Lorenza Estandia Literary Agency
The Catalogue has 114 titles, picture books, illustrated stories and novels poetry, plays, series, and non-fiction, and by readers age from 0 to 18+ years.
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March 2020Im Alten Land
by Birgit Haustedt
Apfelbäume, so weit das Auge reicht, idyllische Fachwerkdörfer hinter dem Deich und am Horizont die Elbe: Das Alte Land ist eine uralte Kulturlandschaft am Wasser, die ihren eigenen Charakter bewahrt hat. Prächtige Bauernhöfe und Backsteinkirchen mit kostbaren Barockorgeln zeugen noch heute vom frühen Wohlstand der Altländer. Birgit Haustedt erzählt von den Anfängen im Mittelalter, von Deichbau und Sturmfluten, vom Alltag der kleinen Leute und von großer Handwerkskunst, von stolzen Bauern und mutigen Schiffern. Dazu ein Exkurs, welche Rolle das Alte Land in Lessings Leben und Goethes Faust spielte.
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Geography & the EnvironmentJune 2020New Land, New Life
A success story of new land resettlement in Bangladesh
by Andrew Jenkins, Natasha Haider, Bazlul Karim, Mihir Kumar Chakraborty, Kiran Sankar Sarker, Rezaul Karim, Robiul Islam, Nujulee Begum, Edward Mallorie, Koen de Wilde
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta has newly emerged 'char' islands, resulting from the deposition of sediment, which are very vulnerable, socially, institutionally and environmentally. This book explains how the governments of Bangladesh and the Netherlands and the International Fund for Agricultural Development cooperated on a land-based rural development project to give settlers security and purpose. It details how they engaged communities and civil societies, and implemented an infrastructure aimed at reducing flooding, improving drainage, and providing adequate drinking water and sanitation. The book describes the project's application to crop and animal agriculture, and the development of value chains and encouragement of female participation. It considers the financial underpinning and infrastructure, as well as how to ensure the impacts of the scheme are enduring. The scheme serves as a model for support projects to vulnerable groups faced with climate change and other environmental challenges. This book is suitable for students, researchers, specialists and practitioners in rural development, water resources, land management and soil science.
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September 2021Zhangjiajie•“Me and My Motherland”
by Zhangjiajie•“Me and My Motherland”Editorial Board
Zhangjiajie• is a book organized and edited by the Propaganda Department of the Zhangjiajie Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. At the beginning of 2019, the Propaganda Department of the Zhangjiajie Municipal Party Committee learned about the news of Zhangjiajie, the birthplace of "My Motherland and Me", and then began a long period of time. Argumentation and planning, the book is composed of 4 chapters: "Birth", "Anthem", "Story" and "The Square". The work uses a large number of little-known song creation details, interesting stories and praises to the landscape and humanities of Zhangjiajie. It restores the creation process of the song "Me and My Motherland" for readers. At the same time, through a large number of incisive essays, multi-dimensional and multi-perspective presented Zhangjiajie people's praise of the motherland in all aspects.
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August 2008Das öde Land
Englisch und deutsch
by T. S. Eliot, Norbert Hummelt
»Verschiedene Kritiker haben mir die Ehre angetan, das Gedicht als Kritik an der Gegenwart zu interpretieren, und haben sogar eine gehörige Portion Gesellschaftskritik hineingelesen. Für mich war es nur das Ventil für einen privaten und ganz belanglosen Grant gegen das Leben; es ist lediglich ein Stück rhythmischer Quengelei.« So wehrt ein Autor, ebenso verständlich wie unangemessen und vergebens, den Ruhm ab, mit dem er für eben dieses Gedicht, The Waste Land, überhäuft worden ist. The Waste Land (erschienen 1922) ist das Langgedicht des 20. Jahrhunderts, jedenfalls das mit der größten Wirkung in der westlichen Welt. Ein Blick in Norbert Hummelts schwungvoll rhythmische, „direkte“ Neuübertragung und das Original macht ohne weiteres verständlich, warum. Der puritanischen Traditionslinie der amerikanischen Literatur – über Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson und Whitman – folgend, bezieht Eliots bewußt fragmentarisch gehaltenes Krisengedicht den Leser geradezu szenisch mit ein. Es läßt ihn mitarbeiten, innehalten, überlegen: Selbsterforschung - des Lesers mehr als des Sprechenden - ist gefragt. Auch dies hat Das öde Land über all die Jahre hinweg lebendig gehalten.
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Limnology (freshwater)December 2005Land Use Changes in Tropical Watersheds
Evidence, Causes and Remedies
by Edited by Ian Coxhead, Gerald E Shively
This book studies land use change in tropical landscapes, with particular emphasis on the economic processes that influence rates of land degradation and forest clearing. Multidisciplinary contributions draw lessons from a rich, decade-long collection of economic, social and environmental data on the Manupali upland watershed in the southern Philippines. Through this detailed case study the book documents forces leading to land use changes, in particular the potential impacts of institutional evolution and policy reforms, and highlights interrelationships between biological, economic, and social phenomena.
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FictionJune 2023There is a Land Beyond Perekop
by Anastasia Levkova
Crimea. It was here that the main character of the novel spent her childhood, youth and met first love. It was here that she realized that she is Ukrainian. Neither grandfather, lieutenant colonel of the KGB, nor Russian blood in his veins stood in the way of her self-identification. The novel intertwines Crimean Tatar culture, Ukrainian history and family skeletons in closets like an ornament. Together with the main character and her friends, Aliye who is a Crimean Tatar, and Alyona who is a Ukrainian, the reader travels a long way from their childhood to the present — the occupation of the peninsula by Russia. «There is a land beyond Perekop» is an ode to Crimea. Not to its natural beauty and uniqueness, but to people. This is an attempt to open the mainland for Crimea, and Crimea for the mainland. After all, there is land both there and there. It should be known and stitched.
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Forestry & related industriesDecember 2005Silvopastoralism and Sustainable Land Management
by Edited by M R Mosquera-Losada, A Riguerio, Jim McAdam
Agroforestry and silvopastoralism are ancient ways of managing forestland that should be encouraged as they increase productivity in the short, medium and long terms (in comparison with forestland), biodiversity (in comparison with farmland) and the sustainability of land (multi-product system). This book addresses important problems that need to be solved by indicating adequate means of managing forestry and grasslands. These problems are related to issues such as the multiple benefits of forests, fire and erosion risk reduction and countryside conservation. This book is based on papers resentedat a conference held in Spain in April 2004.
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December 2021Land Governance and Gender
The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy
by Uchendu Eugene Chigbu
This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy. It deals with land issues within the interface of theory and practice. Part 3 covers Applications and experiences: techniques, strategies, tools, methods, and case studies. Part 4 focuses on Land governance, gender, and tenure innovations. Case studies discussed include China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Germany, Mexico, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Korea, etc. Themes include Islamic tenure, reverse migration, matriarchy/matrilineal systems, structural inequality, tenure-responsive planning, land-related instabilities and COVID-19, urban-rural land concerns, women's tenure bargaining, tenure-gender nexus concerns in developing and developed countries. This book: · Includes theoretical or empirical studies on land governance and gender from a diverse group of countries. · Provides the basis for a new land administration theory to be set against conventional land administration approaches. · Offers, in an accessible manner, a range of new tools for design and evaluation of land management interventions. The book will be valuable for students and researchers in land governance, urban and rural planning, international development,natural resource management, agriculture, community development, and gender studies. It is also useful for land practitioners, including those working within international organizations.
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January 2021October Land
by Jin Ziwei
"October Land" is based on life in the Northeast from the 1930s to the 1940s. This period was the most complicated period in the economic and social development of the Northeast. All conflicts were concentrated on resisting the occupation and aggression of Northeast by Japanese imperialists, and ethnic contradictions were unprecedentedly acute. The novel takes the change of the fate of a family named Zhang as the main clue, tells the story of the survival and struggle of the descendants of the Shandong people who broke through the Guandong, and focuses on the lives of a group of family brothers represented by Zhang Wende and Zhang Wenzhi at the critical moment of the survival of the Chinese nation. Choice and historical destiny. Through the conflicts and conflicts of this rural family, it reflects the spiritual outlook of a generation of young people and also reflects the historical situation of a special era. It makes us feel the magnificent waves of this national liberation war and the strength of the Chinese people to fight for national rights.
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May 1998Das verlorene Land
Israel – eine persönliche Geschichte
by Göran Rosenberg, Jörg Scherzer
Das Buch von Göran Rosenberg vereint die historische Analyse mit der Subjektivität. Rosenberg berichtet am Anfang über seine Kindheit in Schweden und die Einwanderung nach Israel. Von Beginn an zeigt Rosenberg seine Meisterschaft in der Verknüpfung der eigenen mit der politischen Geschichte. Er beleuchtet die Anfänge des Zionismus im 19. Jahrhundert im ersten Teil seines Buches, der den Titel »Exodus« trägt. Es folgt »Das Gelobte Land«, und die nachfolgenden Kapitelüberschriften nennen die verschiedenen Themen: »Ein Land wie alle anderen«, »Ein besseres Land«, »Ein größeres Land« und schließlich »Ein Land am Ende der Zeit«. Immer ging es in der Ideengeschichte des Zionismus um das Land - aber welches? Am Leitfaden dieser Frage entwickelt Rosenberg seine Geschichte des modernen Israels. Am Ende steht der Anfang: »Das jüdische Problem«, Reflexionen über das Judentum nach dem Holocaust.
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The ArtsOctober 2018Glimpses of Gardens in Eastern China
by TUNG Jun, TUNG Ming (translator)
The architect Chuin Tung introduced the classic beauty of Chinese gardens to the world through this book The interest of garden appreciation: profound interpretation of the spirit and connotation of Chinese gardens The method of gardening: comprehensive analysis of the details and techniques of garden construction (including architectural and planning, ornament and furniture, rockery, planting) The history of gardens: detailing the difference between garden history and Eastern and Western gardens 建筑学界一代宗师童寯向世界介绍中国园林之美的经典著作 赏园之趣：深刻解读中国园林的精神与内涵 造园之法：全面分析园林营造的细节与技法（建筑与布局，装修与家具，叠石，植物配置） 园林之史：细述园林历史及东西方园林的区别
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Geography & the EnvironmentJuly 2008Conserving Land, Protecting Water
by Deborah Bossio, Deborah Bossio, Frits W T Penning de Vries, Kim Geheb, Kim Geheb, Line J. Gordon, Antonio Trabucco, William Critchley, Pay Drechsel, Hanspeter Liniger, Francis Gichuki, Lech Ryszkowski, Jules Pretty, Andrew Noble
The degradation of land and water resources resulting primarily from agricultural activities has had enormous impact on human society. In order to alleviate this problem an advanced understanding of the state of our resources and the process of degradation is needed. Conserving Land, Protecting Water includes an overview of existing literature focusing on global patterns of land and water degradation and discussions of new insights drawn from successful case studies on reversing soil and water degradation and their impact on food and environmental security. ; Conserving Land, Protecting Water includes an overview of existing literature focusing on global patterns of land and water degradation and discussions of new insights drawn from successful case studies on reversing soil and water degradation and their impact on food and environmental security. ; Part 1: Land and Water Degradation: Assessment and Issues1.1: Learning from bright spots to enhance food security and to combat degradation of water and land resources.1.2: Land degradation and water productivity in agricultural landscapes.1.3: Land Degradation, ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder farmers in Makanya catachment, Tanzania.1.4: Political ecologies of bright spots1.5: Large scale fluxes of crop nutrients in food cause environmental problems at the sources and at sinks1.6: Carbon sequestration, land degradation and waterPart 2: Towards Better Land and Water Management2.1: Local Innovation in ‘Green Water’ Management2.2: Sustainability and Resilience of the Urban Agricultural Phenomenon in Africa2.3: Safeguarding water resources by making the land greener: knowledge management through WOCAT2.4: Bright basins - do many bright spots make a basin shine?2.5: The influence of plant cover structures on water fluxes in agricultural landscapes2.6: Investments in collective capacity and social capitalPart 3: ‘ Bright Spots’3.1: ‘Bright spots’: Pathways to ensuring food security and environmental integrity3.2: Ecosystem benefits of ‘Bright Spots’
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The Land of Zeekola
by Amr Abdelhamid
Can you imagine entering a crypt to find yourself in a strange land whose people deal with intelligence units? You work and do not take your wage in cash, but rather your intelligence units increase, and if you buy something, they decrease. It is the wondrous land of Zeekola, where there is no place for lazy ones. Whoever runs out of units will be killed. A strange adventure in which the novel takes us with its hero Khaled, who suddenly finds himself there to get to know that country. We live with its people, witness his meeting with the doctor Aseel, and go with him on a path he never choose.
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September 1997Das verheißene Land
La terra promessa. Das Merkbuch des Alten. Il taccuino del vecchio. Gedichte. Italienisch und deutsch
by Giuseppe Ungaretti, Paul Celan
Erinnerung hat die gleiche Funktion wie das Gedicht: Abwesendes als Abwesendes zu vergegenwärtigen. Das verheißene Land - das Land des Äneas, das Land des Dichters, die Liebe der Dido - ist als das unerreichbare das nur zu erinnernde. Im Merkbuch des Alten hat Ungaretti der Erfahrung des alten Mannes, dem letzten Andrang des Gefühls in der sich wehrenden Einsamkeit, der Wüste des Vergessens, eine Sprache gegeben, die mit der größten Einfachheit die größte Transparenz erreicht.
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Tourism industryAugust 2008Nature-based Tourism, Environment and Land Management
by Edited by Ralf C Buckley, Catherine Pickering, David B Weaver
Tourism based on natural environments is a significant and growing international industry, and one that requires access to land with scenery, native plants and wildlife. In turn, land managers need money to maintain their land and its natural resources. This book looks at the economic, social and environmental consequences of nature-based tourism, and its effects on land managers. It discusses the importance of links and partnerships, as well as the conflicts between commercial tourism interests and land management agencies. Now in paperback, this book will be an essential resource for tourism students, as well as researchers and industry practitioners.
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Tourism industryOctober 2003Nature-based Tourism, Environment and Land Management
by Ralf C Buckley, Catherine Pickering, David B Weaver. Edited by Ralf C Buckley, Catherine Pickering, David B Weaver.
Tourism based on natural environments is a huge international industry and this industry needs access to land with scenery, native plants and wildlife. In turn, land managers need money to maintain their land and its natural resources. This book looks at the economic, social and environmental consequences of nature-based tourism. It discusses the importance of links and partnerships, as well as the conflicts,between commercial tourism interests and land management agencies. Born from the Fenner conference on Nature Tourism and the Environment, held in Canberra, Australia, 2001, the book includes selected proceedings which have been refereed and substantially revised.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2024Land and labour
The Potters’ Emigration Society, 1844-51
by Martin Crawford
Land and labour provides the first full-length history of the Potters' Emigration Society, the controversial trade union scheme designed to solve the problems of surplus labour by changing workers into farmers on land acquired in frontier Wisconsin. The book is based on intensive research into British and American newspapers, passenger lists, census, manuscript, and genealogical sources. After tracing the scheme's industrial origins and founding in the Potteries, it examines the migration and settlement process, expansion to other trades and areas, and finally the circumstances that led to its demise in 1851. Despite the Society's failure, the history offers unique insight into working-class dreams of landed independence in the American West and into the complex and contingent character of nineteenth-century emigration.
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Geliehenes Land
by Ursula Merkin
Geliehenes Land von Ursula Merkin Geliehenes Land erzählt auf liebevolle und überaus originelle Art die Geschichte der deutsch-jüdischen Arbeiterfamilie Ansbacher, die nach Amerika auswandert. Die Autorin richtet ihr Augenmerk auf die Sorgen und Nöte der aus Deutschland geflüchteten Juden, die zwischen der Sehnsucht nach der verlorenen und ehemals wohlgeordneten und behaglichen deutschen Heimat und ihrer Dankbarkeit gegenüber der neuen, verwirrenden amerikanischen Kultur hin und hergerissen werden. Sie beschreibt, wie die Neueinwanderer in der neuen Welt lernen, ihre eigenen Fähigkeiten neu einzuschätzen und mit zunächst unüberwindlich erscheinenden Schwierigkeiten und neuen Herausforderungen auf beeindruckende Art und Weise zurecht zu kommen. Ursula Merkin wurde 1921 in Frankfurt geboren. Die Familie verließ Deutschland im Jahr 1936, um nach Israel auszuwandern. 1947 wanderte Merkin in die USA aus und ließ sich in New York City nieder, wo sie heiratete und sechs Kinder zur Welt brachte. Sie war Lehrerin in Washington Heights in Manhattan, dem Schauplatz ihres Romans und lebt dort bis heute. Rechte für die deutsche Ausgabe und andere Sprachen sind noch erhältlich!
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Management of land & natural resourcesSeptember 2015Land-Use Change Impacts on Soil Processes
Tropical and Savannah Ecosystems
by Raghavan Dinesh, Arkalgud Ganeshamurthy, Subrata Ghoshal Chaudhuri, Heather D’Angelo, Krista L. McGuire, Caitlyn Gillikin, Dina C. Merrer. Edited by Francis Q Brearley, Andrew D Thomas
This book examines the effects that land-use changes (notably agricultural intensification, logging, soil erosion, urbanisation and mining) have on soil characteristics and processes in tropical and savannah environments. It covers a range of geographical regions and environments as impacts of land use change are often site specific. The effects of land use change on various aspects of the soil ecosystem from both a chemical and biological perspective will be examined.
