A tiger in Africa? You must be kidding. But, wait! Little Asian Tiger Tigris is there strolling! This book tells about his adventure. But if you don't believe, ask the lions for further.
You will Enter through a Door consists of 19 essays on contemporary Turkish cinema, which invite the reader to contemplate Turkey's distant and close, chronic and novel, painful and benumbing problems through cinematic fiction. With essays on the films of prominent directors such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Fatih Akın, Kutluğ Ataman, Reha Erdem, Zeki Demirkubuz, Semih Kaplanoğlu, and a number of young directors, this book can be read as a guide to Turkish cinema, both in its mainstream and arthouse incarnations. Contributions by Meltem Ahıska, Barış Engin Aksoy, Feride Çiçekoğlu, Bülent Diken, Boğaç Ergene, Meltem Gürle, Karin Karakaşlı, Sema Kaygusuz, Özlem Köksal, Nazan Maksudyan, Fatih Özgüven, Mithat Sancar, Asuman Suner, Yeşim Tabak, Ebru Çiğdem Thwaites, Nejat Ulusay, Mesut Yeğen, and Fırat Yücel.
"Time Traveler Kreta" is a science-fiction children's book that tells the effects of our consumption habits on the climate crisis to children aged 8 and above, through the adventures of two alien friends, Kreta and Shiva. While the text is based on the climate crisis, topics such as sustainability, how the world works, time and space, exploration, scientific and technological progress are also covered. The adventurous Earth journey of Kreta and Shiva progresses in a fictional reality that emerges with the narration of scientific data about the climate crisis and ends with proposals for solutions. Kreta, an inquisitive and excited time traveller, want to embark on every adventure without thinking about the end and thus become an experienced time traveller. Once Kreta gains enough experience, they will find their profession and acquire new skills. On the other hand, their friend Shiva is a mature, somewhat lazy, poet alien cat who tries to rein in Kreta in every adventure. Kreta and Shiva travel to the planet Earth to meet humans, but they encounter strange creatures that are not human-like: dinosaurs! Yes, they find the Earth, but they are at the wrong time to meet people. They don't get along well with the dinosaurs and leave Earth, but Kreta is determined to find humans. When they try their luck once again, this time, they go to the 2070s of the world. Despite technological progress, they encounter a dark and hot planet where oxygen and water are scarce. In the world of the 2070s, among robots and other strange creatures, they finally find a human being: Omer. What they learn from Omer, an engineer specializing in climate research, surprises Kreta and Shiva. In the 2070s, the world is struggling with the effects of a big problem called climate change, and this problem cannot be solved. In the light of this information, a brand new task comes before Kreta and Shiva. This mission is to go back to the 2010s, the deadline when the climate crisis can be averted, and deliver a video message to the people. When Kreta and Shiva reach the world of the 2010s, they accidentally land in the middle of Omer's birthday party. Their aim is to deliver the video message to Omer, but during the party, they fail to do so, and they start following Omer. Both at the birthday party and while they follow Omer, Kreta and Shiva witness the culture of waste in the World of the 2010s: huge vehicles designed for people's tiny bodies, aeroplanes, plastic packaging used to present gifts, decorations, single-use plastic serving plates and glasses and vast amounts of waste food... Kreta and Shiva understand why they have been teleported to this date when problems of the 2070s could have been prevented. Kreta and Shiva eventually find Omer in an enormous hotel where his Youtuber mother is visiting for a launching event. They have funny moments when they introduce themselves to Omer. Yet, they manage to deliver the video to Omer and tell him about the problems that will happen in the future. However, when he watched the video, Omer realizes that the problem cannot be solved immediately. He thinks that he cannot persuade other people, either alone or as a child; he cannot change their consumption habits. He tries to ask his mother for her support, but he can't make his mother, who is always busy, listen to him. Kreta and Shiva decide to stay a little longer and help Omer, and they achieve their goals in the launching meeting of Omer's mother. They manage to show the video to thousands of people. The fact that most of the viewers are children is a great advantage because they understand the climate change problem best. Children do not remain silent to the call of the message and take action for the Earths future. The book's pedagogical structure and the scientific data on which it is based were established with experts in these fields. The reading of scientific data was done by the engineer members of the Sustainability Steps Association. The reading in the pedagogical context was carried out by PCG Teachers. The video mentioned in the story is embedded in the book via QR code and can be watched with English subtitles on Youtube.
Winner of the 2020 Biblioteca Breve Prize.Bea Silva is shocked when she comes across an article in the newspaper that says someone has stolen the embalmed skull of the legendary silent film director F.W. Murnau. What’s most surprising is that Bea is convinced she knows who the thief is: Quirós, an underemployed filmmaker who one day showed up at her enormous ramshackle house.At almost thirty-two, Beatriz is a somewhat aloof college professor, weary of life and almost pathologically erudite. The arrival of Quirós brings out her lucid, hyperactive side and sets her up for a wildly unhinged fall.
Global warming has reached its peak; the area between the tropics of Cancer and Capriciorn is so hot it can no longer support human or animal life. People are dying or moving north and south to cooler climates, which have closed their borders as they cannot cope with increased populations. Violence is widespread. James Laffoy,earth scientist, has failed to persuade the powers to take drastic action before it's too late. He retreats to his late father's uninhabited island off the west coast of ireland and, over a number of years, with a small number of like minded people, prepares for the worst. Can they survive in a world that's closing down rapidly?
42 poem pairs and 2 single poems jotted down by the poet in idyllic quiet moments in her 5 acre wild garden, inhabited by buck and other wildlife. A portion of ruled pages allows the reader to write his or her own thoughts and musings.
Eamon’s newfound happiness is shattered by the kind of murder that the government doesn’t want to believe happens anymore. Detective Maclean thinks he has the killer, but something worse than a body has been found beneath the waters of The Minch, something that should never have been brought to the surface, and now it is not just TV crews that are watching the village. This novel is the second in a series set in and around the village of Duncul.
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was held in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Scheduled for August 15–17 on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of southern New York State, northwest of New York City, it ran over to Monday, August 18. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel. Located in Sullivan County, Bethel is 43 miles (70 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock in adjoining Ulster County
1189: craftsman’s daughter Aveline joins the Third Crusade in thehope of gaining absolution for a grave sin. Circumstances forceher to pose as an archer named Avery as she joins Emperor Barbarossa’sarmy. When she is wounded outside Acre, a city passionatelydefended by Saladin’s men under governor Karakush, sheconfides in Étienne, a crippled, young barber-surgeon. He keepsher secret and they fall in love, but their love proves dangerouswhen Aveline’s past catches up with her. They soon realise thattheir worst enemy is not among the Saracens but within their ownranks.
The Sandia National Laboratories asked the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to hold a one-day symposium to review Sandia's proposal to develop a science and technology park. In light of the importance of industry-laboratory cooperation for the STEP Board's project on Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies, the Board convened a workshop bringing together executive branch officials, congressional staff, representatives from the private sector, and regional economists to discuss the Sandia S&T park initiative. The Sandia S&T Park, which Sandia National Laboratories, the City of Albuquerque, and the State of New Mexico are jointly developing, is a 285 acre site located adjacent to Sandia National Laboratories. Groundbreaking for the park took place in May, 1999.
Desert Rites XueMo Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Desert Rites is a realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.It takes the author Xue Mo twenty years to write this novel.There are no great figures in this book.What touches people most are those scenes that depict little details in daily life.and those parts about the struggle of soul that each life goes through when confronted with sufferings from reality. The whole book was written in a Tolstoy-like style,Focusing on vividly depicting the characters’psychological life.It faithfully chronicled a reforming era and one year’s life of a farmer family in western China.For example,faced with life’s hardship,faced with love that is unlikely to come to fruition,Lingguang, the hero of the book, witnessed a family’s history of suffering,and witnessed the souls of a Generation who were in hopeless silence and helpless struggle on the land of western China. Finally, under the helpless trace,Lingguang chose to leave his hometown,heading towards the solitude in mind that no one ever know.The whole novel portrays human nature in ordinary life, and is a representative work of realism in contemporary Chinese literature that faithfully records the customs and cultures of western China. Untill now,five different publishers have published different versions of Desert Rites in China . The following people will like this book:Those who want to know what the society and people’s life were actually like in 1970s China,and those who want to break the “magical spell” of life to elevate their life to a higher level.
On October 11, 2000, a breakthrough of Martin County Coal Corporation’s coal waste impoundment released 250 million gallons of slurry in near Inez, Kentucky. The 72-acre surface impoundment for coal processing waste materials broke through into a nearby underground coal mine. Although the spill caused no loss of human life, environmental damage was significant, and local water supplies were disrupted. This incident prompted Congress to request the National Research Council to examine ways to reduce the potential for similar accidents in the future. This book covers the engineering practices and standards for coal waste impoundments and ways to evaluate, improve, and monitor them; the accuracy of mine maps and ways to improve surveying and mapping of mines; and alternative technologies for coal slurry disposal and utilization. The book contains advice for multiple audiences, including the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the Office of Surface Mining, and other federal agencies; state and local policymakers and regulators; the coal industry and its consultants; and scientists and engineers.
Frank and Marjorie Lawley have spent almost 40 years at Herterton House, a 16th century farmhouse on the Wallington Estate, near Cambo (birthplace of Capability Brown) in Northumberland. When they leased Herterton from the National Trust in 1976, the Lawleys took on a series of derelict farm buildings. This highly original and personal book describes in detail how, with patience and passion, they restored Herterton House and created an exquisite and unique garden. As well as discussing the practicalities involved, it also describes the influences and the lifetime of thinking behind their achievement. Within its mere acre, the garden at Herterton House provides more visual interest and more interesting plants (plants you can also buy from its small nursery) than many gardens twenty times its size. It also stimulates visitors to think about what plants to use and how to use them, about the history of English gardens, about the relation of the past to the present and about the relation of a garden to the landscape around it. This stunning book records and celebrates Frank and Marjorie's achievement over four decades at Herterton House. With photographs by Val Corbett and an introduction by Charles Quest-Ritson.
A great title showing the joy of yoga with practical tips!Can you roar like a lion? Stand tall like a mountain? Written by a certified children’s yoga instructor, this is wonderful illustrated guide to yoga, containing 14 great poses for kids. Starting with simple poses and building to more difficult ones, this book will allow young readers to develop a routine that they can practise daily – a great habit for the rest of their lives.
Everything has started with the question:“Where’s the happiness?”I wonder if where the happiness was.Was it a gem that would come out from a treasure chest?Or was it hidden inside the house?It could be on the hook, though…Why did everyone have a different answer to thisquestion?My grandfather said, “The happiness is in the heart ofhuman.”Now I understand what happiness means. To some, itis his family; to some it’s the colors of nature; to some it’slove; and to some it’s faith…
This book tells the story of the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area, a 240-acre preserve surrounded by housing developments in Fort Collins, Colorado. This small grassland is a remnant of the once-vast prairies of the West that early European explorers and settlers described as seas of grass. Agricultural land use and urban expansion during the past two centuries have fragmented and altered these prairies. All that remains today are small islands. These remnants cannot support some of the larger animals that once roamed the prairie, but they continue to support a diverse array of plants and animals and can still teach us much about grassland ecology. Through her examinations of daily changes during walks across the Fromme Prairie over the course of a year, Ellen Wohl explores one of the more neglected ecosystems in North America, describing the geology, soils, climate, ecology, and natural history of the area, as well as providing glimpses into the lives of the plants, animals, and microbes inhabiting this landscape. Although small in size, pieces of preserved short-grass prairie like the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area are rich, diverse, and accessible natural environments deserving of awareness, appreciation, and protection. Anyone concerned with the ecology and conservation of grasslands in general, the ecology and conservation of open space in urban areas, or the natural history of Colorado will be interested in this book.
Hello My friend! What do you want to be when you grow up? I'm goingto be a doctor. Wait a second! Maybe I'll be a soldier. How about to be lawyeror architect? Or should I be a tailor? I wonder if I should be a writer andwrite various kinds of books ... Oh, how difficult to make decision on yourprofession ... Well, before you decide, how about you get to know theprofessions? If you say "I'm all in for it"; You will see how Ümit, who fliespaper planes, became a pilot, the intricacies of cooking with Kerim, what theagricultural engineer does, the devoted scientists, and learn what theywonder about the professions. So are you ready to explore the professions! ..
As editor and executive editor of the Ravenna-Kent Record-Courier, Loris C. Troyer has been a pivotal figure in Portage County, Ohio, for over sixty years. Since retiring, he has written a weekly historical column entitled “Portage Pathways” on topics ranging from historical landmarks and events to eminent or interesting people to politics, society, and the value of recording local history. This book collects over 140 of his most memorable essays, illustrated with historical photographs.Troyer joined the Record-Courier staff as a reporter in 1936. In 1940 he reported that the federal government was secretly acquiring land east of Ravenna. That land was later used to build a 22,000-acre arsenal which became Portage County's biggest employer during periods of high activity and provided ammunition during World War II, the Korean War, and the war in Vietnam. Himself a graduate of Kent State University, Troyer reported university developments from the 1930s, when only a few hundred students were enrolled, to the 1990s, with the multi-campus complex serving over 25,000 students. As editor at the time of the May 4, 1970, shootings, he provided leadership as the paper struggled to explain the incident and its aftermath.Troyer's work has put him in contact with thousands of individuals who helped shape Portage County over much of the twentieth century, and his column is one of the best-read features of the Record-Courier. His years of acquired knowledge, steady perspective, and sense of humor are apparent in these essays.
He’s handsome. He’s charming. He’s a total gentleman … and he’s totally outgunned and outnumbered. He’s Michael Patrick Obañon. He is faced with a vicious claim jumper. Can he outwit this band of outlaws in the old west. Obañon’s lost his inheritance—a 100,000-acre New Mexico spread—and he could lose his life if he’s not careful. A ruthless band of renegades have seized his land, and he’s determined to get it back. Obañon’s got one secret weapon: his fierce intelligence. He can’t outshoot the outlaws, so he’ll have to find a way to outwit them…. Part Irish, part Mexican, Michael Patrick Obañon is as American as they come—crafty, confident, and cool under fire. It may be one man against the world, but before he’s done the world will know how the West will be won. In the 1930s a radio program, Writers and Readers, hosted by Bob de Haven, delivered news of the hottest authors of the day—interviewing the writers behind the stories. Here’s how he promoted an upcoming broadcast with L. Ron Hubbard: “He has placed in print a million and a half words. He is a quantity producer, well paid and in constant demand. He has outlined some valuable information on his lead novelette … Six-Gun Caballero.” It is an introduction to Hubbard that is as pertinent now as it was then. “Hubbard uses the traditional Western form to tell a challenging and unpredictable story, where the hero outwits his attackers instead of merely having to outshoot them … so intelligent and suspenseful.” —SomebodyDies.com
“Ibrahim Nasrallah” Born in 1954 in Amman Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents, who were forced to leave Palestine in 1948. This background gave Nasrallah the drive to investigate and research Palestinians life and experience in the occupied lands and around the world. Nasrallah wrote 35 books. He is considered the leading Palestinian writer and one of the few current prominent Arab writers. His work culminated in winning the Booker prestigious Book Prize for Arabic Novel in 2018. Over the Years, Nasrallah won another 9 important Literature prizes in the Middle East. Many of his Titles were translated to English/ Italian / Spanish and Turkish Lanterns of the King Of Galilee What you believe of is not my concern, what I care about is your deeds: constructing or destructing, being just or unjust, loving or hating, liberating people or enslaving them, spreading security among people or unleashing fear monsters to eat their hearts? Dhaher Al-Omar In the eighteenth century, and on the shores of Lake Tiberias and the mountains of Galilee, Nazareth, and Acre, a man from the public started a journey towards the most noble target one can pursue: to liberate the land, achieve independence, and establish an Arab state in Palestine. By doing so, this man was challenging the rule of the greatest empire at that time, the Ottoman Empire, and challenging its supremacy over three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa. His name was: Dhaher Al-Omar Al-Zeidani; the territories of his Palestine state stretched to include Palestine and many areas beyond. The novel travels between Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Istanbul combining history with ethics and the everlasting questions of love, death, fate and the essence of the man-nature relationship. The novel is a deep reflection on the actual and spiritual history of Palestine,and moreover, for renouncing hereditary rule and foreign control.
