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Tales of EUkraine (TEUk) will bring books to Ukrainian children refugees while helping the Ukrainian publishing sector with the support of the European Commission
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Promoted ContentHealth & Personal DevelopmentJune 2016
Studying Successfully with ADHD
A Pratical Guide for Parents
by Stefanie Rietzler, Fabian Grolimund
For children with ADHD and their parents, the school years are often difficult. Children may avoid homework they dislike, involve their parents in endless discussions of the point or pointlessness of particular exercises, dawdle and daydream their time away, or explode with frustration if they get something wrong or cannot do something. This book provides parents with concrete and practical help. It shows you how you can: • improve your child’s concentration and stamina• increase your child’s motivation to learn and study• reduce frustration, arguments, and tears over homework• control chaos and forgetfulness• help your child succeed by using smart learning methods• develop your child’s strengths• help your child cope with failure and maintain self-confidence• establish a good relationship with the school. For: • parents / relatives of children with ADHD• therapists• learning coaches• teachers
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Promoted Content2019
Why ADHD is Not a Disease
A polemic
by Amrei Wittwer
In some European countries, one in four children is now diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) due to their socially disruptive behaviour. The treatment usually consists of suppressing the symptoms with psychostimulants such as Ritalin. This treatment does not improve school performance, but it curbs the children’s creativity and may stigmatise them for their entire lives. Taking an opposing viewpoint, ADHD expert Dr. Amrei Wittwer focuses on the physical and psychological well-being of the affected children. Because almost all “ADHD patients“ are facing difficulties in relationships with adults, she considers that a solution begins with the children’s domestic and school environments, instruction of parents and teachers, and by using therapeutic approaches rather than simply sedating the children. “Children are our future”, is a common theme in Sunday speeches. Anyone who takes this point seriously, whether or not they themselves are immediately affected, should think about this important topic.
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Trusted PartnerBusiness, Economics & LawAugust 2013
Negotiation and Persuasion
The Science and Art of Winning Cooperative Partners
by Marco Behrmann
This book is a clear and compact guide on how to succeed by means of goal-oriented negotiation and cooperative persuasion. Readers learn models to understand and describe what takes place during negotiations, while numerous figures, charts, and checklists clearly summarize effective strategies for analyzing context, processes, competencies, and the impact of our own behavior. Real-life case examples vividly illustrate the specific measures individuals and teams can take to systematically improve their powers of persuasion and bargaining strength. The book also describes a modern approach to raising negotiation competencies as part of personnel development, making it suitable for use in training courses as well as for anyone who wants to be a more persuasive and successful negotiator. Target Group: For work and organizational psychologists, HR professionals, coaches, management trainers and trainees.
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Trusted PartnerJune 2024
Genetics of Salt Tolerance in Plants
a Central Dogma Perspective and Strategies for Enhancement
by Showkat Ahmad Ganie, Shabir Hussain Wani
Gene expression in cells follows a prescribed pathway that conforms to the Central Dogma; where the genetic information stored in DNA is transcribed into RNA and then expressed into proteins, which influences most plant traits. Plant salt tolerance research is directed towards identifying nucleotide variants that could contribute to tolerant phenotypes. This book comprehensively presents the current state of knowledge on plant salt tolerance through meticulous analysis of the processes operating across the Central Dogma. It provides a detailed account of modulation of gene expression through genome editing systems to achieve crop improvement against salt stress. It also provides state-of-the-art information on advances in breeding technologies of genome selection and accelerated de novo domestication for rapidly improving the salt tolerance of plants for global food security. This book: 1.Provides a comprehensive coverage of plant salt tolerance mechanisms. 2.Spotlights various factors functioning along the Central Dogma pathway and their regulation in response to salinity. 3.Examines how these factors function to protect the plants from high salinity. 4.Highlights advances in cutting-edge breeding technologies for improving salt tolerance. The book will be of particular value to students and researchers of plant genetics, molecular biology and physiology and those with an interest in salinity and salt tolerance.
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Is the Brain Rational?
The Findings of a Neuropsychologist
by L. Jäncke
This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey, demonstrating in an understandable and entertaining way how the brain affects our thoughts, actions, and feelings - and that this sometimes only peripherally involves reason. It shows, that the subconscious actually exists and how it affects us, how we arrive at both right and wrong decisions, how our memory works, how fragile it can be, and yet also how robust. Using insightful experiments and the latest research results, including many examples, this book presents the reader what an incredibly impressive thinking organ the brain actually is – even if it is not a purely “rational machine”. Target Group: For people interested in the results of research into the workings of the brain in the areas of decision-making, memory, and consciousness.
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Trusted PartnerOctober 2023
Watching the Brain Think
Facets of neuroscience: short thought provoking texts for the curious
by Monika Niehaus/Martin Osterloh
— An exciting and entertaining explanation of neuroscience — In the diverting and humorous style for which the author is known – learning has never been this much fun What processes in the brain are responsible for intelligence, free will, empathy or reason? Can memories be falsified? And what does actually happen in the brain when we reach puberty? Monika Niehaus and Martin Osterloh answer these and many other neuroscientific questions in their book – a fundamental work on brain research, and easy to understand, exciting and entertaining.
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Trusted Partner1988
Modern Talking
Englisches Quasselbuch mit Sprüchen und Widersprüchen. (Sprachbücher)
by O'Sullivan, Emer; Rösler, Dietmar
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Trusted PartnerMedicine
Talking about Health and Illness in Simple Terms
Medical Information Sheets in Plain Language
by Tanja Sappok, Reinhard Burtscher, Anja Grimmer
People with intellectual disabilities are signifcantly more likely to suffer from mental and physical disorders than the general population. For this very reason, good healthpromoting and medical care is especially important. Communication diffculties with patients and specialist staff make the necessary examinations and treatments more diffcult and can result in critical situations that are avoidable. If patients can be provided with explanations that are in line with their capabilities, then the level of anxiety and stress is reduced for all concerned. The treatment success rate increases. This largeformat book includes materials that explain about illnesses, examination and treatment methods in language that is easy to understand. The materials can help medical, treatment and educational personnel with their everyday work. They promote dialogue with relatives and people with learning diffculties, contribute to informed decisionmaking and strengthen patient rights.
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Trusted Partner2022
Talking to Customersin Pharmacies
A conversation guidefor newcomers and old hands
by Dr Kirsten Lennecke, Illustrated by Barbara Kohm
The basis for successful advice is having a sound knowledge of the effect and application of medicines, but also an instinct for the individual needs and characteristics of the person asking for your help. This skill can be trained! Entertaining explanations and numerous case examples taken from everyday pharmacy practice help with this. They show how pharmacy staff can react empathetically, avoid misunderstandings, and manage delicate situations with confidence. The 5th edition has become more colourful! This applies not only to the illustrations, but also to the team and customers of our model pharmacy. A personality model with distinctive colours representing the different characters promises exciting insights. Good communication creates satisfied customers who want to come back again and again!
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Trusted PartnerFebruary 2018
Talking about relativity to children
by Li Miao
This is a popular book on relativity written by physicist Li Miao for children. Einstein's revolution in science and technology has brought great changes to our world in the 20th century. It has changed our cognition of time, space, matter and motion. A series of fantastic predictions have come true one by one, including gravitational waves detected in recent years. In this book, starting from this world-famous event, uncle Miao tells his children about the incomprehensible concepts of gravity, space-time, speed of light, etc. There are a lot of wonderful illustrations in the book, together with a variety of interesting thought experiments, to help children understand this field which has a great impact on modern physics.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesNovember 2022
Freedom of speech, 1500–1850
by Robert Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber, Alastair Bellany, Peter Lake
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Trusted PartnerEarly learning / early learning conceptsOctober 2017
Una cabeza distinta (A different head)
by Luis Panini, Chiara Carrer
This child tells us that he is not happy with the head that he has. He thinks it is a wrong head. The parents, after listening to him, take him to a specialist, who agrees with the little one. A mysterious man dressed in black supplies him with heads in exchange for his own. The child tries several, until he finds the one he was looking for. A reindeer head, a crocodile head, a whisk head: the narrator child and protagonist of this story tells us about his disagreement with the head he has and the vicissitudes that he has to go through to find the head with which he will finally agree: the head of a grown man, of a mathematician. This is a story of search for identity and growth, developed with fine fantasy and humor, with the wisdom of someone he has sought and perhaps already found.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJuly 2020
Race talk
Languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets
by Antonia Lucia Dawes
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Race talk is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors work alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper. As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.
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Trusted PartnerChildren's & YA
Grandma Doesn't Talk
China Story Picture Books
by Lyu Lina
China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. Grandma Doesn't Talk tells the story of "little Heidi" in China. Mai Xiaoduo's grandmother is wordless but has many skills. She can cut window flowers for the neighbors, knit sweaters, make medicine for Heidi's ailing grandfather, and take Mai Xiaoduo to the mountain to collect medicine and watch the sunset. Although grandma doesn't talk too much, her scissors, needles and frying pans can talk. In the process of accompanying her grandmother, Mai Xiaoduo heard the sound of life, history, and flowers, trees and the wind in nature.
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 2020
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Second Edition
by M. Foster Olive, Ph.D.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the name of a group of attention-related symptoms that are often found together, especially in children and young adults. ADHD often starts to become apparent in the middle elementary school years, and symptoms can last into adulthood. Symptoms include inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. It is estimated that ADHD affects approximately 2 million children in the United States. This comprehensive book explores the nature of ADHD, its history, how it is diagnosed and treated, and its possible causes. Chapters include: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Different Types of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Neurobiology of Attention and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Conditions and Causes That Are Incorrectly Correlated with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Genes and Environment in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Medications Methods for Managing Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Outlook for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social Sciences
A Childhood with ADHD
by Daniela Chirici
“Your child is out of control: they do whatever they want to you!” or “ADHD? There’s no such thing! You’re just not raising your child properly. The problem is you, not the child.” Do these phrases sound familiar to you? Are you questioning whether you are a good mother or father, since your child is not the way society demands and expects? Daniela Chirici is familiar with both the attacks and with the self-doubt. Her oldest son was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) at an early age. For ten years, until her son reached the age of 19, she regularly wrote for the Swiss ADHD organization. In her texts, she describes how it is to be out and about with a child affected by ADHD and what it means for the whole family. For:• parents, grandparents, and other relatives of childrenaffected by ADHD• teachers• therapists• anyone who wants to find out more about ADHD