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Mit frischem Universitätsabschluss in der Tasche, beschließt der junge Franzose Mauro, seinem bisherigen Leben den Rücken zu kehren. Er will sich nun voll und ganz seiner wirklichen Leidenschaft verschreiben: dem Kochen. Mit seinem Fahrrad rast Mauro von Brasserien über Bistros zu Sternerestaurants, er kocht in Berlin und in Burma, springt vom Blanchieren zum Sautieren, von Bouillons zu Sorbets, von Marktgängen zu Nachtschichten – und eröffnet schließlich seinen eigenen kleinen Laden. Fünfzehn Lehrjahre, gezeichnet von geschundenen Händen, Schlafmangel und einer schleichend zerrinnenden Freizeit. Aber auch ein sinnliches Abenteuer der absoluten Hingabe und der Kunst des perfekten Menüs. Maylis de Kerangal erzählt vom unvergesslichen Geschmack, der in einer Ochsenherztomate oder einem Strauch Wildkräuter steckt – und davon, wie sehr es einen Koch beglücken kann, die eigene kulinarische Philosophie zu finden.
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Mit frischem Universitätsabschluss in der Tasche, beschließt der junge Franzose Mauro, seinem bisherigen Leben den Rücken zu kehren. Er will sich nun voll und ganz seiner wirklichen Leidenschaft verschreiben: dem Kochen. Mit seinem Fahrrad rast Mauro von Brasserien über Bistros zu Sternerestaurants, er kocht in Berlin und in Burma, springt vom Blanchieren zum Sautieren, von Bouillons zu Sorbets, von Marktgängen zu Nachtschichten – und eröffnet schließlich seinen eigenen kleinen Laden. Fünfzehn Lehrjahre, gezeichnet von geschundenen Händen, Schlafmangel und einer schleichend zerrinnenden Freizeit. Aber auch ein sinnliches Abenteuer der absoluten Hingabe und der Kunst des perfekten Menüs. Maylis de Kerangal erzählt vom unvergesslichen Geschmack, der in einer Ochsenherztomate oder einem Strauch Wildkräuter steckt – und davon, wie sehr es einen Koch beglücken kann, die eigene kulinarische Philosophie zu finden.
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Landscape today is no longer just a cultural aspect, intended as an elitist phenomenon, but emerges as an essential element in the definition and the application of a modern approach in sustainable development. Historical locally adapted distinctive and ingenious combinations of management practices have contributed and continue to contribute tremendously to the biodiversity of the world, resulting not only in outstanding aesthetic beauty, but, in the sustained provision of multiple goods and services, food and livelihood security and quality of life. The development of policies to preserve and manage landscape resources, has to face both the degradation of cultural landscape due to socio-economic development and the need to develop appropriate methods and approaches. This book presents different methodologies developed to analyse, manage and plan landscape resources. It reports recent research findings and case studies from Europe and North America, suggesting also the revision of some orientations and views of the current policies concerning forestry, rural development and nature conservation, often contributing to degrade cultural landscapes.
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A companion to Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change which includes over 20 papers from the same conference held in Florence in 1998. This volume focuses on the different approaches and methods adopted in the study of forest history. The interdisciplinary nature of these studies is emphasized, bringing in the different perspectives of anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, foresters, historians, geneticists and geographers. This volume demonstrates the rich diversity of approaches and methods to forest history.
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This book presents edited and revised versions of more than 30 papers selected from those presented at a major conference on History and Forest Resources, held in Florence in 1998. The conference was organised by the Italian Academy of Forestry Science and working group on Forest History of the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO). As a whole the papers present detailed analyses of the interrelationships between forest ecosystems and socioeconomic development from thirteen different countries of the world. Main economic and social factors, techniques and local practices, as well as legal and political aspects related to forest changes are discussed, according to the latest achievements in forest history research. The book is a companion volume to Methods and Approaches in Forest History.
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Until recently, the production of fruits by plants, their consumption by animals (frugivory) and the relevance of these to seed dispersal have attracted less attention than topics such as pollination biology. However, since the 1970s they have started to gain more prominence and now give rise to more research funding, seminal papers and international symposiums. This book contains chapters adapted from the Third International Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal held in August 2000 in Rio Quente, Brazil.
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From icy poles to arid deserts, boiling pools to the depths of the sea, this exciting new work studies the remarkable life forms that have made these inhospitable environments their home. The ecological, biological and biogeochemical challenges that higher-level plants and animals, microorganisms and viruses face are detailed, and the unifying themes found between environments discussed. A fascinating and comprehensive resource for researchers and students, this book is packed with colour figures and photos showcasing the most extreme environments and the organisms that have adapted to live in them.
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Mineral nutrition of livestock is an area of significant importance due to its contribution to farm animal economics and health. With a focus on macromineral utilization in farm animals, this book brings together quantitative aspects of phosphorus and calcium metabolism in farm animals in chapters written by leading researchers worldwide. It covers isotope dilution technique, phosphorus and calcium utilization in ruminants (sheep, goats and cattle) and non-ruminants (swine, horses) and recommended value of phosphorus and calcium inclusion in feed. It is an essential resource for researchers and students in animal sciences and nutrition.
A journey beyond fear, to understand how this epidemic is changing our freedom, our rights, our democracy. “While power attacks the virus, the virus has already affected the power. It is not the one that changes, as we feared in our worst nightmares: in fact it is changing us and the relationship between citizens and State.” Modernity has accustomed us to look at death as a senseless, incongruous event. Instead an unknown pathogen forced us calculate every day who lives and who dies. But every diagram, every count that seems to reveal the secret of this misfortune, has actually a double meaning, it tells something about the virus and about us, and the balance is the amount of our daily fear. To escape evil, we hid ourselves, taking shelter, abandoning social relations to imprison ourselves within the walls of our homes. Meanwhile a second, invisible infection was spreading silently, and nobody knows yet how many victims it will do: it is an infection that transfers the fear from the health situation to the social organization. The virus seems to make inadequate what we used to consider a conquest, it goes straight to the heart of the system and attacks the democratic mechanism, it proposes a new and different power, based on anomaly as a necessity. So the infection is transforming not only social relationships, but also our freedom, our work and our rights: in a word, it’s transforming politics. For this reason, even if we were all the same in the beginning of the pandemic, we risk coming out it very different. Ezio Mauro tells the path of the virus since it was born in China until today, studying its tactics, strategy and character. In the meantime, he reflects on us, on how we are changing. “We are victims of a universal attack that for the first time threatens the whole human race, and at the same time we are protagonists of an unprecedented social experiment: we will come out different, I have tried to understand how and how much.”
Andrei Sinjavskij was only half of a story. The other half was named Yulij Daniel’. Together, the two Russian writers challenged the Soviet regime with the most powerful and feared weapon – the word – publishing their books in the West under the pseudonyms of Abram Terz and Nikolai Arjak. Andrei Sinjavskij and Yulij Daniel’ were arrested only four days apart by the KGB, and in 1966 tried in a trial that became a worldwide scandal, the first after the fall of Chruscëv and the reformist illusions. Their sentences were almost identical: five and seven years in prison and forced labor in the gulag. On both of them, on the last day of the trial, the investigating judge’s words resounded with his impenetrable certainty: “You may be right in twenty years, but for the moment it is I who am right”. Then the Soviet power thought of breaking the thread of that intellectual friendship, so deep that it turned into politics, and so strong that it turned into opposition: it opened to Sinjavskij the way to exile, while Daniel’ remained confined in his homeland. Sinjavskij lived in Paris, taught at the Sorbonne and his books had to stop at the immense border of the USSR. Thus the writer was forbidden in his own country until he was forgotten. The chess game between power and Yulij Daniel’ was more difficult. He lived in his homeland, after the camp he returned to Moscow in a house near the Sokol subway station. He did not carry out any suspicious activities. But his life, his name, his identity confirmed him as an intellectual forever and a dissident forever. A shadow fell over his name. But he kept repeating to himself: ‘Julij Markovic Daniel’, writer and translator, already convicted of anti-Soviet activities, released from the gulag, living in Kaluga, living in Moscow, on Novaja Pishanaja Street, entrance 3, second floor, apartment number 52. All this, because of two books.
The noisy revolution of digital technology was preceded by a silent scientific revolution, which produced important results, raised fundamental questions and transformed the way we interpret notions that concern mathematical demonstration, the representation of information and human creativity itself. Understanding this transformation is the first fundamental step towards a greater awareness with regard to the changes generated by the digital age in which we are living. Bruno Codenotti and Mauro Leoncini tell us the great “silent revolution” that led to the lifechanging computer revolution, because even if algorithms and AI are part of our daily life... do we really know how they were created and how they work?
“Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes” (Learning to Talk to Plants)by Marta Orriols – Debut novel (Literary/Upmarket) Original publisher/language: Ed. del Periscopi (Catalan, 2018) Rights sold: Lumen (Spanish), Seuil (French), Ponte alle Grazie (Italian), DTV (German), Hakursa/9Lives (Hebrew), Prometheus (Dutch), Sonia Draga (Polish), Dom Quixote (Portuguese, excl Brazil), Pushkin Press (World English), United Sky (Simplified Chinese), Kastaniotis (Greece). Paula, the narrator and main character, is 40 years old, she’s a neonatologist and she is alive. But her life-long boyfriend Mauro suddenly died in an accident. In the first pages of the novel, we are astonished by the intensity and the precision with which the narrator tells about losing a partner all of a sudden and how, before the accident, death was something so far away from them. But after a few pages, when we feel we are reading a very good novel about mourning a loved one, a very unexpected revelation comes to light: Only a few hours before he dies, Mauro tells Paula that he is in love with another woman and that their relationship has come to an end. It is at this point when the novel becomes something new, original, powerful and different. This unexpected death and the previous revelation leave Paula astonished and completely lost. The reader will witness how she walks a path that will confront her with her feelings of rage, fear, desire, grieve and the need to survive and reconstruct herself. Deeply moving and surprising, Learning to Talk to Plants is a delicate and intimate novel written from the point of view of a woman who needs to come to terms with a life she can no longer recognize.
Fifí (he who half gives himself and half denies himself), is the name given by the narrator to the young man for whom he has renounced all other relationships. Their union, although exclusive and symbiotic, is a bizarre example of 'unrequited love'. In fact, Fifí prefers different, and above all non-erotic, ways to show his feelings. The variety of love languages thus apparently becomes the novel's main theme. The narrator relentlessly retraces the three years, six months, twelve days of this singular relationship: a season of enchantment, but also of abstinence and waiting, equal only to that endured by Stocky, their mutual friend and brilliant composer, who watches over them and the other six unforgettable characters, all guests at his picturesque villa in Versilia. Part part coming-of-age, part memoir, Fifty-Fifty is an irreverent comedy; its creative language takes us back to the exuberant world of the 1980s, through a carousel of figures and situations that amuse, surprise and move.
Damien feels his desires and feelings for Mauro, his new roommate in Chueca, grow. Although it seems unattainable for him, his love affair may not be doomed to failure. Hope lies in his neighbor, obsessed with discovering the dark arts of seduction of an ancient secret society, jealously guarded over the centuries. But this elusive and elite club is willing to do anything to erase his trail, and when Damien sets out on his quest he will find himself involved in a dangerous adventure of orgies, drug dealers and hit men.
Knowing that history has been written by victors for thousands of years, archaeologist Emma Bauer leaves from Genua to Kurdistan in search of the true story of the "fall of the angels", that is, the "devils" of the religious narrative. The elderly professor Mauro Biancardi watches over his footsteps, who suddenly dies, but perhaps not entirely. Paolo Ornesi, blogger and follower of conspiracy theories, and Ferdinando Lingiardi, a spirited hairdresser who interprets life as fun squared, join in the investigation, otherwise what a life it would be. The journey of the unlikely trio is followed discreetly by Giuliano Bellini, a plainclothes Marshal of Foreign Office, and in a nagging manner by the American Brian Collins, who declares himself to be very much in love with Emma Bauer. Some minor characters animate this surprising adventure full of twists and not without irony. A mix of religious spirit and joy of traveling is this novel published in 2018 and now ready for european loving of mistery.
“In a world of winners, defeat is a kind of dissidence. Losing is not a romantic exercise, it hurts like a stepfather, but you learn. All victories are alike, but each defeat is similar in its own way; There are many ways to cry, but everyone drinks champagne the same way. This is not a football book. Not only. Because in football there is room for a life”. Julián Bellón, at the age of 40, returns to Córdoba due to the death of his father. That loss will drag him to his childhood, to his neighborhood, to the bars and to the people who saw him grow up, the last place of armored happiness before his life twisted and fell into a spiral of self-destruction. The boy who became a goalkeeper still dreaming of scoring a goal, the young man who later became a professional goalkeeper, today is a broken man cornered by memories of him. Is there time for redemption before the final whistle?
“I’d like my hair to stay white like yours, forever.” And this is how Grandpa got white hair, says Grandpa finishing his story. It all started with the question “Why do you have white hair?”, and it became a story about love and growing up, snow and flour.
Everything began in a normal afternoon while mrs Hedgehog was making a cake, Baby Hedgehog came running, he just heard a bad word! What could Mrs Hedgehog do? Go find the bad word culprit of course! The inquisitive Mrs Hedgehog follows the clues and will finally find herself in front of Crocodile! “Bad words are not to be said Mr Crocodile”. But was Crocodile guilty? And the word was really a bad word? Oh Bother! The suspance is killing me! A book about bad words and smelly cakes, or was it the other way round?
