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The Secret Language of Women

By: Nina Romano

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Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Awards (Gold Medal, Romance) Set in China in the late 1800’s, The Secret Language of Women tells the story of star-crossed lovers, Zhou Bin Lian, a Eurasian healer, and Giacomo Scimenti, an Italian sailor, driven apart by the Boxer Rebellion. When Lian is seventeen years old, she accompanies her Swiss father, Dr. Gianluca Brasolin, fluent in Italian, to tend the Italian ambassador, at the Summer Palace of Empress Dowager, where she meets and falls in love with Giacomo. Through voyage and adventure, their love intensifies, but soon is severed by Lian’s dutiful promise as the wife to another. Forbidden from pursuing her chosen profession as a healer, and despised because she does not have bound feet, she is forced to work in a cloisonné factory while her in-laws raise her daughter, Ya Chen. It is in Nushu, the women’s secret writing, that she chronicles her life and her hopes for the future. Rebelling against the life forced upon her, she empowers herself to act out against the injustice and becomes the master of her own destiny. But her quest for freedom comes at a costly price: The life of someone close to her, lost in a raging typhoon, a grueling journey to the Yun-kang Caves, and a desperate search for beauty and love in the midst of brutality.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1630269085

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The Real Food Cookbook

Traditional Dishes for Modern Cooks

By: Nina Planck

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The Real Food Cookbook

Traditional Dishes for Modern Cooks

By: Nina Planck

A sumptuously photographed cookbook by the founder of the London Farmers' Markets and author of The Farmers' Market Cookbook provides recipes for 150 classic dishes that focus on traditional, diverse and highly nutritious ingredients. 50,000 first printing.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608196755

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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics E-Book

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By: Robert Kliegman,Bonita F. Stanton,Joseph W. St. Geme III,Nina F Schor,Richard E. Behrman

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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics E-Book

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By: Robert Kliegman,Bonita F. Stanton,Joseph W. St. Geme III,Nina F Schor,Richard E. Behrman

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics has been the world’s most trusted pediatrics resource for nearly 75 years. Drs. Robert Kliegman, Bonita Stanton, Richard Behrman, and two new editors—Drs. Joseph St. Geme and Nina Schor—continue to provide the most authoritative coverage of the best approaches to care. This streamlined new edition covers the latest on genetics, neurology, infectious disease, melamine poisoning, sexual identity and adolescent homosexuality, psychosis associated with epilepsy, and more. Understand the principles of therapy and which drugs and dosages to prescribe for every disease. Locate key content easily and identify clinical conditions quickly thanks to a full-color design and full-color photographs. Access the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, along with abundant case studies, new references and journal articles, Clinics articles, and exclusive web-only content. Stay current on recent developments and hot topics such as melamine poisoning, long-term mechanical ventilation in the acutely ill child, sexual identity and adolescent homosexuality, age-specific behavior disturbances, and psychosis associated with epilepsy. Tap into substantially enhanced content with world-leading clinical and research expertise from two new editors—Joseph St. Geme, III, MD and Nina Schor, MD—who contribute on the key subspecialties, including pediatric infectious disease and pediatric neurology. Manage the transition to adult healthcare for children with chronic diseases through discussions of the overall health needs of patients with congenital heart defects, diabetes, and cystic fibrosis. Recognize, diagnose, and manage genetic conditions more effectively using an expanded section that covers these diseases, disorders, and syndromes extensively. Find information on chronic and common dermatologic problems more easily with a more intuitive reorganization of the section.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437735894

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Double-Sided Antler and Bone Combs in Late Roman Britain

Stylistic Groups, Context and Status

By: Nina Crummy,Richard Henry

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Double-Sided Antler and Bone Combs in Late Roman Britain

Stylistic Groups, Context and Status

By: Nina Crummy,Richard Henry

This is the first detailed study and catalogue of a comb type that represents a new technology introduced into Britain towards the end of the 4th century AD and a major signifier of the late fourth- to fifth-century transition.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803276452

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Harlequin Romance September 2018 Box Set

By: Marion Lennox,Michelle Douglas,Nina Milne,Andrea Bolter

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Harlequin Romance September 2018 Box Set

By: Marion Lennox,Michelle Douglas,Nina Milne,Andrea Bolter

Harlequin® Romance brings you a collection of four new titles, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes: #4631 ENGLISH LORD ON HER DOORSTEP by Marion Lennox Stranded with handsome stranger Bryn Morgan during a storm, Charlie can’t help seeking one night of comfort in his reassuring arms… The two forge a seemingly unbreakable bond—until morning brings the revelation that Bryn is in fact Lord Carlisle! #4632 THE MILLION POUND MARRIAGE DEAL by Michelle Douglas Billionaire playboy Will Trent-Paterson has just one year to get married. And his old friend Sophie Mitchell has the perfect temporary solution: she’ll marry him—for one million pounds! Only, Will soon realizes walking away from captivating Sophie isn’t going to be easy… #4633 CONVENIENTLY WED TO THE PRINCE by Nina Milne When Prince Stefan learns he might inherit land in his estranged principality, he discovers beguiling Holly Romano is also named in the will—and the land goes to whomever marries first… So they join forces and conveniently marry each other! #4634 THE ITALIAN’S RUNAWAY PRINCESS by Andrea Bolter With her arranged royal wedding only weeks away, Princess Luciana flees to Florence for a glimpse of life outside the palace walls…only to be rescued by guarded billionaire Gio Grassi! Could this chance encounter change the course of their lives—forever?

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1488089957

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9781488089954

Lemon Blossoms

By: Nina Romano

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Lemon Blossoms

By: Nina Romano

2016 Finalist for Romance, Foreword INDIE Angelica Domenico is born in a blossoming lemon grove, a prophetic fusion of sweet bloom and bitter fruit on an island governed by volcanoes and earthquakes. In the continuation of Nina Romano’s epic Wayfarer Trilogy, an early childhood accident propels Angelica to battle trials in a world where proof of virginity is paramount. She suff ers the trauma of her aunt’s death in childbirth and is catapulted on a voyage towards the nunnery to seek refuge from a fear of intimacy. Fate intervenes on the Feast of Crucifixion when Giacomo Scimenti enters the family shop, and Angelica feels herself rent by lightning the instant they come face to face. Lemon Blossoms is the story of Angelica’s struggle in pursuit of feminine identity and heritage while coping with the intricacies of loss, love, and yearning.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1630269107

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The European Human Rights Culture - A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe?

By: Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz,Xavier Groussot,Gunnar Thor Petursson

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The European Human Rights Culture - A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe?

By: Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz,Xavier Groussot,Gunnar Thor Petursson

The European Human Rights Culture – A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe? analyses the political term “European Human Rights Culture”, a term first introduced by EU Commission President Barroso. Located in the fields of comparative law and European law, this book analyses, through first-hand interviews with the European judiciary, the judicial perspective on the European human rights culture and sets this in context to the political dimension of the term. In addition, it looks at the structures and procedures of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and explains the embedding of the Courts’ legal cultures. It offers an in-depth analysis of the margin of appreciation doctrine at both the CJEU and ECtHR, and shows its value for addressing human rights grievances. This book is novel in that it combines interviews and case-law analysis to show how a mix of differences on the bench are legally amalgamated to resolve probing legal questions and human rights issues. It shows, through a combined analysis of case-law and recent political developments for European human rights, the tensions between judicial and political approaches and the paradox of human rights protection in Europe. It also offers in-depth knowledge of the European human rights discourse. In addition to a rich study of legal materials, the book looks inside the box by adding the judiciary’s perspective. Human rights are widely acknowledged in European societies and cases claiming human rights violations are increasing at both the CJEU and ECtHR. In these times of increased human rights awareness, this book uncovers a paradox in European human rights protection which is created by the push-and-pull between judicial and political interests.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004258442

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Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M Ferriero,Nina F Schor,Richard S. Finkel,Andrea L. Gropman,Phillip L Pearl

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Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M Ferriero,Nina F Schor,Richard S. Finkel,Andrea L. Gropman,Phillip L Pearl

Since 1975, Dr. Kenneth Swaiman's classic text has been the reference of choice for authoritative guidance in pediatric neurology, and the 6th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with thorough revisions that bring you fully up to date with all that's new in the field. Five new sections, 62 new chapters, 4 new editors, and a reconfigured format make this a comprehensive and clearly-written resource for the experienced clinician as well as the physician-in-training. - Nearly 3,000 line drawings, photographs, tables, and boxes highlight the text, clarify key concepts, and make it easy to find information quickly.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323374816

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The Wandering Vine

Wine, the Romans and Me

By: Nina Caplan

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The Wandering Vine

Wine, the Romans and Me

By: Nina Caplan

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS DEBUT DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 WINNER OF THE LOUIS ROEDERER INTERNATIONAL WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 'Wine is alive, ageing and changing, but it's also a triumph over death. These grapes should rot. Instead they ferment. What better magic potion could there be, to convey us to the past?' Impelled by a dual thirst, for wine and for knowledge, Nina Caplan follows the vine into the past, wandering from Champagne's ancient chalk to the mountains of Campania, via the crumbling Roman ruins that flank the river Rhône and the remote slopes of Priorat in Catalonia. She meets people whose character, stubbornness and sometimes, borderline craziness makes their wine great: an intrepid Englishman planting on rabbit-infested Downs, a glamorous eagle-chasing Spaniard and an Italian lawyer obsessed with reviving Falernian, legendary wine of the Romans. In the course of her travels, she drinks a lot and learns a lot: about dead conquerors and living wines, forgotten zealots and – in vino veritas, as Pliny said – about herself. In this lyrical and charming book, Nina Caplan drinks in order to remember and travels in order to understand the meaning of home. This is narrative travel writing at its best.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472938437

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Snowed in with the Reluctant Tycoon

By: Nina Singh

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Snowed in with the Reluctant Tycoon

By: Nina Singh

The spirit of Christmas… Justin Hammond might be heir to a family business that thrives on Christmas, but for him the festive season holds only bad memories. Being drafted to make some tough financial decisions should be straightforward—until he meets feisty executive Carli Tynan. With her zest for Christmas and determination to save her favorite Hammond’s store, Carli vows to remind brooding Justin of the holiday’s magic—starting with a kiss in the snow! Can Carli show this reluctant tycoon just how special Christmas can be?

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Harlequin

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148801521X

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A Night with Damien Spur

By: Nina Saville

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A Night with Damien Spur

By: Nina Saville

When a famous novelist falls for the wrong woman, all his demons come up for review. Damien Spur, charismatic thriller writer, is the rock star of the literary world. Yet behind his public façade lies a troubled soul, addicted to the devil's trinity: sex, drugs, and alcohol. When he meets ruthless beauty, Lady Elizabeth Maitland, who wins a night with him at a charity auction, his life spirals out of control. Consumed by obsessive love and jealousy, Damien's descent culminates in a desperate act. Saved from the brink by chance, he embarks on a journey of redemption. Along the way he encounters the women who shape his path, from Sophie, a beautiful widow who is drawn into the depths of Damien’s dramatic life, her sister Anna, an aspiring novelist whom he mentors – and beds, to the ghost of his first wife, whose past lies finally unravel. Amidst it all, The Voice, the wisecracking companion inside his head, guides him through the stormy seas of his existence. A Night with Damien Spur is a romantic comedy tinged with darkness, delving into the tumultuous realm of unrequited love.

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Book Guild Publishing

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183574219X

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Facilitating Challenging Groups

Leaderless, Open, and Single-Session Groups

By: Nina W. Brown

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Facilitating Challenging Groups

Leaderless, Open, and Single-Session Groups

By: Nina W. Brown

Groups—like the people in them—come in all forms, and often they don’t fit a standard mold. Single-session, leaderless, and open groups are three of the most common kinds of nonstandard groups, but participants and facilitators of these kinds of groups have few, if any, resources at their disposal when they try to confront the unique challenges that their group structures present. Facilitating Challenging Groups confronts these challenges head on and offers activities, tools, tips, and techniques vital to everyone from the smallest self-help group to the largest human-relations training session. Readers will come away from this book with a deep understanding of each group’s unique needs, the leader’s role where applicable, and concrete strategies for developing the two traits most important to any successful group: universality and hope.

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Routledge

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1135093318

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Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul

Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath

By: Nina Macaraig

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Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul

Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath

By: Nina Macaraig

Bathhouses (hamams) play a prominent role in Turkish culture, because of their architectural value and social function as places of hygiene, relaxation and interaction. Continuously shaped by social and historical change, the life story of Mimar Sinan's Cemberlitas HamamA in Istanbul provides an important example: established in 1583/4, it was modernized during the Turkish Republic (since 1923) and is now a tourist attraction. As a social space shared by tourists and Turks, it is a critical site through which to investigate how global tourism affects local traditions and how places provide a nucleus of cultural belonging in a globalized world. This original study, taking a biographical approach to tell the story of a Turkish bathhouse, contributes to the fields of Islamic, Ottoman and modern Turkish cultural, architectural, social and economic history.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474434126

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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics E-Book

By: Robert M. Kliegman,Bonita F. Stanton,Joseph St. Geme,Nina F Schor

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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics E-Book

By: Robert M. Kliegman,Bonita F. Stanton,Joseph St. Geme,Nina F Schor

After more than 75 years, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics remains your indispensable source for definitive, state-of-the-art answers on every aspect of pediatric care. Embracing the new advances in science as well as the time-honored art of pediatric practice, this classic reference provides the essential information that practitioners and other care providers involved in pediatric health care throughout the world need to understand to effectively address the enormous range of biologic, psychologic, and social problems that our children and youth may face. Brand-new chapters and comprehensive revisions throughout ensure that you have the most recent information on diagnosis and treatment of pediatric diseases based on the latest recommendations and methodologies. Form a definitive diagnosis and create the best treatment plans possible using evidence-based medicine and astute clinical experiences from leading international authors—many new to this edition. A NEW layout provides superior portability and exceptional ease of use. Gain a more complete perspective. Along with a broader emphasis on imaging and molecular diagnoses and updated references, the new edition includes an increased focus on international issues to ensure relevance in pediatrics practice throughout the world. Effectively apply the latest techniques and approaches with complete updates throughout 35 new chapters, including: Innovations in Addressing Child Health and Survival in Low Income Settings; Developmental Domains and Theories of Cognition; The Reggio Emilia Educational Approach Catatonia ; Refeeding Syndrome; Altitude-associated Illness; Genetic Approaches to Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases; Healthcare−Associated Infections; Intrapartum and Peripartum Infections; Bath salts and other drugs of abuse; Small Fiber Polyneuropathy; Microbiome; Kingella kingae; Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy; Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; Plagiocephaly; CNS Vasculitis; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture; and Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injury. Recognize, diagnose, and manage genetic and acquired conditions more effectively. A new Rehabilitation section with 10 new chapters, including: Evaluation of the Child for Rehabilitative Services; Severe Traumatic Brain Injury; Spinal Cord Injury and Autonomic Crisis Management; Spasticity; Birth Brachial Plexus Palsy; Traumatic and Sports-Related Injuries; Meningomyelocele; Health and Wellness for Children with Disabilities. Manage the transition to adult healthcare for children with chronic diseases through discussions of the overall health needs of patients with congenital heart defects, diabetes, and cystic fibrosis. Understand the principles of therapy and which drugs and dosages to prescribe for every disease.

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0323263526

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Unrooted Childhoods

Memoirs of Growing Up Global

By: Nina Sichel

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Unrooted Childhoods

Memoirs of Growing Up Global

By: Nina Sichel

The experience of growing up without the opportunity to ever "put down roots" A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by both world-famous and first-time authors (many published here for the first time) make universal the story of growing up without the opportunity to ever feel rooted. Best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Pico Iyer and Ariel Dorfman contribute powerful and deeply personal accounts of mobile childhoods and the cultural experiences they engender. The memoirs touch on both the benefits and the difficulties of growing up in the ever changing landscape of diplomatic, military and other expatriate communities.

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Nicholas Brealey

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1857889711

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Harlequin Romance July 2018 Box Set

By: Jessica Gilmore,Kate Hardy,Kandy Shepherd,Nina Singh

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Harlequin Romance July 2018 Box Set

By: Jessica Gilmore,Kate Hardy,Kandy Shepherd,Nina Singh

Harlequin® Romance brings you a collection of four new titles, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes: #4623 SUMMER ROMANCE WITH THE ITALIAN TYCOON by Jessica Gilmore Wedding planner Madeleine Fitzroy ran from her own convenient wedding, vowing never to settle for anything less than true love. Until she finds herself posing as single dad Conte Dante Falcone’s girlfriend! And wondering if their temporary romance could be the love she’s been searching for. #4624 REUNITED AT THE ALTAR by Kate Hardy When Abby and her ex-husband, Brad, are reunited at his sister’s wedding after six years apart, their chemistry makes Abby feel like a love-struck teenager again! Neither has forgotten the tragedy that tore them apart, but could they ever find themselves at the altar…again? #4625 BEST MAN AND THE RUNAWAY BRIDE by Kandy Shepherd After helping Nikki Lucas flee her high-society wedding, privacy-loving best man Max Conway never expects to be accused of having an affair with the bride! Or that when they meet again on a paradise island, their forbidden connection will become undeniable… #4626 TEMPTED BY HER ISLAND MILLIONAIRE by Nina Singh Rita Paul isn’t looking to settle down again after escaping her stifling marriage. Still, she’s intrigued by eternal bachelor Clint Fallon… Will a week on beautiful Maui for his sister’s wedding tempt Rita and Clint into breaking their no-commitment rules?

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1488089930

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Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme

By: Tim Raine,George Collins,Catriona Hall,Nina Hjelde

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Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme

By: Tim Raine,George Collins,Catriona Hall,Nina Hjelde

The Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme returns in a new edition to keep junior doctors, as well as their supervisors and senior medical students, up-to-date and give them the information and confidence they need to excel during and beyond the Foundation Programme. This new edition has been fully revised to take in the latest guidelines, the new junior doctors' contract, and the most recent Foundation Programme curriculum. It has new sections to demystify the NHS structure and explore key changes in social care and the interface with the NHS, and revised key information on the medical certificate of the cause of death, the role of the medical examiner, and changes to interactions with the coroner, as well as a new standalone chapter on Psychiatry. The junior doctor's pocket mentor, this handbook distils the knowledge of four authors across multiple NHS environments in an easy access format, covering everything from practical guidance at the patient's bedside to aspects of adapting to day-to-day life as a junior doctor that are rarely covered in medical school. With this indispensable survival guide to the Foundation Programme, you need never be alone on the wards again.

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0192543237

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The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City

Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

By: Nina Rowe

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The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City

Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

By: Nina Rowe

In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favoured motif on cathedral façades in France and Germany. Throughout the preceding centuries, the Jews of northern Europe prospered financially and intellectually, a trend that ran counter to the long-standing Christian conception of Jews as relics of the prehistory of the Church. In this book, Nina Rowe examines the sculptures as defining elements in the urban Jewish-Christian encounter. She locates the roots of the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in antiquity and explores the theme's public manifestations at the cathedrals of Reims, Bamberg, and Strasbourg, considering each example in relation to local politics and culture. Ultimately, she demonstrates that royal and ecclesiastical policies to restrain the religious, social, and economic lives of Jews in the early thirteenth century found a material analog in lovely renderings of a downtrodden Synagoga, placed in the public arena of the city square.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107375851

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Darkness

A Cultural History

By: Nina Edwards

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Darkness

A Cultural History

By: Nina Edwards

Darkness divides and enlivens opinion. Some are afraid of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it appears to stand for. Others are drawn to this strange domain, delighting in its uncertainties, lured by all the associations of folklore and legend, by the call of the mysterious and of the unknown. The history of our attitudes toward darkness—toward what we cannot quite make out, in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations—challenges the very notion of a world that we can fully comprehend. In this book, Nina Edwards explores darkness as both a physical feature and cultural image, through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or fog, twilight and dawn, those points or periods of obscuration and clarification. Taking us across the ages, from the dungeons of Gothic novels to the concrete bunkers of Nordic Noir TV shows, Edwards interrogates the full sweep of humanity’s attempts to harness and suppress the dark first through our ability to control fire and, later, illuminate the world with electricity. She explores how the idea of darkness pervades art, literature, religion, and our everyday language. Ultimately, Edwards reveals how darkness, whether a shifting concept or palpable physical presence, has fed our imaginations.

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Reaktion Books

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1789140374

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Translanguaging and the Bilingual Brain

A Mixed Methods Approach to Word-Formation and Language Processing

By: Nina Dumrukcic

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Translanguaging and the Bilingual Brain

A Mixed Methods Approach to Word-Formation and Language Processing

By: Nina Dumrukcic

Multilingual classrooms and online communication are becoming increasingly linguistically diverse due to globalization and new discourse patterns are emerging. Many of these patterns include the use of linguistic resources from multiple languages in the same utterance. Translanguaging, a recent theoretical framework, is gaining prominence among scholars interested in studying these multilingual discursive practices and the concept of a unitary language system for lexical processing. The aim of this book is to gain a better understanding of the bilingual brain and how words and sentences that use features from socially distinct languages are processed. Using examples provided by multilingual study participants, a categorization of the various forms of translanguaging is developed to build a translanguaging model. Psycholinguistic methods such as eye tracking are combined with conventional sociolinguistic survey methodology to provide rich qualitative and quantitative data that address the cognitive effects of translanguaging and the underlying structure of translingual word-formations. This monograph shows how language biography, exposure, and attitude towards multilingual discursive practices all affect cognitive processing. It also demonstrates how multilingual speakers are setting the patterns for novel word-formations to be produced, thus having a social, cultural, and cognitive impact on how we communicate.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311075567X

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Studies on the Formation of Christian Armenia

By: Nina G. Garsoïan

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Studies on the Formation of Christian Armenia

By: Nina G. Garsoïan

This is the third collection of articles by Nina Garsoïan on Early Armenian history and civilization. A number of articles included here continue earlier investigations of Iranian and Byzantine political and, especially, doctrinal and social influences on Medieval Armenia, precariously wedged between the two super-powers of the period, Byzantium and Sasanian Persia. A second theme is the development of the autocephalous Armenian Church as it freed itself from foreign pressures and achieved its own dogmatic position. Last, several studies consider some inadequacies in some recent historiography and suggest a more promising redirection in our approach to Armenian history and the formation of its national identity.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000939030

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Singular Spectrum Analysis for Time Series

By: Nina Golyandina,Anatoly Zhigljavsky

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Singular Spectrum Analysis for Time Series

By: Nina Golyandina,Anatoly Zhigljavsky

This book gives an overview of singular spectrum analysis (SSA). SSA is a technique of time series analysis and forecasting combining elements of classical time series analysis, multivariate statistics, multivariate geometry, dynamical systems and signal processing. SSA is multi-purpose and naturally combines both model-free and parametric techniques, which makes it a very special and attractive methodology for solving a wide range of problems arising in diverse areas. Rapidly increasing number of novel applications of SSA is a consequence of the new fundamental research on SSA and the recent progress in computing and software engineering which made it possible to use SSA for very complicated tasks that were unthinkable twenty years ago. In this book, the methodology of SSA is concisely but at the same time comprehensively explained by two prominent statisticians with huge experience in SSA. The book offers a valuable resource for a very wide readership, including professional statisticians, specialists in signal and image processing, as well as specialists in numerous applied disciplines interested in using statistical methods for time series analysis, forecasting, signal and image processing. The second edition of the book contains many updates and some new material including a thorough discussion on the place of SSA among other methods and new sections on multivariate and multidimensional extensions of SSA.

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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 2-Volume Set

By: Robert M. Kliegman, MD,Bonita F. Stanton, MD,Joseph St. Geme, MD,Nina F Schor, MD, PhD

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Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 2-Volume Set

By: Robert M. Kliegman, MD,Bonita F. Stanton, MD,Joseph St. Geme, MD,Nina F Schor, MD, PhD

After more than 75 years, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics remains your indispensable source for definitive, state-of-the-art answers on every aspect of pediatric care. Embracing the new advances in science as well as the time-honored art of pediatric practice, this classic reference provides the essential information that practitioners and other care providers involved in pediatric health care throughout the world need to understand to effectively address the enormous range of biologic, psychologic, and social problems that our children and youth may face. Brand-new chapters and comprehensive revisions throughout ensure that you have the most recent information on diagnosis and treatment of pediatric diseases based on the latest recommendations and methodologies. "The coverage of such a wide range of subjects relating to child health makes this textbook still the gold standard and companion for all pediatricians across the world." Reviewed by Neel Kamal, Sept 2015 "All in all, this is an excellent and detailed paediatric review textbook which represents excellent value for money..truly a textbook for the global community" Reviewed by glycosmedia.com, Sept 2015 Form a definitive diagnosis and create the best treatment plans possible using evidence-based medicine and astute clinical experiences from leading international authors-many new to this edition. A NEW two-volume layout provides superior portability and exceptional ease of use. Gain a more complete perspective. Along with a broader emphasis on imaging and molecular diagnoses and updated references, the new edition includes an increased focus on international issues to ensure relevance in pediatrics practice throughout the world. Effectively apply the latest techniques and approaches with complete updates throughout 35 new chapters, including: Innovations in Addressing Child Health and Survival in Low Income Settings; Developmental Domains and Theories of Cognition; The Reggio Emilia Educational Approach Catatonia ; Refeeding Syndrome; Altitude-associated Illness; Genetic Approaches to Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases; Healthcare?Associated Infections; Intrapartum and Peripartum Infections; Bath salts and other drugs of abuse; Small Fiber Polyneuropathy; Microbiome; Kingella kingae; Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy; Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; Plagiocephaly; CNS Vasculitis; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture; and Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injury. Recognize, diagnose, and manage genetic and acquired conditions more effectively. A new Rehabilitation section with 10 new chapters, including: Evaluation of the Child for Rehabilitative Services; Severe Traumatic Brain Injury; Spinal Cord Injury and Autonomic Crisis Management; Spasticity; Birth Brachial Plexus Palsy; Traumatic and Sports-Related Injuries; Meningomyelocele; Health and Wellness for Children with Disabilities. Manage the transition to adult healthcare for children with chronic diseases through discussions of the overall health needs of patients with congenital heart defects, diabetes, and cystic fibrosis. Understand the principles of therapy and which drugs and dosages to prescribe for every disease. Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Harlequin Romance November 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Barbara Wallace,Kandy Shepherd,Rebecca Winters,Nina Milne

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Harlequin Romance November 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Barbara Wallace,Kandy Shepherd,Rebecca Winters,Nina Milne

Harlequin® Romance brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes: CHRISTMAS BABY FOR THE PRINCESS Royal House of Corinthia by Barbara Wallace Pregnant Princess Arianna flees to New York, set against marrying the man who deceived her. But when she finds herself penniless, handsome restaurateur Max Brown can’t resist rescuing her! But is his mysterious new waitress here for life—or just for Christmas? GREEK TYCOON’S MISTLETOE PROPOSAL Maids Under the Mistletoe by Kandy Shepherd When guarded billionaire Lukas Christophedes finds maid Ashleigh Murphy living in his mansion, he strikes a deal—she can stay if she acts as his girlfriend. But lines quickly start to blur, and Ashleigh starts wishing for a more heartfelt proposal… THE BILLIONAIRE’S PRIZE by Rebecca Winters Dea Caracciolo has spent her whole life feeling inferior—and never more so than when she first met billionaire Guido Rossano. For Guido, enchanting Dea is the one who got away. When fate throws them together, Guido decides to take his prize—Dea as his wife! THE EARL’S SNOW-KISSED PROPOSAL by Nina Milne Gabriel, Earl of Wycliffe, hires historian Etta Mason to research his family tree and find him an heir! They might be spending Christmas in Vienna, but single mom Etta doesn’t believe in fairy-tale endings. Even still, she can't help but be tempted by his achingly romantic kisses…

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Food for Thoughtful Parenting

By: Nina Coslov

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Food for Thoughtful Parenting

By: Nina Coslov

An award-winning collection of ideas for the thoughtful parent that inspires creativity, deepens connections, and sets the stage for more family fun – a great gift for any parent.

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Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West?

The Case of the Chants of the So-Called Missa Graeca

By: Nina-Maria Wanek

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Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West?

The Case of the Chants of the So-Called Missa Graeca

By: Nina-Maria Wanek

This is the first comprehensive study of Greek language ordinary chants (Gloria/Doxa, Credo/Pisteuo, Sanctus/Hagios and Agnus Dei/Amnos tu theu) in Western manuscripts from the 9th to 14th centuries. These chants – known as “Missa Graeca” – have been the subject of academic research for over a hundred years. So far, however, research has been almost exclusively from a Western point of view, without knowledge of the Byzantine sources. For the first time, this book presents an in-depth analysis of these chants and their historical, linguistic and theological-liturgical environment from a Byzantine perspective. The new approach enables the author to refute numerous (and largely contradictory) theories on the origin and development of the Missa Graeca and provides new answers to old questions.

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Harlequin Romance December 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Nina Singh,Rebecca Winters,Marion Lennox,Kate Hardy

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An Anthology

By: Nina Singh,Rebecca Winters,Marion Lennox,Kate Hardy

HarlequinRomance brings you a collection of four new titles, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This HarlequinRomance box set includes: #4595 SNOWED IN WITH THE RELUCTANT TYCOON The Men Who Make Christmas by Nina Singh With a zest for Christmas and determination to save her favorite Hammond’s store, feisty executive Carli Tynan vows to remind brooding Justin Hammond of the holiday’s magic—starting with a kiss in the snow! Can Carli show the reluctant tycoon how special Christmas can be? #4596 THE MAGNATE’S HOLIDAY PROPOSAL by Rebecca Winters When sick little boy Dino writes to her charity, Gabi Parisi is desperate to help the boy, whose experience reminds her of her childhood. She’s swept away by Dino and his handsome single dad, Italian CEO Luca Berettini, but she has no idea how to grant Dino’s wish—until Luca makes her a very special Christmas proposal… #4597 THE BILLIONAIRE’S CHRISTMAS BABY by Marion Lennox With just days until Christmas, gorgeous but bewildered billionaire Max Grayland demands hotel maid Sunny Raye help him care for his baby half sister, Phoebe, over the holiday. She agrees—only if they spend Christmas with her family! And soon Max is wishing the warmhearted Sunny would lighten his life—forever. #4598 CHRISTMAS BRIDE FOR THE BOSS by Kate Hardy Jamie Wallis needs a replacement nanny for his daughter—fast! So when stunning Sophie Firth comes to him with a business proposal, he has a different proposition for her… But as Christmas approaches, Sophie quickly becomes part of the family—and Jamie can’t resist letting her into his heart!

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Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America

A New History for a New World

By: Kathleen Ann Myers,Nina M. Scott

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Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America

A New History for a New World

By: Kathleen Ann Myers,Nina M. Scott

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, the Historia general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo attempted nothing less than a complete account of the Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of the Americas from 1492 to 1547, along with descriptions of the land's flora, fauna, and indigenous peoples. His Historia, which grew to an astounding fifty volumes, includes numerous interviews with the Spanish and indigenous leaders who were literally making history, the first extensive field drawings of America rendered by a European, reports of exotic creatures, ethnographic descriptions of indigenous groups, and detailed reports about the conquest and colonization process. Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America explores how, in writing his Historia, Oviedo created a new historiographical model that reflected the vastness of the Americas and Spain's enterprise there. Kathleen Myers uses a series of case studies—focusing on Oviedo's self-portraits, drawings of American phenomena, approaches to myth, process of revision, and depictions of Native Americans—to analyze Oviedo's narrative and rhetorical strategies and show how they relate to the politics, history, and discursive practices of his time. Accompanying the case studies are all of Oviedo's extant field drawings and a wide selection of his text in English translation. The first study to examine the entire Historia and its evolving rhetorical and historical context, this book confirms Oviedo's assertion that "the New World required a different kind of history" as it helps modern readers understand how the discovery of the Americas became a catalyst for European historiographical change.

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John F. Kerry

The Boston Globe Biography

By: Michael Kranish,Brian Mooney,Nina J. Easton

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John F. Kerry

The Boston Globe Biography

By: Michael Kranish,Brian Mooney,Nina J. Easton

On Jan. 27, 2004, Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts accomplished one of the most spectacular turnarounds in modern American politics when he capped a surprise win in the Iowa caucus with a victory in the New Hampshire primary. The 2004 Democratic presidential nomination is now (in the words of Robert Novak) "John Kerry's to lose." Who is the man leading in the race to become the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004? And what kind of political leader is he? The outlines of John Kerry's life are familiar: A decorated Vietnam veteran who became an influential, if unlikely, anti-war protester. A lanky 60-year-old who quenches his thirst for danger with high-speed kiteboarding, windsurfing, piloting, motorcycling, and, in some cases, driving. A senator with a reputation as an investigator and foreign policy expert. A man married to one of the richest women in America. But beyond this broad picture, Kerry is something of a mystery to the public, largely because of a complex yet riveting personal and professional history outlined in this book. John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography, the first full and in-depth book about the candidate's life, is based on a highly regarded series on Kerry published in the Boston Globe, plus years of additional reporting. It will explore his background, his service in the military (including significant experiences omitted from Douglas Brinkley's bestselling Tour of Duty), his early legal and political career, his legislative record and the remarkable turnaround in his political fortunes during the 2004 election cycle. This incisive, frank look at Kerry's life, and at his strengths and liabilities, is important reading for anyone interested in the presidential campaign.

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Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual

teoría y práctica

By: Javier Muñoz-Basols,Nina Moreno,Taboada Inma,Manel Lacorte

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Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual

teoría y práctica

By: Javier Muñoz-Basols,Nina Moreno,Taboada Inma,Manel Lacorte

Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish. No prior knowledge of linguistics is assumed as the book takes you step-by-step through all the main subfields of linguistics, both theoretical and applied. Phonology. morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, second language acquisition, history of the Spanish language, dialectology and sociolinguistics are concisely and accurately outlined providing a comprehensive foundation in the field. A comprehensive companion website provides a wealth of additional resources including further exercises to reinforce the material covered in the book, extra examples to clarify the most difficult concepts, extensive audio clips which reproduce the sounds of phonemes and allophones and sonograms. Written in a clear and accessible manner with extensive auxiliary materials, Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual has been specially designed for students of Spanish with little or no linguistic background who need to understand the key concepts and constructs of Spanish linguistics.

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1136219676

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Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

By: Nina Penner

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Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

By: Nina Penner

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Unique about Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.

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