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        Business & management
        November 2012

        Veterinary Practice Management

        by Catherine R Coates, Alan Jones, Michael W Coates

        Veterinarians are increasingly aware of the need to recognise they are working in a business enterprise. From operating as small practices twenty years ago, veterinary businesses are now run along sophisticated models and operate out of multi-million pound hospitals. Drawing together the latest information on practice management, this textbook provides practical and straightforward coverage of major elements, including client relationships and staff management, business and financial procedures, computer systems and project management. This book covers practice management topics as taught in veterinary schools worldwide, providing students with a textbook resource in this increasingly important subject. It is also a valuable source of information for newly qualified veterinarians, veterinarians interested in practice management and veterinary practice managers.

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        April 2020

        Pausenbrot-Weisheiten

        Briefe des tollsten Vaters auf der Welt über das Leben, die Liebe und das Großwerden

        by Guest, Joanna / Übersetzt von Seifert, Nicole

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        Children's & YA

        You for Future

        by Franziska Wessel/ Günther Wessel

        ‘We will not stop demonstrating,’ writes Franziska Wessel in a guest column in the Berliner Zeitung. Franziska is pursuing a goal. Decisive measures must finally be taken to protect the climate. While that is not happening she spends every Friday on the streets, gives interviews and puts pressure on politicians. But climate change isn’t the only thing threatening our future. There is so much suffering, injustice and destruction in the world. Something must be done about it. And as a climate activist, Franziska knows exactly how to be active. Together with her father, the journalist and author, Günther Wessel, she explains: How do I start a petition? How do I organise a campaign? How does lobbying work? So that everyone knows how they can make things happen.

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        Children's & YA

        Wild Claws (3). A Target for the Sharks

        by Max Held/ Timo Grubing

        While diving offshore, Logan, Charlotte and Jack discover a shipwreck. Very interesting – but extremely dangerous. Because while the friends are examining it, they are attacked by a shark! Then more and more sharks approach and circle the wreck, as if they are watching over it. What lies inside the sunken ship, and what secret is being concealed by the underwater explorer Thornton, who is staying as a guest at the Wild Claws sanctuary? When Logan dives again, the sharks attack and Logan is trapped in the wreck. His air supply is running short, and time is racing by. Can Jack and Charlotte rescue him in time?

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        Architectural structure & design
        September 2018

        Romantic Escape

        Designing the Modern Guest House III

        by Wendy Perring

        Guest House have become fashionable all over the world especially in China because they help people keep themselves away from the din and bustle of cities. Forty-two pieces of works of folk hostels, including hostels with water senses, city hostels and country hostels, are copied into the book. They explain the cordinal demmands when designing folk hostels. Readers will know more about the design of hostels through its pictures, blueprints and literary description as well as for architects and people who are employed in the service trade.

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        Children's & YA
        January 2023

        Celta and the Fallen Moon

        by Victoria Iver (Author), Victoria Iver (Illustrator)

        Celta and two rats live in a house near the old lighthouse. Every evening, the girl curls up in a big chair and reads fairy tales to her pets. But today the book had to be put aside - the Moon fell in her backyard! The unexpected guest is convinced that her business is useless and nobody needs it. So Celta sets out with Moon on a journey to prove that she is wrong. This kind and heartwarming story will give young readers faith in themselves and teach them that everyone in this world has value.   From 3 to 8 years, 1853 words Rightsholders n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua

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        Architectural structure & design
        July 2016

        Escape

        Designing the Modern Guest House

        by Qi Shanshan

        Guest House are good places for people to spend their holidays. Forty-three folk hostels built by different architects and artists in places over the world includung the hostels transformed from the old, new hostels of art, collective hostels for peasants and the hostels in villa style. They are attractive and touching because they are full of temperament and taste in design and building, and spacious and visional effect. The structure of each hostel described in the book is unique and so as to the position, the environment, the moving lines, the materials and the culture of the erea.

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        The Arts
        October 2013

        Placing faces

        The portrait and the English country house in the long eighteenth century

        by Gill Perry, Kate Retford, Jordan Vibert

        This book explores the rich but understudied relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain. It features essays by well-known scholars such as Alison Yarrington, Gill Perry, Kate Retford, Harriet Guest, Emma Barker and Desmond Shawe-Taylor. Works discussed include grand portraits, intimate pastels and imposing sculptures. Moving between residences as diverse as Stowe, Althorp Park, the Vache, Chatsworth, Knole and Windsor Castle, it unpicks the significance of various spaces - the closet, the gallery, the library - and the ways in which portraiture interacted with those environments. It explores questions around gender, investigating narratives of family and kinship in portraits of women as wives and daughters, but also as mistresses and celebrities. It also interrogates representations of military heroes in order to explore the wider, complex ties between these families, their houses, and imperial conflict. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in eighteenth-century studies, especially for those studying portraiture and country houses. ;

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        May 2023

        Technology and Social Transformations in Hospitality, Tourism and Gastronomy

        South Asia Perspectives

        by Savita Sharma, Shivam Bhartiya

        This book explores the relationship between technology and social transformation in tourism, hospitality and gastronomy. It presents research and case studies, elaborating on benchmark practices adopted by tourism and hospitality professionals. In recent years, technology has transformed the tourism and hospitality industry; the chapters in this book cover areas such as guest experience and service quality, as well as operational areas such as housekeeping and waste management. Further social transformation in tourism is a result of drivers such as a growing interest in gastronomy and the use of social media; this is covered in the first part of the book. The second part outlines how communities may learn from these events. With contributions from academics, entrepreneurs, destination managers and government officials from the South Asia region, this book offers a real insight in to these areas of growing interest and provide a useful resource for those researching and studying within the areas of tourism development and hospitality.

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        Biology, life sciences
        May 2021

        Ten Steps to Building a Successful Veterinary Practice

        by Wendy Sneddon

        This book is a down to earth, practical guide which provides ten simple steps for success for anyone responsible for recruiting a winning veterinary practice team: whether they are recruiting employees and building their team, or changing culture and creating a supportive environment where employees are engaged and motivated. It is ideal for small business owners who can't afford to employ any human resource support.Intensely practical, it delivers key facts for veterinary staff starting out in business. The book:· Details how you can attract, recruit and retain the right people for a winning team· Guides you on creating a well organised, supportive practice in which employees can flourish· Provides you with a basic introduction to building a strategy and improving your marketing campaigns· Covers the basics of sound financial planning and how to win clients and increase your revenues· Looks at how to manage common pitfallsWith a wealth of practical templates and forms to use, this book adopts a straight-talking approach which will be welcomed by anyone starting their own veterinary practice. Table of contents 1: Step 1: WHY? 2: Step 2: Your First Time? 3: Step 3: Vision, Mission, Values and Culture 4: Step 4: How to Define What and Who You Need 5: Step 5: Recruitment and Induction 6: Step 6: Performance Management and Employee Engagement 7: Step 7: Employee Health and Wellbeing 8: Step 8: How to Build a Loyal Client Database and Marketing Your Practice 9: Step 9: Financial Management 10: Step 10: Three Key Strategies to Increase Your Revenue by 25%

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        March 2022

        Der denkwürdige Fall des Mr Poe

        Kriminalroman | Die Buchvorlage zum Netflix-Film-Hit

        by Louis Bayard, Peter Knecht, Edgar Allan Poe

        1830: An der angesehenen West Point Academy wird ein junger Kadett tot aufgefunden – er wurde erhängt und sein Herz herausgeschnitten. Keinesfalls darf die Öffentlichkeit von dem grauenhaften Verbrechen erfahren, so beauftragt man Augustus Landor, einen ehemaligen New Yorker Polizeidetektiv, mit den Ermittlungen. Schon bald folgen weitere brutale Morde, und der Fall wird immer rätselhafter. Doch Landor erhält unerwartet Hilfe – von einem jungen Kadetten mit dunkler Vergangenheit, Hang zum Trinken und poetischen Ader: Edgar Allan Poe … »Bestechend klug und zutiefst unsentimental … es liest sich wie ein neu entdeckter Klassiker. Bayard haucht dem historischen Kriminalroman neues Leben ein.« New York Times Book Review

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        July 2023

        Democracy Into Children's Minds

        Why our future will be decided in schools

        by Julian Nida-Rümelin/Klaus Zierer

        — By two renowned authors from the fields of philosophy and education — Julian Nida-Rümelin – a popular talk show guest The debate about the correct school policy has been going on for many years. And there's no end to the bad news regarding the shortage of teachers, poor performance by students at PISA or the lack of suitable equipment in schools. What is being neglected in the discussions about the education policy but is, in fact, a central momentum in its development, is the school's task of conveying democratic values and patterns of action. This is the only way our society's supporting pillars can be strengthened in future generations. In the light of the complex situation, from the authors' point of view it is important to formulate a wake-up call: Democracy education – now!

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        April 2021

        The Analects

        by Liu Qiang

        The Analects is a Confucian classic that records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, compiled by Confucius and his disciples. There are 20 chapters in the book, with quotations as the main part and narrative as the supplement. It focuses on the propositions and doctrines of Confucius in the fields of ideology and politics, philosophy and culture, ethics and morality, education and self-cultivation. "The Analects" and "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Mencius" are also called the "Four Books", which are important symbols of Chinese traditional culture. This edition of "The Analects of Confucius" is edited and edited, integrating classical masterpieces and information technology. It is translated, commented and recorded by Liu Qiang, a professor of Tongji University and the guest speaker of "Hundreds of Discourses." "This classic is presented in the form of digital media, which will surely generate new economic and social benefits.

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        Children's & YA
        2015

        Mr Catsky, Mira and the Sea

        by Oksana Lushchevska (Author), Violetta Borigard (Illustrator)

        Mira dreams about the sea, but it is so far away! One day an unusual guest visits her, and suddenly Mira begins an unexpected journey. Will it be adventurous? What will happen to Mira on the way? Will she manage to reach the sea? This bilingual Ukrainian-English picturebook tells a story of friendship, imagination, and what happens when one faces life's exciting and sometimes uneasy dilemmas.   from 3 to 6 years, 1160 words (Ukrainian and English). Rightsholders: Oksana Luchchevska, olushchevska@gmail.com

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        2020

        Audio Engineering

        for special events techniciansin training and on the job

        by Christoph Grzesinski. Founded by Dr. Volker Smyrek

        We all know that audio engineering is more than just acronyms. But what do they all mean? This practical textbook is designed to meet the special needs of events technicians. The textbook stands out from the crowd because it is designed specifically with the university curriculum and professional needs in mind, making it not only an excellent companion in the classroom, but a useful reference for on the job as well. The author, himself an instructor for special events technicians, covers the ground from physical fundamentals of acoustics and electronics to setting up mixing consoles and sound systems, providing a multitude of useful tips without confusing the reader with extraneous details. A chapter on video technology rounds off the book. Sample calculations put the material in a practical context, and sample problems at the end of each chapter (with solutions in the appendix) help review what has been learned and inspire further thought. Entertaining guest essays provide a broader perspective.

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        Psychiatry

        Change in 333 Questions

        Solution Focused Communication for Therapists, Coaches, and Managers

        by Lara de Bruin

        Solution based communication is a positive and very effective approach in therapy sessions. By means of specific questions, the strengths of the client are emphasized. This fan brings together the most important questions, ordered by subject (e.g. getting to know the client, goals, exceptions) and by type of conversation partner (clients who do not want to co-operate, who are in conflict, or who currently experience a crisis). All relevant questions close are at hand with this extremely practical tool!

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