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Gallimard Jeunesse
Founded in 1972, Gallimard Jeunesse now boasts a list of more than 4,000 titlesin both fiction and non-fiction, for young readers of all ages and reading levels,from the very first books for babies to great literary classics and bestsellingcontemporary titles. Over the years, our output has been a major stimulus for the children’s book industry in France, with readers, parents, booksellers, librarians and teachers trusting us to provide books of the highest quality in both print and digital format. Our list has a worldwide reputation for excellence and creativity.
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March 2018Reinterpreting Galileo
by William A. Wallace
A collection of papers to mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Galileo's Dialogue
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)May 2014The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
This anthology of literary works by Edgar Allen Poe contains The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Cask of Amontillado, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Tell-Tale Heart and Annabel Lee. - Illustrated with classic works by Harry Clarke and other famous artists.
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Historical fictionOscura e celeste
by Marco Malvaldi
From the bestselling author in Italy comes the only novel featuring Galileo. Florence, 1631. The Plague, the Inquisition. A young nun studies the skies above. Only a scientist can shed light in on the darkness of reason. Florence, 1631. Barely a century has passed since Martin Luther unraveled Christian unity. Europe is a battlefield. The Catholic Church’s fight against heresy is bitter and the plague that descended from the North rages throughout Italy. People are forced to stay inside their houses, doctors guard the streets, the Grand Duke of Tuscany allows only religious processions and blatant acts of penance. Only a grumpy old man, his vision now blurry, dares to defy the Grand Duke’s laws by going out, wearing a leather apron in order to take care of his vineyards. It is Galileo Galilei: the man who by perfecting a Dutch invention, the telescope, has discovered the imperfect surface of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter, and the phases of Venus. He experiments with the motion of the pendulum and on the fall of bodies — and he is now publishing a work that threatens to subvert the place of humankind in the cosmos.
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History of scienceGalileo Galilei’s “Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences” for the modern reader
by Alessandro de Angelis
"Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences" represents the summa of Galileo’s philosophical and physical theory, included by Stephen Hawking in the five most important books of all the history of science. This work led to Isaac Newton’s Principia and to experimental science. However, reading Galileo Galilei is not simple, but Alessandro De Angelis traslated the "Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Science" for the common reader, and now Galileo’s legagy can be passed to future generations, helping them to understand one of the primary sources of scientific theory. Foreign sales: English (Springer)
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Women's FictionThe Ironman
by Mairead Rooney
A tender love story set during the building of Dublin’s iconic Ha’penny Bridge in 1816, Mairead Rooney’s debut novel THE IRONMAN is a beautiful portrayal of finding intimacy in the face of grief, and will appeal to readers of the historical fiction of Emma Donoghue or Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn.
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Biography & True StoriesKilimanjaro and Beyond
A Life-Changing Journey
by Barry Finlay. Chris Finlay
BARRY FINLAY and his son CHRIS sit propped against a rock, struggling to draw a breath on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. Their destination is tantalizingly close but what happens next will be determined by their health and the weather. In their hands is a Canadian flag bearing the names of over 200 people who contributed to helping a desperate community in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro and Beyond is an award winner that is inspirational, thought provoking and entertaining. Follow along on the journey and realize that nothing is more satisfying than reaching a goal and giving others the opportunity to achieve theirs. Kilimanjaro and Beyond is a very personal account of the author's journey from a sedentary lifestyle to the peak of a mountain at age 60 with his son. It is a descriptive story of his upbringing on the prairies and how it gave him the dedication and perseverance to change his lifestyle sufficiently to be able to reach the summit. Not only is it inspirational, but it provides the reader with an insight into the preparation required and takes them step by step up and down the mountain and to a school to meet some amazing children. The book describes how the events that occurred in Africa were life-changing in two ways. The first was reaching the summit and the realization that almost anything can be accomplished if you want it badly enough. The second was meeting some children who simply make do with what they have and how that can be applied to any situation. In short, Kilimanjaro and Beyond demonstrates the satisfaction that can be achieved by reaching a previously unthinkable goal and helping others to acheive theirs.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentAugust 2014Cry for Health, Volume 1
Health: The Casualty of Modern Times
by Jesse Sleeman
Cry for Health is the first volume of a brilliant treatise that explores vitally important issues for everyone working in healthcare, ecology, sociology, environmental and biological sciences. In fact, for anyone concerned about our survival. In essence, it unravels the hidden story behind the moderrn pandemic, death by doctoring, the failure of medical science to fully understand heatth, and the health impact of man-made chemicals, electropollution, and modern farming and food processing practices. Author Jesse Sleeman has over 30 years' experience in the practice and teaching of natural and traditional therapies and medical philosophies.
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ArchitectureAfter the Fire
London Churches in the Age of Wren, Hawksmoor and Gibbs
by Angelo Hornak (author)
The Great Fire that swept through London in 1666 is estimated to have destroyed at least thirteen thousand houses and some eighty-eight churches, including St Paul’s Cathedral. But this tragedy had a silver lining: it presented Christopher Wren with the opportunity to create one of the most impressive groups of buildings in the history of architecture. Wren was a man of extraordinary talents, a brilliant mathematician and astronomer and a founder member of the Royal Society. He readily turned his skills to architecture, and within days of the Fire he presented Charles II with a plan for rebuilding the City, replacing the narrow medieval winding streets with a regular, rational plan with grand avenues and vistas. This grandiose scheme came to nothing, but in 1667 Wren was appointed Surveyor in charge of rebuilding the churches. In the years that followed – and with the assistance of, among others, Nicholas Hawksmoor and Robert Hooke – he rebuilt St Paul’s and fifty-one churches. There is extraordinary variety in the solutions he adopted to solve the problem of building rational, classical buildings on irregular medieval sites. He also had the good fortune of being able to call on craftsmen of exquisite skill. Inside the churches woodcarvers including Grinling Gibbons and Jonathan Maine were given the opportunity to apply all their virtuoso craftsmanship. Outside, stone carvers created the urns, obelisks and finials which adorn the towers and steeples. The other central event in the story of London’s churches is the Fifty New Churches Act of 1710. Fifty was optimistic; but the dozen or so ‘Queen Anne Churches’ which resulted from the Act were wonderful. The most dramatic of them (St Anne Limehouse, Christ Church Spitalfields) were built by Nicholas Hawksmoor, who had been Wren’s assistant at St Paul’s and the City churches. Unlike Wren’s churches on their cramped medieval sites, most of Hawksmoor’s churches are on a larger scale, allowing scope for his bizarre genius for theatrical compositions and exaggerated proportions. But the pendulum of fashion was already swinging away from Wren’s and Hawksmoor’s Baroque towards the less extravagant neo-Palladian style. The book closes with the more restrained churches built by James Gibbs, whose St Martin-in-the-Fields, completed in 1724, became the prototype for many colonial churches, especially in North America, over the next hundred years.
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Animal breedingJanuary 2017Veterinary Andrology and Artificial Insemination in Domestic Animals
by M.K. Tandle
The book is devoted to introduction to andrology, puberty, sexual maturity, sexual behaviour and libido in domestic animals, forms of male infertility- abnormalities, malformations, diseases of male genitalia, their diagnosis and treatment, artificial insemination technology in cattle, semen collection, semen evaluation, semen and its composition, semen dilutors or extenders, packaging of semen, methodology of semen freezing, precautions on frozen semen storage, evaluation of frozen semen, artificial insemination technique using liquid and frozen semen, factors affecting conception rate in artificial insemination programme, factors affecting quality and quantity of semen, planning and organization of artificial insemination (AI) center, record keeping in andrology & artificial insemination, cleaning and sterilization of artificial insemination equipments, andrological investigations for breeding soundness of bulls, artificial insemination technology in buffaloes, horses, pigs, sheep, goats and castration in different domestic animals.
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Business, Economics & LawApril 2019The Dynamic Leader
Become the leader others are inspired to follow
by Shelley Flett
The Dynamic Leader is the leader the author wishes she’d had to follow. It is the leader readers can become and who others will aspire to follow. Approaching leadership with a ‘task’ focus means your interest is around delivering results, getting things done and/or getting things right. It is around process, productivity, efficiency, performance and achievement. In contrast, approaching leadership with a ‘people’ focus means your interest is around building relationships, getting to know people and ensuring they feel valued. It is around engagement, collaboration, fun, health and personal fulfilment. And while both approaches have their unique benefits they also have their disadvantages. In The Dynamic Leader, Shelley teaches how to find a balance between tasks and people and treat both with equal importance. She shares a nine-stage model that she has created to help readers focus on relationships, respect and results. The model is simple to relate to and incorporates all of the interpersonal elements required to succeed as a new leader. This book gives an alternative to the conventional ‘command and control’ approach and sets leaders up for success in a sustainable way. Through influence, you work smart and your role is one of support, guidance and of building capability in our future leaders. By the end of the book you will have a clear idea of how to become a dynamic leader and you can start putting some of the lessons you’ve learned into practice. This is your guide book, your travel mate, the ‘go to’ place when you feel out of control and need a different perspective. By no means is this book the only thing you’ll need to become an amazing leader but it’s a great place to start.
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Combat / defence skills & manualsAugust 2014Wing chun Conditioning
by Guy Edwards
This book deals with both the physical & mental training essential for progress in Wing Chun, or any other martial art for that matter! Within the contents the author details a variety of toughening exercises, some of which require another partner or multiple partners. Such conditioning advice is given on equipment training, mind control, endurance, resistance, with even a chapter on 'how to make' and apply your own Dit Da Jow (or Hit & Fall Wine) as an ultimate external bruising medicine.
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On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life
by William R. Miller
The rich inner world of a human being is far more complex than either/or. You can love and hate, want to go and want to stay, feel both joy and sadness. Psychologist William Miller—one of the world's leading experts on the science of change—offers a fresh perspective on ambivalence and its transformative potential in this revealing book. Rather than trying to overcome indecision by force of will, Dr. Miller explores what happens when people allow opposing arguments from their “inner committee members” to converse freely with each other. Learning to tolerate and even welcome feelings of ambivalence can help you get unstuck from unwanted habits, clarify your desires and values, explore the pros and cons of tough decisions, and open doorways to change. Vivid examples from everyday life, literature, and history illustrate why we are so often “of two minds,” and how to work through it.
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Social & cultural anthropologyMay 2011Breathless
Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia
by Allen S. Weiss
Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature.
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Blazing Lights
Anna Seghers in Mexico
by Volker Weidemann
1941: when Anna Seghers finally manages to escape from Europe, she has no inkling of the extent to which the years she will spend in Mexico will shape her life. Under the Mexican sun, she achieves overnight fame with the publication of The Seventh Cross in the USA. She writes her most important works, and experiences both the loss of her mother, whom she was unable to rescue from Nazi Germany, and her own mortality, as she almost loses her memory and her own life in a terrible road accident. She writes herself slowly back to life with the novella The Dead Girls’ Outing. Her epoch-making novel Transit is also written during her Mexican exile. In Mexico City between 1941 and 1947, she not only meets Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Pablo Neruda, but German communists and Jews in exile, who are struggling with Stalinism just as she is. In the midst of the exuberant colours, the glittering light and a culture that celebrates death, the longing for Europe remains...
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FictionFebruary 2022Obra Maestra (Masterpiece)
by Juan Tallon
The story in this novel is utterly implausible – and yet it happened. One of the world’s leading museums, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, commissioned a piece from leading American sculptor Richard Serra to celebrate its inauguration in 1986. A sculpture weighing thirty-eight tons which one fine day… simply vanished into thin air. Nobody knew how it had disappeared, when it had happened, or who was responsible. A mixture of nonfiction novel and fictionalized reportage, combining the bizarre with the hallucinogenic, Masterpiece employs the pace of a thriller to reconstruct a case that poses some disturbing questions. How could something like this have happened? How does a copy become an original? What even is contemporary art? And what was the true fate of the famous, huge and immensely heavy steel sculpture that evaporated? Might it reappear one day? “I am especially amazed by the generosity of this polyphony. More than a stylisticaudacity, I see it as proof of great sensitivity. The author speaks masterfully of contemporaryart, addressing the relationship between the original and the copy and the collective dimension of a work. It also inspires a keen awareness of history. Even more impressive, it offers a scathing vision of our present, and more particularly our political present. It is admirable to have succeeded in turning a work as rectangular as Equal-Parallel / Guernica-Bengasi into a prism that refracts the world so powerfully”.Benjamin Burguete, editor at Le Bruit du Monde (France)
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The Polite Act of Drowning
by Charleen Hurtubise
An intense, atmospheric coming-of-age story set in the 1980s among the lakes of Michigan, touching on interconnected themes of trauma, sexual identity, mental health and complicated relationships between women. The drowning of a teenage girl from the city causes ripples in the town of Kettle Lake, but for most, the water settles quickly. Not so for 15-year-old Joanne Kennedy, who thinks she may have been the last to see the girl alive. Lonely and isolated, Joanne struggles to understand her own fascination with the drowned girl, as the threads of her family’s life begin to unravel over the course of that summer.
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MathematicsCounting stories
Imaginary Problems for Real Mathematicians
by Rudi matematici
Will the great mathematicians in history ever have had fun proposing and solving problems of recreational mathematics? Or, occupied by their high offices, will they have avoided putting themselves to the test with problems created only for the fun of it? Whatever the answer, it is easy to imagine that what would have appeared paltry problems to them could be ‘difficult’ for ordinary people. The Rudi Mathematici, hesitating over their great passions – telling stories about mathematicians and proposing entertaining problems of mathematics – have found the strange compromise of imagining some great mathematical minds at crucial times in their (real) lives, while they propose and solve some questions which in actual fact they probably never really had to tackle. This way, we find Isaac Newton as a precursor of Sherlock Holmes in the attempt to solve (mathematically) a case of murder, or see an irritated John Von Neumann stealing sweets from Ed Teller, while the Earth risks blowing up; not to mention the strange way with which Vilfredo Pareto, Paul Erdős, G. H. Hardy, Leonardo and others treated the intriguing questions of the world of numbers.
