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        June 2019

        Dark Clouds Indicate Rain

        by Xiao Aozi

        When Grandpa dug taro in the ground, he caught a little loach and took the loach home for cooking. Little dragan, the brother of the little loach, found him in danger and run after him with dark clouds. Grandpa and Grandma discussed how to cook the little loach with a dispute. During the argument, the crock containing the small loach was broken, and the dark clouds carried by the little dragon also landed ... Eventually, will the little loach be saved?

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        July 2016

        Where the Clouds Disperse

        by Chi Li

        This collection includes five novelettes by Chi Li: Life Show, Who Do You Think You Are, The Birth of the Sun, and Where the Clouds Disperse. Most of these works reflect the characteristics of Wuhan and most of the characters in them are also related to the personality of this metropolis. Works like Life Show have been adapted into sensational films and TV series. They roughly represent the creativity of Chi Li.

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        August 1994

        Die Dreigroschenoper

        Nach John Gays »The Beggar's Opera«

        by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann

        Unter Brechts bekannten, vielgelesenen und vielgespielten Werken ist dies das bekannteste und meistzitierte. Zupackende Spielhandlung, aggressiver Witz und Kurt Weills Musik haben hier auf Dauer einen Nimbus geschaffen, wie ihn nur wenige Texte der klassischen Moderne für sich reklamieren können.

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        Children's & YA
        January 2011

        The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air

        by Abdo Wazen

        In his first YA novel, cultural journalist and author Abdo Wazen writes about a blind teenager in Lebanon who finds strength and friendship among an unlikely group.   Growing up in a small Lebanese village, Bassim’s blindness limits his engagement with the materials taught in his schools. Despite his family’s love and support, his opportunities seem limited.   So at thirteen years old, Bassim leaves his village to join the Institute for the Blind in a Beirut suburb. There, he comes alive. He learns Braille and discovers talents he didn’t know he had. Bassim is empowered by his newfound abilities to read and write.   Thanks to his newly developed self-confidence, Bassim decides to take a risk and submit a short story to a competition sponsored by the Ministry of Education. After winning the competition, he is hired to work at the Institute for the Blind.   At the Institute, Bassim, a Sunni Muslim, forms a strong friendship with George, a Christian. Cooperation and collective support are central to the success of each student at the Institute, a principle that overcomes religious differences. In the book, the Institute comes to symbolize the positive changes that tolerance can bring to the country and society at large.   The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air is also a book about Lebanon and its treatment of people with disabilities. It offers insight into the vital role of strong family support in individual success, the internal functioning of institutions like the Institute, as well as the unique religious and cultural environment of Beirut.   Wazen’s lucid language and the linear structure he employs result in a coherent and easy-to-read narrative. The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air is an important contribution to a literature in which people with disabilities are underrepresented. In addition to offering a story of empowerment and friendship, this book also aims to educate readers about people with disabilities and shed light on the indispensable roles played by institutions like the Institute.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2009

        Air empire

        British imperial civil aviation, 1919–39

        by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

        Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain's development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice. ;

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        Children's & YA
        January 2018

        The Ant’s Mushroom

        by Anatolii Hryhoruk (Author), Liubomyr Beiher (Illustrator)

        This interesting fairy tale is about one tiny ant that one day finds a huge Mushroom in the forest. The ant can’t pick this big Mushroom up and bring it home by itself. What should the ant do? Whom to ask for help? This book is part of the Reading Is Really Interesting series. Reading Is Really Interesting was established to develop and improve children's reading skills as well as their cognitive interests. Reading the books in the series gives children encouragement and support, and makes them naturally motivated; by reading these books their curiosity is stimulated to read more and more, making them full of enthusiasm and eager to learn. The key feature of the series is that the texts have only one storyline and a small number of characters, making them easier to follow for beginner readers as well as more advanced learners.   From 3 to 8 years, 195 words. The books in the series correspond to different reading abilities: Level 1 – I am learning to read (short texts, simple sentences);Level 2 – I can read with someone’s help (simple plots, simple language structures);Level 3 – I can read by myself (more complicated figures of speech and vocabulary);Level 4 – I read with pleasure (various genres and themes). Books that invite readers into new worlds. "Read every day and at every chance you get!"      Rightsholders: Diana Semak, bohdanbooksco@gmail.com

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        Easily Make 150 Air Fryers Creative Gourmet Food

        by Xizhen Yishen

        The book focuses on the subdivision of the food book market of air fryers. Starting with the knowledge of the structure and use of air fryers, the food produced covers a total of more than 150 dishes of air fryers in 6 categories, including frying (vegetarian dishes, meat, seafood, poultry eggs), baking and making snacks. All use air fryers as the main tools, with detailed steps and descriptions.

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        A L'OMBRE DU CUMULONIMBUS

        Témoignage d’une franco-israélienne … Broché

        by Francoise Hoffmann

        Que savez-vous vraiment d’Israël ? Depuis 1948, ce jeune Etat connu pour avoir fait refleurir le désert et intégré des millions de rescapés de la Shoah et ceux fuyant les vents froids de l’antisémitisme, est aujourd’hui à la pointe du progrès et malgré tout fait l’objet de reportages biaisés qui dégradent son image. La propagande palestinienne s’impose dans la bataille médiatique et gangrène les relations diplomatiques d’Israël avec nombre de chancelleries.Ce témoignage décrit les impacts d’une actualité fracassante sur la vie quotidienne à l’ombre du cumulonimbus. Ce gros nuage annonciateur d’orages dans un ciel d’azur symbolise le hiatus entre la normalité et l’enfer des violences endurées.L’auteure guide le lecteur pas à pas dans la courte Histoire d’Israël. À l’aide de faits documentés, souvent occultés, elle livre sa version des faits. Cet ouvrage répond à la nécessité de déconstruire les mythes et falsifications encryptés dans les consciences et étrangers à la vérité. Il analyse également le rôle de la Ligue Arabe dans cette vaste supercherie.La lecture de ce livre exige l’ouverture d’esprit requise pour la découverte d’un monde méconnu et attachant. Du parallèle établi entre la France et l’Etat hébreu, ressort une inimitié entre deux pays qui n’ont pas vocation à se mal aimer alors que les attentats islamistes font rage, et que des Juifs français s’installent en Israël.Francoise Hoffmann est née en France alors que ses parents pourchassés par Les lois de Vichy réussissent à survivre. De sa première visite en Israël, elle revient transformée et fera son alya avec son mari sioniste lui-aussi et leur deux enfants. Les abondantes notes consacrées aux événements dramatiques, à sa vie personnelle et à son engagement dans le travail social contribuent grandement à l’écriture de ce livre. 384 Pages, Published in 2020

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        December 2014

        Public Enemy

        by Wang Fangchen

        The novel depicts the fate of a Chinese village and individual villagers in the great historical transformation, and creates the vivid image of a morally self-examining and self-reflective persona in the character of Farmer Han Dianyi. Using “benevolence and justice” as the effective weapon, Han Dianyi successfully establishes HanTong Group and leads a corrupt and degenerate life afterwards. The suicide of his former lover in despair awakens him and he retires to a seclusive life in a graveyard. His successor Tong Heizi continues his way of practice and Hantong Group still dominates the village. His elder brother Tong Chengzhi resigns from his official post and returns to the village. This causes great uneasiness to Tong Heizi, who sets off on the road of no-return on a snowy night. Han Dianyi, full of remorse, tells people the secret why he has painfully guarded the graveyard for more than ten years. Tong Chengzhi takes over Hantong Group while Han Dianyi holds the ashes of his former lover and enters the tomb he has dug for himself. The whole novel, set in a heavy and gloomy atmosphere, features sharp and poignant language.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2009

        Aura

        By Carlos Fuentes

        by Mike Thompson, Peter Standish

        Since its publication in 1962, Carlos Fuentes' novel, Aura, remains not merely an object of academic interest but a continuous source of controversy in Mexico. It was the explosive combination of sex and religion that incensed the Ministro de Hacienda, Salvador Abascal, and linked Aura to the recent polemical Mexican film El crimen del Padre Amaro. Aura is preoccupied with the place and persistence of the sacred in modern Mexico rather than simply the secret abuses of institutional Catholicism. This critical edition of the work is accompanied by an introduction and notes on the text. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Air power and colonial control

        by David Omissi

        Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.

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        Children's & YA

        Heart of Mist

        by Katrin Lange

        A girl torn between two brothers. Regardless of which one she falls in love with it will be disastrous for the other. Christopher and Adrian have sworn that no girl will ever come between them again, because there is a sleeping monster inside Adrian, just waiting to hurt his brother. But then Jessa comes to High Moor Grange… Jessa would do anything to find her sister Alice, who has been registered as missing for five years. High Moor Grange is the first clue she has been given after all this time – but apart from a ruin shrouded in mist, all she finds there are the owners of this dilapidated manor house. Jessa suspects that they both know more about Alice’s disappearance than they admit. Christopher wants nothing more than to be rid of her, and constantly gets on her nerves with his arrogance – and even his warm-hearted brother Adrian seems to be harbouring some secrets. Jessica knows that she ought to stay away from the twin brothers, because instead of finding answers at High Moor Grange, she finds herself in danger of losing her heart in a battle against a 200-year-old curse. Dark, irresistible and deeply romantic – a modern Beauty and the Beast story by the queen of emotions!

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        Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        December 2018

        Air Pollution

        Sources, Impacts and Controls

        by Pallavi Saxena, Naik Vaishali, Amit Awasthi, Sangeeta Bansal, Monojit Chakraborty, Naveen Chandra, Arti Choudhary, Manisha Gaur, Vineet Goswami, Tarun Kumar Gupta, Harpreet Kaur, Priyanka Kulshrestha, Amit Kumar, Ruchi Kumari, Chinmay Mallick, Renu Masiwal, Vandana Maurya, Neha Mishra, Naik Vaishali, Prashant Rajput, Anuradha Shukla, Gyanesh Kumar Singh, Ravi Prakash Singh, Ruchi Singh, Saumya Singh, Saurabh Sonwani, Shani Tiwari

        Air pollution has become a major global issue due to rapid industrialization, human population growth and increasing urbanization. The various sources of atmospheric pollutants, both those created by human activity and those from natural physical and biological processes, have become the focus of much scientific research and analysis. An understanding of how these many pollutants are affecting air quality is essential in order to design strategies to mitigate them. Written by a team of international experts, this book aims to provide a broad overview of the issues surrounding air pollution and how to control and monitor pollution levels. Beginning with a brief background on the subject, the book moves on to discuss global emissions, with an emphasis on megacities and their effects. Possible pollution control measures and methods of air pollution measurement and modelling are also explored. The book ends with descriptions of the various indices used for assessing air quality with a focus on human health impacts, and a discussion on policy making to control air pollution. The book will be useful to students of environmental science and atmospheric science, as well as environmental consultants and researchers interested in air quality . Key Features: Comprehensive introduction to the primary causes of air pollution today with an emphasis on growing urban populations and megacities Discusses both anthropogenic and biogenic emissions and their effects on human health and the environment Gives an overview of indices used today for assessing air quality and describes current methods for air pollution monitoring and modelling Discusses new technologies for mitigating the effects of air pollution and policy making for implementation of controls

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        January 2023

        Clouded Leopard Shadow

        by Mu Ling

        A pair of domestic cats fed the big clouded leopard was mistaken for a "wildcat" offspring. Identified by experts, the sister clouded leopard strayed into the city and was sent to a nature reserve, while the brother clouded leopard "Shadow" ran away on his own and began to wander the mountains and forests. ...... This special experience makes it different from its wild counterparts, but it still grows up in the competition for survival and defeats strong enemies, and later on, it befriends a young macaque that escaped from a monkey class and another clouded leopard. Later, he befriends a young macaque monkey that escaped from a monkey playing class and another clouded leopard......

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        Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques
        June 2000

        Air Pollution and the Forests of Developing and Rapidly Industrialising Countries

        by Edited by John L Innes, Abu H Haron

        This book examines the importance of air pollution for the forests of rapidly industrialising countries and regions. Its geographical coverage includes South and Central America, Africa, and Asia, including Siberia, China and Korea. The problems presented by air pollution are placed within the more general context of sustainable development within these regions and the historical legacy that they are attempting to deal with. Attention is drawn to the very serious problems associated with poor air quality in cities such as Mexico City and Chongqing, China. Air pollution in these areas is amongst the worst in the world. Several chapters examine the importance of forest fires as a source of air pollution, with particular reference being made to the Southeast Asian fires in recent years. The available information about the effects of this pollution on the surrounding forests is reviewed, and recommendations are made for a better understanding of the impacts. A final chapter reviews the recent developments in air pollution control policies in the different regions covered by the book.

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        April 2022

        Corona Chaos. Confessions from a pharmacist

        by Simon Krivec

        More than two years of pandemic is more than two years of corona clutter. Only a staggering level of helpfulness, improvisation and flexibility prevented the healthcare system from collapsing completely. In this highly topical book, pharmacist Simon Krivec tells of his incredible experiences and the stormy ups and downs of pandemic madness, missing masks and disinfectants, and the feeling of having been totally abandoned by a helpless state. We learn, for instance, of the short-term procurement of large quantities of ethanol and the transportation of the highly flammable substance, and just what lured the author – and 71,400 euros in cash – to visit the port of Neuss at night.

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        Good luck

        by Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House

        The book selects 300 works (groups) of painting, sculpture, grottoes, architecture, craft and other art works from the "13th Five-Year Plan" national key publications publishing planning project and the National Publishing Fund funded project "World Buddhist Art Atlas", closely related to auspicious themes in different periods and traditional Chinese cultural elements. Highlighting the development history of Chinese civilization and the radiation spread to neighboring countries and regions. Through appreciating the works of art, the manuscript analyzes their cultural connotation, expresses the auspicious vision of the ancient working people in health, reunion, peace, harvest, wealth and other aspects, reveals the far-reaching influence of Chinese culture, and has the function of art appreciation and cultural popularization.

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        About Us

        by Dekel Publishing House

        DEKEL PUBLISHING GROUP: A BRIEF PROFILE   Dekel Publishing House was established in 1975, initially as an academic publisher for university students, but it quickly expanded to include more popular genres under its imprint Tamar Books. Within a few years, Dekel became one of Israel’s leading publishing houses with both fiction, such as novels and thrillers, and nonfiction titles, mainly related to hobbies, cooking, and various sports and leisure activities. In the nineties, Dekel first entered the international publishing scene, taking part in most of the Frankfurt Book Fairs and the London Book Fairs, as well as many Book Expo America, the Salon du Livre in Paris, and also the Beijing Book Fair. Dekel maintains friendly collaboration with many overseas publishers in various languages to whom it licenses their own language rights or co-publishing agreements. It also publishes both digital and print titles via its American imprint in Monterey, California, and its German imprint in Frankfurt. Dekel’s bestselling Krav Maga series, which focuses on the original Israeli renowned self-defense system, has been translated and published in many languages, most with successive reprints, including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Recently, Dekel has developed titles in the high-tech and start-up domain, including fiction & nonfiction. Despite its dynamic activity, Dekel is a family-owned company managed by father and son Zvi and Dory Morik. Their company often proves itself to be a pioneer in the international publishing industry in promoting new and intriguing themes.   CONTACT: Imprints: Samuel Wachtman’s Sons, Lindenfels von Pressel Verlag Post: P.O. Box 16109, Tel Aviv 6116002, Israel Tel/Fax: 972-3-6044627 E-mail: zvimor@dekelpublishing.com Managing Director: Mr. Zvi Morik Export Manager: Mr. Dory Morik

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