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The books in the UAB’s series «El espejo y la lámpara» offer readers the knowledge that emerges from a first-rate scientific and academic institution through essays based on original reflection and depth of thought.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2022History on Track Number 14
by Nastya Muzichenko (Author), Khrystyna Lukashchuk (Illustrator)
On Christmas’ Eve, toy steam locomotive Hriuk lost its owner at the Kyiv-Passenger railway station. But thanks to this mishap, it got acquainted with its unique relatives – the residents of track number 14, where the Museum of Railway Transport of Kyiv is situated. Now young Drezyna, fast Manevrovyi, Mr Steam Locomotive from Budapest, and other residents of the museum exhibition will help and comfort baby Hriuk. They will also tell him and you more about themselves and Ukraine's railway heritage. From 4 to 9 years, 3500 words Rightsholders: publishing@man.gov.ua
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Children's & YAJanuary 2022The Robot Will Work. If He Wants To
by Petro Yatsenko (Author), Maryna Shuturma (Illustrator)
Chipka is an artificially intelligent robot, and Petro is an engineer. The two engage in frequent conversations. They crack jokes at times and bicker at others. By listening to their conversations, you can learn about their favorite topic, which is, of course, robots. You'll discover many interesting things from them, starting from the stories behind the earliest strange mechanisms to the development of small nanorobots, and even robots made from skin cells or the heart of an African frog, created today! People have invented so many fascinating things! We live in a world where automobiles drive themselves, planes are controlled remotely, and machines learn, clean up, win at chess, and explore the depths of the sea. What will the future hold? From 7 to 11 years, 7500 words Rightsholders: publishing@man.gov.ua
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December 2018The Universe Junior Special Force
by Yang Peng
Yang Peng's Award-winning Novels are a collection of the award-winning works of Yang Peng's many outstanding stories. Not only are the selected articles humorous, but also rich in imagination. They are also rich in profound educational philosophy that can enlighten the mind and help readers to reflect on themselves. The Space Security Authority found that the Earth is facing a series of serious problems such as environmental pollution, species extinction, and population explosion. As a result, it sent four cosmic Junior Special Policemen with different superpowers to Earth to help. However, due to lack of awareness of the matters on the Earth, not only could the Junior Special Policemen help, but actually misused their super power to cause a bunch of problems. In desperation, they forged human identity into the campus and finally helped the school solve a crisis. However, a big conspiracy is waiting for them ...
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August 1977Barbara und andere Novellen
Eine Auswahl aus dem erzählerischen Werk
by Hermann Broch, Paul Michael Lützeler, Paul Michael Lützeler, Paul Michael Lützeler
»Aldous Huxley«: Broch … ist völlig zu Haus auf der Spiegeloberfläche und agiert manchmal dort mit unfehlbarer Virtuosität. Es liegt an der doppelten Fähigkeit dieses Autors, seinem Vermögen, gleichzeitig zwei unvereinbare Welten zu zeichnen. Dieser Band legt eine Sammlung von 13 Novellen vor, die besten aus Brochs Gesamtwerk. Die früheste »Eine methodologische Novelle«, wurde 1917 geschrieben, die späteste, »Die Erzählung der Magd Zerline«, 1949. Die Besonderheit dieser Sammlung besteht in der erstmaligen Präsentation aller vorhandenen Tierkreisnovellen in ihrer Ursprungsfassung. Bisher unveröffentlicht ist die Novelle »Esperance«. Das Nachwort ist eine Einführung in das novellistische Werk Hermann Brochs. Der Kommentar referiert die textkritische Situation sämtlicher Novellen, die an einen Philosophen erinnern, »der gleichzeitig ein Künstler von außergewöhnlicher Bildung und Reinheit ist«.
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Children's & YAFebruary 2021Ridi Regrets His Mistakes
by Ismaël Ouédraogo / Akira Junior
Young Ridi obtained good results in school. As a reward, his parents offered him an invitation to spend the holiday in the village with his grandma. The days spent in such a rural area were so wonderful, until several events unfolded!
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2024Barbara Comyns
A savage innocence
by Avril Horner
The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels that are unique in the English language. Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist's model to restoring pianos. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society. While working as a housekeeper in her mid-thirties, Comyns began transforming the bleak episodes of her life into compelling fictions streaked with surrealism and deadpan humour. The Vet's Daughter (1959), championed by Graham Greene, brought her fame, although her use of the gothic and macabre divided readers and reviewers. This biography not only excavates Comyns's life but also reclaims her fiction, providing a timely reassessment of her literary contribution. It sheds new light on a remarkable author who deftly captured the complexities of human life.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2009The silence of Barbara Synge
by Bill McCormack
'The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (née Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. Key events in the family's history are carefully documented, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play, the effects of the famine which influenced 'The playboy of the western world' in 1907, and the behaviour of Francis Synge at the time of the union. 'The silence of Barbara Synge' is a unique work of cultural enquiry, combining archival research, literary criticism, and religious and medical history to pull the strands together and relate them to the family's literary descendent J.M. Synge. ;
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2020MARA
The Autistic Child
by Chimène Ngoukam, Akira Junior
Since her birth, Mara has been a curiosity for the whole village. She has difficulty expressing herself, walking and fitting in. The bad tongues even accuse her of being a victim of witchcraft... and yet this is not the case. The little girl suffers from autism.
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March 2010Queen Barbara
Roman
by Michal Witkowski, Olaf Kühl
Tagsüber ist Hubert Kleinganove und betreibt eine Pfandleihe im Kohlenpott Polens der achtziger Jahre. Nachts vor dem Spiegel und mit Perlen geschmückt nennt er sich Barbara Radziwill – nach der Königin von Polen und Großfürstin von Litauen. Sein Geld verdient er mit »Baguette überbacken«, dem Dönerkebab der Volksrepublik. Und mit gestohlenen Chrysanthemen vom Friedhof. Wenn es eine Schuld einzutreiben gilt, sind seine »Hofdamen« zur Stelle, Sascha und Felus. Die beiden Ukrainer wissen, wie sie ihn um den Finger wickeln können. Michal Witkowski, ein Meister der Vielstimmigkeit, verwebt den Slang der Straße mit der sarmatischen Adelsplauderei zu einer Lebensbeichte, vergleichbar einem Mix aus Dorota Maslowskas Reiherkönigin und Grimmelshausens Simplicissimus.
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November 2020My Little Picture Book of Animals
(From A to Z)
by Ulrich Talla Wamba / Akira Junior
For ages 3+ ‘‘My Little Picture Book of Animals (From A to Z)’’ helps children identify animals in their environment. It contains both domestic and wild animals. The animals are placed in alphabetical order to ease the learning process.
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October 2018Werk ohne Autor
Filmbuch
by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Gemeinsam mit seiner großen Liebe Ellie wagt der junge Künstler Kurt Barnert die Flucht aus der DDR. Im Westen will er sich endlich ohne Einschränkung der Malerei widmen. Doch die Erinnerungen an die Repressalien des SED-Regimes und an die Nazi-Zeit lassen ihn nicht los. Erst als er sich ihnen stellt, gelingen ihm Bilder, in denen er neben seinen eigenen Erlebnissen auch drei Jahrzehnte deutscher Geschichte freilegt. Der Oscar-Gewinner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck kehrt für seinen dritten Langfilm Werk ohne Autor nach Deutschland zurück. Inspiriert von wahren Begebenheiten, zeichnet er den Werdegang eines jungen Mannes, in dessen Familie sich die Wege von Opfern und Tätern auf tragische Weise kreuzen. Das Buch zum Film enthält neben dem Originaldrehbuch zahlreiche Filmfotos und Hintergrundberichte.
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