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Children's & YA2012The Musician and the Dancer
by Ximena Bruno
The work day begins for this ant, who is ready to start on her tasks. In her group, every ant fulfills its role and nobody can deviate from the plan. This little friend emerges from her home and goes to explore, because that is her task: to search, to discover, to report back...
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Business, Economics & LawFebruary 2018Sustainable Bamboo Development
by Zhu Zhaohua, Jin Wei
This book presents over 40 cases of bamboo development across 22 major bamboo-industry countries and explores the knowledge gained from their successes and failures. It synthesises experiences and exchanges with country experts from international training courses and consultations, study tours, and seminars. Each case includes observations and summaries of discussions related to the development of bamboo-based industries in a healthy, sustainable way, and the facilitation of strategic and balanced development of bamboo in different global regions. Industrial and artisanal bamboo growing and processing is expanding worldwide and this book brings together key experiences to help inform future developments. This book provides an analysis of bamboo plant features, including strong renewability, fast-growing, and high biomass production. It also reviews important ecological functions of bamboos, such as water and soil conservation, carbon sink and storage, and adaptation to climate change, as well as addressing the diversified culture of bamboo and key issues affecting the sector. Sustainable Bamboo Development: - Is authored by an internationally recognised leading expert in the growth and use of bamboo - Takes a holistic view, covering technical, socio-economic, policy, cultural and business development - Provides practical knowledge to guide the development of bamboo sectors - Gives a clear idea and rich examples of what has been attempted in many countries - Acts as a roadmap for using bamboo as a poverty reduction and environmental security tool Highly illustrated and in full colour throughout, this book is an essential resource for all those interested in bamboo, from private sector investors to governmental and development agencies, academic researchers and students.
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MedicineMay 2018Bovine Pathology
A Text and Color Atlas
by Claus D. Buergelt, Edward G. Clark, Fabio Del Piero
Illustrated with over 1000 color images of the highest quality, Bovine Pathology: A Text and Color Atlas is a comprehensive single resource to identifying diseases in dairy cattle, feedlot cattle, and their calves. With summary text describing key features, the book correlates clinical information with pathology and differential diagnoses. The text covers naked-eye macroscopic appearance, through to microscopic pathology, and the immunohistochemistry of infectious agents and tumor markers. Structured by major organ system, the disease entries follow a consistent format and clarity of display. This, combined with an integrated E-book, handy fact sheets, summary boxes and key points, helps aid understanding. Key features include: - Over 1000 superb color images to illustrate the pathologies - A thorough review of mainly western hemisphere diseases of cattle covering macroscopic appearance, microscopic appearance, and immunohistochemistry - Synoptic layout, fact sheets, summary boxes, succinct legends and key bullet points supports its use as a field guide or revision aid - Organised by major organ system which ensures that vital facts can be found quickly - A unique chapter covering calf-hood diseases Serving as an essential reference work for veterinary pathologists who perform bovine necropsies, veterinary residents and students, the book is also practical enough for bovine practitioners who need to investigate sudden death losses of cattle on the farm.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2017Mexique
El nombre del barco
by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas
On May of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, 456 sons and daughters of republican fighters took the transatlantic boat Mexique, that set sail in Bordeau to arrive in Mexico. Previsions were that they would stay there three or four months, but the Republican defeat and the beginning of the Second World War changed that brief exile into a definitive one. This books tells the story not only of those children, but also about the ship, being aware that we do not know how many boats try to cross our oceans every day, moving human beings that have full rights to a proper way of living and not to stand over a land that tears apart below their feet.
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True stories (Children's/YA)August 2018Niños
by María Jose Ferrada, María Elena Valdez
Thirty-four poems, one for each of the young children (all under the age of 14) that were executed, arrested or disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship. A book dedicated to all those little Chilean victims, but also to all the children that each day suffer the consequences of violence.
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Poetry (Children's/YA)August 2018Animal
Poemas breves salvajes
by María José Ferrada, Ana Palmero
"Hidden in his horn he guards the secret of the jungle”. This might be as well the beginning of a novel, but it's an inspired riddle about wild animals. The illustrations in high varnish of this edition highlight the different skin textures of each animal and invites the reader to discover a new way of reading in a tactile and playful way.
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Humanities & Social SciencesEn manos de otros
Infancia y abandono en la Barcelona del siglo XV
by Ximena Illanes Zubieta
Este libro explica cómo fue el abandono de niñas y niños en la Barcelona del siglo XV, deteniéndose en tres etapas esenciales: la escena del abandono, el cuidado de los lactantes en manos de nodrizas y el aprendizaje en casas ajenas. En cada fase se revisan las condiciones de integración y marginación, la presencia de lo femenino y los relatos de amores y desamores. Las historias que aquí se recogen permiten comprender las diferentes dimensiones del abandono, acto que involucraba no solo a los infantes expuestos, sino también a su entorno. Los niños en su mayoría eran abandonados en las puertas del Hospital de la Santa Creu de Barcelona durante las horas menos transitadas para evitar el juicio social. Las cartas que acompañaban a los infantes reflejan el drama de la pobreza y, por ende, la incapacidad forzosa de las madres para asumir el rol de la crianza. Al reconstruir el contexto de la época, el lector tiene la posibilidad de realizar un ejercicio de empatía que vuelve el foco de atención al presente. Es inevitable percibir las duras realidades que se mantienen a lo largo del tiempo y el casi irreparable sufrimiento que causa la soledad en los primeros años de vida.
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Children's & YASummer in Barcelona
by Andrea Izquierdo, Elena Pancorbo
XIMENA arrives in Barcelona with just one goal in mind:to put herself to the test. Perhaps her new flatmate LAIAcan coax her out of her shell. After all, studying in adifferent city is the perfect opportunity to find yourself. Ifthat’s not the case, someone needs to tell LILY, who’s lefteverything behind to move to London... and now she’sleft TOM too. Not even AVA gets what’s going on betweenthose two. JC’s just as confused about his own relationshipstatus as well as his best friend ALFRED’s love life. Whoon Earth’s going to understand the on-off relationshiphe’s got going on with MIREIA? Especially now he’s metXIMENA... They say the spark of a summer romanceignites quickly but leaves you with your fingers burnt. Butsometimes, just sometimes, the flame keeps on burning...
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureNovember 2021Iker Muniain
Un balón, un escudo, una vida
by Patxi Xabier Fernández
Passionate, rebellious, non-conformist, rascal, fighter, referent. Faithful to some colors. There are many ways to define Iker Muniain, but only one to know the person who hides behind the footballer. “That boy with curly hair glued to a ball”, as Joaquín Caparrós recalls, the coach who made him debut at the age of 15, has already spent more than a decade making history with the Athletic Club shirt. This book tells how fame came to him as a teenager, how he fought off two serious knee injuries, how he became captain of his dream team, and how he snuck into a final dressed incognito. A journey through a unique life, in which pain and defeat are mixed with success and happiness. Very few know what elite football is like inside; In this authorized biography, Iker dares to tell it.
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Los Once (The Eleven)
by Roberto Santiago
Los superheroes de Roberto Santiago is a unique publishing project by Roberto Santiago, the author of LOS FUTBOLÍSIMOS (more than 4 million copies sold) and LOS FORASTEROS DEL TIEMPO (more than 600,000 copies sold). This long-term project consists of several independent collections, and have been launched with the first two series: Los Once (The Eleven) and Las Princesas Rebeldes (The Rebel Princesses). Over the months to come, the multiverse will expand with the release of more titles in these series and the arrival of additional collections in bookshops: Los Gamers Piratas (The Pirate Gamers), El Escuadrón K (K Squad)… and other surprises! These superheroes will turn kids into super-readers with a fantastic combination of adventures, superpowers, entertainment, topical issues and humour. “Superheroes don’t just take us on a journey to a fairer world; they help us become better people. And that is always the main goal of literature: to open our eyes and help us to understand, grow and think”. - Roberto Santiago
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FictionVirus
by Alvaro Vanegas
Ivan, a banker and frustrated musician, suddenly finds himself in the middle of a horde of angry zombies. Now his only goal is to meet his wife, but communicating with her is impossible and getting where she is is very difficult when thousands of people want to kill him and turn him into their breakfast. Virus is an urban history that deals bluntly with human nature and whose vertiginous rhythm doesn't allow the reader to take their eyes off its pages.
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The ArtsAugust 2019SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES AS CULTURAL ARENAS
by Fernanda Arêas Peixoto and Adrián Gorelik (editors)
Organized by Fernanda Arêas Peixoto, professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo, and Adrián Gorelik, professor at the University of Quilmes, this book is the result of a collective research project about the cultural urban history in South America, which was developed by a group of South American researchers. Using as a compass the notion of “cultural arena”, this work performs a reflection on the city as a place of cultural germination, experimentation and resistance. Some cities – Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Montevideo, among others – are studied in order to capture the intimate and inextricable relations between city and culture.
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Food & DrinkJanuary 2022Small Millets and Pseudo Cereals for Nutritional and Health Security
by Gopal Kumar Sharma, Anil Dutt Semwal,Pal Murugan Muthaiah & Janifer Raj Xavier
The prime focus of this book titled Small Millets and Pseudo Cereals for Nutritional and Health Security is to present systematically the importance as well as critical research carried out across the world on these climate complaint crops, their origin, cultivation methods, pre and post-harvest information, processing, chemical composition nutritional composition, physico-chemical characteristics, processing technology, health promoting attributes, traditional and modern foods to scientific fraternity, student community and general public. The book will be highly useful to common consumer also for making nutritious food of choice. The 20 chapters in this book have been authored by reputed contributors having in-depth knowledge of their specialization from government, industry and academia. This book will be an essential reference for researchers, academicians, students for research and development activities as well as government officials and policy makers to address the issue of malnutrition in rural areas. This book will certainly drive future research in unexplored areas of traditional foods based on nutri cereals and pseudo cereals.
