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Blackout
August 28, 2018
Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues investigate a murder under the shadow of a volcanic ash cloud, while personal problems and a reporter with a secret agenda complicate their work.
Poison
November 21, 2017
"Cass and Ryan Connor have achieved family nirvana. With three kids between them, a cat and a yard, a home they built and feathered, they seem to have the Modern Family dream. Their family, including Cass' two children from previous relationships, has recently moved to Seattle--a new start for their new lives. Cass and Ryan have stable, successful careers, and they are happy. But trouble begins almost imperceptibly. First with small omissions and white lies that happen daily in any marital bedroom. They seem insignificant, but they are quickly followed by a series of denials and feints that mushroom and then cyclone in menace. With life-or-death stakes and irreversible consequences, Poison is a chilling and irresistible reminder that the closest bond designed to protect and provide for each other and for children can change in a minute"--
The Making of Black Lives Matter
May 1, 2017
xxii, 187 pages ; 22 cm
Three Days in January
January 10, 2017
January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power -- a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War. Those three days were the culmination of a lifetime of service that took Ike from rural Kansas to West Point, to the battlefields of World War II, and finally to the Oval Office. When he left the White House, Eisenhower had done more than perhaps any other modern American to set the nation, in his words, "on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment." On January 17, Eisenhower spoke to the nation in one of the most remarkable farewell speeches in U.S. history. Ike looked to the future, warning Americans against the dangers of elevating partisanship above national interest, excessive government budgets (particularly deficit spending), the expansion of the military-industrial complex, and the creeping political power of special interests. Seeking to ready a new generation for power, Eisenhower intensely advised the 43-year-old Kennedy before the inauguration. Author Brett Baier, Chief Political Anchor for Fox News, outlines how Eisenhower's two terms changed America forever for the better -- perhaps even saved the world from destruction -- and demonstrates how today Ike offers us the model of principled leadership that polls say is so missing in politics. The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II, Eisenhower only reluctantly stepped into politics. As President, Ike successfully guided the country out of a dangerous war in Korea, peacefully through the apocalyptic threat of nuclear war with the Soviets, and into one of the greatest economic booms in world history. Five decades later, Eisenhower still offers vital lessons for our own time and stands as a lasting example of political leadership at its most effective and honorable.
The New World Economy: A Beginner's Guide
January 21, 2020
"What is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation's economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic economy? How has the behavior of millennials and Generation Z affected the global economy? Find out all this and more in this definitive guide to the world economy. As the global economic landscape shifts at an increasing rate, it's more important than ever that citizens understand the building blocks of the new world economy. In this lively guide, Randy Charles Epping cuts through the jargon to explain the fundamentals. In thirty-six engaging chapters, Epping lays bare everything from NGOs and nonprofits to AI and data mining. With a comprehensive glossary and absolutely no graphs, The New World Economy: A Beginner's Guide is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what is going on in the world around them. This timely book is a vital resource for today's chaotic world"--
Novos Contextos De Introdução Á Psicologia
December 17, 2021
this book depicts a sexy canadian woman as she gracefully ages from a teenager into maturity
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
June 6, 2017
In vibrant historical detail, American Eclipse animates the fierce jockeying that came to dominate late nineteenth-century American astronomy, revealing the challenges faced by three of the most determined eclipse chasers who participated in this adventure. James Craig Watson, in his day a renowned asteroid hunter; Vassar astronomer Maria Mitchell, who fought to demonstrate that science and higher learning were not anathema to femininity; and Thomas Edison, a young inventor and irrepressible showman. With vivid accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, Baron's page-turning drama not only brings to life the mythologized age of the Wild West in a totally unexpected way but forever memorializes an historic eclipse that would come to symbolize American science in its ascendance.--
The Draw
April 4, 2017
"A young boy's awakening to the conflict between innate gifts and social class is at the center of this searing memoir about the unforgiving sovereignty of money. Hoping to make a killing in New Jersey real estate, the author's father, Monroe Siegel, takes a draw from his employer against unearned commission. When the recession hits in the 1970s, Monroe finds himself owing a small fortune to his firm. He sinks toward divorce and bankruptcy, while Lola, Lee's mother, suffers a nervous breakdown that turns her into a different person. Shamed and enraged by his father's fate, Lee grows up wondering what society owes a person who has failed materially but preserved his humanity. 'Other men got rewarded for their cold-heartedness, and often for their dishonesty, while he, Monroe Siegel, who had never hurt anyone, had to groan and stumble through life. Did not kindness deserve an income?' As a teen, Lee tries to make a different life for himself. He goes to a private college in the Midwest, is forced to leave due to his father's bankruptcy, and returns to New Jersey to work a series of menial jobs. He enrolls at a state college and then drops out to seek a better existence abroad, only to return to the United States in debt and in despair. Suddenly, a promising new life opens to him. At a price. The Draw touches on fundamental questions: How do we balance our obligations to ourselves with our obligations to others? What do we owe society when its rules have a legal basis but not a moral one? Written with startling candor and psychological acuity, Lee Siegels The Draw is for anyone who has ever struggled with money, or who has tried to break through the barriers of family and class."-- "A memoir about dwelling in a world of debt"--
Do You Know Who I Am?
June 1, 2017
xii, 329 pages : 24 cm
The Genius of Judaism
January 10, 2017
Offers an exploration of what it means to be a Jew, rooted in the Talmudic tradition of argument and conflict. "For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage--one of the great moral voices of our time. Now Europe's foremost philosopher and activist confronts his spiritual roots and the religion that has always inspired and shaped him--but that he has never fully reckoned with. The Genius of Judaism is a breathtaking new vision and understanding of what it means to be a Jew, a vision quite different from the one we're used to. It is rooted in the Talmudic traditions of argument and conflict, rather than biblical commandments, borne out in struggle and study, not in blind observance. At the very heart of the matter is an obligation to the other, to the dispossessed, and to the forgotten, an obligation that, as Lévy vividly recounts, he has sought to embody over decades of championing "lost causes," from Bosnia to Africa's forgotten wars, from Libya to the Kurdish Peshmerga's desperate fight against the Islamic State, a battle raging as we speak. Lévy offers a fresh, surprising critique of a new and stealthy form of anti-Semitism on the rise as well as a provocative defense of Israel from the left. He reveals the overlooked Jewish roots of Western democratic ideals and confronts the current Islamist threat while intellectually dismantling it. Jews are not a "chosen people," Lévy explains, but a "treasure" whose spirit must continue to inform moral thinking and courage today. Lévy's most passionate book, and in many ways his most personal, The Genius of Judaism is a great, profound, and hypnotic intellectual reckoning--indeed a call to arms--by one of the keenest and most insightful writers in the world."--Jacket.
Sisters
September 5, 2017
A novel of marriage, infidelity, and obsession follows a new wife who struggles with her unrelenting fascination with her husband's first wife.
Lethal in Old Lace
March 13, 2018
There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside agrees to marry the hunky Walker Boone, her neighbors, sisters Annie Fritz and Elsie Abbot, step up their business as professional mourners. They are so successful that the Sleepy Pines Retirement Center has hired them as a part of their retirement package. But the celebration over good business is cut short when the residents at Pines suddenly begin dying at an alarming rate. And the sisters are the first suspects.
Onverwerkt Verleden
January 1, 2019
Op 18 augustus 1950 wordt de voorzitter van de communistische partij aan de voordeur van zijn woning dood geschoten. Op 27 september verstuurt iemand van de Staatsveiligheid, vermoedelijk Pierre Potargent, een brief naar de Brusselse procureur-generaal Camille Pholien, waarbij een oud-verzetsstrijder uit Halle, ene "Adolphe" in één adem wordt vernoemd met ene André-Pierre Verbrugge, oorspronkelijk uit Gent. Van de man uit Halle is geweten dat hij zich verplaatst met een grijze Vanguard, nieuw model. Van Verbrugge is geweten dat hij een oorlogsspion was, een agent van de Franse en Amerikaanse veiligheidsdiensten, die ooit door de oud-minister van Koloniën, Albert de Vleeschauwer, werd aanbevolen als secretaris van graaf Arnold de Looz-Corswarem in 1935 nog winnaar van de trofee van sportverdienste en tijdens de oorlog vliegenier op Belgisch Kongo. Op 11 augustus 1950 gooit diezelfde De Looz-Corswarem in de voormiddag een stinkbom in het Parlement, in de richting van de socialistische fractie. Dat is de dag dat kroonprins Boudewijn de eed komt afleggen. Tijdens die eedaflegging, in de namiddag, roept een communist naar alle waarschijnlijkheid Georges Glineur "Vive la République". De pers schrijft de republikeinse kreet echter toe aan Julien Lahaut, die één week later wordt vermoord.
Le Proche-Orient de 2050
January 1, 2021
C'est un roman qui évoque la solution à deux États en 2050 au Proche-Orient.
Ciudadanos reemplazados por algoritmos
January 1, 2020
¿A quién le importamos los ciudadanos? Muchos partidos y sindicatos parecen reducirse a cúpulas que se distribuyen prebendas. Desde la expansión de la videopolítica, la televisión canaliza quejas y críticas sociales a los gobernantes tratándonos como espectadores. Las redes prometen horizontalidad y participación, pero suelen generar movimientos de alta intensidad y corta duración. Nuestras opiniones y comportamientos, capturados por algoritmos, quedan subordinados a corporaciones globalizadas. El espacio público se vuelve opaco y lejano. La desciudadanización se radicaliza, mientras algunos sectores se reinventan y ganan batallas parciales. Pero los usos neoliberales de las tecnologías mantienen y ahondan las desigualdades mayores. ¿Qué alternativas tenemos ante esta desposesión? ¿Disidencias, hackeos? ¿Cuál es el lugar del voto, esa relación entre Estado y sociedad reprogramada por las tecnologías y el mercado?
Spinii din buchetul memoriilor
January 1, 2021
Author s memoirs (life and carreer), second part (1978-2013)
Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
April 4, 2017
xvi, 445 pages : 24 cm
Cool cities
January 1, 2017
A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate change. Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively, even on the urgent issue of sustainability. Can cities do better? Benjamin R. Barber argues that with more than half the world's population, 80 percent of both its GDP and its greenhouse gas emissions, and a common will to cooperate, they can. In this compelling sequel to If Mayors Ruled the World, Barber assesses both broad principles and specific strategies like fracking bans, walkable cities, above-ground mining of precious resources, energy and heating drawn from garbage incineration, downtown wind turbines, and skyscrapers built from wood. He shows how cities working together on climate change can find common measures by which to evaluate the radically different policies they pursue. This is a book for a world in which combating climate change is about nothing less than cities' survival.
From a Small Town to the Big World
January 1, 2017
1 online resource :
Selling LipService
January 1, 2018
175 pages ; 24 cm
The thrifty guide to ancient Rome
January 1, 2018
Provides useful information about ancient Rome like culture, economics, fashion, history, law, and politics of ancient Rome while offering practical advice on how to avoid being poisoned, beheaded, or torn apart by an angry mob.
Butcher Babe Cookbook
January 1, 2017
224 pages : 23 cm
Convicting Avery
January 1, 2017
"A criminal defense attorney goes beyond the popular Netflix documentary to detail the legal nightmare that led to the conviction of Steven Avery"--
Documents that changed the way we live
January 1, 2017
xv, 273 pages : 24 cm
Infinite summer
January 1, 2017
"A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them. Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment propelled smart and industrious young men to create companies devoted to design, architecture, automobiles, and more. Three men share a dream of building a textile factory from scratch. Ivo Barrocciai, the enthusiastic son of a textile artisan, embarks on an elaborate project: to build a luxurious factory that will be "the envy of the Milanese." He recruits Cesare Vezzosi, a small building contractor, and Pasquale Citarella, a hardworking foreman from the south. Their relationships with each other and with their wives, their secret passions, their ambitions, and the compromises they have to make create a comical, moving fresco. It is at once a family saga and a love story -- not only about people, but also about a reborn, ambitious, and courageous nation that revolutionized taste and fashion, a nation proud and thrilled with its new place in the world. Nesi shows us Italy at its best: the Italy with which we fell in love"-- "Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment propelled smart and industrious young men to create companies devoted to design, architecture, automobiles, and more. Three men share a dream of building a textile factory from scratch. Ivo Barrocciai, the enthusiastic son of a textile artisan, embarks on an elaborate project: to build a luxurious factory that will be "the envy of the Milanese." He recruits Cesare Vezzosi, a small building contractor, and Pasquale Citarella, a hardworking foreman from the south. Their relationships with each other and with their wives, their secret passions, their ambitions, and the compromises they have to make create a comical, moving fresco. It is at once a family saga and a love story -- not only about people, but also about a reborn, ambitious, and courageous nation that revolutionized taste and fashion, a nation proud and thrilled with its new place in the world."--
Wild West
January 1, 2018
Jack and Annie learn more about the Wild West, including what a ghost town is, who Billy the Kid is, and why it is called the Old West.
WICKED AFFAIR
January 1, 2025
A similar story was told to me by several women who each said they had lived a version of it. It was about the effects that certain disturbing incidents in their foundational years had on their lives, and how they dealt with the fallout. These were not happy, safe, how-I-overcame-it-all tales. But some were riveting stories of kick-ass victory. I asked them their thoughts about my writing a book to address the vile abominations they were thrust into by no choice of their own. Many were firmly against the idea, out of fear of their perpetrator. Others initially raved about the idea, only to have a deep dread creep in. A few declared it an epidemic that needs to be exposed, only to later balk, unable to fully shake off their terror of the wicked character who had set the course of their lives in motion. One woman, a renowned international journalist, told me she wouldn’t read any story even remotely reminiscent of what she’d endured as a child. We engaged in lengthy discussions about self-protection and self-loathing. About misogyny and what defines true manhood. About Edmund Burke’s saying about the only way for evil to triumph. All of them said they were too afraid to tell their story publicly or felt they lacked the ability to write it in a way that would prompt meaningful action. They each warned me that if I did write a book, neither they nor their perpetrator were to be identified “in any way whatsoever.” And I agreed. Now I had a decision to make. Write a redacted reality compendium? Too clunky. Abandon their stories altogether? Too important a topic to walk away from. That left me only one path. This novel is dedicated to the “Katies” of the world. And to their children, who often get no opportunity to know and love the mother who could have been—indeed, should have been, in a better world—but for certain incidents in her life. A note to the language squeamish: Some words and scenes in this novel may seem offensive. For the sake of authenticity in portraying activities perpetrated against Katie, her expressions and descriptions of her in-the-moment rage and pain at what was being done to her during her formative years are presented as honest representations of what she thought, said and felt, during and after these incidents. This story can feel depressing. Also funny. Angry. Exciting. Sad. It roils with emotion, and so will you. So, read Wicked Affair as a caution: What you sow, the innocent may reap. - M. Rutledge McCall
Love & death in burgundy
January 1, 2017
"From critically acclaimed author, Susan C. Shea, comes Love & Death in Burgundy, an atmospheric mystery novel filled with good Chablis, French cheese, and, of course, murder. After three years of living in the small town of Reigny-sur-Canne, all Katherine Goff really wants is to be accepted by her neighbors into their little community. But as an American expat living in the proud region of Burgundy, that's no easy task. When the elderly Frenchman who lives in the village chateau is found dead at the bottom of a staircase, the town is turned into a hot bed of gossip and suspicion, and Katherine suddenly finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the small town's secrets. A motherless teenager, a malicious French widow, a brash music producer, and a would-be Agatha Christie are among those caught up in a storm that threatens to turn Katherine's quiet life upside down. As more and more of the villagers' secrets are brought to light, Katherine must try to figure out who, if anyone, in the town she can trust, and which one of her neighbors just might be a killer"--
A cien años de Annual
January 1, 2021
La guerra de Marruecos, que se extendió durante casi dos décadas, entre 1909 y 1927, marcó indeleblemente la historia de España durante el siglo XX. Miles de soldados españoles hubieron de combatir en durísimas condiciones en las abruptas regiones del norte del Magreb, el Rif, en un rosario de intermitentes operaciones y choques que incluyeron horribles desastres como el del barranco del Lobo o el de Annual, del que se cumplen ahora cien años. Las consecuencias de esta debacle fueron mucho más allá de las terribles pérdidas humanas, ya que puso la semilla para el golpe de Estado del general Primo de Rivera de 1923, siendo las campañas de Marruecos la incubadora de los militares africanistas, cuyo papel fue clave en la sublevación de 1936 que dio origen a la guerra civil. El presente volumen, coordinado por Daniel Macías, aborda este crucial episodio de la mano de los principales especialistas en la materia, para ofrecer un fresco coral y completo, enriquecido con un nutrido aparato cartográfico y fotográfico (23 mapas y 170 fotografías), que incluye imágenes inéditas. Como guinda, un epílogo con las reflexiones de Lorenzo Silva sobre unos acontecimientos cuya sombra sigue proyectándose sobre la España actual.
Shattered
April 18, 2017
"It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign--the candidate herself. Through deep access to insiders from the top to the bottom of the campaign, political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have reconstructed the key decisions and unseized opportunities, the well-intentioned misfires and the hidden thorns that turned a winnable contest into a devastating loss. Drawing on the authors' deep knowledge of Hillary from their previous book, the acclaimed biography HRC, Shattered will offer an object lesson in how Hillary herself made victory an uphill battle, how her difficulty articulating a vision irreparably hobbled her impact with voters, and how the campaign failed to internalize the lessons of populist fury from the hard-fought primary against Bernie Sanders. Moving blow-by-blow from the campaign's difficult birth through the bewildering terror of election night, Shattered tells an unforgettable story with urgent lessons both political and personal, filled with revelations that will change the way readers understand just what happened to America on November 8, 2016"--Provided by publisher.
The safe house
January 1, 2017
In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The truth was that he had sneaked back to hide in a secret crawl space at the heart of the house. There he lived for the duration of the war. With the Liberation, Étienne finally emerged, but he and his family were changed forever--anxious, reclusive, yet proudly eccentric. Their lives were spent, amid Bohemian disarray and lingering wartime fears, in the mansion's recesses or packed comically into the protective cocoon of a Fiat. That house (and its vehicular appendage) are at the heart of Christophe Boltanski's ingeniously structured, lightly fictionalized account of his grandparents and their extended family. The novel unfolds room by room--each chapter opening with a floorplan-- introducing us to the characters who occupy each room, including the narrator's grandmother--a woman of "savage appetites"--And his uncle Christian, whose haunted artworks would one day make him famous. "The house was a palace," Boltanski writes, "and they lived like hobos." Rejecting convention as they'd rejected the outside world, the family never celebrated birthdays, or even marked the passage of time, living instead in permanent stasis, ever more closely bonded to the house itself.
L'enfer de Botticelli
August 16, 2025
C’est plus qu’un thriller : c’est un dossier. C’est Da Vinci Code qui croise La Neuvième Porte dans les planches perdues de l’Enfer de Botticelli. Lorenzo, un artiste hanté par les fantômes du passé et ébranlé par l’essor de l’intelligence artificielle, se retrouve mêlé à un meurtre : un marchand d’art a été assassiné alors qu’il recherchait les légendaires planches perdues de l’Enfer de Botticelli. Mais certains sont prêts à tout pour en empêcher la découverte. Entre bibliothèques anciennes, énigmes historiques et sociétés occultes, Lorenzo enquête sur les secrets de la Renaissance pour percer le mystère de Botticelli. Il devra affronter ses démons pour donner un sens à son enfer. Quelles vérités ces planches disparues cachent-elles ? Pourquoi quelqu’un est-il prêt à tuer pour qu’elles ne refassent jamais surface ? 🔹 Un ordre mystérieux trame dans l’ombre. 🔹 Une chasse aux secrets enfouis dans les œuvres d’art. 🔹 Une enquête entre bibliothèques anciennes, sociétés secrètes et codes chiffrés. De Florence à Rome, des fastes des Médicis aux mystères de Léonard de Vinci, jusqu’aux flammes des bûchers des vanités, Lorenzo devra déchiffrer des manuscrits secrets, des peintures énigmatiques et des prophéties de la Renaissance pour affronter ses démons et résoudre une énigme capable de changer l’Histoire. ❝ Le passé est un puzzle. Tu en es la clé. ❞
Carnivalesque
January 1, 2017
"Andy walks into Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors, and then he walks right into the mirror, [becoming] a reflection. Another boy, a boy who is not Andy, goes home with Andy's parents. And the boy who was once Andy is pulled--literally pulled, by the hands, by a girl named Mona--into another world, a carnival world where anything might happen"--Amazon.com.
Citizen spies
January 1, 2017
"Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much longer history of using everyday citizens to spy and inform on their peers. [This book] shows how 'If You See Something, Say Something' is more than just a new homeland security program; it has been an essential civic responsibility throughout the history of the United States. From the town crier of Colonial America to the recruitment of youth through 'junior police, ' to the rise of Neighborhood Watch, AMBER Alerts, and Emergency 9-1-1, [the author] explores how ordinary citizens have been taught to carry out surveillance on their peers. Emphasizing the role humans play as 'seeing' and 'saying' subjects, he demonstrates how American society has continuously fostered cultures of vigilance, suspicion, meddling, snooping, and snitching. Tracing the evolution of police crowd-sourcing from 'Hue and Cry' posters and America's Most Wanted to police-affiliated social media, as well as the U.S.'s recurrent anxieties about political dissidents and ethnic minorities from the Red Scare to the War on Terror, [the author] teases out how vigilance toward neighbors has long been aligned with American ideals of patriotic and moral duty. Taking the long view of the history of the citizen spy, this book offers a...perspective for those interested in how we arrived at our current moment in surveillance culture and contextualizes contemporary trends in policing."--
Stop North Korea!
March 7, 2017
256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
The Priest Barracks
April 28, 2017
At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945. The overwhelming majority of the 2,720 men imprisoned in these barracks were Catholics—2,579 priests, monks, and seminarians from all over Europe. More than a third of the prisoners in the "priest block" died there. The story of these men, which has been submerged in the overall history of the concentration camps, is told in this riveting historical account. Both tragedies and magnificent gestures are chronicled here--from the terrifying forced march in 1942 to the heroic voluntary confinement of those dying of typhoid to the moving clandestine ordination of a young German deacon by a French bishop. Besides recounting moving episodes, the book sheds new light on Hitler's system of concentration camps and the intrinsic anti-Christian animus of Nazism.
Free Speech on Campus
July 14, 2017
"From the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech. Repeatedly, students, faculty, administrators, and politically polarizing invited guests square off against one another, assuming contrary positions on the limits of thought and expression, respect for differences, the boundaries of toleration, and protection from harm. In Free Speech on Campus, political philosopher Sigal Ben-Porath examines the current state of the arguments, using real-world examples to explore the contexts in which conflicts erupt, as well as to assess the place of identity politics and concern with safety and dignity within them. She offers a useful framework for thinking about free speech controversies both inside and outside the college classroom, shifting the focus away from disputes about legality and harm and toward democracy and inclusion. Ben-Porath provides readers with strategies to de-escalate tensions and negotiate highly charged debates surrounding trigger warnings, safe spaces, and speech that verges on hate."--Dust jacket.
Miles & Me
October 16, 2018
"Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an engrossing chronicle of the author's own artistic and personal growth. Miles and Me describes in intimate detail the sometimes harrowing processes of Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and travails Davis's passionate and contradictory temperament posed to the two men's friendship. Miles and Me shows how Miles Davis, both as an artist and as a black man, influenced Troupe and whole generations of Americans while forever changing the face of jazz."--Back cover.
Falar com Valor
May 3, 2026
Não gosta de dupla negação? Alguma vez ficou com dificuldades em responder adequadamente a uma pergunta? Já conseguiu detetar alguma falha nas expressões verbais utilizadas pela sociedade? Por ventura pensou em melhorar a sua fala? Este livro é todo dedicado a explicar como "Falar com Valor". Existem expressões na nossa fala que são usadas diariamente, que são falhas de comunicação. Com este livro vai ficar a saber quais são estas falhas, como responder adequadamente, e como evitar estas falhas. Este livro também introduz novas palavras, que podem ser usadas para melhorar a comunicação, e tornar a fala mais clara. "Acredito que cada palavra tem um valor (um significado e um propósito)." - Daniel Cerqueira "Falar com Valor" é um livro pequeno, fundamental, e explicativo; feito para ser lido e relido e também analisado, no devido tempo. O caminho faz-se caminhando, e, com este conhecimento, ficará com ferramentas de alta qualidade para comunicar com clareza. Algo bastante apreciado por, crianças, jovens; e também apreciado pelo grande público, como as pessoas que assistem aos grandes meios de comunicação, e como as pessoas que aderem às redes sociais. O autor colocou uma licença livre neste livro, para que você seja livre de copiar o seu livro, com quem quiser. O autor apoia a liberdade das pessoas quererem ler os seus livros.
Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
December 26, 2017
Explores how psychology, neurology, and physiology influence food consumption and reveals techniques for improving one's relationship to food. "An eye-opening exploration pf the psychology of eating in today's unprecedented North American pantry of abundance, access, and excess. In [this book], acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Herz, who's been praised for her "ability to cite and explain academic studies in a conversational manner" (Washington Post), uncovers the fascinating and surprising facts that influence food consumption--such as why bringing reusable bags to the grocery store encourages us to buy more treats, how our beliefs can affect how many calories we burn, why TV influences how much we eat, and how what we see and hear changes how food tastes--and reveals useful techniques for improving our experience of food, such as how aromas can help curb cravings and tips on how to resist repeated trips to the buffet table. Why You Eat What You Eat presents our relationship to food as a complicated recipe, whose ingredients--taste, personality, and emotions--combine to make eating a potent and pleasurable experience. Herz weaves curious findings and compelling facts into a narrative that tackles important questions, revealing how psychology, neurology, and physiology shape our relationship with food, and how food alters the relationship we have with ourselves and each other."--Dust jacket.
Jewish History
April 18, 2017
xxvi, 135 pages : 18 cm
Constitutionalism and Judicial Power in China (CERI Series in International Relations a)
April 1, 2019
This title covers constitutionalism as envisioning the state, the development of a 'political jurisprudence', transmitting constitutionalism, and much more.
Universul muzicii românești. Vol. 1
January 1, 2020
New revised edition, with explanatory notes and with Index. Language: Romanian
Martin Buber's Theopolitics
February 16, 2018
How did one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the 20th century grapple with the founding of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—one of the most significant political conflicts of his time? Samuel Hayim Brody traces the development of Martin Buber's thinking and its implications for the Jewish religion, for the problems posed by Zionism, and for the Zionist-Arab conflict. Beginning in turbulent Weimar Germany, Brody shows how Buber's debates about Biblical meanings had concrete political consequences for anarchists, socialists, Zionists, Nazis, British, and Palestinians alike. Brody further reveals how Buber's passionate commitment to the rule of God absent an intermediary came into conflict in the face of a Zionist movement in danger of repeating ancient mistakes. Brody argues that Buber's support for Israel stemmed from a radically rich and complex understanding of the nature of the Jewish mission on earth that arose from an anarchist reading of the Bible.
Kitty's Magic 3
June 5, 2018
Coco is upset when her owner, Evie, brings home Ruby, a playful Bengal kitten. Coco isn t getting nearly as much attention as her new housemate and makes Ruby feel very unwelcome. Now Ruby has run away and Evie is very worried. Can Kitty lead the Cat Council to find the lost kitten?
Anarchismus zur Einführung
January 1, 2017
Der Begriff „Anarchismus“ leitet sich vom griechischen an-archia, Nicht-Herrschaft, ab und bezeichnet die Idee einer Gesellschaft ohne Staat, Klassen oder sonstige Unterdrückungs- und Ausbeutungsformen. Anarchismus ist aber nicht nur eine Idee, sondern auch eine Praxis: politischer Kampf um Emanzipation und ein Versuch, die Idee der Selbstorganisation und Solidarität praktisch werden zu lassen. Diese Einführung verbindet die Rekonstruktion klassischer Positionen mit einer systematischen Diskussion anarchistischer Theorie und Praxis. Vorgestellt werden u.a. die Theorien Proudhons, Bakunins und Kropotkins, zentrale Motive der anarchistischen Diskussion wie Staat, Kapitalismus, Geschlechterverhältnisse und Aktionsformen sowie aktuelle Fortentwicklungen und Aneignungen, von der Peer Production über das Radical Cheerleading bis zu Occupy Wall Street.
It's Not Yet Dark
August 1, 2017
In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. He was given four years to live. In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse, Simon knew with crystal clarity that now was not his time to die. Against all prevailing medical opinion, he chose to ventilate in order to stay alive.
Lala
January 1, 2018
"Lala has lived a dazzling life, filled with love, betrayals, acts of courage and some of the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century. There is nothing she likes better than to tell stories of her fascinating past - of her grandfather, the legendary owner of the first car in Ukraine; of her aristocratic mother; and not least of herself. Her most avid listener is her grandson, Jacek, to whom she is extremely close. As she grows older and becomes increasingly confused, her tales become more repetitive and Jacek often finds himself filling in the gaps. Based on the life of the author's grandmother, intertwining detailed historical research with enthralling family accounts, Lala's story stretches from Kiev in 1875 to modern-day Poland, spanning the First and Second World Wars, the German occupation, the revolution and the republic."--Publisher's description.
Book Science
January 1, 2018
The media science of the book represents a new scientific foreshortening, a fruit of interdisciplinary redefinition of the generally scientific object „book” in the light of fundamental and private sciences – the science of the communications, the media knowledge, the book knowledge, the bibliology, the information science, the semiology, the culture studies, the anthropology and of the private subjects – the media archeology, the media reception, the media psychology and the bibliopsychology. The aim of the study is building a complex knowledge of the scientific category „book“ in the context of media theory and the theory of the communications with a view to its functioning in the media system. The thesis of the study is that the book was the first invented media in the human history and it is indispensable center-positioned factor in the genesis, the present and the future of every civilization. The book is placed at the very foundation of the media pyramid and because in it is programmed the model of the mass communications, any subsequent media format is secondary toward it – it only diversifies and improves its immanent characteristics. By this logic the book as the oldest media will always be present in the spectrum of the new media. The research is conducted through the mediological approach – with the scientific tools of the communication science, of the general theory of the communications and of the mediology. The source methodological principle in the proposed theory is that the book is twofold general scientific category – unity of content and form. The entire work is following the methodological postulate: book is only this object that has the characteristics of communication trinity: media content (text, information, story), media code (sign system, language) and construction on a durable media format (communication channel, media body, media format). The monograph is composed in three parts by the principle of the subordination: first part – theory (terminology and laws), history and methodology of the book as media category – unity of content and form (the chapters 1-8); than these two components of the „book as medium“ are deployed separately in the second part – the book as media content/text/soul (the chapters 9-11) and in the third part – the book as media form/carrier/body (the chapters 12-17 to the end). Uniting the last two parts technics is the continuous examination (theoretical-empirical approbation) by the communication formula of „media“ = media content + media code + media carrier. This edition contains the following reference apparatus: an appendix in table „SWOT analysis of the paper as medium”; the complete bibliography to the monograph of 870 cited and used sources; four indexes – of the personal names (1295 pcs), of the headings of the analyzed works (627 pcs), subject heading list (3092 key words) and geographical (362 objects); Summary in english and Cataloging in publication in english. The monograph will be useful for researchers who focus their research interests toward: • book as a medium • books as godmaking media • books archaeology and books evolution • book intermediaries • the dangerous and manipulative books • book eroticism • the end of e-books • resurrecting paper-based books.
Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
February 28, 2017
238 pages ; 22 cm
Double Portrait
August 8, 2017
79 pages ; 22 cm
Motives in Ministry
July 13, 2023
What is motive? How do we define motivation? Motive/motivation is defined as something (as a need or desire) that causes a person to act. So then, what causes us to do what we do in the Kingdom? What are the forces driving you to want to minister? Why do you want God to use you? Why do you allow God to use you? Self-inventory has to be taken on a regular basis. It is only through self-examination that our motives in ministry and service remain pure. As leaders and servants in the Church and kingdom of God, we can lose focus on God's plan and purpose for ministry. In this brief study, we will examine the proper motives for ministry and those to avoid.
Cost of Living
February 8, 2022
"What does it cost to live? When we fall ill, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents, breast cancers, blood diseases, and dark depressions. When Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally, but also financially, sending her down a dark spiral of misdiagnoses, years spent in and out of hospitals and doctor's offices, and tens of thousands owed in medical debt. To work to pay off this crippling burden, Emily becomes an emergency room technician. Doing the grunt work in a hospital, and taking care of patients at their most vulnerable moments, chronicling these interactions in searingly beautiful, surprising ways. Shocking and often slyly humorous, Cost of Living is a brilliant examination of just what exactly our troubled healthcare system asks us to pay, as well as a look at what goes on behind the scenes at our hospitals and in the minds of caregivers"--
Immunization
January 1, 2017
271 pages ; 25 cm
Altre Russie
November 4, 2022
Victoria Lomasko ha viaggiato in lungo e in largo per il paese, dai sobborghi di Mosca fino agli angoli più remoti: ha visitato le scuole di piccoli villaggi, intervistato le prostitute delle grandi città industriali, insegnato disegno ai bambini e alle bambine nelle prigioni minorili. Il risultato è un'indagine profonda, che a partire dai cittadini e dalle cittadine che non hanno voce mette a nudo le disuguaglianze e le ingiustizie della società russa contemporanea. Uno straordinario affresco di una Russia altra, mai raccontata prima, determinata più che mai a lottare per i propri diritti. Prefazione di Elettra Stamboulis.
Crafty Cat and the Great Butterfly Battle
April 24, 2018
"Everyone in Miss Domino's class is excited about the school play and its lead role, the super-sparkly butterfly. Birdie knows she'd be perfect for the part, unfortunately, she's not the only one who feels that way. Eight other classmates also want the starring role. And even worse, one of them is Anya! And doesn't Anya always seem to get her way?
Super Happy Party Bears: Staying a Hive
March 14, 2017
137 pages : 20 cm
Pilgrimage in Islam
January 1, 2017
"It is not only the holy cities of Mecca and Karbala to which Muslim pilgrims travel, but a wide variety of sacred sites around the world. Journeys are undertaken to visit graves of important historical and religious individuals, the tombs of saints, and natural sites such as mountaintops and springs. Exploring the rich diversity of traditions practiced by the 1.5 billion Muslims across the world, Arjana provides a rigorous theoretical discussion of pilgrimage, ritual practice and the nature of sacred space in Islam"--back cover.
Sgt. Pepper at fifty
January 1, 2017
"Five decades after it's release in 1967, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band remains a keystone of the Beatles' career -and of popular music as a whole. Regularly cited as the greatest album of all time, it is a record soaked in, and thrillingly evocative of, the sights, sounds, and modd of the sixties at their most joyously psychedelic"--Back cover.
Power Play
January 31, 2017
xiv, 258 pages ; 22 cm