Literature & Literary Studies
August 2017
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January 1995Eliza Pirex, California
Ein Kriminalroman
by McRae, Diana / Englisch Kähler, Cornelia R
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Geography & the EnvironmentJanuary 2024Researching animal research
by Gail Davies, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G. W. Kirk, Alexandra Palmer, Emma Roe
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May 2014Galenisches Praktikum für PTA
Pharmazeutisch-technologische Übungen für Ausbildung und Praxis
by Seestädt, Petra; Prus, Judith; Candels, Tanja
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Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond
A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae
by Christoph Anderl and Christian Wittern
Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Chán scholar John McRae and investigates the spread of early Chán in a historical, multi-lingual, and interreligious context. Combining the expertise of scholars of Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, and Tangut Buddhism, the edited volume is based on a thorough study of manuscripts from Dūnhuáng, Turfan, and Karakhoto, tracing the particular features of Chán in the Northwestern and Northern regions of late medieval China.
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September 2022Things I Didn't Throw Out
by Marcin Wicha
Marcin Wicha (1972) is a Polish designer, illustrator, columnist, and writer. Having written a few books for children, he turned to adult non-fiction with a personal slant, of which the present book is the second instance, after his debut, How I Stopped Loving Design, was published to popular and critical acclaim in 2015, also by Karakter. Things I Didn't Throw Out is told in short, anecdotal chapters, collected in three sections: „My Mother's Kitchen”, „Dictionary”, and „Laughing at Appropriate Moments”, and forms a loose diptych with How I Stopped Loving Design, which focused on Wicha's father in the aftermath of his death (both books work as stand-alones, too).The book is a first-person account of processing grief through the objects his mother, Joanna, surrounded herself with while living and dying. The first part is mainly devoted to Joanna's books and how they formed a part of her life in its various stages. The second is a series of stories about objects (such as her typing machine and her ballpoint pens), mementoes, phrases and words that were important in Joanna's life and which allow us to construct an image of her as a person, a mother and a Jewish woman living in Communist Poland. The third, shortest one is a stark, unflinching report of her final illness and death.Wicha meditates on the obsolescence of objects after their owner dies. The book is a collection of memories of a difficult person who lived in a difficult time – Wicha realistically describes the material meanness of the Communist regime, the shortages, rudeness and the hoarding instincts shaped by post-war reality. Joanna's Jewishness, her devotion to work, her argumentative temperament, the clarity and no-nonsense quality of her opinions - all that accumulates into a fully fleshed-out character whose decline and death is then described in terse, unsentimental, yet very touching scenes. The result is cathartic.In the first section, Wicha deconstructs the post-war history of Poland in a series of chapters which transform his mother's bookshelves into an almost geological accumulation of many decades of sediment. During his childhood, in times of economic crisis, he has to stage a long war of attrition with a bookshop sales assistant in order to buy the new Tove Jansson book. In a long chapter analysing the caustic wit of Jane Austen's Emma, Wicha describes his mother's passionate relationship with that book, which always consoled her in times of low mood, but couldn't do the trick after her husband's death. He looks for the background stories in the little doodles on the margin, the tiny hole on one page, finds the history of socio-economic transformation of 20th century Europe in his mother's cookbooks, and mentions his mother's jokey ambition to move to Canada, reflected by her English textbook.The second section has a broader context of politics and history. Wicha describes politics as an excuse not to talk about personal problems; his mother's was a life spent with politics in the foreground, because there was no other way. Wicha explores the common, generational trauma of March 1968, when the remaining Polish Jews, frequently hiding their identity, were subject to a campaign of intimidation and social cleansing. In chapters seemingly about trivia, Wicha writes about the legacy of a community of people which was annihilated – about how they continue to be present in tasteless jokes, awkwardly-worded memorial signs, allusions during family gatherings. This section shows incredible sensitivity to the layers of global, local and personal histories that add up and intertwine.In the third section the short chapters are untitled, which adds to the fragmentary nature of the text and the impression that Wicha is barely holding it together. In between conversations with his mother's live-in Ukrainian nurse, doctors, paramedics and his mostly non-responsive mother, Wicha attempts to carry on and make sense of what is happening, give it meaning. The last six short chapters deal directly with his mother's death; they encompass the formalities and banal details that he has to attend to, the unbearable pain and helplessness, the need to keep going. Thus concludes this archeology of love, exasperation and grief, not without moments of dark humour.The book would be perfect for readers interested in: exploring the parent-child relationship, especially (but not exclusively) at the end of the parent's life, and issues of processing grief and remembering, or reading an off-piste exploration of the 20th century history of the Jewish community in Europe. Things I Didn't Throw Out is a wry and unsentimental account of the emotional and physical labour of a carer and an attempt to understand one's parent as a person with their own history, personality and temperament independent of parenthood. It is also a nuanced portrait of a woman who refused to compromise and continued to demand respect, who was sensitive to language and the complexities of history, society and politics. Some comparisons might include Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Last Act of Love and Brian Dillon's In the Dark Room.
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The ArtsThames & Hudson Australia
by Books From Australia
Thames & Hudson Australia is the fastest growing publisher of illustrated books in Australia. Our list is small but perfectly formed. We publish 40 titles each year into subject areas including the arts, architecture, interiors, design, photography, environment, gardening, food and drink and children’s books. Our books push design boundaries, challenge current thinking and offer new interpretations; they help put words, thoughts and images to the world around us. Whether an illustrated book, children’s books or narrative nonfiction, each title reflects the first-class editorial, design and production qualities synonymous with the Thames & Hudson tradition.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2021Lottie Loves Nature: Bee-ware
by Jane Clarke, ill. by James Brown
A Brand New Eco-Adventure Series for Young Readers. There are four book in the series. Lottie loves wildlife and dreams of becoming a nature show presenter like Samira, host of her favourite programme "Every Little Thing". Lottie wants to encourage wildlife into her garden, but Mr. Parfitt, her neighbour, hates creepy crawlies and wants to rid his garden of all insects. So when he finds a bees' nest, he wants to exterminate them. Lottie has to save the bees! Lottie convinces Mr. Parfitt to call a beekeeper instead - because every little thing matters. Nature Hooks: Bee and insect facts, how to make a bug hotel and butterfly feeder.
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Microbiology (non-medical)January 2022Functional Foods
Processing and Packaging
by Tanweer Alam, Saket Kushwaha, Arun Kumar & Sahar Masud
To provide better understanding of use, benefits, significance and impact of functional food ingredients on human health and to disseminate the recent developments in such a rapidly expanding field, this book has been compiled and edited. There are seventeen chapters in this book which not only cover many aspects of functional foods and bioactive compounds from various natural sources and its impacts, but also discuss on sources and applications of natural antioxidants, probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics. The contributing authors are experts in their respective fields. This book will be of interest to a wide spectrum of professionals from food scientists and technologists, nutritionists, biochemists, and engineers to entrepreneurs worldwide. It will also serve as a unique reference for food scientists for the R&D departments of food companies that are working with functional foods and ingredients. Additionally, it will serve as a source of basic information for college and university students majoring in food science and technology, food processing, and engineering. Readers will obtain sound scientific knowledge about various aspects of nutraceuticals and functional foods or food ingredients, fermented functional food, various natural bioactive compounds and antioxidants.
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BoxingSeptember 2014Road to Nowhere, The
A Journey Through Boxing's Wastelands
by Tris Dixon
In the era of boxing's pay-per-view superstars, Tris Dixon invested in a Greyhound bus pass and spent several months traversing America on a shoestring budget, tracking down fighters from yesteryear who had vanished from the limelight. Venturing from New York to Las Vegas and from Toronto to Miami, the young writer - himself a former amateur boxer - sought out coulda-beencontenders and cult heroes from the 1950s to the 2000s, all now faded from popular memory. He visited old people's homes, gyms and too many prisons, discovering that life after boxing can be a cruel place when the ropes are no longer in place to keep fighters safe from the outside world. Dixon meets men who shaped boxing history, fighting the likes of Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. He shares their memories and weaves together their forgotten tales over the course of a remarkable American journey.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2018Danube Swabians
German Settlers in Southeast Europe
by Gerhard Seewann, Michael Portmann
In the 18th century, ships regularly sailed downstream from German Danube ports. People who promised themselves a better future in Southeastern Europe allowed themselves to be embarked. Most of them came from the southwestern countries of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Their destination was the Kingdom of Hungary, where after liberation from Turkish occupation manpower was needed. The immigrants were called “Swabians” regardless of their origin. They were economically successful and left their mark on large areas of the country. After 1918 these groups, now called “Danube Swabians”, belonged to three different states: Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Starting in 1944, hundreds of thousands lost their homes and thousands their lives through flight, expulsion, persecution and deportation. The majority of the uprooted found refuge in southern Germany. Only the Swabians in Romania and a part of the Hungarian Germans were allowed to stay. Many of them came to Germany as late repatriates, the remaining ones today form active German minorities in their home countries.
