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      • Health & Personal Development

        The Art of Solitude: What I Think About When I'm on My Own

        by Desi Anwar

        If there is one thing that the Covid 19 Pandemic has taught us, it is how to deal with being alone. Quarantine and Social Distancing, while keeping us away from each other, has forced us to confront that person we normally have the least time for. Which is our own Self. The Self that we have neglected and ignored during our busy lives interacting with the outside world. In this book, a compilation of musings and random thoughts that the author captured during the time of the Corona, Desi Anwar tries to show that solitude is neither a torment nor an affliction to be feared and avoided. Indeed, when embraced in its fullness, solitude becomes an art that is both enlightening and therapeutic.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        The past does not exist

        Essay on history

        by Justo Serna

        What is history? At some point in time, it was  thought that it was a useless discipline, as if itwere only ornamental knowledge. Investigating about the recent or remote past is not a hobby, it is a practical activity that helps the individual and the community. But history can’t just tell  people what they want to hear. The past is inert, fatal, something that cannot be reproduced.The past does not exist but vestiges remain,  remnants of actions, traces of the past that areremembered with a current meaning, not always coinciding with what they had. In this book, Justo Serna makes a defense of the historian’s profession as a teacher and of history as a discipline, since the acquisition of a historical culture helps to know the kind of individuals we are or aspire to be.

      • Health & Personal Development

        OFFLINE Finding Yourself In The Age of Distractions

        by Desi Anwar

        This collection of reflections is to remind us of some of the things we can turn our distracted minds to, when we can direct our attention to what are in front of us, above us, and more importantly, within us, using all the senses that we were all born with. They are a rediscovery of some of the things we have forgotten how to do or have put aside in favour of our all consuming electronic toys, and an attempt to help us reconnect once more with our senses and our natural gifts.So, why not put your smart phones, tablets, games, gadgets and anything with a screen, down for a few minutes. Take a deep breath and look up. Because at the end of the day, it is not just any journey we are making, but a journey to discover and appreciate who we are and what makes us human.

      • September 2010

        Jake's Alchemy

        Out of Print

        by G.G. Royale

        Jake Sanders has a few days off from his Peace Corps responsibilities to celebrate the holiday, so he heads to the beach, where he meets a handsome surfer, Desi, who invites Jake to a barbecue. He's ready to have some fun and celebrate, but Jake has no idea how much happiness he’ll find in Desi. ;

      • The Cat With a Hat

        by Desi Ruge, Simon Ruge

        Originally, the Cat with a Hat wanted to travel to Hamburg. But then the train terminates in Stackeln an der Kruke. Because she likes this place, the Cat rents a house in Prune Alley which belongs to Director Mouthwipe and has remained empty for a long time. This is because Mister Mouthwipe had an unhappy childhood there which still lingers in its walls. Luckily, the Cat with a Hat agrees to bring a lot of joy with her when moving in. But this doesn't work when you're alone. Step by step other homeless creatures join her: a chicken, a lama, a centipede, a dog who sailed the seas as a captain and many more. Together they turn the house upside down until nothing of the unhappy childhood remains.

      • Menús para impresionar

        by Elena Segura

        Book with amazing recipes to surprise your guests accompanied by gastronomic curiosities

      • October 2019

        Semióticas del cine y del audiovisual

        by Juan Alberto Conde, Torben Grodal,Buckland, Warren, Oakley, Todd, Odin, Roger. Echeverri Jaramillo, Andrea. Díaz Roa, César Augusto. Duarte, German A. Ríos, Diego Felipe. Finol, José Enrique. Finol, David Enrique. Corral Cuartas, Álvaro. Sosa, Diego Hernando.

        El presente volumen reúne una serie de textos escritos y publicados en las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI, que abordan los problemas y objetos tradicionales de la semiótica fílmica y audiovisual, o que proponen nuevos objetos de indagación, nuevas preguntas. La primera parte está consagrada a las teorías generales, y en ella tiene preponderancia el denominado “giro cognitivo” de los estudios fílmicos, a partir de traducciones de textos inéditos en castellano: la teoría del flujo PECMA del investigador danés Torben Grodal; la semántica cognitiva aplicada a la interpretación audiovisual del británico Warren Buckland, o una nueva aproximación a la experiencia del espectador frente al dispositivo audiovisual por parte de Todd Oakley. En esta parte también se incluyen traducciones de dos textos de Roger Odin, pionero del enfoque semiopragmático, que permiten ver su pertinencia para abordar tanto problemas de la historia del cine y el audiovisual, como de sus manifestaciones contemporáneas.

      • Agriculture & farming
        January 2015

        Agrobiodiversity and Sustainable Rural Development

        by S.K. Soam & M.Balakrishnan

        In the present global scenario, biodiversity management draws the highest attention among researchers and development functionaries. This carries information on current status of plant and animal biodiversity, indigenous practices, landraces, traditional knowledge and gene bank conservation. Detailed account has been presented on major agricultural crops such as wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, organic pigeon pea, millets, niger and cottonon as to how can underutilize bioresources be brought under commercial umbrella. Sustainability cannot be ensured without animal bioresources, therefore s have been included on cattle, Indian livestock, poultry, native chickens, camelids etc., and also on pollinator faunas are included on monitoring methods for presence of adventitious presence of transgenes and xenobiotic monitoring. Community is the central point in sustainable agrobiodiversity management. The awareness, community strategies, social equity, conservation of local practices and community participation are the key words. The s have been included on indigenous practices for seed storage, conservation of traditional water tanks, tribal farmers knowledge & practices, role of women in conservation, organic practices, community seed networks, community pastures and public-private partnerships.

      • Children's & YA

        Treasury of Science Facts Series

        by Lee Sze Wai, Dylan Yap

        Treasury of Science Facts; Lower Block and Upper Block cover the 5 core Science themes of Diversity, Cycles, Energy, Systems and Interactions through lively and exciting photos, illustrations and diagrams. Each section comprehensively explores its subject matter, making these two books indispensable reference for Primary 3 to Primary 6 students doing their school projects or homework.

      • Fiction

        Cien noches (A hundred nights)

        by Luisgé Martín

        HERRALDE PRIZE 2020 - Approximately half of us confess to being sexually unfaithful to our partners. But are the other half telling the truth or are they lying?   There is only one way to find out: use private detectives or electronic surveillance to observe their lives. This novel proposes an anthropological experiment: to monitor six thousand people without their consent, so that we finally have reliable data about sexual behaviour in our societies. Irene, the novel’s protagonist, is searching for the secrets of the human soul in our sexuality. She travels from Madrid to Chicago to study psychology, and there, far from her family, she embarks upon a scientific analysis of the men she meets and the men she sleeps with. Her cold investigator’s gaze changes, however, when she falls in love with an Argentinian, Claudio, who has a painful secret and whose family has a dark past linked to his country’s history. Cien noches is a novel about the human heart, an exploration of our erotic lives, and the tale of police attempts to track down a murderer who has left no trace of his crime. Cien noches explores the different forms love can take, including its most radical and extreme versions, and the variety of our sexual behaviours, some of which are similarly radical and extreme. It records the loyalty, the infidelity, the unmentionable desires, taboos, half-truths and deceptions that are an essential part of our relationships. It talks of masks and lies. And it playfully incorporates a series of adultery case studies written for Luisgé Martín by Edurne Portela, Manuel Vilas, Sergio del Molino, Lara Moreno and José Ovejero, in a thought-provoking exercise in literary promiscuity.

      • Travel & Transport
        September 2022

        Under the Aurora Australis in the Antarctic

        My fifteen winters at the South Pole

        by Robert Schwarz

        Not many people would find spending a winter in a research station at the South Pole – one of the most inhospitable environments in the world – an attractive prospect. In winter, temperatures can sink to -80°C/-112.0°F, and darkness reigns for six months. On the other hand, however, you can see the most spectacular displays of polar lights in the world there, hear the echo of the Big Bang and discover what comradeship and teamwork really mean. Robert Schwarz, who spent more than thirteen and a half years at the South Pole, takes us with him to the amazing and unique world of the Antarctic.

      • Microbiology (non-medical)
        June 2023

        Principles of Plant Breeding

        by Hari Har Ram

        The present book entitled Principles of Plant Breeding is an introductory text book covering all the basic principles of plant breeding distributed over 32 chapters including both conventional and innovative plant breeding approaches. The book has an exhaustive glossary capturing all aspects related to plant breeding.

      • Fiction

        EVERNA Azure Sun

        Fireheart Legacy, Book Two

        by Andry Chang

        The Red Eagle flies to the Blue Sun. Terra Everna's epic future and epic fantasy continues. The journey of Robert, Cristophe and their friends gets them closer to the source of the series of terror that hits Everna. The source turns out to be a powerful demonic sword sealed in the azure sun, possessed by a powerful demon spirit named Vordac, the Absolute Lord of Darkness. Heroes gather at the Sacred Enia Temple. Their job is to prevent the agents of darkness from breaking the seal, sparking another Age of Darkness on Terra Everna. Fight on, Knights of Light! For Everna!

      • Biotechnology
        July 2021

        Flower Production and Gardening

        by P.K. Yadav & R.P.Singh

        Floriculture is a fast emerging and rapidly expanding industry through strong research and development. It covers all aspects related to commercial growing, marketing, arrangement of seeds and bulbs, plants, flowers etc. On the other hand gardening is all about the planning and planting of an area to secure a relationship between the landscape and plants to meet the human needs for beauty and function in the best way. The present title has been planned and designed to meet the long - felt need for a book covering major aspects of important floriculture crops. This book would serve as a reliable source of information about all the important and relevant aspects of floriculture and ornamental horticulture for various uses including production technology of export quality flowers to the persons who are associated with or working in floriculture with the latest information for further advancement. In this book important aspects of floriculture are explained in a concise and easy to understand format using simple and lucid language. Encompassing 32 chapters the book is a detailed summary of facts, figures yet in a comprehensive way.

      • Sustainable agriculture
        October 2016

        Integrated Farming System Practices

        by Sankarsana Nanda

        This book focuses on different practices of Integrated Farming System in eastern-India and for scaling up the technology for community need. It provides a detailed account of principles, challenges and opportunities in simpler yet compact manner for better understanding of the researchers and policy makers.

      • Fiction

        Twin Flame

        by Nish Amarnath

        TWIN FLAME is an inter-racial love story with literary overtones, multicultural stripes and strands of magical realism.   A South Asian Math prodigy’s wish for a boy in a painting to come alive materializes in the form of an Austrian-Jewish writer. But a troubling secret wrenches them apart, forcing them to confront their worst fears, if life is to give them one final chance. Sherry Kasal, diagnosed with type-1 diabetes at the age of five, hopes to draw upon her passion for Math to discover a cure for conditions like her own. She stumbles upon a painting of a boy trapped in a snowstorm. She talks to the boy in this picture whenever she's sad, frustrated, angry and/or dejected. When writer Shaddy Haas enters her life, Sherry is motivated to resume work on a concentric model of electromagnetism that she had abandoned as a teen. Alas, circumstances wrench Sherry and Shaddy apart. Sherry, who reluctantly marries a lawyer, lands in Manhattan, where she scrambles to pick up the vestiges of her shelved research dream and realizes that she’s living a lie. Sherry must also unravel a flabbergasting secret that links Shaddy to the painting of the boy in the snowstorm as they try to find their way back to each other.   Twin Flame, whose narrative is embedded with the alternating voices of its protagonists in both first-person and third-person points of view, combines the mystical ethos of Elif Shafak's 'Forty Rules of Love' with the futuristic cadence of Erich Segal's 'Prizes' and the exotic romanticism of Jan-Philipp Sendker's 'The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.'

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