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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 1998Neville Chamberlain, appeasement and the British road to war
by Frank McDonough, Mark Greengrass
Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement. The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it. The book argues that, when Neville Chamberlain came to power, appeasement was part of a broad consensus in British society to avoid a second world war. It provides an interpretation of Chamberlain's conduct by showing how he used and abused the mood of the age to justify a selfish and ambitious policy which was idealogically prejudiced. Yet, when Hitler entered Prague in March 1939, the public mood changed, and Chamberlain found himself a prisoner of a new mood which forced him to make a tactical and half-hearted attempt to stand up to Hitler for which he had no enthusiasm. ;
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Children's & YAJanuary 2020Let's Make Friends
by Anastasia Merenkova (Author), Kateryna Razin’kova (Illustrator)
This is the story of a little wolf. One day, the wolf's mother gave two candies to the little cub, one for him and one for a new friend, that he had yet to find. But he did not understand why he needed to find friends to share candies with. After all, he did not like to share, and he loved sweets very much! In the end, no one wants to be friends with a selfish animal, so how can our wolf cub even find one? Maybe he has to learn that happiness does not only mean candies? From 3 to 5 years, 606 words. Rightsholders: hanna.bulhakova@ranok-school.com
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December 2018The Black Hole in the Classroom
by Yang Peng
Yang Peng's Award-winning Novels are a collection of the award-winning works of Yang Peng's many outstanding stories. Not only are the selected articles humorous, but also rich in imagination. They are also rich in profound educational philosophy that can enlighten the mind and help readers to reflect on themselves. There have been a lot of strange things happening in the classroom recently. Sometimes students' homeworks were lost. Other times some pencil sharpener or rubber may be missing. Is this because of someone who want to escape from writing homework or is there a thief in the classroom? When everyone talked about it, some people found out that there was actually a black hole in the classroom. The black hole sucked away all these things. Further, the more amazing thing is that not only can the black hole absorb substances, but also colors, viruses, selfish distractions and many other things. As a result, students would like to make a wish, asking the black hole to suck away what they didn't want ...
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FictionHelena
by Paulina Vieitez
A trip that marked her life – an encounter that changed her forever. In the prime of her life, Helena Artigas is trying to fulfill her greatest dream: getting a Ph.D. For that, she must travel to Madrid, Spain, to take courses at Universidad Complutense. Despite great family resistance, she is determined to do it. During her trip, her most precious objects will fall into the hands of a stranger. Little does she know that this inconvenience will set off a journey that takes her not only across the Atlantic, but into her most intimate being and her deepest wishes. Maybe the past she is carrying on her shoulders will rise to meet her, or maybe the future brings a more promising horizon – just as long as there is enough time. Of Helena, Ildefonso Falcones, the author of the best selling novel La catedral del mar, has said: “Helena is a story told with a capital H, which in Spanish is a ‘mute’ letter, just like countless women are muted by their pains and the guilt they unjustly carry. This is a novel that is both sweet and hard, where illusion fights with reality, taking us to an unexpected ending.”
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Animal husbandryAugust 2022Livestock Economics Marketing, Entrepreneurship Business Management & Accountancy
2nd Fully Revised & Enlarged Edition
by K.S. Gangadhar, K. Satyanarayan, K.C. Veeranna, V. Jagadeeswary, & J. Shilpa Shree
It is a well known fact that each of the components of the course namely, livestock economics, marketing, entrepreneurship, business management and accountancy, forms an independent and separate study by itself. The libraries in the agricultural universities and veterinary universities are also not very much equipped with more number of books in these subjects. The book makes the task of teaching and learning easier, as all information on various topics connected to livestock economics, marketing, entrepreneurship, business management and accountancy in the form of a handbook, which will serve the needs of the teachers and students who are involved in this course work. The narration is done in a very simple way without complicating the information, presented with many graphs and mathematical expressions. This book would also benefit veterinary professionals and extension officers who are involved in promoting livestock entrepreneurship activities.
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Waste managementJanuary 2011Agriculture and Waste Management for Sustainable Future
by Asoke Kumar Sannigrahi
In this book the author has selected important topics like global warming, e-wastes management, solid waste management, organic farming, vermicomposting and alternatives to fossil fuels. Lot of information and data are included for the benefit of science and engineering students as well as research scholars working on these lines. Hope this book will be useful to them as reference book and will be a priced collection for their own library. All the topics are debatable, some say in favour while other say against of it while the author has tried to analyze all topics from scientific background. Global warming, though not agreed by many people, has already started showing its symptoms by irregular rains, hot summer in some places while cold winter somewhere else indicating the imbalance of nature. A systematic, low cost and employment generating approach has been discussed to manage the solid waste menace of the urban locality. Easy vermicomposting technique and its prospects and problems are discussed in detail for the benefit of people. The necessity of alternatives to petroleum fuel for keeping the wheels of nations progress always in dynamic speed has also been narrated with facts and figures. Hope, all these will attract the readers to refer the book in different perspective
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June 2025White Hearts
by Nnamdi Okose
Two young boys seeking to be initiated into the order of warriors, find their lives upturned when an accident wakes a vengeful goddess. This story, weaved from the oral lore and magic of the Igbo takes the reader on a journey through the lake where mermaids and crocodiles contend for power. And through enchanted kingdoms ruled by mythical spirits. A curse has been unleashed that would cause the destruction of the world. An army of both humans and mythical creatures must be raised to defend the world. Only a white heart can lead this great army.
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Nestorha
by Zeynep Ünsal
Nestorha not only narrates a story of a strong friendship but also shows how the greed and selfishness of a person may cause the destruction of both himself and the land called Nestorha. When their dog went missing, five friends from a quiet lake town decided to enter the forbidden Black Forest to search for him. This mysterious forest, the subject of legends and incredible stories, was about to draw our heroes into the middle of a magical adventure. When they accidentally found themselves in a magical land, the legendary Nestorha, they were completely unaware of what was about to come. Together with the people of Nestorha and their guardians, they would have to fight an uphill battle to save Nestorha from danger and return home safely.
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Individual artists, art monographsJanuary 2019The Last Days of Mankind
A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus’ Great War Epic
by artwork by Deborah Sengl; contributions by Marjorie Perloff, Matthias Goldmann, Anna Souchuk and Paul Reitter
"Eye-catching": Top 10 Anticipated Art Books Publishers Weekly Garnering critical success over the past four years, Viennese artist Deborah Sengl has exhibited taxidermied rats, drawings and paintings to restage Karl Kraus’ infamous, nearly-unperformable play The Last Days of Mankind (Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit, 1915–22). Featuring Sengl’s entire installation, this edition includes essays that examine her ambitious dramaturgy, which condenses the 10-15 hour drama into an abridged reading of its themes: human barbarism, the role of journalism in war, the sway of popular opinion and the absurdities of nationalism. The Last Days of Mankind offers an agit-prop protest envisioning human folly through animal actors, who become more than human, while confronting a violence particular to humankind, laced with selfishness and greed. The work is a hundred years old, but for me it is still current. We may not have war in the immediate vicinity, but the war within us is as strong, if not stronger, as it was then.– Deborah Sengl
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Politics & governmentApril 2021Against the Self-Righteous
How we can do better for solidarity and the common good
by Sahra Wagenknecht
Solidarity, not selfishness Urban, cosmopolitan, individualistic—for many people today, to be on the left has become a question of lifestyle. What is missing are political concepts for social solidarity that benefit low-earning women, poor migrant children, exploited temporary workers, and large sections of the middle class. In both Europe and the United States, an obsession with pronouns rather than equal opportunities and a dismissive attitude to culture and a sense of community risks alienating the left from large sections of the population while playing into the hands of the far right. In her new book, Sahra Wagenknecht outlines an alternative to a kind of left-liberalism that considers itself progressive, but in reality only deepens social divisions by being interested only in elite concerns and not taking social background seriously as a source of inequality. Here is a program to build a majority on the political left—for solidarity, not selfishness. • A new book by the bestselling author • Develops Sahra Wagenknecht’s idea of a “left conservatism”
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Happy Stories - The Lost Birds
by Mehmet Ali Özkan
The blue dove, the black swallow and the white seagull get separated from their flocks because of their mistakes. Their selfishness and wanting to be like someone they are not keep them apart from their families. The three birds realize their mistakes and ask the wise owl what to do. What does the wise owl tell them? Will they get back together with their families. The answers are in this book.
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Nondurha
by Zeynep Ünsal
Nestorha’s adventure is to be completed with the second book, Nondurha! After returning from their adventure in Nestorha, five friends turned back to their ordinary lives in their town. For two years they cherish Nestorha in their dreams until one day something unexpected happens and urge them to consider going back to Nestorha. Because this time they know that Nestorha is not the only place in danger. Upon their inquiries on how to return to Nestorha, they realize that they can in fact only go to Nondurha. In Nondurha, on the other hand, other problems and dangers await all of them. The troubles and hassles which started with the closure of gates many years ago, had given a rather hard time to the people and animals in Nondurha.
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September 2019Chinese Folktales (Interpretation from famous teachers)
by MO Guofu
This series is compiled according to the recommended bibliography of "happy reading bar" in each grade of the unified textbook, implements the teaching idea of "whole book reading", and cooperates with famous teachers to guide reading. It is a set of necessary classic books for primary and secondary school students. The book can help teachers and parents to guide students to read, and it can also be used as an explanation and answer section for students to read independently. This book selects classic Chinese folk stories. From these stories, we can read such excellent qualities as diligence, kindness, bravery, unity, loyalty, filial piety, justice, honesty, courage to love and hate, courage to sacrifice, etc., as well as ugly qualities such as ugliness, selfishness, tyranny, greed, cruelty and tolerance. Good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, and the ending of the story can always inspire small readers Teaching, encouragement and hope.
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FictionNovember 2017Imagine Ghosts Telling Tales in front of Smoky Mirrors
by S. L. Masunda
S.L. Masunda’s debut novel – Imagine Ghosts Telling Tales in front of Smoky Mirrors – is a fictional memoir exploring a writer’s quest for literary recognition. However, the atrocities he commits in the name of ambition become increasingly gruesome until he is charged with murder, and swiftly declared insane. The story is threaded together by the writer’s narration as he switches from past to current musings and back again. We are drawn back in time to three key moments in the writer’s life that are seemingly pivotal to his current predicament – always being challenged to seek out redemption for our hero turned killer. A macabre and tragic fable, where greed and selfishness, masked as love in all its forms, take centre stage.
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RomanceAugust 2014A Kiss From The Heart
by Barbara Cartland
"Lord Robert Templeton is adamant that the responsibilities of his newly inherited Earldom are not for him. Leaving his family home, Ledbury Hall, in the capable hands of his younger brother, Alec, he plunges headfirst into the heady delights of London nightlife. But his carousel of gambling, drinking and selfish pleasure is cut short and he is forced to return to home. Disenchanted by the society beauties that relentlessly pursue his handsome face and title, and willfully ignoring the attentions of an attractive but overbearing widow, the Earl swears that he will never marry. Feeling doomed to a life in the country, the Earl is delighted by his timely acquaintance with Miranda Whitby, a childhood friend who once saved his life. Beautiful, capable and determined, Miranda inspires the Earl to plan for the future of his estate. As their friendship deepens and the Earl eagerly shoulders the responsibilities he once shirked, he is reminded of a promise he made Miranda many years earlier. But can a promise made as children withstand adult secrets? When the mysterious Lord Brookfield suddenly appears, danger hangs over Miranda threatening to destroy her dreams and the future happiness of everyone. "
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The King Full of Eggs
The King Picture Book Series
by Teruo Teramura, Shizuko Wakayama
The story of the popular Japanese long-selling "The King Series" is now available as a picture book. A selfish, greedy, childlike king causes lots of trouble. The gluttonous, egg-loving King sends out a proclamation to the kingdom that says, "From now on, no one may eat eggs besides the King." What is the fate of the selfish King, who tried to keep delicious food all to himself...
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Children's & YAJust a Small Town
by Paul Linggood
A small town that could be anywhere: industry is in decline, streets are in decay, many have left, while those left behind take short-term joy in drugs. Four young people are among the left behind. Alex consumes heroin to escape his abusive father. Jim hides from guilt after the death of the friend he didn’t save. Chelsi’s brother killed a local boy, and ostracism pushes her towards a rival gang, prostitution and loneliness. Danny is a hustler but needs protection from the drug gang that supplies him. Can any of them survive the addiction, gang life, isolation and manipulation? Their small town could be anywhere.
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FictionMay 2022CHOCOLATE BURNOUT
Chocolate 4 Life
by Emunah La-Paz
Chantel Reed is a successful human resources professional in Seattle who has a hard time with relationships. She has drifted from her friends Astrid and Serenity after the death of their friend Alison; her oldest sister, Daria, the family’s maternal figure, is prickly and controlling; and she finally breaks up with her slacker boyfriend, Cameron, after she finds him cooking dinner for another woman in her apartment. Astrid and Serenity have different ideas about how Chantel should move on after the breakup. Chantel, who has always dated black men, is initially hesitant when Brandon, a white guy, asks her out. She quickly falls for him, and they come close to marriage despite push back from her family and racism from his. But when Brandon and Daria ask an attractive black man to test Chantel’s loyalty, her trust in everyone is shattered. Chantel enters a self-destructive spiral that wreaks havoc on her professional and personal lives in search of the history behind broken relationships past and pressent, within her secrative family. Emunah La-Paz brings this cast of characters to life on the page, with each one somehow more memorable than the last. They bring to light a comment on interracial relationships that is just as enjoyable to read as it is poignant. An intro to the prequel. Featuring Chocolate Recipe and upcoming chocolate website from the characters. Redvelvetseattle.com
