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WONDERFULLY, PERFECTLY UNUSUAL
by Sharon Thayer
In a far-off ocean lagoon, a young ham-merhead shark pup who is different from the others learns how to deal with bullies, hearing his mom de-scribe
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FictionSeptember 2021Tres Horizontes (Three Horizons)
by Lina Flórez / Pablo Pérez
The Colombian city of Medellín thru the eyes of three women for different generations.
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FictionNovember 2022Las cosas que ya no están (Things that are no longer there)
by Tatiana Torres Álvarez
At the end of the day, a reader crosses Bogotá. The landscape, the reflections and the notes in the margins of the pages of a book shake the memories of a love.
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FictionFebruary 2021Basuras (Rubbish)
by Miguel Ángel Vallejo
A hard-boiled story set in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia where a homeless man becomes a hero for his community.
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January 2011Die Lagune der Delfine
Erfrischende Geschichten von tollen Tümmlern und flossenflinken Flippern
by Herausgegeben von Wehrhahn, Antonia
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June 2016Ein Leben für ein Leben
Roman
by Louis Begley, Christa Krüger
Der New Yorker Kriegsveteran und Bestsellerautor Jack Dana hat sich zum Schreiben auf die Insel Torcello in der venezianischen Lagune zurückgezogen. Und auch, um die dunklen Schatten vergangener Ereignisse, den Mord an seinem Onkel Harry und die Trennung von seiner großen Liebe Kerry, abzuschütteln. Doch just, als er beschließt, nach New York zurückzukehren und um Kerry zu kämpfen, erhält er einen Anruf: Kerry ist tot. Jack ist sich sicher, dass auch sie ermordet wurde. Hat sein alter Widersacher, der mächtige Abner Brown, wieder seine Fährte aufgenommen? Jack sinnt auf Rache – und nimmt den Kampf mit einem gefährlichen Gegner auf. In Ein Leben für ein Leben spinnt Louis Begley ein Katz-und-Maus-Spiel zwischen Long Island und New York. Ein Roman über einen Mann, der alles riskiert, um die Menschen, die er liebt, zu rächen.
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The ArtsSeptember 2013Launder and Gilliat
by Bruce Babington, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
Bruce Babington analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history, the screenwriters of famous films by Hitchcock and Carol Reed, who became the producer-writer-directors of a succession of famous and well-loved films including Millions Like Us, Two Thousand Women, Waterloo Road, The Rake's Progress, I See a Dark Stranger, The Blue Lagoon and The Happiest Days of Your Life. This study of the pair is notable both for its contextualising of them within English and British culture over four decades, including British cinema's 'golden age' of the war and immediate post-war years, and for its close reading of films that have been critically neglected, despite their popularity. Scholarly but not pedantic, the book shows its subjects to be not ordinary mainstream practitioners but deceptively serious filmmakers registering the 'ideological weather' of wartime and post-war Britain in engaging and creative ways. ;
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June 2021Seawalkers (5). Filmstars unter Wasser
Ein neues Abenteuer der Bestseller-Reihe über Hai-Wandler Tiago und die Schüler der Gestaltwandlerschule
by Katja Brandis, Claudia Carls
Band 5 der großen Gestaltwandler-Serie von Bestseller-Autorin Katja Brandis: voller neuer Abenteuer für Tigerhaijungen Tiago und seine Freunde Seit Kurzem sind Tiago und Shari zusammen und schon wartet die nächste Herausforderung auf die beiden. Ihre Mitschüler an der Blue Reef High drehen einen Film - und Tiago soll die Hauptrolle spielen! Seine Filmpartnerin wird ausgerechnet Python-Wandlerin Ella, die Tochter der kriminellen Anwältin Lydia Lennox. Während Tiago mit Ella vor der Kamera steht, bekommt Shari unversehens die Chance, an einem echten Filmset zu drehen! Kann das gutgehen? Zur gleichen Zeit wird in der Lagune ein seltsames Päckchen angeschwemmt. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass eine kriminelle Bande unter Wasser Drogen und Waffen ins Land schmuggelt. Sind etwa auch Seawalker in die Machenschaften verstrickt? Als Tiago und seine Freunde die Spur verfolgen, wird ihnen klar, dass der Einfluss der Verbrecher bis in die Blue Reef High reicht. Hier kommt die zweite Staffel der großen Gestaltwandler-Serie von Bestseller-Autorin Katja Brandis. In der atemberaubenden Unter- und Überwasserwelt der Everglades erleben Tigerhaijunge Tiago und seine Gestaltwandler-Freunde (Delfinwandlerin Shari, Gürteltierwandler Jasper, Rochenwandlerin Finny, Papageifisch Nox u.a.) einzigartig spannende Abenteuer. Packender Lesestoff für alle Tierfantasy-begeisterten Jungen und Mädchen ab 10 Jahren. Mit wunderschönen Illustrationen von Claudia Carls und tollen Gestaltwandler-Portraits. Alle Seawalkers-Bände sind einzeln und unabhängig von den Woodwalkers lesbar. Die Seawalkers-Bände erscheinen halbjährlich. Gedruckt auf Umweltpapier und zertifiziert mit dem „Blauen Engel“. Bisher erschienen:Seawalkers (1). Gefährliche GestaltenSeawalkers (2). Rettung für ShariSeawalkers (3). Wilde WellenSeawalkers (4). Ein Riese des MeeresSeawalkers (5). Filmstars unter Wasser Band 6 der „Seawalkers“ erscheint im Januar 2022
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Living with water
Everyday encounters and liquid connections
by Charlotte Bates, Kate Moles
Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and drought impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation
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Business, Economics & LawFebruary 2018Strategic Management in Tourism
by Luiz Moutinho, Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez, Alejandro Pérez-Ferrant, Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez, Anne-Mette Hjalager, Brent W Ritchie, Dawn Gibson, Eduardo Parra-López, Geoff Southern, James Wilson, Jithendran Kokkamikal, José Alberto Martínez-González, Kanes Rajah, Kun-Huang Huarng, Larry Dwyer, Luiz Moutinho, María Moral-Moral, Mercedes Melchior-Navarro, Noel Scott, Rafael Alberto Pérez, Ronnie Ballantyne, S.F. Witt, Scott McCabe, Shirley Rate, Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu, Vanessa Yanes-Estévez, Yawei Jiang, Yvette Reisinger
This comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends, as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. Fully updated throughout, this new edition: -Covers forecasting, functional management and strategic planning; -Includes extra chapters to incorporate a wider spread of important topics such as sustainability, authenticity and crisis management; -Contains pedagogical features throughout, such as learning objectives, questions and case studies to aid understanding Now in its third edition, and reviewing the major factors affecting international tourism management, this well-established student resource provides an essential overview of strategic management for students and professionals in the tourism sector.
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Earth sciencesApril 2023Biodiversity
Concepts, Crises, and Conservation
by Vir Singh
The variety of life the Planet Earth flowers with is a wonderful culmination of natural evolution. All natural ecosystems and cultivated lands blossoming with biodiversity set out the preconditions for a healthy, vibrant, and sustainable biosphere. Authored by an eminent academician, expert, and celebrated author, the book on Biodiversity: Concepts, Crises and Conservation embraces all dimensions of the biological diversity we need to conceive, understand, recognize, discover, and practically protect, conserve, and augment for posterity, sustainability, and happiness. Emerging concepts, ongoing crises, and potential conservation tactics of biodiversity have been ecstatically explained. The book is composed in a textbook flavor setting out mental agility exercises for students belonging to multiple disciplines and comes out with renewed, enriched, and innovation-disrupting academic content. Apart from the students and their teachers in the life sciences/ biological sciences, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, geography, and natural resource management streams, the book will also serve as a useful guide for planners, policy-makers, environmental activists, government, and non-government organizations. FEATURES Provides diverse concepts, crises, and conservation strategies Elaborates on a wide range of biodiversity values · Presents magnificent scenarios of agrobiodiversity (biodiversity in agriculture), pedo-biodiversity (biodiversity in soils), biodiversity in the chemosynthesis-based communities Examines biodiversity-climate links Discusses the vital biodiversity-sustainability relationships · Elucidates biodiversity-based sustainability principles and operationalization techniques
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Science & MathematicsOctober 2014Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics
Classical and Modern Methods
by T.S.Rana, K.N.Nair & D.K.Upreti
The basic aim of this manual is to provide useful resource materials for training young students and faculties working in the area of plant systematics. The manual provides updated information on basic as well as applied aspects of plant systematics on various groups of plants like Algae, Lichens, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 to 3 describe the various approaches and methods to study microbial and fungal diversity, which is basically a very useful precursor to the students and young researchers. 4 and 5 provide deals with the multi-dimensional approaches in Lichen systematics. The book progresses upwards through the plethora of information on the diversity and systematics of Algae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms ( 6-10). 11 to 15 contain on the plant methodological details identification, approaches and methods of Flora, revision, monograph and development of herbarium. This information is very important for the students and young faculties who intend to pursue their researches in plant taxonomy. 14 and 15 particularly provide all the relevant information on the International Code of Plant nomenclature including cultivated plants. These s per se are very significant for the amateur as well as serious readers of plant taxonomy. Plant taxonomy and biosystematics is a dynamic subject, as it derives information from various other disciplines like palynology, seed morphology, pharmacognosy, molecular biology, etc. We have, therefore, broaden the scope of this book by including the s on palynology, seed morphology, molecular systematics, biostatistics, ecological and remote sensing methods for diversity analyses, and pharmacognostical tools for identification of herbal drugs ( 16-22). The knowledge and information on these applied aspects of biology in relation to taxonomy will certainly infuse the interest in readers, who are pursuing plant taxonomy as their scientific pursuits. 23 and 24 describe the various methods of characterization and evaluation of ornamental and medicinal plants. The last (25) of the book provides the information about CSIR-NBRI Botanic Garden and its various repositories, which could be of great interest to the readers from the perspectives of plant conservation.
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Agriculture & farmingJanuary 2015Biological Sciences
Innovations and Dynamics
by Rajeshwar P. Sinha, Richa & Rajesh Prasad Rastogi
The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge, and highlight the current developments taking place in biological sciences. The book encompasses topics on prokaryotic cyanobacteria to higher plants, distributed in fourteen chapters for the benefit of graduate and post-graduate students as well as young researchers and scientists. Subjects covered include molecular and biochemical diversity of microbes, stress biology, cyanotoxins, antimicrobial activity of drugs originated from plants, natural bioactive compounds of microbial origin, detection approaches for genetically modified crops, genomics and proteomics. The book provides an insight for future perspectives in particular field with extensive bibliographies at the end of each . With all these, this book becomes highly useful and must-read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, biotechnology, bioinformatics, environmental sciences, agriculture, molecular biology and other streams of biological sciences.
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Aquaculture & fish-farming: practice & techniquesAugust 2021Economics in Shrimp Farming
by Biswabas Patra
The book has eight chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction, problem, global shrimp production, shrimp production in India, significance, objectives, methodology and limitations of the study. In the second chapter a review of the existing studies on shrimp farming and its impact on economy, society and environment is presented. Socio-economic profile of the shrimp farmers is discussed in the third chapter. The fourth chapter discusses the shrimp farm management and marketing. The fifth chapter analyses the socio-economic impact of shrimp farming. The sixth chapter highlights the environmental problems due to shrimp farming. An evaluation of the existing policies related to shrimp farming is made in the seventh chapter. The last chapter presents the major findings for a sustainable, economically more viable and environment friendly shrimp farming. The book is very useful for the pisciculture students, academicians, policy makers, fish farmers, fish traders & exporters and other stakeholders; and will help shaping public policy for economically viable and environmentally sustainable shrimp farming in the future.
