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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2022

      Ice humanities

      by Klaus Dodds, Sverker Sörlin

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      Education

      Semantic correlations

      Build Stronger Semantic and Vocabulary Skills Through Meaningful Word Relationships

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      A visual and structured approach to concept categorization and word recall. Semantic Correlations, authored by speech-language pathologist Alice Kassotaki, MSc, BSc, is a carefully designed tool that helps children enhance their lexical and semantic processing abilities. Centered on the principle that new concepts are more easily acquired when linked to existing knowledge, this book guides learners through tasks that reinforce the understanding of semantic relationships and support immediate information recall. The activities unfold over two levels of difficulty. In the first, children are presented with three words, one of which does not belong to the studied category, allowing them to explore differences and establish common semantic properties. In the second, more advanced level, all three words fall within the same category, challenging learners to identify deeper similarities before classifying them. This progression fosters cognitive flexibility and semantic accuracy. Children work on skills such as vocabulary enrichment, receptive and expressive language, categorization, and semantic reasoning. By using hierarchical structures that show the transition from general to specific concepts, the book creates an intuitive visual guide that deepens comprehension. With translation rights available, Semantic Correlations is an ideal addition to any publisher’s special education or speech therapy collection.

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      Children's & YA

      LANGUAGE PROCESSING SKILLS | Enhancing Comprehension

      Help Children with Language Processing Challenges. Thrive A structured and engaging resource for boosting receptive language comprehension.

      by Collective Work – Upbility

      This unique publication is designed for children with Language Processing Disorder—an often overlooked difficulty that severely impacts understanding, motivation, and overall academic progress. At its core, the book offers a comprehensive collection of graded, full-colour worksheets that target receptive language skills through multi-step, visually rich, and increasingly complex tasks. Developed to address the needs of speech therapists, special educators, and SEN teachers, the material is thoughtfully structured to adapt to each child’s individual pace and level. With four levels of difficulty, the activities offer in-depth practice on essential language concepts such as sizes, colours, shapes, numbers, adjectives, prepositions, local and temporal expressions, hypothetical language, and conjunctions. The vibrant visuals and step-by-step progression make the exercises ideal for both print and tablet use, ensuring maximum flexibility in therapy or classroom settings. Perfectly suited for international adaptation, this resource empowers professionals to support learners struggling with language processing, helping them gain confidence and access the curriculum on more equal footing with their peers. Publishers looking to expand their catalogue of evidence-based, practical tools for special education will find this title a valuable and timely addition. Translation rights are available.

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      Written Language Production | SENTENCE STRUCTURE

      A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Sentence Writing Skills

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Support written language production through structured, leveled practice and visual scaffolding. Written Language Production – Sentence Structure by Alice Kassotaki, MSc, BSc, is the first book in the comprehensive Written Language Production series, designed to strengthen the foundation of written expression in children aged 7 and up. With a concise theoretical introduction and 206 carefully structured worksheets, this resource guides learners through six progressive stages of sentence construction—starting with basic sentence formation and moving toward independent writing without visual prompts. The book begins by introducing the distinction between oral and written language, emphasizing the unique challenges of written expression, which lacks the paralinguistic cues present in speech. It then systematically supports students as they develop sentence structure skills: from forming simple sentences, to using compound elements, to generating sentences based on visual stimuli, and finally composing sentences independently. Ideal for educators, speech-language pathologists, and special education professionals, this resource offers a practical, evidence-based pathway to improving written language skills. With its clear progression and user-friendly format, Written Language Production – Sentence Structure is a valuable tool for international publishers looking to expand their portfolio of structured writing interventions.

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      Chang Yu figure painting

      by Chang Yu

      In the modern Chinese painting circle, Chang Yu is a leader, once alternately refreshing the Chinese oil painting auction record. Painter Chang Yu has had ups and downs throughout her life, and insists on going her own way in art. He is recognized in the West as a world-class painter, a Chinese Modigliani, a painter who creates freely for his artistic beliefs and makes remarkable achievements. Chang Yu turned from the most familiar Chinese art to another brand new western art field, and constantly explored and pursued on the basis of Chinese painting, finally achieving Chang Yu's special painting style of simplicity and fluency. Chang Yu is an indelible Oriental pearl. Few books of Chang Yu are published in China. We popularize such art and publicize Chang Yu's achievements in the history of Chinese art in the 20th century.The series consists of 3 books. This book is a collection of Chang Yu's figure painting works, which contains more than 60 of his important and iconic figure works. Chang Yu's female body works are different from the expression Angle of nude paintings, and he uses the whole body outline of a naked woman to express the scenery in his mind. There are not many slim naked women in Chang Yu's works, but mostly plump and fat women. Quite the author "do not talk to people, alone in the dark" self-pity mode.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences

      Written Language Production | PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE

      The book 'Written Language Production—Paragraph Structure' is the second part of the three-part series 'Written Language Production'. It comprises a brief theoretical section and 273 worksheets organised on an increasing level of difficulty to facilitate the development of written language at paragraph level.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Mastering Paragraph Structure – A Comprehensive Writing Guide! Age Group: 7+ 📖 Helping Children Develop Strong Writing Skills! The "Paragraph Structure" book is a step-by-step guide designed to help children understand, organize, and develop paragraphs effectively. 📚 What’s Inside? 🔹 Part 1: Three Stages & Nine Levels of paragraph writing mastery. 🔹 Part 2: Ten Proven Strategies to support paragraph development. 📝 Writing Techniques Included: ✅ Look and Write (Using Pictures for Inspiration) ✅ Modifying and Reversing Patterns ✅ The Seven Questions Method (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, How Much/Long/Often) ✅ Text Superstructures for Organizing Ideas ✅ Incomplete Sentences & Logical Ordering ✅ Related Words for Cohesive Writing ✅ Brainstorming for Creative Expression ✅ Step-by-Step Written Instructions 🗣️ Oral vs. Written Language: 💡 Understanding Language Development – The book explores how oral and written communication differ and why written language requires structured organization. 🌟 With engaging activities and structured guidance, this book makes paragraph writing fun, clear, and effective!

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      Humanities & Social Sciences

      Enhancing Reading Skills | Valparaíso

      The book “Enhancing Reading Skills | Valparaíso” aims at improving children’s reading comprehension skills and at the same time, it focuses on enriching their vocabulary by taking them on an exciting journey to Valparaíso in Chile, where the heroine of the book is traveling.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Age Group: 7+ Enhancing Reading Skills | Valparaíso is a unique and engaging educational resource designed to boost children’s reading abilities through an interactive and immersive storytelling approach. 🌍 Key Features of the Book: 📖 Adventure-Based Learning: Follow Lydia’s exciting journey as she explores Valparaíso, introducing children to new cultures and lifestyles. Encourages children to engage with reading through storytelling and exploration. 🧠 Reading Strategies for Skill Development: Vertical reading exercises to improve reading speed and accuracy. Graphic organizers for enhancing text comprehension and structure awareness. Comprehension questions to strengthen critical thinking and reading fluency. Vocabulary-building activities, including figurative speech exercises for a deeper understanding of language. 🎯 Why It’s Beneficial: ✔ Makes reading enjoyable and meaningful through storytelling. ✔ Encourages reading fluency in an engaging way. ✔ Develops language skills, cultural awareness, and comprehension strategies. 🚀 Take your child on an unforgettable journey to Valparaíso and watch their reading skills soar!

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      A Sugar Figure for Grandpa

      by Pi Kou, Duzi Dudu

      "Rat-a-tat, a little drum turns like a windmill faster and faster. Puff-a-puff, an old man blows a sugar figure harder and harder." As soon as Little Douzi’s grandpa shouts out, the lane is alive with kids coming out. With the passage of time, Litte Douzi grows up, while Grandpa gets old and sick. Little Douzi and Dad carries Grandpa's sugar load, and blows, kneads, pulls and cuts the sugar syrup. Then a sweet sugar figure warms the bleak autumn, cold winter and the sick Grandpa. Love will finally overcome all difficulties.

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      November 2017

      Liang Comments Historical Figures of China

      by Liang Heng

      This book selects 32 pieces of prose written by Liang Heng from 1996 to 2011, and the main content is the comment and reflection on historical figures including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Zhang Wentian, Qu Qiubai, Fang Zhimin, Deng Xiaoping, Zhuge Liang, Tao Yuanming, Han Yu, Fan Zhongyan, Wen Tianxiang, Liu Yong, Li Qingzhao , Lin Zexu, Wang Luobin, Ji Xianlin, Zhao Puchu, Wu Wenji and other celebrities.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences

      Social situations for autistic adolescents

      An invaluable handbook designed for autistic teens and anyone who wants to improve their social communication skills.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Social Situations for Adolescents - NEW EDITION 2024 Age Group: 12 years and over This book is a groundbreaking resource designed to facilitate the social development of adolescents, especially those on the autism spectrum (ASD). However, Social Situations for Adolescents extends beyond its primary target audience, offering valuable insights and practical tools for any adolescent seeking to improve their social communication skills. Core Features of the Book: Engaging Social Stories: A series of carefully developed stories serve as the foundation for exploring real-life social situations. Thoughtful Analysis & Reflection: Each story includes possible solutions, engaging questions, and structured problem-solving strategies that encourage self-awareness and decision-making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Approach: Focuses on emotion regulation, coping strategies, and social skill improvement to help adolescents navigate interactions with confidence. Family Involvement: Highlights the importance of consistent support and reinforcement at home and in various settings. Additional Topics Covered: Generalization Strategies: Ensuring that learned skills can be applied in different social contexts. Stress Reduction Techniques: Helping individuals with ASD manage sensory challenges. Expressive Language Exercises: Enhancing communication skills through illustrated activities and structured exercises. By following clear, actionable steps, this book supports quick comprehension and easy application of social skills, leading to long-term personal development and confidence. Social Situations for Autistic Adolescents is more than a textbook—it’s a practical companion for adolescents navigating the complexities of social interactions, helping them build a more inclusive and confident future.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2023

      Border images, border narratives

      The political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings

      by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman

      This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2022

      Bodies complexioned

      by Mark Dawson

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      The Arts
      February 2025

      Passage works

      Ruth Beckermann’s art

      by Patricia Allmer, John Sears

      Passage Works is the first book-length English language critical analysis of the transdisciplinary work of the Austrian film-maker, writer, and artist Ruth Beckermann (b. 1952, Vienna). Beckermann's works interrogate identity and geography as formations of the intersections between the past and the contemporary. Taking as her central topics Austria and its history and politics, her own identity as a Jewish woman, and the contemporary global geopolitics of migration and displacement, Beckermann develops wider meditations in film, art, and writing on the persistence of European memory, and the meanings of Europe itself; on borders, migrations, and identities; on memories, traumas, and traditions; on the image as marker of presence and absence, repository of the traces of historical violence; and on the passage as metaphor for a range of physical, psychological, and ideological movements defining the complexities of contemporary cosmopolitan identities.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2017

      The language of empire

      Myths and metaphors of popular imperialism, 1880-1918

      by Robert Macdonald

      The debate about the Empire dealt in idealism and morality, and both sides employed the language of feeling, and frequently argued their case in dramatic terms. This book opposes two sides of the Empire, first, as it was presented to the public in Britain, and second, as it was experienced or imagined by its subjects abroad. British imperialism was nurtured by such upper middle-class institutions as the public schools, the wardrooms and officers' messes, and the conservative press. The attitudes of 1916 can best be recovered through a reconstruction of a poetics of popular imperialism. The case-study of Rhodesia demonstrates the almost instant application of myth and sign to a contemporary imperial crisis. Rudyard Kipling was acknowledged throughout the English-speaking world not only as a wonderful teller of stories but as the 'singer of Greater Britain', or, as 'the Laureate of Empire'. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the Empire gained a beachhead in the classroom, particularly in the coupling of geography and history. The Island Story underlined that stories of heroic soldiers and 'fights for the flag' were easier for teachers to present to children than lessons in morality, or abstractions about liberty and responsible government. The Education Act of 1870 had created a need for standard readers in schools; readers designed to teach boys and girls to be useful citizens. The Indian Mutiny was the supreme test of the imperial conscience, a measure of the morality of the 'master-nation'.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2024

      Off white

      Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race

      by Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre, James Mark

      This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged foundation of semi-peripheral nation-states and national identities, and of the region's current status as a global stronghold of unapologetic white, Christian nationalisms. Contributions address the pivotal role of whiteness in international diplomacy, geographical exploration, media cultures, music, intellectual discourses, academic theories, everyday language and banal nationalism's many avenues of expressions. The book offers new paradigms for understanding the relationships among racial capitalism, populism, economic peripherality and race.

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      The Arts
      January 2019

      Cinema - Italy

      by Stefania Parigi, Des O'Rawe

      A journey to the Italian cinema that overturns established views and opens up new perspectives and interpretations. Its itinerary is organized in four stages. The first is an analysis of the theories of Cesare Zavattini on neorealism which overturns widely accepted positions both on Zavattini and on neorealism. The second confronts a key film of the post-war Italian cinema, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà, by examining the nature of its realism. The third is dedicated to Luchino Visconti: to questions of the use of language exemplified in his La terra trema, the use of settings, costume and light as agents of meaning in his Il Gattopardo and Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa. The final voyage of the film is to the physical and symbolic construction of heaven and earth in the work of Pasolini. Particular attention is given to the representation of the body in his last four films: the grotesque and mythical bodies in popular tradition in his Trilogia di vita and the tortured bodies destroyed by the mass media in Salò.

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