Anu Kalm
Kids’ lives are nowhere as easy as grown-ups might think! For example, Eve’s father works far away in the capital, so the girl misses him all the time. Andreas, on the other hand, is worried that his parents are in over their heads with taking care of his baby sister – all it’s been since she was born is nothing but work and caring for her, with hardly any time left over for chatting and having fun. Helen, who is a city girl, finds herself afraid of everything when she attends her great-uncle’s birthday celebration in the countryside: frogs, worms, bees – you name it. Jake is certainly there to support her, but then, a surprising sense of unease creeps into his heart, too. It sure is nice when there are adults around who know to take kids’ worries seriously. And it sure is astounding when they’re able to offer a pretty good solution!
