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Enlarged print edition now available! Tom Wright's eye-opening comments on the Gospel of Matthew and what it might mean for us are combined, passage-by-passage, with his fresh translation of the Bible text. Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright captures the urgency and...

The biodiversity of Southeast Asia is gravely imperilled by massive habitat modifications, forest fires and the overexploitation of wildlife. This book contains the first comprehensive determination of the current state of the region's terrestrial biotas and highlights the primary drivers responsible for the grave threat to its unique and rich biodiversity. Although the looming biodiversity disaster demands tangible actions, it will continue t...

Georges Hérelle (Pougy-sur-Aube, 1848-Bayonne, 1935) a contribué par ses traductions à la diffusion en France des oeuvres de Matilde Serao, Antonio Fogazzaro, Grazia Deledda, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, et surtout de Gabriele d'Annunzio, dont il a traduit presque tous les romans, les pièces, les nouvelles et les poèmes. Hérelle a été critique et biographe de d'Annunzio qu'il considérait non seulement « le plus grand écrivain de son temps », mais au...

A literary analysis of the popular genre of the informal primatology field narrative. Explores the works of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, and others in the contexts of scientific, literary, and conservation discourses.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. He has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, and Chinese.

It's easy to learn tapestry weaving from start to finish with Nancy Harvey, one of America's best-known teachers of this exciting craft. Using the same clear step-by-step approach that makes her workshops so successful, Nancy leads you through building a simple frame loom, to mastering the basic techniques, to completing handsome pieces based on her designs. She even provides tips on how to prepare designs of your own. In this book, you will f...

Details the paradigms of opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access as effective means to satisfy increasing demand for high-speed wireless communication and for novel wireless communication applications This book addresses opportunistic spectrum sharing and white space access, being particularly mindful of practical considerations and solutions. In Part I, spectrum sharing implementation issues are considered in terms of hardware p...

Kisses, Kisses Up and Down. Kisses, Kisses All Around! Experience the joy of tenderly connecting with your child as you read and act out this fun book together. Share your love with your child today. Get your copy now!

In a little house in north London lives a little kitten called Miles. Up until now, Miles only knew the outside world to be his back garden, until one day his next door neighbour Bernie the bulldog takes Miles to the bottom of their gardens and shows him a wonderful view of London. A view of all the adventures and curiosities soon to be discovered. Join Miles as he travels around London with his tour guide, Cabbie the pigeon and discovers Lond...

Are you a business owner, leader or entrepreneur... who finds managing people your biggest headache? Then this book is the solution to your problems. Leaders in charge of a team, or building a team around them, often find that some people just don't behave as expected: some don't work well with others, some don't like the hours or where they sit, some consistently arrive late and miss deadlines, some cause more problems than they solv...

In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten wurde in der (Deutsch)Schweizer Öffentlichkeit viel über Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderer aus dem postjugoslawischen Raum - im speziellen aus Serbien - diskutiert. So war in den Medien, der Politik und an den Stammtischen die Rede von aggressiven und kriminellen «Jugos», «Balkanrasern» und serbischen Kriegsverbrechern. Anhand von fünf biographischen Einzelfallanalysen geht die Autorin der Frage nach, wie Menschen mi...

Fluid, elegant and unique, Lois Keener Ventura's boxes elevate woodworking to a contemporary art form. You can capture the same effects in your own work following this guide's step-by-step band saw techniques. Whether you want to recreate these boxes as they appear or add your own distinctive variations, this book provides the instruction and inspiration you need. From cutting to finishing, this book provides patterns, photos and clear directi...

EL FARO es una obra con una narrativa costumbrismo y mágica, donde la razón basada en la intuición y lo simple, conlleva a que la deducción experimental y popular se manifieste espontáneamente sin preámbulos ni protocolos expuestos por un protagonista del común.

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How does cinema function as a means of ethical resistance and thought? Focusing on Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's cinemas, this book uses the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to ask how cinema can enable us to see and act in an ethical way. It analyses the cinematic medium itself through concepts of affect, sensation and actual virtual violence.

Does oil make countries autocratic? Can foreign aid make countries democratic? Does taxation lead to representation? In this book, Kevin M. Morrison develops a novel argument about how government revenues of all kinds affect political regimes and their leaders. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Morrison illustrates that taxation leads to instability, not representation. With this insight, he extends his award-winning work on nontax revenues to ...

This book critically examines the extent and consequences of the marginalization of African youth. It questions conventional wisdoms about data trends, aspirational goals, and common policy interventions surrounding Africäs youth that have been variously propagated in both the development studies literature and in mainstream donor policy reports. It adopts a cross-regional perspective to highlight in what ways African youth vary from their cou...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Public finance is crucial to a country¿s economic growth, yet successful reform of public finances has been rare. Ethiopia is an example of a country that undertook comprehensive reform of its core financial systems, independent of the IMF and the World Bank, and successfully transformed itself into one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. With Ethiopia as its guiding case study, this book presents new analytical frameworks to help gove...

Focussing on international entrepreneurship, this innovative research text explores the accelerated internationalization of young firms, known variously as International New Ventures (INVs) or 'Born Globals'. This will be of interest to academics, researchers and advanced students with an interest in international entrepreneurship and business, strategy, innovation and new ventures.