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September 2021Ehrensache
Kämpfen gegen Judenhass
by Burak Yilmaz
Burak Yilmaz wächst in Duisburg auf, postmigrantisch. Sein Bildungsweg – katholisches Elitegymnasium, Koranschule, Universität – durchkreuzt Milieus, seine Arbeit gefährliche Überzeugungen: Als Reaktion auf den Antisemitismus in seinem Jugendzentrum organisiert er Fahrten nach Auschwitz mit muslimischen Teenagern. Ein Explosionsgemisch aus Schmerz, Enttäuschung, Zugehörigkeit entsteht … Ehrensache ist ein Zeugnis gegen den Hass, ein einzigartiger Lebensbericht und der dringend nötige Vorstoß an einen neuralgischen Punkt der deutschen Öffentlichkeit.
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Business, Economics & LawSeptember 2016Forest Hydrology
Processes, Management and Assessment
by Devendra Amatya, Thomas Williams, Leon Bren, Carmen de Jong
Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community. They interact with water and soil in a variety of ways, providing canopy surfaces which trap precipitation and allow evaporation back into the atmosphere, thus regulating how much water reaches the forest floor as through fall, as well as pull water from the soil for transpiration. The discipline "forest hydrology" has been developed throughout the 20th century. During that time human intervention in natural landscapes has increased, and land use and management practices have intensified. This book: - Presents cutting edge thinking and assessments in forest hydrology across all latitudes and terrains, including state-of-the-art modelling techniques and methodologies - Describes the latest challenges facing forest hydrology, such as increased occurrence of disturbance, due to extreme floods, drought, disease, and fire, potentially caused by climate change - Is written by an internationally renowned team of scientists, engineers, and managers to give a well-rounded review of the subject The book will be useful for graduate students, professionals, land managers, practitioners, and researchers with a good understanding of the basic principles of hydrology and hydrologic processes. ; This book presents cutting edge thinking and assessments in forest hydrology across all latitudes and terrains, including state-of-the-art modelling techniques and methodologies. It describes challenges facing forest hydrology such as extreme floods, drought, disease, and fire, and is written by an internationally renowned team. ; 1: An Introduction to Forest Hydrology 2: Forest Runoff Processes 3: Forest Evapotranspiration: Measurement and Modelling at Multiple Scales 4: Forest Hydrology of Mountainous and Snow Dominated Watersheds 5: European Perspectives on Forest Hydrology 6: Tropical Forest Hydrology 7: Hydrology of Flooded and Wetland Forests 8: Forest Drainage 9: Hydrological Modeling in Forested Systems 10: Geospatial Technology Applications in Forest Hydrology 11: Forests Cover Changes and Hydrology in Large Watersheds 12: Hydrologic Effects of Forest Management 13: Hydrology of Forests after Wildfire 14: Hydrologic Processes of Reference Watersheds in Experimental Forests, USA 15: Applications of Forest Hydrologic Science to Watershed Management in the 21st Century 16: Hydrology of Taiga Forests in High Northern Latitudes 17: Future Directions in Forest Hydrology
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Botany & plant sciencesMarch 2013Phytophthora
A Global Perspective
by Olaf Ribeiro, Marco Thines, Frank Martin, Greg Forbes, David Cooke, Dennis Halterman, Paul Bosland, Mary Hausbeck, Yilmaz Balci, Thomas Jung, Tibor Érsek, Andre Drenth, Janice Uchida, Yuanchao Wang, Sylvia Patricia Fernández Pavía, Randy C Ploetz, Rodrigo Ahumada, Jan Nagel, Anne Dorrance, Adrienne R Hardham, Sabine Werres, Susan C Miyasaka, Soum Sanago. Edited by Kurt Lamour.
Members of the genus Phytophthora cause serious damage to a huge array of plants. From the nineteenth century Irish potato famine to current widespread threats to forests and ecosystems in North and South America, Europe and Australia, the genus lives up to its reputation as the plant destroyer. This book provides an overview of Phytophthora species impacting crops, forests, nurseries, greenhouses and natural areas worldwide. Chapters cover major hosts, identification, epidemiology, management, current research, future perspectives and the impacts of globalization on Phytophthora. Phytophthora: A Global Perspective is an essential resource for researchers and extension workers in plant pathology and crop protection.
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Mats and Milad
or: News from the Middle of Nowhere
by Eva Rottmann
About young love and old hate Mathilda’s first meeting with Milad is rather shocking: She has to tear him off the rails at the last moment before a train arrives! But it turns out, that he did not want to kill himself, he just wanted to get a kick and feel he is alive. Mats, as Mathilda calls herself, and Milad like each other almost from the first moment they’ve met. She, the outsider in her school, he who works in the garage of his dad, who originally is from Lebanon. They could be a pair. Could – if it weren't for the beautiful Alex, who didn't miss the fact that Milad looks pretty good on the one hand. And – on the other hand – for David, who has fallen in love with Mats, but also hangs out with the Nazi gang of the town. This gang really becomes active when it turns out that the asylum seekers' home in the neighbouringcity is asbestos contaminated and the refugees have to be relocated to the sport hall of their village. More and more the citizens become concerned because of the “hordes of foreigners” who might come to town. And when the sport hall goes up in flames, everything gets out of control ...
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Suziko The Iron Claw
The Adventure of Africa
by Sara Gürbüz Özeren
Alper, Oğuz and Caner’s life changed completely with that airplanecrash. All they could save was Suziko.Suziko is a young, gentle lady. Like all the other ladies we know...By a difference, she’s a robot with artificial intelligence. Suziko, anartificial intelligence robot, was conducting intercontinental research onaccount of an unknown country.Their first stop is Africa. The agents of the mysterious countriesfollow them.And things began to flow in a direction none of them expected.Exciting moments await you in the mysterious deserts of the BlackContinent, savannas full of wild animals, the Nile basin, the pyramids,and the children looking for diamonds.Come on, the adventure begins!
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Ölüme Fısıldayan Adam - Man Whispering to Death
by Büşra Yılmaz
"As it was her regular practice, she put burnt matchsticks under the candles and put melt wax on them. As if the burnt matchsticks were us and ends of candles were our graves... What a lovely simile matchstick graveyard was for the broken ones and losers like us... Burn when living, die by burning and continue burning after death. As if burning was defining her whole existence..." A clever cheater who was born out of the ashes of the pains in his past... A butterfly entering a beehive. An embittered girl who cannot even achieve to die since she is not living... A fish afraid of water. Two people that God brought together to find a remedy in each other. But what will happen if a butterfly with a one-day long life falls in love with tomorrow? Together with the second book of the series ,Matchstick Graveyard, sold over 200.000 copies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2014Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism
Dynamics in the West and in the Middle East
by Erkan Toguslu and Johan Leman (eds)
Innovative research of ‘Islam at work’ in geographical and social contexts‘Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism’ presents a series of scholarly papers in relation to Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East. The reader will apprehend that Islam is not the monolithic religion so often depicted in the media or (earlier) in the academic world. The Islamic world is more than a uniform civilization with a set of petrified religious prescriptions and an outdated view on political and social organization. The contributions show the dynamics of ‘Islam at work’ in different geographical and social contexts. By treating the working of Islamic thinking and of Islamic activism on a practical level, ‘Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism’ includes innovative research and fills a significant gap in existing work.Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).ContributorsErkan Toğuşlu (KU Leuven), Thierry Limpens (KU Leuven), Eric Geoffroy (University of Strasbourg), Jonathan Benthall ( UCL, London) Thomas Michel (Georgetown University), Egbert Harmsen ( Leiden University), İhsan Yılmaz (Fatih University), Emilio Platti (KU Leuven), Roel Meijer (Radboud University)
