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      • Children's & YA
        October 2020

        Night Express

        All aboard a magical express train heading towards Christmas!

        by Karin Erlandsson & Peter Bergting

        Dania’s granny lives in an old station building next to a disused railway. Every year Dania, her big sister Nanda and their parents move to their grandmother’s for December in the run-up for Christmas. Granny has become older and more forgetful during the past years, and sometimes she speaks nonsense.   One evening Granny seems exceptionally absentminded before disappearing from her room. The same night Dania hears something and sneaks out to see it with her own eyes: an express train is pulling up at the station.   Dania manages to stop the night train and the adventure begins. She boards the train that returns every night. On the train she meets Konrad, and it soon transpires that everyone on the night train has lost someone they love. With the help of a key from Granny and a mysterious music box, Dania and Konrad are able to bend time itself.   Will the children find their lost loved ones? And who has actually lost whom?   An enchanting and wildly riveting story brimming with the magic of Christmas has 24 chapters and is also splendid for reading out loud.

      • Man Growing Roses - Gül Yetiştiren Adam

        by Rasim Özdenören

        Our people… They are mixing in a geography ranging from a provincial city of Anatolia to the metropolises of the New World. On the one hand modern people and on the other hand those who stay away from modernity to protect their identity. Contradictions arising from conflicts of both sides with themselves and their milieu… Unfinished loves and loose ends… While reading this book, you will see the confusions, secret protests and secret acceptance of our people who have been under the pressure of our people who have been under the pressure of western culture.

      • The Grandchildren

        by Ayşe Gül Altınay, Fethiye Çetin (Eds.)

        Fethiye Çetin's groundbreaking memoir My Grandmother provided an alternative track for public debate on the "Armenian issue", steering clear of deadended rhetorical contentions, and relating an irrefutable personal story of grief and silence.The book's powerful reach led many other "grandchildren" to contact Çetin and share their own memories. The Grandchildren is a collection of intimate, moving interviews conducted with 25 such grandchildren across Turkey, tracing the open wounds of the human catastrophe of 1915. Their stories attest to the claim of the past over our present and future, and provide minor histories that no official discourse is able to account for.

      • October 2021

        Lydian Painted Pottery Abroad

        The Gordion Excavations 1950-1973

        by R. Gul Gurtekin-Demir

        This book is the first major study of Lydian material culture at Gordion and also the first published monograph on Lydian painted pottery from any site excavation. Richly illustrated, it provides a comprehensive definition and analysis of Lydian ceramics based on stylistic, archaeological, and textual evidence, while thoroughly documenting the material’s stratigraphic contexts. The book situates the ceramic corpus within its broader Anatolian cultural context and offers insights into the impact of Lydian cultural interfaces at Gordion. The Lydian pottery found at Gordion was largely produced at centers other than Sardis, the Lydian royal capital, although Sardian imports are also well attested and began to influence Gordion’s material culture as early as the 7th century BCE, if not before. Following the demise of the Lydian kingdom, a more limited repertoire of Lydian ceramics demonstrably continued in use at Gordion into the Achaemenid Persian period in the late 6th and 5th centuries BCE. The material was excavated by Professor Rodney Young’s team between 1950 and 1973 and is fully presented here for the first time. Ongoing research in the decades following Young’s excavations has led to a more refined understanding of Gordion’s archaeological contexts and chronology, and, consequently, we are now able to view the Lydian ceramic corpus within a more secure stratigraphic framework than would have been the case if the material had been published shortly after the excavations.

      • Biography & True Stories

        Alone against fate

        by Samvel Farmanyan

        Why and how did the Armenian-Turkish process begin? What choice was Armenia facing? What was really happening in New York, Davos, Munich, Prague, Istanbul, Zurich and Bursa? Samvel Farmanyan presents the entire process of football diplomacy with eyewitness testimonies. For the first time, the negotiations of RA President Serzh Sargsyan, which took place in 2008-2010, are being declassified. conducted with Turkish President Gul, Prime Minister Erdogan, French President Sarkozy, US President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and other officials. The background of the settlement, the real map of the interests of the geopolitical centers, the conflicting goals of the involved parties, the intriguing background and the logic of the decisions are presented. The memoir will help to understand the Armenian-Turkish and Artsakh problems, to reveal the cause-and-effect connections of regional realities, reaching our days. The book will be of interest to historians, state, political, public figures, diplomats, journalists, analysts and curious readers.

      • Fiction in translation
        September 2020

        Alindarka's Children

        by Alhierd Bacharevič, Translated by Jim Dingley and Petra Reid

        Alindarka's Children (Dzieci Alindarkiis, 2014) is a contemporary novel about a brother and a sister interned in a camp. Here children are taught to forget their own language and speak the language of the colonizer, aided by the use of drugs as well as surgery on the larynx to cure the 'illness' of using the Belarusian language.   The children escape but are pursued by the camp leaders and left to thrive for themselves in this adventure, which bears a likeness to an adult, literary 'Hansel and Gretel'.   The dialogue translates well to the guttural differences between English Received Pronunciations and Scots. The Russian, translated by Jim Dingley, will become RP and the Belarusian, translated by Macsonnetries author Petra Reid, Scots. This novel has been translated and will be published in September 2020 thanks to the Pen Translates Award, won by Scotland Street Press in May 2019

      • Veterinary medicine
        January 2022

        Pongamia for Bio-Energy and Better Environment

        by M.V.R. Prasad

        Pongamia pinnata is also credited with several preventive and curative properties as established by Ayurvedic medicine. It may be recalled that in the decades of nineteen seventies a few villages reaped sustainable incomes in the face of acute and chronic droughts that plagued the nation, solely due to the availability of some old Pongamia / karanj tree stands around those zones. Kranj oil has exhibited promise as a source of green energy. Nevertheless, the research on improvement of Karanj and its management as a productive plantation is nebulous. It is heartening that the Monograph on Karanj by Dr. M.V.R. Prasad fills this void. Dr. Prasad has been pursuing the work on oil bearing perennial trees of which Pongamaia pinnata has been studied in greater detail during the decades starting from nineteen eighties to date. The Monograph describes clearly as to how Pongamia pinnata could be harnessed to exploit the proven and potential benefits cited above, in addition to giving valuable information on its genetic improvement and plantation management.

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