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Strange Days Books, Social Cooperative Enterprise
Strange Days Books is a social cooperative publishing firm based in Crete, Greece. Since 2012 we have published almost 100 books. Every year we organize Sand Festival, an online Writers’ Workshop and - in cooperation with www.eyelands.gr literary magazine - the one and only international short story competition based in Greece, plus our International Book Awards. In 2019 SDB was the only publishing house in Greece to receive approval by the European Union’s Creative Europe translation funding program for its project "Strange Days in Europe”. Strange Days Books is an entirely independent publisher, primarily interested in showcasing the wealth of new writing voices in Greece. We work closely with our authors to create books that will appeal to booklovers, books about the present, books that strive to push the art of literature forward, books written with talent and passion, books that challenge the way we see the world, books bursting with new ideas and intriguing perspectives.
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September 2016Erfolgreich denken lernen - Meine Warren-Buffett-Bibel
Die Grundsätze des Starinvestors
by Bloch, Robert L. / Englisch Schmalen, Elisabeth
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Agronomy & crop productionApril 2015The Nature of Crops
How we came to eat the plants we do
by Professor John Warren
Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops John Warren reveals: -Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; -Why red-flowering runner beans provide fewer beans than white-flowering; -The inherent dangers of being a pineapple worker; and -Why a bird will always beat you in a chilli pepper eating competition!
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureApril 2015The Nature of Crops
How we came to eat the plants we do
by John Warren
Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops John Warren reveals: -Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; -Why red-flowering runner beans provide fewer beans than white-flowering; -The inherent dangers of being a pineapple worker; and -Why a bird will always beat you in a chilli pepper eating competition! ; Our ancestors chose to cultivate some plant species and not others. Through years of association with humans, these wild plants have been changed so that the crops we eat often hardly resemble their wild progenitors. Arranged into broad themes depicting the history of domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 40 crops. ; 1: Introduction: The Nature of Natural - What does domestication involve?2: Wild Things - Recently domesticated crops and crops that have returned to the wild3: Learning to Live with Exotic Sexual Practices - How plant breeding systems limit domestication4: Storing up Trouble - Plants with storage organs5: The Weird and Wonderful - Herbs, spices and crops with exotic phytochemicals6: Accidents of History - The role of chance events in domestication7: Classic Combinations and Reoccurring Themes - Plant families that have been repeatedly domesticated8: Ownership and Theft - How the economic value of crops has influenced their domestication9: Fifty Shades of Green - Nutrient rich crops and the next generation
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureMarch 1905How to Cook Fish
by Myrtle Reed
This book is a collection of recipes for fish cooking.
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June 1986Frau Warrens Beruf
Stück in vier Akten
by George Bernard Shaw, Martin Walser
Frau Warrens Beruf gehört zu den Unerquicklichen Stücken Shaws. Es wurde bereits 1894 geschrieben, jedoch nicht sofort von der Zensur verboten und erst 1903 in einer privaten Aufführung der Stage Society in London zugelassen. Die erste öffentliche Aufführung fand 1905 in New York statt, wo nach einem tumultartigen Premierenabend gleich die Hauptdarsteller verhaftet wurden. Um welche Laster geht es hier? »Die Gründe, aus denen dieses Stück verboten und danach heftig umstritten wurde, kann man als viktorianische oder britische oder bürgerliche Heuchelei mißverstehen. Die Gegner dieses Stücks mögen selber geglaubt haben, sie kämpften gegen ein Stück, in dem die Prostitution verteidigt wird. In Wirklichkeit haben sie gegen ein Stück gekämpft, in dem die Prostitution erklärt wird; erklärt als ein Beruf, in dem die Ausbeutung der Frau deutlich wird. Mögen sie geglaubt haben, Sitte und Anstand gegen dieses Stück in Schutz nehmen zu müssen, sie haben in Wirklichkeit reagiert auf die Darstellung eines Geschäfts«, schrieb Martin Walser anlässlich seiner Neuübersetzung des Stücks.
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Food & DrinkThe Golden Book of Home Cooking
by Food & Life Studio
The Golden Book of Home Cooking is a beautifully printed cookbook with over 400 different approachable Chinese food recipes. The book collects recipes from the 10-year accumulation of seven food bloggers with more than 10 million followers, including Yuan Zhuzhu, Mi Tang, Xie Wanyun, Meng Xiangjian, Die Er, Liang Fengling and Cook Chen. Accompanied with audios of 419 recipes, videos of 84 recipes, and nearly 100 health tips, the book offers the first "visible and audible" grand feast to household chefs through a combination of media, allowing them to enjoy the benefits of technology and cook with love and passion.
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November 1983Reise um die Welt
by Georg Forster, Gerhard Steiner, Gerhard Steiner
Georg Forster nahm als 17jähriger an der aufsehenerregenden zweiten Weltumsegelung (1772-1775) von James Cook teil, die in die Südsee führte. Sein 1777 publizierter Reisebericht begeisterte die Zeitgenossen. Wegweisend für alle nachfolgenden Reisebeschreibungen, fasziniert Forsters Buch durch die glanzvolle Schilderung fremder Kulturen noch heute. Die vollständige Ausgabe des epochalen Reiseberichts
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2021Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
by J. Anderson
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medievalMarch 2005Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
by J. J. Anderson
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.
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Does Movement Really Make Us Smart?
by Petra Jansen, Stefanie Richter
Media reports often praise movement as a cure-all. But apart from its undisputed positive effect on health, does movement really make us smarter? Consider a national football team, for example – are these excessively sports-driven players automatically the smartest people? Should we simply replace all school subjects with sports? The authors provide a detailed summary of the latest scientific findings on the influence of movement on cognitive ability. They describe the effects of movement, on old age, embodiment, emotion, school as well as other factors that influence cognition. Target Group: teachers, lecturers, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychotherapists, movement therapists.
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January 1989In Memoriam S. Fischer
24. Dezember 1859-1959
by Herausgegeben von B. Fischer, Brigitte; Herausgegeben von Bermann Fischer, Gottfried
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September 2001Der Fischer Atlas Medien
Fakten Trends Zusammenhänge
by Donald, Stephanie; Balvanes, Mark; Donald, James
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