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It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
The book is designed as an introductory undergraduate and graduate course for engineering, science and mathematics students of all desciplines. The Numerical Methods book covers all the major aaspects such as numerical computation; linear system of equations; solutions of algenric and transcendental equations; numerical differentiation; finite differences and interpolation; curve fitting, regression and correlation; numerical integration; and solutions of ordinay and partial differential equations. This book is written in simple and easy language, in systematic manner, student-friendly and numerical problem solving orientation. Balance is maintained between theory and its examples. Each concept can be justified with the help of examples (which is unavailable in other books) as student may come dilemma to find the solution of the concept from other books. So learning is with the help of examples, as examples are the best source to learn and remember that particular problem. At the end of chapters, excercise questions are given.
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WHALE ON A BEACHWritten by Vinko Möderndorfer Whale on a Beach is a story about differentness, normality and about the many struggles involved in growing up for modern-day teenagers, caught between family and peers. Theatrical premiere in Ljubljana in September 2018. Nika, a lively, curious teenager, moves house with her parents. She goes to a new school now, in a new place with new classmates. All seems lovely and just as it should be. Nika is popular, she makes friends easily; she is outgoing and witty. But it turns out that she keeps a secret; a secret that quickly gets out of the bag and will now change the lives of everyone around her... This heartwarming story about accepting difference is bound to appeal to young adults and adults, too. Winner of the Desetnica Award 2017, IBBY Honour List 2018. Format: 14 x 20 cm224 pages | Age: 12+
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JUST LIKE A FILMWritten by Vinko MöderndorferIllustrated by Damijan Stepančič Gašper’s parents are getting a divorce. His mother moves out, and his father takes Gašper to stay with Max. Gašper has never seen this old man before, but he and Max become friends, and this leads to a new astonishing revelation which turns Gašper’s world upside down. Winner of all the top awards for YA literature in Slovenia (Blue Bird Award, Desetnica,Večernica). Nominated for the Book Trust fund. Format: 14 x 20 cm340 pages | Age: 10+
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Winner of THE KRESNIK AWARD 2020 for the best novel in Slovenia. Rights sold to Croatia, Serbia, Albania and China! IVANA IN FRONT OF THE SEA (Ivana pred morjem) The narrator returns from Paris, where she has created a home for herself, to the Primorje region in Slovenia in order to clear the apartment that belonged to her late mother for a serious buyer, and in a heap of yellowed photographs she finds a picture of her grandmother, holding her five-year old mother’s hand, whilst her other hand lies on her pregnant stomach. The year it was taken, 1943, was one of troubling events and rapid change. What happened to the unborn child? Through a number of parallel stories taking place at different times and generations of one family, Veronika Simoniti’s novel presents the reader with the collective past and individual fates. These move between Paris and Primorska, also stopping in Gorenjska, Ljubljana and many other places, even in Serbia as refugees, but all this movement cannot break the human bonds. Even the hard times after the war are written about in the author’s gentle manner, looking from ever new standpoints at what we share. A beautiful novel about unattractive times and things.
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Nominated for The Kresnik Award in 2019 (Award for the best novel in Slovenia). The first body of a man is discovered by the police in a prestigious city quarter, in the villa belonging to one of the most successful lawyers in Rome. This murder is followed by a traffic accident at the other end of Rome and a suicide of a mafia boss in prison. But coincidences exist only in novels, says the chief police investigator. By examining the events behind the scenes, Pogodba, through juicy language, lively dialogues and unexpected plot twists takes the reader into the very heart of mafia activities. The detectives, prosecutors, journalists and politicians often share past connections. Their love affairs and friendships are interwoven with their professional duties, and the lines between where the state ends and the mafia begins, are very fuzzy.
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THE FIRST LADY (Prva dama) This novel is a reworking, in minimalist style and condensed manner, of the Biblical story of the beautiful Bathsheba and King David. The king’s “controversial” wife is an archetypal femme fatale, who is aware of her charms also in an emancipatory sense and, regardless of the means and victims, in an almost mathematically calculating way exchanges them for a “better” life – marriage to the educated king loved by his people and through this a climb up the social ladder, a better position, and consequently better pay and independence. Although Bathsheba’s life seems like a fairy tale, inside her grows a nagging feeling of guilt. Using fate and god as an excuse does not bring her peace, but pushes her towards self-destructive behaviour.
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BLACK CROWWritten by Janja Vidmar While getting used to living in London and attending school there, Jan comes across Hiba, a Syrian refugee who managed to escape the claws of the Islamic State. After a terrorist attack on the London Underground in which his father was wounded, Jan directs all his hatred and disappointment at Hiba. He sets off a sequence of events that st rongly affect him, his friends and family. Jan’s story is just one of many interwoven ones, in which we meet both London hooligans and young people at Islamic State training camps, in war zones and crisis spots in various parts of the world, as well as refugees on the Balkanrefugee route.Format: 14 x 20 cm250 pages | Age: 14+Nominated for the Večernica, Levstik and Desetnica Award in 2019.
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Aljoša Bagola, Slovenia’s highly acclaimed and most awarded advertising creative director, an excellent storyteller and popular lecturer and columnist, speaks frankly about dealing with burnout in the book How to Burn Out. Much like his work, his recent book titled How to burn out (and take life into your own hands) brought a creatively powerful, highly engaging and entertaining insight into modern well-being due to his recent experience with burnout. The book took the bestselling charts by storm. It became the fastest-selling book of past years in Slovenia, having three reprints in first couple of months and holding no.1 best-selling spot for six consecutive months since its’ release. With lucid turns of thought and clever plays on words, he masterfully takes us through inspiring life stories, startling realizations, unexpected insights and unconventional reflections on how to deal effectively with the craziness of the modern world and still find a glimmer of comfort, calm and optimism. As modern readers are pleading for experiencebased, problem-solving literature, and because the proportions of burnout make the subject matter relevant in almost any western country, this also makes for a strong business case. “So let’s not strive too hard for greatness. Let’s not bother too much about our legacy, let’s not travel with too much luggage, let’s not surrender to needless suffering. The meaning of life is not in what you leave behind, but in what life leaves in you.”
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White Raven 2020. Winner of the Blue Bird Award 2020. One evening, Črt sees a mysterious shadow in the sky through the window of his room. Is what he sees really a dragon? He wants to share this unusual experience with his friend Vid, but there is no opportunity at all, since Vid wants to share the news of the exciting discovery with him as well. A mysterious map came into the hands of his two new friends, and this fires the imagination of the children. They immediately find themselves in the midst of a thrilling adventure which involves thieves, a dragon slayer, a scientist, a detective and lots of mums and dads. And a dragon... Simona Semenič, who until now was mostly known as an award-winning playwright, has created a suspenseful and multifaceted story, with extremely vivid characters, an interesting writer’s perspective, humour, and a wealth of literary references. A masterfully written story. The book is a true literary gem. Format: 14 x 20 cm, 312 pages | Age: 9+
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PIMPLES, LOVE, AND OTHER LIFE PROBLEMSWritten by Urška Kaloper During puberty, the body changes, and so does the way we experience ourselves and the world. We encounter our first loves, and the first disappointments that inevitably follow. How to cope? Ana, Nina, Miha, Luka, Nika, Eva, Maja and Tina also have a whole bunch of problems growing up, but they deal with them in a fun as well as instructive way. Pick up this book and join them! Their stories will certainly help you solve many problems. Format: 16,5 x 23,8 cm202 pages | Age: 11+
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MY NAME IS DAMIANWritten by Suzana Tratnik Damian’s world is one of family quarrels, drugs, alcohol and fights, which the nineteenyear-old uses to rebel against his family’s stereotypical expectations. Through Damian’s first-person narration, the reader gains an insight into the torn-up soul of a teenager who turns in vain to his parents, sister, girlfriend and friends for help. It reveals the loneliness of a young man who has to fight against the prejudices and prescribed gender roles that he encounters while trying to find his identity and his own path in life. Format: 14 x 20 cm174 pages | Age: 15+
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I AM ANDREJWritten by Vinko MöderndorferIllustrated by Jure Engelsberger Fifteen-year old Andrej has started a new school and has lots of problems. It starts with his name, then the fact that his parents are divorced, plus he’s supposed to be popular … But it is not all bad. He makes friends with the unique Sonja. Gradually, life gets better and better … Nominated for the Desetnica Award in 2019 Format: 14 x 20 cm184 pages | Age: 12+
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THE PESKY TRIO: THAT DOOR SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OPENEDWritten by Andrej E. SkubicIllustrated by Tanja Komadina Liam and Tomaž really like to play tricks on Petra, Julija and especially Lija, who they think is clumsy. At the beginning of this series, which talks about the everyday life of children who are good friends, we come across them slinging dirt clods and teasing. It turns out that the friendship is not yet all that solid and that Lija, Tomaž and Liam – the Pesky Trio – are about to experience many trials and tribulations. Format: 14 x 20 cm72 pages | Age: 6+
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THE PESKY TRIO: PESTS FROM THE WARDROBEWritten by Andrej E. SkubicIllustrated by Tanja Komadina What a scare Lija gets from a puppet made out of clothes by her sister Adela! The Pesky Trio decide to strike back. What will happen? Sometimes a “joke” can cause real fear. How to act when you are being intimidated? Format: 14 x 20 cm72 pages | Age: 6+
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The life story of BORIS PAHOR (1913), a Slovene writer and centenarian, is at the same time a story about one of the most turbulent centuries in human history. With his clear standpoints and engagement, the author has always challenged current authorities and found himself in some of the most difficult situations of the 20th century. That’s How I Lived is also a story about Trieste and the lives of the people who moved there from rural areas, about the sad fates of Pahor’s patriotic friends and, of course, about his own Calvary through the Third Reich’s concentration camps. It offers an insight into Pahor’s private life, his first experiences of love and the first meetings with people with similar intellectual views and allies. The reader follows Pahor through his much-noticed conflicts with Slovene politicians and his activities on the international stage in favour of the rights of minority cultures. The narrative is supplemented with documents and photographs.
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TITO AND HIS COMRADES (TITO IN TOVARIŠI) A new light on familiar events – the most comprehensive presentation of Josip Broz Tito.Jože Pirjevec’s book presents Tito’s life story and the background to his political rise, which was closely connected with the life and political activities of his “comrades”. In revealing new dimensions of the leading creators of the second Yugoslavia, with Tito at the helm, the author draw upon documents kept in private and state archives in Ljubljana and other capitals of the former Yugoslav republics, while he also researched the available archive materials in Washington, New York, Moscow, Berlin, Cairo and New Delhi, as well as the archives of the Slovene and foreign intelligence services, such as Stasi and the KGB. Rich pictorial material.
