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Lugares donde ya no estaremos nunca, los seres que no han podido acompañarnos no son acaso una feria abandonada, los restos de la piñata y la verbena, el tiovivo mudo donde ya sólo gira el sol del tiempo?Bajo los trizados banderines, hay ahora otras atracciones, otros malabares silenciosos. Pequeñas orquestinas de sombra. Carromatos que no irán a ninguna parte.

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After nearly two decades of war, on February 2020, the Trump administration signed an agreement with the Taliban through which the US and its NATO allies' troops must leave Afghanistan within the following few months. This agreement also paves the ground for Intra-Afghan talks between the US backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban militant group. This book critically reviews the US/NATO military, peace-and-statebuilding intervention since 2001 in Afghanistan. In addition, based on collected field interviews, it presents the Afghan perception and discourse on the topics such as democracy, Islam, women rights, formal and informal governance, ethnic divide and the state democratic governmental design at the national and subnational level.

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The book examines U.S.-Cuba relations within the framework of the United States long-standing policy agenda of promoting a democratic transition in Cuba. The study builds a theoretical framework which is used to analyze the assumptions underlying the U.S. strategy and presents a rich empirical analysis that gives insight into the failure of U.S. policy to produce neither the collapse of the Cuban regime nor a transition to democracy.

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En la ciudad, viven humanos y dinosaurios; más bien conviven con mucha dificultad ya que la mayoría de los dinosaurios son grandes, lentos y torpes. Lo sabe muy bien Rex, un dino muy creativo, que por su gran tamaño tiene siempre la sensación de estar fuera de lugar.Todo cambia cuando un día Rex ayuda a un amigo en problemas, y descubre que tiene un talento innato: modificar y adaptar objetos para personas con dificultades.Una fábula sobre la aceptación de la diversidad y la capacidad de adaptación.

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Te invitamos a que des color y forma a los pájaros de este libro y a que dibujes un nido o un mundo para ellos. Puedes hacerlo como quieras, garabateando, coloreando o pintando. Dentro o fuera de las líneas. Deja que tu imaginación vuele libre como un pájaro.Disfrútalo!

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As children grow up, they discover taboo areas in their environment and in life. They are in need of advice to prevent them from placing themselves in risky situations. The primary preventive approach to a life skills programme on HIV/AIDS and sex education, called “Child Mind Project”, can be seen as such an initiative.

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In diesem Buch wird die Theorie der politischen Führung, die ein noch wenig erforschtes Feld der Politikwissenschaft ist, beleuchtet. Sie ist verwandt mit dem philosophischen Streit um Determinismus versus Aktivismus und hilft den Grundkonflikt des 21. Jahrhunderts zwischen liberaler Demokratie und neuem Autoritarismus zu verstehen. Das Buch befasst sich mit Max Webers Typologie politischer Herrschaft und seinem Konzept der Verantwortungsethik, welche der Schlüssel zur Theorie der Führung sind. Der Autor zeigt auf, dass der unvollendete Wettstreit zwischen Demokratie und neuem Autoritarismus im 21. Jahrhundert die Bedeutung von Führung in alten und neuen Demokratien sowie in den neoautoritären Regimen bestätigt und einen neuen Typus politischer Führungskräfte fordert.

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Russia, the European Union, and NATO still share some important common interests that need to be given greater attention. A return to strategic partnership is not conceivable without resolving the Ukraine confl ict, but prudent management of the antagonism in order to keep open the prospect of a peaceful new normal is crucial. At the same time, it is important to keep in mind that the persistent volatility of the international environment could further complicate this already diffi cult process.

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Our social interactions are driven by complex biopsychic processes that are complicated by the fact that humans are individuals and at the same time members of one or more social systems, such as schools. This book contributes to explaining the social mechanisms influencing students' "need to belong" fulfilment at school. The theoretical framework is informed by human needs understood as cognitive mechanisms of neural processes that regulate human behaviour and bio-values. The fieldwork was conducted in two secondary schools in Austria and Australia. Based on the findings, the transformative three-step approach suggests a course of action for student belonging.

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Narratives of Triumph and Loss explores the successes, challenges and controversies of women‘s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, the book explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist and personal backgrounds. It situates their stories within historical and contemporary political contexts, illustrating the gendered ways in which women experience politics as citizens and politicians.

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How can one write the history of disability, and what are the consequences for the disabled themselves? This is the key question that Pieter Verstraete addresses in this pioneering book that tries to rethink the possible bonds between disability, history and politics. Since the 1990’s the concept of disability has gained in prominence. Perhaps more than in other branches of historical enquiry, disability historians have attributed a crucial place to the notion ‘identity’. Re-cently, however, the suitability of identity for the realization of libera-ting and emancipatory politics for people with disabilities has been questioned. This book aims to incorporate some of the critical approaches towards identity and to suggest a complementary connection between history and political reform.

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Essays - collected in honour of Margaret Bent - examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors. Essays in honour of Margaret Bent. The chapters of this book probe the varied functions of citation and allusion in medieval and renaissance musical culture. At its most fundamental level musical culture relied on shared models for musical practice, used by singers and composers as they learned their craft. Several contributors to this volume investigate general models, which often drew on earlier musical works, internalized in the process of composers' own training as singers. In written theoretical musical pedagogy, conversely, citation of authority is deliberate and intentional. The adaptation of accepted wisdom in theoretical treatises was the means by which newer authors stamped their own authority. Further kinds of citation occur in specific musical texts, either within the words set to music or in the music itself. The diverse functions of citation and allusion for the creator, reader, scribe, performer and listener are here given due consideration. In doing so, this volume is a fitting tribute to Margaret Bent, whose pedagogy, publications, and presence are honoured in this Festschrift. Contributors: SUSAN RANKIN, GILLES RICO, CHRISTIAN THOMAS LEITMEIR, BARBARA HAGGH, LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS, ANDREW WATHEY, KEVIN BROWNLEE, ALICE V. CLARK, LAWRENCE M. EARP, VIRGINIA NEWES, JOHN MILSOM, DAVID HOWLETT, REINHARD STROHM, THEODOR DUMITRESCU, CRISTLE COLLINS JUDD, BONNIE J. BLACKBURN

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The title is part of the International Handbook of Vocational Education and Training, the standard reference for comparative research in vocational education in German. It is intended for an academic audience as well as vocational education and training practitioners. Selected titles are translated to make them available to the much broader English readership.

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The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well as governance and leadership under different frame conditions.

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This volume reviews current debates on the role of business in politics and it assesses emerging methodological approaches to its study. The book brings together leading scholars to assess various qualitative and quantitative methods, network analysis, historical context and positive rational choice modeling, and detailed research case studies in the study of Business- Government relations.

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The book focuses on Social Work with refugees in African, Middle East and European countries. Published as a follow-up to the ‘International Social Work Week’ in Würzburg/Germany with professionals and experts from all over the globe, this book intends to share insights into country-specific developments, challenges and potentials of Social Work in forced migration contexts. The objectives are to map Social Work in this field of action across several countries, to bring into sharper focus an International Social Work in forced migration contexts as well as to contribute in connecting Social Work scholars and experts around the globe.

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In politischen Auseinandersetzungen wird “Gender” als Sammelbegriff für Themen wie Frauen- und LGBTIQ + -Rechte, Gleichstellung der Geschlechter, sexuelle Bildung, feministisches Wissen und Geschlechterforschung verwendet. Während sich bisherige Veröffentlichungen auf die anti-gender Gruppen selbst oder feministische und queere Reaktionen auf diese konzentrieren, beleuchtet dieser Band die verschwimmenden Grenzen zwischen beiden Lagern. Im Fokus steht die Frage, inwieweit “Anti-Gender”-Behauptungen mit bestimmten Spielarten in der feministischen und LGBTIQ+-Politik interagieren und so Diskursbrücken zu liberalen und progressiven Teilen der Gesellschaft bauen. Anders als der „Sammelbegriff“ Gender vermuten lässt, ist das feministische und LGBTIQ+-Lager von politischen Konflikten, Meinungsverschiedenheiten und divergierenden Interessen durchzogen. Daher analysieren die Autor*innen die Verbindungen zwischen einigen dieser umstrittenen Positionen und dem “Anti-Gender”-Diskurs.

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An exchange on education ideas has shaped the transatlantic discourse in education for a long time. Over the past two decades education science has increasingly become networked internationally. Since 2015, the Office for International Cooperation in Education at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education has organized international sessions on education research at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, thus providing a floor for transatlantic exchange on current research topics. The volume gives an overview of the transatlantic activities in education research with regard to these sessions representing a collection of topics ranging from school development over the use of large scale assessment and digital data in education to questions related to migration and public education or the economization of education. At the same time the volume offers a reflection on the assets and obstacles of international exchange.

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Following the repercussions of the recent financial market crisis, both academic as well as public interest in the phenomena of transnationalisation, globalization and Europeanization has continued to rise. Increasing ly, the three terms have become central reference points for media, politicians, academics, and policy-makers to explain social change in the modern societies of contemporary Europe. From the Contents: Introduction and Theoretical Background International Comparison National Case Studies France Italy Austria Estonia Czech Republic Poland Political initiatives

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There is a growing need for professional-scientific education in science, the labour market and society. However, many key players remain in traditional silo thinking with regard to professional and scientific education and strong social forces maintain their institutional separation in the education system.The volume intends to reflect and to enhance the discourse on the relation and integration of professional and scientific education. In a series of contributions by well-known educational scientists from Germany and other countries, the theoretical, conceptual and practical design questions for a qualification are discussed, which sets the connectivity of scientific and professional education within and between courses into an integrative perspective.

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The increasing digitization of the world of work is associated with accelerated structural changes. These are connected with changed qualification profiles and thus new challenges for vocational education and training (VET). Companies, vocational schools and other educational institutions must respond appropriately. The volume focuses on the diverse demands placed on teachers, learners and educational institutions in vocational education and training and aims to provide up-to-date results on learning in the digital age.

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Gender relations in post-socialist countries Even more than 20 years after turning away from socialism, Eastern European and Central Asian states are still characterized by the regime change in the fields of work, politics, and culture. What are the effects and implications that this change has produced for gender relations in post-socialist countries? And what does this mean for the situation of women and men living there today? In this context gender relations are especially interesting since gender equality was perceived as a political goal and, moreover, a given reality in socialism. The articles in this volume show the changes as well as the stability of gender relations and power structures during the transformation process and in post-socialist times. They shed light on topics like labour market policies, fertility, political representation of women or male artists concerned with gender issues covering the geographical space from Hungary and Poland over Bulgaria and Romania to Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Beyond that, some of the descriptions and analyses challenge understood certainties about how to create gender equality and about the women and men living in post-soviet regions today.

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This book is dedicated to the role of work organizations when it comes to the realization of an active fatherhood. Firstly, it deals with barriers for active fatherhood and its correlating mechanisms of inequality: Which aspects of discrimination and social closure do fathers face today if they assert a claim for active fatherhood, and with what kind of barriers are they confronted? Secondly, capabilities of fathers are addressed: Which is their possible scope of action, who are relevant actors, what is the effect of policies and programs on change and organizational learning with respect to fatherhood?

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The book will survey the recent development and current “state of the art” of political science in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. It will comprise (a) three comparative overviews: Political Science and Regime Change in East-Central Europe from the 20th to the 21st Century; Analytical and Normative Elements in Political Science Approaches: Is there a Specific Central-East European Pattern?; Political Science Associations in East-Central Europe: How Important, how much International Cooperation?; (b) 20 detailed and comparable country reports: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine; (c) a chapter on the European Confederation of Political Science Associations. The country reports will include tables on political science faculty, students with political science as a major, and sub-fields taught at both state and private universities (as per the end of 2008). They will cover the following topics: Institutionalization of the discipline; achievements, deficits, prevailing approaches, and funding of research in the discipline’s sub-fields; curricula, admission regulation, and degree system in political science teaching; national representation and international cooperation (major journals and published books, political science associations, international links); public impact of the discipline, labor market, challenges and opportunities.

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La cocina italiana es un verdadero paraíso para los amantes de la cocina vegetariana. Las exquisitas recetas creadas por Carlo Bernasconi, que a menudo tienen su origen en recuerdos de la tradición cocinera de su familia italiana, y las vistosas ilustraciones de Larissa Bertonascos nos ofrecen un placentero viaje por los huertos italianos. En Italia, país mimado por el sol, durante todo el año crecen innumerables variedades de hortalizas que se preparan de múltiples maneras desde Bolzano hasta Palermo. De la alcachofa a la zanahoria, Carlo Bernasconi ha seleccionado doce hortalizas que suelen utilizarse en las cocinas italianas.Explica el significado y la utilización de cada hortaliza y menciona también de paso recuerdos personales de la cocina de su abuela y de su madre. Las sensuales imágenes de Larissa Bertonasco ilustran las explicaciones de cada hortaliza y evocan el ambiente italiano. Antes de disfrutar en la cocina y la mesa, consigue que disfruten nuestros ojos antes de dis

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Emigrantes es la historia de una emigración contada por medio de una serie de imágenes sin palabras que podrían parecer propias de un tiempo lejano y olvidado. Un hombre deja a su esposa y a su hijo en una ciudad miserable para intentar prosperar en un país desconocido al otro lado de un vasto océano. Al final se encuentra en una ciudad enloquecida, de costumbres extrañas, animales peculiares, curiosos objetos flotantes e idiomas indescifrables. Con tan sólo una maleta y un puñado de monedas, el inmigrante debe encontrar un lugar donde vivir, comida y algún empleo con el que ganar algo de dinero. Le ayudan en sus peripecias algunos extraños compasivos, cada uno de ellos con su propia historia personal muda: historias de luchas por sobrevivir en un mundo lleno de una violencia incomprensible, de agitación y de esperanza.

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La plácida vida de un niño y su amiga Oumy en un pequeño pueblo junto a un mar tranquilo y cristalino, fuente de juegos y felicidad, se ve truncada de repente por un acontecimiento inesperado que obliga a sus habitantes a marcharse. El niño permanecerá allí, solo, y deberá reconstruirse a sí mismo a partir de los restos de la vida anterior, de unas piezas de puzle que no parecen encajar demasiado bien. Es un proceso duro. Allí no queda nada, nadie, ni siquiera el mar.Éleonore Douspis construye una historia sobre la capacidad de recuperación en la que el protagonista deberá sobreponerse a una experiencia angustiosa con todas las herramientas a su alcance. Para ello, le será de gran ayuda tomar como referencia el propio libro donde habita (con sus numerosas solapas y pop-up) y pensar en las limitaciones de este.

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Cuando el agua inunda la tierra y amenaza con ahogar a todo el mundo, se avecinan grandes peligros, pero el viejo Noé sabe cómo solucionar las cosas. Construye una gran arca de madera y embarca en ella preciosos animales de todas clases. Qué hará cuando se abra un agujero en el arca en plena travesía?La historia de por qué los perros tienen el hocico húmedo es una versión de la antigua fábula popular noruega de Noé y el perro, con fantásticas ilustraciones del galardonado Øyvind Torseter.

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Cada abrazo es una historia de amor, y cada historia se merece un libro que la abrace.Al final de Abrazos, también a una cerdito sonrosada le cae su propio libro: está a punto de empezar a recordar la historia de sus abrazos. Jimmy dice que todas las personas y todos los animales tienen su propia historia de abrazos, dada una de las cuales tiene que convertirse en un libro conmovedor.Dame un abrazos es también un cuaderno de notas, para que puedas escribir en el las historias que quieres recordar. Todo el mundo tiene su propia historia, digna de un emocionante libro, en el que tú seas el protagonista exclusivo.

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Es hora para Stella de ir a la cama, pero como puede hacerlo sin acostar antes a la cerdita Rosa, al ratón Amperio y Sapo de Trapo.Soy la campeona mundial de mantenerse despierta!, dice la cerdita Rosa, saltando sobre la cama. Afortunadamente Stella siempre encuentra la forma de lograr, en manera muy ingeniosa, que se duerman: la almohada se convierte en un barco, la caja de zapatos en un tren y la cesta de juguetes en un globo. Las luminosas ilustraciones y el texto son un oda la infinita imaginación de los niños.

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Para conseguir aquellas alas, la condición era clara: ?Nunca usarás la facultad del vuelo para conocer la intimidad de los otros?. Él accedió. Y fue sincero cuando mintió al decir que cumpliría. Y cumplió por mucho tiempo.Durante años olvidó su pasado de tierra y voló entre las aves. Su cuerpo no conoció la vejez, aunque tampoco el placer. Ni arrugas ni abrazos, así era la vida en el aire. Y así fue, hasta que una tarde de tormenta voló bajo, cerca del mar. La mujer desvalida en su barca llena de agua, alcanzó a verle y dejó por un instante de pensar en la muerte para desear estar a su lado. Eso le salvó la vida. Esa fue la llamada. Él, aunque lo intentó, no pudo ya dejar de mirarla ni de preguntarse cómo soportaba ella, en las noches del mar, esa soledad que le asomaba a los ojos y que era idéntica a su soledad de años de vivir en el aire. Atosigado por la curiosidad, pensó que haberse mostrado en la tormenta le daba derecho a una breve mirada a la intimidad de la mujerUn viaj

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The founder of higher education research in Germany, Ulrich Teichler, looks back on more than five decades of higher education research. The economic miracle and university expansion, the student movement, experiments and crises of the 1970s, organisational breakdown, reunification, internationalisation, ranking and management cult – all these are historical stages that are reflected in higher education and science. Ulrich Teichler, directly involved, reports with openness and humour, presenting clever analyses.. Higher education research and Ulrich Teichler – one is not conceivable without the other. Anyone involved in German and European higher education research – that is, research that has higher education as its subject matter – will not be able to avoid his name. Ulrich Teichler was the founding director and for many years the director of the International Center for Higher Education Research at the University of Kassel, one of the first higher education research centers at a German university. The student protest of the late 1960s is only one of the drastic events that Ulrich Teichler reports on. Other upheavals in higher education, politics and society are also remembered, recounted and – this is his great strength – analyzed by Ulrich Teichler as a contemporary witness. Readers experience exemplarily how a research field is established, how international impulses have an effect, how a research scene emerges and how it deals with the economic cycles of its research field. Since the beginnings of university research in the late 1970s, the research scene has grown enormously and has changed considerably – not least due to a change of generations. As before, however, the observation remains that Ulrich Teichler has had a strong influence on higher education research over all these years. This constellation was the reason for two scientists of the successor generation – Anna Kosmützky and Christiane Rittgerott – to look back on more than five decades of university research together with Ulrich Teichler and to talk to him about his life as a scientist, about research strategies, managing a research center and much more. He answered the questions posed to him with his typical openness, enthusiasm for providing information, and humour.

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Digitalization is not only a new research subject for political science, but a transformative force for the discipline in terms of teaching and learning as well as research methods and publishing. This volume provides the first account of the influence of digitalization on the discipline of political science including contributions from 20 different countries. It presents a regional stocktaking of the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in most world regions. The digital transformation is an example of technological change that will have massive implications for politics and society. It involves a sweeping set of changes that many have likened to the Industrial Revolution. The digital revolution has generated extraordinary opportunities for political scientists, but it also raises serious questions about politics, issues like privacy, regulatory oversight, international conflicts and democracy. Many of these problems are old, but digitalization has magnified their difficulties and importance. The ambivalence of digitalization not only includes multiple aspects for political processes, for communication and for interaction in the political realm, but likewise for our discipline. Digitalization is both a research subject as well as a transformative force for our discipline in terms of teaching and learning, research methods, data collection and management, but also influencing publishing and consultancy.

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En su primer libro para el público infantil el renombrado artista Yoshimoto Nara nos cuenta la simple historia de un cachorro tan grande que nadie repara en él, hasta que un día una niña trepar tan alto como sea necesario para poder verlo y convertirse en su amiga.El perrito que quería tener amigos es un hermoso cuento de un artista para que la infancia tiene un mágico atractivo.Siempre estaba solo y triste. A veces pensaba:Por qué nunca viene nadie que quiera ser mi amigo?, porque me sentía muy solo y muy triste.Nó, es mentira. os explicaré por qué estaba tan solo y triste.La verdad es que

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How does the elite continue to affect the evolution of local communities in the developing region of former Sovietized Europe? This book is concerned with the issue of local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It is an attempt to examine, with a comparative method, the profile and the role of the local political elites (members of the Municipal Councils) in six towns in six transitional democracies of the region.

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How do parents cooperate with each other, what value do they attach to their interaction and how is the degree of cooperation related to social status? The study takes a close look at the social relationships among various groups of Chinese parents at a Chinese Mandarin language school in a metropolitan city in Germany. Taking an ethnographic approach, it captures a vivid picture of the parental social interactions in and outside the Chinese school setting. The study reveals the significance of social interactions, discussing it in relation to the parents' socioeconomic backgrounds and individual migrant trajectories.

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This book covers the last three years of work by Los Angeles–based painter Michael Williams (born 1978), focusing on exhibitions in New York, Zurich and Brussels. For Williams, reinventing the formalism of painting is a vehicle for understanding his experience in the world.

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This book contains selected papers delivered during the 22nd Congress of L'Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, held in Poland, from 29th September to 4th October 2004. The proceedings have been arranged into four thematic sections: (1) Theology and Philosophy, (2) Literature, (3) History of State and Society, and (4) Philology and Linguistics, though quite a number of the papers were of an interdisciplinary character. The authors of the 37 publications presented in this volume represent the international academic community and present in their articles the results of the latest research and studies into the areas touching on history, culture, literature, religion and art to mention a few. They constitute various attempts to answer the following questions: What is the meaning of Authority? and What is the place of the individual in Society? The book is essential source reading for specialists and students. This book is also recommended to all those who wish to become better acquainted with the problems and issues of the Arab-Muslim world.

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Bohumil Hrabal escribió Tierno bárbaro en 1973, en unos años en que su obra estaba prohibida por el régimen político instalado en el poder tras la invasión de Checoslovaquia por parte del ejército soviético que puso fin a la Primavera de Praga. Hrabal vive solo en su casa en el bosque de Kersko, inhabilitado por los comunistas para cualquier empleo. Está cerca de cumplir los sesenta años, y la nostalgia se apodera a menudo de él. Nostalgia de los años cincuenta, cuando era feliz en sus trabajos de metalúrgico, de prensador de papel viejo, de tramoyista en un teatro; de los años sesenta, cuando se convirtió en una figura literaria de renombre internacional; de sus amigos desaparecidos, como el pintor y poeta Vladimír Boudník, vecino suyo durante muchos años, con quien descubrió las vanguardias artísticas de los años cincuenta y sesenta, y con quien compartió tantas bodas en casa y un acerado sentido del humor negro. Boudník se suicidó en diciembre de 1968, pocos meses después de que los

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Long overdue, this is the first-ever biography of Thomas Barclay (1728-93), the first American consul to serve the United States abroad and the first representative to successfully negotiate for America in North Africa, then known as Barbary. It is the account of an Ulster-born immigrant earning his fortune as a Philadelphia merchant and then losing it as he gives priority to his adopted country's fight to gain and build its independence. Thomas Barclay's association with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams brings new insights into the personalities of these men and the international issues they and America faced when peace returned - among them the Barbary corsairs. Challenged by the absence of Barclay letter-books and collections of private writings, the authors traveled widely and dug deeply to tap primary source material in the U.S., Great Britain, France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.

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For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean. They made forays far into the Atlantic, preying on the shipping and coastal settlements across Christian Europe, ranging from Greece to West Africa and the British Isles. In the absence of organized European navies they seldom faced serious opposition, and the scope of their raiding was remarkable. As well as piracy and slave-raiding they fought as privateers, sharing their spoils with the rulers of the port-cities that provided them with ships, men, and a ready market. This book examines their development and their style of fighting, chronicles their achievements and failures, and illustrates their appearance and that of their ships, explaining why they were so feared and effective.

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