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The banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. Little more than a century old, the global banana industry began in the late 1880s. The Banana demystifies the banana trade and its path toward globalization. It reviews interregional relationships in the industry and the changing institutional framework governing global trade and assesses the roles of major players.

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Could a Good God Permit So Much Suffering? presents a debate over whether the degree and amount of moral evil that actually exists in our world is logically incompatible with the existence of the all-good, all-powerful God of traditional theism. James Sterba puts the case in favour of this proposition, on the basis that the evils of the world are so horrendous that their occurrence violates principles requiring the prevention of moral evil, conclusively showing the non-existence of an omnipotent and perfectly good God. In reply, Richard Swinburne argues that our major benefactors, parents and the State, have rights to permit us to suffer if doing so is necessary to secure some good for ourselves or others. Therefore, Swinburne claims, as so much greater a benefactor than are parents and the State, it follows that God has a far greater right to allow suffering to a high degree if allowing such suffering is the only logically possible way for God to secure some very great goods for ourse

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In an exciting new series that critics have called "John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum," Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck faces his biggest challenge yet.Tatum Knight is a former contract killer.

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Ese leve sonido del gas cuando abres tu primera botella. no existe una sensación comparable. Acabas de fabricar una cerveza tan buena como la mejor que pueda existir en el mundo, y usando tan solo malta, lúpulo, agua y levadura.Lo que encontrarás en las páginas de este libro no se parece a lo que ofrecen otros libros sobre cerveza que hayan caído en tus manos. No se trata de un manual ni de un simple libro de recetas, sino de una conversación. Para empezar, te animaré a que tires a la basura las instrucciones de tu kit de iniciación. Después, cuando estés preparado, dividiré el proceso de fabricación en pasos sencillos. Y, por último, te regalaré mis galardonadas recetas de los más diversos tipos de cervezas americanas o europeas.Cuando te des cuenta de lo fácil que resulta fabricar una cerveza extraordinaria, tu vida cambiará para siempre.

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El libro que ha abierto un nuevo capítulo en la vida de más de seis millones de personas En 1992 solo fue un pequeño libro que su autor, James Redfield, publicaba por su cuenta y riesgo.   Pero muy pronto se convirtió en la gran aventura espiritual que ha cambiado la visión de varias generaciones sobre el destino humano.   Este inolvidable clásico de la espiritualidad narra la historia de un antiguo manuscrito, escondido en la selva peruana, que guarda en sus páginas nueve revelaciones esenciales para comprender el presente y enfrentarnos al futuro. Si bien la búsqueda de ese texto perdido supone un gran esfuerzo lleno de riesgos, la tenacidad de un pequeño grupo de sabios aventureros nos dará las claves de un mensaje sencillo y directo que apunta a nuestra más profunda espiritualidad.   «Las nueve revelaciones arraiga en la más urgente búsq

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ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S 10 BEST DEBUT NOVELS OF THE YEAR “A charming, well-observed debut,” (NPR) featuring a gay male graduate student who falls for his brilliant female classmate, “you’ll tear through this tale of a thoroughly modern love triangle” (Entertainment Weekly).Exhausted by dead-end forays in the gay dating scene, surrounded constantly by friends but deeply lonely in New York City, and drifting into academic abyss, twenty-something graduate student Richard has plenty of sources of anxiety. But at the forefront is his crippling writer’s block, which threatens daily to derail his graduate funding and leave Richard poor, directionless, and desperately single. Enter Anne: his brilliant classmate who offers to “help” Richard write his papers in exchange for his company, despite Richard’s fairly obvious sexual orientation. Still, he needs her help, and it doesn’t hurt that Anne has folded Richard into her abundant lifestyle. What begins as an initially transactional relationship blooms gradually into something more complex. But then a one-swipe-stand with an attractive, successful lawyer named Blake becomes serious, and Richard suddenly finds himself unable to detach from Anne, entangled in her web of privilege, brilliance, and, oddly, her unabashed acceptance of Richard’s flaws. As the two relationships reach points of serious commitment, Richard soon finds himself on a romantic and existential collision course—one that brings about surprising revelations. “Intelligent, entertaining and elegantly written” (Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.) Going Dutch is an incisive portrait of relationships in an age of digital romantic abundance, but it’s also a heartfelt and humorous exploration of love and sexuality, and a poignant meditation on the things emotionally ravenous people seek from and do to each other. “This marvelously witty take on dating in New York City and the blurry nature of desire announces Gregor as a fresh, electric new voice” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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"Smote is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace."—Robert Olen ButlerI release you like the crank-addled truck driverreleases his cargo at the midnight dockuntil the warehouse is one in a trailof crumbs, little light left on behind him. James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and My Psychic, and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea. He been the recipient of the Discovery/The Nation Award, a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the NEA, and a Morton Prize.

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The texts presented in these pages reflect not one kind of dissent but various kinds, some of which, in becoming empowered, might turn against others. Together they express an American society and culture in continuing argument with itself.

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