Dar al Saqi
Dar al Saqi is an award-winning independent publishing house based in Beirut. Founded in 1990, their books cover various subjects including children's and young adults’ for ages between 3 and 18.
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1987Das Paradies der Väter
Versprechen und Verbrechen. (rororo Mann)
by Pilgrim, Volker E; Mend, Alexej
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October 2010Getting Lost Is Part of the Journey
MTV, Deutschland und ich
by Blame, Steve / Übersetzt von Glietsch, Stephan
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July 2024Conservation of Dragonflies
Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation
by Michael J Samways
Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history. They are iconic and tell us much about the environments in which we and they live. Their conservation is an important part of biodiversity conservation. One modern dragonfly species is listed as extinct, with many others currently threatened. It is now essential to increase conservation efforts towards saving these threatened species, with strategies now available for doing this. Recovery of dragonfly populations goes hand in hand with improvements to both freshwater conditions and bank vegetation quality. In contrast, some other dragonfly species have benefitted greatly from human transformation of the landscape, with artificial ponds in particular, increasing the population levels of many species. In turn, climate change is seeing many geographical range shifts. Dragonflies are variously sensitive to the health of freshwater systems, and the quality of vegetation along rivers and around ponds. Dragonflies are excellent indicators in these times of great concern over the quality of our freshwater supplies. Their wide range of sensitivities enables us to measure the extent to which freshwater ecosystems are either deteriorating or are improving when we undertake restoration. They enable us to gauge how well we are conserving freshwaters, whether ponds and lakes, streams or rivers. They are also good umbrellas for many other freshwater inhabitants, which altogether reflect the health of a freshwater system. Conservation of Dragonflies: Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation is for naturalists, citizen scientists, entomologists and conservation scientists, as well as practitioners and policy makers around the world.
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October 2021Blessed & Broken. Die Kraft des Klangs
by Anne-Marie Jungwirth, Moon Notes
In Anne-Marie Jungwirths "Blessed & Broken" dreht sich alles um Livia, eine junge Frau mit einer besonderen Gabe, die es ihr ermöglicht, durch Klang und Schall Materie zu bewegen. Diese seltene Fähigkeit, die in ihrem Königreich Palente nur wenigen Frauen zuteilwird, bringt Livia jedoch in eine prekäre Lage, da ihr Vater die Nutzung dieser Kraft verbietet. Der Grund dafür ist tragisch: Ihre Mutter kam aufgrund dieser Gabe ums Leben. Als ihre Familie in Not gerät – der Vater verliert seine Bürgerrechte und Livias schwangere Schwester benötigt dringend eine Mitgift –, sieht Livia keine andere Wahl, als einen gefährlichen Pakt mit dem attraktiven Kriegsherrn Cristan einzugehen. Dieser Handel könnte die Rettung ihrer Familie bedeuten, doch er stellt Livias Prinzipien und ihre bisherige Lebensweise infrage. "Blessed & Broken" entführt die Leser in eine Welt voller Magie, in der Livia sich zwischen der Pflicht gegenüber ihrer Familie und dem Verbot ihres Vaters hin- und hergerissen fühlt. Ihre Entscheidung, sich Cristan anzuschließen, bringt sie nicht nur auf das Schlachtfeld, sondern zwingt sie auch, sich ihrer Gabe und deren Konsequenzen zu stellen. Im Verlauf der Geschichte entwickelt sich Livia zu einer mutigen und starken Protagonistin, die für ihre Ziele kämpft und dabei nie ihre Familie aus den Augen verliert. Die Romanze zwischen ihr und Cristan entwickelt sich langsam und ist geprägt von gegenseitigem Respekt und wachsendem Vertrauen, auch wenn diese Beziehung ihre Höhen und Tiefen hat. "Blessed & Broken" ist somit eine fesselnde Mischung aus Fantasy und Romantik, die die Leser mit ihrem einzigartigen Magiesystem und der starken Charakterentwicklung begeistert. Erlebe eine Welt, in der Frauen durch Klang und Schall Materie beherrschen können, eine seltene und faszinierende Gabe, die "Segnung" genannt wird. Begleite Livia, eine mutige und entschlossene junge Frau, die trotz familiärer Verbote und persönlicher Risiken ihre außergewöhnliche Gabe einsetzt, um ihre Familie zu retten. Spannung und Intrigen erwarten dich, als Livia einen Pakt mit dem attraktiven und mächtigen Kriegsherrn Cristan eingeht, der ihre Welt auf den Kopf stellt. Verfolge die sich langsam entwickelnde und komplexe romantische Beziehung zwischen Livia und Cristan, geprägt von gegenseitigem Respekt, Vertrauen und unerwarteten Gefühlen. Lass dich in das Königreich Palente entführen, eine atemberaubende Fantasy-Welt voller Magie, Geheimnisse und einer tiefgreifenden Geschichte, die durch einen detailreichen und bildgewaltigen Schreibstil zum Leben erweckt wird. Epische Schlachten und mutige Entscheidungen: Sei dabei, wenn Livia an der Seite Cristans in epische Schlachten zieht und dabei ihre eigene Kraft und ihren Mut entdeckt. Einzelband mit Suchtpotenzial: Genieße eine abgeschlossene Geschichte voller Spannung, Magie und Romantik, die dich von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite fesseln wird.
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Children's & YAJune 2019Die Unausstehlichen & ich - Das Leben ist ein Rechenfehler (Band 1)
by Walder, Vanessa / Korthues, Barbara
The Unbearables & Me – Life‘s an Error in Calculation (Vol. 1) A rebellious young girl who has seen it allAn isolated boarding school in the mountains with a dark secret5 particular friends One shared plan to escape … - A defense apology, written as a report using swear words (crossed out) - absolutely authentic and touching, yet funny! - A first-person narrative in report style about an unusual topic that will get under your skin! - Illustrated in b/w (20%) Together, we’re unbearable… Eleven-year-old foster kid Enni gets transferred to a secluded, damn boring boarding school and soon stumbles across secrets, involving the entire staff and somehow revolving around twelve-year-old Dante and a long forgotten accident.
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February 2020Shit happens
Anleitung zum Menschsein in einer beschissenen Welt
by Desmond, Tim / Übersetzt von Elze, Judith
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February 2023Serious Shit
Die Welt ist gefährlich – und warum wir das erst jetzt merken
by Marlene Knobloch
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025The return of the housewife
Why women are still cleaning up
by Emma Casey
An illuminating look at the world of cleanfluencers that asks why the burden of housework still falls on women. Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy. Housework is beautiful. Housework is glamorous. Housework is key to a happy family. Housework shows that you care. Housework is women's work. Social media is flooded with images of the perfect home. TikTok and Instagram 'cleanfluencers' produce endless photos and videos of women cleaning, tidying and putting things right. Figures such as Marie Kondo and Mrs Hinch have placed housework, with its promise of a life of love and contentment, at the centre of self-care and positive thinking. And yet housework remains one of the world's most unequal institutions. Women, especially poorer women and women of colour, do most low-paid and unpaid domestic labour. In The return of the housewife, Emma Casey asks why these inequalities matter and why they persist after a century of dramatic advances in women's rights. She offers a powerful call to challenge the prevailing myths around housework and the 'naturally competent' woman homemaker.
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TOLONG, SANG SEMUT HANYUT!
by Mahaya Mohd. Yassin, Hasni Jamali
This book portrays the spirit of love and cooperation between different types of insects. A dragonfly notices an ant falling into a river, and quickly throws a leaf to help it. The dragonfly quickly seeks help. It asks a housefly, a butterfly, a bee, a grasshopper, and a beetle for help. It also gets information from a duck, an egret, a kingfisher, and an otter. Finally, all six of them successfully pull the ant to the ground.
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August 2021Berlin
Psychogramme of a City
by Karl Scheffler, Florian Illies, Michael Hofmann, Florian Illies
“Berlin is damned forever to become, and never to be.” Scheffler could not have anticipated that his dictum would prove prophetic. No other author has captured the city’s fascinating and unique character as perfectly. From the golden twenties to the anarchic nineties and its status of world capital of hipsterdom at the beginning of the new millennium – the formerly divided city has become the symbol of a new urbanity, blessed with the privilege of never having to be, but forever to become. Unlike London or Paris, the metropolis on the Spree lacked an organic principle of development. Berlin was nothing more than a colonial city, its sole purpose to conquer the East, its inhabitants a hodgepodge of materialistic individualists. No art or culture with which it might compete with the great cities of the world. Nothing but provincialism and culinary aberrations far and wide. Berlin: “City of preserves, tinned vegetables and all-purpose dipping sauce.”
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December 2018Tropical Doubts
by David Myles Robinson
Some Honolulu lawyers called Pancho McMartin the best criminal defense attorney in the islands. He'd admit to being pretty damn good. But he was on a losing streak now―three guilty verdicts in a row―and his confidence was sinking fast. When one of his oldest friends, Giselle, was left comatose after surgery and her husband, Manny, pleaded with him to sue the doctors involved, Pancho couldn't find a way to avoid a new specialty: medical malpractice.But it wasn't long before the sudden death of one of the defendants―and a murder charge accusing Manny of being the killer―had Pancho back in the old familiar arena of fighting for his client's life, while at the same time seeking justice for the O.R. errors that had left Giselle in a permanent vegetative state.In Tropical Doubts, the third legal thriller from David Myles Robinson featuring colorful, fast-thinking Pancho McMartin, medical hijinks merge with murder as surprise twists build in this unpredictable courtroom drama.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentJerks!
And how to spot them
by Tere Díaz Sendra
Are you tired of asking your partner and explaining what you need, and receive noresponse? Are you frustrated by feeling that your needs are not considered? Do you fearthat your relationship will limit your personal growth? Do you feel that there is love, butalso that his love catches you and wears you down? Many people, particularly women, seek therapy for symptoms like depression and anxiety, but without clear awareness of what causes them. Many blame themselves for not being “good enough, ” and not understanding to their partners.The common denominator of their mental health challenge is the minimization and invisibility caused by the oppression in in their exchanges with their partner, as opposed to receiving encouragement and support for their personal and professional development. This oppression will lead to diminishment and limiting their decisions through silences,gestures, humiliations or even physical violence, while they protect themselves byassuming a role that is lower than that of his/her partner. Jerks are not always easy to identify; they tend to confuse their partners with effusivedisplays of love that cover up their high doses of control and abuse. We talk about thejerks, those men who make people fall in love with sweet words, flowers and attention and who, little by little, display their crude, aggressive and even dangerous ways of “loving”. They destroy self-esteem and make their prey feel guilty for their behaviors. This book is a guide that speaks to the person trapped in a pitiful relationship. To reflect on your daily life and identify the characteristics of an abusive relationship, leading her by the hand to recognize the beliefs that trap her, to distinguish the patterns that she repeats, and to put into practice techniques that will allow her to get out of the abuse,recover, and bloom again.
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Children's & YAThe Slope of Sisters
China Story Picture Books
by Lu Mei
China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Slope of Sisters tells a story of meeting childhood self. Xiaomei incarnated a waterblue dragonfly she met in her childhood. She flied over large fields with wheat waves and the childhood hillside full of broad bean flowers, and recalled the summer vacation she spent with her sister in her childhood when her sister firmly said: "You should learn to be strong and don't cry."
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June 2022Ruby Fairygale - Der verbotene Zauber (Band 5)
by Kira Gembri
Ruby Fairygale – The Forbidden Spell (Vol. 5) An exciting feel-good fantasy – come and enter Ruby's world! Ruby Fairygale lives with her grandma on a small stormy island near the coast of Ireland, where they look after animals. But they have a big secret: they know about the magical mythical creatures on the island and they help them whenever they are ill.What happens in Volume 5:Since Noah has been away at boarding school in California, Ruby misses him a lot. Patch Island just isn't the same without him. When Noah doesn't check in for a long time, Ruby is concerned that something has happened to him. The fairy Felicity helps her to use a secret spell to create portals to places outside Ireland. But the forbidden spell goes wrong and when they finally get to California, Noah no longer remembers who Ruby is. The night elf Nocturno put a spell on Noah to make him forget everything magical, because he wants to strictly separate the fairy and human worlds.Ruby tries to free Noah from the spell, but Nocturno attacks her. They are saved by the High Council, and it is decided that the portals will be sealed and Noah, who regains his memories, is allowed to return to Patch Island.• Trend location Ireland & fairies• Feel-good fantasy for kids• Strong female protagonist• Bestselling series, selected for "Shoot the Book" at Cannes Film Festival 2021
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Children's & YAAugust 2022T wie Tessa - Geheime Geschäfte (Band 3)
by Frauke Scheunemann
T for Tessa – Secret Business (Vol. 3) Fast fashion with a clear conscience? - Tessa and the Fashion MafiaChaos Queen Tessa's comfortable life has finally come to an end since she became a secret agent (by mistake) of the internationally operating secret service R.I.N.G. Now she's out to put a stop to the masterminds of organized crime.Cool, stylish, and exciting, T for Tessa combines classic chick-lit elements with trendy agent plotting. In each volume, there is a new thrilling case to keep readers on their toes.What happens in Volume 3:Tessa joins the school newspaper because she wants to prove to her crush Timo, the editor-in-chief, that she is a damn cool eighth grader. Wouldn't it be laughable if Tessa didn't make a top investigative journalist with her newly acquired agent skills? She wants to research how well recycling clothes works: Customers can return their used clothing, and stores like Fashionista refurbish the clothes and donate them to neighborhood projects. With the help of a GPS tracker sewn into a used sweater, they track the sweater to the Suez Canal ... but this does not fit the promises of Fashionista at all. The problem of old clothes imports seems to be even bigger than Tessa suspects. And then Tessa and the Girl Group receive a tip that calls for RING's intervention ...• Chick-lit with trendy agent plot in international settings: Charlie's Angels meets Austin Powers• Exciting and humorous entertainment for readers aged 11 and up, unmistakably humorous and entertaining à la Frauke Scheunemann• Special topic: fast fashion & greenwashing, narrated with coolness, humor and a touch of romance
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2002‘Love me or kill me’
Sarah Kane and the theatre of extremes
by Graham Saunders, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels, Kim Latham
Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Kane's major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her continuing influence after her tragic early death. A chapter-by-chapter analysis looks at each play in detail and the appendices carry transcripts of interviews with colleagues and leading theatre practitioners involved with her productions. This book is the first study of the most significant British dramatist in post-war theatre and includes unpublished interview material with Sarah Kane herself. ;
