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View Rights PortalSince February 24, thousands of women like Justyna have crossed the border every day. With children, pets, and sick parents, they ran away from the horrors brought by the Russian army into Ukraine. Justyna recently retired but hasn’t lost a taste for life. But the war changed everything. An intelligent and smart teacher, she becomes a refugee in Europe, along with thousands of other Ukrainian women. “Who are you?” “I am Justyna,” she would always answer the question that seemed to come from everywhere. Together with Justyna, readers travel through a long road toward the search for the self in the world that dramatically expanded and yet existed only at home, in Ukraine. Foregrounding the traumatic experience of becoming a refugee, the loss of home, and a reconsideration of a new life, the novel answers the question of who really is Justyna as well as every Ukrainian woman who lived through the experience of forced displacement.
As a child, she could not understand why people in films about the blockade of Leningrad were always lying down. And when Mariupol was besieged by the Russians, and she and her husband lived for many days without water, food and heat under constant shelling, she realized that when you lie down, you save strength and energy. "77 Days of February" included reports written by journalists of the Reporters media in the period between February 23 and May 9 — two symbolic dates for Russian military ideology. The invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine stopped the number of days and pushed Ukrainians back to the intervening time, where February — the month of the beginning of the great war — still lasts. In the meantime and in these candid stories, there is pain, fear, hatred, and sometimes despair. But the main thing is hope. This is a bare nerve and an honest voice of the new Ukrainian reality.
Crimea. It was here that the main character of the novel spent her childhood, youth and met first love. It was here that she realized that she is Ukrainian. Neither grandfather, lieutenant colonel of the KGB, nor Russian blood in his veins stood in the way of her self-identification. The novel intertwines Crimean Tatar culture, Ukrainian history and family skeletons in closets like an ornament. Together with the main character and her friends, Aliye who is a Crimean Tatar, and Alyona who is a Ukrainian, the reader travels a long way from their childhood to the present — the occupation of the peninsula by Russia. «There is a land beyond Perekop» is an ode to Crimea. Not to its natural beauty and uniqueness, but to people. This is an attempt to open the mainland for Crimea, and Crimea for the mainland. After all, there is land both there and there. It should be known and stitched.
He could have been showing his son the world, and just stayed by his side. Instead, he joined the army to protect his country in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Despite the exhausting days of combat, the main character doesn’t forget that he is a father, too. This book came to be as a conversation with the son who remains far away, yet always close — in his father’s heart. The book doesn’t include battle scenes or combat descriptions. Valeriy Puzik tries to demonstrate that even at the time of the most ruthless wars, a human remains at the center of everything. He leads readers through fragments of memories, reflections about today, and dreams about the future, creating his own battlefield reality. This book is about the here and now that thousands of soldiers experience during the war. It’s a raw nerve that leaves no space for feelings of indifference towards the world around. It’s a narrow path over the precipice that must be crossed to finally see the light — children, loved ones, and a peaceful homeland.
Could anyone imagine that in the twenty-first century, a city of an independent European country could be erased from the face of the earth, while its people were put on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe? For almost three months, in real-time, the whole world had been watching the Russian army slowly destroy Mariupol—one of the key cities of eastern Ukraine. “I was born in Mariupol and lived there all my life. It’s the city of my childhood, of my love and my happiness. I’ve seen it in different shapes and forms, but I’ve never thought that I would see it dead. I couldn’t even imagine that I would be describing its agony. The characters of this book are real people. They are my friends, relatives, and neighbors. During the blockade, bombardments, constant shelling, and hunger, we, the residents of Mariupol, tried to survive. I was writing down everything that was happening to us to keep my sanity. I didn’t think I had a chance to escape this hell and that’s why I described all events as they really happened”, writes Nadia Sukhorukova about her book.
Down-to-earth and intensely practical, this book and video package provides step-by-step guidance on the essential clinical skills required by veterinary students before they face clinical situations encountered in the real world of the busy veterinary professional. - Contains step by step illustrations and photographs, complemented by videos of clinical procedures which can be viewed on your desktop, smartphone or tablet. - Covers the essential key skills that veterinary students need to know. - Details a whole range of techniques, from surgical, anaesthesia and laboratory through to everyday essential and diagnostic skills, in both farm and companion animals. - Describes in-depth the use of simulators in learning key skills. - Provides advice on preparing for OSCEs and practical exams. This book is the go-to manual for an essential grounding in key veterinary clinical skills for all students and educators of veterinary medicine and animal husbandry.
Aimed at inspiring students in high school and college to become the space experts of tomorrow, this eBook recounts the history of the International Space Station—a NASA-headed project with contributors from Russia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Brazil—including a list of all of its missions and crew members from its launch to 2018. It also touches on what life is like on the ISS and comes complete with a wealth of images.
Plants are important source of lead molecules for drug discovery. These lead molecules serve as starting materials for laboratory synthesis of drug as well a model for production of biologically active compounds. Phytochemical processing of raw plant materials is essentially required to optimize the concentration of known constituents and also to maintain their activities. Extraction techniques and analytical techniques have played critical roles in phytochemical processing of raw materials. Extraction technologies from conventional extraction to green extraction as well as analytical techniques from single technique to hyphenated/coupled techniques most frequently used in phytochemistry laboratories are covered in the book.
After being admitted to the police school, the middle school student Mada, during the internship, participated in the series of reconnaissance missions. In the process of crime investigation, he did not believe in the authority of artificial intelligence detectives, but was obsessed with traditional investigative methods. By chance, the motor got acquainted with a giant rat, Jiji, who escaped from a lab. Jiji's wisdom was artificially stimulated with distortion in the lab. With the help of the young partner Jiji, the detective of the young boy gradually surfaced. However, in the reconnaissance of another case, the new situation emerged has repeatedly overturned their reasoning. Who is manipulating this? Where is the real murderer? Robots, artificial intelligence, man-machine wars ... Is it a human-made robot or a "semi-robot" that wants to control humans?
After being admitted to the police school, the middle school student Mada, during the internship, participated in the series of reconnaissance missions. In the process of crime investigation, he did not believe in the authority of artificial intelligence detectives, but was obsessed with traditional investigative methods. By chance, the motor got acquainted with a giant rat, Jiji, who escaped from a lab. Jiji's wisdom was artificially stimulated with distortion in the lab. With the help of the young partner Jiji, the detective of the young boy gradually surfaced. However, in the reconnaissance of another case, the new situation emerged has repeatedly overturned their reasoning. Who is manipulating this? Where is the real murderer? Robots, artificial intelligence, man-machine wars ... Is it a human-made robot or a "semi-robot" that wants to control humans?
This book is a mathematical discipline education research method books written by Zhang Dianzhou, academician of International Academy of Sciences for Europe and Asia(IASEA). Its publication is designed to help people understand math education for the forefront of progress in the study of mathematics education, raising the level of scientific research in mathematics education research, guidance for mathematics education research method of strategy.
With 3000 new references added since the first edition, this book gives the information necessary to produce embryos totally through in vitro techniques. It shows the commercial applications of embryo and oocyte research. Cattle remain at the forefront of many new developments in reproductive technology and what can be done for the cow today will later be applicable to other farm livestock and perhaps humans. This new edition reviews the considerable advances and issues in embryo production technology, based on reports since the first edition in 1994. This is a must have volume for those who own the first edition, and in itself an incredibly informative text.
This book is divided into 9 parts, covering the emergency, outpatient, laboratory, imaging diagnosis and examination, special examination, medication, common operation, hospitalization and discharge, patient rights and interests, medical insurance and medical disputes.
The book is the main shaft in the development history of the Republic of China, and the development of blind education and deafness is clues, based on the research ideas of "continuous-cherbine-transformation", on the basis of combing two major educational institutions, Further analyze the development of special education in the Republic of China in the development of institutional, cultural, thinking, aimed at combating the context of the special education of the Republic of China to continue the development of special educational development, inspecting the creative trajectory of special educational institutions during the Republic of China, revealing the modern transformation of the Republic of China The trend, summarizing the historical experience of the special education of the Republic of China, providing a reference for accurate understanding of the development history of special education in the Republic of China.
This book discusses methods in the field and laboartory for grassland and animal production research.
This book is a study of the ambitions, activities and achievements of Methodist missionaries in northern Burma from 1887-1966 and the expulsion of the last missionaries by Ne Win. The story is told through painstaking original research in archives which contain thousands of hitherto unpublished documents and eyewitness accounts meticulously recorded by the Methodist missionaries. This accessible study constitutes a significant contribution to a very little-known area of missionary history. Leigh pulls together the themes of conflict, politics and proselytisation in to a fascinating study of great breadth. The historical nuances of the relationship between religion and governance in Burma are traced in an accessible style. This book will appeal to those teaching or studying colonial and postcolonial history, Burmese politics, and the history of missionary work.
This book complies with historical research paradigm, and the research framework is mainly from two aspects. On the one hand, from the trajectory of the development of the national education, the background and significance of its visualization system, the supervision system, the demonstration system are disclosed, revealing the law of the Republic of China from inheriting to explore, and then goes to the change law of innovation. On the other hand, it will start from the activities of the civil education visualholders, explore the rights and obligations given to the National Education Tight Handling System, and their efforts to make the demonstration system truly "sink", Revealing the emotional pursuit of dedication of the people in education.
Explain scientific and technological inventions from historical and modern vivid cases. Show the new scientific research results and precious pictures of our country.
Forensic chemists and toxicologists work with drugs and poisons, but they each start with different evidence. Forensic chemists working in a crime lab must determine if the physical evidence they receive is an illegal substance such as marijuana or cocaine. They are also responsible for samples—including fire debris, soil, paint, glass, explosives, and fibers—obtained from suspected arson crimes. Toxicologists, on the other hand, work with biological evidence such as blood, saliva, urine, and feces, using analytical chemistry to identify chemical traces and unmetabolized drugs. They often work in labs associated with a medical examiner’s office or a hospital.Drugs, Poisons, and Chemistry, Revised Edition touches on all aspects of forensic chemistry, including how it developed and what it includes today. This useful eBook covers a short history of forensic chemistry, detailing the story of arsenic and those who developed effective tests to detect it. Delving into the tools and techniques used by forensic chemists—ranging from such familiar tools as the microscope to slightly more obscure tools as the use of antibodies to detect toxins—this comprehensive resource provides a thorough examination of these three main areas of forensic chemistry. Chapters include: History and Pioneers Scientific Principles, Instrumentation, and Equipment Toxicology: Drugs and Poisons in the Body Forensic Drug Analysis Conclusions: The Future of Drugs, Poisons, and Chemistry.