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      • Agriculture & farming
        January 2011

        Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture and Rural Development

        by R. Saravanan, C. Kathiresan & T. Indra Devi

        The articles included in this book focuses on; Digital divide in rural India, e-Agriculture issues, Cyber extension, overview on Village Knowledge Centres (VKCs), Community Information Centre iniative in Orissa, SATCOM application in Karnataka State, Model e-Villages in Arunachal Pradesh State of North-East India, Nationwide InDG web portal initiative for rural development, Kisan Mobile Sandesh (KMS), Dynamic Market Information (DMI) by Web and Mobile in Tamil Nadu, Expert systems for pest and diseases diagnosis in rubber, Interactive Multimedia Compact Disc (IMCD), Village Information Centres among Dairy Farmers in Tamil Nadu, KISSAN initiative of Kerala State, Mobile Agricultural School and Services (MASS) in Jharkhand, Farmers Database creation in Darjeeling District of West Bengal, Village Resource Centres (VRCs) in Uttaranchal, Pest Surveillance of Rice using satellite data, Techmode Approach for Distance Learning Courses for Field Veterinarians in Maharastra, Information Retrieval System for Buffalo Reproduction, Web Portals and Digital Data base in Agroforestry, Watershed Modelling using GIS and Remote Sensing in Gujarat State, e-Readiness and Participation Level of Akshya and KISSAN Kerala Beneficiaries and VRC & CIC Network in Assam and Internet utilization pattern, evaluation of Kissan Call Centres (KCCs), ICT adoption level, impact, stakeholders feedback, policy implications and recommendations.

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        2019

        Earlier Sience Fiction Comics

        1890-1960

        by Moisés Hasson

        The book explores the graphic creations of SF and F between 1890 and 1960 in Chile, with a detailed review of works and authors in this difficult art form that must reconcile the popular with the artistic. The various works are presented in chapters, each addressing a theme that has fascinated readers throughout the ages. Chapters are dedicated to Robots, Superheroes, Space Travel, the End of the World, and Underwater Adventures. It delves into styles and genres, incorporating the necessary images that allow us to appreciate the evolution and learn about authors and works.

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        January 2024

        Die Erben der Animox 5. Die Rache des Tigers

        by Aimée Carter, Maren Illinger, Frauke Schneider

        Wieder zurück in der Welt der Tierwandler, bei den Erben der Animox! Das große Abenteuer, das Simon Thorn bestehen muss, nähert sich seinem Ende. Auf vier Kontinente hat es ihn und seine Freund*innen bereits geführt. Und es waren zweifellos schwierige Aufgaben zu lösen in Europa, Australien, Afrika und Südamerika. Im fünften und letzten Band „Die Rache des Tigers“ verschlägt es sie ins geheimnisvolle Asien. Wird es Simon Thorn gelingen, die Welt der Animox und ihrer Erben zu retten? Und kann er den gefürchteten Krieg zwischen dem Imperium und den Erben der Animox verhindern? Das grandiose Ende der zweiten Reihe aus dieser einzigartigen Fantasywelt der Gestaltwandler ist ein unvergleichlich spannendes Leseabenteuer. Die Erben der Animox Band 5: Die Rache des Tigers – actionreich und hochspannend. Der fünfte und letzte Band ist das fulminante Finale der zweiten Reihe aus dem Animox-Kosmos. Mitreißende Tierwandler-Fantasy, die dich ins faszinierende Asien entführt, wo diesmal der Tiger im Fokus steht. Atmosphärisch dicht und superspannend erzählter Roman für Kinder ab 10 Jahren. In der zweiten Animox-Reihe „Die Erben der Animox“ sind bisher erschienen: „Die Beute des Fuchses“ (Band 1) „Das Gift des Oktopus“ (Band 2) „Der Kampf des Elefanten“ (Band 3) „Der Verrat des Kaimans“ (Band 4) Entdecke auch die fünf Bände der ersten Animox-Reihe von Aimée Carter: „Das Heulen der Wölfe“ (Band 1) „Das Auge der Schlange“ (Band 2) „Die Stadt der Haie“ (Band 3) „Der Biss der Schwarzen Witwe“ (Band 4) „Der Flug des Adlers“ (Band 5)

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        January 2024

        Die Erben der Animox 5. Die Rache des Tigers

        by Aimée Carter, Peter Kaempfe, Maren Illinger, Superhearo Audio, Frauke Schneider, Uticha Marmon

        Das große Finale steht bevor: Auf vier Kontinenten haben Simon Thorn und seine Freunde bereits Abenteuer erlebt und schwierige Aufgaben gelöst – in Europa, Australien, Afrika und Südamerika. Im fünften und letzten Band verschlägt es sie nach Asien. Wird es Simon Thorn gelingen, die Welt der Animox und ihrer Erben zu retten? Und kann er den gefürchteten Krieg zwischen dem Imperium und den Erben verhindern? Das epische Ende der zweiten Reihe aus der Welt der Animox – ein spannendes Hörabenteuer. Jetzt die anderen Teile der "Animox"-Reihe entdecken: Das Heulen der Wölfe Das Auge der Schlange Die Stadt der Haie Der Biss der Schwarzen Witwe Der Flug des Adlers Alle Bände von "Die Erben der Animox": Die Beute des Fuchses Das Gift des Oktopus Der Kampf des Elefanten Der Verrat des Kaimans Die Rache des Tigers Der spannende fünfte Band der neuen ANIMOX-Bestseller-Serie ungekürzt und packend erzählt von Peter Kaempfe.

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        January 2023

        Howling Tiger

        by Mu Ling

        This booklet describes a beast-infested mountain forest inside and outside, several generations of mountain people and the tiger between the grudges and feuds - this was originally a know how to fear nature, and wildlife and coexist in harmony with the family; by the temptation of foreign, but also out of the narrow-minded "vengeance" mentality, the villagers Wang Ermeng and a few hunters again and again contrary to the rules of the village to capture beasts and hunt tigers, resulting in the tiger and the mountain people of the antagonism, but also brought the contradiction between fathers and sons.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2025

        Through the fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90)

        Women, alienation, and prodigality in the long eighteenth century

        by Kathryn Freeman

        Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes places this prolific, newly recovered English writer at the centre of the revolutionary period. Gibbes's novels mark the struggles of women for agency in an expanding British empire, from the Seven Years' War to revolutions in American, Haiti and France. With Gibbes as a nexus in a lineage of women writers from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, Kathryn S. Freeman offers a valuable perspective on the 'long eighteenth century', with Gibbes' own evolution mirroring that of the larger period. The study traces the development of Gibbes' authorial voice from satire to irony through a range of female characters subverting patriarchal oppression. Freeman guides the reader through patterns of narrative voice, concerns with gender and sexuality, and elements of wordplay through detailed discussion of five novels representing Gibbes' evolving representation of a subversive female subjectivity.

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        January 2023

        The Legend of the Finless Porpoise

        by Mu Ling

        The hardworking and studious Reed is a well-known "wild child" in the fishing village. Influenced by the legend, he and his sister, He Ju, had the whimsical idea of learning the outstanding swimming skills from the porpoise, and thus became interested in the endangered species of porpoise. The porpoise, which had been repeatedly disturbed, always avoided them... By chance, the siblings, with their excellent swimming skills, rescued a baby porpoise that had been trapped by garbage. This cute porpoise has since become an exotic friend who plays the game with them ...

      • Veterinary medicine
        October 2022

        Fundamentals of Veterinary Anatomy

        by T.S. Chandrasekhara Rao & P. Jagapathi Ramayya

        Thebook meets the requirementts of the students and faculty. The material available in the this book has been prepared based on our previous experiences in practical classes and also some information was collected from the standard text books of Veterinary Anatomy and also Madras Veterinary College Lecture Notes prepared by Faculty of Madras Veterinary College, Chennai. In this book every topic is supported by hand drawn diagrams and photographs of original specimens available in the department.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2017

        Asia in Western fiction

        by Robin Winks

        Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2023

        The penny politics of Victorian popular fiction

        by Rob Breton

        Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan's longest and most significant people's movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.

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        August 1987

        Science-fiction: ein hoffnungsloser Fall mit Ausnahmen

        Essays. Band 3

        by Stanisław Lem, Erik Simon

        Dieser Abschlussband von Lems Essays enthält nur Arbeiten, die in der Insel-Ausgabe der Essays (1981) nicht enthalten waren. Stärker als die früheren Bände ist dieser persönlich bestimmt. Einmal handelt es sich um Essays, die autobiografisch sind oder sich auf das eigene Werk beziehen. Zum anderen gibt es Vorworte zu Rezensionen von Büchern und Autoren, die Lem menschlich besonders nahestehen: Szymon Kobyliński, Władysław Bartoszewski und Jan Józef Szczepański. Neben Rezensionen, die Lem deutsche RIAS Berlin schrieb, vornehmlich über populärwissenschaftliche und pseudowissenschaftliche Bücher, aus denen Lems rationalistische Denkhaltung offenbar wird, und spekulativen Aufsätzen enthält dieser Band auch einige von Lems scharfsinnigsten Kritiken zu Autoren, denen er sich geistesverwandt fühlt oder die ihm widerstreben: Dick, Borges, die Strugatzkis und eine scharfe Abrechnung mit der Gattung, der der Großteil von Lems eigenem Werk zugezählt wird: der Science-Fiction. Eine beachtliche Anzahl der Essays schrieb Lem gleich in deutscher Sprache. Weitere Essays von Stanisław Lem liegen in den Bänden Sade und die Spieltheorie und Über außersinnliche Wahrnehmungen vor.

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        March 2004

        Science & Fiction

        Über Gedankenexperimente in Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Literatur

        by Herausgegeben von Macho, Thomas; Herausgegeben von Wunschel, Annette

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        1994

        Pulp Fiction

        Das Buch zum Film

        by Tarantino, Quentin

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        Fiction
        October 2022

        The Novel of the Heart

        by Roberto Castillo

        The author of Muriendo por la dulce patria mía (Dying for My Sweet Homeland) and Muertes imaginarias (Imaginary Deaths) returns with a bold, urgent novel—fast-paced and richly layered with multiple spaces and characters—shaped after witnessing a heart transplant from just one meter away. Here, the action seems to pulse—systole, diastole, systole, diastole—as hearts are lost, stolen, revered, harvested, and saved. And by the grace and power of literary imagination, a web of improbable connections links real and fictional figures: Diego Portales, Dr. Jorge Kaplán, President Frei Montalva, the Russian pioneers Sergei Yudin and Alexander Bogdanov, and the South African transplant trailblazer Christiaan Barnard—all woven into the fates of young Manuel Meredith and his sister, of Pedro Luna, of Frankenstein the dog, and of two women detectives, one of them one-armed and possibly Russian, who crisscross Valparaíso as a secessionist war unfolds and everything bursts into flashes and flames.

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        January 2023

        Wise Dinosaur

        by Mu Ling

        This is an animal novel with science fiction and adventure. Middle-school student Cornick is smart, mischievous, and loves adventure. He assists a scientist from the city who takes his tamed monkey, Gecko, to a deserted island surrounded by swamps. They carry out a series of incredible and daring experiments to figure out how to reproduce dinosaurs. The roar of the dinosaurs appeared on the island. Later, even dinosaurs with extraordinary intelligence appear... With victory in sight, the two researchers find themselves in a truly dangerous misadventure...

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        February 1976

        Die Jagd

        Neue Geschichten des Piloten Pirx

        by Stanisław Lem, Roswitha Buschmann, Kurt Kelm, Barbara Sparing

        Stanisław Lem wurde am 12. September 1921 in Lwów (Lemberg) geboren, lebte zuletzt in Krakau, wo er am 27. März 2006 starb. Er studierte von 1939 bis 1941 Medizin. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges musste er sein Studium unterbrechen und arbeitete als Automechaniker. Von 1945 bis 1948 setze er sein Medizinstudium fort, nach dem Absolutorium erwarb Lem jedoch nicht den Doktorgrad und übte den Arztberuf nicht aus. Er übersetzte Fachliteratur aus dem Russischen und ab den fünfziger Jahren arbeitete Lem als freier Schriftsteller in Krákow. Er wandte sich früh dem Genre Science-fiction zu, schrieb aber auch gewichtige theoretische Abhandlungen und Essays zu Kybernetik, Literaturtheorie und Futurologie. Stanisław Lem zählt heute zu den erfolgreichsten Autoren Polens. Sein Werk wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, verfilmt und in 57 Sprachen übersetzt.

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