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In How Ideas Are Born, readers will find a treasure chest of images by 26 diverse illustrators from 12 different countries that the author has gathered, selected and curated for the book. The types of images and styles vary, ranging from the childlike and naive to the poignant, suggestive and truly masterly. In addition to the 270 images, the book contains 110 drawings and pages from notebooks and sketchbooks that take the reader deeper into the nature of each artist's work. The visual elements are complemented by revealing interviews with each artist in which they discuss what compelled them to become illustrators, their inspirations, and the research, methods, personal philosophies and work processes that allow them to transform a creative impulse or an emotion into an idea, and an idea into a work of art. We learn about what drives and inspires them as well as the origins of their ideas and creativity, from an innocent curiosity about shapes and colors to the desire to share something fascinating and wonderful with others in a unique and original way. Contributors: ARGENTINA: Isol Misenta. BELGIUM: Tom Schamp. BRASIL: Flavio Morais. CANADA: Anita Kunz. FRANCE: Serge Bloch, Delphine Durand, Martin Jarrie, Herve Tullet. IRELAND: Chris Haughton. ITALY: Simone Rea, Valerio Vidali. JAPAN: Yoshiko Hada. PORTUGAL: Ana Biscaia, Carolina Celas. SPAIN: Elisa Arguile, Pablo Auladell, Pep Carrio, Jesus Cisneros, Isidro Ferrer, Manuel Marsol, M.A. Perez Arteaga. SWITZERLAND: Fanny Dreyer. USA: Gary Baseman (Los Angeles, CA), Katie Benn (San Francisco, CA), Lisa Congdon (Portland, OR), Elizabeth Haidle (Portland, OR).

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Jesús Cisneros is a celebrated international illustrator whose work is characterised by its economy of elements, simple, almost minimalist strokes, and a limited selection of colours to breathe life into highly evocative drawings. This book filled with vibrant images presents Cisneros's creative processes as the artist shares insights about inspiration, improvisation, personal style, and artistic evolution. The author includes an illuminating interview woven throughout the text and gives glimpse into Cisneros's personal notebooks, showcasing the research and exploration that underpins his magical scenes. From experimental workshops conducted with young people worldwide to commissioned works and his own expressive and introspective pieces illustrating poetry and prose, children's books and theatre scenery, the breadth of Cisneros's art unfolds before readers' eyes. The reader accompanies the artist as he wields brushes worn with time, dipping them into jars of paint and sketching on squ

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Island of Bali is now available with a foreword by Professor Adrian Vickers which puts the book into context for a modern audience.First published in 1937, Island of Bali is still regarded by many as the most authoritative text on Bali and its fascinating people. Included is a wealth of information on the daily life, art, customs and religion of this magical "Island of the Gods." In the author's own words it presents a "bird's-eye view of Balinese life and culture."Miguel Covarrubias, the author, was a noted painter and caricaturist as well as a student of anthropology. He lived in Bali for a total of three years in the early 1930s, and today his account is as fresh and insightful as it was when it was originally published. Introducing the island with a survey of hits history, geography and social structure, Covarrubias goes on to present a captivating picture of Balinese art, music and drama. Religion, witchcraft, death and cremation are also covered.Island of Bali will appeal to anyone with interest in this unique island, from general Eat, Pray, Love readers to serious anthropologist alike. Complementing the text are 90 drawings by Covarrubias and countless others by Balinese artists. Also included are 114 half-tone photographs, and five full-color paintings by the author.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Design and Architecture for Signal and Image Processing, DASIP 2023, held in Toulouse, France in January 2023.The 9 full included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Methods and Applications, Hardware Architectures and Implementations and others.

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Everything is . . . MAMA! Jimmy Fallon, one of the most popular entertainers in the world and NBC's Tonight Show host, was on a mission with his first children's book to have every baby's first word be DADA. And it worked! A lot of babies' first words were DADA. However, everything after that was MAMA. So take a lighthearted look at the world from your baby's point of view as different animals try to teach their children that there are other words in addition to MAMA for familiar objects and activities, now available in board book format.

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This title features 65 authentic recipes from Portugal, shown in over 260 photographs. It explores the rich, varied and historic cuisine of Portugal in this sumptuous book, with appetizing recipes from a world-renowned Portuguese chef and restaurateur. It includes a fascinating introduction about the culture and regions of Portugal, the most important aspects of the cuisine, and information about equipment, materials, ingredients and special techniques. Recipe highlights include Scrambled Eggs with Chourico and Green Asparagus, Seafood Soup, Hake with Turnip Tops and Onions, Woodcock with Madeira, Tripe Stewed Oporto-style, and Honey Pudding with Ricotta. It is illustrated with over 260 inspirational photographs, the perfect way to discover a remarkable culinary heritage. Portugal's culinary traditions change with the landscape, from the north to the south of the country and from the sea border to the rugged, mountainous interior. The recipe chapters contain a selection of delicious dishes that reflect the varied tastes of Portugal, and feature ingredients such as leafy greens, garlic, sheeps' milk cheese, pork sausages, spider crab, wild mushrooms, chestnuts and almonds. Recipe highlights include the refreshing taste of Tomato Salad with Marinated Peppers and Oregano, the warming Chestnut and White Bean Soup from the north, the dry salted cod Bacalhau served with potato mash gratin, the smooth-tasting Roast Pork Ribs with Milhos (polenta) and the irresistible winter treat of Fried Bread with Port Sauce.

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It's party time at The Number Tower in this hilarious new story about a group of number friends. Three is very excited about having a birthday party. But when the other Digits arrive, things don't go to plan. There isn't space for everyone to sit or enough cake to go around. Can the Digits find a way to save the party and give Three the best birthday ever? Perfect for understanding greater and less, double and half - you can count on the Digits to make numbers fun!

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It’s a race against time! Press play on Out of Time!, the fourth graphic novel in the awesome action-packed, New York Times bestselling series by YouTube’s favorite family of gamers, FGTeeV!The FGTeeV family gamers have survived their fair share of glitchy gaming consoles and weird goings-on. But when Duddz can’t stop gaming on his fancy new eWatch, the whole family winds up sucked into the watch and on a perilous adventure across space and time!To find their way home, Duddz, Moomy, Lexi, Mike, Chase, and Shawn are going to have to avoid being eaten by a T-Rex, win a joust against a brave knight, and fight angry space invaders! But when they meet a familiar face (ANOTHER Duddz?!), will they be able to return everyone to the right timeline before it’s too late?Game like you’ve never gamed before in the fun-filled fourth graphic novel adventure from YouTube sensation FGTeeV, with more than 41 MILLION subscribers and over 50 BILLION views!

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SEGÚN Oscar Wilde, hay una sola cualidad literaria sin la cual de nada valen todas las demás: el encanto. Y este libro lo tiene de modo muy singular. De entre todas las autobiografías españolas de los siglos XVI al XVIII, las que más merecen leerse son quizás esta de Diego Galán y la Vida del capitán Alonso de Contreras, más conocida, pero no de mucho mayor mérito. Las memorias de Galán alcanzan sólo a la adolescencia y primera juventud, entre los 14 años, cuando es capturado por unos piratas argelinos y los 25 en que logra retornar a su Toledo natal, tras once años de peripecia, sufrimiento y maravilla. Memorias de cautiverio pues, pero también verídica novela de aventuras entre Argel y Constantinopla, con el continuo telón de fondo del mar Mediterráneo en sus más distintas orillas. El propio Galán nos da la clave del asombroso atractivo de sus memorias juveniles al confesarnos: nací con inclinación de ver mundo y cosas nuevas cada día. Gracias a eso podemos asistir con cercanía, con

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Alegría no quiere ser como su madre. Ha crecido al borde de un abismo y se aferra a sus estudios y a su trabajo para no caer en él. Pero llega Mario, criado a base de golpes y humillaciones, tan fuerte y a la vez tan frágil. Abraza como un rosal, que huele bien y se clava en la piel. Al primer pinchazo, Alegría intenta zafarse, pero el rosal se ha transformado en zarza. Ya no sabe salir. Ese mundo nuevo ?de camaradería adolescente, tardes en la piscina y descubrimiento del sexo?, se convierte en prohibido porque a ella ya no le corresponde mundo alguno: ella ya es solo un elemento, una posesión más, en el mundo de Mario.Miguel Ángel Carmona del Barco construyó la voz de Alegría tras un largo proceso de inmersión que le llevó a entrevistar a once mujeres víctimas de violencia de género. Con una prosa luminosa, magistral, directa y vehemente, recrea con una fidelidad hiriente la génesis de una relación de maltrato. Nosotros, impotentes, como vecinos que escuchan tras un tabique, solo

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Mr. Yes could do a lot of different, funny things…but he’d never learned how to say no. Even though it made him unhappy, he would reluctantly agree to do things because he would say yes even though he really wanted to say no One day, the unexpected happened and Mr. Yes found a powerful, new voice.So what about you? Have you ever smiled and said yes when what you really wanted to say was no? This is a fun story for readers of all ages about the importance of communication and being assertive.Guided Reading Level: P , Lexile Level: 620L Don't miss thel booktrailer! Read the first pages:

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Arturo's Madrid's homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New Mexico is a land of struggle and dispute, a place in which Madrid's ancestors predate those who landed at Plymouth Rock. In the Country of Empty Crosses is Madrid's complex yet affirming memoir about lands before the advent of passable roads--places such as Tierra Amarilla, San Augustin [insert "u" and note accent on I], and Los Fuertes that were once among the most remote in the nation. Madrid grew up in a family that was doubly removed from the community: as Hispanic Protestants, they were a minority among the region's politically dominant Anglo Protestants and a minority within the overwhelmingly Catholic Hispanic populace. Madrid writes affectingly of the tensions, rifts, and disputes that punctuated the lives of his family as they negotiated prejudice and racism, casual and institutional, to advance and even thrive as farmers, ranchers, and teachers. His story is affectionate as well, embracing generations of ancestors who found their querencias--their beloved home places--in that beautiful if sometimes unforgiving landscape. The result is an account of New Mexico unlike any other, one in which humor and heartache comfortably coexist. Complemented by stunning images by acclaimed photographer Miguel Gandert -- ranging from intimate pictures of unkempt rural cemeteries to New Mexico's small villages and stunning vistas -- In the Country of Empty Crosses is a memoir of loss and survival, of hope and redemption, and a lyrical celebration of an often misunderstood native land and its people.

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NANA loves you more! How much does Nana love you? More than the moon? More than the stars? More than all of the planets by far! Jimmy Fallon, one of the most popular entertainers in the world, will tell you just how deep a Nana's love runs.

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Acre, 1291. The last Crusadercity in the Holy Land is about to fall. TwoKnights Templar, obeying the grandmaster's orders, manage to escape theinvading Muslim army on the order's last ship. New York City, nowadays. During the unveilingof an exhibition of some of the Vatican's treasures, four men disguised asTemplars attack the Metropolitan Museum and steal several artefacts, includinga centuries-old decoder - a loss that horrifies the Church.

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Can Superman and Batman bury the past before the cosmos s greatest villains bury them? Learn the shocking truth about why the World s Greatest Super Heroes disbanded in this unforgettable story by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Miguel Mendonca! Includes Justice League: Last Ride #1-7.

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Over the course of twenty years, acclaimed studio Miró Rivera Architects has produced an innovative, refined, and imaginative body of work—both modern and respectful of time-honored building traditions—that embodies the particularities of place and blurs the line between art and architecture. The firm’s diverse practice weaves together a commitment to craftsmanship with a honed sense of materiality and space to create structures at once elegant, controlled, and pleasant to inhabit. In all, Miró Rivera Architects has won more than one hundred design awards and represented American architecture at exhibitions worldwide.The first from the firm, this volume provides critical insight into the studio’s creative process through texts, 95 drawings, and 231 photographs, exploring two decades of work that has helped bring Texas architecture onto the international stage. Featuring essays by Michael Sorkin, Nina Rappaport, Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz, and Carlos Jiménez—prominent thinkers in urban design and architecture—and new images by renowned photographers Iwan Baan and Sebastian Schutyser, this book examines Miró Rivera’s approach to Austin as a “landscape city” and situates the firm’s work in a global context related to concepts of nature, urbanism, sustainability, and history.

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FAT MIMETICS FOR FOOD APPLICATIONS Detailed resource providing insight into the understanding of fat mimetics and their use for the development of food products Fat Mimetics for Food Applications explores strategies for the development of fat mimetics for food applications, including meat, dairy, spreads and baked products, covering all the physical strategies and presenting the main characterization techniques for the study of fat mimetics behaviour. The text further provides insight into the understanding of fat mimetics in food structure and how it affects food products. Fat Mimetics for Food Applications is organized into five sections. The first section provides a historical overview and thermodynamic perspective of the structure-properties relationship in fat mimetics. Section II is devoted to the main materials used for the development of fat mimetics, and the structures that result from different methodologies and approaches. Section III overviews the methodologies used for the characterization of the developed replacers. Section IV contains examples of what has been done in the use of fat mimetics in food. Section V focuses on a future perspective, along with real cases of projects within the industry and a commercial perspective of some examples. Topics covered in Fat Mimetics for Food Applications include: Role of lipids in foods and human nutrition; the current status of fats in the food industry; and food trends as they pertain to fat mimetics Materials for the production of fat mimetics such as natural waxes, sterols, lecithin, mono and di-glycerides, fatty alcohols and fatty acids, polysaccharides and proteins Rheological and texture properties; sensorial aspects of fat mimetics and advanced characterization strategies such as small-angle X-ray scattering and small-angle neutron scattering Fat mimetics’ nutritional and functional properties, along with examples of using in vitro gastrointestinal digestion system to unravel the lipids fat during digestion Examples of the application of fat mimetics in different food products such as meat, dairy, margarine and fat spreads and baked products Fat Mimetics for Food Applications targets researchers, academics, and food industry professionals to boost their capability to integrate different science and technology as well as engineering and materials aspects of fat mimetics for food development.

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Machiavelli uncovers the productive function of social conflict in establishing a new idea of popular power and its legal institutions whose function is to relativize the command of the state and check the abuses of the privileged groups in society. Henceforth, every legitimate form of government must at the same time be inscribed with its immanent critique and imminent subversion: The possibility of political form is conditioned by the possibility of changing it in an event of political revolution. The book argues that Machiavelli’s new understanding of political freedom presupposes a revolutionary change in the way that history is conceived. Machiavelli changes the paradigm of action from the classical idea that virtue means acting in correspondence to what the times demand to a modern idea of virtue wherein acting means going against the times in order to effect a radical new beginning. In so doing, Machiavelli becomes the first political philosopher of the event.

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It is estimated that there are currently 1.9 million deafened people living in North America - individuals who could once hear naturally or with amplification but have become deaf and are now unable to rely on hearing to comprehend spoken information. Despite this vast number, until now there have been few books that specifically address the process of adjustment to, and acceptance of, deafness as an adult. Kathryn Woodcock and Miguel Aguayo have addressed that situation with their unique look at deafness in Deafened People: Adjustment and Support. The authors demonstrate that deafness is not merely a medical condition; it is a social disability that affects the individual, the family, the social circle, and the work group. By describing the psychosocial experience of acquired deafness as a process of adjustment, Woodcock and Aguayo demonstrate that acceptance of deafness is a process involving practical, social, and emotional implications. To assist in that process, the authors have provided a guide to self-help techniques of proven value to deafened people. Drawing on their own experiences as deaf professionals, Woodcock and Aguayo explore such questions as how deafness occurs, how relationships (professional and personal) can be affected by progressive deafness, and how and where to find peer support. Section 1 describes the process of adjustment, while section 2 offers a practical guide to a successful method of establishing a self-help support network, with reference to such organizations as the Association of Late-Deafened Adults. Written in a lively, engaging style, the book combines medical background, professional advice, information on resources, and personal examples. Deafened People: Adjustment and Support will be invaluable for medical professionals and lay readers alike.

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A prize-winning author's magical realist fable about greed and corruption in Venezuela, Black Sugar gives a fascinating view of the country's social and economic development throughout the twentieth century through the story of a family of sugarcane growers. It tells of buried treasure and the legendary privateer Henry Morgan.

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Lucas is looking everywhere for a best friend: the park, the circus, by the lake, and at school. He meets a lot of people along the way. But what about a best friend? This entertaining and colorful book is full of details for kids to search and find. Every spread features line drawings that are humming with activity. From an animal hospital populated with every kind of pet to an office filled with workers too busy working to give Lucas the time of day; from a restaurant that appears to serve only sandwiches and salad to a botanic garden where the visitors are just as strange as the plants. As Lucas travels around the city, he meets a lot of people, but will he find a best friend? Young readers will turn again and again to these drawings, discovering new details each time, and sparking their own ideas about how people interact in everyday situations. Many look and find questions will increase the fun and help to spot even more details.

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Electricity is the power behind smartphones and thunderstorms and vacuum cleaners. It lights up our homes and cooks our food, but what IS it and where does it come from? Lift the flaps and try some simple experiments to find out.

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El 85% de la superficie de España es rural, y sobre esta amplia diversidad de paisajes, culturas y sistemas económicos, reside una quinta parte del conjunto de la población española. Los habitantes, instituciones y empresas del medio rural son expertos desde hace décadas en lidiar con crisis de diferentes calados; emigración, envejecimiento, declive económico del sector agrario, pérdida de servicios públicos?pero también en encontrar respuestas creativas a las limitaciones que enfrentan. En esta última faceta, una política pública europea destinada a revitalizar zonas rurales (iniciativa y metodología LEADER), ha jugado un papel esencial a la hora de promover innovaciones sociales, económicas y ambientales protagonizadas por quienes habitan y emprenden en estos territorios. Unas 300 comarcas españolas han aplicado este enfoque basado en la participación local, la planificación y el apoyo a iniciativas novedosas, en un modelo que ahora la Unión Europea quiere hacer extensivo a zonas urb

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