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      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        October 2021

        The Lost Smile

        by Nadia L. King / Nelli Aghekyan

        When Zaytoon wakes up feeling sad, she goes on a search to find her smile. From the kitchen to the garden, Zaytoon searches high and low,and eventually discovers her smile — it’s smiling at her from her reflection in the window! The Lost Smile is beautifully illustrated colourful picture book that demonstrates the importance of accepting our emotions. Zaytoon’s journey shows children it’s okay to be sad and reassures young readers that sadness can be temporary. Themes include cultural diversity, emotional intelligence, family life and the importance of connecting with nature and animals.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        September 2020

        Seed Ball

        by Bahar Sener / Samantha McLelland

        Nowadays, in almost all schools children are being taught about the importance of seeds. They know that seeds carry life. Seed festivals are organized in various places in the spring. Children learn about different types of seeds and how to differentiate them. They even learn how to plant them in pots in their backyards. In this beautiful book, children will learn how to make seed balls using the seeds of different fruits and vegetables. Seed ball is a unique gift from the acclaimed Japanese figure in organic farming, Fukuoka.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        April 2020

        Greta’s Voice

        by Ged Umlimi / Amelina Jones

        Very few people had the courage and the chance to change the course of events in history. Ghandi was one of them. Rosa Parks was another. But for the first time, a teenager stood up. Greta Thunberg started with small steps, sitting in front of the Swedish Parliament and later skipping schools on every Friday in order to demand action on climate crisis. In time, she inspired millions of young people and adults around the world to take to the streets to demand the same. Greta’s Voice is the real story of the 16-year-old climate activist, a story that will give hope to people of all ages and prove to children that they don’t need to wait becoming a grown up to make a difference. Greta’s is a story of persistence and inspiration, a wake up call for us all. We hope we will stop the climate crisis altogether

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        September 2020

        How Hope Became an Activist

        by George M. Johnson / Danielle Grandi

        What is an activist? Why do we need them? Join Hope as she discovers how to make positive change on issues that matter from clothes made in fair trade to refugee aid -and to have fun at the same time! Even if you are small you can still stand tall and help out to make the world a better place for all. How Hope Became an Activist is the first in a series on how kids from diverse backgrounds have joined with friends to take action on a range of issues from saving bees to helping in a food bank.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        June 2020

        Two Tortoises in the Forest

        by Bahar Sener / Gabriela Vagnoli

        Regardless of their reactions, all children are beautiful and deserve respect and care. They sometimes misbehave, in fact this may even go as far as peer bullying. In this book, you will see how this kind of behaviours can be transformed and open the way for a good friendship when children are treated with love. Children and adults alike have so much to learn from those intelligent, wise tortoises who are famous for acting slowly but surely.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        February 2020

        Yoga with Cats

        by Maria van Bruggen

        Do you need an inspiration for your daily exercises, perhaps an intuitive message to raise your mood, and most importantly, to connect with your furry friends? Yoga with Cats, with its 33 exercises, will do all that and bring a smile to your face. Cats are your best friends and they are the true yoga masters. Take their help to pick up your yoga routine. Shuffle the pages and choose a pose, and enjoy yourself! Laugh and have as much fun as possible with your furry friends on your yoga journey. Yoga with Cats offers a unique experience to children and adults alike, a divinely funny book that cat lovers of all ages will adore.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        March 2020

        Amelie Trott and the Earth Watchers

        by Moyra Irving

        This is the extraordinary story of how one small girl stopped a planetary catastrophe. It’s a very timely book, written for the child in us all, with a forceful message about the power of young people to transform the world - a theme currently demonstrated by brave young heroes like Greta Thunberg. And with magical synchronicity, the very week Greta began her lone vigil outside the Swedish government last year, over 1,000 miles (1,897 km) away in the fictional world of books, Amelie Trott took to Parliament Square, London - on a mission to avert the End of the World. It’s a family drama with an international feel - set mainly in England but with episodes in Washington DC and around the world.

      • Trusted Partner
        July 2021

        An Introduction to Economics

        Concepts for Students of Agriculture and the Rural Sector

        by Berkeley Hill

        Updated and revised, this fifth edition incorporates recent developments in the environment in which agriculture operates. Issues that have gained prominence since the previous edition (2014) include climate change and agriculture's mitigating role, concern with animal welfare, the social contributions that agriculture makes, risks associated with globalization, and rising concern over sustainability. Important for UK and EU readers are the adjustments needed now that the UK is no longer a member of the European Union and the nature of the national policies developed to replace the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. Containing all the major economic principles with agriculture-specific examples, An Introduction to Economics, 5th Edition provides a rounded and up-to-date introduction to the subject. The inclusion of updated chapter-focused exercises, essay questions and suggestions for further reading make this textbook an invaluable learning tool. This book: Is updated to include new developments, such as Brexit, importance of climate change and animal welfare. Includes exercises and essay questions. Suggests further reading to supplement the text. This book is recommended for students of agriculture, economics and related sectors.

      • August 2019

        The Invincible Green Book: New Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1 Grammar

        by Li Xiaodong

        "The Invincible Green Book" is a carefully planned and edited series for New Japanese Language Proficiency Test(JLPT). This book is about N1 Grammar. Based on the requirement of new JLPT, it summarizes and analyzes the past exam papers (2020-2015) , dissects throughlythe rule of JLPT,and collets 495 sentence patterns for N1, and categorizes them into three types according to their difficulty level, with detailed analysis respectively. Besides explanation, examples and past exam questions for every sentence pattern, it also incudes synonym and derivative patterns. An exercise book and a condensed grammar manual are included as well.

      • DEVIL'S ISLAND

        by Nicolas BEUGLET

        BESTSELLER : N°1 FOR FOUR WEEKS IN A ROW IN FRANCE      REVENGE IS A MATTER OF MEMORY  The body covered with a strange white powder… the extremities gangrenous… A face frozen in a grimace of pain… Sarah Geringën is gripped with horror when she sees her father’s body. And is paralysed with fear when the pathologist gives her the key found in his stomach. What if her father was not the man he seemed to be? From murky Norwegian forests to icy Siberian plains, the former Special Forces inspector goes on a journey to confront a terrifying family secret. What will she discover in that oldmanor house isolated in the woods? Will she dare venture onto Devil’s Island?Nicolas Beuglet’s new novel is a spine-chilling thriller that exhumes a horrifying unknown event from the depths of history and poses intriguing questions.How much of our ancestors live in us, for better or worse?

      • Technology, Engineering & Agriculture

        Turbomachines 1

        Design and operation

        by Willi Bohl, Wolfgang Elmendorf

        The joint presentation of the structure and mode of operation of all turbomachines provides a solid basis for professional practice in engineering training. Students of Mechanical Engineering and Engineers in Practice will find out everything worth knowing about: Main operating data and performance Energy conversion in the impeller Model laws and key figures cavitation Ultrasonic flow in turbomachines Water, steam, gas and wind turbines centrifugal pumpsFans, blowers, compressors Hydrodynamic clutches and transmissions New focal points since the 10th edition: Special consideration of energy economic aspects with regard to renewable energy generation with hydro and wind turbines Detailed, application-oriented and practically feasible consideration of loss mechanisms in the flow-through of pumps with the aim of increasing efficiency. Special features in the application of wind turbines with regard to control and energy yield Inclusion of current technical literature and standards Uniform representation of all turbomachines

      • Agriculture & farming
        June 2013

        Statistical Designs and Analysis for Agricultural Field Experiments

        by Vijay Katyal & D.M.Hegde

        The book is written in easy to understand language, in short paragraphs and is fully supported by adequate examples. The book consists of 11 chapters.

      • Probability & statistics
        January 2019

        Practical Multivariate Statistics

        by K.S.Kushwaha & Rajesh Kumar

        The book entitled Practical Multivariate Statistics has been designed for P.G. and Ph.D. students of Pure Statistics, Agricultural Statistics, Biological & Social Sciences and those who have to appear in various competitive examinations like (ISS, IES, SSS, A.S.R.B., States PSCs, NET and IAS.). This book is also useful for faculties of Department of Statistics of Indian Universities. The book is the outcome of 33 years of teaching experience of U.G., P.G. and Ph.D. students of different disciplines of Agriculture, Agril. Engg. and Agril Statistics. The book contains 12 chapters, out of which (1-5) deals with the Multivariate Analysis, (6-9) Multivariate Regression Analysis, (10) Multicollinearity, (11) Sampling Distributions of Partial & Multiple Correlation and (12) Elements of Stochastic Processes. In each chapter three type of questions. True/False, Fill in the Blanks and Multiple Choice Questions alongwith their Key Answers have been provided.

      • Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        May 2014

        Engineering optics

        by Gottfried Schröder, Hanskarl Treiber

        The text provides a solid foundation in technical optics including the use of optical components, equipment and techniques. Examples illustrate the broad applications spectrum. The latest standards and state-of-the art components such as diffractive optical elements and photonic crystals have been included in the 11th edition of this standard work. Contents extract: light and optical imaging radiation light sources and receivers interference and spectral devices colors gratings holography polarization and measurement of optical values Equations DIN standards

      • Agriculture & farming
        October 2016

        Inferential Statistics

        by K.S. Kushwaha

        The book is the outcome of 30 years of teaching experience of U.G., P.G. and Ph.D. students of different disciplines of Agriculture, Agril. Engg. and Agril Statistics in J.N.K.V.V., Jabalpur. The book contains 9 chapters out of which Chapters (1-2) deals with the Point Estimation, (3) Interval estimation, (4-5) Test of hypothesis, (6) Sequential statistics, (7) Decision theory, (8) Linear estimation and (9) Theory of ordered statistics.

      • Fiction

        Remix

        by Lexi Revellian

        REMIX is a feel-good page turner, that you won't want to put down until you reach the satisfying ending.Caz Tallis restores rocking horses in her London workshop. When shabby but charismatic Joe and his dog turn up on her roof terrace, she is reluctantly drawn into investigating a rock star's murder from three years before - an unsolved case the police have closed. Which, as her best friend James says, is rather like poking a furnace with a short stick...

      • Fiction

        Ice Diaries

        by Lexi Revellian

        It's 2018 and Tori's managing. Okay, so London is under twenty metres of snow, almost everybody has died in a pandemic or been airlifted south, and the only animals around are rats. Plus her boyfriend never returned from going to find his parents a year ago when the snow began - but she's doing fine. Really.She lives in an apartment that's luxurious, if short on amenities, in a block which used to be home to rich City bankers. A handful of fellow survivors are her friends, and together they forage for food and firewood, have parties once a month and even run a book club. The problem is they have no long-term future; eventually provisions will run out. Tori needs to find transport to make the two-thousand-mile journey south to a warm climate and start again.Enter Morgan, a disturbingly hot cage fighter from a tougher, meaner world where it's a mistake to trust people. He's on the run from the leader of the gang he used to work with. And he has a snowmobile.

      • Fiction

        Replica

        by Lexi Revellian

        REPLICA is a fast-paced thriller/romance you will find hard to put down.Beth Chandler, bright, attractive but unassertive, is accidentally replicated in a flawed experiment at the government research institute where she works. A second Beth comes into being, complete with all her memories. To Sir Peter Ellis, MI5 chief, the replica is an embarrassment that must be hushed up and disposed of. Overhearing him, Beth Two goes on the run. With no official existence, homeless, penniless and pursued by Sir Peter's agents, she has to find the inner strength and aggression to survive on icy London streets. Meanwhile the original Beth, unaware of what has happened, becomes romantically involved with Nick Cavanagh, the spec op she believes is there to protect her. In fact, he's hunting her double. Nick refuses to face his moral doubts about Beth Two - as far as he's concerned, it's not his problem. As events unfold, and the situation grows more complicated, he has to decide whose side he is on.

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