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Headline Publishing Group Meat-Free One Pound Meals: 85 delicious vegetarian recipes all for £1 per person
Delicious Food For Less. Minimum fuss, maximum flavour, completely vegetarian and all for £1 per person. Bestselling author Miguel Barclay shot to fame as 'The One Pound Chef', delivering easy recipes that really work, at prices everyone can afford. His goal is simple: to encourage you to cook simple and tasty meals at home and all for £1 per person. With his ingenious recipes and budget-friendly cookbooks, he's here to show you how to cook nutritious vegetarian food without the expense, using everyday cupboard staples and familiar ingredients.Meat-Free One Pound Meals - the fifth book in the series - includes over 85 vegetarian recipes, to not only help save you money and get healthy but also help you do your bit for the planet.Pocket-friendly vegetarian recipes from the One Pound Chef.Miguel Barclay's new recipe book, GREEN ONE POUND MEALS, is available for pre-order now!
£16.99
O'Reilly Media Flask Web Development 2e: Developing Web Applications with Python
Take full creative control of your web applications with Flask, the Python-based microframework. With the second edition of this hands-on book, you’ll learn Flask from the ground up by developing a complete, real-world application created by author Miguel Grinberg. This refreshed edition accounts for important technology changes that have occurred in the past three years. Explore the framework’s core functionality, and learn how to extend applications with advanced web techniques such as database migrations and an application programming interface. The first part of each chapter provides you with reference and background for the topic in question, while the second part guides you through a hands-on implementation. If you have Python experience, you’re ready to take advantage of the creative freedom Flask provides. Three sections include: A thorough introduction to Flask: explore web application development basics with Flask and an application structure appropriate for medium and large applications Building Flasky: learn how to build an open source blogging application step-by-step by reusing templates, paginating item lists, and working with rich text Going the last mile: dive into unit testing strategies, performance analysis techniques, and deployment options for your Flask application
£40.49
Gallic Books Heritage
A winegrower ruined by the Great French Vine Blight takes his one surviving vine stock and boards a ship for California. But the new life he has in store is not the one he had imagined - taken ill aboard ship, he is forced to disembark at Valparaiso, where a misunderstanding at the customs post finds him rebaptized after his birthplace, Lons-le-Saunier: the Lonsonier family is born in Chile. Making the journey in reverse, his sons return to defend the motherland in 1914, and the ghosts of the war live on across the Atlantic, in a house with three lemon trees and a garden filled with birds, for years to come. From the depths of the trenches to the soaring peaks of the Andes and the shadow of dictatorship, the personal stories of the Lonsoniers collide with key moments in a century of global history, painting a vivid picture of what is both gained and lost through migration. This pocket-sized family saga confirms the rich imagination and storytelling talents of exciting young author Miguel Bonnefoy.
£9.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc A Lily Among the Thorns: Imagining a New Christian Sexuality
A new way for Christians to think about sexuality Author Miguel De La Torre, a well-respected ethicist and professor known for his innovative readings of Christian doctrine, rejects both the liberal and conservative prejudices about sex. He instead develops an ethic that is liberative yet grounded soundly in the Bible; a sexuality that celebrates God’s gift of great sex by fostering intimacy, vulnerability and openness between loving partners. In A Lily Among the Thorns, De La Torre examines the Bible, current events, history and our culture-at-large to show how and why racism, sexism, and classism have distorted Christianity’s central teachings about sexuality. The author shows how the church’s traditionally negative attitudes toward sex in general—and toward women, people of color, and gays in particular—have made it difficult, if not impossible, to create a biblically based and just sexual ethic. But when the Bible is read from the viewpoint of those who have been marginalized in our society, preconceived notions about Christianity and sex get turned on their heads. Taking on hot-button topics such as pornography, homosexuality, prostitution, and celibacy, the author examines how “reading from the margins” provides a liberating approach to dealing with issues of sexuality.
£17.09
Mousehold Press The Wounded Earth: What World Will Our Children Inherit?
Originally published in 2005 under the title La Tierra Herida, this book grew out of a series of conversations that took place during the previous summer between Miguel Delibes and his son, Miguel Delibes de Castro. Acknowledged as one of Spain’s foremost novelists and essayists of the 20th century, Miguel Delibes won every literary award his country had to offer. In 1975 he was elected into the Spanish Royal Academy and used the occasion of his acceptance speech (later to be published under the title A World that is Dying) to make explicit his growing concerns about the future of the planet. Miguel Delibes de Castro, an internationally recognised research biologist, was for many years the Director of the Biological Station at the world-renowned Doñana National Park. He was an adviser to the Spanish delegation at the Rio de Janiero Conference on Biodiversity and was awarded the King James I prize for his efforts in protecting the environment. Father and son, novelist and scientist, each with a life-long commitment to the environment, discuss the environmental changes threatening our planet at the start of the 21st century, and whether or not we can find the means and summon up the will to reverse them. It is the father, speaking here as the anxious citizen, and pessimistic for our future, who asks the layman’s questions; it is his son who provides the scientific explanations, and offers whatever cause for optimism there is to be found. Miguel Delibes de Castro has provided a Postscript, written in November 2019, shortly before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, which brings events up to date.
£10.03
Troubador Publishing Thou Shalt Never Get Rid of Us
When the foes are inside you, the only option left is to fight. Here you have the story of an uncanny part of my life. It is a true story told without makeup. An explosive combination of drugs, stress, and sleep deprivation led me to an ordeal of 25 long years, during which my life elapsed between two very different worlds.
£15.30
Nova Science Publishers Inc Environmental Management: Ecosystems, Competitiveness and Waste Management
As defined by the EPA, an environmental management system refers to a set of processes and practices that enable an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency. Accordingly, this book presents five chapters that introduce unique perspectives relating to the concept of environmental management. Chapter One describes the results of a large-scale study on the structure and governance of diverse ecosystem services of Bulgarian farms. Similarly, Chapter Two applies a holistic approach in the assessment of the competitiveness of agricultural holdings in Bulgaria as a whole, as well as in terms of their different specialization. Chapter Three includes information that enables the adequate identification of mine waste deposits, in order to evaluate the impact on human and ecological health, and to implement suitable alternatives for their environmental management. Chapter Four reviews the biomonitoring strategies employed to evaluate the negative environmental impact of mining waste, the remediation alternatives for mining-polluted sites, and environmental management approaches. Lastly, Chapter Five presents suggestions of actions for public managers and entrepreneurs of the solid waste sector with the perspective of process automation, waste destination, sustainability of the planet, and the reduction of waste production.
£76.49
Headline Publishing Group Miguel Barclay's FAST & FRESH One Pound Meals: Delicious Food For Less
The must-have second book by the bestselling One Pound Chef, Miguel Barclay. Over 80 delicious super-simple recipes that will save you both time and money.Cook delicious food for less. One Pound Meals became an instant bestseller and the biggest debut cookbook in 2017 with incredible 5-star reviews from his fans and readers. Now in Miguel Barclay's second book, the original One Pound Chef focuses on fresh and light food, all for £1 per person. Here are warm, delicious salads, light soups, nutritious stir-fries and lots of vegetarian meals. All follow Miguel's One Pound style of cooking - simple ingredients, straightforward recipes and mouthwatering meals - and now ready in minutes. With over 80 recipes that are easy to shop for - especially when short of time - Miguel will help you get the most out of your ingredients with his tasty and fast dishes. He will teach you how to shop savvy, buying fresh seasonal ingredients but also show you clever shortcuts with frozen versions when you are in a hurry. Perfect for summer, great for your pocket.'The feedback you gave me from One Pound Meals was that you guys loved the speed and simplicity of my recipes, so I turned this up a notch for you and have created over 80 super-fast recipes for this book. I've also devised more of my characteristic One Pound Meals shortcuts to get you cooking fun and exciting dishes every day of the week without spending hours in the kitchen. I was inspired by all the amazing food from around the globe, especially the street food in Thailand and the refreshing noodle and rice dishes from China. And then, from Europe, I've gone once again to the Mediterranean, taking inspiration from their simple rustic fish dishes that I love so much. These guys adore their food and live in glorious sunshine, so they know how to balance flavours to create light and uplifting summer dishes.My aim is to motivate you to cook as many recipes as possible by making them as irresistible as I can. I want you to keep cooking, discovering one recipe after another, using up ingredients as you go along.'Fast & Fresh recipes include: * Summer Chicken Pie* 5-Spice Baked Feta & Asparagus Salad* Goan Cauliflower Curry* Green Shakshuka * Smoky Fish Tacos* Baked Eggs & Asparagus* Falafel Burger* Butternut Gnocchi with Crispy Parma Ham & Feta* Goats' Cheese 'Scallops'* Mexican Tortilla Soup* Fisherman's PieMiguel Barclay's new recipe book, GREEN ONE POUND MEALS, is available for pre-order now!
£16.99
St Martin's Press I Was the President's Mistress!!: A Novel
For Vita Nova, introverted megastar, such a conundrum could ruin everything. All she ever wished for was a quiet life as the Philippines’ most-liked influencer, famous for her viral dance hit, the Mr. Sexy-Sexy - yet now somehow she’s headlining a rollicking impeachment and battle royal for power. In these previously unreleased transcripts, collected by the ghostwriter of her tell-all memoir, Vita rips the bodice of society to bare her own heaving story. But some of her former lovers tell it differently, asking us: “Who’s more sinful, the seduced or the seductress?” You are cordially invited to this year’s biggest scandal. Will Vita prevail? Will she even survive?
£15.99
Headline Publishing Group Green One Pound Meals: Delicious for you, good for the planet
EATING BETTER ON A BUDGET The One Pound Chef is back and wants to help make our lives a little bit 'greener'. Whether you eat meat or follow a vegetarian or vegan diet, we all now recognise the importance of doing our bit to help the planet. In Green One Pound Meals, Miguel brings his no-nonsense approach and shows you how to eat more consciously, with delicious, planet-friendly, healthy food on a budget. The book is packed with plenty of veggie and vegan recipes, along with some meat and fish dishes for those days when you might want something different. Miguel wants us all to be more aware of the food we eat: where it comes from, whether it is in season and is it good for you. He includes lots of tips and ideas for shopping smart and how to avoid food waste, as well as time-saving hacks. Why not switch things around and try 'Meat Mondays' and enjoy plant-based, nourishing meals during the rest of the week?Miguel will show you that you that these quick, easy and nutritious meals don't have to cost you the earth and can help you do your bit towards helping the planet. Minimum fuss, maximum flavour and all for £1 per person.
£15.29
Not Stated Kagan Cooperative Learning
This new book presents today''s most successful cooperative learning methods. The Kagans make it easier than ever to boost engagement and achievement. You''ll still find all the practical and proven Kagan Structures, including Numbered Heads Together, RoundTable, and Three-Step Interview direct from the man who invented cooperative learning structures. And there''s still plenty of ready-to-do teambuilding and classbuilding activities to make your class click. But in this expanded edition, you will find new step-by-step structures, hundreds of helpful management tips, many more teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methods. You hear how schools have used Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community. After decades of training and working with hundreds of thousands of teachers, Kagan has refined and perfected the most widely used and respected form
£48.87
Atlantic Publishing Co Internet Marketing Methods Revealed: The Complete Guide to Becoming an Internet Marketing Expert
£23.39
Nabu Press A Sciencia E O Jesuitismo
£7.65
Manning Publications Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning
Written for developers with some understanding of deep learning algorithms. Experience with reinforcement learning is not required. Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning introduces this powerful machine learning approach, using examples, illustrations, exercises, and crystal-clear teaching. You'll love the perfectly paced teaching and the clever, engaging writing style as you dig into this awesome exploration of reinforcement learning fundamentals, effective deep learning techniques, and practical applications in this emerging field. We all learn through trial and error. We avoid the things that cause us to experience pain and failure. We embrace and build on the things that give us reward and success. This common pattern is the foundation of deep reinforcement learning: building machine learning systems that explore and learn based on the responses of the environment. • Foundational reinforcement learning concepts and methods • The most popular deep reinforcement learning agents solving high-dimensional environments • Cutting-edge agents that emulate human-like behavior and techniques for artificial general intelligence Deep reinforcement learning is a form of machine learning in which AI agents learn optimal behavior on their own from raw sensory input. The system perceives the environment, interprets the results of its past decisions and uses this information to optimize its behavior for maximum long-term return.
£35.99
MIT Press Ltd Play Matters
£14.99
Tate Publishing Count on Me
A YOUNG GIRL SEES THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY IN THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK CELEBRATING INDIVIDUALITY AND NUMBERS! * Encourages children to find their own passion. * Beautiful illustrations by Miguel Tanco * Lets children know that there is always more than one way to see the world, solve a problem and enjoy life. Some people see the beauty of the world through art. Some people see the beauty of the world through music. Our heroine sees the beauty of the world through... maths? Others don't understand her passion, but that's okay. There are infinite ways to see the world - and her way is through numbers.
£11.99
Orion Publishing Co The President
The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
£9.99
Headline Publishing Group Storecupboard One Pound Meals: 85 Delicious and Affordable Recipes
Miguel Barclay is back with his sixth book in the 'One Pound Meals' series and he's on a mission to save you even more money and time with this collection of storecupboard recipes. Miguel has already revolutionised the way that many of you cook at home - with his budget recipes, healthy ingredients and his ingenious time-saving tips. In STORECUPBOARD ONE POUND MEALS Miguel takes his stress-free, maximum flavour philosophy and teaches you how to get the most out of your every day cupboard essentials. Tins, cans, dried herbs and spices become the main 'hero ingredients', helping you plan affordable dinners each week. With over 80 of Miguel's favourite storecupboard dishes, you'll have plenty of recipes for the whole family to enjoy, or tasty leftovers to eat the next day or freeze for another time. Miguel's budget-friendly cooking will once again bring great taste to your kitchen. Minimum fuss, maximum flavour and all for £1 per person.Miguel Barclay's new recipe book, GREEN ONE POUND MEALS, is available for pre-order now!
£16.99
Headline Publishing Group Miguel Barclay's Super Easy One Pound Meals
Simple ingredients + 1 pan = stress-free meals. Minimum fuss, maximum flavour, and all for £1 per person.Over 90 mouthwatering recipes by the bestselling One Pound Chef.With his budget-friendly style, Miguel has created mouthwatering meals made with yet more of his clever cooking cheats and hacks. In Super Easy One Pound Meals you'll find tasty stews, curries and chillies, but Miguel has taken this concept one step further with traditionally more complicated recipes, such as a lasagne, a roast dinner and a sweet potato pie. The majority of the recipes are made from start to finish in just one pan, (a few recipes need a second pan to boil rice, potatoes or pasta). All the recipes are super simple and perfect for a speedy lunch or a flavour-packed dinner. If you have a small kitchen, can't be bothered with washing up or just want hassle-free meals, this is the book for you.Miguel Barclay's new recipe book, GREEN ONE POUND MEALS, is available for pre-order now!
£16.99
Headline Publishing Group Student One Pound Meals: Budget Food for Late Nights and Lazy Mornings
All the recipes in this book have been taken from Miguel's previously published One Pound Meals series. Eat well on a tight budget and a busy schedule with Instagram chef Miguel Barclay's delicious meals that cost less than £1 per person.This collection of recipes from Miguel Barclay's previously published One Pound Meals series is designed for the student lifestyle. Arranged into chapters for various occasions - including hangover breakfasts, on-the-go library lunches, speedy suppers and movie night 'picky-bits' - this book will be any student's cooking bible for surviving away from home. 'I've always loved cooking but I'm not a fan of needlessly over-complicated recipes that waste time and money. So I've created my own style of cooking: simple ingredients, straightforward recipes and mouth-watering meals, all on a budget. Now you can eat the food you love all for under £1 per person.'Recipes include: - Ultimate £1 hangover cure- Thai omelette- Sweet potato Katsu curry- Green beans and pesto gnocchi- Vegan lentil chilli- Chicken drumstick cassoulet- Leek and mushroom pot pie- Golden syrup broccoli noodles- Spiral vegetable tart- Party pizzas
£14.38
MIT Press Ltd Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture
£23.00
Oxford University Press Inc Divine Democracy: Political Theology after Carl Schmitt
How secular are the political and legal concepts that underpin liberal democracy? Carl Schmitt first coined the term political theology to show the dependency of modern western jurisprudence and political science on Christian theological discourse, and in so doing criticized the claim to religious neutrality of liberal institutions. In this book, Miguel Vatter reconstructs how and why the discourse of political theology was adopted and repurposed by anti-Schmittian thinkers, from Eric Voegelin through Jacques Maritain and Ernst Kantorowicz to Jürgen Habermas, to bolster the legitimacy of liberal democratic government. The book traces the way in which crucial political concepts for liberal democracy--including sovereignty, representation, government, constitutionalism, human rights, and public reason--are transformed when they become part of a discourse on political theology. Vatter's aim is to provide an intellectual history of political theology in the 20th century. His study reveals the overdetermined role that religion plays in contemporary democratic political and legal theory as an ultimate source of legitimacy for government and as wellspring for revolutionary aspirations.
£30.56
Intellect Books Building a Deductive Database
This text illustrates the main issues and concepts behind deductive databases through the description of a real system. Both theory and practice combine to advance a pragmatic approach. The book covers all related topics from basic theory to its coupling with a known database management system and its implementation on a commerical multiprocessor. An overview describes the problems related to the field. In the introduction, basic tools and references to related work give the necessary background context. Chapter two slowly begins building the concepts that finally lead to the kern algorithm used throughout the book - mixed top-down, bottom-up computation. Upon completion of the book, the reader should be able to build a deductive database. Implementation problems are exposed and solved and new strategies and algorithms with their performance behaviour are presented. Additionally the reader should also learn the benefits and drawbacks of working with an existing database and the usefulness of a parallel machine.
£23.95
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Headline Publishing Group Vegan One Pound Meals: Delicious budget-friendly plant-based recipes all for £1 per person
Delicious Food For Less.Minimum fuss, maximum flavour, fully vegan and all for £1 per person.Miguel Barclay's One Pound Meals, became the bestselling debut cookbook of 2017. Vegan One Pound Meals, his fourth book in the series focusses on vegan recipes, with Miguel showing just how accessible it can be to eat vegan meals on a budget, with each recipe costing just £1 per portion. You might think that it's expensive to change your diet to a vegan one, but Miguel will show you that it's entirely do-able on a tiny budget. Once again, through his ingenious recipes, he will bring delicious food to your table without the expense. There's over 85 recipes to choose from, including: * Sweet Potato Katsu Curry* Golden Syrup Broccoli Noodles * Mac & No Cheese * Sticky Aubergine Bao* Black Bean Meatballs* Vegan Sausage Rolls* Mexican Stuffed Peppers* Oothappam Indian CrumpetsMiguel Barclay's new recipe book, GREEN ONE POUND MEALS, is available for pre-order now!
£16.99
Headline Publishing Group One Pound Meals: Delicious Food for Less
Miguel Barclay's new recipe book, GREEN ONE POUND MEALS, is available for pre-order now!Over 80 super-simple and tasty recipes that will save you both time and money. Here is delicious food for less.So much more than cheap dinner ideas - here are meals that cost under £1 but look and taste a million dollars! Recipes for the whole family without breaking the bank, including lots of favourite and familiar storecupboard ingredients. Instagram chef sensation Miguel Barclay is taking the world by storm with his delicious meals that cost less than £1 per person. 'I've always loved cooking but I'm not a fan of needlessly over-complicated recipes that waste time and money. So I've created my own style of cooking: simple ingredients, straightforward recipes and mouthwatering meals, all on a budget. Now you can eat the food you love - from meatball marinara to chicken katsu curry, lamb moussaka to aubergine dal - all for under £1 per person.' Miguel's easy-to-follow, ready-in-minutes recipes are for a single serving, and can all be cooked for under £1 per person - just multiply them up for more servings. 'As you would expect from such a relaxed style of cooking, the book is laid out in a similarly laidback manner. There are no chapters or themes. Just flick through the pages and cook whichever dish you fancy. But, as a nod to my Instagram roots and to help you identify types of dish, I have labelled each recipe with hashtags, so if you want to find veggie food, just look out for the veggie hashtags. One Pound Meals are designed to use a core group of ingredients, and this is the key to eliminating waste. Just start with one recipe, and depending on what you have left over, choose your next recipe accordingly. I want you to bounce around the book on a sort of never-ending random journey as you use up those leftover ingredients. It also means you can plan a week's worth of meals in one go and shop more efficiently.' With savvy supermarket shopping swaps and time-saving tips, One Pound Meals makes cooking quicker, easier and tastier, and with less waste. One Pound Meals includes: * Lasagne * Crab mac & cheese * Chicken katsu curry * Pork chop in a mustard & leek sauce * Spaghetti carbonara * Mushroom risotto * Quiche lorraine * Aubergine dal & chapati * Scotch Egg * Ultimate £1 burger * Ham & mushroom pizza * Pancake stack
£16.99
Headline Publishing Group Slimming One Pound Meals: Over 85 deliciously easy recipes, all 500 calories or under
'Full of low-cost, low-cal dishes that will help you get in shape for summer' Fabulous MagazineMIGUEL BARCLAY, THE ORIGINAL ONE POUND CHEF, IS HERE TO TRANSFORM YOUR DIET AND HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT. Slimming One Pound Meals is packed full of 86 quick and healthy, feel-good recipes, all on a £1 budget but without compromising on taste! Miguel has focused on low-carb, low-calorie, well-balanced food and every recipe is 500 calories or under. No matter whether you are already following a diet or are just at the start of your weight-loss journey, you will find plenty of delicious and affordable recipes that work for you. Small changes = big difference And all for £1 per personRecipes include:* Crispy Chickpea Shakshuka* Aubergine 'Bacon' BLT* Chorizo-stuffed Peppers* Bombay Potato Fish Cakes* Charred Veg Paella* King Prawn & Chilli Orzo * One-pan Burritos* Sticky Black Pepper Noodles
£20.00
Ediciones Cátedra El hombre acecha Cancionero y romancero de ausencias
Estas dos obras son las dos ultimas de Miguel Hernandez. Esta fase de su obra parte de una tesis pesimista: "el hombre acecha al hombre," pero es la triple ausencia (la muerte de su hijo, la guerra, la carcel) la que llevara su poesia hasta la mas neta emocion.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Bioethics and Neglected Diseases
Neglected diseases are severe conditions that mainly affect the world's poorest people. Those suffering from neglected diseases are mostly suffering from tropical infections that have failed to receive priority in pharmaceutical research and development programs, as well as in public health policies aimed at improving availability and access to preventive, diagnostic and curative medicine. The World Health Organization has issued a number of documents directing attention to the plight affecting one third of the world's population, assisted by active support from private organizations, notably the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation, but the overall situation remains dismal. In the wake of major socioeconomic processes including globalization, steadily growing economic disparity, healthcare inequality, the instability created by rogue states and terrorism, as well as massive migration, and epidemic outbreaks, the features of neglected diseases have been changing. Neglected populations affected by tropical diseases are suffering increasingly from non-infectious degenerative conditions and disabilities due to untreated chronic maladies. Pockets of poverty and neglect can also be detected in high-income countries, contributing to the emergence of new diseases and the reemergence of infections believed to be disappearing such as tuberculosis and the measles. Included in the issues of neglect are rare diseases, mostly of genetic origin, affecting a small number of patients that suffer from multiple life-shortening functional impairment and organ defects. Effective medicines are extremely expensive, allegedly because research and development of appropriate drugs is resources and time consuming, requiring exorbitant prices to recoup investment from a small number of consumers. Bioethics has been tardy in addressing the suffering and destitution of neglected and rare diseases. Convinced that permanently repeated denunciations blunt the sensitivity towards suffering, whereas statistics are bloodless and unable to elicit commitment, this book attempts to explore a different strategy. In an upstream approach, bioethics needs to engage in ethnographic fieldwork that confronts and shares the context in which people suffer, vividly presenting what epidemiological research has blunted into statistical data. Additionally, a downstream approach is suggested, requiring bioethics to vigorously and openly denounce unethical biomedical and pharmaceutical research, misdeeds in registration and marketing of drugs, and misalignment of policies with the unmet healthcare needs of the destitute. More than being critical observers, bioethicists ought to shed lurking conflicts of interests and seek active participation in planning research and public healthcare practices aimed at improving the lives of medically neglected populations.
£127.79
RM Verlag SL Miguel Calderon: Catalogue
Catálogo gathers photographs of prostitutes that were provided to the select clients of a brothel and shown to artist Miguel Calderon by his uncle when he was thirteen years old, so that he could choose one of them to undergo his “initiation into manhood.” Thirty years later, Calderon has recovered these images and transformed them into part of a narrative which, out of a very specific context and age, he uses to analyze and recount his sexual awakening. But what happens when a child grows into a youth thinking that sex has a monetary value and that making love without paying for it is rather the exception than the norm? The loss of their virginity has always been a rite of initiation that adolescents have to face. In Mexico City in the 1980s the beginning of a youngster’s sexual life was largely conditioned by the social pressures exerted by his classmates. To remain a virgin was synonymous with weakness and mockery; losing one’s virginity became a matter of life and death, generally achieved by a visit to a brothel. The girls in the boy’s life, whether classmates or neighbors, only increased the pressure by insisting that they would not lose their virginity until marriage. The girls themselves were part of a social construct in which it was implicit that the boys would lose their virginity to a prostitute. But the brothels were not charitable organizations: you had to pay. For that there were the grandfathers’ gold pens, the candlesticks, the wallets of absent-minded mothers, and the complete collections of Star Wars.
£36.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Battle of Manila: Nadir of Japanese Barbarism, 3 February - 3 March 1945
Nearly four years of brutal Japanese occupation in WW2 has dimmed Manila's lustre. The Philippine capital, surrounding an old Spanish fortress, was once a glittering jewel among America's overseas possessions. And now a vast Allied army led by the indomitable MacArthur is ready to take it back from the Japanese. It is a necessary mission and an urgent one for trapped within the old University of Santo Tomas are thousands of ailing prisoners: men and women, young and old, at risk of torture and death by their captors. But the token Japanese garrison has other ideas as desperate units of the Japanese navy dig in to fight to the death against the advancing Americans. Caught in this cruel vice are thousands of Filipinos still trapped in the metropolis, with no hope of escape. From the closing days of January until early March 1945, Manila is to endure the most bitter fighting in the Pacific theatre, leaving it a charred wasteland littered with the bodies of the dead, soldier and civilian alike, the latter deliberately targeted by Japanese death squads. Such is the carnage and conquest of Manila.
£16.80
Adrados Ediciones, ES Cordillera Canatabrica, Macito De Pena Ubina
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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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Archaeopress Arqueología computacional del territorio. Métodos y técnicas para estudiar decisiones humanas en paisajes pretéritos
Current archaeological practices are now fully immersed in the computing and digital era. This process, common to all sciences, is leading to an important methodological renewal of the discipline, materialising in the emergence of new lines of research with a promising future, and computational methods are playing a key role in this panorama. Remote sensing studies, the use of drones, LiDAR data, virtual reconstructions or modern statistical simulation techniques are, amongst others, research fields that require the use of computing science. Arqueología computacional del territorio aims to describe some of the current analytical approaches to model past cultural landscapes, their evolution, and their relationship with the human societies that inhabited them. To this end, the use of Geographic Information Systems and spatial statistics is proposed, using territorial and landscape archaeology as a theoretical framework. The research that follows is articulated around the use of open-source software and, specifically, R Statistics, a programming language that is gradually becoming one of the most important tools in archaeological research. Its use allows for transparent, accessible, and reproducible research while promoting interdisciplinarity and a real democratization of scientific knowledge.
£35.00
Pitch Publishing Ltd Bring Me That Horizon: A Journey to the Soul of Portuguese Football
Bring Me that Horizon is a fascinating quest into the heart and soul of Portuguese football.Journeying across its landscape, from old and forgotten bastions of invincibility to new, muscled industrial areas where dreams come true, the book uncovers the multiple identities of Portugal as a nation.Whether visiting historical clubs that were miraculously brought back to life or getting to grips with the complexity of Portugal's 'Game of Thrones' fight for supremacy, the book traces a route north to south, island to island, without forgetting the profound connection with Africa and Brazil.From Eusébio's glorious career to Cândido de Oliveira's adventures as a British intelligence agent, the book reveals a nation that already had fantastic tales to tell before it became the flavour of the month for football hipsters at the turn of the millennium. There's much more to Portugal's football heritage than Ronaldo and Mourinho.
£14.99
Dover Publications Inc. Tragic Sense of Life
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Everyman Don Quixote Of The Mancha
The story of the Spanish knight Don Quizote whose devotion to the tales of chivalry leads him into a series of bizarre adventures in the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, blends fantasy, comedy and gripping narrative in a way that has appealed to children ever since it was first published. All the wisdom and humour of Cervantes' great seventeenth-century classic are to be found in Parry's very readable modern abridgement, enhanced by the delightful illustrations of Walter Crane, one of the greatest of all English children's book illustrators.
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APress Serverless Security: Understand, Assess, and Implement Secure and Reliable Applications in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
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