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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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Este libro puede ser una ayuda para catequistas y animadores. Les ayudará a conocer el funcionamiento del grupo y lo más elemental de las leyes de un grupo. Además, encontrarán dinámicas que no son propiamente catequesis, pero que les ayudarán a crear un clima en el que se pueda realizar mejor el acto catequístico.

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These essays by internationally renowned feminist scholars re-think the methods and content of contemporary feminist history. The vibrant work of feminist literary historians in the last three decades has produced a new archive of knowledge on women's writing and new narratives of the cultrual past. But, these essays ask, where has this revisioning taken us? Examining the legacy of both traditional literay history and second-wave history of women's writing, the essays collected in Women and Literary History answer that question by querying received ideas about chronolgy and nationality as foundations for literary history, by challenging the standard form of reading women's writing in isolation from men's, and by contesting the project of recovering 'lost' women writers. Katherine Binhammer is an Assistant Professor Of English at the University of Alberta. Jeanne Wood has a Ph.D. in English from York University.

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Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ensures equality regarding sexual orientation and gender identity in Canada. Despite this, gay, lesbian, and gender-nonconforming teachers in publicly-funded Catholic schools in Ontario and Alberta are being fired for living lives that Church leaders claim run contrary to Catholic doctrine about non-heterosexuality. Meanwhile, requests from students to establish Gay/Straight Alliances are often denied. In Homophobia in the Hallways, Tonya D. Callaghan interrogates institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in the publicly-funded Catholic school systems of Ontario and Alberta. Featuring twenty interviews with students and teachers who have faced overt discrimination in Catholic schools, the book blends theoretical inquiry and real-world case study, making Callaghan’s study a unique insight into religiously-inspired heterosexism and genderism. She uncovers the causes and effects of the long-standing disconnect between Canadian Catholic schools and the Charter by comparing the treatment of and attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer teachers and students in these publicly-funded systems.

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Set in and around post-war Toronto, I Am Not Guilty first appeared in a condensed form in the February 1954 Ladies’ Home Journal. That same year, it was published in full by Doubleday as M’Lord, I Am Not Guilty. Helen Graham has been acquitted in the murder of her wealthy husband, Alberta oil baron Steven Graham, but the eyes of the public continue to view her with suspicion. Worried for her future, and that of her young son, she sets out to find the true killer. The trail leads to the apartment of another woman—and revelations about her dead husband’s secret life—then continues to a growing bedroom community in suburban Toronto. What the widow doesn’t realize is that she is not alone in her pursuit of the murderer or how ready that murderer is to kill again.

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A collection of insightful essays by the French philosopher on contemporary art. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in twelve newly designed and affordable editions. Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evident from the short but incisive essays that make up this important volume. Sartre examines here the work of a wide range of artists, including recognized masters such as Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, and André Masson, alongside unacknowledged greats like French painter Robert Lapoujade and German painter-photographer Wols.

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Facing Fear is the first time the sculptures of Lynn Chadwick and Alberto Giacometti have ever been explicitly compared and contrasted. In 1956, Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale. The youngest artist ever to receive the prize, this British sculptor had begun his career only six years earlier. The runners-up included Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), who was then already a renowned artist and the overwhelming favourite to win. Yet the question of which one received the prize - Giacometti won shortly afterwards, in 1962 - is less significant than the fact that both of them were nominated for it. Each of the two represented, in his own way, the confusion and disillusionment that prevailed in Cold War Europe. For Giacometti, these tensions set off a deep existential crisis that led to a radical shift in his work. His string-like forms, now well known, literally pare down the human being to his essence. In that same period, Chadwick's constructivist figures were described as 'the geometry of fear', a desperate cry expressing the sense of menace that had the artist and his contemporaries in a stranglehold. Text in English and Dutch.

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Climate change and its impact on water resources in agriculture pose one of the biggest challenges for food, energy, fiber, and water security worldwide and, as a consequence, for society. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach towards climate change and water resources in agriculture and provides a comprehensive perspective about the core points central to this subject. Other topics that are covered in this book include important insights concerning hydrological cycle, forests, land use change and water, low carbon agriculture, green economy concepts, as well as the state of the art on United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Global Research Alliance are provided.

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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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Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos focuses specifically on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The essays explore various types of Mexican popular and traditional dances and address questions of authenticity, aesthetics, identity, interpretation, and research methodologies in dance performance. Contributors include not only noted scholars from a variety of disciplines but also several dance practitioners who reflect on their engagement with dance and reveal subtexts of dance culture. Capturing dance as a living expression, the volume's ethnographic approach highlights the importance of the cultural and social contexts in which dances are practiced. Contributors are Norma E. Cantú, Susan Cashion, María Teresa Ceseña, Xóchitl C. Chávez, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez, Renée de la Torre Castellanos, Peter J. García, Rudy F. García, Chris Goertzen, Martha González, Elisa Diana Huerta, Sydney Hutchinson, Marie "Keta" Miranda, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Shakina Nayfack, Russell Rodríguez, Brenda M. Romero, Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter, José Sánchez Jiménez, and Alberto Zárate Rosales.

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An elegiac and poetic sequence of stories following the progress of a young girl through childhood and adolescence on the fringes of the Badlands in Alberta, Canada.

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It has been more than thirty years since the term “flash fiction” was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories collected here speak to the diversity of the American experience and range from the experimental to the narrative, from the whimsical to the gritty. Featuring fiction from writers both established and new, including Aimee Bender, K-Ming Chang, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Bryan Washington, Robert Scotellaro, and Luis Alberto Urrea, Flash Fiction America is a brilliant collection, radiating creativity and bringing together some of the most compelling and exciting contemporary writers in the United States.

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I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god?From his Mediterranean garden on the island of Menorca, Cees Nooteboom writes to the trident-wielding deity, Poseidon, initiating a dialogue not only with the past, as Alberto Manguel observes in his Preface, but with an entire world that seemed lost for ever.Offering a seductive interweaving of keen observation and the fruits of a vast knowledge, Nooteboom explores questions of human existence through the minutiae of the living world around him, and marvels at the secrets of the deep. He recalls figures in history, places he has travelled to, objets trouvés, works of art and literature, and takes a fresh look at the ancient myths. At once playful and poignant, beautiful and bizarre, Nooteboom's Letters to Poseidon are couched in the glittering prose of one of Europe's outstanding stylists.

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Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations. A Companion to Federico García Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the issues and debates surrounding the work of Spain's most celebrated poet and dramatist. It considers past and current approaches to the study of Lorca, and also suggests new directions for further investigation. An introduction on the often contentious subject of Lorca's biography is followed by five chapters - poetry, theatre, music, drawing and cinema - which togetheracknowledge the polymath in Lorca. A further three chapters - religion, gender and sexuality, and politics - complete the volume by covering important thematic concerns across a number of texts, concerns which must be considered in the context of the iconic status that Lorca has acquired and against the background of the cultural shifts affecting his readership. The Companion is a testament to Lorca's enduring appeal and, through its explication oftexts and investigation of the man, demonstrates just why he continues, and should continue, to attract scholarly interest. FEDERICO BONADDIO lectures in Modern Spanish Studies at King's College London. CONTRIBUTORS: FEDERICO BONADDIO, JACQUELINE COCKBURN, NIGEL DENNIS, CHRISTOPHER MAURER, ALBERTO MIRA, ANTONIO MONEGAL, CHRIS PERRIAM, XON DE ROS, ERIC SOUTHWORTH, D. GARETH WALTERS, SARAH WRIGHT

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Richard Brown Baker (1912–2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. He eventually amassed a collection of more than 1,600 works from the postwar period, including works by such groundbreaking American artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist, as well as European and Asian artists such as Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Mathieu, and Kurt Schwitters. Baker bequeathed the majority of his collection to the Yale University Art Gallery, and the balance to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Highlighting 130 works, this is the first complete history of Baker's important collection. Essays by renowned art historians contextualize each of the five decades of Baker's collecting efforts, while entries on individual artists illustrate the remarkable scope of Baker's holdings. Throughout the publication, firsthand accounts from Baker's extensive personal journals describe his collecting activities within the dynamic New York art scene of the day.Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

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Me gusta Kawasumi. Por fin Suiren se ha dado cuenta de sus sentimientos pero, por mucho que quiera hablar, las palabras no le salen. Quiere hacerle llegar sus sentimientos, pero es incapaz de hacerlo. Este amor se hace poco a poco más y más grande? Kawasumi también muestra algo de interés por Suiren, pero?

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Franz Eduard von Liszt es una figura ineludible en el desarrollodel derecho penal alemán de los siglos XIX y XX. Considerado durante décadas como el representante cabal de un derecho penalliberal moderno, su venerada figura comenzó, sin embargo, a sercuestionada más recientemente, tanto en la doctrina alemana comointernacional. El debate en torno a la figura de Liszt se centró exclusivamente en la materia jurídica, en el análisis de sus publicaciones y en la proyección de sus ideas a través de los discípulos, a lo largo de aproximadamente 80 años durante el siglo XX.En este libro, el autor elige un camino distinto, aún inexplorado,cual es el de analizar la prolífica tarea político-parlamentaria de vonLiszt, en tres parlamentos de Prusia y del Reich alemán entre 1908 y 1918. Además, se interpreta esa actuación en su contexto histórico, social y político, ya que el desempeño de Liszt coincidió casi exactamente con la última etapa de la monarquía alemana (1888-1918), con la cual sin duda

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Encuadernación: Cartoné.Colección: Tu tries l'aventura; 16.El misteriós circ alegria acaba d'arribar a la ciutat. I sembla que el mestre de cerimònies vol converti-te en part de la funció.Hauràs de fer malabarismes per esquivar els sinistres pallassos - robot, els mags i les feres...Que comenci l'Espectacle!De les teves decisions depèn el teu destí en el camí que escullis es troba la clau per escapar del circi i frustrar els plans del malvat mestre de cerimònies.

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Taxi es un libro singular, que ofrece una imagen realista y precisa sobre la sociedad árabe actual, vista a través de los ojos de unos observadores privilegiados: los taxistas de El Cairo. El escenario es el taxi, un escenario ambulante que revela los secretos de la ciudad; pero, al mismo tiempo, es una esfera dentro de la cual se encuentra el protagonista, que habla sobre sus sufrimientos y esperanzas, sus sueños y sus fracasos. A su lado se sienta el pasajero-autor, que está presente pero cuya voz no oímos salvo en contadas ocasiones.Con su realismo, su exquisita sensibilidad y su simpatía, llega como una brisa refrescante en un día caluroso, en el que se acumularan las mentiras, la hipocresía y la antipatía."Su insólita aproximación, lúcida prosa y rara comprensión del aliento urbano, hacen de Taxi tal vez la más interesante de las obras que abordan las transformaciones sociales y políticas que se han dado en Egipto durante las cinco últimas décadas."Omayma

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Contenido del Código:- Código de Comercio- Reglamento del Registro Mercantil- Ley y Reglamento de Defensa de la Competencia- Ley de Competencia Desleal- Ley de Patentes- Ley de Marcas- Ley General de Publicidad- Ley de Sociedades de Capital- Ley de modificaciones estructurales de Sociedades Mercantiles- Ley de Cooperativas- Ley de Emprendedores- Ley Cambiaria y del Cheque- Ley de Contrato de Seguro- Ley del Mercado de Valores- Ley General de Defensa de los Consumidores y Usuarios- Ley de ordenación del Comercio Minorista- Ley Concursal

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ste libro plantea, de un modo comprensible, los aspectos más importantes a considerar en el control de plagas y enfermedades forestales. Los agentes nocivos que causan enfermedades a las plantas leñosas en el medio forestal pueden ser bióticos (patóge

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Hacerse mayor no tiene por qué significar volverse más lento. Basándose enlas investigaciones más actuales sobre el envejecimiento y el rendimientodeportivo, Joe Friel ?destacado entrenador norteamericano de deportes deresistencia? demuestra cómo los atletas que superan los 50 años de edadpueden competir con excelentes resultados y mantenerse con buena salud.Mediante el entrenamiento adecuado para protegerse de los efectos delenvejecimiento, los deportistas pueden prolongar su carrera deportiva durantedécadas; y competir para ganar.Guía para deportistas de resistencia a partir de los 50 ofrece una serie denormas acreditadas de programas de entrenamiento de alta intensidad, centradasen el trabajo de la fuerza, la recuperación, el entrenamiento cruzado y la nutriciónpara conseguir un alto rendimiento:? Cómo responde el organismo al entrenamiento con los cambios propiosde la edad, cómo adaptar el plan de entrenamiento y cómo evitarel s

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Taping muestra las principales aplicaciones de estos vendajes, y el modo de hacerlos paso a paso en manos, brazos, pies, piernas y tronco. También se destacan medidas adicionales, tales como la protección de la piel.

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"Georges Canguilhem, quien fue maestro de Foucault, presenta el conjunto de estos ensayos, de una riqueza y amplitud extraordinarias, con esta reflexión: Ha llegado el tiempo de aplicar a la obra de Foucault los métodos de clarificación, es decir, la genealogía y la interpretación que él mismo aplicó a sus ámbitos de estudio. Los que intervinieron parecían estar de acuerdo, sin premeditación, en aceptar la imposibilidad de hacer preguntas a Foucault sin tener en cuenta lo que él mismo declaró en su introducción a L usage des plaisirs, a saber, que el objeto de sus trabajos los juegos de verdad - ?sólo podían tratarse poniendo a prueba el cuerpo vivo de la filosofía . Los ensayos de este volumen analizan el lugar del pensamiento de Foucault en la filosofía actual, el estilo específico de su discurso, sus conceptos del poder, del Estado y de la ética así como la relación entre racionalidad y moral en su obra. "

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Y si fracasar no fuera tan malo como creemos?El fracaso está mal visto. Lo percibimos como una debilidad, un error. Pero este luminoso libro nos demuestra que el éxito rara vez llega sin ir acompañado de decepciones y frustraciones. Steve Jobs, J. K. Rowling o Thomas Edison vivieron incontables fracasos antes de conseguir su objetivo.Revisando estos y otros ejemplos, y a la luz de las enseñanzas de Marco Aurelio, San Pablo, Nietzsche, Freud o Sartre, Charles Pépin nos invita a entender que no hay que evitar el fracaso, porque cada adversidad nos hace más lúcidos y combativos. Y que, además, a veces hay felices y curiosos accidentes detrás de muchos errores: la tarta Tatin, el Viagra, las máquinas Nespresso o el Velcro son buenos ejemplos de ello.Un pequeño tratado de sabiduría que nos muestra el camino hacia el auténtico éxito. Porque el error es la manera humana de aprender, y hay que reivindicarlo.

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Esta Unidad Formativa, incluida en los Módulos Formativos MF1154_1: Instalación de tuberías, y en el Módulo Formativo MF1155_1: Instalación y mantenimiento de sanitarios y elementos de climatización, está asociada a la Unidad de Competencia UC1154_1: Realizar la instalación de tuberías, preparando, contando y uniendo tubos para la conducción de fluidos de agua y desagües, y a la UC1155_1: Realizar operaciones básicas de instalación y mantenimiento de aparatos sanitarios, radiadores y aparatos de climatización de uso doméstico, pertenecientes a la Cualificación Profesional de referencia IMA367_1 Operaciones de fontanería y calefacción-climatización doméstica, incluida en el Certificado de Profesionalidad (IMAI0108) Operaciones de fontanería y calefacción-climatización domestica (RD 1375/2008, de 28 de agosto) de la Familia Profesional Instalación y mantenimiento.;A lo largo de sus 3 capítulos, este libro plantea, de un modo comprensible, los aspectos más importantes a considerar sobre l

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Los estudios recientes sobre el cerebro humano han revelado que poseemos diversas formas de inteligencia que, si se estimulan mediante medios eficaces, en las distintas fases de la vida, pueden aumentar nuestras capacidades. El libro propone más de 300 juegos o propuestas de estímulos para trabajar las inteligencias: lingüística, lógico-matemática, espacial, musical, cinestésica-corporal, naturalista, pictórica y personal. Una obra destinada al profesorado, orientadores, estudiantes de Magisterio, psicopedagogos y padres.Extracto del Índice:1/ Las inteligencias múltiples: Inteligencia y desarrollo humano desde la fase prenatal hasta los doce años.2/ Juego y aprendizaje: Juegos y habilidades operatorias. Cuándo y cómo utilizar los juegos.3/ Juegos que estimulan las inteligencias: verbal o lingüística; lógico-matemática; espacial; musical; cinestésico-corporal y motricidad; naturalista y pictórica.4/ Inteligencias personales: Juegos para la estimulación de las inteligen

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Este nuevo manual de psicoterapias expone más de treinta y cinco influyentes modelos de psicoterapia, desde los más clásicos hasta los más modernos. Todos ellos son explicados desde un mismo esquema común -historia, visión de la persona, patología y trat

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Ofelia del flower power en los 60's, yegua del caballo en los 70's, fanática del alcohol, el sexo, el glamour y la decadencia, MARIANNE FAITHFULL pudo haber acabado como el otro fantasma de la era psicodélica: Nico, pero, en 1979, protagonizó uno de los más brillantes y sorprendentes comebacks en la historia del rock: Broken English, una obra inquitamente brutal, emocional y genuinamente extrema.Tras dos nuevos discos introspectivos en el escabroso filo del drama personal ?Dangerous Acquaintances y A Child's Adventure?, MARIANNE grabó, bajo el mecenazgo del productor Hal Wilner ?Mingus, Monk, Weill?, una soberbia colección de blues bajo el título genérico de Strange Weather, rescatando temas de Billie Holiday, Marlene Dietrich, Dinah Washington, Leadbelly, Bob Dylan, Dr. John y Tom Waits.Su participación en las bandas sonoras de Thelma & Louise y Trouble in Mind ?Inquietudes?, así como su devocional live Blazing Away, forman las últimas piezas de un cicatrizado crisol artístico,

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Imago Mundi

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