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Giorgio Caproni, Mario Luzi, Margherita Guidacci, Andrea Zanzotto, Giovanni Giudici, Maria Luisa Spaziani, Edoardo Sanguineti, Fernando Bandini, Alda Merini, Giovanni Raboni, Corrado Calabrò, Antonio Porta, Tiziano Rossi, Fabio Doplicher, Silvio Ramat, Dario Bellezza, Giuseppe Conte, Maurizio Cucchi, Vivian Lamarque, Eugenio De Signoribus, Donatella Bisutti, Patrizia Cavalli, Milo De Angelis, Roberto Mussapi, Giancarlo Pontiggia, Claudio Damiani, Valerio Magrelli, Antonella Anedda, Davide Rondoni, Andrea Di Consoli.

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'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Michael Kohlhaas is the darkly comical and magnificently weird story of one man's alienation from a corrupt legal system. When his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands. Will he be remembered as a dangerous enemy of the peace, or a vigilante hero?Praised by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, Roberto Bolaño, Werner Herzog, and J. M. Coetzee, this is one of the most influential tales in German literature. In this vital new translation by the renowned poet Michael Hofmann, Kleist's bizarre, brutal and maddening story is urgent today.

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María Eulalia de Borbón (bautizada con los nombres de María Eulalia Francisca de Asis Margarita Roberta Isabel Francisca de Paula Cristina María de la Piedad) (12 de febrero de 1864 # 8 de marzo de 1958), fue una infanta de España, por ser hija de Isabel II de España.

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The shockwaves from the assassination of Garcia Lovelace's father in Venezuela hit Roanapur full force. The deadly maid and ex-terrorist Roberta begins her quest for vengeance and she's not going to quit even if the trail takes her deep into a web of intrigue involving the U.S. military. The city's criminal gangs realize the danger of too much US government attention, and the crew of the Black Lagoonis drawn into the search for the renegade killer maid from Hell. But Roberta's dance of death won't be over until everyone has paid the price in blood.

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Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was teaching history in Kigali, Rwanda, when he was forced to flee to the neighbouring Congo with his wife and three children. Thus began a harrowing five-year voyage of survival during which they travelled thousands of miles on foot from one refugee camp to another. Lacking food and water, they were often robbed, sometimes raped, and constantly pursued and bombed by shadowy armed soldiers with sophisticated weapons and aerial surveillance information. This brilliant and touching book is the story of one family among the more than 300,000 refugees—many of whom did not survive. For those wishing to understand the war in the Congo, this must-read will restore the humanity and the right to mourn for hundreds of thousands of Rwandans dispersed throughout the world.

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“The Alternative is about thinking differently. Doing differently. Creating your own path. Taking paths of great resistance. And actually making a difference in the lives around us … and in the world at large.” —Caleb Stanley and Austin DennisThe Alternative: Awaken Your Dreams, Unite Your Community and Live in Hope focuses on the big issues in life: friendship, dating, anxiety, self-esteem, faith, and the future—to name a few. Caleb Stanley and Austin Dennis, cofounders of The Alternative nonprofit, bring together inspirational voices such as Jefferson Bethke, Luke Lezon, Chelsea Crockett, and more to tackle tough issues with honesty and humor.Based on the core principles of The Alterative movement, Caleb and Austin inspire readers to awaken their dreams, to unite communities in today’s tumultuous world, and to amplify hope in themselves and the people around them. In addition to advice and real-world anecdotes, this book is packed with mini-essays, Q&As, and devotions from today’s best-known faith leaders.This full-color book is perfect for fans of Do Hard Things and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.

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People all over the world are confronted daily by issues such as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services. These issues are dynamic and varied, and social workers need to have access to relevant and timely evidence-based materials to meet the needs of those facing them. The Social Workers' Desk Reference is a comprehensive resource for practicing social workers. This essential reference is extraordinarily comprehensive and provides updated information in 15 parts covering the profession and its overarching themes; values, ethics, licensure; theoretical constructs; assessment; treatment plans; techniques; individual, family, and group Interventions; evidence-based practice; case management; community practice; vulnerable populations; behavioral and mental health; school social work; military social work; and forensic social work. All 163 chapters, written by experts in the field, are focused, practical, and contain critical content in addition to websites and updated references. The fourth edition follows in the tradition of the first three editions and updates previous topics but fearlessly addresses current salient subjects such as white nationalism, gaming disorder, substance abuse, LGBTQ+ populations, suicide, sexual violence in the military, smart decarceration, the legacy of racism, neurobiology, technology and social work practice, Islamophobia, pseudoscientific behavioral and mental health treatments, emerging fields of practice, and more. It has greatly expanded its section on vulnerable populations to address the wide variety of diversity in the U.S.

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Annual volume on medieval textual cultures, engaging with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing the best new work in this field. New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Essays in this volume engage with widely varied themes: law and literature; manuscript production, patronage, and aesthetics; real and imagined geographies; gender and its connections to narrative theory and to psychoanalysis. Investigations range from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, from England to the eastern Mediterranean. New arguments are put forward about the dating, context, and occasion of Geoffrey Chaucer's Boece, while the narrative dynamics of Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale" and "Tale of Melibee" are examined from new perspectives. The topography of the Holy Lands appears both as a set of emotional sites, depicted in the Prick of Conscience in its account of the end of the world, and as co-ordinates in the cultural imaginary of medieval the wine-trade. Grendel's mother emerges as the invisible and unavowable centre of male heroic culture in Beowulf, and the fourteenth-century St Erkenwald is brought into contact with the community-building project of the medieval death investigation. Finally, the late medieval Speculum Christiani is revealed to be a work with deep aesthetic investments when read through the framework of how its medieval scribes encountered and shaped that work.

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A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one of the leading 20th-century German writers. Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. Döblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer . Döblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Döblin's impact on German writers after the Second World War was considerable: Günter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the reading public, it has overshadowed therest of Döblin's immense oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice to such important texts as Döblin's early stories, his numerous other novels, his political, philosophical, medical, autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and his writings on the new media of cinema and radio. Contributors: Heidi Thomann Tewarson, David Dollenmayer, Neil H. Donahue, Roland Dollinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Gabriele Sander, Erich Kleinschmidt, Wulf Koepke, Helmut F. Pfanner, Helmuth Kiesel, Klaus Müller-Salget, Christoph Bartscherer, Wolfgang Düsing. Roland Dollinger is Associate Professor of German at Sarah Lawrence College; Wulf Koepke is Professor Emeritus of German at Texas A&M University; Heidi Thomann Tewarson is Professor of German at Oberlin College.

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While some research methods or techniques are applicable in several areas of medicine, research in cardiovascular diseases requires knowledge of an increasing array of procedures, techniques and measurements that are highly specialized and unique to this area of investigation. Edited by senior clinical investigators who are recognized leaders in cardiovascular medicine worldwide, this book provides readers with a comprehensive, practical “how-to-do-it” review of best-practice techniques for cardiovascular research.

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Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Imaginative, clever and often humorous, this beautifully illustrated poetry collection by Valerie Bloom is inspired by the strange and wonderful creatures of the natural world. Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction. Text type: A poetry book Curriculum links: Citizenship

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What is Covid, and why is everyone talking about it? Engagingly illustrated by Axel Scheffler, this approachable and timely book - now newly updated in print paperback for 2021 with the latest developments in vaccination and extra content about emotional wellbeing - helps answer these questions and many more. This new larger and expanded 32-page edition provides clear explanations about COVID-19 and its effects - both from a health perspective and the impact it has on a family's day-to-day life. With input from expert consultant Professor Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, as well as advice from teachers and child psychologists, this is a practical, informative and reassuring resource to help explain the changes we are currently all experiencing. £1 from the sale of every copy of this book will be donated to NHS Charities together (with the remainder of the proceeds to cover print and distribution costs)

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Seven distinguished historians explain how a national political culture developed in America. A political culture is both the collectivity of a community's values and a mode of behavior—an end as well as a process of obtaining that end which is always changing. J.G.A. Pocock examines how Americans wrote their own history rather than relying on others. Jack Greene shows how British institutions and the common law were modified by unique colonial American experiences. Richard Vernier suggests that the economic crises of the mid-1780s resulted in the triumph of a national fiscal policy enunciated by Alexander Hamilton. Andrew Robertson demonstrates how election rituals transformed the American political culture of deference into an expanded, abstract world of electoral opinion knit together by newspapers. Joyce Appleby examines the importance of literacy to the exchange of ideas that created a national political culture. She also highlights the importance of volunteer associations to effect social and economic reform in America (including the abolition of slavery). Lawrence Goldman's case study of the National Reform Association, a nineteenth-century group of radical workers, describes how the reform movement's advocacy of cheap land led to the passage of the Homestead Act in 1862. Rebecca Starr uses South Carolina to illustrate how the South developed its own political culture by the end of the eighteenth century that persisted well beyond the Civil War.

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Articles which survey and map out the increasingly significant discipline of medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects. This latest volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores definitions of the field, complementing its landmark predecessor. In its first section, essays by seven leading medievalists seeks to determine precisely how tocharacterize the subjects of study, their relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and their relevance to the middle ages, whose definition is itself a matter of debate. Their observations and conclusions are then tested in the articles second part of the book. Their topics include the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years in our perception of the middle ages; medievalism in Gustave Doré's mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the Divine Comedy; the role of music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films; cinematic representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The Passionand The.Powerbook; Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de Voragine's Golden Legend. CONTRIBUTORS: Carla A. Arnell,Aida Audeh, Jane Chance, Pamela Clements, Alain Corbellari, Roberta Davidson, Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, Carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E.L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A. Simmons, Richard Utz, Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling

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SUE NEWELL is Cammarata Professor of Management at Bentley University, Boston, USA and also PT Professor of Information Management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. MAXINE ROBERTSON is Professor of Management at Queen Mary University of London, UK HARRY SCARBROUGH is Associate Dean for Research at Warwick Business School. JACKY SWAN is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.

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An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013: Top 100/Editors' Pick "Captivating ...a story of blood, hatred, vengeance, and politics."--Radio-Canada Alberto Ventura has travelled to Chile to attend the funeral of his father, Roberto. A man hated and loved both by his family and the local people, Roberto was known in the village as an enigma, a rake, a controversial boss, and a quick-tempered thug. It's said that he has destroyed the family land by mass-farming eucalyptus trees, and he's known to have killed a local boy in a fit of rage. Yet as Alberto delves into the rumours that obscure his father's death--was it natural causes, vengeance, murder, or self-sacrifice?--he finds the reputation at stake is his own. In a breath-catching story of race and identity, rife with Chile's centuries-old tension between natives and local landowners, Mauricio Segura's Eucalyptus investigates the flashpoint of one village community in an expanding world. "Well-executed, with a cinematic quality and keen visual sense ...Segura locates the political through the personal in a way that is uncommon."--Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books "A solid novelist of infallible instincts."--L'Actualite

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A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable in English, Another Mother argues that the question of the mother is essential to comprehend the matrix of contemporary culture and society and to pursue feminist political projects. Focusing on Diotima, a community of women philosophers deeply involved in feminist politics since the 1960s, this volume provides a multifaceted panorama of its engagement with currents of thought including structuralism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and Marxism. Starting from the simple insight that the mother is the one who gives us both life and language, these thinkers develop concepts of the mother and sexual difference in contemporary society that differ in crucial ways from both French and U.S. feminisms. Arguing that Diotima anticipates many of the themes in contemporary philosophical discourses of biopolitics—exemplified by thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, and Roberto Esposito—Another Mother opens an important space for reflections on the past history of feminism and on feminism’s future. Contributors: Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Paris 8 U–Vincennes Saint-Denis; Ida Dominijanni; Luisa Muraro; Diana Sartori, U of Verona; Chiara Zamboni, U of Verona.

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The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who—as these two volumes reveal—probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites—as “scheming Jezebels,” ample and devoted “mammies,” or suffering victims of white male brutality and sexual abuse—that revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old—concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as “wives” and “nieces,” taken into African families and kin-groups in subtlely nuanced fashion. Volume 2 Contributors Henrice Altink Laurence Brown Myriam Cottias Laura F. Edwards Richard Follett Tara Inniss Barbara Krauthamer Joseph C. Miller Bernard Moitt Kenneth Morgan Claire Robertson Marsha Robinson Felipe Smith Mariza de Carvalho Soares

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En la actualidad, es creciente la demanda de intervención con adolescentes en contextos psicológicos, educativos y sociales, por ello, los profesionales de estos ámbitos precisan de herramientas prácticas que puedan dar respuesta a las dificultades que surgen en esta etapa evolutiva. Más allá de las dificultades asociadas a este momento del desarrollo, la adolescencia es un periodo caracterizado por una inmensa efervescencia cerebral, donde se forjan buena parte de los recursos del individuo adulto, por ello, resulta clave contar con técnicas para desarrollar las potencialidades de los jóvenes y tratar de ofrecer propuestas que desbloqueen dinámicas que puedan resultar disfuncionales. Con estas premisas, Adolescentes 2.0 surge como una propuesta de intervención dirigida a profesionales de ayuda, donde se ofrecen estrategias que han resultado útiles y se desgranan herramientas generadoras de cambio a través del fomento de relaciones de colaboración con los adolescentes y sus familias.

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Un original libro en formato cuadrado con una caja que contiene cinco animalitos. La caja (como fondo) y el libro (como base) hacen de escenario (una granja), para que el niño pueda jugar con las figuritas sobre él. En cada página se le pide al niño que busque en la caja a un animalito y haga algo con él (que lo coloque junto a sus hermanitos, por ejemplo, que salte la valla, etc.). También debe imitar los sonidos que hacen los animales, nombrar los colores o contar.

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Una colección de cuentos clásicos con divertidos y variados pictogramas que facilitarán y amenizarán la lectura a los más pequeños. El texto sencillo y las coloridas ilustraciones harán que niños y adultos disfruten juntos.

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Ejercita tu mente con esta increíble colección de ilusiones ópticas que ponen a prueba tu percepción. Con un poco de paciencia descubrirás una dimensión alucinante... y no creerás lo que ven tus ojos!

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En un tiempo en que los límites de lo realizable se hacen cada vez más claros, muchas personas se preguntan por las raíces de la existencia. Las preguntas por el origen y el fundamento de la vida están pasando de nuevo a ocupar más el centro de la reflexión.Romano Guardini intentó señalar una respuesta a esas preguntas en textos clásicos y siempre actuales que ofrecen orientación a los que buscan tanto en las preguntas como en la oración.El conocido filósofo de la religión alumbra una importante fuente de la espiritualidad cristiana en La sabiduría de los salmos. En los salmos, tan diferentes entre sí, puede llevarse ante la presencia de Dios toda alabanza, toda pasión y toda rabia. No por eso se toca la libertad de Dios: él es siempre el Señor y el Juez. En este encuentro frente a frente está el fundamento de la liberación humana.Romano Guardini nacido en 1885 y fallecido en 1968, fue docente en las universidades de Bonn, Berlín, Tubinga y Múnich, donde ocupó la cátedra de Co

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La obra aborda el análisis de la comunicación política desde una perspectiva novedosa al combinar una aproximación académica y profesional. Ello permite realizar un adecuado tratamiento de algunos de sus principales conceptos, como los efectos de la comunicación en el comportamiento de los ciudadanos, con otros que resultan novedosos, como la formulación de la tesis de la democratización de la comunicación política o el tratamiento de la ética en la comunicación. Del mismo modo, y desde una perspectiva práctico-profesional, se presentan herramientas como el storytelling o los grassroots, y estrategias como la actividad del lobbying o la gestión de la comunicación en situaciones de crisis. Todo ello sin olvidar uno de los principales focos de atención de la comunicación política: la organización de las campañas electorales y, muy especialmente, las campañas digitales.Los contenidos son abordados por profesores de Ciencia Política y de Comunicación, y profesionales del sector que ofr

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Como diccionario teológico, histórico y sistemático, esta obra refleja el último estadio del desarrollo de la investigación actual acerca de la historia de la Iglesia, en su contexto temporal y geográfico. A fin de comprender la Iglesia cristiana en su apariencia actual y formarse una opinión al respecto es imprescindible disponer de conocimientos sólidos acerca de la continuidad, complejidad y relatividad de los procesos eclesiásticos a lo largo de los tiempos.

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El Papado como concreción histórica del ministerio de Pedro está llamado hoy en día a una reforma y revisión de su configuración histórica y a una discusión sobre su contenido teológico a la luz de su origen, según el testimonio bíblico y los documentos de la Iglesia primitiva. Sobre este trasfondo, se hace necesario un conocimiento de las estructuras que se han desarrollado a lo largo de la historia como también de quienes fueron sus impulsores; este conocimiento hará posible una participación madura en la discusión en el seno del cristianismo.Como su título indica, este Diccionario de los papas y del papado incluye una referencia a cada uno de los papas y antipapas de la historia de la Iglesia y el conjunto temático en el que se tratan aspectos relacionados con el Papado, tanto de índole geográfica (p. ej., Roma), como jurídico-canónica (p. ej., Elección papal), organizativo-institucional (p. ej., Curia romana), teológico-sistemática (p. ej., Infalibilidad), como temas relacionad

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Este libro aborda comparativamente las dos obras capitales de las literaturas española y argentina a partir de una teoría general de las matrices narrativas que subyacen a todas las formas posibles de relatos ficcionales y no ficcionales. Don Quijote y Martín Fierro son analizados en aquellos aspectos de su configuración psíquica y actancial que remiten a cada una de las tres matrices básicas de la teoría (cosmogónica, heroica, novelesca), lo cual permite ubicarlos al cabo en una zona de transición, intersección o indefinición entre el heroísmo de la segunda matriz y el antiheroísmo de la tercera, transición tensa y agónica, capaz de reconvertir a personajes ya incapaces de todo heroísmo factual o real en transfigurados héroes discursivos o verbales. La dialéctica que ambas obras postulan entre armas y letras o entre el cuchillo y el canto brinda así la clave interpretativa de un destino novelesco que convierte a los fracasados de los hechos y la acción en triunfadores del discurso y l

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