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      • Apricotbooks

        Apricotbooks is a Russian publishing house focused on children, middle-grade and YA segments. We publish a wide range of books in different genres including contemporary fiction, detective stories, dystopian works, fantasy, steampunk, and cyberpunk, among others. We pay very special attention to the book design. Each book is a unique collaboration of the author and the artist. Among our authors you can find winners of international contests as well as promising beginners. Both children and adults read our books with passion. Our motto is to preserve childhood within the heart of every reader. Our great selection of titles has been included in the Russian libraries’ guidance list of the 100 best books for children and teenagers. The company profile also includes culinary works. Our team publishes cook books, produces clips, prospects and creates full range of content for corporate clients. Eco-responsibility and preserving the environment are among our priorities. Therefore, we follow the standards of green printing.

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      • Cherche Midi Editeur / Belfond

        Hello I am in charge of foreign rights at Le Cherche midi éditeur and Belfond. Le Cherche midi is a mainstream publisher presenting literature, women's fiction, thrillers, self help, documents... with always accurate topics.  Belfond is a historical fiction publisher which has two series: Literary fiction (Belfond Pointillés) and Commercial Fiction (novels and thrillers).  I would be pleased to introduce our Fall rights list with you. :)

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        February 2015

        (Un-)gerechte (Un-)Gleichheiten

        by Steffen Mau, Nadine M. Schöneck

        Ob es um Bildung, die Einkommen von Spitzenmanagern oder Ungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern geht: Fragen der (Un-)Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit begegnen uns täglich in den Medien. Gleichzeitig handelt es sich seit den Anfängen des Faches um klassische Themen der Soziologie: Wie viel Ungleichheit ist gerecht? Wie viel Ungleichheit kann eine Gesellschaft verkraften, wie viel braucht sie? Ab welchem Punkt drohen Widerstand oder Exklusion? In diesem Band beleuchten renommierte SozialwissenschaftlerInnen und Publizisten diese Fragen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln. Das Buch bietet einen Überblick über die soziologische Debatte und schließt – durchaus polemisch – an aktuelle politische Diskussionen an. Mit Beiträgen von Jutta Allmendinger, Rainer Hank, Sighard Neckel, Paul Nolte, Hartmut Rosa u. a.

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        July 2005

        Die Sterne über dem Land der Väter

        Gedichte

        by Ko Un, Woon-Jung Chei, Siegfried Schaarschmidt

        »Erinnertes und aus Empfindungen Imaginiertes, Durchblicke rückwärts bis in seine frühen Wanderjahre, in die Zeit der ersten Auflehnung gegen die Militärregime und wie selbstverständlich darin eingebettet die Utopie oder besser Hoffnung, es werde der Tag des ›Festes‹ kommen, der Wiedervereinigung des so lange in Süd und Nord zerstückten ›Landes der Väter‹ –: Daß dieser Koreaner weltweit zu den großen Engagierten gehört, ist das eine; wichtiger erscheint mir seine Begabung, Botschaften völlig aus dem Persönlichen zu vermitteln«, schreibt Siegfried Schaarschmidt über einen der bedeutendsten Dichter Koreas. 1933 wurde er als ältester Sohn einer Bauernfamilie in der Provinz Chollabukdo im Südwesten der koreanischen Halbinsel geboren, die auch die Heimat des Politikers Kim Dae-Jung und des Lyrikers Kim Chi-Ha ist. Mit Neunzehn trat er in ein zenbuddhistisches Kloster ein und verbrachte dort zehn Jahre. In dieser Zeit begann er Gedichte zu schreiben. Sein erster Gedichtband erschien 1960. Ko Un hat seither nahezu hundert Bücher veröffentlicht mit Gedichten, Romanen, Essays und Kritiken. Er wurde in Korea mit Literaturpreisen geehrt und ist inzwischen Professor für koreanische Literatur. Wegen seines politischen Engagements wurde er während der ersten Hälfte der achtziger Jahre politisch verfolgt, verhaftet und gefoltert.

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        Forestry & related industries
        December 2003

        Forests at the Land–Atmosphere Interface

        by Edited by Maurizio Mencuccini, John Grace, J Moncrieff, K McNaughton

        Forest ecosystems exist at the interface between the land and the atmosphere. Understanding the properties of this planetary boundary layer is very important for a number of related disciplines. This book presents an overview of topics that are of significance at this interface, starting at the scale of intra-leaf organelles, ranging to higher levels of organisation such as communities and ecosystems. It covers topics such as stomatal functioning, large scale processes, radiation modelling, forest meteorology and carbon sequestration. Based on proceedings of a conference to mark the retirement of Professor Paul Jarvis from the University of Edinburgh, the book contains contributions from leading international scientists. It will be of significant interest to researchers in forestry, ecology, environmental sciences and natural resources.

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        Un mar de peces

        by por la Dra. Bella Galil

        Un mar de peces: Una guía culinaria sobre pescados y mariscos del Mediterraneo - por la Dra. Bella Galil. Esta guía culinaria combina anécdotas históricas, consejos de cocina y una descripción concisa con una información biológica básica sobre las especies mediterraneas más populares. Cada plato viene acompañado por una ilustración científicamente exacta con sus nombres en las diferentes lenguas mediterraneas. La Dra. Bella Galil es una bióloga marina en el Instituto Nacional de Oceanografía. Ha estado investigando la vida marina en el Mediterraneo durante unos 20 años. En sus viajes ha reunido una selección de recetas provenientes de pescadores y colegas que ha probado en su propia cocina.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2021

        Making home

        Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

        by Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom, Maria Holmgren Troy

        Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison. The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children's books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.

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        Children's & YA

        REVES DE SUGIRA

        by Fiston Mudacumura

        Sugira est une fille de 7 ans qui vit avec sa mère, Kamaliza. Elle n'aime pas se brosser lesdents. Un jour, elle va à l'école. Ses camarades de classe s'ennuient et l'intimident pour sonodeur. Elle s'est évanouie. Ses deux amies du même quartier commencent également à fuir.Kamaliza, sa mère ne cesse de lui rappeler de se brosser les dents après avoir mangé mais elle n'aime pas ça. Une nuit, elle dort. Dans ses rêves, elle se retrouve dans le royaume de la cavité buccale des microbes surnommé «Imitananana». Il existe de bons microbes quiprotègent les dents et servent la protection de l'hygiène buccale en général. Les bonsmicrobes ont leur chef, le roi AAA. Sugira reçoit un accueil chaleureux dans sa propre cavité buccale. Bonnes Imitananapréparent une soirée pour elle dans les célébrations de la danse africaine et Rwandaise.Ce monde de «Imitanana» est un monde comme les autres. Nous avons des concours debeauté, du travail communautaire, des concerts et bien d'autres jeux amusants et familiersavec les enfants. Sugira apprend à protéger et à préserver l'hygiène bucco-dentaire via des batailles menéescontre les mauvais microbes imitanana menées par le méchant appelé Zezeze.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2019

        Managing diabetes, managing medicine

        Chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain

        by Martin D. Moore, Keir Waddington, David Cantor

        This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Where much existing literature has cast health care management as either a political imposition or an assertion of medical control, this work positions managerial medicine as a co-constructed venture. Although driven by different motives, doctors, nurses, professional bodies, government agencies and international organisations were all integral to the creation of managerial systems, working within a context of considerable professional, political, technological, economic and cultural change.

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        Un oso en la cama y un chacal en el horno

        by Avinoam Lourie y Cissy Shapiro

        Un oso en la cama y un chacal en el horno Divertidas aventuras de un zoólogo israelí especializado en la fauna silvestre Avinoam Lourie y Cissy Shapiro   ?Cuántos pueden decir que han tenido un oso en la cama, que calentaron un chacal en el horno, que fueron corneados por un corzo celoso o atacados por un tigre, que han tenido monos colgados de la araña, o que han perdido una víbora en un avión?   Las vivencias  reconfortantes, divertidas y educativas del zoólogo israelí Avinoam Lourie con una exótica variedad de animales salvajes y también con los miembros de su familia, contadas con la calidez, el humor, el ingenio y la sabiduría que bien conocen sus asiduos lectores.   Avinoam Lourie ha recibido la Medalla de Honor del Presidente de Israel, ha sido seleccionado como una de las "100 personas más importantes" de Haifa, y ha ayudado a traer a Israel varias especies en peligro de extinción.   "Como alguien que ha acompañado a Avi en el terreno, mientras enseñaba a nuevas generaciones de israelíes acerca de sus ecosistemas nativos, es una alegría compartir el dramatismo, el humor y las ideas que esta fascinante colección contiene", señala Sneed Collard III, autor y editor, que ha recibido el premio del Washington Post y del Children's Book Guild a obras de noficción.   "Muchos de nuestros amigos tenían perros, gatos y otras mascotas, ?pero nadie tenía un padre que trajera a casa un tigre, un oso o incluso un mono, como nosotros!", dice Dr. Barak Lourie (el hijo intermedio de Avinoam), Haifa, Israel.   “Él me enseñó que los animales son como la gente: trátalos de la misma manera y bien". Resumen del estudiante de una comunicación de Avinoam a la escuela secundaria media de octavo grado de Conservación de la naturaleza y ecología de Green Bay, Wisconsin, Estados Unidos.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Carol Reed

        by Peter William Evans

        Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis of twenty films, both acknowledged masterpieces and lesser-known works. Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others. Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2021

        Cossack State as an Idea in the System of Socio-political Thinking of the XVI-XVIII Centuries. In two books

        by Valeriy Shevchuk

        The publication describes the entire era of Ukrainian statehood, namely, the foundation principles, formation and the fall of the Cossack state. The author describes in detail the foundation milestones, the complexities and challenges of the state-building process, attempts to preserve the Ukrainian statehood, the struggle of the last hetmans (presidents) Pylyp Orlyk, Ivan Skoropadskyi, and Pavlo Polubotko to protect of the Cossack state from ruin. The author builds his reflections on the analysis of Cossack laws, hetman documents and literary sources - exquisite examples of poetry and art of writing. The work is supplemented with rare illustrative materials.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2021

        Cossack State as an Idea in the System of Socio-political Thinking of the XVI-XVIII Centuries. Book 2

        by Valeriy Shevchuk

        The publication describes the entire era of Ukrainian statehood, namely, the foundation principles, formation and the fall of the Cossack state. The author describes in detail the foundation milestones, the complexities and challenges of the state-building process, attempts to preserve the Ukrainian statehood, the struggle of the last hetmans (presidents) Pylyp Orlyk, Ivan Skoropadskyi, and Pavlo Polubotko to protect of the Cossack state from ruin. The author builds his reflections on the analysis of Cossack laws, hetman documents and literary sources - exquisite examples of poetry and art of writing. The work is supplemented with rare illustrative materials.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        November 2023

        Pluriversal sovereignty and the state

        Imperial encounters in Sri Lanka

        by Ajay Parasram

        Presenting a case study of British colonial rule and its aftermath in Sri Lanka, this book explores the collision of competing ontologies in the making of the modern state system. It develops a decolonial theoretical framework informed by the idea of a 'pluriverse' to reveal the empirical and imperial avenues through which the idea of the modern/colonial state became normalised in Ceylon. The book contributes to three areas of scholarly discussion: the politics of ontology as related to sovereignty, postcolonial and decolonial international relations, and globalisation through the colonial encounter. It argues that in order to understand contemporary postcolonial crises rooted in territorial conflicts, we must first understand the historical and conceptual processes that depoliticised and universalised the norm of 'total territorial rule' rather than treating the modern state as a territorial and developmental inevitability.

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        May 2009

        UNICEF-Report 2009

        Stoppt sexuelle Ausbeutung!

        by Herausgegeben von UNICEF

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        June 2011

        UNICEF-Report 2011

        Mit allen Daten zur Situation der Kinder in der Welt

        by Herausgegeben von UNICEF

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