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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Volume 3

Official Secrets Complete Collection

By: Cavan Scott,Adriana Melo,Cris Bolson,Marco Lesko

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Volume 3

Official Secrets Complete Collection

By: Cavan Scott,Adriana Melo,Cris Bolson,Marco Lesko

Team TARDIS are in hot pursuit of a monster they accidentally sent back to the 1970s (or is it the 1980s?) – only to find colossal kaiju tearing up the Bristol channel, and UNIT out of their depth! A face from the Doctor’s past may have all the answers. Next, the search for Jack’s missing memories takes the TARDIS to 17th century Brazil, and into the grip of slavers both alien and all-too-human! Will Jack find what he seeks – or lose the trust of his friends? Writer Cavan Scott (Tekken, Vikings, Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen) and artists Adriana Melo (Star Wars: Empire, Birds of Prey) and Cris Bolson (The Shadow) continues to explore the Ninth Doctor’s hidden depths. Collects Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #6-10

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1785864068

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Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three

National and Subnational Impacts

By: Adriana Piatti-Crocker,Gregory D. Schmidt,Clara Araujo

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Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three

National and Subnational Impacts

By: Adriana Piatti-Crocker,Gregory D. Schmidt,Clara Araujo

Since the return of democracy to Latin America, policies intended to promote the inclusion of women and other underrepresented groups have been increasingly adopted throughout the region. Gender quotas have been one of the most popular and effective mechanisms employed in elections and other contexts in Latin America. This volume begins with an introduction to gender quotas, including discussion of the types and merits of gender quotas, alternative approaches to the study of quotas, and their interactions with different kinds of electoral systems. Successive chapters examine the adoption of gender quotas and their impacts in the three largest South American countries by area—Argentina, Brazil, and Peru—at both national and subnational levels. These chapters also focus on specific topics that stand out in the unique experiences of these countries: substantive representation in the case of Argentina, gender and campaign finance in the case of Brazil, and regional differences in the impact of electoral rules in the case of Peru. Through careful analysis, this volume presents a nuanced picture of how different types of electoral systems may affect the election of women and the effectiveness of quotas.

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Lexington Books

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149850017X

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9781498500173

When Experiments Travel

Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects

By: Adriana Petryna

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When Experiments Travel

Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects

By: Adriana Petryna

The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate in clinical drug trials. While these experiments often provide those in need with vital and previously unattainable medical resources, the outsourcing and offshoring of trials also create new problems. In this groundbreaking book, anthropologist Adriana Petryna takes us deep into the clinical trials industry as it brings together players separated by vast economic and cultural differences. Moving between corporate and scientific offices in the United States and research and public health sites in Poland and Brazil, When Experiments Travel documents the complex ways that commercial medical science, with all its benefits and risks, is being integrated into local health systems and emerging drug markets. Providing a unique perspective on globalized clinical trials, When Experiments Travel raises central questions: Are such trials exploitative or are they social goods? How are experiments controlled and how is drug safety ensured? And do these experiments help or harm public health in the countries where they are conducted? Empirically rich and theoretically innovative, the book shows that neither the language of coercion nor that of rational choice fully captures the range of situations and value systems at work in medical experiments today. When Experiments Travel challenges conventional understandings of the ethics and politics of transnational science and changes the way we think about global medicine and the new infrastructures of our lives.

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Princeton University Press

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1400830826

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9781400830824

For More than One Voice

Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression

By: Adriana Cavarero

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For More than One Voice

Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression

By: Adriana Cavarero

The human voice does not deceive. The one who is speaking is inevitably revealed by the singular sound of her voice, no matter "what" she says. Starting from the given uniqueness of every voice, Cavarero rereads the history of philosophy through its peculiar evasion of this embodied uniqueness.

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Stanford University Press

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0804749558

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9780804749558

Intersecting Tango

Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930

By: Adriana J. Bergero

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Intersecting Tango

Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930

By: Adriana J. Bergero

In the early part of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires erupted from its colonial past as a city in its own right, expressing a unique and vibrant cultural identity.Intersecting Tango engages the city at this key moment, exploring the sweeping changes of 1900-1930 to capture this culture in motion through which Buenos Aires transformed itself into a modern, cosmopolitan city. Taking the reader through a dazzling array of sites, sources, and events, Bergero conveys the city in all its complexity. Drawing on architecture and gendered spaces, photography, newspaper columns, schoolbooks, "high" and "low" literature, private letters, advertising, fashion, and popular music, she illuminates a range of urban social geographies inhabited by the city's defining classes and groups. In mining this vast material, Bergero traces the profound change in social fabric by which these diverse identities evolved, through the processes of modernization and its many dislocations, into a new national identity capable of embodying modernity. In her interdisciplinary study of urban development and cultural encounters with modernity, Bergero leads the reader through the city's emergence, collecting her investigations around the many economic, social, and gender issues remarkably conveyed by the tango, the defining icon of Buenos Aires. Multifaceted and original, Intersecting Tango is as rich and captivating as the dance itself.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822973391

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Rio Noir

By: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza,M. V. Bill,Victoria Saramago,Adriana Lisboa,Arthur Dapieve,Arnaldo Bloch

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Rio Noir

By: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza,M. V. Bill,Victoria Saramago,Adriana Lisboa,Arthur Dapieve,Arnaldo Bloch

Explore the darker side of the sunny Brazilian city in this gritty mystery anthology featuring fourteen tales by writers from the region. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respect city. With Rio Noir, the Akashic Noir series delver for the first time into South America. With stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, MV Bill, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Guilherme Fiuza, Arthur Dapieve, Victoria Saramago, Arnaldo Bloch, Adriana Lisboa, Alexandre Fraga dos Santos, Marcelo Ferroni, Flávio Carneiro, Raphael Montes, and Luis Fernando Verissimo. All stories translated from Portuguese by Clifford Landers (Coelho’s The Alchemist, etc.). Praise for Rio Noir “In the latest entry to this globetrotting series, a man goes for a tarot reading and winds up poisoned by the daughter he never knew he had. And that’s just one story in a collection that takes us down the mysterious alleys and mazy favelas of Rio.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “A good introduction to writers of the region and to the dark side of a very sunny place.” —Booklist “A solid addition to Akashic's acclaimed noir series.” —Publishers Weekly

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1617754625

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Stately Bodies

Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

By: Adriana Cavarero

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Stately Bodies

Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

By: Adriana Cavarero

Stately Bodies explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book builds on work from Adriana Cavarero's well-received study, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy. In that work Cavarero--as political theorist, philosopher, classicist, and close reader--examines literary and philosophical texts from Greek antiquity to modern to reveal the paradox that characterizes notions of the "body politic" in Western political philosophy. She examines bodily metaphor in political discourse and in fictional depictions of politics, including Sophocles' Antigone, Plato's Timaeus, Livy, John of Salisbury, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Hobbes' Leviathan. An appendix explores two texts by women that disrupt these notions: Maria Zambrano's Tomb of Antigone and Ingeborg Bachmann's Undine Goes. Cavarero exposes the problematic nature of the mind/body dualism that has been essential in Western thought. Her insight that the expelled, depoliticized body is a female one becomes an instrument for decoding many paradoxical tropes of the political body. For instance, Cavarero revisits Antigone as the tragedy in which a body that is displaced, bleeding, and matrilinear allows the construction of a political order where misogynous rationality rules. Throughout the book, Cavarero argues that women have been cast by male thinkers into the realm of the corporeal as nonpolitical, and also suggests that this nonpolitical position is also a source of knowledge and power, that politics is a masculine pursuit that should not be admired or envied. Adriana Cavarero is Professor of Philosophy, University of Verona, and frequently is Visiting Professor. New York University. Her books Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood and In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy were published by Routledge.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472066749

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9780472066742

Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

By: Sara Laviosa,Adriana Pagano,Hannu Kemppanen,Meng Ji

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Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

By: Sara Laviosa,Adriana Pagano,Hannu Kemppanen,Meng Ji

This book presents the state-of-art research in ETS by illustrating useful corpus methodologies in the study of important translational genres such as political texts, literature and media translations. Empirical Translation Studies (ETS) represents one of the most exciting fields of research. It gives emphasis and priority to the exploration and identification of new textual and linguistic patterns in large amounts of translation data gathered in the form of translation data bases. A distinct feature of current ETS is the testing and development of useful quantitative methods in the study of translational corpora. In this book, Hannu Kemppanen explores the distribution of ideologically loaded keywords in early Finnish translation of Russian political genres which yielded insights into the complex political relation between Finland and Russia in the post-Soviet era. Adriana Pagano uses multivariate analysis in the study of a large-scale corpus of Brazilian fiction translations produced between 1930s-1950s which is known as the golden age of Latin American translation. The statistical analysis detected a number of translation strategies in Brazilian Portuguese fictional translations which point to deliberate efforts made by translators to re-frame original English texts within the Brazilian social and political context in the first three decades under investigation. Meng Ji uses exploratory statistical techniques in the study of recent Chinese media translation by focusing three important media genres, i.e. reportage, editorial and review. The statistical analysis effectively detected important variations among three news genres which are analysed in light of the social and communicative functions of these news genres in informing and mobilising the audience in specific periods of time in Mainland China.

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Springer

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981101969X

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9789811019692

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 8

By: W M Verhoeven,Claudia L Johnson,Philip Cox,Adriana Craciun,Richard Cronin

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Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 8

By: W M Verhoeven,Claudia L Johnson,Philip Cox,Adriana Craciun,Richard Cronin

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.

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Routledge

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1351223011

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Anfibios y reptiles del municipio de San José del Guaviare (Guaviare, Colombia)

Guía de Campo del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales n.o 24

By: Martha Lucía Calderón Espinosa,Guido Fabián Medina Rangel,Adriana Jerez,Juan Camilo Ríos Orjuela,Yeny Rocío López

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Anfibios y reptiles del municipio de San José del Guaviare (Guaviare, Colombia)

Guía de Campo del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales n.o 24

By: Martha Lucía Calderón Espinosa,Guido Fabián Medina Rangel,Adriana Jerez,Juan Camilo Ríos Orjuela,Yeny Rocío López

El departamento del Guaviare es una zona de confluencia de elementos de la Amazonía, Orinoquía y escudo guayanés, condición que se refleja en la diversidad de anfibios y reptiles. Esta obra, que incluye algunas de las especies de este grupo faunístico registradas en el municipio de San José del Guaviare, nace del interés de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y de la financiación de la "Dirección Nacional de Extensión, Innovación y Propiedad Intelectual", por apoyar proyectos sociales de turismo naturaleza en la región.

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Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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9587837401

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Escritos discentes em literaturas de língua inglesa Volume XVI

By: Adriana Jordão,Davi Pinho,Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues,Fernanda Medeiros,Leila Harris,Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro,Maria Conceição Monteiro,Patricia Marouvo,Vanessa Cianconi

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Escritos discentes em literaturas de língua inglesa Volume XVI

By: Adriana Jordão,Davi Pinho,Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues,Fernanda Medeiros,Leila Harris,Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro,Maria Conceição Monteiro,Patricia Marouvo,Vanessa Cianconi

A longevidade desse projeto, em sua décima sexta edição, demonstra seu êxito. Quantos discentes não integraram já essa coleção? Alguns, que publicaram quando eram mestrandos, retornaram depois como doutorandos. Nomes de jovens estudantes que assinaram capítulos em outros volumes são hoje egressos brilhantes de nosso Programa, atuando como docentes em diversas instituições. Portanto, os textos presentes neste volume, como nos anteriores, representam o despontar da carreira de florescentes pesquisadores. E por incitar a prática de divulgação acadêmica como parte fundamental da vida acadêmica, esta proposta de promover publicação discente tem servido de modelo para outros grupos do nosso curso. Este livro reúne resultados de pesquisas em andamento envolvendo as três linhas de pesquisa da área de Estudos de Literatura ̶ "Literatura: teoria, crítica e história"; "Literatura: tradução e relações (trans)culturais e intersemióticas"; e "Poéticas da contemporaneidade" ̶ , em diálogo transversal pelo foco nas Literaturas de Língua Inglesa. Consequentemente, segue abordagens metodológicas variadas e abrange diversas obras dessas literaturas, de diferentes gêneros, tempos e espaços. Assim, com abordagens sobre escritores e escritoras, clássicos e contemporâneos, uns menos conhecidos do grande público e outros mais comerciais, em português ou em inglês, ocupando-se de temas atuais e socialmente relevantes, encontra-se aqui material fértil também para outros pesquisadores, com quem se espera o diálogo a partir da publicação deste livro.

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Letra Capital Editora

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8577858952

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9788577858958

Superman: Action Comics Vol. 2: The Arena

By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson,Sean Lewis,Shawn Aldridge

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Superman: Action Comics Vol. 2: The Arena

By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson,Sean Lewis,Shawn Aldridge

Superman’s greatest battle is only beginning! After learning of an enslaved race with mysterious ties to Krypton, Superman and the Authority travel across space to dethrone the new Mongul and liberate Warworld. But Mongul and his champions are prepared! Now Superman, powerless and captured, will need to team up with other gladiators to turn Warworld’s inhabitants against their masters, while the Authority fights Mongul’s rule from the shadows. Which heroes will survive, and what will be Warworld’s fate? Collects Action Comics #1036-1041.

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DC Comics

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1779519117

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Volume 3

Official Secrets Complete Collection

By: Cavan Scott,Adriana Melo,Cris Bolson,Marco Lesko

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Volume 3

Official Secrets Complete Collection

By: Cavan Scott,Adriana Melo,Cris Bolson,Marco Lesko

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Star Wars: In the shadows of their fathers

By: Adriana Melo,Thomas Andrews

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Star Wars: In the shadows of their fathers

By: Adriana Melo,Thomas Andrews

This sixth Star Wars graphic novel in the best-selling Empire series is set during the early days of the Rebellion - when the Empire still held the galaxy in its grip of iron. 21 years before the Battle of Yavin, Anakin Skywalker betrayed the people of Jabiim and their leader, Gillmun, leaving them to the Separatist army. Now, a year after the first Death Star's destruction, only a decimated resistance led by Gillmun's son remains to fight the Separatists - and Luke Skywalker has come to persuade them to join the Rebellion. But will they visit the sins of the father upon the son? This latest pulse-pounding entry in the Star Wars canon is packed with action and intrigue, and fills in vital events between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back!

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Titan Books (UK)

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1845762711

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Birds of Prey

Endrun

By: Gail Simone,Ed Benes,Adriana Melo,Alvin Lee

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Birds of Prey

Endrun

By: Gail Simone,Ed Benes,Adriana Melo,Alvin Lee

The Birds of Prey are forced to ally themselves with the worst of Gotham City's criminals while they struggle to save his life from an unstoppable killer. The Birds run a gauntlet of insane gang members and corrupt cops while trying to keep a teammate alive.

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0857684132

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #6

By: Cavan Scott

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #6

By: Cavan Scott

Welcome back to the 70s (or is it the 80s?)! The Doctor becomes entangled once more with the forces of UNIT when a cache of potentially devastating top secret material is leaked to the media. But does the UNIT whistleblower have a point? Alien invasion and internecine intrigue combine in an explosive new story.

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Volume 3

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Volume 3

Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three

Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three

When Experiments Travel

When Experiments Travel

For More than One Voice

For More than One Voice

Intersecting Tango

Intersecting Tango

Rio Noir

Rio Noir

Stately Bodies

Stately Bodies

Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 8

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 8

Anfibios y reptiles del municipio de San José del Guaviare (Guaviare, Colombia)

Anfibios y reptiles del municipio de San José del Guaviare (Guaviare, Colombia)

Escritos discentes em literaturas de língua inglesa Volume XVI

Escritos discentes em literaturas de língua inglesa Volume XVI

Superman: Action Comics Vol. 2: The Arena

Superman: Action Comics Vol. 2: The Arena

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Volume 3

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor - Volume 3

Star Wars: In the shadows of their fathers

Star Wars: In the shadows of their fathers

Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #6

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #6

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