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Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village - they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men - her own 'Siete Magnificos' - to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH is the story of an irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence

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Exemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts—Pedro Simón’s Noticias historiales, Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita’s Historia general—each of which reveals the colonizer’s reliance on the threat of violence to sustain order.

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Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions emphasizes the fundamental equations of thermodynamics and the application of these equations to systems of biochemical reactions. This emphasis leads to new thermodynamic potentials that provide criteria for spontaneous change and equilibrium under the conditions in a living cell.

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Precision Medicine in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Part Two, Volume 193 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology deals with the "How" in the reconfiguration of our approach to slow accelerated brain aging. The book rethinks animal models on which therapies are tested, outlines the progress and expected changes in biological subtyping efforts using lysosomal, endosomal, mitochondrial, immune dysregulation, and inflammatory mechanisms of disease pathophysiology, and the growing role of microbiome in shaping disease. The volume separates the potentially disease-modifying neurorescue and neurorestoration, (e.g., gene therapy and cell replacement therapy) from true precision "medicine"–matching biology with the mechanism of intervention of interest. Specific chapters are dedicated to the promise and challenges of extracellular vesicles for both diagnosis and treatment, the growing application of digital measures and other evaluations of clinical response, the nuts and bolts of novel adaptive clinical trial designs, and the regulatory changes needed to facilitate drug development for disease-modification purposes.

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The marked increase in life-expectancy in Down syndrome since the 1990s, although a very good sign in itself, raises important questions regarding the health issues, cognitive involution and social and professional inclusion of people with the condition. In this text, a large group of leading specialists have supplied a series of papers on many aspects of this issue, ranging from epidemiology, genetics, medical issues, Alzheimer's disease, cognition and language, to sexual behaviour and contraception, family issues, professional orientation and work experiences. This book should be of interest to physicians, psychologists, social workers and educators working in the field who wish to provide evidence-based interventions for persons with Down syndrome advancing in age.

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Venezuela 2012: The President's illness casts a shadow over the lives of his citizens - he divides opinion, but life without him is almost unimaginable. Miguel Sanabria is a retired oncologist, ambivalent towards the President but caught between a virulently anti-Chávez wife and a equally vehement pro-Chávez brother. He is asked by his nephew to hide a mobile phone carrying secret footage that could shed new light on the President's condition.His neighbour Fredy has found a fresh angle for a new book about Chávez, but to take advantage he must agree to a "green-card" marriage and leave his girlfriend and their son for two months, even as their landlady plots to repossess their home.In another apartment live nine-year-old María and her neurotic, near-agoraphobic mother. Taken out of school to be educated at home, María turns to internet chat rooms for company, while her mother's fears about the city's endemic violence are proved tragically prescient.The fates and fortunes of these neighbours will prove inextricably entwined as the hour of the President's death draws ever closer.REVIEWS FOR THE SICKNESS"A great book" Michael Morpurgo"Powerful themes and powerful writing" Susan HillTranslated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

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Internationalizing your firm presents both exciting opportunities and daunting challenges, regardless of your industry. While strategy will vary from firm to firm, this book provides a solid set of decision-making tools that will support you as you take your company global. Starting with the most important step – cultivating a truly international perspective in your senior management team – it sets out the pros and cons of each choice you will face as you define and shape a global strategy. With a pragmatic toolkit provided at the end of each chapter, The Art of Going Global will help to improve your decision-making capabilities in relation to a range of challenges, including:· Selecting foreign markets · Adapting your business model· Navigating uncertain global markets· Managing across cultures· Choosing between entry mode options With case studies and insights illustrating how to apply each toolkit, this book is ideal for practitioners, MBA students, and those in executive education. It will help you to consider a variety of alternative solutions for key managerial decisions on internationalization, the costs and benefits of different strategic scenarios, and ultimately drive you to create a clear global vision for your firm.

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*NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF 2020*The curious and vanishing world of ice in Greenland, told through 24 hours in the life of a polar scientist.'Insightful, lyrical, and personal' - Jon Gertner'Evokes the ice sheet's magnificence and fragility' - Elizabeth KolbertOne of the least inhabited and most mysterious parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Earth from which to look for the future of our planet and question its history. Polar scientist Marco Tedesco, a world-leading expert on ice and on climate change, takes us along as he and his fellow researchers conduct all-important measurements to understand the dramatic changes afoot on the immense polar ice cap. Following a day in the life of this disappearing world, Tedesco tells us about improbable 'polar camels', cryoconite holes, gigantic meteorite debris, the epic deeds of great Arctic explorers and the legends of Greenland's earliest populations. Through these stories, anecdotes and curiosities, Tedesco passionately explains why this continent is something to be treasured and how it could tip the balance of our fate as a species. Blending science and Tedesco's personal journey, ICE is a book full of both wonder and urgency.

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A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts, methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not need to become the same. Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Déborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

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In an act of resistance against the usage of the word 'anarchist' as an insult and representations of anarchy as a recipe for pure disorder, The Anarchist Turn brings together innovative and fresh perspectives on anarchism to argue that in fact it represents a form of collective, truly democratic social organisation. In the last few decades the negative caricature of anarchy has begun to crack. As free market states and state socialism preserve social hierarchies and remain apathetic on matters of inequality, globalisation and the social movements it spawned have proved what anarchists have long been advocating: an anarchical order is not just desirable, but also feasible. A number of high profile contributors, including Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, Cinzia Arruzza and Alberto Toscano, discuss the anarchist hypothesis, referencing its many historical and geographical variants and analysing its relationship to feminism, politics, economics, history and sociology.

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Winner of the 2017 Autumn House Poetry Contest, selected by Alberto Rios

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El retrato de un personaje de la Italia de Mussolini y de la sociedad en la que lucha por integrarse.El conformista , publicada por primera vez en 1951 es, en su superficie, el retrato de un personaje de la Italia de Mussolini y de la sociedad en la que lucha por integrarse. Pero bajo este trasfondo histórico que tanto influyó en Moravia y sus contemporáneos, subyace una idea más ambiciosa: intentar explicar un comportamiento moral característico de nuestro tiempo, el conformismo, un deseo deconfundirse en la masa y no destacar aun a costa de perder la libertad individual. Un fenómeno capaz de convertir a sociedades cultas y críticas en masas indeterminadas capaces de seguir los dictados de cualquier caudillo redentor. El viaje de novios de Marcello, su biografía y la descripción de su entorno, se transforman así en un alegato en contra de los mecanismos del Estado totalitario, y en una de las novelas más atrevidas y actuales del escritor romano. Quizá la más profunda, más madur

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Es probable que una sensación de absurdidad onírica se apodere del lector cuando se adentre en la lectura de Pesadillas de cenas indigestas. También apostamos a que cuando finalice este alucinante viaje por las autopistas del subconsciente el lector deteste para siempre el queso fundido y no lo contemple como posible cena nunca más. Aprenderá a sospechar de los amigos que lo inviten a tomarlo, además. Aprenderá que el infierno está hecho de queso e insomnio.

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Sir Richard Burton, es sin lugar a dudas una de las figuras más fascinantes del S. XIX inglés. Militar de carrera, escritor y traductor por vocación, explorador y viajero por íntima necesidad, dejó tras de sí un importante número de libros de viajes.De todos sus libros de viajes, es su Relato personal de mi peregrinación a Medina y La Meca (título completo de la obra que aquí se ofrece), el más acabado y complejo de todos, superando ampliamente las habituales características del libro de viajes, para pasar a convertirse en casi una novela.

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La Loba Feroz está preocupadísima: su hijo es bueno! Ayuda a las ancianitas a cruzar y prepara pasteles deliciosos. Horrible!Menos mal que su tío el Lobo va a enseñar al Lobito lo que es ser Feroz. Lo conseguirá?El éxito superventas de El Hematocrítico en edición especial.

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Continuación del libro del mismo título dedicado al Imperio Antiguo y publicado igualmente en esta colección, que incluye textos del Reino Medio y del Imperio Nuevo, algunos de ellos aparecidos o editados en fechas muy recientes. además de dos apéndices, el primero con las listas reales y el segundo sobre las posibles menciones a Troya en algunos de estos textos.

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Una interpretación poco acertada del texto ha distorsionado su mensaje evangélico: las bienaventuranzas proclamadas por Mateo 5,1-12 no son una letanía para consolar a los atribulados del mundo, como se ha creído hasta entonces, sino una invitación a los

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En relación con el concepto de poder, sigue reinando el caos teórico. Frente a todo lo que el fenómeno tiene de obvio tenemos todo lo que el concepto tiene de oscuro. Para unos, poder significa opresión; para otros, es un elemento constructivo de l

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Es posible un mundo sin guerras? Arno Gruen así lo cree y plantea es este libro la tesis luminosa, ilustrada con ejemplos y casos extraídos de su experiencia como psicoanalista: no hay maldad en la naturaleza humana, sino que la violencia es el fruto de una cultura cuya socialización engendra autotraición, odio y guerras... La mejor respuesta a la violencia, propone Gruen, consiste en recuperar la bondad que naturalmente poseen los niños y en protegerse de las imposiciones externas de la autoridad y de los modos sociales. Este libro nos anima a desarrollar nuestra propia individualidad y a recuperar la confianza en que un mundo más compasivo y solidario es posible. Si nos aferramos a la bondad que reside en el hombre, dice el autor, y comprendemos que todos estamos vinculados, que dependemos los unos de los otros, la violencia resultará inconcebible.

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