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      • Chocolate Publishing

        Les Genies du chocolat, refered to as "the bible" is the most comprehensive work on the highest quality chocolate in the world today. Crafted with great sensitivity with meticulous editing, this pioneering masterpiece unravels an undiscovered territory of French gastronomy.

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      • Choc Lit

        Choc Lit is an award-winning publisher of women's fiction - romance, historical and crime fiction. We hold world rights for all our titles.

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        April 2006

        Südkorea.

        Teilband 10: Strafrecht in Reaktion auf Systemunrecht. Vergleichende Einblicke in Transitionsprozesse. Hrsg. von Albin Eser / Ulrich Sieber / Jörg Arnold.

        by Byungsun, Cho; Holzapfl, Carolin; Richter, Thomas / Herausgegeben von Eser, Albin; Herausgegeben von Sieber, Ulrich; Herausgegeben von Arnold, Jörg

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        April 2024

        Dragon Fruit

        Botany, Production and Uses

        by Sisir Mitra, Nigel P. Taylor, Pradyot K. Pathak, Kundan Kishore, Ankita Sahu, Prinya Wongsa, Taner Bozkurt, Özhan Simsek, Joanna Cho Lee Ying, Phebe Ding, Long Haibo, Tang Liangde, Li Huadong, Hamide Gubbuk, Recep Balkic, Lokman Altinkaya, Leila Aparecida Salles Pio, Renato Paiva, Mai Van Tri, Dinh Thi Yen Phuong

        Dragon fruit (pitaya) is a perennial climbing cactus, native to the tropical areas of North, Central and South America. It is suited to tropical and subtropical regions and is commercially grown in an increasing number of countries, including Israel, Australia and the USA. Dragon fruit generates considerable consumer interest because of its exotic appearance and potential health benefits. The fruit is rich in nutrients and phytochemical compounds. It can be eaten fresh or used in the preparation of juices, jellies, jams, etc. The natural bioactive compounds in pitaya have the potential to be exploited in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Increasingly cultivated worldwide, the plant is drought-resistant, easily adapts to light intensity and high temperatures, and has a tolerance to a wide range of soil salinities. With ongoing global warming, dragon fruit has great potential as a new crop for many more countries. This book is a compilation of the current state of knowledge on dragon fruit physiology, cultivation, production technology, postharvest management and processing, and is written by leading international authors.

      • Children's & YA
        September 2019

        Mister Cho and Miss Co / Socio-emotional competencies series

        by Tamara Vučković, Jelena Brezovec

        Mister Cho and Miss Co is a story about responsibility as a very important socialand emotional competency and skill in children’s development.It is very important for children to develop independence to be able to carry outand fulfill everyday obligations and tasks. Mister Cho and Miss Co teach childrenthat we always have choices and that the decisions we make have consequences.These consequences can be unpleasant or good, but part of learning responsibilityfrom experience is accepting mistakes and being willing to try again.

      • Fiction

        Nīrppaḻi (Water-blame)

        Sixty Eight Stories from Literary Award Winning Author

        by Cho. Dharman

        In the space of modern Tamil literature, Cho Dharman is actively writing for the last  fourty years. Nīrppaḻi - This anthology of Short stories is a handpicked collection from his dynamic array of work.Writing about inconstant elements of children, mentally challenged people, forests, birds, sea, aborigines, prisons is an arduous task. Cho. Dharman has mastered it.  *** This anthology was selected as the best short story collection of the year, for two consecutive years. It was also honoured with the National Katha award. Most of the stories in this collection have been translated to English, Hindi and Malayalam.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        SAHA MANSION

        by Cho Nam-joo

        There are two classes of people in the Town: L and L2. The ones with citizenship are referred to as Ls, or Citizens. They are above a certain level of financial status with knowledge or skills that the Town requires. The L2s are people without citizenship but have a clean criminal record. After interview and physical examination, they can stay and work for two years in this safest and richest corporate nation on earth.   Then there are those below even the L2s, illegal aliens called the saha. They are the immigrants, the disabled, the misfits, victims of violence and poverty who dwell in the decrepit Saha Mansion and are named accordingly.   So what happens when a respected young pediatrician is found dead in a parking lot, with evidence of drug overdose and sexual assault, and the prime suspect is her saha boyfriend?   A major police crackdown ensues, with the boyfriend quickly arrested and executed, but is he really behind the murder? His sister, Jinkyung, vows to find out the truth, only to discover the disappearance of a saha girl who has been the test subject of the Town Medical Lab. What lies behind the impenetrable walls of the Town, and who are the mysterious seven Premiers who rule it?   Eight years in the making, SAHA MANSION is a powerful tale of dystopia and a battle cry for the dispossessed. Cho gives voice to the marginalized and often unseen minority: They are all Kim Jiyoung, every single one of them.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        The Korean-American Dream

        Portraits of a Successful Immigrant Community

        by James Flanigan

        Chairman Yang Ho Cho, head of Korean Air and Hanjin, talks of Los Angeles as a “microcosm of the United States—a land built of immigrants who want to do one thing: improve their lives.”In The Korean-American Dream, respected and distinguished business journalist James Flanigan uncovers the struggles and contributions of the people who have made Los Angeles the largest Korean city outside of Seoul.This intimate account illustrates how Korean immigrants have preserved their culture and history as well as adapted to the American culture of E Pluribus Unum, the radical promise of “out of many, one.” Flanigan shows how Los Angeles emerged as a capital of the Asia Pacific region.At less than 2 million, Korean Americans are a relatively small group compared to new Americans from China, the Philippines, and India. But with energy and drive, they are building landmarks in New York as well as L.A., lobbying for causes in Washington, founding businesses, heading universities and hospitals, and holding public office in all parts of the U.S.

      • Fiction

        Kūkai (The Owl)

        Literary Award Winning Author: Contesting Marginality of Tamil Dalits

        by Cho. Dharman

        Kūkai means Owl. It is a night bird. Its eyes are blind in the daylight and it is unaware of its strength. Owl does not fancy migration. It will continue to live and die in the same place. It will live in a tree hollow in fear and desperation. If other birds happen to see the owl, they would attack pecking and chasing and eventually leading to its death. This novel is written symbolising owl to Dalits. The cruelties and sufferings faced by these so-called untouchables are aesthetically narrated in this novel.

      • Fiction

        Patimūṉāvatu maiyavāṭi (The Thirteenth Burial ground)

        Craked Mirror of Religious Seens from Literary Award Winning Author

        by Cho. Dharman

        Patimūṉāvatu maiyavāṭi Sea, prison, forest, aboriginal people, transgenders- the writers know how difficult it really is to create a work combining all these elements. We can add Hindu monasteries and Christian hermits to this fusion. The convents of nuns are mystical. The author had lived with them for many years. He narrates the lives of Christian nuns and monks and their secret world in a beautiful language.

      • Fiction

        Tūrvai

        Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Author

        by Cho. Dharman

        The Novel is woven around how the chemical fertilizers and pesticides ravaged our yield and the soil making them toxic, in the name of green revolution paving way for the downfall of the agriculture which was once self-sufficient and self-reliant. The pure Tamil word ‘Thoorvai’  means what causes the one which was already there to disappear.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        July 2017

        Korean Culture in 100 Keywords

        by Cho Yong-hee, Han Yumi, Tcho Hye-young

        The 100 keywords for this book have been selected through several rounds of surveys with the students at the Korean Cultural Center in Paris, France. The 100 facts address extensive sectors. The facts have been selected because they not only help French and global learners have an overall understanding of the state of Korea, but also represent the background knowledge necessary to study essential words and grammar in learning Korean from various aspects including culture, history, tradition and society. The 100 keywords thus chosen serve as the topic of each subject. This book has a total of 100 subjects, largely divided in six themes so that learners can easily search the subject they would like to know. The six themes are: Theme 1: Symbolic Icons (10 Subjects) Theme 2: Food, Clothing and Shelter (12 Subjects) Theme 3: Geography and Tourism (21 Subjects) Theme 4: Society & Daily Life (19 Subjects) Theme 5: History and Religion (20 Subjects) Theme 6: Arts and Culture (18 Subjects) Each subject consists of two pages. On the upper left side is a photo that can explain the subject at a glance. Under the photo is a Korean text that introduces contents that must be learned regarding the subject. In order to help the learning, two questions are added to check the learner’s understanding of the text. The answers are provided in the appendices at the end of this book. On the upper right side is the English translation of the Korean text. The translation will serve for learners to measure their level of Korean proficiency in terms of understanding; in addition, it will satisfy the need for Korean learners who have long wanted to have a bilingual textbook. On the bottom is the English translation of each Words and Expressions section to help readers understand the Korean text. Small photos that are relevant to each subject are added to provide greater enjoyment.

      • Science & Mathematics
        August 2020

        The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments

        Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and Ferments

        by Nigel Palmer

        Revitalize your garden—and go beyond compost—by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for little or no cost! In The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments, experimental gardener and author Nigel Palmer provides practical, detailed instructions that are accessible to every grower who wants to achieve a truly sustainable garden ecosystem—all while enjoying better results at a fraction of the cost of commercial fertilizer products. These recipes go beyond fertilizer replacement, resulting in greater soil biological activity and mineral availability. They also increase pest and disease resistance, yields, and nutrient density. Recipes include: Extracting nutrients from plant residues using simple rainwater techniques Extracting minerals from bones and shells using vinegar Fermenting plant juices and fish Culturing indigenous microorganisms (IMO) Inspired by the work of many innovative traditional agricultural pioneers, especially Cho Ju-Young (founder of the Korean Natural Farming method), The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments also includes a primer on plant-soil interaction, instructions for conducting a soil test, and guidance on compost, cover cropping, mulching, measuring the quality of fruits and vegetables using a refractometer, and other aspects of sustainable gardening—making it a must-have resource for  any serious grower.

      • June 2013

        Master KOREAN 1-1 Basic

        by Hangrok Cho, Tyeyoung Yang, Jongbun Kwon, Junsung Ki, Sunhee Kim, Eunjung Choi

        The Master Korean series is an integrated set of coursebooks designed to help the reader fully master the Korean language through various activities and practice in the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. After learning all the grammar and vocabulary in each level, the reader will be able to sit for the corresponding level of the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK). As the first book in the Master Korean series of coursebooks, Master Korean 1-1 is aimed at English and Chinese-speaking learners studying Korean at the introductory level. · Systematically study for appropriate level of the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK)! Together, Master Korean 1-1 and 1-2 introduces all of the vocabulary and grammar necessary to sit for Level 1 of the TOPIK. · Have fun studying with Korean using task-based teaching principles! The series includes a variety of study tasks based on the authors’ many years of Korean teaching experience along with empirical data to create a text that is both easy to study and interesting. · Enjoy rich visual and audio materials! Each chapter is full of colorful illustrations and pictures, along with auditory materials created with professional voice actors to improve memorization and overall learning, regardless of whether you are studying by yourself or as a student in a language institution. · Get valuable Korean cultural information necessary for communication from a learner’s perspective! “Why do Koreans also address store employees as ‘언니(big sister)’” Includes detailed English explanations for many aspects of the Korean culture and language that learners are curious about. * This series is also available in Chinese. Level 6 is scheduled to be published, with levels 5 and 6 available only in Korean.

      • July 2017

        Il peso delle ombre. Racconti veri o false storie? (The burden of shadows. Between true stories and false tales)

        by Mario Casella

        This book is dedicated to those who have had to carry the unfair burden of lies, having been wrongly accused of being untrue; and to the liars, too. I hope these pages will help them figure out their own motives.Some seasons are tougher than some others. Struggling as we are to stay afloat, we are unable to even think about the impact that some days, or months, or even years might have on our lives. There are crucial times, no matter how ordinary or dramatic they happen to be, that are bound to affect a person’s future forever.[…]I was so keen to pursue my ambitions as a mountaineer that I numbed my inquisitiveness as a journalist. I hushed my own spirit – me, the champion of human rights and freedom of speech. I left for Tibet with the bitter prospect of obeying the Chinese ban on visiting Lhasa and the other rebel cities of the province.What’s the point of denying it? When you chase after a selfish goal, everything you usually stand for – your morals, your life code – swiftly slip to the bottom of a drawer. A double-lock one, at that.[…]One day I read an article on the Internet. A skyrunner, who enjoyed the sponsorship of several major brands of mountaineering gear, announced he had climbed to the top of K2 – on his own. This Pakistani eight-thousander presents even more challenges than its illustrious peer, Mount Everest, and the victorious summitter was determined to conquer the top of each second tallest mountain in every continent. His Asian goal was K2.However, this wasn’t the real scoop. Upon coming back to Europe, the mountaineer had surrendered to the pressure of the media and had confessed he had lied. Weeping, he told journalists that he had fooled the whole world as well as himself.It was the picture at the summit that gave him away. It didn’t offer any solid elements to ascertain the exact location of the shot; what it did offer was, in fact, a few suspicious details in the background. As it turned out, the picture hadn’t been taken on the top of K2, but further down.The news hit me hard. My gut reaction was to blame the mountaineer without appeal. He had brought disgrace upon a sport associated with trust, betraying what should be a cardinal principle of human behaviour: the respect for truth.[…]Two issues made me curious: how a lie, or what is thought to be a lie, comes into being; and what happens to the life of the alleged liar.What is it that starts ticking in our head, I wonder, when we decide to tell a lie? It’s some sort of subtle mechanism at work in our psyche, something that all of us are familiar with. It’s not peculiar to mountaineering.What pushed me to write this book was the realisation of how immensely life-changing this “True or False” game can be – a vain thing in itself, and yet able sometimes to lead us as far as the dock.I decided to examine only the most thought-provoking cases in terms of human experience.[…]Lies – even the mere doubt of a lie – have often changed a person’s future. My book looks into the lies that affected the existence of several mountaineers of varying renown. Lies are the burdensome shadows that these people had to carry in their backpacks throughout the rest of their days.The practise of an infallible test in order to ascertain a person’s innocence or guilt – like a DNA test, that has saved many a convicted’s life in the USA – is not a thing in the domain of mountaineering.Doubt resists, and so does its shadow.While I was working on this book, my eyes fell on the summit picture that I took on top of Mount Cho Oyu. In the background there’s nothing but clouds and some stripes of blue: no solid, conclusive element to tell where the picture was actually taken.What if, I wondered, what if somebody wakes up tomorrow and decides to question my feat?It was then that the burden of shadows plummeted upon my shoulders.

      • Education

        Low-Fat Love

        by Leavy, P.

        Best Seller! Low-Fat Love unfolds over three seasons as Prilly Greene and Janice Goldwyn, adversarial editors at a New York press, experience personal change relating to the men (and absence of women) in their lives. Ultimately, each woman is pushed to confront her own image of herself, exploring her insecurities, the stagnation in her life and her reasons for having settled for low-fat love. Along with Prilly and Janice, a cast of offbeat characters’ stories are interwoven throughout the book. Low-Fat Love is underscored with a commentary about female identity-building and self-acceptance and how, too often, women become trapped in limited visions of themselves. Women’s media is used as a signpost throughout the book in order to make visible the context in which women come to think of themselves as well as the men and women in their lives. In this respect Low-Fat Love offers a critical commentary about popular culture and the social construction of femininity. Grounded in a decade of interview research with young women and written in a fun, chick-lit voice, the novel can be read for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in a variety of social science or women’s/gender studies courses as well as courses in popular culture, qualitative research or arts-based research. “Based on my students' responses and my own enjoyment of the novel, I highly recommend it!” -- Professor Barbara Gurr, Women' Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut “More than anything LFL proved the astonishing talent that Leavy is as both a writer and social commentator.”-- Professor Melissa Anyiwo, Politics and History, Curry College “My students LOVE the book. One keeps saying, “I feel as if I am inside of this story … so colorful … so contemporary!!!””-- Professor Jeasik Cho, University of Wyoming (used Low-Fat Love in qualitative research methods and had students perform content analysis on the media/objects and conversation analysis on the dialogue) Suggested Uses in College Courses: Ideal Supplemental Text in courses across the disciplines that deal with gender; women’s studies; feminism, intimacy and human sexuality; the psychology of relationships, self-esteem or identity; the sociology of emotions; art education; popular culture/mass media; or writing/creative writing Great Springboard for Class Discussions about: the psychology of negative relationships; popular culture and the construction of gender; gender and identity; gender socialization; dysfunctional family systems; or human intimacy, dating and sexuality Ideal Example of Arts-Based Research or Creative Writing in courses that cover: arts-based research, arts-based educational research, qualitative research, narrative inquiry or writing/creative writing The author is happy to provide you with sample class assignments, activities and discussion questions. If you adopt this book the author is also available to Skype into your class for a book talk upon mutually convenient scheduling. To request class materials or schedule a Skype visit please email her at pleavy7@aol.com Click here to view and download SAMPLE CLASS ACTIVITIES Low-Fat Love has been nominated for the following awards: •Outstanding Qualitative Book of the Year 2012 sponsored by the Congress of Qualitative Inquiry •Outstanding Qualitative Book of the Year 2012 sponsored by the Qualitative Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association •The Mirra Komarovsky Award for the Outstanding Sociology Book of the Year 2012 sponsored by the Eastern Sociological Society •The Emily Toth Award for the Best Single Work by One or More Authors 2012 sponsored by the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association • Special Achievement Award from the American Creativity Association for the Social Fictions series and advancing arts-based research (2013) Social Fictions Series Editorial Advisory Board Carl Bagley, University of Durham, UK Anna Banks, University of Idaho, USA Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida, USA Rita Irwin, University of British Columbia, Canada J. Gary Knowles, University of Toronto, Canada Laurel Richardson, The Ohio State University (Emeritus), USA ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Patricia Leavy, Ph.D. was an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College for ten years, where she also served as the Founding Director of the Gender Studies Program and Chairperson of the Sociology & Criminology Dept. She is now a full-time writer. She is the author of Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research: Using Problem-Centered Methodologies (2011), Method Meets Art: Arts Based Research Practice (2009) and has also authored, co-authored and edited more than a dozen books. She is regularly quoted in newspapers for her expertise on popular culture and gender, has appeared on a number of national news programs and writes articles for the Huffington Post and other news outlets. She was named the “New England Sociologist of the Year for 2010” by the New England Sociological Association and has been nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. For more information please visit www.patricialeavy.com

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