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In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better
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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...
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La ciencia es tan generosa que permite ser desarrollada desde diferentes perspectivas y, por ende, ofrece inagotables aplicaciones, desde las especializadas hasta las cotidianas.
Por ello, y pensando en la ciencia como un prisma de múltiples caras, este libro se ideó como un espectro de temas de derecho, internacionalización, estrategias educativas, historia, medio ambiente, nutrición, aplicaciones de química, de matemáticas, de física y de...
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Human Tissue Authority New Draft Code: Supporting Child Donors or Supporting Parents? by Lisa Cherkassky
The Underprivileged See No light in LASPO Act 2012 by Gina Heung
Jurisprudence and Structural Realism by Kevin Lee
Regulating MNCs and International Norms: Challenges in Focusing on a Human Rights Approach in Emerging Markets and Possible Alternatives by Samuel E. Ojogbo
Whole Life Orders in Hutchinson v UK: A Counter-Revolution,...
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Quel est le rle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel? La collection « Profession » répond à ces questions. Marcel Fournier est professeur titulaire au Département de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la sociologie, il est l'auteur des biographies de Marcel Mauss...
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Pour Schopenhauer, le vrai bonheur ne pouvait venir que de soi, pas de l'opinion des autres.
Une idée encore très appropriée à notre époque, tournée vers les apparences et la quête de la célébrité. Dans cet essai, tiré de ses Aphorismes sur la sagesse dans la vie, le philosophe nous parle de vanité, d'orgueil et de gloire.
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La Gran Política de Nietzsche busca reponer en su lugar a un autor capital del pensamiento contemporáneo y someter a crítica gran parte de las lecturas actuales que se hacen del mismo. Así como en la Segunda Guerra Mundial se buscó falsear a Friedrich Nietzsche para acercarlo al régimen nazi, en la posguerra se intentó rescatarlo en forma a-política como un supuesto autor humanista (Walter Kaufmann, Bernard Williams, Alexander Nehamas) y desde...
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In the shadowy world of espionage, where truth intertwines with deception, "Masters of Deceit" delves deep into the enigmatic realm of double agents and the high-stakes game of counterintelligence. These are individuals who defy the common understanding of loyalty, navigating between enemy lines, and constantly reshaping the balance of global power.Through a series of thrilling case studies, the book unveils the intricate tactics employed by these...
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Legal Issues Journal (LIJ) publishes original research on all legal matters affecting justice, equality and other pressing issues for societies. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work at the intersection of law and other disciplines, such as genetics, biosciences, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, medicine, and business. The Journal publishes original papers, case comments, short reports, debates and book reviews. The Journal also provides...
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Get the Summary of Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Far the Light Reaches" by Sabrina Imbler is a collection of personal essays that intertwine the author's experiences with broader environmental and societal themes. Imbler reflects on their youth, activism, and the transformation of landscapes, drawing parallels between their life and the adaptability of species...
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NILS UK Law Review is one of the first student-led national law journals aimed at every level of legal study and practice in the UK. NILS UK Law Review was founded in furtherance of a primary aim of NILS International: to contribute to legal education internationally. NILS International is the world's fastest-growing law students' association, with over 5,000 members in 26 countries across 6 continents. This issue contains the following articles:-...
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"The Untold Story: The History of the Coca-Cola Secret Formula" uncovers the captivating chronicle of one of the world's most guarded secrets: the recipe behind the iconic Coca-Cola beverage. While the drink has become synonymous with global branding and timeless marketing, fewer are aware of the mysterious origins, intriguing lore, and tales of espionage surrounding its concealed composition.The narrative unfolds in the late 19th century, tracing...
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Leon Trotsky and Victor Serge represent the great and tragic oppositional figures to Stalin's dictatorial grip on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and 1930s. Written during this period, the letters exchanged between these two friends, published here in translation for the first time together with other material from both the Trotsky Archive at Harvard and the Serge Archive in Mexico, present a unique first-hand account of the alternatives and arguments...
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How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life is based on a simple idea: your best essay means not only the highest grade, but also the easiest, least stressful writing process possible. You can have it all: the best results with less stress and less time.How? By putting an emphasis on thought over style. With this guide for university and college students, you'll learn how to beat procrastination and craft a thorough and engaging paper in as little time...
15) Sentences
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Thoughts and aphorisms on art and style, taste, self-knowledge, psychology, religion, happiness, self-interest, pride, self-reliance, vices and virtues, politics, thinking and genius, illusion, and the purpose of life and death. Influenced by thinkers such as Pascal and Nietzsche, this collection of brief maxims and longer paragraphs argues for energy and order, imagination and tradition, and self-reliance within strong institutions, and attacks the...
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The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess's writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical topics, from the hurdy-gurdy to Beatlemania and the Sex Pistols, with Burgess's love of English music represented by writings on Elgar, Holst, and Delius. There are essays on Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner and other great composers from Monteverdi...
17) My First Plato
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The series "Meetings with the philosophers" is proposed to present to the lay public the life, thought and the works of the greatest philosophers of all time. The themes are faced with a simple, but rigourous language, basically adapted to anyone. The objective is to provide the reade with the essential cognitive tools to understand the basic features of the works of the author considered as well as the thoughts produces on the authors that they followed...
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I seek to demonstrate that in the evolution and growth of science, the 'underdetermination thesis' of some prominent philosophers and scientists (like Quine, Kuhn, or Feyerabend), that there are always a large number or possibly an infinite number of theories to fit the data or explain empirical patterns, is false. The 'underdetermination thesis' has been debated by physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers for several centuries, and I seek to...
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Dieses Buch enthält 13 philosophische Texte von Eva Neuner über die Entdeckung des jeweils eigenen, authentischen wahren Inneren.
Durch ausdrucksstarke Fotografieren von Rainer Frauenfeld werden die Texte noch verstärkt.
Etwas möchte im Buch dazu anregen, der Führung der Seele zu vertrauen, die jeden Menschen mit dem Göttlichen, der Herkunft und dem wahren Zuhause verbindet. Die Seele enthält das Unzerstörbare, Unverletzliche, was auch...
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Stefan Kisielewski (1911-1991) the dissident Polish writer and composer in his own words - but translated so that English readers can discover for themselves Kisiel's insightful, witty and provocative opinions on Debussy, jazz, Moniuszko, 'musical Marxism' and much else including his own music of course.
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