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        Von Dethloff Carl Hinstorff 1831 gegründet, zählt der Hinstorff Verlag heute zu den führenden Verlagshäusern Norddeutschlands. Mit mehr als 450 lieferbaren Titeln und jährlich rund 40 Neuerscheinungen bietet Hinstorff eine Fülle fundierter Information und Unterhaltung.

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        August 2000

        Juneteenth

        Roman

        by Ellison, Ralph

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        2020

        Vitamin D

        The healing power of the sunshine vitamin

        by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Michael F. Holick

        Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem that puts the quality of life and life expectancy of more than a billion children and adults at risk worldwide. Many lifestyle diseases may be associated with vitamin D deficiency: myocardial infarction, infections, cancer, neurological diseases, stroke, type 2 diabetes, to name just a few. This 4th updated edition incorporates numerous new insights into the therapeutic effect of vitamin D, including its importance for a healthy pregnancy, prenatal imprinting, optimum sporting performance, diabetes mellitus and autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or multiple sclerosis. Since the metabolism and the effect of vitamin D are supported by a complex network of micronutrients – for example, magnesium, vitamin A or vitamin K – a specific chapter is devoted to this network. Here, the reader can discover how vitamin D successfully protects against diseases, improves the quality of life and optimises medication and treatment!

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        Frau Grubers Lager

        by Ted Barr

        Frau Grubers Lager Das Manifest der Asche des Hahns von Ted Barr Wo liegen die Grenzen des Bösen? Was ist der Sinn des Lebens am Abgrund des willkürlichen plötzlichen Todes? Was ist ein Leben hinter einem Elektrozaun Wert? Frau Grubers Lager ist ein spannendes Gleichnis über den Glauben der Menschen in ihrer dunkelsten Zeiten, mit Anklängen an George Orwells Meisterwerk Animal Farm. Eine Welt, in der Menschen wie Frau Gruber, Herr Schickl und ihre krankhaften Mitarbeiter leben, ist nicht die, in der wir leben. Obwohl ihre Welt in vielerlei Hinsicht ähnlich zu sein scheint, ist sie eher ein Parallel-Universum, einen Schritt von der Realität, die wir kennen, entfernt. Doch manchmal verschwimmen die Unterschiede und wir werden in diese Welt hinein gezogen. In diesem überraschenden und rätselhaften Roman wird der Leser langsam und vorsichtig in einen imaginären Mikrokosmos geführt – eine fantastische Welt, die poetisch und schrecklich, manchmal herzzerreißend und manchmal erschreckend ist, und in der das Leben nicht mehr ist als eine transparente Ware. Die Hähne als Menschen sind nur momentane Besucher in einem viel größeren Spektakel, dessen Bedeutung zu begreifen sie zu kurzsichtig sind (außer dem alten Hahn Ba Ba Loop, der wie die alten Propheten die Augen hat zu sehen, aber nicht über die Macht verfügt, etwas zu ändern). Die einzige Möglichkeit, in solchen schrecklichen Zeiten noch einen Sinn zu finden, ist die Verbannung der Zeit in die Erinnerung. Dies ist die Grundidee dieses Romans: menschlicher Glauben, Vergessen, Erinnern, und die Quintessenz des Lebens in einer unmöglichen Epoche. Obwohl der Ausgangspunkt des Romans eine Beschreibung der frühen Kindheit Adolf Hitlers ist, geht Frau Grubers Lager viel weiter, als nur eine Geschichte zu erzählen, die in vielerlei Hinsicht Parallelen zu Geschichte der europäischen Juden hat. Vielmehr wird ein Gleichnis der menschlichen Erfahrung im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert durch die Augen eines zeitgenössischen Helden des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts entfaltet. Der Autor, Ted Barr, 54, hat einen Master-Abschluss in Wirtschaftswissenschaften und ist auf vielen Gebieten versiert, darunter deutsche Geschichte, Symbolik, Batallions- und Divisions-Taktik sowie Astronomie. Barr ist ein renommierter Künstler, spezialisiert auf Galaxien und andere Himmelskörper. Der Autor hat eine einzigartige Maltechnik entwickelt, die er in Workshops auf der ganzen Welt unterrichtet. Ted Barr ist der Gründer der Current Art Group, und seine künstlerische Tätigkeit kann auf seiner Website www.tedpaintings.com betrachtet werden. Eine hebräische Ausgabe von Frau Grubers Lager wurde erstmals in Israel im Jahr 2006 veröffentlicht. Ted Barrs erstes Buch, Krombee, ein Kinderbuch, erschien im Jahr 1990.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2023

        Suicide and the Gothic

        by William Hughes, Andrew Smith

        Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original essays and an authoritative introduction, this collection explores how the act of suicide has been portrayed, interrogated and pathologised from the eighteenth century to the present. The featured fictions embrace both canonical and the less-studied texts and examine the crisis of suicide - a crisis that has personal, familial, religious, legal and medical implications - in European, American and Asian contexts. Featuring detailed interventions into the understanding of texts as temporally distant as Thomas Percy's Reliques and Patricia Highsmith's crime fictions, and movements as diverse as Wertherism, Romanticism and fin-de-siècle decadence, Suicide and the Gothic provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture.

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        June 2018

        The Lady in White

        by Donald Willerton

        Mogi Franklin is a typical eighth-grader–except for the mysterious things that keep happening in his life. And the adventures they lead to as he and his sister, Jennifer, follow Mogi's unique problem-solving skills–along with dangerous clues from history and the world around them–to unearth a treasure of unexpected secrets.In The Lady in White, Mogi is working as a cowboy over the summer vacation on one of the largest ranches in New Mexico when hundreds of cattle start mysteriously dying there. Trying to understand the cause, he finds himself embroiled in the life of a boy who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians in 1871. In this seventh book of the exciting Mogi Franklin Mysteries, Mogi comes face-to-face with the ghost of the boy's mother, and must face the reality of the past to save the ranch from the enemies of the present.

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        Le Camp De Frau Gruber

        by Ted Barr

        Le Camp De Frau Gruber Le manifeste des cendres du coq par Ted Barr   Quelles sont les frontières du mal ? Que signifie la vie life on the verge au seuil d’une mort arbitraire soudaine ? Cela vaut-il la peine de vivre derrière une clôture électrifiée ? Le camp de Frau Gruber est une allégorie exaltante à propos de garder la foi en l’humanité dans ses périodes les plus noires ; elle rappelle fortement le chef d’œuvre de George Orwell La Ferme des animaux. Un monde dans lequel il existe des personnes telles que Frau Gruber, Herr Schickl, et leurs associés morbides n’est pas le même que celui dans lequel nous vivons. Bien que sous d nombreux aspects leur monde paraît lui ressembler, il constitue en fait davantage un univers parallèle, retiré de la réalité que nous connaissons. Et pourtant, par moments, le lecteur peut passer outre les différences et s’y laisser plonger. Dans ce roman surprenant et énigmatique, le lecteur se trouve doucement et lentement submergé dans un microcosme imaginaire – un monde fantastique, à la foi poétique et terrible, qui parfois brise le cœur et qui, à d’autres moments, horrifie, dans lequel la vie n’est guère plus qu’un accessoire transparent. Les coqs, en tant qu’êtres humains, sont seulement des visiteurs momentanés dans un scenario bien plus étendu, dont la signification est trop élevée pour eux pour la saisir (mis à part le vieux coq Ba Ba Loop qui, à l’instar des prophètes d’antan, a des yeux pour voir, mais ne possède pas le pouvoir de changer quoi que ce soit). La seule manière d’apporter une signification à des temps d’une horreur telle est de tout investir pour la mémoire, ce qui constitue le cadre dans lequel ce roman est fondé : la foi en l’homme, oublier, se souvenir et l’essence de la vie au sein d’une époque impossible. Bien que se démarquant d'une description, principalement évoquée, de la petite enfance d'Adolf Hitler, Le camp de Frau Gruber ne se contente pas de raconter une histoire qui est, en de nombreux points, parallèle à l'histoire du judaïsme européen. Ce livre se transforme, au contraire, en une fable sur l'expérience vécue par l’humanité entière au XXème siècle, écrite à travers les yeux du XXIème siècle comme une bravade contemporaine. L'auteur, Ted Barr, 54 ans, a une maîtrise en économie et des diplômes dans des zones d'intérêt variées, y compris l'histoire allemande, le symbolisme, les tactiques de bataillon et de division, ainsi qu’en astronomie. Barr est un artiste de renom, spécialisé dans les galaxies et autres éléments du ciel. L'auteur a développé une technique de peinture unique, qu’il enseigne dans des ateliers dans le monde entier. Barr est le fondateur du groupe Current Art, et l’on peut avoir un aperçu de son activité artistique sur son site d'art, www.tedpaintings.com. Une édition du Camp de Frau Gruber est parue pour la première fois en Israël, en hébreu, en 2006, suivant le premier livre de Barr, Krombee, un livre pour enfants paru en 1990.

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        Science & Mathematics
        August 2017

        Invasive Alien Plants

        Impacts on Development and Options for Management

        by Carol A Ellison, Sean T Murphy, K V Sankaran

        Invasive alien plants pose a major threat to agriculture and livelihoods worldwide. This book considers those impacts and options for biological control, through a case study of mikania weed, a neotropical invasive plant in many countries in the tropical humid forest zones of Southeast Asia. This perennial vine can smother agro-forestry and natural forest ecosystems, as well as many crops within homegarden and plantation production systems. The design of policy frameworks to combat invasive species is considered in depth, as is the use of classical biological control against mikania weed ; 1: Invasive alien plants as a constraint to development in tropical Asia: is there a crisis in the making?2: Profile of an invasive plant: Mikania micrantha3: Social and economic implications of Mikania micrantha in the Kerala Western Ghats4: Impacts and management options for Mikania micrantha in plantations5: Mikania micrantha: its status and impact on people and wildlife in Nepal6: Impact and management of invasive alien plants on Pacific island communities7: Understanding the impact of invasive Mikania micrantha in shifting agriculture and its management through traditional ecological knowledge8: Prevention and related measures for invasive alien plants in India; policy framework and other initiatives9: Control options for invasive alien plants in agroforestry10: Classical biological control of Mikania micrantha: the sustainable solution11: Policy frameworks for the implementation of a classical biological control strategy: the Chinese experience12: Policy frameworks for the implementation of a classical biological control strategy: the Indian experience

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        EL CAMPO DE FRAU GRUBER

        by Ted Barr

        EL CAMPO DE FRAU GRUBER El manifiesto de las cenizas del gallo, de Ted Barr   ?Cuáles son los límites del mal? ?Qué significado tiene la vida, a un paso de una muerte súbita arbitraria? ?Vale la pena vivir detrás de una cerca eléctrica? El Campo de Frau Gruber es una alegoría apasionante acerca de la fe humana en sus momentos más oscuros, que recuerda mucho la obra maestra de George Orwell, Rebelión en la granja.Un mundo que sostiene a gente como Frau Gruber, Herr Schickl y sus insanos asociados no es el mundo en el que vivimos. Aunque en muchos aspectos parece ser similar, es más bien un universo paralelo, desconectado de la realidad que conocemos.No obstante, a veces el lector puede no prestar atención a las diferencias. En esta novela sorprendente y enigmática, el lector se ve sutil y lentamente sumergido en un microcosmos imaginario, un mundo fantástico a la vez poético y terrible, a veces conmovedor y otras horrendo, en el que la vida no es más que una mercancía sin valor.Los gallos como seres humanos son solo actores momentáneos en una obra mucho más grande, o sea demasiado miopes para entender —con la excepción del viejo gallo Ba Ba Lup, que, como los antiguos profetas, tiene ojos para ver pero no tiene el poder para cambiar.La única manera de otorgar un significado a tiempos tan terribles es guardarlo todo en la memoria, que es el marco en el que esta novela se basa:la fe humana, el olvido, el recuerdo y la esencia de la vida durante una época imposible. A pesar de partir de una descripción mayormente improvisada de la infancia de Adolf Hitler, el Campo de Frau Gruber no se limita a relatar una historia en muchos sentidos paralela a la historia de los judíos en Europa. Antes bien, evoluciona hasta transformarse en una fábula sobre el aspecto general de la experiencia humana en el siglo XX, escrita a través de los ojos de un espectador del siglo XXI, como un acto de bravura contemporáneo. El autor, Ted Barr, de 54 años, posee una maestría en Economía y tiene diversas áreas de interés, entre otras, historia alemana, simbolismo, tácticas de batallón y de división y astronomía.Barr es un afamado artista, que se especializa en galaxias y otros elementos celestiales.El autor ha desarrollado una técnica de pintura única, que enseña en talleres en todo el mundo.También es el fundador del Current Art Group y en el sitio de arte www.tedpaintings.com se puede ver el fruto de su actividad artística.   En 2006 se publicó por vez primera en Israel una versión hebrea de El Campo deFrau Gruber, tras la primera obra de Barr, Krombee, un libro para niños publicado en 1990.

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        FRAU GRUBER'S CAMP

        by Ted Barr

        What are the boundaries of evil? What is the meaning of life on the verge of arbitrary sudden death? Is it worth living behind an electric fence? Frau Gruber's Camp is a thrilling allegory about the faith of mankind in its darkest times, strongly reminiscent of George Orwell's masterpiece Animal Farm. A world that sustains people like Frau Gruber, Herr Schickl, and their morbid associates is not the same one we live in. Although in many ways their world appears to be similar, it is more of a parallel universe removed from the reality we know. However, at times the reader may overlook the differences and be drawn in. In this surprising and enigmatic novel, the reader is gently and slowly submerged into an imaginary micro-cosmos – a fantastic world that is both poetic and terrible, sometimes heart-wrenching and at other times horrifying, where life is but a transparent commodity. The roosters as human beings are just momentary visitors in a much larger play, whose meaning they are too short-sighted to comprehend (except the old rooster Ba Ba Loop that, like ancient prophets, has the eyes to see but does not possess the power to change). The only way to give meaning to such dreadful times is by committing it all to memory, which is the framework on which this novel is founded: human faith, forgetting, remembering, and the essence of life during an impossible epoch. Though taking off from a mainly conjured description of Adolf Hitler's early childhood, Frau Gruber's Camp does not stop at relating a story parallel in many ways to European Jewish history. Rather it evolves into a fable on overall human experience in the twentieth century, written through twenty-first century eyes as a contemporary bravado. The author, Ted Barr, 54, has a master’s degree in economics and varied areas of interest, including German history, symbolism, battalion and divisional tactics, and astronomy. Barr is a renowned artist, specializing in galaxies and other celestial elements. The author has developed a unique painting technique, which he teaches in workshops around the world. Barr is the founder of the Current Art Group, and his artistic activity can be viewed at his art site, www.tedpaintings.com . A Hebrew edition of Frau Gruber’s Camp was published in Israel in 2006, following Barr’s first book, Krombee, a children’s book first published in 1990. 116 pages, 14.5X21 pages

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        May 2023

        Fungal Plant Pathogens

        by Charles R Lane, Paul Beales, Kelvin J D Hughes

        Covering the key techniques used when working with fungal plant pathogens, this practical manual deals with recognition of disease symptoms, detection and identification of fungi and methods to characterise them well as curation, quarantine and quality assurance. This new edition includes updates with respect to: Greater awareness and concern internationally about plant health and biosecurity Molecular biology - next generation sequencing and in field detection Improved opportunities for surveillance and detection in substrates, such as remote sensing Changes in taxonomy and reference to more current fungal plant pathogens New chapters on tree health, and public awareness, outreach and communications Fungal Plant Pathogens 2nd edition provides a valuable guide to investigating fungal plant diseases and interpreting laboratory findings for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students, extension plant pathologists, consultants and advisers in agriculture and horticulture and the food supply chain.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2010

        New D.H. Lawrence

        by Howard Booth

        New D.H. Lawrence uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain's major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence scholars, who are brought together here for the first time. Chapters include: Andrew Harrison on the marketing of Sons and Lovers; Howard J. Booth on The Rainbow, Marxist criticism and colonialism; Holly A. Laird on ethics and suicide in Women in Love; Hugh Stevens on psychoanalysis and war in Women in Love; Jeff Wallace on Lawrence, Deleuze and abstraction; Stefania Michelucci on myth and war in 'The Ladybird'; Bethan Jones on gender and comedy in the late short fiction; Fiona Becket on green cultural critique, Apocalypse and Birds, Beasts and Flowers; and Sean Matthews on class, Leavis and the trial of Lady Chatterley. New D.H. Lawrence will be of interest to all concerned with contemporary writing on Lawrence, modernism and English radical cultures. ;

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        Mycology, fungi (non-medical)
        March 2012

        Fungal Plant Pathogens

        by Edited by Charles R Lane, Paul Beales, Kelvin J D Hughes.

        Covering the key techniques used when working with fungal plant pathogens, this practical manual deals with recognition of disease symptoms, detection and identification of fungi and methods to characterise them well as curation, quarantine and quality assurance. The book is unique in its practical focus, providing an overview of both traditional and emerging methods and their applications, and detailed protocols on completion techniques such as microscopy, PCR, ELISA, freeze drying and DNA storage. Fungal Plant Pathogens provides a valuable guide to investigating fungal plant diseases and interpreting laboratory findings for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students, extension plant pathologists, consultants and advisers in agriculture and horticulture and the food supply chain.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Air power and colonial control

        by David Omissi

        Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.

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