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Knizhniki brings Jewish thought to Russian readers. Recent highlights include titles by André Aciman and Helena Janeczek, with Edmund De Waal and Francine Prose now in the works.
View Rights PortalKnizhniki brings Jewish thought to Russian readers. Recent highlights include titles by André Aciman and Helena Janeczek, with Edmund De Waal and Francine Prose now in the works.
View Rights Portal#knigolove is an independent Ukrainian publishing house established in 2016. We specialize in translations of contemporary literary fiction and non-fiction titles. Within the Ukrainian market, #knigolove is widely known as a publisher of quality books, both children’s and adult. Aside from translations, we actively work with prominent Ukrainian authors whose books quickly become Ukrainian bestsellers. #knigolove is also proud of its successful collaborations with international organizations such as UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund, and the United Nations. Our mission is to create books for people who want to change themselves and the world around them for the better.
View Rights PortalA considered investigation of a long-standing army base's impact on the British countryside. What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? Beyond the barracks provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? Beyond the barracks investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.
In 1993, journalist Santiago Moreno investigates a series of similar murders in Chiapas, in the South of Mexico, when he finds a new one that does not fit in with the patern. Following the lead, he is sent to the jungle where he finds groups of indigenous people protesting and organizing themselves. Step by step the plot goes knitting both stories into one, and towards the end we see the emergence of the Zapatista movement, on January 1st 1994.
"Patty Pan Compote" is a series of reportage sketches and essays describing how a whole generation of Ukrainians lived amidst the chaos of declining Soviet Union. This book is about what it was like to live in the 90's, when "pineapple" compote was cooked from the patty pat and eggplant became the substitute for mushrooms, when everyone was gripped by a total knitting obsession due to the lack of clothes. People grew accustomed to stockpiling absolutely everything, and the first sanitary pads have just begun to change the lives of Ukrainian women. Based on her own recollections, the author tells how the punitive gastronomy of that time worked, how the pseudo-brotherly relations with other Soviet republics often manifested themselves and how Abkhazia hosted Ukrainian schoolchildren a few months before the war between Georgia and Abkhazia.
What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England's military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? This book investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.
China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. Grandma Doesn't Talk tells the story of "little Heidi" in China. Mai Xiaoduo's grandmother is wordless but has many skills. She can cut window flowers for the neighbors, knit sweaters, make medicine for Heidi's ailing grandfather, and take Mai Xiaoduo to the mountain to collect medicine and watch the sunset. Although grandma doesn't talk too much, her scissors, needles and frying pans can talk. In the process of accompanying her grandmother, Mai Xiaoduo heard the sound of life, history, and flowers, trees and the wind in nature.
How did heavy metal get started? What’s behind the fascination of many bands with the occult? Which women liven up the scene? What is the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship in Finland about? Jörg Scheller invites you to find out more about the mainstream trends as well as less well-known bizarre facts. Heavy metal began in the 1970s in the subculture of British industrial centres and until today it is an unruly and agile art form. Wellknown warhorses like Iron Maiden or Metallica still pack stadiums, while new trends come from the strong Scandinavian scene. Scheller credits the genre with “exciting synchronism of freedom and order, rebellion and retreat, scepticism and enthusiasm, toughness and diversity”.
The Nightingale is the story of a plain little bird whose beautiful songs bring her great fame, even winning her an esteemed place in the king's court. Eventually, however, after saving the life of the king, the modest nightingale chooses to return to her peaceful life in the forest.
This book describes the whole process of the Red Army’s long march in an all-round and multi-perspective way,and it reflects the long march spirit by using typical examples,plain text,and appropriate pictures.It’s a book with correct direction,full and accurate historical data,and proper analysis.It’s of great enlightenment to modern peple,especially teenagers.
It is an essay about insects. The author describes the anecdotes between him and some common insects in his daily life, such as: field cricket, cicada. The book tells us their different appearance and living habit by using plain and concise language and fresh detail. We can strongly feel the author’s kindness and affection towards these tiny lives, and also we can feel the poetry between lines.
Taking an interdisciplinary view and starting from plain social legal issues, this book discusses a series of important theoretical issues in China’s contemporary law and jurisprudence, such as legal circumvention and legal pluralism, legal localization, legal specialization, substitution between market and law, and jurisprudential methodology. In order to demonstrate the inseparable relationship between law and other disciplines, the author pioneered in introducing interdisciplinary thoughts to the jurisprudential study of China and integrated it into Chinese jurisprudence.
Featured by plain language, integration of illustrations and texts, and combination of theoretical interpretation and reading materials, this Book, through in-depth theoretical publicity and researches, thoroughly clarifies the concepts of prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony, fully explains the concepts of freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, and exhaustively interprets and widely spreads the concepts of patriotism, dedication, integrity and friendship, making them widely known, and enjoying popular support. Leading ideology and cohering the willpower, this Book is a scientific, vivid, and readable popular reading for teenagers.
Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, who had developed the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". This book records in a realistic and plain style some little-known stories of Yuan Longping in the past 30 years from the early 1980s, when China’s hybrid rice research became successful and began to be widely used in production, and gradually spread to the world and benefit people all over the globe.
This book explains the profound concepts of meridian in simple language and clear diagrams, and each meridian is presented with a circulation diagram. Referring to the diagrams, readers can accurately find the acupuncture points and follow the given massage methods to preserve the health of the meridians. Depicted with plain and accurate language, the book is outstanding in providing readers with systematic guidance on the healthcare of internal organs through meridian massage. Even readers who are still unfamiliar with meridians and acupuncture points can easily comprehend and learn meridian massage techniques with this book.
Tao Yuanming is a poet in ancient China during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because of dissatisfaction with the reality, to go to work to farming. Longer than poetry and prose, more description of natural scenery and scenes of their living in rural areas, and some works expressed dissatisfaction with the corruption. "Greater China Library: Tao Yuanming set (Chinese-English comparison)" collected a total of more than 120 poems, essays and other 11 articles. Tao Yuanming's works, plain and natural, simple and unpretentious, have far-reaching impact in the history of literature and have been circulating in all countries in the world.
The book is a plain English guide to the use of plant names and the conventions for writing them as governed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. It covers the naming of wild plants, plants modified by humans, why plant names change, their pronunciation and hints to help remember them. The final section provides a detailed guide to websites and published resources. Plant Names incorporates the latest information and research in the recently published Botanical and Cultivated Plant codes in an easy to read format, and offers a definitive guide to using the myriad names, including marketing names, on plant labels.
Oleksandr Boichenko is known for noticing existentially important moments in everyday life and writing about them in plain, conversational language. "50 Percent Rational" is a collection of 50 short essays on the most discussed topics in Modern Ukraine: the language issue, European integration, the limits of tolerance, ways to find common ground for people of different ages and backgrounds. He also writes about Soviet times, 1990s, 2000s. Boichenko skillfully weaves lyrical notes from the private lives of famous individuals, comic and tragic situations in their everyday life into his essays about everyday life of the late XX - early XXI century in Ukraine.
Zhou Zuoren has always been called the "king of short prose". His essays are the culmination of Chinese vernacular prose. Contemporaries such as Lu Xun, Hu Shi, and Yu Pingbo have commented on it. He is erudite and knowledgeable, and his writings are all-encompassing. He is generally acknowledged as his literary style to be calm and dilute. His essays always permeate humanistic observations, which are both profound and forward-looking, and contain the plain and sincere of life, allowing readers to taste the classic aesthetics of prose in his dilute and simple texts, but also You can experience a rich life and harvest the wisdom of thinking.
What is Ukrainian cuisine? Who invented borscht? Where did the holubtsi (cabbage rolls) come from? And why are Ukrainian varenyky (dumplings) called relatives of Chinese dim sums? Answers to these questions can be found in this book. In an interesting accessible form, we tell children the history of the Ukrainian gastronomy. They will find out what famous Ukrainians loved to eat. We will explain in a plain way how the cuisine of Halychyna differs from that of Volyn and Polissya regions. We will also map all the “delicious” places in the country. Furthermore, of course, young readers will learn how to cook cult Ukrainian dishes.