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January 2013Die Tribute von Panem 1. Tödliche Spiele
by Suzanne Collins, Maria Koschny, Sylke Hachmeister, Peter Klöss, Markus Langer, Eduardo Garcia, Matthias Scheuer, Die Tribute von Panem, Frank Gustavus, Markus Langer
Die Hunger Games als Hörbuch. In einer nicht näher definierten Zukunft, nachdem Nordamerika durch Kriege und Naturkatastrophen zerstört wurde, entstand die diktatorische Nation Panem, bestehend aus dem regierenden reichen Kapitol und 13 ärmeren Distrikten. Nicht zufällig erinnert Panem an Panem et circenses, lateinisch für Brot und Spiele, aus römischen Zeiten: Auch hier sollen Tribute wie damals Gladiatoren das Volk belustigen. Eine von ihnen ist die 16-jährige Katniss Everdeen, die anstelle ihrer jüngeren Schwester bei den Hungerspielen im Kapitol von Panem antritt und um ihr Leben kämpfen muss. Als ihr Mitstreiter Peeta ihr seine Liebe gesteht, wird die Sache noch schwieriger, denn am Ende darf es nur einen Sieger geben. Wird es ihnen gelingen, das Kapitol zu überlisten und beide zu überleben? Der packende dystopische Bestseller ist erzählt aus der Perspektive von Katniss – und was sie denkt und fühlt, ihr innerer Monolog, steht in starkem Kontrast zu dem spektakulären, grausamen Ereignissen in Panem … Mögen die tödlichen Spiele neu beginnen … - Der erste Teil der Erfolgstrilogie von Bestseller-Autorin Suzanne Collins gelesen von Maria Koschny - Auftakt der Ausnahme-Fantasy-Dystopie - Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis (Preis der Jugendjury). - Bekannt als Kino-Blockbuster mit Jennifer Lawrence in der Hauptrolle.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2025Critical games
On play and seriousness in academia, literature and life
by Tim Beasley-Murray
Critical Games is about the games we play (whether we know it or not), the ways we play them (for fun, but also to win, and to gain approval from others), and what happens when they get out of hand. The book interrogates the theory of play and gaming, with a particular focus on the games played by literary authors and literary critics. Drawing on (often self-critical) autobiography, as well as readings in texts across a range of languages, Tim Beasley-Murray plays with academic conventions to highlight what is at stake in them, turning to the Game of Literature, from Kafka to Carrère, to seek models and warnings of the outcomes of taking games too seriously, or not taking them seriously enough.
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FictionAugust 2018The Language of Go Chess
by Chu Fujin
This is a story about Chinese Go chess.The protagonist Xiao Wang lives in the North Lane. Go chess connects his life with other chess players such as Jiang Chong, Liu Yun, Tao Song, Chen Xiaodong and Chang Shuo. Through this novel, we see the modern life, the modern psychology and the modern society of China.
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Grandpa’s Fourteen Games
by Author: Zhao LingIllustrator: Huang Lili
Key Points: Little games with big wisdom teach children to be optimistic and not afraid of difficulties. Brief content After Chinese New Year, dad and mom, a doctor and a nurse, have gone to Wuhan to fight the epidemic, leaving grandpa and the little girl at home. The little girl does not know the building is in quarantine so residents cannot go out. To have the girl staying at home happily, grandpa comes up with an idea: a game a day, playing games with the little girl during the fourteen days. The little girl plays the roles of doctor, scientist, policeman, soldier, community administrator, and even patient. Every day, he expects the coming games, through which he feels how people from all walks of life selflessly dedicate themselves to fighting hard with the epidemic. Reading Guidance: It's in children's nature to love playing games. During these special days, grandpa smartly uses this nature of children to have the little girl get through fourteen-day quarantine without knowing what happens, tenderly protecting a child's heart of innocence and imagination. Copyright Sold to America, France, German, Lebanon, Turkey, Belgium, Tunisia, Vietnam, Nepal, India, Thailand, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Russia, Hungary, the UK ( 19countries) For More Information of Big-eyes Heartwarming Series International Achievement, please refer to https://pan.baidu.com/s/1B6YNlazYSgWJmplmelgM6Q (fetch code：9a53) Video of First Launch of Big-eyes Heartwarming Series in Gemany Version, please refer to https://pan.baidu.com/s/1ym9c95T7LyoRPwuI3rXRiQ (fetch code: I9m7) Video of Germany Young readers reading Big eyes Heartwarming Series, please refer to https://pan.baidu.com/s/1X8n_c82FCWNnDqGuOWppHg (fetch code: 9ptu) Promotion of Big eyes Heartwarming Series in Russian Version on Frankfurt Bookfair, please refer to https://pan.baidu.com/s/1DMP0dMA9mMjZZ2Smc9dBig (fetch code: 0la4)
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Games of Childhood
by Lao Duo
From Thales who lit the fire of science, to Rogier Bacon who told us not to rely on authority too much; from Newton who discovered gravity, to Einstein who created the theory of relativity; from Mozi who studied optics, mechanics and arithmetic, to the skilled craftsmen of ancient China who played with the four great inventions... Science is Played out by a Group of Curious People! This set of books with lively and smart language, the story with gamut of emotions and tells the process of science from nonexistence to pass into existence with a critical and reflective perspective, and then completely change the state of human’s life. With time as a line, characters as a rope, in the form of scenario reenactment, restore the thousands of Chinese and foreign scientific masters in the search for truth in the process of anecdotes, to explore the fruits of their wisdom for future generations of civilization enlightenment. This is the first volume of the series.
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January 2021Escape School 2. Der unheimliche Nebel
by Jule Ambach, Stefanie Wegner, Timo Müller-Wegner
"Escape School 2. Der unheimliche Nebel" von Jule Ambach ist ein spannendes Erstlesebuch, das junge Leser*innen im Alter von 7 bis 9 Jahren in ein mitreißendes Abenteuer entführt. In dieser Geschichte wird die Schule von einem rätselhaften Phänomen heimgesucht: Alle Schüler und Lehrer scheinen plötzlich in einen tiefen Schlaf gefallen zu sein. Die Protagonisten Tom und Anni, zusammen mit Toms Affen Katta, stehen vor der Herausforderung, das Geheimnis hinter diesem mysteriösen Zustand zu lüften. Dabei spielen sie nicht nur eine Rolle in der Geschichte, sondern sind auch aufgefordert, verschiedene Rätsel zu lösen, um die Schule zu retten. Dieses Buch kombiniert die Spannung eines Escape Games mit dem Lesespaß eines Kinderbuches und regt auf innovative Weise die Interaktion und die Problemlösungsfähigkeiten der jungen Leser an. Spannendes Erstlesebuch: Perfekt für Kinder im Alter von 7 bis 9 Jahren, die Freude am Lesen und an Abenteuern haben. Interaktives Leseerlebnis: Kinder werden nicht nur Teil der Geschichte, sondern müssen aktiv Rätsel lösen, um die Charaktere und die Schule zu retten. Förderung der Problemlösungsfähigkeit: Durch das Lösen von Codes und das Durchqueren von Labyrinthen entwickeln Kinder spielerisch ihre kognitiven Fähigkeiten weiter. Hochwertige Illustrationen: Farbenfrohe und ansprechende Zeichnungen unterstützen die Geschichte und helfen, die Aufmerksamkeit der Kinder zu fesseln. Innovative Vermittlung von Lesespaß: Das Buch vermittelt auf neue Art den Spaß am Lesen, indem es Elemente eines Escape Games mit einer fesselnden Geschichte verbindet. Antolin-Listung: Ideal für Schulen und Bildungseinrichtungen, die das Buch in ihr Leseförderungsprogramm integrieren möchten. Von der Autorin der 3 !!!: Geschrieben von einer erfahrenen Kinderbuchautorin, die weiß, wie man junge Leser begeistert.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Passing into the present
Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing
by Sinead Moynihan
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2024Resisting Olympic evictions
Contesting space in Rio de Janeiro
by Adam Talbot
By tracing the way evictions in a small community of around 600 families made news headlines all over the world, this book explores how activists in Rio protested against evictions at the Rio 2016 Olympics. They constructed the favela as safe, welcoming and homely, directly contesting the myth of marginality - the notion of favelas as havens of crime and poverty which is used to justify slum clearance. In doing so they were showcasing how a different kind of informal community rooted in security and belonging is possible, through a range of social events and other actions. Based on 14 months of fieldwork in Brazil, this book explores how this vision was constructed through collective action, transmitted around the world through both social and traditional media and how it lives on in the Evictions Museum that was created through the process.
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June 2016Crazy Games
Der perfekte Tag, der in der Hölle endet
by Mous, Mirjam / Übersetzt von Kiefer, Verena
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Children's & YA2020Whiz - The Kid Who Loved to Run
by Olesia Keshelia-Isak (Author), Olha Dehtiariova (Illustrator)
This is a funny and touching story about running, love, friendship, and support. It is about getting to know oneself and the world that surrounds us.The main character Theo cannot sit still and loves to run, just like his mother, for whom running is an essential part of her life. Theo knows a lot about runners, and yet, as he is getting ready to participate in a race, countless questions emerge in his head. What does it take to become a champion? How does one learn to always be first? And most importantly — how and when to reveal to his mom the secret that explains why he is always so hyper energetic. In addition to the fictional story, the book contains useful information and tips: what young runners should eat, how to choose comfortable sneakers, what pulse is and why it is important to measure it, what marathons, halfmarathons and children’s races are, and how to join them... Lastly, the book comes with a tangible prize that every young reader is going to love: upon finishing it, they are all guaranteed to get a medal! From 6 to 9 years, 5980 words Rightsholders: publishing@yakaboo.com
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2023Pasts at play
Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914
by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling
This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
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July 2021Escape School 3. Der Schrumpf-Kristall
by Anne Scheller, Stefanie Wegner, Timo Müller-Wegner
In "Escape School 3. Der Schrumpf-Kristall" von Anne Scheller erleben junge Leserinnen und Leser ein spannendes Abenteuer in einem Internat, das in einem alten, schlossähnlichen und leicht gruseligen Gebäude angesiedelt ist. Die Geschichte nimmt eine unerwartete Wendung, als plötzlich eine Schülerin spurlos verschwindet. Die Protagonisten, gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden Tom und Anni, stürzen sich in die Ermittlungen, die durch ein weiteres rätselhaftes Ereignis kompliziert werden: Tom schrumpft aufgrund eines mysteriösen Kristalls. Dies setzt die Gruppe unter Zeitdruck und zwingt sie, verschiedene Rätsel zu lösen, um ihre Freunde zu retten und das Geheimnis des Schrumpf-Kristalls zu lüften. "Der Schrumpf-Kristall" ist nicht nur ein packendes Leseerlebnis, sondern auch eine Hommage an den Megatrend der Escape- und Exit-Games, angereichert mit einer Prise Magie. Dieses Buch ist ideal für junge Leser*innen im Grundschulalter, die Spannung lieben und ihre Lesekompetenz spielerisch erweitern möchten, und bietet eine perfekte Mischung aus Abenteuer, Freundschaft und dem Lösen kniffliger Rätsel. Spannende Escape-Geschichte für junge Leser: Fesselt Kinder ab 7 Jahren mit einer packenden Story und zahlreichen Rätseln. Förderung von Teamarbeit und Problemlösungsfähigkeiten: Durch das gemeinsame Lösen der Rätsel entwickeln Kinder wertvolle Fähigkeiten. Magisches Abenteuer: Verbindet den Reiz von Escape-Spielen mit Elementen der Fantasie und Magie. Lesekompetenz spielerisch stärken: Eine ideale Lektüre zur Förderung der Lesefähigkeit und zur Steigerung der Lesemotivation. Für Fans von Detektivgeschichten: Bietet eine spannende Alternative für Fans der „Drei ??? Kids“ und andere junge Detektivgeschichten-Liebhaber.
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