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        Business, Economics & Law
        June 2019

        China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation:

        Case Studies and Plans

        by Secretariat of the First China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo Organizing Committee

        China-Africa Economics and Trade Cooperation: Case Studies and Plans comes in 3 languages: Chinese(2 volumes), English(2 volumes), and French(2 volumes). This book series include 101 excellent case studies , which related to 21 Chinese provinces and cities and 31 countries in Africa, containing agriculture, manufacturing, commerce and trade, infrastructure, industrial parks, energy and mining, financing and other fields in China-Africa economic and trade cooperation. This set of books is practical and useful for all readers. In addition, the book gives the vivid interpretation on the concept of common prosperity, win-win cooperation, mutual negotiation and construction, shared innovation and progression of Belt and Road Initiative.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2013

        Literary culture in Cuba

        by Par Kumaraswami, Antoni Kapcia

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        1981

        Sie träumten alle von Cuba

        Die Lebensgeschichte eines spanischen Auswanderers. Roman

        by Miguel Barnet, Anneliese Botond

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        Children's & YA

        Un coso (A Thing)

        by Santiago Craig, Pablo Bernasconi

        There is a thingy in a place. A thingy that has been there for a long, long time. Or, maybe, for just a little while. Some pass by and see it. They are surprised, or angry, or they ignore it. Some try to explain it. The rings of the Queen, a blind pastry, an old telephone, and even a dead hen… Everyone has something to say about this thingy that does nothing and is just there. Is the thingy all of this? Is it something else? Or is there nothing?

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        February 2008

        Roter April

        Roman

        by Santiago Roncagliolo, Angelica Ammar

        Es ist Karwoche in Ayacucho, ein düsteres Spektakel von Blut und Exzeß. Als der stellvertretende Bezirksstaatsanwalt Félix Chacaltana, noch neu auf dem Posten in der Andenprovinz, mit seiner ersten Leiche konfrontiert wird, hofft er auf rasche Abwicklung. Erst aber muß er versuchen, mit den hiesigen Machtverhältnissen zurechtzukommen – der Militärkommandant jedenfalls gibt ihm deutlich genug zu verstehen, daß an einer Aufklärung des Falls hier niemand interessiert ist. Doch die Leiche ist so grausig verstümmelt, die Umstände ihres Auftauchens sind so dubios, daß Chacaltana, der an Gesetz und Ordnung glaubt und alles andere als ein Draufgänger ist, nicht anders kann, als weiterzuforschen. Was sind das für Spuren, die auf die Terrororganisation Leuchtender Pfad hinweisen? Und warum drückt ihm der Militärkommandant eine Dienstwaffe in die Hand? Schon bald hat Chacaltana alle Gewißheiten verloren und sieht sich unversehens selbst in einen Strudel aberwitziger Gewalt gezogen. Vor dem sehr realen Hintergrund der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Abgründe seines Landes erzählt der junge peruanische Autor einen temporeichen, psychologisch eindringlichen Thriller, wofür ihm sogleich die internationale Aufmerksamkeit zuteil wurde. Roter April erhielt den Alfaguara-Preis 2006 und wird in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt.

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        February 2023

        Love for Northeast China

        by Laoteng, whose real name is Teng Zhenfu, is a member of the Tenth Presidium of the China Writers Association and is currently the Party Secretary and Chairman of the Liaoning Writers Association. He has published ten novels, includingThe Northeast China, The Numerous Armed Conflicts,and The Forests of Beizhang;eight collections of novels, such as The Black Thrush and A City Without Crows; and three cultural essays, such as Confucian Notes. He has won the 15th and 16th Five-One Project Awards,respectively, and The Northeast China has been selected on the list of 2021 Chinese Good Books.

        "Never invest beyond theShanhai Pass", as the saying goes.The particular cultural environment and openness make the brain drain in Northeast China extremely serious. However, Miao Qing, a seemingly delicate doctoral student from a famous school, resolutely went northward because she had a personal plan thatwas related to both her father and herself, namely, to design a world-leading large aircraft. Her father once said that just as a poet without imagination must be a lousy poet, a country without advanced aircraft could never escape the fate of a backward country. For this reason, Miao Qing started her career atKunpeng Group, later went to Feiying Company to produce a leading small low-altitude aerial drone, and then sheplayed the leading role in the national G-31 project that designed a stealth supersonic aircraft and made a successful trial flight.

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        March 2022

        Women and Pilgrimage

        by E. Moore Quinn, Alison T. Smith, Sharenda Holland Barlar, Maryjane Dunn, Susan Dunn-Hensley, Shirley du Plooy, Vivienne Keely, Sarah E. Owens, Emma Rochester, Lisa F. Signori

        Women and Pilgrimage presents scholarly essays that address the lacunae in the literature on this topic. The content includes well-trodden domains of pilgrimage scholarship like sacred sites and holy places. In addition, the book addresses some of the less-well-known dimensions of pilgrimage, such as the performances that take place along pilgrims' paths; the ephemeral nature of identifying as a pilgrim, and the economic, social and cultural dimensions of migratory travel. Most importantly, the book's feminist lens encourages readers to consider questions of authenticity, essentialism, and even what is means to be a "woman pilgrim". The volume's six sections are entitled: Questions of Authenticity; Performances and Celebratory Reclamations; Walking Out: Women Forging Their Own Paths; Women Saints: Their Influence and Their Power; Sacred Sites: Their Lineages and Their Uses; and Different Migratory Paths. Each section will enrich readers' knowledge of the experiences of pilgrim women. Readers' understanding will be further enhanced by the book's: · interdisciplinary nature: The contributors hail from a wide range of disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, French, Spanish, Fine Art, and Religious Studies; · uniqueness: The text brings together previously scattered resources into one volume; · feminist perspective: Much of the subject matter utilizes feminist theories and methodologies and argues that further research will be welcome. The book will be of interest to scholars of pilgrimage studies in general as well as those interested in women, travel, tourism, and the variety of religious experiences.

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        August 2021

        Involução e outros contos para um mundo em crise

        Colectânea de contos traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária 2020

        by Sandra Tamele

        Neste terceiro volume da Colectânea de Contos Traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária, apresentamos seis contos publicados entre 2017 e 2019 no âmbito do Caine Prize for African Writing e da colectânea New Short Fiction from Africa: ‘Involução’ da autoria da sul-africana Stacy Hardy que aborda abertamente a sexualidade da mulher, também preocupações sociais e políticas, faz alusão a questões como a degradação ambiental, o colonialismo e direitos da mulher, ancorados numa teatralidade conceptual necessária para que o conto não se torne efémero e engaje o sentido de humor do leitor para o aproximar da mente aberta de Hardy. ‘A heroína misteriosa’ ou ‘Mavbanelo na mayi’ em Bitonga, é da autoria da Tanzaniana Lydia Kasese. Ela escreve sobre as expectativas e pressões sociais que levam as mulheres a desejarem concertar tudo. Neste conto Kasese traz destramente à luz questões sobre o abuso de menores e o seu impacto sobre as famílias na Tanzânia e, não só. Alinafe Malonje estreou-se nesta colectânea da Short Story Day com o conto ‘Manutenção de Rotina’, um registo metafísico de um hotel: parte alegoria, parte meditação com um subtil comentário sobre o que significa ser mulher no Malawi. Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda cria um fabuloso hotel de fantasia que contém realidades sinistras, construindo um persuasivo mundo alternativo. Tariro Ndoro em ‘A lenda das duas irmãs’, ou ‘Xihitana xa vamakwavu na makwavu’ em Changana, traz uma abordagem arrepiante dos perigos da saudade, onde a busca por uma irmã num hotel de luxo em Victoria Falls tem um fim fantasmagórico. Mampianina Randria nos apresenta em ‘O Gatilho’, ou ‘Niyódeké sê xidúvúlá’ em Changana, um conto com um ritmo cerrado e um desfecho totalmente inesperado onde uma mulher que lida com as frustrações de quem entra na vida adulta.

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        March 2006

        Die Zukunft der Religion

        by Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty, Santiago Zabala, Michael Adrian

        Nicht erst seit der vielbeachteten Wahl des neuen Papstes, nicht erst seit den religiös motivierten Terroranschlägen, die die westlichen Demokratien erschüttert haben, und nicht erst seit der Wiederkehr religiöser Fundamentalismen in allen Teilen der Welt wird deutlich, daß die Frage der Religion zu einer Nagelprobe der Zivilisation geworden ist. Doch war die Religion nicht längst überwunden? Die Philosophen Richard Rorty und Gianni Vattimo, die als Vertreter einer dezidierten Metaphysikkritik nicht gerade in Verdacht stehen, dem Christentum das Wort zu reden, stellen die Frage nach der Zukunft der Religion. In pointierten Texten und einem anschaulichen Gespräch gehen sie von der Beobachtung aus, daß die Metaphysikkritik mitnichten zum Verschwinden der Religion geführt hat. Der Tod Gottes gehört der Vergangenheit an, die Religion nicht. Doch gehört ihr wirklich die Zukunft? Oder hat nicht vielmehr eine Verschiebung der religiösen Erfahrung stattgefunden, die eine Metaphysikkritik keineswegs ausschließt? Wird eine Religion ohne Gott kommen?»Was kommt nach dem Ende der Metaphysik? Kann Religion ohne Begründungen, objektive Wahrheiten oder Gott auskommen? Zwei der einflußreichsten Philosophen unserer Tage kommen hier zu einer Antwort zusammen. Gemeinsam bestimmen Vattimos Hermeneutik und Rortys Pragmatismus unsere Vorstellung der christlichen Botschaft, daß die Liebe das einzige Gesetz darstelle, neu.« Nancy Frankenberry

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