The Bongles are a brand new series of illustrated children's books delivering a green environmental message across various platforms. The series includes animated audio ebooks, STEM interactive booklets, games and printed books. The Bongles series explores the world of the magical Bongle Planet with its colourful bouncy creatures and delivers an eco-friendly message presented in an offbeat and fun way.
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Maria Stepanova war schon vor dem internationalen Erfolg ihres ersten Prosawerks Nach dem Gedächtnis eine berühmte Autorin. Seit zwanzig Jahren hat sie die weltoffene Literaturszene Moskaus mitgeprägt und sich als produktive, experimentierfreudige Lyrikerin einen Namen gemacht, auch im angelsächsischen Raum. Die drei Langgedichte des vorliegenden Bandes, Erinnerungsarbeit in einer sich verdunkelnden Zeit, stehen in der Tradition der russischen und der amerikanischen Poesie der Moderne. »Die Dichtung, dieses absurde, vieläugige / Wesen mit den vielen Mündern, / Lebt in vielen Körpern zugleich, / Ging durch viele Körper zuvor.« Stepanova lässt die Poesie als handelnde Gestalt auftreten: Wir hören und sehen, wie sie über die Schlachtfelder des 20. Jahrhunderts schreitet, ihr Ohr an die Erde legt, den Boden aufgräbt, in den die Körper der Gefallenen eingegangen sind. Eine zerbrochene Welt wird besichtigt, und jemand ist da, der oder die alle Teile einsammelt, aufliest – sie »liest« und neu zusammensetzt. Ein messianisches Projekt? Maria Stepanova geht es um die politische, die poetische und die erotische Dimension der Körper – und dass sie alle, die toten und die lebendigen, das gleiche Recht beanspruchen: von uns gesehen, von uns wahrgenommen zu werden.
Der Ausbruch der Covid-Pandemie setzte im März 2020 einem Aufenthalt Maria Stepanovas im britischen Cambridge ein Ende. Zurück in Russland, verbrachte sie die folgenden Monate in einem Zustand der Erstarrung – die Welt hatte sich vor ihr zurückgezogen, die Zeit war »ertaubt«. Als sie aus diesem Zustand auftauchte, begann sie Ovid zu lesen. Motive fanden zueinander, die lange in ihr gewartet hatten. Wie schon in Der Körper kehrt wieder verwandelt sie historische und aktuelle Kataklysmen in ein ungemein feingliedriges, bewegliches Gebilde aus Rhythmen und Stimmen. Das Poem, das in einer rauschhaften poetischen Inspiration entstand, spricht vom Winter und vom Krieg, von Verbannung und Exil, von sozialer Isolation und existentieller Verlassenheit. Stepanova findet grandiose Bilder für das Verstummen: wenn etwa Worte, die wir einander zurufen, in der Luft gefrieren und unser Gegenüber nicht mehr erreichen. Das Werk verwebt Liebesbriefe und Reiseberichte, chinesische Verse und dänische Märchen in eine vielstimmige Beschwörung der gefrorenen und langsam auftauenden Zeit.
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From time immemorial people believed there were all kinds of wondrous creatures in faraway places. They fly in the air and swim deep in the ocean waters and hide in the mountains. Some have been hunted for hundreds of years and are still sought today. This book describes some of the bizarre creatures born by humankind’s fantasy: their habits and habitats and what science has to say about the possibility of their existence.Here you will find unicorn and cockatice, dragon and kitsune, the kraken and the Nessie, tripodero and bigfoot and many others.
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Sind wir, was wir gelesen haben? Schärft Lesen die Wahrnehmung? Den Gemeinsinn? Was geschieht im Gehirn, wenn wir lesen? Gibt es ein illegitimes Lesen? Ein ekstatisches? Liest man alt anders als jung? Wie las man im Sozialismus? Was liest man im Krieg? Was bedeutet Lesen in unserer heutigen Abstiegsgesellschaft? Macht Nicht-Lesen am Ende glücklicher? Dies ist ein Lesebuch und ein Buch über das Lesen, eine Anthologie, die das welt- und selbsterschließende Abenteuer des Lesens beschreibt, seziert und feiert. Ausgehend von ihren literarischen oder wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten nehmen sich 24 Autorinnen und Autoren die Freiheit, das Thema auf ihre Weise zu behandeln: in Gestalt einer Theorie, einer Erzählung, einer Kindheitserinnerung oder als Streifzug durch die eigene Bücher- und Lesegeschichte. Mit Originalbeiträgen von: Marcel Beyer, Rachel Cusk, Annie Ernaux, Jürgen Habermas, Michael Hagner, Eva Illouz, Hans Joas, Dževad Karahasan, Esther Kinsky, Thomas Köck, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Enis Maci, Nicolas Mahler, Friederike Mayröcker, Oliver Nachtwey, Katja Petrowskaja, Andreas Reckwitz, Hartmut Rosa, Clemens J. Setz, Wolf Singer, Maria Stepanova, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Alejandro Zambra, Serhij Zhadan
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It is a philosophical book. We are able to know something about our life, humanity, personality, etc inside the book. Modern society is suffering from several diseases. Countless hazards are existing in the world and people are affected. Chaos is prevailing in every walk of life. Now people are living like a patient. Maximum people are dying inside. They can't laugh properly, can't do anything freely. They have to fight, have to struggle all the time, and thus becoming a warrior of life. So people are different in their views, work, activity, attitude, and personality. People are suffering from multiple personalities. The usual faces, finding them in the day - to - day life, who may be anyone, sometimes I do think, am I? Who knows I maybe? No. Nay. Never. But it should be. Sometimes it's essential for survival. Multiple personalities are required for saving their own life. That is the main point. Because it's a common phenomenon in day to day life. "When one enjoys in l, Me and Myself, the seed of this disease starts growing Such rapid is the growth, so deep is the hunger, that goes on spreading. Morality and moral value remain in the background. Rejoicing the success that is newly found. They want to join the blind route and blind race Because they belong to a new race. Yes, it's commonly found there are many in any field, as if they are competing with someone, they are restless, almost often, why it is? Such a trait of personality is often visible in everyone's eyes, one may not say, one understands and doesn't say, ultimately what the person wants in life. Yes, the pinnacle of life. More frequently it's not good, it breeds a kind of disease, that is self-created, and people know about its consequence. 'The higher reality of consciousness enhances peace, love, harmony, and happiness in our hearts with actions we connectively accomplished through faith." This is a comprehensive subject, much has to be discussed in detail, at least poet Rajumoni Saikia has started the subject in nutshell in his one of his poems that readers can feel the in depths of the fire of the disease. Dissociative identity disorder, known as multiple personality disorder is a mental disorder characterized by the maintenance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. Undoubtedly multiple character or personality consumes much energy, maybe for overthinking, over-breathing, which everything has its own limit, and everything over is not good for the health, and health of family and society. Therefore, poet Rajumoni Saikia is excellently penning down the topic which almost everyone aware of it, but the poet has brought it limelight, which now on people will study the personality henceforth." Finally, personality also a part of life. It depends upon how the people maintain in day to day normal life. People always aware of his personality. When it is turned into a disease it destroys the lives. People losses the battle of life and morality.
The little fox Martin lives in a magical forest with his family: his dad, mom, and younger sister Nora. Every day something happens to him; sometimes it is joyful, and sometimes it is not. Martin learns about love, pride, astonishment, anger and other feelings and emotions, and shares his experiences with the reader. Many children will identify with the main character and learn to better understand their emotions and the feelings of others through the stories of the Little Fox. - Written by a child psychologist and a popular blogger - Develops emotional intelligence - BESTSELLER: over 110,000 copies sold There is also «The ABC of Good Manners» that continues the popular book «The ABC of Feelings and Emotions», written by the psychologist Ekaterina Kes.Although the book is written as an interesting story about the little fox and his family, its purpose is to help parents manage the children’s bad behavior. Helps avoid tantrums and whims in many situations
Psychologist Natalia Balayan created these metaphorical cards on the basis of the method of working with the subconscious mind and associations described by Assagioli. This is not an oracle, rather a practical, proven tool to guide you to understand your feelings and correctly assess the potential of the future. Magnificent illustrations by the world famous contemporary artist Ekaterina Belyavskaya make this deck not just an instrument, but a source of aesthetic pleasure. Reading the images of all Russian folktales can open a new angles to perceive yourself and the world around you. 33 cards and a book of interpretations are packed into a box. Enjoy your journey to your dreams and subconscious mind. Let this deck open up new horizons for your capabilities, the keys to understanding yourself and modeling your future.
Ekaterina Romanova, the estranged wife of Russia's wealthiest oligarch Konstantin Gravchenko, asks Scott Mitchell, an idealistic young English human rights lawyer who is being intimidated by the authorities, to find the father she's never met. She believes he's been languishing for decades without trial in the Gulag system. Meanwhile, General Pravda of military intelligence, though an advocate of transparency, is determined to protect a covert operation that he's been running for years. General Pravda hinders Ekaterina and Scott at every turn and lawyer and client are forced to go on the run for a murder they didn't commit. As they descend into the Hades that is the world of international realpolitik Scott is compelled to reconsider his own values, and Pravda's life's work disintegrates, when Scott uncovers a 50 year-old Cold War secret, which both the Russian and US governments are still trying to hide from the public domain. Moscow Bound is the first book in The Puppet Meisters trilogy, dealing with state abuse of power.
From time immemorial people believed there were all kinds of wondrous creatures in faraway places. They fly in the air and swim deep in the ocean waters and hide in the mountains. Some have been hunted for hundreds of years and are still sought today. This book describes some of the bizarre creatures born by humankind’s fantasy: their habits and habitats and what science has to say about the possibility of their existence.Here you will find unicorn and cockatice, dragon and kitsune, the kraken and the Nessie, tripodero and bigfoot and many others.
A little girl gets lost. She enters the house of three bears while they are walking in the woods and causes a nice mess. When the three bears return home, the girl runs away. Throughout the story, we can feel the good nature of the three bears and the sympathy of the messy girl, appreciating the harmony and warmth of the dialogue between the characters. Few fairy tales have undergone so many metamorphoses as Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This fairy tale is so well known in Russia that it is believed to be of local origin - also because bears often appear in Russian fairy tales. The fame and diffusion of The Three Bears (as it is called in the Russian version) is mainly due to its rewriting by Lev Tolstoy as well as to its showing in Anna Karenina as a subtext in the passage of Konstantin Levin’s engagement with the three Scerbackij sisters.
This volume will crown your journey, making you a participant in one of the greatest contributions that applied psychology made both to the business world and to all related areas of life: the value of emotional intelligence. From its definition to the means to make the most of it and achieve your ends, you will find the keys to making emotions not a stumbling block, but a weapon for job advancement. Paying attention to the other, giving him a framework of trust and appreciation, stimulating him and accompanying his moods, have been revealed as essential points for the development of all productive activities. Today it is known that whoever smiles and knows how to relate well with their environment is the most capable of climbing positions of great responsibility in the workplace. You will also find suggestions aimed at ensuring that everything obtained in this field results in a particularly full life and suitable for enjoying what has been achieved. These pages are, then, the corollary to make your triumph comprehensive and lasting. Enjoy them!
Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are invaluable natural resources of use to human race, without which the survival of human/ animal race is incredible. There is an enormous diversity of plants which are put into medicinal, beauty care and culinary purposes. Cultivation of commercially important medicinal plants is in high demand as the global community is growing towards a green and herbal oriented approach. India as a country has thousands of years old traditional medicinal systems which rely solely on medicinal plants. There is a gradual loss of medicinal plants with the increasing demand of plant derived drugs. Majority of medicinal plants are still collected from the wild. This doesnt meet the demand and thereby pave ways to adulterants. The over extraction and ignorant activities cause biodiversity loss. Farm production of MAPs in these days is extremely vulnerable to underlying climate risk. Sustainable management of these resources requires urgent attention for environmental stability and improvement of livelihood. New income generating opportunities are opening up for rural populations and in particular for small-scale farmers as well as marginal farmers through MAPs cultivation. New generation are not well aware of the various uses of many plants to which it was put before. Thus there is an urgent need to spread the knowledge and conserve the wild populations of medicinal plant diversity in various forest areas of India. Considering the importance of the MAPs, an attempt was taken in this edited book to understand and highlight the role of MAPs in livelihood improvement and income generation through cultivation, conservation and utilisation. Most of the chapters in this book dealt with individual medicinal plants in detail. Two chapters have also been included on pests and diseases management of MAPs. Nowadays, IPR issues are more important. One chapter has been included on IPR issues on medicinal plants. A chapter also devoted on value addition of the medicinal plant products.
Natural change in climate is slow and takes millions of years; and it is known to have made our planet hospitable to live. The climate change is not limited to one country or a continent. It is occurring across the globe as evident from droughts in Texas and flooding along the Missouri River in the United States and along the Red River in Canada. Climate change drives many stressors and interacts with many non-climatic stressors which make it difficult to forecast outcomes in any general way other than existing threats to agriculture. Agroforestry increases a high level of diversity within agricultural lands which supports numerous ecological and production services that bring resilience to the impact of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Climate change risk management is difficult in annual cropping systems due to increasing uncertainty of inter-annual variability in rainfall and temperature. Mixing of woody trees with crops, forage and livestock operations provides greater resilience to the inter-annual variability through crop diversification and increased resource use efficiency. Deep rooted trees allow better access to nutrients and water during droughts and when appropriately integrated into annual cropping systems and extract from different resource pools that would otherwise be lost from systems. Agroforestry increases soil porosity, reduces runoff and increases soil cover, which improve water infiltration and reduces moisture stress in low rainfall years. During periods of excessive soil moisture, tree based systems keep soils aerated by pumping out excess water and offer an economic return. The book contains 36 chapters mainly on agroforestry practices found in India and its role in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
