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Bestari Buana Murni is a publisher that has established partnerships with several countries, proven by always holding IIBF (International Indonesia Book Fair) and has 12 branches spread in Sumatra, Java and Makassar. We publish books from toddlers - adults, and from the Islamic to the general.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2024Bestsellers and masterpieces
by Heather Blurton, Dwight F. Reynolds
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Children's & YASnöfrid from Meadow Valley (3). The Hectic Hunt for the River Pearl
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
What a disaster! Snöfrid’s stream has disappeared during the night! Without water there can be no porridge, and Snöfrid doesn’t have to think twice. This problem must be solved immediately! The hunt for water begins with a wet meeting at the pond of the little nymph Flumina, but when it turns into a hunt for the mysterious river pearl, involving a submersible boat, the story quickly becomes an underwater adventure, and who knows how it will end? Magical adventure, great fun for boys and girls, by Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.
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Children's & YAMissi Moppel - Detective for all Cases (2). The Floating Teapot and other Weird Wonders
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
The master detective is after a cunning thief who steals colourful, random objects like Leonardo da Vinci’s paintbrush or antique sugar bowls. During a visit to Grandpa Pots, she uncovers the secret of Ghost Island and solves the puzzle of the floating teapot in Mr Goldrand’s junk shop. Only the nasty blackmailing letters from the mysterious “Magpie” present her with a seemingly insoluble mystery. Someone is testing the powers of the great investigator to their very limit…Will she be able to crack even this case? 15 original detective stories told in masterly fashion by the Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.
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Children's & YAThe Magical Pharmacy (4). The Contest of a Thousand Talents
by Anna Ruhe/ Claudia Carls
A world full of scents – and an adventure full of magic, racing hearts and dangers! Luzie Alvenstein can sense it right down to her fingertips: there is something wrong with the invitation she is holding in her hand. Her rival Elodie de Richemont has invited her to enter the “Contest of a thousand talents” – a competition for the world’s finest scent pharmacists. Of course the only thing Elodie is interested in is finding new talents to run her scent pharmacies. But Luzie has no choice. Together with Mats, Leon and Daan de Bruijn she goes to England in order to take part in the competition. What begins as a great game soon develops into a fight for survival – and this threatens to rob Luzie of everything she has ever loved… This is the fourth volume in the bestselling series of children’s books for boys and girls aged 10+. Written by the highly successful author Anna Ruhe and with atmospheric and beautifully detailed black-and-white illustrations by Claudia Carls.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentGeneral Pathology – Compact
by Rudolf Meyer (Ed.)
This bestseller on general pathology for the caring and healthcare professions explains in clear, concise and compact language how illnesses occur and appear. Explained in a vivid and wellstructured way, this compact text book helps with understanding complicated connections, so that situations can be assessed correctly, recognized and acted on appropriately in practice.
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August 2022Verflixt und zugehext
Der Erstleseklassiker von der Autorin illustriert
by Cornelia Funke
Blessed and Bewitched Bestselling title for first readers by Cornelia Funke Alma Camomilla has a craving for potatoes. But her own don't look so good. Of course, a magic spell can change this... But what has happened now? Alma has shrunk to the size of a potato! Only a cat‘s hair can help to reverse this now. And where can she find those quickly?• Generously illustrated short story by internationally bestselling author Cornelia Funke ("a magician of words")• First stories for children to read on their own• Experience instant reading success and motivation at the same time
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026The dilemma of Authority
by Allyn Fives
The moral problem of authority is the challenge of reconciling legitimate authority (the right to rule) with the demands of freedom and rationality. In this book, I argue that authority can have legitimacy, but when it does it generates a moral dilemma, where the obligation to obey comes at some cost to freedom and reason. Hence, not only do I depart from the views of those who insist that authority can never have legitimacy, but also those who maintain that insofar as authority is legitimate it simply satisfies the demands of freedom or rationality. My focus here will be on both what it is that justifies authority (in particular focusing on membership, and the goods of membership) as well what type of reason an authoritative directive is, how it can come into conflict with others reasons, and how those conflicts are resolved.
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May 2021On the Amazement of the World
(Im-)Possibilities of science
by Ernst Peter Fischer
The current debate on the corona virus shows that knowledge, and with that science, plays a central role in the struggle to preserve humanity. Knowledge provides opportunities to influence the world, for better or worse. In times when emotions and appeals to baser instincts often triumph over reason and humanity, Ernst Peter Fischer reminds us of the goal of science that has been pursued since the Enlightenment: “to facilitate the conditions of human existence”. In his new book, the bestselling author takes us on an instructive, varied and enjoyable journey through the history of knowledge and science.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2021
Disciplined agency
Neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal
by Patrícia Alves de Matos
Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human agents endure repetitive telephone conversations with abusive clients under invasive modes of technological surveillance, discipline and control, call centre work remains a striking symbol of labour precarity, a condition particularly associated with the neoliberal generational disenchantment that 'each generation does better than its predecessor'. This book describes the emergence of a regime of disciplined agency in the Portuguese call centre sector. Examining the ascendancy of call centres as icons of precarity in contemporary Portugal, this book argues that call centre labour constitutes a new form of commodification of the labouring subject. De Matos argues that call centres represent an advanced system of non-manual labour power exploitation, due to the underestimation of human creativity that lies at the centre of the regimented structures of call centre labour. Call centres can only guarantee profit maintenance, de Matos argues, through the commodification of the human agency arising from the operators' moral, relational and social embedded agentive linguistic interventions of creative improvisation, decision-making, problem-solving and ethical evaluation.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2022Der kleine Esel Liebernicht - Krank sein? Lieber nicht!
by Martin Baltscheit
Little Donkey No-Never-Ever - Being Sick? Rather Not! His nose is running, his head hurts, Little Donkey No-Never-Ever is sick. He has to go to bed… And he thinks that's really stupid. But then it turns out: you can read books, wish for something to eat, lie around lazily ... so it's not so bad. Especially not if you get well quickly in the process! Charming, strong-willed protagonist that any child can easily identify with. Topics that move every family with children ages 2 and up Short, funny stories by bestselling author Martin Baltscheit Fabulously illustrated by Claudia Weikert, her pictures provide a very special wit
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialFebruary 2022Zahlen-Allerlei
by Ursula Poznanski / SaBine Büchner
A Whole Universe of Numbers Picture book story about funny characters, with number riddles for playful learning and discovery of numbers from 1 to 10 On the way to an important mission, Yrg and Galumphodil get caught in a star storm with their spaceship. Thanks to the Speedi Scoot acceleration engine, they are able to escape at the last second, but now the ship's computer is spitting out confusing numerical puzzles. No matter how desperately Galumphodil whirls his 6 arms through the air while Yrg twists his 2 stalk eyes - they must solve the puzzles to make the computer repair itself. At the same time, there's another adventure, because the dangerous Gruntwobbly has it in for their spaceship! Yrg and Galumphodil manage to avert the danger, and eventually solve all the puzzles. The mission is saved! • Exciting and original story by bestselling author Ursula Poznanski (#1 for German YA) • Detailed illustrations to discover and learn to count • Following the bestseller “Letter Jungle” (over 50,000 copies sold since 2019)
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025
Local government and democracy in Britain
by Neil Barnett, J. Chandler
Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over the previous 200 years local government has moved from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government and national and multi-national agencies such as corporate businesses hold governance over local and community decision-making. These changes seriously undermine the important role that local government can play in liberal democracy in the UK. The book explains the nature of local government today and asks if there is any possibility of change.
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Children's & YASeawalkers (2). Rescuing Shari
by Katja Brandis/ Claudia Carls
For the attention of all Seawalker fans: the marine shapeshifters are back, with Volume 2 of this bestselling, shapeshifter series about Tiago, the young tiger shark, and his friends! Tiago is happy because he’s not only been admitted to Blue Reef High School, but also because at last he’s found a friend in Shari, a dolphin shapeshifter. The young tiger shark really needs a friend, because not everyone is happy to have him around. He is constantly clashing with the shady lawyer Lydia Lennox, and he has made himself unpopular by trying to track down the rubbish gangsters who are poisoning the nature reserve near the school. The situation reaches a climax during an anthropological research trip to Miami. When Shari gets into serious difficulties, Tiago as both human and shark takes a huge gamble in order to save her and her dolphin friends. The Seawalker books are published every six months. Previous publication: Seawalkers (1). Dangerous Shapes.
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Children's & YAFebruary 2021Der Happaflapp reist in den Müthenwald
Zauberhafte Vorlesegeschichte über die Suche nach einem Freund
by Michael Engler
You’re less lonely when you’ve got a friend!Happaflapps have been living undiscovered on a very, very high mountain for around four million years, three months and seventeen days. They can breathe fire like dragons, and they fly south in the autumn. Those who can fly, that is. Life is tough for one flightless little Flapp who suddenly finds himself all alone. But he knows one thing: you feel less lonely when you’ve got a friend. So off he goes to the Mithicle Forest! There, where Professears live and little Swaddlecaps sail across lemonade lakes, he feels sure he will find a friend. A wonderfully absurd story about friendship By bestselling author Michael Engler (THE TWO OF US ARE THERE FOR EACH OTHER), with illustrations by Barbara Scholz Funny, fantastical, with four-colour illustrations – perfect for reading aloud!
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Children's & YAThe Barefoot Crew and the Stolen Granny
by Jörg Steinleitner/ Daniela Kohl
Something smells of adventure: summer holidays in the country can be like a whodunnit – where else can you find a missing Granny together with a real treasure and eight bare feet? Jörg Steinleitner brings his readers a true sense of well-being, in a world full of adventure. With varied and powerful illustrations by bestselling illustrator Daniela Kohl. Whoever thinks that summer holidays in the village are boring is mistaken: on the very first day of the holidays, Tanne’s Granny Schnitzel disappears without trace. It’s a good job that Corvin (9), Kiki (10), Ben (10) and Tanne (11) were just about to form a gang: the Barefoot Crew. And soon they have more than just bare feet and a kidnapped Granny to contend with – there’s also a real treasure! A hugely exciting criminal case with a breathtaking natural backdrop, together with varied feel-good factors that prompt readers to dream, discover and share in the story’s thrills. Best-suited for boys and girls aged 8+.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2012Authorship and authority
The writings of James VI and I
by Jane Rickard
James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance, not only as a monarch and patron, but as an author in his own right, publishing extensively in a number of different genres over four decades. As the first monograph devoted to James as an author, this book offers a fresh perspective on his reigns in Scotland and England, and also on the inter-relationship of authorship and authority, literature and politics in the Renaissance. Beginning with the poetry he wrote in Scotland in the 1580s, it moves through a wide range of his writings in other genres, including scriptural exegeses, political, social and theological treatises and printed speeches, concluding with his manuscript poetry of the early 1620s. The book combines extensive primary research into the preparation, material form and circulation of these varied writings, with theoretically informed consideration of the relationship between authors, texts and readers. The discussion thus explores James's responses to, and interventions in, a range of literary, political and religious debates, and reveals the development of his aims and concerns as an author. Rickard argues that, despite the King's best efforts to the contrary, his writings expose the tensions and contradictions between authorship and authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the reign of James VI and I, the literary and political cultures of late sixteenth-century Scotland and early seventeenth-century England, the development of notions of authorship and the relationship between literature and politics. ;
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2026Punk rock ruined my life
And other stories
by John Robb
The irresistible story of a one-man cultural phenomenon. Minister for the Counterculture, Mancunian mainstay and alternative national treasure John Robb has lived a life in music. In this book he charts his adventures on the cultural frontline, chronicling the making of a DIY icon. Robb's quest began in his hometown of Blackpool - where punk was a battle against the odds - and went international when he toured the world with his band. The first person to interview Nirvana, he also discovered The Stone Roses for weekly newspaper Sounds and did early interviews with The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Manics, before moving on to legends such as Mark E. Smith, Nick Cave and Patti Smith. Along the way, he became an on-screen commentator and author of bestselling books. Robb's memoir tells of deep friendships with figures from Poly Styrene to Chris Packham. Packed with riotous stories, it provides an alternative account of British musical and cultural history and a triumphant blueprint for a punk rock life.
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June 2021Seawalkers (5). Filmstars unter Wasser
Ein neues Abenteuer der Bestseller-Reihe über Hai-Wandler Tiago und die Schüler der Gestaltwandlerschule
by Katja Brandis, Claudia Carls
Band 5 der großen Gestaltwandler-Serie von Bestseller-Autorin Katja Brandis: voller neuer Abenteuer für Tigerhaijungen Tiago und seine Freunde Seit Kurzem sind Tiago und Shari zusammen und schon wartet die nächste Herausforderung auf die beiden. Ihre Mitschüler an der Blue Reef High drehen einen Film - und Tiago soll die Hauptrolle spielen! Seine Filmpartnerin wird ausgerechnet Python-Wandlerin Ella, die Tochter der kriminellen Anwältin Lydia Lennox. Während Tiago mit Ella vor der Kamera steht, bekommt Shari unversehens die Chance, an einem echten Filmset zu drehen! Kann das gutgehen? Zur gleichen Zeit wird in der Lagune ein seltsames Päckchen angeschwemmt. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass eine kriminelle Bande unter Wasser Drogen und Waffen ins Land schmuggelt. Sind etwa auch Seawalker in die Machenschaften verstrickt? Als Tiago und seine Freunde die Spur verfolgen, wird ihnen klar, dass der Einfluss der Verbrecher bis in die Blue Reef High reicht. Hier kommt die zweite Staffel der großen Gestaltwandler-Serie von Bestseller-Autorin Katja Brandis. In der atemberaubenden Unter- und Überwasserwelt der Everglades erleben Tigerhaijunge Tiago und seine Gestaltwandler-Freunde (Delfinwandlerin Shari, Gürteltierwandler Jasper, Rochenwandlerin Finny, Papageifisch Nox u.a.) einzigartig spannende Abenteuer. Packender Lesestoff für alle Tierfantasy-begeisterten Jungen und Mädchen ab 10 Jahren. Mit wunderschönen Illustrationen von Claudia Carls und tollen Gestaltwandler-Portraits. Alle Seawalkers-Bände sind einzeln und unabhängig von den Woodwalkers lesbar. Die Seawalkers-Bände erscheinen halbjährlich. Gedruckt auf Umweltpapier und zertifiziert mit dem „Blauen Engel“. Bisher erschienen:Seawalkers (1). Gefährliche GestaltenSeawalkers (2). Rettung für ShariSeawalkers (3). Wilde WellenSeawalkers (4). Ein Riese des MeeresSeawalkers (5). Filmstars unter Wasser Band 6 der „Seawalkers“ erscheint im Januar 2022
