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Leopold was founded in 1923 and evolved into a children's-and young-adult publishing house in the 1950's. Leopoldestablishes a lot of collaborations with museums, different organizations and the government. The first children's book ever published is still in print: Johan Fabricius'Java Ho! The Adventures of Four Boys Amid Fire, Storm, and Shipwreck. Leopold hosts a lot of famous Dutch authors, for example the classic works of Tonke Dragt (The Letter for the King, The Secrets of the Wild Wood).Several popular brands are also published by Leopold, likeFrog(Max Velthuijs) andAlfie the Werewolf(Paul van Loon). The beautiful Leopold picture books by renowned illustrators like Annemarie van Haeringen, Wouter van Reek and Ingrid Godon are taking a flight due to the fantastic teamwork with museums. Not only classic authors and popular brands are a big part of Leopold. A younger generation of authors and illustrators is building a vast oeuvre. Books like Zeb.(Gideon Samson, Joren Joshua) andFright Night(Maren Stoffels) shake up the world of children's literature. Ploegsma has been part of the Dutch publishing scene for well over a hundred years. The publishing house was founded in 1905 by Johannes Ploegsma and has been specialising in children's books since the 1960's: adventurous and humorous fiction and non-fiction books for children of all ages. These include many classic titles, such as the books by Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) and Arnold Lobel (Frog and Toad), as well as books by contemporary and very popular authors like Mirjam Oldenhave(Mister Twister), Marjon Hoffman (Flora), Yvon Jaspers (Tess and Tommy), Reggie Naus (The Pirates Next Door), Vivian den Hollander, Janny van der Molen and Caja Cazemier. Many of these authors have been translated. Even though a lot has changed the past hundred years, Ploegsma's love for beautiful books is still going strong.
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November 1998Heilig Abend zusammen!
Ein garstiges Allerlei
by Kotarski, Carmen; Schütt, Peter; Thomsen, Winfried; Siebenschön, Leona; Schütt, Peter; Herburger, Günter; Sperr, Monika; Wohlgemuth, Hildegard; Bayer, Ingeborg; Hahn, Ulla; Ohnemus, Günter; Stolten, Inge; Steenfatt, Margret; Fröhlich, Roswitha; Hausemer, Georges; Witzel, Herbert; Gernhardt, Robert; Wagner, Peter; Poth, Chlodwig; Herfurtner, Rudolf; Mechtel, Angelika; Ehlers, Kai; Ney, Norbert; Acel, Eva; Becker, Uli; Harth, Ulli; Thenior, Ralf; Rabisch, Birgit; Schaaf, Hanni; Krausnick, Michail; Zaeske, Uta; Michael; Göhre, Frank; Volland, Ernst; Heyder, Wolfgang; Wiemer, Rudolf Otto; Gnauck, Ullrich; Jung, Reinhardt; Trützschler, Karin; Süverkrüp, Dieter; Astel, Arnfrid; Fuchs, Gerd; Kilgis, Ilse; Miersch, Alfred; Fels, Ludwig; Mayer, Christian; Ehlers, Kai; Ney, Norbert; Sieg, Wolfgang; Salzinger, Helmut / Herausgegeben von Wandrey, Uwe; Illustriert von Rauch, Hans-Georg; Illustriert von Rauschenbach, Erich; Illustriert von Traxler, Hans; Illustriert von Volland, Ernst
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Tyne after Tyne
An Environmental History of a River’s Battle for Protection 1529–2015
by Leona J. Skelton
Over the last five centuries, North-East England’s River Tyne went largely with the flow as it rode with us on a rollercoaster from technologically limited early modern oligarchy, to large-scale Victorian ‘improvement’, to twentieth-century deoxygenation and twenty-first-century efforts to expand biodiversity. Studying five centuries of Tyne conservatorship reveals that 1855 to 1972 was a blip on the graph of environmental concern, preceded and followed by more sustainable engagement and a fairer negotiation with the river’s forces and expressions as a whole and natural system, albeit driven by different motivations. Even during this blip, however, several organisations, tried to protect the river’s environmental health from harm. This Tyne study offers a template for a future body of work on British rivers that dislodges the Thames as the river of choice in British environmental history. And it undermines traditional approaches to rivers as passive backdrops of human activities. Departing from narratives that equated change with improvement, or with loss and destruction, it moves away from morally loaded notions of better or worse, and even dead, rivers. The book fully situates the Tyne’s fluvial transformations within political, economic, cultural, social and intellectual contexts. With such a long view, we can objectify ourselves through our descendants’ eyes, reconnecting us not only to our past, but also to our future. Let us sit with the Tyne itself, some of its salmon, a seventeenth-century Tyne River Court Juror, some nineteenth-century Tyne Improvement Commissioners, a 1920s biologist, a twentieth-century Tyne angler, shipbuilder and council planner and some twenty-first-century Tyne Rivers Trust volunteers. Where would they agree and disagree? How would they explain their conceptualisation of what the river is for and how it should be used and regulated? This book takes you to the heart of such virtual debates to revive, reconnect and reinvigorate the severed bonds and flows linking riparian places, issues and people across five centuries.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Tyne after Tyne
An Environmental History of a River’s Battle for Protection 1529–2015
by Leona J. Skelton
Over the last five centuries, North-East England’s River Tyne went largely with the flow as it rode with us on a rollercoaster from technologically limited early modern oligarchy, to large-scale Victorian ‘improvement’, to twentieth-century deoxygenation and twenty-first-century efforts to expand biodiversity. Studying five centuries of Tyne conservatorship reveals that 1855 to 1972 was a blip on the graph of environmental concern, preceded and followed by more sustainable engagement and a fairer negotiation with the river’s forces and expressions as a whole and natural system, albeit driven by different motivations. Even during this blip, however, several organisations, tried to protect the river’s environmental health from harm. This Tyne study offers a template for a future body of work on British rivers that dislodges the Thames as the river of choice in British environmental history. And it undermines traditional approaches to rivers as passive backdrops of human activities. Departing from narratives that equated change with improvement, or with loss and destruction, it moves away from morally loaded notions of better or worse, and even dead, rivers. The book fully situates the Tyne’s fluvial transformations within political, economic, cultural, social and intellectual contexts. With such a long view, we can objectify ourselves through our descendants’ eyes, reconnecting us not only to our past, but also to our future. Let us sit with the Tyne itself, some of its salmon, a seventeenth-century Tyne River Court Juror, some nineteenth-century Tyne Improvement Commissioners, a 1920s biologist, a twentieth-century Tyne angler, shipbuilder and council planner and some twenty-first-century Tyne Rivers Trust volunteers. Where would they agree and disagree? How would they explain their conceptualisation of what the river is for and how it should be used and regulated? This book takes you to the heart of such virtual debates to revive, reconnect and reinvigorate the severed bonds and flows linking riparian places, issues and people across five centuries.
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Teachers' classroom resources & materialJune 2011Wild About Literacy
Fun Activities for Preschool
by Staff
Children already love Between the Lions®, a television show for preschoolers that focuses on developing literacy skills. The main characters, cubs Lionel and Leona, their parents Theo and Cleo, and many others, teach young children about phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and other literacy skills. This new book, What Does a Lion Say? is filled with fun and easy literacy games for parents to play with young children anytime, anywhere. Children play their way into discoveries in the world of letters and reading while building the skills they need for a lifetime of future learning. With alphabet games like “License Plate Lingo,” writing games like “Au-Toe-Graph,” and describing games like “Silly Scenarios,” What Does a Lion Say? helps parents make the most of playful everyday moments with their child.
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Teachers' classroom resources & materialAugust 2010Wild West
26 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children
by Schiller, Pam
Children already love Between the Lions®, a television show for preschoolers that focuses on developing literacy skills. The main characters, cubs Lionel and Leona, their parents Theo and Cleo, and many others, teach young children about phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and other literacy skills. This new book, What Does a Lion Say? is filled with fun and easy literacy games for parents to play with young children anytime, anywhere. Children play their way into discoveries in the world of letters and reading while building the skills they need for a lifetime of future learning. With alphabet games like “License Plate Lingo,” writing games like “Au-Toe-Graph,” and describing games like “Silly Scenarios,” What Does a Lion Say? helps parents make the most of playful everyday moments with their child.
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Triptych of abandonment
by Pablo Di Marco
Irene Vidi, a distinguished lady in her sixties, is a translator for the prestigious Leopardi Editions, run by her friend Álvaro Azcurra. Almost blind and hunted by her son Ignacio, she decides to live her job, sell her possessions and return to her native Venice. In the middle of the preparations to leave the country she meets Rafael Leona, a charismatic young man who has lost his way, and with whom she allows herself to have a romance, to astonishing consequences for them both. But before she leaves she has important unresolved business.Pablo Di Marco challenges social, age and genre stereotypes and faces the unexpected with the expertise of someone who understands his characters as if they were old acquaintances. Between Buenos Aires and Venice, Triptych of abandonment tells about the end of an era of golden publishing. From its atmosphere comes off a nostalgic halo that reminds us of the greatest Latin-American novels of the twentieth century.
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FictionJune 2011Songs of Bliss
by Clive Gilson
Songs of Bliss is a Dancing Pig Original publication - showcasing work by author Clive Gilson. Songs was Clive's first published novel. Just how far will a father go to protect his daughter, especially when his 'protection' is so fundamentally flawed?Billy Whitlow, one time "Don of Doo Wop", has survived his days of drink, drugs and groupies, settling now into a more peaceful life centred on his blossoming seventeen year old daughter Bex. Revising for her 'A' Levels, Bex visits Billy one Easter but the longed-for simplicity of father-daughter happiness is shattered one night in a local club.Billy's world becomes one of questions; Why is his daughter in a drug induced coma? Who put her in that state? How in the name of Hell is he going to make them pay?
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Children's & YAFebruary 2017Hoy es miércoles
Children whose future has been stolen have only their imagination
by Patricio Nouveau
An unknown adult unexpectedly turns up in the lives of Gilmar and Lanh at the same time but in different parts of the world. Gilmar lives in Bolivia and his father works in the old silver miines of Cerro Rico in the city of Potosí; Lanh is an orphan, she was taken in by the Thuy Xuân orphanage in Vietnam after her parents died when the Perfume River flooded. From their native cities, accompanied by the strange adult, they each undertake a journey that will lead them to Sas, a child soldier who, tries to escape during the Sierra Leone civil war to find his family, return to his former life and set out on a new future. The journey brings together three points on the planet, three languages and three cultures whose only relationship is a book whose photographs have disappeared since Sas was kidnapped from his school. The three boys are eleven years old. They are searching for each other, they need to find each other.
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Ecological science, the BiosphereMarch 2012Approaches for Ecosystem Services Valuation for the Gulf of Mexico After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Interim Report
by Committee on the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico; Ocean Studies Board; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform drilling the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (DWH) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The full impacts of the spill on the GoM and the people who live and work there are unknown but expected to be considerable, and will be expressed over years to decades. In the short term, up to 80,000 square miles of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) were closed to fishing, resulting in loss of food, jobs and recreation. The DWH oil spill immediately triggered a process under the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) to determine the extent and severity of the "injury" (defined as an observable or measurable adverse change in a natural resource or impairment of a natural resource service) to the public trust, known as the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA). The assessment, undertaken by the trustees (designated technical experts who act on behalf of the public and who are tasked with assessing the nature and extent of site-related contamination and impacts), requires: (1) quantifying the extent of damage; (2) developing, implementing, and monitoring restoration plans; and (3) seeking compensation for the costs of assessment and restoration from those deemed responsible for the injury. This interim report provides options for expanding the current effort to include the analysis of ecosystem services to help address the unprecedented scale of this spill in U.S. waters and the challenges it presents to those charged with undertaking the damage assessment.
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EducationLearning with Adults
A Critical Pedagogical Introduction
by English, L. M.
Winner! 2013 Cyril O. Houle Award For Outstanding Literature in Adult Education given by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE). “A priceless resource ...The time is ripe for writing a manifesto of adult education as social transformative learning in the twenty-first century and implement all sorts of experiments in adult education that may help transform the world. This book is a robust contribution to such conversation.”-- International Journal of Lifelong Education (Issue 32(6)) “A quite interesting book, written by two well-known authors, who have been publishing together in recent years, while carrying on their professional activities in different continents … English and Mayo remind us what education and educators should strive for. In a way, they propose a manifesto for education, leading us to question the ways in which the world is and to imagine how it could and should be … this work presents a writing style that is most accessible to a wide range of readers, thus contributing, in some way, to restore the hope in “a better world” as a result of the transformative capacity of adult education. Undoubtedly, it is a fundamental book on the analytical, critical and emancipatory perspectives over the adult education. This is a book to read, to reflect and, perhaps, to inspire us to act.” -- European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Vol 5, No 1, 2014 "This book is written at a time when our own field of adult education is under assault from a variety of capitalist and neoconservative forces pressuring us... to turn away from the causes of criticality, lifelong learning, and education for freedom. Rather than succumb to these pressures, we have hope that our long term goals of education for life and living can and will be accomplished alongside professional and vocational education. It offers new insight into what is a very dark moment of our human civilization." -- From the preface by Dr Carlos Alberto Torres, Professor, GSEIS, Director, Paulo Freire Institute, University of California at Los Angeles "The book offers decidedly critical and international perspectives on various aspects of adult education, especially on state, citizenship and neoliberal policies. Critical in both content and method, it is at the same time the part of the collective work needed to advance the Belém call to action by furthering awareness and capacity in the field of adult education." -- Dr Katarina Popovic, Professor,Universität Duisburg-Essen, University of Belgrade & DBB International "In the midst of diminishing resources and growing inequalities, English and Mayo provide an incisive and much needed critique of adult education in ways that highlight not only its historical and philosophical roots but also its major significance to the practice of democracy. In a direct challenge to the neoliberal accountability craze, Learning with Adults offers a rigorous political reading of the field—one that systematically challenges oppressive educational policies and practices, while affirming an emancipatory vision of civic engagement. Truly an informative treatise that sheds new light on the education of adults." Dr Antonia Darder, Professor & Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Education Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles "Leona English and Peter Mayo challenge hegemonic assumptions and ideas, while offering a constructive alternative based on the principle of working with learners and not just for them. Their analysis is accessible enough for newcomers to the field, while the authors’ wide-ranging coverage and radical approach provide refreshing and challenging messages for the most experienced adult educator. Up-to-date, genuinely international and passionately committed, Learning with Adults is a great book." - Dr John Field, Professor, University of Stirling Cover design by Annemarie Mayo
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Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)December 2018Bajo el paraguas azul
by Martínez, Elena
Youth novel about bullying and cyber-bullying in social networks, based on a real fact, with more than 10.000 readers in two years, only in Spain, and international awards for best inspirational novel: Latinos Books award (Los Angeles). A youthful novel that is a reference in Spain.
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EducationLearning and Education for a Better World: The Role of Social Movements
by Hall, B. L.
This is a book for activists, students, scholars of social movements and adult education and for the public interested in the contemporary movements of our times. From the streets of Barcelona and Athens, the public squares in Cairo, Tunis and Tripoli, the flash mobs and virtual learning of the #Occupy movement, and the shack dwellers of South Africa people around the world are organising themselves to take action against the ravages of a capitalism that serves the greedy while impoverishing the rest. Social movements have arisen or re-arisen in virtually every sector of human activity from concerns about the fate of our planet earth, to dignity for those living with HIV/AIDS, to feeding ourselves in healthier ways and survival in places of violent conflict. At the heart of each of these movements are activists and ordinary people learning how to change their lives and how to change the world. The book offers contemporary theoretical and practical insights into the learning that happens both within and outside of social movements. Social movement scholars present work linked to the arts, to organic farming, to environmental action, to grassroots activists in the Global South, to the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, the shackdwellers movements, school reform and the role of Marx, Gramscii and Williams in understanding social movement learning. HERE'S WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS BOOK: “I would like to emphasize the originality and importance of this book, in which readers are led to the central issues for learning in social movement and are invited to explore the intersections between diverse reflections. It is an excellent resource for both undergraduate and graduate courses on critical adult education or social movement learning, as well as for students, community educators, activists, or anyone interested in critical pedagogy.” -- CJSAE/RCÉÉA 26,1 February/Février 2014 "The greatest contribution of this inspiring book is to remind us that learning and education in social movements help to make a difference. Not only does this collection enable us to understand how we might theorise and historicise learning in diverse contemporary social movements, but its contributors do so with outspoken and passionate commitment to ‘Learning and Education for a Better World.’ "- Professor Miriam Zukas, Executive Dean, Birkbeck, University of London "The burning demand for such a text comes from our contemporary moment that is witness to a world where nearly everything is commercialised, marketised or commodified. This text shuns an essentialist discourse while simultaneously and masterfully offering unprecedented insights into social movement learning and education. The book is numinous". - Professor Robert Hill, University of Georgia, USA "This is a book we have all been waiting for. The editors have brought together an amazing cadre of international adult educators to probe the intersection of social movements and learning, and to build theory around the many social actions that are taking place globally. A must read for students and professors everywhere." - Leona English, PhD, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada "Accessible, engaging, often inspirational, the essays that comprise Learning and Education for a Better World offer deep insights on the role of social movements as agencies of learning, struggle and transformation. From case studies that include the occupy movement, popular education in Latin America, political cinema and the Egyptian Revolution to reflections on resistance, aesthetics and the role of organic intellectuals, this collection will be of interest to educators, social scientists, humanists and activists alike. An interdisciplinary tour-de-force." - Professor William Carroll, University of Victoria, Canada "This is such a timely collection of essays, bringing together critical reflections on experiences of social action from across the globe. This book is to be commended to the widest possible readership." - (From the Preface by) Emeritus Professor Marjorie Mayo, Goldsmith’s College, London
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FictionTHE SECRET CALLED ERICH ŠLOMOVIČ
by SLAVKO PREGL AND LEON POGELŠEK
THE SECRET IS CALLED ERICH ŠLOMOVIČ (Skrivnost se imenuje Erich Šlomovič) Bata, a Belgrade antique dealer who does not speak any foreign languages, chooses young Leon from Ljubljana as his assistant for deals around Europe. Bata seems to be someone who will introduce the ambitious art student into the society of elite gallerists and high earnings. This promise becomes even more tangible when in an old villa in Zagreb, whilst buying a magnificent Vienna book case, they come across a dusty catalogue of Šlomovič’s exhibition, in which there is a list of French Impressionist paintings, and others from Modigliani to Renoir, from Kandinsky to Picasso, etc. The paintings disappeared one night in 1939 when two trains collided on their way to an exhibition in Belgrade and since then their fate has been shrouded in mystery. Occasionally they appear on the art market or in articles at home and abroad, even a film has been made about them … In Pregl’s novel, however, the story about the “secret of the Šlomovič” collection, full of lies, twists, deceptions, humour, hedonism and eroticism, is for the first time told by a player who created it from within.
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Children's & YAThe Voice of Amunet
by Victoria Álvarez
Egypt, 1346 B.C.: Ever since he can recall, Amunet hasbeen able to communicate with animals, but his lifeis turned upside down when the priests of Amun, themost powerful clergy in Ancient Egypt, discover hisprodigious gift. Convinced that he is the piece they needin their political puzzle, they bring him to the templeof Ipet Sut, where he will begin his training as a heka orsorceror in the service of the royal family.Egypt, 1799: When Napoléon Bonaparte’s army takescontrol of Cairo, the gang of thieves Shaheen belongsrecieves a comission to raid an ancient tomb in theValley of the Nobles. What Shaheen doesn’t know is thatinside that tomb they’ll encounter something even moreunsettling: the spirit of Amunet himself, trapped forover three thousand years... and thirsting for vengeance.
