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        Minibombo makes picture books characterized by clear images and solid colours, telling stories with a short text or no text at all. The books aim to create a participated reading process between adults and children and require a bit of creativity and cooperation on their part. Minibombo loves to explore different types of communication. This is why some of its paper stories have become the starting point for creating digital applications. The apps refer to the original stories in the books and develop them further by exploiting a different code. All the minibombo apps are available worldwide on the App Store and Google Play. Minibombo started in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 2013. Since its beginnings, it has been highly appreciated both by readers and operators in the sector and has been awarded several prizes which have helped make its books known among a wide public. Its books are translated in more than fourteen counties worldwide.

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        September 2024

        Das Sams 12. Das Mini-Sams ist weg

        by Paul Maar, Paul Maar

        Wo steckt das Mini-Sams? In der Sams-Welt gibt es ein großes Geheimnis: Ganz weit hinten am Rande der Wiese, auf der die Samse genüsslich auf ihren Kürbissen lümmeln, steht eine geheimnisvolle Felsmauer. Niemand weiß genau, was sich hinter ihr verbirgt. Das Pauker-Sams findet es dort viel zu gefährlich. Aber da kennt es das Mini-Sams nicht, das plötzlich spurlos verschwunden ist. So macht sich das Taschenbier-Sams gemeinsam mit Ralfer, dem blauen Drachen, auf eine abenteuerliche Suche nach seinem kleinen Freund. Werden sie das Mini-Sams finden? Bestseller-Autor Paul Maar erzählt in seinem lustigen Kinderbuch ab 7 Jahren eine ganz neue Sams-Geschichte mit dem kleinsten aller Samse, dem Mini-Sams. Mit seinen farbigen Illustrationen und liebevollen Figuren erweckt er die zauberhafte Welt der Samse zum Leben. Eine abenteuerliche Lektüre für große und kleine Fans der Kinderbuchklassiker von Paul Maar! Das Sams 12. Das Mini-Sams ist weg: Ein brandneues Sams-Abenteuer Neues vom Sams: Lustiges Bilderbuch mit dem Sams und dem Mini-Sams für Kinder ab 7 Jahren. Lässt Kinderherzen höher schlagen: Eine spannende Geschichte über Mut, Freundschaft und Neugier. Die Bestseller-Reihe: Geschrieben und illustriert vom preisgekrönten Erfolgsautor Paul Maar. Für kleine und große Sams-Fans: Ein wunderbares Geschenk für Sams-Liebhaber*innen über alle Generationen hinweg.

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        September 2022

        Weihnachten mit Mini-Lama

        by Sandra Grimm, Antje Flad

        "Weihnachten mit Mini-Lama" ist eine herzerwärmende Geschichte, die in der festlichen Zeit bei Familie Lama spielt. Als die Familie feststellt, dass ihnen noch der wichtigste Teil des Weihnachtsfestes fehlt – der Weihnachtsbaum –, brechen Mama Lama, Papa Lama und Mini-Lama zu einem abenteuerlichen Ausflug auf, um diesen zu finden. Ihre Reise führt sie durch glitzernden Schnee und über verschneite Berge, bis sie schließlich den perfekten Baum auswählen. Nach einem anstrengenden Aufstieg zurück, schmücken sie den Baum in ihrem Zuhause und bereiten sich mit Musik und Kerzenschein auf ein unvergessliches Weihnachtsfest vor. Diese charmante Geschichte zeichnet sich durch ihre lebendigen Illustrationen und die liebevoll erzählte Handlung aus, die Groß und Klein in die magische Welt der Lamas entführt. Die Familie Lama erlebt nicht nur ein Abenteuer nach dem anderen, sondern zeigt auch, wie wichtig es ist, gemeinsam Zeit zu verbringen und Feste zu feiern. Der humorvolle und spielerische Umgang mit der Weihnachtstradition macht "Weihnachten mit Mini-Lama" zu einem besonderen Lesevergnügen. Einzigartige Weihnachtsgeschichte: Mit Familie Lama gibt es eine frische Perspektive auf Weihnachten, abseits der klassischen Weihnachtsmärchen. Trendtier als Protagonist: Lamas sind aktuell sehr beliebt und bieten eine willkommene Abwechslung zu den üblichen Weihnachtsgeschichtenfiguren. Lebendige und kreative Illustrationen: Die Bilder sind farbenfroh und ansprechend gestaltet, was Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen faszinieren wird. Humorvolle Erzählweise: Die Geschichte wird mit einem Augenzwinkern erzählt, was für Heiterkeit und eine gelöste Stimmung sorgt. Fördert Familienwerte: Die Geschichte betont die Bedeutung von Familie und gemeinsamen Erlebnissen während der Weihnachtszeit. Ideal für die Vorweihnachtszeit: Perfekt geeignet, um Kindern die Wartezeit bis Weihnachten zu versüßen und die Vorfreude zu steigern. Botschaft: Verbindet die Freude am gemeinsamen Feiern mit dem Abenteuergeist und der Kreativität, die Kinder inspiriert und Erwachsene erfreut.

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        September 2024

        Das Sams 12. Das Mini-Sams ist weg

        by Paul Maar, Monty Arnold, Superhearo Audio, Paul Maar

        Das Mini-Sams bekommt sein eigenes Abenteuer! In der Sams-Welt gibt es ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis: Ganz weit hinten am Rande der Wiese, auf der die Samse genüsslich auf ihren Kürbissen lümmeln, gibt es eine Felsmauer. Was sich dahiner verbirgt, weiß keiner so genau. Nicht so wichtig, meint das Pauker-Sams. Aber da kennt das Pauker-Sams das Mini-Sams schlecht – und plötzlich ist es weg, spurlos verschwunden. Wie gut, dass das Taschenbier-Sams davon Wind bekommt und noch viel besser, dass Ralfer, der blaue Drache, plötzlich wieder auftaucht. Gemeinsam machen sich die beiden auf die abenteuerliche Suche nach ihrem kleinen Freund.

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        Political ideologies
        May 2017

        Neoliberal power and public management reforms

        by Professor Peter Triantafillou. Series edited by Mark Haugaard

        This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative power. The book examines the quest for accountability, credibility and evidence in the public sector. It asks whether this quest may be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? The book makes the argument that while current administrative reforms are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they evolve above all around a particular form of neoliberalism: constructivist neoliberalism. The book analyses the dangers of the kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering capacities of society and administration itself.

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        History
        February 2017

        Gendered transactions

        The white woman in colonial India, c.1820–1930

        by Series edited by Andrew S. Thompson, Indrani Sen

        This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine.

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        June 2014

        The Series of Clumsy-wolf

        by Tang Sulan

        The Series of Clumsy-wolf include The Series of Clumsy-wolf, Clumsy-wolf and His Parents, Clumsy-wolf and Smart-bunny, Clumsy-wolf and Fatty-bear, The Campus Life of Clumsy-wolf, The Adventure of Clumsy-wolf. Being simple and honest, cute and always curious about the world, Clumsy-wolf has become a classic character in the Chinese original children’s literature. Being bestsellers for more than 20 years, this series is an excellent and outstanding children’s book that can be the most valuable memory for young readers.

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        Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
        June 2017

        Critical theory and epistemology

        The politics of modern thought and science

        by Anastasia Marinopoulou. Series edited by Darrow Schecter

        This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focusing on the first and second generations of critical theorists and Luhmann's systems theory, the book examines how each approaches epistemology. It opens by looking at twentieth-century epistemology, particularly the concept of lifeworld (Lebenswelt). It then moves on to discuss structuralism, poststructuralism, critical realism, the epistemological problematics of Foucault's writings and the dialectics of systems theory. This unique work takes a comparative look at structuralism and post-structuralism's epistemological theory with special reference to scientific reason. It also investigates Luhmann's works in epistemology. The aim is to explore whether the focal point for epistemology and the sciences remain that social and political interests actually form a concrete point of concern for the sciences as well.

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        African history
        January 2017

        Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings

        Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982–97

        by Jean-Hervé Bradol. Series edited by Bertrand Taithe

        Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries. Humanitarian workers were confronted with the execution of almost one million people, tens of thousands of casualties pouring into health centres, the flight of millions of people who had sought refuge in camps and a series of deadly epidemics. Drawing on various hitherto unpublished private and public archives, this book recounts the experiences of the MSF teams working in the field. It is intended for humanitarian aid practitioners, students, journalists and researchers with an interest in genocide and humanitarian studies and the political sociology of international organisations.

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        Politics & government
        February 2017

        The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde

        The journey of the ‘painterly real', 1987–2004

        by Series edited by Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Angela Harutyunyan

        This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and institutions of Socialist Realism and National Modernism. This historical study outlines the politics (liberal democracy), aesthetics (autonomous art secured by the gesture of the individual artist), and ethics (ideals of absolute freedom and radical individualism) of contemporary art in Armenia and points towards its limitations. Through the historical investigation, a theory of post-Soviet art historiography is developed, one that is based on a dialectic of rupture and continuity in relation to the Soviet past. As the first English-language study on contemporary art in Armenia, the book is of prime interest for artists, scholars, curators and critics interested in post-Soviet art and culture and in global art historiography.

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        Individual film directors, film-makers
        February 2017

        Julien Duvivier

        by Series edited by Robert Ingram, Ben McCann

        This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great film filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films that identify his key themes and techniques, trace patterns of continuity and change, and explore critical assessments of his work over time. His career began in the silent era and ended as the French New Wave was winding down. In between, Duvivier made over sixty films in a long and at times difficult career. He was adept at literary adaptation, biblical epic, and film noir, and this groundbreaking volume illustrates in great detail Duvivier's eclecticism, technical efficiency and visual fluency in works such as Panique (1946) and Voici le temps des assassins (1956). It will particularly appeal to scholars and students of French cinema looking for examples of a director who could straddle the realms of the popular and the auteur.

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        Literature: history & criticism
        May 2017

        Three sixteenth-century dietaries

        by Joan Fitzpatrick. Series edited by Susan Cerasano

        Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. Three sixteenth-century dietaries contains Thomas Elyot's Castle of Health, Andrew Boorde's Compendious Regiment and William Bullein's Government of Health, all popular and influential works that were typical of a genre advising the reader on how best to maintain physical and psychological health. They are here introduced, contextualized and edited for the first time in a modern spelling edition. Introductory material explores the dietary genre, its relationship to humanism, humoral theory, and the wide range of authorities with which the dietary authors engaged. The volume includes an examination of the bibliographical and publication history of each work, comprehensive explanatory notes and appendices that provide prefaces to earlier editions, a glossary, and a list of authorities and works cited or alluded to in the dietaries.

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        Sociology
        January 2017

        Sport in the Black Atlantic

        Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora

        by Janelle Joseph. Series edited by John Horne

        This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies.

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        History
        April 2017

        Dancing in the English style

        Consumption, Americanisation, and national identity in Britain, 1918–50

        by Allison Abra. Series edited by Jeffrey Richards

        Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. It describes the rise of modern ballroom dancing as Britain's predominant popular style, as well as the opening of hundreds of affordable dancing schools and purpose-built dance halls. It focuses in particular on the relationship between the dance profession and dance hall industry and the consumers who formed the dancing public. Together these groups negotiated the creation of a 'national' dancing style, which constructed, circulated, and commodified ideas about national identity. At the same time, the book emphasizes the global, exploring the impact of international cultural products on national identity construction, the complexities of Americanisation, and Britain's place in a transnational system of production and consumption that forged the dances of the Jazz Age.

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        January 2018

        Ethnobotany, Second Edition

        by Kim J. Young; Series Editor: William G. Hopkins

        Both an ancient way of life and a relatively new and thriving scientific field, ethnobotany is the study of how particular cultures make use of local plants for food, fuel, medicine, shelter, and, in many cultures, for religious ceremonies. Ethnobotany, Second Edition covers all these aspects of this field, with special interest in the significance of plants in the development of new drugs, as modern scientists look to traditional healing remedies for clues in the ongoing fight against disease.

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        Sociology & anthropology
        February 2017

        Environment, labour and capitalism at sea

        'Working the ground' in Scotland

        by Penny McCall Howard. Series edited by Alexander Smith

        This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry. The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how deeply fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. It will be read in universities by social scientists and anthropologists and also by those with an interest in maritime Scotland.

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