Kovan Agency was founded to create all-round, high quality, and harmonious content by providing services in the fields of illustration, children's literature publishing, and consultancy for promotional and design purposes.
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Step & Step Alliance is a children’s book publisher under the Beijing Huirui Times Culture Group (established in January 2008), supporting children’s comprehensive development. Step & Step Alliance is positioned in the domestic high-end children’s book market and develops and produces high-quality board books and novelty books, sound books, puzzle books and games, non-fiction books, interactive books, pop-up books, picture books meant for international coproductions through a smart, young and efficient international sales Team. Love to play, love to read and following step by step childhood and development! An open door to knowledge connecting the world!
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Mr. Racoon teaches literature at school and only knows about crimes and investigations from books. But one day, by pure accident, he finds himself investigating an abduction of nestlings. A detective’s job is full of dangers at every step! Can Mr. Racoon stay safe and sound and untangle such a convoluted case? Volodymyr Arenev’s novella offers its readers not only a gripping detective plotline but also interesting facts about animal lives. From 6 to 9 years, 5720 words Rightsholders: Nataliia Koval nataliya.koval@ranok.com.ua
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Sugira est une fille de 7 ans qui vit avec sa mère, Kamaliza. Elle n'aime pas se brosser lesdents. Un jour, elle va à l'école. Ses camarades de classe s'ennuient et l'intimident pour sonodeur. Elle s'est évanouie. Ses deux amies du même quartier commencent également à fuir.Kamaliza, sa mère ne cesse de lui rappeler de se brosser les dents après avoir mangé mais elle n'aime pas ça. Une nuit, elle dort. Dans ses rêves, elle se retrouve dans le royaume de la cavité buccale des microbes surnommé «Imitananana». Il existe de bons microbes quiprotègent les dents et servent la protection de l'hygiène buccale en général. Les bonsmicrobes ont leur chef, le roi AAA. Sugira reçoit un accueil chaleureux dans sa propre cavité buccale. Bonnes Imitananapréparent une soirée pour elle dans les célébrations de la danse africaine et Rwandaise.Ce monde de «Imitanana» est un monde comme les autres. Nous avons des concours debeauté, du travail communautaire, des concerts et bien d'autres jeux amusants et familiersavec les enfants. Sugira apprend à protéger et à préserver l'hygiène bucco-dentaire via des batailles menéescontre les mauvais microbes imitanana menées par le méchant appelé Zezeze.
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How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves? Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the unexpected. She talks to an eminent paleo-archaeologist about a two-million-year-old skull in the Republic of Georgia, meets the next generation of robots in Berlin, attends a festival against death in California and explores an ice-age cave in southern France, speaking with the world’s leading authority on cave art. Between these and other adventures she returns to her ever-engaging granddaughter Layla, whose development in infancy spurs Koval to find out what makes us human, what separates us from the other apes. Full of revealing exchanges with scientists and writers whose knowledge of the past and visions for the future could hold the key to our next evolution, A Letter to Layla will surprise and delight in equal measure.
IN SEARCH OF BUONCONIGLIO Stories featuring a community of animals led by a wise owl. Perfect reading for elementary school groups and for those interested to bring children closer to the thematics of solidarity, safeguarding of rights and defense of the environment in which we live
This is one of four touching stories about the little kitten, which discovers the world around it. Stories are very relatable for kids. In this book it meets a puppy and is blinded with jealousy and almost misses the opportunity of make a new friend
This is one of four touching stories about the little kitten, which discovers the world around it. Stories are very relatable for the kids. In this book the kitten attempts to befriend a reflection in the new mirror.
Nineteenth-century musical Italy is, according to Bruno Barilli's famous definition, 'the country of melodrama', and the theatre is its space par excellence, and La Scala favoured the establishment of Milan as the capital of the opera industry. This requires an articulate and complex organisation that, in addition to the artists, includes agents, impresarios and technical personnel in the sector and enables the 'turnkey' transfer of Italian opera performances to the other side of the planet. And in Milan, the Teatro alla Scala was built with the intention of being the centre of this production system. The theatre, inaugurated in 1778, was built thanks to the obstinate, tenacious and passionate determination of the most illustrious families of the Lombard aristocracy, after a fire had destroyed the Regio Ducal Teatro on the night of 25 February 1776. It was the nobles who entirely financed the construction of the new Teatro Grande at La Scala, receiving in exchange a box with an adjoining dressing room.
In May 2014, the French research laboratory ISEOR (Socio?Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations) and the University of St. Thomas co?sponsored a second conference on the application of the Socio?Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) paradigm and methodology in the United States. SEAM is a scientific approach to consultancy that focuses on uncovering the dysfunctions and hidden costs that exist in organizations, “hidden” in the sense that they are not captured by traditional accounting methods and financial analyses. Through intervention that encompasses the entire organization – what the ISEOR team refers to as the HORIVERT approach (combining horizontal and vertical intervention) – the underlying goal is to enhance organizational performance by attacking the “TFW virus,” a vestige of the early work by Frederick Taylor, Henri Fayol, and Max Weber that has sufficiently infiltrated our thinking about management and organization to the point where are falling well short of our own potential. The resultant dysfunctions this virus unleashes creates hidden costs that readily destroy a firm’s value?added possibilities. The volume captures the ideas, applications, and exchanges of that meeting, attempting to bring the reader into the conference itself. Chapters include the contributors’ presentations (“Chapter Prologue: Conference Remarks”), revised conference papers, and the question and answer dialogue for the session.
In questa bellissima meditazione, un filosofo dibatte con se stesso quanto alla speranza di sopravvivere, trovandosi nell’impossibilità intellettuale e spirituale di acconsentire a qualsiasi visione ingenua di un altro mondo che dovrebbe essere un doppio, o la copia, di questo mondo. È necessario elaborare il lutto di qualsiasi immagine, di qualsiasi rappresentazione. Nel 1996 Ricoeur pone la questione: «Che cosa posso dire della mia morte?». Come «elaborare il lutto di un voler-esistere dopo la morte»? Questa lunga riflessione sul morire, sul moribondo e il suo rapporto con la morte, e ugualmente sul dopo-la-vita (la resurrezione), passa attraverso due mediazioni: testi di sopravvissuti ai campi di sterminio (Semprún, Levi) e un confronto con un libro del grande esegeta Xavier Léon-Dufour sulla resurrezione. La seconda parte del libro è composta di testi scritti nel 2004 e nel 2005, che il filosofo stesso ha chiamato «Frammenti» (sul «tempo dell’opera» e il «tempo della vita», sul caso di essere nato cristiano, sull’imputazione di essere un filosofo cristiano, sulla controversia, su Derrida, sul Padre nostro...). Testi brevi, redatti talvolta con mano tremante, mentre è già molto affaticato. L’ultimo, della Pasqua 2005, è stato scritto un mese prima della sua morte. Paul Ricoeur, grande filosofo del XX secolo, è deceduto il 20 maggio 2005.
Pasta is Italy’s national dish and if there is one thing that every Italian menu around the world cannot lack – be it in Italy or in the United States, in France or in Hong Kong – is pasta al pomodoro. But what’s the story behind this dish everyone thinks they know so well? And what about pasta alla carbonara or amatriciana, or ragù alla bolognese? A Brief History of Pasta will answer every burning question you may have on the history of your favorite dishes, complete with different recipes (the oldest, the most common, the most intriguing variations...) and a treasure-trove of anecdotes about how these dishes evolved, in Italy and in the rest of the world. Because there is only one thing that could not be left home, when an Italian decided to embark on an adventure abroad: a notebook full of pasta recipes.
John Williams è uno strano naufrago nel mare della vita. Alla deriva nelle acque del benessere materiale, a quarant'anni si rende conto che tutto ciò per cui ha lavorato finora non gli da le soddisfazioni sperate. Un'invidiabile posizione economica, una splendida casa con vista sull'oceano, una famiglia, l'ammirazione della gente che conta non lo mettono al riparo dalla tempesta interiore che sta crescendo. Ha tutto ma non ha più niente, nemmeno il sorriso di un tempo. Finchè un giorno incontra Simon, un uomo misterioso, che assapora la realtà istante dopo istante ed è in grado di avvistare la spiaggia della salvezza. Dopo questa esperienza, anche il mare della vita non sarà più lo stesso: quella che era paura diventerà una voglia irresistibile di prendere il largo, e il protagonista si ritroverà a rincorrere con rinnovato slancio "l'onda perfetta", dove cielo e mare s'incontrano finalmente riappacificati.
