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L' estranya història del doctor Jekyll i míster Hyde (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886) va ser escrita al llit, el 1885, mentre el seu autor, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), es curava d'unes hemorràgies pulmonars.Un dels màxims-novellistes moderns ?i a més incomparable crític literari, a jutjar per les seves classes sobre literatura europea i russa? recomana, en parlar d'aquesta petita obra mestra, que esborrem de la memòria qualsevol idea que en tinguem com a novella o pellícula detectivesca. Per la senzilla raó que, si bé se la pot considerar com un dels precedents del gènere detectivesc, la novella d'Stevenson, a diferència de la majoria d'aquestes obres, excelleix sobretot pel seu estil. Tradicionalment, la crítica ha considerat L' estranya història del doctor Jekyll i míster Hyde com una paràbola i com una allegoria. Però, en realitat, aquesta obra és molt més que això. Es bàsicament, com diu Vladimir Nabòkov, un excellentrelat de fantasmes, i alhora una faula que es toba més a

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This book, published to accompany the recent ‘Works of Fire’ exhibition at the Céret Museum of Modern Art, presents Miquel Barceló’s ceramics work. Created in Majorca in a former tilery and brickyard transformed into a workshop, the terracotta figures are damaged or disturbed by the introduction of bricks in the still-fresh clay, which humanizes their familiar forms. The self-portrait is a recurrent theme: eyes and mouth engraved into vases, and amphorae in shapes inherited from Antiquity; skulls and heads explicitly evoke the idea of vanity, an ever-present theme in Barceló’s work, which appears in the fractures, cracks, and swelling that the clay undergoes before or during firing. Apart from the self-portraits, there are emanations of the animal or plant world, also disturbed by the bricks which come to inhabit or destroy them. Rosebuds bloom, fish live and fossilize, bricks form secret cavities. These spectacular works owe their presence to their apparent fragility as well as to their life force, and the struggle and dramas they welcome. All Barceló’s themes are present in his ceramic works. As ever, the passage of time and death are expressed in the most fragile and durable way.

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In Dirty Game, Annie Bailey was an East End Madam. In Black Widow she’s queen of the gangs and trying to save her daughter’s life… Annie Bailey had done it all; Madam, mistress and Gangster's moll. Now she's Annie Carter, and she taking over the East End. Annie knew that it wouldn't last. Everything was going so well; she was living in Majorca, had Max Carter - the head of the Carter firm by her side, and had given him a beautiful daughter, Layla. But if there was one thing life had taught her, it was that everything could change in the blink of an eye. One minute she's lying by the pool, the next she's out cold. When she comes round Max and Layla are gone. It's not long before she gets the demands. They want money or she'll be getting her little girl back in pieces… There's only one thing Annie can do, she heads back to the East End of London and gathers the Carter firm together. Someone has snatched her husband and child. Now there's a score to settle, and it's being settled Annie Carter style…

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What is discernment? Who was Peter Faber? Why do the Jesuits exude such optimism? Awareness. Emotions. Love. Work. We use such words every day in normal conversation, but those same words take on special meaning when used in the context of Ignatian spirituality. Other words and phrases, such as finding God in all things, are distinctly associated with the Ignatian approach to spiritual development. Acquiring a general grasp of these terms will prove invaluable to those who desire a better understanding of the Jesuit / Ignatian way of life. With Ignatian Spirituality A to Z, Jim Manney has provided a brief, informative, and entertaining guide to key concepts of Ignatian spirituality and essential characters and events in Jesuit history. The lexicon format allows readers to find terms quickly, and the concise descriptions are ideal for those new to the Ignatian story. From Pedro Arrupe to Francis Xavier, from Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam to Zeal, this book uncovers the rich language of the Jesuits. It will be an indispensable tool to anyone interested in Ignatian spirituality, to staff, faculty, and students at Jesuit institutions and schools, and to clergy and spiritual directors who advise others about prayer and spiritual matters.

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This graduate-level textbook is the first pedagogical synthesis of the field of topological insulators and superconductors, one of the most exciting areas of research in condensed matter physics. Presenting the latest developments, while providing all the calculations necessary for a self-contained and complete description of the discipline, it is ideal for graduate students and researchers preparing to work in this area, and it will be an essential reference both within and outside the classroom. The book begins with simple concepts such as Berry phases, Dirac fermions, Hall conductance and its link to topology, and the Hofstadter problem of lattice electrons in a magnetic field. It moves on to explain topological phases of matter such as Chern insulators, two- and three-dimensional topological insulators, and Majorana p-wave wires. Additionally, the book covers zero modes on vortices in topological superconductors, time-reversal topological superconductors, and topological responses/field theory and topological indices. The book also analyzes recent topics in condensed matter theory and concludes by surveying active subfields of research such as insulators with point-group symmetries and the stability of topological semimetals. Problems at the end of each chapter offer opportunities to test knowledge and engage with frontier research issues. Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors will provide graduate students and researchers with the physical understanding and mathematical tools needed to embark on research in this rapidly evolving field.

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Every summer has a story...Fun-loving travel rep Jess doesn't want to be chief bridesmaid at her snooty cousin's wedding, but it will cause a family feud if she refuses. She doesn't want to fall in love either but when a raucous stag party arrives at her Majorcan hotel, Jess hits it off instantly with best man, Eddie. A summer romance is exactly what commitment-phobe Jess needs and, as the stag-do draws to a close, so does the holiday fling. She has no intentions of carrying on the summer fun but when Eddie turns up again, Jess is faced with a big dilemma.Will this bridesmaid get the happy-ever-after she never knew she wanted...

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Les illes Balears són un indret privilegiat dins la Mediterrània. A les seves aigües es reprodueix la preuada tonyina; hi calen els congres, els lluços i els raps, i hi viuen les sardines i les llampugues. Aquesta guia recull les espècies de peixos més comunes i representatives que viuen mar enfora (pelàgiques) i al fons profund (bentòniques). En podrem entreveure algunes navegant per les aigües balears; n'hi ha d'altres que són objecte de pesca, i la majoria les trobarem a les peixateries. La guia presenta les espècies illustrades acuradament i agrupades en làmines a una mateixa escala per facilitar-ne la comparació i la identificació. Els textos i les icones aporten informació actualitzada de cada espècie. La Fundació Marilles, entitat sense ànim de lucre que treballa per fer de la mar Balear un referent en conservació marina, ha fet possible l'edició d'aquesta guia.

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The Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands have always enticed the minds of British travellers. In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the islands accessible for a wide number of visitors, who depicted them in pictures and words. In the following decades, however, the image of the islands shifted and developed considerably from a quiet and pastoral winter resort to a popular destination for pleasure-seeking tourists and "sea ‘n’ sun" tourism. Taking these last representations as a starting point, this book travels back in time to explain how, by whom and why these images were created/shifted/developed to articulate the ultimate place of leisure and pleasure signified in today’s Majorca and Ibiza. The depiction and the evolution of topics such as ‘travel’, ‘tourism’, ‘authenticity’, ‘landscape’, ‘South’, ‘North’, ‘margin’, ‘centre’, ‘exoticism’, ‘people’, ‘costumes’ and ‘customs’ are examined in order to establish their contribution to the formulation of the ‘Balearic paradise’ in the first third of the twentieth century. This book will help the reader to understand the imagery associated with the islands today.

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Encuadernación: RústicaEl verdadero origen de las tortillitas de camarones, la faina, Vicente el largo Agualimpia, Potoco, la patera de Mangoli, Las majorettes, los cohez de caballos, Jacamari, He ido a cazar Monos, La muerte de Manolete, Los palos del Corpus...Cadiz en claroscuro viene a completar la trilogia gaditana que se inicio con la Historia pequeña de Cadiz y Mas sobre la historia pequeña de Cadiz, donde ha quedado reflejado usos y constumbres que definen una epoca remebranza de un Cadiz distinto que lanza un guiño de complicidad a los mas adultos y queda registrado para conocimiento de los mas jovenes

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A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by promising them development and polarizing the electorate along ethno-religious lines. Both facets of this national-populism found expression in a highly personalized political style as Modi related directly to the voters through all kinds of channels of communication in order to saturate the public space.Drawing on original interviews conducted across India, Christophe Jaffrelot shows how Modi's government has moved India toward a new form of democracy, an ethnic democracy that equates the majoritarian community with the nation and relegates Muslims and Christians to second-class citizens who are harassed by vigilante groups. He discusses how the promotion of Hindu nationalism has resulted in attacks against secularists, intellectuals, universities, and NGOs. Jaffrelot explains how the political system of India has acquired authoritarian features for other reasons, too. Eager to govern not only in New Delhi, but also in the states, the government has centralized power at the expense of federalism and undermined institutions that were part of the checks and balances, including India's Supreme Court.Modi's India is a sobering account of how a once-vibrant democracy can go wrong when a government backed by popular consent suppresses dissent while growing increasingly intolerant of ethnic and religious minorities.

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In recent years, effective Dirac systems have received a lot of attention in solid state physics. These are systems whose dispersion can effectively be described by a Dirac cone, the most prominent examples being graphene and topological insulators (TIs). These systems exhibit intriguing phenomena---for example, TIs can host perfectly transmitted modes or, in conjunction with superconductors, Majorana zero modes. This work deals with superconducting heterostructures of both of the aforementioned materials and examines transport phenomena as well as the formation of sub-gap states in such systems: In the first chapter, superconducting bilayer graphene with a chemisorbed adatom is investigated and the existence of peculiar sub-gap states, so-called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, is shown. The second chapter deals with T junction devices made out of three-dimensional (3D) TI nanowires. Together with proximity induced superconductivity in one arm and external magnetic fields, this setup allows for the occurrence of crossed Andreev reflection, including perfect crossed Andreev reflection, and negative nonlocal conductance. In the third chapter, Josephson junctions of 3D TI nanowires are investigated. The origin of unusual, experimentally observed supercurrent oscillations in dependence of a parallel magnetic field is examined in a semiclassical analysis.

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La ville de Laon a laisse glisser jusqu'au bas des pentes de son plateau les quertiers modernes devolus au logement de la majorite de ses habitants, aux voies de communication, et aux echanges. Le mouvement y a remplace les cultures maraicheres, mais ce n'est pas la la ville que l'on remarque. Emergence dans le relief si doux du Bassin Parisien, la brusque surprise nait de la cite medievale, epargnee par les destructions massives du XXe siecle, drapee dans ses pans de verdure et l'echarpe petrifiee de ses remparts d'oA' ne pointe nulle fleche. Laon est une ville au front carre. Le reseau dense, fantaisiste mais harmonieux de ses portes, maisons et hotels, court entre les temoins et les maitres de son prestigieux passe, poses comme des serre-livres a ses extremites: l'ancienne cathedrale Notre Dame a nulle autre pareille, la citadelle et l'abbaye Saint-Jean a l'est, l'abbaye Saint-Martin et l'abbaye Saint-Vincent a l'ouest et au sud, veillent toujours, avec d'autres fonctions, sur la cite religieuse et royale, le bourg fourmillant, et leurs confins aeres. En cet espace soigneusement delimite, celui qui prend la peine de se laisser conduire voit se derouler devant ses yeux huit siecles de vie urbaine et d'art de batir.

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In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering explorer and fossil-hunter and the beginning of an association with the Museum that was to last for more than 50 years. As a young woman in the early 1900s she explored the islands of Cyprus, Crete and the little known Majorca and Menorca, braving parental opposition and considerable physical hardship and danger. In remote mountain caves and sea-battered cliffs, she discovered, against enormous odds, the fossil evidence of unique species of extinct fauna, previously unknown to science, including dwarf elephants and hippos, giant dormice and a strange small goat-like antelope. Thirty years later in Bethlehem, she excavated against a backdrop of violence and under the shadow of war. By the end of her life Dorothea had earned an international reputation as an expert in her field. 'Discovering Dorothea' captures the indomitable spirit of a woman who, against social pressure and in the face of physical hardship, devoted her life to discovery and deepened our knowledge of the natural world.

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Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal."This book has the lucidity and the intelligence we have come to expect from Marjorie Perloff.—Linda Munk, American Literature"[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry."—Linda Voris, Boston Review"Wittgenstein's Ladder offers significant insights into the current state of poetry, literature, and literary study. Perloff emphasizes the vitality of reading and thinking about poetry, and the absolute necessity of pushing against the boundaries that define and limit our worlds."—David Clippinger, Chicago Review"Majorie Perloff has done more to illuminate our understanding of twentieth century poetic language than perhaps any other critic. . . . Entertaining, witty, and above all highly original."—Willard Bohn, Sub-Stance

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La communauté juive du faubourg Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne, près de la ville de Bayonne, était l’une des plus marquantes des communautés de marchands juifs séfarades occidentaux, qui se formèrent dans le sud-ouest de la France, à la suite des Lettres Patentes accordées par Henri II en 1550 aux «Nouveaux Chrétiens» issus de la péninsule ibérique, et qui revinrent plus tard à un judaïsme à découvert. Dans son ouvrage, l’auteur se penche sur les théories en cours sur l'interaction entre les Juifs, le pouvoir et la population majoritaire de leurs lieux de résidence, au début de l’ère moderne, et ses répercussions sur le statut des Juifs à cette époque, et examine la compatibilité de ces théories avec la situation des Juifs de Bayonne au XVIIIe siècle. Sur la base de diverses sources, souvent inédites, l'auteur propose une nouvelle perspective sur les relations entre les Juifs de Bayonne et leurs voisins chrétiens au cours du XVIIIe siècle, jusqu’à l'émancipation des Juifs de France, et montre les efforts incessants de ces derniers pour s’intégrer à la société française et à la modernité européenne, tout en préservant leur identité particulière. Cette intégration se concrétisa par une participation active aux réseaux commerciaux locaux et internationaux en coopérant avec les marchands chrétiens.

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Outre son intérêt comme langue oubanguienne de moyenne importance (12000 locuteurs environ) le monzombo présente pour les linguistes un intérêt majeur. Si on le compare aux langues qui ont avec elle la parenté la plus proche, le ngbaka et le gbanzili, un ammuïssement des consonnes intervocaliques, k, t, l, a abouti à un phénomène de transphonologisation tel que les trisyllabes sont devenus dissyllabes, voire monosyllabes, les dissyllabes sont devenus monosyllabes. Les voyelles devenant contiguës, tout en sauvegardant leurs tons, ont donné des amalgames de tous ordres entraînant la création d'un quatrième niveau phonologique, vraisemblablement et de manière inconsciente, pour pallier la présence de trop nombreux homonymes. Si la grande majorité des langues africaines présente deux niveaux phonologiques (bas, haut), quelques-unes en présentent trois (bas, moyen, haut) et l'on compte sur les doigts de la main celles qui en présentent quatre - bas, moyen, haut, suprahaut - ou - haut, moyen, bas, infrabas -. Les Monzombo, population de pêcheurs proto-agriculteurs, répartie le long des rives de l'Oubangui et du Congo, présentent également un grand intérêt historique et sociologique car ils s'inscrivent dans un système socio-économique, culturel et religieux avec d'autres populations voisines, les Gbanzili-'Bolaka, les Ngbaka et les Pygmées aka et baka, où ils jouent un rôle primordial d'ethnie dominante.

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During the nineteenth century, the Age of Nationalism, small stateless nations all over Europe developed successful national movements which demanded rights for minority language communities. One of the central questions of Welsh history is why this didn’t happen in Wales. Welsh patriotism emphasised radicalism and liberalism, which subsumed Wales within the discourse of British progressive politics. Liberalism promotes majoritarian identities, and in Wales is a key component of British hegemony. Wales in the nineteenth century was more liberal and radical than almost any other country in Europe. Contrary to the popular view that this was a boost for Welsh nationalism, Pam na fu Cymru (Why Wales never happened) shows that this was the very reason for its failure.

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La majoria d?herois i heroïnes que coneixem són éssers extraordinaris amb poders màgics i una capa penjant de l?esquena. Però també n?hi ha de carn i ossos, tan humans com tu i com jo, que de vegades s?equivoquen i d?altres l?encerten d?allò més.Malala Yousafzai en va ser una. Quins poders tenia? Unes ganes enormes d?aprendre i una actitud molt valenta. Amb aquestes qualitats va poder enfrontar-se a aquells que volien prohibir-li que anés a l?escola pel fet de ser una nena. La Malala gairebé perd la vida per fer-ho, però no va rendir-se mai i, encara ara, lluita perquè tots els nens del món tinguin accés a l?educació. I per això, li van atorgar el Premi Nobel de la Pau. Aquesta és la proesa de Malala Yousafzai i heus aquí la seva història.Els Meus Petits Herois és una collecció de biografies illustrades en les que es rendeix homenatge a les figures de la història que han fet del món un lloc millor.

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In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza’s thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, Becoming Political offers a historically sensitive, meticulous, and creative interpretation of Spinoza’s texts that reveals judgment as the communal element by which people generate power to resist domination and reconfigure the terms of their political association. If, for Spinoza, judging is the activity which makes a people powerful, it is because it enables them to contest the project of ruling and demonstrate the political possibility of being equally free to articulate the terms of their association. This proposition differs from a predominant contemporary line of argument that treats the people’s judgment as a vehicle of sovereignty—a means of defining and refining the common will. By recuperating in Spinoza’s thought a “vital republicanism,” Skeaff illuminates a line of political thinking that decouples democracy from the majoritarian aspiration to rule and aligns it instead with the project of becoming free and equal judges of common affairs. As such, this decoupling raises questions that ordinarily go unasked: what calls for political judgment, and who is to judge? In Spinoza’s vital republicanism, the political potential of life and law finds an affirmative relationship that signals the way toward a new constitutionalism and jurisprudence of the common.

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Since the European-wide domination of social democratic governments during the mid- to late-1990s, Right-wing parties have returned to power in the three largest Mediterranean democracies – Italy, France and Spain. This alternation has been symptomatic of growing majoritarianism in Southern Europe, a trend which has gone against much of the rest of the continent, and of a decline in clientelist effectiveness also traditionally seen as the Southern ‘norm’. This volume assesses the subsequent periods of incumbency of these three governments, considering the salient features of each in their reaction to winning government and implementing policy, given their divergent historical roots and paths to power. In particular, it focuses on the evolving role of perceived extremist elements on the Right, and adaptation to a European arena which imposes a level of continuity on incumbents of whatever hue, attempts to defend national interests notwithstanding. Lastly, it considers the extent to which the swing to the Right has already reached its peak, given the evidence of recent national and regional elections in France and Spain.

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La ciudad roja, acaso la más bella de las ciudades imperiales de Marruecos, es hoy día el principal destino turístico del sur del país magrebí. La maraña de callejuelas que conforman la medina, ciudad vieja de Marrakech, parten de la mítica plaza de Jemaa el Fna. Allí cada atardecer humean los puestos de comida; narran los cuentacuentos ancestrales aventuras heroicas; asombran con sus números tragasables, saltimbanquis o tragafuegos. En la plaza comienzan los zocos, donde los cinco sentidos se ven apabullados por la avalancha de estímulos. El laberinto de la medina oculta palacios imponentes como El Badi o de la Bahia, la fascinante madrasa (escuela coránica) Ibn Yusseff, junto al bello museo de Marrakech, o el vistoso barrio de los curtidores. Fuera de la ciudad antigua, los jardines, especialmente el pictórico Jardín Majorelle, o el paseo por el palmeral. Vale la pena alojarse en un un elegante riad (palacio reconvertido en alojamiento) y degustar la exótica gastronomía nacional en c

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Holidaying was something only the wealthy could afford, well into the 19th century, visiting spas or taking the Grand Tour. With the coming of the railways whole factories, streets, even towns began to down tools for an annual break; with entrepreneurs like Thomas Cook, some even venturing across the Channel. The arrival of the combustion engine further democratised travel enabling some to holiday independently, others in organised charabancs and coach parties. By the end of WWII with the coming of cheap flights Marbella and Majorca began to replace the British resorts. Providing holidays became a highly competitive business between resorts and tour operators and this necessitated advertising. Holidaying is an account of this, richly illustrated to show the changes in fads and fashions when holidaying reached a mass market.

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From the bestselling creator of The Light Seer's Tarot, The Muse Tarot, and The Sacred Creators Oracle comes a wildly playful and joyful tarot deck filled with eccentric, magical guides for the curious seekers. With their illuminating conversations and grounded wisdom, the curious characters in this 78 (+1) tarot card deck and guidebook are a strangely familiar twist on the traditional tarot. As you journey with these friendly creatures, expect to find wisdom, laughter, and love in their messages.Journey to the center of your truth and allow them to guide you toward the unfolding of your own inner knowing.Tarot Guidebook Contents Include:· Meet Your Curious Guide· Readings with These Curious Cards· Pathworking with Your Curious Guides· Heads or Tails· Card Spreads· The Majorly Curious Messages· The Minorly Curious MessagesIf you want to go deeper with any of the curious creatures at any time, there is a conversation starter at the end of each entry in the guidebook. Of course, there is no need to stick to those questions and reflections, they are just great jumping-off points for plunging deep into the heart and soul of it all. And she promised to always be curious... for its delightful wonder fueled her soul...xo,Chris-Anne

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Les démonstratifs font partie des catégories grammaticales qui évoluent le plus dans les langues du monde. C'est particulièrement vrai en français, où ils connaissent une série de changements affectant tous les niveaux linguistiques (morphologie, morphosyntaxe et sémantique). Des origines du français à aujourd'hui, le système des démonstratifs s'est complètement réorganisé. Il s'est structuré autour de deux paradigmes morphosyntaxiques opposés (les pronoms et les déterminants) et s'est partiellement vidé de sa sémantique première. Cet ouvrage porte sur l'évolution sémantique des démonstratifs en français. Il est centré sur la période médiévale (9ème-15ème siècle) et montre par quelles étapes la valeur personnelle héritée du latin laisse place à une valeur plus abstraite, qui distingue les démonstratifs du français de ceux de la majorité des autres langues (romanes ou non). On y insiste sur la dimension pragmatique et cognitive de cette évolution et on s'est fondé sur la méthodologie de corpus. Ce livre s'adresse aux linguistes, enseignants-chercheurs et étudiants, qui sont spécialistes de la linguistique diachronique et du changement sémantique, mais aussi à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la sémantique référentielle, aux processus anaphoriques et déictiques, et aux évolutions typologiques qui marquent l'histoire du français.

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Tens secrets? Saps de quin color són? Aprèn amb l'Alma com et fa sentir cada secret, què pots fer amb ells i amb qui has de compartir-los. El secret i el silenci són els millors aliats dels abusadors i la majoria els utilitzen per aconseguir que els nens facin silenci. Aquest conte està creat perquè els nens comparteixin els secrets que els fan sentir malament i oferir-los un espai de confiança on poder expressar-los. L'autora, Margarita García Marqués, gràcies a la seva experiència com a psicòloga i psicoterapeuta especialitzada en abús sexual infantil, comunicació, autoestima i infància, ofereix un conte útil per promoure l'expressió emocional a la infància, prevenir abusos (com l?abús sexual infantil) i saber abordar-los de manera natural en nens/es entre 3 i 10 anys. En el conte De quin color són els teus secrets? es presenta una protagonista propera al nen/a a través d'un llenguatge clar, senzill i divertit al mateix temps. A més, el llibre conté elements que ajuden a treure a la

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El 1981 es publica per primer cop en volum Històries de la mà esquerra i altres narracions, obra que recull els setze contes que Jesús Moncada havia elaborat durant la dècada anterior: quatre contes guardonats el 1971 amb el premi Joan Santamaria titulat Històries de la mà esquerra (1973); quatre contes més, Narracions de l'Ebre, amb què havia obtingut el premi Jacme March de 1980; i una tercera secció intitulada Cròniques de la sirga, amb els vuit contes restants. L'origen heterogeni d'aquest primer recull de contes, resultat d'una gestació llarga i intermitent, es diluirà formalment quan s'elimini la divisió en seccions de la primera edició, i amb la supressió del sintagma del títol i altres narracions.En Històries de la mà esquerra veiem desfilar un seguit de personatges, alguns de tendres, d'altres que es mouen entre el més ençà i el més enllà, de manera inquietat o de manera despreocupada i intranscendent. Uns personatges que si bé majoritàriament desfilen pels cafès i carrers d'u

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Ce livre vise à identifier divers toponymes et gentilices bibliques, en majorité extérieurs au Canaan, et à les situer dans un contexte historique dont ils sont généralement privés dans la Bible. Ils apparaissent souvent dans des listes, qui peuvent aussi contenir des noms de personnages importants, mêlés à des noms de lieu. Les chapitres successifs passent ainsi en revue les listes de «Fils de Canaan», de «Fils de Misrayim», de «Fils d'Aram», de «Fils d'Abraham et de Qetura», de «Fils d'Ismaël», de «Fils de Kush», de «Fils de Yoqtan», localisés généralement au Yémen. La visite de la reine de Saba s'inscrit dans ce cadre. L'origine de Zabulon et de Nephtali est ensuite examinée, ainsi que le sens ou la localisation des toponymes Bethléem, Téman, Téma, Hagar, etc. L'usage des noms de Tanis, Hanès, Saïs et Put dans la Bible est ensuite passé en revue. Le texte original de la notice sur l'assassinat de Sennachérib et des récits relatifs à la capitale moabite est ensuite reconstitué à la lumière de la version des Septante. Un chapitre est consacré aux figures de Gog/Gygès et de Tugdamme/Lygdamis, tandis qu'un autre traite des régions de la Mésopotamie septentrionale, dont le nom est défiguré dans la Bible; il s'agit du pays de Shupriya, de Kulimmer et d'Izal. Viennent ensuite les Îles d'Ulysse, Kub et Pul, qui est l'Apulie, tandis que Lakish et son sanctuaire de Yaho-Roi font l'objet du dernier chapitre. L'ouvrage relève plusieurs tiqqune soferim datables de la fin de l'époque perse ou de la période hellénistique. Il est complété de plusieurs index.

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Nationalism is among the most influential ideas that has shaped the 'Metamorphoses of the Political' in the long twentieth century. This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in 'another Indian nationalism' over the last two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana and its war on terror. The books braids the following three strands together: first, a majoritarian nationalist ideology called Hindutva; second, the making of popular history as a precolonial epic is highlighted, depicting the defeat of the last Hindu Emperor by a conquering Muslim Sultan purportedly leading to eight centuries of Hindu enslavement and third, the 'reconversion' of a community by the Visva Hindu Parishad with consequences for Lived Hinduism and Indic civilisation with its complex identities.

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It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents – from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain. Within these pages, the Talmud burns in the streets of Paris, massed gibbets hang over the streets of medieval London, a Majorcan illuminator redraws the world; candles are lit, chants are sung, mules are packed, ships loaded with spice and gems founder at sea. And a great story unfolds. Not – as often imagined – of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians.Which makes the story of the Jews everyone’s story, too.

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While it might have been viable for states to isolate themselves from international politics in the nineteenth century, the intensity of economic and social globalisation in the twenty-first century has made this impossible. The contemporary world is an international world - a world of collective security systems and collective trade agreements. What does this mean for the sovereign state and 'its' international legal order? Two alternative approaches to the problem of 'governance' in the era of globalisation have developed in the twentieth century: universal internationalism and regional supranationalism. The first approaches collective action problems from the perspective of the 'sovereign equality' of all States. A second approach to transnational 'governance' has tried to re-build majoritarian governmental structures at the regional scale. This collection of essays wishes to analyse - and contrast - the two types of normative and decisional answers that have emerged as responses to the 'international' problems within our globalised world.

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Catalunya viu una etapa de gran transcendència. Les decisions democràtiques que prenem en els propers mesos marcaran el nostre futur.La gran majoria dels catalans volen exercir la llibertat i decidir si volen o no volen tenir un Estat propi. Certament un percentatge de la població té dubtes, interrogants substancials sobre com posicionar-ne davant una consulta. No tenen clar que pagui la pena crear un nou Estat. Tenen vincles emocionals profunds amb el poble espanyol. Dubten de la viabilitat de Catalunya com Estat. Temen que els jubilats no cobrin les pensions. Que les empreses catalanes perdin mercat i llocs de treball. Que l?atur encara augmenti més.

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Sustainable Soil Fertility Management mainly focuses on issues related to soil management at the field level, which is a prime concern for crop production that may be improved by adopting several sustainable management practices. Soil fertility is the capability of soil to sustain plant growth and optimize crop yield. This can be enhanced through the use of organic and inorganic fertilizers. Several techniques are suggested that enhance soil fertility and crop production while minimizing environmental impact. Soil fertility canbe further improved by incorporating cover crops that add organic matter to thesoil, which leads to improvedsoilstructure and promotes a healthy, fertile soil; by using green manure or growing legumes to fix nitrogen from the air through the process of biological nitrogen fixation; and by microbes. Fertile soilcontains all the majornutrients necessary to sustain basic plant nutrition (e.g., nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium), as well as othernutrientsneeded in smaller quantities (e.g., calcium, magnesium, sulfur, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, boron, molybdenum, nickel). The book focuses on global strategies with a possible solution for managing the fertility of soil. The book covers soil science, soil fertility, crop production, soil sustainability, and soil management with a modern scientific approach that is helpful for researchers, the scientific community, academicians, business farmers and policymakers.

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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India today. Founded in 1941 by Syed Abul Ala Maududi with the aim of spreading Islamic values in the subcontinent, Jamaat and its young offshoot, the Student Islamic Movement of India or SIMI, have been watched closely by Indian security services since September 11. In particular, SIMI has been accused of being behind terrorist bombings. This book is the first in-depth examination of India's Jamaat-e-Islami and SIMI, exploring political Islam's complex relationship with democracy and providing a rare window into the Islamist trajectory in a Muslim-minority context. Irfan Ahmad conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork at a school in the town of Aligarh, among student activists at Aligarh Muslim University, at a madrasa in Azamgarh, and during Jamaat's participation in elections in 2002. He deftly traces Jamaat's changing position in relation to India's secular democracy and the group's gradual ideological shift toward religious pluralism and tolerance. Ahmad demonstrates how the rise of militant Hindu nationalism since the 1980s--evident in the destruction of the Babri mosque and widespread violence against Muslims--led to SIMI's radicalization, its rejection of pluralism, and its call for jihad. Islamism and Democracy in India argues that when secular democracy is responsive to the traditions and aspirations of its Muslim citizens, Muslims in turn embrace pluralism and democracy. But when democracy becomes majoritarian and exclusionary, Muslims turn radical.

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This book evaluates the presidency of Donald Trump from a comparative, historical approach to connect his populist style to his predecessors. Trump's method of communication through social media obviously differs from previous candidates and presidents with populist platforms, but his themes - a disdain for elites, grassroots support, majoritarianism, anti-intellectual discourse, and nativism borrow variably from such figures as Andrew Jackson, Huey Long, Barry Goldwater, and Ross Perot. As such, Trump's approach to governance falls within a long tradition of populism dating to the 19th Century.Richard S. Conley assesses various aspects of Trump's career, including the nature of his presidential campaign; his post-campaign rallies; his style of governance and reliance on executive unilateralism; and his longstanding core themes, in order to develop a theoretical framework to explicate Trump's singular style of populism.

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Life is never, ever dull in Agatha Raisin''s sleepy Cotswolds village!Agatha Raisin''s private detective agency is working flat out on a series of burglaries which take a violent turn when a friend of Agatha''s is murdered during a raid on his antiques shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to stage a massive, hugely glamorous event in the grounds of his ancestral home, Barfield House.When Agatha begins to receive death threats and narrowly avoids being abducted by kidnappers, she takes advantage of a previously arranged trip to Majorca to lie low for a while. There she meets her partner, former police officer John Glass, who is now working as a dance instructor on a cruise liner. Their relationship founders over John''s apparent closeness to his stage dance partner, Louise. Putting her love life on hold, Agatha heads home, having worked out who has been threatening her life.Can Agatha tra

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La gran novella americana no és una novellaMentre Donald Trump s?obria pas a les primàries del Partit Republicà que el portarien a la Casa Blanca, les memòries d?un desconegut impactaven la societat nord americana i esdevenien un fenomen editorial. El relat de J. D. Vance s?ha convertit en un testimoni valuós per entendre com els Estats Units d?Amèrica han entrat en una etapa desconeguda i inquietant.Una família americana explica al món la història de tres generacions de hillbillies. El que la majoria de nord-americans anomenen hillbillies, rednecks o escòria blanca, per a Vance, són veïns, família i amics. Gent blanca, pobra i de classe treballadora que ara és castigada amb severitat per la desindustrialització. Persones desmoralitzades, ressentides i radicalitzades, addictes a la desesperança. Són els qui van fer president Trump. Una família americana retrata de manera colpidora la lluita íntima de J. D. Vance contra la inèrcia i l?abandonament, i esdevé alhora una elegia imp

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Le volume Ras Shamra – Ougarit XXVI est le second opus de l’opération Archéologie, patrimoine et archives, qui rassemblent des études portant plus spécifiquement sur l’exploitation scientifique des archives des fouilles anciennes de la Mission archéologique de Ras Shamra. L’ouvrage comporte quatorze articles auxquels ont contribué douze membres de la mission, rejoints par une collaboratrice extérieure. Ces recherches sont fondées sur l’édition d’une riche documentation pour une grande part inédite. Les fouilles conduites sous la direction de Claude Schaeffer sont de loin les mieux représentées et nombre de documents font partie du «Fonds C. Schaeffer» du Collège de France. D’autres fonds ont aussi été exploités parmi lesquels les sources documentaires gérées par la mission et les archives du Département des Antiquités orientales du musée du Louvre. Plusieurs études abordent l’histoire des recherches à Ras Shamra et à Minet el-Beida, avec des éclairages plus spécifiques sur le début des fouilles ou encore sur des pièces de la correspondance scientifique du fonds C. Schaeffer. D’autres articles analysent des témoins de la civilisation ougaritique, objets, inscriptions en louvite hiéroglyphique ou en hiéroglyphes égyptiens, productions locales ou importations datant en majorité de la période du Bronze récent. Ils livrent une documentation neuve sur des constructions, sur des objets inédits (poids, scarabée, bulle étiquette, harpè), apportent des données permettant une meilleure contextualisation de ces ÷uvres, ou sur d’autres déjà connues par les publications. Un troisième dossier, consacré aux études géographiques, livre la seconde contribution du programme en cours d’analyse diachronique des paysages (XVIIe–XXIe siècles), ainsi que trois nouvelles cartes numériques thématiques et une étude sur le climat de la région de Lattaquié.

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Si la devise du Québec sombre parfois dans l’oubli, ce livre s’impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois : « Je me souviens » de ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra dans À tout prendre, ainsi que de l’exploration par André Brassard et Michel Tremblay dans Il était une fois dans l’Est d’une faune colorée affirmant son existence dans un quartier modeste de l’est de Montréal. Ce livre commémore et conjugue ces deux fleurons de la cinématographie québécoise qui mettent en scène des représentations gaies, lesbiennes et trans pionnières dans les années 1960 et 1970.Malgré une réception critique empreinte parfois d’homophobie au Québec et un relatif silence à l’intérieur d’un Canada majoritairement anglophone, ce cinéma francophone fera néanmoins entendre sa voix à l’international, en Europe comme aux États-Unis, impressionnant des cinéastes comme Truffaut et Cassavetes. Ces films passent ainsi à l’histoire. Sous la loupe de la sociologie, Julie Vaillancourt analyse ces films au rythme d’événements sociopolitiques marquants, de la Révolution tranquille à la révolution sexuelle, des mouvements de libération homosexuels à ceux des femmes, sans oublier la question identitaire nationale. L’ouvrage présente également un état des lieux plus de cinquante ans après la décriminalisation de l’homosexualité au Canada. Vu l’influence de ces cinéastes auprès de la jeune génération, dont Xavier Dolan, les legs sont nombreux et invitent les comparaisons réaffirmant le caractère novateur de ces deux films pionniers. Ce livre revisite À tout prendre et Il était une fois dans l’Est pour démontrer leur importance artistique et sociale au moment de leur création ainsi que leur héritage durable dans le contexte du cinéma queer mondial.

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Avec ses quatre chapitres, le livre de Ruth est un des plus courts de la Bible. C’est aussi un des plus aimés et des plus commentés. Il raconte comment une étrangère est devenue l’arrière-grand-mère du roi David. Selon toute vraisemblance, cette histoire aurait été écrite en réaction contre la politique de purification ethnique d’Esdras et Néhémie qui, au retour d’exil, avaient exigé que les juifs renvoient leurs épouses étrangères. Après 2 500 ans, ce livre ne manque donc pas d’être très actuel. La composition de cet écrit n’est pas spéculaire (ABB’A’), comme une très large majorité des commentateurs le prétend. Elle est concentrique, comme tant d’autres textes bibliques et sémitiques. Le point focal de la construction est le moment où Noémi, la belle-mère de Ruth, apprend que l’homme qui a si bien accueilli Ruth venue glaner dans son champ, s’appelle Boaz : c’est un proche parent, un de ceux qui ont le droit et le devoir de les « racheter ». Le récit bascule alors vers une solution qui mettra fin au veuvage de Ruth et débouchera sur la naissance d’un fils, Obed, le grand-père de David. Une même attitude est commune à chacun des quatre personnages majeurs de cette nouvelle : la discrétion, le retrait qui attend que l’autre manifeste son désir avant d’y répondre et de s’engager. Respect d’autrui, de sa liberté et de sa dignité. Telle est la conduite de Noémi, de Ruth sa belle-fille, de Boaz aussi qui finira par épouser Ruth, accueillant son désir de donner un fils et héritier à son mari défunt. Telle est aussi la conduite du Dieu d’Israël, qui ne s’impose pas, laisse toute sa place aux hommes, tout en se tenant prêt à intervenir quand il le faudra et qu’ils en auront manifesté le désir.

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"Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."—Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people—with the right suit, accent, wealth, and connections—are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the lost openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy in which power is genuinely accessible to ordinary citizens.Hélène Landemore favors the ideal of “representing and being represented in turn” over direct-democracy approaches. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Landemore recommends centering political institutions around the “open mini-public”—a large, jury-like body of randomly selected citizens gathered to define laws and policies for the polity, in connection with the larger public. She also defends five institutional principles as the foundations of an open democracy: participatory rights, deliberation, the majoritarian principle, democratic representation, and transparency.Open Democracy demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, today more than ever, urgently needed.

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Liminal Minorities addresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they lack significant power and pose no political threat. Günes Murat Tezcür argues that these faith groups are stigmatized across generations, as they lack theological recognition and social acceptance from the dominant religious group. Religious justifications of violence have a strong mobilization power when directed against liminal minorities, which makes these groups particularly vulnerable to mass violence during periods of political change.Offering the first comparative-historical study of mass atrocities against religious minorities in Muslim societies, Tezcür focuses on two case studiesthe Islamic State''s genocidal attacks against the Yezidis in northern Iraq in the 2010s and massacres of Alevis in Turkey in the 1970s and 1990swhile also addressing discrimination and violence agai

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The pioneers of British barbecue bring you the ultimate guide to the grill.'Everything you need for a BBQ blowout in your backyard'Evening StandardGrillstock know a thing or two about low 'n' slow barbecue. They have been pioneers of the American barbecue scene in the UK since 2010 with their original BBQ and music festival, Grillstock, which sees top pit-masters compete from the world over, and their chain of smokehouses bringing truly authentic BBQ to cities across the UK.Stacked with more than 100 recipes and revealing plenty of Grillstock secrets, Grillstock: The BBQ Book includes favourites from the Smokehouse menu, tips on mastering low 'n' slow style cooking, epic meaty feast ideas, and unique recipes from some of the world's best BBQ competition teams.With chapters focused on the core meats of any great BBQ meal (Pork, Beef, Chicken and Ribs), a guide to the art of smoking meat, plus further chapters on burgers, fixin's (sides), rubs 'n' sauces and finally 'slurps', the book provides all you need to create everything from smokin' dinners for two to the ultimate BBQ feast. Praise for Grillstock restaurants and events:'I'm still amusedly flabbergasted by my majorly American weekend of downhome flavour from back home (then) near my London home (now) feasting. Grillstock London was BBQ blast and a low and slow experience I look forward savouring again'Chris Osburn Huffington Post'Proper barbecue heaven' Daily Mail'One of the 8 Best Rib Joints in Britain'Esquire'You may as well accept that you will leave with sauce splattered down your shirt and chin'Mark Taylor Crumbs Magazine'Not strictly the UK's only serious competition BBQ meet but, in my own hopelessly biased opinion, the best, and, for fans of American low-and-slow meat cooking, about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on. You could almost be in Kansas'Chris Pople, Cheese and Biscuits'Music festivals are good and all, but have you ever been listening to a band and thought, "wow...I wish I was eating a big pile of meat." That's where Grillstock comes in, a magical place where hotdog eating contests, the best in bbq food, craft beer and live music come together'Topman'The real spirit of barbecue'Macs BBQ

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Plasma harmonics is a new field of laser spectroscopy. The use of the solid elements of the periodic table, together with thousands of complex solid-state samples, largely extends the range of materials employed in plasma harmonics in contrast to the few light rare gases that are typically used. Thus the exploration of practically any available solid-state material through nonlinear spectroscopy comprising laser ablation and harmonic generation can be considered a new tool for materials science. Plasma harmonic spectroscopy exploits the spectral and structural properties of various ablated solid-state materials by propagating short laser pulses through laser-produced plasma and generating high-order harmonics of ultrashort laser pulses.The book describes the special features of plasma harmonics in laser-produced ablation plumes and discusses a wide range of nonlinear medium characteristics that can be produced by varying the conditions of laser plume production on the surface of a solid. This book compiles and details cutting-edge research in science and medicine from the interdisciplinary team of the Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences, who are currently revolutionizing drug delivery techniques through the development of engineered nanodevices. Edited by Istvan J Majoros and James Baker, Jr., two prominent nanotechnology researchers, this book is designed for workers involved in nanotechnology, macromolecular science, cancer therapy, or drug delivery research.

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Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating walks from around the planet – some lasting weeks, some lasting just a few days, but all of them set against spectacular backdrops. Following the same format as the award winning Remarkable Road Trips and Remarkable Bike Rides, Colin Salter has assembled 52 of the world's top-rated trails. The treks range in length from one-day hikes, to three-day hikes, to walks of almost expeditionary length. Thankfully, some of the longer routes, such as the Pacific Coast Trail in North America, which traverses the Rockies from Mexico to Canada, can be split up into sections. However for completists there are smaller challengers, such as the Pennine Way in England, which is never too far away from civilization, and by civilization we mean the pub. For the thrill-seeking backpackers there are the craggy peaks of Corsica (GR20 – which carries the ominous warning ‘some scrambling required’), or the hike up to Everest Base Camp. And for history buffs there is the Inca Trail in Peru or the 5-day hike to the Lost City of Teyuna in Colombia. Treks include: Samaria Gorge – Crete, Lycian Way – Turkey, Camino De Santiago – Spain, Routeburn Track – New Zealand, Laugavegur – Iceland, Torres Del Paine – Chile, Overland Track – Australia, Kungsleden – Sweden, West Highland Way – Scotland, John Muir Trail – USA, Alta Via 1 – Italy, Haute Route Pyrennes– Spain/France, Drakensberg Grand Traverse – South Africa, Western Way – Ireland, Via Dinerica – Albania/Bosnia/Croatia/Kosovo, GR221 Dry Stone Route – Majorca, Chilkoot Trail – USA/Canada, Toukbal Circuit – Morocco, Tour of the Matterhorn – Switzerland, Wadi Rum and Petra – Jordan.

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"Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."—Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people—with the right suit, accent, wealth, and connections—are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the lost openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy in which power is genuinely accessible to ordinary citizens.Hélène Landemore favors the ideal of “representing and being represented in turn” over direct-democracy approaches. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Landemore recommends centering political institutions around the “open mini-public”—a large, jury-like body of randomly selected citizens gathered to define laws and policies for the polity, in connection with the larger public. She also defends five institutional principles as the foundations of an open democracy: participatory rights, deliberation, the majoritarian principle, democratic representation, and transparency.Open Democracy demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, today more than ever, urgently needed.

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'Today, I shall have a few guests, Madame Sand amongst them.' It's December 1836, Paris. Chopin is living on the fashionable rue de la Chaussee d'Antin and the novelist George Sand on the rue Lafitte. But falling in love with Sand also meant falling in love with her ancestral home, Nohant, a manor house set deep in the Berry countryside. In "Nocturnes at Nohant", we hear not only from Chopin and Sand, but also a rich cast of supporting characters who debate, in their sometimes humorous and often surprising way, the relationship between words and music, place and creativity, and the nature of the creative process itself. The powerful love story which threads the sequence together involves spending time not only in rural France, but also Warsaw, Paris, Majorca and Venice. Helen Farish's debut collection, "Intimates", a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2005. "Nocturnes at Nohant" shows a considerable advance on that achievement, notably with her mastery of voice and narrative.

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In Realizing Educational Rights, Anne Newman examines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educational policy, and law: What is the place of a right to education in a participatory democracy, and how can we realize this right in the United States? Tracking these questions across both philosophical and pragmatic terrain, she addresses urgent moral and political questions, offering a rare, double-pronged look at educational justice in a democratic society. Newman argues that an adequate K-12 education is the right of all citizens, as a matter of equality, and emphasizes that this right must be shielded from the sway of partisan and majoritarian policy making far more than it currently is. She then examines how educational rights are realized in our current democratic structure, offering two case studies of leading types of rights-based activism: school finance litigation on the state level and the mobilization of citizens through community-based organizations. Bringing these case studies together with rich philosophical analysis, Realizing Educational Rights advances understanding of the relationships among moral and legal rights, education reform, and democratic politics.

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The new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its populationnow the world's largestwhile staying democratic. India's economy has overtaken the United Kingdom's to become the fifth-largest in the world, but it is still only one-fifth the size of China's, and India's economic growth is too slow to provide jobs for millions of its ambitious youth. Blocking India's current path are intense global competition in low-skilled manufacturing, increasing protectionism and automation, and the country's majoritarian streak in politics. In Breaking the Mold, Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba show why and how India needs to blaze a new path if it's to succeed. India diverged long ago from the standard development model, the one followed by Chinafrom agriculture to low-skilled manufacturing, then high-skilled manufacturing and, finally, servicesby leapfrogging i

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