Based in Barcelona, at Zahorí Books we are specialized in highly illustrated books and novelty books. Our catalogue outlines a number of titles covering a wide range of mostly non-fiction subjects attractive to children and adults alike.
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Direktor Kakadu hat Abdi nach seinem letzten Coup angedroht, ihn von der Schule zu schmeißen. Seitdem ist Abdi mit seiner Ghetto-Gang zahm wie eine Schafherde und mir ist laaaangweilig. Keine Streiche, keine Chaos-Aktionen, keine genialen Coups. Määhhhh! So geht das wirklich nicht weiter! Dabei hat Abdi letztens noch getönt, dass er jetzt unter die Freerunner gegangen ist und niemand ihn im Parkour schlagen kann. Vielleicht sollte ich ihn ein bisschen herausfordern? Bei so einer Kletter-Challenge geht es dann mal richtig hoch hinaus!
Yeah! Klassenfahrt! Wir sind für eine Woche auf dieser spukigen Burg irgendwo mitten im Wald. Weit weg von Direktor Kakadu und unseren Eltern. Wann könnten Abdi und ich unseren Battle besser zu Ende bringen, wenn nicht jetzt!? Abdi ist allerdings echt genial, das muss ich zugeben! Er ist mir immer einen Schritt voraus. Wie macht er das nur? Oder steckt vielleicht noch jemand ganz anderes hinter den Streichen?
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This is a hands-on, practical guide to describe physical bunch and oil analysis of oil palm bunches. Bunch and oil analysis laboratories are set up at oil mills to assess production, yield potential of plantations and oil extraction rates relative to targets. The higher the oil yields the planting material produces, the less land that is needed to achieve a specific level of production, hence helping in the sustainability of the crop.
The story is created by two narrators. The two women who have been living next door to each other, commence a bitter and end-less story in which each stand on both sides of the story. Afsoun, in the middle of the 80s, is “the girl next door" whom Khorso is in love with. In hesitation of letting himself to lose his heart to Afsoun, or leaving to go to the battlefield, he chooses the harder. He is missing after 11 days of being sent to the front-end. The other side of the narration is left to Shirin, Khosro’s sister. Afsoun describes the sudden absence of Khosro, and Shirin, who observed the formation of a half-done love story, recounts this painful loss from her own perspective. The novel is not limited to the 80s and reflects Tehran today, and except for limited situations, it doesn’t travel to the past. The whole story is not grounded on an "absence". Khosro is absent, and this absence has brought about two new women from his beloved sister and his love. Women who, while maintaining their vulnerabilities and their pains, still thrive to answer their unanswered questions. Although SNAIL DAY is caused by the absence of Khosro, it is not the story of Khosro. The third important woman in the story is Khosro’s mother. She aims to takes Shirin’s life under her control, similar to what she had been doing to Khosro’s life. She represents the dominant social behavior; she intrudes into the most personal matters of her children, and tires to oversee those matters. She represents the dominant ideology of the society (today and in the past). She has such a long and dominant presence whereby Shirin is obliged to shelter, not only in a fictitious love but in an imaginary life on the internet, out of sight of the ruling power. Shirin, through the internet, is in a relationship with a young man, a randomly taped movie salesclerk, who sees her, in the real world, only every couple of days. As the wall between Afsoun and Khosro in the 80s, there is now an iron curtain between the two souls which works similarly. The tick wall in the past, the present love in an unreal world, a mother who restlessly aims to control her grown-up children are all the fundamental metaphors of the story. The story also hints at a psychological melodrama. We can not believe that the absence of Khosro, if caused by any other reason, would have had a similar effect on Afsoun and Shirin. Hence, SNAIL DAY doesn’t ignore the source of the psychological effect on the two main narrators; even though the story doesn’t spend even half of the focus on the reason of the “absence”, but still doesn’t ignore it. SNAIL DAY is and isn’t the narration of a passionate love story. This state of suspense is accompanied by the uncertainty of the two main characters of the story. SNAIL DAY has certain questions – similar to those of Afsoun, Shirin, and Kosro – that it hasn’t found an answer to.
Welcome to delicious Lebanon! Zahra Hakim will help us to discover the delicacies of the country, seasoned with personal memories and culinary traditions. Prepare irresistible hummus with her, make your own cream cheese the traditional way and enjoy her vegetable, fish and meat specialties. Lebanese cuisine combines the flavors and spices of Europe with those of the Middle East in an incomparable way. The dishes in this book range from breakfast recipes, light starters and crunchy salads to rich mezze plates; from spicy and aromatic soups to traditional and modern main courses and fragrant desserts. The beautiful watercolour illustrations by Lisa Rammensee also give a visual impression of the food and life in Lebanon and wet your appetite for the dishes, which are all easy to cook and a real treat.
Montessori is probably the most well known parenting method right now. However, some family still have tradition and values that goes through generation that cannot be found in the popular parenting method. This realization came to Zahra Zahira’s mind as she is working as Montessori practitioner who comes from moslem family. Thus, she made a lesson plan activity inspired by montessori philosophy and curriculum. This book will help moslem parents to apply montessori and introduce islamic values to their children at home, at the same time.
Philosophy of education basically deals with learning issues that attempt to explain or answer what we describe as the major questions of its domains, i.e., what education is needed, why such education, and how would societies undertake and achieve such learning possibilities. In different temporal and spatial intersections of people’s lives, the design as well as the outcome of such learning program were almost entirely indigenously produced, but later, they became perforce responsive to externally imposed demands where, as far as the history and the actualities of colonized populations were concerned, a cluster of de-philosophizing and de-epistemologizing educational systems were imposed upon them. Such realities of colonial education were not conducive to inclusive social well-being, hence the need to ascertain and analyze new possibilities of decolonizing philosophies of education, which this edited volume selectively aims to achieve. The book should serve as a necessary entry point for a possible re-routing of contemporary learning systems that are mostly of de-culturing and de-historicizing genre. With that in mind, the recommendations contained in the 12 chapters should herald the potential of decolonizing philosophies of education as liberating learning and livelihood praxes. “This collection of critical and scholarly analyses provides an insightful and timely resource for decolonizing philosophies of education that continue to shape discourses, policies, curricula and practices in all levels of educational and social institutions. It also usefully challenges versions of postcolonial studies that fail to recognize and demystify the continuity of colonial hegemony in contemporary societal formations in both the global north and south.” – Toh Swee-Hin, Distinguished Professor, University for Peace, Costa Rica & Laureate, UNESCO Prize for Peace Education (2000) “Decolonizing philosophies of education edited by Ali A. Abdi is a collection of twelve essays by noted scholars in the field who provide strong readings of postcolonialism in education with an emphasis on decolonizing epistemologies. It provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the critical history of colonization, postcolonial studies and the significance of education to the colonial project. This is an important book that provides a global perspective on the existential and epistemological escape from the colonial condition.” – Michael A. Peters, Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The essays in this edited collection open up a hopeful dialogue about the existing state of democratic education and the ways in which it could be re-imagined as an inclusive, democratized space of possibility and engagement. Proceeding from a critique that questions the dominance of Western liberal understandings of democratic education as a series of rational, culturally neutral acts undertaken by individuals who conceive of democracy and ‘the common good’ in universalist and fundamentally exclusionary terms, the contributors give voice to those whose ideas, histories, cultures and current understanding of the world is not highlighted in the dominant relationships of schooling. From a variety of theoretical and pragmatic approaches, the chapters in this collection engage the dialectics of history, power, colonization and decolonization, identity, memory, citizenship, Aboriginal rights, development and globalization, all in the context of providing a critique of educational systems, relations, structures and curricula that seem badly in need of reform. While the contributors who have diverse scholarly interests are not in a direct dialogue with one another, their different foci should, nevertheless, inter-topically inform each other. The book should interest students and researchers in the general foundations of education, democracy and education, citizenship education, comparative and international education, postcolonial studies in education, and cultural studies in education.
The role of education in the development of societies is an important life perspective that is promoted by families, institutions and governments. In today’s globalized world, this reality may presume a worldwide platform where what is termed knowledge societies could gain at the expense of the educationally less endowed. There is also the case where postcolonial systems of education in Africa, Asia, Latin America and other places did not lead to the expected social and technological progress that was promised with independence. The 17 chapters in this volume attempt to analyze these complex and interlinked contexts of education and development. The book contains important criticisms of the historical developments of education, the meanings and changing intersections of development, schooling, citizenships and their exclusions, and the important interplays of globalization, knowledge, culture and languages. Beyond the theoretical foci, the book examines learning systems and possibilities in specific regions and countries of the world. These include Africa with a specialized focus on women’s education and advancement as well as individual country studies on Ghana, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe and Somalia. In the Asian context, the specific chapters analyze the training of teachers in China, and women’s education and education and the caste system in India. These are complemented by select treatments of education and social development in Chile in South America, postcolonial (post-communist) Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean region. Together, the book’s contents should selectively respond to some of the most important social and educational development ideas and debates in our world today.
The first and only book about trailblazing women of the Middle East, by award winning Wafa' Tarnowska. 25 fascinating mini biographies, including those of Cleopatra, Zenobia, singer Fairuz and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. Their work covers sports (Zahra Lari, UAE iceskater), film making (Nadine Labaki, Lebanon), mathematician (Manahel Thabet, Yemen). Beautiful illustrations of all the women by talents including Hoda Hadadi are complemented by a simple map and a Glossary of terms. A wonderful read 'Guaranteed to inspire' - Kirkus Reviews.
A four-volume book, with funny stories about two tribes which live in a very special city and they are always sabotaging. Their main food is Caspian Sea Sprat and their job is producing and exporting Aftabe.Because of entering the Warty Comb Jelly to the Caspian Sea, Sprat is in danger and it’s fished less every year. This story has tried to explain this environmental problem for children in a funny way and give them an overall picture of the endangered animals of Iran.
The story is about a clean and neat room where everything is in the right place. Suddenly, the closets and drawers decide to stop being neat and well-ordered. These objects can speak and have the power to make decisions, which engages the reader’s imagination. Furthermore, the illustrator portrays the room from different angles with different components in detail that provide a familiar atmosphere for children. The purpose of the story is to emphasize the effects of being orderly in life and teaches children to care about their belongings, even if they seem useless. Also, it shows creativity by making new devices from old and unusable ones. Finally, the act of donation is another golden lesson of this story.
susu is a baby crocodile. In the first book, Susu wants to sleep, but he cannot, even though he is tired. Therefore, he tries different ways to help him sleep. Firstly, Susu eats his food and goes to bed, but it does not work. Susu’s mom comes and kisses him. Susu goes from side to side in his bed. Then, his father reads a few books to him, though Susu still cannot sleep. The bees bring him blankets. Then, Susu tries to sleep by counting from one to ten, he goes to the toilet, and then he counts the stars to fall asleep, but he cannot! Finally, after trying different ways, Susu slowly falls asleep and closes his eyes. Susu Wants a Kiss starts in the morning when Susu wakes up and wants a kiss to start the day. Then, at lunchtime, he wants a kiss, and his mother gives him one. Even when he is hurt and crying, he wants her mom to kiss him, and at night while drinking milk, her mom kisses him. The story ends when he is going to sleep, but what is needed? A kiss that daddy gives to him
Open Your Hand, Baby! is a book of Chik Chikan series, which concentrates on helping toddlers with delicate gestures. It tries to improve their essential skills, such as holding objects, moving, and tying their shoelaces through lovely poems. Furthermore, using simple, adorable, and familiar illustrations along with relaxing colors make this poetry book for children more attractive and instructive. Thus, this title provides a perfect base for parents to practice these skills with toddlers while showing them affection and enjoying their time together, making this process a lovely and fun experience
One day, the red and juicy pomegranate seeds were playing with each other when suddenly they heard strange sounds from outside the house. They asked themselves: "What is going on out there?" The seeds were curious and the sounds were getting louder and louder. "Delicious Stories" is a collection of stories about delicious fruits around Berman. "What's going on out there?" It is a story about pomegranate.
