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Aurora Román siempre ha dedicado una parte de su tiempo a escribir poesías y reflexiones. En su poesía plasma todas sus inquietudes, añoranzas y deseos, con una rima sencilla, cercana y a la vez intensa y apasionada. En este libro, donde puede leerse gran parte de su producción literaria, el lector podrá disfrutar de sus dedicatorias, tanto a familiares como a personajes de la historia, sus odas a la naturaleza, a la vida en sus múltiples face...

You, Me, Us is a story about George Dunn, a man who has to come to terms with the fact that he has a de-generative disease that doctors say is incurable. He is told that his memory will fail him and that he should write his life experiences into a journal. The pages of the journal "come to life", as we go back and see the journey that George has been on. Touching and relevant, the story will challenge you, entertain you and leave you thinking.

This special edition volume unites the author's boldly original and critically well-received Twin Books, 'Holy Bible Holy Koran I and II', to present the author's compelling vision as originally intended, and under its first and formerly rejected title, 'Bible vs Quran'. The two most celebrated books of all time, the Holy Bible and the Noble Quran, are revealed here in a fascinating and undeniably unique point of view. The brilliant delivery o...

25 of the tastiest and most popular recipes on ClosetCooking.com, the 2014 edition.

St Paul's first letter to the Corinthians is one of the most engaging letters of St Paul. The issues that St Paul deals with in this letter are not only relevant to us today on a personal level but also on a community level. Ask yourself these questions, are there factions in the group you are a part of? How do you handle the immorality that seems so prevalent in the world today? How do we respect and honour one another's personality and gifts...

Bringing together a who's who of Marshall scholars, this volume examines the major roles assumed by Marshall over his five-decade career - soldier, statesman and peacemaker, and leader and manager - to illuminate key issues and themes surrounding the man and his era.

This book considers worker representation on health and safety at work. Using international and UK case studies and materials, it examines how existing arrangements deliver results, interrogating the dominant regulatory model. This book is vital for those interested in industrial relations, health and safety, and worker representation.

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A Civilization is on the brink of collapse. Their only hope lies in the digital automaton of a virtual simulation uncovering an answer to their salvation. An undying love is divided in death. Their reunion would mean the salvation of the universe. A young hero with an unyielding heart must travel through dimensions of the simulation to reclaim his love. Armed with nothing more than a fervent courage, a seven-ton rhinoceros with polychromatic s...

Kasi lost her 15-year-old cousin in a car accident. Nancy lost her 44-year-old stepmother to homicide. Sharon lost her 52-year-old best friend to suicide. Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, Surviving Loss of a Loved One shares the poignant stories of people who have all lost someone close to them. Covering tender issues such as surviving the funeral and transition, navigating the holidays, handling sensitive questions and more, Su...

Brenda was diagnosed with rheumatic disease at age 31. Deana was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 33. MaryEllen was diagnosed with fibromyalgia at age 30. Bonnie was diagnosed with hepatitis C at age 41.Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, Surviving Loss of Health shares the poignant stories of people who all live with chronic disease. Covering tender issues such as navigating health providers, handling social engagements, facing...

In this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine, and popular culture in his characteristic ways, Gilman looks at new, post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity. Topics include the development of the genre of Holocaust comedy, the imagination of the relationship of the body, disease, and ident...

Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity' within ethnic, women's, disability, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemo...

Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the Seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us.

This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region.

The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed. Since the same global system that created racialized and exploitative structures in African American and Oromo societies also facilitated the struggles of these two peoples, this ...

This is a comparative ethnography of five Israeli schools that use state-of-the-art educational approaches to help change Israel's conflicted society. It gives an important glimpse of individuals and institutions that bravely operate as social and educational entrepreneurs, striving to change Israeli society.

This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this book looks at how these works seek to transform the ways that readers live in the world.

By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic. This book narrates the lives of families on both sides of the Atlantic who profited from the craze for calicoes, and in doing so helped the Spanish empire to flourish in the eighteenth century.

Between 1830 and 1848, Paris was rocked by two successful revolutions, three failed insurrections, and seven serious assassination attempts against King Louis-Phillippe and his sons. The June Days of 1848 - the worst urban insurrection in history until that time - finally brought this period to a close. Using a wide variety of sources, including detailed court records and hundreds of depositions of witnesses and suspects, Jill Harsin examines ...