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      • Silkworm International Co., Ltd.

        Silkworm Books is a general publisher based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We specialize in select markets and quality English-language books, primarily on topics related to mainland Southeast Asia. Founded in 1989, we are the foremost publisher of serious books on Thailand in English. To date, we have published more than 300 English titles. We have licensed English-language rights, purchased translation rights, and less frequently commissioned writers. Our books are distributed in North America, and U.K., through the University of Washington Press, and in Asia by local distributors.

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      • Verlag "Die Silberschnur" GmbH

        In 1982, the publishing company, Die Silberschnur, was founded by Helga Huber, the mother of the present general manager, Stefan Huber. She was motivated by the desire to bring spiritual knowledge closer to the broader public. The best seller author of the beginning years of the publishing company is the well-known doctor and death researcher, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Her book Über den Tod und das Leben danach (About Death and Life Thereafter) quickly became a big success. It has been translated into several languages and at the present, it has sold over a million copies around the world. Over the years, Silberschnur has become known as one of the leading publishing companies in Germany for spiritual and esoteric literature. With well-known authors, such as Trutz Hardo, Germany´s best known past life regression expert, international best seller author Kurt Tepperwein, Saint Germain´s medium Myra and famous TV-astrologer Andrea Buchholz, Silberschnur offers a wide variety of subjects. An enrichment of the publishing company's assortment is provided in particular by the books by Olivia Moogk, which examine the subject of Feng Shui, Franziska Krattinger, whose books show the possibilities for supporting healing processes with mental powers and successfully shaping one's life and Vadim Tschenze, who is well-known for his books about fortune telling and health issues. Today, the publishing company Die Silberschnur has over 600 books in its publishing program and publishes 30 to 40 new books each year. The companys intent is to provide an impetus for new perspectives, which are to contribute to further spiritual and mental development. If you are interested in our titles, please download our Foreign Rights Catalogues and do not hesitate to contact us for more information or reading copies. We look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, your Foreign Rights team

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        Searching for community

        ways of critical thinking in global south

        by Fabricio Pereira da Silva

        As a response to the widespread social, economic and ecological malaise that is a consequence of the expansion of modernity, Fabricio Pereira da Silva gives voice to a quest that has long been a banner of the left: the yearning for a fairer, more equitable way of life, free from the modern values of individualism, exploitation and inconsequential and disproportionate economic growth, based on the recovery and re-reading of pre-capitalist ways of life. This book is driven by the urgency of a utopia that recovers the ideas of communality gestated in the global periphery to inspire another kind of future. In Search of Community presents a list of theoretical perspectives created in the so-called Global South, with the aim of overcoming a “monoculture of knowledge”. Fabricio Pereira da Silva analyzes Mariátegui's Indo-American socialism, the concepts of negritude and ubuntu, 20th century African socialisms, the idea of Good Living (sumak kawsay/suma qamaña) and Bhutan's gross internal happiness. By “illustrating the richness of proposals from the periphery”, the author offers us other theoretical resources, capable of dealing with the “crisis of modernity, the crisis of Western Marxism and socialist projects in a modernist key”.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        November 2010

        El Camino by Miguel Delibes

        by Catherine Davies, Jeremy Squires

        Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing boundaries in pursuit of maturity and social advancement, whilst also implying that real education is the unfolding of the human heart among friends and sweethearts within a shared social and natural space. This new annotated version of the text comprises an introductory essay discussing green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy. It also contains explanatory notes on the text, discussion topics and an extensive Spanish-English glossary. This edition is intended primarily for English-speaking students of Spanish literature and culture at school and university. ;

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        The Gospel of Prosperity

        Literary and critical perspectives about the science of getting right quick

        by Luis Miguel Estrada

        In 2020, amidst the whirlwind of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas from books about the science of becoming a millionaire returned to Luis Miguel Estrada whom, since he left a financial job, has dedicated himself fully to literature. In this book, he thinks  some of the key questions raised by bestsellers from Napoleon Hill to Kiyosaki. Do we stop seeking money just because we pursue art? More importantly: regardless of what we do, how do we seek money? Why have narratives like positive thinking and the law of attraction become a universal language that gains strength during each economic crisis? Is there a link between bestsellers about the science of getting rich and great universal literature? This book attempts to answer these questions, beginning with the origins of books on becoming a millionaire, which delve into the agile 19th-century United States, transition through the fast-paced turn of the century, and explode in the years after the Great Depression. The journey continues with examples of wild successes (real-life fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes or fictional criminals like Walter White from Breaking Bad) that prompt us to question the influence of success-at-any-cost ideas on popular culture, as well as their ethical limits. How can one reconcile readings, cultural products, and experiences that seem so distant? The broader reading audience responds more to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill than to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Is there a way to read them alongside each other and emerge renewed from the experience? This book invites you on that adventure.

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        February 1999

        Der Cimarrón

        Die Lebensgeschichte eines entflohenen Sklaven aus Cuba, von ihm selbst erzählt

        by Miguel Barnet, Miguel Barnet, Hildegard Baumgart, Lisa Grüneisen, Heinz Rudolf Sonntag, Alfredo Chacón, Miguel Barnet

        Miguel Barnet und eine Gruppe von Ethnologen besuchten den hundertdreijährigen Esteban Montejo. Sie begegneten einem hochintelligenten, eigensinnigen Mann voller Erinnerungen an längst Vergessenes, Erinnerungen aus dem Leben der Sklaven, aus der Zeit der Abschaffung der Sklaverei auf Cuba und des Befreiungskrieges gegen die spanischen Kolonialisten. Montejo ist ein Cimarrón, ein entlaufener Sklave, der lange Jahre in absoluter Einsamkeit in den Bergen gelebt hat. Später schloß er sich den Aufständischen an, die gegen die Invasion Cubas durch die Amerikaner kämpften. Der Cimarrón entstand nach Tonbandaufnahmen von Gesprächen, die Miguel Barnet über Wochen und Monate mit Esteban Montejo geführt hat. Das überraschendste daran ist die bilderreiche Sprache dieses ehemaligen Sklaven. Von unseren Augen vollzieht sich die lebendige Vermischung von afrikanischen Mythen mit dem Katholizismus zu einer der afro-cubanischen Religionen, wie sie Barnet in seinem Buch Cultos afro-cubanos beschreibt. Esteban Montejo schildert alles von seinem persönlichen Standpunkt aus: das Leben als Sklave auf der Zuckerrohrplantage, das Leben in den Bergen, den Krieg, die Zeit, als die Spanier wohl vertrieben, aber durch die Nordamerikaner ersetzt waren. »Dieses Buch«, schrieb Lévi-Strauss, »eröffnet eine völlig neue Gattung der ethnologischen Literatur. Ihr Kennzeichen: eine Vertrautheit mit der Wirklichkeit der untersuchten Ethnie, die weit über alles früher Versuchte hinausgeht«. Die Lebensgeschichte von Esteban Montejo wurde 1971 unter dem Titel El Cimarrón von Hans Werner Henze vertont.

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        Medicine
        May 2018

        Veterinary Clinical Skills Manual

        by Nichola Coombes, Ayona Silva-Fletcher

        Down-to-earth and intensely practical, this book and video package provides step-by-step guidance on the essential clinical skills required by veterinary students before they face clinical situations encountered in the real world of the busy veterinary professional. - Contains step by step illustrations and photographs, complemented by videos of clinical procedures which can be viewed on your desktop, smartphone or tablet. - Covers the essential key skills that veterinary students need to know. - Details a whole range of techniques, from surgical, anaesthesia and laboratory through to everyday essential and diagnostic skills, in both farm and companion animals. - Describes in-depth the use of simulators in learning key skills. - Provides advice on preparing for OSCEs and practical exams. This book is the go-to manual for an essential grounding in key veterinary clinical skills for all students and educators of veterinary medicine and animal husbandry.

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        Literature & Literary Studies

        Poemas Náufragos (Castaway Poems)

        by Dulce María Loynaz

        Book of poems written by the Miguel de Cervantes Awarded cuban poet Dulce María Loynaz.

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        April 2020

        Gesundheit in unseren Händen

        Mit Mudras zu mehr Lebenskraft

        by da Silva, Kim

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        June 2013

        Der Körper in unseren Händen

        Mudras zur Balance der Gesundheit und zum Verstehen von Krankheiten

        by da Silva, Kim

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        August 1985

        Neue Keynesianische Makroökonomik.

        Sequentielle Anpassungsprozesse und ihre Mikrofundierung in Unterbeschäftigungsmodellen.

        by Hess Silva, Franklin Diego

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        November 1983

        Das Lied der Rachel

        Mit einem Nachwort von Miguel Barnet. Aus dem Spanischen übersetzt von Wilhelm Plackmeyer. Das Nachwort von Miguel Barnet übersetzte Monika López aus dem Spanischen

        by Miguel Barnet, Wilhelm Plackmeyer, Miguel Barnet

        »Rachel«, eine mit allen Wassern gewaschene Varietésängerin, strebt früh nach Höherem, ohne es jedoch zu erreichen. »La bella de Alhambra« schwelgt in Banalitäten und Kitsch, ist – mit liberalen Einschränkungen – Rassistin, weil ihre Kundschaft rassistisch ist, orientiert sich an Horoskopen, beschäftigt sich mit fliegenden Untertassen. Ihr Bericht läßt die stickige Atmosphäre der »belle époque« des vorrevolutionären Cuba nachempfinden, vermischt die Schilderung der klassischen Straßenschlachten zwischen einheimischen und französischen Zuhältern im Viertel San Isidro, des Rassenkrieges von 1912 und der »toten Zeit« zwischen den Zuckerrohrernten mit Kosmetikkniffen, Theaterklatsch und dem täglichen Leben der Unterwelt. Nach der Revolution von 1959 entwickeln sich die Dinge ungünstig für »Rachel«: die »Häuser«, die sie mittlerweile in besagtem Viertel besitzt, werden liquidiert, ihre Karriere als »freie Unternehmerin« ist beendet.

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        December 2001

        Tormenta juris permissione.

        Folter und Strafverfahren auf der iberischen Halbinsel - dargestellt am Beispiel Kastiliens und Kataloniens (16.-18. Jahrhundert).

        by Sabadell da Silva, Ana Lucia

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