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The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855–1912)—the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets—has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural speech, his bucolic settings, and the way he bridges poetic tradition and the beginnings of modernism. Featuring verse from throughout his career, and with the original Italian on facing pages, Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli is a comprehensive and authoritative collection of a fascinating and major literary figure.Reading this poet of nature, grief, and small-town life is like traveling through Italy's landscapes in his footsteps—from Romagna and Bologna to Rome, Sicily, and Tuscany—as the country transformed from an agrarian society into an industrial one. Mixing the elevated diction of Virgil with local slang and the sounds of the natural world, these poems capture sense-laden moments: a train's departure, a wren's winter foraging, and the lit windows of a town at dusk. Incorporating revolutionary language into classical scenes, Pascoli's poems describe ancient rural dramas—both large and small—that remain contemporary.Framed by an introduction, annotations, and a substantial chronology, Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston's translations render the variety, precision, and beauty of Pascoli's poetry with a profoundly current vision.

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The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855–1912)—the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets—has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural speech, his bucolic settings, and the way he bridges poetic tradition and the beginnings of modernism. Featuring verse from throughout his career, and with the original Italian on facing pages, Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli is a comprehensive and authoritative collection of a fascinating and major literary figure.Reading this poet of nature, grief, and small-town life is like traveling through Italy's landscapes in his footsteps—from Romagna and Bologna to Rome, Sicily, and Tuscany—as the country transformed from an agrarian society into an industrial one. Mixing the elevated diction of Virgil with local slang and the sounds of the natural world, these poems capture sense-laden moments: a train's departure, a wren's winter foraging, and the lit windows of a town at dusk. Incorporating revolutionary language into classical scenes, Pascoli's poems describe ancient rural dramas—both large and small—that remain contemporary.Framed by an introduction, annotations, and a substantial chronology, Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston's translations render the variety, precision, and beauty of Pascoli's poetry with a profoundly current vision.

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Insight Guides Explore SingaporeTravel made easy. Ask local experts.Focused travel guide featuring the very best routes and itineraries, now with free eBook.Discover the best of Singapore with this unique travel guide, packed full of insider information and stunning images. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see, top attractions like the Civic District, the Museum District and Marina Bay, to discovering cultural gems, including a music or theatre performance at the Esplanade, explore the city's eclectic cultures at the Paranakan Museum and a wondrous walk in the National Orchid Garden, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will save you time, and help you plan and enhance your visit to this unique city.Features of this travel guide to Singapore:- 18 walks and tours: detailed itineraries feature all the best places to visit, including where to eat and drink along the way- Local highlights: discover the area's top attractions and unique sights, and be inspired by stunning imagery- Historical and cultural insights: immerse yourself in Singapore's rich history and culture, and learn all about its people, art and traditions- Insider recommendations: discover the best hotels, restaurants and nightlife using our comprehensive listings- Practical full-colour map: with every major sight and listing highlighted, the full-colour maps make on-the-ground navigation easy- Key tips and essential information: packed full of important travel information, from transport and tipping to etiquette and hours of operation- The ultimate travel tool: download the free app and eBook to access all this and more from your phone or tablet- Covers: Civic District; Museum District; Marina Bay; Singapore River; Central Business District; Chinatown; Orchard Road; Botanic Gardens and Tanglin Village; Kampong Glam; Little India; Sentosa; Southern Islands; Western Singapore; Southern Singapore; Katong and The East Coast; Changi; Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; MandaiLooking for a comprehensive guide to Southeast Asia? Check out Insight Guides Southeast Asia for a detailed and entertaining look at all the region has to offer.About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

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'The kind of book you will find yourself saying urgently, over and over, to friends: 'Have you read it?' CAITLIN MORAN'Gripping, funny and always honest' DAVID NICHOLLS'I honestly couldn't put it down' MARINA HYDEAn ordinary day.The end of ordinary life.One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list - drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for twenty years lying on the bathroom floor. And nothing would ever be the same again. But this is not a pity memoir. It's about meeting your person. And crazed late night Google trawls. It's about the things you wished you'd said to the person that matters then wildly over-sharing with the barista who doesn't know you at all. It's about sushi and the wrong shoes and the moments you want to shout 'cut'. It's about the silence when you are lost in space and the importance of family and parties and noise. It's the difference between surviving and living. It's a reminder that, even in the worst times, there is light ahead. It's a love story.

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Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. By looking at her subject as a performance rather than a literary phenomenon, Trotter captures how Irish theatre has actively reflected and shaped debates about Irish culture and identity among audiences, artists, and critics for over a century. This text provides the reader with discussion and analysis of: Significant playwrights and companies, from Lady Gregory to Brendan Behan to Marina Carr, and from the Abbey Theatre to the Lyric Theatre to Field Day; Major historical events, including the war for Independence, the Troubles, and the social effects of the Celtic Tiger economy; Critical Methodologies: how postcolonial, diaspora, performance, gender, and cultural theories, among others, shed light on Irish theatre’s political and artistic significance, and how it has addressed specific national concerns. Because of its comprehensiveness and originality, Modern Irish Theatre will be of great interest to students and general readers interested in theatre studies, cultural studies, Irish studies, and political performance.

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Greer Hennessy is a struggling movie location scout. Her last project literally went up in flames, and her career is on the verge of flaming out. Now Greer has been given one more chance - a shot at finding the perfect undiscovered beach town for a big budget movie. She zeroes in on a sleepy Florida panhandle town. There's one motel, a marina, a long stretch of pristine beach, and an old fishing pier with a community casino - which will be perfect for the film's explosive climax. There's just one problem: the town mayor, Eben Thinadeaux. Eben is a born-again environmentalist who has seen huge damage done to the town by a big paper company. The bay has only recently been re-bom, a fishing industry has sprung up, and Eben has no intention of letting anybody screw with his town again. The only problem is that he finds Greer way too attractive for his own good, and knows that her motivation is in direct conflict with his. Will true love find a foothold in this small beach town before it's too late and disaster strikes? Told with Mary Kay Andrews inimitable wit and charm, Beach Town is this year's summer beach read.

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Hay miles de blogs, pero Fallera Cósmica sólo hay una. El de Marina Sanmartín, vivo desde agosto de 2009, es el claro ejemplo de cómo debe ser un buen cuaderno de bitácora digital. Compuesto por pequeños textos experienciales, encontramos en ellos referencias a la vida cotidiana, a aquellas cosas comunes a todos -la vista a través de una ventana; el recuerdo de un sueño; el de una persona lejana en el tiempo; los pensamientos que se deslizan mientras tomamos el primer café del día; el encuentro con los amigos en una terraza...-. Pedacitos de vida que identificamos como nuestros, expresados con una sencilla y adictiva prosa. Los lectores advierten un peculiar déjà vu, abierto a la reflexión personal sobre las rutinas vitales, marcadas por el acompañamiento de libros, películas, series de televisión y músicas que invaden los sentidos.El único defecto que le podíamos encontrar era el de no poder disfrutarlo impreso en forma de libro. Aquí lo tenemos. Un diario sin candado ni llave, par

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A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer.Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region’s administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology.Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.

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If you're a programmer new to databases-or just new to MySQL and its community-driven variant, MariaDB-you've found the perfect introduction. This hands-on guide provides an easy, step-by-step approach to installing, using, and maintaining these popular relational database engines. Author Russell Dyer, Curriculum Manager at MariaDB and former editor of the MySQL Knowledge Base, takes you through database design and the basics of data management and manipulation, using real-world examples and many practical tips. Exercises and review questions help you practice what you've just learned. Create and alter MySQL tables and specify fields and columns within them Learn how to insert, select, update, delete, join, and subquery data, using practical examples Use built-in string functions to find, extract, format, and convert text from columns Learn functions for mathematical or statistical calculations, and for formatting date and time values Perform administrative duties such as managing user accounts, backing up databases, and importing large amounts of data Use APIs to connect and query MySQL and MariaDB with PHP and other languages

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Primera edición en castellano de la enciclopedia de referencia sobre las tortugas del mundo. Trata de forma detallada las características de cada especie, la distribución, los hábitats, el comportamiento y el estado de conservación de todas las tortugas marinas, de agua dulce y terrestres, todo ello en un estilo ameno y riguroso y una presentación clara y atractiva. Incluye los últimos cambios taxonómicos. 316 especies, varias descritas por primera vez. Más de 410 fotografías en color que incluyen tomas de campo inéditas y más de 600 mapas. Nombres comunes en castellano de todas las especies de tortugas. Se trata de una obra universal y completa, así como una referencia científica única en su género, orientada hacia la protección de unos animales a menudo maltratados y amenazados.

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Fact is torn from fiction in this first biography of Mexico’s famous independence heroine, which also traces her subsequent journey from history to myth. María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba (1778–1850) is an iconic figure in Mexican history. Known by the nickname “La Güera Rodríguez” because she was so fair, she is said to have possessed a remarkably sharp wit, a face fit for statuary, and a penchant for defying the status quo. Charming influential figures such as Simon Bolívar, Alexander von Humboldt, and Agustín de Iturbide, she utilized gold and guile in equal measure to support the independence movement—or so the stories say. In La Güera Rodríguez, Silvia Marina Arrom approaches the legends of Rodríguez de Velasco with a keen eye, seeking to disentangle the woman from the myth. Arrom uses a wide array of primary sources from the period to piece together an intimate portrait of this remarkable woman, followed by a review of her evolving representation in Mexican arts and letters that shows how the legends became ever more fanciful after her death. How much of the story is rooted in fact, and how much is fiction sculpted to fit the cultural sensibilities of a given moment in time? In our contemporary moment of unprecedented misinformation, it is particularly relevant to analyze how and why falsehoods become part of historical memory. La Güera Rodriguez will prove an indispensable resource for those searching to understand late-colonial Mexico, the role of women in the independence movement, and the use of historic figures in crafting national narratives.

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While women have struggled to gain recognition in the discipline of philosophy, there is no shortage of brilliant female thinkers. What can these women teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature of existence, and how might we relate these big ideas back to the smaller everyday concerns of domestic life, work, play, love, and relationships? Australian novelist Julienne van Loon goes on a worldwide quest to answer these questions, by engaging with eight world-renowned thinkers who have deep insights on humanity and society: media scholar Laura Kipnis, novelist Siri Hustvedt, political philosopher Nancy Holmstrom, psychoanalytic theorist Julia Kristeva, domestic violence reformer Rosie Batty, peace activist Helen Caldicott, historian Marina Warner, and feminist philosopher Rosi Braidotti. As she speaks to these women, she reflects on her own experiences. Combining the intimacy of a memoir with the intellectual stimulation of a theoretical text, The Thinking Woman draws novel connections between the philosophical, personal, and political. Giving readers a new appreciation for both the ethical complexities and wonder of everyday life, this book is inspiration to all thinking people.

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Two decades after her sister’s brutal attack and murder, Meg Brogan has finally found happiness…or so it appears. A bestselling true-crime writer, Meg has money, fame, and a wealthy fiancé. But when a television-show host presses her to tackle the one story everyone claims she cannot write—the story of her own family’s destruction—her perfect life shatters. Determined to finally face her past, Meg returns to her hometown of Shelter Bay. Shrouded in cold, brooding fog, the close-knit coastal town harbors dark secrets and suspicious residents. One of the few people to welcome Meg back is Blake Sutton, her high-school sweetheart and the marina’s new owner. Desperate for clues, Meg digs through her family’s files. As Pacific storms brew outside, her passion for Blake reignites. But someone doesn’t want Meg digging up the past. And that person will go to deadly lengths to prevent the writer from revealing a terrible truth.

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In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of language, this new approach was historicist and moved beyond a narrow focus on language to examine the broader social and cultural contexts in which literary works were composed and disseminated. Within the field, this transformation of medieval studies was as important as the genetic revolution to the study of biology and has had an enormous influence on the study of medieval literature. Rethinking the New Medievalism offers both a historical account of the movement and its achievements while indicating - in Nichols' innovative spirit - still newer directions for medieval studies. The essays deal with questions of authorship, theology, and material philology and are written by members of a wide philological and critical circle that Nichols nourished for forty years. Daniel Heller-Roazen's essay, for example, demonstrates the conjunction of the old philology and the new. In a close examination of the history of the words used for maritime raiders from Ancient Greece to the present (pirate, plunderer, bandit), Roazen draws a fine line between lawlessness and lawfulness, between judicial action and war, between war and public policy. Other contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and Ursula Peters.

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Durante la fase más dura del confinamiento, la periodista Marta Rodríguez se aferró a la escritura como el que, en medio de un naufragio, se agarra al pecio de un barco hundido. El resultado es un diario de cuarentena en el que explora todo lo que fuimos durante aquellos días insólitos: espías de ventana, vecinos que se miraban a los ojos, cocineros de Instagram, padres denonados, soldados de sofá, amantes furtivos. 40 entregas ilustradas con maestría por los fotógrafos Carlos de Paz, Antonio Jesús García, Marina del Paz, Guillermo Fuertes y Rodolfo Caparrós que tejen un gran relato coral escrito desde la soledad del aislamiento.Según el narrador Miguel Ángel Muñoz, ?el mayor acierto de este diario es la puntuación de la voz, las emociones de la prosa, con la intensidad exacta de lo coloquial, y el hilo del humor, que siempre está ahí para que el ánimo lo sujete?.

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The artist’s studio occupies a unique place in the popular imagination. Its environment is both the site of the artist’s creative production, and a deeply private, personal space that nourishes and bears witness to the artist’s working process, in a continuous interplay with its location, layout, interior and ambience. This rare access to the studio by a trusted visitor provides a unique opportunity to experience the lives of artists working in New York, through their methods, materials and influences, contained within the intimate space of the studio, and observed with an acutely sensitive eye. Artist Studios in New York – which Marco Anelli has been exploring since 2011 - leads the viewer into the creative process of internationally famous artists such as Alex Katz, Alfredo Jaar, Cecily Brown, Dan Colen, Elisabeth Peyton, Francesco Clemente, Jack Pierson, Joan Jonas, Joyce Pensato, Jonas Mekas, Jordan Wolfson, Julian Schnabel, Julie Mehretu, Kiki Smith, Lawrence Weiner, Mariko Mori, Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Mickalene Thomas, Nate Lowman, Pat Steir, Rob Wynne, Robert Longo, Stanley Whitney, Tony Oursler, Ugo Rondinone, Urs Fisher, Vik Muniz.

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"No puede desconocerse el impulso, que en nuestros dias, arrastra á los espíritus hácia los estudios higiénicos. Este movimiento, uno de los caractéres peculiares de la medicina contemporánea, depende de causas múltiples. Entre las mas evidentes, deben señalarse la importancia humanitaria de la higiene; sus íntimas conexiones con los problemas económicos y sociales que interesan directamente al porvenir y al bienestar de las masas; y por último, los adelantos tan rápidos de las ciencias físicas que, todos los dias proporcionan recursos á la higiene y la descubren perspectivas nuevas. Estos son, á no dudarlo, los móviles principales de la actividad con que es cultivada esta rama de la medicina". Así comienza la obra Higiene alimenticia de los enfermos, de los convalecientes y de los valetudinarios, ó el régimen considerado como medio terapéutico,obra que se presenta por primera vez en edición facsímil, escrita por Jean-Baptiste Fonssagrives (1823-1884), médico-jefe de la marina f

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Juan de la Cruz usurpó una frase marina acuñada por los descubridores de Indias, las ínsulas extrañas, para aludir a otra tierra incógnita, más difícil de cartografiar con la palabra: el Misterio de las epifanías de Dios. A una navegación por estas ínsulas extrañas del espíritu convoca ahora este libro a diversos expertos, que exploran el fenómeno místico del cual el poeta fuera el máximo cantor.Teología, psicoanálisis, poesía, crítica literaria, arquitectura, literatura comparada, estudios bíblicos, teoría del fenómeno místico ?los asedios a lo Indecible son aquí tan variados como los sujetos estudiados?, Teresa de Ávila, Rosa de Lima, Jan van Ruusbroec, Farid ud-Din ?Attar, Ibn ?Arabi, Juan de la Cruz en diálogo con la jóora platónica, con Garcilaso de la Vega, con la mística flamenca, con los salmos bíblicos, con la espiritualidad tántrica de la India, con el Rasa Lila. Incluso los poetas establecen aquí diálogos literarios inesperados.

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