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How to Sleep

The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night

By: Rafael Pelayo

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How to Sleep

The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night

By: Rafael Pelayo

“Easy to read and comprehensive. This book offers real practical guidance.” —Matthew Walker, PhD, bestselling author of Why We Sleep Anyone having trouble sleeping has heard all the old “sleep hygiene” rules: Don’t drink caffeine after 2:00 p.m., use the bedroom only for sleeping, put down your screens an hour before going to bed. But as the millions suffering from poor sleep can attest, just following these overly simplistic, one-size-fits-all directives doesn’t work. How to Sleep is here to rewrite the rules and help you get to sleep—and stay asleep—each and every night. Dr. Rafael Pelayo, an expert sleep clinician and professor at the world-renowned Sleep Medicine Clinic at Stanford University, offers a holistic approach to the myriad issues that might be affecting your sleep. He begins by grounding us in the biology of sleep including the extremely reassuring fact that no one actually sleeps through the night—we naturally wake up every ninety minutes. Dr. Pelayo then tackles the major sleep issues one by one, such as snoring and its causes; the difference between transient and chronic insomnia, and how to treat each; strategies to combat jet lag; how lifestyle choices affect your sleep, including exercise (even ten minutes helps), meditation (try it right before bed), and food and drink (alcohol is a double-edged sword—it may help you fall asleep faster, but it often interferes with staying asleep). There’s advice for the bedroom—on white noise machines, ambient temperature, what to look for in a pillow—and answers to our most pressing questions, from when to see a sleep medicine specialist to how aging affects our sleep. All in all, it’s a sure prescription to help you sleep better, wake up refreshed, and live a healthier life.

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1579659578

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How to Sleep

The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night

By: Rafael Pelayo

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How to Sleep

The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night

By: Rafael Pelayo

A new, comprehensive approach to improving our sleep, from the expert sleep clinician.

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1648290094

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9781648290091

The Moncada Attack

Birth of the Cuban Revolution

By: Antonio Rafael De la Cova

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The Moncada Attack

Birth of the Cuban Revolution

By: Antonio Rafael De la Cova

The account of Fidel Castro's rise to power is not complete without mention of the failed atacks of July 26, 1953, on the Cuban army garrisons at Moncada and Bayamo. This text views this initial overthrow attempt as a propaganda victory that marked the start of Castro's ascent to national power.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570036721

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9781570036729

Colombian Rhythms on the Drum Set

A Tour Accross Colombian Rhythms

By: Rafael Leal Ramírez

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Colombian Rhythms on the Drum Set

A Tour Accross Colombian Rhythms

By: Rafael Leal Ramírez

Colombian music is the result of a mixture of African, Indigenous, and Spanish musical traditions. Over time, this music evolved and became known worldwide. As part of this evolution, we have been adding new instruments to the existing traditional elements; for example, and among these, the Drum Set. The Drum Set, as a universal percussion instrument has the advantage of adaptation to different musical situations, and since its invention has been utilized in a variety of musical genres and traditions. Drummers of different nationalities and countries around the world have been expressing on the drums their musical ideas and rhythms no matter where they live or they were born. This is the mission of Colombian Drummers in our purpose to spread the country’s rhythmic traditions. In the next pages you will find numerous possible combinations, orchestrations, and also, playing 24 rhythms from Colombia (Cumbia, Porro, Vallenato, Fandango, Puya, Mapale, Bambuco, Currulao and others). All of them are based on traditional grooves extracted from the folkloric Colombian drums. Also, audio examples are included to help the student listen to the grooves in context.

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eLibros Editorial

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9585949970

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9789585949973

Gallaecia Gothica

From the Conspiracy of Dux Argimundus (AD 589/590) to Integration in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo

By: Rafael Barroso Cabrera,Jorge Morín de Pablos,Isabel Sánchez Ramos

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Gallaecia Gothica

From the Conspiracy of Dux Argimundus (AD 589/590) to Integration in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo

By: Rafael Barroso Cabrera,Jorge Morín de Pablos,Isabel Sánchez Ramos

This book uses numismatic and archaeological evidence to offer a new interpretation of the Argimundus rebellion, one of the most difficult challenges of Reccared’s reign.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803275081

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9781803275086

The Promise of the Foreign

Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

By: Vicente L. Rafael

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The Promise of the Foreign

Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

By: Vicente L. Rafael

In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserving their strangeness. Rafael examines the workings of the foreign in the Filipinos’ fascination with Castilian, the language of the Spanish colonizers. In Castilian, Filipino nationalists saw the possibility of arriving at a lingua franca with which to overcome linguistic, regional, and class differences. Yet they were also keenly aware of the social limits and political hazards of this linguistic fantasy. Through close readings of nationalist newspapers and novels, the vernacular theater, and accounts of the 1896 anticolonial revolution, Rafael traces the deep ambivalence with which elite nationalists and lower-class Filipinos alike regarded Castilian. The widespread belief in the potency of Castilian meant that colonial subjects came in contact with a recurring foreignness within their own language and society. Rafael shows how they sought to tap into this uncanny power, seeing in it both the promise of nationhood and a menace to its realization. Tracing the genesis of this promise and the ramifications of its betrayal, Rafael sheds light on the paradox of nationhood arising from the possibilities and risks of translation. By repeatedly opening borders to the arrival of something other and new, translation compels the nation to host foreign presences to which it invariably finds itself held hostage. While this condition is perhaps common to other nations, Rafael shows how its unfolding in the Philippine colony would come to be claimed by Filipinos, as would the names of the dead and their ghostly emanations.

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Duke University Press

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0822387417

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9780822387411

The History of Havana

By: Dick Cluster,Rafael Hernández

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The History of Havana

By: Dick Cluster,Rafael Hernández

This is the first comprehensive history of the culturally diverse city, and the first to be co-authored by a Cuban and an American. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, Cluster and Hernández explore the making of the city and its people through revolutions, art, economic development and the interplay of diverse societies. The authors bring together conflicting images of a city that melds cultures and influences to create an identity that is distinctly Cuban.

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Macmillan

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0230603971

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9780230603974

Angels ́ Blood

By: Rafael Estrada

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Angels ́ Blood

By: Rafael Estrada

The decapitated body of a thirteen-year-old girl turns up at a coastal location in Mar Menor. Not far from the place, the Police finds a sleeping young man wearing a bloody t-shirt and displaying clear signs of alcoholic intoxication. The solution of the case seems so evident, that the Captain of the precinct where the events occur, assigns it to a rooky inspector thinking that this would be a good way to get the new cop's feet wet in investigative procedure. Chief De la Mata expects the case to be closed promptly. That is how, from one day to the next, Juanito Proaza finds himself partnering veteran policeman Paco Garrido, who likes to use unorthodox methods, and working closely with Doctor Luzon, a brilliant pathologist and a great master at presenting his findings with great dramatic flair. Juanito heads an investigation that gets complicated by the minute and eventually results in the uncovering of a sordid net with multiple tentacles, among these a mysterious literary society dedicated to paying cult to...angels.

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Babelcube Inc.

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1547598859

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9781547598854

Cartografia, ideologia i poder

Els mapes etnogràfics del Touring Club Italiano (1927-1952)

By: Rafael Company i Mateo

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Cartografia, ideologia i poder

Els mapes etnogràfics del Touring Club Italiano (1927-1952)

By: Rafael Company i Mateo

Amb els mapes, a més de ciència, es fa política. El 1939 els catalans algueresos, i altres pobles d'Itàlia, foren eliminats d'un mapa etnogràfic de tot Europa elaborat a Milà pel Touring Club Italiano. Les minories en qüestió hi havien figurat des de 1927, però finalment els mussolinians van imposar sobre aquella obra els postulats feixistes més extrems. Aquest llibre, bastit sobre mapes «de pobles i llengües» dels segles XIX i XX, es deté en la confluència de les disciplines cartogràfica, etnològica i lingüística, les conviccions ideològiques i l'exercici del poder polític. L'obra, que ha estat mereixedora del Premi Joan Coromines 2013 d'investigació filològica, històrica o cultural, patrocinat per la Societat Coral «El Micalet», reflexiona sobre les visions exògenes d'unes identitats socioterritorials que continuen concitant estudis i pulsions.

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Universitat de València

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8437096197

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9788437096193

Cardiovascular–Renal Axis Disorders in Cats and Dogs

By: Javier Duque Carrasco,Rafael Barrera Chacón,Alicia Caro Vadillo

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Cardiovascular–Renal Axis Disorders in Cats and Dogs

By: Javier Duque Carrasco,Rafael Barrera Chacón,Alicia Caro Vadillo

This guide addresses the two-way interaction between the heart and kidney (cardiovascular–renal axis) and shows how both acute and chronic disorders of either of these organs can affect the function of the other. To achieve its objective, the book describes the pathophysiology, diagnostic approaches, and clinical management of these disorders.

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Grupo Asís Biomedia S.L.

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8418339012

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9788418339011

The Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting

By: Rafael Japón

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The Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting

By: Rafael Japón

This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’ predilection for Italian painting and its influence on Spanish painters. Focused on collecting and using a novel methodology, this volume studies how the painters of the Sevillian school, including Francisco Pacheco, Diego Velázquez, Alonso Cano and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, perceived and were influenced by Italian painting. Through many examples, it is shown how the presence in Andalusia of various works and copies of works by artists such as Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Guido Reni inspired famous compositions by these Spanish artists. In addition, the book delves into the historical, political and social context of this period. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, and Italian and Spanish history.

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Routledge

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1000543714

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9781000543711

Spanish Republican Aces

By: Rafael A López Permuy

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Spanish Republican Aces

By: Rafael A López Permuy

At the start of the Spanish Civil War, most young fighter pilot officers joined the rebels, while the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals remained loyal to the government. Mostly flying the obsolete Nieuport Ni.52s these loyalists were soon outpaced by the more modern Fiat CR.32s and Heinkel He 51s. However, at this early stage of the war, there were several Republican airmen who became aces and famous in the process, despite the small numbers of enemy aircraft shot down. Widely speaking, the Republican military aviation did not keep an exhaustive record of individual shooting claims. However, sufficient documentation exists to make a reasonable assumption as to which pilots fall into the ace category. This volume details the exploits of those pilots, complementing previous works in the Osprey Aircraft of the Aces series on Nationalist CR.32 Aces and Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-152 Aces.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849086699

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9781849086691

Dancing Jacobins

A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism

By: Rafael Sánchez

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Dancing Jacobins

A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism

By: Rafael Sánchez

Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America’s republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation’s life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasmatic projection of postcolonial elites fearful of the popular sectors but also as a symptom of a stubborn historical predicament: the cyclical insistence with which the subaltern populations menacingly return to the nation’s public spaces in the form of crowds. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, and drawing on a rich theoretical literature including authors like Derrida, Foucault, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Lyotard, Laclau, Taussig, and others, Dancing Jacobins is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist “monumental governmentality” that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Informed by a Bolivarian political theology, the nation’s representatives, or “dancing Jacobins,” recursively draw on the repertoire of busts, portraits, and equestrian statues of national heroes scattered across Venezuela in a montage of monuments and dancing—or universal and particular. They monumentalize themselves on the stage of the polity as a ponderously statuesque yet occasionally riotous reflection of the nation’s general will. To this day, the nervous oscillation between crowds and peoplehood intrinsic to this form of government has inflected the republic’s institutions and constructs, from the sovereign “people” to the nation’s heroic imaginary, its constitutional texts, representative figures, parliamentary structures, and, not least, its army. Through this movement of collection and dispersion, these institutions are at all times haunted and imbued from within by the crowds they otherwise set out to mold, enframe, and address.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823263673

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9780823263677

The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Rafael Benitez Sanchez-Blanco

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The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Rafael Benitez Sanchez-Blanco

This book contains the whole text of an Inquisition trial of a Morisco (converted Muslim) of Toledo, Spain, condemned to burn at the stake. It is preceded by an introduction which studies the trial and shows the multifaceted aspects of the text and its protagonists.

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BRILL

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9004501606

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9789004501607

Property and Trust Law in Spain

By: Rafael Sánchez Aristi,Nieves Moralejo Imbernón

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Property and Trust Law in Spain

By: Rafael Sánchez Aristi,Nieves Moralejo Imbernón

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of property in Spain deals with the issues related to rights and interests in all kinds of property and assets – immovable, movable, and personal property; how property rights are acquired; fiduciary mechanisms; and security considerations. Lawyers who handle transnational disputes and other matters concerning property will appreciate the explanation of specific terminology, application, and procedure. An introduction outlining the essential legal, cultural, and historical considerations affecting property is followed by a discussion of the various types of property. Further analysis describes how and to what extent legal subjects can have or obtain rights and interests in each type. The coverage includes tangible and intangible property, varying degrees of interest, and the various ways in which property is transferred, including the ramifications of appropriation, expropriation, and insolvency. Facts are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance. The book includes ample references to doctrine and cases, as well as to relevant international treaties and conventions. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable time-saving tool for any practitioner faced with a property-related matter. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Spain will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative property law.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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940351373X

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9789403513737

Mudéjar Art. Islamic Aesthetics in Christian Art

By: Borrás Gualís, Gonzalo M.; Lavado Paradinas, Pedro; Pleguezuelo Hernández, Alfonso; Pérez Higuera, María Teresa; Mogollón Cano-Cortés, María Pilar; Morales, Alfredo J.; López Guzman, Rafael; Sorroche Cuerva, Miguel Ángel; Stuyck Fernández Arche, Sandra;

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Mudéjar Art. Islamic Aesthetics in Christian Art

MUDÉJAR ART: Islamic Aesthetics in Christian Art reveals the fascinating exuberance of a unique cultural and artistic symbiosis that characterises Christian Spain after the Reconquista. The Mudéjars were Muslims allowed to stay in the reconquered territories. Their artists and artisans strongly influenced the culture and art of the new Christian kingdoms. In Aragon, Castille, Extremadura and Andalucía sumptuously decorated brick churches, monasteries and palaces illustrate perfectly the creative endurance of Islamic forms in Christian art between the 11th and 16th centuries in Spain. Thirteen Itineraries invite you to discover 124 museums, monuments and sites in Madrid, Guadalajara, Saragossa, Tordesillas, Toledo, Guadalupe and Seville (among others). With Index of Locations.

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Museum With No Frontiers, MWNF (Museum Ohne Grenzen)

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3902782153

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9783902782151

Searching for the Secrets of Nature

The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández

By: Simon Varey,Rafael Chabrán

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Searching for the Secrets of Nature

The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández

By: Simon Varey,Rafael Chabrán

This collection of essays by historians, historians of science and medicine, and literary and textual scholars from several countries analyzes the achievements of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87), author of the monumental The Natural History of New Spain, in the history of medicine and science in Europe and the Americas.

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Stanford University Press

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0804739641

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9780804739641

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