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In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in Washington, and extended its reach around the globe. Contributors like David Simon, creator of HBO's The Wire, and renowned political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (better known as KAL),...
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Esta obra tiene un doble mérito. Por un lado, constituye un justo homenaje a uno de los más destacados juristas colombianos, el doctor Álvaro Mendoza Ramírez, quien a lo largo de su cátedra y ejercicio profesional, sin duda alguna, ha sido un modelo para varias generaciones de privatistas colombianos. Por otro lado, este libro tiene el mérito de reunir a un destacado grupo de juristas, todos ellos expertos, que abordan el estudio de una de las...
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In art, chiaroscuro is a technique that explores the interplay of light and dark through stark contrasts. In the same way, this anthology explores virtue and vice and the interconnectedness between these two ends of the morality spectrum. A virtue taken to excess transforms into vice; a vice in the right circumstances becomes virtuous. Via poetry and prose, Chiaroscuro will take you on a journey through light and dark, right and wrong, good and evil,...
19864) The Monsters Next Door
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We all have them.
The odd one. The creepy one. The one who keeps weird hours or who engages in the obscure hobby.
Neighbors. Perhaps the one right next door to you.
But what if they're something... more?
What if they are...
THE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR?
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Juris Magister Abogados SLP es una firma altamente especializada en el asesoramiento jurídico-fiscal a emprendedores (empresarios, inversores y profesionales) con interés de establecer y expandir sus negocios en los Estados Unidos.
Con una extensa práctica profesional y una experiencia de más de 25 años vinculada al ejercicio profesional relacionado con los Estados Unidos, Juris Magister Abogados SLP ofrece especialmente al emprendedor internacional,...
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Deborah Young, Tanya R. Whitney, Lynette Vinet, Michael Verrett, Evelyn Marie (Lott) Sanders, Steve Patrick, Mary E. McCaffrey, Kathryn J. Martin, Mary Beth Magee, Vickie Hano Hawkins, Aaron Gordon, Brenda Birch Gallaher, Vicky Fannaly, Clyde Eschete, and Tracey Boyle.
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Is sexuality political? Is it about identity? Is it about style or preference? These questions continue to be asked. Queer theory, sado-masochism, lesbian chic and lipstick lesbians were all the rage in the late 1980s popular culture. But these so-called glamorous trends were the superficial post-modern disguises of a patriarchal backlash against three decades of radical lesbian feminist advances. Unmasking and challenging the backlash the editors...
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The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences.
These transformations pose complex design challenges and yet offer novel opportunities for the understanding and development of human-centered built environments.
Drawing from a 5-year design research collaboration between the REAL Lab at Harvard GSD and the University of Bergamo,...
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This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City. It highlights the contributions of dozens of international architects, designers and artists, and offers 12 probing, original essays.
The projects and essays of UABB 2015, Re-Living the City, criticize the status quo of architecture and urbanism, but they also...
19870) Northfield
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Chartered in 1781, Northfield is nestled in the foothills of the Green Mountains, with highlands to the east and west and the Dog River running through the center of town. It was once home to primarily farms, sawmills, and gristmills. With Elijah Paine building the first mills on Mill Hill, Northfield grew into a town comprising four villages. The community began to thrive with the coming of the railroad in the mid-1800s. Large granite sheds brought...
19871) La internacionalización de la educación superior en América Latina y Europa: retos y compromisos
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En los albores del siglo XXI la globalización ha permeado todas las esferas de la sociedad y su impacto ha llegado a las puertas de nuestras universidades. Por ello es cada vez más importante el papel que juega la educación superior en la tarea de enseñar a vivir juntos en la aldea global y a desear esta convivencia. La formación de ciudadanos del mundo con competencias para desempeñarse con éxito en cualquier parte del globo es preocupación...
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The Reverend Professor Dorothy A. Lee FAHA is well-known as a New Testament scholar not only in Australia but around the world. An Anglican priest, her ministry, particularly as a preacher and retreat director, is highly regarded and highly sought after, not only in her home city of Melbourne, but in many parts of the country. This Festschrift volume honors her contributions and ministry on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. An interdisciplinary...
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El museo Universum, que está cumpliendo su primer cuarto de siglo, forma además parte de una peculiar categoría de museos: los universitarios, que le confieren cualidades especiales; por ejemplo, tener una gran cercanía con los investigadores de la universidad que los acoge. Lo anterior supone consultas y asesorías cercanas y de alta calidad, así como representar un foro abierto para docentes y estudiosos del fenómeno museístico, ya que pone...
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Explore what it means to be Irish with this compelling and uncommon collection of stories.
Featuring both famous authors and forgotten ones, these twenty literary gems offer a colorful kaleidoscope of perspectives on the Irish people and their character. Here are stories of daring patriots and reluctant warriors, magical musicians and young lovers, conniving landlords and hearty peasants, greenhorn immigrants and longtime transplants with an undying...
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“Cash on Cash” offers unprecedented insight into one of the most significant American cultural figures of the twentieth century.
As an interviewee, Cash was an exemplary communicator to an astonishingly broad spectrum of people: always open and articulate, part friend, part spiritual authority, part flawed hero. Throughout a decades-long career, as Cash took risks, embracing new technologies, formats, and attitudes, he cleaved to a simple, core...
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This uniquely Canadian volume tells stories of Ellie Johnson, missiologist and director of Partnerships at the Anglican Church of Canada from 1994 to 2008. More than that, this book tells of God's mission, and how the Anglican Church of Canada participated in that mission with our ecumenical partners.
Since the Anglican Congress of 1963, through the years of the ecumenical justice coalitions of the 1970s and 1980s, through the drastic organizational...
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This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit, and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a flowering of literary poets in the twentieth century; right up to thirty of the most exciting contemporary Amharic poets working both inside and outside the country. These poems ask what it means to...
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Offering a rich, in-depth study series, the team behind the bestselling The Bible Recap takes your study of God's Word to the next level. Starting with the book of Matthew, the Knowing Jesus series dives deep into the transformative truths found in the four gospels.
Perfect for small groups or individual study, this comprehensive, 10-week Bible study explains and connects the story of Scripture in the gospel of Matthew. Through daily readings,...
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Las bibliotecas son transparentes en cuanto a sus servicios y su apertura a las comunidades con las que interactúan de manera presencial o virtual. La biblioteca, se ha dicho, es un lugar de encuentro, pero fundamentalmente es una institución de intervención y cambio en las comunidades y cuyos efectos tienen repercusión social y cultural. Por lo anterior, el propósito de esta obra colectiva es traer a discusión elementos que demuestren la intervención...
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Este estudio busca enriquecer nuestra apreciación de los procesos que conducen de las situaciones anteriores al surgimiento del Estado a la centralización inherente a las estructuras estatales, sin perder de vista el papel de los poderes locales. El desarrollo de estas organizaciones permite reflexionar sobre la política como dimensión fundamental de las prácticas sociales, para lo cual contamos en determinados contextos con las propias observaciones...