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mikrotext is a publisher for texts with attitude and for new narratives, founded in 2013 in Berlin by Nikola Richter The independent publishing house focusses on new literary texts that comment on contemporary questions and allow insights into tomorrow. The texts are inspired by discussions on social media platformes and reflect today’s global debates. All titles are published digital first. A selection is available in English. In 2020 and 2019, mikrotext was awarded the German Publisher Award by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media.
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Parasitic flatworms include Cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flukes, schistosomes, etc) and are the cause of a number of major diseases of medical and veterinary significance. Much recent research has focused on molecular biology and genomics. this book aims to review advances in our understanding of these and related topics such as flatworm biochemistry, immunology and physiology. Where appropriate, comparisons are made between different parasitic flatworms and between parasitic and free-living species. Contributors to the book include leading authorities from Europe, North and South America, and Australia.
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Stimulating and thought-provoking, this important new text looks at the welfare problems and philosophical and ethical issues that are caused by changes made to an animal's telos, behaviour and physiology, both positive and negative, to make them more productive or adapted for human uses. These changes may involve selective breeding for production, appearance traits, or competitive advantage in sport, transgenic animals or the use of pharmaceuticals or hormones to enhance production or performance. Changes may impose duties to care for these animals further and more intensely, or they may make the animal more robust. The book considers a wide range of animals, including farm animals, companion animals and laboratory animals. It reviews the ethics and welfare issues of animals that have been adapted for sport, as companions, in work, as ornaments, food sources, guarding and a whole host of other human functions. This important new book sparks debate and is essential reading for all those involved in animal welfare and ethics, including veterinarians, animal scientists, animal welfare scientists and ethologists.
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Mom and Dad completely lose the plot the day the Wifi stops working in the house. In a role reversal of sorts, it's up to little Shivi to get her bored and tantrum-throwing parents to see that there is a perfectly wonderful life to be enjoyed beyond their screen-craze. Mithila Ananth’s zany, whimsical digital illustrations with a minimal neat colour palette and a touch of quiet humour throw into sharp focus Richa Jha’s funny story done as a second-person narrative. Together, they draw the reader right into the centre of this book’s relatable universe.
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This book covers the biotechnology of all the major fruit and nut species, with persimmon, pomegranate and loquat included for the first time and colour illustrations illustrating the crop species and their wild relatives. Family by family, it details well-established techniques such as protoplast culture, in vitro mutagenesis and ploidy manipulation, but also newer approaches such as genomics, genetic transformation and marker-assisted selection.
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Nikki has to spend the summer with Grandma, who seems odd with all her jars of old dried up leaves and twigs. Nikki learns to help make remedies, but her confidence plummets when she makes a mistake. One stormy night she is called to help a sick little girl and must face her fears. She discovers a secret connection with plants and with her ancestors, returning home with a new sense of belonging and purpose.
“It's a tale that will keep them wondering, gasping, thinking, smiling, grimacing, rereading. What more can a reader ask for?"Spinetingler Magazine”I wouldn't have stopped reading if my house was on fire!” Cas Peace"Right on time," Daniel Mansen mouths to Alice as she pushes him to his death. Haunted by these words, Alice becomes obsessed with discovering how a man she didn't know could predict her actions. On the day of the funeral, Daniel's cousin, Thom, finds a piece of paper in Daniel's room detailing the exact time and place of his death.Ellipsis is a disturbing thriller stemming from what is left unsaid, what bounces around in the mind and evaporates when trying to remember. Can there be a conclusion when no-one seems to know the truth?
Hardened by scars. Softened by heart. Melded by fire. Scarred Hearts, Book 1 Petite in stature but not in attitude, Delancey Winston put her fellow firefighters’ doubts to rest when she carried a half-burned man out of an arson fire. But she can’t shake the need to learn more about the haunting power of the man in her dreams—the one she pulled from a dead woman’s side to save. Even more disturbing is the power of newly awakened memories she’s tried to bury. Logan Mathis lost more than his accounting firm that day. He lost his beloved sister, his only remaining family. Now, his days filled with painful skin grafts and therapy, he works to avoid people. Until he runs into the woman who saved his life, who seems to see beyond his scars. Slowly, Delancey’s generosity of spirit begins healing Logan from the inside. But their connection resurrects memories Logan would rather forget. Memories that could make Logan a target of someone who’s still trying to burn away his tracks. Warning: The damsel saves the dude, and that’s not a spoiler. It’s a clue that things are about to get hot. Really hot.
An award-winning epic saga (35 awards total) like no other revealing our undiscovered past. Experience with Nikki, a paleo-archeology graduate student, humanity’s origins filled with deadly dinosaurs, ancient gods, terrible tyrannies, heavenly powers, and heroic hearts...answering the question, “What if all of our myths and legends are true?”
A brilliant portrait of the Madrid you won’t find in tourist guides. A thriller with imagery and situations worthy of a David Lynch in a state of grace. A night in the outskirts of Madrid—gambling and bingo, gas stations and bars in the middle of nowhere. A starkly real Madrid in which suddenly the unexpected, even the magical, can happen. This is the backdrop for the characters of this novel, losers in search of an opportunity. Their names are Nikki and Sánchez. They’ve shared a life together in the past, but now they are separated. She has been dealing tobacco in the South and now has come back to Madrid where she has entered the world of gambling and greyhound races. He is famous for being jinxed and inclined to disappear. Nikki asks Sánchez to help her to deliver a greyhound named Cromwell to an Italian woman who is in the racing business. Over the course of an endless night, the couple will make its way through a spectral Madrid as they search for this greyhound and meet a cast of odd characters, such as the Serbian artist who has just put on a performance that consists of eating raw meat in the middle of a forest for 24 hours… «Esther García Llovet is a rara avis… The author questions every code, every image, every word… Wonderful» (Marta Sanz).
Imagine waking up in a park, injured and bleeding. You’re holding a knife and a badly wounded girl is lying on the ground. You have no idea who she is. Everything indicates that you’ve stabbed her. But you don’t remember any of it…This happens to 16-year-old Nikki. Her search for the disturbing truth will change her life forever. What really happened in that park?
Winter Blue is a 14 and a half years old fairy-child who lives in two parallel worlds, the human world, and another secret and wondrous world - MagicLand. There she meets Grinding beetles, an amusing dwarfling by the name of Kroshtank which is in search of the rare Bambiloks flowers, and of course fairies, house-fairies, dwarflings and many others. Winter also meets a fairy-child named Nikki and goes on her first date with Brian. When one day colorful lighting and throbbing, sparkling light balls start appearing in the human world, winter and her friends set out to investigate. The fairies warn that it seems that a, once in 500 years, magic storm is about to start. The children set out to mitigate the upcoming storm, confront a dangerous creature named Taragus and discover a dark secret from Eizmergada’s past. This is the fourth installment in the Winter Blue, Fairy-Child book series. The Winter Blue, Fairy-Child series (7 books and a magical cookbook) oscillates between imagination and reality, between the life of a teenage girl with all its day to day complexities and a rich adventure story which takes place primarily in MagicLand. MagicLand is a secret world run by the fairies, where all magical creatures took refuge after having fled from the human world. The plots are threaded between the two parallel worlds and sweep the reader onto enchanting adventures.
Spirits of the Coast brings together the work of marine biologists, Indigenous knowledge keepers, poets, artists and storytellers, united by their enchantment with the orca. A literary and visual journey through past and possibility, this book illustrates how the enigmatic orca has shaped us as much as our actions have impacted its species, and provokes the reader to imagine the shape of our shared future.
Domburg, 2032. The sound of a gunshot echoes in Dark Rivers, a notorious ghetto neighbourhood. Thirteen-year-old Rashad is hit by a bullet that was actually intended for a gang member. He urgently needs help, but Dark Rivers was recently declared a no-go zone, where aid workers and police officers are no longer allowed. Sixteen-year-old Tamara immediately revolts. She organizes a demonstration that culminates in a fierce clash between supporters and opponents of the new law. Nikkie, a popular influencer, uses her platform to inform young people, but soon finds herself in a predicament due to the many protests. Derek, a doctor-in-training, risks his life to save Rashad, but escalating gang violence and the approaching protestors quickly spiral out of control. Will it be possible to save Rashad, or will the boy be the first victim of the new law? Dark Rivers is a socially critical Young Adult set in the near future.
With the folios deciphered at long last, Jen unravels the secrets of Joshua’s prophecy. The friends are horrified to learn that the Veil is in greater peril than they had previously imagined. A race against time begins. Meanwhile, Leonardo is gathering a team to uncover the identity of the Mistress of Shadows. The trail leads them to the Ashwells, where Clara will be forced to confront a dark secret...
