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2020The Pharmaceutical Technician Logbook
Tips on record keeping and sample pharmaceutical calculations
by Heike Steen
The pharmaceutical technician students have almost made it: the first part of their training has been successfully completed, many exams have been passed and they are starting their six month internship in a wonderful pharmacy. Now they find themselves at the next milestone on the road to becoming a fully-fledged pharmaceutical technician: the internship logbook! The contents are laid down by the regulations governing the training and examination of pharmaceutical technicians. It is required before admission to the 2nd part of the examination and forms an important basis for the oral examination in the subject Pharmacy practice. This logbook gives pharmaceutical technician interns the decisive incentive to keep their own individual records. It contains tips on how to achieve a logical, accurate, wellstructured and visually perfect presentation of the contents. The second part of the book shows complete sample calculations for examples of individual and bulk formulations, tests on starting materials and selected topics of practical training in a pharmacy!
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October 2014The Logbooks
Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory
by Anne Farrow
Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut’s slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting
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Travel & TransportOctober 2021Bali
by Laura Roncallo - Illustrator: Defe (Alessio Defendini)
In this high format travel diary, Defe invites readers to an artistic trip to Bali. Far from the beaten tracks, Defe goes into the details. His work as a plastic artist and illustrator gets closer to a Séraphine de Senlis or to an artist from Vuitton’s Travel Book collection. Going to Bali is a dream for many of us but the other side of the coin lies in the difficulties of waste management. The author Laura Roncallo particularly singles out to the plastic and discharges at sea. She puts herself in the shoes of a white monkey (mythical character) and in the last part of the book, stigmatizes those responsible for this ecological tragedy. Defe represents with a vivid color palette and in his own, very recognizable style the lush jungle and wild animals. His talent as a naturalist artist makes this work exceptional. Have a look at his website: http://www.alessiodefendini.com/
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Travel & TransportNovember 2021Sugoi! – Craft Treasures
by Barbara Luel-Pecheur
“What struck me the most, from my first trip to Japan, are the everyday objects. They are so different from the ones we can find home! They can be found everywhere: in the street, in restaurants, in train stations or stores ... And it is sometimes hard to understand what they are immediately. Some of them are made with love and after hours of work, by passionate and meticulous craftsmen. With their amazing shapes, it is not always obvious to know what they can be used for. It is necessary to be interested more closely to Japanese culture to guess. They are like miniature monuments. Fascinated as I was, I wanted to collect them in my sketchbook. So, I brought them home with me.” For all the Far East lovers, the Japanese temples in Kyoto, the old traditional sliding-walled houses or museums Prints (ukiyo-e) are awesome places. But surprisingly what stood out the most the author of this book are everyday objects. During her numerous trips to Japan, Barbara Luel has gleaned all kinds of objects: for cooking, painting of her notebooks, decorations or to put on the table. This book presents around 80 handicrafts objects according to their use and their materials, all watercolor painted by Barbara. It evokes the different stages of the journeys and the region of origin of these objects across the main islands of the archipelago (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku). The author, urban-sketcher and responsible for the movement in Brussels, gives precious "tips" to all her readers, who would like to embark on travelogue.
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FictionFebruary 2022A World Without a Shore
by Hélène Gaudy, translated by Stephanie Smee
Summer 1930, Svalbard: a walrus-hunting boat sets sail for White Island, one of the last lands before the North Pole. The melting of the ice has revealed terrain that is usually inaccessible. As they move across the island, the men discover bodies and the remains of a makeshift camp. It is the solution to a mystery that has hung in the air for 33 years: the disappearance in July 1897 of Salomon August Andrée, Knut Frænkel and Nils Strindberg as they tried to reach the North Pole in hot air balloons. Among the remains some rolls of negatives are found and some one hundred images are retrieved. Based on these lunar-like black and white photographs and the expedition logbook, Héle ne Gaudy retraces and re-imagines this great adventure that was blown off course. From the conquest of the skies to the exploration of the poles, this novel reflects on the human need to circumscribe, discover, describe, conquer and ultimately shrink the world.
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Children's & YAJune 2021My Eco-Friendly Holiday: The Adventure Book
by Jeanne Renoüard - Illustrator: Marine Tellier
Children will be able to collect all sorts of memories from their holiday in this adventure book! Each double-page offers an activity: writing, drawing, gluing of documents gathered during the day or of information or places that children noticed and definitely want to check. Thanks to this book, holiday will become playful but also sustainable! Indeed, one of the main focuses of this book is for children to adopt eco-friendly habits, for example by using a flask or by following the rule of the three “R”: reduce, recycle, reuse. Holiday being linked to nature, children are invited to observe and keep memories of the trees, flowers (herbarium), and animals around them. This logbook also allows them to write what happened during the day and how was their mood. From the very beginning, a “charter of the eco-friendly traveler” helps children organize their trip, preserve nature, find eco-friendly options to move, pay attention to the garbage and to the life-place, etc. A cardboard envelop is available at the end to collect memories , as well as stencils to customize and personalize this adventure book!
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019The Magic of Empathy
Theory & Practice
by Dr. Nicole Audet, M.D.
So many of our relationships—including those most important to us are complicated by not listening: we are eager to speak, we talk over each other, or we unintentionally disregard the inner experiences of others. This is most notable in the working world, where a gap exists between professional efficiency and true human connection. In this heart-warming and radically honest book, Dr. Nicole identifies the remedy for resolving the pain and distance caused by miscommunication: empathy. Empathy, the ability to recognize and make space for another’s emotions without judgment, is both an action and a choice. Discovering the power of empathy to heal and create connections dramatically improved Dr. Nicole’s life, both as a mother and a doctor.The initial chapters demystify the theory of communication, focusing on empathy in theory and practice. Dr. Nicole also shares numerous powerful stories from her own life and career that reveal how empathy has led to authentic connections and long-term healing. Lastly, she provides the reader with proven exercises that will allow you to practice listening without judgment, honoring silence, responding with wisdom, and speaking from the heart. Such communication skills will open the doorsto moments of pure magic in your life.Foreword by Ruth Vachon, President and CEO of the Quebec Business Women’s Network.
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December 2015Everything We Had
A Novel of the Southwest Pacific Air War, November-December 1941
by Tom Burkhalter
November 1941: In the Pacific, war looms with Japan. In Europe, the Nazis are triumphant. England is under siege by air and sea. France has fallen, and the Nazi Wehrmacht is at the gates of Moscow itself. Japan has been at war with China since 1937. Japan’s war industries depend upon imports of scrap metal and oil from the Allied nations. The Allies place an embargo on imports to Japan in 1941. The Japanese have a year's supply of oil to supply their armed forces. Japan surrounds American possessions in the Philippines with overwhelming force on three sides. The US Army makes a desperate attempt to reinforce the Philippines garrison, but the clock is also ticking for the Japanese. The armed forces of Imperial Japan may attack the Philippines at any moment. Two brothers, Jack and Charlie Davis, are pilots in the US Army Air Forces. They are part of the reinforcements sent to the Far Eastern Air Force, charged with air defense of the Philippines. For Jack and Charlie, in a time when the US is on the brink of world war, a simple question must soon be answered: what will I do when the Japanese come?
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Thriller / suspenseNovember 2008Laos File
by Dale A. Dye
Laos File is a 2011 gold medal winner from the Military Writers Society of America! The death of a salty old senior NCO who ran special operations in Vietnam leads Marine Gunner Shake Davis on a shocking and potentially lethal quest to find out what happened to hundreds of American POWs. Written by the bestselling author of 'Platoon,' Dale A. Dye.
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Art & design styles: Conceptual artAugust 2021Sting in the Tale
Art, Hoax, and Provocation
by Antoinette LaFarge
An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert “fictive-art” practitioner. The shift from the early information age to our 'infocalypse' era of rampant misinformation has given rise to an art form that probes this confusion, foregrounding wild creativity as a way to reframe assumptions about both fiction and art in contemporary culture. At its center, this “fictive art” (LaFarge’s term) is secured as fact by employing the language and display methods of history and science. Using typically evidentiary objects such as documentary photographs and videos, presumptively historical artifacts and relics, didactics, lectures, events, and expert opinions in technical language, artists create a constellation of manufactured evidence attesting to the artwork’s central narrative. This dissimulation is temporary, with a clear “tell” often surprisingly revealed in a self-outing moment. With all its attendant consequences of mistrust, outrage, and rejection, this genre of art with a sting in its tale is a radical form whose time has come.
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February 2021Heaven is a Small Circle
Novel
by Carolina Schutti
This novel by Carolina Schutti broaches different concepts of freedom and identity. Two separate plot lines outline the fate of two women. At first glance, these women could not be more different but little by little, certain parallels reveal themselves.The first-person narrator, a young woman, is losing control over her life, her feelings, her language and her body. At the same time, however, her perceptions remain crystal clear. Now she is expected to learn to manage her temper at an asylum. While Mark, the only person she is attached to there, is about to be discharged, she is repeatedly thinking about her own departure.Ina, the second protagonist, has already departed – to Siberia, where she would like to run a roadside inn at an ice road. However, she finds herself facing a tough adventure with obscure Boris and only notices too late that she is caught in a trap. The story gets more thrilling with every chapter. In Schutti’s poetic and yet powerful style, both women’s lives come together.
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Children's & YA2022The Day of the Whale
by Rachel Delahaye
‘Follow Big Blue. Tell the Truth.’ That was the last thing Cam’s father said to him and it was important. Cam follows Big Blue - everybody does on the island of Cetacea. Their lives take place within his rules, delivered to them by enigmatic whale-talker, Byron Vos. Byron was once a marine scientist but is now organizing an epic clean-up operation to revive the ocean after centuries of human greed and neglect. And yet Cam wonders if there is a more complex truth he has not yet discovered. A truth that may be connected to his father’s disappearance. Cam’s quest to understand Big Blue leads him to new friends and shared adventures – but the truth, when he finds it, is more dangerous than ever he could have imagined.
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September 2020Die soziale Gemeinschaft in Krippe und Kindergarten stärken
22 direkt umsetzbare Praxisideen zur Gestaltung von Morgenkreisen
by Maria Odemarck; Silke Schaper
In the daily educational routine, the morning circle is one of the most important rituals for strengthening the social community. Children need recurring structures to develop a sense of security and well-being. In this book we present morning circles for the entire week, and also how to work with a morning circle box and symbol cards: How is the weather? What do I wear? What day of the week is it today? What are we doing today?With many practical ideas for morning circles:• Welcome, orientation, exchange and activities in the morning circle• Consideration of various recurring themes• Practising language and vocabulary• Incorporating special occasions
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MemoirsJune 2015Xamnesia
Everything I Forgot in my Search for an Unreal Life
by Lizzie Harwood
A travel memoir about memory, money, myopia, and men. At twenty-three, Lizzie leaves her native New Zealand to work for VIP billionaires in a remote oil-rich oasis. Legally forbidden to talk about her employers, she calls their country 'Xamnesia.' The place has its perks, such as hugging Michael Jackson and receiving diamond watches, but it's also a rabbit hole that quells a gal's self-confidence.Even transferred to Paris, she depends on champagne, cigarettes, and hotel concierges on speed dial to help fulfill all VIP requests. Will smuggling a million dollars be what snaps her out of her fog? And can she forge a real life after so many years in 'Xamnesia'?. An illuminating, no-holds-barred memoir about about ping-ponging around the world in search of yourself.
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Autobiography: historical, political & militaryMay 2015Dustoff 7-3
Saving Lives under Fire in Afghanistan
by Erik Sabiston
This book is for heroes. Dustoff 7-3 tells the true story of four unlikely heroes in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, where medics are forced to descend on wires to reach the wounded and helicopter pilots must fight wind, weather, and enemy fire to pluck casualties from some of the world's most difficult combat arenas. Complete opposites thrown together, cut off, and outnumbered, Chief Warrant Officer Erik Sabiston and his flight crew answered the call in a race against time, not to take lives-but to save them. The concept of evacuating wounded soldiers by helicopter developed in the Korean War and became a staple during the war in Vietnam where heroic, unarmed chopper crews flew vital missions known to the grateful grunts on the ground as Dustoffs. The crew of Dustoff 7-3 carried on that heroic tradition, flying over a region that had seen scores of American casualties, known among veterans as the Valley of Death. At the end of Operation Hammer Down, they had rescued 14 soldiers, made three critical supply runs, recovered two soldiers killed in action, and nearly died. It took all of three days.
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AdventureSeptember 2015The Mind of God
by Bevan Frank
When Liz Greene discovers that her father is missing, she is unwittingly drawn into a plot that could change the world forever. Before he went missing, Professor Harry Greene had been working on the black box global consciousness project. Now, Liz needs to find both her father, and his groundbreaking research before it's too late. On the same day, President of the United States Daniel Rafferty is in Cape Town to give an address at the Convention Centre. Is it a coincidence that the black box was stolen while Rafferty is in the same city, or is there an even more sinister terrorist plot at play? Follow Liz, as she and her friend, Tim Fletcher, decode one clue after another in a deadly hunt around Cape Town, all the while being pursued by an assassin and a CIA agent.
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September 2013The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
First new unabridged translation since 1876 of one of Verne's best-known novels.
