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      • Universidad de La Sabana

        The Universidad de La Sabana University Press publishes both printed and digital versions of all the books in its catalog.   Our books are the intellectual property of our teachers and researchers.   We share with you in this fair book series in peace, conflict, and professional gastronomy techniques, focused on Colombian gastronomy.   Check our online catalog https://publicaciones.unisabana.edu.co/

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      • Editora Rua do Sabão

        Rua do Sabão wants to bring unpublished or half forgotten titles to Brazil, using only direct translations of the original language; and make room for new works, created by Brazilian authors of tomorrow.

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      • The Book of Wisdom and Lies

        by Zura Mchedlishvili

        The collection of fables by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (1658-1725) who served as an advisor and emissary for King Vakhtang VI of the Kingdom of Kartli. Sulkhan-Saba was also a writer, leaving behind not only timeless fables but also a full Georgian explanatory dictionary, which is still in use.A frame story of the collection involves disputes between King Phonez, his vizier Sedrak, his eunuch Ruqa, his son Djumber, and Djumber’s tutor Leon. The characters make their statements with the aid of various fables and parables. This edition by Sulakauri Publishing is a full collection with each story imaginatively illustrated by the artist Zura Mchedlishvili.

      • Fiction
        September 2019

        SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE

        by Sulaiman Addonia

        In a time of war, what is the shape of love? Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl, devastated to have been wrenched from school and forced to abandon her books as her family flees to safety. In this unfamiliar, crowded and often hostile community, she must carve out a new existence. As she struggles to maintain her sense of self, she remains fiercely protective of her mute brother, Hagos – each sibling resisting the roles gender and society assign. Through a cast of complex, beautifully-drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia questions what it means to be a man, to be a woman, to be an individual when circumstance has forced the loss of all that makes a home or a future.

      • Draw a Human1

        by Fariba Kalhor

        It seems that Uncle Painter is not a good artist at all. Saba asks Uncle Painter to draw a human being. Nevertheless, he draws a mouse. Saba explains that mice eat cheese and human beings eat everything. Uncle Painter draws a mouse with a fridge full of food. But, Saba says that mice have tails and human beings do not. Uncle Painter starts again. Yet, human beings do not live in nests. Saba has to explain all these points for Uncle Painter.Now, we must wait to see if Uncle Painter knows the difference between mice and human beings.

      • March 2023

        WAS IST WAS First Reading. Great Apes

        by Christina Braun

        What are great apes? What is their physique? Where do they live? And why do we know so much about these animals? Page by page, the 22nd volume from the successful first reading series presents impressive facts about these animals. The necessary portion of humor is provided by the funny chimpanzee child Saba, who guides beginning readers through the book.   WAS IST WAS First ReadingWith short factual texts WAS IST WAS First reading presents favourite topics in a clear but entertaining way. Many photos and illustrations help to understand the text and information boxes provide children with in-depth factual knowledge and facts. A reading quiz at the end of each chapter and a final quiz invite to test the new knowledge. This way, beginning readers independently explore favorite topics and train their understanding of text in a playful way!

      • Peace studies & conflict resolution
        June 2017

        Misperceptions about India-Pakistan Trade

        Beyond Politics

        by S. Akbar Zaidi, Saba Aslam, Farheen Ghaffar

        This report makes the case for working within existing protocols to enhance trade and cooperation between India and Pakistan rather than attempting to address chronic bilateral political issues directly. Drawn on numer- ous published studies and in-country interviews, the report argues that trade between the two countries could play an important role in addressing prospects for peace in South Asia. The report was commissioned by the South Asia program of the United States Institute of Peace given the Institute’s long-standing and wide-ranging commitment to strengthening peacebuilding in the region.

      • Fiction

        Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

        by Tamta Melashvili

        Life story of a middle-aged woman, Etero, who lives a quiet single life in rural Georgia. Having had an abusive childhood, she cherishes independence and freedom in her 40s. She likes to enjoy little quirks, nature, and life. Etero’s peace of mind is disturbed with a near-death experience as she almost falls into a raging river while picking blackberries. This becomes a pivotal moment in the novel. From this moment on, Ethero is more daring and outspoken; stands up to intrusive and judgmental people in her community and begins defying conventional social norms. She starts a romantic and passionate love affair. The reader gets an insider view into her past and self through the stream-of-consciousness narrative, which is also very observant of the present. An open ending leaves the finale up to interpretation, and even questions the reliability of the narrator. SABA literary award for the best novel of 2020.

      • Home - You

        by Ekaterine Togonidze

        An earthquake completely shatters Nia’s world. The crack that appeared in her house is a sign that everything she holds dear – her family, relationships and future – is about to be destroyed. Nia is alone and that’s the fate of a lonely warrior, but life gives her another chance by offering her a long-desired role in a film. Together with film shooting starts a new phase in her life, a kind of parallel reality: art as a shelter, as a way of escape. Or possibly the only way of connecting to the reality and finding her own self. In this labyrinth the reader travels with the rhythm of Nia’s quickened heartbeat and breathing, but holds onto Ariadne’s thread to get back, hoping to restore the connection with the lost past and, all the way, noticing something even Nia fails to see, which is the truth of the others in her life. Home – You is Ekaterine Togonidze’s new novel. She is already well-known for collection of short stories, Anesthetic and Listen to Me, novels Another Way, Hurricane Margot and Asynchronies. Ekaterine Togonidze is a two-time participant of the Berlin Literary Colloquium and received the literary prize SABA. Her works are translated into the English, German, Czech, Russian and Abkhaz languages.

      • Children's & YA

        Dachshund and Dane

        by Kadri Hinrikus, Elina Sildre

        Dane has recently moved in near Dachshund, and has already won over the hearts of many with his kind nature. Husky and Basset, Bernard and Corgi, Labrador and Collie—all the neighbors are blown over! Dachshund likes Dane so much that she wants to invite him over for Christmas, to go sledding, to sniff spring scents, and to dig up flower beds, just the two of them! At the same time, their friends just want to lie on the couch and think about everything beautiful in the world.

      • Bible readings, selections & meditations
        October 2014

        Seeing Jesus

        And Being Seen by Him

        by Christopher Cocksworth

        Recommended reading for Lent, this book paints compelling portraits of Gospel characters who saw and responded to Jesus, with a special emphasis throughout on the role and example of Mary. The Rt Revd Christopher Cocksworth encourages us to reflect on how we see Jesus, how he sees us, and how to see the world as he sees it.

      • Trusted Partner
        Biography & True Stories

        BORIS PAHOR - THAT'S HOW I LIVED

        STOLETJE BORISA PAHORJA

        by TATJANA ROJC

        The life story of BORIS PAHOR (1913), a Slovene writer and centenarian, is at the same time a story about one of the most turbulent centuries in human history. With his clear standpoints and engagement, the author has always challenged current authorities and found himself in some of the most difficult situations of the 20th century. That’s How I Lived is also a story about Trieste and the lives of the people who moved there from rural areas, about the sad fates of Pahor’s patriotic friends and, of course, about his own Calvary through the Third Reich’s concentration camps. It offers an insight into Pahor’s private life, his first experiences of love and the first meetings with people with similar intellectual views and allies. The reader follows Pahor through his much-noticed conflicts with Slovene politicians and his activities on the international stage in favour of the rights of minority cultures. The narrative is supplemented with documents and photographs.

      • Children's & YA

        The Moon is Like a Golden Boat

        by Juhani Püttsepp, Gundega Muzikante

        White Raven 2021Every time Keete looks at pictures from her childhood where she’s holding her teddy bear Pätsu in her lap, she wonders what life would have been like without war. Her parents would certainly have been able to keep working as teachers without living in terror of the communists deporting them to Siberia. The whole family could have spent nights without having to hurry to the bomb shelter or see their precious hometown in ruins. In peacetime, she could have kept living on the second floor of their cherry-red home instead of setting off on a harrowing journey across the Baltic Sea to Sweden. Years and years later, Keete thinks about how lucky today’s kids are to grow up without war. And she still cradles Pätsu in her arms – a teddy bear who helped her get through life’s perils.

      • The dreambreakers - The secret of Dandelion

        by Susanna Isern, Esther Gili

        Who are those who, hidden among us, call themselves The Dreambreakers? Who is really the Dark Professor? Sofi Dandelion discovers one day, by chance, that someone has devised a way to destroy dreams and spread unhappiness. Can she do something to prevent it? A boy with an enigmatic look, a grandfather who is not what he seems, a very special glasses and the animal-laboratory may be a good way to start.

      • Food & Drink

        Tikim

        Essay on Philippine Food and Culture

        by Doreen G. Fernandez

        Doreen Gamboa Fernandez represents “the compleat writer” – her incisive yet soulful writing, coupled with her keen understanding of the Filipino’s culture and psyche, has brought her (and us fortunate readers) into the very essence of Filipino cooking. According to her, “Writing about food should not be left to newspaper food columnists, or to restaurant reporters. It should be taken from us by historians of the culture, by dramatists and essayists, by novelists, and especially by poets. For it is an act of understanding, an extension of experience. If one can savor the word, then one can swallow the world.”

      • August 2020

        My Errors, Confusions

        by Gisela Heller

        The journalist, writer and fontane expert Gisela Heller invites readers with her memories on a journey through her long and eventful life. The author describes her not always easy path from her escape from her Silesian homeland and her professional beginnings in the early GDR, through her journalistic work for radio and television, to her closer involvement with a famous colleague who was to become her main work content and pillar of her life, Theodor Fontane. No writer is as close to me as Theodor Fontane, confesses the author and discovers, the more and the more intensively she deals with him, many parallels in her two life arcs. I did not choose him; he has grown into me over time.The book also offers exciting insights from the world of media and culture in the GDR, from the time of the reunification and the post-reunification period to the present, and presents a series of portraits of politicians, journalists and artist colleagues. At the same time, the extensive text does not omit family joys and difficulties and shows how the author repeatedly succeeded and continues to succeed in overcoming sometimes serious illnesses, crises and conflicts and in regaining a positive attitude to life.The touching autobiography concludes with the words: "The time of great, unfulfillable wishes is over; only one remained: May a pensive smile transfigure the face of those who think of me Cest çaThe almost 700-page memoirs of journalist, writer and font expert Gisela Heller were published to mark the 91st birthday of the author

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