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      • University of Washington Press

        Who We Are   The University of Washington Press is celebrating its centennial this year. We publish compelling and transformative work with regional, national, and global impact. We are committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good and work collaboratively with our authors to produce books that meet the highest editorial and design standards. We value and promote equity, justice, and inclusion in all our work.   What We Publish   We publish in the following core academic areas:   American Studies Anthropology Art History / Visual Culture Asian American Studies Asian Studies Critical Ethnic Studies Environmental History Native American and Indigenous Studies US History Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies   We also publish vibrant nonfiction about the Pacific Northwest and beyond, often in partnership with museums, cultural organizations, and Indigenous nations and communities.

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      • Editora Trinta Zero Nove

        Editora Trinta Zero Nove is an independent press based in Maputo, Mozambique. It was started in 2018. This year the press debuted a kid lit and young adult collections translated from Arabic, Italian and English into Portuguese in print and braille.

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      • Trusted Partner
        September 2021

        Fanta Groselha

        by Makena Onjerika

        Fanta Groselha da autoria de Makena Onjerika é um retrato sombrio dos sem-abrigo e da vida dos meninos de rua em Nairobi. O conto centra-se em Meri, cuja história é contada por um coro de narradoras sem rosto e sem nome que são também suas consortes. Navegam pela vida sem rumo certo a pedir esmolas, a roubar aos peões, a esquivar-se às autoridades, a venderem o corpo. Fanta Groselha é um conto cativante pela sua coragem, humor e inventividade linguística. O seu forte sentido de lugar faz com que seja uma experiência de leitura imersiva e gratificante.

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        September 2021

        Ponto de Ruptura

        by Olufunke Ogundimu

        Olufunke Ogundimu explora neste potente conto a sua escrita afrofuturista, num 2087 aterradoramente próximo, quando tudo muda, menos a barreira entre quem tem e quem não tem. Onde os pobres ficaram do lado fora de onde é fácil negar a realidade, num mundo distorcido de quem acredita que mudança climática é fake news. Até o planeta terra atingir o ponto de ruptura e mover as areias dos grandes desertos arrasando fronteiras nacionais, cidades, assoreando rios e oceanos impondo novas formas de viver aos humanos.

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        September 2021

        Os escritores de cartas à mão armada

        by Olufunke Ogundimu

        Os escritores de cartas à mão armada da autoria de Olufunke Ogundimu é uma estória sobre uma comunidade nigeriana que recebe cartas de assaltantes à mão armada a anunciar a sua chegada e uma lista de pertences que tencionam levar. Os assaltantes também enviam cópias destas cartas à polícia, aconselhando as suas potenciais vítimas a não se incomodarem. Usando o pronome colectivo "nós" para implicar uma voz narrativa coroada, Ogundimu retrata efectivamente, com um sentido de humor peculiar, a confusão colectiva e a determinação de civis indefesos e o estado lamentável do policiamento no país.

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        August 2021

        Involução e outros contos para um mundo em crise

        Colectânea de contos traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária 2020

        by Sandra Tamele

        Neste terceiro volume da Colectânea de Contos Traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária, apresentamos seis contos publicados entre 2017 e 2019 no âmbito do Caine Prize for African Writing e da colectânea New Short Fiction from Africa: ‘Involução’ da autoria da sul-africana Stacy Hardy que aborda abertamente a sexualidade da mulher, também preocupações sociais e políticas, faz alusão a questões como a degradação ambiental, o colonialismo e direitos da mulher, ancorados numa teatralidade conceptual necessária para que o conto não se torne efémero e engaje o sentido de humor do leitor para o aproximar da mente aberta de Hardy. ‘A heroína misteriosa’ ou ‘Mavbanelo na mayi’ em Bitonga, é da autoria da Tanzaniana Lydia Kasese. Ela escreve sobre as expectativas e pressões sociais que levam as mulheres a desejarem concertar tudo. Neste conto Kasese traz destramente à luz questões sobre o abuso de menores e o seu impacto sobre as famílias na Tanzânia e, não só. Alinafe Malonje estreou-se nesta colectânea da Short Story Day com o conto ‘Manutenção de Rotina’, um registo metafísico de um hotel: parte alegoria, parte meditação com um subtil comentário sobre o que significa ser mulher no Malawi. Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda cria um fabuloso hotel de fantasia que contém realidades sinistras, construindo um persuasivo mundo alternativo. Tariro Ndoro em ‘A lenda das duas irmãs’, ou ‘Xihitana xa vamakwavu na makwavu’ em Changana, traz uma abordagem arrepiante dos perigos da saudade, onde a busca por uma irmã num hotel de luxo em Victoria Falls tem um fim fantasmagórico. Mampianina Randria nos apresenta em ‘O Gatilho’, ou ‘Niyódeké sê xidúvúlá’ em Changana, um conto com um ritmo cerrado e um desfecho totalmente inesperado onde uma mulher que lida com as frustrações de quem entra na vida adulta.

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        April 2021

        As sete por quatro

        Colectânea de contos alusivos ao 7 de Abril, Dia da Mulher Moçambicana

        by Sandra Tamele

        Esta colecção alusiva ao 7 de Abril, Dia da Mulher Moçambicana, traz sete contos em quatro línguas Moçambicanas, Português, Macua, Sena e Changana. Os contos são breves e propõem ao leitor uma viagem ao universo feminino, desde o conto infanto-juvenil ao conto erótico apresentando sete autoras debutantes no estilo. As estórias trazem vislumbres da resiliência, dos sonhos e da luxúria, explorando a criatividade no feminino as suas estórias em sete vozes: Serena de Nizete Cassamo Eu tenho um sonho de Deizy Joane Inkosazana Indira Mangaza de Larsan Mendes Delírios de um fim próximo de Kaya M A farsa de Denise Mangue O desconhecido na feira de verão de E. D. Barbosa O menino e a velhinha das flores de Samira Weng

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        July 2016

        The Last Love

        by Can Xue

        This novel by Can Xue presents a whole range of characters with strong personality, such as Joe, Maria, Vincent, Lisa, Reagan and Ida. They are full of vitality and are accordingly unsatisfied with their present status. They actively explore unknown field of life and firmly embark on the journey of spiritual exploration. The novel focuses the complicated and intertwining relationship between husbands, wives and lovers to uncover the hidden inner desire of each character. Boiling wild nature and advanced civilization collide with each other before they finally become one unity. For the readers, entering the world of these characters is like entering their own inner world.

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        Medicine

        The infantile massage from zero level

        by Liao Pindong,Xiong qian

        This book lists 60 methods of massage base on children common diseases, and 8 methods base on health care. In addition, Professor Liao also sums up his thirty years of clinical massage experience in this book. He also mentioned up general massage principle which is "guard against the disease machine" , and analyzed "reason of treatment" for each common disease. Also he induced the "main treatment of each disease" based on depressing the common acupoints, and the "syndrome differentiation and subtraction" in the outpatient medical case is answered by Professor Liao. The book will not only make you be aware of how to do the infantile massage and why. It will be easier for you to make the correct  massage on your child according to different diseases and acupoints. This book is suitable for all the parents, Clinical Massage enthusiasts and physicians. You can scan the QR code on book to watch the video of the infantile massage

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        Children's & YA
        September 2019

        Eu não tenho medo

        by Niccolò Ammaniti

        The hottest summer of the century. Four houses lost among the wheat fields. The big ones are locked in the house. Six children, on their bicycles, venture into the burning and abandoned countryside. In the middle of that sea of ears hides a frightening secret, a secret that will change forever the life of one of them, Michele, a 9-year-old boy. The story is set in the torrid summer of 1978, in the countryside of an unidentified southern Italy, but evoked with rare descriptive force. In this landscape dominated by the contrast between the blinding light of the sun and the darkness of the night, Ammaniti alternates, with wise narrative moments, comedy, the world of children's relationships, the language and the burlesque wisdom of children, their tenacity, the strength of friendship and the drama of betrayal. And at the same time he sketches an unforgettable display of adult characters. A novel of self-discovery through the most extreme risk and the need to face it, Io non ho paura becomes a poignant farewell to the age of play and amazement, to the magical energy that makes us fight monsters. And it insinuates itself under the skin of all of us, like a light stab in the chest.

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        Children's & YA
        June 2020

        Eu rezemos só que me safo

        Sessenta redacções de crianças Napolitanas

        by Marcello D’Orta

        This debut book by elementary school teacher Marcello D'Orta presents an amusing collection of sixty essays by students from Arzano elementary school. It was considered by critics a bestseller of biblical power, where rebellion, ignorance and bad education become expression, even revolution of the language. It renews faith in the existence of Napolitano humor as an autonomous literary genre. An encounter between the unknown and childlike thought that is both grandly serious and comical.

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        September 2023

        Being Able to Stop

        Against the delusion of permanent growth

        by Edited by Jean-Pierre Wils

        We moderns were the inhabitants of an age of impetuous forward movement and voracious discontent. Our main virtue was to increase our reach. Increasing our having and accelerating our being were the signposts towards the future. We just could not get enough. Using the blinkers of ignorance and self-anaesthesia, however, we managed to forget the tremendous costs incurred by this intoxication. Now disillusionment has set in. We look to the future with anxiety. We know that we have long since crossed a line and that a revision of our lifestyle is imminent. We have a bad feeling, and doubts about progress often give way to anger and rebellion. Which stocks of the modern narrative should we defend; which would we do better to let go? How will we even "be able to stop"? The path to a different society needs an attractive goal, because without the prospect of a different, better life, we will not move forward. We should start practising immediately. There is no time to lose.

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        December 2001

        really ground zero

        11. september und folgendes

        by Röggla, Kathrin

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        December 2023

        Zero Days

        by Ruth Ware

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        August 2014

        The First Year of the Love Calendar

        by Wang Yuewen

        Sun Li, the protagonist of the novel, is a bestseller writer and his wife Xizi is the head of a university library. Their son Sun Yichi has been rebellious and unruly since childhood, remaining distant from his mother. Afraid of the exhaustion of his creativity, the middle-aged Sun Li begins to question the meaning of his writings. He thus suffers from serious insomnia and anxiety. Just at this time, his wife Xizi begins to have her own amorous secrets. Sun Li also finds himself unable to leave Li Qiao, director of New Evening Paper. These affairs have pushed their seemingly peaceful family life to the verge of collapse. The love calendar refers to the calendar that belongs only to Sun Li and his wife Xizi for their love. But such turbulent life experience has caused them to temporarily betray their love calendar … They eventually begin again the first year of their love calendar. Through the depiction of the love, marriage, and family life of Sun Li and Xizi, the novel becomes a retrospection of the spiritual tendency, emotional development and love pattern of the Chinese over the past 20 to 30 years. It also vividly outlines the changes of social mores in China over the past years in a figurative way. Even amorous entanglements are not devoid of elements of the officialdom, with honest and corrupt officials still on the scene. According to Wang Yuewen, this is an element of reality rather than of officialdom – “after all nobody can live in a vacuum space”.

      • Trusted Partner
        August 2007

        Wieder Nix!

        by Kirsten Boie, Stefanie Scharnberg

        In "Wieder Nix!" kehrt der freche Seejungmann Nix zurück und stiftet erneut allerlei Verwirrung. Jonathan ist einerseits erfreut über die Rückkehr seines ungewöhnlichen Freundes, andererseits sorgt der Nix für eine Menge Ärger, besonders als die Polizei auf der Suche nach dem mysteriösen Einbrecher, der merkwürdig feuchte Fußspuren hinterlässt, ins Spiel kommt. Gemeinsam mit seiner Freundin Leonie versucht Jonathan, den Nix vor den Behörden zu verstecken und ihn aus den Schwierigkeiten zu retten. Ihre Bemühungen gipfeln in einer turbulenten Rettungsaktion während der Hochzeitsfeier von Jonathans Vater. Dieses Buch ist gespickt mit Humor, Abenteuern und zeigt die Bedeutung von Freundschaft und Zusammenhalt. Mit vielen farbigen Illustrationen wird die Geschichte lebendig und unterhaltsam für Kinder gestaltet. Humorvolle und abenteuerliche Handlung: Unterhält junge Leser*innen mit lustigen Wendungen und spannenden Momenten. Starke Freundschaftsthemen: Betont die Wichtigkeit von Zusammenhalt und gegenseitiger Hilfe. Farbige Illustrationen: Die Geschichte wird durch detailreiche und ansprechende Bilder lebendig. Selbstständig lesbarer Band: Auch ohne Kenntnis des ersten Teils verständlich und genießbar. Ideal zum Vor- und Selberlesen: Ansprechend für Kinder im Grundschulalter ab 7 Jahren und zum gemeinsamen Lesen in der Familie. Lehrreich und unterhaltsam: Vermittelt Werte wie Ehrlichkeit und Mut auf unterhaltsame Weise. Alle Bände der Reihe: Verflixt – ein Nix! Wieder Nix! Nix wie weg!

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        Food & Drink

        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food

        by Lam Chua

        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food involves Mr. Chua's travel notes and random thoughts on his trip for savoring food. He experiences around the world from Moscow to Buenos Aires, feasting your eyes on European and American styles and customs; he travels around China from Dalian of Liaoning to Sheung Wan of Hong Kong, savoring local culture and cuisines; he talks about food from cup noodles and sauce to fish roes and curry, airing opinions and making comments in passionate language. Besides, the book is illustrated by the Hong Kong talented artist as well as Mr. Chua's dedicated illustrator Ms. Meilo So. Her loose, flowing, and easily recognizable style add more appeal and interest to the book.

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        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food 2

        by Lam Chua

        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food 2 is a sequel to Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food, involving Mr. Chua's travel notes and random thoughts on his trip for savoring food, especially his new articles as well as his Weibo post about delicacies, anecdotes and scenery during 2018 to 2020. What Mr. Chua delivers to us in this book goes beyond just travelling and food, but more of his refreshing insight into life's ups and downs.

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        February 2003

        Verflixt - ein Nix! 1

        by Kirsten Boie, Stefanie Scharnberg

        In "Verflixt - ein Nix!" von Kirsten Boie gerät das Leben des Jungen Jonathan mächtig aus den Fugen, als er aus Versehen einen echten Nix – einen Wassergeist in Jungenform – mit nach Hause bringt. Dieser kleine Meeresbewohner, der nur in Reimen spricht, unsichtbar werden kann und ein Talent dafür hat, das Badezimmer unter Wasser zu setzen, stellt Jonathans Alltag komplett auf den Kopf. Der Nix sorgt für Chaos in der Schule, bringt Jonathans Lehrerin Frau Kägele gegen ihn auf und verliebt sich unsterblich in sie. Diese außergewöhnliche Geschichte voller Missgeschicke und Abenteuer zeigt auf humorvolle Weise, wie eine unerwartete Freundschaft zwischen einem Jungen und einem fabelhaften Meereswesen entsteht und wie sie gemeinsam die Herausforderungen des Alltags meistern. Humor und Abenteuer: Eine unterhaltsame Mischung aus Alltagschaos und fantastischen Elementen, die Kinderherzen höherschlagen lässt. Außergewöhnliche Freundschaft: Die Beziehung zwischen Jonathan und dem Nix zeigt, wie wichtig Verständnis und Zusammenhalt sind. Förderung der Fantasie: Die fantasievolle Geschichte regt die Vorstellungskraft an und lädt zum Träumen ein. Vielschichtige Charaktere: Sowohl Kinder als auch Erwachsene werden in der Geschichte authentisch und mit Tiefgang dargestellt. Lerninhalte: Neben Unterhaltung werden Werte wie Mut, Akzeptanz und das Einstehen füreinander vermittelt. Lesespaß für die ganze Familie: Ideal zum Vorlesen und als Lektüre für junge Selbstleser geeignet. Reime und Sprachspielereien: Der Nix bereichert die Geschichte mit seinen Reimen, die auch die Sprachentwicklung fördern können. Qualitativ hochwertige Gestaltung: Ansprechende Illustrationen und eine fesselnde Erzählweise machen das Buch zu einem wertvollen Bestandteil jeder Kinderbibliothek. Alle Teile der Reihe: Band 1: Verflixt - ein Nix! Band 2: Wieder Nix! Band 3: Nix wie weg!

      • Trusted Partner
        March 2022

        Food Industry 4.0

        Unlocking Advancement Opportunities in the Food Manufacturing Sector

        by Wayne Martindale, Linh Duong, Sandeep Jagtap, Mark Swainson

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