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As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems. On the forefront of this discipline is Marina Alberti, whose innovative work offers a conceptual framework for uncovering fundamental laws that govern the complexity and resilience of cities, which she sees as key to understanding and responding to planetary change and the evolution of Earth. Bridging the fields of urban planning and ecology, Alberti describes a science of cities that work on a planetary scale and that links unpredictable dynamics to the potential for innovation. It is a science that considers interactions - at all scales - between people and built environments and between cities and their larger environments. Cities That Think like Planets advances strategies for planning a future that may look very different from the present, as rapid urbanization could tip the Earth toward abrupt and nonlinear change. Alberti's analyses of the various hybrid ecosystems, such as self-organization, heterogeneity, modularity, multiple equilibria, feedback, and transformation, may help humans participate in guiding the Earth away from inadvertent collapse and toward a new era of planetary co-evolution and resilience.

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A mother, welcoming her tiny son into the world, tells him the story of their lives, whispering to him as she swings him gently around. With each successive page, he grows while she shrinks, until she is being held by the man he has become. Albertine's weightless strokes and billowing bodies recall the flitting procession of a flipbook or an ephermeral notebook sketch.

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As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems. On the forefront of this discipline is Marina Alberti, whose innovative work offers a conceptual framework for uncovering fundamental laws that govern the complexity and resilience of cities, which she sees as key to understanding and responding to planetary change and the evolution of Earth. Bridging the fields of urban planning and ecology, Alberti describes a science of cities that work on a planetary scale and that links unpredictable dynamics to the potential for innovation. It is a science that considers interactions - at all scales - between people and built environments and between cities and their larger environments. Cities That Think like Planets advances strategies for planning a future that may look very different from the present, as rapid urbanization could tip the Earth toward abrupt and nonlinear change. Alberti's analyses of the various hybrid ecosystems, such as self-organization, heterogeneity, modularity, multiple equilibria, feedback, and transformation, may help humans participate in guiding the Earth away from inadvertent collapse and toward a new era of planetary co-evolution and resilience.

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Converse directly with Spirit, communicate with the forces of nature and speak with the great archetypes to find inspiration, hope and illuminating opportunities. Three master teachers and healers - Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron-Reid and Marcela Lobos - have brought their wisdom and talents together to create this gorgeously packaged oracle deck. Alberto and Marcela contribute their decades of knowledge and experience with indigenous shamanic practices; Colette offers her extensive expertise with divination tools. The result is a deck unlike any other, featuring powerful beings, animals and natural forces from cultures across the globe.

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The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.It is 1889, and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream--a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream. This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from death with a power to heal--but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora.THE HUMMINGBIRD?S DAUGHTER is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. Two decades in the writing, this is the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to.

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Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti, Fra Angelico and Veneziano and on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, and remains a compelling theory of art.

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In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by its size, stretching from Scotland to Kuwait, from the Sahara to the North Sea. What was life like in the Empire, and how were such diverse peoples and places united under one rule? The Reach of Rome explores these questions through an ingenious lens: the path of a single coin as it changes hands and traverses the vast realms of the empire in the year 115. Admired in his native Italy for his ability to bring history to life through narrative, Alberto Angela opens up the ancient world to readers who have felt intimidated by the category or put off by dry historical tomes. By focusing on aspects of daily life so often overlooked in more academic treatments, The Reach of Rome travels back in time and shows us a world that was perhaps not very different from our own. And by following the path of a coin through the streams of commerce, we can touch every corner of that world and its people, from legionnaires and senators to prostitutes and slaves. Through lively and detailed vignettes all based on archeological and historical evidence, Angela reveals the vast Roman world and its remarkable modernity, and in so doing he reinforces the relevance of the ancient world for a new generation of readers.

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Poemas alegres y festivos, poemas llenos de luz, risueños y traviesos, así son estos poemas chiquininos del eterno niño Rafael Alberti, presentados con bellas ilustraciones de Mariana Ruiz Johnson.

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Existe un vasto grupo compuesto por todos aquellos que alguna vez le leyeron en voz alta a Borges: pequeños Boswells que raramente conocen la identidad de los otros pero que, de forma colectiva, mantienen la memoria de uno de los más cabales lectores del mundo (...) Durante varios años, de 1964 a 1968, tuve la inmensa fortuna de contarme entre los muchos que le leían a Jorge Luis Borges. Trabajaba por las tardes, al salir de la escuela, en una librería anglo-alemana de Buenos Aires, Pygmalion, que Borges frecuentaba como cliente? Con estas palabras inicia Alberto Manguel su libro homenaje al magistral escritor argentino. Un libro sembrado de emociones, vivencias y admiración. Con el estilo ameno y la erudición que le caracterizan, Alberto Manguel repasa en el baúl de sus recuerdos los momentos que compartió con el autor de El Aleph. Nos relata las lecturas y relecturas en voz alta de los libros que la ceguera le impedía escrutar. Las conversaciones y reflexiones de un Borges siempre so

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"The most moving, beautiful, and eloquent expression of wonder in literature. If there has been anything new in recent literature of any type it is this undefinable book: poetry, short tales, and intelligence in each paragraph. A delight."--Jeanne Teixidor Alberto Ruy-Sanchez is an award-winning Mexican writer and editor.

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La tradicional oscilación de la poesía entre lo subjetivo y lo objetivo, entre lo épico y lo lírico, ha sido respetada por Luis Alberto de Cuenca y Antonio Alvar mediante la inclusión de ambos géneros en esta antología de la poesía latina, que cubre el amplio periodo que se extiende entre el siglo III a. C. hasta el IV de nuestra era. Si en el caso de los poetas arcaicos y en el de los grandes comediógrafos Plauto y Terencio se ofrecen versos a menudo descontextualizados, aunque llenos de vigor poético, los grandes poetas de la época de Augusto y de la decadencia del imperio, como Catulo, Virgilio, Horacio, Tibulo, Propercio, Ovidio, Marcial o Ausonio, ocupan el puesto excepcional al que les da derecho su extraordinaria calidad poética y su importante obra.Selección y traducción de Luis Alberto de Cuenca y Antonio Alvar

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Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation "In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning memory into verse, recovering from the past everything that counts: love and friendship and the landscapes that shaped him. Through alleyways and storied ruins, colors and autumn and war, Alberti discovers poetry at every turn."--Christopher Merrill, prize judge "The musical language that drives these urgent poems is echoed exquisitely in Carolyn Tipton's translations."--Stephen Kessler Rafael Alberti was one of the greatest poets of twentieth-century Spain. Poet and translator Carolyn L. Tipton teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

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“The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a real-world game of thrones.” -- BooklistOne of Italy’s most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war.Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in history, the legendary Egyptian queen remains, in many ways, an enigma. In this mesmerizing history, Alberto Angela offers a fresh and dynamic portrait of this extraordinary ruler, revealing a strikingly modern woman born in an ancient era and skilled in the art of diplomacy and war, who would conquer the heart of a general—Marc Antony—and Rome itself.Cleopatra focuses on a twenty-year period that marked a sweeping change in Roman history, beginning with the assassination of Julius Caesar that led to the end of the Republic, and ending with the suicides of Antony and Cleopatra and the birth of the Augustan Empire. Angela brings the people, stories, customs, and traditions of this fascinating period alive as he transports us to the chaotic streets of the capital of the ancient world, the exotic port of Alexandria in Egypt, and to the bloody battlefields where an empire was won and lost. Meticulously researched and rich with vivid detail, this sweeping history, reminiscent of the works of Simon Schama, Mary Beard’s SPQR, and Tom Holland’s Rubicon, recreates this remarkable era and the woman at its turbulent center.Translated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor“[Cleopatra] combines scholarship with novelistic detail and character depth…[Alberto Angela] effectively draws on previous scholarship, wading through legend and myth to get at the truth of what actually occurred… a character-rich historical biography.” -- Kirkus

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Originally published in 1965, The Writer and the People was one of the key books in the revitalization and invigoration of the young Left in late-1960s Italy. Aiming to demystify the myth of populism, Alberto Asor Rosa takes on Marxism and its legacy, the relationship between Fascism and the Left, the prospects for militant anti-Fascism, and more. He does so through detailed reconstructions, analyses, and critiques of some of the central figures of modern Italian literature, including Giovanni Verga, Carlo Casola, Antonio Gramsci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Translated into English for the first time, The Writer and the People is both a historical text, helping us understand postwar Italian politics and society, and a living document, able to educate and inspire left-wing activists today.

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"Luca Albertini and Pauline Barrieu are to be congratulated on this volume. Written in a period where structured projects in finance are having a difficult time, it is worthwhile to return to the cradle of securitisation: insurance. Spread out over three parts (life, non- life, and tax and regulatory issues) the 26 chapters, written mainly by practitioners, give an excellent overview of this challenging field of modern insurance. Methodology and examples nicely go hand in hand. The overall slant being towards actual analyses of concrete products. No doubt this book will become a milestone going forward for actuarial students, researchers, regulators and practitioners alike."—Paul Embrechts, Professor of Mathematics and Director of RiskLab, ETH Zurich The convergence of insurance with the capital markets has opened up an alternative channel for insurers to transfer risk, raise capital and optimize their regulatory reserves as well as offering institutions a source of relatively liquid investment with limited correlation with other exposures. One of the financial instruments allowing for the cession of insurance-related risks to the capital markets is Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS). This book provides hands-on information essential for market participants, drawing on the insights and expertise of an impressive team of international market players, representing the various aspects and perspectives of this growing sector. The book presents the state of the art in Insurance-Linked Securitization, by exploring the various roles for the different parties involved in the transactions, the motivation for the transaction sponsors, the potential inherent pitfalls, the latest developments and transaction structures and the key challenges faced by the market. The book is organized into parts, each covering a specific topic or sector of the market. After a general overview of the ILS market, the Insurance-Linked Securitization process is studied in detail. A distinction is made between non-life and life securitization, due to the specificities of each sector. The process and all the actors involved are identified and considered in a comprehensive and systematic way. The concepts are first looked at in a general way, before the analysis of relevant case studies where the ILS technology is applied. Particular focus is given to: the key stages in both non-life and life securitizations, including the general features of the transactions, the cedant's perspectives, the legal issues, the rating methodologies, the choice of an appropriate trigger and the risk modeling, the particular challenges related to longevity securitization, the investor's perspective and the question of the management of a portfolio of ILS, the general issues related to insurance-linked securitization, such as accounting and tax issues, regulatory issues and solvency capital requirements. The book is accompanied by a website www.wiley.com/go/albertini_barrieu_ILS which will feature updates and additions to the various contributions to follow market developments.

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From inside her cell in the wall of the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents, Alix, a young Parisian recluse, observes a tumultuous world of thieves and scoundrels, rebels, heretics, and pilgrims. Set during the Hundred Year's War and based on the historical figure of Alix la Bourgotte, Sealed in Stone, traces the intersecting lives of a vagabond Turkish sailor, a Bohemian intellectual, the amazing Alix, and a young rebel from Lombardy who finds himself powerfully drawn to her. "Toni Maraini's Sealed in Stone, an allegorical novel set in the heart of medieval Paris, radiantly portrays the triumph of the soul over the darkness of existence. An extraordinary achievement." --Lucia A. Blackstone "...a strange and necessary novel." --Alberto Moravia Toni Maraini is an Italian poet, novelist, and art critic. She grew up in an literary family in Sicily, and has lived in Paris, London, Casablanca, and New York. She currently lives in Rome.

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Leicester City's Premier League victory was the 5,000-1 triumph that delighted the world. But how did Claudio Ranieri pull off one of the greatest achievements in sport? This is the inside story of the rise and rise of the butcher’s son from Rome, whose hard work, passion for the game and ability to learn from his mistakes have earned him the respect of players, fans and owners worldwide. Gabriele Marcotti and Alberto Polverosi have known Claudio Ranieri since his early days as a professional footballer. They have closely followed his successes and his failures as he navigated the often topsy-turvy world of football and developed as a player and manager. Hail, Claudio! takes an in-depth look into what sets Ranieri apart as a manager, into precisely how the Premier League was won, and what went wrong following that golden season.

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En este libro se recogen las aportaciones de un grupo de especialistas de reconocido prestigio, coordinados por el Dr. Alberto Hernando García-Cervigón, que han colaborado en el desarrollo del proyecto de investigación Nuevos discursos en el español contemporáneo. Francisco M. Carriscondo Esquivel trata la reconstrucción del ideario lingüístico de El Roto; Víctor Guijarro Mora y Alberto Hernando García-Cervigón, el discurso publicitario, imaginario educativo y científico, y sociedad de consumo en España (1924-1936); María Isabel Hernández Toribio y Luis Deltell Escolar, el análisis pragmático de los museos y la comunicación online (Twitter); Alberto Hernando García-Cervigón, el discurso publicitario de productos tecnológicos en la Segunda República Española; Xavier Laborda Gil, la inventiva retórica y el carisma oratorio en cartas de Juan Carlos I a su hijo; Fernando Martínez de Carnero, las formas comunicativas y discursivas en la web social y semántica; Javier Medina López, la imagen

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Alberto Salas ofrece con este trabajo un estudio largamente esperado por el mundo cofrade de San Fernando. La historia, la tradición y el lenguaje de la carga en la Isla. Consciente de la responsabilidad que asumía a la hora de enfrentarse a materia tan delicada como llena de interés, ha empleado todo su esfuerzo, saber y experiencia, plasmando los muchos conocimientos adquiridos en su amplia labor como cargador y como capataz.

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Una de las novelas más exitosas de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, que retrata la cultura de los navegantes polinesios con los que convivió durante su juventud.Un clásico de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, de nuevo al alcance de los lectores.La población de una idílica isla es masacrada y su princesa secuestrada por asaltantes de un remoto islote. Los supervivientes superarán los peligros del Pacífico Sur para vengarse.Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, periodista y corresponsal de guerra durante muchos años, ha publicado más de sesenta títulos, auténticos bestsellers.

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In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family decided to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Argentina on a 1949 Norton 500cc motorbike and travelled through Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. They worked as casual labourers along the way, as football coaches, medical assistants, and haulage hands. The poverty and exploitation of the native population changed them for ever. Each man later wrote an account of the journey. Alberto Granado realised later in his life that what they saw and encountered on their journey represented a crucial turning point. It strengthened Alberto's determination to forge his career as a scientist. And it started the process that was to turn Ernesto - the debonair, fun-loving student - into Che, the man who fought for the liberation of Cuba and became the heroic and glamorous warrior fighting for freedom and social justice, who remains to this day in people's minds Latin America's foremost hero and one of the world's great revolutionaries. A companion to Che's Motorcycle Diaries, Alberto Granado's book is a moving and at times hilarious account of how two carefree young men found their true purpose in life.

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Esta nueva entrega de las Obras completas de Rafael Alberti constituye una crónica de excepción donde se reproducen los hechos, conquistas, éxitos, dramas, costumbres, frustraciones, mitos y aventuras de una época en la que tienen función principal las personas que condicionaron el mundo íntimo o público del poeta. Esta edición recoge por primera vez todas las versiones, incluso inéditas, que el autor llevó a cabo de La arboleda perdida , una obra memoriográfica de imprescindible consulta para conocer los pálpitos y temblores del pasado siglo XX.

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While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a single word.He decided to keep a record of these moments, rereading a book a month, and formed A Reading Diary: a volume of notes, impressions of travel, of friends, of public and private events, all elicited by his reading.

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In Cancer on Trial Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio explore how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer clinical trial. Far from mere testing devices, these trials have become full-fledged experiments that have redefined the practices of clinicians, statisticians, and biologists. Keating and Cambrosio investigate these trials and how they have changed since the 1960s, all the while demonstrating their significant impact on the progression of oncology. A novel look at the institution of clinical cancer research and therapy, this book will be warmly welcomed by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of science and medicine, as well as clinicians and researchers in the cancer field.

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A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking, the Dinner Pieces, or Intercenales, are among Alberti's most innovative works. They constitute an important monument in the history of comic writing and cover topics from politics to the arts to love. This edition presents a new translation and an authoritative Latin text.

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Focused on the work of the renegade missionary 'Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (d. 1734), this book contributes to ongoing debates on the nature of confessionalism, interreligious encounters and cultural translation in early modern Muslim empires. By disentangling the connections between polemics and other forms of Islamic learning and by emphasising the Shi'i character of the case in question, Alberto Tiburcio accounts for the dynamism of polemics as an ever-evolving genre capable of adapting to different historical contexts.

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Monchiña e Floreano lideran un grupo de personaxes que se unen á doutora Peralta para derrotar o coronavirus. A realidade aumentada, a realidade virtual e o mundo real combínanse nesta historia que transcorre entre as Rías Baixas e Compostela, onde ten lugar unha batalla crucial contra a COVID-19.Botando man dos coñecidos personaxes de Gogue, Alberto Avendaño escribe unha fermosa historia de amor e esperanza, onde o humor nos acompaña para mostrarnos o camiño da solidariedade.Unha divertida novela onde o realismo máxico do cine de animación se mestura coa divulgación científica.

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Recopilación de tres cuentos de El Hematocrítico en un solo volumen, conmaterial adicional y las ilustraciones de Alberto Vázquez, ganador detres premios Goya de Animación.El Lobo Feroz regenta una sastrería en la que vende disfraces del Gato con Botas, el héroe de moda entre los niños; su sobrino el Lobito es bueno, buenísimo, ayuda a todo el mundo y encima hace pasteles riquísimos; y Ricitos de Oro resuelve crímenes incluso antes de que se produzcan.El Bosque de los Cuentos es un lugar mágico y especial donde los personajes clásicos viven nuevas y divertidísimas aventuras.

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A lo largo de su trayectoria como escritor, Alberto Manguel ha dedicado un espacio importante al tema de los libros y la lectura, una de sus grandes pasiones. En este libro algunas reflexiones y pequeños homenajes de Manguel a la literatura dialogan con las originales fotografías de Álvaro Alejandro. Para cada tiempo hay un libro es a la vez un registro y un homenaje a ese objeto que, pese a las múltiples amenazas sobre su extinción, continúa formando parte fundamental de nuestra cultura. Y es que, como bien explica Alberto Manguel, podrán cambiar muchas cosas, pero mientras existan esos seres extraños llamados lectores, el acto literario esencial permanecerá vigente e inalterado por la fuerza misma de quienes, como él, no conciben su existencia sin la presencia constante de ese acto.

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La lectura tradicional de "El loco Estero", cumbre de la novelística de Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) y del realismo decimonónico, ha resaltado su perfecta trama picaresca y costumbrista.Pero "El loco Estero", obra ya del siglo XX (1909), es también la novela que mejor explica la especificidad de Chile en la historia política latinoamericana del siglo XIX. el liberalismo comprometido y utópico, encarnado en un loco, y el conservadurismo pragmático, representado por Diego Portales, el político más influyente del siglo.

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Chus Bures creates miracles. Each piece of jewellery that emerges from his workshop boasts a complex genesis, stemming from an intersection between his genius-level thought processes and his maverick lifestyle. From exploring the versatility of buttons, to accentuating the geometric planes of the human body (Infinity Lines, 1990), and using minerals to emulate and exaggerate human features (seen in the striking 'Mae Nam' Collection of 2000), Bures' work is always perplexing, always stimulating, and always innovative. He refuses to be cowed by convention, and delights in challenging his clients and models. The bodily focus of his work makes every piece a startling, and often uncomfortable, insight into humanity. Bures may be a maestro of metal - the gauzy chainmail-esque veils in his Crochet collection, 2000, attest to that. Yet he has mastered the emotional dimensions of his jewellery as well as its physical properties. The relationship between his pieces and the people who collect and cherish them is essential to his artistic praxis. In Chus Bures, Portraits & Jewellery (2016), this is realised through a series of intense portraits by Antoine d'Agata, Alberto Garcia-Alix, and Andres Serrano. These pictures reveal a transgressive melding of jewel and subject: man becomes metal and metal becomes man. Watch ideas take on physical form, and immerse yourself in Bures' world of wearable art.

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A cookbook rooted in shamanic wisdom of 90+ plant-based recipes that will help you grow stronger, healthier, and younger, and reverse the loss of vitality associated with aging.Growing older is inevitable. Aging is preventable. In Grow a New Body Cookbook, 90+ delicious, nutrient-dense, plant-based recipes will help you go back to an ancient way of eating that promises to help you on the road to lifelong health. Shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo will show you how to turn your kitchen into a shaman’s laboratory so that you can grow potent probiotics to upgrade the health of your biome. Alberto dives deep into the science of why how we eat now is wreaking such havoc on us—and how we can reverse the damage. Finally, eating the foods recommended in this book will allow you to grow a new brain that supports you in forging a profound connection with Nature and experiencing a renewed sense of purpose in life.The delicious recipes, beautifully photographed by James Beard nominee Paul Brissman and developed by celebrated chef Conny Andersson, feature superfoods that will begin to repair your body and brain from years of wear and tear.The plant-based, nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich broth, beverage, mezze, and main dish recipes include:- silky white bean soup with tomato basil relish- chlorophyll moringa broth- matcha energy tonic- activated charcoal latte- chickpea crepe with spicy tomato chutney and coconut yogurt- tasted sorghum risotto and mushrooms- grilled zucchini "vindaloo" with kachumber salad

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No resulta fácil encontrar, en la logia mayor de la literatura española contemporánea, una observadora de la cotidianidad tan aguda, profunda y lúcida como Carmiña Martín Gaite. Nadie como ella para reparar en ese detalle, aparentemente nimio, que revela una dependencia, subraya un ejercicio de poder, señala con el dedo un terror, un ataque de angustia o de soledad.Luis Alberto de Cuenca

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Roland Paris is one of the most recognisable artists of the Art Deco world, yet his work remains something of an enigma. His art is caricature-like, bordering on grotesque, and he delivers critical perspectives on society's downtrodden via jesters and devils. His mediums range from sculpture and painting to porcelain and wood, including woodcuts and the written word. This never-before-seen study focuses on the artist's trials and tribulations while living in Nazi-ruled Germany, and the tragic end to his life, hours before the end of World War Two. Also available by Alberto Shayo: Chiparus: Master of Art Deco ISBN 9781851498222, Statuettes of the Art Deco Period ISBN 9781851498246.

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Mechanics of Microsystems Alberto Corigliano, Raffaele Ardito, Claudia Comi, Attilio Frangi, Aldo Ghisi and Stefano Mariani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy A mechanical approach to microsystems, covering fundamental concepts including MEMS design, modelling and reliability Mechanics of Microsystems takes a mechanical approach to microsystems and covers fundamental concepts including MEMS design, modelling and reliability. The book examines the mechanical behaviour of microsystems from a ‘design for reliability’ point of view and includes examples of applications in industry. Mechanics of Microsystems is divided into two main parts. The first part recalls basic knowledge related to the microsystems behaviour and offers an overview on microsystems and fundamental design and modelling tools from a mechanical point of view, together with many practical examples of real microsystems. The second part covers the mechanical characterization of materials at the micro-scale and considers the most important reliability issues (fracture, fatigue, stiction, damping phenomena, etc) which are fundamental to fabricate a real working device. Key features: Provides an overview of MEMS, with special focus on mechanical-based Microsystems and reliability issues. Includes examples of applications in industry. Accompanied by a website hosting supplementary material. The book provides essential reading for researchers and practitioners working with MEMS, as well as graduate students in mechanical, materials and electrical engineering.

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Ever since Physical Chemistry was first published in 1913 (then titled Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry, by Frederick Getman), it has remained a highly effective and relevant learning tool thanks to the efforts of physical chemists from all over the world. Each new edition has benefited from their suggestions and expert advice. The result of this remarkable tradition is now in your hands. Now revised and updated, this Fourth Edition of Physical Chemistry by Silbey, Alberty, and Bawendi continues to present exceptionally clear explanations of concepts and methods. The basic theory of chemistry is presented from the viewpoint of academic physical chemists, but detailed discussions of practical applications are integrated throughout. The problems in the book also skillfully blend theory and applications. Highlights of the Fourth Edition:* A total of 170 computer problems appropriate for MATHEMATICATM, MATHCADTM, MATLABTM, or MAPLETM.* Increased emphasis on the thermodynamics and kinetics of biochemical reactions, including the denaturation of proteins and nucleic acids.* Expanded coverage of the uses of statistical mechanics, nuclear magnetic relaxation, nanoscience, and oscillating chemical reactions.* Many new tables and figures throughout the text.

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FECHA DE PUBLICACIÓNmiércoles, 22 de abril de 2009CONTENIDOEl autor pone en manos de los docentes de todos los niveles una adecuada herramienta para formar y capacitar a los estudiantes en el conocimiento de todos los aspectos de esta conflictiva relación, aspirando, además, a despertar el interés del público en general por los temas ambientales, creando conciencia de la responsabilidad de todos en el cuidado de nuestra "casa", el planeta Tierra.Este volumen, de fundamentación teórica, se complementa con otro libro, del mismo autor "Taller de Educación Ambiental", que provee al docente de juegos, actividades, problemas y resolución de proyectos, desarrollados de acuerdo con los distintos niveles de enseñanza.DOCUMENTACIÓNAlberto Otero

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También con poesía, Alberto une su canto al del coro que, todavía no ganado completamente para la alineación, busca un sentido a su propia vida y no ceja en proyectarse hacia lo inaudito, lo excepcional, la rotunda belleza que está por ganar y que sabe ocluida por el falso cielo de celofán y tontería que promete la producción capitalista y sus mercancías. Belleza por debajo de todo lo desvaído y atufado. Belleza desmayada que hay que levantar de nosotros mismos para que nos ayude a caminar por la vida nueva que sigue siendo nuestro ansiar común, nuestro sueño contra todo lo que nos esclaviza en nombre de lo real y lo sensato.

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Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction Features illustrations by the Honduran artist Germán Andino Welcome to a country that has a higher casualty rate than Iraq. Wander streets considered the deadliest in the world. Wake up each morning to another batch of corpses – sometimes bound, often mutilated – lining the roads; to the screeching blue light of police sirens and the huddles of ‘red journalists’ who make a living chasing after the bloodshed. But Honduras is no warzone. Not officially, anyway. Ignored by the outside world, this Central American country is ravaged by ultra-violent drug cartels and an equally ruthless, militarised law force. Corruption is rife and the justice system is woefully ineffective. Prisons are full to bursting and barrios are flooded with drugs from South America en route to the US. Cursed by geography, the people are trapped here, caught in a system of poverty and cruelty with no means of escape. For many years, award-winning journalist Alberto Arce was the only foreign correspondent in Tegucigalpa, Honduras’s beleaguered capital, and he witnessed first-hand the country’s descent into anarchy. Here, he shares his experiences in a series of gripping and atmospheric dispatches: from earnest conversations with narcos, taxi drivers and soldiers, to exposés of state corruption and harrowing accounts of the aftermath of violence. Provocative, revelatory and at time heart-rending, Blood Barrios shines a light on the suffering and stoicism of the Honduran people, and asks the international community if there is more that they can do.

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Alberto Suarez naciâ?? en Montevideo, Uruguay, en 1947. Es psicoterapeuta, escritor y conferenciante. Formado en muy diversas corrientes, actualmente estâ? especializado en Psicologâ??a EnergÅtica, y dentro de ella en EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques o TÅcnicas de Liberaciâ??n Emocional).

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Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered examination of how various readings of Homer throughout the annals of history cast light upon the human tendency towards war rather than peace and asks what roles writing and reading play to bring the world into better equilibrium. Central to this lecture is the concept of re-binding, a word drawn from the Latin roots for the word religion, which Manguel posits is the essential definition of poetry. Homer's writings, the point of origin of all written verse, are also the first written instance of the binding of imagined, written, and read realities. The semantics of Homer's name and the literal and figurative ramifications of his blindness are investigated as Manguel builds the scaffold for unveiling our own blindness through our desire to read Homer in our own image. We are left to examine our own assumptions. Comblé de prix littéraires et d'honneurs, Alberto Manguel prête son génie littéraire á l'étude et au parachèvement d'une extrapolation songée que Northrop Frye avait laissée en plan en 1943. Il en résulte une analyse succincte mais en replis serrés des multiples lectures d'Homère léguées par les siècles, qui révèle comment ces interprétations éclairent la propension humaine á la guerre plutôt qu'á la paix, ce qui le mène á s'interroger sur le rôle que jouent l'écriture et la lecture quand il s'agit de créer un monde plus équilibré. La notion de re-lier, un mot dont les racines latines sont les mêmes que le mot religion, est au coeur de cette conférence, et Manguel en fait la définition essentielle de la poésie. Les écrits d'Homère, point d'origine de toute la poésie écrite, fournissent aussi la première occurrence d'un lien entre les réalités imaginées, écrites et lues. La valeur sémantique du nom d'Homère et les répercussions concrètes et figurées de sa cécité font partie des éléments que Manguel scrute pour fonder son évocation de notre aveuglement á nous quand nous insistons pour lire Homère á notre propre image. Nous n'avons plus qu'á remettre nos hypothèses.

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Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Program–related responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.

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Las pequeñas Atlántidas, primera gran obra de Alberto Gil Novales, publicada en 1959, supone una importante contribución a la historia de la cultura española y a la famosa y secular cuestión de la decadencia y la regeneración de España. Frente a quienes veían agostado el impulso creador de nuestro país al finalizar el siglo XVII, él señaló la continuación o el renacimiento de una cultura viva en el XVIII y el XIX. Huyendo de tópicos y temas ya estudiados, eligió una serie de figuras muy poco conocidas: José Nicolás y Félix de Azara, Mor de Fuentes, Cabarrús, Flórez Estrada, que "solo por una pérdida del pulso nacional han podido ser olvidados", pues constituyen el elemento reflexivo de unas etapas azacanadas de nuestra historia que configuran la España contemporánea.

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El Trienio Liberal de Alberto Gil Novales (1980) se ha convertido en la síntesis de referencia sobre el período 1820-1823 y, a pesar de que han pasado cuatro décadas de su primera publicación, sigue siendo una introducción excelente sobre este capítulo clave de la historia contemporánea española. La presente edición incorpora un estudio preliminar sobre el autor y una actualización bibliográfica sobre el Trienio Liberal a cargo de Ramon Arnabat.El Trienio Liberal consta de cinco apartados: un estudio histórico de los principales acontecimientos y de la dinámica política de 1820-1823; dos análisis historiográficos (uno sobre el papel del Trienio en la revolución burguesa y otro sobre la cultura y la evolución de las mentalidades); un exhaustivo comentario bibliográfico de la producción historiográfica; y una selección de documentos clave del Trienio Liberal.

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'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist. As Alberti shows, the birth of loneliness is linked to the development of modernity: the all-encompassing ideology of the individual that has emerged in the mind and physical sciences, in economic structures, in philosophy and politics. While it has a biography of its own, loneliness impacts on people differently, according to their gender, ethnicity, religion, outlook, and socio-economic position. It is, Alberti argues, not a single state but an 'emotion cluster', composed of a wide variety of responses that include fear, anger, resentment and sorrow. In spite of this, loneliness is not always negative. And it is physical as well as psychological: loneliness is a product of the body as much as the mind. Looking at informative case studies such as Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, A Biography of Loneliness charts the emergence of loneliness as a modern emotional state. From social media addiction to widowhood, from homelessness to the oldest old, from mall hauls to massages, loneliness appears in all aspects of 21st-century life. Yet we cannot address its meanings, let alone formulate a cure, without attention to its complex, protean history.

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Reflektiert die Josephsgeschichte (Gen 37-50) im Rahmen der familiär konzipierten Ursprungsgeschichte Israels über das Bedrohungs- und Leistungspotential politischer Herrschaft oder über die Gefahren und Chancen eines Lebens in der Diaspora? Angesichts dieser Streitfrage unterzieht Rainer Albertz die Josephsgeschichte einer konsequenten kompositions- und redaktionsgeschichtlichen Untersuchung, ausgehend von ihrer ursprünglichen Gestalt und ihrer erweiterten Fassung, über ihre Verbindung mit der Jakobs- und Vätergeschichte, bis hin zu ihrer Einbindung in die großen heilsgeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge des Pentateuchs. Die Ergebnisse, die er dabei gewinnt, sind geeignet, Thematik und Datierung präziser und methodisch abgesicherter zu bestimmen, als dies bisher möglich war. Zugleich eröffnen sie neue Einblicke in die Entstehungsgeschichte des Pentateuchs.

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Entre otoño de 1935 y el invierno de 1936, García Lorca trabaja en una pieza teatral, la tradicionalmente denominada " Comedia sin título " , que él mismo califica como " un drama social " . De ella tan solo nos ha quedado el primer acto. En esta edición analizamos la dimensión " revolucionaria " de este auto moderno a partir de un extenso estudio introductorio que sitúa al poeta en los últimos años de su vida, decidido a remover los cimientos de un teatro caduco. Editamos, a la vez, el diálogo que Alberto Conejero ?uno de nuestros más destacados dramaturgos? establece con Lorca (bajo el título de " El sueño de la vida " ) continuando en un segundo y tercer actos aquello que ominosas circunstancias forzaron a dejar inconcluso.

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