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      • Spilbulu Verlag

        Geschichten, die Dich in Deiner Identität bestärken und inspirieren, einfach Du zu sein!  Spilbulu möchte Dich auf eine humorvolle, aber tiefe Reise zum Nachdenken mitnehmen. Eine Reise, die Dich ermutigt niemals vor Deinem Herzensziel zu kapitulieren!  Es ist nur unmöglich, wenn Du aufgibst!

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      • Spicy Fish Cultural Production Ltd.

        Established in 2006 by publishing Fleurs des lettres (字花), a literary bimonthly in Chinese, Spicy Fish is a 15 year-old literary arts non-profit organization based in Hong Kong.

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        Children's & YA

        Swimming

        by Liu Haiqi

        The novel tells the story of the boy Liu Lixian who tried all ways to learn to swim. With humorous and witty words, it shows the vitality as well as special games and sports spirits that belongs only to one's childhood, and presents the strong self-identity built during one's growing up.   The story happened in Jinan, a City of Springs, where the author has been living for 58 years. Along with various children's games, the novel also portrays the rich and fresh details of life and folk customs of the city.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        January 2018

        Special Interest Tourism

        Concepts, Contexts and Cases

        by Carol Southall, Lynn Minnaert, Nazia Ali, Ade Oriade, Allan Watson, Glen Croy, Ralf C Buckley, Dallen J Timothy, Steven Rhoden, Alison Caffyn, Richard Benfield, Cheng-Fei Lee, Sheela Agarwal, Graham Busby, Rong Huang

        Special interest tourism is growing rapidly due to a discerning and heterogeneous travel market and the demand for more focused activity or interest-based tourism experiences. This book approaches the topic from the perspective of both supply and demand, and addresses the complexities now inherent in this area of tourism. It presents a contextualised overview of contemporary academic research, concepts, principles and industry-based practice insights, and also considers the future of special interest tourism in light of the emergence of ethical consumerism. With a clear, user-friendly structure, the book: -Links theoretical frameworks to clear practical applications. -Reviews key emerging issues for tourism relating to families and faith, the performing arts, active and passive pursuits, therapeutic leisure and travelling. -Includes contributions and case studies from international academics and practitioners to give a truly global overview. Sometimes referred to as niche or contemporary tourism, this book provides a complete introduction to the study of special interest tourism for students.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2025

        Spirits of extraction

        Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race

        by Claire Blencowe

        Spirits of extraction revisits the troubling history of socially reformist, ostensibly anti-racist, Christianity and its role in the expansion of the extractive industries, British imperialism, and settler colonialism. The book explores key moments in the history of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Colonial fears, and the attempt to 'civilise savages', were crucial to the movement's foundation in eighteenth-century industrialising Bristol, England. Through the culture of the Cornish mining diaspora of the nineteenth century, Methodism enmeshed with all the complexity of race and labour-structures of the British empire. At the same time, in Anishinaabewaki/Upper Canda/Ontario, Methodist missionaries laid the foundation of abusive education and racialised ideas of redemption that both enable and sacralise the mining industry. Through these histories of our present, the book theorises the relation of religion and education to racism, modernity, biopower, extractivism, and the geology of race.

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        Children's & YA
        January 2022

        Let's Drink Some Water

        by Iryna Fingerova (Author), Alina Zharikova (Illustrator)

        Does your child like to drink water? Well, may be not really...But everyone in the world should drink enough water every day. Animals, insects, birds, plants, and, of course, people. Maybe you don't know how to get your kid to drink enough water, especially when your they suffer from a cold or throws up? We will be happy to help with this.How? Of course, with this Book. The interactive picture book by writer, doctor and mother Irina Fingerova Let's Drink Some Water will get your kid to drink. Children will help heroes in their adventures, get a smile out of it, and replenish themselves with water!So... Do not forget to prepare a glass of water before reading!   From 2 to 5 years, 320 words. Rightsholders: t.zaplitna@gmail.com

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        Medicine

        Eating – Drinking – Digesting

        Encouragement, Care and Treatment for People with Severe Disabilities, Illness and in Old Age

        by Annette Damag, Helga Schlichting

        Eating, drinking, nutrition, and mealtimes play a central role in the daily lives of people with physical and mental disabilities. This publication discusses people with multiple disabilities and cognitive impairments, such as dementia, as well as people in a persistent vegetative state. This practical handbook   - identifies problems with eating and drinking among people with severe disabilities and outlines their causes - provides comprehensive, practical guidance on working with people with sensory and motor problems, swallowing difficulties, eructation, nausea and malnourishment - presents posture and positioning aids and techniques to encourage drinking, digestion, basal stimulation, and enteral nutrition - integrates interdisciplinary perspectives from education studies, nursing, and therapy, taking the patient’s life story into account, and discusses working with relatives in drawing up a care plan.   Target Group: Practicing nurses, disability support workers, rehabilitation nurses and therapists, basal stimulation trainers, and other health care professionals

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        Drinking Alone

        by Quanbin Dong

        The book comprehensively records the daily life of Dong Quanbin, a famous contemporary ceramist, and his thinking. It presents more than 100 representative works and is recommended by Li Zongsheng and Yang Kui . In this glossary, tea daily, the philosophy of creation and creative activity are intertwined, and show clearly the potters thinking trajectory: from tea experience implements in the process of change the details of the differences in texture, inspired from plants the beauty of the shape of the shape of the design, or to imagine the life of the elders to gain inspiration of creation, etc. Drinking alone is not only a speculative journey about creation and aesthetics, but also a new perspective to examine oneself and life. 《一人饮》全面记录了当代知名陶艺家董全斌做陶、饮茶和思考的日常,高清呈现其百余幅代表作品,由李宗盛、杨葵作序推荐。 在这本图文集里,饮茶的日常、造物的哲学和创作的实录相互交织,清晰呈现陶艺家的思考轨迹:从喝茶的过程中体会器物的细节变化带来口感的差异,由植物的形态之美联想器物的造型设计,或想象古人的生活来获得创作的灵感等。《一人饮》不仅是一次关于创作与美学的思辨之旅,更是提供一种审视自我与生活的全新角度。

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        Food & Drink

        Distinguishing and Drinking of Chinese Tea

        by Li Tao

        150 kinds of common teas and rare Souchong, more than 600 primary pictures of dry tea, tea infusion, infused leaf and tea dance. Distinguish the first-class tea and watch tea dance to enjoy its elegance and vulgarity. You can drink the most authentic Chinese Tea only through three steps of selecting, buying and making a tea. With 30 years of experience in tea, the author can teach you how to distinguish tea without being “cheated” and buy cheaper tea and to make a tea at once. With subtle words, selection method and illustration, it is required reading for these who start drinking tea at first and old tea drinkers for more than decade years.

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        Psychology

        Up and Down

        by Johanna Selge

        The graphic novel uses expressive, humorousimages to make the topics ofmental health, depression and anxietydisorders in children and young peopleunderstandable. The first part of thenovel tells the story of 16-year-oldNoah.The second part provides informationto better understand mentalprocesses and strategies to deal withchallenges in a self-effective way. Withits preventative programme, “Up andDown” aims to strengthen the resilienceof all young people.

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        Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's/YA)
        August 2018

        The Straw Giant and the Crow

        by Bosworth-Smith, Jessica

        The Straw Giant and The Crow by Jessica Bosworth Smith is a heartfelt and off-the-wall story about a mysterious relationship between a straw giant and a crow. There is a field afar that holds an incredible secret... a giant lives there who is made of straw. One winter, grumpy and miserable with his cold surroundings, the Straw Giant chases away all the other animals in his field. That is, until the Crow arrives and begins to leave him little gifts each morning. A sweet and subtle friendship emerges — but will the Crow be able to last the Winter Solstice? Will their friendship defy the cold clutches of winter and last out?

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        Business, Economics & Law
        April 2017

        Rural Tourism and Enterprise

        Management, Marketing and Sustainability

        by Ade Oriade, Peter Robinson

        Marketing and management processes across industries can be very similar, but contexts vary where political intervention, public interest and local sustainability are involved. The rural business setting is especially intricate due to the assortment of different business opportunities, ranging from traditional agriculture, to tourism enterprise and even high-tech business. This important new textbook on the subject: - Examines key issues affecting rural enterprise and tourism - Explores the breadth of rural enterprise management and marketing across both developed and developing economies - Discusses strategies for business growth within a rural setting, such as knowledge development, proper planning and innovation - Uses a mix of case studies and theoretical content specifically selected to appeal to both student and practitioner readers Including pedagogical features and full colour throughout, this new textbook provides an engaging and thought-provoking resource for students and practitioners of tourism, rural business and related industries. ; Marketing and management processes are especially intricate for the rural business setting due to the assortment of different business opportunities. This important new textbook examines key issues, discusses strategies for growth and uses a mix of case studies and theoretical content across developed and developing countries. ; Introduction: (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson) Part 1: Management and marketing rural tourism and enterprise in developed economies 1: Rural enterprise business development: the developed world context (Peter Robinson & Alison Murray) 2: Selling to consumers (Sammy Li, Roya Rahimi & Nikolaos Stylos) 3: Sustainability, CSR and Ethics: Developed economies perspective (Caroline Wiscombe) 4: Community engagement and rural tourism enterprise (Peter Wiltshier) 5: Social enterprise and the rural landscape (Caroline Wiscombe, Liz Heyworth, Sandy Ryder, Lucy Maynard & Charles Dobson) Part 2: Management and marketing rural tourism and enterprise: developing world context 6: The rural business environment in developing economies (Solomon Olorunfemi Olubiyo & Ade Oriade) 7: Marketing and Communications and Rural Business in developing countries (Abiodun Elijah Obayelu & Nikolaos Stylos) 8: Consumers and Rural Tourism in developing Economies (Vivienne Saverimuttu and Maria Estela Varua) 9: Sustainability and Ethics in rural business and tourism in the Developing World (Weng Marc Lim and Sine Heitman) 10: Community engagement, rural institutions and rural tourism business in developing countries (Anahita Malek, Fabio Carbone & Asia Alder) Part 3: Strategies for rural business management and growth 11: Challenges and Strategies for rural business operations in developed and developing Economies (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson) 12: Developing and Growing Knowledge within rural tourism enterprises (Tony Greenwood and Jo Tate) 13: Collaborate to Innovate: Challenges and Strategies for rural business to innovate (Ainurul Rosli, Jane Chang and Maria L. Granados) 14: Strategies for rural business growth (Crispin Dale, Neil Robinson and Mike Evans) 15: Opportunities for growth: The rural tourism policy and planning perspective (Caroline Wiscombe and Steve Gelder) Conclusion: (Ade Oriade and Peter Robinson)

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        February 1999

        Kasimir malt

        by Lars Klinting, Lars Klinting, Angelika Kutsch

        Der Biberhandwerker Kasimir und sein kleiner Freund Frippe machen sich an die Aufgabe, einen Schrank anzustreichen. Dieses Bilderbuch ab 4 Jahren bietet eine einfache, aber fesselnde Einführung in die Grundlagen des Malens und der Farbenlehre, ergänzt durch die liebevollen und detailreichen Illustrationen Klintings. Durch die Augen von Kasimir und Frippe erleben Kinder, wie mit Geduld, Geschick und der richtigen Vorbereitung ein Farbprojekt Schritt für Schritt umgesetzt wird, von der Auswahl der Farben und Pinsel bis hin zum Mischen neuer Farbtöne. Die Erzählung zeichnet sich durch ihre Alltagsnähe und die Verbindung von Lernen und Spielen aus, wodurch sie besonders für Kinder im Vorschul- und Grundschulalter attraktiv ist. Mit diesem Buch lernen junge Leser nicht nur über das Handwerk des Malens, sondern auch über Freundschaft, Teamarbeit und die Freude am Erschaffen. Förderung von Kreativität und handwerklichem Geschick: Kinder lernen auf spielerische Weise die Grundlagen des Malens und der Farbenlehre. Lernen durch Nachahmung: Die detaillierten Illustrationen und einfachen Anleitungen regen zum Mitmachen und Ausprobieren an. Förderung von Lesekompetenz: Die klare, verständliche Sprache unterstützt junge Leser beim Lesenlernen und Verstehen komplexer Zusammenhänge. Stärkung von Teamarbeit und Freundschaft: Die Geschichten um Kasimir und Frippe zeigen, wie wichtig Zusammenarbeit und gegenseitige Hilfe sind. Liebevolle und detailreiche Illustrationen: Die Bilder von Lars Klinting bereichern die Erzählung und machen das Buch zu einem visuellen Erlebnis. Pädagogisch wertvoll: Empfohlen von Lehrern und Eltern für die frühkindliche Bildung, unterstützt es die Entwicklung von Motorik und Farbverständnis. Positive Resonanz: Begeisterte Rezensionen von Eltern und Pädagogen unterstreichen den Wert der Kasimir-Reihe für die kindliche Entwicklung. Weitere lehrreiche Bände der beliebten und pädagogisch wertvollen Klassiker-Reihe, die Kindern auf einfache Art und Weise nützliches Alltagswissen vermittelt: Kasimir hat einen Platten - Kasimir flickt einen Reifen Kasimir lässt Frippe machen - Kasimirs Freund Frippe repariert Gegenstände Kasimir malt - Kasimir streicht seinen Schrank neu Kasimir pflanzt weiße Bohnen - Kasimir zieht Bohnen heran Kasimir näht - Kasimir näht sich eine neue Schürze Kasimir backt - Kasimir backt einen Kuchen Die Geschichten "Kasimir backt", "Kasimir tischlert", "Kasimir pflanzt weiße Bohnen", "Kasimir malt" und "Kasimir lässt Frippe machen" sind ebenfalls im Sammelband "Das große Buch von Kasimir" verfügbar.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Chocolate, women and empire

        by Emma Robertson

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        December 2021

        Hard Liquor

        Der Geschmack der Nacht

        by Marie Graßhoff

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2024

        Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 100/2

        Higher Learning and Civic Cultures of Knowledge: Manchester 1824–2024

        by Stuart Jones

        The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan

        The cult of the Two Grand Elders

        by Fabian Graham

        In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.

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        Historical fiction
        2018

        Lazarus

        by Svitlana Taratorina

        The events of this novel take place in 913 in Kyiv. Humans and evil spirits coexist together - ghouls, devils, werewolves, spirits of the forest, spirit of the fields, and spirits of the water. Relative peace between them has been maintained for centuries. Humans rule the Global Empire, while the evil spirits are waiting for the return of their legendary king - the Serpent. And suddenly everything changes. In the reeds near Trukhaniv Island the body of the human has been found with the signs of violence afflicted by the beast. No one knows who committed the terrible crime. In order to find the culprit and prevent a new war between humans and evil spirits, an experienced investigator Oleksandr Petrovych Tyurin is brought in. But will he be able to overcome his own demons and see what he refused to believe for many years? The novel "Lazarus" is a winner in the nomination "Fiction for adults" in the literary competition organised by the Ukrainian publishing house "KM-Books". This is a fresh look at the genre of fantasy from Ukraine.

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        September 2009

        The politics of alcohol

        A history of the drink question in England

        by James Nicholls

        Questions about drink - how it is used, how it should be regulated and the social risks it presents - have been a source of sustained and heated dispute in recent years. In The politics of alcohol, Nicholls puts these concerns in historical context by providing a detailed and extensive survey of public debates on alcohol from the introduction of licensing in the mid-sixteenth century through to recent controversies over 24-hour licensing, binge drinking and the cheap sale of alcohol in supermarkets. In doing so, he shows that concerns over drinking have always been tied to broader questions about national identity, individual freedom and the relationship between government and the market. He argues that in order to properly understand the cultural status of alcohol we need to consider what attitudes to drinking tell us about the principles that underpin our modern, liberal society. The politics of alcohol presents a wide-ranging, accessible and critically illuminating guide to the social, political and cultural history of alcohol in England. Covering areas including law, public policy, medical thought, media representations and political philosophy, it will provide essential reading for anyone interested in either the history of alcohol consumption, alcohol policy or the complex social questions posed by drinking today.

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