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Tamer Institute for Community Education
TAMER Institute for Community Education is an educational non-governmental non for profit organization established in 1989 as a natural and necessary response to the urgent needs of the Palestinian community during the first intifada (uprising). The most important of these is the need to acquire means to help people learn and become productive. Focusing principally on the rights to education, identity, freedom of expression, and access to information,Tamer works across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, primarily targeting children and young adults to encourage and deepen opportunities of learning among them. Our program aims to contribute to enhancing reading, writing and all forms of Expression among children and young adults. It also aims at contributing to a Palestinian environment that is supportive to learning processes, and at supporting the literary and scholar production on child culture in Palestine.
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January 2024Die 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 2024Die 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 2023Howling 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 StudiesMarch 2025Through 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 2023The 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 ...
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 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 StudiesOctober 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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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2017Charles Robert Maturin and the haunting of Irish romantic Fiction
by Christina Morin
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August 1987Science-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 2004Science & Fiction
Über Gedankenexperimente in Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Literatur
by Herausgegeben von Macho, Thomas; Herausgegeben von Wunschel, Annette
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Scinece or Fiction?
The Phony Side of Particle Physics
by Ofer Comay
Countries across the globe invest tens of billions in particle physics, which relies on the Standard Model. This model is styled by its proponents as “the most accurate theory in history, in any field.” This book presents a long series of failures found with the theory: its inability to explain basic phenomena known since the 1930s; its prediction of particles and materials that have refused to be uncovered even in lunar rocks; the growing recognition that basic assumptions underlying the model are incorrect; and more. This is the first time these well-documented data have been compiled in a simple and coherent fashion, allowing science enthusiasts to understand the scientific failures and the sociological reasons for scientists' inability to openly discuss these flaws. Only a few dare to express their doubts: “Ironically, from the perspective of QCD, the foundations of nuclear physics appear distinctly unsound.”—Frank Wilczek, Nobel laureate, 2004 (QCD is a central part of the Standard Model.) An English-language eBook edition was published in late 2014 by Samuel Wachtman’s Sons, Inc., CA. 292 pages, 15 x 22.5 cm
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January 2023Wise 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 1976Die 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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PsychiatryCharacter Strength Interventions
A Field Guide for Practitioners
by Ryan M. Niemiec
This unique guide brings together the vast experience of the author with the science and the practice of positive psychology in such a way that both new and experienced practitioners will benefit. New practitioners will learn about the core concepts of character and signature strengths and how to fine-tune their approach and troubleshoot. Experienced practitioners will deepen their knowledge about advanced topics such as strengths overuse and collisions, hot button issues, morality, and integrating strengths with savoring, flow, and mindfulness. Hands-on practitioner tips throughout the book provide valuable hints on how to take a truly strengths-based approach. The 24 summary sheets spotlighting each of the universal character strengths are an indispensable resource for client sessions, succinctly summarizing the core features of and research on each strength. 70 evidence-based step-by-step activity handouts can be given to clients to help them develop character strengths awareness and use, increase resilience, set and meet goals, develop positive relationships, and find meaning and engagement in their daily lives. Working with client’s (and our own) character strengths boosts well-being, fosters resilience, improves relationships, and creates strong, supportive cultures in our practices, classrooms, and organizations. Target Group: psychotherapists / clinical psychologists / counselors/ teachers
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Children's & YASkovoroda. Fables
by Hryhoriy Skovoroda (Author), Leonid Ushkalov (Editor), Innokentij Korshunov (Illustrator)
Hryhorii Skovoroda's fables are philosophical miniatures, reflections on congenial work, fulfilling one's vocation, happiness, and gratitude. While these elements should fill the life of a wise person and are worthy of reflection, these Fables are, first and foremost, good and funny stories about animals enjoyable for readers of all ages. Skovoroda's fables will teach young readers important lessons, including: Not limiting oneself to the exteriority of things but also focusing on their inner essence. Pursuing activities that fulfill one's vocation. Avoiding deception of others. Recognizing the value of time. The fables were arranged and adapted for children by one of the foremost experts on Skovoroda's works, Leonid Ushkalov. From 6 to 9 years, 5850 words Rightsholders: n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025Material masculinities
Men and goods in eighteenth-century England
by Ben Jackson
Material Masculinities examines the material and consumer practices of over 1000 men from the middling and upper ranks of eighteenth-century society, c.1650-1850. It draws upon evidence from over 35 archives and museum collections to detail how material objects were integral for men in forming identities and shaping experiences. For men of all social ranks, ages, and geographic locations, material knowledge was imperative for masculine social identities to operate in a commercial society. Before the centralised factory and widespread mass-produced goods, men personalised and repaired their goods; products were shaped by men's attitudes and concerns. Objects were tools in men's identity formation and the exercise of social and gendered power. There was a reciprocal relationship between men and goods in this period; men were active agents of material and commercial change driving product and aesthetic innovation.
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Children's & YAStory Story, Story Come
12 Reimagined Tales From Africa
by Maïmouna Jallow
However, the age-old tradition of oral storytelling is on the decline. Rapid urbanisation, the breakdown of the extended family, technology and so on have altered our social fabric. Whilst our daily lives are still peppered with snippets of remembered words of wisdom and proverbs, the reality is that a new generation of Africans have never had the pleasure of listening to a story being told by a storyteller. Story, Story! Story Come! is a contribution to larger efforts to revive storytelling in Africa and beyond. Through a global online contest, Positively African invited African writers, wherever they lived and whatever their age, to write a folktale – either based on an old one, or newly imagined. The challenge was to develop new narratives that speak to issues that are fundamental to Africa’s development in a way that is unconventional but true to our past traditions of folktale and oral storytelling. The stories needed to contain life lessons that are relevant for both young and old, however writers were invited to be as inventive and disruptive as they wished in terms of theme, form, language, characters, imagery and context. The ten winning stories are refreshingly imaginative and tackle a mix of issues. We criss-cross from South Sudan to South Africa, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. Some stories offer valuable moral lessons on greed and pride; others celebrate bravery, perseverance and friendship. One story takes us to a real archaeological site in Niger where a young girl imagines the future. In another, African water spirits share a world with a Beyoncé-obsessed teen that is taught a big lesson in humility. We have also included two additional stories, one by author and publishing partner Zukiswa Wanner and another by the editor of the anthology, Maimouna Jallow. One thing that they all have in common is that they speak to issues we face globally today, from an African perspective.
