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        April 2016

        The Beautiful Daily Life of Chef Huang

        by Huang Lei

        The Beautiful Daily Life of Chef Huang is a collection of essays in which Huang Lei shares with the readers his memories as a gourmet and his secret recipes. In his nostalgic account, he tells about the delicacies his parents prepared and how he cooked each meal for his wife and children when he grew up. The passage of time has enabled Huang Lei to transform into Chef Huang and to share with the readers his private recipes and the emotional memories associated with them. He is trying to tell the readers that the kitchen harbors happiness and that food brings joy and expresses the life philosophy of “leading a simple but rich life”.

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        Sun Jianguang: Regimen and Healing with Traditional Chinese Medicine

        by Sun Jianguang

        With the aim of scientifically guiding people to enhance physical fitness and prevent and treat diseases with traditional Chinese medicine regimens, the author writes this book from seven aspects to provide a systematic introduction of the theories and methods of traditional Chinese medicine regimens. The book offers readers a deeper insight into such aspects as Chinese medicine taking, daily regimens, and basic self-treatment. The Chinese medicinal materials selected in this book are all commonly used, and the selected health-preserving medicinal diet has been verified by long-term TCM clinical trials to have significant health_x0002_preserving effects while being authentic, low-cost, easy, and convenient to use.

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        Children's & YA
        2018

        The Birthday of the Fir Tree

        by Oksana Bula (Author), Oksana Bula (Illustrator)

        All trees are born in summer. Fir trees are among them. The Fir tree Tukoni makes sure that they grow and get stronger for the winter. However, one tree sprouts in the middle of winter, and no one knows exactly where it will appear. No one except the partridge Tukoni. Yet, when this special tree is born, all the forest inhabitants celebrate its arrival. After all, this happens on a special day - the birthday of all the kind spirits of the forest: the Tukoni! This magnificent picture-book by famous Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula will invite young readers to a winter fairy tale and will teach children to care for nature together with the kind forest creatures, the Tukonis.   From 3 to 6 years, 151 words Rightsholders:   ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Science & Mathematics
        September 2024

        The elephant and the dragon in contemporary life sciences

        A call for decolonising global governance

        by Joy Y. Zhang, Saheli Datta Burton

        This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty years, it demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in the two countries' rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared worldwide. It points to a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation.

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        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        2021

        La Dolce Vita | Sweet life

        by Roman Malynovsky

        "Sweet Life" is a collection of short stories united by mood and plot spirals. In "Twenty-Five Days" Luka sits in the chair of a hairdresser in the immigrant quarter of Berlin. They speak different languages, and the only way to understand each other is through gestures and touches. Their the inner language guides them until the twenty-fifth day arrives. In "Cairo Express", David travels on a transcontinental train and carries a secret cargo to the final station. However, the comfort of this journey is in danger. In "The Write-off", the girl receives an urgent task. "After all, who else could be entrusted with this matter," she thinks after hearing the order.To fulfill it, she goes to meet with Terakotov. Thirteen stories full of internal dramas, experiences, passion, rage, adoration. The stories are full of flavors and sensory perceptions - sweet and not only. They are cinematic: while reading, you will feel the space physically - fabrics, colors, shades, surfaces. This book is full of mystery and playfulness, anxiety, but also airy lightness. "Sweet Life" invites you to play, to travel by planes and trains, rooms and houses, metropolises and continents. Calls for a journey through the boundless, unfathomable cosmos of human nature. Trust the heroes - they will become your guides and show the way in the intricate labyrinth of stories.

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        February 2023

        Ode to Youth

        by Shi Zhongshan is a writer, scriptwriter, and television producer. He has written novels such as The New Generation in the Military Compound and Hailing from All Corners of the Country and novelettes such as Years of Passion Burning, Resonance of Military Songs,and Happiness as Flowers, of which over thirty have been adapted for over one thousand episodes of TV plays.

        Dong Hongmei's father died of disability after the war, and her mother mysteriously “disappeared” when she was three years old. The tragic life experience indicates that her growth will be bumpy. However, her life turned a corner as she became the so-called "child of high-ranking officials," and she managed to drag herself out of the morass of despair. By virtue of the identity of "the child of high-ranking officials," all kinds of good things, such as awards, promotion, and the opportunity of going to Beijing, followed close on one another, while all these actually resulted from a huge misunderstanding... Dong Hongmei's life is full of affecting friendship, thereby making Ode to Youth a rare masterpiece full of romantic feelings in contemporary literary circles.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2012

        The business of everyday life

        Gender, practice and social politics in England, c.1600–1900

        by Beverly Lemire, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Kim Latham

        From 1600 to 1900 a growing consumerism fired the English economy, shaping the priorities of individuals, and determining the allocation of resources within families. Everyday business might mean making a trip to the pawnbroker, giving a loan to a trusted friend of selling off a coat, all to make ends meet. Both women and men engaged in this daily budgeting, but women's roles were especially important in achieving some level of comfort and avoiding penury. In some communities, the daily practices in place in the seventeenth century persisted into the twentieth, whilst other groups adopted new ways, such as using numbers to chart domestic affairs and turning to the savings banks that appeared in the nineteenth century. In the material world of the past and in the changing habits of earlier generations lie crucial turning points. This book explores these previously under-researched patterns and practices that gave shape to modern consumer society. ;

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        Born in A Great Era

        by A Record of Changes in Contemporary Lifestyle

        1978-2018, a big era. Reform and opening up have profoundly affected the changes in the way of life of the Chinese people. The manuscript replays the development of social life in China over the past 40 years of reform and opening up. It mainly sorts out the great changes in our lives in the past 40 years from the aspects of clothing, food, housing, market, love, and play. Adhering to the purpose of "a magazine and the body temperature of an era", the manuscript has a unique perspective and rich details, which can be regarded as a brief history of alternative life with warmth in this era.

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        December 2014

        Living above Life

        by Yan Zhen

        This novel presents the image of some contemporary Chinese intellectuals represented by Nie Zhiyuan who, instead of being pushed around by convention, tries to live beyond mediocrity and to pursue truth. Rather than being worldly or sophisticated, these people are serious about everything and hold on to the moral bottom-line of intellectuals by distancing themselves from the stink of money. They have independent intellectual personality with the determination to model after such great historical figures as Cao Xueqin. They broaden their academic perspective, construct their own framework of learning, and try their best to find the value and meaning of living above life. Of course, this novel also depicts the corruption of knowledge brought on by connections and circles, the distortion of personality brought on by money and power … and the perplexity, struggle, compromise and adherence of people with lofty ideals like Nie Zhiyuan.

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        Children's & YA
        January 2020

        The Story Told by Zhuka

        by Grasya Oliyko (Author), Grasya Oliyko (Illustrator)

        The dog Zhuka lives at a gas station with her brother Sirius.They are fed by a nice woman, but one day she disappears. Miserable times await the dogs, because winter is coming, and workers at the gas station decide to get rid of them and take them out as soon as possible. Who knows what would have happened to them if one day a car with a family didn’t stop on the roadside and gave them shelter and love. The story told by Zhuka – the first picture book by the Ukrainian illustrator Grasya Oliyko – is an ingenuous and moving story that will touch the strings of both children’s and adult’s hearts.   From 3 to 6 years, 799 words Rightsholders: Ivan Fedechko;  ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        January 2015

        Regular Script of the Greating Learning by Sun Xiaoyun

        by Sun Xiaoyun

        China enjoys a profound civilization. Among countless classics, some are of rich meaning and deep insights, which has influenced people’s personality, mindset, morality and appreciation of beauty. These classics serve as a door to the understanding of Chinese culture. This series offers readers a way to learn classics through the calligraphy of master Sun Xiaoyun.

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        January 2015

        Regular Script of the Confucian Analects by Sun Xiaoyun

        by Sun Xiaoyun

        China enjoys a profound civilization. Among countless classics, some are of rich meaning and deep insights, which has influenced people’s personality, mindset, morality and appreciation of beauty. These classics serve as a door to the understanding of Chinese culture. This series offers readers a way to learn classics through the calligraphy of master Sun Xiaoyun.

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        January 2015

        Regular Script of Dao De Ching by Sun Xiaoyun

        by Sun Xiaoyun

        China enjoys a profound civilization. Among countless classics, some are of rich meaning and deep insights, which has influenced people’s personality, mindset, morality and appreciation of beauty. These classics serve as a door to the understanding of Chinese culture. This series offers readers a way to learn classics through the calligraphy of master Sun Xiaoyun.

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        January 2015

        Regular Script of the Doctrine of the Mean by Sun Xiaoyun

        by Sun Xiaoyun

        China enjoys a profound civilization. Among countless classics, some are of rich meaning and deep insights, which has influenced people’s personality, mindset, morality and appreciation of beauty. These classics serve as a door to the understanding of Chinese culture. This series offers readers a way to learn classics through the calligraphy of master Sun Xiaoyun.

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        August 2021

        Power Hour

        Wenig ändern, alles erreichen

        by Adrienne Herbert

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        Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        2017

        The Day of All Squirrels

        by Irena Karpa

        A kind and playful fairy tale about ecology, friendship, nature, freedom and dream. Full of adventure and humor, thrilling turns and complex situations, this is a story about what is valuable in life and how important it is to be able to fight for your rights, regardless of who you are: an adult, a child or a forest animal. The book teaches us to care about nature and incites us not to litter in the forests and on the streets. You will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. It is perfect for both children and those who think they have already grown up.

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        Children's & YA

        The School Day Gifts

        China Story Picture Books

        by Xu Lu

        China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories.   The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters.   The School Day Gifts tells the story of the growth of a young umbrella maker. After graduating from high school, the protagonist became an umbrella maker, but he had no courage to go back to the school celebration day. Daddy saw what was on his mind and secretly helped him prepare gifts for my teachers and classmates, which were dozens of old-fashioned oilpaper umbrellas made of golden bamboo bones and oilpaper. Eventually he proudly participated in the school day and recited the poet Ai Qing's The Umbrella.

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