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True I.D.
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pedrone, Dino, PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, Each of us has our own unique identity. Your nationality, your gender, your personal appearance, and even the car you drive can tell the world about you. Your salvation through Jesus Christ identifies you as well. You are in a select group known as the family of God and that membership carries with it certain responsibilities. The Apostle Paul wrote about this special identity in the book of Ephesians. In TRUE I.D., Dr. Dino Pedrone guides the reader through a comprehensive study of this epistle that will help you at any stage of your Christian life. TRUE I.D. will help you see what a privilege it is to be a child of God and how rich your life can be as a result of your relationship with Him. Dr. Dino Pedrone has served as senior pastor of New Testament Baptist Church in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area since . A veteran of more than 40 years of ministry and a sought-after speaker around the world, he oversees a church with three locations and is president of two Christian schools. He also is president of Davis College in Binghamton, New York, the Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, and the International Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. He has written numerous books and contributed to dozens of magazines and other publications. His insightful Bible teaching is heard every weekday on the radio in south Florida as well as a weekly national television broadcast. He and his wife Bobbi have four grown children and two grandchildren.
Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Simmons, Ryan, PUBLISHER: University Alabama Press, An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt () has emerged as a major American writer of his time--the age of Howells, Twain, and Wharton. In "Chesnutt and Realism, "Ryan Simmons breaks new ground by theorizing how understandings of literary realism have shaped, and can continue to shape, the reception of Chesnutt's work. Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, little attention has been paid to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist? A writer whose career was circumscribed by the dismal racial politics of his era, Chesnutt refused to conform to literary conventions for depicting race. Nor did he use his imaginative skills to evade the realities he and other African Americans faced. Rather, he experimented with ways of portraying reality that could elicit an appropriate, proportionate response to it, as Simmons demonstrates in extended readings of each of Chestnutt's novels, including important unpublished works that have been overlooked by previous critics. "Chesnutt and Realism" also addresses a curiously neglected subject in American literary studies--the relationship between American literary realism and race. By taking Chesnutt seriously as a contributor to realism, this book articulates the strategies by which one African American intellectual helped to define the discourses that influenced his fate. Ryan Simmons is Assistant Professor of English at Utah Valley State College
Poetry for Students
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gale Group / Napierkowski, Marie Rose, PUBLISHER: Gale Cengage, Give students the tools they need to make books and authors a meaningful part of their lives by introducing them to one of our "For Students" literary references. These resources are specially crafted to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students and their teachers as well as the interests of general readers and researchers. Each title in the series provides understandable, comprehensive explanations of the most commonly studied poems, novels, dramas, epics and short stories as identified by an advisory board of teachers and librarians. No other literature references furnish such a high level of coverage -- all written in an unassuming tone that users will welcome. The references in the Gale Group's "For Students" series provide: -- Easy-to-read discussions of themes, plots and characters -- Easy-to-understand critical essays chosen specifically for students -- Analysis of each work's construction and historical context -- Photos, illustrations and other graphics -- And more The "For Students" series includes Poetry for Students, Novels for Students, Short Stories for Students, Drama for Students, Shakespeare for Students, Shakespeare's Characters for Students and Epics for Students. They're sure to be a welcome addition to your library. Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Students will discover: -- An overview essay -- An analysis of the poem's construction and form -- A thematic examination -- A discussion of the poem's historical and cultural context -- Selected criticism on the poem or poet -- A briefauthor biography -- Sources for further study and suggested research topics -- Subject, thematic, nationality, author and title indexes
Life, Death, and Doughnuts
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kasdin, Karen / Kasdin, Karin, PUBLISHER: Strategic Book Publishing, It is and the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City is teeming with women. Over doughnuts, Sarah, Mitzi, Iris, and Ellie form a quirky quartet of secretaries-to-be. What ensues is a lifelong friendship carried out primarily through monthly dinner parties composed of the four women and their tag-along husbands. Over a span of 50 years, children are born, hearts are broken, a president resigns, a war is lost, careers peak and crash, weight is gained and lost and gained again, and all the while food is burned, fondued, flambed, whipped up, and brought in. Sadly, but not uncommonly, the husbands pass away one by one, revealing the unfortunate fact that most women outlive their mates. The girlfriends' individual responses to widowhood illustrate that "moving on" can have a host of meanings and that grief has no time frame. As the friends face downtime, distance, and loss, each discovers that a 50-year friendship, a healthy dose of humor, and an occasional doughnut can trump whatever else life drops in your path. Karin Kasdin has authored four books, the most recent of which is Watsamatta U: A Get-A-Grip Guide to Staying Sane through Your Child's College Application Process. She currently writes a parenting blog for The Faster Times, which can be viewed at thefastertimes.com. Kasdin grew up in Rochester, New York, and now lives and writes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where she and her husband have raised three sons.
L’ isola degli aironi bianchi
AUTORE: Sue Monk Kidd CATEGORIA: Romanzi EDITORE: Arnoldo Mondadori COLLANA: Omnibus ISBN: ANNO: Settembre ° edizione CONDIZIONI:: Come nuovo, volume doppio (e mai aperto) di una collezione privata Jessie, pittrice quarantenne sposata da molti anni con Hugh, sta attraversando un periodo di crisi dopo la partenza per il college dell’unica figlia, quando riceve una telefonata inattesa che la costringe a partire per Egret Island, un’isoletta al largo del South Carolina dove è nata e cresciuta. Deve prendersi cura dell’anziana ed eccentrica madre. È passato ormai parecchio tempo da quando Jessie è stata lì l’ultima volta, e lei è comprensibilmente turbata all’idea di tornare nei luoghi dove suo padre è morto misteriosamente in un incidente di cui ha sempre creduto di essere la responsabile. Giunta a destinazione, i ricordi d’infanzia e la natura selvaggia del posto la investono con prepotenza facendole prendere le distanze dalla rassicurante routine della vita familiare e dal marito. Egret Island è un piccolo mondo a sé, un paradiso incontaminato dove tutto sembra sospeso nel tempo e nello spazio. Riserva naturale e rifugio di uccelli meravigliosi, l’isola ospita un antico monastero, nei pressi del quale Jessie incontra Thomas, un tempo avvocato e ora monaco benedettino, che ha scelto di cambiare radicalmente la sua esistenza dopo la tragica perdita di moglie e figlio. L’attrazione fra i due è immediata e trascinante, e Jessie deve confrontarsi con un’inaspettata sete di libertà che cerca di negare a se stessa. 7. Copertina cartonata con sovraccoperta stampata - 379 pagine - Prezzo di copertina euro
A Few Acres of Snow: Documents in Pre-Confederation Canadian
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thorner, Thomas, PUBLISHER: Utp Higher Education, For a generation or more there have been few books that brought together in accessible form the raw materials of Canadian history. In many minds the impression has taken root that those materials are uninteresting. This collection demonstrates the contrary and that these raw materials provide extraordinarily engaging and informative insights into the richness of Canadian history. This new edition of the first volume of Broadview's two-volume anthology of documents in Canadian history, A Few Acres of Snow, presents many new documentary sources on pre-Confederation Canadian history, combined with the most compelling passages from the first edition. Each chapter offers a group of source materials on particular themes or events, beginning with reports of First Nation contacts published in the Jesuit Relations and ending with the drive to Confederation. Documents bring vividly before the reader the experience of the Acadian Expulsion, the Siege of Quebec, Irish immigration during the famine years, life in the Ontario backwoods in the early nineteenth century, and the British Columbia gold rush. Included are document groupings that focus on the history of Canada's various regions; on social, cultural, political and intellectual history; on the experiences of women, of Native peoples, of immigrants and labour. Thomas Thorner is a member of the Department of History at Kwantlen University College: this is his fourth book. Thor Frohn-Nielsen, who assisted on this project, also works in the History Department at Kwantlen. Special Combination Price: Please note that a special discount price is available when this book is ordered shrinkwrapped together with A Country Nourished onSelf-Doubt: Documents in Post-Confederation Canadian History.
Libri di lingue straniere, arte, musica
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Corso di Inglese
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Dust Bowl Diary
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Low, Ann Marie / Low, Marie A., PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, "Life in what the newspapers call 'the Dust Bowl' is becoming a gritty nightmare," Ann Marie Low wrote in . Her diary vividly captures that "gritty nightmare" as it was lived by one rural family--and by millions of other Americans. The books opens in --"the last of the good years"--when Ann Marie is a teenager living with her parents, brother, and sister on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. We follow her family and friends, descendants of homesteaders, through the next ten years--a time of searing summer heat and desiccated fields, dying livestock, dust to the tops of fence posts and prices at rock bottom--a time when whole communities lost their homes and livelihoods to mortgages and, hardest of all, to government recovery programs. We also see the coming to maturity of the author in the face of economic hardship, frustrating family circumstances, and the stifling restrictions that society then placed on young women. Ann Marie Low's diary, supplemented with reminiscences, offers a rich, circumstantial view of rural life a half century ago: planting and threshing before the prevalence of gasoline-powered engines, washing with rain water and ironing with sadirons, hauling coal on sleds over snow-clogged roads, going to end-of-school picnics and country dances, and hoarding the egg and cream money for college. Here, too, is an iconoclastic on-the-scene account of how a federal work project, the construction of a wildlife refuge, actually operated. Many readers will recognize parts of their own past in Ann Marie Low's story; for others it will serve as a compelling record of the Dust Bowl experience.
Moneylicious: A Financial Clue for Generation y
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grosz, Ornella, PUBLISHER: Transformation Media Books, How do I get the most out of my money?" "Can I splurge if I want to?""Where do I find my credit score?" "How do I improve my credit and deal with debt?" "There are so many investments, how do I choose?"Spend and invest your hard earned dollars in an effective way "Moneylicious"is an easy-to-understand guide for anyone who wants to learn about moneyand personal finance. Twenty-something Ornella Grosz will help you recoverfrom, or better yet avoid, the slippery slope of debt "Moneylicious: A Financial Clue for Generation Y" explains the basics of: $ investing$ banking$ purchasing your first home$ the importance of spending with a touch ofhumor (yes, you can buy $100 pair of jeans)$ and much more "For Gen Y... written by Gen Y... Moneylicious provides a great financialroadmap. Ornella's willingness to share her own stories not only engages the reader but creates a learning environment where the basics of money and investing are not only explained... but shared in a way that is entertaining as well as experiential. This book should be required reading for all young people in high school and college. Armed with the knowledge that Ornella shares, the readers will be prepared to not only survive... but to thrive in the financial world they face." Sharon Lechter, Founder and CEO of Pay Your Family First, member of the first President's Advisory Council on FinancialLiteracy, the AICPA Financial Literacy Commission and co-authorof the National Bestseller Think and Grow Rich-Three Feet From Gold
Praying for Miracles
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walkin, Newton, PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, PRAYING FOR MIRACLES is a non-fiction book about Bible study, faith, prayer and miracles. The author, Newton Walkin, surveys the miracles of the Bible and shows how relevant these are in assisting Christians today when praying for miracles. The book has three parts: (1) deals with the person and work of the Holy Spirit and the veracity of the Bible; (2) examines the principles of intercessory prayer; and (3) looks at prayers and miracles in action. The Appendix II helps those studying the Bible from cover to cover more than once. The book is useful for the general Christian reader, lay preachers, Sunday school teachers, prayer groups, intercessors and first year Bible Studies students at university, seminary and Bible College. The book has 550 pages and 27 chapters.Walkin comes from a Christian home. He is a member of West Croydon Baptist Church (WCBC), Croydon, England founded by James Spurgeon in . The views in this book are entirely those of the author and do not represent any church, organisation or ministry. From July to December , Walkin achieved, by God's generous grace, his vision to read the Bible from cover to cover 21 times, shown in Appendix II.Walkin believes in the awesome power of intercessory prayer of faith. Walkin said, "If our faith is strong enough we can successfully pray for miracles." On November , Walkin wrote a prayer for London to win the Olympic Bid, held July . He wrote another prayer: Olympic Prayer for Peaceful Games In . And in January wrote a Prayer/Psalm for President Barack Obama's protection.Now an evangelist Christian writer, Walkin and his wife Eileen were baptized in March at WCBC. Walkin also regularly attends Trinity Baptist Church, Croydon, England.
Was War Necessary?: National Security and U.S. Entry Into
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Small, Melvin, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), A diplomatic historian examines six major international wars involving the United States and concludes that American involvement was unjustified in each case. America's national security was not in fact sufficiently threatened to merit a call to arms. The author analyzes the events leading up to each war and the justification of wars in general. His book combines lively history with lucid and relevant general argument....the book is provocative and unquestionably will serve once more to bring the important question "Was War Necessary "before the public.' -- "Journal of the Early Republic, April " Small's book is successful. It undoubtedly will provoke readers to think about the irrationality of most wars and to develop a clearer rationale for those circumstances under which they would support American belligerency.' -- "The Journal of American History, December " This is one of those rare books in which the author does exactly what he set out to do and does it well. Given his definition of national security in terms of territorial integrity, economic well-being, and honour, Professor Small raises many pointed questions about US war involvements. His lucid narration, unfettered by excess detail and sprinkled with a dry and often cynical humour, provides excellent and balanced accounts of the events and politics preceding US entry into the Wars of , the Mexican-American and Spanish-American Wars, the two World Wars, and the Korean War...I recommend this book most highly as a superb general introduction to US war involvement for the lay public and for college courses. It does cause one to think and to question.' -- "Political Studies, Vol 29 No 3, Sept
Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access?
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Crandall, Robert W. / Alleman, James H. / Hahn, Robert W., PUBLISHER: American Enterprise Institute Press, There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed broadband Internet connections for residential and small-business customers, the demand for IT equipment and new Internet service applications may stagnate. Broadband policy is controversial in large part because of the differences in the regulatory regimes faced by different types of carriers. Cable television companies face neither retail price regulation of their cable modem services nor any requirements to make their facilities available to competitors. Local telephone companies, on the other hand, face both retail price regulation for their DSL service and a requirement imposed by the Telecommunications Act that they unbundle their network facilities and lease them to rivals. Finally, new entrants are largely unregulated, but many rely on facilities leased from the incumbent telephone companies at regulated rates to connect to their customers. This asymmetric regulation is the focus of this volume, in which telecommunications scholars address the public policy issues that have arisen over the deployment of new high-speed telecommunications services. Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. His previous books include (with Martin Cave) Telecommunications Liberalization on Two Sides of the Atlantic () and (with Leonard Waverman) Who Pays for Universal Service? (Brookings ). James H. Alleman is an associate professor in interdisciplinary telecommunications at the College of Engineering andApplied Science, University of Colorado, on leave at Columbia University.
Who Killed Annie?: A Hattie Farwell Mystery
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Orlemann, Betty, PUBLISHER: Elderberry Press (OR), As the daughter of a book editor for a major publishing house, Betty Orlemann (nee Elizabeth Kerr), grew up in a home filled with good books and the love of reading and writing.Her novel, "WHO KILLED ANNIE?" is the first in a mystery series about Hattie Farwell and her old homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.She has spent much of her life as a journalist. Until her recent retirement she was a staff writer for the Bucks County Courier Times for whom she covered criminal courts in the Bucks County Courthouse.Presently she writes a bi-weekly column for the Frenchtown, New Jersey, Delaware Valley News and contributes features to the Allentown, Pennsylvania, Morning Call -Quakertown Bureau.Over the years she has contributed to many other newspapers. She is a former medical technician and presently a volunteer in the Doylestown Free Clinic. She enjoys singing and dancing, and taught ballroom dancing in Philadelphia after her freshman year in college.She is a commissioner on the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor and State Heritage Park, and founded The Friends of the Delaware Canal. For 11 years she co-owned a gift and antique shop in Glenside, Pa and was elected the first woman president of the Greater Glenside Chamber of Commerce. All of these past activities have added grist to her writing mill.Betty Orlemann and her late husband, Bob, had four children, three of whom (two sons and one daughter), grew up and made them grandparents. There are now nine grandchildren (seven boys and two girls), one great-grandson and another on the way.Betty Orlemann lives in a cedar woods in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, with her dogand cat."
Universalism vs. Communitarianism: Contemporary Debates in
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rasmussen, David M. / Rasmussen, David, PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), "Universalism vs. Communitarianism" focuses on the question, raised by recent work in normative philosophy, of whether ethical norms are best derived and justified on the basis of universal or communitarian standards. It is unique in representing both Continental and American points of view and both the older and a younger generation of scholars. The essays introduce the key issues involved in universalism vs. communitarianism and take up ethics in historical perspective, practical reason and ethical responsibility, justification, application and history, and communitarian alternatives. Based on a special issue of the "Journal Philosophy and Social Criticism, "the book includes two additional essays by Chantal Mouffe and by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus. David Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and editor of "Philosophy and Social Criticism." Contents: introduction, David, Rasmussen. Universalisms: Procedural, Contextualist, and Prudential, Alessandro Ferrara. Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Toward a Critical Theory of Social Justice, Gerald Doppelt. The Liberal/Communitarian Controversy and Communicative Ethics, Kenneth Baynes. Discourse Ethics and Civil Society, Jean Cohen. Equality, Political Order and Ethics: Hobbes and the Systematics of Democratic Rationality, Rolf Zimmermann. Atomism and Ethical Life: On Hegel's Critique of the French Revolution, Axel Honneth. The Gadamer-Habermas Debate Revisited: The Question of Ethics, Michael Kelly. What Is and What Is Not Practical Reason? Agnes Heller. Adorno, Heidegger, and Postmodernity, Hauke Brunkhorst. Impartial Application of Moral and Legal Norms: A Contribution to Discourse Ethics, Klaus Gunther. An Ethics, Politics, and History, Jurgen Habermas in an interview conducted by Jean-Marc Ferry. Rawls: Political Philosophy without Politics, Chantal Mouffe. What Is Morality: A Phenomenological Account of the Development of Ethical Expertise, Hubert L Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus. Universalism and Communitarianism: A Bibliography, Michael Zilles.
Managing Interpersonal Conflict
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Donohue, William A. / Kolt, Robert, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Managing Interpersonal Conflict helps readers better understand and ultimately manage their routine interpersonal conflicts. Specifically, the book walks readers through the conflict process--from the initial decision of whether or not to confront differences to how to plan the actual confrontation. Donohue deals extensively with the negotiation process and, if negotiation proves unsuccessful, with third-party dispute resolution. The book emphasizes keeping conflicts under control and keeping focused on the issues. The key to managing conflict is to address differences collaboratively so parties can create better solutions and, ultimately, strengthen their relationships. Managing Interpersonal Conflict prepares and encourages the reader to stop avoiding their conflicts and start confronting them. Designed for college and university undergraduates, Donohue's text and the Interpersonal Commtext series will also interest students and professionals in management studies, sociology, organization studies, and social psychology. "They provide a very useful look at a somewhat broader than usual range of conflict issues.... Where the decision is to confront, it offers useful approaches to allowing face saving and to issue structuring that will allow the conflict, in many cases, to be readily resolved.... The second section... provides a useful and easily worked with framework for negotiating, and deals most effectively with the use of and responses to the exercise of power in the negotiation context.... The book is exceptionally readable and effective in its presentation of approaches to conflict. While it is not a traditional academic text, periodic references to the conflictliterature are used to allow the reader to examine the issues presented in more depth. The book will serve as an outstanding text for a training program in conflict management and can also be used by an individual effectively to learn these techniques." --The Alternative Newsletter
Constitutional Reform and Effective Government, REV. Ed.
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sundquist, James L., PUBLISHER: Brookings Institution Press, For years the public has become increasingly disillusioned and cynical about its governmental institutions. In the face of alarming problems-most notably the $400 billion budget deficit-the government seems deadlocked, reduced to partisan posturing and bickering, with the president and Congress blaming each other for failure. And neither party can be held accountable. The public tendency is to blame individual leaders- or politicians as a class-but an insistent and growing number of experienced statesmen and political scientists believe that much of the difficulty can be traced to the governmental structure itself, designed in the eighteenth century and essentially unchanged since then. Is that inherited constitutional system adequate to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, or has the time come for fundamental change? Should we adopt an electoral system that encourages unified control of the presidency, the Senate and the House? Lengthen terms of office? Limit congressional terms? Abolish or modify the electoral college? Introduce a mechanism for calling special elections? Permit legislators to hold executive offices? Redistribute the balance of powers within the governmental system? In this revised edition of his highly acclaimed volume, James Sundquist reviews the origins and rationale of the constitutional structure and the current debate about whether reform is needed, then raises practical questions about what changes might work best if a consensus should emerge that the national government is too prone to stalemate to meet its responsibilities. Analyzing the main proposals advanced to adapt the Constitution to current conditions, he attempts to separate theworkable ideas from the unworkable, the effective from the ineffective, the possibly feasible from the wholly infeasible, and finally arrives at a set of recommendations of his own.
Toward Alternative Theology: Confessions Non Dualist
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grant, Sara / Malkovsky, Bradley J., PUBLISHER: University of Notre Dame Press, Toward an Alternative Theology: Confessions of a Non-Dualist Christian is the spiritual and intellectual autobiography of Sara Grant, a Roman Catholic Scottish nun, who, until her death in , established herself as one of the leading twentieth-century figures in Indian Christian theology and the contemplative life. In this slim volume, Grant recounts her search not only for God, but for a right understanding of God, as well as for a way of rethinking Christian teachings on the mystery of God's relation to the world that could overcome widespread popular dualisms. Grant's odyssey begins with experiences from her childhood and follows her entrance into the novitiate of the Society of the Sacred Heart, where she began an intensive study of Aquinas. After training in classics and philosophy at Oxford University, Grant traveled to India, where she spent the remainder of her life, first as a professor of philosophy at Sophia College, Bombay, and later in Pune in the dual role of professor at Jnana-Deepa-Vidyapeeth and head of a Christian monastic community. Grant studied Sanskrit and became an expert on Sankara (ca. 700 C.E.), the authoritative Hindu exponent of the doctrine of non-duality. Reading Aquinas and Sankara in a method of mutual illumination led Grant to discover that the non-dualistic, or advaitic, insight was compatible with Christian theology, and in fact is present, though underdeveloped, in all authentic Christian doctrine. Appearing for the first time in the United States, this engrossing book eloquently recounts the life of a remarkable woman and shows how Christian theology and spirituality can be enriched by encountering the experiences and concepts of advaita.This updated edition includes a new introduction by Bradley Malkovsky.
Lotto dltre 20 dischi in vinile di musica classica
Oltre 20 dischi in vinile in ottimo stato di musica classica. Dischi singoli: GRACE BUMBURY - LORIN MAAZEL De Falla: El Amor Brujo El Sombrero De Tres Picos Detusche Grammophon Gesselschaft Schumann DICHTERLIEBE - LIEDERKREIS OP.24 Detusche Grammophon Gesselschaft NICANOR ZABALETA Eichner - Wagenseil - Ditterdorf - Mozart Detusche Grammophon Gesselschaft CARILLON & CLOCHES DE LA CATHEDRALE SAINT PIERRE DE GENEVE Au carillon Pierre Segond MUSIC FOR QUEEN MARY Henry Purcell PRADES FESTIVAL Pablo Casals (director) Bach - brandemburg concerto 4 e 5 MENDELSSOHN Ottetto per archi, Op.20; Sinfonie per archi 10 e 12 J.S. BACH Concerti Brandeburghesi N 1, 2 e 3 J.S. BACH Concerti Brandeburghesi N 4, 5 e 6 J.S. BACH Matthaus-passion Passione di S.Matteo Michel Corboz J.S. BACH Klavierbuchlein fur Anna Magdalena Liardet clavicembalo e direttore, Perrin soprano, Winzap viola, coro universitario di Lausanne. FAURE' Messe de requiem Op.48 Cantique de Jean Racine Op.11 Goeorge Guest Direttore; Choir of St.John's College, Cambridge STRAVINSKY La sagra della primavera Igor Markevitch; The Philarmonia Orchestra DEBUSSY La mer L'apres midi d'un faune Jeux Boulez; The new Philarmonia Orchestra RAVEL BOLERO La valse Pavane pour une infante defunte Charles Munch; Boston Symphony Cofanetti: -Cofanetto " Opere di Chopin interpretate da Rubinstein" con coppia di dischi in vinile emesso dall' RCA Victor - LMD Polonaises 4 Impromptus - Cofanetto rilegato in pelle e scritte in oro con sei dischi in vinile emesso dall' RCA Victor - LM ). Opera di J.S. Bach - Il Clavicembalo Ben Temperato interpretato da Wanda Landowska. I dischi sono in buone condizioni, i cartoni in cui sono inseriti hanno degli strappi.
Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ross, Val, PUBLISHER: Emblem Editions, National bestseller and a "Globe and Mail" Best Book A fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in -- expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait. From his student days onward, Robertson Davies made a huge impression on those around him. He was so clearly bound for a glorious future that some young friends even carefully preserved his letters. And everyone remembered their encounters with him. Later in life, as a world-famous writer, perhaps Canada's pre-eminent man of letters (who "looked like Jehovah"), he attracted people eager to meet him, who also vividly remembered their meetings. So when Val Ross set out in search of people's memories, she was faced with a wonderful embarrassment of riches. The one hundred or so contributors here range very widely. There are family memories, of course, and memories from colleagues in the academic world who knew him as a professor and the founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto. Predictably, there are other major writers like Margaret Atwood and John Irving. Less predictably, there are people from the world of Hollywood, such as Norman Jewison and David Cronenberg (who remembers Davies on-set, peering through a camera lens as he researched his newest novel). And we even hear from his barber, and from his gardener, Theo Henkenhaf. Some speakers contribute just a lively paragraph; others several pages. Yet all of them, through the magic of Val Ross's art, help to create an intriguing, full-colour portrait of a complex man beloved by millions of readers around the world. "From the Hardcover edition."
Residenziale Yoga/Ayurveda in valle Staffora con medici
AYURYOGA 4 (www.ayuryoga4.com) è lieta di annuciare l'arrivo il 28 APRILE in VALLE STAFFORA (PV-AL) di NEHA & SALIL JOGLEKAR, MEDICI AYURVEDICI del PRANAVEDA HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE di Pune, INDIA (www.ayulogy.com) per una serie di WORKSHOP ESPERIENZIALI YOGA & AYURVEDA. I Workshop si terranno presso la Residenza IL MOLINO DEL GROPPO di Pozzolgroppo (AL) (http://www.booking.com/hotel/it/il-molino-del-groppo.it.html) DAL 28 APRILE AL 1 MAGGIO (https://www.facebook.com/IlMolinoDelGroppoAl/). OFFRIAMO PACCHETTI RESIDENZIALI per l'INTERO WEEK END con PENSIONE COMPLETA O PACCHETTI INDIVIDUALI PER I SINGOLI WORSHOPS: ---------- SABATO 29 APRILE WORKHOP DI STRESS MANAGEMENT con un approccio YOGICO ed AYURVEDICO: - Psicoterapia Cognitivo Comportamentale (CBT) - Terapia di Accettazione ed Impegno (ACT) - Auto Gestione della Tensione eccessiva (SMET) ---------- DOMENICA 30 APRILE WORKSHOP DI CUCINA AYURVEDICA: - La dieta corretta in base alla propria costituzione Ayurvedica - I sei gusti della Cucina ayurvedica - La farmacia in cucina, l'uso dell'alimentazione per curarsi - Preparazione di un pasto completo Ayurvedico ---------- LUNEDI' 1 MAGGIO TREKKING MEDITATIVO IN NATURA - L' arte della camminata in natura per aumentare la percezione, la capacità di ascolto personale e di espansione evolutiva. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I MEDICI AYURVEDICI SARANNO A DISPOSIZIONE DURANTE TUTTO IL FINE SETTIMANA PER CONSULTAZIONI MEDICHE AYURVEDICHE (SU PRENOTAZIONE). -- DR. SALIL JOGLEKAR Consultazioni Mediche Ayurvediche generali, in specifico per problematiche di Ansia, Stress, Depressione. -- DR.SSA. NEHA JOGLEKAR Consulatazioni Mediche ayurvediche generali, in especifico problemi ginecologici, problemi di fertiità, problemi di pelle e di estetica, problemi relazionati al peso corporeo e alla dieta. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 % DI SCONTO OFFERTO A PRENOTAZIONI ENTRO E NON OLTRE IL 15 APRILE E PER GRUPPI CON UNA MINIMA PRESENZA DI 5 PARTECIPANTI. PER INFO: www.ayuryoga4.com EMAIL: N: + T: + ----------------------------CHI SIAMO------------------------------------ ---------- DR.SSA. NEHA JOGLEKAR Si è laureata presso l'Università di Pune (INDIA) ed è medico di Ayurveda ed insegnante di Yoga. Insegna Yoga e Ayurveda in tutto il mondo in istituzioni internazionali come Annecy Ayurveda (Francia), Abhaydana e Ayuryoga 4 (Italia), Ausbildungzentrum Bergler (Austria), Valencia Ayur (Spagna). Ha sviluppato il Programma Gravidanza Perfect (PPP), che lei conduce presso la sua clinica ed insegna in tutto il mondo. Lei è un allenatore insegnanti di Yoga e conduce anche sessioni di Yoga per il settore aziendale e IT ed è un'esperta nel massaggio ayurvedico Yoga. ---------- DR.PRIYADARSHAn (SALIL) JOGLEKAR. Dr. Priyadarshan (Salil) si è laureato alla Pune University in un MD in Ayurveda e una laurea in psicoterapia alla IBM & S. Lavora come insegnante alla Tilak Ayurved College di Pune. Insegna Ayurveda in molte nazioni ed è membro di numerose facoltà ed associazioni come Ayuryoga 4 (Italia-Svizzera) l' Annecy Ayurveda (Francia), Reidman College (Israele), Ausbildungszentrum Bergler (Austria), MAS Ayurveda (Spagna), AYURWEB, Gitananda Ashram (Italia), Barnett Hospital (USA), JAI Ayurveda (Germania), Ayurveda Dublino (Irlanda). Si è specializzato nelle terapie Panchakarma e Marma ma è anche consulente in Psicoterapia con la terapia Cognitivo Comportamentale (CBT) e Terapia di Accettazione ed Impegno (ACT). Dr. Joglekar è uno dei 15 ricercatori selezionati da tutta l'India per il programma di internship Vaidya-scienziati, condotti dal IAIM di Bangalore e finanziato dal Dipartimento del Ministero AYUSH, Governo dell'India. ---------- DR. MARCO ALPEGGIANI (MADHAVANAND) Formatore linguistico aziendale, consulente alla comunicazione internazionale ed editore iconografico con 15 anni di esperienza professionale ed accademica a livello europeo e asiatico. Laureato in Scienze della comunicazione e Scienze culturali alla London Metropolitan University ha poi ottenuto un Master in fotogiornalismo presso la prestigiosa University of Westminster nel . Nell'ultimo decennio ha intrapreso un nuovo percorso formativo quale insegnante di Yoga e Meditazione ed Operatore Ayurvedico, per poter offrire un approccio olistico alla soluzione di tematiche aziendali e personali complesse. Si è specializzato nella gestione e nella prevenzione dei sintomi dello stress lavoro corrrelato e nell'arte dei punti marma per poter agevolare e promuovere il rendimento individuale complessivo in ambito lavorativo e sociale. PER INFO: www.ayuryoga4.com EMAIL: N: + T: +
Affirmative Action in Medicine: Improving Health Care for
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Curtis, James L., PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press, Affirmative action programs have significantly changed American medicine for the better, not only in medical school admissions and access to postgraduate training but also in bringing a higher quality of health care to all people. James L. Curtis approaches this important transition from historical, statistical, and personal perspectives. He tells how over the course of his medical education and career as a psychiatrist and professor--often as the first or only African American in his cohort--the status of minorities in the medical professions grew from a tiny percentage to a far more equitable representation of the American population. Advancing arguments from his earlier book, Blacks, Medical Schools, and Society, Curtis evaluates the outcomes of affirmative action efforts over the past thirty years. He describes formidable barriers to minority access to medical-education opportunities and the resulting problems faced by minority patients in receiving medical treatment. His progress report includes a review of two thousand minority students admitted to U.S. medical schools in , following them through graduation and their careers, comparing them with the careers of two thousand of their nonminority peers. These samples provide an important look at medical schools that, while heralding dramatic progress in physician education and training opportunity, indicates much room for further improvement. A basic hurdle continues to face African Americans and other minorities who are still confined to segregated neighborhoods and inferior school systems that stifle full scholastic development. Curtis urges us as a nation to develop all our human resources through an expansion ofaffirmative action programs, thus improving health care for everyone. James L. Curtis is Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Off-Balance Sheet Activities
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Saunders, Anthony C. / Sondhi, Ashwinpaul / Saunders, Anthony, PUBLISHER: Quorum Books, The objective of Off-Balance Sheet Activities is to gain insights into, and propose meaningful solutions to, those issues raised by the current proliferation of off-balance sheet transactions. The book has its origins in a New York University conference that focused on this topic. Jointly undertaken by the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research and New York University's Salomon Center for the study of Financial Institutions at the Stern School of Business, the conference brought together academic researchers and practitioners in the field of accounting and finance to address the issues with the broad-mindedness requisite of a group whose approaches to solutions are as different from each other as their respectively theoretical and applied approaches to the disciplines of finance and accounting. The essays are divided into two sections. The first covers issues surrounding OBS activities and banking and begins with a brief introduction that places the essays into context. OBS activities and the underinvestment problem, whether loan sales are really OBS, and money demand and OBS liquidity are examined in detail. Section two, which also begins with a brief introduction, focuses on issues of securitized assets and financing. A report on recognition and measurement issues in accounting for securitized assets is followed by three separate discussion essays. Other subjects covered include contract theoretic analysis of OBS financing, the use of OBS financing to circumvent financial covenant restrictions, and debt contracting and financial contracting. The latter two contributions are also followed by discussion essays. This unique collection of papers will prove to be an interestingand valuable tool for accounting and finance professionals as well as for academics involved in these fields. It will also be an important addition to public, college, and university libraries.
Campaign Reform: Insights and Evidence
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Vavreck, Lynn / Lewis, Lynn Vavreck / Bartels, Larry M., PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press, What is wrong with American political campaigns? How could the campaign process be improved? This volume brings the expertise of leading political scientists to the public debate about campaign reform. These scholars probe the reality behind the conventional wisdom that nasty, vacuous campaigns dominated by big money and cynical media coverage are perverting our political process and alienating our citizenry. Some of their conclusions will be startling to campaigners and critics alike. For example, "attack" advertisements prove to be no more effective than self-promotional advertisements, but "are" more substantive. Indeed, candidates in their advertisements and speeches focus more on policy and less on strategy and process than any major news outlet, including the "New York Times," The volume suggests that, as a result, prospective voters in knew more about the candidates' issue positions than in any presidential election in decades, yet turnout and public faith in the electoral process continued to decline. For aspiring reformers, Bartels and his colleagues provide a bracing reality check. For students and scholars of electoral politics, political communication, and voting behavior, they provide an authoritative summary and interpretation of what we know about the nature and impact of political campaigns. The insights and evidence contained in this volume should be of interest to anyone concerned about the present state and future prospects of American electoral process. Larry M. Bartels is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Lynn Vavreck is AssistantProfessor of Government, Dartmouth College. Other contributors are Bruce Buchanan, Tami Buhr, Ann Crigler, John G. Geer, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Marion Just, Daron R. Shaw, and John Zaller.
Grant Letteratura romana Mondadori
Michael Grant Letteratura romana Mondadori Biblioteca Moderna BMM n. Traduzione: Antonio Barbieri Introduzione: - A cura di: Linda Untersteiner Candia Pagine: Prefazione + 326 + Appendici + Indice Anno: dicembre I edizione Codice ISBN: - Copertina: cartonato con scritte in oro. Stato: Buono stato. Peso del libro: gr. 282 La fotografia riproduce il libro L'Autore: Michael Grant nacque a Londra, studiò letteratura classica al Trinity College e fu professore di Humanity all'Università di Edimburgo. Fu insignito della OBE nel , della CBE nel , e fu vice-cancelliere (presidente) alla Queen's University di Belfast e all'Università di Khartoum. È stato presidente della Royal Numismatic Society dal al . Nel gli fu conferita la medaglia della Royal Numismatic Society e nel la Archer M. Huntington Medal. Il necrologio pubblicato su The Times lo descrive come "uno di pochi storici dell'antichità ad ottenere il rispetto sia degli accademici che dei lettori profani". Immensamente prolifico, scrisse e curò più di 50 testi di saggi e traduzioni, coprendo argomenti che spaziano dalla monetazione romana e l'eruzione del Monte Vesuvio fino ai Vangeli e Gesù. Descrisse sé stesso come "uno dei pochissimi freelance nel campo della storia antica: un raro fenomeno". La sua traduzione degli Annales di Tacito fu pubblicata nel . La sua autobiografia, My First Eighty Years, è apparsa nel . Prezzo: euro 3,00 + spese di spedizione (euro 2,00 piego di libri ordinario, euro 4,00 raccomandata piego di libri). Si fanno spedizioni multiple e, si ricorda, che la merce viaggia a carico del destinatario. Richiedendo il catalogo nel formato excel hai le promozioni 4 x 3, 20 x 13. I più economici sono in omaggio. Per consultare il catalogo indicate il vostro indirizzo e-mail personale.