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In 2007, after collapsing on a practice field at the Nike campus, champion marathoner Alberto Salazar's heart stopped beating for 14 minutes. Over the crucial moments that followed, rescuers administered CPR to feed oxygen to his brain and EMTs shocked his heart eight times with defibrillator paddles. He was clinically dead. But miraculously, Salazar was back at the Nike campus coaching his runners just nine days later.Salazar had faced death before, but he survived that and numerous other harrowing episodes thanks to his raw physical talent, maniacal training habits, and sheer will, as well as—he strongly believes—divine grace.In 14 Minutes, Salazar chronicles in spellbinding detail how a shy, skinny Cuban-American kid from the suburbs of Boston was transformed into the greatest marathon runner of his era. For the first time, he reveals his tempestuous relationship with his father, a former ally of Fidel Castro; his early running life in high school with the Greater Boston Track Club; his unhealthy obsession to train through pain; the dramatic wins in New York, Boston, and South Africa; and how surviving 14 minutes of death taught him to live again.

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The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. In this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding.

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The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. In this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding.

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Today one of Australia's leading architects, Angelo Candalepas's career lifted off in 1994, when, at the age of twenty-six, he gained wide recognition for his winning project in the international competition for housing in Sydney's Pyrmont neighbourhood. Over the course of twenty-five years, the designs of Sydney-based firm Candalepas Associates have won numerous awards and have been widely published internationally in magazines and journals. They show a development of architectural considerations drawing upon the heritage of past masters such as Louis I. Kahn, Carlo Scarpa, or Le Corbusier, and that of eminent Australian architects Glenn M. Murcutt, Richard Johnson and Colin Madigan. This has evolved into a body of work of a quality rarely found in Australia's contemporary architectural environment. This first full-scale monograph features a selection of on Angelo Candalepas's key designs through photographs, plans and elevations as well as his hand-drawings and sketches. Completed buildings feature alongside unrealised projects that mark milestones in the firm's development, and other not yet built ones, also offering an insight into the firm's future trajectory. Together with topical essays by Alberto Campo Baeza and Laura Harding as well as an insightful text by the architect it offers a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of the outstanding achievements of Candalepas Associates to date.

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En el libro Lengua y discurso, compuesto por varios catedráticos y profesores universitarios de reconocido prestigio bajo la coordinación de Luis Alberto Hernando Cuadrado, director del Grupo de Investigación 930507 de la UCM, se abordan diversos aspectos de gran interés relacionados con el tema. Francisco Abad Nebot selecciona algunos de los epígrafes más relevantes que deben figurar en una Historia de la lengua española y los justifica debidamente. Ángel Cervera Rodríguez analiza desde la perspectiva lingüístico-pragmática las preposiciones y ciertas locuciones representativas en el discurso periodístico. Juan José Fernández Delgado muestra cómo el estilo de Santa Teresa responde al ideal de lengua renacentista. Mario García-Page, en su investigación sobre el adjetivo colocacional, prueba que un número elevado de sus unidades son adjetivos primitivos, que la sufijación es el procedimiento más productivo en su formación, que el reparto de los sufijos es muy desigual, y que los prefijo

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A wry, intelligent, and unputdownable look at class and national identity today. Alberto Prunetti arrives in the UK, the twenty-something-year-old son of a Tuscan factory worker who has never left home before. With only broken English, his wits, and an obsession with the work of George Orwell to guide him, he sets about looking for a job and navigating his new home. In between long, hot shifts in pizzerias and cleaning toilets up and down the country, he finds his place among the British precariat. His comrades form a polyglot underclass, among them an ex-addict cook, a cleaner in love with opera, an elderly Shakespearean actor, Turks impersonating Neapolitans to serve pizzas, and a cast of petty criminals ‘resting’ between bigger jobs. Stuck between a past haunted by Thatcher and a future dominated by Brexit, Down and Out in England and Italy is a hilarious and poignant snapshot of life on the margins in modern-day Britain.

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A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries.Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the “complete” libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the doomed library of Alexandria as well as the personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought—the Polish librarian who smuggled books to safety as the Nazis began their destruction of Jewish libraries; the Afghani bookseller who kept his store open through decades of unrest. Oral “memory libraries” kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books, the imaginary library of Count Dracula, the library of books never written—Manguel illuminates the mysteries of libraries as no other writer could. With scores of wonderful images throughout, The Library at Night is a fascinating voyage through Manguel’s mind, memory, and vast knowledge of books and civilizations.

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This comprehensive and authoritative guide will teach you the DAX language for business intelligence, data modeling, and analytics. Leading Microsoft BI consultants Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari help you master everything from table functions through advanced code and model optimization. You’ll learn exactly what happens under the hood when you run a DAX expression, how DAX behaves differently from other languages, and how to use this knowledge to write fast, robust code. If you want to leverage all of DAX’s remarkable power and flexibility, this no-compromise “deep dive” is exactly what you need. Perform powerful data analysis with DAX for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Excel, and Power BI Master core DAX concepts, including calculated columns, measures, and error handling Understand evaluation contexts and the CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE functions Perform time-based calculations: YTD, MTD, previous year, working days, and more Work with expanded tables, complex functions, and elaborate DAX expressions Perform calculations over hierarchies, including parent/child hierarchies Use DAX to express diverse and unusual relationships Measure DAX query performance with SQL Server Profiler and DAX Studio

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El gazpacho es algo más que una simple receta: es una técnica culinaria que permite no sólo dar cabida a ingredientes inesperados en sorprendentes variaciones contemporáneas, sino también su utilización como salsa, desayuno o postre. Tal es el panorama que presenta en este espléndido libro Alberto Herráiz, que ha contado para la ocasión con la colaboración de algunos de los cocineros más prestigiosos del panorama actual, como Juan Mari Arzak, Ferrán Adrià, Alain Passard o Alain Dutournier.

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Italy, 1943\. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and the Tour de France twice. But these weren't his only achievements. Deeply religious, Bartali never spoke about what he did during those dark years, when he agreed to work with the Resistance and pass messages from one end of the country to the other. Despite the dangers, Bartali used his training as a pretext to criss-cross Italy, hiding documents in the handlebars and saddle of his bicycle, all the while hoping that each time he was searched they wouldn't think to disassemble his machine. As a result of his bravery, 800 Jews including numerous children were saved from deportation. He died in Florence in 2000 and was recognised as one of the 'Righteous Among the Nations' in 2013. In this book, Alberto Toscano shares the incredible story of this great sportsman and recalls the dramatic moments in Italy and Europe in the twentieth century.

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This volume, edited by Alberto Fiz, explores private collecting through a rich selection of over 150 works from 18 of Italy's most important contemporary art collections. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs and videos show the figure of the collector not merely as a simple purchaser of works, but as the creator of a world, a project that grows in line with his or her personal sensitivity. In opening their doors to these private collections, the third millennium's patrons take on a leading role in today's cultural landscape, offering a unique opportunity to promote otherwise unknown masterpieces. Ranging from Piero Manzoni to Tomás Saraceno, from Marina Abramovic to Maurizio Cattelan, this volume provides a collective picture, a 'collection of collections', linked with our modern-day passions and tastes.

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Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922-2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of Luigi Giussani Alberto Savorana, who spent an important part of his life working and studying with Giussani, draws on many unpublished documents to recount who the priest was and how he lived. Giussani's life story is particularly significant because it shares many of the same challenges, risks, and paths toward enlightenment that are described in his numerous and influential publications. Savorana demonstrates that the circumstances Giussani experienced and the people he encountered played a crucial role in defining his vocation. Illuminating details are shared about Giussani's parents, professors, and friends in the seminary, the things he read, his priesthood, his experience teaching, misunderstandings and moments of recognition, and illness. Luigi Giussani considered Christianity to be a fact, a real event in human life, which takes the form of an encounter, inviting anyone and everyone to verify its relevance to life's needs. This is what happened for so many people all over the world who recognized in this priest and leader, with his rough and captivating voice, not only a teacher to learn from, but above all a man to compare oneself with - a companion for the journey who could be trusted to answer the question: how can we live? In addition to providing the first chronological reconstruction of the life of the founder of Communion and Liberation, The Life of Luigi Giussani provides a detailed account of his legacy and what his life's work meant to individual people and the Church.

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Obra desmesurada cuya enorme extensión ha hecho sumamente azarosa su trayectoria editorial, la ?Anatomía de la melancolía? (1621) es un minucioso examen de un rasgo propio de numerosos temperamentos humanos que, vinculado a veces al genio y otras a la locura, ha hallado forma de manifestarse desde la antigua hipocondría al moderno ?soleen? o los actuales trastornos psíquicos. Contemporáneo de John Donne y en buena medida de Shakespeare, Robert Burton (1577-1640) ?hombre de carrera silenciosa, sedentaria, solitaria, íntima en el Christ Church College de Oxford? incluyó en su magna obra su vasto caudal de conocimientos sobre los más diversos autores y materias en forma de resúmenes históricos, consideraciones filosóficas, anécdotas literarias, mitos y leyendas, citas poéticas, informaciones científicas, meditaciones teológicas, juicios médicos y entretenidas digresiones. Alberto Manguel nos guía por esta intrincada selva seleccionando los pasajes más curiosos y cercanos al lector actual,

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Esta antología recoge más de dos centenares de haikus de acuerdo con el modelo tradicional japonés, agrupados según la época del año que los motivó, sugerida por sus respectivos kigos o palabras de estación. A su vez, dentro de cada una de éstas, los haikus se agrupan en apartados correspondientes a sus autores, en primer lugar los grandes:Bashoo, Buson, Issa, Shiki, y luego los escritos por diversos autores. Se logra así un panorama rico y variado del haiku clásico japonés, esa pequeña estrofa que, a partir de la lírica tradicional de su país, ha conquistado el corazón de lectores y poetas en el mundo entero.Coordinados por Alberto Manzano, responsable final de la edición, han colaborado en este libro Francisco Lapuerta, Javier Parrilla y Tsutomu Takagi.

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Iluminada cuenta lo que sucede cuando lo extraordinario irrumpe como un rayo en la vida de una persona.Con singular franqueza, Alberto Ávila Salazar indaga en su propio pasado y en sus experiencias como escritor para presentarnos a Clara, una mujer fulminada por una visión que la ha transformado. Guiados por el hilo de sus sucesivas reapariciones en la vida del narrador, descubriremos un personaje fascinante y extremo, elaborado con los mimbres de lo real.Este es un libro fabricado de memoria y sutilmente fantástico. Transita por un terreno indeterminado y fronterizo. Entre la visión y la locura, entre la realidad y la ficción, entre la luz y la oscuridad. Iluminada es una novela que parece próxima y cotidiana, pero que puede llevar al lector a lugares desconocidos.

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Se puede leer una imagen? Desde la noche de los tiempos, las imágenes nunca han dejado de cumplir su vocación de transformar el instante en eternidad, ya estuvieran pintadas en un lienzo o esculpidas en piedra, erigidas en monumentos o fotografiadas. Pero las historias que guardan a veces son crípticas, ilegibles, y sólo una mirada puede reanimarlas. A través de Van Gogh, Caravaggio o la fotógrafa Tina Modotti, entre otros, Alberto Manguel nos despierta al mundo de las imágenes. En un texto salpicado de anécdotas, vivencias, referencias religiosas y literarias, traza vínculos y nexos entre obras maestras y trabajos de artistas menos conocidos, nos descubre ciertas tradiciones iconográficas. Llama la atención sobre determinados detalles, nos enseña a leer lo que se ve, a mantener una relación interactiva al margen de comentarios, críticas, errores o prejuicios adquiridos. LEER IMAGENES es una invitación a que cada uno tengamos nuestra visión de una obra, a proyectar en ella y recibir se

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018'Fierce, direct, unashamed. She masks nothing ... Scythes through the myths, the distortions, the adornments and finds the rich, distinctive stories underneath.' The Sunday Times'A chronicle of outsiderness ... Searingly honest ... A painstaking and painful dissection of familial fallout.' The ObserverWhat was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in blood-le

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In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life’s worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.

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Employees, customers, friends and personalities from the world of fashion contribute with texts and testimonies to give a close and endearing vision of Jesus del Pozo. The book is richly illustrated, and includes texts by Vicente Verdu, Juan Gatti, Toni Miro, Torga Sofia Margarita Riviere, Rene Lopez de Haro, Silvia Alexandrovich, Luis Casablanca, Javier Vallhonrat, Alberto Campo Baeza, Emilio Sagi, and Lola Salvador Mateu Gavarron. It also includes testimonies from Manuel Pertegaz, Enrique Loewe, Ana Belen, Inaki Gabilondo, Violeta Sanchez, Pilar del Castillo, Elena Ochoa, Amaia Ubiria and Cristina Marsans.

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The Heart of the Shaman will take you on a journey into the sacred world of the shaman, through stories, dreams, and ancient rites. In his latest book, Alberto Villoldo sets his focus on the dreaming and time-travel practices of the medicine men and women of the Andes and Amazon, whose wisdom radically changed his worldview. Villoldo shares some of their time-honoured teachings that emphasize the sacred dream: an ephemeral, yet powerful vision that has the potential to guide us to our purpose and show us our place in the universe. The practices in this book will help you forge a sacred dream for yourself. They will help you craft a destiny infused with courage, and driven by vision. You'll be invited to follow the footsteps of the luminous warrior and learn how to break out of the three nightmares surrounding love, death, and safety that have held you captive, and transform them into the experience of timeless freedom, known as the Primordial Light. This creative power exercised by shamans will lead you to create beauty and healing, and dream a new world into being.

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Beauty is Found in the Ordinary The world is shouting at us to be more. Strive. Achieve. Overachieve. Never stop pushing. As a family practice doctor, wife, and mother, Mikala Albertson appeared to be living a "perfect" life, but really her whole world was falling apart. Married seven years to an alcohol and drug addict while raising two young children and finishing residency, Mikala eventually reached a breaking point. And surrendered. In sifting through the shattered pieces of her life, she realized she had been chasing something that doesn't exist. Perfect is pretend. And what she desperately needed to embrace was ordinary. A good, hard, messy, gritty, lovely, ordinary life. In Ordinary on Purpose, Mikala shares her heartfelt journey in a raw and revealing way as she invites you to lay down your own endless chase for perfection and embrace this beautiful, messy life exactly as it is with our perfect, loving God right by your side. What would it look like to stop pretending to be "perfect" and be ordinary? Instead of always feeling overwhelmed and alone, you might discover the beauty of a good, hard life grounded in the radiant hope of God's unending love. Life happens in the ordinary, after all.

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The Gregorian Melody is a resource of music pedagogy that centers on one of the most ancient musical repertoires honored by the church and music historians. Though it may not be common to see the word expressive describing Gregorian chant, a repertoire often associated with subdued solemnity, this volume by renowned scholar and practitioner Alberto Turco includes an abundance of insights into the Gregorian art and proposes that chant is first and foremost sung prayer, an interaction of word and melody, which both include proper and appropriate expression. The material included in this resource is foundational as it lays out the elements of the Gregorian melody through a careful analysis of first principles. It will be useful as an introduction to Gregorian chant and for helping readers to understand the Gregorian melody. Readers of all levels may turn to this book to sing the liturgical chant with a deepened appreciation for the expressive power of the Word.

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Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifests itself paradigmatically in the vast world of artistic production.Art and Expression examines the cognitive processes involved in artistic production, aesthetic reception, understanding and enjoyment. Using a phenomenological theoretical and methodological framework, developed by Rudolf Arnheim and other important scholars interested in expressive media, Alberto Argenton considers a wide range of artistic works, which span the whole arc of the history of western graphic and pictorial art. Argenton analyses the representational strategies of a dynamic and expressive character that can be reduced to basic aspects of perception, like obliqueness, amodal completion, and the bilateral function of contour, giving new directions relative to the functioning of cognitive activity.Art and Expression is a monument to the fruitful collaboration of art history and psychology, and Argenton has taken great care to construct a meaningful psychological approach to the arts based also on a knowledge of pictorial genres that allows him to systematically situate the works under scrutiny. Art and Expression is an essential resource for postgraduate researchers and scholars interested in visual perception, art, and gestalt psychology.

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KARMELO C. IRIBARREN nació en San Sebastián en 1959. Ha publicado once libros de poemas. En esta editorial ha publicado la antología Pequeños incidentes (2016). Mientras me alejo es su último libro de poemas. ?Este nuevo libro de K. es tan sabio, sencillo, efectivo y emocionante como los anteriores. Tal vez tenga un sabor otoñal que se deriva del paso de los años, pero eso es lo normal cuando escribimos desde la certeza, siempre agobiante, de que nos queda menos tiempo, de que vamos haciéndonos mayores. Pero está entero nuestro K. preferido, el que es capaz de celebrar a la mujer en tres versos memorables como estos: Tú en la playa / ?recogiendo?/ y el mar desesperado.? LUIS ALBERTO DE CUENCA

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During the past decade, the period from the 7th century B.C.E. and later has been a major focus because it is thought to be the era when much of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was formed. As a result, there has also been much interest in the historical developments of that time and specifically in the status of Judah and its neighbors. Three conferences dealing roughly with a century each were organized, and the first conference was held in Tel Aviv in 2001; the proceedings of that conference were published as Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period. The second volume was published in early 2006, a report on the conference held in Heidelberg in July 2003: Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period.Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E. is the publication of the proceedings of the third conference, which was held in Muenster, Germany, in August 2005; the essays in it focus on the century during which the Persian Empire fell to Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic kingdoms came to the fore.Participants whose contributions are published here are: R. Achenbach, R. Albertz, B. Becking, E. Ben Zvi, J. Blenkinsopp, E. Eshel, H. Eshel, L. L. Grabbe, A. Kloner, G. N. Knoppers, I. Kottsieper, A. Lemaire, O. Lipschits, Y. Magen, K. Schmid, I. Stern., O. Tal, D. Vanderhooft, J. Wiesehöfer, J. L. Wright, and J. W. Wright.

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Access the gifts of transformation, heal the self, and live in harmony with one another and with the Earth by journeying through the wisdom wheel—a fresh take on the traditional medicine wheel—its archetypes, and its four wisdom challenges.The teachings of the medicine wheel have existed from the beginning of time. Today, however, we are creating modern paradigms of shamanism while drawing on the sacred traditions of the past. In this book, shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo explains that the medicine wheel is also a wisdom wheel: an advanced tool for working toward personal and planetary transformation. By journeying through the wisdom wheel and its four directions—South, West, North, and East—each of which is associated with an archetypal animal and sacred journey, you will be able to access powerful healing energies and step into a new personal and collective destiny.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Los versos de cordeliaMonstruo femenino de la mitología y el folklore de la Grecia y la Roma clásicas, Lamia es una especie de vampiro que chupa la sangre de los niños e incluso se los come. La leyenda habla de una Lamia, hija de Libia y Belo, que se convirtió en amante de Zeus, por lo que fue castigada por Hera. Se decía en la Antigüedad que la mitad inferior del cuerpo de una Lamia era de serpiente, descripción que populariza el precioso poema Lamia, que John Keats publicó en 1820. Luis Alberto de Cuenca y José Fernández Bueno han traducido magistralmente este clásico de la poesía vampírica, que en esta edición recupera las ilustraciones de Will Low.

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Alberto Moravia pertenece a esa reducida categoría de escritores que han podido disfrutar inmediatamente del resultado de su actividad literaria y que se han convertido en maestros reconocidos. Desde su precoz comienzo literario, a los veintidós años, con " Los indiferentes " , es uno de los autores más populares y discutidos, que ha influido constantemente en la cultura contemporánea.Con los " Cuentos romanos " , Moravia abre su lengua " al romanesco, a un lenguaje bajo " influido por sus lecturas juveniles de Belli. En ellos no nos habla del pueblo de Roma en un sentido histórico o sociológico, sino desde su condición simplemente humana, que hay que aceptar como es. Esta vez no hay ninguna condena ni para sí mismo ni para el que, leyendo, pueda a veces reconocerse en esos pícaros.

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Nunca se llega a una isla desierta por primera vez. [...] El pionero fue Robinson Crusoe, quien pisó la arena para siempre una mañana de octubre de 1659. Desde entonces, esperanzados, no hacemos más que repetir su gesto.Alberto ManguelRobinson Crusoe es una apasionante novela de aventuras cuyo protagonista llega a una isla desierta, tras un naufragio del que es el único superviviente. Allí permanecerá durante veinticinco años y tendrá que enfrentarse a la vida salvaje y a una terrible soledad. Robinson descubrirá que en la isla viven caníbales y rescatará a Viernes, un nativo que se convertirá en su fiel compañero.Con gran agudeza, Daniel Defoe plantea además diversas cuestiones de carácter social, político y filosófico en este gran clásico de la literatura universal.

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Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production for Sustainable Energy A complete discussion of photocatalytic hydrogen production, including water splitting, biomass or waste valorization, solar reactors, photoelectrochemical technologies, and more In Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production for Sustainable Energy, distinguished researcher Dr. Alberto Puga delivers a comprehensive exploration of photocatalytic hydrogen production. In the book, readers will find explanations of why and how this technology is called to have a significant impact on cleaner and sustainable production of fuels and find a valuable source of information on the mechanisms of light harvesting and the chemical transformations occurring in these processes. The book explains the technical and engineering approaches currently being used in photocatalytic hydrogen production, as well as approaches that may be used in the future for both commercial and research purposes. A fulsome approach to the subject, covering everything from fundamental aspects of photocatalytic water splitting to waste valorization and solar plant operations, the book also includes: A thorough introduction to sustainability and photocatalytic hydrogen production in the context of renewable energy Comprehensive explorations of water splitting under visible light and ultraviolet irradiation Practical discussions of photoreforming and photocatalytic organic synthesis with convenient hydrogen release Fulsome treatments of photoelectrocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production Perfect for photochemists and catalytic chemists, Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production for Sustainable Energy will also benefit other chemists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, energy engineers and physicists seeking a one-stop resource on the subject.

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New York Times Bestseller“Not a conventional Trump-era book. It is less about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the unprecedented capitulation of a political party. This book will endure for helping us understand not what is happening but why it happened…. [An] indispensable work.”—Washington PostPolitico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump.As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: they had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural identity, lit a fire under the right. Republicans regained power in Congress but spent that time fighting among themselves. With these struggles weakening the party’s defenses, and with more and more Americans losing faith in the political class, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to launch his campaign in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment. Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the GOP can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil.Loaded with explosive original reporting and based on hundreds of exclusive interviews—including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell—American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of a political era.

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Acaso como ninguna otra ciudad del occidente europeo, Cádiz encarna el vínculo estrecho entre las grandes corrientes de la ilustración, el liberalismo y el romanticismo, bases de la mentalidad moderna. Mostrar el engarce modélico, aunque no exento de polémicas, que esos tres movimientos consiguieron en el enclave atlántico, una verdadera ínsula en la España de su tiempo, es uno de los propósitos de estas páginas donde Alberto González Troyano recorre las formas de sociabilidad, los debates políticos y la vida no sólo literaria de una ciudad volcada en la creación de un nuevo paradigma ideológico. El siglo de plenitud de Cádiz, a caballo entre el XVIII y el XIX, nos muestra una época primordial y efervescente, de enorme repercusión en los territorios españoles de ambos hemisferios. La milenaria ciudad andaluza fue ejemplo de convivencia entre diferentes aspiraciones, nacionalidades y clases sociales, en unas circunstancias históricas verdaderamente épicas que combinaron el azar y tal ve

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En 1983, hace ahora cuarenta años, José Luis Garci se alzó con el primer Óscar de la historia del cine español y también en español. Una exposición destaca lo que supuso aquel triunfo logrado con la película "Volver a empezar". Se trata de algo más que un homenaje destinado a aprobar varias asignaturas pendientes con el director madrileño. Porque en este libro, ideado a modo de catálogo y coordinado por Luis Alberto de Cuenca, un grupo de expertos y amigos repasa su trayectoria como cineasta y resalta su faceta de escritor, oficio que no ha abandonado nunca, y de comunicador, como periodista ?premiado por sus artículos con galardones como el Mariano de Cavia? y divulgador cultural, empeñado en dar a conocer el séptimo arte a varias generaciones.

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A no-holds-barred, medium-spicy, cosmic truth bomb from the Dirtbag Astrologer himself! Astrology--what is it good for? According to Alberto Toribio, The Dirtbag Astrologer, this ancient art is best for getting laid, destroying your enemies, and improving your life. Not necessarily in that order. But maybe in that order? Toribio guides readers through the horrible ins and outs of the twelve sun signs, from Cancer the Simp to Aggro Aries. You will feel attacked, and you will laugh bitterly about the signs of your exes, and afterwards, you will follow Toribio through the whats and whys of Moon and Rising Signs, Houses, Transits, and other crucial information that will lay bare your emotional truths and maybe elicit a giggle or two. Follow along for this lovingly degenerate handbook to the stars from an astrologer who will give you the hard truths, even when it hurts (especially when it hurts).

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'Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining' New York Times'All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.'In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life.Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighbourhood, the revellers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.

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Con Guillermo, IX duque de Aquitania (1071-1127), se inicia la poesía trovadoresca, uno de los legados literarios más importantes del Medievo europeo. De Guillermo se nos han conservado once canciones. Las seis primeras están escritas en un lenguaje plástico y brutal y van dirigidas a sus compañeros de correrías bélicas y amorosas; la cuarta, Farai un vers de dreit nien, es, con mucho, la más conocida. Las canciones VI-X se sitúan en un contexto de amor cortés en que la dama hace del caballero su vasallo, trasladando a un contexto erótico las estructuras feudales de la época. La última canción expresa melancólicas consideraciones ante la proximidad de la muerte.Esta edición bilingüe de la Poesía completa del primer trovador provenzal ha corrido a cargo del poeta Luis Alberto de Cuenca (Madrid, 1950), asiduo traductor de textos clásicos y medievales y Profesor de Investigación del CSIC.

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Encuadernación: CartonéColección: Sillón OrejeroJeremías es el pájaro-narrador que nos adentra en el universo de Judas, una ardilla que persigue encontrar su lugar en el mundo. Con estética y estructura narrativa que beben de la fábula, se describe un universo de seres antropomórficos paralelo al de la anterior obra de Alberto Vázquez, Psiconautas (Astiberri, 2006), con la que se cruza incluso algún que otro secundario.Judas es un personaje mudo, inexpresivo, misterioso, de quien sabremos que le apasiona dibujar. Con un tono dominante cercano a la ironía y al humor tirando a oscuro, las distintas peripecias en las que se ve envuelta la ardilla nos van dando pistas sobre su personalidad, sus ilusiones, sus adicciones -psicotrópica, laboral-, sobre su caída y renacimiento...En su zigzagueante desarrollo vital que le lleva a encontrarse con su amigo Vernel y el Gran Maestro que todo lo sabe, con Micael el pájaro fantasma y el sapo Christian, con Jesús Cristo el editor y el lo

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En este segundo volumen de la serie Zen, Alberto Silva se centra en la reflexión de la práctica de la meditación sentada: qué significa afirmar que el Zen constituye una experiencia? Qué implica abordarlo valiéndose de un lenguaje que, sin ceder a la imprecisión, reivindica, como cualidad específica crucial, un proceso experimental?El pensamiento del Zen es el resultado de una práctica meditativa. El gran reformador del budismo japonés, Eihei Dôgen, afirmó que Zen es zazen. Asimismo, el zazen o Meditación sentada Zen reúne los fuertes atributos de la experiencia constituyendo un acontecimiento inédito -en ocasiones impensado-, capaz de captar a toda la persona y haciéndola asumir el riesgo de un giro radical.Experiencia, cuerpo, espacio, tiempo y lenguaje son los focos de este segundo volumen en el que Silva se centra en la reflexión de la práctica de la meditación sentada y en las visibles modificaciones que el zazen produce sobre estos focos: aclaración (satori), liberación (ke

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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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El caso Nóos, la trama Gürtel, los sobresueldos de Bárcenas, el caso Blesa Los escándalos políticos que han salpicado la realidad española de los últimos años han llevado a gran parte de la sociedad a un cierto desencanto hacia la democracia surgida de la Transición y a cuestionar incluso la monarquía, la institución que hasta ahora había quedado casi al margen de toda crítica.En ese proceso de desilusión colectiva, el republicanismo, que tras la Constitución que convertía España de nuevo en un reino parecía no tener apenas cabida en la vida pública, ha vuelto con fuerza, como expresión no sólo del rechazo a una jefatura del Estado de carácter dinástico, sino también a una democracia de corte cada vez más liberal, que cercena los principios de participación libre y activa de los ciudadanos en los asuntos públicos.Para cambiar esa tendencia, Alberto Garzón Espinosa plantea en este libro un objetivo ambicioso para España, que va más allá de redactar una nueva Constitución: se trata

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Las sorprendentes ilustraciones a color de Iván Bilibin para los cuentos rusos de Afanásiev se han publicado en varias ocasiones en España, pero nunca se ha respetado la edición original tal y como la diseñó su autor, ni siquiera se han ofrecido en tu totalidad ni acompañando al cuento que corresponde cada una de ellas. Gracias a una edición alemana impresa en Frankurt am Maine a mediados de los 70, se han podido restaurar siete de los relatos para oferecerlos en español tal y como la ideó Bilibin: ?Vasilisa la Bella?, ?El zarevich Iván, el pájaro de fuego y el lobo gris?, ?La zarevna rana?, ?La pluma de Finist, el halcón resplandeciente?, ?La hermanita Aliónushka y el hermanito Ivánushka?, ?La patita blanca? y ?María de las Muertes?. Cada página es una ilustración, que encierra el texto que la acompaña. Luis Alberto de Cuenca y José Fernández Bueno los traducido al español sin cortes y respetando escrupulosamente el texto original.

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Los deportes que se tratan en este libro se encuentran adaptados a las características más generalizadas de nuestros centros educativos, y sobre todo, a las costumbres deportivas de nuestros alumnos, modificando las reglas para hacer los juegos más simples y activos, y eliminando las que permiten la violencia a través de los contactos físicos voluntarios.Además de un reglamento adaptado, incluimos numerosos juegos y actividades de iniciación a los gestos técnicos de cada deporte, de modo que el profesor o monitor pueda desarrollar con facilidad un plan de trabajo o unidad didáctica específica sobre deportes de otros países.Javier Alberto Bernal Ruiz

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This incisive book is an accessible guide to the laws and policies relating to economic and monetary union (EMU). Providing a rich, multidisciplinary analysis, it combines historical, legal and economic perspectives to offer a detailed understanding of how EMU has developed since its inception and how it works in practice today.Alberto Saravalle begins with an overview of the history of EMU, alongside a theoretical analysis of its regulatory framework and development. He then discusses the events of the European sovereign debt crisis, examining the measures taken by EU institutions such as the European Central Bank, as well as the responses of the Member States and the impact of economic policies they adopted as a result. Finally, he analyses recent proposed reforms to EMU and its possible future evolution, including a discussion of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Member States' willingness to participate in further reform and integration.This book will be a valuable reference for those teaching and studying advanced courses on EU law, as well as courses that cover the economic history of EU integration. It will also be useful to practitioners, government officials and policy-makers wishing to familiarise themselves with the complex functioning of EMU.

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The Law of Market Failure: Most new products will fail in the market, even if competently executed.Using his experience at Google, his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and consultant, and insights from his lectures at Stanford University and Google, Alberto Savoia’s The Right It offers an unparalleled approach to beating the beast that is market failure.Millions of people around the world are working hard to bring to life new ideas. Some of these ideas will turn out to be stunning successes that will have a major impact on our world and our culture: The next Google, the next Polio vaccine, the next Harry Potter, the next Red Cross, the next Ford Mustang. Others will be smaller, more personal but no less meaningful, successes: A little restaurant that becomes a neighborhood favorite, a biography that does not make the best-seller list but tells an important story, a local nonprofit to care for abandoned pets. At this very same moment, another group of people is working equally hard to develop new ideas that, when launched, will fail. Some of them will fail spectacularly and publicly: like New Coke, the movie “John Carter”, or the Ford Edsel. Others will be smaller, more private, but no less painful failures: A home-based business that never takes off, a children’s book that neither publishers nor children have any interest in, a charity for a cause that too few people care enough about. If you are currently working to develop a new idea, whether on your own or as part of a team, which group are you in? Most people believe that they either are, or will be, in the first group—the group whose ideas will be successful. All they have to do is work hard and execute well. Unfortunately, we know that this cannot be the case. The law of market failure tells us that up to 90 percent of most new products, services, businesses, and initiatives will fail soon after they are launched—regardless of how promising they sound, how much we commit to them, or how well we execute them. This is a hard fact to accept. We believe that other people fail because they don’t know what they are doing. Somehow, we believe that this does not apply to us and to our idea—especially if we’ve experienced victories in the past.Filled with detailed case studies, a lesson on creating your own hard data, a strategy for market engagement, and an introduction to the concept of a pretotype (not a prototype), The Right It is a groundbreaking, entertaining, and highly practical book delivers a proven formula for turning ideas, products, services, and businesses into successful endeavors. As Alberto writes, “make sure you are building The Right It before you build It right”.

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"All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death."In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader in a single weekend. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life.Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.The story of the de La Cruzes is the quintessential American story. This indelible portrait of a complex family reminds us of what it means to be the first generation and to live two lives across one border. It takes us into a world we have not known, while reflecting back the hopes and dreams of our own families. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.

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Knowledge of automata theory and formal languages is crucial for understanding human-computer interaction, as well as for understanding the various processes that take place when manipulating knowledge if that knowledge is, indeed, expressed as sentences written in a suitably formalized language. In particular, it is at the basis of the theory of parsing, which plays an important role in language translation, compiler construction, and knowledge manipulation in general.Presenting basic notions and fundamental results, this concise textbook is structured on the basis of a correspondence that exists between classes of automata and classes of languages. That correspondence is established by the fact that the recognition and the manipulation of sentences in a given class of languages can be done by an automaton in the corresponding class of automata. Four central chapters center on: finite automata and regular languages; pushdown automata and context-free languages; linear bounded automata and context-sensitive languages; and Turing machines and type 0 languages. The book also examines decidable and undecidable problems with emphasis on the case for context-free languages.Topics and features: Provides theorems, examples, and exercises to clarify automata-languages correspondences Presents some fundamental techniques for parsing both regular and context-free languages Classifies subclasses of decidable problems, avoiding focus on the theory of complexity Examines finite-automata minimalization and characterization of their behavior using regular expressions Illustrates how to derive grammars of context-free languages in Chomsky and Greibach normal forms Offers supplementary material on counter machines, stack automata, and abstract language families This highly useful, varied text/reference is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses on automata theory and formal languages, and assumes no prior exposure to these topics nor any training in mathematics or logic.Alberto Pettorossi is professor of theoretical computer science at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.

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It is a vast world one enters when writing on the statuettes of the Art Deco era: both in terms of the number of artists that contributed to it, and the number of figures they created. This book studies the influences that shaped these artists' work - namely, the growth of the Ballets Russes under the aegis of Sergei Diaghilev; the fascination in all things Egyptian that followed the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1924; and the Music Hall, with all of its venues, its stars and its glamour. Paris was a magnet for aspiring artists. An unrivalled destination for free-spending tourists, its popularity dwelt in the city's inexpensiveness, considering the absence of the dollar and the falling value of the franc. A thorough look at its artists and their work can only emerge from long investigation. Also available by Alberto Shayo: Chiparus: Master of Art Deco ISBN 9781851498222 and Roland Paris: The Art Deco Jester King ISBN 9781851498239

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Drawing upon a model developed over 25 years of experience and successfully taught for many years at his company Wilson Learning Andina y Rio de la Plata, Alberto Pérez La Rotta presents a comprehensive and replicable approach to integrated business transformation that synchronizes natural human behavior with the needs of leadership, sales, customers, and teams. Here Pérez provides a roadmap to his method as well as case studies from across Latin America and across the financial services, chemical, pharmaceutical, industrial equipment, and consumer products industries, and he demonstrates how to clarify the challenges facing an organization, define a new value proposition, and connect strategy to key capabilities rooted in an organization’s leadership, culture, sales potential, customer focus, and value chain. This allows organizations to develop and implement solutions that generate transformation and growth and measure the impact of the transformation on the organization and systems. Pérez clearly connects theory to practice in each of its real-world business cases, making Integrated Business Transformation of interest to researches, students, and practitioners.

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