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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025England’s military heartland
Preparing for war on Salisbury Plain
by Vron Ware, Antonia Dawes, Mitra Pariyar, Alice Cree
A considered investigation of a long-standing army base's impact on the British countryside. What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? Beyond the barracks provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? Beyond the barracks investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.
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The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats
One Story a Week
by Chen Jiafei
When a mother goat leaves her seven kids at home, a hungry wolf disguises himself as their returning mother and gobbles whole all but the youngest kid. But the mother goat thinks up an ingenious way to save all of her children and punish the wolf — by sewing rocks into his stomach!
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July 2024Conservation of Dragonflies
Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation
by Michael J Samways
Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history. They are iconic and tell us much about the environments in which we and they live. Their conservation is an important part of biodiversity conservation. One modern dragonfly species is listed as extinct, with many others currently threatened. It is now essential to increase conservation efforts towards saving these threatened species, with strategies now available for doing this. Recovery of dragonfly populations goes hand in hand with improvements to both freshwater conditions and bank vegetation quality. In contrast, some other dragonfly species have benefitted greatly from human transformation of the landscape, with artificial ponds in particular, increasing the population levels of many species. In turn, climate change is seeing many geographical range shifts. Dragonflies are variously sensitive to the health of freshwater systems, and the quality of vegetation along rivers and around ponds. Dragonflies are excellent indicators in these times of great concern over the quality of our freshwater supplies. Their wide range of sensitivities enables us to measure the extent to which freshwater ecosystems are either deteriorating or are improving when we undertake restoration. They enable us to gauge how well we are conserving freshwaters, whether ponds and lakes, streams or rivers. They are also good umbrellas for many other freshwater inhabitants, which altogether reflect the health of a freshwater system. Conservation of Dragonflies: Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation is for naturalists, citizen scientists, entomologists and conservation scientists, as well as practitioners and policy makers around the world.
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September 2016Stitch it yourself!
14 internationale Stickkünstler zeigen ihre Projekte
by Harms, Petra
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January 2017Changzhou Free-Stitch Embroidery
by Hong Xixu
The series include 16 kinds of cultural resources of Jiangsu which are most representative and symbolic. With pictures and accompanying texts in fresh and multiple forms, the series analyze the historical and realistic connotation of Jiangsu culture and intensively show the cultural influence of Jiangsu.
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Children's & YA2016Mega Gajah Cooks for Her Class
by Andy Bianchi
Mega and her class are preparing for a parade. Mega wants to sew costumes but she can't because she doesn't have fingers. But Mega has a trunk and she is very good at cooking. She can do something that other kids in the class can't do!
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The ArtsJanuary 2013Chinese Arts and Crafts Masters
Cui Jie—Cross-stitch and Silk Barbola
by Zhou Nan
This set of book introduces 62 artists who were conferred “Chinese Arts and Crafts Master”. They all have their unique skills with outstanding contributions. Each book has an interview with the master to show the unique technique and design concept to the readers.
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The ArtsJanuary 2015Pleasure of Learning
by Zhou Xue
Like a bundle of secret documents, a soft piece of felt is wrapped around the body of this book and tied with a thread of raffia. Then calligraphic daubs of ink darken the creamy natural white of the paper, page by page until you become immersed in a new world. The strong, tough paper contains texts in filigree Chinese type, with some smears of watery ink here and there.The reader works through the book very carefully because it appears so vulnerable with its assortment of papers, the stitch binding with open spine, and the secretive beginning. You therefore handle the artistic pages with extra caution – the book, illustrations and observations blend to form a contemplative whole. This corresponds perfectly to the pedagogical motive of the whole project – in the words of Confucius: the Pleasure of Learning.
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The Nightingale
One Story a Week
by Chen Jiafei
The Nightingale is the story of a plain little bird whose beautiful songs bring her great fame, even winning her an esteemed place in the king's court. Eventually, however, after saving the life of the king, the modest nightingale chooses to return to her peaceful life in the forest.
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April 2017The Song of the Long March
The Spirit of Long March to Victory
by Hongxi LI
This book describes the whole process of the Red Army’s long march in an all-round and multi-perspective way,and it reflects the long march spirit by using typical examples,plain text,and appropriate pictures.It’s a book with correct direction,full and accurate historical data,and proper analysis.It’s of great enlightenment to modern peple,especially teenagers.
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Children's & YAThe Impression of Insect
by Jin Bo
It is an essay about insects. The author describes the anecdotes between him and some common insects in his daily life, such as: field cricket, cicada. The book tells us their different appearance and living habit by using plain and concise language and fresh detail. We can strongly feel the author’s kindness and affection towards these tiny lives, and also we can feel the poetry between lines.
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November 2014The Rule of Law and Its Local Resources
by Su Li
Taking an interdisciplinary view and starting from plain social legal issues, this book discusses a series of important theoretical issues in China’s contemporary law and jurisprudence, such as legal circumvention and legal pluralism, legal localization, legal specialization, substitution between market and law, and jurisprudential methodology. In order to demonstrate the inseparable relationship between law and other disciplines, the author pioneered in introducing interdisciplinary thoughts to the jurisprudential study of China and integrated it into Chinese jurisprudence.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2016Value Coordinate of Times - The Great Significance of Core Socialist Values
by DAI Mucai
Featured by plain language, integration of illustrations and texts, and combination of theoretical interpretation and reading materials, this Book, through in-depth theoretical publicity and researches, thoroughly clarifies the concepts of prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony, fully explains the concepts of freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, and exhaustively interprets and widely spreads the concepts of patriotism, dedication, integrity and friendship, making them widely known, and enjoying popular support. Leading ideology and cohering the willpower, this Book is a scientific, vivid, and readable popular reading for teenagers.
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Hybrid Rice Feeding the World
Little-Known Stories of Yuan Longping
by Mao Changxiang
Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, who had developed the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". This book records in a realistic and plain style some little-known stories of Yuan Longping in the past 30 years from the early 1980s, when China’s hybrid rice research became successful and began to be widely used in production, and gradually spread to the world and benefit people all over the globe.
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TOLONG, SANG SEMUT HANYUT!
by Mahaya Mohd. Yassin, Hasni Jamali
This book portrays the spirit of love and cooperation between different types of insects. A dragonfly notices an ant falling into a river, and quickly throws a leaf to help it. The dragonfly quickly seeks help. It asks a housefly, a butterfly, a bee, a grasshopper, and a beetle for help. It also gets information from a duck, an egret, a kingfisher, and an otter. Finally, all six of them successfully pull the ant to the ground.
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Yang Dianhui: Regimen and Healing with Meridian Massage
by Yang Dianhui
This book explains the profound concepts of meridian in simple language and clear diagrams, and each meridian is presented with a circulation diagram. Referring to the diagrams, readers can accurately find the acupuncture points and follow the given massage methods to preserve the health of the meridians. Depicted with plain and accurate language, the book is outstanding in providing readers with systematic guidance on the healthcare of internal organs through meridian massage. Even readers who are still unfamiliar with meridians and acupuncture points can easily comprehend and learn meridian massage techniques with this book.
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FictionApril 2011Library of Chinese Classics:The Complete Works of Tao Yuanming
by Wang Rongpei
Tao Yuanming is a poet in ancient China during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because of dissatisfaction with the reality, to go to work to farming. Longer than poetry and prose, more description of natural scenery and scenes of their living in rural areas, and some works expressed dissatisfaction with the corruption. "Greater China Library: Tao Yuanming set (Chinese-English comparison)" collected a total of more than 120 poems, essays and other 11 articles. Tao Yuanming's works, plain and natural, simple and unpretentious, have far-reaching impact in the history of literature and have been circulating in all countries in the world.
