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Established in 2008,AmberleyPublishingis home of the ever-popular colour local history series Through Time, Amberleyis an independent publisher of books on a rich variety of history and heritage.
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We are an independent illustrated non-fiction publisher based in London, UK and have been in the industry for over 30 years. We publish a growing range of titles under our own Amber Books imprint.
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November 1992Platero und ich
Andalusische Elegie
by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Fritz Vogelgsang
"Eine literarische Entdeckung besonderer Art bietet dieses Buch; die Entdeckung eines längst weltberühmten und vielgeliebten Meisterwerks der klassischen Moderne. Die Lektüre läßt den Reiz und den Rang einer Prosadichtung eigener Art erahnen, deren Originaltext - wie Luis Cernuda schrieb - ein Sprachkunstwerk von »einzigartiger Frische und Lebendigkeit des Ausdrucks« ist: «Das andalusische Ambiente hat sich wohl selten mit soviel dichterischer Wahrheit offenbart . . .«"
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October 2004Die schönsten Erzählungen
by Hermann Hesse, Volker Michels
Hermann Hesses Erzählungen zeigen den Weg und die Entwicklung eines Dichters, der es sich leisten kann, auf alles Sensationelle, Extravagante und Makabre zu verzichten, weil er auch ohne absichtsvoll arrangierte Spannung zu fesseln versteht, indem er den Leser mit sich selbst, seinem eigenen Schicksal, seinen Erfahrungen und Wahrnehmungen konfrontiert und ihn dabei in seinen besten Intentionen bestärkt. Außergewöhnlich ist auch die thematische Vielfalt dieser Geschichten. Nicht nur die unübertroffene Darstellung von Kindheits-, Jugend- und Pubertätserfahrungen macht das Unverwechselbare dieses Erzählers aus. Liebesgeschichten, Schicksale von Aussteigern und Außenseitern jeder Art, aber auch Gestalten aus der Literaturgeschichte werden zum Leben erweckt. Natur und Magie, städtisches und ländliches Ambiente auf Schauplätzen, die bis nach Indien reichen, bilden den Hintergrund dieser Geschichten.
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February 1994Papirnik
Stories
by Doron Rabinovici
Doron Rabinovicis Prosadebüt Papirnik vereint zehn Geschichten, die ihre Herkunft nicht verleugnen, Papirnik, das sind Stories teils aus dem Wiener jüdischen Ambiente, zuweilen aus dem Kriminal, zuweilen surreal. Der junge Autor Doron Rabinovici, dessen ungewöhnliche erzählerische Begabung zu entdecken ist, schreibt vor dem Hintergrund der eigenen Biographie, die den Blick auf Gebürtigkeiten und mißklingende Gegenwärtigkeiten geschärft hat. Amüsant-leichtfüßig und in elegant-plauderndem Ton erzählt, verkehrt sich alle Harmlosigkeit dieser Geschichten sehr rasch, und bizarr Unerwartetes oder Abgründiges tut sich auf: ein Bankier wird zum Finanzier eines Banküberfalls, ein Liebesbrief enthält die Geständnisse eines Serienmörders, zwei Blinde führen sich durch den Nebel, Frauen verlassen ihre Männer oder Freunde betrügen einander. Mühelos und unverkrampft versteht es Rabinovici, in seinen Stories von Liebe und Zeitgeistigem genauso wie von Tod und Bedrohlichem zu erzählen.
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September 2017Der Pfau
Roman
by Isabel Bogdan
Ein charmant heruntergekommener Landsitz in den schottischen Highlands, ein völlig durchgedrehter Pfau, der bei blau nur noch rotsieht, und ein bunt zusammengewürfelter Haufen Leute, dazu ein überraschender Wintereinbruch, ein Kurzschluss und die ein oder andere Verwechslung – und schon ist das Chaos perfekt! Pointenreich, very british und urkomisch erzählt Isabel Bogdan von einem Wochenende, an dem alles anders kommt als geplant: Eine Gruppe Investmentbanker reist samt ambitionierter Psychologin und erfindungsreicher Köchin aus London an, um in der ländlichen Abgeschiedenheit bei einer Teambildungsmaßnahme die Zusammenarbeit zu verbessern. Doch das spartanische Ambiente und ein verrückt gewordener Pfau bringen sie dabei gehörig aus dem Konzept. Und nicht nur sie: Denn die pragmatische Problemlösung des Hausherrn Lord McIntosh setzt ein Geschehen in Gang, das sämtliche Beteiligte an die Grenzen ihrer nervlichen Belastbarkeit bringt. So britisch-unterhaltsam ist in deutscher Sprache noch nicht erzählt worden!
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October 1999Heartcore
Gedichte
by Albert Ostermaier
Albert Ostermaiers Gedichte sind Polaroids der Gegenwart, sie feiern den Moment und sind dennoch on the run. Sie schlagen den Bogen zwischen dem Chaos Kalkuttas und der Wüsteneinsamkeit des Death Valley, sie intonieren den harten Rhythmus der Städte ebenso wie die Melancholie nicht enden wollender Landschaften, die Hektik der Metropolen und die nervöse Statik großer Gefühle. Jenseits von Idylle und Zynismus können plötzlich hart und Herz eines sein, kann ein Liebesgedicht mit größter Zärtlichkeit sprechen vom metall/ im mund kalt wie der diamant/ auf deiner zungenspitze/ den du an meinen zähnen/ scharf geschliffen hast. Manchmal wird das Sprechen zum Flüstern kurz vor dem Schweigen, nicht selten auch zum Schreien. Fast immer eignet diesen Texten etwas Gestisches, kein Wunder bei jemandem, der in den letzten Jahren auch als Theaterautor Furore gemacht hat. Politische Themen finden sich neben Privatestem wie selbstverständlich, wie naturnotwendig: solang der mond noch/ voll ist wie die welt & man/ bevor sie schlecht sind/ menschen schlachten/ kann solang wird ich nicht/ fertig sein mit euch & dem/ regen mein abc einpauken, heißt es etwa in der Brechthommage face fatzer. Die Texte diese Bandes werden in einer dramatisierten Fassung im November 1999 auf die Bühne des Marstalls/ Bayrisches Staatsschauspiel gelangen. Eine BR-Hörfassung, in der die lyrischen Szenen auf klassische Klänge, auf Techno, Ambient und Pop treffen, liegt dem Band auf CD bei.
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August 2021Involução e outros contos para um mundo em crise
Colectânea de contos traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária 2020
by Sandra Tamele
Neste terceiro volume da Colectânea de Contos Traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária, apresentamos seis contos publicados entre 2017 e 2019 no âmbito do Caine Prize for African Writing e da colectânea New Short Fiction from Africa: ‘Involução’ da autoria da sul-africana Stacy Hardy que aborda abertamente a sexualidade da mulher, também preocupações sociais e políticas, faz alusão a questões como a degradação ambiental, o colonialismo e direitos da mulher, ancorados numa teatralidade conceptual necessária para que o conto não se torne efémero e engaje o sentido de humor do leitor para o aproximar da mente aberta de Hardy. ‘A heroína misteriosa’ ou ‘Mavbanelo na mayi’ em Bitonga, é da autoria da Tanzaniana Lydia Kasese. Ela escreve sobre as expectativas e pressões sociais que levam as mulheres a desejarem concertar tudo. Neste conto Kasese traz destramente à luz questões sobre o abuso de menores e o seu impacto sobre as famílias na Tanzânia e, não só. Alinafe Malonje estreou-se nesta colectânea da Short Story Day com o conto ‘Manutenção de Rotina’, um registo metafísico de um hotel: parte alegoria, parte meditação com um subtil comentário sobre o que significa ser mulher no Malawi. Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda cria um fabuloso hotel de fantasia que contém realidades sinistras, construindo um persuasivo mundo alternativo. Tariro Ndoro em ‘A lenda das duas irmãs’, ou ‘Xihitana xa vamakwavu na makwavu’ em Changana, traz uma abordagem arrepiante dos perigos da saudade, onde a busca por uma irmã num hotel de luxo em Victoria Falls tem um fim fantasmagórico. Mampianina Randria nos apresenta em ‘O Gatilho’, ou ‘Niyódeké sê xidúvúlá’ em Changana, um conto com um ritmo cerrado e um desfecho totalmente inesperado onde uma mulher que lida com as frustrações de quem entra na vida adulta.
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Joe lo puede arreglar
by Aviva Lipstein
Joe lo puede arreglar por Aviva Lipstein Un fascinante relato infantil que tiene como escenario a Londres y que tiene como objetivo facilitar la transición de la guardería infantil a la escuela primaria, que a que a veces está acompañada de miedos y preocupaciones por parte de los padres y de los niños. Fue traducido al inglés por Ora Cummings, que es natural del reino Unido. El libro está adaptado a la vida contemporánea de Inglaterra (pero puede también referirse a otros países) dentro del marco universal que supone el paso del niño del ambiente protector de la guardería infantil a la atmósfera mas exigente de la “gran” escuela. El libro cuenta con 40 páginas en su forma final, con portada de tapa dura en color y con ilustraciones a dos colores en su interior. La autora, Aviva Lipstein , que falleció en 1994, creció en Francia, en Paris y Niza en la riviera francesa. Durante la segunda guerra mundial, fue protegida y educada por monjas dominicanas, y después de la guerra se asentó en el nuevo estado de Israel. La señora Lipstein se graduó en trabajo social en la universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén y hasta su jubilación trabajó con niños pequeños. Vivió en Tel Aviv, se casó y tuvo dos hijos y una hija, como también un nieto – todos ellos fueron evocados en sus cuentos.
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HorticultureFebruary 2009Potatoes Postharvest
by R T Pringle, C F H Bishop, R C Clayton
A wider understanding of potato postharvest practices is needed to improve working relations between growers, agronomists, pathologists and crop store managers. Providing a comprehensive examination of international potato production, this book identifies which storage systems suit particular climatic zones as well as considering interactions between crop microclimate, dehydration, crop cooling, condensation and disease development. Potatoes Postharvest will guide the reader through the activities following harvest from store loading, store management, and grading to packaging and dispatch.
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February 2019Tourism Information Technology
by Pierre J Benckendorff, Zheng Xiang, Pauline J Sheldon
This third edition of 'Tourism Information Technology' provides a contemporary update on the complexities of using information technology in the tourism industry. It examines IT applications in all sectors including airlines, travel intermediaries, accommodation, foodservice, destinations, attractions, events and entertainment. Fully updated throughout and organised around the stages of the visitor journey, the book reviews how tourists are using technologies to support decision making before their trip, during their travels and at the destination. It: · Provides comprehensive and up to date coverage of all key topics in tourism information technologies · Covers new areas such as (among others) augmented and virtual reality, robotics, smart destinations, disruptive innovation and the collaborative economy, crowdsourcing for sustainability, online reputation management and big data · Incorporates a wealth of pedagogic features to aid student learning, including key models and concepts, research and industry insights, case studies, key terms, discussion questions, and links to useful websites. Accompanied online by instructor PowerPoint slides, multiple choice questions and further case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and learning-focused text for students of tourism and related subjects.
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MedicineMarch 2020Basic Monitoring in Canine and Feline Emergent Patients
by Elizabeth J. Thomovsky, Paula A. Johnson, Aimee C. Brooks
This book discusses the various basic monitoring techniques available for emergency patients. The book elaborates on and explains monitoring techniques that can be easily performed in basic ER clinics and primary care clinics. This includes blood pressure, capnography, ECGs, pulse oximetry, and point of care monitoring ranging from the physical exam to bedside diagnostic tests like PCV/TP, urine specific gravity, blood glucose, and lactate. Each chapter is structured in the following way: basic physiology as related to the monitor, how the monitor/piece of equipment works, pros and cons of the monitor/piece of equipment, when not to trust the monitor, and clinical applications/examples of how to use the monitor in clinical settings.
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Business, Economics & LawDecember 2017Tour Operators and Operations
Development, Management and Responsibility
by Jacqueline Holland, David Leslie
With a focus on the creation and distribution of packaged holidays, this text covers the fundamentals of business and the relationship between tour operators and destinations. With particular reference to the sustainability of both parties, it reviews the impacts and influences of tour operations and practices on destinations within the overriding context of tour operator responsibility. It addresses the entirety of this key component of the tourism sector, and reflects the shift in recent years from traditional 'sun, sea and sand' holiday to more bespoke packages. Taking into account tour operators as a growing factor among the major emergent economies of the world, this book is: - The first textbook to provide such in-depth content of tour operators and operations. - Written by authors with industry, research and teaching experience. - A wealth of information regarding popular eco, nature and adventure trips, as well as myriad niche and special interest products. Full of international and highly topical case studies, exercises and discussion questions, Tour Operators and Operations: Development, Management and Responsibility is a fundamental text for students of tourism.
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2020Covid-19, Meio Ambiente e Políticas Públicas
by Cury M. Mathias, João Felippe
"É preciso romper o silêncio", ir fundo nos impactos multidimensionais da pandemia que nos assola. Este livro compartilha saberes de um grupo de pesquisadores de meio ambiente, políticas públicas e economia, que acreditam que o princípio de ciência-cidadã esteja aqui incorporado, não apenas com o objetivo restrito de divulgação científica, mas de transformar todas as pessoas. Comunicar com a sociedade é vital para tornar o mundo um lugar melhor, e os livros são as nossas mais poderosas armas. O livro reúne textos de economistas preocupados com a questão ambiental. O livro reúne reflexões dos pesquisadores do Grupo de Economia do Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável (GEMA-IE/UFRJ)Trata das relações entre a pandemia, políticas públicas, com foco na economia e meio ambiente, e nossa dívida social. São textos curtos, para serem lidos por especialistas mas também por não-economistas, leigos interessados em caminhos alternativos ao ajuste fiscal obsessivo e concentrador de renda que dominou a política econômica recente no Brasil e em vários países do mundo.
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The environmentNovember 2019Il verde segreto di Roma. Piante, animali e realtà green in cinque itinerari tutti da scoprire
by Elisa Agnoni
Cinque percorsi che vi porteranno alla scoperta di una Roma diversa dai soliti stereotipi, attraverso sentieri all'interno di riserve naturali, curiosità naturalistiche e realtà agricole che operano su questi territori. Un viaggio che vi consentirà di acquisire maggiore consapevolezza delle ricchezze ambientali della città e di capire l'importanza del ruolo che ognuno di noi riveste nel proteggere e conservare il patrimonio naturale.
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Care of the elderlyAugust 2023Active Assisted Living
by Peter Kaiser
The term Active Assisted Living (AAL) comprises methods, concepts, (electronic) systems, products as well as services that support and facilitate the everyday life of elderly people and people with disabilities in a situation-dependent and unobtrusive way. F.e. architects, planners and craftsmen are faced with the problem of keeping track of the complex variety of providers.This book presents the standards and technologies clearly and highlights the opportunities for all parties involved. Practical examples are used to illustrate the different requirements, products, technologies and system components in home/apartment construction, assisted living/outpatient care, rental housing adaptations, and temporary physical limitations at home are addressed. The following topics are included:- Topics in AAL,- Standards basics,- Stakeholders,- Funding,- Data protection and security,- Software,- Networks and bus systems,- Cabling systems,- Wireless protocols,- Sensors and actuators,- Smart devices/IoT,- Remote control systems,- Alarm systems,- Ambient intelligence,- Opportunities for stakeholders.
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Biology, life sciencesMay 2003Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals
by Committee on Potential Impacts of Ambient Noise in the Ocean on Marine Mammals, National Research Council
For the 119 species of marine mammals, as well as for some other aquatic animals, sound is the primary means of learning about the environment and of communicating, navigating, and foraging. The possibility that human-generated noise could harm marine mammals or significantly interfere with their normal activities is an issue of increasing concern. Noise and its potential impacts have been regulated since the passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Public awareness of the issue escalated in 1990s when researchers began using high-intensity sound to measure ocean climate changes. More recently, the stranding of beaked whales in proximity to Navy sonar use has again put the issue in the spotlight. Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals reviews sources of noise in the ocean environment, what is known of the responses of marine mammals to acoustic disturbance, and what models exist for describing ocean noise and marine mammal responses. Recommendations are made for future data gathering efforts, studies of marine mammal behavior and physiology, and modeling efforts necessary to determine what the long- and short-term impacts of ocean noise on marine mammals.
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OncologyJuly 1970
El Cancer de Mama y el Medio Ambiente: Preguntas y Respuestas
Spanish Version
by Institute of Medicine
Throughout their lives, women have experiences and make decisions that can influence their chances of getting breast cancer. While we have little control over some of these risk factors, we can sometimes make choices - good or bad - that affect our risk of getting breast cancer. In a 2011 Institute of Medicine report, obesity, alcohol consumptions, and some medical treatments were found to raise these risks at least a little. For other factors, the evidence wasn\'t as clear. Look through this question and answer booklet, available in Spanish, to learn more.
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Agriculture & farmingMay 2016Climate Change and Plantations in The Humid Tropics
by GSHLV Prasada Rao & C.S.Gopakumar
Weather and climate play an important role in plantation crops production. While climate determines the adaptability of a particular crop in a region, weather determines the yield attributes of the crop. The global warming and climate change impacts on plantation crops are evident in the form of extreme weather events like floods, droughts, cold and heat waves and strong cyclonic winds, the frequency of which is likely to be more and more in the ensuing decades as noticed year after year around the globe in 1998, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015. It is now a topic of concern and the plantations economy is in a threat in the ensuing decades due to climate variability. Decline in monsoon rainfall with number of rainy days, increasing ambient air temperatures (both day maximum and night minimum), decline in groundwater table, decline in wetland area and surface water resources, increasing number of forest fires and decline in forest area, increasing events of landslides during both the monsoon seasons, indiscriminate sand mining from river beds and unscientific land filling are the important climate change related issues in the Humid Tropics.
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True crimeMay 2020Globale Nomaden - Süden
Drogenschmuggel übers Mittelmeer
by Hubertus Becker
Hubertus Becker »Globale Nomaden – Süden«Drogenschmuggel übers Mittelmeer »Globale Nomaden – Süden« lautet der erste von vier Bänden des Autors Hubertus Becker, der als Mitglied einer internationalen Bande von Schmugglern aufgeschrieben hat, wie es ihm und seinen Komplizen während der siebziger Jahre gelang, trotz Ronald Reagans erklärtem Drogenkrieg, trotz DEA, FBI und Interpol die Märkte in den Metropolen Europas und Amerikas mit Haschisch, Kokain und Opiaten zu versorgen. Der weitgehend dokumentarische Roman führt die Leser in Weltgegenden, in denen die Menschen andere Probleme zu bewältigen haben als im saturierten Europa. Dabei begegnen die Protagonisten prominenten Zeitgenossen wie Paco de Lucia, Nastassja Kinski, Sylvester Stallone und Bob Marley, um einige zu nennen.Der Autor nimmt uns mit ins marokkanische Rif-Gebirge, wo heute 90 Prozent des in Europa konsumierten Haschischs angebaut wird; wir begleiten die Globalen Nomaden nach Indien und ins Goldene Dreieck, wir sind dabei wie sie Geschäfte in Kolumbien anbahnen und im großen Stil Marihuana in die USA schmuggeln. Fast nebenbei scheint dabei das Porträt einer Zeit durch, wo Phänomene wie die Hippiekultur auf Ibiza, Goa, Bali und Hawaii, das Leben mit dem Outlaw Motorrad-Club in Florida sowie das Ambiente einer Opiumhöhle im indischen Bombay beschrieben werden. Durchsetzt ist der Roman immer wieder mit selbstreflexiven Betrachtungen zum Drogenkonsum, zur Kriminalität und nicht zuletzt zum (Un-)Sinn des Lebens, etwa anlässlich des Besuchs eines Ashrams in Indien. »Wahnsinn!«, sagte er, und ich wusste nicht, ob er damit die Schwierigkeiten meinte, bei dem Wind die Zigaretten anzuzünden, ob er von dem Motorradausflug sprach, oder ob er gar das Leben an sich meinte. Es blieb sich gleich, es war jede Menge Wahnsinn um uns und in uns, und ich war vollkommen seiner Meinung.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2019Enseñemos paz, aprendamos paz: la pedagogía al servicio de la cohesión social
by Juan David Enciso
Peace is an idea, an abstract concept, which must be grounded in concrete realities. And building peace involves moving from an initial state, which may or may not be conflict, to a second moment in which people have learned to know, relate, meet, and live together. This book tries to elaborate on the construction of peace from an educational process, in which individuals learn to recognize themselves as subjects of equal dignity and with the capacity to carry out projects oriented to the common good. Similarly, educational settings, the so-called learning environments, are not confined exclusively to the walls of the classroom or the boundaries of formal education institutions: peace education occurs in any environment in which two or more coincide. people with potential conflicts of interest or collective construction.
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The environmentJune 2020The Secret Green of Rome: Discovering plants, animals and green spots
by Elisa Agnoni
Un viaggio insolito e originale alla scoperta di aspetti speciali e autentici di Roma, una città che respira grazie ai suoi angoli verdi e alle sue riserve naturali. Cinque itinerari che partiranno da ambienti naturali, come boschi, prati e colline, ricchi di piccoli animali e piante, per finire con storie di giovani che, per amore dell'ambiente, si guadagnano da vivere con l'agricoltura e le terre conquistate, mantenute con coraggio e forza.
