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        January 2022

        Sleep Disorders, Second Edition

        by Mary Brophy Marcus and Christine Adamec

        Sleep is as important to the human body as food and water. Recent research suggests that those who get less than the recommended eight hours a night are more likely to become sick and die sooner than their well-rested counterparts. Though there is much about sleep that remains a mystery to scientists, there is mounting evidence of health risks as more and more Americans cut back on needed rest and bad sleep habits are being passed on to children. Sleep Disorders, Second Edition is a concise guide to sleep and sheds helpful light on how it functions and how it can be disrupted. Coverage includes sleep disorders such as insomnia, snoring, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy, and sleepwalking. Sleep’s relationship to chronic illnesses is also discussed. Chapters include: What Is Sleep? Insomnia Sleep Apnea Movement Disorders Narcolepsy Childhood Sleep Disorders

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        2019

        Good Evening, Good Night

        The cultural history of sleep

        by Karoline Walter

        What we associate with sleep is shaped by the culture we live in. Whereas the God of the Bible never sleeps, the sinful human falls asleep every night and is thus marked as an inferior being. In the Age of Enlightenment, (too much) sleep was considered a waste of strength, which could otherwise be used to change the world. These days, sleep seems to be subject to the same tenets of usefulness as everything else and is seen to assist with the optimization of one’s self. However, culture and technology also influence how we sleep: for example, the constant availability of light, the modern conditions of work and all sorts of distractions have meant that we no longer follow our natural rhythm – a first sleep before midnight and a second sleep after a longer period of wakefulness, during which we may be active. In “Good Evening, Good Night”, Karoline Walter uses numerous examples from history, literature and research to illustrate how sleep and sleeping have changed across cultures and eras – an entertaining read, certainly nothing to put you to sleep.

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        Children's & YA
        2022

        In Search of Winter Sleep

        by Tetiana Rumenko (Author), Tetyana Yatsura (Illustrator)

        Kvitochka is a small brown bear. She is convinced that the world is arranged for the comfort and happiness of all animals. But winter came, and the quiet life of the residents of the Rehabilitation Center for Brown Bears was filled with anxiety - someone stole the sleep from the bears! Kvitochka decided to find out who the thief was and find their sleep back. So now the little bear has a long journey ahead of her, full of unexpected encounters and many discoveries. Let’s go with her - and find out where the bears' sleep has gone and how to get it back!   From 3 to 8 years, 1480 words. Rightsholders: Rumenko Tetiana, rumenkotanya@gmail.com;

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        November 2004

        From Here to Eternity

        Ernst Haeckel and Scientific Faith

        by Di Gregorio, Mario A.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        February 2020

        A writer's guide to Ancient Rome

        by Carey Fleiner, Jerome de Groot

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        Motherland Saga - Volume IV

        by Hugo N. Gerstl

        Originally, The Motherland Saga ended in 1983, and what came thereafter was a brief epilogue. However, the past thirty-eight years have witnessed unimaginable changes in the fabric of the people, the culture, and the politics of Turkey. The emerging history of this great land compelled the writing of this fourth volume, THE FOOTSTEPS OF FOREVER. While the period from 2005 to 2020 has witnessed a sea change in the fortunes of this tortured nation and what appears to be a complete reversal in Turkey’s international alliances and its worldview, THE FOOTSTEPS OF FOREVER, Volume Four of the saga, concentrates on the period 1983-2005, which set the scene for what occurred thereafter. While it might be helpful to the reader to read LEGACY, EMERGENCE, and COMING OF AGE first, it is not really necessary, for you are traveling on a time train through the Twentieth and into the Twenty-First Century, and if you choose to get on the train in 1897 or today, your ultimate destination will be the same. Perhaps one day there will be a sequel … and another … and another. Published by Pangæa Publishing Group,2019 Volume Four - 328 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm

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        March 1997

        Der fehlende Rest

        Erzählung

        by Jürgen Becker

        Jürgen Becker wurde 1932 in Köln geboren und verbrachte dort seine Kindheit. Während der Kriegs- und Nachkriegsjahre, zwischen 1939 und 1947, lebte er in Erfurt. Nach Aufenthalten in Osterwieck/Harz und Waldbröl kam er 1950 nach Köln zurück. 1953 Abitur. Nach kurzem, abgebrochenem Studium begann er seine Existenz als freier Schriftsteller; seinen Lebensunterhalt bestritt er jahrelang mit wechselnden Tätigkeiten, als Arbeiter und Angestellter, als Werbeassistent und Journalist. Er arbeitete für den WDR und in den Verlagen Rowohlt und Suhrkamp. Zwanzig Jahre lang, bis 1993, leitete er die Hörspielredaktion des Deutschlandfunks. Große Aufmerksamkeit fand Jürgen Becker mit seinem ersten Prosabuch Felder (1964); die beiden folgenden Bücher Ränder (1968) und Umgebungen (1970) festigten seinen Ruf als Verfasser experimenteller Literatur. Zugleich wirkte er mit seinen ersten Hörspielen (Bilder, Häuser, Hausfreunde) am Entstehen des "Neuen Hörspiels" mit. In seinem 1971 veröffentlichten Fotobuch Eine Zeit ohne Wörter verschmolz er seine literarische Arbeit mit dem visuellen Medium. Die künstlerischen Grenzüberschreitungen der Avantgarde hatte er 1965 bereits mit dem Band Happenings dokumentiert, einer Gemeinschaftspublikation mit dem Happening-Künstler Wolf Vostell. In den Siebziger und achtziger Jahren konzentrierte sich Jürgen Becker auf die Lyrik. Die in dieser Zeit entstandenen Gedichtbücher - darunter Das Ende der Landschaftsmalerei (1974), Odenthals Küste (1986), Das Gedicht der wiedervereinigten Landschaft (1988) - plazierte die Kritik in die obersten Ränge der zeitgenössischen Poesie. Gleichzeitig schrieb Jürgen Becker weiterhin Hörspiele und die beiden Prosabücher Erzählen bis Ostende (1980) und Die Türe zum Meer (1983). Dazu korrespondierte er weiterhin mit dem visuellen Medium: Fenster und Stimmen (1982), Frauen mit dem Rücken zum Betrachter (1989), Korrespondenzen mit Landschaft (1996) entstanden nach Collagen seiner Frau, der Malerin Rango Bohne, Geräumtes Gelände (1995) nach Bildern seines Sohnes, des Fotografen Boris Becker. Wende und Wiedervereinigung wirkten entscheidend auf das Schreiben Jürgen Beckers ein. Die Wiederentdeckung der Orte und Landschaften zwischen Elbe und Oder, Rügen und Thüringer Wald motivierten seine Gedichtbände Foxtrott im Erfurter Stadion (1993) und Journal der Wiederholungen (1999), die Erzählung Der fehlende Rest (1997) und vor allem den im Sommer 1999 erschienenen Roman Aus der Geschichte der Trennungen. Mit den Vorbereitungen dazu begann er während eines Stipendiums im Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf. Es ist Jürgen Beckers erster Roman; eine bewegende, persönliche Geschichte, die zugleich von den Widersprüchen der deutschen Erfahrungen erzählt. Jürgen Beckers Werk wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u.a. erhielt er den Preis der Gruppe 47, den Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der schönen Künste, das Stipendium der Villa Massimo, den Bremer Literaturpreis, den Heinrich-Böll-Preis. Jürgen Becker ist Mitglied der Akademie der Künste in Berlin-Brandenburg, der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, der Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, sowie des PEN-Clubs. 2001 erhält er für seinen Roman Aus der Geschichte der Trennungen den Uwe-Johnson-Preis, der von der Mecklenburgischen Literaturgesellschaft vergeben wird. 2006 wird er für sein Prosa-Werk, insbesondere den Journalroman Schnee in den Ardennen, mit dem Hermann-Lenz-Preis ausgezeichnet, 2009 erhält er den Schiller-Ring. 2014 wird Jürgen Becker als »maßgebliche Stimme der zeitgenössischen Poesie« mit dem Georg-Büchner-Preis geehrt.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2025

        The politics of Unbelonging

        Understanding and challenging racialisation of Roma in Europe and beyond

        by Andreja Zevnik, Andrew Russell

        This book offers a comprehensive study of racialisation of Romani communities in Europe (and beyond). Drawing on the idea of unbelonging it demonstrates how Romani communities are placed in a position of visceral visibility by local, national and international institutions as well as public media discourses. It shows how such positionality impacts the ability of Roma to self-represent politically and build capacity for change. From the position of unbelonging the book offers an account of Romani agency which both challenges the mainstream representations of Roma but also develops an alternative none-nation-state sense of belonging. In doing so the book outlines an account of Romani alternative expressions in order to take control of their relationship with their own history, future, knowledge, and identity, and the rest of the society.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Eternal light and earthly concerns

        Belief and the shaping of medieval society

        by Paul Fouracre

        In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.

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        Fiction
        December 1999

        Library of Chinese Classics :Zhuang Zi

        by Qin Xuqing

        "Zhuangzi", also known as "South China Scriptures," is one of the Taoist classics by the philosopher Zhuang Zi of the Warring States Period and its later studies. The book includes 7 articles, 15 articles, 11 articles, a total of 33 articles. In this book, Chuang Tzu inherited and developed Lao Tzu's view of "nature of Taoism". Taking "Tao" as the origin of the world, Zhuangzi considered that "Tao" is self-contained and eternal. The difference between things is only relative. In conformity with this concept of cosmology, Zhuangzi advocates the concept of "nature inaction" and advocates the maintenance of individual physical and psychological freedom and the pursuit of a spirit of unrestrained and harmonious man and nature. This book takes Guo Qingfan's Zhuangzi Collection as the base and translates it. The English translation draws on the existing English translations and selection books. It is the current English version of Zhuangzi.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        December 2018

        World Heritage Sites

        Tourism, Local Communities and Conservation Activities

        by Takamitsu Jimura

        Heritage is a growing area of both tourism and study, with World Heritage Site designations increasing year-on-year. This book reviews the important interrelations between the industry, local communities and conservation work, bringing together the various opportunities and challenges for different destinations. World Heritage status is a strong marketing brand, and proper heritage management and effective conservation are vital, but this tourism must also be developed and managed appropriately if it is to benefit a site. As many sites are located in residential areas, their interaction with the local community must also be carefully considered. This book: - Reviews new areas of development such as Historic Urban Landscapes, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Memory of the World and Global Geoparks. - Includes global case studies to relate theory to practice. - Covers a worldwide industry of over 1,000 cultural and natural heritage sites. An important read for academics, researchers and students of heritage studies, cultural studies and tourism, this book is also a useful resource for professionals working in conservation, cultural and natural heritage management.

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        April 2022

        Rena & Callan 2. Until Forever

        by Emma Lindberg, Moon Notes

        Nach einer schmerzvollen Trennung finden Rena und Callan, die Protagonisten aus Emma Lindbergs "Rena & Callan 2. Until Forever", vier Jahre später wieder zueinander. Rena hat sich nach Pittsburgh zurückgezogen, um dort ihren Traum von einem Kunststudium zu verwirklichen, während Callan nach Abschluss seines Musikstudiums in seine Heimatstadt zurückkehrt und Frontmann einer aufstrebenden Band wird. Ihr Wiedersehen findet auf einer Party statt, die von Renas Bruder Darren organisiert wird, und sofort ist die alte Verbindung zwischen ihnen wieder spürbar. Trotz der Zeit, die sie getrennt waren, und der Veränderungen in ihren Leben, fühlen sie sich zueinander hingezogen wie eh und je. Die Fortsetzung ihrer Geschichte ist geprägt von der Bewältigung vergangener Verletzungen und der Chance auf einen Neuanfang. Rena und Callan müssen lernen, mit den Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit umzugehen und gleichzeitig die Stärke ihrer erneuten Verbindung zu erkunden. Ihre Beziehung steht vor neuen Herausforderungen, da sie beide inzwischen andere Menschen geworden sind, aber die tiefe, unauslöschliche Liebe zwischen ihnen scheint alle Hindernisse überwinden zu können. "Until Forever" ist eine emotionale Achterbahnfahrt durch die Höhen und Tiefen der Liebe, die zeigt, dass wahre Gefühle den Test der Zeit bestehen können und dass manchmal ein zweiter Versuch alles ist, was es braucht, um bis in die Ewigkeit zusammen zu sein. Ergreifende Fortsetzung der bewegenden Liebesgeschichte zwischen Rena und Callan in "Until Forever".Erlebe die emotionalen Höhen und Tiefen einer wiedervereinigten Liebe, die den Test der Zeit übersteht. Tauche ein in eine Geschichte voller Leidenschaft, Vergebung und zweiter Chancen in der malerischen Kulisse von Pittsburgh. Folgen Rena auf ihrem Weg, ihren Traum vom Kunststudium zu verwirklichen, und Callan, der als Frontmann einer Band seinen Platz in der Musikwelt findet. Mitreißende Liebesgeschichte, die zeigt, wie stark die Verbindung zwischen zwei Menschen sein kann, selbst nach Jahren der Trennung. Authentische und tiefgründige Charakterentwicklung, die die Leserinnen und Leser mit jeder Seite mehr mitfiebern lässt. Von der verbotenen Teenagerliebe zur reifen und beständigen Beziehung – eine Liebesgeschichte, die berührt und inspiriert. Perfekt für Fans von emotionalen Romanzen, die gerne Geschichten über Neuanfänge, wahre Liebe und das Überwinden von Hindernissen lesen. Lass dich von dem humorvollen und emotionalen Schreibstil von Emma Lindberg verzaubern und in die Welt von Rena und Callan entführen. "Until Forever" bietet nicht nur eine fesselnde Liebesgeschichte, sondern auch tiefe Einblicke in die Themen Kunst, Musik und die Suche nach der eigenen Identität.

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        Picture books

        The Lilac Girl

        by Ibtisam Barakat (author), Sinan Hallak (illustrator)

        Inspired by the life story of Palestinian artist, Tamam Al-Akhal, The Lilac Girl is the sixth book for younger readers by award-winning author, Ibtisam Barakat.   The Lilac Girl is a beautifully illustrated short story relating the departure of Palestinian artist and educator, Tamam Al-Akhal, from her homeland, Jaffa. It portrays Tamam as a young girl who dreams about returning to her home, which she has been away from for 70 years, since the Palestinian exodus. Tamam discovers that she is talented in drawing, so she uses her imagination to draw her house in her mind. She decides one night to visit it, only to find another girl there, who won’t allow her inside and shuts the door in her face. Engulfed in sadness, Tamam sits outside and starts drawing her house on a piece of paper. As she does so, she notices that the colors of her house have escaped and followed her; the girl attempts to return the colors but in vain. Soon the house becomes pale and dull, like the nondescript hues of bare trees in the winter. Upon Tamam’s departure, she leaves the entire place drenched in the color of lilac.   As a children’s story, The Lilac Girl works on multiple levels, educating with its heart-rending narrative but without preaching, accurately expressing the way Palestinians must have felt by not being allowed to return to their homeland. As the story’s central character, Tamam succeeds on certain levels in defeating the occupying forces and intruders through her yearning, which is made manifest through the power of imaginary artistic expression. In her mind she draws and paints a picture of hope, with colors escaping the physical realm of her former family abode, showing that they belong, not to the invaders, but the rightful occupiers of that dwelling. Far from being the only person to have lost their home and endured tremendous suffering, Tamam’s plight is representative of millions of people both then and now, emphasizing the notion that memories of our homeland live with us for eternity, no matter how far we are from them in a physical sense. The yearning to return home never subsides, never lessens with the passing of time but, with artistic expression, it is possible to find freedom and create beauty out of pain.

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        International law
        September 2009

        War crimes and crimes against humanity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

        by Christine Byron

        This book provides a critical analysis of the definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity as construed in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Each crime is discussed from its origins in treaty or customary international law, through developments as a result of the jurisprudence of modern ad hoc or internationalised tribunals, to modifications introduced by the Rome Statute and the Elements of Crimes. The influence of human rights law upon the definition of crimes is discussed, as is the possible impact of State reservations to the underlying treaties which form the basis for the conduct covered by the offences in the Rome Statute. Examples are also given from recent conflicts to aid a 'real life' discussion of the type of conduct over which the International Criminal Court may take jurisdiction. This will be relevant to postgraduates, academics and professionals with an interest in the International Criminal Court and the normative basis for the crimes over which the Court may take jurisdiction.

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        The Arts
        November 2009

        Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century Rome

        by Sabrina Eliasson

        Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rome sheds new light on the relationship between portraiture, social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity as it was experienced and elaborated in eighteenth-century Rome. Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished documents and previously unexamined literary texts, it offers new insights and readings into how the experience of the City in terms of abstract or concrete appropriation affected the ways of portraying native or visiting elite sitters. The Grand Tour portrait, usually discussed as a purely British phenomenon, is here put in its original context of production and compared to the portraits of the Romans themselves. Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century Rome will become essential reading for anyone with a particular interest in eighteenth-century art and its social use. ;

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