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"What does it mean to be LGBTQ2 in Canada? The only possible answer to that question is one given in many voices. That is exactly what this book offers. There is struggle in these stories and poems, but there is also strength and resilience, compassion and determination. Woven together these voices leave me with a sense of hopefulness: a belief that the creativity and fierce commitment of our community will carry us forward as we work to create a...
20722) Forging Europe's Leadership: Global Trends, Russian Aggression and the Risk of a Regressive World
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The world has been splintered by geopolitics and yet is still bound by interdependence. As competition between the world's great powers surges, multiple trends point towards the collapse of the international order. Russia's aggression against Ukraine marks a tipping point, potentially turning an already contested world into one of lasting regression on the political, security, economic, social and environmental fronts. While this scenario is not inevitable,...
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La imaginación escrita es una publicación que busca enseñar a sus lectores técnicas de redacción para lograr una mejor y detallada comunicación. ¿Cómo lograr esto? Apelando a la dimensión afectiva y a las emociones de los lectores; jugando con el orden y la sonoridad de las palabras; dándoles a estas ritmo, potencia, color, exactitud; haciendo que nuestro lenguaje sea, en fin, distinto y esté al servicio de los queremos decir.
En este...
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Weather changes daily. Sometimes it can even change from one moment to another-like a sudden storm. Weather affects our daily lives from what we wear to what outdoor activities (or lack thereof) we can do. Learning about weather and how to dress and prepare for it, is an important skill to learn. Maybe even more important is the skill of observation. By asking simple questions, children become engaged and can start to observe and make correlations...
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“Women of Colonial Australia” is a collection of short stories focusing on women from the nation's colonial past, with each author breathing life into a tale of one of their ancestors. Through this, each narrative, woven with meticulous research and imagination, brings to life the diversity of experiences that these women faced. This collection remembers and celebrates their lives and the legacies that these women left behind. May their strength,...
20726) 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...
20727) 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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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...
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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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“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 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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L'ICETE Programme for Academic Leadership (IPAL) a été officiellement créé en 2010, né de la nécessité de fournir une formation aux institutions théologiques dans différentes régions du monde. L'IPAL propose des outils de développement professionnel pour les responsables académiques évangéliques et les administrateurs afin d'aider les institutions théologiques dans leur recherche de qualité et d'excellence.
Cet ouvrage est le troisième...
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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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In this midyear 2021 edition of Bent Street, guest editors Sam Elkin and Yves Rees from the Spilling the T Collective bring a special trans and gender diverse community focus: essays, poetry, polemic, memoir, fiction, and imagery that explores and celebrates gender diversity. In this edition, trans creatives bring an acute understanding of how embodied subjects construct and perform gendered selves, an understanding that though sometimes borne of...
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Prince on Prince gets behind the controversies to tell the Prince story in his own words.
Prince is among the most respected and influential entertainers of the twentieth century, breaking sexual, racial, and creative barriers throughout his almost forty years in the spotlight.
He was a multitalented studio artist, a master songwriter who produced and performed almost all of his own music on yearly LPs and countless singles and videos. He was one...
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La divisoria sagrado-secular sigue amenazando la salud de la iglesia global, desempoderando a cristianos laicos y socavando el llamado a integrar todas las áreas de la vida bajo el señorío de Cristo.
Los educadores teológicos en busca de un camino para salir de esta dicotomía se verán retados y estimulados por esta colección de ensayos extraídos de la conferencia de ICETE de 2018 llevada a cabo en la ciudad de Panamá. Dentro de sus cuatro...
20737) Wisdom Writers
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In a world full of hatred toward mental illness, teens struggle to find a way out of the darkness.
High school. It's supposed to be the best time of your life, right? From late-night parties to heart-racing sports games and last but not least friendships that last a lifetime. But what about the high expectations, major workloads, or drama issues? There is more than meets the eye once you enter the depths of being a high school student. People...
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Y'all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of "we're queer and we're here to stay, cause we're every bit a piece of the landscape as the rocks and the trees" echoing through the hills of Appalachia and into the boardrooms of every media outlet and opportunistic author seeking to define Appalachia from the outside for...
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In 2012, building off work first published in 2010, the Resolution Project proposed that a new Chapter 14 be added to the Bankruptcy Code, exclusively designed to deal with the reorganization or liquidation of the nation's large financial institutions. In this book, the contributors expand on their proposal to improve the prospect that our largest financial institutions-particularly with prebankruptcy planning-could be successfully reorganized or...
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Prepped quickly, cooked slowly-wholesome, hearty meals for any day of the week
There's a reason slow cookers have been a staple in American homes for more than half a century: with just a few minutes of prep in the morning, you can have a delicious dinner waiting for you when you get home. And with "The Ultimate Slow Cooker Cookbook", you'll never get bored with your options. From healthy breakfasts to soups and stews-even enticing desserts-this...