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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025The Strand
A biography
by Geoff Browell, Eileen Chanin
The first history of one of London's most extraordinary streets. Running along the Thames's northern shore and spanning three-quarters of a mile from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar, the Strand has been a witness to London's growth and change from the earliest years of the city's existence. In The Strand: A biography, Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin uncover the deep history of this remarkable street. Tracing its origins in the Roman era, they reveal how it grew in importance as authority shifted from church to aristocracy, then to commerce, media and law. Over time, everything that mattered converged on the Strand: tradition and ceremony clashed with rebellion and destitution. By 1910, the street was known as the 'centre of the world'. Drawing on remarkable archival discoveries, Browell and Chanin present the most complete and compelling history of the Strand ever written. Filled with surprising, untold stories, The Strand: A biography is a must-read for lovers of one of the world's greatest cities.
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Food & DrinkMay 2022Tea ceremony: from tea to understand tea
by wang jianrong
The distance from tea lover to tea master is just a book. There are more than 600 sharp images in this book, which showing you how to understand the drink, how to buy good quality tea leaf, how to make a nice cup of tea, how to taste the tea, and knowing about every aspect of tea. The book will lead you from tea ceremony, tea art and tea history of green tea, black tea and Pu'er tea to build your bourgeois life.
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Food & DrinkTea Book
by Studio of Fashion and Life
This book is a tea encyclopedia for those who are new to tea. It includes detailed explanations of 67 kinds of famous teas, 37 practical tea brewing exercises, and 33 tea therapeutic methods and prescriptions. Adopting a large number of exquisite pictures and easy-to-understand words, Tea Book allows readers to receive a complete and clear knowledge of tea from the growing environment, quality characteristics to purchasing criteria, and obtain a profound understanding and appreciation of Chinese tea culture.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2019Chinese Tea Culture in Guzhang
by Xie Hui
Guzhang County, in western Hunan, is one of the birthplace of Chinese tea culture where several kinds of famous Chinese tea are produced and national industries and technology systems developing tea are set up. The book focuses on tea culture, and describes how people in Guzhang County realized poverty alleviation as well as lived a better life in the process of planting tea, making tea, and promoting tea. The book is about 120,000 words divided into four chapters: the first chapter introduces the spirit of tea makers through the story of Guzhang "Tea King", history of tea in Guzhang, wishes of tea planters, and the development of tea industry; the second chapter tells the stories of tea makers who manage the tea industry and promote Guzhang tea; the third chapter talks about the innovation and brand of Guzhang tea; the fourth chapter relates how outsiders contributed to the growth of Guzhang.
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FictionSeptember 2009Library of Chinese Classics :The Classic of Tea
by Jiang Xin, Jiang Yi
The Book of Tea is written by Lu Yu, who is hailed as the "Tea Saint." It was written in the first year of Jianzhong in the Tang Dynasty (AD 780). As the first tea in China and even in the world, "The Book of Tea" pioneered the Chinese tea ceremony and the precedent for the tea "writing study and learning", and its historical and cultural value has so far been unmanned. "The Book of Tea," a comprehensive account of planting tea, picking tea, tea, tea, tea, recorded tea, Yong tea and other rich content. "Continued Tea" Written in the "Book of Songs" was born about a thousand years later, the author is Qing Dynasty scholar Lu Tingcan. "Continued Tea" followed the "tea by" way, the word number is "tea" ten times. This tea monograph collects Luo Hongfu on the historical materials of tea after the Tang Dynasty, which has fine examination, clear definition and high academic and historical value. "The Book of Songs" and "Continuation of the Tea" is a pair of tea culture books in natural sciences and social sciences, material and spiritual clever combination of the shiny treasure. The translation of this translation and English translation by the Dalian University of Technology College of Foreign Languages Jiang Yi, Professor Jiang Xin completed.
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July 2018Practical Feline Behaviour
Understanding Cat Behaviour and Improving Welfare
by Trudi Atkinson
Practical Feline Behaviour contains all the relevant information that a veterinary nurse or technician needs to understand and handle the behaviour and welfare of house cats, and to offer safe and practical advice to clients. There have been ground-breaking advances in our understanding of feline behaviour in recent years and, to protect the welfare of cats, it is increasingly important that anyone involved with their care, especially those in a professional capacity, keep up to date with these developments. This approachable and down-to-earth text describes the internal and external influences on feline behaviour; on communication, learning, social behaviour, the relationship between behaviour and disease, and the cat - human relationship. It also provides practical advice on how the welfare of cats in our care may be protected and how behaviour problems should be addressed and how to avoid them. In this book Trudi Atkinson draws on her extensive experience as a veterinary nurse and a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist to provide a rapid reference and an intensely practical feline behaviour resource for owners, breeders, veterinary professionals, shelter and cattery workers and anyone involved in the care of our feline companions. - Practical, down to earth guide detailing all aspects of feline behaviour - Rapid reference for instant access to information - Written by a well-known animal behaviourist who has extensive experience in treating feline behaviour problems and in advising clients to protect the welfare of their cats - Includes a foreword by John Bradshaw, School of Veterinary Science at University of Bristol, UK
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May 2022Feline Reproduction
by Aime Johnson, Michelle Kutzler
Cats are one of the most popular pets in the world, and as homes become smaller, and single-person households become more common, it is predicted that the numbers being bred and kept will only grow. In Feline Reproduction, the global author team cover all aspects of reproduction in the queen and the tom. Beginning with basic anatomy and normal reproduction, it goes on to cover practical knowledge about pregnancy, neonatal care, breeding soundness exams, and semen cryopreservation. It also includes an overview of factors, diseases, and abnormal conditions affecting reproduction, such as infertility, causes of abortion and contraception. Covering both pet patients and nondomestic species, this book provides a thorough grounding in feline reproduction for the general veterinary practitioner, veterinary student, animal scientist, and experienced cat breeder.
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The Basics of Tea
by Chonglin Zhou
Tang Dynasty, tea efficacy, cultivation, collection, decocting and drinking methods, etc. Zhou Chonglin, a famous writer of tea culture, has been studying tea for 15 years with profound knowledge. He has referred to more than 40 kinds of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign editions in detail. He has been well proofread and proofread the Classic of Tea, which is original and easy to understand. In addition to the careful translation of the original text, there is also an in-depth and extended discussion on the theme of each chapter, from the ancient and modern evolution of tea to the basic cultivation of tea people, from tea events in previous dynasties to tea ceremony, tracing back to the source, unique insights, comprehensive revelation of the code of thought of the Book of Tea. The combination of ancient tea sets and tea drawings can help readers understand the features and structure of ancient tea sets more intuitively, feel the elegant tradition of tea, and draw on the wisdom of ancient people in drinking tea. 《茶经》是关于历代制茶、饮茶、茶道演变的百科全书，后世茶书的开源之作；共十篇，全面记述了唐及唐以前的茶叶历史与产地，茶的功效、栽培、采制、煎煮、饮用方法等。 知名茶文化作家周重林，精研茶学15年，功底深厚，详细参考古今中外版本40余种，勘校精良，带来原汁原味而又通俗易懂的《茶经》读本。除对原文的精心译注之外，还有对每个章节主题的深入延伸探讨，从茶的古今演变到茶人的基本修养，从历代茶事到茶席茶礼，溯本求源，见解独到，全方位揭秘《茶经》的思想密码。搭配古代茶具、茶画图，帮助读者更为直观了解古代茶具的特点和构造，感受茶雅传统，汲取古人饮茶智慧。
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Food & DrinkDistinguishing and Drinking of Chinese Tea
by Li Tao
150 kinds of common teas and rare Souchong, more than 600 primary pictures of dry tea, tea infusion, infused leaf and tea dance. Distinguish the first-class tea and watch tea dance to enjoy its elegance and vulgarity. You can drink the most authentic Chinese Tea only through three steps of selecting, buying and making a tea. With 30 years of experience in tea, the author can teach you how to distinguish tea without being “cheated” and buy cheaper tea and to make a tea at once. With subtle words, selection method and illustration, it is required reading for these who start drinking tea at first and old tea drinkers for more than decade years.
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September 2015Kilroy was here
Ein immerwährender Kalender
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Kat Menschik
Zum Lesen, Verwerfen, Mitschreiben und Selbstdichten. Mit einer kurzen Geschichte vom geheimnisvollen Leben Kilroys und einem Daumenkino von Kat Menschik. Zur Aufmunterung des Denkens: ein Dreizeiler für jeden Tag »Der schlichte Dreizeiler / entwaffnet die Ungeduld / durch seine Kürze.« Kilroys Dreizeiler reichen für ein ganzes Jahr. Obwohl das japanische Wort haiku soviel bedeutet wie »lustiger Vers«, können es die hier präsentierten Dreizeiler nicht mit dieser ehrwürdigen Tradition aufnehmen; denn Kilroy hält es mit dem einfachen Kreidestrich. Das Graffito zieht er dem Tweet, dem Blog und dem Chat vor. Man kann seine Dreizeiler also in die Tasche stecken. Sie handeln von allem, was der Fall ist, beispielsweise von einem Frosch oder von der Europäischen Zentralbank. Wem der zu einem jeden Jahrestag gebotene Dreizeiler aber nicht gefällt, der kann ihn einfach durchstreichen und einen anderen verfassen. Denn in Kilroys kleinem Buch gibt es nicht nur unter jedem Jahrestag Platz für Notizen, sondern auch genügend Freiraum für neue, selbsterfundene Dreizeiler. Eine kurze Geschichte Kilroys und wie er sich in jede FAZ-Ausgabe des Jahres 2014 zu schmuggeln verstand, lässt den »Immerwährenden« denn doch ein gutes Ende nehmen. Und sollte noch immer jemand an Kilroys Existenz zweifeln, so wird ihn Kat Menschiks Daumenkino davon überzeugen, dass er quicklebendig ist.
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MedicineOctober 2017Health Benefits of Green Tea
An Evidence-based Approach
by Yukihiko Hara, Chung S Yang, Mamoru Isemura, Isao Tomita, R Agnihotri, Z Apostolides, T Asakawa, Z. M. Chen, S Gaur, Yukihiko Hara, M Inai, Mamoru Isemura, T Kakuda, T Kan, M. J. Lee, Z Lin, M Maeda-Yamamoto, S Masuda, S Meguro, T Minami, N Miyoshi, M Monobe, H Moriwaki, Y Nakamura, O Numata, K Saeki, K Sayama, Y Shimamura, M Shimizu, T Suzuki, H Tachibana, P. W. Taylor, I Tokimitsu, I Tomita, T. A. Tomita, K Unno, H Wang, H Yamada, C. S. Yang, H Yokogoshi
This book provides evidence to support the health-promoting components of green tea for human health. It explores the significance of green tea and its catechins represented by epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), demonstrating their beneficial effects on diseases including cancer, obesity, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hepatitis, and neurodegenerative diseases. The present status of human studies and avenues for future research are discussed. It is written by a team of experts from across the globe and makes significant Japanese findings available to international researchers. It is an essential resource for researchers interested in the biochemistry and pharmacology of green tea, and functional foods and beverages.
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Food & DrinkGood Aroma Tea worth Making and Tasting
by Li Tao
Dense tea aroma is written in this book by author compared with these books do not involve in too much knowledge on tea tasting but taking “tea tasting” as the title. The author gives new meaning and association on beautiful tea drinking and describes the true aroma, meaning of tea and experience of tea tasting with ink with spiritual technique of writing to bring you feel the secret of tea and enjoy the goodness of life all the time. You can learn the first hand of knowledge of distinguishing and making of tea except enjoy reading of clear picture for distinguishing and detail of tea making procedures. With detail of making procedures and illustrations, simple explanation, let you grasp the secret to make an aromatic tea fast. Even if you are a beginner, you grasp it fast.
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March 2018Mein Einmachbuch
by Véronique Witzigmann, Kat Menschik
Wer möchte nicht seine saisonalen Lieblingsfrüchte und Gemüse selbst konservieren, um sie später mit seinen Lieben zusammen zu genießen? Oder in einem schönen Glas als persönliches Geschenk an Freunde weiterreichen? Véronique Witzigmann weiht uns in ihre Küchengeheimnisse ein und zeigt, wie das Einmachen leicht gelingt. Das Einmachbuch enthält Rezepte für Klassiker wie Apfelmus oder Kirschkompott ebenso wie für Kürbis-Chutney, Minzpesto, Holunderblütensirup oder Zitronenkuchen im Glas. Der Band enthält darüber hinaus Tipps für die Einmachpraxis und zum saisonal »richtigen« Einkauf. Hinweise zu hilfreichen Küchenutensilien, den geeigneten Gefäßen, der richtigen Lagerung und Aufbewahrung, zu Hygiene und Sicherheit beim Konservieren ergänzen das Rezeptbuch. Die kongenialen farbigen Illustrationen von Kat Menschik runden das Lesevergnügen ab.
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Dietetics & nutritionSeptember 2006Protective Effects of Tea on Human Health
by Edited by Narender K Jain, Mohammad Siddiqi, John Weisburger
Bringing together the latest research from leading experts, this book provides an indispensable reference on the health benefits of drinking tea. It examines the general health giving properties of tea before moving on to a detailed review of the evidence for the beneficial effects of tea on specific ailments including cancer, the common cold, renal disease, cardiovascular disease, antiviral influenza, arthritis, lung and pulmonary ailments, aging, oral health, and dementia. The book concludes by challenging misconceptions of the effects of tea.
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August 2003Mann in der Ferne
Roman
by Andreas Ecke, Otto de Kat
Otto de Kat, 1946 geboren, studierte niederländische Literatur an der Universität Leiden. 1986 gründete er mit Uitgeverij Balans seinen eigenen Verlag; seither lebt er als Verleger und Autor in Amsterdam. Sein Roman Sehnsucht nach Kapstadt war nominiert für den größten belgischen Literaturpreis für Niederländisch schreibende Autoren, De Golden Owl 2005, und wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem niederländischen Halewijn-Literaturpreis.
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HorticultureMarch 1999Coffee, Cocoa and Tea
by Ken C Willson
While botanically quite different, coffee, cocoa and tea are often considered together in the teaching of students of horticulture or agriculture. This is because all three represent plantation cash crops that are used as stimulant beverages and are grown in many of the warmer, less developed regions of the world. While there are a number of specialist books available on aspects of each individual crop, as well as grower manuals focusing on particular regions, there is currently no book that provides a general introductory overview of the scientific principles underlying production of all three crops. This book fills this gap, and will serve as a broad-based text for students of agriculture, horticulture and food science, as well as professionals seeking an overview of the topic.
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October 2021Miyayu: The Mischievous Cat
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by Bosa, Subi
Miyayu: The Mischievous Cat is a new children's comic book series by Subi Bosa, which centres around the cat Miyayu and his mischievous adventures. Meet Miyayu as the beloved central character of the series; a wild cat living in the big city. Miyayu has a big heart and huge ideas, but his plans never quite seem to turn out right... for him or anybody else. The comic series includes hilarious characters, such as Miyayu, Sebastian's Cat, Tendo, Mami Wota, Miko, Chi-chi, and so many more! The current annual 32-page children's comic book is made up of multiple comic strip stories.
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January 2019Robin Cat / Robin Cat. Hier kommt ein echter Superheld!
by Seltmann, Christian
Wer ist wohl der größte Held von ganz Mumpitz? Robin Cat natürlich - doch das sehen die Mitglieder der Drachenliga ganz anders. Sie fordern Robin zu einem Superhelden-Wettbewerb heraus! Ob der Kater es wohl gemeinsam mit seiner besten Freundin Marie schafft, das Rätsel um die erkältete Nixe und den erloschenen Vulkan als Erster zu lösen?
