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      • Verlagsgruppe Patmos

        Patmos - Thorbecke - Grünewald - Eschbach - Schwaben - Ver Sacrum The list of Verlagsgruppe Patmos offers a wide range of titles, covering psychology, self-help, memoirs, parenting, spirituality, religion and theology, as well as gift books and children´s books, mostly for First Communion. Our imprint Thorbecke specializes in books on cookery, lifestyle and gardening, on the one hand, as well as books on history and cultural history, on the other hand.

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      • Sri Senbaga Pathippakam

        Sri Senbaga Pathippakam is one of the best publishers in Tamil language. We have published more than 1000 titles including ancient Sangam Tamil literature, research books in Tamil literature and language, mythological books, historical fiction and non-fiction, short stories, cooking books, etc. We also specialize in books for children, bilingual and trilingual dictionaries for the reference of students and general public. We publish Sahitya Academy & Tamilnadu government award winning books. One of our renowned books, 'Thirukkural', a scripture common to every walk of human life irrespective of gender, race or community is a must read for everyone on this planet. It is published in various sizes and design. 'Oviyakkural (Thirukkural with paintings)' portrays Tamil tradition and culture through paintings. Our religious publication about Vainavam and Saivam is popular among scholars. 'Kambar Kavi Inbam' portrays the beauty of poetry as described in Kambar's Ramayanam in Tamil language.

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      • SELECTED SHORT STORIES

        by Francisco Coloane

        A selection of short  stories made by Diego Zúñiga. A book that will be part of a collection including William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar and Roberto Bolaño  among others. These stories, from which both memory and fiction emerge, take us to the tough and inhospitable lands of The Great Chilean South, with heroic fights of men against a beautiful but cruel nature.   “Coloane incorporated a series of stories and characters that did not exist in Chilean literature until before him. He invented a new landscape and inhabited it, as probably no one has ever done it again. […] It is enough to read the unpublished story that is included in this anthology, "Galope en la Patagonia", to confirm that no one ever retold the story of these characters and of that southern landscape with the same humanity as Coloane did. And maybe that's what makes his reading urgent”. From the foreword by Diego Zúñiga

      • October 2020

        La rosa en el viento

        by Gallardo, Sara

        The rose that is destroyed in the wind lets its petals fly in a burnt light, we read in this hallucinated novel by Sara Gallardo, the last one she published, an extraordinary arrival point for a dazzling work, always accurate, always singular, always captivating. In La rosa en el viento all the characters move around, undertake journeys that are sometimes physical and sometimes emotional, but in all cases take them far from who they were in the beginning. Olaf, a Swedish immigrant who has escaped from a terrible episode in Italy, becomes a sheep breeder in Patagonia with Andrei, a Russian journalist who seeks, in turn, to conquer an unconquerable woman, whose story reaches us in flashes, just like Oo's, the Indian bought by Andrei, or that of Lina, who follows Andrei to the south, and that of Olga, who two generations before has followed Alexis the revolutionary to an America that, for these characters, is both a land of promise and of forgetfulness that in truth never materializes. Kaleidoscopic, choral, synthetic and modern, The Rose in the Wind brings together all the talent of Sara Gallardo to narrate and move, and cries out for us to read it again.

      • Children's & YA
        2019

        ALTAIR

        "Y LA LUZ DEL PODER"

        by LUIS SAAVEDRA

        “En un futuro cercano, los últimos humanos sobreviven refugiándose en la Antártica. La ciudad fue sellada con fuertes vidrios y metales para mantenerla libre de cualquier peligro, pero en estos momentos, los recursos han comenzado a escasear. Altair, un joven que está a punto de cumplir la mayoría de edad, se ve enfrentado a grandes desafíos: descubrir el origen de sus extrañas capacidades, luchar por la libertad, y encontrar el camino hacia la restauración natural del planeta en un lugar llamado Sawken Kreen”“Altair y la luz del poder” es una Novela Gráfica infantil de ciencia ficción y fantasía para niños jóvenes lectores que toma la mitología de los Selknam y la Patagonia para presentarla de una forma entretenida y dinámica a través del dibujo, Cómic digital y un juego promocional para smart phones.

      • Fiction
        October 2020

        El indio ciclope (The Indian cyclops)

        by Guillermo Roz

        Not so much an illustrated novel as a technicolour delirium. Martin Scorsese meets Jack Kerouac under LSD. Enter, read and discover. The grotesque and fearsome Diotisalvi brothers control all the illegal business in New York. One day, completely by surprise, multi-millionaire Camel Horovitz exiles them and imposes a new reign of terror. Old Camel will only allow the Diotisalvi to return to New York on one impossible condition: they must find a way to rid him of the double hump that has earned him his nickname. The Diotisalvis embark upon a crazy adventure in search of a solution, a journey that will take them to Ushuaia, at the very ends of the earth. There, they will encounter Carlos Gardel’s albino twin, Charles Darwin’s lost son, a Madrileñan bullfighter and his bulls, a woman who is crossing Patagonia on foot and gradually becomes black, a dinosaur, a vast ship, a forgotten jazz singer, the Japanese creator of Godzilla, an Indian woman who speaks 364 languages... And a Cyclops, that mysterious legend, a phenomenon capable of performing a thousand and one miracles. “The words that could have come from the writer, are providedhere by the illustrator. One might think that going through life withonly one eye would impede a person’s vision but in the case ofthis Patagonian native it is an advantage, because it enables himto do something that the rest of us – mafia hitmen, albino singers,dinosaur hunters or black servants – cannot: to see the comic sideof tragic situations. We invite the readers of this book to follow suit.To laugh, because life is short and it usually ends badly. And that’sthat.” - Oscar Grillo illustrator of the novel

      • British & Irish history
        May 2007

        Mimosa: Life & Times

        by Wilkinson, Susan

        In May 1865, a twelve-year-old clipper ship sailed from Liverpool, bound for Patagonia, seven thousand miles away. She had not been designed to carry passengers and was well past her sailing prime. On board were 162 Welshmen, women and children whose trad

      • Us, the Sleknam: A graphic novel.

        by Carlos Reyes/ Rodrigo Elgueta

        A graphic novel that explores from different cultural perspectives and in the format of a “cartoon documentary” a race of which we only have few remnants left. No survivor. An annihilated race, but whose culture still persists in Chile’s Patagonia, within Tierra del Fuego’s consciousness.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

        THE “SPIDERS” OF LECCO

        An illustrated history

        by Serafino Ripamonti

        The story of the mountaineering association Ragni di Lecco (the “spiders” of Lecco) from the Forties to our present day, with documents and eyewitness accounts on their accomplishments all around the world, from America to Patagonia. “Ragni di Lecco” is the oldest and most prestigious rock-climbing group in Italy. Its famed red jersey with its badge featuring a six-legged spider is linked to the most challenging ascents in the world – from Alpine peaks to the wuthering heights of Patagonia to the mindboggling altitudes of the Himalaya. Its famed bearers include Riccardo Cassin, Carlo Mauri, Casimiro Ferrari, along with many others who have left an indelible mark on the history of mountain climbing and daring deeds. This illustrated volume recounts the intertwined stories of brotherhood, love for the mountains and historical exploits, beginning with the first generation of “spiders”, who in 1946 sought to take back the youth they had been denied by the horrors of the World War, and following their footsteps from the local peaks of Grigna to the historical ascent of the Western face of Cerro Torre in 1974. And the tale continues today, with the adventures of a new generation of top climbers, like Matteo Della Bordella, adding their own chapters to the history of the association and keeping alive a love of adventure with a dash of romanticism.

      • Children's & YA

        A Lighthouse at the End of the World

        by Gerard Guix

        Winner of the most important children’s literature prize in Catalonia: Joaquim Ruyra 2022 Sinopsis They say that adolescence is the age of discoveries and anguish. Max knows this well. At the age of fourteen he has just seen how his life takes an unexpected turn: his father has been commissioned to renovate a lighthouse on a remote island and for a few months the whole family will settle there. Just now that Max was starting to have friends in high school—even though part of the class had been tasked with making him know a word that tortured him—just now that he had begun a special relationship with a girl—even though they hadn’t yet named what they felt for each other—, just now he has to leave everything and start a new life that no one has consulted him if he wanted to. But Max still doesn’t know that adolescence is also the age of first love, the most intense, which always marks more. And that, when necessary, love moves mountains, crosses continents, oceans if necessary, and finds who to find.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        June 2017

        Vivarna: The dinosaur, in the desert of horror (Bilingual edition: English-Spanish)

        by Luis Benítez

        Vivarna is a carnivorous dinosaur that lives in a hostile and dangerous world, 120 million years ago, in remote prehistoric Patagonia. He faces gigantic monsters and natural disasters with only one goal: to survive. It is a juvenile supraptor, but already well prepared for the fight; with its long claws and sharp teeth, it will fight its way through a terrifying desert, following a herd of huge dinosaurs until it reaches an even more dangerous sea… where new adventures await! The author and his work.

      • 2019

        SELK'NAM

        GENOCIDIO Y RESISTENCIA

        by JOSÉ LUIS ALONSO MERCHAN

        On a trip to Argentina, the author learned the fascinating but violent history of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Among all the legendary Selk'nam people emerge, whose history sinks in the dawn of time. in the late 19th century the Selk'nam suffered the violent impact of colonization. In this specific case, it took on the characteristics of a terrible genocide suffered by men, women and children, when the large cattle ranchers invaded their lands with thousands and thousands of sheep. Now, at present, the Selk'nam people are carrying out a historical process of social and cultural mobilization, which corresponds to a growing role of indigenous communities, both in Chilean and Argentine society. We must banish once and for all the words extinction, extermination or disappearance from our language and instead demand that the authorities respect the rights of native peoples, their territories, their customs and their language. The Selk'nam exist and are alive.

      • Tejo

        Juego de historias

        by CONRADO BOCCO

        Tejo es un entrelazado de tres historias presentadas con una literatura versátil. Cada una de ellas es dominada con un tono literario diferente. Es una novela conceptual en la que el autor juega con las letras, hechos y personajes desde la tapa hasta el Fin. El lector podrá ir saltando por los relatos o elegir solo uno de ellos. La historia de Adriano es divertida, juvenil; la de Camila es familiar y también histórica, de dramas y misterios, enclavada en la Argentina del 70. La de Extensísima de Los Milagros es un viaje a un tiempo desconocido, para descubrir los sucesos que vivió una civilización de nuestra Patagonia. A través de su mensaje,interpela a la sociedad actual. Tejo es una propuesta diferente, de la mano de una escritura ocurrente, profunda y emocionante, donde todos los hechos se conectan muy cerca del punto final.

      • Travel & holiday guides

        Chile: The Carretera Austral

        by Hugh Sinclair & Warren Houlbrooke

        This is the first guidebook focussed entirely on the magnificent and historic road uniting northern and southern Patagonia. The few hardy travellers that embark on this journey struggle to find even basic information about the region. The book provides visitors to the often-visited Bariloche and Chilean Lake District with a spectacular alternative means to reach the southern extremes of Patagonia.The road passes through world-class national parks. It stretches from the high Andes to the remote Pacific coast, fed by five great rivers, countless fjords and the largest ice fields outside of Antarctica and Greenland. Trekking options abound, including to and from neighbouring Argentina through pristine wilderness. The region is home to a sub-tropical rainforest, secluded villages without vehicles, picturesque lakes, dramatic and often active volcanoes, and sufficient activities to satisfy even the most adventurous visitors. In addition to practical advice, the book explores the mythical history of a region cut-off from the outside world, and the social and economic impact of the relatively recent connectivity to both mainland Chile and Argentina. Travelling in one of the last unknown regions of South America is challenging, and this book facilitates such travel for those wishing to escape the "gringo trail".

      • Geography & the Environment
        2021

        CONSERVACIÓN EN LA PATAGONIA CHILENA

        Evaluación del conocimiento, oportunidades y desafíos

        by Castilla, Juan Carlos

      • Fiction

        Boulder

        by Eva Baltasar

        Short, intense and full of dazzling images, Boulder is the story of a woman who wants to be alone. Life makes it very difficult for her and she betrays herself. After the successful Permagel/Permafrost, Eva Baltasar's second novel explores the contradictions of motherhood.   In 2018, Permagel/Permafrost became a 'must-read' thanks to an enthusiastic reception, although it did not have a great advertising campaign behind it. Written with functional prose, the book brought together the lesbian experience and the death wish with a touch of ironical rawness.   Translation rights of Permagel/Permafrost were acquired by Literatura Random House (World Spanish, already published), Verdier (France, publication Fall 2020), Nottetempo (Italy, already published), And Other Stories (World English, publication 2021), Kalandraka (Galician, to be published) andConfluencias (Portugal, to be published).   Two years later, Eva Baltasar (Barcelona, 1978) has published Boulder, the second novel of the triptych where Baltasar explores the voice, life and body of three women.   The book begins with the narrator in Chiloé (an island in Chile, in Patagonia), although she comes from a precarious situation in Barcelona. She flees the city and ends up embarking on a merchant ship and decides to stay there as a cook.   One day, when the ship is docked, the protagonist/narrator - nameless throughout the novel - falls in love with Samsa, an Icelandic geologist who ends up taking her to her island and who will call her Boulder. Driven by desire and what she assumes to be love, she leaves the ocean and her work on the ship, to move to land and start a typical life that she does not know if she will get used to. We will accompany Boulder on her journey to the common things: a house, a woman, and a daughter. The normality of a life from which she doesn’t know what to expect.   In Iceland Boulder and Samsa will live a more or less conventional life as a couple, but the protagonist will always keep an eye on her old life of isolation in the sea. When, after a few years in Iceland, Samsa tells Boulder that she wants to be a mother we already know that things will not go well because the protagonist has already warned us: "I am not a children person."   The protagonist's happiness is based on not feeling responsible for anything or anyone, not hurting anyone and making her life. As Eva Baltasar puts it, “loneliness can be hard, but it also frees you up." Boulder explores other major themes that we could also read in Permagel/Permafrost, such as motherhood and living as a couple, which can enrich you but also end up diluting you in that couple.   Through this relationship Eva Baltasar addresses issues such as couple relationships, and how these change before the arrival of motherhood. The author manages to give a twist to this topic and shows us a totally different perspective of motherhood from the one we are used to. It teaches us that there is another reality, another way of seeing it beyond that beautiful and happy stage that we have always been told. It also tells us about sexuality and how desire within a couple is transformed over the years, in a direct and taboo-free way.   The landscape is also very important in Boulder: desolate landscapes like the ones we find in Chiloé, the ocean or Iceland. It is those open spaces with few people around that the protagonist likes.   To say Eva Baltasar is also to speak of an elaborate, poetic language which makes the story slide smoothly. Boulder also reflects on this, because “language stakes us when we are born and shapes us, governs our cells.” Baltasar thinks that the way we speak also “builds us as people and sometimes we are not aware of it.”

      • Geography & the Environment

        Chile geopoético

        by Miguel Laborde

        Esta publicación reúne veintiocho columnas del investigador, académico y escritor Miguel Laborde, con ilustraciones de Alejandra Acosta, publicadas en la revista La Panera. Sus textos dan cuenta de una serie de datos geográficos e históricos que permiten asomarse a ciertos rasgos distintivos de Chile desde los cuales se construye un relato del imaginario local. La geopoética como concepto nace como una herramienta para comprender y expresar nuestra relación con el mundo y el pensar a la Tierra. Considera la cultura como el modo en el que los seres humanos se conciben a sí mismos y se organizan y orientan. “Desde el punto de vista literario, un libro como este, que corrió el riesgo de ser concebido por la vía de la protesta en un lenguaje de pura comunicación, es, por el contrario, un libro poético, de excelente prosa, de gran riqueza de imágenes y sorpresas de lógica e ilógica. Su crítica al modelo de civilización vigente es lapidaria, pero de un furor contenido”. Gastón Soublette

      • Animal breeding
        August 2023

        Artificial Insemination in Goats

        by Chetna Gangwar, S.D.Karche, R.Pourouchottamane & Ravi Ranjan

        Artificial Insemination (AI) permits intense selection of sires with exceptional merits and provides opportunity to exploit the value of superior sires. This book constitutes an update of recent developments in the field of assisted reproductive technology and includes selection and management of breeding buck, semen collection, processing and cryopreservation, estrous synchronization and Artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, and quality control in Artificial Insemination has been included. The book covers all the basic knowledge related to artificial insemination in goats and to increase goat productivity and as a result meet the needs and demands of human communities. The work will be useful veterinary students as well as new entrants to this entrepreneurship.

      • Graphic novels
        December 2017

        Los Fantasmas del Viento

        by Oscar Barrientos/Cristian Escobar/Mirko Vukasovic

        Magallanes, – escriben sus autores-  la última región de Chile en ser colonizada, posee una historia que ni bien termina de ser narrada, es necesario escribirla nuevamente; una serpiente con plumas de pingüino, con pezuñas de guanaco, que se muerde la cola y habla en español, croata, con un acento sureño “cantadito” al son de una estufa con agua para el café, mientras afuera nieva, llueve y sale el sol simultáneamente. “Los Fantasmas del Viento” es una publicación que busca actualizar y enfrentar tanto a magallánicos como a chilenos no sólo con la historia de la Región, si no también con la cultura y naturaleza increíble, fantasiosa, descabellada y últimamente, muy real

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        EL QUIJOTE. Versión abreviada y adaptada al español de América Miguel de Cervantes

        by Pablo Chiuminatto. Editor.

        Ediciones UC presenta esta versión abreviada de Don Quijote de la Mancha, adaptada al español actual de América. "Esta nueva versión permite a los lectores disfrutar del conjunto de su trama, y especialmente del humor cervantino, sin las dificultades que genera la distancia temporal no solo con el español de aquellos tiempos, sino también con la realidad históricocultural de la España de 400 años atrás". Carlos Mata, Universidad de Navarra.

      • Agriculture & farming
        January 2015

        Biological Sciences

        Innovations and Dynamics

        by Rajeshwar P. Sinha, Richa & Rajesh Prasad Rastogi

        The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge, and highlight the current developments taking place in biological sciences. The book encompasses topics on prokaryotic cyanobacteria to higher plants, distributed in fourteen chapters for the benefit of graduate and post-graduate students as well as young researchers and scientists. Subjects covered include molecular and biochemical diversity of microbes, stress biology, cyanotoxins, antimicrobial activity of drugs originated from plants, natural bioactive compounds of microbial origin, detection approaches for genetically modified crops, genomics and proteomics. The book provides an insight for future perspectives in particular field with extensive bibliographies at the end of each . With all these, this book becomes highly useful and must-read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, biotechnology, bioinformatics, environmental sciences, agriculture, molecular biology and other streams of biological sciences.

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