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February 2023Aus ihrer Sicht
Roman | Das hochpolitische Schicksal einer Frau im von Faschismus und Patriarchat beherrschten Italien
by Alba de Céspedes
Rom, 1939. Alessandra wächst in bescheidenen Verhältnissen auf. Ihre Mutter – ein außergewöhnliches Klaviertalent – wird vom Ehemann ständig in ihre Schranken verwiesen, und so wird Alessandra früh eingebläut, welche Rolle für Frauen vorgesehen ist. Nach dem plötzlichen Tod der Mutter wird sie vom Vater in ein Dorf in den Abruzzen geschickt, wo sie lernen soll, sich zu fügen. Doch Alessandra ist ein freier Geist, sie politisiert sich und fordert nichts weniger als die Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau. Als sie zurück in Rom den antifaschistischen Philosophen Francesco kennenlernt, scheint sie endlich am richtigen Ort angelangt zu sein. Doch es wird ihr viel zu spät klar, was ihr für die ersehnte Freiheit abverlangt werden wird. Dieser radikal »aus ihrer Sicht« erzählte Roman ist die Geschichte einer großen Liebe und eines Verbrechens. In einem von Faschismus und dem Patriarchat beherrschten Italien entspinnt sich das intime und hochpolitische Schicksal einer Frau, die das Unmögliche möglich macht: Resignation in Rebellion zu verwandeln.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureMuseum of Flowers
by Wang Yicheng
is a full-colored illustrated handbook of flowers which is very classical and collectible. Comprehensive plant selection: This book contains more than 1000 new varieties, 2500 new plants and nearly 4000 colorful pics. It not only contains cultivated and common varieties, but wild varieties, new varieties and rare varieties. Reference book: Every plants you want can be easily found in this book. The book arranges the species by the Latin names of the plants,the similar species will be put together in order to be recognized easily. The pictures of one specie will be arranged clearly by its size and colour changing. A brief guide for cultivation: This book divides into three parts: "identification", "maintenance" and "application" among each specie. In view of the difficulties and problems encountered in the design and application of plant landscape, this book provides a specific solution for urban planners, landscape designers, plants researchers and flower lovers. This book will not only bring you the shock of vision, also the dramatic experience of the flower world.
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April 2018The Shadow of the Flower
by Ye Zhaoyan
Lady Yu has become the head of the Zhens since her father died and her brother got paralyzed. She intently strives for the long-gone youthful days and the free and happiness she never had before. Nevertheless, the harmful influence of the feudal family on her is deep-rooted and the shadows of her father and brother have always haunted her. In the end, she fights against the evil feudal ethical code at the cost of her youth, passion and life. The novel sets in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River during 1920s which has been no longer in existence and turned into a part of historical relics.
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Social issues & processesFlowers Blossoming
by Gao Jing
Flowers Blossoming is a picture book created in the context of poverty alleviation through education in China. In the Shiwan Mountain area of Guangxi where the outdated notion "women are not supposed to receive education" still prevails, Ah Mei, a girl of the Yao ethnic group, cherishes the hope that "knowledge can change fate". She leaves the mountain to receive education and work with the support of government. Having experienced a broader world outside, she returns to the mountain to plant seeds of hope for other girls. The delicate and healing pictures in this book carry great power. The stretching mountain and the lush forests trigger boundless imaginations, embodying the thirst of girls deep in the mountain for learning knowledge and exploring the outside world. While the problems with girls' education in impoverished areas as reflected by the book have great realistic implications, the book applauds selfless educators for their finite contribution to the infinite educational cause, empowering more girls to live more open and brighter lives.
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Agricultural scienceDecember 2004Flower Seeds
Biology and Technology
by Edited by Miller B McDonald, Francis Y Kwong, Frans Bongers, Marc P E Parren, Dossahua Traoré
The floral industry represents a significant proportion of agricultural income in several developed countries, particularly the USA, the Netherlands and Japan. Hitherto the sheer diversity of flower seeds, in their form, function and biology, has hindered the production of a comprehensive treatment of the topic. This book provides a unique and much-needed resource of information on the biology and technology of flower seeds. It presents in-depth information on the history and evolution of the ornamental and wild flower seed industries followed by recommendations for successful breed and production programs. A comprehensive coverage of the biology of flower seeds is considered as well as appropriate technologies associated with germination, vigor and viability testing. In this volume, the first of its kind, international authorities from academia and industry have been brought together to provide a comprehensive reference resource for both practitioners and students of seed science and technology and of ornamental horticulture.
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Children's & YA2020Flo the Flower Girl
Flo Si Gadis Bunga
by Watiek Ideo
Flo has lived with her parents all her life and never goes out to the town. She wants to see new things and meet new people. So one day, Flo braves herself and goes alone. How shocked she is when she sees people in the town are different from her. They don't have... flowers on their body.
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April 2004Die Verbindlichkeit des Vorübergehenden: Paradoxien der Mode
by Alessandra Corti, Elena Esposito, Elena Esposito
Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia. Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia.
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January 2012Hipster
Eine transatlantische Diskussion
by Mark Greif, Tobias Moorstedt, Niklas Hofmann
Ende der neunziger Jahre tauchte plötzlich eine neue soziale Spezies in US-Großstädten auf: die Hipster. Die Erben der Beatniks oder Hippies trugen zu enge Jeans, Baseballmützen, Schnäuzer und hatten Dosenbier oder einen Laptop dabei. Begleitet wurde ihr Auftreten von der Musik der Strokes oder von Belle and Sebastian, 2001 setzte Wes Anderson ihnen in »The Royal Tenenbaums« ein filmisches Denkmal. Spätestens als 2004 die erste deutsche Filiale von American Apparel eröffnete, hatten die Hipster bzw. die eng mit ihnen verwandten digitalen Bohèmes den Sprung über den Atlantik geschafft. Die New Yorker Zeitschrift n+1 widmete den Hipstern 2009 eine Tagung an der New School: Was sind eigentlich Hipster? Und wofür sind sie ein Symptom? Für eine Generation, die Geld verdienen und doch nicht erwachsen werden will? Ein durch und durch ironisches Zeitalter? Den postindustriellen Konsumkapitalismus? Der Band sorgte nicht nur in den USA für großes Aufsehen, das Buch wird mittlerweile in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt. In dieser Ausgabe werfen Jens-Christian Rabe (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Tobias Rapp (Der Spiegel) und Thomas Meinecke zusätzlich einen deutschen Blick auf dieses transatlantische Phänomen.
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Children's & YAThe Path of Golden Flowers
China Story Picture Books
by Ge Cuilin
China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Path of Golden Flowers tells a traditional Chinese folk tale about persistence and inheritance. Once upon a time, a skillful carpenter surnamed Tong walked along a dangerous mountain road. He casually scattered some wood shavings, and these shavings took root and then bloomed with golden flowers, formed a path of golden flowers.
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Agronomy & crop productionMay 2006Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Flowering
by Edited by Brian R Jordan
Containing contributions from experts from the USA, Europe and New Zealand, this book provides an overview of the molecular mechanisms associated with flowering. The first edition was published in 1993 as The Molecular Biology of Flowering. The second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover the major advances that have been made in the area in the last thirteen years. It has also been extended to examine the new commercial opportunities provided by biotechnology. It explores three main themes: the external and internal regulation of flowering, floral development, and fertilisation and gametophyte development, and includes new chapters on the evolution of flowers, floral senescence and apomixis.
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FictionOctober 2018Happiness Is Like a Flower
by Shi Zhongshan
Du Juan, a female soldier of the Cultural and Art Corps, is obsessed with her dance career. She never believed that happiness would come to her until she received two letters of courtship, which were from two excellent men: the son of the army’s head, Bai Yang and Lin Bin from the cultural Ministry. Du Juan couldn't make a choice at the moment, but she didn't want to give up either of them. She had to try two roads at the same time.What kind of happiness will Du Juan harvest in the pure love atmosphere? Will her happiness bloom like a flower?“Happiness Is Like a Flower” is a masterpiece of the famous screenwriter Shi Zhongshan. It was once adapted into TV series. This book also includes Shi Zhongshan's "Happiness" series of short stories: How Far Is Happiness, The Perfection of Happiness, Happiness Like Flowers and Grass, etc. Most of them have been adapted into popular TV series, affecting the love concept of a generation.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureMaster of Flower Cultivation on Balcony
by Jiang Qinghai
In this book, variety of flowers is classified according to plant morphology such as observing flowers, observing leaves and observing fruits, which is simple and clear. The balconies in the east, west, south and north have their own advantages. Flowers on balcony are in thousands of postures. No matter which kind of flower, as long as illumination characteristics are mastered and careful caring is done; you also can change your own little world to a beautiful land for flowers. In this book, 100 kinds of flowers are classified by ornamental characteristics of plants. No matter you are in humid south or you stay in dry north, it can teach you the most basic maintenance secrets from placement, selection, watering, pot soil and fertilization and make you get advancement from a green hand of flower cultivation to a master of flower cultivation.
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Biology, life sciencesMay 2021Cut Flowers and Foliages
by James E. Faust, John Dole
The cut flower and foliage industry is a global business with major production locations in North America, South America, Central America, East Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Few other horticulture crops are as ubiquitous, yet the production techniques and challenges are universal.This book describes the main international production locations and markets, including current trends and directions. The focus is on production in protected cultivation. The major species - including rose, chrysanthemum, carnation, orchid and gerbera - dominate the global market and these are individually explored in detail. Specialty species and cut foliages are also addressed, as well as significant details of production, including irrigation and fertilization, disease and disease management, and biological control of pests. Finally, the postharvest chapter covers details of harvesting, transporting and delivering high quality flowers that provide an excellent vase life.Highly illustrated with color photos throughout, this is an essential resource for students and researchers in horticulture, growers and producers, and those in the floriculture industry.
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December 2020Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·Nu: The Flower Festival
by Yan Xiangjun, Zuo Hanzhong
This book mainly introduces the origin of the Nu ethnic group's Flower Festival. A beautiful Nu girl used her ingenuity to help the Nu people solve the problem of crossing the river. Later, the wealthy bully wanted to marry her because of her beauty and intelligence. She fled to the cave but was killed by the bully on March 15th of the lunar calendar. Later, when people went to worship her on March 15th, they found that the cave was full of flowers. Thus, people called that day the “Flower Festival”.
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Pancake Flowers
by Ma Ruifang
The book Pancake Flowers tells stories of a family in northern China over a century. The several generations of this family experienced very different lives, which reflected the ever-changing and tough situation before and after the birth of New China. In the book, author Ma Ruifang tells stories about her grandparents, parents, brothers, and sisters and incorporates the love for the country and families, and friendship into the stories of every character. The book is full of life wisdom and selfless love, which are deeply moving.
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March 2002Soziales Vergessen
Formen und Medien des Gedächtnisses der Gesellschaft
by Elena Esposito, Alessandra Corti, Jan Assmann, Elena Esposito
Unsere Gesellschaft hat den traditionellen Sinn von Gedächtnis der antiken und vormodernen Gesellschaften verloren: die Vorstellung, daß das Gedächtnis – noch grundsätzlicher als zur Aufbewahrung der individuellen Erinnerungen – dazu dient, dem Kosmos eine Ordnung zu geben und Richtlinien für Denken und Handeln zu liefern.Formen und Stärke dieses Gedächtnisses hängen mit den verfügbaren Kommunikationsmedien zusammen: von der Schrift bis zu den Massenmedien und den jüngsten elektronischen Technologien. Diese Medien, die viel mehr zu erinnern und zu vergessen erlauben, verlangen immer komplexere soziale Strukturen. Wie zeichnet sich dann aber das Gedächtnis unserer informatisierten technischen Gesellschaft aus? Wieviel muß es vergessen können, um noch eine Orientierung in einer chaotischen und selbstreferentiellen Welt behalten, also um noch erinnern zu können?
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October 2022Red Flowers
by Shui Yunxian is a national first-class writer, a member of the 7th All-Committee of the China Writers Association, and also the honorary president of the Hunan Writers Association. He has been granted a special government allowance.
Red Flowers tells the story of how, in the late 1960s, a group of college students, including the protagonist, came to the Dehua Electric Motor Manufacturing Factory, learned and practiced in the manufacturing workshop, and achieved personal development. For the protagonist, his master, who was nicknamed "Beard Mo," was both a master and a rival. Conflicts arose almost everywhere between the two. However, the conflicts also reflected their awe of ordinary work, pursuit of perfection, persistence in dreams, and flawless interpretation of the craftsmanship spirit.
