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»Der verlorene Freund« erzählt von einer gedankenlosen Geste mit verhängnisvollen Folgen und der notwendigen Illusion menschlicher Nähe. Zwei Männer kommen ins Gespräch, lernen sich kennen, freunden sich an. Eines Tages stürzt der eine, ein passionierter Kunstsammler, sich aus dem Fenster, der andere bleibt ratlos zurück. Er nimmt, um die Beweggründe des Verstorbenen zu verstehen, Kontakt zu dessen Familie und Bekannten auf. Eine seltsame Geschichte zeichnet sich ab, die Spur führt ihn in eine gottverlassene Bergarbeitersiedlung voller sonderbarer Figuren und zurück zu einem dunklen Familiengeheimnis. Und während er sich dort in den Unwägbarkeiten eines anderen Lebens zu verlieren droht, macht er schließlich eine Entdeckung von niederschmetternder Einfachheit. Carlos María Domínguez, der große Solitär der südamerikanischen Literatur, hat einen großen kleinen Roman von eindringlicher Schönheit geschrieben, über Verlust und Verlorenheit und darüber, dass wir auch die nicht kennen, die uns vertraut sind.
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Mit frischem Universitätsabschluss in der Tasche, beschließt der junge Franzose Mauro, seinem bisherigen Leben den Rücken zu kehren. Er will sich nun voll und ganz seiner wirklichen Leidenschaft verschreiben: dem Kochen. Mit seinem Fahrrad rast Mauro von Brasserien über Bistros zu Sternerestaurants, er kocht in Berlin und in Burma, springt vom Blanchieren zum Sautieren, von Bouillons zu Sorbets, von Marktgängen zu Nachtschichten – und eröffnet schließlich seinen eigenen kleinen Laden. Fünfzehn Lehrjahre, gezeichnet von geschundenen Händen, Schlafmangel und einer schleichend zerrinnenden Freizeit. Aber auch ein sinnliches Abenteuer der absoluten Hingabe und der Kunst des perfekten Menüs. Maylis de Kerangal erzählt vom unvergesslichen Geschmack, der in einer Ochsenherztomate oder einem Strauch Wildkräuter steckt – und davon, wie sehr es einen Koch beglücken kann, die eigene kulinarische Philosophie zu finden.
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Mit frischem Universitätsabschluss in der Tasche, beschließt der junge Franzose Mauro, seinem bisherigen Leben den Rücken zu kehren. Er will sich nun voll und ganz seiner wirklichen Leidenschaft verschreiben: dem Kochen. Mit seinem Fahrrad rast Mauro von Brasserien über Bistros zu Sternerestaurants, er kocht in Berlin und in Burma, springt vom Blanchieren zum Sautieren, von Bouillons zu Sorbets, von Marktgängen zu Nachtschichten – und eröffnet schließlich seinen eigenen kleinen Laden. Fünfzehn Lehrjahre, gezeichnet von geschundenen Händen, Schlafmangel und einer schleichend zerrinnenden Freizeit. Aber auch ein sinnliches Abenteuer der absoluten Hingabe und der Kunst des perfekten Menüs. Maylis de Kerangal erzählt vom unvergesslichen Geschmack, der in einer Ochsenherztomate oder einem Strauch Wildkräuter steckt – und davon, wie sehr es einen Koch beglücken kann, die eigene kulinarische Philosophie zu finden.
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Landscape today is no longer just a cultural aspect, intended as an elitist phenomenon, but emerges as an essential element in the definition and the application of a modern approach in sustainable development. Historical locally adapted distinctive and ingenious combinations of management practices have contributed and continue to contribute tremendously to the biodiversity of the world, resulting not only in outstanding aesthetic beauty, but, in the sustained provision of multiple goods and services, food and livelihood security and quality of life. The development of policies to preserve and manage landscape resources, has to face both the degradation of cultural landscape due to socio-economic development and the need to develop appropriate methods and approaches. This book presents different methodologies developed to analyse, manage and plan landscape resources. It reports recent research findings and case studies from Europe and North America, suggesting also the revision of some orientations and views of the current policies concerning forestry, rural development and nature conservation, often contributing to degrade cultural landscapes.
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Als die junge Literaturprofessorin Bluma Lennon die Straße überquert, wird sie, in einen Gedichtband von Emily Dickinson vertieft, von einem Auto erfasst und ist auf der Stelle tot. Ihren Lehrstuhl in Cambridge übernimmt ein junger Kollege, den mit Bluma nicht nur die Liebe zur Literatur verband, sondern auch eine turbulente Liaison. Eines Tages erhält er ein ramponiertes Buch mit einer Widmung seiner ehemaligen Geliebten. Verstört bricht er auf, einer Spur zu folgen, die ihn um den halben Globus führt. Dabei wird er unversehens in eine Welt geheimer Bibliotheken und mysteriöser Leser hineingezogen … Das Papierhaus ist eine hintersinnige Liebeserklärung an das Lesen und die Bücher, eine virtuose Hommage an eine der seltsamsten und beglückendsten menschlichen Leidenschaften.
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A companion to Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change which includes over 20 papers from the same conference held in Florence in 1998. This volume focuses on the different approaches and methods adopted in the study of forest history. The interdisciplinary nature of these studies is emphasized, bringing in the different perspectives of anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, foresters, historians, geneticists and geographers. This volume demonstrates the rich diversity of approaches and methods to forest history.
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This book presents edited and revised versions of more than 30 papers selected from those presented at a major conference on History and Forest Resources, held in Florence in 1998. The conference was organised by the Italian Academy of Forestry Science and working group on Forest History of the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO). As a whole the papers present detailed analyses of the interrelationships between forest ecosystems and socioeconomic development from thirteen different countries of the world. Main economic and social factors, techniques and local practices, as well as legal and political aspects related to forest changes are discussed, according to the latest achievements in forest history research. The book is a companion volume to Methods and Approaches in Forest History.
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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.
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From icy poles to arid deserts, boiling pools to the depths of the sea, this exciting new work studies the remarkable life forms that have made these inhospitable environments their home. The ecological, biological and biogeochemical challenges that higher-level plants and animals, microorganisms and viruses face are detailed, and the unifying themes found between environments discussed. A fascinating and comprehensive resource for researchers and students, this book is packed with colour figures and photos showcasing the most extreme environments and the organisms that have adapted to live in them.
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Mineral nutrition of livestock is an area of significant importance due to its contribution to farm animal economics and health. With a focus on macromineral utilization in farm animals, this book brings together quantitative aspects of phosphorus and calcium metabolism in farm animals in chapters written by leading researchers worldwide. It covers isotope dilution technique, phosphorus and calcium utilization in ruminants (sheep, goats and cattle) and non-ruminants (swine, horses) and recommended value of phosphorus and calcium inclusion in feed. It is an essential resource for researchers and students in animal sciences and nutrition.
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Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) is a subtropical evergreen fruit tree indigenous to China. Records show it has been cultivated in China for over 2000 years. From this beginning, loquat has spread to more than 30 countries around the world. Grown in various regions of Asia, the Mediterranean and across the Americas, loquats suit both temperate and subtropical areas, sharing the same environmental conditions as citrus. Loquat is an increasingly commercial crop in some Asian and European countries with a good amount of international trade. Recent research has focused on improving crop yields and quality. Over 100 different varieties have been developed to meet both growers' and consumers' demands. These developments have contributed to a better understanding of the crop environment, plant growth and physiology of tree and fruit development with implications for both breeding and cultivation. This book is to be the first to provide a comprehensive coverage of the history, physiology, culture and marketing of loquat throughout the world.
The noisy revolution of digital technology was preceded by a silent scientific revolution, which produced important results, raised fundamental questions and transformed the way we interpret notions that concern mathematical demonstration, the representation of information and human creativity itself. Understanding this transformation is the first fundamental step towards a greater awareness with regard to the changes generated by the digital age in which we are living. Bruno Codenotti and Mauro Leoncini tell us the great “silent revolution” that led to the lifechanging computer revolution, because even if algorithms and AI are part of our daily life... do we really know how they were created and how they work?
A journey beyond fear, to understand how this epidemic is changing our freedom, our rights, our democracy. “While power attacks the virus, the virus has already affected the power. It is not the one that changes, as we feared in our worst nightmares: in fact it is changing us and the relationship between citizens and State.” Modernity has accustomed us to look at death as a senseless, incongruous event. Instead an unknown pathogen forced us calculate every day who lives and who dies. But every diagram, every count that seems to reveal the secret of this misfortune, has actually a double meaning, it tells something about the virus and about us, and the balance is the amount of our daily fear. To escape evil, we hid ourselves, taking shelter, abandoning social relations to imprison ourselves within the walls of our homes. Meanwhile a second, invisible infection was spreading silently, and nobody knows yet how many victims it will do: it is an infection that transfers the fear from the health situation to the social organization. The virus seems to make inadequate what we used to consider a conquest, it goes straight to the heart of the system and attacks the democratic mechanism, it proposes a new and different power, based on anomaly as a necessity. So the infection is transforming not only social relationships, but also our freedom, our work and our rights: in a word, it’s transforming politics. For this reason, even if we were all the same in the beginning of the pandemic, we risk coming out it very different. Ezio Mauro tells the path of the virus since it was born in China until today, studying its tactics, strategy and character. In the meantime, he reflects on us, on how we are changing. “We are victims of a universal attack that for the first time threatens the whole human race, and at the same time we are protagonists of an unprecedented social experiment: we will come out different, I have tried to understand how and how much.”
“Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes” (Learning to Talk to Plants)by Marta Orriols – Debut novel (Literary/Upmarket) Original publisher/language: Ed. del Periscopi (Catalan, 2018) Rights sold: Lumen (Spanish), Seuil (French), Ponte alle Grazie (Italian), DTV (German), Hakursa/9Lives (Hebrew), Prometheus (Dutch), Sonia Draga (Polish), Dom Quixote (Portuguese, excl Brazil), Pushkin Press (World English), United Sky (Simplified Chinese), Kastaniotis (Greece). Paula, the narrator and main character, is 40 years old, she’s a neonatologist and she is alive. But her life-long boyfriend Mauro suddenly died in an accident. In the first pages of the novel, we are astonished by the intensity and the precision with which the narrator tells about losing a partner all of a sudden and how, before the accident, death was something so far away from them. But after a few pages, when we feel we are reading a very good novel about mourning a loved one, a very unexpected revelation comes to light: Only a few hours before he dies, Mauro tells Paula that he is in love with another woman and that their relationship has come to an end. It is at this point when the novel becomes something new, original, powerful and different. This unexpected death and the previous revelation leave Paula astonished and completely lost. The reader will witness how she walks a path that will confront her with her feelings of rage, fear, desire, grieve and the need to survive and reconstruct herself. Deeply moving and surprising, Learning to Talk to Plants is a delicate and intimate novel written from the point of view of a woman who needs to come to terms with a life she can no longer recognize.
