Michael Joseph

Min mest självständiga vän. Presentask med fyra noveller om katter, i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Fyra stora författare berättar om sina erfarenheter av denna människans mest självständiga vän. Fyra små böcker i en ask: 48, 48, 24 och 24 sidor, mjuka pärmar. Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing rörde sig fritt mellan genrer: romaner, science fiction, feminism, självbiografier – allt. I denna novell berättar hon om sin älskade katt El Magnifico. ”När han var ung kunde jag vakna och se att han var vaken, och när han i sin tur såg att jag hade vaknat brukade han komma närmare, lägga sig på min axel, slå tassarna om min hals, lägga sin pälsklädda kind mot min och ge ifrån sig den djupa, nöjda suck som man hör från ett litet barn när det äntligen lyfts upp i en kärleksfull famn. Och jag hörde mig själv sucka till svar.” Lessing försöker inte förmänskliga El Magnifico utan vill se honom som det han är – en katt. Ändå finns det så mycket för en människa att känna igen. Respekten, integriteten, värdigheten, tålamodet, närvaron. ”Katten går genom rummet och i dessa ensamma steg ser man leoparden eller till och med pantern, eller så vänder den på huvudet för att betrakta en och ögonens gyllene glöd avslöjar vilken exotisk besökare man faktiskt har i denna hushållskamrat, katten som spinner när man klappar honom, kliar honom under hakan eller stryker hans huvud.” Nobelpristagaren Rudyard Kipling berättar om den allra första katten som bestämde sig för att bli vän med människan – på vissa villkor. Michael Joseph – författaren och bokförläggaren – hade en alldeles särskild blick för katter. Här är novellen ”Minna Minna Mowbray” om en av hans favoriter, en korthårig sköldpaddsfärgad tabby ”som var expert på att få som hon ville”. Charles Dudley Warner – författaren och humoristen – var nära vän till den ännu mer berömde humoristen Mark Twain (de skrev bland annat en roman ihop) berättar om sitt favorithusdjur, den tålmodige och fenomenalt intelligente katten Calvin. Min mest självständiga vän – Fyra noveller om katter. ISBN 978-91-7742-548-9. Översättning Andreas Vesterlund. Presentask med fyra böcker, mjuka pärmar, högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, 48, 48, 24, 24 sidor.

Everyday interaction and living is the breeding ground for all kinds of possibilities. This story draws on these, the real, everyday, stuff of living. It tunes into some of the elemental issues that are part of the human experience. What it means to be fully human, warts and all. But it doesn't stop there.Most of the everyday sights and sounds in our living are mundane, typically ordinary. A bird, a locomotive, an old tree, or clouds in the sky. Not worthy of much attention. But sometimes things happen, and continue to happen. And the mundane begins to awaken something. It might be something as simple as a new connection with an old river, and possibly more, much more.And if someone chooses to not ignore what might come in the mundane, it might nudge him to peer ahead in time. But, into what kind of a future? The colorful characters inside will take you on a ride. They'll come and go. But one will become more than an acquaintance. In his everyday stuff of living, something is happening. And it's moving along in time. Surely, everyone is aware. Aren't they?Where it leads is, ..... well, ................ The author works with an organization that helps people grow. He holds a B.S. degree in something or the other. He is married forty years, has three children, and seven grandchildren. He was born and raised in New Orleans. He has lived and worked across America. 

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Cropping system refers to the temporal and spatial arrangement of different crops to exploit natural resources and enhance productivity per unit area and time (Gurigbal, 2010). The practice of cultivating two or more crops in the same space at the same time is common among smallholder farmers (Seran and Brintha, 2010). These intercropping systems mostly involves cereals and legumes (Ijoyah, 2012), particularly maize-soyabean, maize-cowpea, maize-groundnuts, millet-groundnuts and rice-pulses (Matusso et al, 2012). Several research works have been reported by scientists on cereal-legume intercropping (Egbe, 2010; Osman et al, 2011; Ijoyah, 2012) with intercropping successes as compared to monocropping. Intercropping system is known to make a more efficient use of growth factors as the crops capture and make a better use of radiant energy (Matusso et al, 2012) available water and nutrients.

Adventure and Art: The First Century of Printing accompanies a Rutgers University exhibition that highlights books published during the first century of printing-a transitional time of great innovation and accomplishment. The catalog begins with Gutenberg’s famous 42-line Bible and ends with the magnificently illustrated de luxe editions of the mid-sixteenth century, including the historically significant herbals of Otto Brunfels and Pedianus Dioscorides. Also featured are the exquisite specimens of the Golden Age of French typography, such as the multi-volume folio edition of the Spanish romance, the Amadis de Gaula. The catalog elegantly displays photographs of each work, including color photographs of the hand-colored herbal woodcuts and exquisite illuminations of fifteenth-century editions of Josephus and Antoninus. An extra feature is an essay by Barbara A. Shailor that analyzes the extraordinary cultural transformations wrought by the invention and refinement of printing. Paul Needham, Librarian of the Scheide Library at Princeton, provides detailed descriptions of the Rutgers incunabula, some of which are not held by any other North American library. Adventure and Art includes 27 illustrations (6 in full color) and a descriptive essay about Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections.