January 1996
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August 2015Han Ethnic Group: Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival
by Xiao Mao, He Xu
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2021 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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Children's & YAGou’er Drifting from a Boat
by Huang Beijia
Gou’er Drifting from a Boat is a novel about growth. In the small neighborhood with the name “The Yard of Phoenix Tree”, a group of children whose parents are middle school teachers and quite an ordinary girl become good friends and they try all the games under the sun. The reader may join the group, among which there is the clever Xiao’ai, the learned Fang Mingliang, the noble Bunny, the naughty Xiao Shan and Xiao Shui, the fairy-like Little Sister and the hero Gou’er, the very ordinary girl who has high aspiration but bad fortune. With this group the reader may go scooping for fish with a net, catching cicadas with something sticky, secretly taking books out of school libraries, reading the comic strips A Dream of Red Mansions without parents’ permission, writing letters directly to the Great Leader Mao Zedong, looking small before a beautiful coryphée, feeling nervous at the bodily changes at teenage, tasting the vague love between teenagers and lots of other things. Reading the novel is like viewing an ancient film, offering the reader not only great fun and joy but also melancholy.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2017Mexique
El nombre del barco
by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas
On May of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, 456 sons and daughters of republican fighters took the transatlantic boat Mexique, that set sail in Bordeau to arrive in Mexico. Previsions were that they would stay there three or four months, but the Republican defeat and the beginning of the Second World War changed that brief exile into a definitive one. This books tells the story not only of those children, but also about the ship, being aware that we do not know how many boats try to cross our oceans every day, moving human beings that have full rights to a proper way of living and not to stand over a land that tears apart below their feet.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentThe Tender Path of Grief & Loss
by Robert Jackman
This title, written by board certified psychotherapist and Reiki masterRobert Jackman, offers wise advice for the healing journey throughoutour life, loves and losses. In The Tender Path of Grief & Loss, if you're seeking expert guidanceon healing losses you feel deep inside, this book is for you. RobertJackman invites you to acknowledge and honor your grief instead ofpushing it away. Accessible and relatable, this book offers practicalwisdom to guide you on your journey through pain and into hope. Itshares heartfelt, encouraging stories of those who discovered their innerstrength in times of overwhelming loss, offering practical advice to helpyou move forward.
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July 2018Ponyhof Glücksklee (4). Ponyferien mit Jolly
by Schellendorff, Linda
Schock, schwere Not! Emmas Lieblingspony Jolly hat Asthma. Die Stute muss zur Kur an die Nordsee und Emma soll mit! Dabei kann sie Meer und Wellen überhaupt nicht ausstehen. Wenigstens darf ihre beste Freundin Viola sie begleiten, und schnell stellt Emma fest, dass es an der Nordsee superspannend ist. Wären bloß nicht diese eingebildeten Western-Zicken zur selben Zeit auf dem Pferdehof …
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January 2022The Fruit Fly Fauna (Diptera : Tephritidae : Dacinae) of Papua New Guinea, Indonesian Papua, Associated Islands and Bougainville
by Richard A I Drew, Meredith C Romig
The book is a taxonomic treatise of the tropical fruit flies of Papua New Guinea, Indonesian Papua, associated islands and Bougainville, the region of the world where speciation in the sub-family Dacinae has been most prolific. The book aims to provide readers with an updated record of all known species of Dacinae that occur in this geographic area including descriptions of 65 new species out of an entire list of 296 known species covered. It provides a discussion on the evolutionary origins of the Dacinae and a key to the genera and sub-genera recorded in the Australian-Pacific Region. Further, the major pest species and their biosecurity risks to other countries are discussed. Extensive field research by the authors and colleagues over many years has resulted in the accumulation of advanced knowledge of the tropical fruit flies in this region. - Records 296 known species - Descriptions and artwork of 65 new species - Discusses the evolutionary origins of the Dacinae - Provides a key to the genera and sub-genera in the Australian-Pacific A key reference for researchers of taxonomy, ecology and pest management in the family Tephritidae worldwide. Useful for biosecurity and horticulture workers in Agriculture Departments within government administration and universities around the world.
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Sociology & anthropologyFebruary 2017Environment, labour and capitalism at sea
'Working the ground' in Scotland
by Penny McCall Howard. Series edited by Alexander Smith
This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry. The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how deeply fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. It will be read in universities by social scientists and anthropologists and also by those with an interest in maritime Scotland.
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FictionMay 2017 - May 2018The Boy Ximi
by Cao Wenxuan
Ximi is a shy young boy from the countryside. A female graduate from the city of Suzhou was sent to live in Ximi’s village in the late 1960s. This beautiful young woman, with her pure and gentle character and her spirit power, led Ximi, formerly an obstinate and unruly country boy, into a new period of growth. With detailed description of subtle emotion, this is an elegant book about a boy’s growth of the soul. The peaceful village, the quiet wheat field, the spinning windmill, little boats in a river, pigeons of different colors, the snow-white fluffy ends of reeds, and the smoke curling upwards, such year-round beautiful country scenery is the witness to the boy's coming-of-age ceremony.
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December 2025Boat at night
by ZHANG DAI
This book is an encyclopedia written by Ming Dynasty writer Zhang Dai. The content of this book ranges from astronomy and geography to hundreds of classics and historians, from three religions and nine streams to gods and ghosts, and from politics and personnel to the evolution of the rules and regulations. There are 20 categories and more than 4,000 items in total, covering a wide range of disciplines. It is a comparison. A large-scale ancient encyclopedia.
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The Bamboo Cutter
One Story a Week
by Chen Jiafei
The tale begins when a loving couple discovers a tiny baby girl in a thicket of bamboo stalks and takes her home to raise as their own. The Bamboo Princess, as she comes to be known, grows into womanhood while fending off suitors, caring for her new family, and ultimately fulfilling her destiny by returning to her true and rightful home -- the moon.
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June 1996Zarte Knöpfe. Tender Buttons
Deutsch und amerikanisch
by Gertrude Stein, Klaus Reichert, Marie-Anne Stiebel, Klaus Reichert
Klaus Reichert, geboren 1938, emeritierter Professor für Anglistik an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 1964-1968 Lektor in den Verlagen Suhrkamp und Insel, 2002-2011 Präsident der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Autor, Übersetzer und Herausgeber (u. a. der Joyce-Ausgabe des Suhrkamp Verlages). Klaus Reichert, geboren 1938, emeritierter Professor für Anglistik an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 1964-1968 Lektor in den Verlagen Suhrkamp und Insel, 2002-2011 Präsident der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Autor, Übersetzer und Herausgeber (u. a. der Joyce-Ausgabe des Suhrkamp Verlages).
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Children's & YASnöfrid from Meadow Valley (3). The Hectic Hunt for the River Pearl
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
What a disaster! Snöfrid’s stream has disappeared during the night! Without water there can be no porridge, and Snöfrid doesn’t have to think twice. This problem must be solved immediately! The hunt for water begins with a wet meeting at the pond of the little nymph Flumina, but when it turns into a hunt for the mysterious river pearl, involving a submersible boat, the story quickly becomes an underwater adventure, and who knows how it will end? Magical adventure, great fun for boys and girls, by Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.
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July 2003Platon und Aristoteles - sub ratione veritatis
Festschrift für Wolfgang Wieland zum 70. Geburtstag
by Herausgegeben von Damschen, Gregor; Herausgegeben von Enskat, Rainer; Herausgegeben von Vigo, Alejandro G
