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January 1996More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis
(Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, Vol. 3)
by Hansen, Mogens Herman / Herausgegeben von Raaflaub, Kurt
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January 1995
Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis
(Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, Vol. 2)
by Herausgegeben von Hansen, Mogens Herman; Herausgegeben von Raaflaub, Kurt
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Health & Personal DevelopmentSeptember 2015Essence of Lin Mogen Taichi
by Wang Jianye
Wang Jianye is the chief disciple of Lin Mogen who is a Taichi master, China pioneer of hand-pushing, and the fifth generation heir of Yang’s Taichi. Besides Mr. Lin’s Taichi theories, the book also introduces the practicing essentials and techniques of Taichi, as well as 115 movements in Yang’s Taichi. The fist positions and movements in the book are all demonstrated by Mr. Lin Mogen.
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Fortune-telling & divinationSeptember 2021The Power of Symbols, Sacred Images for Meditation and Divination
Immagini Sacre per Meditare e Divinare
by Stefano Fusi
THE POWER OF SYMBOLS Sacred Images for Meditation and Divination by Stefano Fusi Artwork by Stefano Fusi Product Details 41 cards + 68-page guidebook+gold extra thin point marker Guide book size: 85 x 130 mm Card size: 85 x 130 mm ISBN: 978-1-955680-03-5 Imprint: Edizioni LAlbero All our oracles are designed and printed in Italy using only 100% ecofriendly material and non toxic inks and varnishes. Symbols are the signs that reveal and perpetuate the unlimited universe in our world and in our common life. They reveal meanings beyond those obvious to the senses and to our rational sphere. They exist before we can imagine or think about them: like genes and DNA on the physical plane, symbols pre-exist us, they carry with them the original instructions of life. They exist in nature and we have then encoded them to express in perceptible and comprehensible forms the essential forces that structure existence since the beginning. They are a synthetic map of the motions of what we call energy.The Power of Symbols is a deck of 41 Oracles with guide book.
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March 2023Hidden Hope
How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust
by Elisa Boxer, Amy June Bates
The remarkable true story of how a toy duck smuggled forged identity papers for Jewish refugees during WWII During World War II, families all across Europe huddled together in basements, attics, and closets as Nazi soldiers rounded up anyone Jewish. The Star of David, a symbol of faith and pride, became a tool of hate when the Nazis forced Jewish people to carry papers stamped with that star, so that it was clear who to capture. But many brave souls dared to help them. Jewish teenager Jacqueline Gauthier, a member of the French Resistance who had to conceal her identity, was one who risked her life in secret workshops, forging papers with new names and without stars in order to help others escape. But how to get these life-saving papers to families in hiding? An ordinary wooden toy duck held the answer, a hidden compartment: hope in a hollow. Written by award-winning journalist Elisa Boxer and movingly illustrated by the acclaimed Amy June Bates, Hidden Hope celebrates the triumph of freedom and the human spirit, a story of everyday heroism, resilience, and finding hope in unexpected places.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Üñüm püllü. Bird spirit
by Lorenzo Aillapán
Lorenzo Aillapán, recognized as a Living Human Treasure in 2012 by UNESCO, is the Mapuche bird man - üñümche in Mapuzugun. A poet originally from the coast of the Araucanía Region, he is a great connoisseur of nature, of the mysteries hidden by living beings on land and in the sea. Part of this wisdom is shared with the readers in these 46 poems about diverse organisms that inhabit different environments: the water (fish and seafood), the mountainous universe (trees) and the winged universe (birds). Through hisverses, the poet describes various aspects of these living beings: what they are like, what the place is like where they live, how they behave, what use they can be put to and what importance they have for the Mapuche people. In the case of the birds, the poems also incorporate the onomatopoeia of their song. This complete anthological volume is bilingual Mapuzugun/Spanish.
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Interactive & activity books & packsNAWEL, THE SON OF THE ANIMALS, PU KULLIÑ ÑI YALL
by Sofía Guerrero Zepeda, Juan Francisco Bascuñán Muñoz, Loreto Salinas Retamal
This bilingual Spanish-Mapuzugun story, based on the Mapuche tradition, tells the story of Nawel, a boy who was raised by the animals of the forest in southern Chile, learning their language and also that of the non-living elements of nature, such as wind, thunder and water. The puma gets sick from drinking water contaminated by waste from the city and Nawel is called in to solve the problem, by teaching its inhabitants to take care of the environment, which ultimately means a healthier life for themselves. The book also presents an attractive game with illustrations of different animals and a mini dictionary that teaches the names of the animals in Mapuzugun.
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Science: general issuesSeptember 2007De sublieme eenvoud van relativiteit
Een visuele inleiding
by Sander Bais
Bais wrote a cute pictorial monograph that smoothly takes you to the very heart of the theory that shook the foundations of science a century ago. Einstein’s 1905 papers on special relativity marked a turning point in our understanding of such fundamental notions a space, time, mass and energy. In an elegant sequence of easy to follow steps through a splendid series of spacetime diagrams Sander Bais gives you the thrill of discovering Einstein’s sublime but extremely counter intuitive reality yourself. The chapters cover subjects like , the postulates, simultaneity, causality, contractions and dilations, and energy and momentum. Discover in a pictorial way why moving clocks run slow, why things cannot move faster then the speed of light, or why mass and energy are equivalent… A delightful journey for the curious mind, the critical student, and the teacher who wants to inspire, but also for all those who want to recapture this beautiful body of knowledge. This book is not as much a philosophical or historical reflection on special relativity, as a manual that with a few words brings you the essential contents of this unique theory. A guided tour full of thought provoking riddles, paradoxes and brainteasers that might keep you awake, fortunately their many back-of- the-envelope resolutions are also included. This book is as close to a do-it-yourself relativity kit as you can get. The author nicely exploits the fact that one image can say a lot more than a full page of algebra, and where algebra is hard to remember some of Bais’ diagrams are hard to forget.
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MemoirsMarch 2020The Private Adolf Loos
Portrait of an Eccentric Genius
by Claire Beck Loos; Translated by Constance C. Pontasch and Nicholas Saunders
An intimate literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect, told in lively, snapshot-like vignettes. The Private Adolf Loos reveals the personality and philosophy that helped shape Modern architecture in Vienna and the Czech lands. Includes an introduction, supplemental texts, writings by Loos and photographs. The Loos' trip to the French Riviera and his work in France are a significant part of the story. Recommended to all those interested not only in architecture but also in the dynamic era of twenties and thirties. Not only a recollection of an extraordinary and controversial personality, Claire’s book is also an excellent literary work. She has captured with a brilliant lightness and humor the tedious, but not boring, life beside a somewhat self-centered genius. […] We still feel Loos’ charisma.– “Annoyed on Vacation and Misunderstood on Site: Loos, We Do Not Know Him,” Lidovk.cz What makes the book most valuable is the fine-grained portrait it provides us of Loos’ last years, of his activities and his preoccupations. […] The English translation of her book, made by Constance C. Pontasch [and Nicholas Saunders], is fluent and accurate, conveying well the tone of Claire Loos’ original (which, in turn, to some extent mimics Loos’ own writing style). Paterson’s introduction and afterword, along with some forty previously unpublished family photographs, add to the story and help flesh it out. It is a richly informative.– Christopher Long, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture
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May 2019Reaching The Other Side
by Wouter Kloowijk, Enzo Pérès-Labourdette
Evie catches a glimpse of someone waving to her from the opposite riverbank. Who could it be? It’s Steph. He really wants to know who’s waving back. How will they ever reach each other? A moving story about two open-minded children and their unconditional friendship – despite the river that separates them from each other.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceJanuary 2014Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature
An Instructional Guide for Literature
by Suzanne I. Barchers
Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this story, analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.
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HistoryJune 2014Seks, drugs en rock en roll in de gouden eeuw
by Benjamin Roberts
In Seks, Drugs en Rock 'n' Roll in de Gouden Eeuw (‘Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Golden Age’), historian Benjamin B. Roberts paints a fascinating portrait of the lives of young men int he first half of the seventeenth century. He describes the riotous behaviour of prominent figures such as Rembrandt – born in 1606 – and brings the values of his rebellious peers to life. Roberts convincingly demonstrates that young men rebelled then as they do now, and moved against previous generations. They grew out their hair, wore outrageous clothes, smoked, drank too much, got into fights with the city guards, cheated, and sang bawdy songs. This accessibly written book paints a vivid portrait of youth culture in the Golden Age; a time when the advent of printing allowed for a rapid spread of a culture of permissiveness. The spread of liberal ideas, together with the rising incomes, created a new generation of ‘bad boys’. Using hilarious examples, Roberts shows that deviant behaviour is timeless.
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March 2020My Long List of Impossible Things
by Michelle Barker
The arrival of the Soviet Army in Germany at the end of World War II sends sixteen-year-old Katja and her family into turmoil. The fighting has stopped, but German society is in collapse, resulting in tremendous hardship. With their father gone and few resources available to them, Katja and her sister are forced to flee their home, reassured by their mother that if they can just reach a distant friend in a town far away, things will get better. But their harrowing journey brings danger and violence, and Katja needs to summon all her strength to build a new life, just as she’s questioning everything she thought she knew about her country. Katja’s bravery and defiance help her deal with the emotional and societal upheaval. But how can she stay true to herself and protect the people she loves when each decision has such far-reaching consequences? Acclaimed writerMichelle Barker’s new novel explores the chaos and destruction of the Second World War from a perspective rarely examined in YA fiction—the implications of the Soviet occupation on a German population grappling with the horrors of Nazism and its aftermath.
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Children's & YASam the Washing Bear
by INGMAR LARSEN
Sam is very excited: today is his birthday! Grandpa gives him a very special present: a soap dispenser. According to Grandpa, there’s dirt everywhere that can make you sick. But if you wash your hands carefully with water and soap, you’ll stay healthy! Sam now feels very important and can’t wait to tell his friends. Together they learn when to wash your hands: after playing outside, taking the bus, or sneezing, for example. A colourful and topical picture book to teach children about the importance of hygiene. Now extra relevant during the Covid-19 crisis! Helps children and their parents to stop spreading the virus.
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When I grow up…
by Grootzus
When you’re a child things don’t always go the way you like. Your parents make you eat your dinner, but you feel like having a cake. No adventurous pets are allowed, like a tiger or a snake. Why not? And if your friend asks you to stay over, you suddenly feel homesick when you go to bed. Then you think: when I grow up... I’ll decide everything myself! Then I’ll dare to swim in a big deep pool, I will no longer be afraid in the dark. A very imaginative picture book about dreaming, wishing and doing everything you want. Later, when you grow up, things will be easier!
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September 2019Emily and the angel caller
by Alice Andres, Jacqueline Kauer
A book for families who have to deal with the loss of a child whom they were never allowed to get to know, or only briefly. Emily and her twin brother Felix will soon see the light of day together. They feel the love for each other and the love of their parents, even if they have never seen them before. One day Emily gets a visit from an angel caller who has the task to find very special guardian angels. But it’s not that easy. Emily decides to become such a special guardian angel to protect Felix and her family.
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Outside it's War
by Janny van der Molen, Martijn van der Linden
Millions of people read the Diary of Anne Frank and at home or at school younger children hear about her, about World War II and the holocaust. Some of them visit the Anne Frank House. For these children, who are still a bit young to read the Diary yet want to know more, this book is ideal. It’s the story of Anne’s life, lovingly told and as accurate as possible, featuring ten themes: laughter, family, school, war, fear, hiding, writing, keeping courage, being in love and betrayal. A truly unforgettable book.To write this book, Janny van der Molen studied archives, visited the house of the Frank family as well as the house they hid in later, and visited concentration camps Westerbork, Auschwitz and Bergen- Belsen. ◆ The story of Anne Frank, for readers who are still too young to read Anne Frank’s Diary
