A tooth, a fairy and a problem in Magic Land…Oh no! Unicorns have lost their joy, the leprechaun can’t find his gold, and the magical fish have disappeared - all because the magic rainbow has lost its color!Who can help Magic Land??Mollie, a curious and adventurous girl who has just lost her first tooth, isn’t so sure if she should give it to the tooth fairy. She wishes to meet her before she can make her decision a...

In Honey Bees: Letters From the Hive, bee expert Stephen Buchmann takes readers on an incredible tour. Enter a beehive--one part nursery, one part honey factory, one part queen bee sanctum--then fly through backyard gardens, open fields, and deserts where wildflowers bloom. It's fascinating--and delicious!Hailed for their hard work and harmonious society, bees make possible life on earth as we know it. This fundamental link between bees and humans reaches beyond biology to...

Perfect lives hide dangerous desires.In the elegant heart of Paris, psychiatrist Devorah and renowned hand surgeon Benjamin appear to have everything: brilliant careers, two daughters, and a marriage built on discipline, intelligence, and quiet devotion. Their world is orderly, successful—almost flawless.Until a single, impossible drawing shatters that certainty.When one of Devorah's patients presents an intimate image that he should not be able to know, the boundar...

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy ten million flowers a day and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion dollars annually.Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, perfumes, while simultaneously brin...

Consider this: Without interaction between animals and flowering plants, the seeds and fruits that make up nearly eighty percent of the human diet would not exist.In The Forgotten Pollinators, Stephen L. Buchmann, one of the world's leading authorities on bees and pollination, and Gary Paul Nabhan, award-winning writer and renowned crop ecologist, explore the vital but little-appreciated relationship between plants and the animals they depend on for reproduction -- bees, b...

For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate. She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring...

An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oiticica's most important work of “quasi-cinema” on its fortieth anniversary.Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) occupies a central position in the Latin American avant-garde of the postwar era. Associated with the Rio de Janeiro-based neo-concretist movement at the beginning of his career, Oiticica moved from object production to the creation of chromatically opulent and sensually engulfing large-scale installations or wearabl...

With fish considered an important component of a well-balanced human diet in many industrialized nations and the primary source of animal protein in many less-developed countries, it is increasingly necessary to ensure the health of those aquatic species on which our food security relies. Focusing on protozoan and metazoan parasites that cause disease and mortality in economically important captive and wild fish populations, this second edition of Fish Parasites: Pathobiology and Protectio...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 8.1 Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling held in October/November 12018 in Vienna, Austria. The conference was created by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.1 to offer a forum for knowledge transfer and experience sharing between the academic and practitioner communities.The 21 full papers and 5 short papers accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submi...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Informatics in Economy, IE 2016, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in June 2016.The 10 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 extended paper submissions for this book. They are organized in sections on Distributed Systems, Information Systems Adoption, Knowledge Representation and Processing, Domain-specific Data Analysis, and Computation...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2020. The conference was initially planned to be held in Vienna, Austria, during September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was postponed to be held together with BIR 2021.The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Digital Transformation an...