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        Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        November 2020

        Sweet Cherries

        by Lynn Long, Gregory Lang, Clive Kaiser

        This new book provides comprehensive coverage of the history, genetic improvements, production physiology of growth and cropping, orchard establishment and management, and harvest considerations for sustainable cherry production. Sweet cherries are a specialty crop, subject to significant production risks for growers, yet with high potential market returns due to strong consumer demand for the fruit's intensely enjoyable flavour and nutraceutical benefits. Written by a renowned team of experts, this book emphasises the scientific principles underlying cherry production practices. It acts as a resource for a scientific foundational understanding of plant growth and cropping, providing the key to both reasoned choice of orchard practices and the solution of future problems. The book: - Covers improved sweet cherry fruiting varieties and rootstocks. - Describes state-of-the-art tree training and production systems. - Considers production risk management technologies and decisions. Heavily illustrated and presented in full colour throughout, Sweet Cherries is written with practical details and underlying physiological concepts for use by beginning and established fruit growers, consultants, and advisors, with a primary focus on fresh market sweet cherries, in addition to students and professionals in horticulture.

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        Fiction
        October 2004

        Sweet Darusya

        by Maria Matios

        Sweet Darusya, Maria Matios’ best-known novel, has been rightly called "a tragedy matching the history of the 20th century", and Darusya herself is "an almost biblical figure". This “drama in three lives” has nothing unambiguous: neither characters nor circumstances nor resolution. There are no epoch-making people or events, heroes or villains, but, as one critic noted, "your heart breaks when you read this book." Sweet Darusya recreates the true spirit of the past through a family saga and touches upon topics that until now prevent a part of modern society from perceiving Ukrainian history without omissions, censorship and irritability. This unique view that Maria Matios offers in this novel, measures the essence of human urges, suffering, true love, and human nature in general. Authentic writing style, deep psychologism, and a complex plot that unfolds in reverse chronological order create a unique piece of prose.

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        Biotechnology
        July 2004

        Introgression from Genetically Modified Plants into Wild Relatives

        by Edited by Hans C M den Nijs, Detlef Bartsch, Jeremy Sweet

        Introgression is the incorporation of a gene from one organism complex into another as a result of hybridization. A major concern with the use of genetically modified plants is the unintentional spread of the new genes from cultivated plants to their wild relatives and the subsequent impacts on the ecology of wild plants and their associated flora and fauna.The book reviews these issues, focusing on the ecological and evolutionary effects of introducing GM cultivars. It presents current knowledge of crop-wild relatives hybridization and introgression, and the measurement and prediction of their consequences. As a result it represents a major contribution to the debate about the risks of GM crops and measures, such as post commercialisation monitoring, required to determine the longer term impacts of GM crops on ecosystems.The book presents edited and revised presentations given at a conference of the same name, organised in January 2003 by the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the Robert Koch Institute (Germany), on behalf of the European Science Foundation funded program for Assessment of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Plants (AIGM ).

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        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        2021

        La Dolce Vita | Sweet life

        by Roman Malynovsky

        "Sweet Life" is a collection of short stories united by mood and plot spirals. In "Twenty-Five Days" Luka sits in the chair of a hairdresser in the immigrant quarter of Berlin. They speak different languages, and the only way to understand each other is through gestures and touches. Their the inner language guides them until the twenty-fifth day arrives. In "Cairo Express", David travels on a transcontinental train and carries a secret cargo to the final station. However, the comfort of this journey is in danger. In "The Write-off", the girl receives an urgent task. "After all, who else could be entrusted with this matter," she thinks after hearing the order.To fulfill it, she goes to meet with Terakotov. Thirteen stories full of internal dramas, experiences, passion, rage, adoration. The stories are full of flavors and sensory perceptions - sweet and not only. They are cinematic: while reading, you will feel the space physically - fabrics, colors, shades, surfaces. This book is full of mystery and playfulness, anxiety, but also airy lightness. "Sweet Life" invites you to play, to travel by planes and trains, rooms and houses, metropolises and continents. Calls for a journey through the boundless, unfathomable cosmos of human nature. Trust the heroes - they will become your guides and show the way in the intricate labyrinth of stories.

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        March 2017

        Jalapeños

        by Dave DeWitt

        It's one of the most popular chile peppers in the world, and the number of ways it can transform a meal–and be transformed–is endless. Now, Dave DeWitt, the acknowledged Pope of Peppers, has harvested his decades of experience to create a mouth-watering combination of knowledge and delightful, delectable recipes.The ways you can enjoy these delicious peppers are virtually infinite, and DeWitt knows them all: from breakfast through dinner and dessert; in sauces, soups, side dishes, and salads.Planning them, growing them, preserving them, and–best of all–devouring them, jalapeños have never been so interesting and delicious as Dave DeWitt makes them here.

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        Children's & YA
        2016

        Pluto

        by Valentyna Vzdulska (Author), Inna Chernyak (Illustrator)

        This is the sweet sweet story of Mark, a little boy who shared a special bond with his dog Pluto. Unfortunately, one day Mark lost his best friend. Mark missed Pluto very much and came up with the idea that the dog was now residing on the small planet of the same name, Pluto... Until one day mom came home with a little fluffy present: a new puppy friend, and the beginning of a new story.   From 3 to 5 years, 2034 words Rightsholders: info@vivat.factor.ua or miroshnik@vivat.factor.ua

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        Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)
        2015

        Dientes (Teeth)

        by Antonio Ortuño, Flavia Zorrrilla Dragol

        After the accidental loss of a baby tooth, Natalia recounts the girl´s questions, what happens at home with her mother and her bunny Paz, with her father and his books, how she comes to find the skull and skeleton, and about Hugo, the big kid at school. It starts as something as small as a baby tooth and turns into something as large as the human body, the world... and the solution to what seems like child´s game, turns to be what matters the most.

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        January 1995

        Sweet Luder

        Tagebuchgedichte

        by Gerber, Maren / Illustriert von Usine

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        August 2003

        Sweet Luder

        Theaterstück

        by Gerber, Maren

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        Fiction
        February 2021

        Sweet Dreams

        Rücksturz in die Achtziger

        by Goosen, Frank

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        May 2016

        La mujer de la guarda

        by Sara Bertrand, Alejandra Algorta

        Jacinta wants to know how her mother is able to breathe inside the coffin, but her aunts tell her it’s better if she concentrates in taking care of her brothers. Jacinta remembers some things about her mum, like the sound of the spoon in the cup when she stirred the milk until it was smooth. When her father arrives early, Jacinta and her brothers eat together and laugh at dessert time when he draws milk toffees and chewing gum from behind their ears. Jacinta is a weirdo in a world where other children have a mother. Jacinta has no guardian angel, but a woman traveling on a blue horse watches over her.

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