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Editions Larousse SAS
Major French publisher of books on cooking, crafts and hobbies, gardening, health and well-being, gardening nature and animals, art and history, essays as well as children's books and games for all ages. Around 600 new titles each year. Since 1852.
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December 1994Die Geschichte vom Prinzen Genji
Wie sie geschrieben wurde um das Jahr 1000 unserer Zeitrechnung von Murasaki, genannt Shikibu, Hofdame der Kaiserin von Japan
by Murasaki, Arthur Waley, Herberth E. Herlitschka
Das Genji-Monogatari ist das älteste und bedeutendste Werk der japanischen Frauenromane. Zugleich gilt es als ältester Roman der Weltliteratur überhaupt. Es entstand zwischen 1004 und 1011, als seine Verfasserin als Hofdame in den Diensten der Kaiserin Akiko stand. Als Meisterin einer leicht hinfließenden Prosa versteht sie es, die Bildhaftigkeit der Sprache zu nutzen, um die Liebeserlebnisse des Prinzen Genji zu beschreiben. Wie in einem Nô-Schauspiel treten die Personen der Handlung klar akzentuiert in ihren Wesenszügen vor dem Hintergrund einer sich immer wieder wandelnden Natur auf.
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September 2013Rights in the Law
The Importance of God's Free Choices in the Thought of Francis Turretin
by Bruce, James E.
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1988Geschichten mit Knoten
Eine Sammlung mathematischer Rätsel
by Lewis Carroll, Arthur B Frost, Walter E Richartz, Walter E Richartz
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Agronomy & crop productionMarch 2011Agrobiodiversity Management for Food Security
a Critical Review
by Jillian M Lenné, David Wood, Ken E Giller, Jonathan Gressel, Rodomiro Ortiz, John Witcombe
Agrobiodiversity provides most of our food through our interaction with crops and domestic animals. Future global food security is firmly anchored in sound, science-based management of agrobiodiversity. This book presents key concepts of agrobiodiversity management, critically reviewing important current and emerging issues including agricultural development, crop introduction, practical diversity in farming systems, impact of modern crop varieties and GM crops, conservation, climate change, food sovereignty and policies. It also addresses claims and misinformation in the subject based on sound scientific principles.
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Zoology & animal sciencesJuly 2012Growth of Farm Animals
by Tony L J Lawrence, Vernon R Fowler, Jan E Novakofski
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Medical parasitologyJuly 2002Behavioural Ecology of Parasites
by Edited by Edwin E Lewis, James F Campbell, Michael V K Sukhdeo
Parasites have evolved numerous complex and fascinating ways of interacting with their hosts. The subject attracts the interest of numerous biologists from the perspective of ecology and behavioural biology, as well as from those concerned with more applied aspects of parasitology. However, until now there has been no recent book to synthesize this field.This book, written by leading authorities from the USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, provides the most comprehensive coverage of this important topic on the market.
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January 1986Die Tolstois
Glanz und Elend einer berühmten russischen Familie - zugleich das Spiegelbild einer faszinierenden Epoche und ihres Niederganges
by Edwards, Anne / Übersetzt von Heinz, R E
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October 2017Not Our Day to Die
by Michael Sullivan
It was work for Mike Sullivan–a flying job like the ones he'd done most of his life in many parts of the world–ferrying people, medicine, crops, supplies and almost anything else you can think of among the isolated jungle villages of Guatemala. Life in the farming co-ops there was simple, peaceful, and good, based on bedrocks of family, community, and faith.Then the repression began. A failed attempt at a coup had led to continued fighting between rebels and government, though in areas far from the almost-utopian Ixcan region. U.S. military and CIA intervention helped defeat the insurgency, but the social inequalities that had led to the movement remained, and the revolution went underground. The Guatemalan army, searching everywhere for those who opposed it, increased its control over the isolated jungle area. Co-op directors, teachers, catechists, and then anyone suspected of being one of or assisting the guerrillas was selectively "disappeared." The army turned to a scorched-earth policy, killing animals, burning crops, uprooting fruit trees, destroying towns, massacring their people. Throughout the Ixcan, those who survived fled. Some returned to their original mountain villages, others crossed the border into Mexico, and a third group survived for sixteen years hiding in the jungle–men, women, and children. Primeval growth took over the land as the war with the guerrilla movement raged on to encompass the entire nation.When finally peace accords were signed, the people of the Ixcan returned. Homes were rebuilt, land reclaimed, the area thrived again. But sixteen years were lost, along with countless lives. For Mike Sullivan, who had returned there when his help was needed, the story of those years–of how the people of the Ixcan survived, and of the many who didn't–was one that had to be told. In three visits, he conducted the interviews that form this book, talking with the villagers he'd known long before. At first, they spoke hesitantly, then with the flood force of vivid memory, telling of their first arrival at the Ixcan, the lives they'd made, and the years of the repression and worse. Their stories are gripping, fascinating, painful–but most of all, deeply human as we witness their struggle to survive and feel the force of the simple values that ultimately carried them through to a new and better life.
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BiotechnologyNovember 2012Microbial Biotechnology
Energy and Environment
by Byung Hong Kim, Ashley E Franks, Sheela Berchmans, C T Wang, Senthil Chinnasamy, Qasim Beg, Mrunalini Pattarkine, Enrico Marsili, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Kun Guo, Bo Hu, S Jayalakshmi, Kirk T Semple, Carl Johnston, Yana Ilieva Topalova, Christopher E Bagwell, Evans Chirwa. Edited by Rajesh Arora.
Human actions across the past few centuries have led to a depletion of the world's natural energy sources, as well as large scale environmental degradation. In the context of these current global issues, this book covers the latest research on the application and use of microbes in topical areas such as bioremediation and biofuels. With chapters covering environmental clean-up, microbial fuel cells and biohydrogen, it provides a comprehensive discussion of the latest developments in the field of microbe utilization.
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Children's & YAO sumiço do tatu (The disappearance of the armadillo)
by Marília Moreira
Haroldo, a minho, who as he relates to other animals in the garden brings to light issues such as friendship and respect, mixing a harmonic field with an inside-out view of the garden of a house inhabited by some strange animals, among them the (human) balance-beast.
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July 2006Schopenhauer für Boshafte
by Arthur Schopenhauer, Norbert Wank, Norbert Wank
Für Liebhaber des boshaften Humors: Arthur Schopenhauer. »In unserem monogamischen Weltteile heißt heiraten, seine Rechte zu halbieren und seine Pflichten zu verdoppeln.«
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Children's & YAA oficina do Cambeva (Cambeva's workshop)
by Lido Loschi
Cambeva's workshop is the first of four books of the collection "Presente de Vô" in partnership with Grupo Ponto de Partida. The book is a mixture of colours and elements that highlight the memory of the world, in which seekers of memories have the mission of bringing light and life to objects found in the travels of two characters: Zalém and Calunga. Cambeva is a restorer who, when the world lost its embrace, tried to reinvent it; he is the grandfather who mends dreams, forgotten things and lost emotions, to whom the seekers ask for help to fix something. In a magical universe, full of children, grandchildren, stories and memories of his lineage of restorers, when faced with this request for restoration, he makes room to bring back an emblematic figure who can no longer sing. A story about memories, care and affection...
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Children's & YAOikoá
by Felipe Valério
The name of this book is Oikoá, which means life in the language of the Guarani Mbya people. This name was chosen because the indigenous peoples have been the guardians of life on planet Earth: it is in their territories that there are more types of trees and plants, animals, fish, birds, insects, and where the rivers and forests are best preserved.
