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“Pillole” per Scrittori depressi: consigli pratici
by Giselle RenardeQuando soffri di depressione potresti non sapere a chi rivolgerti. Ci sono giorni in cui oscura le parole, e non riesci più a scrivere. Le persone intorno a te continuano a ripeterti che ti sono vicine. Allora perché ti senti così solo? Giselle Renarde è una scrittrice affetta da depressione cronica, e ha scritto questo manualetto rivolgendosi agli scrittori nella sua stessa situazione, nella speranza di poterli aiutare. “Pillole” per scrittori depressi: consigli pratici prevede: • attività specifiche per aiutarti nei giorni più difficili; • idee pratiche per spronarti a scrivere anche quando ti sembra impossibile formulare una parola in croce; • un testo scritto in toni personali, accessibili e confortevoli; “Pillole” per scrittori depressi: consigli pratici è stato scritto per te, con amore, cura e incoraggiamento.
“Patterns” of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah: Investigating the Relationship Between the Public Spaces and Residential Units (Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South)
by Basma Massoud“Patterns” of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah explores the meaning of threshold spaces and investigates the relationship between the public spaces and residential units in the historical city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while at the same time revisiting Christopher Alexander’s theory in his canonical 1977 book, A Pattern Language. This book questions and analyses “patterns” relating to the cultural, social, and environmental particularities of Jeddah, with special attention paid to the effect of gender segregation in the city’s urban configuration. It discusses the extension that has been undertaken through testing a concept from the urban design theory of the West (the United States and Canada) and applying it to an Islamic city to find patterns in four different scales, which form the basis of the investigation (body, building, street, and city). Empirical methods have been used in the context of historical Jeddah, through which patterns are investigated using different approaches for the different scales. The book aims to explore the meaning of threshold spaces in old Jeddah. Furthermore, it shows that there are eighteen patterns of threshold spaces in the old town: patterns that are solely related to this specific case study, as well as modified patterns to the ones explored by Christopher Alexander. This book shall allow not only a better understanding of the relationship between housing and the historical city but also an exploration of the role of the threshold space in shaping the old city of Jeddah. It will be of interest to researchers, students of architecture, urban planning and anthropology studies, and people involved in cultural heritage, both academics and practitioners.
“Pan” Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy of Nigeria’s Afri-Capitalism and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business (Contemporary African Political Economy)
by Rita Kiki EdozieThis book uses Nigeria’s Afri-capitalist and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business models as case studies that reconcile the tension between Africa Rising and Pan African economics, presenting their convergence as Africa’s viable Third Way route to global development. In presenting Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business as national, business sector manifestations of a “new” Pan Africanism, the author explores Africa’s “culturalist” path in engaging the international political economy. This is an African customized engagement that parallels the alternative models of China’s “market-socialism” and Latin America’s “21st C Socialism”. All present alternatives to realist, liberal, and structuralist standpoints, inclining instead toward constructivist political economies derived from the perspectives and subject conditions of African economic histories, socio-cultures, alternative modernities, and agent-led initiatives.
“One Minute to Ditch!”
by Cornelius RyanPrize-winning True Stories of the Supreme Moment--When Men Suddenly Face DeathSome of these true stories are already famous because they have been dramatized on television. All of them take you straight to the heart of great moments of crisis.You'll know what it's like to look down at the wide Pacific and realize that your plane is going to ditch there.You'll twist the wheel of your racing car as it takes a narrow turn at Indianapolis.You'll struggle in cabin 56 of the S.S. Andrèa Doria during its five last frantic hours.In these and other stories, Cornelius Ryan, ace journalist, has caught the essence of that split-second that may be a man's last. Two of these pieces have won Benjamin Franklin Magazine awards."One Minute To Ditch!"--Thirty-one men, women and children high over the mid-Pacific in a failing plane. (Dramatized on TV.)Five Desperate Hours in Cabin 56--A story of the sinking of the S.S. Andrèa Doria told in gripping minute-by-minute detail. (Dramatized on TV.)The Major of St. Lô--A classic of the Normandy invasion, an unforgettable true story of quiet heroism. (Dramatized on TV.)These and other factual accounts are moving documents of crisis: of courage against the sudden fact of very possible death.
“One Belt and One Road” and China’s Education Development
by Jian Li Eryong XueThis book investigates the endogenous forces in the relation of “One Belt and One Road” and educational development in China. The conceptual framework of analyzing the relations offers an in-depth understanding of the vocational education, higher education system, and basic education system, locally, nationally, and internationally. The current situations, problems, and strategies of addressing the relation of “One Belt and One Road” and educational development in China have been explored in this book.
“Not so fast…” Litigation Strategy in EMC Corporation v. Donatelli (A)
by Lena G. Goldberg Danielle V. HollandCase: Senior Lecturer Lena G. Goldberg and independent researcher Danielle V. Holland (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) prepared this case. This case was developed from published sources, court records and interviews with Paul Dacier. Funding for the development of this case was provided by Harvard Business School and not by any company mentioned in the case. Danielle V. Holland was not employed at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP at the time she contributed to the case and no information was directly obtained from the firm. HBS cases are developed solely as the basis for class discussion. Cases are not intended to serve as endorsements, sources of primary data, or illustrations of effective or ineffective management.
“Not an idea we have to shun”: Chinese overseas basing requirements in the 21st century
by Christopher D. YungChina's expanding international economic interests are likely to generate increasing demands for its navy, the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), to operate out of area to protect Chinese citizens, investments, and sea lines of communication. The frequency, intensity, type, and location of such operations will determine the associated logistics support requirements, with distance from China, size and duration, and combat intensity being especially important drivers. How will the PLAN employ overseas bases and facilities to support these expanding operational requirements? The assessment in this book is based on Chinese writings, comments by Chinese military officers and analysts, observations of PLAN operational patterns, analysis of the overseas military logistics models other countries have employed, and interviews with military logisticians. China's rapidly expanding international interests are likely to produce a parallel expansion of PLAN operations, which would make the current PLAN tactic, exclusive reliance on commercial port access, untenable due to cost and capacity factors. This would certainly be true if China contemplated engaging in higher intensity combat operations. This book considers six logistics models that might support expanded PLAN overseas operations: the Pit Stop Model, Lean Colonial Model, Dual Use Logistics Facility, String of Pearls Model, Warehouse Model, and Model USA. Each model is analyzed in terms of its ability to support likely future naval missions to advance China's expanding overseas economic, political, and security interests and in light of longstanding Chinese foreign policy principles.
“Norfleet”: The Actual Experiences of a Texas Rancher’s 30,000-Mile Transcontinental Chase After Five Confidence Men
by J. Frank Norfleet W. Franklin WhiteOriginally published in 1924, this is the true story of J. Frank Norfleet, a typical West Texas ranchman, and his four-year chase after a gang of international swindlers, which takes the reader on a transcontinental journey—from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from Mexico and Cuba into Canada.A gripping and incredible chronicle of one man’s dedication to break up an international crime ring.True story of West Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet, cousin to General Robert E. Lee on his grandmother’s side, who was deceived and robbed by sophisticated politicians and financiers and proceeded to track them across continents—from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from Mexico and Cuba into Canada—to bring them to justice.Applauded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Norfleet set an example in his time that rings as true today—do not let yourself be abused by financial manipulators who pervert laws to rob the common man!A gripping and incredible chronicle of one man’s dedication to break up an international crime ring.
“Non-Standard” Military Police Mission (Eyewitness To Modern War #2)
by SGM Robert R. GosselinMy field artillery unit was mobilized to perform a non-standard military police mission during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. The unit was part of the largest National Guard mobilization from our state since the Vietnam era. The challenges of deploying a field artillery unit as an ad hoc MP company were many. The challenges were overcome through the strength of our NCO Corps. As I write this paper, I am preparing for a deployment, a non-standard mission with my current unit. As I compare the two mobilizations, it is apparent that the process for mobilizing, training and preparing our soldiers has improved since the first rotation, but issues concerning the selection of units for non-standard mission still exist five years later.
“No Juan Crow!”: Documenting the Immigration Debate in Alabama Today
by Jennifer E. BrooksThe bill gained quick notoriety for outdoing Arizona, Georgia, and all other states in the restrictions and penalties levied on unauthorized immigrants, as well as on the citizens, community members, employers, and health and law enforcement agencies that assist, employ, or regulate them."This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.
“Never Cook Bacon Naked”: And Other Words of Wisdom for the Home Cook
by Doreen Chila-JonesWe have all done it: ruined an entire dinner; burned a piece of toast; served raw chicken to our guests. Cooking can be a daunting, frustrating, and hopeless pursuit . . . and when you are in a pickle, it's time for a little pep talk from some of the biggest cooking and non-cooking experts—people like Julia Child, Thomas Keller, Alice Waters, Truman Capote, Maya Angelou, and many others who, at one time or another, have also scorched their lunch. But remember, as the cookbook author Alana Chernila likes to say, “Homemade food is the opposite of perfection.”
“Nevada”: A Romance of the West
by Zane GreyTHE BLAZING BESTSELLER BY THE GREATEST NAME IN WESTERN FICTIONFrom the deep wild gorges of the sinister Mogollons in the north, down to the shimmering wastes of the Painted Desert, the rustlers murdered and robbed—while Arizona seethed dangerously. There was only one man who had the guts, the guns and the driving, urgent reason to buck that crew—and his name was Jim Lacy. Wanted by both sides of the law, Jim Lacy, alias Texas Jack, alias Nevada, wanted only one thing—”Dead or alive, clear my name.” “NEVADA” by Zane GreyCLEAR MY NAME!
“Nazi Fantasy”: Vilém Flusser and History as Site of Experiment (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)
by Amos Morris-ReichThis book brings together Vilém Flusser and intellectual Jewish history of the second half of the twentieth century. Flusser is viewed today by many scholars as the most original theoretician of media and photography in the second half of the twentieth century, and yet this is the first monograph about him in English.Combining elements of Flusser’s biography with a rigorous study of his writing, this book shows that concepts of ‘virtuality’, ‘medium’, and ‘embodiment’ underpin not only Flusser’s understanding of technological media, such as photography, but also his understanding of evolution and of real or imaginary biological organisms. This book argues that Flusser contended with Nazism in his writings on these biological and ecological themes. Two threads – and their relationship - are explored: the first bears on Nazism as undergirded by a biological perspective – an attempt to eradicate a population taken to be parasitic; in the second, Nazism is simply viewed as ‘stupid’. Such a line of inquiry necessarily leads to and includes our dealing with the ‘Nazi fantasy’, because fantasy was fused into Nazism’s own vision.This book will not only be an ideal resource for students and scholars of intellectual Jewish history but will interest anyone seeking an introduction to Flusser and the philosophy of science within the context of Nazism.
“Nasty Women” — Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)
by Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, Ph.D.This book addresses the fraught relationship between women and aggression, one troubled by age-old patriarchal forces that disparage women’s ambition, assertion, and voice.Told from a psychoanalytic perspective, the book details the sociocultural forces that infect a woman’s intrapsychic dynamics and compel her to sacrifice her goals and dreams. Compelling examples are offered from current politics, the author’s own struggles with aggression, and clinical work with female patients who successfully reclaimed their aggression. The book addresses the critical question of how a woman can ever succeed, through the presentation of the author’s detailed and psychoanalytically informed interviews with six powerful and highly influential women. Each woman brings to life the story of her history, influences, and challenges to provide inspiration for others to reimagine their own “nastiness,” as an innovative, vitalizing tool.This book is distinguished by its unique blend of contemporary life, psychoanalytic practice, feminist theory and gender studies, untold in any other forum or publication. It is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and all those interested in working with women in a therapeutic setting and understanding their challenges with aggression.
“Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified”: The War Writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty
by Robert StarrThis book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, collectively, it is argued, constitute a distinct trio of war writers. Through discussions focusing upon class, camaraderie, violence, religion, trauma, and the body, this book considers these Irish soldiers within a cultural, social, and historical context. Central to this examination is the idea that the motives for enlistment and the experience of army labor and even combat was such that military service was perceived as work rather than a duty or vocation undertaken in support of any prevailing doctrines of patriotism or sacrifice. The men’s Catholicism also shaped their aesthetic and philosophical responses to the war, even while the war conversely troubled their faith or confirmed their religious skepticism. The war writing of these men is located within both an Irish and a pan-European literary working class tradition, thereby permitting the texts to be viewed within a wider context than literature of the First World War, and from a perspective that goes beyond Ireland and Britain. These characteristics shape a perspective on the conflict very different from that of the canonical officer-writers, men such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, or Edmund Blunden, whose work is considered alongside those of the three Irish soldier-writers.
“Music Makers” and World Creators: The Forms And Functions Of Embedded Poems In British Fantasy Narratives (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
by Michaela HausmannMany works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph analyses the various forms and functions of embedded poems in major works of fantasy literature. The choice of authors and texts shed light on the development of fantasy as a genre that frequently mixes prose and verse and thus continues the long tradition of prosimetric practices after the Romantic period. Not only does the analysis of the embedded poems allow for a new understanding of the individual works. It also promises insights into shared literary-historical roots, cross-influences between the authors and the role of the mix of poetry and prose for the imaginative and subversive potential of fantasy literature in general. Providing comprehensive case studies of the forms and functions of embedded poems in fantasy literature, this volume illuminates the emergence of modern fantasy and its impact on contemporary fantasy.
“Miss U”
by Margaret UtinskyThis is the story of the heroism of Margaret Utinsky, who, against unbelievable and fantastic odds, for three years led an underground organization in the Philippines in a relentless and telling effort to aid American prisoners of war held by the Japanese. Dauntless and determined, she pushed into the background her own personal loss, faced the twin demons of physical and mental anguish, and “stood up” to circumstances and conditions which most of us find inconceivable. In her own words, she became “accustomed to doing the impossible.” And gaunt prisoners behind walls and wires, guerrillas in the hills, the faithful in Manila—all felt the force of the courageous leadership of this small dynamo, for whom “something always happened.”
“Mir hat niemand zu sagen, wie ich trauern soll!”: Eine Diskursanalyse der Trauer im Kontext des DSM-5
by Daniela BlankIm Mai 2013 wurde eine neue Version des Diagnostischen und Statistischen Manuals psychischer Störungen (DSM-5) veröffentlicht. Im Zuge dessen entstand eine kontrovers geführte Debatte, wo die Grenze zwischen Trauer und Depression zu ziehen ist: Wie, wann und unter welchen Umständen wird Trauer negativ oder unangemessen bewertet? Wer bestimmt, wann ein Mensch unverhältnismäßig trauert? Daniela Blanks Untersuchung über Trauer im Kontext des DSM-5 geht der Frage nach, wie die Differenz zwischen normalen und abweichenden Formen der Trauer in der fortgeschrittenen Moderne hergestellt wird. Diskursanalytisch rekonstruiert sie „Trauer“ als Chance und Risiko für das moderne Subjekt gleichermaßen. Trauer bietet die Chance ein Selbst (neu) zu entdecken und zugleich das Risiko dem Selbst zu entgleiten.
“Let's Get Ourselves Together”: The Richard Hatcher Story [On Level, Grade 4]
by Rena KorbNIMAC-sourced textbook
“Let's Get Ourselves Together”: The Richard Hatcher Story [Beyond Level, Grade 4]
by Rena KorbNIMAC-sourced textbook
“Let's Get Ourselves Together”: The Richard Hatcher Story [Approaching Level, Grade 4]
by Rena KorbNIMAC-sourced textbook
“Left Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder; A Popular Essay in Marxist Strategy and Tactics
by V. I. Lenin"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder is a work by Vladimir Lenin attacking assorted critics of the Bolsheviks who claimed positions to their left. Most of these critics were proponents of ideologies later described as left communism.The book was written in 1920 and published in Russian, German, English and French later in the year. A copy was then distributed to each delegate at the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern, several of whom were mentioned by Lenin in the work.The present volume is a New Translation that was first published in the U.S. in 1940 and the UK in 1942. As with the earlier editions, the book is divided into ten chapters and contains an appendix, including a letter from David Wijnkoop on behalf of the Communist Party of Holland.
“L.M. 8046”: An Intimate Story of the Foreign Legion
by David Wooster KingStill a student at Harvard when World War I broke out, American David Wooster King joined the 135th Regiment of the French Foreign Legion in November 1914 and fought in the 1915 Champagne offensive and at Verdun and the Somme in 1916. He transferred to the American Army near the end of the war and served in the counterespionage section at Chaumont.“This book of David King’s is not a sermon. It does not preach and it carries no moral. It says in fact: ‘Here, my good friends who made me into a beautiful hero, is what happened to me while I was gaining that title. Take it or leave it and be damned to you or have a drink with me or do whatever you please, but for Heaven’s sake don’t kiss me for I am splashed with the blood of my dead comrades and I am dirty with the grime of a million miles of road.’”—Hendrik Van LoonA colourful and engrossing account, especially for 1915-1916.
“King Lehr” and the Gilded Age
by Elizabeth Drexel LehrHARRY SYMES LEHR was born in 1869 into a family that was neither wealthy nor socially prominent. His natural gift for entertaining and his penchant for hobnobbing with the very rich earned him entry to the powerful circle of the New York and Newport social elite, where Harry clowned his way to a position of prominence. One of his admirers and patrons, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, introduced him to a young widow, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. Elizabeth was smitten with young Harry, his elegant dress, and outrageous behavior. They were soon married.But King Lehr had a secret—he was not what he seemed. On their wedding night he cruelly dictated the rules of their strange relationship to his new bride. For twenty-three years, Mrs. Lehr protected his secret and remained in a loveless and abusive marriage.After Harry’s death Elizabeth remarried, to the Baron Decies. Lady Decies wrote down her secret story in 1938, incorporating Harry’s most intimate diaries, and told all in this scandalous tale of power, desire, and deception.