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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Soergel bimodules. First introduced by Wolfgang Soergel in the early 1990s, they have since become a powerful tool in geometric representation theory. On the one hand, these bimodules are fairly elementary objects and explicit calculations are possible. On the other, they have deep connections to Lie theory and geometry. Taking these two aspects together, they offer a wonderful primer on geome...

La unica barrera esta en tu mente ?Cuantas ocasiones nos olvidamos de nosotros mismos? Cuando te preguntan quien eres, se suele responder con el nombre o incluso la profesion ?Pero en realidad sabemos quienes somos? Novela con tintes psicologico, ya que no podemos cambiar lo que no sabemos que existe.Sol es una pequena que fue abandonada en una casa hogar al nacer, y durante su trayectoria busca pistas sobre sus raices, adquiriendo conocimient...

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A freak summer storm severs an island music festival in the middle of Utah's Great Salt Lake from the mainland. When one festival administrator, and then a second, is found dead, can curmudgeonly Daniel Jacobus solve the murders before his protégée, violinist Yumi Shinagawa, becomes the third victim?

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Camouflage has been linked with military and natural history contexts, but growing interest in the connections with areas such as ecology, evolution, visual deception and warfare has taken the concept of camouflage beyond the politics of appearance, the art of disappearance or simple strategies of mimicry.Approaching this subject from the disciplines of art history and theory, art practice, biology, cultural theory, literature and philosophy, ...

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This book is about the tension between how singular the manifestation of love is and what we assume, often wrongly, about the idea of togetherness. To know the difference means to know the heart of the other.

A delightful collection of poems, short stories and original paintings

Vaclav Herza, the last of a dying breed of great but tyrannical conductors, has been the long-time music director of the world-famous orchestra, Harmonium, since fleeing political turmoil in Eastern Europe for America in the mid-twentieth century. When Herza summarily dismisses the acting concertmaster, Scheherazade O'Brien, from an audition she was poised to win and awards the position to Yumi Shinagawa, a former student of blind, cantankerou...

This book features exclusive interviews with Elvis Presley tribute artists who have performed at the annual Elvis Festival held at Lake George, New York. Some artists are from the local upstate New York area, while others come from as far away as England, Australia, Canada, and many locations throughout the United States. Each artist tells a personal story about why they love performing the music of Elvis Presley. In doing so, each singer reve...

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Bengal in the 1940s. Having overcome the famine and the revolt of the sharecroppers, Bengal's peasants are uniting. Work is scarce and wages are low. There is barely any food to be had. The proposal for the formation of Pakistan, the elections of 1946, and communal riots are rewriting the contours of history furiously. Amidst all this, in an unnamed village, a familiar corporeal spirit plunges into knee-deep mud. This is Tamiz's father, the ma...

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This book tells the fascinating stories of the baseball rebels who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's political and social protest movements throughout history-including battles over labor, anti-trust, corporate power, immigration, and America's wars and military interventions worldwide.

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This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous government-led strategies, but more work is needed around the diverse reception and performances. The preparation period for the Olympics in Mexico and especially the year 1968 highlight the multiplicity of voices behind these exercises. Beyond the government and associated networks, the citizenry als...

Dogged by internal dissension and by a potentially devastating lawsuit from its fired second violinist, the famed New Magini String Quartet is on the brink of professional and personal collapse.¿The quartet pins its hopes on a multi-media Carnegie Hall performance of Franz Schubert's masterpiece, "Death and the Maiden, " to resurrect its faltering fortunes.¿But as the fateful downbeat approaches, a la Agatha Christie, one by one the quartet's ...

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