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      • 2014

        Bushcraft

        Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival

        by Mors Kochanski

        Longtime wilderness educator Mors Kochanski has dedicated his life to learning and teaching about the lore of the forest. With clear instructions, extensive use of diagrams and a photo supplement, this comprehensive reference guide includes all the practical skills and knowledge essential for you to survive and enjoy the wilderness. This bestselling title should be required reading for hikers, campers, hunters, backwoods adventurers—anyone with a passion for the outdoors.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2Yr12Yg

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        The Code of Color

        Eine Metapher über Transformation und Verwandlung

        by Suug

        Me-ta-mor-pho-se: Was ist das für ein Code, der aus einer Raupe einen Schmetterling werden lässt? – ‚The Code of Color‘  - eine Metapher über Transformation und Verwandlung. ‚The Code of Color‘ beschreibt in sieben Kapiteln die Metamorphose einer Raupe hin zum Schmetterling. Dies jedoch nur auf den ersten Blick. Denn der Text ist als Metapher zu verstehen: Es geht um Transformation und um Verwandlung. Es geht um einen Code. Es geht um einen evolutionären Prozess der Veränderung zum Zwecke der Weiterentwicklung. Es geht um das Streben nach Lebenslust, Liebe und Freiheit – eben genau um das, was das Leben wertvoll macht. Jedem der Kapitel ist die Skizze eines den Prozess der Metamorphose heimlich codierenden mysteriösen Wesens vorangestellt, welches die Farben des letztendlich einen Schmetterling kreierenden Prozesses auf rätselhafte Weise zu nutzen versteht. Es kennt den Algorithmus, mit dem die nächste Phase der Metamorphose genau programmiert werden kann: ‚The Code of Color‘.

      • The Code of Color (eBook)

        Eine Metapher über Transformation und Verwandlung

        by Suug

        Me-ta-mor-pho-se: Was ist das für ein Code, der aus einer Raupe einen Schmetterling werden lässt? – ‚The Code of Color‘  - eine Metapher über Transformation und Verwandlung. ‚The Code of Color‘ beschreibt in sieben Kapiteln die Metamorphose einer Raupe hin zum Schmetterling. Dies jedoch nur auf den ersten Blick. Denn der Text ist als Metapher zu verstehen: Es geht um Transformation und um Verwandlung. Es geht um einen Code. Es geht um einen evolutionären Prozess der Veränderung zum Zwecke der Weiterentwicklung. Es geht um das Streben nach Lebenslust, Liebe und Freiheit – eben genau um das, was das Leben wertvoll macht. Jedem der Kapitel ist die Skizze eines den Prozess der Metamorphose heimlich codierenden mysteriösen Wesens vorangestellt, welches die Farben des letztendlich einen Schmetterling kreierenden Prozesses auf rätselhafte Weise zu nutzen versteht. Es kennt den Algorithmus, mit dem die nächste Phase der Metamorphose genau programmiert werden kann: ‚The Code of Color‘.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        The black sea of indifference

        by Liliana Segre / Filippo Civati

        Liliana Segre’s testimony and her political message are shared in this essay by Giuseppe Civati that reports her words and her teachings, on the occasion of her appointment as lifetime Italian Senator by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.Segre was expelled from school in 1938. She tried to flee Italy as an asylum seeker but was denied protection and was sent back. On January 30th, 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her father Alberto, who deceased in the concentration camp. In the last thirty years she has been promoting an extraordinary campaign against indifference and against racism in any form or aspect.Her undisputed, strong and clear words are a message for girls and boys, her «ideal grandchildren»: we must never lose our rights and respect for people.

      • Film scripts & screenplays
        August 2020

        Convertible

        by Åshild Norun

        It's 1967, and a young Norwegian family leaves Norway for California, looking for opportunity and the free and easy lifestyle. The young immigrants settle in a nice house in the suburb. The couple both find jobs, and the twin girls go to school. Dad buys a convertible, just like mom always wanted. She invites her three siblings for a Christmas visit. Two of them stay on, and the younger sister finds an American boyfriend. Every one wants a piece of the American pie, but the price gradually dawns on the blue-eyed immigrants, as they discover simmering racial divides and unrest over the Vietnam war, and watch the terrifying assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy on the nightly news. The American dream is bittersweet.

      • Children's & YA

        Pinoccio adventures

        by Felipe Garrido / Gabriel Pacheco

        Pinocchio is one of the most touching, profound, and fun stories ever written. Its charm has conquered readers of all ages around the world. Its teachings help us live day to day with more conscious-ness. In order to fully appreciate the mor-al intended, we must read the complete story of Pinocchio just as Carlo Collodi wrote it and just as it’s presented here, carefully translated into Spanish by Felipe Garrido and beautifully illustrated by Gabriel Pacheco.

      • Mystery
        June 2018

        Sondre

        by Åshild Norun

        On a quiet Thursday night, police officers arrive at Ingrid's door carrying a terrible message. Sondre is dead. Ingrid is told that her son was hit by a train after walking into an underground tunnel. The police have already decided that the young man committed suicide. He entered the tunnel of his own free will, dressed in a black suit and white shirt. Ingrid is not that easily convinced. How is it even possible, that her lively, bright and strong-willed boy could have killed himself? Why? Immediately after the funeral, she starts acting on her doubts. But her desperate search for answers is met with a wall of secrecy, lies and deception. This only makes her more adamant. She can't even grieve, until she finds out what led to her son's demise.

      • THE SAGA OF SOULS #1 THE BLUE SOUL

        When Oksana meets Max, the attraction she feels for him is instantaneous, almost too strong. But Max is fierce and difficult to understand. What does he hide deep inside?

        by Océane Ghanem

        One winter evening, Oksana goes to a nightclub to celebrate her best friend Steeve’s birthday. To get away from his sister Camelia, she sits at the bar and orders a beer. Oksana eventually notices a man in the crowd who catches her eye. He fascinates her upon first glance. She herself doesn’t understand this obsession of hers, this want to know his every move throughout the evening. She only wishes to rid herself of the sadness she feels deep down.As for Max, he enjoys his evening with his friends and roommates. However, the constant gaze of this woman at the bar intrigues and disturbs him much more than he would like. He tests her reactions, sometimes by slipping away from the dance floor while she looks away, sometimes by provoking her with mindless flirting and dancing. This curiosity will finally drive him to join her at the bar. A relationship develops between them over time, creating a strong and powerful bond.Despite this, both protagonists have secrets they would rather keep to themselves. How far will they be willing to go to prevent the other from knowing?

      • Fiction

        Strokes of Light

        by Ledicia Costas

        A tender and humorous novel about the secrets that mark the lives of three generations of a family in rural Galicia.Julia is a journalist and has just divorced, so that she decides to leave Madrid and return to her village, in Galicia, with her son Sebas, so as get a change of scene and care of her mother.Sebas is ten years old and is convinced that his grandmother Luz is Thor. The woman always has her hammer by her side, even sleeps with it under her pillow and sometimes hugs it, as if it were her son. Sebas adores his grandmother. Although she hides shortbread cookies in her stockings, drinks Samson till she sees double and constantly tells lies. She is a goddess, and has turned her garden into a temple. But Julia does not think the same. For her, returning to the family home is to face a past full of secrets and the disappearance of her father, who more than thirty years earlier left without saying goodbye.The heroin trade in Galicia in the nineties, the world of care and the search for the truth permeate this novel, full of hu-mor and with unforgettable characters.

      • Politics & government

        Bloody Crossroads 2020

        Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump

        by Danny Goldberg

        Bloody Crossroads 2020 takes a deep dive into the role that mass-appeal movies, television, videos, and music played in America’s political culture in the year of Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign. The book also explores the impact of entertainment celebrities in communications, fundraising, and campaigning to support the election of Joe Biden. Although there existed a decades-old tradition of “liberal Hollywood,” Trump’s ascension to the presidency in 2016 triggered an unprecedented level of engagement by artists and performers. Within days of the 2016 election, a critical mass of entertainers, from teenagers to the last survivors of the World War II generation—blockbuster movie stars, art-film auteurs, Broadway dramatists, comedians, and musicians from the worlds of classical, country, pop, rock, R&B, and hip-hop—all seemed to have heard the tom-tom beat of resistance at the same moment and amplified a moral alternative to Trumpism. That level of engagement intensified with rare passion and purpose in the period of 2020 chronicled in Bloody Crossroads 2020—the Democratic primaries, the COVID-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, the conviction of sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, and the 2020 general election campaign—culminating in Trump’s failed insurrection. Exhaustively researched, Bloody Crossroads 2020 draws from brand-new interviews with Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Rosanne Cash, David Simon, Adam McKay, Chuck D, David Corn, Mandy Patinkin, and many more. It also explores the important political activities of entertainers like Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Alyssa Milano, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Bette Midler, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and Wanda Sykes. Bloody Crossroads 2020 expertly dissects and celebrates how the empowering actions of artists and entertainers helped a record turnout of everyday citizens realize a triumphant 2020 election.

      • Relationships
        October 2018

        The Dance of Life

        by Lutfiya Boboyorova

        Mahin is born in a small village in the Soviet republic of Tajikistan. As a beautiful and stubborn young girl, she marries against the will of her father. Destiny strikes hard when she gives birth for the first time. The forces of nature are violent. Her baby dies, and Mahin recedes into a world of grief and loneliness. After her husband abandons her, Mahin finds a new life in the city, with many more challenges. The Dance of Life is the story of a vulnerable, but strong-willed woman, and her struggle to gain control of her own life.

      • Fantasy
        November 2017

        The Man and the Wall

        by Sercan Leylek

        A young Jewish girl,  Anna Sophie, is magically caught inside a brick wall during World War II, while German soldiers are raiding the library where she works. Just as magically, her presence inside the wall is discovered seventy years later by a young Muslim immigrant named Yakamoz. The wall in this story can be found in real-life central Oslo, next to the National Library, where Anna Sophie worked. Is The Man and the Wall fantastic realism, or is it realistic fantasy? Whatever it might be, the story of Anna Sophie and Yakamoz keeps you captured till The End.

      • November 2019

        World Atlas of Jellyfish

        Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, Special Volume

        by Gerhard Jarms, André Morandini

        The »World Atlas of Jellyfish« presents in a lavishly illustrated multi-author compendium the more than 260 species of medusae (Scyphomedusae and Cubomedusae) described so far. The general, first part deals with their structure, complex life cycles and rare fossil records. But it also details on collection, cultivation and fishery methods, even gives hints for photography and cooking recipes. Additionally, it covers the nature of medusae venoms, the effects and treatment of their stings. The second part gives concise systematic descriptions of all jellyfish species and their ­developmental stages known so far. Numerous illustrations, distribution maps, taxonomic keys and literature lists allow for detailed identification and information. Outstanding among the wealth of wonderful illustra­tions are hitherto unpublished artistic colour paintings by Ernst Haeckel. The beauty of the animals is underlined by the demanding typesetting of the book. This »Atlas« is a unique overview summarizing our knowledge on the world’s jellyfish in all their facets. It is of importance not only for scientists worldwide, but also a source of fascination for divers and lovers of marine life. Corresponding to its far-reaching relevance and to the internationality of contributing authors the volume is written in English.

      • Architecture
        July 2018

        LATIN AMERICAN COLONIAL HERITAGE

        Urbanism, architecture, sacred art

        by Percival Tirapeli (author)

        The fruit of an extensive research by Professor Percival Tirapeli, this richly illustrated work covers three centuries of Colonial and Baroque art, and is divided in three parts: “Colonial Urbanism”, “Ecclesiastical Architecture” and “Sacred Art – Furniture and Ornamentation”. “Colonial Urbanism” explains the differences and approximations of the layout and planned urbanism between Hispano-American and Portuguese-Brazilian cities. “Ecclesiastical Architecture” analyzes the cathedrals of the viceroyalties, the audiences and the Brazilian sees. The section “Sacred Art – Furniture and Ornamentation” completes the analysis of churches, examining their retable façades, the furniture of the altars and their ornamental complements, such as sculptures and paintings.

      • Tigrino and Tigrene

        The Story of Two Tiger Cubs

        by Nina Cassian

      • Solothurn tanzt mit dem Teufel

        Solothurn dances with the devil

        by Christof Gasser

        On "Dirty Thursday", the start of the Solothurn carnival, the corpse of a young woman is found at the Krummtower. A tattoo with the number 666 on the corpse leads Captain Dominik Dornach to a series of past murders in the Red Light District, where victims had the same tattoo. While Dornach investigates these first clues, his daughter, who works in Iraq for the UN, is targeted by terrorists. Everything that is important to Dornach seems to be threatened. Christof Gasser belongs to a new generation of Swiss crime authors who have a completely new self-image and literary self-confidence. He advanced especially with his Solothurn crime novel series within a few years to become one of the most popular writers in Switzerland. The investigating team around cantonal policeman Dominik Dornach and Public Prosecutor Angela Casagrande is the centrepiece of his success. "Solothurn tanzt mit dem Teufel“ ("Solothurn Dances with the Devil") is the fourth part of this bestseller series and completes the series of four books around the illustrious duo Dornach/Casagrande. The story takes place in the not always peaceful cantonal capital of Solothurn, and also in Vienna, Paris and even in the Iraqi provincial city of Samarra and Amman in Jordan. Gasser shows in an original way how fatal a global network of international politics, organised crime and terrorism can be for the life of his protagonists. In his usual fast-paced and dense style, he tells an extremely impressive and current story, which shows how complex and relevant crime literature can be.

      • Fiction
        June 2020

        I will follow in your footsteps

        by Care Santos

        By the author of Half-Life (Nadal Prize 2017), a new novel about family relationships that reflects on the ways a secret from the past can make our future come tumbling down. Reina receives an unexpected call from the mayor of a small village in the Pyrenees. Renovation work on the cemetery has forced them to open up some of the more neglected tombs, among them her father’s. The mayor begs her to do something about his remains and invites her to a solemn ceremony.There is, in addition, a delicate matter he would like to speak to her about, one far from easy to discuss: the discover of another body next to her father’s. Surprised, Reina has no idea who it could be; she knows next to nothing about the man except that he killed himself forty-five years ago, and her mother tried her entire life to conceal it. Against her will, she goes to the village to put things in order.A journey that will take Reina to a tiny town in the heart of Catalonia, but also to a faraway past to the thirtys when her father was a young man in love.

      • Illumination

        by Nthikeng Mohlele

        Mohlele describes the book as “…an exploration of the nature and pitfalls of an artistic life. The backbone of the narrative is essentially a love story, but also how the charges and passions inherent in art, particularly music, interface and become transformed when fused with passions and anxieties of a more personal and discreet kind” Bantubonke is an accomplished and revered musician, composer and band leader in decline – an absent present and inadequate spouse. He lives for art at the expense of all else, an imbalance that derails his life and propels him to the brink of madness and despair. A story of direct and implied betrayals, Illumination is an unrelenting study of art, possession and loss, of the beauty and uncertainty of love, of friendship and the dangers and intrusions of fame.

      • Children's & YA

        Toad Luiz’s True Story

        by Luiz Ruffato

        Winner of Prêmio Jabuti, the most important Brazilian Literature award, this book brings us an amusing rereading of the princess and the toad story. The innovative fairy tale edition recounts two parallel stories: while the text presents Princess Juliana’s drama, the colorful and unusual illustrations tell the “Toad Luiz’s real story”. No spoiler, but the toad doesn’t become prince after the princess kisses him.  This is the first and only children book by Luiz Ruffato. More than just a fairy tale rereading, it invites the reader to reflect on how the unforeseen can be an opportunity for us to widen our worldview.

      • Fantasy
        October 2014

        Midas Rex in Connemara.

        by James Kilcullen

        The world's richest man, with his entourage, checks into the Turla Lodge Hotel, in the heart of Connemara. He doesn't tell his staff why he has come to this desolate area; certainly not on vacation. He is seeking the one thing his  money can't buy. Frank Carney, the Taoiseach is summoned to his presence and handed a note of his requirement. Frank absolutely refuses. "Do as I order or I'll have this damned country blown off the face of the map." Frank consults Ulick and Dan/Ozzy. If they give in  to this autocrat - they're damned and if they don't - they're damned. What can they do?

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