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        JOURNAL OF URBAN SKETCHES-THE HERITAGE STREETS OF MELAKA, MALAYSIA

        by Wan Norisma Wan Ismail, Fadli Arabi, Noor Hayati Ismail, Mohd Amirul Mohamad Ghazali

        Capture the bustle and beauty of life around the Historic City of Melaka through sketches. This journal features sketches along with descriptions of four streets around the Historic City of Melaka namely Jalan Hang Jebat, Jalan Tokong, Jalan Tukang Emas and Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock. The urban life scene is illustrated through a variety of hand-sketch techniques that are proudly performed directly at the scene. It reflects the everyday life of the urban community through the lens of architecture students in exploring the meaning and image of a city.

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        Health & Personal Development

        THE 6 MINUTE SUCCESS JOURNAL

        PLAN YOUR HAPPINESS - A goal without a plan is just a wish

        by Dominik Spenst

        Thousands of readers of Dominik Spenst’s best-selling book The 6 Minute Diary used mindfulness and gratitude to lead happier, more fulfilled lives. In his new book, The 6 Minute Journal, Spenst melds mindfulness with productivity to offer us new ways of realising our goals that are based on proven tools from positive psychology. His approach builds productive behaviour, combining target-orientated determination with calm and serenity, for example by encouraging us to reflect on our strengths every day or working in a mindful way. The skills promoted here let us focus on aspirations and dreams that would otherwise be drowned out in our hectic daily work routines. Attain your unique definition of personal and professional success in only 6 minutes a day!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 1997

        The new woman

        by Sally Ledger

        Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional representations with the lived experience of the new woman, Ledger's book makes a major contribution to an understanding of the 'woman question' at the fin de siecle. She alights on such disparate figures as Eleanor Marx, Gertrude Dix, Dracula, Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner and Radclyffe Hall. Focusing mainly on the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the book's later chapters project forward into the twentieth century, considering the relationship between new woman fiction and early modernism as well as the socio-sexual inheritance of the 'second generation' new woman writers. ;

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        May 2022

        In the Shadow of War

        Diary notes from Ukraine

        by Christoph Brumme

        "What can you learn in war? Do you become numb, do you get used to it at some point? Does war make you "hard", uncaring, above pain? No. These are just clichés. Every day brings new horrors. At best, one learns for some time to suppress strong feelings, because to give in to them would weaken one's life instinct." In a very stirring and shocking, but sometimes humorous language, Christoph Brumme tells of the situation in Ukraine, the everyday life of his family and friends, of fears, longings and political assessments. The diary entries of the war and the resistance of the Ukrainians, starting from the first signs of the impending war in mid-January 2022 until the printing of this book, 1st May 2022, impressively bear witness to the brutality of these events.

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        January 2014

        Aus dem Berliner Journal

        by Max Frisch

        Es gilt als einer der großen Schätze in Max Frischs Nachlass, das legendäre Berliner Journal, das er begann, als er 1973 in West-Berlin in der Sarrazinstraße eine Wohnung bezog. Danach hat der Autor es selbst mit einer Sperrfrist von zwanzig Jahren nach seinem Tod versehen, der „privaten Sachen“ wegen, die er dort festhielt. 2014 ist das Journal, in Auszügen, erstmals erschienen, ein Fest für das Feuilleton, eine Fundgrube für die Leser. Jetzt erscheint es als Taschenbuch. „Ich konnte das Buch … nicht mehr weglegen.“ Tobias Rüther, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung „Ich las diesen Max Frisch jetzt und war total beeindruckt. Nicht nur von dem psychologischen Reichtum, den Max Frisch zu entfalten vermag, sondern auch von der delikaten Stilartistik … das ist wirklich ein toller Autor.“ Ijoma Mangold „Hier ist der ganze Max Frisch in all seiner thematischen Vielfalt, in seinem psychologischen Scharfsinn und seiner gesellschaftlichen Neugier wiederzuentdecken.“ Jörg Magenau, Süddeutsche Zeitung „Wenige konnten die Träume unserer in sich selbst verliebten, vorwärtsdrängenden Epoche besser beschwören als Max Frisch.“ Iris Radisch, Die Zeit

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        Biography & True Stories
        May 2015

        Zeng Guo Fang's Diary

        by Tang Hao Ming

        This book gives a vivid description to Zeng Guofan, the most prominent but controversial person in modern China. The diary was written by Zeng himself and it was a record about his activities and thinking and decisions back in time. It is the most complete compilation of Zeng's diary.

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        May 2008

        Die Zettel des Kuriers

        Journal 1990 - 1999

        by Paul Nizon, Wend Kässens

        "Da sitzt einer beim Schreiben vor seiner Maschine und beginnt zu spielen. Das ist die Ausgangslage, das ist der Beginn. Der Beginn ist ohne Plan und ohne bestimmtes Wissen und Vorhaben. Ein Mensch, der anfängt zu sprechen oder zu murmeln und der sich im Grunde bekennen, das heißt seiner Existenz und des Lebens vergewissern möchte. Er fängt irgendwo an und nimmt sich und den Leser auf die Reise mit. Die Reise führt durch die Gegenwart und Erinnerung und vielleicht auch ins Utopische, sie führt durch Unwetter und Ängste ebenso wie durch den Traum, sie staut sich an Reflexionen und ergießt sich in Emotionen, sie sucht nach dem Glück und durchquert die Einsamkeit etc., und dabei entsteht das Seismogramm einer heutigen Existenz und, wenn wir Glück haben, der Reichtum des Lebens, ja, und hoffentlich auch Schönheit und Glanz." "Für mich ist dies Journal die Anatomie einer seltenen Spezies Künstler und die Radiographie der dazugehörigen schöpferischen Prozesse. Dazu die fabelhafteste Unabhängigkeitserklärung und des weiteren ein seltenes, vielleicht exemplarisches Dokument. Basta."

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        October 2004

        Das Drehbuch der Liebe

        Journal 1973–1979

        by Paul Nizon, Wend Kässens, Wend Kässens

        Ein Mann in der Mitte des Lebens, Schriftsteller. Auf einer Lesereise, unterwegs durch fremde Länder, zieht er sich in einer dramatischen, ebenso ausweglos wie aussichtslos scheinenden Begegnung mit einer jungen Frau das zu, was er später eine »Liebesvergiftung« nennen wird. Nach dieser Begegnung findet er sich nicht mehr zurecht, er verkommt. Auch das Verhältnis zu seiner jahrelangen Lebensgefährtin, die er erst kürzlich geheiratet hat, wird dadurch zerstört. Er übersiedelt, nein flieht von Zürich nach Paris, wo ihm eine verstorbene Tante eine winzige Wohnung hinterlassen hat. In dieser Zelle wartet er, wider alle Vernunft, daß die junge Geliebte sich für ihn entscheidet und daß das Schreiben wieder von ihm Besitz ergreift. Um die Wartezeit bis dahin zu überbrücken, klammert er sich an seine täglichen Notate, in denen er die Geschichte dieser verrückten Liebe, seine Geschichte bewahrt: Das Drehbuch der Liebe.Paul Nizon erzählt in seinem Journal – diesem Fortsetzungsroman eines einzigartigen Künstlerlebens – von der grausamen Verzauberung durch die Liebe, von den Exerzitien der Einsamkeit in Paris, seiner Sehnsucht nach Neugeburt durch die Zaubermacht der Metropole und nicht zuletzt von den Lektionen, die das Schreiben und die Frauen ihm erteilten.

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        Biography & True Stories
        November 2019

        Diary of a Leader in Poverty Reduction

        by Zhu Mingxing

        The diary was written by Zhu Mingxing, the leader of the village work in Dahua Village (Taohua,Taojiang). He recorded some typical angles of his work when he was in the village,finally comes out the diary for poverty alleviation.

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        Adventure
        April 2024

        I love you…

        by Julien Tănase

        The book "I Love You..." is part of the trilogy..., "I love you, till death..." and "I love you, as long as my heart beats”, autobiographical love novels which include chapters from life in a couple of the writer Julien Tănase and his wife, Magdi, with whom he has been in a relationship for 30 years, all against the background of the events that Romania has gone through in recent decades, after the Revolution of '89. A trilogy about the endurance over time of a young couple in love, who have gone through events that are out of touch with reality in Romania where sleeping with a gun under the pillow, the fear of having their child kidnapped, and even the "wars" waged against the corruption of magistrates, politicians and the information systems of a civil society gripped by the widespread corruption in Romania, including the lawsuit invented by the DNA (National Anticorruption Directorate) to stop his work as a journalist and finally won by the writer, makes the autobiography of writer Julien Tănase a fascinating one that leaves you with a bitter taste in your mouth and a big question mark; ... "such things have happened and continue to happen in Romania"?... The writer Julien Tănase: "A friend in the Italian Police told me, and I quote him: "... if you had done in Italy what you did for your country, today a street would bear your name! But you had been dead!"

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        March 2017

        The Essential Chile Sauce Guide

        by Dave DeWitt

        They're everywhere! Thirty years ago, the only liquid hot stuff you could find outside Louisiana was Tabasco Sauce, but now hundreds of brands are falling off the shelves and being sold online.The love of spicy foods has become a full-fledged movement, and hot sauces are at the molten core of this major culinary change. Now, Dave DeWitt has gone global to assemble this gourmet guide to the tastiest ways to indulge.From the nation's hotbeds through Latin American lava and the steamy Caribbean to the sauces of the spice route, DeWitt's rich range of recipes makes clear why hot sauces are more than a trend, more than a cuisine–they're a way of life!

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        October 2012

        Reborn: Diary of a Cancer

        by Ling Zhijun

        The book is a true experience about a cancer patient who got healed gradually from verge of abyss, it also described a famous journalist who have the insight in China’s cancer healing system. Moreover, it is a motivational book, full of wisdom, courage and optimism. In 2007, Ling was diagnosed with lung carcinoma at the advanced stage. Since then, he adjust himself, search for the medical information eagerly. Five years later, he still lives. He learns the following lesson: as long as you are not overwhelmed by fear, misguided by following the wrong paths, then the patient can have a better chance of survival.

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        Dolce Vita

        Kosher Regional Italian Cuisine

        by Gaio Sciloni

        A uniquely combined travel journal and regional Italian cookery guide, written by a true, native-born connoisseur of Italian culture. Dolce Vita is not an ordinary cookbook, but rather a systematic regional survey of Italy, from north to south, with each region characterized by its landscape, tradition and folklore, and most importantly, its Kosher though authentic culinary micro-culture. The author, Gaio Sciloni, born and raised in Tuscany, is a well-known writer who has furnished the Israeli reader with excellent translations of Italian literature.

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        November 2009

        Romane, Erzählungen, Journale

        by Paul Nizon, Samuel Moser, Wend Kässens

        Paul Nizon war nie ein Vielschreiber, doch dafür haben sich die wenigen Bücher, die er seit seinem Debüt vor fünfzig Jahren veröffentlicht hat, als ungeheuer beständig und gegenwärtig erwiesen. Sie gehören zum schönsten, was in den letzten Jahrzehnten in deutscher Sprache erschienen ist. Am 19. Dezember 2009 feiert er seinen 80. Geburtstag. Die vorliegende Quarto-Ausgabe versammelt aus diesem Anlaß sein erzählerisches Gesamtwerk in einem Band: die Romane und die Erzählungen; ihnen ebenbürtig zur Seite stehen die Journale aus den Jahren 1961 bis 1999, dieser Fortsetzungsroman eines einzigartigen Künstlerlebens. Dieser Band bietet im Vergleich zu den Einzelbänden eine Preisersparnis von 82%.

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        Children's & YA

        Explorer Team (1). The Adventure Begins!

        by Björn Berenz / Christoph Dittert

        Become an explorer! Go with Lias on an exciting mission and solve the puzzles that will lead you to your goal. Eventually you must decide: how will the adventure continue? 3 paths – 3 adventures – which of them is for YOU? Join Lias, Mojo and Cookie on a mission to the Himalayas: together they must find out what has happened to Lias’s father. He disappeared six months ago and the only thing he left behind was his expedition diary, which is full of strange clues and puzzles. The reader will be able to move onto the next stage only if you can decipher them. A great adventure awaits you! And you decide In the end, you must decide: How should the adventure continue for you and the Explorer Team? Hunt with Lias through the forgotten world. Go with Tashi to discover the eternal ice or follow Cookie and Mojo through fire and lava. You will have to choose which of the Explorers you want to accompany on the next adventure.

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        Insecticide & herbicide technology
        September 1995

        Riceland Spiders of South and Southeast Asia

        by A T Barrion, Jim A Litsinger

        Spiders are among the most omnipresent and numerous predators in both agricultural and natural ecosystems, and without them insect pest populations would become out of control. Their potential as biological control agents can only be appreciated through a greater understanding of their abundance and species composition in different ecological systems. There is therefore a great need for literature providing guidance on spider identification. The spider fauna of several cultivated crops, in a number of regions of the world, has been well documented. There have been some previous attempts to record the spider fauna of rice in South and Southeast Asia, but these are scattered in the journal literature. This volume provides a comprehensive illustrated guide that can be used by specialists and novices to identify these spiders. The majority of the species covered were collected from a diversity of habitats in the Philippines. The bulk of the book consists of keys to the identification of families, genera and species of Philippine spiders, illustrated by more than 1000 line drawings and 100 colour photographs. A total of 339 species belonging to 134 genera within 26 families are recognized. Of these, 253 species and seven genera are new to science. Distribution maps for individual species and a classification scheme for Philippine riceland spiders are also provided. Overall, the work represents a major contribution to the literature for those interested in spiders or more generally in biological control and crop protection.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2008

        Princely power in the Dutch Republic

        Patronage and William Frederick of Nassau (1613–64)

        by Geert Janssen, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        Based on one of the richest surviving diaries of the Dutch Golden Age, Princely Power in the Dutch Republic recaptures the social world of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664). As a Stadholder and relative of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick was among the key players in a fragmented republican state system. This study offers a vivid analysis of his political strategies and reveals how unwritten codes of patronage guided his daily contacts and shaped his mental world. As a patron at his court and as a client of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick developed distinctive patronage roles, appropriate to different social spheres. By assessing these different roles, Janssen provides a unique insight into the ways in which a seventeenth-century nobleman negotiated and articulated clientage, friendship and corruption in his life. This study offers an in-depth analysis of political practices in the Dutch Republic and reconsiders the way in which patronage shaped early modern politics, affected religious divisions and framed social identities. ;

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