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This book presents 1,000 unpublished and original lingerie and beachwear designs by Dorina Croci with the collaboration of Elisabetta Drudi, author of best-selling international books, such as 4,000 Fashion Details (Promopress). Its content is intended to inspire fashion designers working in this field, showing details, colors and materials suitable for creating collections.

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Tom Pow is an award-winning writer and poet. From 2001 to 2003 he was the first writer in residence at the Edinburgh International Books Festival and he was Writer in Residence at the National Library of Scotland in 2013. His books for children in include Callum's Big Day and Who Is The World For?, which won the Scottish Arts Council's Children's Book of the Year (2001).

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POETAE COMICI GRAECIis now the standard and indispensable reference work for the whole of Greek Comedy, a genre which flourished in Antiquity for over a millenium, from the VI century B.C. to the V century A.D.: More than 250 poets are conveniently arranged in alphabetical sequence and all the surviving texts have been carefully edited with full testimonia, detailed critical apparatus, and brief but illuminating subsidia interpretationis. The commentaries are in Latin. This great enterprise has won universal acclaim, Vol. VI 2 Menander being singled out by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "International Books of the Year 1998".

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Winner of: 2016 USBBY Outsanding International Books Author-illustrator Feridun Oral's gentle, beautifully illustrated, and timeless tale of cooperation and problem-solving that celebrates the world of animals On a cold winter's day, Rabbit leaves his burrow in search of food, but all he can find is a single red apple hanging far out of reach. Rabbit tries and tries to get his animal friends to help him reach it, but none of them can manage it. When they accidentally wake Bear from her hibernation, they all work together to figure out a way to get what they want.

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A USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor Book Nicholas Herrera started life as a mischievous, dyslexic boy, born into one of the old Spanish families of New Mexico. Bad teachers and poor schooling helped him to lose himself in drugs, drinking, riding motorcycles and driving fast cars. A near-death experience, a wonderful mother and a fascination with making art saved him. Today Nicholas Herrera is one of the most noted Santeros -- artists who create images of saints and other religious figures -- in the U.S. The text, as told to Elisa Amado, tells Nicholas's story through his art and expounds the hard-earned wisdom that his experience has brought him. Herrera's life, his political views about drugs, his sense of social justice, and his support for oppressed people will speak directly to young readers, especially those who might feel that life has nothing to offer them due to their economic circumstances or their class or ethnic backgrounds.

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"The best animal adventure since Watership Down" — The Times Named as a 2023 Outstanding International Book by the US Board on Books for Young People The children's debut by Booker-longlisted author Sam Thompson is an engrossing, thoughtful, beautifully written story about humans and animals, voice and power, neurodiversity and acceptance. Silas is bullied at school because his words will not come. He wishes he could live in silence as animals do. Deep in the Forest, the foxes live in an underground city built by their wolf slaves. The foxes' leader Reynard controls everything with his clever talk. One day, Silas helps an injured wolf. Then he enters the secret world of the Forest, where the last remaining wolves fight to survive. But even there, language is power. Can Silas find his voice in time to help his wolf friends – can he become the Wolfstongue? Selected for the Outstanding International Books by the US Board on Books for Young People List "Each creature has its own character and I love how by having names they feel real and I have been naming creatures when I see them out on my walks." — Oscar, aged 9, child reviewer "Has all the makings of a modern classic." — Alex O'Connell, The Times

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A 2022 Skipping Stones Honor AwardeeNamed a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews2021 Outstanding International Books List, United States Board on Books for Young People Mercy lives in modern-day Pietermaritzburg, South Africa with her eccentric foster aunts—two elderly sisters so poor, they can only afford one lightbulb. A nasty housing developer is eying their house. And that same house suddenly starts falling apart—just as Aunt Flora starts falling apart. She’s forgetting words, names, and even how to behave in public. Mercy tries to keep her head down at school so nobody notices her. But when a classmate frames her for stealing the school’s raffle money, Mercy's teachers decide to take a closer look at her home life. Along comes Mr. Singh, who rents the back cottage of the house on Hodson Road. When he takes Mercy to visit a statue in the middle of the city, she learns that the shy, nervous “Mohandas” he tells stories about is actually Gandhi, who spent a cold and lonely night in the waiting room of the Pietermaritzburg train station over a hundred years ago. It marked the beginning of his life’s quest for truth…and the visit to his statue marks Mercy’s realization that she needs—just like Gandhi—to stand up for herself. Mercy needs a miracle. But to summon that miracle, she has to find her voice and tell the truth—and that truth is neither pure nor simple.

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The General Norms constitute the first part of the Code of Canon Law, which Pope John Paul II promulgated in 1983 for the worldwide Catholic Church of the Latin tradition. It is applied in some 2400 dioceses in countries with their own legal cultures. This commentary in Dutch, which is largely based on international books and articles, presents the church's legal framework on the sources of law, legislation and custom, on the acceptance of law, on the various acts of government in the church, on their relationship with law, on the power to govern the church and its different functions, on physical and juridic persons, and on the ecclesiastical offices, which enable clerics and laypeople to direct the church. The book offers a good insight into the forces of law, the distinction of powers and the rules on public functions in the Church. A long tradition from the Middle Ages is linked with new approaches since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Dit commentaar biedt oude en nieuwe inzichten omtrent de gelding van de kerkelijke wetten en van andere algemene decreten in de r.k. kerk. Het behandelt de betekenis van het gewoonterecht in een kerk, die uit vele afzonderlijke gemeenschappen bestaat. Het geeft inzicht in de verschillende soorten beschikkingen van de kerkelijke overheid, zoals decreten en bevelen, privileges en dispensaties. Het algemene statuut van de fysieke en van de rechtspersonen wordt uiteengezet. De geldigheid en geoorloofdheid van de rechtshandelingen komen aan de orde. Inzichtelijk wordt gemaakt, wat bestuursmacht in de kerk is, aan wie zij toekomt, en hoe zij ingedeeld, gesreid, uitgeoefend en beeindigd wordt. Ten slotte wordt behandeld, door wie kerkelijke ambten ingesteld worden en hoe zij op verschillende wijzen toegekend worden en bij iemand verloren gaan. R.G.W. Huysmans (geboren 1935 te Eindhoven, Nederland) studeerde Beide Rechten - Utrumque Ius - aan de pauselijke Lateraanse Universiteit te Rome (1960-1966). Sinds 1967 is hij hoogleraar canoniek recht aan de Katholieke Theologische Universiteit te Amsterdam, vanaf 1992 te Utrecht.

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