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Did you know that kids think that food tastes better when there is a cartoon character associated with it? That's what makes The Food ABC books so clever; they subtly send a message to "eat the rainbow" - think carrots, zucchinis, beans, even mushrooms - without focusing on food at all. The stories teach positive life lessons that are relatable to modern-day kids, from tidying your room and staying off digital devices to self-esteem and the importance of a good night's sleep.
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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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"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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»Ich sehe die Welt in leuchtenden Farben.« Geboren in Peru, aufgewachsen in Chile, das sie nach dem Militärputsch verlassen musste, schrieb Isabel Allende ihren Bestseller Das Geisterhaus im Exil in Venezuela; seither zählt sie zu den wichtigsten Stimmen in der lateinamerikanischen Literatur. In ihren Romanen, die Leser in aller Welt begeistern, spiegelt sich das bewegte Leben dieser faszinierenden Frau.
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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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Diphtheria is a bacterial infection caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which attacks the respiratory system. Although the earliest accounts of diphtheria date back at least 2,000 years, this disease was first associated with major epidemics in Europe during the 16th century. By the 18th century, diphtheria became a major cause of childhood illness and death in the New World. With the advent of widespread vaccination in the 1920s, the number of cases and deaths dropped dramatically. However, in areas where vaccination rates drop, diphtheria can rapidly become reestablished, as seen in the late 1990s in several former Soviet republics. Diphtheria, Second Edition describes the disease, the bacteria that causes it, and the development of effective treatments.Chapters include: History of Diphtheria How Does Corynebacterium Diphtheriae Cause Disease? How Is Diphtheria Treated? How Is Diphtheria Prevented? Resurgence of Diphtheria in the Former Soviet Union, Yemen, Venezuela, and Bangladesh Uses of Diphtheria Toxin.
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This book examines how Ireland's relationship with the EU was affected by a succession of crises in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The financial crisis, the Brexit crisis and the migration crisis were not of equal significance on the island of Ireland. The financial crisis was a huge issue for the Republic but not Northern Ireland, Brexit had a major impact in both polities, the migration and populism issues were less controversial, while foreign policy challenges had a minimal impact. The book provides a summary of the main features of each of the crises to be considered, from both the EU and the Irish perspective. Ireland and the European Union is the first volume of its kind to provide a comprehensive analysis on British-Irish relations in the context of Brexit. It assesses the Withdrawal Agreement and Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, the devolution settlement and the 1998 Agreement, as well as the European dimension to Northern Ireland's peace process. The contributors explore a number of policy areas that are central to the understanding of each of the crises and the impact of each for Ireland. Chapters examine issues such as security, migration and taxation as well as protest politics, political parties, the media, public opinion and the economic impact of each of these crises on Ireland's relationship with the EU.
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Flickwerk betreibt, wer Notlösungen für reale Probleme findet. Doch wie soll sich der anders verhalten, dem seine Existenzgrundlage genommen ist, der gar nicht oder »kurz« arbeitet? Wie sind ernst gemeinte Vorschläge eines Politikers zu verstehen, den »Tüchtigen und Tätigen« ein doppeltes Stimmrecht zu geben? Volker Braun, der die große Misere in den tagtäglichen Entscheidungen zwischen Erfurt, Kaiserslautern und Venezuela entziffert, teilt uns in Flickwerk 64 Episoden aus der katastrophischen Gegenwart mit, bei denen nicht zu entscheiden ist, ob man über unsere Situation weinen oder lachen soll. Flickwerk vereint in seinen Kurzreportagen die Tradition von Bertolt Brechts Geschichten von Herrn Keuner mit Thomas Bernhards Miniaturen im Stimmenimitator: Es entstellt auf diese Weise unsere Gegenwart zur Kenntlichkeit. Flickwerk belegt erneut die hohe Kunst des Schelmenschriftstellers Volker Braun, unsere Wirklichkeit so zu finden und zu erfinden, daß wir nicht entscheiden können, ob wir die Narren sind oder die Dummen uns vorführen.
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Es ist kein Zufall, daß sowohl in den Industriestaaten als auch in den Ländern der Dritten und der Vierten Welt die Programme und Maßnahmen der Entwicklungspolitik zu den meistumstrittenen Politikelementen zählen. Hier sind, auf beiden Seiten, Situationsdeutungen und Interessen im Spiel, die oft nicht einmal im »eigenen Lager« auf einen gemeinsamen Nenner gebracht werden können. So nimmt es denn auch nicht wunder, wenn in den Erklärungen von Unterentwicklung, die in den vergangenen fünfzehn Jahren vorgelegt worden sind, diese Interpretations- und Interessenkonflikte sich offen abbilden. Klaus Eßer nimmt diese Diskussion auf. Sein Verdienst besteht darin, sowohl die divergierenden Theorien über Industrialisierung, Abhängigkeit und Wachstum als auch die ihnen verbündeten Politikstrategien einer gründlichen Prüfung zu unterziehen und sie mit den Ergebnissen von Fallstudien (über Brasilien, Venezuela, Kolumbien, Peru, die lateinamerikanischen Kleinstaaten) zu konfrontieren. Eßer untersucht die ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Bedingungen der gegenwärtig in Lateinamerika ablaufenden (teils einheitlichen, teils von Land zu Land unterschiedlichen) Industrialisierungsprozesse, deren Auswirkungen auf die Strukturen dieser Gesellschaften, auf ihr Verhältnis zueinander und zu den Industriestaaten, auf ihr Selbstverständnis und die innergesellschaftlichen Reformansätze.
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The tiny shimyshinees is a manifestation of children’s cultural heritage that fuse legend, games, and dance. Its origins are on the Island of Margarita –Venezuela– and thanks to school this piece of oral tradition spread throughout the country. According to the legend, The tiny shimyshinees is form by a group of elves that appear during full moon nights and gather on the beach to sing and play. Their song is so sweet that they can attract fish to the seashore. Over time, The tiny shimyshinees became a kind of theatrical troupe that roamed the streets of towns in popular festivals. Mariana Massarani’s illustrations capture the colors and culture of the Caribbean and give such a local piece an absolutely universal tone. With a naive style and with PVA paint, Massarani makes some colorful and very funny images and gives us perfect settings for the story that takes place: a group of children prepares their presentation on the shore of a crystalline sea and this is how image after image we see the coastal town, the costumes of the characters and part of their Caribbean culture. It is impossible to read this book without wanting to go to the beach!
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The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent. But despite Germany's unparalleled knowledge and historical experience, its policymakers struggle to accept that Moscow's efforts to rebalance Europe at the cost of the cohesion of the EU and NATO are an attack on Germany's core interests. This book explains the scale of the challenge facing Germany in managing relations with a changing Russia. It analyses how successive German governments from 1991 to 2014 misread Russian intentions, until Angela Merkel sharply recalibrated German and EU policy towards Moscow. The book also examines what lies behind efforts to revise Merkel's bold policy shift, including attitudes inherited from the GDR and the role of Russian influence channels in Germany.
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According to the chronological order, the book introduces the history of China from ancient times to modern society. It is rich in content, concise in writing and exquisite in pictures. It is a good book to understand the history of China.
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Von Argentinien bis Venezuela, von Brasilien bis zur Chicano-Literatur der USA sind in diesem Lexikon etwa 900 lateinamerikanische Schriftstellerpersönlichkeiten in präziser und gebündelter Form dargestellt. Dieser Reichardt hat in jahrzehntelanger Pionierarbeit Daten und Fakten zu den einzelnen Autoren zusammengetragen, die, auf neuesten Stand gebracht, nun in diesem handlichen Band zugänglich sind. Umfassend wie kein anderes europäisches Lexikon bezüglich lateinamerikanischer Literatur, konzentriert sich das nach Ländern und Autoren alphabetisch geordnete Nachschlagewerk auf die wesentlichen Informationen, ohne jedoch auf Gewichtung und Wertung zu verzichten. Von frühen Autoren wie den Peruanern Guamán Poma de Ayala und Garcilaso de la Vega (El Inca), die sich ihrer Verwurzelung in zwei sehr verschiedenartigen Kulturen durchaus bewusst waren, über Literatur-Nobelpreisträger wie Gabriela Mistral, Miguel Angel Asturias oder Ocatvio Paz führt das Lexikon bis in die Gegenwart der lateinamerikanischen Literatur, bis hin zu der Generation der jungen Autoren und Autorinnen der Geburtsjahrgänge 1950 bis 1960. Das Autorenlexikon Lateinamerika gibt allen Lesern, die den Kontinent lateinamerikanischer Literatur für sich entdeckt haben oder zu entdecken beginnen – interessierten Laien wie Wissenschaftlern – schnelle und aufschlussreiche Information über Leben und Werk der Autoren.
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This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.
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The book opens a unique door to the history of Cairo and its journey from a social and cultural perspective and aims to build a new and different narrative for this history—one that shows Cairo as a cosmopolitan, multicultural city. Cairo’s Cafe Riche has a deep cultural history and a broad creative and social heritage. Saqer describes it as “the site where endless friendships are established between the café and history.” Saqer’s narrative is not just about the small café, but rather constitutes observance and analysis of the presence of this café in the history of Egypt and how we can view many events surrounding it. Here there is no separation between the political and the cultural, between the historical, the social, and the artistic. The book combines history and narrative, which makes it a documented historical biography on the one hand and a creative work on the other. It also documents an important era in Egypt’s cultural history by examining the cultural and social transformations in modern Egyptian history and highlighting prominent intellectuals and creators associated with the cafe and the history of intellectual life in Egypt.
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The book illustrates the influence of Marxismin china, including the classic works of Kar Marx and its latest achievements in China.
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Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE-200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia Thorne, accompanies Manchester Museum's first-ever international touring exhibition. Golden Mummies of Egypt is a visually spectacular exhibition that offers visitors unparalleled access to the museum's outstanding collection of Egyptian and Sudanese objects - one of the largest in the UK.
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This book collects 180 stories about immortals in ancient China, translated into English, and accompanied by relevant pictures. It can help Chinese and foreign readers to understand the general situation of Chinese native immortals, especially Taoist immortals, and show the evolution of Chinese ancient folklore and cultural thoughts from one side.The copyright has been exported to Malaysia .
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A Millennium from the Perspective of Arts – China in Classical Paintings tells the stories of China from paintings of different ages. It consists of six volumes, covering the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China. By introducing the details of the works and observing the artists' creative mentality, the book not only tells the big pictures of politics, military, economy, technology, and humanity in different historical periods, but also shows the daily life and aesthetics of ancient China. As a Norwegian Chinese cultural scholar, the author Li Shubo adopts a special perspective in the book by combining the achievements of overseas Chinese studies with contemporary archaeology and art history, and uses simple language presenting a comprehensive, profound and thought-provoking picture of Chinese civilization.
