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July 2014Ambush
by Fang Fang
This collection of works by writer Fang Fang includes novelettes such as Ambush, My Beginning Is Also My End, Floating Clouds and Flowing Water, Performance Art, and Scenery that have already been translated into English, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Thai and Portuguese, and published abroad. Among these, Scenery won the National Outstanding Novelette Prize and caused a national sensation. It also established her as one of the representatives of China’s “new realists”. Her other works have also won her many national important prizes such as Fiction Monthly Hundred Flowers Awards.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024After the end
Cold War culture and apocalyptic imaginations in the twenty-first century
by David L. Pike
After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape in the global North in the 1960s and that spread globally into the twenty-first century. After the End reminds us not only that most of the world's peoples have lived with or died from apocalyptic conditions for centuries, but that the Cold War imaginaries that grew from and fed those conditions, continue to survive as well.
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HorticultureNovember 2010Temperate and Subtropical Fruit Production
by David Penman, R Bruce Chapman, Peter Lyford, William Atkinson, Roy Edwards, John Palmer, David L. McNeil. Edited by David I Jackson, Graham Thiele, Norman E Looney, Michael Morley-Bunker.
Effective fruit production requires general knowledge of fruit husbandry such as nutrition, propagation, pruning and training, effects of climate and crop protection as well as specific cultivation techniques for each fruit. Fully revised and expanded to include organic fruit production, this new edition provides a thorough introduction to the cultivation of fruit found throughout the temperate and subtropical regions of the world.
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Children's & YAThe Hole
by Evelina Daciūtė
In the book The Hole, the girl tells a story about the time when she lost her beloved grandfather. Together with her dad, the girl goes through their loss by digging a hole. A very deep hole that reaches even Africa. The place where bad feelings become lighter. This book is about loss and strength. It is a story about continuity of life and opportunity to say farewell to those we love. We can find different ways to do it. The Hole offers one of them.
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Zoology & animal sciencesAugust 1994Livestock Housing
by Edited by Christopher Wathes, David Charles
Livestock housing is a major determinant of animal health, welfare and productivity. This book presents the important principles and processes by which housing influences these outcomes, and shows how an understanding of these can be translated into specifications for housing designs. The emphasis is on the building as a means to an environmental end, focusing on the biological responses and welfare needs of animals in the context of commercial and economic considerations. The book provides a thorough literature review as well as practical guidance and is aimed at academics and professionals in animal production, veterinary science and agricultural engineering.
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December 2018The Black Hole in the Classroom
by Yang Peng
Yang Peng's Award-winning Novels are a collection of the award-winning works of Yang Peng's many outstanding stories. Not only are the selected articles humorous, but also rich in imagination. They are also rich in profound educational philosophy that can enlighten the mind and help readers to reflect on themselves. There have been a lot of strange things happening in the classroom recently. Sometimes students' homeworks were lost. Other times some pencil sharpener or rubber may be missing. Is this because of someone who want to escape from writing homework or is there a thief in the classroom? When everyone talked about it, some people found out that there was actually a black hole in the classroom. The black hole sucked away all these things. Further, the more amazing thing is that not only can the black hole absorb substances, but also colors, viruses, selfish distractions and many other things. As a result, students would like to make a wish, asking the black hole to suck away what they didn't want ...
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Migration, immigration & emigrationJuly 2015Immigration and housing in the Republic of Ireland
by Brian Portley
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of migrants' housing experiences in Ireland. It introduces, in an accessible manner, the key factors that determine how well migrants can engage with Ireland's housing system. It outlines the opportunities and challenges migrants encounter accessing housing and benefits from analysis drawn from the actual lived housing experience of migrants whose homes are located in inner-city, town and small town locations in Ireland. Therefore, this book is positioned to highlight differences between various groups of migrants living in contrasting locations in Ireland and argues that housing policy development can be informed by the consideration given to migrants' meanings and perceptions of housing.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2017Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
Private life in a public space
by Pamela Sharpe, Lynne Attwood, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie
This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens. Attwood examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. Much of Attwood's material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables her to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, she also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life. Attwood has produced not just a history of housing, but a social history of daily life which will appeal both to scholars and those with a general interest in Soviet history.
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March 2020»Mir träumte, du bliebest mir gut«
Die schönsten Liebesgedichte
by Matthias Reiner, Isabel Pin
»Ich will mit dem gehen, den ich liebe«: Von Liebesbekenntnissen und Wunschträumen, vom Abschied und Wiedersehen bis hin zu der Angst, den anderen zu verlieren, reicht die vorliegende Sammlung von Liebesgedichten. Sie enthält Else Lasker-Schülers »Heimlich zur Nacht« oder Hafis‘ »Du bist wie der Morgen« ebenso wie Marina Zwetajewas »Nah wie die rechte und linke Hand« oder Ernst Jandls »liegen, bei dir« und viele mehr. Isabel Pin hat dieses Brevier für Liebende mit wunderbaren Zeichnungen ausgestattet. Zum Verschenken und Wiederlesen!
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March 2017»Seither schlief sie bei meiner Frau«
Katzengeschichten
by Matthias Reiner, Isabel Pin
»Meine neuen Bücher liest sie grundsätzlich nicht, nicht einmal, wenn sie darin vorkommt, die einzige erkennbare Emotion zeigt sich beim Duft gegrillter Sardinen oder sonstiger Köstlichkeiten. Nur manchmal, ganz hin und wieder und ohne dass wir wissen, warum gerade dann, sucht sie plötzlich einen Schoß auf und beginnt zu schnurren wie ein alter Schiffsmotor. Rätsel.« (Cees Nooteboom) Der Band versammelt die schönsten Katzengeschichten von Raymond Chandler bis Wisława Szymborska, von Patricia Highsmith bis Eva Demski, zauberhaft illustriert von Isabel Pin: nicht nur für Katzenfreunde. »In Wahrheit bin ich mehr auf sie angewiesen als sie auf mich.« Marlen Haushofer
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The ArtsDecember 2019Screening the Paris suburbs
From the silent era to the 1990s
by Philippe Met, Annie Fourcaut, Roland-François Lack, Jean-Louis Pautrot, Keith Reader, Margaret Flinn, Eric Bullot, Tristan Jean, Malcolm Turvey, Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck, Térésa Faucon, Philippe Met, Camille Canteux, Derek Schilling, Guillaume Soulez, David Vasse, Derek Schilling
Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content. In the Paris suburbs they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions, from bourgeois villas and bucolic riverside cafés to post-war housing estates and postmodern new towns. For the first time in English, contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long film history, marked by such towering figures as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati and Jean-Luc Godard. Idyllic or menacing, expansive or claustrophobic, the suburb served divergent aesthetic and ideological programmes across the better part of a century. Themes central to French cultural modernity - class conflict, leisure, boredom and anti-authoritarianism - cut across the fifteen chapters.
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