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El sueño en la infancia
by Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger¿Cómo es el sueño normal en la infancia? ¿Cómo y cuánto duermen los niños? ¿Problemas para dormir? ¿Tiene riesgos el colecho? En este texto breve, didáctico y riguroso, Alberto Soler responde a estas y otras preguntas y explica cómo es la estructura del sueño y cómo este evoluciona a lo largo de la infancia, además de proponer rutinas adaptables a cada familia. Para profundizar en temas relacionados con la crianza, recomendamos el ebook <i>Hijos y padres felices</i>, de Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger, que incluye “El sueño en la infancia”, además de capítulos dedicados a la alimentación, la operación pañal, la guardería, las pantallas y los estilos parentales, entre otros.
Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast
by Sian Sullivan;Ute Dieckmann;Selma LendelvoEtosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast examines the conservation histories and concerns of one of southern Africa’s most iconic conservation regions: the variously connected ‘Etosha-Kunene’ areas of north-central and north-west Namibia. This cross-disciplinary volume brings together contributions from a Namibian and international group of scholars and conservation practitioners, working on topics ranging from colonial histories to water management, perceptions of ‘wildlife’ and the politics of belonging. Together, these essays confront a critical question: how can the conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes be reconciled with historical injustices of social exclusion and marginalisation? The book is organised in five parts: the first provides a historical backdrop for the book’s detailed case studies, focusing on environmental and conservation policy and legislation; the second investigates post-Independence approaches to conservation; the third focuses on ‘Etosha-Kunene’ ecologies and related management issues; the fourth explores how historical circumstances shape present conservation and cultural landscapes; and the fifth addresses contemporary complexities of lion conservation and community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). By offering a comprehensive overview of evolving conservation boundaries, policies and practices in the region, this timely volume paves the way for the future design of conservation initiatives that more fully consider and integrate historical and cultural knowledge and diversity. Essential reading for conservation practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers alike, this volume also serves as a valuable resource for university students interested in conservation studies and histories of conservation.
Forget Me Not
by Sarah M. EdenNOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 1785 Julia Cummings has long been acquainted with loss—her mother, her brother, her sister, her friend, all gone too soon. But the loss that pushed her grief to the limit as a young girl was that of her best friend, Lucas Jonquil, who abandoned her without looking back. Now, eight years later, Lucas has returned to Lampton Park, and Julia has steeled herself—she will never forgive the man who broke her heart. After losing too many of his friends and family to early deaths, Lucas vowed to live life to the fullest. And after traversing the world, he has returned from his adventures to find his family and home much as he left them—except for Julia. The little girl he left behind has blossomed into a captivating lady, a lady who makes it clear she despises him. With little hope of reconciliation, the former friends are blindsided when their parents make a shocking announcement. Lucas and Julia have been betrothed without their knowledge and are to marry immediately. Now Lucas must rely on the help of his closest friends to win the heart of a lady who loathes him—a lady he’s coming to love more deeply every day.
FreeBrontosaurus
by David BerkeleyThe Free Brontosaurus is a novella comprising ten interweaving stories, complete with an accompanying album of ten songs. All set in the same fictional city, at the same moment in time, minor characters in one story are major characters in another. It is a bit like Olive Kitteridge, if reimagined by Miranda July. These are gently written narratives of isolation, describing characters disconnected from home and community. The book is full of dark humor, sadness and glimmers of joy. Ultimately, the characters’ abilities to find beauty in the bizarre connect and redeem them, offering the characters (and us) hope. The book is only half of this project, though, for it also comes with a soundtrack, one song per story, written loosely from the perspective of the main character from each tale. Both the book and the album can stand alone. However, when the two are appreciated together, an unusually moving and multi-layered world is born, likely to break and heal the heart.
Genetic Inroads into the Art of James Joyce
by Hans Walter GablerThis book is a treasure trove comprising core writings from Hans Walter Gabler‘s seminal work on James Joyce, spanning fifty years from the analysis of composition he undertook towards a critical text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through the Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, to Gabler‘s latest essays on (appropriately enough) Joyce’s sustained artistic innovation. Not only does this span of essays trace the evolution of Gabler’s thinking about Joyce’s originality and creative energy. It also reflects the development and maturation of Gabler‘s own genetic criticism and his methodology of genetic editing, which grows in depth and complexity across the collection. The reader will explore Joyce’s life and works through Gabler’s incisive eye, while also examining a progress of his reflections on his edition of Ulysses and the past controversy that beset it. This classic compendium combining well-seasoned scholarship and fresh criticism is an essential read for critics of Modernism, digital humanists, scholars and students of James Joyce, and anyone interested in the art of literary analysis.
Hell From the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack
by WukovitsOn the morning of April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese air force assembled directly above. They were about to become the targets of the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. By the time the unprecedented assault was finished, thirty-two sailors were dead and more than seventy wounded. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived. The gutted American warship limped from Okinawa’s shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and their wartime correspondence, John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this forgotten historic event.
Here She Comes Now
by Marc Weingarten edited by Jeff GordinierWhether it was Patti Smith's angry moan, Nina Simone's guttural growl, or Dolly Parton's towering hair and sweet voice, women have been a musical force to be reckoned with, inspired by, and paid attention to. In Here She Comes Now, today's biggest and brightest writers tackle their favorite female musicians and the effect they've had on their own lives. From Rosie Schaap writing about Sandy Denny to Susan Choi writing about Stevie Nicks to Elissa Schappell writing about Kim Gordon, Here She Comes Now thoughtfully and lovingly discusses the extreme badassery of the women who break through all the barriers to truly rock.
Hijos y padres felices
by Alberto Soler y Concepción RogerUna guía amena, didáctica y rigurosa que ayuda a entender el desarrollo de nuestros hijos en sus primeros años de vida y propone recomendaciones adaptables a cada familia. En la primera etapa de la vida de un niño su cuerpo y su cerebro se transforman a un ritmo vertiginoso. El pequeño pasa de ser un bebé que hace poco más que llorar y mamar, a ser un niño que nos pregunta por todo. ¿Qué es lo que necesita realmente un bebé?, ¿por qué llora en cuanto le soltamos?, ¿es malo que duerma con nosotros?, ¿hasta cuándo seguir con la lactancia?, ¿cómo actuar ante las rabietas?, ¿le dejamos el móvil para que se distraiga?, ¿cuándo necesita ir a la guardería?, ¿le castigamos cuando se porte mal?, ¿cómo establecemos límites? Este libro responde a estas y muchas otras preguntas, abarcando gran parte de lo que ocurre durante los primeros años de vida de nuestros hijos. Unos años que en el futuro recordaréis como vuestros mejores años.
Holy Quran in Arabic: Isländernes Lovbog I Fristatens Tid. Text I, Volume 1...
by تنزيلHoly Quran complete in Arabic Language
Home from the Dark Side of Utopia
by Clifton RossA riveting personal memoir that shares hard-earned political insights. Ross's journey mirrors that of the American left after World War II. From an Anabaptist hippie commune in the 1970s to the present-day failures of the Venezuelan revolution (and numerous revolutions before it), his book charts a trajectory of good intentions and poor choices, of blind faith in charismatic leaders followed by inevitable disillusionment and, ultimately, a solid belief in the ability of ordinary people to make history. . Clifton Rossdirected the filmVenezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out. He is the co-editor ofUntil the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements.
Indigenizing Education: Transformative Research, Theories, And Praxis
by Jeremy Garcia Valerie Shirley Hollie Anderson KulagoIndigenizing Education: Transformative Research, Theories, and Praxis brings various scholars, educators, and community voices together in ways that reimagines and recenters learning processes that embody Indigenous education rooted in critical Indigenous theories and pedagogies. The contributing scholar-educators speak to the resilience and strength embedded in Indigenous knowledges and highlight the intersection between research, theories, and praxis in Indigenous education. Each of the contributors share ways they engaged in transformative praxis by activating a critical Indigenous consciousness with diverse Indigenous youth, educators, families, and community members. The authors provide pathways to reconceptualize and sustain goals to activate agency, social change, and advocacy with and for Indigenous peoples as they enact sovereignty, selfeducation, and Native nation-building. The chapters are organized across four sections, entitled Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy, Revitalizing and Sustaining Indigenous Languages, Engaging Families and Communities in Indigenous Education, and Indigenizing Teaching and Teacher Education. Across the chapters, you will observe dialogues between the scholar-educators as they enacted various theories, shared stories, indigenized various curriculum and teaching practices, and reflected on the process of engaging in critical dialogues that generates a (re)new(ed) spirit of hope and commitment to intellectual and spiritual sovereignty. The book makes significant contributions to the fields of critical Indigenous studies, critical and culturally sustaining pedagogy, and decolonization.
Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380–1520
by Luke ClosseyFor his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving breath, and Christopher (“Christ-bearing”) Columbus brought the symbol of his cross to the Americas. Beyond the European periphery, this global study follows Jesus across – and sometimes between – religious boundaries, from Greenland to Kongo to China. Amidst this diversity, Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520 offers readers sympathetic and immersive insight into the religious realities of its subjects. To this end, this book identifies two perspectives: one uncovers hidden meanings and unexpected connections, while the other restricts Jesus to the space and time of human history. Minds that believed in Jesus, and those that opposed him, made use of both perspectives to make sense of their worlds. This book includes over one hundred images, tables and audio clips.
Kite Kè m Pale
by Jacques PierreIn his latest collection of poetry, Kite Kè m pale (Let My Heart Speak), Jacques speaks lovingly and eloquently about those, including women, who have faced and continue to face difficulties and injustice. His poetry sometimes resorts to uncommon forms of Kreyòl such as jagon and bolit to better expressed that which cannot conveyed commonly, and expose everyone to the linguistic wealth of the country.
La guardería, ¿es necesaria?
by Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger¿Cómo conciliar? ¿Necesito una guardería? ¿A qué edad debo escolarizar a mi hijo? En este texto breve, didáctico y riguroso, Alberto Soler responde a estas y otras preguntas y explica cómo es la adaptación a estos centros y que pautas debemos tener en cuenta. Para profundizar en temas relacionados con la crianza, recomendamos el ebook <i>Hijos y padres felices</i>, de Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger, que incluye “La guardería, ¿es necesaria?”, además de capítulos dedicados a la alimentación, el sueño, la operación pañal, las pantallas y los estilos parentales, entre otros.
Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy
by Courtney JungIs breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been greatly exaggerated. New moms are pressured by doctors, health officials, and friends to avoid the bottle at all costs--often at the expense of their jobs, their pocketbooks, and their well-being. In Lactivism, political scientist Courtney Jung offers the most deeply researched and far-reaching critique of breastfeeding advocacy to date. Drawing on her own experience as a devoted mother who breastfed her two children and her expertise as a social scientist, Jung investigates the benefits of breastfeeding and asks why so many people across the political spectrum are passionately invested in promoting it, even as its health benefits have been persuasively challenged. What emerges is an eye-opening story about class and race in America, the big business of breastfeeding, and the fraught politics of contemporary motherhood.
Landmark Constitutional Cases that Changed South Africa
by Roxan Laubscher Marius Van StadenOn 14 February 1995, the Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated by President Nelson Mandela. In his inaugural speech, President Mandela remarked that the “future of our democracy” hinged on the existence and the work of the newly created Constitutional Court. Furthermore, President Mandela rightly asserted that it is the Constitutional Court’s task “to ensure that the values of freedom and equality which underlie our interim constitution – and which will surely be embodied in our final constitution – are nurtured and protected so that they may endure”. These sentiments are as true now as they were almost thirty years ago. However, whether and how the courts have nurtured and protected these sentiments over the last twenty-eight years is the topic that we want to address. This book serves as the first volume in a series of books that considers selected landmark judgments of the South African Constitutional Court.
Landscapes of Investigation: Contributions to Critical Mathematics Education
by Miriam Godoy Penteado and Ole SkovsmoseCreating landscapes of investigation is a primary concern of critical mathematics education. It enables us to organise educational processes so that students and teachers are able to get involved in explorations guided by dialogical interactions. It attempts to address explicit or implicit forms of social injustice by means of mathematics, and also to promote a critical conception of mathematics, challenging the assumption that the subject represents objectivity and neutrality. Landscapes of Investigation provides many illustrations of how this can be done in primary, secondary, and university education. It also illustrates how exploring landscapes of investigation can contribute to mathematics teacher education programmes.
Linguistics for Legal Interpretation
by Terrence R Carney"Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both understand and solve language challenges central to the interpretation effort. In addition, this book offers best practice guidelines for dictionary use as well as an introduction to corpus linguistic methods to assist legal interpreters in determining either ordinary or technical meaning. The book illustrates the various language tools and devices by applying them to case law and legislation, and it does so in an accessible style of writing. Terrence R Carney is Associate Professor of Afrikaans Linguistics at the University of South Africa. He specialises in the language of law. "
Los niños y las pantallas
by Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger¿Debo permitir que mis hijos vean dibujos en el móvil? ¿Es perjudicial la tecnología? En este texto breve, didáctico y riguroso, Alberto Soler responde a estas y otras preguntas y explica la relación entre los niños y las pantallas y la conveniencia (o no) de exponer a nuestros hijos a móviles, tablets y televisión. Para profundizar en temas relacionados con la crianza, recomendamos el ebook Hijos y padres felices, de Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger, que incluye “Los niños y las pantallas”, además de capítulos dedicados a la alimentación, el sueño, la operación pañal, la guardería y los estilos parentales, entre otros.
Los terribles dos años y las rabietas
by Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger¿Por qué se producen las rabietas? ¿Son todas iguales? En este texto breve, didáctico y riguroso, Alberto Soler responde a estas y otras preguntas y explica cómo manejarlas y prevenirlas. Para profundizar en temas relacionados con la crianza, recomendamos el ebook <i>Hijos y padres felices</i>, de Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger, que incluye “Los terribles dos años y las rabietas”, además de capítulos dedicados a la alimentación, el sueño, la guardería, las pantallas y los estilos parentales, entre otros.
Male Powerlessness: Men and Intimate Partner Violence
by Emmanuel RowlandsMost discussions on intimate partner violence (IPV) tend to treat it as a unidirectional issue, one of male dominance over female companions and the manifestation of power and control. However, there are situations where the power of men is ineffective, as shown in the example of Simba above. Thus, the idea that we can understand and define males in terms of some discernible component is problematic - because it implies that the conflation of manhood and power is timeless and universal.
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
by John MerrimanThe Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century—before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just society. They expelled loyalists and soldiers and erected barricades in the streets. In Massacre, John Merriman introduces a cast of inimitable Communards—from les pétroleuses (female incendiaries) to the painter Gustave Courbet—whose idealism fueled a revolution. And he vividly recreates the Commune’s chaotic and bloody end when 30,000 troops stormed the city, burning half of Paris and executing captured Communards en masse. A stirring evocation of the spring when Paris was ablaze with cannon fire and its citizens were their own masters, Massacre reveals how the indomitable spirit of the Commune shook the very foundations of Europe.
Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph
by Kristina Rizga"This book is a godsend . . . a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators. ” --Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatch Darrell is a reflective, brilliant young man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always struggled with his reading and writing skills. Darrell’s father, a single parent, couldn't afford private tutors. By the end of middle school, Darrell’s grades and his confidence were at an all time low. Then everything changed. When education journalist Kristina Rizga first met Darrell at Mission High School, he was taking AP calculus class, writing a ten-page research paper, and had received several college acceptance letters. And Darrell was not an exception. More than 80 percent of Mission High seniors go to college every year, even though the school teaches large numbers of English learners and students from poor families. So, why has the federal government been threatening to close Mission High--and schools like it across the country? The United States has been on a century long road toward increased standardization in our public schools, which resulted in a system that reduces the quality of education to primarily one metric: standardized test scores. According to this number, Mission High is a "low-performing” school even though its college enrollment, graduation, attendance rates and student surveys are some of the best in the country. The qualities that matter the most in learning--skills like critical thinking, intellectual engagement, resilience, empathy, self-management, and cultural flexibility--can’t be measured by multiple-choice questions designed by distant testing companies, Rizga argues, but they can be detected by skilled teachers in effective, personalized and humane classrooms that work for all students, not just the most motivated ones. Based on four years of reporting with unprecedented access, the unforgettable, intimate stories in these pages throw open the doors to America’s most talked about--and arguably least understood--public school classrooms where the largely invisible voices of our smart, resilient students and their committed educators can offer a clear and hopeful blueprint for what it takes to help all students succeed.
Music and Spirituality: Theological Approaches, Empirical Methods, and Christian Worship
by George Corbett Sarah MoermanThe composer Sir James MacMillan has often referred to music as ‘the most spiritual of the arts’, and for many people, regardless of religious affiliation, this rings true. In listening to music, we are drawn to dimensions of human experience beyond the material. This collection brings together leading scholars from various disciplines – including Christian theology, musicology, and psychology and neuroscience – to interrogate the intimate relationship between music and spirituality. Organised in three parts – theological approaches, empirical methods, and Christian worship – the volume covers a vibrant array of topics. From examining how the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the profile of contemporary worship to investigating the spiritual effects of bodily positioning in liturgical spaces, from exploring spiritual experience through heart and breathing activity, electrodermal activity, and saliva samples to comparing the spiritual experiences of British Methodists with Welsh sporting fans, these essays attend to the lived reality of people’s perceived spiritual experiences through music. This collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the growing field of Christian theology and music, and will serve as a cornerstone for future research at the intersection of theology, music, and psychology and neuroscience. It will also appeal to anyone curious about why music consistently, across cultures, occupies a unique space bridging the material and spiritual dimensions of human life.