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Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Akira has now built up a reputation for being of the most popular, hardworking, and extreme actors in the business, winning dozens of awards for her 330+ movies, including her #1 bestselling series "Asa Akira Is Insatiable”. In ...

The global demographic transition presents marked asymmetries as poor, emerging, and advanced countries are undergoing different stages of transition. Emerging countries are demographically younger than advanced economies. This youth is favorable to growth and generates a demographic dividend. However, the future of emerging economies will bring a decline in the working-age share and a rise in the older population, as is the case in today's de...

This report of the CSIS Congressional Task Force on Trade Capacity Building-cochaired by Representatives Charles Boustany (R-LA) and Jared Polis (D-CO)-focuses on how projects to build trade capacity can be planned and coordinated to maximize the benefits of new trade agreements, both for the United States and its partners.

This book provides simple, step-by-step ideas for introducing and embedding reading strategies within all content areas without sacrificing a lot of valuable class time. This easy-to-use resource will equip instructors to not only help their students be stronger readers in general, but to be stronger readers of content-area academic texts.

Since their earliest identification in the mid-1500s, more than twenty-eight thousand hybrid daffodils have been named and registered with the Royal Horticulture Society of England. Sara L. Van Beck traces the history of the garden daffodil including its early days in Europe, especially the Netherlands, the importation of flowering bulbs to colonial America, and plant breeding and the dissemination of plants throughout the US until World War II.

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present.

It's increasingly common to be invited to a wedding, funeral or other religious service for someone of a different faith. This easy-to-read religious etiquette guidebook helps the well-meaning guest feel comfortable and participate as fully as possible, with a brief description of worship practices and life-cycle ceremonies for 29 faith traditions.

Isa Zaman might forgive his parents for taking in a friend's son if only he wasn't the most boring teenager in the universe. Macklin "Mackie" Cormack's only interests are reading and the outdoors. Yeah, right. Isa's convinced Mackie is either a pyro or a klepto. Plus, as a white kid, Mackie looks ridiculous in the Zamans' Arab American household. Forced to share a bedroom, the boys keep butting heads until an absurd fight finally breaks the te...

Science and the Law: Analytical Data in Support of Regulation in Health, Food, and the Environment originated at an ACS symposium of the same name which aimed to explore the interaction between science and the law.

A comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America.

Strategies described in this book teach how to serve as a listener, teacher, leader facilitator, and initiator in engaging others within professional settings to do meaningful work that benefits students.

This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is embedded. Offering a deep analysis of three compelling case studies of schizophrenia in Turkey, the book considers the ways in which private experience is shaped by collective structures, and offers insights into issues surrounding religion, national and ethnic identity and tensions, modernity and tr...

This book provides a balanced account of the role of Christians, Christian organizations, and churches in sociopolitical transformation over the bedrock of colonial and nationalist politics in the past century in Zimbabwe. The work explores the broader social and political impact of prominent African Christian clergy who were sociopolitical activists such as Ndabaningi Sithole, Abel Muzorewa, and Canaan Banana. It also highlights the role of m...

Bis zu 90 % aller öffentlichen Aufträge liegen unterhalb der europäischen Schwellenwerte. Für sie gilt das europäisch geprägte Kartellvergaberecht und damit dessen spezieller Bieterrechtsschutz nicht. Es stellt sich die wichtige, aber bis jetzt nicht abschließend geklärte Frage nach dem Rechtsschutz im Unterschwellenbereich. Trotz der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, das die Rechtsschutzlage für verfassungsgemäß hält, ist die Diskus...

Für die Ermittlung der ökonomischen Performance sind in der Vergangenheit zahlreiche Modelle entwickelt und erweitert worden. Heutzutage ist unter anderem die Berücksichtigung des Risikos obligatorisch. Dennoch beinhalten diese Modelle bei genauerer Betrachtung Unzulänglichkeiten. Und genau dies verlangt die Erweiterung des Erkenntnishorizontes, also die Verbesserung der bisher bestehenden Modelle. Die Vorteile liegen auf der Hand: Nur eine B...

Offers a systematic analysis of the growing convergence on these matters in the development and welfare state literatures, utilizing the experiences of a myriad of jurisdictions around the world. Drawing upon the expertise of leading international policymakers, practitioners, and academics in the field, this book critiques the theoretical underpinning of growth and development, examine welfare state perspectives on inclusive growth and social/...

This textbook helps aspiring principals understand how to develop a vision for improvement, make decisions and manage conflict, build teachers¿ capacity, communicate, monitor the organization¿s performance, and create a school climate of mutual respect.

Cet ouvrage apporte un éclairage nouveau à l'histoire littéraire et artistique du surréalisme par un biais inédit: l'étude du catalogue d'expositions surréalistes (CES). Se penchant sur un genre interdisciplinaire jusque-là peu étudié, le catalogue d'exposition, il en retrace les fonctions définies par l'institution Royale du XVIIe siècle et son développement pour montrer comment les surréalistes subvertissent les formes traditionnelles liées ...

Based on Deleuze's idea that philosophy is an activity that appeals to anyone who is attuned to the desire for the ethical life, the contributions in this book question how to live the ethical life today in academia, in art but above all in our multiple ecologies of belonging.

The present "turn to religion" has also meant a rekindled interest in transcendence, a concept once deemed a relic of a metaphysical past. This volume approaches transcendence from a particular perspective: that of language and literature seen as a matrix of expression of transcendence and its interplay of immanence. The essays in this volume probe the poetic and literary devices through which transcendence has been solicited, evoked, and gene...