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NubeOcho Leo va a la peluquería
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Michelin Editions des Voyages Piemonte & VA - Michelin Local Map 351
(Edition updated in 2023) The MICHELIN Piemonte local map, scale 1/200,000 is the ideal companion to fully explore this Italian region and provides star-rated Michelin tourist itineraries and attractions, as well as impressive 3D relief mapping. MICHELIN local maps are perfect for cyclist and outdoor enthusiasts with over 20 leisure symbols, extensive coverage of cycling paths and nature trails. With MICHELIN local maps, find more than just your way! MICHELIN LOCAL MAPS provide detailed coverage of Italy are perfect for fully exploring these countries and are also ideal for cyclists. * Impressive & realistic 3D relief mapping * Michelin selected itineraries and must-sees of the area * A clear and comprehensive key with 20 leisure symbols, as well as cycling paths and nature trails. * Star rated tourist sights and attractions cross-referenced with the famous MICHELIN Green Guides. * Plans of main cities and a comprehensive place name index
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Flame Tree Publishing VA Kimono Textiles Wall Calendar 2025 Art Calendar
This calendar showcases 12 of the best kimono textiles from the V&Aâs collection. Intricately designed and beautiful patterns are reproduced in excellent quality. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month's views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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Cengage Learning, Inc ROYO READERS LEVEL A IN THE VA N
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Flame Tree Publishing VA Eric Ravilious Wall Calendar 2025 Art Calendar
This fascinating wall calendar features 12 beautiful illustrations by Eric Ravilious from V&A collections. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next monthâs views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Improvements Needed in the VA Health Care System
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Flame Tree Publishing VA French Rococo Wall Calendar 2025 Art Calendar
These 12 stunning works are taken from the Victoria and Albert Museumâs collection of French Rococo. Flamboyant and characterised by natural motifs, Rococo was a style without rules. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next monthâs views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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Flame Tree Publishing VA Chinese Textiles Mini Wall Calendar 2025 Art Calendar
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has one of the most comprehensive and important collections of Chinese art outside East Asia. This calendar showcases the collection. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next monthâs views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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IBEX Publishers,U.S. Diruz va Farda / Yesterday & Tomorrow: Three Essays on Revolutionary Iran
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La terrible Adle Esto va a acabar mal Spanish Edition
Si es para hacer rabiar a mis padres, torturar al tonto de mi gato, luchar contra Jadey sus amigas o romperle el corazón a Flavio... siempre tengo ideas interesantes!Una buena dosis de humor negro y unas gotas de ternura, esta es la receta de Adèle,un nuevo estilo de heroína... Abróchense los cinturones, vamos a despegar!
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Staffing Issues in Military Health Care: Mental Health Providers & VA Nursing
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Flame Tree Publishing VA Women in Arts and Crafts Wall Calendar 2025 Art Calendar
This beautiful collection of works from the Victoria and Albert Museum celebrates the women who made contributions to the Arts and Crafts Movement. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next monthâs views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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Red Hen Press The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun
Percival Everett’s The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document—a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of instructions for buying, training, and punishing, equations for calculating present and future profits, and handwritten annotations affirming the brutal contents. The Book of Training lays bare the mechanics of the peculiar institution of slavery and challenges readers to place themselves in the uncomfortable vantage point of those who have bought and enslaved human beings.
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Herald Press (VA) Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals about Us
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Herald Press (VA) Genesis
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The American University in Cairo Press The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz
For Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo has always been a place of special resonance. As the place in which he was born and has lived his whole life, it is a city he loves passionately and has visited and revisited in his writing. It is the setting for nearly all his novels and short stories, not merely as a backdrop but as an integral part of his fiction, playing its own role in the dramas. The old streets of the Cairo Trilogy and the microcosmic cul-de-sac of Midaq Alley become fictional characters as fascinating as the human ones for Naguib Mahfouz. A longtime admirer of the novels of Naguib Mahfouz, photographer Britta Le Va discovered old Cairo through his works. Here, she guides us through his pages, and treads his streets and alleys, to produce a collection of outstanding visual images of the historic city. Each complements a verbal image selected from Mahfouz's writings. In his introduction, novelist Gamal al-Ghitani describes a walking tour with the great man around the streets of Gamaliya, that historic heart of the old city where both of them--more than thirty years apart--were born and grew up. Along the way, Mahfouz reminisces and remarks on what had changed and what had not in eight decades.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Issues in Veterans' Health Care
The Faster Care for Veterans Act of 2016 called for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a pilot program under which veterans can use an Internet website or mobile application to schedule and confirm appointments at the department's medical facilities. Chapter 1 evaluates the VA's patient self-scheduling systems. Chapter 2 focuses on veterans' access to care and the status of VA's community care programs and on VA's scheduling of timely medical appointments. To help ensure that veterans are provided timely and accessible health care services, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may purchase care from non-VA providers, known as community care. Chapter 3 describes trends in obligations for and utilization of VA's community care programs since fiscal year 2014, how VA develops its community care budget estimate and any subsequent changes made to this estimate, and how VA's actual obligations for community care compared with estimated obligations for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Veterans Choice Program (Choice Program) allows eligible veterans to obtain health care services from providers not directly employed by VA (community providers). Chapter 4 identifies challenges to the Choice Program that VA needs to address as it implements its new Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP). The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) was established by the Veterans Health Care Expansion Act. As reported in chapter 5, CHAMPVA is primarily a health insurance program where certain eligible dependents and survivors of veterans receive care from private sector health care providers. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Indian Health Service (IHS) established a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to improve the health status of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) veterans through coordination and resource sharing among VA, IHS, and tribes. Chapter 6 examines VA and IHS oversight of MOU implementation since 2014, the use of reimbursement agreements to pay for AI/AN veterans' care since 2014, and key issues identified by selected VA, IHS, and tribal health program facilities related to coordinating AI/AN veterans' care. Traditionally, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had predominantly provided gender-specific health care services to male veterans. Congress passed a number of laws to specifically increase women veterans' access to gender-specific health care services through the VHA as reported in chapter 7. Chapter 8 reports on a major rule promulgated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) entitled "Reimbursement for Emergency Treatment."
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V&R unipress GmbH Spatial Practices: Medieval/Modern
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Pan Macmillan South Africa Siku Ra Bongani
Genala ya swifaniso ya Gisele Wulfsohn I yin'wana yo tsakisa leyi hlamuselaka hi vutomi bya masiku lawa bya le Joni. Vahlayi lavatsongo va tindhawu hinkwato vat a hlohloteriwa ku dyondaza swot ala mayelana na Afrika Dzonga loko va ri karhi va fananisa ku hambana ka siku ra Bongani na ra vona. This photographic journal is a delightful introduction to life in modern Johannesburg. Young readers everywhere will be encouraged to learn all about South Africa as they compare and contrast Bongani's day with their own.
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advance music River Suite
Eine Eigenkomposition Snideros, die verschiedene Stimmungen am Hudson River widerspiegelt. Besetzung:alto-saxophone/flute / string ensemble (V1-V2-Va-Vc1-Vc2) / rhythm section (P-DB-Dr)
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El Menhir dOr
Al poblet regna el nerviosisme: l'Asegurançatòrix ha decidit participar al famós Concurs de Bards Gals amb la intenció d'endur-se el primer premi: el Menhir d'Or. Per protegir-lo durant lacompetició, que és seguida de ben a prop pels romans, l'Astèrix i l'Obèlix l'acompanyaran amb un sol objectiu: no treure-li l'ull de sobre, encara que això signifiqui perdre una orella. Un tresor retrobat de René Goscinny i Albert Uderzo! Aquesta aventura, que va aparèixer per primera vegada el 1967 en format de llibre-disc, és pràcticament impossible de trobar i mai nohavia estat publicada en format d'àlbum. René Goscinny la va escriure amb el seu nervihabitual específicament per gravar-la en format d'àudio, i Albert Uderzo va illustrar el llibretque acompanyava el disc amb la seva inigualable mestria gràfica. Per aquests dos motius caliadonar-li el valor que es mereix i incloure-la en la collecció d'àlbums illustrats d'Astèrix.
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Random House USA Inc ¿Eres tú mi mamá? (Are You My Mother? Spanish Edition)
Un pajarito que va en busca de su mamá es el argumento de esta divertida adaptación del clásico de P. D. Eastman, ahora en un nuevo formato de libro cartón más grande, perfecto para bebés y niños pequeños.A baby bird goes in search of his mother in this hilarious Board Book adaptation of P.D. Eastman's classic story, perfect for babies and toddlers.
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Fundación Santa María-Ediciones SM Los seis libros de oro
Vera es una niña más bien solitaria que vive con su abuelo en una casita a las afueras del pueblo. Cuando, paseando un día por el bosque, encuentra un perro negro atrapado en un cepo, no imagina que va a verse arrastrada a una aventura llena de personajes que parecen siniestros (pero no lo son), otros que no parecen siniestros (pero lo son), amistad, enigmas y, sobre todo, mucha literatura.
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Cicerone Press Trekking the Swiss Via Alpina: East to West across Switzerland â the Alpine Pass Route
A guidebook to the Swiss Via Alpina, a 400km (250 mile) trek east-to-west across Switzerland, from Sargans to Montreux on Lac Léman (Lake Geneva). Previously the Alpine Pass Route, the Via Alpina (VA) is a fully waymarked Swiss national trail that involves nearly 23,000m of ascent and descent over roughly 3 weeks of trekking – a serious challenge suitable for experienced trekkers. The main route is described in 19 stages of 12-29km (8-18 miles), as well as a 27km (17 mile) prologue stage from Liechtenstein and detour stages via Lenk and Gsteig. Comprehensive route description is accompanied by 1:100,000 mapping, route profiles, facilities listings and advice on safety, transport, accommodation and language. Crossing 16 Alpine passes, the VA showcases some of the Switzerland’s most breathtaking mountain landscapes, from flower-strewn meadows to snow-capped peaks including the majestic Todi, Titlis, Wetterhorn, Eiger, Jungfrau and Wildstrubel. Accommodation options range from mountain huts to hotels and inns, with camping available at licensed sites along the route.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Veterans Benefits Guide For Dummies
You’ve served your country, now let the country serve you Veterans Benefits Guide For Dummies is your clear and concise guide to the benefits available to you from the VA and other government organizations. You have access to physical and mental healthcare, financial services, long-term planning, education, and much more. This book explains how to make sense of and take advantage of the extensive benefits program offered to veterans in the United States. You’ll learn what you’re eligible for, how to file applications and claims, and how to appeal decisions. This book covers the most recent benefits available, including vocational rehabilitation, life insurance, home loans, pensions, burial benefits, and survivors’ benefits. With Dummies, you can navigate the paperwork to make sure you’re getting everything that’s available to you. Figure out the VA benefits system and learn what paperwork you need Discover the pros and cons of veterans' services versus civilian services Develop a smart financial plan with a good understanding of military pensions Find and secure benefits you may not have known about – for yourself and your family Newly separated and seasoned veterans alike will love Veterans Benefits Guide For Dummies. We make it easy to get what’s coming to you.
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Quirk Books Ghost Eaters: A Novel
A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page. Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Accidents. From the acclaimed author of The Remaking and Whisper Down the Lane, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you think twice about opening doors to the unknown. Erin hasn t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab again she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin s world falls apart. Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping seance. But the drug has unfathomable side effects and once you take it, you can never go back. Story Locale: haunted historic Richmond, VA and an abandoned suburban development in nearby Hopewell, VA
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Ovid Technologies ECG. Cuaderno de trabajo. Cómo volverse un experto en ECG leyendo ECG
ECG. Cuaderno de trabajo. Cómo volverse un experto en ECG leyendo ECG, del Dr. Aaron Gindea proporciona una accesible guía práctica para aplicar los conocimientos básicos y lograr interpretaciones precisas con facilidad. Cada tira de práctica de electrocardiograma está etiquetada en función de su dificultad y va acompañada de una interpretación completamente anotada y codificada por colores, lo que le permite mejorar su competencia a su propio ritmo y adquirir la confianza necesaria para el éxito desde el examen del tribunal hasta la práctica clínica.
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Clavis Publishing Una fiesta para abuela
Una celebración hermosa sobre las tradiciones, la música y la comunidad…y el amor de una nieta por su abuela.Hoy, Abbey va a dormir en la casa de su abuela, pero la abuela se puso a cocinar muchísima comida deliciosa de Surinam y la niña se aburre. ¿Quién se comerá tanta cantidad de dahlpuri roti, satay de pollo, sopa de plátanos y tarta de pollo?Abbey decide organizar una fiesta sorpresa. ¡Todos están invitados! Familiares, amigos y vecinos del barrio vienen a bailar, a comer y a conocerse mejor. ¡Yupi!
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Penguin Books Ltd Nadiya's Fast Flavours
Discover mouth-watering, time-saving new recipes to whip up this summer in Nadiya's latest bestselling cookbook'An abundance of refreshingly original ideas. Her recipes are achievable for us all' DAILY EXPRESS________Nadiya's Fast Flavours will bring the excitement back into your daily meals, with all the recipes she cooks on her hit BBC2 programme and more besides.Known for her bold and surprising flavour combinations, Nadiya loves to throw the rulebook out of the window, and is always adding her signature twist to classic recipes. Now she makes it easy for you to do the same, with a host of everyday recipes that are guaranteed to send your taste buds into overdrive, including . . .· Brioche Custard French Toast· Sweet-And- Sour Prawns with Noodles· Squash, Saffron And Grapefruit Soup· Blueberry And Fennel Ice Cream Cake· Lemon Leg Of Lamb with Jewelled Couscous· Coffee-Glazed FocacciaSour, sweet, spicy, zesty, earthy, fruity, herbal - her delicious recipes offer new and innovative ways to pack your meals with flavour, using clever shortcuts, hacks and handy ingredients to put the va-va-voom into your food but without spending hours in the kitchen.________Praise for Nadiya Hussain:'Let Nadiya fill your kitchen with pure joy' Woman & Home'All hail the brilliant Nadiya Hussain' Radio Times 'The queen of Bake Off' Good Housekeeping
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Oxford University Press Inc Disrupting Disruption: The Steady Work of Transforming Schools
Disrupting Disruption shows how three racially and ethnically diverse school districts--Union NJ, Union City OK, and Roanoke City VA--have defied the demographic odds, boosting overall graduation rates while shrinking or eliminating the opportunity gap. These districts resemble many others in their student population. What makes them distinctive is their relentless focus on developing and supporting teachers and engaging students; constantly seeking ways to do a better job; using data to enhance learning; developing partnerships with parents and local organizations; and relying on stable, supportive leadership. Disrupting Disruption demonstrates that disruption—whether by inflicting a discipline-and-punish regime on our nation's schools, or replacing them with charters or vouchers—is not the best way forward.
£65.67
Nova Science Publishers Inc Health Care for Veterans: Background, Education, System Reform and Improvements
The federal government's role in providing health care to the nation's veterans can be traced back to World War I. The VA provides health care and health-related services through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). VHA's primary mission is to provide health care services to eligible veterans and some family members. The VHA is also statutorily required to conduct medical research, to train health care professionals, to serve as a contingency backup to the Department of Defense (DOD) medical system during a national security emergency, and to provide support to the National Disaster Medical System and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as necessary. This book provide information about veterans' health care.
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Adams Media Corporation The Everything Kids' Learning French Book: Fun exercises to help you learn francais
Fun exercises to help you learn français!Bonjour, mon ami! So, you want to learn French but don't know where to start? Start ici, with The Everything Kids' Learning French Book. Inside, you'll find simple exercises, fun facts, tips on pronunciation, and popular phrases that enable you to read and speak French in no time at all.You'll learn how to: Address your family ("Ma famille") and pets ("Mes animaux familiers") Describe holidays and birthdays ("Fêtes et anniversaires") Ask "What time is it?" ("Quelle heure est-il?") Tell your friends, "Let's go outdoors" ("On va dehors") Express your feelings ("Exprimer mes sentiments") Talk about school ("Mon école") and your classes ("Mes cours") Dozens of puzzles and activities--plus an English-French Dictionary--make learning this exciting new language easy, fast, and fun!
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Dignitas infinita
El Dicasterio para Doctrina de la Fe con esta Declaración, aprobada por el Papa Francisco, quiere recordar los principios fundamentales de la dignidad de todos los seres humanos, que va más allá de todas las apariencias o características de la vida concreta de las personas y puede entenderse como infinita (dignitas infinita). Ofrece importantes aclaraciones y elementos de reflexión para evitar las frecuentes confusiones y las violaciones graves que surgen actualmente ?pobreza, guerra, trata, abusos sexuales, violencia, aborto, maternidad subrogada, eutanasia, teoría de género, cambio de sexo, violencia digital...?.Todos estamos invitados a defender la dignidad en cada contexto cultural, en cada momento de la existencia de una persona, independientemente de cualquier deficiencia física, psicológica, social o incluso moral. En este sentido, la Declaración se esfuerza por mostrar que estamos ante una verdad universal, que todos estamos llamados a reconocer, como condición fundamental
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Oxford University Press Inc DataDriven Campaigning and Political Parties
What is data-driven campaigning? According to prevailing accounts, this idea describes the rise of increasingly sophisticated, highly targeted, and often invasive uses of data deployed to suppress votes, manipulate voter preferences, or boost a candidates'' popularity. The power of data is seen to be transforming campaigning practice and raising democratic concerns. And yet, there is a significant problem with these ideas: we have at best a partial understanding of how data-driven campaigning is practiced, and limited clarity about its implications.Presenting data from interviews with over 300 professional campaigners in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and US, we provide unique insight into the components of data-driven campaigning by political parties. This book makes three key contributions. First, distinguishing between data, analytics, technology and personnel, they give unmatched descriptive insight into these four components of data-driven campaigning, revealing significant va
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Bella Terra Publishing LLC Northwest Lighthouses: Illustrated Map & Guide - Oregon, Washington & Alaska
The illustrated map and guide to ALL the lighthouses of Oregon, Washington and Alaska. All standing and lost lighthouses in Oregon, Washington and Alaska located on detailed maps; including Inside Passage inset. History and description of each standing lighthouse; Directions to every standing light or the best viewing spots. Listing of lighthouse and maritime museums. Directory of lighthouse cruises, ferries and sightseeing flights. True Tales of Northwest lighthouses. 30 original watercolour illustrations -- several new for this edition. Printed on paper, two sides. Size: 24x36 inches, folded to 4x9 inches. For laminated poster version, enter 1888216379 in search box. Similar maps available for California and Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Mid-Atlantic (NJ, SE PA, DE, MD and VA), Southeast (NC, SC and GA) and Florida; plus U.S. Lighthouses map and directory. Search "Bella Terra Publishing" on amazon.com to find them all.
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PRH Grupo Editorial El sueÃo de los hÃroes Dream of Heroes
La gran novela de Adolfo Bioy Casares sobre una aventura cotidiana que poco a poco va cobrando tintes fantásticos.Ambientada en los años treinta en una Buenos Aires fantasmal, El sueño de los héroes parte de la juerga que se dan Emilio Gauna y sus amigos durante tres noches de carnaval por los suburbios de la ciudad. Nada debería ser más mundano, pero al recordarla Gauna se convence de que en la última noche vivió «una prodigiosa aventura». Cuando intente repetirla tres años más tarde, el sueño de una revelación se convertirá en un enfrentamiento con su destino.Desde su publicación en 1954, este clásico de la literatura argentina no ha dejado de fascinar a los lectores con su intrigante mezcla de lo fantástico y lo cotidiano.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAt the end of carnival 1927, Emilio Gauna had an experience that
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Humanix Books NEWSMAX VETERAN BENEFITS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Get the Maximum Earned Benefits For Yourself and Your Family After Serving Your Country
All veterans and their families deserve the maximum benefits they earned by bravely serving their country!Veterans of the United States armed forces are entitled to a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Dr. Paul R Lawrence, former Under Secretary for Benefits in the Department of Veterans Affairs, provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible guide to all the benefits and services available to veterans of the US armed services and how to make the most of these benefits and services.Guidance and Insights for Veterans, Dependents, and Survivors Include Topics: Basic Health Care Eligibility & Benefits Hospitals & Clinics Disability & Rehabilitation Counseling & Mental Health Care Employment Assistance Pensions Loans & Insurance Memorial Services Military Records & Medals GI Bill, Scholarships & Grants And much more… Dr. Lawrence will help you fight for the benefits you were promised when you agreed to serve your country!
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The University of North Carolina Press Sobre los límites del campo: Ensayos de crítica literaria latinoamericanista
Una coleccion de ensayos escogidos del critico John Beverley en el campo del Latinoamericanismo literario, atento a los conexiones entre literatura, hegemonia, y conflicto social. Abarca el periodo que va desde los ochenta del siglo pasado hasta hoy. Los temas incluyen el barroco colonial y su fuerza hegemonica en la cultura latinoamericana, el testimonio como genero emergente, la literatura militante, el postmodernismo, la relacion entre critica literaria y cultural y el desarrollo de la llamada Marea Rosada, y en general el impacto de los estudios postcoloniales y subalternos. La coleccion proporciona una vision critica de la ciudad letrada latinoamericana y una defensa del campo de la critica literaria como un lugar de constituir y reconstituir la hegemonia. En este sentido, se situa a la vez contra la llamada "crisis de las humanidades" inducida por los efectos ideologicos del neoliberalismo, pero tambien contra posiciones criticas, como la desconstruccion, que aspiran a una trascendencia de la critica literaria como tal, y del proyecto del Latinoamericanismo en terminos generales.
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Oxford University Press Immiserizing Growth Fails the Poor
Immiserizing Growth Fails the Poor refers to situations where economic growth does not lead to poverty reduction. How should this phenomenon be conceptualized? How often, when, and where does it occur? Why does it occur? Shaffer addresses these three sets of questions drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches.This volume presents a conceptualization of immiserizing growth which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, being bypassed, and ''avoidably'' harmed by growth, respectively. It develops this concept of malevolent inclusion drawing on a debate in philosophy about ''doing and allowing harm''. The analysis proceeds to examine the characteristics and causes of immiserizing growth on the basis of comparable household survey data from the 1990s using multiple poverty lines and time periods, and different measures of growth and poverty.The book also explores theories, processes, and mechanisms of immiserizing growth found in a wide va
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Walker Books Ltd Future Hopes Hopeful stories in a time of climate change
In this collection of compelling short stories, authors including M. G. Leonard, Neal Shusterman and Tolá Okogwu offer hope for our planet in the face of climate change.A brilliant collection of inspiring stories with the power to change the world. Innovative, original and essential. Hannah GoldSkyscraper farms. Insects for dinner. Guerilla gardening. Nine authors pose ingenious and thought-provoking solutions to the climate crisis in this anthology of climate fiction. Rooted in real-world science and technology, the stories offer a roadmap for a future where our planet can thrive. From a rewilding project with unexpected consequences to a rebellion against augmented reality, these wide-ranging stories will leave the reader feeling a little less powerless in the fight to save planet Earth.Full list of contributors: Eli Brown, L. R. Lam, M. G. Leonard, Rebecca Lim, Oisín McGann, Tolá Okogwu, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, Louie Stowell and Bijal Va
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Oro Editions G. H. Hovagimyan: Situationist Funhouse
G. H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator, and nothing short of a cultural icon in the world of contemporary art, particularly as it relates to how artists have adopted the digital technological tools of our times, adapting them in his work for critique of art, popular culture, and social engagement. Situationist Funhouse is a joyride through this history. The journey Stephen Zacks so meticulously documents and describes is not only an incredibly comprehensive ride through G. H.’s life work to date - Hovagimyan adopted G. H. as an acronym in the 1990s as a kind of gesture of personal rebirth and to ease others’ difficulty with his last name [pronounced ho-va-GIM-yan] - it also serves as a document that tracks a particular view on the alternative contemporary art scene of New York from the 1970s to the present day.
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Karma Keith Sonnier: Portals
Keith Sonnier (born 1941), along with his contemporaries Eva Hesse, Barry Le Va, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro and Richard Tuttle, was a leader in Postminimalist art who radically reinvented sculpture in the late 1960s. The artist experimented with previously unused materials—latex and satin, found objects, transmitters and video—until he settled upon his signature work with neon. Sonnier sketches lines, arches and curves before rendering them in glass tubing enclosed neon, creating works of line and color that become architectural installations. Keith Sonnier: Portals documents the artist’s latest eponymous series of 14 wall-mounted sculptures, in which neon is investigated architecturally as well as iconographically, serving as an entrance point for readers to examine Sonnier’s process. The artist has taken the orphic allegory of the portal and explored its various historical manifestations with delightful humor, evoking something more corporeal than architectural in the tension between penetration and accommodation.
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Una psicologa real
Si la psicología convencional, la autoayuda comercial y el new age no son para ti existe una cuarta vía, una forma más honesta, REAL, auténtica, directa y profunda de experimentar la mente, las emociones y sanar.Esta es la historia de un psicólogo que también lo probó todo y que tras un ir y venir de tratamientos y supuestas recetas mágicas, por fin logró encontrar su camino hacia el verdadero bienestar.Esto no es otra historia de superación más. Esto no va de finales felices con sonrisas de red social. Esto es la vida misma servida sin miramientos. Una lucha cuerpo a cuerpo con tu ser auténtico. Tristeza, rabia, alegría y miedo. Cabeza, corazón y vísceras. Emociones a flor de piel. Carne cruda sin tapujos.Te atreves a ser tú mismo?
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Inventory Press LLC Drum Listens to Heart
Artists from Francis Alys to the Otolith Group meditate on the aesthetic and political possibilities of “the percussive” Accompanying the 2022 exhibition at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, Drum Listens to Heart reflects on the many ways that percussion exists beyond the framework of music and imagines “the percussive” as an aesthetic, expressive and political form more broadly. The publication includes a new essay by the curator, images of the works in the exhibition by the 25 artists and artist collectives, and short texts by 10 scholars, writers, artists and curators who respond to a single word to create a “glossary” of terms associated with percussion. Artists include: Francis Alÿs, Luke Anguhadluq, Marcos Ávila Forero, Raven Chacon, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Theaster Gates, Milford Graves, David Hammons, Consuelo Tupper Hernández, Susan Howe & David Grubbs, NIC Kay, Barry Le Va, Rose Lowder, Lee Lozano, Guadalupe Maravilla, Harold Mendez, Rie Nakajima, the Otolith Group, Lucy Raven, Davina Semo, Michael E. Smith, Haegue Yang and David Zink Yi. Live performances by Elysia Crampton Chuquimia, Moor Mother, Nkisi, Nomon, Karen Stackpole, Marshall Trammell and William Winant.
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Yale University Press Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book’s 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject’s life and achievement. Praise for the earlier edition:“Both a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best.”—Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review “A story of surprising drama . . . . At last, we can see Arendt whole.”—Jim Miller, Newsweek “Indispensable to anyone interested in the life, the thought, or . . . the example of Hannah Arendt.”—Mark Feeney, Boston Globe“An adventure story that moves from pre-Nazi Germany to fame in the United States, and . . . a study of the influences that shaped a sharp political awareness.”—Richmond (Va.) Times-DispatchCover drawing by David Schorr
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Weapons of Mass Destruction: Chemical, Biological and Nuclear
This book is a compilation of government reports on weapons of mass destruction. The first chapter is a bill that seeks to ensure the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the structure, authority, and tools it needs to counter the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Chapter 2 discusses the continuation of the national emergency with respect to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Chapter 3 reports on the Department of Homeland Security's organisation to counter weapons of mass destruction. The danger North Korea poses to the world is more than just its rogue nuclear program and ballistic missile brinksmanship as discussed in chapter 4. Chapter 5 examines (1) DHS programs and activities to prevent and protect against domestic chemical attacks and (2) the extent to which DHS has integrated and coordinated all of its chemical defense programs and activities. Chapter 6 examines (1) information the federal government has about the procurement, distribution, use, and disposition of Agent Orange; (2) DOD and VA efforts to make information about where Agent Orange and its components were tested and stored available; and (3) challenges associated with Agent Orange testing.
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Piel de deriva AdN
La prosa certera y poética de Paula Farias vuelve a desnudar un mundo de aparienciasEn el Mediterráneo, en los días previos a la primavera árabe, tres lobos de mar de muy diversas procedencias se afanan en sostener una farsa. Será el punto de partida de una trama que, con el mar como hilo conductor, se nos presenta como una Odisea actual plagada de piratas modernos, rescates y capitanas intrépidas, ballenas, desguazaderos clandestinos y lectores de mapas que, en una suerte de juego de prestidigitación, revelan las fisuras de un sistema que bajo su apariencia de orden va dejando que la realidad y la vida se escapen por sus grietas.Piel de deriva es una novela rabiosamente personal, una historia que habla de resistencias, donde los silencios suman tanto como las palabras y donde el lector, como en las mejores obras de Joseph Conrad, puede llegar a sentirse mecido por la mar y cómplice, con la certeza de que si sigue navegando llegará a un puerto que desconoce, pero qu
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