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Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
by Petros Márkaris
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Pocos novelistas como Petros Márkaris están tan cualificados para arrojar luz sobre la crisis que azota a Grecia y que amenaza con derrumbar el proyecto de unión europea. Con este fin, el escritor griego explica las causas profundas de esta quiebra, la acelerada evolución de la sociedad griega...
The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
Reflective Essays Based upon Findings from the Tuskegee Legacy Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee is a collection of essays that seeks to redefine the "legacy" of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study in light of recent findings from other scientific studies that challenge the long-standing, widely-held understanding of...
From Stalin to Mao
Albania and the Socialist World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism...
by Evrensel Basım Yayın
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Enver Gökçe, 40 karanlığını, şiirin ışığı ile aydınlatmaya girişen sosyalist kuşağın şairlerindendir. Örgütlü mücadele içinde yer alan, şiirleri derin bir toplumsal duyarlılık taşıyan bu büyük şairimiz, ağır bedeller ödemek zorunda bırakıldı. Han köşelerinde,...
by Asım Bezirci
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Abdühak Hamit, ünü, edebiyattaki yeri ne kadar tartışılırsa tartışılsın, döneminin yazınına yeni bir soluk ve açı getirdiği tartışılamayacak bir şair, bir oyun yazarı. Bilimsel eleştirinin ülkemizdeki öncüsü Asım Bezirci, Abdülhak Hamit'i bu kitabında yeniden değerlendiriyor....
Dile que le he escrito un blues
Del texto como partitura a la partitura como traducción en la literatura latinoamericana
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A partir de un verso de Joaquín Sabina, "Dile que le he escrito un blues", pero también de la interdisciplinariedad de George Steiner, de la crítica musical y literaria de Edward Said o de las concepciones antagónicas sobre la interpretación de Stravinsky o Borges, este libro aborda...
by Anna M. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic, Anna M. Evans juxtaposes the recent loss of her mother with comparable elements and incidents from the 1912 disaster. Evans traces an intricate trajectory from glory to grief by means of vividly imagined details about the people and animals on board the...
by Prosper Mérimée
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, a été relu et corrigé. Extrait:Méhémet-Ali, à qui les beys des mameluks disputaient le pouvoir en Égypte, invite un jour les principaux chefs de cette milice à une fête dans...
by Victor Méric
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Cela commença le 21 décembre 1911 — voici quatorze années bien pleines, comblées par d’autres tueries.
Les journaux s’envolaient de mains en mains, sur les boulevards, parmi les hurlements des camelots : Demandez le crime de la rue Ordener ! Un garçon de recettes assassiné en plein...
by Victor Méric
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
4 Oeuvres de Victor Méric Journaliste français et auteur libertaire (1876-1933)
Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 4 Oeuvres de Victor Méric éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...
Selbstbefreiung
Aufbruch und Wandel im Licht der Märchen
Language: German
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Wer es wagt, auszubrechen aus dem Labyrinth alter Vorstellungen und überkommener Machtmechanismen, wer bereit ist, sein Herz zu öffnen, der wird das Tor zur Selbstbefreiung aus seelischen Gefängnissen finden und den Weg zu wahrer Selbsterkenntnis und Selbstbestimmung gehen. Der Schlüssel hierfür...
Living with Bad Surroundings
War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced...
Return to Wholeness
Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"Beautiful. . . . If you are facing cancer or any other serious illness, I encourage you to allow the wisdom contained within these pages to nurture, guide, and support you."-Deepak Chopra, M.D., from his foreword
Return to Wholeness is a revelation. David Simon breaks new ground...