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Children's & YAO sumiço do tatu (The disappearance of the armadillo)
by Marília Moreira
Haroldo, a minho, who as he relates to other animals in the garden brings to light issues such as friendship and respect, mixing a harmonic field with an inside-out view of the garden of a house inhabited by some strange animals, among them the (human) balance-beast.
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Children's & YAA oficina do Cambeva (Cambeva's workshop)
by Lido Loschi
Cambeva's workshop is the first of four books of the collection "Presente de Vô" in partnership with Grupo Ponto de Partida. The book is a mixture of colours and elements that highlight the memory of the world, in which seekers of memories have the mission of bringing light and life to objects found in the travels of two characters: Zalém and Calunga. Cambeva is a restorer who, when the world lost its embrace, tried to reinvent it; he is the grandfather who mends dreams, forgotten things and lost emotions, to whom the seekers ask for help to fix something. In a magical universe, full of children, grandchildren, stories and memories of his lineage of restorers, when faced with this request for restoration, he makes room to bring back an emblematic figure who can no longer sing. A story about memories, care and affection...
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Children's & YACastelos de areia (Sand castles)
by Márcia Leite
Humans, who hold the power and exercise it for their own benefit, do not see the other beings of that universe. The invisibility and the political and social relations of micro and macro powers are intertwined in the maximum of coexistence and coexistence between different beings in a common territory.
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Children's & YAOikoá
by Felipe Valério
The name of this book is Oikoá, which means life in the language of the Guarani Mbya people. This name was chosen because the indigenous peoples have been the guardians of life on planet Earth: it is in their territories that there are more types of trees and plants, animals, fish, birds, insects, and where the rivers and forests are best preserved.
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Children's & YAPode me chamar de Dodô (You can call me Dodo)
by Daniella Michelin
Coexistence, harmony, respect, existence and resistance are central themes of the book Pode me chamar de Dodô, written by Daniella Michelin and illustrated by Elisa Carareto.
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HorticultureApril 2000Seed Biology
Advances and Applications
by Gregory E Welbaum. Edited by Michael J Black, Kent J Bradford Jorge Vázquez-Ramos.
This book discusses the biology of seeds.
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May 2003Moby Dick
Roman
by Herman Melville, Alice Seiffert, Hans Seiffert, Rockwell Kent
Der Roman Moby Dick erschien im Jahre 1851. Der Seemann Ismael schildert darin die Jagd der Mannschaft des Walfängers Pequod aus Nantucket und des bis zum Äußersten entschlossenen Kapitän Ahab nach dem weißen Wal Moby Dick durch alle Ozeane bis zum bitteren Ende. Die hier vorliegende Übersetzung von Alice und Hans Seiffert präsentiert einen überaus lesbaren und doch dem Originaltext treuen Moby Dick. »Sie wollen es nicht besser machen als der Autor, nur annähernd genausogut.« (Dieter E. Zimmer)
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Unfit for heroes
Reconstruction and soldier settlement in the empire between the wars
by Kent Fedorowich
Research on soldier settlement has to be set within the wider history of emigration and immigration. This book examines two parallel but complementary themes: the settlement of British soldiers in the overseas or 'white' dominions, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, between 1915 and 1930. One must place soldier settlement within the larger context of imperial migration prior to 1914 in order to elicit the changes in attitude and policy which occurred after the armistice. The book discusses the changes to Anglo-dominion relations that were consequent upon the incorporation of British ex-service personnel into several overseas soldier settlement programmes, and unravels the responses of the dominion governments to such programmes. For instance, Canadians and Australians complained about the number of ex-imperials who arrived physically unfit and unable to undertake employment of any kind. The First World War made the British government to commit itself to a free passage scheme for its ex-service personnel between 1914 and 1922. The efforts of men such as L. S. Amery who attempted to establish a landed imperial yeomanry overseas is described. Anglicisation was revived in South Africa after the second Anglo-Boer War, and politicisation of the country's soldier settlement was an integral part of the larger debate on British immigration to South Africa. The Australian experience of resettling ex-servicemen on the land after World War I came at a great social and financial cost, and New Zealand's disappointing results demonstrated the nation's vulnerability to outside economic factors.
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March 1995Insel-Geschichten
by Uwe Johnson, Eberhard Fahlke, Eberhard Fahlke
Die letzten zehn Jahre seines Lebens verbrachte Uwe Johnson in Sheerness-on-Sea, in der Abgeschiedenheit der britischen Grafschaft Kent - geleitet von der Hoffnung, im eigenen Haus jene Gelassenheit, Distanz und Konzentration wiederzufinden, die ihm für seine faktengetreue, ironisch-hintergründige Schreibweise unerläßlich waren. Indes stagnierte auch in diesem von ihm besonders geschätzten Sprachraum die Arbeit. Grund dafür war eine »Beschädigung der Herzkranzgefässe« sowie eine langdauernde Schreibhemmung. Mit der Arbeit an den Frankfurter Vorlesungen von 1979 gelang es ihm, gegen diese von ihm selbst als »writer's block« diagnostizierte Hemmung anzuschreiben. Ein Resultat seines Schreibens sind die in diesem Band versammelten Inselgeschichten. Über den Plan, Geschichten aus Mitteilungen von Einwohnern der Grafschaft Kent aufzuschreiben und zusammenzustellen, hatte Uwe Johnson schon im Rahmen des Seminars zu den Frankfurter Vorlesungen gesprochen. Materialien hierfür hatte er seit Beginn seines Aufenthalts in Sheerness aufbewahrt. Davon zeugen nicht zuletzt die etwa dreihundert Titel zur Geschichte und Soziologie der Grafschaft Kent in seiner Arbeitsbibliothek: Anfang einer Sammlung, die historisches Unterfutter zu den geplanten Inselgeschichten liefern sollte. Die Nagelprobe auf ein Gelingen dieses Projekts sei aber erst vollbracht, wenn etwa ein Dutzend solcher Geschichten geschrieben sei, gab er noch im Begleitseminar zur Vorlesung in Frankfurt zu bedenken. Allein vier Inselgeschichten wurden zu Lebzeiten veröffentlicht. Sie werden hier ergänzt durch Skizzen, Entwürfe und Materialien, die sich im Nachlaß fanden, so daß ein einprägsames Dokument zur Spätphase seines Werkes entsteht.
