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El hombre inocente: Novela sobre el poder y la corrupción del sistema carcelario mexicano
by Fernando Zurita¿Cómo diablos pasó esto? ¿De qué se me acusa? ¿Qué ocurrirá con mi familia? César Romano no encontró respuesta a sus cuestionamientos. Miércoles al mediodía: sale de su casa; repentinamente, se le cierra un vehículo del que descienden dos personas. A jalones, lo bajan de su auto. Policía judicial... orden de aprehensión. Ahí comienza su pesadilla. Inmerso en la corrupción de jueces, ministerios públicos y policías judiciales, se ve obligado a sobrevivir en el infierno de la cárcel, y a enfrentarse a abogados penalistas que extorsionan por igual a sus clientes que a sus oponentes, cuyos excesos, desfiguras y cuestionables métodos son tan válidos y normales como el pan nuestro de cada día. En la prisión, todos dicen lo mismo: no cometí crimen alguno. Ese pensamiento está fijo en César Romano: soy inocente.
Get Powerful Now: Your Guide to Moving On
by Carol ZuritaGet Powerful Now is a woman’s guide from zero to becoming her own hero after “he” is gone. Carol Zurita begins by sharing her personal story about a breakup that led to a deep depression. She takes readers on the journey with her through the chapters, explaining the sequence of actions she took to recover from that broken heart. Unexpectedly, the actions she took combined with a new environment drove Carol to become an inspirational mentor not only to women going through similar situations, but to anyone searching to gain confidence and find their life purpose. Get Powerful Now empowers those going through hard times to become unstoppable and unbreakable.
Traffic and Granular Flow 2019 (Springer Proceedings in Physics #252)
by Iker Zuriguel Angel Garcimartín Raúl Cruz HidalgoThis book gathers contributions on a variety of flowing collective systems. While primarily focusing on pedestrian dynamics, they also reflect the latest developments in areas such as vehicular traffic and granular flows and address related emerging topics such as self-propelled particles, data transport, swarm behavior, intercellular transport, and collective dynamics of biological systems. Combining fundamental research and practical applications in the various fields discussed, the book offers a valuable asset for researchers and practitioners alike.
Errant Journeys: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age
by David ZurickIn this pathfinding book, David Zurick explores the fastest-growing segment of the travel industry--adventure travel. He raises important questions about what constitutes the travel experience and shows how the modern adventure industry has commercialized the very notion of adventure by packaging it as tours.
Mi Divorcio De Jesús: Una Historia De Amor Espiritual
by T'Malkia Zuri Victor Hernandez GarciaElla sirvió fielmente a Jesús confiando en la promesa de la vida eterna, la prosperidad, una buena salud, protección y paz en la Tierra. Más de 43 años después, su búsqueda por el cumplimiento de esas promesas terminó abruptamente, cuando se vio obligada a enfrentar la cuestión de la existencia de Jesús.
être payé pour voyager: Voyagez gratuitement en location en temps partagé
by Angel Zuri Travel HackerzUne lecture facile à lire dans un condensé pour inverser les rôles de l’industrie des locations en temps partagé (timeshare). Les locations en temps partagé profitent des gens depuis des dizaines d’années. Il est temps que vous preniez les choses en main et que vous compreniez enfin comment vous pouvez les faire fonctionner à votre avantage. Dans ce guide, vous apprendrez les secrets et les tactiques de l’industrie, comment ils utilisent votre argent durement gagné et le mette dans les poches de cadres avides. Plus important encore, vous apprendrez à inverser les rôles et à mettre cet argent dans votre poche tout en riant jusqu’à la banque. Dans ce livre, vous apprendrez : comment séjourner gratuitement dans des complexes de luxe exotiques cinq étoiles. Comment être payé plus de 100 $ par heure pendant les vacances. Évitez de dépenser des dizaines de milliers de dollars sur des locations en temps partagé ridicules. Comment faire des croisières romantiques au coucher du soleil, Comment aller sur un navire de croisière tout frais payé gratuitement pendant trois jours. Comment partir pour de nouvelles vacances tous les quelques mois sans lever le petit doigt. Ce livre vous épargnera des dizaines de milliers de dollars de frais de voyage inutiles. Ce sont des conseils pratiques utiles et utilisables qui aideront tout le monde à plonger leurs orteils dans les hôtels cinq étoiles du monde entier. Faites une faveur à votre famille et à vous-même en lisant ce livre et découvrez comment vous pouvez voyager gratuitement comme une star du rock.
Love Yourself And It Doesn't Matter Who You Marry
by Eva-Maria ZurhorstDid you know the relationship you're in now is probably the best one you'll ever have? Did you know that most divorces could be avoided? This is the striking discovery behind Eva-Maria Zurhorst's international bestselling book – a book that has transformed thousands of relationships. Eva-Maria writes from her own personal experience of being involved in a 'dreadful marriage' where she realised that she had a choice of either leaving her husband and starting a new relationship or trying to turn her marriage around. This extraordinary book shows that a deep relationship is possible even when all hope seems to be lost. What ever the problem is, the solution lies in finding love for yourself. Eva-Maria's powerful techniques and ideas will change the way you look at your relationships and yourself forever.
Complexity, Entropy And The Physics Of Information (Santa Fe Institute Ser)
by Wojciech H. ZurekA must have for those with a deep commitment to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, and information theory.
Characterisation of Soft Magnetic Materials Under Rotational Magnetisation
by Stanislaw ZurekThe book presents practical aspects related to the measurement of rotational power loss in soft magnetic materials. The book furthermore focuses on practical aspects of performing such measurements, the associated difficulties as well as solutions to the most common problems. Numerous practical aspects, hands-on experience, and most commonly encountered pitfalls are heavily discussed in the book. The text begins with introduction to magnetism, then follows with definitions of measurement methods of rotational power loss from physical viewpoint. Two chapters describe and detail the various sensors which can be employed for such measurements as well as all the aspects of designing, making, and using a magnetising apparatus. A synthesis of the likely optimal design of a magnetising apparatus is also given, preceded with the full reasoning based on all the research carried out to date. <P><P>Characterisation of Soft Magnetic Materials Under Rotational Magnetisation serves as an excellent starting point for any student having to perform magnetic measurements under rotational magnetisation, but also under 1D, 2D or 3D excitation. Because the methods, sensors, and apparatus are extensively discussed it will also be a great reference for more senior researchers and experts in the field. There is a whole chapter devoted to analysis of measurement uncertainty. This subject is rarely published for magnetic measurements, which makes it more difficult for all researchers to understand the concepts and methodology used in uncertainty estimation. This chapter not only introduces the whole subject, but also provides multiple step-by-step examples which can be easily followed, from very simple cases to much more complex ones. All equations are presented with full SI units which greatly helps in practical application of the presented methodology. Each chapter is written in such a way that it can be studied on its own, so that the reader can focus only on the specific aspects, as required.
The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism (Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism #38)
by Elia T. ZureikThe main focus of The Palestinians in Israel (1979) is the position of the Arab minority in Israel, from being a majority to becoming a minority. By using the framework of internal colonialism, it provides evidence which highlights the social class transformations of the Palestinians in Israel from peasantry to proletariat, the patterns of land alienation, and the nature of inter-ethnic contacts which typify Israeli–Palestinian relations. It looks at Arab social structure in pre-1948 Palestine, discusses the Arabs as they appear in Israeli social science writings, describes the transformation of Arab class structure in Israel, and considers the politicization of Israeli Arabs.
Public Opinion and the Palestine Question (Routledge Revivals)
by Elia Zureik Fouad MoughrabiPublic Opinion and the Palestine Question (1987) analyses public opinion on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. It studies attitudes in various Western democratic countries and Israel, and examines whether the governments of those countries reflect the general positions on the issue of their people. It shows important changes taking place in the orientations of Western public opinion on the Palestinian question.
Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit (Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict)
by Elia ZureikColonialism has three foundational concerns - violence, territory, and population control - all of which rest on racialist discourse and practice. Placing the Zionist project in Israel/Palestine within the context of settler colonialism reveals strategies and goals behind the region’s rules of governance that have included violence, repressive state laws and racialized forms of surveillance. In Israel’s Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit, Elia Zureik revisits and reworks fundamental ideas that informed his first work on colonialism and Palestine three decades ago. Focusing on the means of control that are at the centre of Israel’s actions toward Palestine, this book applies Michel Foucault’s work on biopolitics to colonialism and to the situation in Israel/Palestine in particular. It reveals how racism plays a central role in colonialism and biopolitics, and how surveillance, in all its forms, becomes the indispensable tool of governance. It goes on to analyse territoriality in light of biopolitics, with the dispossession of indigenous people and population transfer advancing the state’s agenda and justified as in the interests of national security. The book incorporates sociological, historical and postcolonial studies into an informed and original examination of the Zionist project in Palestine, from the establishment of Israel through to the actions and decisions of the present-day Israeli government. Providing new perspectives on settler colonialism informed by Foucault’s theory, and with particular focus on the role played by state surveillance in controlling the Palestinian population, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Colonialism.
Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)
by Elia ZureikSurveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This book examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in Israel and the Occupied Territories, showing how they operate, how well they work, how they are augmented, and how in the end their chief purpose is population control. Showing how what might be regarded as exceptional elsewhere is here regarded as the norm, the book looks not only at the political economy of surveillance and its technological and military dimensions, but also at the ordinary ways that Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories are affected in their everyday lives. Written in a clear and accessible style by experts in the field, this book will have large appeal for academic faculty as well as graduate and senior undergraduate students in sociology, political science, international relations, surveillance studies and Middle East studies.
El techo del mundo
by David Zurdo Ángel GutiérrezEn 1929, el crack de la bolsa de Nueva York siembra en todo el mundo el caos y el desconcierto. En medio de la desesperación y la pobreza, tres hermanos luchan por salir adelante a la sombra de la construcción del edificio más alto del mundo: el Empire State.Criados en una granja de la América profunda, Tom, Jay y Beth son tres hermanos cuyo futuro cambia drásticamente al estallar la Primera Guerra Mundial. Con sus sueños rotos, las vidas de los chicos toman caminos diferentes hasta confluir de nuevo en 1929 cuando se inicia la construcción de «el techo del mundo», el edificio más alto levantado hasta ese momento. Moviéndose en escenarios como los despachos de Wall Street, las bambalinas de Broadway, los callejones de Brooklyn o el inframundo del hampa, entrelazarán sus destinos con los de otros inolvidables personajes para formar un apasionante fresco de una ciudad, Nueva York, en unos años en los que comenzó a cambiar su historia. Y aprenderán que, incluso en las condiciones más adversas, la esperanza de una vida mejor está a la vuelta de la esquina...
Julia vino con la niebla
by ZurdoMi verdadero sentimiento. De hermosa planta jamás ningún pincel pudo copiar tan grande belleza. Aquí reflejo en este cuento el sentimiento hacia mi hija. Mi niña de la niebla.
Connecting Trees with People: Synergistic Strategies for Growing the Urban Forest (Future City #16)
by Naomi ZürcherWritten from the perspective of an urban forester and certified arborist, the reader will have a basic understanding of what makes a tree a tree in context to the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of Urban and Community Forestry, and learn how to implement model, time-tested global green practices and initiatives derived from citizen science.
Momente der Führung - heute und morgen: Ein Praxis-Guide für Führungskräfte und Coaches
by Hanspeter ZürcherEs gibt sie, diese Momente in der Führung, die Chancen eröffnen: Chancen für bessere Teamarbeit, Chancen zur Orientierung, Chancen für methodische Professionalität, für persönliches Wachstum und die Reflexion. Lassen Sie diese Momente nicht ohne Impuls und Idee verstreichen. Dieses Buch beschreibt rund 50 dieser besonderen Momente ganz pragmatisch und aus der Praxis heraus. Hanspeter Zürcher spricht Führungskräfte, Coaches und alle am Thema Leadership interessierten Leser und Leserinnen an und teilt mit ihnen erfolgreich umgesetzte Strategien. Das Buch schafft Bewusstsein für kluge Strategien, für gute Kooperation und für gewinnbringende Lösungskompetenz. Es unterstützt Sie dabei, effektiver, entschlossener, klarer und damit erfolgreicher zu führen.
Moments of Leadership: How to become a Professional Leader, Manager and Coach (Management for Professionals)
by Hanspeter ZürcherThere are moments in leadership when opportunities open up: Opportunities for better teamwork, opportunities for orientation, for professional conversations, and for personal development and reflection. This book describes over 60 such opportunities, pragmatic, solution-oriented, and tested for many years. Based on concrete examples, it thus provides impulses for effective strategies and new ways of solving problems in all areas of cooperation and leadership. The book is intended to serve as a guide from which not only leaders but also managers and coaches can benefit.
Kouduo richao. Li Jiubiao's Diary of Oral Admonitions. A Late Ming Christian Journal: Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Erik Z�rcher, Vol. 1
by Erik ZürcherThe Diary of Oral Admonitions (Kouduo richao) is an invaluable mirror of early Chinese Christianity, as it stands out as the only source that allows a glimpse of Jesuit missionary practice in China on a local level - "accommodation in action" - and of the various responses of the Chinese audience, both converts and interested outsiders. It is a compilation of some five hundred notes "about everything" made by Li Jiubiao and other Christian literati during their conversations with Jesuit missionaries in Fujian between 1630 and 1640. These notes are arranged in chronological order and divided into eight books. The most important Western protagonist in the Diary is the Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni (1589-1642), called "Master Ai (Rulüe)" in Chinese. The present study and translation of the Diary of Oral Admonitions can be seen as a companion volume to the proceedings of an international conference that was held on Aleni in his native place Brescia in 1994, also published in the Monumenta Serica Monograph Series XLII: "Scholar from the West." Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649) and the Dialogue between China and Christianity, 1997. The present work in two volumes is meant to be a tool for further research. Volume 1 presents a comprehensive introduction to the Diary and its historical context, followed by the annotated translation, both by Erik Zürcher (Leiden), a renown specialist for the study of Christianity in China. It is enhanced by illustrations, partly in colour, and maps. Volume 2 includes a facsimile of the Chinese text (reproducing a copy held in the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus), a bibliography of Chinese and Western sources as well as secondary literature, and an analytical index with glossary that will enable the reader to trace specific data in the text.
Kouduo richao. Li Jiubiao's Diary of Oral Admonitions. A Late Ming Christian Journal: Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Erik Zurcher, Vol. 2
by Erik ZürcherThe Diary of Oral Admonitions (Kouduo richao) is an invaluable mirror of early Chinese Christianity, as it stands out as the only source that allows a glimpse of Jesuit missionary practice in China on a local level - "accommodation in action" - and of the various responses of the Chinese audience, both converts and interested outsiders. It is a compilation of some five hundred notes "about everything" made by Li Jiubiao and other Christian literati during their conversations with Jesuit missionaries in Fujian between 1630 and 1640. These notes are arranged in chronological order and divided into eight books. The most important Western protagonist in the Diary is the Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni (1589-1642), called "Master Ai (Rulüe)" in Chinese. The present study and translation of the Diary of Oral Admonitions can be seen as a companion volume to the proceedings of an international conference that was held on Aleni in his native place Brescia in 1994, also published in the Monumenta Serica Monograph Series XLII: "Scholar from the West." Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649) and the Dialogue between China and Christianity, 1997. The present work in two volumes is meant to be a tool for further research. Volume 1 presents a comprehensive introduction to the Diary and its historical context, followed by the annotated translation, both by Erik Zürcher (Leiden), a renown specialist for the study of Christianity in China. It is enhanced by illustrations, partly in colour, and maps. Volume 2 includes a facsimile of the Chinese text (reproducing a copy held in the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus), a bibliography of Chinese and Western sources as well as secondary literature, and an analytical index with glossary that will enable the reader to trace specific data in the text.
The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus
by Christoph ZurcherA brief history of the Caucusus region during and after the Post-Soviet WarsThe Post-Soviet Wars is a comparative account of the organized violence in the Caucusus region, looking at four key areas: Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Dagestan. Zürcher’s goal is to understand the origin and nature of the violence in these regions, the response and suppression from the post-Soviet regime and the resulting outcomes, all with an eye toward understanding why some conflicts turned violent, whereas others not. Notably, in Dagestan actual violent conflict has not erupted, an exception of political stability for the region. The book provides a brief history of the region, particularly the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting changes that took place in the wake of this toppling. Zürcher carefully looks at the conditions within each region—economic, ethnic, religious, and political—to make sense of why some turned to violent conflict and some did not and what the future of the region might portend.This important volume provides both an overview of the region that is both up-to-date and comprehensive as well as an accessible understanding of the current scholarship on mobilization and violence.
The Last Weave
by Andrew ZurcherThe epic conclusion to Twelve Nights, where Kay and Ell's magical quest of imagination, adventure, and the power of storytelling comes to a thrilling, twisty close. Perfect for fans of The Golden Compass and A Wrinkle in Time.Kay's father is still missing--and worse, now nine-year-old Ell is too. More determined than ever, and with time running out as the twelve nights come to an end, Kay must puzzle out the riddles laid before her in this new land of Bithynia--and help restore the world to order--before her dad and sister are gone forever. Andrew Zurcher concludes his sweeping and magical tale of imagination, adventure, and the transportive power of storytelling in a world as captivating as Lyra's Oxford and Alice's Wonderland. A sprawling quest of a novel complete with black-and-white illustrations.
Twelve Nights (Twelve Nights Ser. #1)
by Andrew ZurcherA magical tale of imagination, adventure, and the power of storytelling, perfect for fans of The Golden Compass and A Wrinkle in Time.Kay's father has gone missing on Christmas Eve! And when Kay and her sister Ell go to his office, everyone he works with claims never to have heard of him. So later that evening, when Kay wakes up to find two mysterious strangers outside her bedroom window, talking about her father and looking for the last remnants of his existence, she demands to know what's happened to her dad.The two strangers, Flip and Will, are wraiths, on a mission to bring Kay and Ell's father to their world--the world of woven stories and grand imagination that their father has spent his career studying. Only things in that world have gone very wrong, and the Bride of Bithynia, the only being who can set things right, is nowhere to be found. Can Kay and Ell find their father and join Flip and Will in a centuries-old battle to save the world?Debut author Andrew Zurcher has created a world as captivating as Lyra's Oxford and Alice's Wonderland in this spellbinding quest of a novel.Praise for Twelve Nights:* "Debut author Zurcher writes with surety and panache . . . a superb adventure." --Booklist, STARRED REVIEW"One for the bookshelf of any fantasy enthusiast." --Kirkus Reviews
Judith Man: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 2 (The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I, Part Three #Pt. 3)
by Amelia A. ZurcherAn Epitome of the History of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus is Judith Man's English translation of a 1623 French work by Nicolas Coeffeteau, Histoire de Poliarque et d'Argenis, which is itself an abridgement and translation of one of the most widely read fictional works of the seventeenth century, John Barclay's 1621 Latin romance Argenis. An extended political allegory of the rise to power of the French king Henri IV, Barclay's romance is peppered with numerous veiled anecdotes of politics at the English and other European courts and long disquisitions on statecraft and political ethics. It has been assumed that Barclay's work was strictly for a male audience, but Man's translation is evidence that women did in fact read Argenis, and might even suggest that allegorical romance offered women writers and readers an inroad into political discourse.
High-Resolution Extreme Ultraviolet Microscopy
by Michael Werner ZürchThis thesis describes novel approaches and implementation of high-resolution microscopy in the extreme ultraviolet light regime. Using coherent ultrafast laser-generated short wavelength radiation for illuminating samples allows imaging beyond the resolution of visible-light microscopes. Michael Zürch gives a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals and techniques involved, starting from the laser-based frequency conversion scheme and its technical implementation as well as general considerations of diffraction-based imaging at nanoscopic spatial resolution. Experiments on digital in-line holography and coherent diffraction imaging of artificial and biologic specimens are demonstrated and discussed in this book. In the field of biologic imaging, a novel award-winning cell classification scheme and its first experimental application for identifying breast cancer cells are introduced. Finally, this book presents a newly developed technique of generating structured illumination by means of so-called optical vortex beams in the extreme ultraviolet regime and proposes its general usability for super-resolution imaging.