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A captivating non-fiction series for children aged 3 to 6, that awakens their interest in wonders of the physical, natural and human world. Transparent overlay pages reveal hidden surprises and facilitate understanding.
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Children's & YANovember 2024The Man Who Liked To Count Birds
Finding a purpose can be challenging, but we must not give up, as it leads to greater happiness
by Author — Slava Svitova, Illustrator — Halyna Verheles
5+ It is a story of self-discovery and finding one's place in the world—a metaphor for the search for happiness and connection with life. Through creative energy and responsibility, a person transforms a rocky island into a beautiful garden. - A journey of self-discovery, finding one’s purpose, and experiencing happiness through trying new things.- Patience, perseverance, and keen observation pave the way to achieving goals, even those as elusive as happiness.- Modern illustrations in soft pastel tones that appeal to both children and adults.- Highlights a rare profession — ognithologist — and its unique challenges.- Draws attention to endangered species and the importance of their preservation.
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The ArtsSeptember 2019Queer Objects
by Chris Brickell, Judith Collard
Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The sixty-three chapters in Queer Objects consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. In this unique international collaboration, well-known and newer writers traverse world history to write about items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and the smartphone. Fabulous, captivating, transgressive.
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The ArtsMarch 2021Queer exceptions
Solo performance in neoliberal times
by Stephen Greer
Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja Ostojic, Adrian Howells and Nassim Soleimanpour, the book examines the role of singular or 'exceptional' subjects in constructing and challenging assumed notions of communal sociability and togetherness, while drawing fresh insight from the fields of sociology, gender studies and political philosophy to reconsider theatre's attachment to singular lives and experiences. Framed by a detailed exploration of arts festivals as encapsulating the material, entrepreneurial circumstances of contemporary performance-making, this is the first major critical study of solo work since the millennium.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2021De-centering queer theory
Communist sexuality in the flow during and after the Cold War
by Bogdan Popa, Gurminder Bhambra
De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism. The book articulates a contrast between the concept of the productive body, which draws its epistemology from Soviet and avant-garde theorists, and Cold War gender, which is defined as the social construction of the body. The first part of the book concentrates on the theoretical and visual production of Eastern European Marxism, which proposed an alternative version of sexuality to that of western liberalism. In doing so it offers a historical angle to understand the emergence not only of an alternative epistemology, but also of queer theory's vocabulary. The second part of the book provides a Marxist, anti-capitalist archive for queer studies, which often neglects to engage critically with its liberal and Cold War underpinnings.
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June 2022Fungicides in Practice
by Richard P. Oliver, Janna L Beckerman
This is a guide for practitioners and scientists involved in fungicide research and use. It describes the principles underlying decisions about which fungicides to use, when to apply them, and what dose to use. Readers should be able to successfully interpret the labels and promotional material that comes with fungicides as well the regulatory restrictions that govern their use. The focus is on broadacre and horticultural crops, such as cereals, vines, soft and pome fruits. Based loosely on the 2014 edition of Fungicides in Crop Protection this book is significantly altered with new content and major revisions to all chapters. The contents include: · Fungicide markets, discovery and performance · Using fungicides to control diseases - seed treatments, foliar treatments, application methods · Crop-specific aspects of disease control, with case studies · Biological crop protection, and organic cultivation · Fungicide resistance · Legislation and regulation The audience comprises growers, agronomists and consultants who have decision making responsibility in broadacre and horticultural crop protection. The book will also appeal to researchers in agro chemical companies and in the public sector research who are involved in fungicide discovery and resistance management.
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December 2015Interviews on 523 Project and the Discovery of Artemisinin
by Youyou TU,etc；Interviewed and compiled by Runhong LI
On May 23, 1967, Project 523 was started in China.In this huge project, the most significant discovery is artemisinin.Youyou Tu is the very researcher who participated in Project 523.This book has made a comprehensive and systematic review of the history of discovering artemisinin and has made itself the first works keeping complete records of the discovery of artemisinin.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2022Changing satire
by Cecilia Rosengren, Per Sivefors, Rikard Wingård, Ladan Niayesh
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 1993Sport and the making of Britain
by Derek Birley
The British love of sport is legendary. In this lively and stimulating book Derek Birley looks at the part it played in shaping British society. The book traces the development of sporting conventions from medieval chivalry to modern notions of sportsmanship and fair play. Particular sports from hunting and the tournament to ball-games and athletics are shown against the social background of the emerging nation. The first laws of favourite pastimes such as horse-racing, cricket and boxing were devised by the privileged for gambling purposes, but were enthusiastically followed by the lower orders for pleasure and profit. Amongst the topics explored are the changing fortunes and fashions in field sports, 'gentlemen and players' in cricket, the public school games cult, purity in amateur rowing, the urban middle-class discovery of lawn tennis and golf, and the 'north-south divide' in football. These social issues are cross-threads in the theme of sport's influence on national identity, patriotism and imperialism in the making of Britain. Remarkable in its scope and in its linking of sport to the changing social political scene, this is a splendidly readable history. ;
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May 2023Funny Chinese Script
by Zhang Yihan
The author enables the reader to understand the advancement of Chinese history through the reorganization and introduction of the development of Chinese scripts over the past 5,000 years. Starting from the ancient times with tying knots to the legendary of Cang Jie Creates Writing, the look of Chinese script has been evolving and evolving. Through oracle bone script, large seal script, small seal script, official script, regular script, running script, and cursive script, Chinese characters are the only writing system in the world that has not been lost. The author finds the interesting stories behind the Chinese scripts by combining historical facts to uncover representative fonts. It also includes the introduction of historical minority scripts, so that readers can better understand that not only Chinese characters were glorious in Chinese history, but also minority scripts which also witnessed the process of ethnic integration and development. This book also includes the only gender script that exists in the world today, the Jiangyong Women's Script from Hunan, which is a unique and rare cultural relic, and it also a valuable resource for our national culture. Chinese characters have also been widely spread throughout history, and this book also introduce how the Chinese characters spread to other countries.
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May 1994Notice and Reasonableness.
Instrumente der Vertragskontrolle im Common Law des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.
by Will, Heiner Karl
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April 2009Inventions and Discoveries
by An Zuoxiang
This volume, following the time sequence, based on the four great Inventions of ancient China, presents a general picture of ancient Chinese inventions and discoveries. It makes a detailed introduction to the inventions and relevant figures in the three flourishing periods of technology in history, as well as the features of these three periods.
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Children's & YASeptember 2029Picture book "Schnecki"
by Meggie Berns
Feodora + Gino present: Schnecki Feodora and Gino want to play in the playground after school. Feodora makes an exciting discovery in the sand. Is it a snail that needs help? Of course they want to help her. But it's not that easy. Feodora's mom has a great idea! Educational approach: The story of Schnecki is ultimately about finding a way, no matter how hopeless it may seem. In the end, things often work out for the best. And destinies are brought together that were always meant to be.
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Science & MathematicsApril 2019The Discovery of a Visual System - The Honeybee
by Adrian Horridge
This book is the only account of what honeybees actually see. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, and certainly they do not recognize "things" by their shapes. Yet they clearly see well enough to fly and find food with a minute brain. Bee vision is therefore relevant to the construction of simple artificial visual systems, for example for mobile robots. The surprising conclusion is that bee vision is adapted to the recognition of places, not things. In this volume, Adrian Horridge also sets out the curious and contentious history of how bee vision came to be understood, with an account of a century of neglect of old experimental results, errors of interpretation, sharp disagreements, and failures of the scientific method. The design of the experiments and the methods of making inferences from observations are also critically examined, with the conclusion that scientists are often hesitant, imperfect and misleading, ignore the work of others, and fail to consider alternative explanations. The erratic path to understanding makes interesting reading for anyone with an interest in the workings of science but particularly those researching insect vision and invertebrate sensory systems.
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November 2019Find me in the Storm
by Kira Mohn
Not a single soul as far as the eye can see. Just sea, cliffs and the beach. And a lighthouse. It’s a wondrously beautiful place – not that Airin has a chance to enjoy it. The lighthouse has been converted into a cosy living space available for rent, and 24-year-old Airin has to look after the property while at the same time running her own bed and breakfast in Castledunn. It’s a lot of work for one person, but normally everything runs smoothly. Until Joshua, the nephew of the lighthouse owner, moves in. Arrogant and priggish, he complains ceaselessly about everything. Airin feels like strangling him. Or kissing him. Who cares, just as long as he stops talking! 16+ years The third volume of a unique romance trilogy about three young women, a lighthouse and love. All titles can be read separately! Rousing characters and a fine dry humor For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Colleen Hoover! More than 60.000 copies of this series were sold!
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film
by Alberto Fernández Carbajal, Amina Yaqin
