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Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.

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Bears have fascinated people since ancient times. The relationship between bears and humans dates back thousands of years, during which time we have also competed with bears for shelter and food. In modern times, bears have come under pressure through encroachment on their habitats, climate change, and illegal trade in their body parts, including the Asian bear bile market. The IUCN lists six bears as vulnerable or endangered, and even the least concern species, such as the brown bear, are at risk of extirpation in certain countries. The poaching and international trade of these most threatened populations are prohibited, but still ongoing. Covering all bears species worldwide, this beautifully illustrated volume brings together the contributions of 200 international bear experts on the ecology, conservation status, and management of the Ursidae family. It reveals the fascinating long history of interactions between humans and bears and the threats affecting these charismatic species.

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This book provides an introduction to quantum information science, the science at the basis of the new quantum revolution of this century. It teaches the reader to build and program a quantum computer and leverage its potential. Aimed at quantum physicists and computer scientists, the book covers several topics, including quantum algorithms, quantum chemistry, and quantum engineering of superconducting qubits. Written by two professionals in the experimental and theoretical fields of quantum information science and containing over 200 figures and 100 exercises with solutions and summaries at the end of each chapter, this book is set to become a new standard in the field.

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Sarah invites Caillou to her house to see how the Chinese New Year is celebrated. There, Caillou helps to hang posters with traditional Chinese characters on it, discovers the tradition of cleaning the house from top to bottom, and is given a red envelope with a New Year coin. The following day, Sarah and her family invite Caillou to go to Chinatown, where Caillou enjoys tasting special dishes in a Chinese restaurant and even gets to meet a real Chinese New Year dragon! The book includes a cutout dragon mask so you too can join in the celebration. Adapted from the popular television series, the books in the Playtime series show Caillou discovering the world around him as he moves toward a greater understanding of his environment. Each title includes an extra element, such as stickers or a poster.

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An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to keep a notebook of handwriting exercises, hoping that if he is able to improve his penmanship, his personal character will also improve. What begins as a mere physical exercise becomes involuntarily coloured by humorous reflections and tender anecdotes about living, writing, and the sense - and nonsense - of existence. The first book by Mario Levrero to be translated into English, Empty Words is the perfect introduction to a major author and a significant point of reference in Latin American writing today.

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Despite the ever-increasing interest in eye tracking, there is still no comprehensive work on the potential and applications of table-mounted and mobile head-mounted eye tracking solutions in travel and tourism. This volume bridges that gap, effectively linking eye tracking with travel and tourism. It presents, on the one hand, novel academic contributions on the concept of eye tracking, and on the other, practice-oriented case studies that illustrate the use and strategic value of eye tracking in travel and tourism. It provides concrete and novel insights into tourist behavior and the tourist consumer experience and, for the academic community, offers a comprehensive, scientifically based overview of the empirical, methodological, theoretical, and practical contributions of eye tracking research. Accordingly, the book will be of value to a diverse audience. It will be a useful resource for existing and future tourism businesses, allowing them to adopt proactive approaches in the design of tourism products. It will also stimulate further research in the field and inspire scholars and practitioners to combine their ideas and expertise, to look beyond supposedly fixed horizons, and to identify emerging opportunities.

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The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool for the sharing and withholding of knowledge. In this groundbreaking book, Mario Daniels and John Krige set out to show the enormous political relevance that export control regulations have had for American debates about national security, foreign policy, and trade policy since 1945. Indeed, they argue that from the 1940s to today the issue of how to control the transnational movement of information has been central to the thinking and actions of the guardians of the American national security state. The expansion of control over knowledge and know-how is apparent from the increasingly systematic inclusion of universities and research institutions into a system that in the 1950s and 1960s mainly targeted business activities. As this book vividly reveals, classification was not the only—and not even the most important—regulatory instrument that came into being in the postwar era.

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When Natsuki opens up about her traumatic past, Yuuna wants to help her fellow competitor. But is Yuuna just getting played? With the competition growing even more intense, people are starting to crack under the pressure - including the bachelor himself! The masks are off in the latest volume of the erotic thriller, Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire?

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Una novela sobre el mundo del crimen por el autor de El Padrino.Tras una juventud a la deriva en la que se dedica a actividades ilegales y es perseguido por la justicia, Merlyn se convierte en un novelista de éxito extraordinario. Sus obras le brindan fama y fortuna, y le abren las puertas del mundo literario de Nueva York y de Hollywood, donde alterna con magnates, actores, agentes y hermosas mujeres, al tiempo que se aficiona al juego, que practica con asiduidad en Las Vegas. Allí conoce a Cully Cross, un jugador profesional en bancarrota que se convierte en mano derecha de uno de los dueños del hotel Xanadú. Ese mundo aparta a Merlyn de la mujer de su juventud, de su familia y de su querido hermano, quienes poco a poco van siendo desplazados por sus nuevos conocidos.Reseña:Los tontos mueren refleja la mente humana y sus hondas contradicciones: vida y muerte, ambición y poder, comedia y tragedia.El Mundo

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Con Omertà, su obra póstuma, Mario Puzo logra sumergirnos por última vez en el apasionante mundo de la Mafia y concluye magistralmente el ciclo que inició con El Padrino.Omertà: código de honor siciliano que reclama unsilencio obstinado acerca de los asuntos de la Cosa Nostra.Tras toda una vida consagrada al mundo del crimen, Don Raymonde Aprile decide ceder el testigo al joven Astorre, su mano derecha. De esta manera, pretende preservar la intachable trayectoria de sus hijos, que han vivido al margen de la Mafia, y dedicarse a supervisar los bancos internacionales que posee.Sin embargo, el agente Cilke del FBI verá con recelo la jubilación de Don Aprile. Cilke está consiguiendo que algunos miembros de la organización rompan el juramento de omertà. Mientras el FBI trata de estrechar el cerco en torno a la Mafia, Astorre Viola y los Aprile se debaten entre la compasión y la venganza.

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Como en el cuadro de Hans Baldung, emblema y tema de este libro, la serpiente tentadora simboliza, en la finísima lectura que Mario Praz hace de nuestra imbricada tradición, la región más oscura del alma humana de la que surgen la melancolía, las perversiones, la neurosis, las fantasías aberrantes y los monstruos. A partirdel Romanticismo, todos estos motivos hermanan a una legión de artistas, desde Fu?ssli y Poe, los prerrafaelitas, John Ruskin y Walter Pater, hasta J. A. Symonds, Vernon Lee, Walter de la Mare, D?Annunzio, Rodin y Proust. El apabullanteconocimiento de la literatura y la iconografía que posee Praz le permite desvelarnos las sutiles afinidades entre todos estos creadores e iluminar esa zona de la psique que los hermanó y que no por oscura nos resulta más ajena. Una obra monumental que completa la labor crítica e historiográfica iniciada en el clásico La carne, la muerte y el diablo en la literatura romántica, también publicado en esta editorial.

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Poco antes de morir, Clarice Lispector escribió un texto en el que recogía gran parte de sus reflexiones sobre la literatura y sobre la vida. Podríamos decir que Un soplo de vida es la última indagación literaria de la escritora brasileña, y posiblemente su meditación más exhaustiva sobre el acto de escribir y sus ramificaciones. Escrita en forma de diálogo casi místico entre un autor (trasunto de la propia Lispector) y su creación, una mujer llamada Ángela Pralini, la obra refleja la fascinación que supone crear personajes y mundos. Cuando Clarice Lispector falleció, su secretaria y gran amiga Olga Borelli dotó de estructura a los fragmentos que conforman este texto metaliterario, una obra póstuma que arroja luz sobre la trayectoria de Lispector.

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El documento que contiene este libro dedicado al discurso pronunciado en 1993 en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, fue traducido en los cenáculos políticos españoles como un deliberado, consciente y evidente propósito de su autor de dedicarse a la labor profesional de los políticos, es decir, ponerse a competir con ellos de manera directa en conquistar parcelas de poder político.

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In his work "Libraries", Diodor presents the entire history from the beginning of mankind to his own time, looking at the whole known world. Mario Baumann's investigation taps into this claim of a "narrative of the world" in two ways: On the one hand, he singles out books 1-5 as a theme from the preserved parts of the "libraries", which, as in a great exposition, present the world as a space of history. On the other hand, he puts the narrative style of the work at the center of his analysis and shows how the reading of the text still enjoys today.

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Amid the shadows of war, one family faces an impossible choice that will change their lives forever. From bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of sacrifice and resilience inspired by Spain’s famed Children of Morelia and the true events that shaped their lives.Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his two younger sisters. Marco’s parents align themselves against the new fascist regime, unaware that their choice will endanger the entire family—nor do they predict the violence that is to come.In a desperate bid for safety, the Alcaldes join many other Spanish families in making an impossible choice to send their unaccompanied children across the ocean to the city of Morelia, Mexico—a place they’ve never seen or imagined, but whose government promises their children protection. Young Marco promises to look after his sisters in Mexico until their family can be reunited in Spain, but a harrowing journey ensues.As the growing children work to care for themselves and each other, they feel their sense of home, family, and identity slipping further and further away. As their memories of Spain fade, they begin to wonder if they will ever see their parents again or the glittering streets of the home they once loved.Based upon the true stories of the Children of Morelia, Mario Escobar’s Remember Me—now available for the first time in English—paints a poignant portrait of an immigrant family’s sacrificial love and endurance, detailing just how far we go for those we love.“Luminous and beautifully researched, Remember Me is a study of displacement, belonging, compassion, and forged family amid a heart- wrenching escape from the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. Fans of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Chanel Cleeton, and Lisa Wingate will be mesmerized.”—Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration Perfect for book clubs: Includes discussion questions, research notes from the author, and a historical timeline Based on real historical events: Full-length, 90,000-word historical novel based on the true stories of the Children of Morelia Researched and written by a subject-matter expert: Mario Escobar has a master's degree in modern history and lives in Madrid

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Through a close examination of philosopher Leopoldo Zea's historicist phenomenology, Mario Sáenz offers fresh insights into the role of Mexican intellectuals in the creation of a Latin American "philosophy of liberation." While this philosophy of liberation has been widely recognized as the most intellectual political ideology to emerge from Latin America this century, few scholars have specifically explored the Mexican roots of this movement. Sáenz redresses this imbalance by placing Zea and his contemporary intellectuals firmly within the context of post-revolutionary Mexico—a political and social landscape that fostered criticisms of colonial and neo-colonial structures of dependence. Sáenz demonstrates how Zea's philosophy was informed by a sense of Mexico's distinctive social and cultural identity.

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