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The Core Quality of Art (revised edition)
by Yin Shaochun
On the basis of continuing the main content of the original book, the revised version of "Everyone Talks about the Core Literacy of Fine Arts" has made the following changes: First, it adds "the fifth part: New Language about the Core literacy of fine arts", which is divided into "the first part: Everyone talks about the new language" and "the next part: Doctor's micro talk". The courseware taught by Yin Shaochun, Hu Zhifan, Zhou Fengfu, Wang Dagen, LAN Gang and other experts in the fine Arts group of the Ministry of Education in important academic seminars has been added. The second is to sort out the main literature of "core literacy" and "core literacy of fine arts", including periodical literature, newspaper literature and monographs literature (including translated works), which is conducive to master's and doctor's researchers and front-line teachers who are interested in in-depth exploration of the core literacy of fine arts, according to their own research and writing needs, to refer to it according to the steed. The third is to add a bookmark in the form, with the editor's message "core quality, Da Dao Yan". In addition, with the addition of Rongmedia technology, besides the interview recording, video resources are also added: wonderful teaching clips of first-class teachers such as Wei Ruijiang, Xu Jun and Tang Xiao, and wonderful lecture video clips of Yin Shaochun.
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Children's & YAOwl Magic (13). The Mystery of the White Horse
by Ina Brandt/Irene Mohr
It’s just like a fairy tale. In the forest Flora stumbles on a little house with a garden that’s overgrown with roses. But the house is about to be sold. Not only that, but Flora learns from the owner’s daughter that a white horse has been living for a long time in the stable…but now he’s disappeared! Together with her magic owl Goldwing, Flora tries to find the terrified animal. Will the two of them manage to make their way through the jungle of roses and win the confidence of the white stallion?
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Children's & YAWorld Runner (1). The Hunters
by Thomas Thiemeyer
Tim is one of them. A runner full of passion, ready to go beyond the limits. When one day he gets a letter from GlobalGames he doesn’t hesitate to accept the challenge for a second. 7 caches have been hidden in 7 locations. 100 young people are chasing after them. Each one against the others. But Tim soon realises that he can’t do it alone. He finds an ally in the fascinating Annika, known as Sakura. But can he really trust her? Or is everyone just running for themselves after all? Who’s ready to go the furthest to find the biggest cache in the world?
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2017Jackie Chan：Never Grow Up, Only Get Older
by Jackie Chan, Zhu Mo
This is an autobiography of Chinese Kongfu star Jackie Chan. The book is a true recording of this international superstar’s growth and life experience for the last 50 years. It tells us the legendary actor’s stories, and also reflects a fantastic acting age.
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The Widows
by Pascal Engman
Two bodies are discovered in a Stockholm park, one is a policeman and the other is an unidentified young woman. With the police believing the woman to be nothing more than unfortunate collateral damage, they focus on the murder of the police officer. But Detective Vanessa Frank takes a different approach and her investigation turns out to be more personal than she could have imagined, leading her toward a real terror threat. Vanessa must tread carefully, terrorist networks operate deep in the shadows and society’s fear of terrorism has made her job more chaotic and dangerous than ever. When those being hunted are bound together by grief driven to revenge, the consequences are devastating. The Widows is the third standalone novel to feature Detective Vanessa Frank. In this fast-paced thriller, we delve into a frighteningly current threat to our society and even deeper into the mind of the headstrong heroine Vanessa.
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February 2019The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt
by Sarah Armstrong
Shortlisted for the Bookmark Book Festival's Book of the Year Award 2020Escaping failure as an undergraduate and a daughter, not to mention bleak 1970s England, Martha marries Kit - who is gay. Having a wife could keep him safe in Moscow in his diplomatic post. As Martha tries to understand her new life and makes the wrong friends, she walks straight into an underground world of counter-espionage.Out of her depth, Martha no longer knows who can be trusted.
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FictionBeneath the surface
by Lina Areklew
As a young boy, Fredrik Fröding survived one of Europe’s worst ferry disasters – M/S Estonia in 1994. The sunken ship takes both his parents down in the sea. His brother Niklas is washed aboard from the rescue raft while Fredrik holds his hand, and to this day he refuses to give up hope that his brother survived. Twenty-five years later Fredrik sees his brother outside a hotel in Stockholm, together with the owner Adam Ceder. In a search to find Niklas, Fredrik follows Ceder to the island Ulvön to confront him, but before he has time to do so Ceder is found brutally murdered. Surprisingly, the investigation is lead by a person from Fredrik’s past, police officer Sofia Hjortén. Sofia moved back to her family home on the island after a quick rise within the Stockholm police, to heal from a tragedy that still haunts her. She is determined to start a new life and when Fredrik becomes a suspect for the Ceder murder she is the only one who believes his innocence.
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September 2020The Six Walls of Life
by Nina Burton
From the 2016 August Prize for Non-Fiction winner comes a beguiling and in many ways exceptional nature memoir, an homage to the natural world around us. What begins with a renovation of Nina Burton’s summer cottage, swiftly turns into an exploration of nature, life and philosophy in the hands of the award-winning essayist. Within the walls, the ceiling and the floor of the cottage and its surrounding garden, we encounter a host of animals—ants, honey bees, foxes, squirrels, blackbirds, badgers, pigeons and deer—making her house their home, which prompted Nina to explore what is awe-inspiring and often delightfully surprising in each species. For instance, did you know that there are more ants altogether than the number of seconds that have passed since the Big Bang? And that in relation to their size, their anthill cities can be larger than London and New York? Or, that a bird’s migratory instinct is so strong that an injured stork once escaped captivity and was found six weeks later having walked 150 kilometres, following the migratory path of his flock on foot? This and many other remarkable musings are woven together with scientific exploration in the absolutely captivating THE SIX WALLS OF LIFE, in which Nina reveals the inner lives and hitherto unknown habits of the animals with which she shares her enchanted space. A clear heir to the Swedish tradition of nature writing first made famous by Kerstin Ekman, Nina Burton writes with boundless enthusiasm and an inspiring curiosity, while enlightening the reader about the greater natural world. She transports us into her chirping, buzzing, humming sanctuary, letting us in on the hidden secrets of the animals who have taken up residence on our doorsteps and in our hearts.
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August 2024Lass uns basteln - Weltraum
Bastelblock mit bunten Bastelvorlagen ab 5 Jahren
by Corina Beurenmeister
Attention, it's time to do some crafting! Whether it's a rocket as a gift box, a UFO to hang up or astronauts as a bookmark: this block takes all craft fans aged 5 and over on a galactic ride through space. For some craft ideas, all you need is scissors and glue. For others, you also need craft materials that are often found in the home, such as toilet paper rolls, toothpicks or straws. So you don't need much preparation time and you can get started right away! The illustrated crafting steps can be followed by both adults and children. The crafting ideas can be used to create useful everyday helpers, decorative objects or objects to play with. This way, the children not only have fun while they are crafting, but also long afterwards.
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Children's & YAMarch 2019Handicrafts with Paper
by Julia Schmidt
Paper crafting fun for small and large children Paper offers endless design possibilities. And handicrafts are a lot of fun, especially for children, and encourage creativity even in the smallest children. How well both can be combined is also known by Funkelfaden blogger Julia Schmidt from Berlin. In her book she shows the funniest and most creative paper craft ideas for children from 4 years of age. 20 craft projects from cool monster bookmarks to funny birds made from toilet paper rolls to colourful paper flowers make you want to do paper crafting. And what child is not proud of something so self-created? With lots of step-by-step photos and simple, understandable instructions, all projects are easy to recreate and guaranteed to be unique. All craft ideas can be further varied individually by each child. The projects should above all serve as a stimulus and inspiration, to make you want to design freely. At the same time, they promote childish creativity and motor skills. The fun of tinkering with paper should always be in the foreground. Selection of projects paper • paper beads • colourful birds from toilet paper rolls • notebook • picture frames • monster bookmarks • funny piggy bank • cheerful decorations for children's parties • masks for carnival and other parties • piñata • lantern
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Children's & YAA Good Feeling
Emotion Journal for Kids
by Jan Lenarz
You can’t start practicing mindfulness soon enough! With this heartwarming diary, children can playfully learn about their feelings, express gratitude and reflect on experiences. Additionally, it includes many pages with riddles and crafting ideas, stickers and beautiful illustrations that act as a gentle entry into the topic of self-reflection. Most people only start occupying themselves with mindfulness, gratitude and their own feelings when there is a certain level of suffering. Wouldn’t it be great, if we learnt these important tools for mental health as children? Playfully, with curiosity and without distress? A Good Feeling can do exactly that and uses cute monsters to explain the 20 most important feelings in a child’s everyday life, without a moralising undertone and without judgement. Because this book has one main message: all feelings are good feelings! Also, the painful emotions like loneliness, sadness and shame have a function as they convey that something is missing or not right. When children learn from an early age to recognise and name their feelings, a mature way of dealing with all emotions – that children, in particular, experience in an unfiltered and unexpected manner – is created. After a few days, even the youngest human beings are able to distinguish them. Ticking off which of these emotion monsters have knocked on the door during the day quickly turns into a valuable routine and helps process feelings. This ritual also creates space to talk about unpleasant things. Additionally, there is space for keeping a diary and for practicing gratitude. After every ten days, riddles and crafting ideas bring relaxation and motivation. Search games, colouring pictures, a poster or the wonderful emotion wheel to cut out all provide for diversion and a deeper understanding of the displayed feelings. We recommend the following crafting materials: colourful pencils, a glue stick, scissors and a brass fastener. A bookmark ribbon and a fold out page complete the book.
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June 2017The Complete Works of Mo Yan's Novels
Frogs Big Breast and Wide Hips Red Sorghum The Garlic Ballads Thirteen Steps The Republic of Wine The Herbivorous Family Red Woods Sandalwood Death Pow! Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
by Mo Yan
"The Complete Works of Mo Yan's Novels" includes the eleven novels of Mo Yan so far: "Frogs", "Big Breast and Wide Hips", "Red Sorghum", "The Garlic Ballads", "Thirteen Steps", "The Republic of Wine", "The Herbivorous Family", "Red Woods", "Sandalwood Death", "Pow!", and "Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out". They have been sold for a long time after being published in January 2017 and have been printed repeatedly. In order to meet the needs of readers and the market, a new revised and upgraded version was released in 2020, which not only has the content been revised repeatedly to eliminate errors to the greatest extent, but also the cover design and color matching elements have been adjusted. The use of new bright colorful pattern cover paper makes the overall binding more elegant and atmospheric. And "The Complete Works of Mo Yan's Novels" includes exquisite inserts and exquisite bookmarks. ZHEJIANG LITERATURE & ART PUBLISHING HOUSE strives to make a bold breakthrough in the design of binding, placing Mo Yan's works in the context of world literature to understand, inheriting Chinese elements and absorbing foreign elements. This brand-new binding scheme constructed in line with the trend of the times and the design concept of the international vision is refreshing.
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Early learning / early learning conceptsLittle Fox Falls Asleep
by Hanna Bergenkull
It's bedtime for Little Fox, but it is not always easy to fall asleep, even when you’re really tired. Perhaps Big Fox will disappear when the bedroom door closes? And what about Grandma Fox? Little Fox likes to hear their voices outside the door as he drifts off to sleep. One part of the book is a good night story that parents can read together with their children, the other part of the book is filled with facts about sleep and sleep training. This part is for caregivers to help them and their children to better sleep and easier sleep training. There’s everything from a short history of sleep, to facts about REM sleep and practical tips and tricks. A The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep for even younger children... and their very tired parents.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesRecord School
The Journey
by Anna Winberg
You have been admitted to…. THE RECORD SCHOOL! Silje, Rurik and Kostas are nine years old, and none of them really fit in. Silje lives in the posh suburb Tigerholm, but she is the only one with a mohawk and a rocker style. Rurik’s family only wants to train, compete and win in athletics, but he is just not into traditional sports. And Kostas is super smart, he has already jumped ahead three classes in school, but he has no real friends, and mainly hangs around the library, playing chess with 80-year old Allan. They all apply to the Record School, a boarding school on a remote island, where all the students train for some kind of world record, and anything can happen. In the beginning, everything seems exciting, but there are also clouds on the horizon. Take the twins, Sanja and Manji, for example, and the strict rules – will you really be suspended from the school if you aren’t punctual?
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Children's & young adult: general non-fictionWhose Poop?
by Sarah Watson
Stop! Stay there! Who has pooped here? Some animals poop on the gound, some from a branch. Small and big, learn to recognize the animals that have walked ahead of you from what they leave behind. Let Sarah Watson’s text and Emma Jansson’s illustrations guide you through the forest in a playful and entertaining manner.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fictionMy First Birds
by Emma Jansson
In the first book in the new series DISCOVER NATURE, we get to know nineteen of the most well-known birds in the Northern hemisphere. Learn to spot the difference between a Common Crane and a Grey Heron, and learn more about the Swedish national bird: the Common Blackbird. The book includes concise facts about the birds’ characteristic traits, what they eat and where they live. If you’re lucky, you might find them on a walk in the forest, or in your own backyard!
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesSuper Secret
by Barbro Lindgren
Barbro Lindgren’s Secret books (Super Secret, Top Secret and Pages on Fire) are fictional diaries inspired by memories of her own childhood and teenage years. They are honest and gripping about a young adults’ first experiences of the great mysteries, the sorrow, death and love, written from the child’s perspective. The books are considered modern classics and have since their publication (1971–1973) constantly found new readers. In this edition new photos and an afterword by the author are added.
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FictionJanuary 2016Bonds of Love and Blood
by Marylee Macdonald
Whether far from home or longing to escape, the people in these stories find themselves displaced from their normal routines. They misread the signals and wind up stranded on lonely beaches or seizing the moment before happiness flits away. "MacDonald applies insight, power, and delicacy to create characters between whom the psychic space virtually sizzles." —FOREWORD REVIEWS "engrossing"—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "With elegant prose enlivened by shards of mean humor, MacDonald captures how hard it is to love and/or trust abroad or at home."—KIRKUS REVIEWS "Author Marylee MacDonald has done an absolutely masterful job of presenting her readers with short stories so beautifully written that the characters will stay in your mind long after the story, and indeed the book, is done."—READERS’ FAVORITE "In her collection of twelve brilliantly-written short stories, MacDonald explores the pain and beauty of human relationships. MacDonald’s writing is raw and visceral, creating a strong emotional connection between her characters and the reader."—US REVIEW OF BOOKS "Bonds of Love and Blood is brilliantly written and nothing less than emotive."—HOLLYWOOD BOOK REVIEWS "Poignant, honest,and compelling... Highly recommended."—PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW "MacDonald dares to question which is the greater, more unsettling risk: the alluring intimacy of foreign terrains, or the intimate dangers of domesticity?" —Tara Ison, author of Reeling Through Life and Child out of Alcatraz "Her characters remind us of our universal and contradictory longing for solitude and for connection. Savor this book. Enjoy being in the hands of a generous and visionary writer." —Eileen Favorite, author of The Heroines "These elegantly crafted stories brim with emotional wisdom and eloquence. Bearing you around the world, they will imprint themselves, deeply, indelibly, upon your heart." —Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino
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January 2020Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai
Essays
by Fiza Pathan
"I am a recluse and I love books more than I love people." - So begins Fiza Pathan, the self-proclaimed Reclusive Writer and Reader of Mumbai. In this charming collection of personal essays, Fiza recalls important phases of her life, along with the books she was reading at the time and where she read them. Revealed along the way are Fiza's personal struggles, from the father who didn't want a girl child to the years she believed she wanted to be a nun to the college friends who shamed her for gaining weight.Her greatest victories are found here as well, among them the publication of her first story, the request to autograph her most popular book by an author she admired, the start of her own publishing company, and the acquisition of her very own office-cum-writing hut. Within her stories, you'll meet Fiza's beloved Mama, editorial partner (and uncle) Blaise, many other uncles and aunts, the librarians of her youth, and plenty of book salesman. All the people who have helped Fiza along her path to books, books, and more books. You'll also take a taxi with Narayan, Fiza's "Man Friday," to visit her favorite haunts, from libraries to kiosks to boutiques to vendors who pile their offerings on the sides of the road, and you'll learn the plots of her favorite comics, religious writings, medical thrillers, horror stories, activist writings, and so much more.Fiza believes that every one of the books she has read has helped her become the person - and the writer - she was meant to become. Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai is her life in books!
