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An accessible introduction to the rich language and culture of Japan, this tote-able Japanese language collection makes an artful addition to any library, as well as an ideal travel primer and companion for aspiring Japanese speakers. Pairing words and characters with whimsical illustrations, each section features examples of word pronunciation, the three main Japanese writing systems (kanji, hiragana, and katakana), and common Japanese elements. At once instructive and a joy to behold, Let's Learn Japanese is a go-to gift for the world traveler and language learner.

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Harness the power of the magical, mystical, glorious Moon with more than 100 spells, chants, and rituals, along with Esbat celebrations for the Full Moon. The Moon is one of our most prominent and ancient symbols. It has shaped how we understand and track time, its movement controls the tides, and its rise into the sky signals the coming of night. The distinct phases of the lunar cycle have associations with different states of being. These states mirror a kind of spiritual quest which, like our search for ourselves, never ends. When we observe the Moon, we see reflections of the grand pattern of life that is birth, death, and rebirth. With this invaluable handbook filled with enchantingly beautiful illustrations, follow the Moon as she traverses each sign of the zodiac and discover how each astrological phase affects magic—and how your personal Moon sign affects your magical work. The discussions include the influence of the seldom-discussed energies of the Blue Moon, the Black Moon, and lunar eclipses. Each Moon phase is explored individually to cover the phase’s main themes along with Moon rituals, intention setting, and practical ways to celebrate and manifest health, wealth, and confidence. With specific suggestions for each phase, you’ll discover a variety of tools for harnessing moon magic, including: Traditional lunar herbs such as lavender, angelica, mugwort, and sage to magnify and support your intentions Crystals and gemstones to raise your personal vibration and enhance your intuitive powers Essential oils and candles to match your mood or intention and add vibrational power to your spells and rituals You’ll soon be using spells during each moon phase for things like: Conquering change (New Moon) Living joyfully (Waxing Moon) Romantic love (Full Moon) Banishing bad (Waning Moon) Open your arms to Mother Moon, and allow her to take you into hers, with Moon Magic. The Mystical Handbook series from Wellfleet takes you on a magical journey through the wonderful world of spellcraft and spellcasting. Explore a new practice with each volume and learn how to incorporate spells, rituals, blessings, and cleansings into your daily routine. These portable companions feature beautiful foil-detail covers and color-saturated interiors on a premium paper blend. Other books in the series include: Moon Magic Journal, Witchraft, Love Spells, Knot Magic, Superstitions, House Magic, Herbal Magic, Book of Shadows, and Goddess Magic.

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Tune into the divine power of Goddess Magic, featuring a directory of deities alongside 50 spells, altars, and exaltations to amplify your highest vibes and attract fulfillment, success, friendship, growth, love, and fortune. Goddesses, both new and old, will lend their powers to those who seek their favor. Goddess Magic helps you channel divine power while also helping you find your patron deity of choice. Connect with your spiritual heritage and tap into the powers of your ancestors and all the mystical beings around you. This beautiful handbook contains well-known goddesses from the ancient world famously claimed by witches throughout the ages as well as other, less common ones, like catholic patron saints, around whom specific spells and rituals have grown. Each goddess rules over her domain, protecting and inspiring those who seek her favor with traditional rituals and spells praising her. Her symbols, favorite offerings, and favored forms of worship are all explained in the same illustrated and informative way as the previous books in the series. Here is but a taste of the powerful patrons you can learn about: HECATE is the Greek goddess of witchcraft and divination. Her roman counterpart is called TRIVIA and both accept offerings at crossroads. She transmits good news of the future, resides as a patron deity over divination spells. She’s an excellent guide for new ventures and is a powerful guardian. KAMALA is an incarnation of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and creativity. Invoke her to bring creative skills so that you can fill your life with pleasure and wealth of every kind by offerings of rice and ghee. MARIE LAVEAU may be the most influential American practitioner of the magical arts. The notorious Voudou Queen of New Orleans dispensed charms and potions (even saving several condemned men from the gallows), told fortunes, and healed the sick. SAINT LUCIA is the bearer of light in the darkness of winter. She is the patron saint of the blind, authors, cutlers, glaziers, laborers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, and stained glass workers. YEMAYA is the Yorùbá Orisha or Goddess of the living Ocean, considered the mother of all. She is the source of all the waters, including the rivers of western Africa, especially the River Ogun. She is associated with the Orisha Olokin (Who is variously described as female, male, or hermaphrodite), Who represents the depths of the Ocean and the unconscious, and together They form a balance. She is the sister and wife of Aganju, the God of the soil, and the mother of Oya, Goddess of the winds. The Mystical Handbook series from Wellfleet takes you on a magical journey through the wonderful world of spellcraft and spellcasting. Explore a new practice with each volume and learn how to incorporate spells, rituals, blessings, and cleansings into your daily routine. These portable companions feature beautiful foil-detail covers and color-saturated interiors on a premium paper blend. Other titles in the series include: Witchcraft, Moon Magic, Love Spells, Knot Magic, Superstitions, House Magic, and Herbal Magic.

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Colección de ensayos en torno a conocidas obras del arte occidental, que tienen en común la seducción de su misterio. Ante la ventana abierta de los lienzos, Siri Hustvedt propone al lector no sólo un paseo por la historia de la pintura, sino también por la vida. Unos textos esclarecedores y plenos de sensibilidad.

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Una apasionante y radical colección de ensayos sobre el feminismo de la galardonada escritora Siri Hustvedt.

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Los trabajos aquí reunidos suponen una década de indagaciones gracianas, que hemos completado con otros afanes, particularmente dedicados a la publicación de todos sus libros según sus primeras ediciones. Recogerlos bajo el epígrafe de una alianza matrimonial simbólica como la de Arte e Ingenio no resulta arbitrario, como luego se verá, ya que tan inusitadas bodas permiten, en realidad, una aplicación generativista que da unidad y sentido al doble juego, conceptual y elocutivo, de sus obras, aparte de explicar cuanto se refiere a las posibilidades casi infinitas que sus libros demuestran a la hora de engendrar agudezas.

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Accessible introduction to Spanish language and Mexican culture Learning Spanish is just a few pictures away in this lovingly illustrated picture book language primer! Focusing on the Spanish language as it is spoken in Mexico, this informative picture book is an ideal way to learn. Pairing words and whimsical pictures, aspiring Spanish speakers are treated to a breezy yet informative experience. At once instructive and a joy to behold, Let's Learn Spanish is a go-to gift for the world traveler and language learner. • Fantastic resource for Spanish language learners young and old! • Perfect gift for anyone traveling to Mexico or South America. • Aurora Cacciapuoti is an author and illustrator of more than a dozen children's books. This informative Spanish language primer will appeal to readers of Little Concepts: ABC Spanish, First Words – Spanish, and My Big Book of Spanish Words. • Books for kids ages 4 to 8 • Learn Spanish for kids, preschool, kindergarten • Easy to carry travel companion language book

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Filled with spells, charms, rituals, and potions by a pro witchcraft practitioner, carry this petite yet potent spell book with you through every phase of the moon as you harness its mystical energy.Moon Spells contains spells for healing, luck, friendship, empowerment, and more, all fueled by the power of the moon. The book guides you through rituals based on the lunar cycle, along with spells timed to the Waxing Moon, Full Moon, Waning Moon, and New Moon. Alongside these, you’ll find everyday spells that can access the moon’s power whenever you need its influence in your life. Organized by moon phase, the spells and rituals include: Attracting Abundance Altar (New Moon) Channeling the Magic of Hope (Waxing Moon) Moon Bath Ritual by Moonlight (Full Moon) Hypnotic Manifestation Ritual (Full Moon) Illuminating a Path in Darkness (Waning Moon) Living Joyfully (Waning Moon) And many more Moon Spells helps you step into your power and is the perfect guide for lunar rituals that heal, empower, and allow you to grow. The Pocket Spell Books series encompasses all your greatest desires and guides you through the spells, potions, rituals, and charms necessary to achieve your goals. These diminutive but powerful books each contain a carefully selected collection of useful spells for seasoned witches and new practitioners alike.Take your magical practice further by collecting all the Pocket Spell Books, which include:Love Spells, Protection Spells, Candle Magic, Pendulum Magic, and Angel Numbers.

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Explore the magical properties of more than ninety herbs from aconite to yew. In detailed profiles, this book catalogs magical and astrological associations, as well as potential uses for each plant so you can quickly access any of its information. More than just an encyclopedia of plants, Magical Herb Compendium features all the knowledge and skills you need to create your own apothecary, starting with the history of magical herbalism based on ancient manuscripts, hieroglyphics, and Cuneiform tablets. Discover how to intuitively determine a plant's magical uses and learn the proper methods for collecting, preserving, and storing your specimens. Aurora even guides you through making magical formulas. With meditations, spells, and recipes, this comprehensive resource builds your knowledge of herbs so you can incorporate them into your magical practice.

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Named a must read book of 2023 by Nylon, BookRiot, Vulture‎, The Millions, and Ms. Magazine!A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman’s interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance.The Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman à clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story—Aurora & Ezekiel—a separation and a reunion. In another, we witness a tale of multiple traumatic encounters with transphobic violence. And on yet another plane, a story of ecstatic visionary experience swirls, shatters, and sparkles. Featuring time travel, medieval nuns, knifings, and t4t romance, The Fifth Wound indulges the blur between fantasy and reality. Its winding sentences open like portals, inviting the reader into the intimacy of embodiment—both its pain and its pleasures.

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Herbal Magic offers a directory of magical herbs (both rare and common) alongside 36 spells using herbs to amplify casts for attraction, enchantment, trust, friendship, fortune, and success. The plant kingdom is one of the oldest magical tools in existence. Known for millennia to have beneficial properties for both physical and spiritual well-being, many species of plants have been incorporated into the spiritual and healing practices of cultures around the world. These magical herbs are considered incredible gifts by shamans, green witches, hedge witches, and every wild woman and wild man. This guide introduces the magical properties of plants, how to use them, and how to source them, including detailed step-by-step instructions on how to blend them seamlessly into magical recipes to harness their intrinsic powers. Tips for the budding witch cover: Uses for both common and rare magical plants Connecting with nature through the process of growing your own plants Herbal magic lore and herbal magic spell tools Tea recipes that can enhance your psychic abilities Spells for attractions, trust, fortune, and friendship Work with the energies and properties of magical plants to connect deeply with the earth and all the greenery in her dominion and magnify the power of your magic spells. The Mystical Handbook series from Wellfleet takes you on a magical journey through the wonderful world of spellcraft and spellcasting. Explore a new practice with each volume and learn how to incorporate spells, rituals, blessings, and cleansings into your daily routine. These portable companions feature beautiful foil-detail covers and color-saturated interiors on a premium paper blend. Other titles in the series include: Witchcraft, Moon Magic, Love Spells, Knot Magic, Superstitions, and House Magic.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Biblioteconomía y Administración CulturalLa literatura internacional sobre comportamiento informacional (CI) es abundante y además presenta un grado de madurez del que no disponen otras áreas en el contexto general de la información y documentación. Esta madurez se concreta en los desarrollos teóricos que se han producido en los últimos años, que no habrían sido posibles sin que, en paralelo, aumentaran tanto el rigor con el que progresivamente se ha ido abordando la investigación sobre usuarios como la diversidad de enfoques metodológicos que se han ido incorporando. Junto con el tradicional uso de encuestas aplicadas al estudio de usuarios, en los últimos años ha ido aumentando el uso de otros enfoques metodológicos, como las entrevistas cualitativas, la observación o estrategias de triangulación metodológica. Es en este contexto en el que esta obra pretende contribuir a un mayor desarrollo y consolidación de esta línea de investigación a trav

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Lo particular de la mirada antropológica a la política tiene que ver con su énfasis empírico, holístico, comparativo y crítico. Alejada de aproximaciones abstracto-normativas, la mayor aportación de la antropología política está en el ejercicio de un acercamiento etnográfico que presta atención a la pluralidad de las figuras de lo político, y especialmente a cómo se expresan por medio de instituciones, ideologías y prácticas que desbordan el espacio de la política formal tal y como lo caracterizan los discursos ideológicos occidentales. Se trata de un ejercicio que advierte sobre las exclusiones que producen no sólo las prácticas del poder, sino también las del saber, y que por ello se plantea en sí mismo como un ejercicio crítico.Este volumen presenta una panorámica de la antropología política desde el último cuarto del siglo XX, ubicando sus principales debates y aportaciones teórico-metodológicas, a partir de un conjunto de textos de antropólogos y antropólogas contemporáneas que

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Which everyday practices allowed women to sustain and fulfill individuality and agency under dictatorial rule? This book adds to a rich scholarship on the history of late Francoism and the transition to democracy in Modern Spain through the lens of oral history and life writing. Aurora Morcillo tells the stories of anonymous individuals from both student and working class backgrounds - crucial sites of active resistance against the dictatorship at the time - and provides an interdisciplinary feminist analysis of the inevitable modernization of Spain in the 1960s and 1970s. This study uncovers a Deleuzian rendition of historical unfolding/becoming rather than simply being a collection of oral histories: a historical narration which proposes to be a creative historical ontology.

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In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Calling for a politics of integrity that recognizes the complicated wholeness of individual and collective lives, Levins Morales delves among the interwoven roots of multiple oppressions, exposing connections, crafting strategies, and uncovering the wellsprings of resilience and joy. Throughout these twenty-eight essays—twenty-one of which are new or extensively revised—she exposes the structures and mechanisms that silence voices and divide movements. The result is a medicine bag full of techniques and perspectives to build a universal solidarity that is flexible, nuanced, and strong enough to fundamentally shift our world toward justice. Intimately personal and globally relevant, Medicine Stories brings clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.

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New York Times and USA Today bestseller Aurora Rose Reynolds turns up the heat in this tale of new adventures, dangerous decisions, and undeniable attraction. Cybil is the queen of bad timing. First, her fiancé breaks up with her days before their wedding. Next, she’s stuck going on a couples retreat in the Montana wilderness alone. And worst of all, now she’s fighting a growing attraction to the wilderness retreat’s rugged owner, Tanner. Tanner has built his wilderness adventure service on a few key principles: never take unnecessary risks, never put anyone’s life in danger—and never, ever sleep with a client. The arrival of a beautiful new visitor, however, might mean bending the rules. Two people looking for anything but romance may have just bumped into their soul mates. In the Montana wilds, any misstep can spell danger. Cybil and Tanner just have to decide if they’re brave enough to face their next adventure.

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Es esto vivir, nada más? Hecha polvo tras una noche de fiesta universitaria, la autora iniciará una búsqueda durante quince años, de Lourdes a Auschwitz, del Despacho Oval al Vaticano, donde experimentará la confusión originada por la frivolidad sexual, la llamada insaciable del éxito profesional... y el contacto con un dolor que parece echar por tierra todos sus sueños.Ante el humo del feminismo laicista y de la crítica antifeminista, la autora encuentra una sólida inspiración en seis mujeres: Teresa de Jesús, Teresa de Lisieux, Faustina Kowalska, Edith Stein, Teresa de Calcuta y María de Nazaret.Colleen Carroll Campbell ha trabajado como periodista en prensa -New York Times, Washington Post, First Things y America- y televisión -CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, PBS y NPR-. Ha redactado numerosos discursos del presidente de EEUU y ha sido productora ejecutiva de varios programas de EWTN. Pronuncia conferencias por América del Norte y Europa, y ha escrito varios libros aclamados por la cr

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New York City is a metropolis in a constant state of metamorphosis. Amidst continuous construction, the redevelopment of the existing cityscape plays a fundamental role in the evolution of the Big Apple as a place to live, work, and visit. This pocket guide to highlights of modern and contemporary architecture features 85 famous skyscrapers, cutting-edge projects with abandoned infrastructure, post-industrial buildings, and inventive low-cost housing models. Each building is accompanied by text describing its history, use, materials, and architectural profile, in addition to directions, and public accessibility.

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Una historia asombrosa y tierna acerca de la pérdida de un ser querido.Cuando conocemos a Susie Salmon, sabemos que ya está en el cielo, en su nuevo hogar. Desde allí nos va a relatar, con la inconfundible voz de una adolescente de catorce años, una historia tan inquietante como alentadora: la de su propio asesinato a manos de un vecino y el proceso de recuperación por el que van a tener que pasar sus seres queridos. Tras su muerte, Susie contempla cómo la vida continúa sin ella; sus compañeros de colegio rumorean sobre su desaparición, su familia mantiene la ilusión de encontrarla con vida y el asesino se esfuerza en borrar las huellas del crimen. Los acontecimientos se suceden al tiempo que Susie se va adaptando a ese lugar llamado cielo, un refugio mágico donde encuentra consejeros que le ayudan a entender la muerte y amigos con los que convivir, un nuevo hogar donde halla todo lo que desea excepto lo más importante: reencontrarse con las personas a las que ama y que viven en

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Este libro persigue eliminar dramatismo al concepto de obsesión, poniendo énfasis en el logro del control personal sobre ésta. A su vez, explica los diversos problemas que pueden ocasionar las obsesiones, detallando en qué consisten, cómo son (impulsos, imágenes, pensamientos...), qué significan, a qué se deben o cómo se manifiestan. El libro está escrito de forma concisa, desenfadada, y con una gran fluidez, siendo accesible a cualquier lector y útil para comprender en qué consiste este problema, cómo explicarlo y qué hacer ante él, aportando consejos prácticos, ejercicios y material para hacerle frente.

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