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    • Trusted Partner
      International relations
      December 2013

      Turkey facing east

      by Ayla Göl

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2017

      Turkey facing east

      Islam, modernity and foreign policy

      by Ayla Gol

      Turkey facing east is about the importance of Turkey's relations with its Eastern neighbours - Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Soviet Union - during the emergence of the modern Turkish nation-state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The principal strength of this book is that it not only combines historical and theoretical arguments in order to provide a better understanding of the foreign relations of a predominantly Muslim country from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, but it also applies the new approach to the analysis of Turkish foreign policy towards the South Caucasus between 1918 and 1921. Hence, it stands out with its original interdisciplinary approach to the Turkish transition and foreign policy-making that offers perspectives on the extant possibilities for the particular transitional states resulting from the Arab spring uprisings.

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      BeHauptet

      Als Muslimin zwischen Sicherheit und Freiheit

      by Işik, Ayla

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    • Biography & True Stories
      October 2020

      Halla Bol

      The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi

      by Sudhanva Deshpande

      This is not a story of death. It is a story of life. The luminous life of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ordinariness. On New Year’s Day in 1989, Jana Natya Manch – Janam – the theatre group Safdar was a part of, and which he led, was attacked while performing a street play on the outskirts of Delhi. He was only thirty-four when he died from injuries sustained during this senseless attack. Beginning with a record of the attack that killed him, this vivid memoir illuminates the life of Safdar Hashmi – artist, comrade, poet, writer, actor, activist, and a man everyone loved. But this is not a book about one man or one tragic incident. Halla Bol shows us, close up, how one man’s death and life are intertwined with the stories of many people. For a generation that grew up without knowing Safdar Hashmi, Halla Bol renders his passion, humour and humanism into an intimate portrait. It also gives an understanding of resistance, and the strength to put it into practice. It shows the profound link between ideology and real-life struggle. The ideas that Safdar and his colleagues grappled with during a period of tumult and change in India are harbingers of the society we are today. Halla Bol, the play Janam was performing in Jhandapur at the time of the attack, is included in English translation as an appendix to the book.

    • November 2015

      My Bunny Slippers

      by Ayla Çınaroğlu / Mustafa Delioğlu

      The soft bunny slippers follow a real beautiful bunny one night. And they get lost in a forest. They come across pink worms, purple squirrel, blue navy hedgehog, violet escargot... Some of them were friendly some of them not. What will happen to the bunny slippers? Is this a dream? If yes whose is dreaming? The cat, the frog or you? The beautiful narrative of Ayla Çınaroğlu and magnificent images of Mustafa Delioglu meet in the pages of this book.

    • Education

      Nordic Voices

      Teaching and Researching Comparative and International Education in the Nordic Countries

      by Holmarsdottir, H. B.

      This volume represents the work of sixteen authors, who all work at different universities and other academic institutions in the Nordic countries. It provides insight into the diversity of research being conducted in the northernmost parts of Europe. Although it would be incorrect to assert that research in this far away part of Europe represents something drastically different than that done in other parts of the world, it would be equally incorrect to maintain that being at the outskirts, on the cusp, or on the periphery _ whichever way one wishes to describe the position of the Nordic countries in relation to the rest of the world – does not influence the ways in which educational processes, phenomena and their consequences are viewed. These sixteen Nordic Voices discuss with readers different issues regarding teaching and researching Comparative and International Education in the Nordic countries. The editors began their collaboration in 2006, working together to revitalize the Nordic Comparative and International Education Society. NOCIES was officially re-established in May, 2008. Halla B. Holmarsdottir, who is from Iceland, lives and works in Norway, where she is Associate Professor in Multicultural and International Education at Oslo University College. Mina O’Dowd, whose father is from the USA and mother is Norwegian, lives and works in Sweden. Nordic Voices: Teaching and Researching Comparative and International Education in the Nordic Countries is a result of the collaboration that began over three years ago.

    • Children's & YA
      October 2024

      Los Mil y un Dias

      Cuentos Juveniles Cortos

      by Ann A Guerra/Author,Daniel Guerra/Co-Author, Art of Winning Rock, Inc.

      This book contains a compilation of 12 juvenile shorts stories. Is stories made from different parts of the world. Different races and culture. Moral, cultural, values and adventures.

    • Fiction
      December 2017

      Dile que no la olvido

      by Mario J. Les

      1939. The republican defeat in the Spanish Civil War is a fact, and groups of combatants and hordes of civilians flee to France for fear of reprisals from the victors. Far from finding the desired freedom, they arrive in a country invaded by the Nazis and in which they are repudiated. Marcial Segura and many other compatriots are captured by the Wehrmacht and deported to Mauthausen, the most inhumane concentration camp in the Reich, where a simple stroke of luck can be the key to survival. 1945. Days before Mauthausen is liberated by US infantry, SS troops stampede out of the field. Senior leaders of Nazism are also fleeing the former Reich dominions to overseas. At the heart of that maelstrom, guardian Klein is at peace with her conscience, not yet knowing that the odyssey that will mark her life has only just begun. This is the story of Marcial, Joan, Benito, Luis and so many others who shared hunger and suffering, but also confidences and friendship in the Austrian hell. This is the story that all democratic governments in our country have despised. This is, beyond the Pyrenees, also our history. * * * 1939. La derrota republicana en la Guerra Civil Española es un hecho, y grupos de combatientes y hordas de civiles escapan a Francia por temor a las represalias de los vencedores. Lejos de encontrar la ansiada libertad, llegan a un país invadido por los nazis y en el que son repudiados. Marcial Segura y otros muchos compatriotas son capturados por la Wehrmacht y deportados a Mauthausen, el más inhumano campo de concentración del Reich, donde un simple golpe de suerte puede ser clave para la supervivencia. 1945. Días antes de que Mauthausen sea liberado por la infantería estadounidense, las tropas de las SS salen del campo en estampida. Altos jerarcas del nazismo también huyen de los antiguos dominios del Reich con destino ultramar. En pleno corazón de aquella vorágine, la guardiana Klein se halla en paz con su conciencia, sin saber todavía que la odisea que marcará su vida no ha hecho sino comenzar. Esta es la historia de Marcial, de Joan, de Benito, de Luis y de tantos otros que compartieron hambre y sufrimiento, pero también confidencias y amistad en el infierno austriaco. Esta es la historia que todos los gobiernos democráticos de nuestro país han despreciado. Esta es, más allá de los Pirineos, también nuestra historia.

    • Health & Personal Development

      Los frutos de la inteligencia emocional

      ¡Atrévete… ya! El cielo es el límite

      by Mariel Mambretti

      This volume will crown your journey, making you a participant in one of the greatest contributions that applied psychology made both to the business world and to all related areas of life: the value of emotional intelligence. From its definition to the means to make the most of it and achieve your ends, you will find the keys to making emotions not a stumbling block, but a weapon for job advancement. Paying attention to the other, giving him a framework of trust and appreciation, stimulating him and accompanying his moods, have been revealed as essential points for the development of all productive activities. Today it is known that whoever smiles and knows how to relate well with their environment is the most capable of climbing positions of great responsibility in the workplace. You will also find suggestions aimed at ensuring that everything obtained in this field results in a particularly full life and suitable for enjoying what has been achieved. These pages are, then, the corollary to make your triumph comprehensive and lasting. Enjoy them!

    • Humanities & Social Sciences

      Manifiesto

      Peligros y oportunidades de la megacrisis

      by Gastón Soublette

      ‘Manifiesto. Peligros y oportunidades de la megacrisis’ (Ediciones UC, 2020), nació con el estallido social de octubre y fue terminado en el contexto de la pandemia. El autor, así, destacado filósofo, musicólogo, esteta y escritor, reflexiona sobre la crisis social y política de Chile, la cual ha culminado con la entrada del coronavirus y conlleva el desafío de entender lo ocurrido para discernir sus causas más profundas.

    • History of religion

      The Bible, from the Beginning to the End

      A Reading Guide for Today

      by Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi

      No literary work has exerted more influence on Western culture than the Bible. None has been more studied by archaeologists, historians, philologists, anthropologists, philosophers or theologians across the centuries. For anyone interested in this work, true heritage of the world, this book is an indispensable introduction to the main contents and to the discoveries that have been done in recent decades, usually restricted to specialists’ circles. The author offers a vast overview of each one of the books of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Characters, geographical settings, historical events, cultures, literary genres and numberless complementary data help the reader to think about the present in light of a past that has configured the mindset of whole generations. “The author combines a simple, yet rigorous, scientific vision of the problems, with a believing reading and an extraordinary pedagogical ability to reach today’s readers.”

    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      2022

      Damaged Deer. Anthology

      by Rafael Rubio

      This poetic anthology by Rafael Rubio, without a doubt one of the most relevant poetic voices nowadays in Chile, is of greatest relevance to invite teenagers to approach to poetry and helping them to face directly their pains and joys, with that which tears the apart and also with that which enlightens their path. This anthology includes a selection of poems made by the author himself. It includes poems published in Arbolando (1998), Luz rabiosa (2007), Mala siembra (2013) and Viernes santo (2019), as well as 17 unpublished poems.

    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

      Üñüm püllü. Bird spirit

      by Lorenzo Aillapán

      Lorenzo Aillapán, recognized as a Living Human Treasure in 2012 by UNESCO, is the Mapuche bird man - üñümche in Mapuzugun. A poet originally from the coast of the Araucanía Region, he is a great connoisseur of nature, of the mysteries hidden by living beings on land and in the sea. Part of this wisdom is shared with the readers in these 46 poems about diverse organisms that inhabit different environments: the water (fish and seafood), the mountainous universe (trees) and the winged universe (birds). Through hisverses, the poet describes various aspects of these living beings: what they are like, what the place is like where they live, how they behave, what use they can be put to and what importance they have for the Mapuche people. In the case of the birds, the poems also incorporate the onomatopoeia of their song. This complete anthological volume is bilingual Mapuzugun/Spanish.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
      October 2019

      Indomable

      Cuadernos del fútbol africano

      by Alberto Edjogo-Owono

      This book talks about Africa and its football, trying to illuminate the overflowing, fierce and profound story of a continent that has been overshadowed too many times. The ball is a reflection of the impulses that run through it, and traces a path through which to approach its people, their stories and their desires. Politics, war or religion are intertwined with leather in every city, in every stadium and on every page. Alberto Edjogo-Owono, international with Equatorial Guinea, makes his debut in the literary world trying to discover where this indomitable land gets the strength to rise up after everything was taken from it.

    • Health & Personal Development
      2020

      Early emotional education

      by Gloria Latorre

      The family is the first modeler of interpersonal relationships. In it all the richness of the emotional world unfolds. That is why it is key to teach our children from birth to build their own path to inner well-being, through self-knowledge and the skills to manage their emotions. This will help them from the beginning of their lives to connect with the other from empathy and compassion. “This book offers us a journey to recognize the emotions in our relationships. On each page, it offers us pauses to reflect, realize and experiment, allowing true learning. It is a companion for travelers such as parents, teachers, psychologists and for all of us who work in accompaniment ”. Jorge Genzone, President of the Gestalt Association of Buenos Aires

    • Diabetes
      June 2015

      Dr Dawn's Guide to Weight and Diabetes

      by Dawn Harper

      A comprehensive guide to help you understand why we put on weight! Dr Dawn explains our dietary needs at different stages of life, how metabolism differs, and the implications for our general health and wellbeing. There is a sensible look at the role of diet and exercise. Dr Dawn describes how even modest weight loss can affect your risk of developing other illnesses such as heart disease, and even how long you can expect to live. There is a comprehensive chapter on diabetes, including the types of diabetes and what we mean by terms like insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

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