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The Bodily Nature of Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wider, Kathleen V., PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press, In this work, Kathleen V. Wider discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of consciousness in Being and Nothingness in light of recent work by analytic philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. She brings together phenomenological and scientific understandings of the nature of consciousness and argues that the two approaches can strengthen and suppport each other. Work on consciousness from two very different philosophical traditions -- the continental and analytic -- contributes to her explanation of the deep-seated intuition that all consciousness is self-consciousness. Belief in the reflexivity of consciousness, which reaches back at least as far as Rene Descartes, has come under increasing attack. Those who would undermine it cite recent and ongoing findings of experimental psychologists and neuroscientists. Wider argues that the philosophical debate tends to proceed with little awareness of the extensive study of consciousness undertaken by continental philosophers during the first half of this century. With her clear explanations of both the Sartrean and contemporary Anglo-American contributions, Wider provides an invaluable map for scholars on both sides, and demonstrates how phenomenology and science both enhance current understanding and explanation of the nature of consciousness.
The Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Meier, Matt S. / Gutierrez, Margo, PUBLISHER: Greenwood, Mexican Americans are rapidly becoming the largest minority in the United States, playing a vital role in the culture of the American Southwest and beyond. This A-to-Z guide offers comprehensive coverage of the Mexican American experience, including: Arts Religion Popular culture Science Technology Business Government And more Entries range from figures such as Corky Gonzales, Joan Baez, and Nancy Lopez to general entries on bilingual education, assimilation, border culture, and southwestern agriculture. Court cases, politics, and events such as the Delano Grape Strike all receive full coverage, while the definitions and significance of terms such as coyote and Tejano are provided in shorter entries. Taking a historical approach, this book's topics date back to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a radical turning point for Mexican Americans, as they lost their lands and found themselves thrust into an alien social and legal system. The entries trace Mexican Americans' experience as a small, conquered minority, their growing influence in the 20th century, and the essential roles their culture plays in the borderlands, or the American Southwest, in the 21st century.
Taking Your Team to the Top: How to Build and Manage Great
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Spizman, Justin / Sundquist, Ted, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe, How to spot talent, build a great team--and WIN in business A former Denver Broncos GM shows managers and leaders the path to creating innovative, dynamic, and highly effective teams that fulfill an organization's strategic goals "Building Championship Teams" gives leaders of businesses large and small the tools and skills to accurately evaluate new hires from enormous talent pools, quickly and effectively implement them into the organization's existing team culture, and create a dedicated mission statement to maximize team success. It offers the fundamentals necessary to unlock individuals' ability and talents while adding to team synergy to accomplish any business objective. Carl M.T. "Ted" Sundquist II is a former football player, collegiate coach, Air Force Intelligence Officer, collegiate scout, National Football League Executive and General Manager, current blogger, television personality, radio personality and commentator. Justin Spizman is the bestselling author of numerous books, including "The Business of the Being the Best" and "Don't Give Up...Don't Ever Give Up."
Exploring Biology in the Laboratory
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Singh, Shree RAM / Scissum-Gunn, Karyn D., PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing, EXPLORING BIOLOGY IN THE LABORATORY was written for students taking introductory biology course. The manual contains twenty-four laboratory sections ranging from the basic scientific inquiry to animal biology and organ systems, thus this manual can be used for a two-part biology course. The sequence of laboratory exercises follow majority of biology textbooks. Each laboratory contains simple and meaningful exercises that teach basic concepts. Most of the supplies used in the experiments are cheap and available from scientific vendors. The laboratory exercises begin with a brief introduction of the concepts and then there are 2-3 experiments that can be completed in a two-hour lab session. At the end of each lab there are multiple choice "Review Questions." This lab manual contains a "Lab Assignment" section at the end of each lab section that students can complete after lab experiments and turn in to their instructors as part of the lab assignment. The lab assignment section is designed to test student's critical thinking and writing ability.
Taking Back His Widow
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Williams, Kerri / Crow, Carolyn / Kelsey, Amanda, PUBLISHER: Eternal Press, Livinia Jacobs grudgingly ran from the love of her life with his child in her womb and into the arms of another man. She never thought she'd see Dean Stone again.Eleven years later, she finds herself widowed in a picturesque little coastal town and her past has come back to haunt her.Livinia was completely aware of her lack of control in Dean's presence. Heck, that was half the attraction in the first place, but her secret kept her feet firmly on the ground and her heart guarded from the once youthful dream of a future with him.Dean forgot the most important thing of all about Livinia-she was his addiction. Ten minutes with her and he craved her touch again, wanted to hold her, to feel her soft naked skin against his, to kiss those supple, pink lips. Hell, he wanted her period.Can he forgive her and prove he's no longer the scared boy he once was, but the man she needed him to be-a man she could trust with her heart, no matter the sacrifice?
Dell Guide to Digital Photography: Shooting, Editing, And
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bucki, Lisa A., PUBLISHER: Premier Press; Thomson Course Technology, "Digital Photography: Your Guide to Taking, Editing, and Printing Pictures," supported by one of the most trusted retailers of electronics, is an all-in-one guide to getting started on a digital camera. With generous use of full-color illustrations and examples, this book covers the basics of digital photography, including tips for selecting a digital camera, how to use typical digital camera features, how to take better photos, how to transfer and store images on a computer, how to improve images with photo editing software, and how to publish and enjoy finished images. With digital camera sales exploding worldwide, there are 53 million units in projects sales for . Digital cameras have rapidly improved in terms of imaging quality and ease of use, as well as falling in price, making them a practical alternative to film cameras for an increasing number of consumers. This book helps readers experience maximum enjoyment and minimum frustration with their new digital camera. This is the ultimate survival guide to digital photography that all digital camera owners can benefit from having on their shelves.
LOTTO 51 MIX 12" DJ TECHNO - PROGRESSIVE HOUSE - TRANCE
Tony H. - Zoo Future Beroshima / Rok - Electronic Discussion (Remix) Casseopaya - Neutron Dance Noys - Ave Maria C.Y.B.E.R.F.U.N.K. - Life At The Wunderbar 808 State - TimeBomb / Nimbus Radioactive - The Eliminator Oudja. Never Tell Faithless - Mass Destruction - 2x12" Apotheosis - O Fortuna Krüger & Coyle - The Witness Signum Feat. Scott Mac - Coming On Strong Dido - Sand In My Shoes - Above & Beyond Remix Love Inc. - You're A Superstar Sanity - Welcome To Paradise Aven - All I Wanna Do M31 - Galactic DAF - Verschwende Deine Jugend Sarah McLachlan - Stupid Dance Nation - Sunshine Ultramarine - Nightfall In Sweetleaf KA-22 - Metamorphism Tom Tom - (See Me) Touch Me Frank De Wulf / Sherman - D.W.F. Mix 2 / B-Sides Mix gli altri dischi che compongono il lotto sono tutti Techno - Progressive House - Trance dal al per un totale complessivo di 51 dischi. tutti i dischi sono usati ma tenuti in buone condizioni. vendo in blocco a 40 euro esclusa eventuale spedizione (12 euro). altre info tramite mail. N.B. i dischi sono quelli che potete vedere nella foto
Late Winter
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brown, Bill, PUBLISHER: Iris Press, The idea of home, the magic of story, and the healing power of nature inform the poems in Late Winter. Yet, Bill Brown understands that loss and grief, breaking and mending deepen the human experience. "Taking joy, isn't easy," Brown writes, "as if you could ignore lost faces in city streets, or playgrounds littered with broken glass." These poems often mine the darkness of loss, war and our culture's constant barrage of status and style. Even so, in "Dream Letter Lullaby" Brown asks us to "be as hopeful as the hands of children sleeping." His world gives us the right to reclaim our innocence. He knows what every child knows- "A closed heart can't greet a winter sky. Even a rain puddle is filled with it, and a horse trough, and the slow current of creeks." Late Winter opens with a search for home. By the book's end, Brown believes that, with the power of memory and love, home can be born like a covenant in each of us, and that "Some ancient hope, like winter light, is allied with the gravity of stars."
What Principals Need to Know about Teaching Math
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kanold, Timothy D. / Briars, Diane J. / Fennell, Francis, PUBLISHER: Solution Tree, Mathematics teaching and learning is an important component of your responsibilities as a principal, assistant principal, or school-based instructional leader, and it is also one of the most difficult challenges you'll face. As you think about your school or district mathematics needs, What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics helps you frame the mathematics needs and challenges faced at the school and district level around content, learning, and instructional expectations. This book will provide you with suggestions that reflect such resources as Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and the Common Core State Standards. The first four chapters each focus on one aspect of a high-quality mathematics program: content, instruction, assessment, and response to intervention. Each of these chapters includes a section on the resources informing that topic. The last four chapters look more closely at the overarching concepts of evaluation, professional development, family engagement, and taking action. All chapters include a section on priorities related to that topic.
The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mainardi, Patricia, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The End of the Salon examines the cultural forces that contributed to the demise of the most important exhibition centre for art in Europe and America in the late nineteenth century. Tracing the history of the salon from the French Revolution, when it was taken away from the Academy and opened to all artists, to the s, Patricia Mainardi shows that its contradictory purposes, as didactic exhibition venue and art market-place resulted in its collapse. She also situates the salon within the shifting currents of art movements, from modern to traditional, and the evolving politics of the Third Republic, when France definitively chose a republican over a monarchic form of government. A rich overview of the spectrum of art production at the end of the nineteenth century, government attitudes toward the arts in the early Third Republic, and the institution of exhibitions as they were redefined by free-market economics in the nineteenth century, are also provided. The book demonstrates how all artists were forced to function within the framework of the social, economic and cultural changes then taking place and how art and social history are inextricably linked.
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DR. MARTENS Scarpe stringate donna in pelle ART. CHERRY RED VIRGINIA EAN DESCRIZIONE ufficiale DR. MARTENS This women's 3-eye shoe is made with our soft, fine-grained Virginia leather. The result: a supple, lived-in feel from day one. This women's still rocks all the classic Doc's DNA, like grooved sides, stitching and our iconic air-cushioned soles for unparalleled comfort. Built to last, it's made using one of the finest methods of construction: the Goodyear Welt â€" which means the upper and sole are sewn together in our heat-sealed z-welt stitch. CONSTRUCTION This is a Goodyear-welted product. The upper and sole are heat-sealed and sewn together, not merely glued like many footwear constructions. Colore: rosso CHERRY RED (tende al bordeaux) Composizione Tomaia: pelle Suola esterna: gomma Misura: EU 39 cm. 24,5 Prezzo di listino: Euro 135 Articolo rigorosamente nuovo e originale con scatola, mai indossato. Autenticità garantita Il prezzo è per consegna a mano ma posso spedire e accetto anche Paypal. Spese di spedizione non incluse.
Simply Christmas
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lynxwiler, Christine / Dowd, Pamela / Luttrell, Wanda, PUBLISHER: Barbour Publishing, Four women face one decision this Christmas: Will they jump into the commercialized rat race or pursue the true meaning of the holiday through a simpler approach? When Maggie seeks a break from the mad holiday rush, her family panics. Can she create Christmas balance, or will her family's antics drive her back to her perfectionistic, take charge ways? - Alone for the first time at Christmas, Lorraine wants only to enjoy the peace. But when the spirit of the season come calling, will she give up her plans to extend goodwill to those in need? - Instead of buying for Christmas, Mary Martha is selling. When a young women responds to her ad for a dining room table, will Mary Martha see the opportunity to help a hurting soul and heal her own in the process? Temporarily out of work, Penny's husband suggests taking Christmas on the road. Can she find anything to celebrate in a cramped RV with two kids, a husband, and not even a wreath? You'll love these witty and poignant stories of faith, hope, and peace at Christmastime.
The Bat
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rinehart, Mary Roberts / Hopwood, Avery, PUBLISHER: Samuel French Trade, Mystery Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 3 female Scenery: 2 Interiors In this popular American mystery play, incident is piled on incident with skill and plausibility, and it is impossible to know who the real criminal is until the final curtain. This thriller revolves around Cornelia Van Gorder, a maiden lady of sixty, who rents the summer home of a banker reported killed in Colorado. She is warned that mysterious things are happening but she refuses to move. Then it is discovered that a large sum is missing from the dead man's bank and it is suspected that, far from being dead, he stole the money, hid it in a secret chamber in his house and is only waiting for a chance to sneak back to get it. Four others are after the money: the bank cashier who is wrongfully accused of taking it, a detective engaged by Miss Van Gorder to clear up the mystery, a doctor friend and supposed confederate of the missing banker and The Bat, a notorious thief who has long eluded the police. This genuine thriller is guaranteed to divert any audience.
Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nicholson, Nigel, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Work role transitions are among the most significant yet least understood forms of social change, and how they affect individuals' careers, self-concepts and organizational adjustment is of great practical and theoretical importance. This book provides the first comprehensive, large-scale study of the causes, form and outcomes of job change. Focussing on one of the most influential segments of society - middle to senior managers - the book offers a new theoretical approach to the analysis and understanding of job change. The authors ask how much job change is taking place, assess who is most affected, and evaluate the psychological consequences for the individual manager. They discuss organizations' handling of job transitions, and provide a unique focus on women in management, evaluating how their experience of careers and job change differs from men's. This book presents important new findings to specialists in life-span development, careers, managerial performance and organizational behaviour. It also offers the non-specialist insights into wider questions, such as the relationship between social change and organizational life, and the individual's experience of changes in industrial society's structures, practices and values.
Obiettivo Schneider Kreuznach Xenon FF Tmm x Canon
The Schneider Xenon FF 35mm T2.1 Lens in Canon EF mount is part of the Xenon FF set of lenses. FF stands for full frame, and every lens in the set covers a full frame image sensor without vignetting and is designed for 4K image capture. The Xenon FF lenses are color-matched to a standard at the factory, minimizing color shift when changing lenses. They feature a 14-blade iris, providing natural looking Bokeh, with circular out of focus highlights, 300 of lens barrel rotation, and share lens gear positions and size. The lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories. The 35mm features a removable lens support bracket, so you can use an available lens support if you wish. The lens is designed to allow a lens technician to swap mounts between available Canon EF, ARRI PL, and Nikon F, avoiding adapters and solidly mounting the lens to your camera.
Obiettivo Schneider Kreuznach Xenon FF Tmm x Canon
The Schneider Xenon FF 50mm T2.1 Lens in Canon EF mount is part of the Xenon FF set of lenses. FF stands for full frame, and every lens in the set covers a full frame image sensor without vignetting and is designed for 4K image capture. The Xenon FF lenses are color-matched to a standard at the factory, minimizing color shift when changing lenses. They feature a 14-blade iris, providing natural looking Bokeh, with circular out of focus highlights, 300 of lens barrel rotation, and share lens gear positions and size. The lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories. The 50mm features a removable lens support bracket, so you can use an available lens support if you wish. The lens is designed to allow a lens technician to swap mounts between available Canon EF, ARRI PL, and Nikon F, avoiding adapters and solidly mounting the lens to your camera.
Obiettivo Schneider Kreuznach Xenon FF Tmm x Canon
The Schneider Xenon FF 75mm T2.1 Lens in Canon EF mount is part of the Xenon FF set of lenses. FF stands for full frame, and every lens in the set covers a full frame image sensor without vignetting and is designed for 4K image capture. The Xenon FF lenses are color matched to a standard at the factory, minimizing color shift when changing lenses. They feature a 14-blade iris, providing natural looking Bokeh, with circular out of focus highlights, 300 of lens barrel rotation, and share lens gear positions and size. The lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories. The 75mm features a removable lens support bracket, so you can use an available lens support if you wish.. The lens is designed to allow a lens technician to swap mounts between available Canon EF, ARRI PL,, and Nikon F, avoiding adapters and solidly mounting the lens to your camera.
The Jubilee Guide to Rome: The Four Basilicas the Great
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Braghin, Andrea / Rouillard, Philippe / Coloni, M. J., PUBLISHER: Liturgical Press, Pilgrims around the world are preparing to attend the Jubilee celebration of the year in Rome to take part in what may be the most significant and emotionally filled moments in the lives of all Christians. The traditional observance of visiting the four Basilicas of Rome (St. Peter's, St. Paul's, St. John Lateran's, and St. Mary Major) began in the fourteenth century and remains a prayerful faith celebration today. As a keepsake guide to the basilicas, The Jubilee Guide to Rome offers pilgrims taking part in this grand tradition historical information on the Jubilee as well as the architecture of the basilicas. The Jubilee Guide to Rome includes information regarding the lives of the saints after which the basilicas are named, Christian art, and spirituality in general. Those interested in, but unable to attend the celebration, will find The Jubilee Guide to Rome a welcome aid for perceiving the experience in the moment in which it takes place. Pilgrims to Rome will find it heightens their appreciation of the celebration, and those who have personally observed the Jubilee will find it a keepsake for keeping the serenity, faith, and hope of the experience as a living memory.
More Than 100 Signs That Prove... Nobody's "Purrfect"!
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Silicato, Carolyn Stevenson, PUBLISHER: Trafford Publishing, People have no excuse to write using incorrect grammar-especially if their writing will be seen by the public. A little proofreading goes a long way. For Carolyn Stevenson Silicato, a retired elementary school teacher, this carelessness has always been a pet peeve. In fact, it became part of a tradition in the district where she taught: anyone spotting a misspelling in a public place would be sure to tell her about it. Those collected missteps form the genesis for "More than 100 Signs That Prove Nobody's Purrfect." She began taking pictures of misspellings that she saw along the roadways. After she retired from teaching, she carried her camera with her all of time and quickly gathered over one hundred pictures of highway misspellings. She divides them into the types of grammatical mistakes that people frequently make, from "Which Vowel Was That?" to "Wrong Words"-thus inviting readers and students to detect the errors in each of the one hundred signs. Enjoy this completely interactive, learning experience, and remember that nobody's perfect
Jihad in the Arabian Sea
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pecastaing, Camille, PUBLISHER: Hoover Institution Press, The lands and coasts across the Bab el Mandeb--the tiny strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean--at the southern tip of the Red Sea, have for centuries had a forbidding reputation as lands of piracy and privation. In "Jihad in the Arabian Sea, " Camille Pecastaing examines the twenty-first-century challenges facing this troubled and treacherous region. He looks at the past and present of the key players in the area, including Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Djibouti, the Sudan, and Ethiopia, reviewing the terrorist activities of Al Qaeda, the state of lawlessness that has led to the rise of piracy in the western Indian Ocean, the rise of the radical Shabab group, and the spread of extremist forms of Islam in the south. Pecastaing displays a real feel for the land, seamlessly blending history and current headlines to paint a picture of a region that, for most of the past two thousand years, has never quite evolved into the era of the modern state. He shows how the current challenges of civil war, piracy, radical Islamism, and terrorism, along with a real risk of environmental and economic failure on both sides of the strait, could lead to still more social dislocation and violence in this strategically important area.
Guild OM-240E ELETTRO-ACUSTICA+CUSTODIA SEMIRIGIDA
Come da titolo vendo una nuovissima Guild OM-240 E, un'acustica elettrificata, con 4 mesi di vita ed usata solo in casa per cessata attività, che personalmente reputo una signor chitarra confrontandola con chitarre di marchi più costosi che molte volte risultano una fregatura per la quota elevata che si sborsa. Come dicevo prima,vendo per cessata attività ed insieme alla sua custodia semirigida Guild. Ora piccola descrizione della chitarra: Questa acustica dal body forma Orchestra Mid-size è l'ideale sia per lo strumming che per il fingerpicking, sempre bilanciata.E' la scelta ottimale per la sua versatilità, con un top in Abete Sitka massello, fondo arched e fasce in mogano.Il fondo arcuato assicura profondità e proiezione, con un notevole sustain.la sua elettrificazione è affidata al pickup proprietario Guild AP-1, la tastiera e il ponte sono in palissandro indiano, selletta e capotasto in osso, ed è fornita con la Guild Deluxe Gigbag. Type: Orchestra Top: spruce Back and sides: Mahogany Arched floor Fretboard and bridge: Rosewood Nut and saddle: bone Scale: 648 mm Nut width: mm Guild AP-1 pickup Colour: Natural ASTENERSI PERDITEMPO, SPEDIZIONE INCLUSA NEL PREZZO!
U2 - The Best of
1. Even Better Than the Real Thing â€" (3:39) (Achtung Baby, . Mysterious Ways â€" (4:02) (Achtung Baby, . Beautiful Day â€" (4:05) (All That You Can't Leave Behind, . Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix) â€" (4:37) (inedito) 5. One â€" (4:35) (Achtung Baby, . Miss Sarajevo (Radio edit) â€" (4:30) (Original Soundtracks . Stay (Faraway, So Close!) â€" (4:58) (Zooropa, . Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of â€" (4:31) (All That You Can't Leave Behind, . Gone (New Mix) â€" (4:32) (Pop, . Until the End of the World â€" (4:38) (Achtung Baby, . The Hands That Built America â€" (4:57) (colonna sonora di Gangs of New York, . Discothèque (New Mix) â€" (4:40) (Pop, . Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me â€" (4:44) (colonna sonora di Batman Forever, . Staring at the Sun (New Mix) â€" (4:48) (Pop, . Numb (New Mix) â€" (4:21) (Zooropa, . The First Time â€" (3:44) (Zooropa, ) B-sides 1. Lady with the Spinning Head (Extended Dance Mix) â€" (. Dirty Day (Junk Day Mix) â€" (. Summer Rain â€" (. Electrical Storm â€" (. North and South of the River â€" (. Your Blue Room â€" (. Happiness Is a Warm Gun (The Gun Mix) â€" (. Salomé (Zooromancer Remix Edit) â€" (. Even Better Than the Real Thing (The Perfecto Mix) â€" (6:38)
The Book of Madness and Cures
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Melveny, Regina / Smith, Mark Allen, PUBLISHER: Thorndike Press, Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in , the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues--beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes torrid, and often enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopedia, "The Book of Diseases." After ten years of missing his kindness, insight, and guidance, Gabriella decides to set off on a quest to find him--a daunting journey that will take her through great university cities, centers of medicine, and remote villages across Europe. Despite setbacks, wary strangers, and the menaces of the road, the young doctor bravely follows the clues to her lost father, all while taking notes on maladies and treating the ill to supplement her own work. Gorgeous and brilliantly written, and filled with details about science, medicine, food, and madness, THE BOOK OF MADNESS AND CURES is an unforgettable debut.
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Abuelaish, Izzeldin, PUBLISHER: Walker & Company, By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians" (New York Times), Abuelaish has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life - as a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line, as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East. And, most recently, as the father whose daughters were killed by Israeli soldiers on January , during Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip. His response to this tragedy made news and won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be "the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis."
The Tales of the Heike
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shirane, Haruo / Watson, Burton, PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press, "The Tales of the Heike" is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. "The Tales of the Heike" focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected. "The Tales of the Heike" provides a dramatic window onto the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of a courtly tradition. The book is also highly religious and Buddhist in its orientation, taking up such issues as impermanence, karmic retribution, attachment, and renunciation, which dominated the Japanese imagination in the medieval period. In this new, abridged translation, Burton Watson offers a gripping rendering of the work's most memorable episodes. Particular to this translation are the introduction by Haruo Shirane, the woodblock illustrations, a glossary of characters, and an extended bibliography.