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As arthropod ectoparasites, ticks threaten the wellbeing of the animals whose habitat they share. They cause skin damage from their bite wounds, secrete toxins, transmit pathogens, and can also induce allergic reactions and infected wounds. For more than a century, domestic animals have undergone chemical tick treatment as part of their husbandry routine. However, this reliance on chemicals is non-sustainable, and ignores the existence of other possible avenues of tick management. Covering recent developments in the field, this book considers avenues such as: - Managing infestations through both natural tick control and human intervention - Innate tick resistance - Naturally acquired adaptive immunity - Technological developments and successes such as vaccination schemes The book also takes into consideration the barriers any one of these solutions may face on the road to commercialization. Livestock Immunity to Ticks provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for researchers and students of immunology, parasitology and entomology.
This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, architects, engineers, project managers and builders - and has had unreserved access to document the creation of this already award-winning structure. The design of 1 Angel Square by the architects 3DReid, is currently the UK's highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) rated office building to date, and it is set to be one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe. 1 Angel Square, the book, is an intimate record of this fascinating building. Some of the impressive facts include: 3,157 internal and external window panels make up the façade; there are 10,500 data and power outlets; it sits on 539 foundation piles, with an average depth of 18 metres below ground; and there are approximately 22km of power cables. This book will be required reading for students of architecture and construction, sustainability studies and urban planning, and for those with an interest in the history of one of the world's great businesses. ;
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Jacob Talmon: Combining histories and presents is not the biography of a historian. Rather, it is a discourse on a mind tormented by fear of the masses as well as the mistakes of the leadership. Talmon often applied his views on contemporary events and trends to his own actions as a humanist and historian. The changing role of the university, the decline of the liberal arts in favour of technology and the social sciences and the displacement of humanism by the market economy were of particular concern. His brilliant and paradoxically prophetic interactions with Arnold Toynbee, David Ben-Gurion, and Menahem Begin have been vindicated by the very history he sought to avoid. This new work in the English language makes Talmonic wisdom available for the first time to a much larger audience ;
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An imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history. In 1734 a pedlar turned smuggler named Jacob Harris slit the throats of three people in a pub in Sussex. This triple-murder, for which he was hanged and gibbeted, remains the most violent crime ever committed by a British Jew. Yet today it is all but forgotten. In The Jewish pedlar, Tony Kushner goes in search of the enigmatic Harris. Digging into a remarkable range of sources, from law records and newspaper reports to ballads and folktales, he follows the traces of Harris's legend across three hundred years of British history. In doing so, he reconstructs the world of Jewish pedlars and criminals across many continents. The lives these figures eked out at the margins of society paint a picture of persistent antisemitism - but also of remarkable integration. Intellectually bold and deeply humane, The Jewish pedlar takes a new, grassroots approach to the history of Jews in the modern world, shedding light on everyday lives from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust and beyond.
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Jacob Grimm, geboren 1785 in Hanau und verstorben 1863 in Berlin, studierte Jura in Marburg. In dieser Zeit entdeckte er sein Interesse an der geschichtlichen Entwicklung von Sprache und Literatur. Später studierte er altdeutsche Poesie und Sprache sowie Slawistik und arbeitete als Bibliothekar. Sein schriftstellerisches Lebenswerk ist eng mit dem seines ein Jahr jüngeren Bruders Wilhelm Grimm verknüpft. Gemeinsam arbeiteten sie an einem großen Projekt: einem deutschen Wörterbuch, das den gesamten neuhochdeutschen Sprachschatz darlegen sollte. Wilhelm Grimm, geboren 1786 in Hanau und verstorben 1859 in Berlin, war ein deutscher Jurist sowie Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftler. Sein schriftstellerisches Lebenswerk ist eng mit dem seines ein Jahr älteren Bruders Jacob Grimm verknüpft. Gemeinsam arbeiteten sie an einem großen Projekt: einem deutschen Wörterbuch, das den gesamten neuhochdeutschen Sprachschatz darlegen sollte.
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»Die Elfen, die in ihrer wahren Gestalt kaum einige Zoll hoch sind, haben einen luftigen, fast durchsichtigen Körper, der so zart ist, daß ein Tautropfen, wenn sie daraufspringen, zwar zittert, aber nicht auseinanderrinnt.« So beginnen Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm ihre Einleitung »Über die Elfen«, in der sie über das Wesen der Elfen berichten. Mit ihr setzt die deutsche Rezeption des irisch-keltischen Märchen- und Sagengutes ein.
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»Tragen wir einen Dank davon für alle Mühe und Sorge, der uns selbst zu überdauern vermag, so ist es der für die Sammlung der Märchen« - so hat 1860 Jacob Grimm seines verstorbenen Bruders gedacht. Den Märchen verdanken die Grimms ihren Ruhm - dem meistaufgelegten, weitestverbreiteten und bestbekannten deutschsprachigen Buch aller Zeiten. Indem sie auf der Suche waren nach dem echten und alten Volksmärchen, indem sie diesem sich, mit jedem Schritt ihrer Arbeit, zu nähern glaubten, schufen sie doch etwas anderes: eine ganz neue literarische Gattung, das Grimmsche Buchmärchen mit seinem kanonbilden Repertoire und dem unverwechselbaren, fortan vorbildlichen Ton.
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Jacob Grimm, geboren 1785 in Hanau und verstorben 1863 in Berlin, studierte Jura in Marburg. In dieser Zeit entdeckte er sein Interesse an der geschichtlichen Entwicklung von Sprache und Literatur. Später studierte er altdeutsche Poesie und Sprache sowie Slawistik und arbeitete als Bibliothekar. Sein schriftstellerisches Lebenswerk ist eng mit dem seines ein Jahr jüngeren Bruders Wilhelm Grimm verknüpft. Gemeinsam arbeiteten sie an einem großen Projekt: einem deutschen Wörterbuch, das den gesamten neuhochdeutschen Sprachschatz darlegen sollte. Wilhelm Grimm, geboren 1786 in Hanau und verstorben 1859 in Berlin, war ein deutscher Jurist sowie Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftler. Sein schriftstellerisches Lebenswerk ist eng mit dem seines ein Jahr älteren Bruders Jacob Grimm verknüpft. Gemeinsam arbeiteten sie an einem großen Projekt: einem deutschen Wörterbuch, das den gesamten neuhochdeutschen Sprachschatz darlegen sollte.
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Kuwaiti children’s book author Lateefa Buti’s well-crafted and beautifully illustrated children’s book, Hatless, encourages children (ages 6-9) to think independently and challenge rigid traditions and fixed rituals with innovation and creativity. The main character is a young girl named Hatless who lives in the City of Hats. Here, all of the people are born with hats that cover their heads and faces. The world inside of their hats is dark, silent, and odorless. Hatless feels trapped underneath her own hat. She wants to take off her hat, but she is afraid, until she realizes that whatever frightening things exist in the world around her are there whether or not she takes off her hat to see them. So Hatless removes her hat. As Hatless takes in the beauty of her surroundings, she cannot help but talk about what she sees, hears, and smells. The other inhabitants of the city ostracize her because she has become different from them. It is not long before they ask her to leave the City of Hats. Rather than giving up or getting angry, Hatless feels sad for her friends and neighbors who are afraid to experience the world outside of their hats. She comes up with an ingenious solution: if given another chance, she will wear a hat as long it is one she makes herself. The people of the City of Hats agree, so Hatless weaves a hat that covers her head and face but does not prevent her from seeing the outside world. She offers to loan the hat to the other inhabitants of the city. One by one, they try it on and are enchanted by the beautiful world around them. Since then, no child has been born wearing a hat. The people celebrate by tossing their old hats in the air. By bravely embracing these values, Hatless improves her own life and the lives of her fellow citizens. Buti’s language is eloquent and clear. She strikes a skilled narrative balance between revealing Hatless’s inner thoughts and letting the story unfold through her interactions with other characters. Careful descriptions are accompanied by beautiful illustrations that reward multiple readings of the book.
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The social, cultural and economic significance of leisure is increasing around the world. Watching television, reading, socializing with friends and family, playing sport, attending entertainment, arts and sporting events, and visiting the coast, the countryside, historic sites, museums, galleries and exhibitions are important aspects of modern life, and providing for these activities is an increasingly significant feature of modern economies. In most developed countries nationwide surveys are conducted periodically to assess levels of participation in leisure activities. This book brings together the results of such surveys from thirteen different countries, namely: Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Spain and the USA. While the surveys vary enormously in scope, methodology, scale and timing, making it difficult to compare leisure patterns directly, they nevertheless indicate some marked similarities in leisure participation in industrial societies in the ‘global village’. The book provides a unique reference source on patterns of leisure participation in the thirteen countries, and also examines the methodological problems of conducting national leisure participation surveys, and their future prospects.
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»Tragen wir einen Dank davon für alle Mühe und Sorge, der uns selbst zu überdauern vermag, so ist es der für die Sammlung der Märchen«, so hat 1860 Jacob Grimm seines verstorbenen Bruders gedacht. Den Märchen verdanken die Grimms ihren Ruhm - dem meistaufgelegten weitestverbreiteten und bestbekannten deutschsprachigen Buch aller Zeiten. Indem sie auf der Suche waren nach dem echten und alten Volksmärchen, indem sie diesem sich, mit jedem Schritt ihrer Arbeit, zu nähern glaubten, schufen sie doch etwas anderes: eine ganz neue literarische Gattung, das Grimmsche Buchmärchen mit seinem kanonbildenden Repertoire und dem unverwechselbaren, fortan vorbildlichen Ton.
