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        Children's & YA

        Changeling

        by Kotryna Zylė

        Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.

      • Personal & social issues: body & health (Children's/YA)
        August 2016

        Paul und Flora - Die geheimen Kräfte

        by Anna Haker + Beatrix Rother-Schwerdtfeger

        Paul, der kleine Waschbär, und Flora, seine beste Freundin, glauben nicht an „geheime Kräfte“. Sie glauben nur an das, was sie sehen. Alles andere ist Unsinn. Und das wollen sie mit ihrer Reise beweisen. Einer Reise in die Zauberhöhle, von der sie in den alten Geschichten gehört haben.Auf dem Weg dorthin begegnen sie ihren Ängsten und einer Möglichkeit, sie zu überwinden.

      • Graphic design

        Iconism

        Designing Modern Icons and Pictograms

        by Sandu Publishing

        Introduction: Iconism is an inspirational reference for contemporary icon, pictogram and symbol design. Divided into three sections—Visual Identity, Wayfinding and Interactive Design—these ingenious and impactful styles from designers around the world highlight the importance of effective communication in our day to day lives.

      • Zoology & animal sciences
        January 2015

        Animal Breeding and Genetics

        by C.V. Singh

        This book attempts to describe applied breeding methods for different domestic animal species as currently implemented. In this book, brief history of population genetics, domestication of livestock species, classification of breeds, economic characteristics of different livestock species & poultry and their importance, basic statistics, qualitative and quantitative inheritance, gene and genotype frequency and factors influencing gene frequency, values and means of population, methods of estimation and uses of heritability and repeatability, correlations, selection, response to selection, basis of selection, progeny testing, open nucleus breeding system, sire evaluation, methods of selection, breeding or mating systems, heterosis or hybrid vigor definitions and current livestock and poultry breeding programmes have been discussed in different chapters. The subject matter has been dealt with in a logical sequence so that the reader is conveyed from simple to more complex interpretation with relative ease. It is felt that the reader which are likely to comprise mostly of graduate and post graduate student of animal breeding and researcher will be able to get a deeper insight and better perceptions into the realm of the dynamic science of animal breeding.

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