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1) Presupuestos participativos territoriales: una apuesta para la planeación y el ordenamiento en Bo
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Esta publicación pretende aportar elementos para el debate público sobre la asignación de
los recursos provenientes de las rentas municipales, mediante los denominados
presupuestos participativos, en particular en Bogotá, los cuales deben contar con
mecanismos adecuados y eficientes para su redistribución, en pro del mejoramiento de la
calidad de vida de todos los ciudadanos. El ejercicio de presupuestos participativos debe ir
más allá de la...
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Sarah Roger (Editor)
Sarah Roger est professeure associée d'études anglaises et théâtrales à l'Université de Guelph et gestionnaire de projet pour LINCS. Elle détient un doctorat de l'Université d'Oxford et est l'auteure de Borges and Kafka (OUP, 2017).
Paul Barrett (Editor)
Paul Barrett est professeur adjoint d'études anglaises et théâtrales à l'Université de Guelph. Il détient un doctorat de l'Université Queen's et est l'auteur...
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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected...
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The subject of this volume is not so much the destruction of Hindu temples as the character of Islam - an imperialist ideology of terrorism and genocide masquerading as a religion, in fact, as the only true religion. It is high time for Hindus to see Islam not with its own eyes but from the viewpoint of the great spiritual vision which is their inheritance.
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· Contrairement à beaucoup de livres parus sur la pandémie, cet ouvrage s'appuie sur une réflexion collective, à froid, orientée vers les relations internationales dans l'après-Covid plutt que limitée au moment pandémique.
· Une dimension pluridisciplinaire orientée vers des solutions pragmatiques, progressistes et fondées sur les sciences sociales.
· Ouvrage issu d'un collectif des quatre universités montréalaises
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Lonely Planet's Caribbean Islands is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Set sail from Tortola, snorkel in Aruba's clear waters, and feel the music in Cuba; all with your trusted travel companion.
Inside Lonely Planet's Caribbean Islands Travel Guide:
Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the destination's...
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In "Articles of Intimacy," Victoria Upton takes readers on a captivating journey through the intricacies of enhancing intimacy and spicing up relationships. Drawing upon a wealth of knowledge and modern relationship dynamics, Upton explores various facets of improving sexual connections.
The book opens with a nuanced discussion on understanding and embracing desires, emphasizing the importance of communication in decoding one another's fantasies....
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"Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity." -Maria Popova
"An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today." -P. D. Smith, Guardian
"[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful to read." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
A renowned scientist and the best-selling author of Lab Girl, Hope Jahren selects the year's top science and nature...
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"As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might," writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. "It's the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are." The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously...
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This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing...
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From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for TheBest American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears-of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but...
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Wo steht noch heute eine alte Grenztafel des Kaisertums Österreich? Wo liegen fünf Brocken Mondgestein? Und wo wird ein edler Pinot Noir kredenzt? Die Mitglieder des liechtensteinischen Autorenverbandes IG Wort verraten es ihren Lesern und präsentieren ihre persönlichen Lieblingsplätze. Das Fürstentum hat viel zu bieten. Jenseits aller Klischees von Bankenplatz und Steueroase entpuppt sich das Land als kunterbunt, liebenswert und originell.
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For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection. Some notable stories include:
"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula...
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New York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best science and nature writing published in 2020.
"The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of science and nature writing has landed, and where it could go," Ed Yong writes in his introduction. "They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced with wonder, but always deeply aware that science does not exist in a social vacuum. They are...
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St. Louis is a fragmented place. It‚Äs physically dissected by rivers, highways, walls, and fences, but it‚Äs also a place where one‚Äs race, class, religion, and zip code may as well be cards in a rigged poker game, where the winners‚Ä prize is the ability to ignore the fact that the losers have drastically shorter life expectancies. But it can also be a city of warmth, love, and beauty‚Äïespecially in its contrasts. Edited by Ryan...
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What can movements for decolonization teach Wesleyan theology? This book faces this question to show that decolonial voices are reshaping the contours of Methodist and Wesleyan traditions. Contributors to this volume include theologians, pastors, and leaders in the Global South who are leading the people called Methodists to encounter the tradition anew in the radical spirit of decolonization.
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13 Autorinnen und Autoren aus 3 Generationen machen sich Gedanken über die Wiener Seele. Wie z.B.: Zdenka Becker, Franzobel, Peter Henisch, Andreas Pittler, Klemens Renoldner, Cornelia Travnicek.
Herausgeber Gerhard Loibelsberger hat sie so ausgewählt, dass Ur-Wiener, „Zugereiste" und wieder „Fortgereiste" zu Wort kommen. Entstanden sind dreizehn spannende, liebenswerte und skurrile Texte über Wien, die ein einzigartiges Portrait der lebenswertesten...