Abismos Editorial
Abismos Editorial is located in Mexico. This publishing house offers both national and international distribution. Abismos has published over 100 titles: essay, fiction, poetry, and children’s literature.
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Abiva Publishing House
Abiva Publishing House Inc., is committed to promote quality education through the development, publication and distribution of excellent educational materials. Founded in 1936, we are the oldest and most enduring textbook publisher and bookseller in the Philippines. We pioneered in publishing preschool, high school, senior high school and college textbooks in all learning areas, supplementary books, reference materials. We are the sole distributor of SRA materials of Mcgraw Hill, Japanese Language books from Japan Foundation, and Spanish ESL books from Edinumen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025The four dimensions of power
Understanding domination, empowerment and democracy
by Mark Haugaard
In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Haugaard examines the interrelation between domination and empowerment. Building upon the perspectives of Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Hannah Arendt, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and others, he offers a clear theoretical framework, delineating power in four interrelated dimensions. The first and second dimensions of power entail two different types of social conflict. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth and reification. Drawing upon genealogical theory and accounts of slavery as social death, the fourth dimension of power concerns the power to create social subjects. The book concludes with an original normative pragmatist power-based account of democracy. Offering lucid and entertaining illustrations of complex theoretical perspectives, this book is essential reading for scholars and activists.
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Business, Economics & LawMay 2019New Journey of Great Powers
From Economic Gaint to Economic Power
by Zhang Zhanbin
This book provides a general explanation of new theoretical trees, new development goals, new contradictions, and new historical missions. As a world power, how China, guided by the spirit of the Party ’s 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, “decided to build a well-off society in an all-round way and start to build a comprehensive socialism. The new journey of a modern country "vividly demonstrates China's image as a great power.
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Children's stationery & miscellaneous itemsMarch 2022The Reading Journey
A Writing Journal
by The Otto Foundation
The Reading Journey is a journal for your literary adventures. Join a group of furry and feathered friends for an exploration of the extraordinary world of words, stories, reading and writing. Designed by library designers, linguists and childhood experts, you can now plot your course through the Map of Memories. Join us for a ride on the Book Boat, the Poetry Plane and the Story Sled, Visit the Mountains of Meaning, the Gorge of Gorgeous Words, the Forest of Feelings, and the Desert of Dreams. The Reading Journey is an interactive journal that encourages joyous curiosity about the literary realm, using the written word as a medium to expand children’s horizons, to promote self knowledge, and to cultivate a love for reading.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2022The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters
The influence of bureaucracy, market and psychology
by Nanna Mik-Meyer
This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships with welfare workers. However, other factors impact these interactions; factors which often pull in different directions. Welfare encounters are thus influenced by bureaucratic principles and market values as well. Consequently, this book engages with both Weberian (bureaucracy) and Foucauldian (market values/NPM) studies when investigating the powerful welfare encounter. The book is targeted Academics, post-graduates, and undergraduates within sociology, anthropology and political science.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Toleration, power and the right to justification
by Rainer Forst, Bert van den Brink, Anthony Laden, Peter Niesen, David Owen
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Political partiesNovember 2014The Conservative Party and the extreme right 1945–1975
by Mark Pitchford
This book, newly available in paperback, reveals the Conservative Party's relationship with the extreme right between 1945 and 1975. For the first time, this book shows how the Conservative Party, realising that its well known pre-Second World War connections with the extreme right were now embarrassing, used its bureaucracy to implement a policy of investigating extreme right groups and taking action to minimise their chances of success. The book focuses on the Conservative Party's investigation of right-wing groups, and shows how its perception of their nature determined the party bureaucracy's response. The book draws a comparison between the Conservative Party machine's negative attitude towards the extreme right and its support for progressive groups. It concludes that the Conservative Party acted as a persistent block to the external extreme right in a number of ways, and that the Party bureaucracy persistently denied the extreme right within the party assistance access to funds and representation within party organisations. It reaches a climax with the formulation of a 'plan' threatening its own candidate if he failed to remove the extreme right from the Conservative Monday Club.
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Geography & the EnvironmentJuly 2008Conserving Land, Protecting Water
by Deborah Bossio, Deborah Bossio, Frits W T Penning de Vries, Kim Geheb, Kim Geheb, Line J. Gordon, Antonio Trabucco, William Critchley, Pay Drechsel, Hanspeter Liniger, Francis Gichuki, Lech Ryszkowski, Jules Pretty, Andrew Noble
The degradation of land and water resources resulting primarily from agricultural activities has had enormous impact on human society. In order to alleviate this problem an advanced understanding of the state of our resources and the process of degradation is needed. Conserving Land, Protecting Water includes an overview of existing literature focusing on global patterns of land and water degradation and discussions of new insights drawn from successful case studies on reversing soil and water degradation and their impact on food and environmental security. ; Conserving Land, Protecting Water includes an overview of existing literature focusing on global patterns of land and water degradation and discussions of new insights drawn from successful case studies on reversing soil and water degradation and their impact on food and environmental security. ; Part 1: Land and Water Degradation: Assessment and Issues1.1: Learning from bright spots to enhance food security and to combat degradation of water and land resources.1.2: Land degradation and water productivity in agricultural landscapes.1.3: Land Degradation, ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder farmers in Makanya catachment, Tanzania.1.4: Political ecologies of bright spots1.5: Large scale fluxes of crop nutrients in food cause environmental problems at the sources and at sinks1.6: Carbon sequestration, land degradation and waterPart 2: Towards Better Land and Water Management2.1: Local Innovation in ‘Green Water’ Management2.2: Sustainability and Resilience of the Urban Agricultural Phenomenon in Africa2.3: Safeguarding water resources by making the land greener: knowledge management through WOCAT2.4: Bright basins - do many bright spots make a basin shine?2.5: The influence of plant cover structures on water fluxes in agricultural landscapes2.6: Investments in collective capacity and social capitalPart 3: ‘ Bright Spots’3.1: ‘Bright spots’: Pathways to ensuring food security and environmental integrity3.2: Ecosystem benefits of ‘Bright Spots’
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FictionAugust 2012To Live
by YU Hua
An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade's ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man's transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family's fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of a farmer. Forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family, he witnesses the horrors and privations of the Civil War, only to return years later to face a string of hardships brought on by the ravages of the Cultural Revolution. Left with an ox as the companion of his final years, Fugui stands as a model of flinty authenticity, buoyed by his appreciation for life in this narrative of humbling power.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Air power and colonial control
by David Omissi
Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.
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July 2024Die Superpfoten 1. Ein Hund mit Pups-Power
Aufregende Leseabenteuer mit Oetinger SPLASH
by Mark Tatulli, Mark Tatulli, Matthias Wieland
Ein Superheld auf vier Pfoten Bosco führt ein gemütliches Hundeleben. Als zwei Einbrecher in sein geliebtes Heim eindringen, schlägt er sie mit seinen superdehnbaren Beinen, seinem Hundeatmen und seinen mächtigen Hundepupsen in die Flucht. Da kommt ein Roboter angeflogen und entführt Bosco in das geheime Hauptquartier der Superpfoten. Dort soll Bosco zum Superhelden ausgebildet werden. Bosco und ein anstrengender Job? Nein, danke! Doch dann erfährt er, dass überall auf der Welt niedliche kleine Kätzchen ins Weltall entführt werden… Dieser Comic-Roman für Kinder ab 8 Jahren bietet ein ganz besonderes Lesevergnügen: Leicht verständliche Texte, lustige Illustrationen und eine rasante Geschichte machen es auch leseschwächeren Kindern leicht, den Spaß am Lesen für sich zu entdecken. Die perfekte Kombination aus tierischen Superhelden und spannendem Weltraumabenteuer verpackt in eine herrlich verrückte Bildergeschichte – zum Pupsen lustig! Die Superpfoten 1. Ein Hund mit Pups-Power: Bosco rettet die Kätzchen Ein tierischer Superheld: Witziger und leicht lesbarer Comic-Roman für Kinder ab 8 Jahren. Ideal für Leseanfänger: Die leicht verständliche Geschichte ist ein unterhaltsamer Einstieg in das selbstständige Lesen. Geniale Kombination: Lieblingsthemen wie Hunde, Pupsen, Superhelden und Weltall – verpackt in einem lebhaften Comic. Witzig und spannend: Die lustige Geschichte rund um Freundschaft, Mut und Abenteuer macht Spaß und weckt die Lust am Lesen. Die Superpfoten bereitet Kindern ab 8 Jahren einen einfachen und lustigen Einstieg in die Welt des Lesens. Eine wunderbare, leicht lesbare Lektüre im Comic-Stil für Fans von tierischen Abenteuern wie Paw Patrol und Dog Man.
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Literature & Literary Studies2021Order of the Silent Women
by Kateryna Kalytko
A portrait of a Ukrainian woman more often shows her being silent than speaking. However, without this silence there would be no voice that sounds in this collection. The voice that defends the right to speak sincerely about acute grief, generational traumas, the courage of love, and disappointment with emptiness behind masks. Since speaking out is the only way to remain oneself and to be the voice of hundreds speechless sisters.
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Children's & YAOctober 2021The Lost Smile
by Nadia L. King / Nelli Aghekyan
When Zaytoon wakes up feeling sad, she goes on a search to find her smile. From the kitchen to the garden, Zaytoon searches high and low,and eventually discovers her smile — it’s smiling at her from her reflection in the window! The Lost Smile is beautifully illustrated colourful picture book that demonstrates the importance of accepting our emotions. Zaytoon’s journey shows children it’s okay to be sad and reassures young readers that sadness can be temporary. Themes include cultural diversity, emotional intelligence, family life and the importance of connecting with nature and animals.
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January 2021Processes that Shape the Earth, Third Edition
by Sophia Chen and David M. Thompson, Ph.D.
On Earth, nothing is still. Mountains rise and fall. Tides ebb and flow. Even the continents themselves are on the move. Beneath the surface, a restless engine powers earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the shifting of continents. Above ground, the sun causes the wind to howl, rain to pour, rivers to churn, and oceans to swell with waves. Processes That Shape the Earth, Third Edition surveys these forces and the ways they sculpt the planet. The modern theory of plate tectonics is introduced, along with other pertinent topics in physical geology. Several chapters add relevant historical context, presenting readers with fascinating discussions of Earth's origin, its history over billions of years, and the recent changes that have resulted from human activity.
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To Win the Battles(Intensive version)
by The Editorial Board of Nangjing Military Command
This book selects events from 40 different conflicts. It vividly explains the heroic spirit of the People’s Army, and shows the tenacity of the blood and courage of these soldiers. This entire book is groundbreaking and cutting-edge. It’s an ingenious conception, with in-depth commentary, lively language, and boasts both graphics and text – it is well suited to the tastes of young readers. This book is worthy of the troops, extendable to the youth, acts as an assistance to middle-school children who are beginning their Patriotism studies, pays homage to Revolutionary heroes, and even acts as an educational reader to the battles of the past.
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MedicineManual Trigger Point Therapy and Dry Needling for Chronic Pain
Myofascial medicine as an approach to an unresolved challenge
by Beat Dejung
Medicine for the relief of pain has made little progress in the last 50 years. 16% of our population claim to suffer from chronic pain, for which no lasting help can be found, despite years of treatment by different doctors. Trigger point therapy experts have integrated myofascial techniques into their everyday therapy in recent decades and through this they have achieved good results even with complex and chronic problems. In this book, instructors from the Interest Group for Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy (IMTT) in Switzerland present 33 complex cases of patients with chronic pain, whose pain they were able to relieve permanently with manual trigger point therapy and dry needling. Using these case studies, doublepage spreads with an educational, uniform layout clearly present the diagnosis, pathophysiology and chronifcation of myofascial pain syndromes and, in conclusion, describe encouraging and surprising successes despite previous therapy resistance.
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March 2019A Slow Train
by Mei Zihan
The writer's classic work is an excellent reading template for children. As the leading figure in promoting mass reading in China, Mei Zihan enjoys a high reputation and appeal in the minds of Chinese teachers and children. The Mei Zihan's Little Red Sail Phonetic Series is aimed at students from grades one to three in primary school. It is a simple, readable and humorous child growth story with a pinyin-assisted for helping self-reading. The story is well written and closely related to the rich and interesting elementary school life. All four books in the series differ in their difficulty levels, from easy to more challenging in order to nuture an advanced reading ability. The first and second volumes focus on the children's life and emotional experience, pay attention to the language rhythm, increase the proportion of poetry content, control the number of words and the length of the story, and focus on the short reading. Volumes three and four focus on imagination and expression, the content theme is set deeper. Reading instructions are available after each book.
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Nature, the natural world (Children's/YA)March 2020Earth Takes a Break
by House, Emily
From children's book author Emily House comes a wonderful story that re-connects us with our planet. A modern fable inspired by recent events, Earth Takes a Break is a touching picture book jam-packed with fun illustrations and woven together with a message of hope. When Earth feels unwell, she goes to the doctor to ask for help. What the doctor prescribes seems impossible to Earth, until she wakes the next day to find a surprising change!
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January 2022The Periodic Table, Third Edition
by Becky Ham and Kristi Lew
The Periodic Table, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to one of the most celebrated diagrams in the history of science. From its beginnings in the mysterious experiments of the medieval alchemists to its newest additions discovered during the atomic age, the periodic table has remained an astonishing tool for understanding the basic building blocks of the universe. Within the pages of this intriguing book, students will learn why the table is a chemist’s best friend, what the table reveals about the unique properties of each major group of elements, and how the elements are used in industry and everyday life.
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October 2021
Read the Password that Understands the Ability of Children's Emotional Language
by DUAN Rong
The book is the main line, and learn the results of the predecessors of predecessors. From the topic empirical research perspective, the kindergartens build, implement, and support strategies with the help of the inheritance of children's emotional language expression. In terms of content, the forefront and innovation are emphasized in the integration of professional theory and practice, and more researchers, education managers and early childhood education practitioners are highly paying attention to the healthy development of children's emotions, promoting children's emotions, social development. Help first-line teacher clear emotional language expression ability, understand the design process, organizational strategy and course implementation of emotional language activities, and provide reference and reference to teachers through rich practical cases.
