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What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. It asks why the practice of decapitation was once so widespread, why it has diminished—but not, as scenes from contemporary Iraq show, completely disappeared—and why we find it so peculiarly repulsive that we use it as a principal marker to separate ourselves from a more “barbaric”or “primitive” past? Although the topic is grim, Regina Janes’s treatment and conclusions are neither grisly nor gruesome, but continuously instructive about the ironies of humanity’s cultural nature. Bringing to bear an array of evidence, the book argues that the human ability to create meaning from the body motivates the practice of decapitation, its diminution, the impossibility of its extirpation, and its continuing fascination. Ranging from antiquity to the late nineteenth-century passion for Salomé and John the Baptist, and from the enlightenment to postcolonial Africa’s challenge to the severed head as sign of barbarism, Losing Our Heads opens new areas of investigation, enabling readers to understand the shock of decapitation and to see the value in moving past shock to analysis. Written with penetrating wit and featuring striking illustrations, it is sure to captivate anyone interested in his or her head.

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It is 1886, and the government has given the US Cavalry control of Yellowstone. For widowed hotelier Kate Tremaine, the change is a welcome one. She knows every inch of her wilderness home like the back of her hand and wants to see it protected from poachers and vandals. Refused a guide by Congress, Lieutenant William Prescott must enlist Kate's aid to help him navigate the sprawling park and track down the troublemakers. But a secret from his past makes him wary of the tender feelings the capable and comely widow raises in him. As they work together to protect the park and stand firm through injustice and tragedy, they may just find that two wounded hearts can share one powerful love when God is in control.

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Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the Castilian capital city of Madrid drew resources from surrounding Spanish regions as it pursued its quest for centralization. According to this view, powerful Madrid thwarted trade over large geographic distances by destroying an integrated network of manufacturing towns in the Spanish interior. Challenging this long-held view, Regina Grafe argues that decentralization, not a strong and powerful Madrid, is to blame for Spain's slow march to modernity. Through a groundbreaking analysis of the market for bacalao--dried and salted codfish that was a transatlantic commodity and staple food during this period--Grafe shows how peripheral historic territories and powerful interior towns obstructed Spain's economic development through jurisdictional obstacles to trade, which exacerbated already high transport costs. She reveals how the early phases of globalization made these regions much more externally focused, and how coastal elites that were engaged in trade outside Spain sought to sustain their positions of power in relation to Madrid. Distant Tyranny offers a needed reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness.

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Friendship is so complicated! The children of The Adoption Club think they are friends - they go to the same school and belong to The Adoption Club.But what does it mean? What is the difference between a casual and a close friend? How should you respond to teasing? It's time for The Adoption Club to explore friendship.Written for counsellors and therapists working with children aged 5-11, as well as adoptive parents, this workbook is designed to help explore friendship, staying safe and social skills. It is one of a set of five interactive therapeutic workbooks featuring The Adoption Club written to address the key emotional and psychological challenges adopted children often experience. Together, they provide an approachable, interactive and playful way to help children to learn about themselves and have fun at the same time.

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Want to design a life you love? Start here. In Reflect and Reset: AnEmbrace Your Life Journal, best-selling author, Fran Hauser, has created a journal that will empower you to live more intentionally. Drawing on the five most popular exercises from Embrace The Work, Love Your Career, Hauser connects you more deeply to yourself and to what you really want.The journal is divided into five key areas:ReflectionsSmile FileVision BoardTo-Don’t listColoringWhether it’s guided visualizations, writing down wins, or prioritizing what really matters, the creative prompts in this journal provide a framework of positive habits and the necessary space to allow you to create the life of your dreams.

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The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics. Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater's international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson; and essays by such noted figures in academe as Clark Hulse, Wendy Wall, and Michael Shapiro.

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The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics. Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater's international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson; and essays by such noted figures in academe as Clark Hulse, Wendy Wall, and Michael Shapiro.

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Dos veces, y por mi culpa, estuve cerca de perderla. La conocí en el Louvre, ante la Venus de Milo, una mañana del otoño de 1938. Al mismo tiempo que ella rondaba la escultura, yo la rondaba a ella.Hay que decirlo desde el primer momento: este libro es excepcional. Fue escrito en estado de gracia y desgracia a la vez. Desde el momento en que supieron que Else, la mujer del autor y narrador, iba a morir pronto, comenzó de verdad, para ella y para su marido, un nuevo y extraño periodo de felicidad. Fue la cima de su amor, el momento en el que se amaron mejor y en el que revivieron todo lo que su encuentro les había aportado a lo largo de la vida.Gracias a esta narración ?que obtuvo un gran éxito de crítica y público en Francia? descubrimos, además, la excepcional personalidad de Else Bernard. Tuvo que huir de su país, Austria, para escapar del Holocausto, y se instaló en París durante algún tiempo. Tenía previsto partir hacia América, pero un día se encontró en el Museo del Louvr

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HIGHLIGHTThe first book about PostGIS, a lightweight, open source tool that addsgeographic support to the popular PostgreSQL database. PostGIS isused to develop location-based services.DESCRIPTIONFrom mobile phone usage to online shopping and every application inbetween, location is an incredibly important piece of data. PostGIS is ahigh-caliber, open source tool that allows developers to take locationinformation and make it actionable.PostGIS in Action will help both new and experienced database userssolve location-related problems. For those with experience in moretraditional relational databases, this book provides a background invector-based GIS so they can quickly move on to analyzing, viewing,and mapping data. This tutorial includes discussion and examples ofmany real-world uses.KEY POINTSF• The only book devoted entirely to PostG

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Drittmittelakquisition, Berufungen, Vorträge, Interviews & Co: Die Leser*innen erhalten eine praxisnahe Gebrauchsanleitung, wie sie konkrete kommunikative Herausforderungen ihres beruflichen Alltags effizienter, professioneller und effektiver bewältigen können. Rasch auf den Punkt zu kommen, sich einfach und doch präzise ausdrücken zu können und sich selbst bzw. wissenschaftliche Projekte besser positionieren bzw. verkaufen zu können – damit sind Wissenschaftler*innen aller Fachrichtungen und aller Karrierestufen innerhalb wie außerhalb der Universitäten aktuell ständig konfrontiert. Corona hat deutlich gemacht, was sich schon länger gezeigt hat: Fachwissen allein ist zu wenig.Dieses Buch ist ein praxisnaher Leitfaden für alle, die vor Fördermittelgebern und Kooperationspartnern, bei wissenschaftlichen Hearings, vor Laien-Publikum und in den Medien punkten wollen.

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Following Argentina’s revolution in 1810, the dress of young patriots inspired a nation and distanced its politics from the relics of Spanish colonialism. Fashion writing often escaped the notice of authorities, allowing authors to masquerade political ideas under the guise of frivolity and entertainment. In Couture and Consensus, Regina A. Root maps this pivotal and overlooked facet of Argentine cultural history, showing how politics emerged from dress to disrupt authoritarian practices and stimulate creativity in a newly independent nation. Drawing from genres as diverse as fiction, poetry, songs, and fashion magazines, Root offers a sartorial history that produces an original understanding of how Argentina forged its identity during the regime of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829–1852), a critical historical time. Couture and Consensus closely analyzes military uniforms, women’s dress, and the novels of the era to reveal fashion’s role in advancing an agenda and disseminating political goals, notions Root connects to the contemporary moment. An insightful presentation of the discourse of fashion, Couture and Consensus also paints a riveting portrait of Argentine society in the nineteenth century—its politics, people, and creative forces.

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How has Paris, the world's fashion capital, influenced Milan, New York, and Tokyo? When did the Marlboro Man become a symbol of American masculinity? Why do Americans love to dress down in high-tech Lycra fabrics, while they wax nostalgic for quaint, old-fashioned Victorian cottages? Fashion icons and failures have long captivated the general public, but few scholars have examined the historical role of business and commerce in creating the international market for style goods. Producing Fashion is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that shows how economic institutions in Europe and North America laid the foundation for the global fashion system and sustained it commercially through the mechanisms of advertising, licensing, marketing, publishing, and retailing. The collection reveals how public and private institutions—from government censors in imperial Russia to large corporations in the United States—worked to shape fashion, style, and taste with varying degrees of success. Fourteen contributors draw on original research and fresh insight into the producers of fashion—advertising agents, architects, corporate executives, department stores, designers, editors, government officials, hairdressers, haute couturiers, and Web retailers—in their bid for influence, acclaim, and shoppers' dollars. Producing Fashion looks to the past, revealing the rationale behind style choices, while explaining how the interplay of custom, invented traditions, and sales imperatives continue to drive innovation in the fashion industries.

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Why is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most modern thinkers hold that afterlife belief serves such important psychological and social purposes as consoling survivors, enforcing morality, dispensing justice, or giving life meaning. Yet the earliest, and some more recent, afterlives strikingly fail to satisfy those needs.In Inventing Afterlives, Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter rooted in the question that a dead body raises: where has the life gone? Humans then and now, in communities and as individuals, ponder what they would want or experience were they in that body. From this endlessly recurring situation, afterlife narratives develop in all their complexity, variety, and ingenuity. Exploring afterlives from Egypt to Sumer, among Jews, Greeks, and Romans, to Christianity’s advent and Islam’s rise, Janes reveals how little concern ancient afterlives had with morality. In south and east Asia, karmic rebirth makes morality self-enforcing and raises a new problem: how to stop re-dying. The British enlightenment, Janes argues, invented the now widespread wish-fulfilling afterlife and illustrates how afterlives change. She also considers the surprising afterlife of afterlives among modern artists and writers who no longer believe in worlds beyond this one. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions; contemporary literature and film; primatology; cognitive science; and evolutionary psychology, Janes shows that in asking what happens after we die, we define the worlds we inhabit and the values by which we live.

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Una historia para reír, llorar y reconciliarse con la vidaSin nada que perder y todo por ganar, Rita Racons emprendeel que será el viaje de su vida. Animada por suabuela, decide coger un avión y trasladarse a EstadosUnidos para trabajar como au-pair y aprender inglés. Elazar la llevará a la casa de los Bookland, en Atlanta, dondecuidará de los tres hijos de la familia durante un añoentero.Los Bookland lo son todo menos la típica familia americana.Insoportablemente intelectuales, esperan que lanueva au-pair esté a la altura de lo que exigen unas pequeñasmentes ávidas de conocimientos. Y, pese a que noacabará de estarlo, Rita y su caos constante llevarán a lospequeños Bookland a disfrutar de aquello que no está escritoen los libros.Regina Rodríguez Sirvent construye,gracias a un estilo desternillante y locuaz,una novela divertidísima sobre lo que sucedecuando nos atrevemos a vivir.

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