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    • Trusted Partner
      Children's & YA
      June 2019

      Die 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 2014

      The Beijing Drifters

      by Tan Xilin

      This is an autobiographical memoir of a Beijing drifter. The book takes the author as a true experience of the North drift tribe as the main content, with the author's career struggle as the main line, and Xin Er's love as a vice-line, focusing on the author in the CCTV as extra-section director, after the column is withdrawn and End of the experience of the North drift and in the meantime and Xin Er from the beautiful encounter, dedication fell in love to emotion derailed, and finally sadly break up the love life, revealing the media as the representative of many North drift ethnic identity embarrassment and hard-won. The book closely linked to the "drifting" word, not only a real record of the Northern drift ethnic working life, at the same time reflects this group in the huge psychological gap between dreams and reality, a true description of the generation of North Drift carrying sweet dreams struggle Story and dream course.

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      July 2018

      Practical Feline Behaviour

      Understanding Cat Behaviour and Improving Welfare

      by Trudi Atkinson

      Practical Feline Behaviour contains all the relevant information that a veterinary nurse or technician needs to understand and handle the behaviour and welfare of house cats, and to offer safe and practical advice to clients. There have been ground-breaking advances in our understanding of feline behaviour in recent years and, to protect the welfare of cats, it is increasingly important that anyone involved with their care, especially those in a professional capacity, keep up to date with these developments. This approachable and down-to-earth text describes the internal and external influences on feline behaviour; on communication, learning, social behaviour, the relationship between behaviour and disease, and the cat - human relationship. It also provides practical advice on how the welfare of cats in our care may be protected and how behaviour problems should be addressed and how to avoid them. In this book Trudi Atkinson draws on her extensive experience as a veterinary nurse and a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist to provide a rapid reference and an intensely practical feline behaviour resource for owners, breeders, veterinary professionals, shelter and cattery workers and anyone involved in the care of our feline companions. - Practical, down to earth guide detailing all aspects of feline behaviour - Rapid reference for instant access to information - Written by a well-known animal behaviourist who has extensive experience in treating feline behaviour problems and in advising clients to protect the welfare of their cats - Includes a foreword by John Bradshaw, School of Veterinary Science at University of Bristol, UK

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      January 2013

      Let the Death Live long

      by Chen Ximi

      The book is written by Chen Ximi, the wife of Chinese famous writer Shi Tiesheng. It is a heart-touching memorial essay collection. The death of Shi left Chen in endless loneliness, which made her start to make a effort to write this book. She tried to converse with the great philosopher in human history by reading, meditation, walking and writing, searching the meaning of void. By this way, she deepened her thinking, became a broad-minded woman, learnt to explore the meaning of life. The stylish writing skill and touching heart whisper is on the page .In her true and beautiful word, readers can find the meaning of life and death, love, honesty, solitary, time and life, feel the light of wisdom.

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      The Arts
      May 2024

      The Family of Love

      By Lording Barry

      by Sophie Tomlinson

      The Family of Love charts a successful love intrigue between the cash-strapped Gerardine, and Maria, the sequestered niece of the mercenary Doctor Glister. Their romance unfolds against the dissection of two citizen marriages, the Glisters' and the Purges'. Mistress Purge attends Familist meetings independently, arousing her husband's suspicions about her marital fidelity. Two libertines, Lipsalve and Gudgeon, go in search of sex and solubility (freedom from constipation), receiving more than they bargain for in respect of the latter. This scholarly edition of Family of Love marks the first occasion on which the comedy is attributed to Lording Barry in print. It brings together literary and historical discussion with a thorough analysis of the play's disputed authorship. Tomlinson highlights Barry's rich vein of burlesque humour in a comedy that combines magic, a trunk, and a mock-court session with vigorous colloquial language.

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      The Arts
      January 2022

      The Family of Love

      By Lording Barry

      by Helen Ostovich, Sophie Tomlinson

      The Family of Love charts a successful love intrigue between the cash-strapped Gerardine, and Maria, the sequestered niece of the mercenary Doctor Glister. Their romance unfolds against the dissection of two citizen marriages, the Glisters' and the Purges'. Mistress Purge attends Familist meetings independently, arousing her husband's suspicions about her marital fidelity. Two libertines, Lipsalve and Gudgeon, go in search of sex and solubility (freedom from constipation), receiving more than they bargain for in respect of the latter. This scholarly edition of Family of Love marks the first occasion on which the comedy is attributed to Lording Barry in print. It brings together literary and historical discussion with a thorough analysis of the play's disputed authorship. Tomlinson highlights Barry's rich vein of burlesque humour in a comedy that combines magic, a trunk, and a mock-court session with vigorous colloquial language.

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      Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques
      September 2000

      Grazing Ecology and Forest History

      by Edited by Franciscus W M Vera

      It is a widely held belief that a climax vegetation of closed forest systems covered the lowlands of Central and Western Europe before humans intervened in prehistoric times to develop agriculture. If this intervention had not taken place, it would still be there and so if left, the grassland vegetation and fields we see today would revert to its natural closed forest state, although with a reduced number of wild species. This book challenges this view, using examples from history, pollen analyses and studies on the ecology of tree and shrub species such as oak and hazel. It tests the hypotheses that the climax vegetation is a closed canopy forest against the alternative one in which species composition and succession of vegetation were governed by herbivores and that the Central and Western European lowlands were covered by a park-like landscape consisting of grasslands, scrub, solitary trees and groves bordered by a mantle and fringe vegetation. Comparative information from North America is also included, because the forests there are commonly regarded as being analogous to the primeval vegetation in Europe. This title is a revised, updated and expanded translation of book published in Dutch.

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      August 2021

      Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 1

      Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, and Management

      by Keith Delaplane

      Since the second half of the 20th Century, our agricultural bee pollinators have faced mounting threats from ecological disturbance and pan-global movement of pathogens and parasites. At the same time, the area of pollinator-dependent crops is increasing globally with no end in sight. Never before has so much been asked of our finite pool of bee pollinators. This book not only explores the evolutionary and ecologic bases of these dynamics, it translates this knowledge into practical research-based guidance for using bees to pollinate crops. It emphasizes conserving wild bee populations as well as culturing honey bees, bumble bees, and managed solitary bees. To cover such a range of biology, theory, and practice from the perspectives of both the pollinator and the crop, the book is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on bees, their biology, coevolution with plants, foraging ecology and management, and gives practical ways to increase bee abundance and pollinating performance on the farm. Volume 2 (also available from CABI) focuses on crops, with chapters addressing crop-specific requirements and bee pollination management recommendations. Both volumes will be essential reading for farmers, horticulturists and gardeners, researchers and professionals working in insect ecology and conservation, and students of entomology and crop protection.

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      Science & Mathematics
      November 2023

      Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 2

      Individual Crops and their Bees

      by Keith S Delaplane

      Since the second half of the 20th Century, our agricultural bee pollinators have faced mounting threats from ecological disturbance and pan-global movement of pathogens and parasites. At the same time, the area of pollinator-dependent crops is increasing globally with no end in sight. Never before has so much been asked of our finite pool of bee pollinators. This book not only explores the evolutionary and ecologic bases of these dynamics, it translates this knowledge into practical research-based guidance for using bees to pollinate crops. It emphasizes conserving wild bee populations as well as culturing honey bees, bumble bees, and managed solitary bees. To cover such a range of biology, theory, and practice from the perspectives of both the pollinator and the crop, the book is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on bees, their biology, coevolution with flowering plants, foraging ecology and management, and gives practical ways to increase bee abundance and pollinating performance on the farm. Volume 2 (this volume) focuses on crops, with chapters addressing crop-specific requirements and bee pollination management recommendations. Both volumes are essential reading for farmers, horticulturists and gardeners, researchers and professionals working in insect ecology and conservation, and students of entomology and crop protection.

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      January 2023 - December 2023

      A Chance for One Last Love

      by Hassan Dawood

      A sweeping historical saga about a city that defies the eroding power of time In one of the first Arabic novels about the COVID-19 pandemic, relationships begin and end much like the pandemic itself. From his balcony in Beirut, Ezzat notices a solitary light on a lone balcony in the building opposite. From that moment, a connection begins to form across the empty space between the buildings, communicated through the air and signals. The events unfold after the owner of the shadow steps out onto her balcony, confronting the voyeur. They share time, confusion... and desire. Ezzat and Tamer successively both fall in love with the same woman, and a cautious friendship develops between the two men. It soon evolves into more dangerous forms. The story also portrays the experiences of other building residents during the pandemic, who imposed strict isolation on themselves. The protagonists, particularly the two elderly lovers, live on the edge of catastrophic expectations, as when they imagine that a woman pressing the intercom downstairs to ask for food could be a sign of an impending widespread famine. The story does not conclude in a stalemate but rather with losers.

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      Teaching, Language & Reference
      June 2010

      Collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters

      Essays in honour of Richard G. Maber

      by Paul Scott

      The Republic of Letters emerged during the seventeenth century as a concept to describe the interaction between scholars across Europe and beyond. While the concept was an imaginary one, it was firmly grounded in a reality of close circles of interaction between intellectuals, which had always existed but which was now endowed with a renewed sense of collaboration and participation within this community without barriers of statehood or creed. These fifteen essays explore differing aspects of collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the context of the radical change in mindset that the emergence of the Republic of Letters had fostered. Essays deal with French and English theatre, travel writing, the identity of the woman writer, the nature and function of gossip, scholarly interaction, and political and theological ideologies. The concluding essay provides a synthesis of the nature of seventeenth-century scholarship. The volume offers new insights into the mechanisms and workings of the Republic of Letters and charters the transition of scholarly pursuit being classified, even by some scholars themselves, as a solitary and sometimes pedantic pursuit to the notion of a network of ideas and interchange. This self-identification with a transnational league which knew no limits of geography, resources, gender or class marks a radical transition in the history of ideas and was to have far-reaching consequences, solidly preparing the way for the Enlightenment.

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      October 2019

      The Civilization of Erzats

      by Djawad Rostom Touati

      “His great novel, his “immense contemporary social fresco”, his “made-in-bladi human comedy” - in the words with which he dazzles his virtual contacts - was now out of the question. To those who still asked him: “What's the status of this novel?”, he invariably replied: “Perhaps under other skies. Here, all we promote is mediocrity. And everyone would nod in agreement, wishing him well.” Djawad Rostom Touati Farid, Malia, Rami, Adib and other characters wander through ''The civilization of erzats'', the second part of the trilogy: ''the cult of It'', each equipped with their own socio-cultural baggage, some motivated to change the course of their lives, sure that the sun is much warmer elsewhere; others resigned to the idea that the world is as it is: just a two-variable equation - dominated/dominant -; and still others, self-sufficient, seeking redemption in the misfortunes of others, make their way between the strata of a society in turmoil, the victim of a frozen past, a sequestered present and a future held hostage. In La civilisation de l'ersatz, both neo-prolo-aspirants-bourgeois who don't even know they're there, replace each other between the fingers of a born writer. Everything is relativity: time, space, not to mention the mind...

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      April 2023

      The Misery of Literature

      by Djawad Rostom Touati

      “His great novel, his “immense contemporary social fresco”, his “made-in-bladi human comedy” - in the words with which he dazzles his virtual contacts - was now out of the question. To those who still asked him: “What's the status of this novel?”, he invariably replied: “Perhaps under other skies. Here, all we promote is mediocrity. And everyone would nod in agreement, wishing him well.” Djawad Rostom Touati Farid, Malia, Rami, Adib and other characters wander through La civilisation de l'ersatz, the second part of the trilogy: Le culte du ça, each equipped with their own socio-cultural baggage, some motivated to change the course of their lives, sure that the sun is much warmer elsewhere; others resigned to the idea that the world is as it is: just a two-variable equation - dominated/dominant -; and still others, self-sufficient, seeking redemption in the misfortunes of others, make their way between the strata of a society in turmoil, the victim of a frozen past, a sequestered present and a future held hostage. In La civilisation de l'ersatz, both neo-prolo-aspirants-bourgeois who don't even know they're there, replace each other between the fingers of a born writer. Everything is relativity: time, space, not to mention the mind...

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      Psychology

      Social Situations – Cooperation | Flip Card Series

      The card series "Social situations - Cooperation" is a valuable tool for any therapist or teacher seeking to develop children's communication skills and encourage them to work harmoniously with others. The exciting scenarios presented on the cards invite children to understand the importance of cooperation and its advantages.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Age Group: 6+ The Social Situations: Cooperation flip card series is designed to help children develop teamwork skills, understand the value of cooperation, and work effectively with others. These 30 illustrated cards teach children how to collaborate, communicate, and achieve shared goals in a positive and structured way. Key Features of the Book: Encourages children to cooperate with peers and understand the benefits of teamwork. Helps build essential social skills, including listening, patience, and compromise. Ideal for therapists, educators, and parents who want to strengthen children's ability to work together effectively. Promotes problem-solving through teamwork, showing children how collaboration leads to success. By practicing cooperation, children can enhance their relationships, develop a sense of community, and understand the importance of working together in different social settings.

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      Education

      Social Situations – Time Management | Flip Card Series

      The book "Social Situations: Time Management" focuses on helping children learn how to manage their time well through everyday situations.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Age Group: 6+ The Social Situations: Time Management flip card series is designed to help children develop essential time management skills through real-life scenarios. These 30 illustrated cards guide children in prioritizing daily tasks, managing their free time, and creating a balanced schedule for home, school, and play. Key Features of the Book: Encourages responsibility by teaching children how to plan and follow a schedule. Helps improve efficiency by balancing responsibilities and leisure activities. Supports the development of lifelong time management skills, ensuring children grow into organized and stress-free adults. By practicing time management strategies early, children can develop better organization, independence, and productivity in their everyday lives.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences

      Social Situations – Flexible Thinking | Flip Card Series

      The book "Social Situations: Flexible Thinking" consists of 30 flip cards that aid children's social development and help them cope with new situations more easily.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Flexible Thinking | Flip Card Series Age Group: 6+ The Social Situations: Flexible Thinking flip card series is designed to help children develop flexible thinking skills and adapt to changing situations in their daily lives. Key Features of the Book: 30 illustrated cards that introduce children to real-life scenarios requiring flexible thinking. Helps children understand that change is a natural part of life and teaches them how to cope effectively. Encourages children to view situations from different perspectives and come up with creative solutions. Covers common challenges such as: Moving to a new home Dealing with a divorce Changing schools Welcoming a new student in class This resource is ideal for parents, educators, and therapists looking to foster adaptability, problem-solving skills, and resilience in children.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences

      Social situations for autistic adolescents

      An invaluable handbook designed for autistic teens and anyone who wants to improve their social communication skills.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Social Situations for Adolescents - NEW EDITION 2024 Age Group: 12 years and over This book is a groundbreaking resource designed to facilitate the social development of adolescents, especially those on the autism spectrum (ASD). However, Social Situations for Adolescents extends beyond its primary target audience, offering valuable insights and practical tools for any adolescent seeking to improve their social communication skills. Core Features of the Book: Engaging Social Stories: A series of carefully developed stories serve as the foundation for exploring real-life social situations. Thoughtful Analysis & Reflection: Each story includes possible solutions, engaging questions, and structured problem-solving strategies that encourage self-awareness and decision-making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Approach: Focuses on emotion regulation, coping strategies, and social skill improvement to help adolescents navigate interactions with confidence. Family Involvement: Highlights the importance of consistent support and reinforcement at home and in various settings. Additional Topics Covered: Generalization Strategies: Ensuring that learned skills can be applied in different social contexts. Stress Reduction Techniques: Helping individuals with ASD manage sensory challenges. Expressive Language Exercises: Enhancing communication skills through illustrated activities and structured exercises. By following clear, actionable steps, this book supports quick comprehension and easy application of social skills, leading to long-term personal development and confidence. Social Situations for Autistic Adolescents is more than a textbook—it’s a practical companion for adolescents navigating the complexities of social interactions, helping them build a more inclusive and confident future.

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