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Albin Michel Jeunesse
Albin Michel Jeunesse publishes a variety of books, attracting a broad fan base. Pre-readers love characters such as Mouk and Pomelo, early readers adore Geronimo Stilton, and teens devour our top notch Middle Age and YA series. Our catalogue showcases talents as varied as Marion Bataille, Blexbolex, Marc Boutavant, Janik Coat, Benjamin Chaud and Benjamin Lacombe, to name but a few. All of our publications, be they pop-up books, novelty books, picture books, novels or non-fiction titles, are brought to life with imagination and affection.
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Promoted ContentOctober 2021
Das verbotene Notizbuch
Eine der wichtigsten europäischen Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts | Ihr fesselndes, intimes und zeitloses Meisterwerk – endlich wiederentdeckt
by Alba de Céspedes, Verena von Koskull
Eigentlich sollte Valeria im tabaccaio nur Zigaretten für ihren Mann besorgen – kauft dann aber verbotenerweise ein schwarzes Notizheft und ahnt nicht, welche Konsequenzen dies haben würde. Es sind die Nachkriegsjahre in Rom, und Valeria führt das bescheidene und unscheinbare Leben einer Frau der Mittelschicht. Sie ist Mutter, Gattin und Büroangestellte. Mehr sieht niemand in ihr, seit Jahren hat sie ihren eigenen Namen nicht gehört, sogar ihr Mann nennt sie »mamma«. Doch als sie beginnt, in das Notizheft zu schreiben, verändert sich allmählich etwas in Valeria. Sie sondiert ihr Inneres, geht auf die Suche nach ihren eigenen Sehnsüchten und Ängsten. Irgendwann beginnt sie, sich kleiner Lügen zu bedienen, sich heimlich mit ihrem Chef zu treffen und die Forderungen ihrer Kinder zu übergehen. Bis sie glaubt, einen Schritt zu weit gegangen zu sein. Elena Ferrante nennt es ein »Buch der Ermunterung«, für viele Generationen war Das verbotene Notizbuch ein Schlüsselroman menschlicher Beziehungen und weiblicher Identität – und nun kann das fesselnde, intime und zeitlose Meisterwerk endlich wieder gelesen werden.
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Promoted ContentChildren's & YA2017
Nyah Nyah
by Susana Aliano Casales
His name is Pedro and he’s a boy, but he looks like a girl. Unlike his sister, Valeria, who looks like a boy. They’re the strangest kids at school.
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My Father and I Turn Into Mice
by Mei Zihan
The naughty little boy, Dai Doudou, is often told to keep quiet by his mother when he's being too noisy. He's told to keep quiet while eating, while walking, and even when bouncing a ball...and so it was that Dai Doudou decided to become a gentle, quiet little mouse, free to roam around wherever he pleased. His father agreed to the idea, and himself decided to turn into a mouse. In the end, even his mother, who wanted everyone to “keep quiet”, turns into a mouse. The book employs gentle humour to describe a child's escape from a stifling family life into the realm of imagination; looking at modern, everyday problems through a lens of fantasy and illusion.
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Trusted PartnerJune 2020
A Mouse Daughter's Wedding
by Yang Yongqing
"A Mouse Daughter's Wedding" originates from a folklore. After a little mouse girl came to a marriage age, she wanted to find the most powerful bridegroom from all kinds of creatures. However, she eventually found that the best is one of the mice. Each picture is lively and vivid, and the story becomes alive on paper.
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Trusted PartnerChildren's & YAMay 2012 - May 2018
The Clockwork Mouse
by Cao Wenxuan
The little boy Pica has a clockwork mouse, and it gains his love and affection by winning races. But before long, an electric mouse takes its place, and the clockwork mouse is put in the trash. Inadvertently, the mouse rolls under the sofa. When the real mice that live in the house gang up on the electric mouse, the clockwork mouse courageously steps forward to protect him. But when he overexerts himself and his clockwork mechanism breaks, how will he survive?
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SACRED ANIMALS
by Gordon MacLellan
Here is a manual for exploring your con-nections with the animal world. Find out how to appreciate the courage of mice and the excitement of bumblebees, the ele-gance of beetles and the subtlety of foxes. From finding your own stillness to writing your own invocations or simply sitting to watch the world unfold its life around you, this is an invitation for you to enter a world of wonder and delight. Draw on ancient knowledge, surviving traditions, memories of other customs and simple imagination to journey into con-tact and friendship with the animal world.
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Trusted PartnerAnimal behaviourSeptember 2008
Stereotypic Animal Behaviour
Fundamentals and Applications to Welfare
by Edited by Georgia Mason, Jeffrey Rushen.
This second edition is a complete re-write of the 1st edition published in 1993 (editors Lawrence and Rushen). It reflects many recent advances, bringing together all new chapters and over 30 contributors. Abnormal behaviour patterns, from the jumping and somersaulting of caged laboratory mice to the pacing of enclosed 'big cats', are displayed by many millions of farm, zoo, research and companion animals. This book focuses on the causation and treatment of these environment-induced stereotypic behaviours, and their implications for animal welfare and normalcy of brain functioning. The first section takes an ethological perspective, focusing on the constraints captivity places on animals' normal behavioural repertoires, and the effects these have on specific motivational systems. The second section addresses the role of dysfunction, particularly the impact of chronic stress and impoverished environments on brain functioning. The third section looks at how stereotypic behaviours can be tackled, once they have emerged, using diverse techniques from environmental enrichment to pharmaceutical intervention. The volume ends with a synthesis, a suggested new definition for 'stereotypic behaviour', and a discussion of future research directions. This book will be of significant interest to researchers and advanced students in animal behaviour and welfare, animal and veterinary science, comparative psychology, and neuroscience.
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Trusted PartnerDecember 2023
Animal Assisted Interventions
Recognizing and mitigating potential welfare challenges
by Lori Kogan
This is a practical book exploring how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. This resource is for social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies, etc.), as well as ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners. The book is a series of short chapters that depict a wide array of AAIs and their potential welfare concerns. The chapters include descriptions of the AAI offered, the welfare challenges, and ways to successfully mitigate these challenges. This book also covers critical topics including therapy animals' aging, retirement, and death as well as ethical issues including animal consent. Species include not only dogs, but horses, rabbits, and other small animals (e.g., guinea pigs, mice, etc.). Types of AAI involve individual interventions as well as crisis dogs (those who help after natural and man-made disasters), and residential animals. The book is designed to be a practical, engaging book with links to video and examples of real-life situations. It is evidence-based, yet user-friendly and directly applicable to students and practitioners. This highly practical and engaging book with examples of real life situations, videos and case studies, explores how to conduct animal assisted interventions in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. The book: · Explores how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. · Discusses potential welfare challenges including how to advocate for the animal, animal consent, and the animal's aging, retirement, or death. · Evidence based approach to mitigating welfare concerns for a wide range of therapy animals including dogs, horses, rabbits, rodents, and exotic animals - and their recipients. An invaluable resource for ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners, as well as social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies).
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Trusted PartnerMedicineAugust 2018
Lyme Disease
An Evidence-based Approach
by John J Halperin
This new edition of Lyme Disease provides up-to-date evidence-based research and covers the significant advances in our understanding of the disorders referred to as Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis. This book explores the causative organism, its requisite ecosystem, disease epidemiology, host-Borrelia interactions, diagnostic testing, clinical manifestations, therapeutic options, the role of host immunity on pathogenesis and long term prognosis. The authors provide balanced perspectives on all aspects of Lyme disease and explicitly review both the basic biology of the infection and practical clinical aspects. This new edition: Includes new borrelial pathogens that have been identified (B. miyamotoi, B. mayonii and B. bavariensis among others). Provides updated information on the molecular biology of the organism, neuroborreliosis, and the role of the C6 peptide in diagnosis. Discusses the controversies about 'chronic Lyme disease', post Lyme disease syndrome and other ongoing but non-specific symptoms that have been attributed to this infection. As the endemic footprint of Lyme disease continues to grow, this book provides a broad and detailed guide for clinicians and researchers involved with the diagnosis and treatment of the condition. Covering biology, epidemiology and therapeutics, it is also essential reading for students of global health and infectious disease.
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Trusted PartnerMedicineJuly 2018
Are We Pushing Animals to Their Biological Limits?
Welfare and Ethical Implications
by Temple Grandin, Martin Whiting
Stimulating and thought-provoking, this important new text looks at the welfare problems and philosophical and ethical issues that are caused by changes made to an animal's telos, behaviour and physiology, both positive and negative, to make them more productive or adapted for human uses. These changes may involve selective breeding for production, appearance traits, or competitive advantage in sport, transgenic animals or the use of pharmaceuticals or hormones to enhance production or performance. Changes may impose duties to care for these animals further and more intensely, or they may make the animal more robust. The book considers a wide range of animals, including farm animals, companion animals and laboratory animals. It reviews the ethics and welfare issues of animals that have been adapted for sport, as companions, in work, as ornaments, food sources, guarding and a whole host of other human functions. This important new book sparks debate and is essential reading for all those involved in animal welfare and ethics, including veterinarians, animal scientists, animal welfare scientists and ethologists.
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Trusted PartnerChildren's & YA
Snöfrid from Meadow Valley (3). The Hectic Hunt for the River Pearl
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
What a disaster! Snöfrid’s stream has disappeared during the night! Without water there can be no porridge, and Snöfrid doesn’t have to think twice. This problem must be solved immediately! The hunt for water begins with a wet meeting at the pond of the little nymph Flumina, but when it turns into a hunt for the mysterious river pearl, involving a submersible boat, the story quickly becomes an underwater adventure, and who knows how it will end? Magical adventure, great fun for boys and girls, by Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.
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Tilda Appleseed. Christmas in the Winter Forest
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
There are 24 days to go until Christmas. In the mouse house there is a delicious smell of punch, and Tilda busily hunts through her pantry: she wants to do some baking. The best of all flavours is still Aunt Emily’s frost-hip jelly. Christmas can’t come without that. But what a shock! There are no frost hips left! And it’s so difficult to get fresh ones, because they only grow in the north. Without further ado, Tilda sets off on an exciting journey through the winter forest, and she has the most weird and wonderful Christmas adventures on the way…