2024 Frankfurt Invitation Programme
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The Invitation Programme offers publishers from Africa, the Arab world, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean the chance to participate inthe Frankfurter Buchmesse.
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Fiction2021Composition Biography: Thoughts and Confusion Carry Me
by Said Bengrad
The book is a story that combines childhood living in the 1960s deserts, before current forms of technology and virtualization. In this narrative text, it was not a matter of resurrecting a moment in a fleeting life in a non-stop chronology, but of shaping it into concepts that reconstruct it in an abstract way. The text does not present an individual story, but rather redraws the boundaries of an entire generation’s experience, a generation that saw the light after Morocco’s independence, with all of its subsequent achievements, failures, victories, and tragedies. The narrator in the text does not present ready-made theories; instead, he captures life in its events and facts and elevates it to an abstract level pending contemplation. The event in the text is an excuse for restoring life in the form of a “human experience,” and that is the outlet for returning academic knowledge to its role as an incubator for people’s concerns as depicted by their narratives, stories, and beliefs. What people experience by instinct; the story turns into another story constructed in the abstract. We do not simply live, we also contemplate our own living, and this is the sublime function of narration.
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HOW TO STAY ALIVE IN YOUR 20S
by Dr. Syafiq Sallehin
Ever thought you’d be better off gone? If you’ve ever had similar thoughts, let me be the first to tell you: It’s okay. You’re not alone. *** You are in your 20s. All of a sudden, the responsibilities of being an adult comes crashing down on you. You see your friends living their best lives – and you're living a sorry excuse for one. Life feels like a monotonous chore. Nothing feels right. Your mind is shrouded by dark thoughts. What went wrong? How did this happen? This book is for you – someone who is barely hanging on. Only just surviving. Barely living. But there is hope yet, many have gone through the same thing and have come out stronger. So, if you have ever felt like life's not worth it, and you're thinking of ending it all, please don’t give up yet, and read on.
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May 2023How Philosophers Fail Themselves
The somewhat different historyof philosophy
by Otto A. Böhmer
— Philosophy for beginners — For philosophy enthusiasts — A pleasant read This truly brilliant book tells of the sometimes sublime, sometimes exhilarating efforts of philosophers to maintain their attitude in everyday life without forgetting the meaning of their own words – and how they ultimately failed to do so. The minor, sometimes bizarre events in the lives of the great philosophers fit so aptly in the picture of the respective philosophy that one has to assume they could have been conceived to keep the associated intellectual giant in a strange and memorable mood. A book of cheerful science, full of wit, narrative and linguistic eloquence.
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2017Jackie Chan：Never Grow Up, Only Get Older
by Jackie Chan, Zhu Mo
This is an autobiography of Chinese Kongfu star Jackie Chan. The book is a true recording of this international superstar’s growth and life experience for the last 50 years. It tells us the legendary actor’s stories, and also reflects a fantastic acting age.
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Children's & YAChangeling
by Kotryna Zylė
Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.
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Science & MathematicsDecember 2021Broom and Fraser's Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare
by Donald Broom
Completely updated and revised, and synthesizing the recent explosion in animal welfare literature, the sixth edition of this best-selling textbook continues to provide a thorough overview of behaviour and welfare of companion and farm animals, including fish. The introductory section has been completely revised, with all following chapters updated, redesigned and improved to reflect our changing understanding. This edition includes: - New and revised chapters on climate change and sustainability, ethics, and philosophy to ensure that the book provides the latest information in a changing world; - New information on human interactions with other animal species, big data, modern technologies, brain function, emotions and behaviour; - Solutions and advice for common abnormal behaviours. Written by a world-leading expert and key opinion leader in animal behaviour and welfare, this text provides a highly accessible guide to the subject. It is an essential foundation for any veterinary, animal science, animal behaviour or welfare-focused undergraduate or graduate course.
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Veterinary medicineMarch 2013Animal Machines
by Ruth Harrison, Marian Stamp-Dawkins
Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines now a unique historical classic, had a profound impact on public opinion and the quality of life of farmed animals when it was published in 1964. * Reprinted in its entirety, gives an accurate, and sometimes shocking, account of intensive farming in the 1960's, still current in large parts of the world today. * Harrison's work greatly increased public awareness of animal welfare and led to legal reforms, shaping our closer understanding of farm conditions today. * Provides a fascinating insight into the system we continue to live with as the global population increases. * Includes foreword by Rachel Carson and new chapters by international experts in animal welfare including Marion Stamp Dawkins, discussing the book's significant legacy and impact today.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentKizere Wets The Bed
by Safari Jean Marie Vianney
Many children wet the bed. This comic storybook takes us on the journey of Kizere trying to overcome it. Gladly, with the help from parents and friends, she overcame it.
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Children's & YAMarch 2020Amelie Trott and the Earth Watchers
by Moyra Irving
This is the extraordinary story of how one small girl stopped a planetary catastrophe. It’s a very timely book, written for the child in us all, with a forceful message about the power of young people to transform the world - a theme currently demonstrated by brave young heroes like Greta Thunberg. And with magical synchronicity, the very week Greta began her lone vigil outside the Swedish government last year, over 1,000 miles (1,897 km) away in the fictional world of books, Amelie Trott took to Parliament Square, London - on a mission to avert the End of the World. It’s a family drama with an international feel - set mainly in England but with episodes in Washington DC and around the world.
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I Hope I Join the Band
Narrative, Affiliation, and Antiracist Rhetoric
by Frankie Condon
Through unflinching personal narratives, Condon exemplifies the strategies of "nuancing"—the continual process of interrogation, critique, reflection, and loving trust—that anti-racist white people can engage to resist unconscious, whitely narrative habits. As an enactment of Krista Ratcliffe's "rhetorical listening," the book invents and negotiates productive rhetorical positions for the critical, white anti-racist, filling the gap that is evacuated by critique alone, and demonstrates what Ratcliffe and Royster might have meant by a "code of cross-cultural conduct" that avoids supplanting the voices of people of color. It is an important and novel contribution to our understanding of anti-racist discourse and activism.—Hyoejin YoonWest Chester University of Pennsylvania Sometimes a journey begins in song. In I Hope I Join the Band, Frankie Condon leads readers through thought and historical circumstance on the way to understanding how racism tears at the possibility for healthy living. It is a book about preparing one's self to do the work of a lifetime. Preparing one's self—not clumsy attempts at rectification—this book dramatizes, is work of articulating strategy and practice, work that depends on particularity, honesty and imagination.There is no shifting of responsibility here. I Hope I Join the Band is a work of disclosure—but not as self-aggrandizing gesture or self-satisfied statement. It is about choice and result, secret and revelation, confusion and discernment, history and presence. Condon investigates the problematic of the desire for change from within the many forms of ignorance and illýhealth we inhabit.Throughout it, Condon demonstrates the task of decentering that we all need to perform in order to access our own inner workings—to understand, ironically, our centers, ourselves. The challenge is to get ready and be ready for stories and, even more, to accept responsibility for where they will take us.—Claude HurlbertIndiana University of Pennsylvania Both from the Right and from the Left, says Frankie Condon, we are stymied in talking well with one another about race and racism, by intransigent beliefs in our own goodness as well as by our conviction that such talk is useless. Therefore, she argues, white antiracist epistemology needs to begin not with our beliefs, but with our individual and collective awakening to that which we do not know. Drawing on scholarship across disciplines ranging from writing and rhetoric studies to critical race theory to philosophy, I Hope I Join the Band examines the limits and the possibilities for performative engagement in antiracist activism. Focusing particularly on the challenges posed by raced-white identity to performativity, and moving between narrative and theoretical engagement, the book names and argues for critical shifts in understandings and rhetorical practices that attend antiracist activism. Condon invents and negotiates productive rhetorical positions for the critical, white anti-racist, filling the gap that is evacuated by critique alone. This is an important and novel contribution to our understanding of anti-racist discourse and activism.
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Everyday Writing Center
A Community of Practice
by Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, Elizabeth H. Boquet
The Everyday Writing Center challenges some of the most comfortable traditions in its field, and it does so with a commitment and persuasiveness that one seldom sees in scholarly discussion. The book, at its core, is an argument for a new writing center consciousness--one that makes the most of the writing center's unique, and uniquely fluid, identity. Writing center specialists live with a liminality that has been acknowledged but not fully explored in the literature. Their disciplinary identity is with the English department, but their mission is cross-disciplinary; their research is pedagogical, but they often report to central administration. Their education is in humanities, but their administrative role demands constant number-crunching. This fluid identity explains why Trickster--an icon of spontaneity, shape-shifting, and the creative potential of chaos--has come to be a favorite cultural figure for the authors of this book. Adapting Lewis Hyde and others, these authors use Trickster to develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger's concept of "community of practice" into an ethos for a dynamic, learner-centered pedagogy that is especially well-suited to the peculiar teaching situation of the writing center. Through Trickster, they question not only accepted approaches to writing center pedagogy, but conventional approaches to race, time, leadership, and collaboration as well. They encourage their field to exploit the creative potential in ordinary events that are normally seen as disruptive or defeating, and they challenge traditions in the field that tend to isolate a writing center director from the department and campus. Yet all is not random, for the authors anchor this high-risk/high-yield approach in their commitment to a version of Wenger's community of practice. Conceiving of themselves, their colleagues, student writers, and student tutors as co-learners engaged together in a dynamic life of learning, the authors find a way to ground the excess and randomness of the everyday, while advancing an ethic of mutual respect and self-challenge. Committed to testing a region beyond the edge of convention, the authors of The Everyday Writing Center constantly push themselves and their field toward deeper, more significant research, and more reflective, dynamic teaching.
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2019The Frankie Jackson Story
by Robert Marsh
Frankie Jackson one of Charlotte, North Carolina’s most requested broken between a body of hypocrisy, swindling, and unprincipled. He compromises with the encounters of love and devotion, but jeopardizes the live of people he loves including his companion, Felicity. How will Frankie rebuild from the misery and heartaches around him? From drug rings, to sex trafficking, to gun terrorism, for the love of wealth, Frankie risks it all for a limited good time. His life wins a departure for the worse when he quickly comes trapped in a fantasy full of lies and unbreakable scandals the revenge searches for his family demanding Frankie to pay the price.
