Fonfon holds its talented authors and illustrators in high regard and embraces a vision of sustainability, releasing only a limited number of new publications each year to ensure a focus on carefully curated and beautifully crafted stories that will keep appealing to children’s imaginations for years to come.
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With 86 years publishing books covering a broad range of subject areas, Fondo de Cultura Económica is one of the leading publishing houses in Latin America. Over the course of the last twenty-nine years, the ten series of books for children and young adults published by our Children’s book division have included titles of the highest literary and visual quality, aimed at a critical and demanding readership. Our most innovative books have received important awards such as the New Horizons Award, and some of our titles have been listed in the White Ravens Catalogue and in the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) 50 Books/50 Covers. Several of our books for children and young adults have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Galician, Czech, Slovenian, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Swedish, Romanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, Greek and Turkish.
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Do you hear the wolves howling underneath the ground? They are buried waiting to be invoked by mother wolf, grandmother wolf and sister wolf. Only then, from the deepest side of the earth, they will rise. From a great explosion they will then be acknowledged as what they are: wolves, corn, wolf opossum, human wolves.
Down-to-earth and intensely practical, this book and video package provides step-by-step guidance on the essential clinical skills required by veterinary students before they face clinical situations encountered in the real world of the busy veterinary professional. - Contains step by step illustrations and photographs, complemented by videos of clinical procedures which can be viewed on your desktop, smartphone or tablet. - Covers the essential key skills that veterinary students need to know. - Details a whole range of techniques, from surgical, anaesthesia and laboratory through to everyday essential and diagnostic skills, in both farm and companion animals. - Describes in-depth the use of simulators in learning key skills. - Provides advice on preparing for OSCEs and practical exams. This book is the go-to manual for an essential grounding in key veterinary clinical skills for all students and educators of veterinary medicine and animal husbandry.
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This book provides a comprehensive guide to the various methods by which roundwood and the products of roundwood are measured around the world. It presents and compares many different log scaling methods in terms of procedures and conversion ratios. Topics covered include grading logs, log manufacturing quality, statistical sampling methods and methods for determining log yard inventories and mill log usage volume. Detailed tables of data, covering characteristics, and log weight to volume ratios, are presented for the main commercial timber species of the world. The drivers of roundwood product recovery are also discussed and illustrated with numerous graphs and tables.
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Backed by Brazil's wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. Driven by the former army captain's brand of controversial, aggressive rhetoric, the divisive presidential campaign saw fake news and misinformation shared with Bolsonaro's tens of millions of social media followers. Bolsonaro promised simple solutions to Brazil's rising violent crime, falling living standards and widespread corruption, but what has emerged is Latin America's most right-wing president since the military dictatorships of the 1970s. Famous for his racist, homophobic and sexist beliefs and his disregard for human rights, the so-called 'Trump of the Tropics' has established a reputation based on his polemical, sensationalist statements. Written by a journalist with decades of experience in the field, Beef, Bible and bullets is a compelling account of the origins of Brazil's unique brand of right-wing populism. Lapper offers the first major assessment of the Bolsonaro government and the growing tensions between extremist and moderate conservatives.
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Julio Cortázar wurde am 26. August 1914 in Brüssel geboren. Mit seinen argentinischen Eltern zog er im Alter von vier Jahren in einen Vorort von Buenos Aires. Er absolvierte dort an einer sogenannten »Escuela Normal« eine Ausbildung zum Grundschullehrer und nahm ein Universitätsstudium auf, das er aber er aus finanziellen Schwierigkeiten frühzeitig abbrechen musste. Er arbeitete dann als Lehrer in verschiedenen Provinzschulen und begann in dieser Zeit, sich ernsthaft dem Schreiben zuzuwenden. 1938 erschien ein erster Gedichtband, und 1944 veröffentlichte er seine erste Erzählung in einer Zeitschrift. Im selben Jahr erhielt er an der Universität von Mendoza (Argentinien) eine Dozentur für französische Literatur, aber schon 1946, aus Protest gegen den Wahlsieg Peróns, legte er sein Lehramt nieder. Er veröffentlichte weiter in Zeitschriften, ließ sich zum Übersetzer für Englisch und Französisch ausbilden und erhielt 1951 ein Stipendium des französischen Staates. Er ging nach Paris, wo er bis 1974 als Übersetzer für die UNESCO tätig war. In Paris verfasste er 1963 auch den Roman Rayuela (dt. Rayuela. Himmel und Hölle), der in den sechziger Jahren zum »Kultbuch« einer ganzen Generation von Intellektuellen und Studenten wurde. In Rayuela thematisiert er in provokanter Weise den künstlerischen Schaffensprozess, indem er neben der Handlung selbst »entbehrliche« Kapitel, wie er sie nennt, einfügt, in denen er die ästhetischen Prämissen des Buchs diskutiert. Seit Mitte der sechziger Jahre erschienen erste Übersetzungen seiner Erzählungen ins Englische, Französische, Italienische und Deutsche, und sein internationaler Ruf begann stetig zu wachsen. Es sind vor allem seine Erzählungen (die deutsche Gesamtausgabe, Die Erzählungen, erschien 1998 bei Suhrkamp), die Cortázar bald zu einem der originellsten und kreativsten Autoren Lateinamerikas machten. Seit den sechziger Jahren engagierte sich Cortázar, wie viele lateinamerikanische Intellektuelle, zunehmend politisch, unterstützte die kubanische Revolution, die Regierung Allendes und später auch die sandinistische Revolution in Nicaragua. Sein Gesamtwerk umfasst außer Romanen und Erzählungen auch Theaterstücke, Lyrik und verschiedene Bände mit Kurzprosa; es weist ihn als einen der bedeutendsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts aus. Julio Cortázar starb am 12. Februar 1984 in Paris. Elke Wehr, geboren 1946 in Bautzen und verstorben 2008 in Berlin, studierte Romanistik in Paris und Heidelberg. Zunächst konzentrierte sie sich auf Italienisch und Französisch, später legte sie ihren Schwerpunkt auf das Spanische. Seit den 1970er Jahren übersetzte sie spanische und lateinamerikanische Prosa ins Deutsche. Elke Wehr lebte in Madrid und Berlin.
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Cats are one of the most popular pets in the world, and as homes become smaller, and single-person households become more common, it is predicted that the numbers being bred and kept will only grow. In Feline Reproduction, the global author team cover all aspects of reproduction in the queen and the tom. Beginning with basic anatomy and normal reproduction, it goes on to cover practical knowledge about pregnancy, neonatal care, breeding soundness exams, and semen cryopreservation. It also includes an overview of factors, diseases, and abnormal conditions affecting reproduction, such as infertility, causes of abortion and contraception. Covering both pet patients and nondomestic species, this book provides a thorough grounding in feline reproduction for the general veterinary practitioner, veterinary student, animal scientist, and experienced cat breeder.
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Until recently, the production of fruits by plants, their consumption by animals (frugivory) and the relevance of these to seed dispersal have attracted less attention than topics such as pollination biology. However, since the 1970s they have started to gain more prominence and now give rise to more research funding, seminal papers and international symposiums. This book contains chapters adapted from the Third International Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal held in August 2000 in Rio Quente, Brazil.
