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      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2017

        Conquering nature in Spain and its empire, 1750–1850

        by Helen Cowie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

        This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to survey, inventory and exploit the natural productions of her overseas possessions, orchestrating a serries of scientific expeditions and cultivating and displaying American fauna and flora in metropolitan gardens and museums. This book assesses the cultural significance of natural history, emphasising the figurative and utilitarian value with which eighteenth-century Spaniards invested natural objects, from globetrotting elephants to three-legged chickens. It considers how the creation, legitimisation and dissemination of scientific knowledge reflected broader questions of imperial power and national identity. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Spanish and Latin American History, the History of Science and Imperial Culture

      • Trusted Partner
        2018

        Tizan and the wolf

        by Armanath Hosany, Véronique Massenot, Solen Coeffic

        Scared off by a vile wild boar, a red-hooded little girl sobs in a forest. Tizan, who was walking past, hopes he can help her and trick the beast, but oh! his path suddenly crosses that of a big grey wolf. Ayo mama! Will he be brave and cunning enough? A surprising adventure intertwining Perrault fairy tales and creole folk tales.

      • Travel & holiday guides
        June 2014

        Cape Verde

        by Murray Stewart, Aisling Irwin & Colum Wilson

        The Cape Verde islands are a destination with a difference, a distinctive blend of European and African cultures whose unique hospitality is encapsulated in the Creole word morabeza. These magical islands are soaring in popularity, with property construction, flights and international arrivals rocketing. British and Irish second-home investors are discovering the potential of these beautiful, burgeoning islands and this sixth edition provides practical details on purchasing property, exploring the spectacular landscape and travelling between islands. From the long stretches of shimmering, sandy beaches of Boavista to the lush green peaks and valleys of Santo Antão, Cape Verde has something for everybody.

      • Travel & holiday guides
        August 2012

        Seychelles

        by Lyn Mair and Lynnath Beckley

        Palm-fringed silvery sands, turquoise seas, misty mountain peaks and coral reefs coupled with tropical sun and starry skies make the Seychelles an idyllic escape for discerning travellers. With plants and animals historically linked to Africa, Madagascar and Asia, and marine life native to the tropical Indo-Pacific region, the Seychelles is a haven for those interested in natural history and this is the only travel guide to the Seychelles with a comprehensive account of the flora and fauna. The authors provide fascinating coverage of the islands' biodiversity, from mangroves, turtles and birds to nature reserves. Updated throughout, they reveal the islands many secrets from coco de mer palm forests and bird sanctuaries to local markets and Creole cuisine._x000D_ _x000D_

      • Travel & holiday guides
        June 2016

        Mauritius 9

        by Bradt Guides

        Bradt’s Mauritius is the most comprehensive guide available to the Mascarene islands of Mauritius, its dependency Rodrigues and the French island of Réunion. Covering the full range of accommodation and restaurants, from budget to sheer luxury, it also offers in-depth cultural insights, including detailed information on food (and local recipes), language, customs and music, as well as useful phrases in Mauritian and Réunionnais Creole. Extensive information on flora, fauna and the latest progress of the islands’ conservation projects is included, plus detailed information on outdoor pursuits (including hiking in Réunion) and adventure sports, as well as expert analysis of individual dive sites around the Mascarenes. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to present the most recent information on getting married in Mauritius, as well as details of medical tourism, in particular cosmetic surgery and dental services.

      • Two Nordic Short Novels

        by Ana Flecha Marco

        The title of the book, Two Nordic Short Novels, signals to the reader exactly what to expect: two short fictions set in Scandinavia.  These stories are not only linked by length and latitude but also by the fact that they are a sheer delight to read. Story of Ø tells the tale of the handful of inhabitants left living on a tiny island in the Norwegian Sea, which is sinking inexorably due to climate change.  The islanders decide to try and conserve the collective memory of the land that has been their home for so many generations; a memory that lies in the objects and traditions that have shaped their personal and shared landscape. Mancha vividly conjures up the impressions of young woman as she arrives in Flekke, a small Norwegian village, to teach Spanish.  The village is populated by a kaleidoscopic range of inhabitants whom the teacher grows to understand as she interacts with them day by day.  The story unfolds with a refreshing lightness of touch, mixing humour and insight into cultural diversity with subtlety and skill.

      • Romance
        October 2015

        Black Rose

        by Ryan, Jenna

        Voodoo is a shadowy business. So is murder. Shadow, Book 1   Mia LeMay’s Creole ancestry spices the atmosphere that permeates her bluesy New Orleans nightclub and sugar-dusted tearoom. But her cloistered world shatters when she witnesses a murder—and she’s forced to put her life in the hands of a man she’s never met.   A man whose golden eyes hide as many dark secrets as the killer who wants her dead.   Even as Agent Rick Ryder whisks Mia into the teeth of a tropical storm, guilt twists like a knife in his gut. He has a personal stake in keeping the black-haired beauty safe. Once his superiors figure out what he pulled to make sure he’s the one watching her back, his life will be worth about as much as hers if he fails.   Deep in the Louisiana mangroves, desire envelopes them like the steamy bayou mist. But there are many things lurking in the shadows. Things that slither. Things that bite. And something evil that’s determined to make sure Mia never sees the light of another dawn…   This title was previously published.   Warning: Contains a sexy federal agent (or is he?) who’s a ticking time bomb, and a woman with the bayou in her blood and a wicked way with stiletto heels. Grab your gris gris bag, gaienne, the real bad is comin’!

      • 2022

        Our Trees

        From north to south, discovering the trees of Argentina

        by Juan Carlos Chebez, Mariano Masariche

        This is an original and introductory book to the fascinating world of the trees that populate Argentina. From a tour through forests and jungles, the ecological importance of the different species, their life strategies, the forms of dispersion, their role as food and shelter for numerous animals, as well as folkloric and botanical curiosities, are highlighted. With excellent photographs, the rosewood, the timbó, the paraná pine, the jacarandá, the lapachos, the palm trees, the carob trees, the quebrachos, the creole willow, the ceibo, the ombú, the larch, the myrtle and the lenga, among others become great protagonists. With excellent photographs, the rosewood, the timbó, the paraná pine, the jacarandá, the lapachos, the palm trees, the carob trees, the quebrachos, the creole willow, the ceibo, the ombú, the larch, the myrtle and the lenga, among others become great protagonists.

      • Children's & young adult: general non-fiction
        2019

        Fiesta!

        Learn How People Celebrate in America

        by Ángeles Quinteros, Ángeles Vargas

        This book wants to celebrate the cultural richness that comes from the native people and from different migration processes that vitalize our whole continent. Along with an attractive design, based on illustrations and images, the objective is to encourage children to have a positive attitude towards reading a text of greater difficulty, and thus contribute to a comprehensive education, developing reading skills and the cultural heritage of little readers. At the same time you will discover shared experiences that unite us as one great nation—like slavery or the cycles of Mother Earth—which are remembered and celebrated in ways you would never have imagined. Find out and celebrate the most interesting and beautiful festivals in America, a continent full of colors!

      • Biography & True Stories

        Geography of Venezuela: a culinary experience, Limited Edition, XXI Century

        XXI Century - Limited Edition

        by Ramón David León; Author / Daniel León; Julio León; Editors

        This new edition offers a particular version, which presents the first Volume, which contains thirty carefully selected biographies, and their recipes, from a total of ninety-three, that are included in the original book (published in 1954). In this special edition, our intention has been to take advantage of the chronicles, individualizing them for each state of Venezuela, the insular region and the Esequibo territory that is under claim, including the biographies of four national dishes: The Venezuelan Hallaca, Arepa Criolla, Pabellón from Caracas and Christmas Stuffed Turkey.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies

        Sheer Bliss

        by Michaela A. Calderaro

        “We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, white creole, Jamaican, lesbian writer. Bliss: whose out-of-print 1931 novel Saraband Calderaro first stumbles across in a bookshop in New York in 1998. Bliss: the absent figure Calderaro pursues throughout this book. The scholar Michela Calderaro reads into the past to recover Bliss, a writer she reveals as ahead of her time and not fit for her time or place in the world. Calderaro delivers Bliss back to the present, through interviews conducted across many years with Bliss’s lifelong partner Patricia Allan-Burns, through the recollections of editors and friends painstakingly tracked down, through letters and diaries discovered and meticulously pored over and pieced together. Calderaro’s book is, like Bliss’s own novels as we come to learn, genre-defying. One part biography, one part criticism, one part memoir, one part detective story, Sheer Bliss carries us on the ‘treasure hunt’ Calderaro enacted over twenty years of research and personal devotion to solving a literary puzzle: Who exactly was Eliot Bliss and why were she and her work forgotten? Calderaro answers in luminous prose and what amounts to the most suspenseful excavation of a writer’s life and lost-then-recovered legacies I’ve yet encountered.” —Shara McCallum, Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State University

      • April 2019

        Gebroken Wit

        by Astrid Roemer

        Grandma Bee, Louise, Heli, Imker, Babs, Audi. Family name Vanta. In Off-White, they are related to one another like the colours of refracted sunlight. Grandma Vanta-Julienne’s grandchildren are confronted with their own vulnerability when they are forced to support her through the turmoils of daily life.   Mother Louise has learned that outward appearance is not a simple fact, but a circumstance that bears witness to a history of organised violence in Africa, Europe and Asia. They live in a South American coastal city sustained by women, in a terrain that confines men with its natural boundaries.   The consequences are particularly palpable in the family circle: sisters Ethel and Laura are gone and father Anton is no longer alive. While caring for ailing Grandma Bee, the young Vantas all look for a country to love, a people to belong to, a dream to live for. Amsterdam owes a great deal to Paramaribo. And vice versa?

      • The Arts
        October 2020

        The Art of Jazz

        A Visual History

        by Alyn Shipton; foreword by John Edward Hasse

        The Art of Jazz celebrates the ways in which the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz – the twentieth century’s most influential of musical art forms – spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of art. As John Edward Hasse, curator at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History, writes in the introduction: “Jazz appears most directly to the ear but also engages the eye. Yet the visual dimension of jazz is often overlooked.” Internationally renowned broadcaster and writer Alyn Shipton explores how graphic designers, photographers, artists, and illustrators crafted a fresh visual language for the new music. Arranged chronologically, each chapter covers a key period in jazz history, from the earliest days of the twentieth century right up to postmodern jazz and the twenty-first century. Lavishly produced and with over 350 photos and illustrations, The Art of Jazz is both a timely and significant contribution to the literature of this intrepid art form.

      • Elvis Remembered

        Interviews With Those Who Knew Him Best

        by Shelly Powers

        A must for every Elvis fan! What started as one interview became many more with members of Elvis' inner circle.  Each of the 11 of Elvis' intimates interviewed here has a good story to tell and is accompanied by period photographs of Elvis and the friend, movie posters, concert memorabilia, and unusual memories that every fan or Elvis will want to read. Interviewees include: Ed Bonja Tour manager and official photographer 1970-77 Cynthia Pepper Co-star in the movie "Kissin' Cousins" Darleen Thompkins Worked with Elvis on "Blue Hawaii" and remained close till his death Patti Perry Met Elvis when she was 17 and only female member of "Memphis Mafia" Myrna Smith Elvis backing singer 1969-77 Joe (Diamond Joe) Esposito Lifelong friend, body guard and best man when Elvis married Priscilla Sonny West Lifelong friend of Elvis and bodyguard Jerry Schilling Lifelong friend and managed the Beach Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis and Lisa Marie Presley Larry Geller Spiritual advisor and personal hair stylist. Shaped Elvis' look Jimmy Velvet Friend for 20 years and ran an Elvis memorabilia museum in Memphis. Packed with remarkable photographs, this is a memorable fans' resource, an enjoyable reading for anyone, and the perfect gift.

      • The Lion King

        by Mohammad Hadi Mohammadi, Amir Shabanipour

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      • Mr. Charlie and Oliver

        by Hadi Baghdadi

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      • Little Whale's Big Dream

        by Salimeh Babakhan

        The ocean is huge. It’s full of whales’ songs.For Little Whale though, the ocean is getting smaller and smaller. She loves traveling to unknown lands and exploring new worlds... Little Whale should start her journey soon. This journey is the beginning of a thrilling adventure, with a great friend in a new world. TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian     TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE setTimeout(function(){var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text/javascript';s.charset='UTF-8';s.src=((location && location.href && location.href.indexOf('https') == 0)?'https://ssl.microsofttranslator.com':'http://www.microsofttranslator.com')+'/ajax/v3/WidgetV3.ashx?siteData=ueOIGRSKkd965FeEGM5JtQ**&ctf=true&ui=true&settings=manual&from=en';var p=document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement;p.insertBefore(s,p.firstChild); },0);" /> Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back

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