We are a Japanese publisher of Light Novels, Comics, Literary Fiction, and Picture Books for children. Our titles are translated and distributed by our licensee in 8 countries in Asia, China, Europe and the US.Our publication consist of two companies: 1) MICRO MAGAZINE(MM), and 2) Kill Time Communication (KTC).
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Verlag Europa-Lehrmittel The publishing houses Europa-Lehrmittel and Pfanneberg are well known for teaching and learning materials for vocational training and further education. As our books are also in demand internationally, we have published some of our titles in English and French.
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The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical turn. On Trial revolves around one of its pioneers, psychiatrist Roland Kuhn, who practiced in Münsterlingen, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. Kuhn became famous for the 'discovery' of the first antidepressant, Tofranil, and more recently notorious for his numerous trials on often unsuspecting patients. Largely based on the extensive and previously inaccessible sources of Kuhn's private archive, the book delves into the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. It examines how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted in the trials. Conducted from the 1940s to 1980s, the Münsterlingen drug trials are historicised and situated in the period's evolving landscape of experimentation.
The tasty story of a freedom-loving pea.In the kitchen, little girl shells the peas. But one pea runs away and rolls, rolls, rolls under the sideboard, under the stairs, in the vegetable garden and into the forest! The mouse, the cat, the rabbit, the hen, the pig and the wolf take turns trying to nibble it, but… roll roll roll, the pea is wild! It ends up, hop, by falling into a hole and growing freely!• The text by a professional storyteller Cécile Bergame is perfect to be read aloud.• The vivid and naive illustrations filled with colorful patterns by Magali Attiogbé are a real delight for eyes!
Les couples de même sexe ne furent pas toujours bien acceptés dans la société, mais l’amour et la beauté triomphent toujours! Deux garçons sont amis, deux garçons vieillissent ensemble, deux vieux messieurs sont...amoureux! L’auteur-compositeur et interprète Michel Thériault attache ici une nouvelle corde à son arc (de Cupidon?), et l’illustratrice Magali Ben séduit avec ses coloris exceptionnels!
Certain events unfold, exquisitely and poetically, until we reach an illuminating passage: the precise moment of learning something important. With rare maturity for someone in her thirties, in the manner of Clarice Lispector, Lorrie Moore, or Grace Paley, these stories are a space for inquiry. Undoubtedly, this first book by Magalí Etchebarne is the best possible beginning to a work. It is also the book we all wish we could write someday. I Acevedo
Interior features on 18 creatives from Antwerp to New York, who all have one thing common, namely a passion for plants. The book also contains a handy index listing all the plants in the photographs, including their specific characteristics.
Affectionate city guide with 500 must-know addresses in Havana, selected by a local. Filled only with independent advice, based on thorough research, and perfect for tourists who want to avoid the usual hotspots and for locals who want to know their city
Typical feelings from a teenager´s everyday such as bullying, abandonment, anxiety and rejection are found in this plot which engages with the comic book and superheroes world, with text and illustrations that are in perfect sync. Something that enhances the Reading is that the story is told in the first person and alternates voices in each chapter: each character is different from “normal” people and undergoes a period of physical transformation. This is a breathtaking adventure that will transport you into another universe.
Over a year, she goes from daughter to poet, and the verses become blows of memory of the last things but also the first. It’s about traversing “a rope over the precipice,” sniffing every corner like a hound, knowing that even then, scent trails run cold and that voices that remain only on a cassette may sound different from one’s own memory. It's to assemble a lexicon of gestures, moles, invented words, insignificant things, and bird food. This is how you cook a life, how you process legacies and silences: over a low fire, cooking the ghost wolf. Marina Mariasch
In the courageous and melancholic vein of Milena Busquets or the sensual insouciance of Miranda July, these stories dissect the rawness and horror of love and the violence of its contradictions: Those dark passages like those on a ghost train where mothers, fathers, and children wander. Characters who, in order to grow up, embrace uncertainty and disillusionment. Like a young sage, irreproachable and pious, sharp and delicate, Olivia Gallo tells what happened yesterday with distance. She pushes away the past, twists it, stretches it, tastes it like sour candy, allows for emotion or annoyance, but never enough to cry. Never that much. Magalí Etchebarne
The French answer to Stephen King's Pet Sematary! Present day, Germany, Black Forest. A father comes to live with his daughter. Soon, the girl will see and sense things that shouldn’t exist. When ghosts from both father and daughter’s past become more than memories, horror strikes. Disappearances in the heart of the woods demand an explanation that will defy what our mind can conceive. A horrific atmosphere that slowly grows among this terrifying Black Forrest, full of eerie myths, all guided by a masterful hand and chiseled writing. Welcome to the everlasting terror of Adam’s Dream!
During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely anti-communist American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) set a strong example for labour organizations overseas. The AFL–CIO cooperated closely with the US government on foreign policy and enjoyed an intimate, if sometimes strained, relationship with the CIA. The activities of its international staff, and especially the often secretive work of Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown—whose biographies read like characters plucked from a Le Carré novel—exerted a major influence on relationships in Europe and beyond. Having mastered the enormous volume of correspondence and other records generated by staffers Lovestone and Brown, Carew presents a lively and clear account of what has largely been an unknown dimension of the Cold War. In impressive detail, Carew maps the international programs of the AFL–CIO during the Cold War and its relations with labour organizations abroad, in addition to providing a summary of the labour situation of a dozen or more countries including Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Greece, and India. American Labour’s Cold War Abroad reveals how the Cold War compelled trade unionists to reflect on the role of unions in a free society. Yet there was to be no meeting of minds on this, and at the end of the 1960s the AFL–CIO broke with the mainstream of the international labour movement to pursue its own crusade against communism. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/1ZT7e56
