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Make yourself heard.Having your voice heard at work can be challenging, whether you're confronting a colleague about an inappropriate comment or trying to avoid being talked over by a male peer. But you can find ways to raise issues without raising your voice.Speak Up, Speak Out provides the research, advice, and practical tips you need to address issues large and small. From talking about sexual harassment to handling microaggressions to breaking through subconsciously gendered conversational patterns, you'll find the insight and sample language you need to be heard.This book will inspire you to: Address and redirect an inappropriate conversation Step in when you witness questionable behavior Break ingrained conversational habits like apologizing and complimenting Deal with interrupters and those who habitually speak over others The HBR Women at Work Series spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout their careers. With interviews from the popular podcast of the same name and related articles, stories, and research, these books provide inspiration and advice for taking on issues at work such as inequity, advancement, and building community. Featuring detailed discussion guides, this series will help you spark important conversations about where we're at and how to move forward.

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Die europäische Tradition verbindet in der Rede von der causa die Frage nach dem Zweck eines konkreten Vertrages mit der Suche nach dem Grund für seine Geltung. In Frankreich wurde die Doktrin nicht einmal dadurch erledigt, dass man 2016 das Wort aus dem Code Civil strich. Umso weniger ist man in Italien geneigt, diesem Beispiel zu folgen; im Gegenteil blüht dort die causa -Lehre. Deutschen und englischen Juristen hingegen bleibt die causa als Erfordernis des Vertrages fremd, obgleich auch sie Zwecke in vielfältiger Weise berücksichtigen (insbesondere bei der Bewältigung von Störungen der Vertragsdurchführung). Das vorliegende Buch soll zur europäischen Verständigung beitragen. Dabei sind auch klaffende Unterschiede zwischen der französischen und der italienischen Lehre zu überbrücken. Aufbauend auf Dogmengeschichte und Rechtsvergleich wirft der Band Schlaglichter auf die Zukunft der causa in Europa. Er enthält Beiträge in deutscher, französischer, italienischer und englischer Sprache, die durch englische Einführungskapitel zusammengefasst werden

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This book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning. Its main focus is offering strategies and solutions that help reducing of the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and emphasizing the suitable management of available resources. By tackling the topic of sustainability from a historical perspective and also as a vision for the future, the book in hands provides new horizons for engineers, urban planners and environmentalists interested in the optimization of resources, space development, and the ecosystem as a whole to address the complex unresolved problems our cities are facing. This book is a culmination of selected research papers from IEREK’s sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) held online in collaboration with the University of Florence, Italy (2021) and the first edition of the International Conference on Circular Economy for Sustainable Development (CESD) held online in collaboration with the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (2021).

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Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of the most extravagant sets of hangings produced in the 16th century. The precise circumstances surrounding the tapestries’ commission and their arrival at the Medici court in Florence, as well as the significance of the specific scenes depicted, however, have eluded scholars for years. Presenting new research into the political maneuvering of the Valois and Medici courts and providing extensive physical analysis gathered during a recent cleaning of the tapestries, this volume offers brand new insight into why these magnificent works were made and what they represent.Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:Cleveland Museum of Art (11/18/18–01/21/19)

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Die europäische Tradition verbindet in der Rede von der causa die Frage nach dem Zweck eines konkreten Vertrages mit der Suche nach dem Grund für seine Geltung. In Frankreich wurde die Doktrin nicht einmal dadurch erledigt, dass man 2016 das Wort aus dem Code Civil strich. Umso weniger ist man in Italien geneigt, diesem Beispiel zu folgen; im Gegenteil blüht dort die causa -Lehre. Deutschen und englischen Juristen hingegen bleibt die causa als Erfordernis des Vertrages fremd, obgleich auch sie Zwecke in vielfältiger Weise berücksichtigen (insbesondere bei der Bewältigung von Störungen der Vertragsdurchführung). Das vorliegende Buch soll zur europäischen Verständigung beitragen. Dabei sind auch klaffende Unterschiede zwischen der französischen und der italienischen Lehre zu überbrücken. Aufbauend auf Dogmengeschichte und Rechtsvergleich wirft der Band Schlaglichter auf die Zukunft der causa in Europa. Er enthält Beiträge in deutscher, französischer, italienischer und englischer Sprache, die durch englische Einführungskapitel zusammengefasst werden.

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A comprehensive and breathtakingly illustrated presentation of the genius of Michelangelo by the world’s leading expert on the artist The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200 drawings as well as paintings, sculpture, and architectural plans and views, this authoritative examines Michelangelo as “the divine draftsman and designer” whose work, according to Giorgio Vasari, embodied the unity of the arts. Carmen C. Bambach delivers a thorough and engaging narrative of the artist’s long career, beginning with his training under Ghirlandaio and Bertoldo and ending with his 17-year appointment as chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. In each thematic chapter, related drawings and other works are illustrated and discussed together, many for the first time, to provide new insights into Michelangelo’s creative process. In addition to St. Peter’s, other featured projects include the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Tomb of Pope Julius II, and the architecture of the Campidoglio in Rome. Michelangelo’s theories of art are also explored, and new consideration is given to his personal life and affections and their effect on his creative output. Magnificent in every way, this book will be the foremost publication about this remarkable artist for many years.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art (11/13/17–02/12/18)

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What better way to thank someone for being a friend than to share this fabulous book with them? It's packed with the inimitable wit and wisom of everyone's favorite ladies--Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia!They've lived a lot of life, and the Golden Girls are here to provide some pearls of wisdom (with more than a bit of sarcasm and some naiveté). From "Sticks and stones can break your bones. But cement pays homage to tradition," to "Isn't it amazing how I can feel so bad, and still look so good?" to "As they say in St. Olaf: 'Helderbargenflergenflurfennerfen!'," America's four favorite housemates-Betty White, Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, and Rue McClanahan-share their hard-earned life lessons.

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Antioxidant Polymers is an exhaustive overview of the recent developments in the field of polymeric materials showing antioxidant properties. This research area has grown rapidly in the last decade because antioxidant polymers have wide industry applications ranging from materials science to biomedical, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

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Told in classic comic-book form, this graphic biography invites a new audience to learn about Banksy-and uses a pitch-perfect medium to convey the artist's message that art is for the people. Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all time. But we don't actually know who he is. This is just one of many contradictions that are addressed in this enormously compelling graphic biography. When two young Londoners are caught spray-painting graffiti on a city wall, they get to know each other while detained by the police. After they are released, they decide to make a film of Banksy's life, tracing the arc of his career as they travel through the streets of London. Readers will learn not only of Banksy's politically charged art and the causes he championed, but also of its worldwide dissemination, museum exhibitions, and record-breaking auctions. While readers may not learn Banksy's true identity, this uniquely graphic form of storytelling communicates the artist's belief that art is for everyone, speaks to everyone, and is owned by everyone.

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This edited collection sheds light on the complex nature of migratory movements through the lens of economic and social history. It addresses a variety of migration issues involving Europe and the Americas in order to offer new insights on past and future migration and integration policies. The volume comprises multi-disciplinary research from both continents dealing with the economic, political, demographical and sociological impact of migration. This interdisciplinary approach aims to stimulate intellectual dialogue on the migration phenomenon among the international community of scholars in Europe and North and South America. It is divided into three parts, which offer an essential contribution to the issue of migration and aim at better understanding the effect that different forms of migration have had and will continue to exert on economic and social change in receiving countries. This book is a valuable resource for a wide audience including academics, students in the economic and social sciences, and government and EU officials working with migration topics.

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This deck of easy, happy craft projects is packed with fun ideas to enhance creative skills, encourage out-of-the-box thinking, and keep kids entertained. Bursting with 50 original and playful crafts, See Make Fun’s activities are designed to encourage kids to discover the brilliance of their own creativity. Make Flower Necklaces or Egg Carton Masks to dress up, play with your senses and some Rainbow Foam, and zoom off to the moon in your own Rocket Ship. Every idea can be created in 2–3 simple steps with everyday household objects, inexpensive craft supplies, items easily found in grocery stores, and kids that are excited to craft some fun.

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Customary law has been the subject of intense debate and the issues arising from the intersection of customs and the law are far from settled. This volume, separated into three parts brings together seminal work from scholars in law, economics and history. The first section analyses various perspectives on the history of customary law. Part two focuses on the commercial customary law and includes a number of case studies covering the role and limits of customary systems in a variety of commercial settings. The final section explores the role of custom in international law from a variety of legal and economic perspectives.Along with an original introduction by Professors Bernstein and Parisi, this valuable collection will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and academics with an interest in this diverse and interdisciplinary field.

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School's out so have a super summer with Horrid Henry! A great value collection of six favourite Horrid Henry summer stories in one book, with loads of fun activities at the back to keep boredom away.Join Henry as he creates havoc at the swimming pool, goes on stage at the coolest concert ever, and faces Moody Margaret in the battle of the Purple Hand Gang vs The Secret Club -- plus much, much more!Featuring:Horrid Henry and the Secret Club Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine Horrid Henry and the Swimming Lesson Horrid Henry Reads a Book Horrid Henry and the Pirate Party Horrid Henry Rocks

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Analyses political parties and party politics in the contemporary Arab worldThe Middle East is a region notorious for political systems traditionally built around absolutist monarchs and military-dependent presidents. What is the role of political parties in such a context? How do they support or undermine such authoritarian forms of rule? What part have they played in the survival and transformation of political systems after the Arab uprisings? What are the policy preferences of party elites and how do they connect with citizens' expectations? How do parties challenge and reflect the main social cleavages? Finally, what is the genuine significance of parties and party politics in a region struggling for some sort of democratic future? This book attempts to answer these questions through a thorough theoretical and empirical examination and analysis of the most important aspects and traits of political parties and party politics in the Arab world, exploring cases from across the region.Key FeaturesSets out an innovative research agenda on a under-studied topicProvides a comparative perspective on political parties across the regionAnalyses the ways in which political parties in the Arab world matter and develop Offers a more systematic understanding of the functioning of Arab regimes by incorporating the role political parties play in themIncludes case studies of Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Kuwait, Lebanon and PalestineContributorsLarissa Alles, University of St. Andrews Aurelie Daher, Universite Paris-Dauphine Loes Debuysere, Ghent UniversitySophie A Edwards, Independent ResearcherAnass El Kyak, Universite LavalManal A. Jamal, James Madison University Amir Magdy Kamel, King's College London

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This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American countries are also different in many fundamental ways. As such, existing policy concepts and frameworks may not always be the most effective tools of analysis for this unique region. To fill this gap, Comparative Public Policy in Latin America offers guidelines for refining current theories to suit Latin America's contemporary institutional and socio-economic realities. The contributors accomplish this task by identifying the features of the region that shape public policy, including informal norms and practices, social inequality, and weak institutions. This book promises to become the definitive work on contemporary public policy in Latin America, essential for those who study the area as well as comparative public policy more broadly.

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Criminal mastermind Cynthia Cyber has hatched her most devious plot yet. She’s created an evil clone of The Gamer called Gamertron to defeat the superhero! Gamertron has the same powers and skills as The Gamer, and a group of digital ninjas is ready to do his bidding! Can The Gamer stop the villains, or will this be the superhero’s final fight?

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Criminal Cynthia Cyber finds the most sinister video game monster and pulls him out of the digital world into reality! As the Terror Beast tears down buildings all over the city and creates nightmares for the citizens, the Gamer must use new strategy to beat his fears and stop Cynthia's latest threat!

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The Gamer's friends are in beastly trouble! Villain Cynthia Cyber has trapped them in her dangerous Power Combat video game. If the Gamer isn’t able to rescue his friends in just ten minutes, they’ll be stuck in the electronic world forever as monsters! Can the Gamer make the save before it’s too late?

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When Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reefs of the Red Sea using synthetics, he reflects on both the brief time he sees remaining ahead and on everything that has happened already in his life to which he can never quite resign himself. We see his slow bureaucratic trudge as a civil servant, long summer vacations on a Greek island, his twisted relationship with his first boss, the turmoil and panic attacks he faced during the student uprisings in 1968 that pushed him away from philosophy and into engineering, and his fearful childhood as a postwar evacuee. A close-up portrait of an ordinary existence, Life in Peacetime offers a new look at the postwar era in Italy and the fundamental contradictions of a secure, middle-class life.

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Goats eat EVERYTHING! Especially when a garden gate is left open and a feast awaits. Not content with strawberries, lemons and beans they continue to munch until all the plants, the shed and then next door's fence has been devoured!

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Covers the intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction, focusing on one of the reactants--the diene. The first chapter deals with the fundamental principles of the reaction; the other five chapters describe the salient features of the different classes of dienes and present a wealth of tabulated data. In the tables the dienes and the dienophiles are arranged so that the reader can easily find the dienophile and the cycloaddition reactions of interest to him. Included are references to a very large part of the literature from 1978 to 1987.

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The oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds is of fundamental importance in organic synthesis, due to the wide use of these products as precursors and intermediates for many drugs, vitamins and fragrances. However, traditional oxidants are often toxic and release considerable amounts of by-products. As an alternative, oxygen is among the cheaper and less polluting stoichiometric oxidants, and the implementation of a transition metal-based catalyst in combination with oxygen represents an emerging alternative to the traditional procedures. This book aims to give an overview of the aerobic oxidation of alcohols catalyzed by transition metals, and covers the most important advances in the last fifteen years. Following an introductory chapter on homogeneous-, heterogeneous- and nano-catalysis, use of copper, ruthenium, palladium, gold, vanadium and iron are discussed in turn. The book concludes with a useful overview that includes representative experimental procedures. This book will provide a valuable reference to organic chemists and green chemists in academia and industry.

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Celebrate a truly horrid Christmas with Horrid Henry and this festive storybook bind-up.Packed with six favourite Horrid Henry stories, plus bonus content to make sure Christmas is stuffed full of cheeky festive fun.This is the perfect stocking filler for Horrid Henry fans everywhere!Stories included are:Horrid Henry and the Dinner Guests Horrid Henry's HikeHorrid Henry Robs the Bank Horrid Henry Goes ShoppingHorrid Henry's InvasionHorrid Henry's Horrid Weekend

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Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.Horrid Henry can't stand it when Perfect Peter loses a tooth before him. Why should Peter get a pound from the Tooth Fairy and not Henry? And then Henry has a brilliant idea. He will trick the Tooth Fairy.

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They are often unknown animals, but our Seas and Oceans are full of amazing living beings: discover the biggest and the smallest underwater creatures with these two volumes in one book. Follow the little clownfish along the pages as a reference to understand how big (or small) the sea animals can be! The little book of the tiny sea animals fits perfectly in the padded cover of the big book. The newest title of an incredible best-selling series, with 150,000 copies sold in over 20 countries in less than 2 years. Ages: 7 plus Big Book: 288 x 380 mm., Small Book: 110 x 110 mm

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Mark Rothko’s work is among the most recognisable in modern art history. His huge colour-field works enjoy enormous popularity for their luminosity, moodiness, and immersive qualities. But he didn’t always paint in bold, simple swaths of colour. This graphic biography traces Rothko’s entire life, from his boyhood emigration from Russia to America, to his suicide in 1970. It touches on his schooling and early work for the WPA in the 1930s; the evolution of his art from representational to purely abstract; and the dawning of his artistic philosophy, which took him farther and farther away from the material world and toward a universally emotional and expressionist modality. The book’s finely detailed drawings are Rothko’s signature colours and draw readers into his fascinating creative journey. While Rothko the artist was largely misunderstood during his lifetime, this unique graphic biography offers a way of making sense of his life and of decoding the visual language he invented.

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The true story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Everyone thinks they know Theseus, the great Hero of Athens. But what legend has retained is merely a web of lies, a fable to hide the truth—a truth that time was not ready to accept... It's time Her story was told.

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This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning, and despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organised into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation of traditional cities, reading the historic city, the search for contextual continuities, the search for values and the challenges of sustainability. With more than sixty-five texts, ranging from early polemics by Victor Hugo and John Ruskin to a generous selection of recent scholarship, this book thoroughly addresses regions around the globe. Each reading is introduced by short prefatory remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered. The book will serve as an easy reference for administrators, professionals, teachers and students faced with the day-to-day challenges confronting the historic city under siege by rampant development.

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Three fantastic new stories!Hack and Whack babysit a toddler - Fire Hazard - and discover to their horror that they might not be the worst vikings in the village after all . . .Then they manage to secure an exciting invite to feast with the visiting king, but discover that it's three days of having to be on their best behaviour . . . Until the new teenaged king turns out to be a lout - food fights ensue, and he loves them.Unfortunately, that's when the snotty, privileged, wealthy winter guests turn up - distant cousins who can't be turned away. They make everyone's life a misery - can Hack and Whack find a way to get rid of them?Packed full of humour that children will love and illustrated with anarchy by the fabulous Steve May.

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