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The Michael O’Mara imprint has illustrated and non- illustrated non-fiction titles for adults on history, sciences, marketing and management, biographies, humour and gift. The Buster imprint develops activity and reference titles for kids. The innovative range of this list develops the curiosity, knowledge and artistic fibre of our little ones. Finally, LOM Art includes a carefully curated list of artist-led titles. We have collaborated with talented illustrators from around the globe to create exquisite titles on drawing, painting, colouring, dot to dot, stickers and so much more!
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May 2007Aufzeichnungen eines Schnitzeljägers
Mit Geocaching zurück zur Natur
by Hoëcker, Bernhard / Illustriert von Zimmermann, Tobias; Illustriert von Keller, Michael B.
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Children's & YAA oficina do Cambeva (Cambeva's workshop)
by Lido Loschi
Cambeva's workshop is the first of four books of the collection "Presente de Vô" in partnership with Grupo Ponto de Partida. The book is a mixture of colours and elements that highlight the memory of the world, in which seekers of memories have the mission of bringing light and life to objects found in the travels of two characters: Zalém and Calunga. Cambeva is a restorer who, when the world lost its embrace, tried to reinvent it; he is the grandfather who mends dreams, forgotten things and lost emotions, to whom the seekers ask for help to fix something. In a magical universe, full of children, grandchildren, stories and memories of his lineage of restorers, when faced with this request for restoration, he makes room to bring back an emblematic figure who can no longer sing. A story about memories, care and affection...
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Children's & YAO sumiço do tatu (The disappearance of the armadillo)
by Marília Moreira
Haroldo, a minho, who as he relates to other animals in the garden brings to light issues such as friendship and respect, mixing a harmonic field with an inside-out view of the garden of a house inhabited by some strange animals, among them the (human) balance-beast.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Michael Winterbottom
by Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an impressive body of work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema and the world at large. With this in mind, the realist elements of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo are examined in the light of a long history of cinema's dealings with realism, as far back as post-war Italian neo-realist filmmaking; whereas Jude and The claim are approached as both literary adaptations (a continuing strand in British cinema history) and examples of other reworked genres (the road movie, the western). This lively study of his work, written in a wholly accessible style, will engage all those who have followed his career as well as those with a wide-ranging interest in British cinema.
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September 2018Allgemeinbildung. Weltgeschichte
Das muss man wissen
by Zimmermann, Martin (Hrsg.)
Die Geschichte des Menschen ist geprägt von sozialen, technischen und kulturellen Errungenschaften, aber auch von Krieg und Leid. Der Herausgeber Martin Zimmermann hat spannende Beiträge von Experten zusammengestellt, die ein farbenprächtiges Bild einer jahrtausendelangen Entwicklung zeichnen - der Geschichte der Menschheit. Wichtige Themen der Allgemeinbildung sind in diesem Band kompakt zusammengefasst. Die Texte sind wissenschaftlich fundiert, aber klar und verständlich geschrieben - so macht Bildung Spaß und kann begeistern.
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Science & MathematicsOctober 2017UV-B Radiation and Plant Life
Molecular Biology to Ecology
by Brian R Jordan, Pedro J. Aphalo, Amy T. Austin, Carlos L. Ballaré, Paul W. Barnes, Susanne Baldermann, Melanie Binkert, Janet F. Bornman, Isabelle N. Bottger, Stephan D. Flint, Franziska S. Hanschen, Éva Hideg, Marcel A K Jansen, Gareth I. Jenkins, Karel Klem, Susanne Neugart, Monika Schreiner, Åke Strid, Mark A. Tobler, Roman Ulm, Otmar Urban, Jason Wargent, Melanie Wiesner
Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) has profound effects on plant growth and development, and exposure varies with ozone depletion and across geographic regions, with ecosystem and agricultural consequences. This book deals with large-scale impacts but also how UV-B affects plants at the molecular level is also fascinating, and the UV-B photoreceptor has only recently been characterised. While UV-B radiation can be damaging, it also has a more positive role in plant photomorphogenesis. Consequently UV-B treatments are being developed as innovative approaches to improve horticulture. This book is a timely synthesis of what we know and need to know about UV-B radiation and plants.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2022Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1
The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now
by Douglas Field
This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake's work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture. Opening with two articles by the late Michael Horovitz, an important figure in the 'Blake Renaissance' of the 1960s, the issue goes on to investigate the ideological struggle over Blake in the early part of the twentieth century, with particular reference to W. B. Yeats. This is followed by articles on the artistic avant-garde and underground of the 1960s and on Blake's significance for science fiction authors of the 1970s. The issue closes with an article on the contemporary Belgian art collective maelstrÖm reEvolution.
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2020Vitamin D
The healing power of the sunshine vitamin
by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Michael F. Holick
Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem that puts the quality of life and life expectancy of more than a billion children and adults at risk worldwide. Many lifestyle diseases may be associated with vitamin D deficiency: myocardial infarction, infections, cancer, neurological diseases, stroke, type 2 diabetes, to name just a few. This 4th updated edition incorporates numerous new insights into the therapeutic effect of vitamin D, including its importance for a healthy pregnancy, prenatal imprinting, optimum sporting performance, diabetes mellitus and autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or multiple sclerosis. Since the metabolism and the effect of vitamin D are supported by a complex network of micronutrients – for example, magnesium, vitamin A or vitamin K – a specific chapter is devoted to this network. Here, the reader can discover how vitamin D successfully protects against diseases, improves the quality of life and optimises medication and treatment!
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2023
The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
by Michael Kalisch
How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.
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May 2022Betrachtungen zur Musik
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Zimmermann
Bemerkungen zur Musik ziehen sich durch Wittgensteins gesamtes Werk. Das Hören einer Melodie und die Unmöglichkeit, ihren Eindruck zu beschreiben, beschäftigte den Philosophen im Zuge seiner endlosen Versuche, sich über den Charakter des Verstehens und des Meinens klar zu werden. Ob der Wechsel einer Tonart mit der Veränderung des Gesichtsausdrucks vergleichbar ist oder ob Musik überhaupt etwas mitteilt – durch die Hintertür der philosophischen Untersuchung kommt Wittgenstein ihrem Sprachcharakter auf die Spur. Der Komponist Walter Zimmermann hat die Notizen thematisch geordnet und aus Stichwörtern wie »Gesang«, »Grammophon«, »Harmonik« bis »Stille«, »Thema« und »Töne« ein musikalisches Wittgenstein-ABC geschaffen. Das inspirierende, höchst originelle Buch ist unentbehrlich für alle, die noch immer rätseln, warum es so schwer ist, sich redend über musikalische Eindrücke zu verständigen, während beim Spielen alles ganz klar und einfach ist.
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Children's & YACastelos de areia (Sand castles)
by Márcia Leite
Humans, who hold the power and exercise it for their own benefit, do not see the other beings of that universe. The invisibility and the political and social relations of micro and macro powers are intertwined in the maximum of coexistence and coexistence between different beings in a common territory.
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Children's & YAOikoá
by Felipe Valério
The name of this book is Oikoá, which means life in the language of the Guarani Mbya people. This name was chosen because the indigenous peoples have been the guardians of life on planet Earth: it is in their territories that there are more types of trees and plants, animals, fish, birds, insects, and where the rivers and forests are best preserved.
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Children's & YAPode me chamar de Dodô (You can call me Dodo)
by Daniella Michelin
Coexistence, harmony, respect, existence and resistance are central themes of the book Pode me chamar de Dodô, written by Daniella Michelin and illustrated by Elisa Carareto.
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October 2004
Neuer Antisemitismus?
Eine globale Debatte
by Doron Rabinovici, Ulrich Speck, Natan Sznaider
Wo liegt die Grenze zwischen legitimer Kritik an Israel und Antisemitismus? Hat sich der Antisemitismus in der Ideenwelt des Islam etabliert? Inwieweit spielen bei linkem Antizionimus antisemitische Topoi eine Rolle? Seit einigen Jahren gibt es eine neue, weltweit geführte Debatte über den Antisemitismus. Nicht mehr Rechtsextremismus und Vergangenheitsbewältigung stehen dabei im Vordergrund, sondern die kontroversen Positionen gegenüber dem Nahostkonflikt. In zahlreichen Originalbeiträgen dokumentiert der Band den internationalen Stand der Debatte erstmals für das deutsche Publikum. Mit Texten von Omer Bartov, Ulrich Beck, Micha Brumlik, Ian Buruma, Judith Butler, Dan Diner, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Thomas Haury, Jeffrey Herf, Tony Judt, Gerd Koenen, Matthias Küntzel, Antony Lerman, Andrei Markovits, Michael Walzer, Robert Wistrich und Moshe Zimmermann.
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September 2020Der kleine Buchsalon am anderen Ende der Welt
Roman | Eine verschwundene Schwester, eine geheimnisvolle Kette und ein kleiner schwedischer Strandort
by Frida Skybäck
Patricias Schwester ist während eines Praktikums in Schweden spurlos verschwunden. Jetzt, dreißig Jahre später, erhält sie einen anonymen Brief mit Madeleines Kette darin. Kurzentschlossen verlässt Patricia ihre Farm in Amerika und reist nach Schweden.Im kleinen Strandort angekommen, mietet sie sich in einer gemütlichen Pension ein. Bald lernt sie auch die Frauen eines Buchsalons kennen, die die begeisterte Leserin prompt in ihren Kreis aufnehmen. Bei Kaffee und Kuchen, bei Gesprächen über Literatur, Liebe und alltägliche Probleme fühlt Patricia sich rundum wohl. Doch einige Frauen scheinen mehr über ihre Schwester zu wissen, als sie zugeben – und um Frieden zu finden, ist Patricia entschlossen, die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. Frida Skybäck erzählt charmant, mit Humor und Hoffnung von begeisterten Leserinnen, von alten Wunden und neuen Anfängen.
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September 2020Der kleine Buchsalon am anderen Ende der Welt
Roman
by Frida Skybäck, Karoline Hippe, Nora Pröfrock
Patricias Schwester ist während eines Praktikums in Schweden spurlos verschwunden. Jetzt, dreißig Jahre später, erhält sie einen anonymen Brief mit Madeleines Kette darin. Kurzentschlossen verlässt Patricia ihre Farm in Amerika und reist nach Schweden.Im kleinen Strandort angekommen, mietet sie sich in einer gemütlichen Pension ein. Bald lernt sie auch die Frauen eines Buchsalons kennen, die die begeisterte Leserin prompt in ihren Kreis aufnehmen. Bei Kaffee und Kuchen, bei Gesprächen über Literatur, Liebe und alltägliche Probleme fühlt Patricia sich rundum wohl. Doch einige Frauen scheinen mehr über ihre Schwester zu wissen, als sie zugeben – und um Frieden zu finden, ist Patricia entschlossen, die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. Frida Skybäck erzählt charmant, mit Humor und Hoffnung von begeisterten Leserinnen, von alten Wunden und neuen Anfängen.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2014A concordance to the rhymes of The Faerie Queene
by Richard Brown, J. B. Lethbridge, J. B. Lethbridge
This book is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser's epic. It gives the reader unparalleled access to the formal nuts and bolts of this massive poem: the rhymes which he used to structure its intricate stanzas. As well as the main concordance to the rhymes, the volume features a wealth of ancillary materials, which will be of value to both professional Spenserians and students, including distribution lists and an alphabetical listing of all the words in The Faerie Queene. The volume breaks new ground by including two studies by Richard Danson Brown and J. B. Lethbridge, so that the reader is given provocative analyses alongside the raw data about Spenser as a rhymer. Brown considers the reception of rhyme, theoretical models and how Spenser's rhymes may be reading for meaning. Lethbridge in contrast discusses the formulaic and rhetorical character of the rhymes. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2021A concordance to the rhymes of The Faerie Queene
by Richard Danson Brown, J. B. Lethbridge, J. B. Lethbridge
This book is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser's epic. It gives the reader unparalleled access to the formal nuts and bolts of this massive poem: the rhymes which he used to structure its intricate stanzas. As well as the main concordance to the rhymes, the volume features a wealth of ancillary materials, which will be of value to both professional Spenserians and students, including distribution lists and an alphabetical listing of all the words in The Faerie Queene. The volume breaks new ground by including two studies by Richard Danson Brown and J. B. Lethbridge, so that the reader is given provocative analyses alongside the raw data about Spenser as a rhymer. Brown considers the reception of rhyme, theoretical models and how Spenser's rhymes may be reading for meaning. Lethbridge in contrast discusses the formulaic and rhetorical character of the rhymes.
