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        Minibombo makes picture books characterized by clear images and solid colours, telling stories with a short text or no text at all. The books aim to create a participated reading process between adults and children and require a bit of creativity and cooperation on their part. Minibombo loves to explore different types of communication. This is why some of its paper stories have become the starting point for creating digital applications. The apps refer to the original stories in the books and develop them further by exploiting a different code. All the minibombo apps are available worldwide on the App Store and Google Play. Minibombo started in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 2013. Since its beginnings, it has been highly appreciated both by readers and operators in the sector and has been awarded several prizes which have helped make its books known among a wide public. Its books are translated in more than fourteen counties worldwide.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2024

        Undermining resistance

        The governance of participation by multinational mining corporations

        by Lian Sinclair

        Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are there so many different global standards in mining? This book develops a new critical political economy approach to studying extractive accumulation, drawing on three detailed Indonesian cases to explain how participatory mechanisms continuously reshape and are reshaped by community-corporate conflict. Findings highlight feedback between local social relations, conflict, transnational activism, crises of legitimacy and global governance. The author argues that corporate social responsibility, community development, 'gender-mainstreaming' and environmental monitoring are neither simple outcomes of corporate ethics nor mere greenwashing strategies. Rather, participation is a mechanism to undermine resistance and create social relations amenable to extractive accumulation.

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        July 2020

        Von Data Mining bis Big Data

        Handbuch für die industrielle Praxis

        by Otte, Ralf; Wippermann, Boris; Otte, Viktor

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        July 2009

        Die Sage von Sleepy Hollow

        und andere unheimliche Geschichten

        by Washington Irving, Erika Gröger

        Washington Irving ist der »Erfinder« und erster Vertreter der amerikanischen Short story. Vor allem seine unheimlichen Geschichten wie »Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow« und »Rip van Winkle« sind bis heute äußerst populär und wurden mehrfach verfilmt. »Sleepy Hollow« erzählt die Geschichte eines kopflosen Reiters, der ein ganzes Dorf in Angst und Schrecken versetzt. Niemand, der ihm begegnet, kommt mit dem Leben davon. Die Sammlung enthält zudem die Storys »Rip van Winkle«, »Der Geisterbräutigam«, »Die Sage vom arabischen Sterndeuter« sowie »Die Sage vom Vermächtnis des Mauren«.

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        December 2001

        Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages. Vol. 2

        Afro-European Supremacy, 1125–1225 (African Gold Production and the First European Silver Production Long-Cycle)

        by Blanchard, Ian

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        June 2005

        Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages. Vol. 3

        Continuing Afro-European Supremacy, 1250–1450 (African Gold Production and the Second and Third European Silver Production Long-cycles)

        by Blanchard, Ian

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        June 2024

        At the Very Bottom of the System

        How migrant workers ensure prosperity for us

        by Sascha Lübbe

        The author reveals structural problems and offers solutions – an urgently necessary book, not least with a view to the acute shortage of skilled workers 450,000 migrant workers toll on German construction sites, work in sometimes inhumane conditions in meat factories or as truck drivers, and let’s not forget the hordes of cleaners in German hotels and companies. They are systematically exploited and cheated out of their wages. Sascha Lübbe exposes the octopus-like network of partly criminal companies in a shadowy world where the boundary between the legal and the illegal is blurred. In his evocative book with interviews with those aff ected, he reveals how a parallel system has established itself in the German working world, but also how those affected resist.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2009

        Global justice networks

        Geographies of transnational solidarity

        by Paul Routledge, Andrew Cumbers

        This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'. Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants' network in Asia (People's Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers) and the Social Forum process, it analyses some of the global justice movement's component parts, operational networks and their respective dynamics, strategies and practices. The authors argue that the emergence of new globally-connected forms of collective action against neoliberal globalisation are indicative of a range of place-specific forms of political agency that coalesce across geographic space at particular times, in specific places, and in a variety of ways. Rather than being indicative of a coherent 'movement', the authors argue that such forms of political agency contain many political and geographical fissures and fault-lines, and are best conceived of as 'global justice networks': overlapping, interacting, competing, and differentially-placed and resourced networks that articulate demands for social, economic and environmental justice. Such networks, and the social movements that comprise them, characterise emergent forms of trans-national political agency. The authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an understanding of the operational dynamics of such networks. Such an analysis challenges key current assumptions in the literature about the emergence of a global civil society. ;

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        January 1992

        Scorpions

        by Skai, Hollow

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        Children's & YA

        The Detention Pros

        by Kirsten John/Miryam Specht

        Clara, Julian, Felix and Fee must have done something bad, because they are waiting for a severe punishment: detention. “Detention” is actually the wrong word. In fact their task is to get the school garden into shape, which includes the fountain with non-stop snapping turtles. But oh, shock horror! First of all, Felix digs up a skull. Then several suspicious looking men turn up, alleging that they are sports teachers. Could this be the cover-up of a murder? And what is the grumpy housemaster Kratzek hiding? In order to find out just what is going on at the closed school, the four detainees must stick together at all costs – and that is the biggest adventure of them all.

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        October 1994

        Mine-Haha

        Oder Über die körperliche Erziehung der jungen Mädchen. Mit "Nu au miroir" von Balthus

        by Frank Wedekind, Balthus

        Frank Benjamin Franklin Wedekind wurde am 24. Juli 1864 in Hannover geboren und starb am 9. März 1918 in München. Im Jahr 1884 begann Wedekind zu studieren. Er versuchte sich an der Literatur, der bildenden Kunst, der Musik und auf Wunsch seines Vaters an der Rechtswissenschaft. 1887 entstand Kontakt zur Gruppe ›Das junge Deutschland‹, über die er Gerhart Hauptmann kennenlernte. Von 1891 bis 1895 lebte Frank Wedekind in Paris. 1896 kehrte Wedekind zurück nach München und war dort Mitgründer und ständiger Mitarbeiter der Zeitschrift ›Simplicissimus‹, in der er auch Hieronymos veröffentlichte. Von 1899 bis 1900 verbüßte er eine sechsmonatige Haftstrafe wegen Beleidigung der kaiserlichen Majestät. In den Jahren 1902 bis 1908 war Wedekind Kabarettist und Schauspieler. 1906 heiratet er Tilly Newes. Er war ein Bohemien, das Antibürgerliche war sein Element. In allen seinen Werken hat er die Gesellschaft seiner Zeit entlarvt, verspottet und angeklagt. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Dramen stehen Menschen, die versuchen, sich der Verlogenheit und Heuchelei ihrer Epoche zu widersetzen, und sich meist als deren Opfer erweisen. Er hatte einen untrüglichen Instinkt für die Möglichkeiten und die Wirkungen der Bühne. Vom Naturalismus wandte er sich ab, dem Expressionismus bahnte er den Weg und wurde so eine der zentralen Figuren des modernen Dramas. Marcel Reich-Ranicki

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        August 2004

        Hollow Plastic Parts

        Design and Manufacture (Print-on-Demand)

        by Beall, Glenn; Throne, James L.

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