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'HILARIOUS' ISABELLE BROOMEmily has it all: a good job, awesome friends, a great boyfriend, and a wonderful flat exactly 411 miles away from her nightmarish family.But when her boyfriend Robert dumps her mere days before Christmas, Emily's devastated. Knowing there's no way she can face her family alone, Emily enlists the help of her party-boy neighbour Evan. All he needs to do is pretend to be Robert.The only trouble is Evan's not exactly boyfriend material. He likes flirting, loud music, and louder sex. Can Emily handle Evan and her family, or is she heading straight for disaster?WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR'Laugh-out-loud funny' 5* reader review'The best book I have read in ages' 5* reader review'Hilarious and heart-warming' 5* reader review'Full of wonderful humour and laugh-out-loud moments' 5* reader review

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A hilarious, swashbuckling adventure for siblings everywhere! *Shortlisted for the Cumbrian Primary Schools Spellbinding Award* George isn't good at anything much. In fact, he’s pretty average. That doesn't mean he doesn't have BIG ambitions, they are just harder to achieve when your big sister, Jess, is brilliant at everything! Then George inherits a mansion from dear old Mrs Smallbone. Except Hogweed Hall isn’t your average mansion. It’s BRILLIANT, and full of fascinating tenants like Boris the dog, an unusual pastry chef who lives in the basement, a mysterious scientist who works in the attic, and lots and lots of chickens! But Mrs Smallbone's sisters aren't at all happy about the situation, and invite themselves to stay. They’re after something, and don’t intend to leave without it. Can George stop them before it’s too late? Perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart, Sam Copeland and David Solomons. Beautifully illustrated and brought to life by illustrator Isabelle Follath.

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Fashion designer Loris Azzaro embodied an era. His fashion house, founded in Paris in 1967, was known for visionary silhouettes, slinky silk jerseys, daring cut-outs, and ornate beading and embroidery. Starting with his wife and muse Michelle, Azzaro (b. Tunisia, 1933; d. Paris, 2003) created clothes for beautiful women— among them Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch, Marisa Berenson, Isabelle Adjani, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, and Nicole Kidman. His style was seductive and modern, imbued with audacity and Parisian elegance. He created both mens’ and womens’ collections, and became well known for his perfumes. Filled with interviews with people who knew and worked with Azzaro, this sumptuous new book focuses on themes important to the designer: style, inspiration, contemporaneity, perfumes, and family. The stunning illustrations include photographs from the Azzaro archives by Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and other well-known fashion photographers, as well as magazine covers from Vogue, Elle, and more.

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'Just keeps getting better and better' DAVID BALDACCI ‘Slick and enjoyable’ SUN 'Top-notch fun noir' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB (starred review)DESPERATE MEN ARE DANGEROUS . . .Joe Pike wasn't looking to save someone's life on the day he left the bank. But when he saw Isabel, a young teller, being forced into a car by two men, he had no choice but to chase them down. Not long after being released on bail, the men are found dead and Isabel is missing. After his handling of the men, Pike is a prime suspect, along with Izzy – was this an abduction gone wrong? Or did it go exactly how she planned? Convinced that her life is in danger, Pike involves Elvis Cole in a search for the truth, and for Izzy. But they’re not the only ones desperate to find her – and desperate men are dangerous.As explosive as Michael Connelly and as addictive as Lee Child, A Dangerous Man has 'the smoothest writing and best storytelling you'll ever read' (DAVID BALDACCI) *THE NEW COLE AND PIKE THRILLER*Why Crais is the King of Crime . . . 'Bob is like a Porsche when it comes to writing. Indeed, it's quite fitting that he drives that model of car. Like the Porsche, his writing is elegant, stylish, funny, can fire on turbos when need be and dive deep when the plot demands it, but this is far and away some of the smoothest writing and best storytelling you'll ever read. He's written a lot of books, but just keeps getting better and better' DAVID BALDACCI ‘[Crais] expertly delivers his customary modern-day riff on the 1940s hardboiled idiom’ Guardian'Outstanding . . . Crais begins the story with deceptive simplicity but slowly ratchets up both the tension and the action with surgical precision . . . This one’s sure to hit the bestseller charts' Publishers Weekly (starred review) ‘Another rewarding page-turner by one of the most reliable storytellers in modern crime fiction’ Daily Mail 'Crais is a whip-smart writer. Cole and Pike are carefully drawn, multilayered characters who've grown more complex through the years. This is one of the very best entries in a long-running and still first-rate series' Booklist on A Dangerous Man (starred review) ‘Cleverly plotted, stylishly written’ Washington Post 'If you've always wished Lee Child's Jack Reacher had a little more balance in his life - but the same formidable talents - you'll love Joe Pike and the latest book in this long, superb series . . . Crais never loses control of his clean, clear prose or his ability to sketch fully fleshed characters in a few scenes . . . A taut, exceptional thriller' Kirkus on A Dangerous Man (starred review)

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Find out all about different species of bears around the world, from pandas and polar bears to spectacled bears and moon bears, in this beautiful non-fiction book by Isabel Thomas. Green (Band 5) books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters. The focus sounds in this book are: /ai/ ay, ei, ey, a-e /igh/ i, i-e /oa/ o, ow, o-e /oo/ u, ou /ee/ ea /ow/ ou /ar/ a /or/ au, aw, al /ure/ our /air/ ear, are, ere /ur/ ir, or /ear/ eer /e/ ea Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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Cuando incursionamos como inversores en el mercado de divisas o en el de renta variable tenemos la ilusión de que más pronto que tarde comenzaremos a ser rentables.Pensamos que bastará con una buena estrategia que encontremos en cualquier foro de trading con 1.000 entradas y 10.000 visitas y que a otros les funcione (o al menos eso digan) y, directamente, la copiamos en nuestra plataforma de demostración sin ni siquiera probarla y calcular su esperanza matemática.Evidentemente, como nuestro deseo de riqueza es más grande que nuestro cerebro (y queremos ganar dinero rápido) la ponemos en práctica en una cuenta real y dejamos de ser disciplinados: aumentamos el tamaño de nuestra posición, no dejamos correr las ganancias, retrasamos el momento de cerrar las pérdidas, tergiversamos la estrategia y transformamos a placer en una totalmente distinta, etc.En este libro Isabel Nogales, trader profesional, con más de 9 años de experiencia a sus espaldas, no solo te introducirá en los me

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Lo que estaba por llegar ya está aquí. El mundo inverosímil que hace unos años parecía ciencia ficción ha llegado para quedarse.Isabel Aguilera, durante años directora general para España y Portugal de uno de los gigantes de este nuevo mundo, Google, y reconocida por Financial Times como una de las 25 mejores ejecutivas europeas, analiza desde distintos prismas lo que ha supuesto la revolución digital y cómo puede reflexionarse sobre la nueva era y sus consecuencias con sentido común. Nos explica también, con una claridad extraordinaria, por qué es preciso no quedarse atrapado en el Valle de la Muerte y cómo atravesarlo con éxito, a pesar del vértigo y el miedo, ya que el tiempo ni se detiene ni se apaga.Disrupción digital, Big data, inteligencia artificial, ecosistema colaborativo y otros más son avances tecnológicos que se han incorporado a la vida diaria y que han contribuido a la transformación de todo: las relaciones personales y laborales, las estructuras económicas, la com

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Chosen as one of Goodreads' 21 Big Books of FallThey said she was going to be my ruin...Then let her ruin me.I've always gotten what I want. I'm a star on the basketball court and I've lived my life with the certainty that if it's within my reach, it can be mine. Until I met her. My siren in red.She is my future, but she doesn't know it yet.If only she didn't have so many secrets...If only her past wasn't shrouded in shadow...If only she wasn't so determined to push me away...But there is finally something-someone-I want, and I will chase her to the ends of the earth to win her heart. Even if it means giving up everything.See what over 130 million readers are swooning aboutPraise for Wattpad sensation Isabelle Ronin's Chasing Red:"Chasing Red is a perfectly sweet romance, with just the right amount of spice."-Foreword Reviews"Readers will be chomping at the bit while waiting for the next installment!"-RT Book Reviews"Readers will swoon over Caleb."-Publishers Weekly

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Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh is an unconventional book about an unconventional filmmaker. Rithy Panh survived the Cambodian genocide and found refuge in France where he discovered in film a language that allowed him to tell what happened to the two million souls who suffered hunger, overwork, disease, and death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. His innovative cinema is made with people, not about them—even those guilty of crimes against humanity. Whether he is directing Isabelle Huppert in The Sea Wall, following laborers digging trenches, or interrogating the infamous director of S-21 prison, aesthetics and ethics inform all he does. With remarkable access to the director and his work, Deirdre Boyle introduces readers to Panh’s groundbreaking approach to perpetrator cinema and dazzling critique of colonialism, globalization, and the refugee crisis. Ferryman of Memories reveals the art of one of the masters of world cinema today, focusing on nineteen of his award-winning films, including Rice People, The Land of Wandering Souls, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, and The Missing Picture.

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'An enchanting love story with a fierce, complex heroine and a swoon worthy hero. The Luna sisters have arrived . . . and the London season will never be the same' Adriana Herrera, USA Today bestselling author of A Caribbean Heiress in ParisA forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season.Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna family. So when Ana María is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge from the French occupation of Mexico, she experiences her first taste of freedom far from the judgmental eyes of her domineering father. If only she could ignore the piercing looks she receives across ballroom floors from the austere Mr Fox.Gideon Fox elevated himself from the London gutters by chasing his burning desire for more: more opportunities, more choices. For everyone. Now, as a member of Parliament, Gideon is on the cusp of securing the votes he needs to put forth a measure to abolish the Atlantic slave trade once and for all - a cause that is close to his heart as the grandson of a formerly enslaved woman. The charmingly vexing Ana María is a distraction he must ignore.But when Ana María finds herself in the crosshairs of a nefarious nobleman with his own political agenda, Gideon knows he must offer his hand as protection . . . but will this Mexican heiress win his heart as well?'Its two protagonists [are] as fiery and intractable as the best romance novel matches are... vitally alive' Entertainment Weekly'Truly a delight! A breath of fresh air in the landscape of historical romance' Sophie Jordan 'The perfect blend of romance and intrigue' Alicia Thompson 'Ana María is a feisty, fresh, and fabulous heroine and I fell hard for her swoony hero, Gideon. This book is pure magic!' Minerva Spencer 'A delicious slow burn romance with danger, intrigue, and sisterly bonding' Alexis Daria 'With plenty of humour, history and, of course, spicy love scenes, Ana María and the Fox, is an absolute must-read for fans of historical romance' Elizabeth Everett 'Fulfilled every historical romance craving I had and then some' Isabel Cañas

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Wood Gaylor was a prime mover in the modern art world of New York City and Ogunquit, Maine, from the teens to the thirties, but has not received the attention either his role or his work merits. Wood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913-1936, accompanying a traveling exhibition organized by the Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, is the first book-length work focused on this artist's contributions to American modernism in the early twentieth century. Gaylor's paintings, teeming with color and action, depict the spirited gatherings of modern artists and arts promoters. As Gaylor's images document important events in the art world of the 1910s, '20s, and '30s, so too does his technique provide insight into the factors impacting the evolution of a distinctly American modern style. With contributions by Fleming museum curator Andrea P. Rosen, independent art historian Dr. Christine Isabelle Oaklander, and an interview with the artist's son Wynn Gaylor, this ground-breaking catalogue paints a vivid picture of the heady and vibrant post-Armory Show American art world. Illustrated in colour and black & white.

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With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century.

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We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all. In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting precisely because they don’t listen to patients, using techniques of ‘divination’ rather than ‘diagnosis’. Healers construct genuine therapeutic strategies by identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. Modern medicine, for its part, is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. What appears to be the pursuit of rationality is ultimately only a means to dismiss and exclude other forms of treatment. Blurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices and drawing on perspectives from across the globe, this ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think in radically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom.

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This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur across media forms too often considered in isolation from one another. They also show how, with a few notable exceptions, recession-era popular culture promotes affective normalcy and transformative individual enterprise under duress while avoiding meaningful critique of the privileged white male or the destructive aspects of Western capitalism. By acknowledging the contradictions between political rhetoric and popular culture, and between diverse screen fantasies and lived realities, Gendering the Recession helps to make sense of our postboom cultural moment.Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Hamilton Carroll, Hannah Hamad, Anikó Imre, Suzanne Leonard, Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Sinéad Molony, Elizabeth Nathanson, Diane Negra, Tim Snelson, Yvonne Tasker, Pamela Thoma

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A series of personal, curated interviews with the best of the UK's Small Presses. From advice on taking your manuscript to publication, marketing for authors and publishers and a look at contracts, these publishers wish to demystify the publishing process for budding authors, across a wide range of genres.

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"In most instances, there isn’t one main cause of a systematic breakdown in phonics instruction. Rather, a combination of causes can create a perfect storm of failure." —Wiley Blevins Picture a class of kindergarteners singing the alphabet song, and teaching phonics seems as easy as one-two, three, A, B, C, right? In a Fresh Look at Phonics, Wiley Blevins explains why it can get tricky, and then delivers a plan so geared for success, that teachers, coaches, and administrators will come to see owning this book as a before and after moment in their professional lives. In this amazing follow up to his renowned resource Phonics From A-Z, Wiley uses the data he has collected over two decades to share which approaches truly work, which have failed, and how teachers can fine-tune their daily instruction for success. You will learn to focus on the seven critical ingredients of phonics teaching that produce the greatest student learning gains— readiness skills, scope and sequence, blending, dictation, word awareness, high frequency words, and reading connected texts. Then, for each ingredient, Wiley shares: Activities, routines, word lists, and lessons that develop solid foundations for reading Ideas for differentiation, ELL, and advanced learners to ensure adequate progress for all learners Help on decodable texts, what not to over-do, and what you can’t do enough of for your students’ achievement Interactive "Day Clinic" activities that facilitate teacher self-reflection and school wide professional learning In a final section, Wiley details the ten common reasons instruction fails and shows teachers how to correct these missteps regarding lesson pacing, transitions, decodable texts, writing activities, assessment and more. A Fresh Look at Phonics is the evidence-based solution you have been seeking. Wiley Blevins, Ph.D., is a world-renowned expert on early reading, and author of the seminal book Phonics From A-Z among many other works. He has taught in both the United States and South America, and regularly trains teachers throughout Asia. He holds a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University, and has worked with numerous educational scholars, including Jeanne Chall, Isabel Beck, Marilyn Adams, Louisa Moats, and Dianne August, and others.

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Encuadernación: Rústica.Colección: Col.leccion Jove; 55.Un cadàver deixa un controvertit testament: una atractiva vídua enjogassada, una suma de diners més que considerable i un embolic tempestuós capaç de convertir un insípid funcionari que només vol pau i tranquilitat en un apassionat heroi de trifulgues polIsabel-Clara Simó (Alcoi, 1943) és doctora en Filologia Romànica. Ha estat professora de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra i directora de Gestió Cultural de la Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. Actualment es dedica exclusivament a la literatura.Com a escriptora de creació ha publicat més de quaranta obres, entre les quals destaquen: Júlia; T'estimo, Marta; El Mossèn; Els ulls de Clídice; La salvatge; Alcoi-Nova-York; Històries perverses; Dones; La veïna; Una ombra fosca com un núvol de tempesta; La innocent; Raquel; El professor de música; El gust amarg de la cervesa; T'imagines la vida sense ell?; L'home que volava en el trapezi; Adéu-suau; El meu germà Pol; El caníbal, i

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No se llama Jeidi, pero así le dicen porque vive sola con su abuelo y sus animales en la punta del cerro. Tiene once años y dos amigos, Vicki y Ariel, por casualidad, por obligación y desde siempre; son los únicos alumnos del cuarto nivel. Es 1986, por las tardes los adultos sacan sillas a la única calle de Villa Prat y miran pasar la vida, mientras los niños ven " Terminator " o pescan en el riachuelo. Jeidi parece vivir en un planeta paralelo donde se comunica con un Dios extraño, caprichoso y con malas pulgas. Y lo que le ocurra a esta niña cándida, huérfana y no muy pilla va a cambiar el destino de su pueblo, o tal vez solamente el suyo." Jeidi " , la luminosa primera novela de Isabel M. Bustos, se inserta, según " El Mercurio " , en un género inclasificable, porque es realista, mágica, en nada ingenua, fantástica y crítica a la vez, una fábula o una alegoría, una evocación nostálgica y a la vez irónica de un mundo rural ya evaporado.

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Donde todos veian un desierto, alguien vio Las VegasEste conocido eslogan resume la esencia del olfato empresarial: ver donde los demás no ven, detectar lo que otros no detectan, imaginar lo que otros no imaginan.La intuición, la corazonada, el olfato están ahí, en lo más profundo de nuestro inconsciente, y todos aquellos que en sus carreras profesionales han llegado a la cúspide empresarial lo han hecho porque han sabido escuchar sus propios instintos.Este libro le ayudará a descubrir a la persona intuitiva que lleva dentro, al tiempo que le mostrará las pautas para desarrollar la intuición, los obstáculos que le impiden escucharla y las claves para sacarle el máximo partido.En Piensa, intuye y acertarás, la periodista Isabel García Méndez entrevista a reputados neurólogos y a líderes empresariales que han hecho de su propia intuición su mejor ventaja competitiva. Con todo ello y con sus propias investigaciones, la autora nos desvela las claves sobre la intuición como form

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Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and self-definition. This work engages with a broader evaluation of early modern poetics that foregrounds the processes rather than the products of thinking. The locus of the study is the Imperial 'home' space, where love poetry meets early modern empire at the inception of a very conflicted national consciousness, and where the vernacular language, Castilian, emerges in the encounter as a strategic site of national and imperial identity. The political is, therefore, a pervasive presence, teased out where relevant in recognition of the poet's sensitivity to the ideologies within which writing comes into being. But the primary commitment of the book is to lyric poetry, and to poets, individually and intheir dynamic interconnectedness. Moving beyond a re-evaluation of critical responses to four major poets of the period (Garcilaso de la Vega, Herrera, Góngora and Quevedo), this study disengages respectfully with the substantialbody of biographical research that continues to impact upon our understanding of the genre, and renegotiates the Foucauldian concept of the 'epistemic break', often associated with the anti-mimetic impulses of the Baroque. This more flexible model accommodates the multiperspectivism that interrogated Imperial ideology even in the earliest sixteenth-century poetry, and allows for the exploration of new horizons in interpretation. Isabel Torres isProfessor of Spanish Golden Age Literature and Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Queen's University, Belfast.

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Este libro plantea y resuelve los problemas que se presentan al profesorado de Secundaria Obligatoria en el área de Expresión Plástica y Visual. Recopila de forma clara y sencilla: conceptos y teorías básicas sobre imagen y comunicación, las técnicas y materiales que pueden usarse en esta estapa, así como ideas sobre la educación artística y los principales movimientos artísticos. Se completa con consideraciones didácticas sobre el alumnado, el profesorado, la clase y elementos de programación, incluyendo programaciones didácticas por niveles.Extracto del Índice:1/ La enseñanza de la Expresión Plástica.2/ El alumno.3/ El profesor.4/ La clase: El aula. El ambiente. La motivación.5/ Conocimientos.6/ Objetivos: Generales, específicos y operativos.7/ Evaluación: Autoevaluación. El profesor.8/ Técnicas y materiales.9/ Programación.Isabel MERODIO DE LA COLINA lleva investigando durante más de 20 años sobre el desarrollo de la expresión artística desde

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ISABEL PÉREZMONTALBÁN (Córdoba, 1964) es diplomada en Magisterio y licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación. Poemas suyos han sido traducidos al francés, inglés, esperanto, árabe y magiar. Su obra ha sido considerada por los críticos como iniciadora de la poesía de la conciencia, una poética que se opone al sistema capitalista desde la crítica contemporánea, la memoria histórica y el compromiso.?Una poeta en batalla. En la vida y en la palabra. Nació al sur de una huelga general, en un barrio de refugios al margen, con bloques tan idénticos como jaulas de tristeza. A solas, esquivando el llanto, con el lenguaje expósito del superviviente creando mundos, respondiéndose preguntas con sombras, jugando a ser libre en los libros, en la solana y en la nieve. Desde entonces, su destino ha sido y es la poesía y el combate. El trabajo autónomo de mantenerse un paso adelante sin vivir por encima de sus posibilidades, sin perder la ética, el orgullo ni el rumbo frente al desenlace hostil del

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Cocinando en casa reúne las mejores recetas de una de las gastroblogueras más destacadas: Isabel Fraga Blanco, más conocida como Fabrisa.Aunque muchas de las recetas del libro tienen un marcado sabor gallego, la autora sabe combinar lo mejor de la cocina tradicional con la actual, y sus orígenes con la experiencia de sus numerosos viajes.Las recetas se explican paso a paso y, cuando es necesario, se acompañan de fotografías de todo el proceso. Además, de todas ellas se muestran las imágenes de los platos acabados; en ellas podemos apreciar su pasión por la fotografía y el cuidado que pone en la presentación y en todos los detalles.El libro está dividido en categorías de recetas: Aperitivos y Picoteo, Marisco, Pescados, Carnes, Desayunos y Meriendas y sus célebres Postres y Tartas, además de contar con una sección en la que la autora explica recetas básicas y sus técnicas y trucos secretos.

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Una madre desaparecida antes de tiempo. Una hija atrapada en el pasado. Un diario lleno de secretos que cambiará sus vidas para siempre.Lucía es una editora que empieza a dejar atrás su juventud justo cuando afronta una grave ruptura sentimental. En esa difícil encrucijada, visita el desván de la antigua casa familiar y descubre, en el fondo de un baúl, el diario íntimo que su madre, María, ya fallecida, escribió durante la crisis de los misiles de Cuba.Desde Suecia, donde ha seguido a su marido diplomático, María narra con angustia los momentos más tensos de la Guerra Fría, desahoga su miedo ante la amenaza nuclear y se replantea su matrimonio, atormentada por la sospecha de que él tiene una aventura. Su relato -el de sus anhelos, sus temores, sus certezas y sus secretos- hará que Lucía descubra a una madre muy diferente a la que ella creía conocer.En su novela más personal y ambiciosa hasta el momento, Isabel San Sebastián se adentra en el glamuroso mundo diplomáti

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Isabella Tree is an award-winning author and travel writer, and lives with her husband, the conservationist Charlie Burrell, in the middle of a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex.She is author of five non-fiction books including Wilding: How to Bring Nature Back - An Illustrated Guide. Her book Wilding - The Return of Nature to a British Farm has sold quarter of a million copies worldwide and won the Richard Jefferies prize for nature writing and was one of the Smithsonian's top ten science books opf the year.Angela Harding is an author, printmaker and illustrator who lives in the village of Wing, Rutland. British birds and animals have always inspired her artwork especially familiar garden birds like sparrows and blackbirds and waders such as Curlews, Redshanks and Oystercatchers.She is the author and illustrator of A Year Unfolding: A Printmaker's View and Wild Light: A Printmaker's Day and Night, illustrat

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An accessible, clothbound compendium of leading artists in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore and Malaysia Filling a noticeable void in art publishing, SEA: Contemporary Art Practices in Southeast Asia presents the work of 60 artists and collectives practicing in the region. Organized alphabetically, SEA highlights points of connection between the artists: community engagement and organization, social and political commentary, gender and identity, environment and ecology, and material traditions and processes. Artists include: Agus Suwage, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Amanda Heng, Anida Yoeu Ali, Anne Samat, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, Arahmaiani, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Arin Rungjang, Cemeti—Institute for Art and Society, Charles Lim, Chiang Mai Social Installation, Chris Chong, Dinh Q Le, Eisa Jocson, Erika Tan, F.X. Harsono, Green Papaya Art Projects, Ho Tzu Nyen, Htein Lin, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, Khvay Samnang, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Lee Wen, Lostgens’, Martha Atienza, Melati Suryodarmo, Ming Wong, Moe Satt, Montien Boonma, Nguyen Trinh Thi and ruangrupa.

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Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the "Bulwark of Islam," into "Alger la blanche," the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social, political, technical, and artistic forces that generate a city's form. Visual sources - prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, urban designs, and film - are treated as primary evidence that complements and even challenges textual documents. The contributors' wide-ranging but intersecting essays span the disciplines of art history, social and cultural history, urban studies, and film history. Walls of Algiers presents a multifaceted look at the social use of urban space in a North African city. Its contributors' innovative methodologies allow important insights into often overlooked aspects of life in a city whose name even today conjures up enchantment as well as incomprehensible violence. Contributors include Julia Clancy-Smith, Omar Carlier, Frances Terpak, Zeynep Celik, Eric Breitbart, Isabelle Grangaud, and Patricia M. E. Lorcin.

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Transnational Feminist Itineraries brings together scholars and activists from multiple continents to demonstrate the ongoing importance of transnational feminist theory in challenging neoliberal globalization and the rise of authoritarian nationalisms around the world. The contributors illuminate transnational feminism's unique constellation of elements: its specific mode of thinking across scales, its historical understanding of identity categories, and its expansive imagining of solidarity based on difference rather than similarity. Contesting the idea that transnational feminism works in opposition to other approaches—especially intersectional and decolonial feminisms—this volume instead argues for their complementarity. Throughout, the contributors call for reaching across social, ideological, and geographical boundaries to better confront the growing reach of nationalism, authoritarianism, and religious and economic fundamentalism. Contributors. Mary Bernstein, Isabel Maria Cortesão Casimiro, Rafael de la Dehesa, Carmen L. Diaz Alba, Inderpal Grewal, Cricket Keating, Amy Lind, Laura L. Lovett, Kathryn Moeller, Nancy A. Naples, Jennifer C. Nash, Amrita Pande, Srila Roy, Cara K. Snyder, Ashwini Tambe, Millie Thayer, Catarina Casimiro Trindade

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An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque – one of the world’s greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a Amazonian adventure story that will appeal to all ages. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his grandmother Kate – a fearless reporter with blue eyes ‘as sharp as daggers’ points’. Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she simply takes Alex along with her. They set off with their team – including a local guide and his daughter Nadia, with her wild, curly hair and skin the colour of honey – in search of a fabled headhunting tribe and a legendary, marauding creature known to locals as the ‘Beast’, only to find out much, much more about the mysteries of the jungle and its inhabitants. In a novel rich in adventure, magic and spirit, internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende takes readers of all ages on a voyage of discovery and wonder, deep into the heart of the Amazon.

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Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy – and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few texts together, their intellectual companionship lasted for over thirty years, and their respective work can be fully understood only when the many interconnections of their thought are brought to the fore. Latour and Stengers occupy the same starting place, one which remains at the heart of their work: scientific practice, which is the pride of modernity. Why do we Moderns define ourselves as those who know, while others are condemned to be only believers? This question led Latour and Stengers to the same fundamental question: how to understand and live in what Latour calls "the new climatic regime” and what Stengers calls “catastrophic times"? Philippe Pignarre's aim is not to try to sort out which ideas belong to whom but rather to interweave their thought even more. In so doing, he sheds new light on the origins and development of their work at the same time as he documents an exceptional intellectual adventure between two of the leading thinkers of our age.

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A year of discoveries culminates in a performance full of surprises, as two girls find their own way to belong. Mexico may be her parents’ home, but it’s certainly not Margie’s. She has finally convinced the other kids at school she is one-hundred percent American—just like them. But when her Mexican cousin Lupe visits, the image she’s created for herself crumbles. Things aren’t easy for Lupe, either. Mexico hadn’t felt like home since her father went North to find work. Lupe’s hope of seeing him in the United States comforts her some, but learning a new language in a new school is tough. Lupe, as much as Margie, is in need of a friend. Little by little, the girls’ individual steps find the rhythm of one shared dance, and they learn what “home” really means. In the tradition of My Name is Maria Isabel—and simultaneously published in English and in Spanish—Alma Flor Ada and her son Gabriel M. Zubizarreta offer an honest story of family, friendship, and the classic immigrant experience: becoming part of something new, while straying true to who you are.

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Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity. Yet many disorders of the uterus-fibroid tumors, uterine and cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine prolapse-may require surgical treatment. In this thoroughly updated edition of Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options, gynecologists Edward E. Wallach, Esther Eisenberg, Isabel Green, and Stacey A. Scheib describe and explain every aspect of the procedure, including, Symptoms of gynecological disorders that may require uterine fibroid removal or hysterectomy; the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging techniques, including MRI-focused ultrasound; thorough explanations of specific alternative measures that may be used to avoid the need for hysterectomy; the various techniques for hysterectomy, including single-incision surgery and robotic hysterectomy; how to prepare for surgery and what to expect while in the hospital; details on the surgery and postoperative recovery, including information about pain medications, when to resume daily activities, how sexual function may be affected, future reproductive possibilities, and the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy. Included in this compassionate, comprehensive guide to treatment and recovery for women having - or deciding whether to have - a hysterectomy are stories of women whose own experiences with hysterectomy offer useful advice for anyone considering the procedure.

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Following on the success of the Flash Fiction and Sudden Fiction series, Robert Shapard and James Thomas join with Ray Gonzalez in selecting works that each present a complete story in less than 1,500 words. Luisa Valenzuela, one of Latin America’s most lauded writers, provides the introduction. Readers will delight in finding stars such as Junot Díaz, Sandra Cisneros, and Roberto Bolano alongside recognized masters like Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, and Jorge Luis Borges. They will discover work from Andrea Saenz, Daniel Alarcón, and Alicita Rodriguez, as well as other writers on the rise. In Julio Ortega’s “Migrations,” a Peruvian writer explores how immigrant speech and ethnic origins are a force of meaning that evolves beyond language. In “Hair,” by Hilma Contreras, a Caribbean pharmacist is driven mad by a young woman’s luxuriant tresses. These stories stretch from gritty reality to the fantastical in a mix that is moving, challenging, humorous, artful, sometimes political, and altogether spectacular.

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Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible for managing household debt, and that debt has exploded over the last decade, reaching an all-time high after the COVID-19 pandemic. Across various categories of loans, including subprime lending, microcredit policies, and consumer loans, as well as rent and utilities, women are overrepresented as clients and managers, and are being enfolded into the system. The Indebted Woman discusses the crucial yet invisible roles poor women play in making and consolidating debt and credit markets. Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian spent over two decades observing a credit market that specifically targets women in the Indian countryside of east-central Tamil Nadu. They found that paying off debts required labor, frequently involved sexual transactions, and shaped women's bodies and subjectivities. Bringing together ethnography, statistical surveys, and financial diaries, they offer for the first time a comprehensive theory for this sexual division of debt that goes far beyond the Indian case, exposing the ways capitalism transforms womanhood and how this transformation in turn fuels capitalism.

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Alongside Erasmus of Rotterdam, Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522) is one of the most important European humanists whose works marked the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era. The year 2022 marks the 500th anniversary of the Pforzheim-born jurist, Hebraist, and religious philosopher’s death, cause indeed for an exhibition and publication to bring jewellery, writings, and language into a stimulating dialogue and to offer new meanings to the titular mystery of signs. At the fore stands the human quest for understanding and tolerance, which has lost none of its relevance today. One particular focal point comprises selected manuscripts and works by Reuchlin, highlighted from new perspectives. An additional emphasis is placed on objects that reflect Reuchlin’s cognitive world through script and symbols from the resplendent collection of the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim [Pforzheim jewellery museum]. With contributions by Jonathan Boyd, Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, Matthias Dall’Asta, Cornelie Holzach, Wolfgang Mayer, Susanne Nagel, Katja Poljanac, Stefan Rhein, Nathan Ron, Isabel Schmidt-Mappes, Pierre Vesperin, and Anja Wolkenhauer. Text in German.

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A series of illustrated books specifically designed for children in elementary education, narrating the stories of those great historical figures that have left their mark on humanity in fields such as science, art, exploration, music, fashion and other subjects. Young readers will be able to read all about these famous people's main achievements, experiencing the main steps of their lives through Isabel Munoz's engaging illustrations, and finding out some curious facts about their work and success. In the twelve volumes of the series, children will be fascinated by the genial and revolutionary intuition of Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci's vast breadth of expertise, the incredible discoveries about space made by Galileo Galilei, the visionary theories about the Universe by Stephen Hawking, the Maria Montessori's educational method Mozart's infinite musical creativity, the masterpieces created by Picasso, Van Gogh, and Frida Kahlo. Young readers will also discover how Marie Curie, Charles Darwin and Coco Chanel have changed science, medicine and fashion forever. There is a timeline at the end of each volume listing the main biographical events and some simple quizzes will help children to further understand and test their knowledge. Ages: 6 plus

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One Piece of Paper at a Time celebrates the tenth anniversary of Paper for Water, a non-profit which aims to end the global water crisis and gives a behind-the-scenes perspective into the organization’s transformation over the years. Through origami ornament proceeds and supportive donations, Paper for Water transforms lives by bringing water and the Word to the thirsty. The Adams sisters demonstrate how a service-based heart spurs radical transformation and positively impacts the world. At 17 and 15 years old, Isabelle and Katherine serve as co-CEOs and share how their single idea journeyed to the present day, raising millions of dollars and impacting more than 20 countries. Page by page, fold by fold, the reader discovers how Paper for Water has provided hundreds of clean water projects while uncovering the insights learned along the way and how their small moments led to larger, significant events over time.One Piece of Paper at a Time showcases that while it may not always be easy to build something, great change initiates one person, one idea, one piece of paper at a time – no matter how old you are.

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Cómo llegó Isabel la Católica a convertirse la poderosa reina que fue?Por qué un país que tenía acceso a las casi ilimitadas riquezas de América acabó en la miseria?Estuvieron implicados los Jesuitas en el Motín de Esquilache?Murió Prim a balazos o fue estrangulado?Las apariencias engañan y las verdades que carecen de misterio suelen ser falsas. La historia de España no es lo que parece, las certezas resultan absurdas e, inevitablemente, estamos condenados a la incertidumbre. Este libro indaga con gran agilidad literaria y agudeza cómo el poder, la gloria, el dinero o el sexo se esconden a menudo en la sombra y detrás de la escena, para poner el foco en aquellos acontecimientos extraordinarios y desconocidos que forman parte intrínseca de nuestra historia.

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CUANDO BUSCAS LA VERDAD CORRES EL RIESGO DE ENCONTRARLA Una mujer rica y de éxito muere en el mismo momento en el que el hombre al que amaba aparece en la lista de pasajeros del fatídico vuelo de Germanwings estrellado en los Alpes franceses el 24 de marzo de 2015. Sara Mendieta, propietaria del edificio de la zona alta de Barcelona donde aparece el cadáver, será el objetivo de la investigación y la obsesión de los investigadores Joel Sanz e Isabel Morgado. Sexo, violencia, riqueza, asesinatos, en definitiva lo más oscuro del alma humana. Todo ello orquestado por dos mujeres, frágiles y letales a la vez, que descubrirán quién maneja los hilos.

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Cuando el padre de Lady Katherine es asesinado por su fe católica, ella descubre que ese no es el único secreto que escondía: también estaba envuelto en un plan para asesinar a la reina Isabel I. Sin nada más que perder, Katherine se disfraza de chico y viaja hasta Londres para llevar el plan de su padre aún más lejos: piensa matar a la reina ella misma. Y tendrá su oportunidad durante la representación de la nueva obra de William Shakespeare a la que acudirá la propia reina. Pero lo que no sabe es que la obra no es lo que parece. Es un cebo para atraer a traidores y destruir la rebelión de una vez por todas.

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Explores the concept that art promotes healing through a survey of work created for the Robert Bosch Hospital in Germany. Includes 48 commissioned artworks by significant contemporary artists, including some that were created with input from patients. Offers specialist contributions from architecture and art history, healthcare design, art and corporate philosophy. Art can contribute to a healing environment, supporting the work of hospitals and enriching the lives of both patients and staff members. In this book, Isabel Gruener, the art officer at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, explores how the hospital's commissioned art program supports the complex process of healing. Whether it is seriously ill patients in the intensive care unit, visitors in the public corridors, or employees in sterile functional areas: each is affected in their own way by the total of 48 artistic interventions. The narrative describing these art projects, which were created between 1998-2018, is supplemented by specialist contributions from the fields of art, design, and corporate philosophy. They explore an interdisciplinary approach and offer a view towards the future potential of healing art in healing environments. Text in English and German.

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Alfred North Whitehead has never gone out of print, but for a time he was decidedly out of fashion in the English-speaking world. In a splendid work that serves as both introduction and erudite commentary, Isabelle Stengers—one of today’s leading philosophers of science—goes straight to the beating heart of Whitehead’s thought. The product of thirty years’ engagement with the mathematician-philosopher’s entire canon, this volume establishes Whitehead as a daring thinker on par with Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Michel Foucault.Reading the texts in broadly chronological order while highlighting major works, Stengers deftly unpacks Whitehead’s often complicated language, explaining the seismic shifts in his thinking and showing how he called into question all that philosophers had considered settled after Descartes and Kant. She demonstrates that the implications of Whitehead’s philosophical theories and specialized knowledge of the various sciences come yoked with his innovative, revisionist take on God. Whitehead’s God exists within a specific epistemological realm created by a radically complex and often highly mathematical language.“To think with Whitehead today,” Stengers writes, “means to sign on in advance to an adventure that will leave none of the terms we normally use as they were.”

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Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation. The Identity Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students of cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and sociology. The key statements are from the work of: Louis Althusser, Jessica Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Homi K Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Ian Craib, Jacques D[ac]errida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Pierre Hadot, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Christopher Lasch, Isabel Menzies, Lyth, T H Marshall, Marcel Mauss, Am[gr]elie Okensberg Rorty, Jacqueline Rose, Nikolas Rose, Michael Rustin, Kaja Silverman, Max Weber, D W Winnicott

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How is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field? A look at its history and its manifestations within globalized conditions shows the variety of the genre, of the criteria and of the styles of writing. This reader is an attempt to bring a diverse range of art-critical voices and perspectives into conversation with each other, with texts from the 18th century to the present. The editors Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss have invited colleagues from various geographical and intellectual backgrounds to present and discuss the art critics of their choice, choosing one example from their respective bodies of work to comment upon. How have these writers approached art criticism? Which styles do they employ? What makes them extraordinary? What can we learn from their writings today, and why is it important in its contemporary context? Texts by: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Denis Diderot, Takashi Kashima, Patrick Mudekereza, Annemarie Sauzeau-Boetti, Bertha Zuckerkandl and many more Comments by: Juli Carson, Yuriko Furuhata, Isabelle Graw, Angela Harutyunyan, Monica Juneja, Wolfgang Kemp, Florencia Malbran, Yvette Mutumba, Azu Nwagbogu, Sarah Wilson and many more

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We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all. In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting precisely because they don’t listen to patients, using techniques of ‘divination’ rather than ‘diagnosis’. Healers construct genuine therapeutic strategies by identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. Modern medicine, for its part, is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. What appears to be the pursuit of rationality is ultimately only a means to dismiss and exclude other forms of treatment. Blurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices and drawing on perspectives from across the globe, this ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think in radically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom.

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A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike''s most perilous case to date.Joe Pike didn''t expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to bed, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy.After posting bail, the two abductors are murdered and Izzy disappears. Pike calls on his friend, Elvis Cole, to help learn the truth. What Elvis uncovers is a twisted family story that involves corporate whistleblowing, huge amounts of cash, the Witness Relocation Program, and a long line of lies. But what of all that did Izzy know? Is she a perpetrator or a victim? And how far will Joe go to fi

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Eaglemania celebrates Boston College’s mascot, a monumental Japanese bronze eagle, following its recent conservation and return to view. Donated in the 1950s by the estate of diplomat and collector Larz Anderson (1866–1937) and his wife, Isabel (1876–1948), the eagle recently received in-depth restoration that has revealed its fine detail, carefully modeled form, and excellent material construction.Eaglemania brings the history of this stunning object to life. It features new research on topics that contextualize the Boston College eagle, assembling articles that discuss various aspects of its Edo- and Meiji-period origins. These include the Andersons’ acquisition of the eagle; the Boston College eagle seen in comparison with other exceptional Meiji eagle figures; the meanings of eagle depictions in the Edo and Meiji periods; and Japan’s rise as a destination for American collectors, particularly of sculpture, in the Meiji period. Through its focus on eagle imagery, this study illuminates cross-cultural dynamics resulting from American collectors’ fascination with traditional and contemporary Japanese arts and Japanese artists’ adaptation to this market.

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