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The King's Body

Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By: Sergio Bertelli,R. Burr Litchfield

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The King's Body

Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By: Sergio Bertelli,R. Burr Litchfield

The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.

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Penn State Press

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0271041390

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9780271041391

Lodi. Monografia storico-artistica. 1877. Nuova edizione

By: Sergio Fumich

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Lodi. Monografia storico-artistica. 1877. Nuova edizione

By: Sergio Fumich

Nel 1877, il tipografo editore dott. Francesco Vallardi di Milano pubblicò questa Monografia Storico-artistica contenente documenti inediti allora e realizzata con il concorso di "parecchi cultori di storia patria" e del Municipio di Lodi. Lo scopo del libro, come sottolineavano al lettore nella premessa il dott. Felice De Angeli ed il prof. Andrea Timolati, era quello di colmare una lacuna, la mancanza di una monografia che compiutamente raccogliesse "tutte le più importanti notizie geografiche, storiche, letterarie ed artistiche di questa nobilissima fra le terre italiane".

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Lulu.com

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1291706674

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9781291706673

No Wider War

A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965–75

By: Sergio Miller

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No Wider War

A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965–75

By: Sergio Miller

No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender in 1945 through America's involvement in the French Indochina War and the initial advisory missions that followed, it traces the story of America's involvement in the Vietnam War from the first Marines landing at Da Nang in 1965, through the traumatic Tet Offensive of 1968 and the gradual Vietnamisation of the war that followed, to the withdrawal of American forces and the final loss of the South in 1975. Drawing on the latest research, unavailable to the authors of the classic Vietnam histories, including recently declassified top secret National Security Agency material, Sergio Miller examines in depth both the events and the key figures of the conflict to present a masterful narrative of America's most divisive war.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472838505

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9781472838506

From This Wicked Patch of Dust

By: Sergio Troncoso

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From This Wicked Patch of Dust

By: Sergio Troncoso

Mexican-born Cuauhtemoc and Pilar Martinez came to America so that their children Julia, Francisco, Marcos and Ismael could make something of themselves. While the children experience different journeys, at the center lay all the love and teachings from their parents that bind them together. With El Paso and Ysleta as the backdrop (though family members also find themselves in Boston, New Mexico, Jerusalem, Iraq...), this book offers a blend of short stories in chronological form to showcase the struggles of the Martinez family and explore issues of assimilation, immigration, religion, politics and war.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816530041

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9780816530045

I MIEI TRE UOMINI 2

By: Sergio Bossi

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I MIEI TRE UOMINI 2

By: Sergio Bossi

Quando iniziai a scrivere il libro "I miei tre uomini" lo feci con entusiasmo e spensieratezza, divertendomi, con l'intenzione di aggiornare un diario di bordo famigliare che un giorno avrei lasciato ai miei figli, mai e poi mai però avrei pensato di riuscire a scrivere un secondo libro...

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1291823727

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9781291823721

The Last Tortilla

and Other Stories

By: Sergio Troncoso

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The Last Tortilla

and Other Stories

By: Sergio Troncoso

She asked me if I liked them. And what could I say? They were wonderful." From the very beginning of Sergio Troncoso's celebrated story "Angie Luna," we know we are in the hands of a gifted storyteller. Born of Mexican immigrants, raised in El Paso, and now living in New York City, Troncoso has a rare knack for celebrating life. Writing in a straightforward, light-handed style reminiscent of Grace Paley and Raymond Carver, he spins charming tales that reflect his experiences in two worlds. Troncoso's El Paso is a normal town where common people who happen to be Mexican eat, sleep, fall in love, and undergo epiphanies just like everyone else. His tales are coming-of-age stories from the Mexican-American border, stories of the working class, stories of those coping with the trials of growing old in a rapidly changing society. He also explores New York with vignettes of life in the big city, capturing its loneliness and danger. Beginning with Troncoso's widely acclaimed story "Angie Luna," the tale of a feverish love affair in which a young man rediscovers his Mexican heritage and learns how much love can hurt, these stories delve into the many dimensions of the human condition. We watch boys playing a game that begins innocently but takes a dangerous turn. We see an old Anglo woman befriending her Mexican gardener because both are lonely. We witness a man terrorized in his New York apartment, taking solace in memories of lost love. Two new stories will be welcomed by Troncoso's readers. "My Life in the City" relates a transplanted Texan's yearning for companionship in New York, while "The Last Tortilla" returns to the Southwest to explore family strains after a mother's death—and the secret behind that death. Each reflects an insight about the human heart that has already established the author's work in literary circles. Troncoso sets aside the polemics about social discomfort sometimes found in contemporary Chicano writing and focuses instead on the moral and intellectual lives of his characters. The twelve stories gathered here form a richly textured tapestry that adds to our understanding of what it is to be human.

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University of Arizona Press

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081653215X

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9780816532155

Ec Archives Panic Vol 2

By: A. Feldstein,Albert B. Feldstein,William M. Gaines,Jack Mendelsohn

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Ec Archives Panic Vol 2

By: A. Feldstein,Albert B. Feldstein,William M. Gaines,Jack Mendelsohn

Panic is on the attack! Reprinting the first six issues of the madcap classic in glorious re-mastered color and collecting satires supreme from the splendid savvy of sirs Al Feldstein, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, Bill Elder, and Basil Wolverton!"--

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506702716

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9781506702711

Delirious Consumption

Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil

By: Sergio Delgado Moya

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Delirious Consumption

Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil

By: Sergio Delgado Moya

In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in it, and make sense of it via perception and emotion. Delirious Consumption focuses on the two largest cultural economies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and analyzes how their artists and writers both embraced and resisted the spirit of development and progress that defines the consumer moment in late capitalism. Sergio Delgado Moya looks specifically at the work of David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian concrete poets, Octavio Paz, and Lygia Clark to determine how each of them arrived at forms of aesthetic production balanced between high modernism and consumer culture. He finds in their works a provocative positioning vis-à-vis urban commodity capitalism, an ambivalent position that takes an assured but flexible stance against commodification, alienation, and the politics of domination and inequality that defines market economies. In Delgado Moya's view, these poets and artists appeal to uselessness, nonutility, and noncommunication—all markers of the aesthetic—while drawing on the terms proper to a world of consumption and consumer culture.

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University of Texas Press

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1477314350

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9781477314357

Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Sergio Baldi

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Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Sergio Baldi

The main purpose of this dictionary is twofold. On the one hand, it provides the scholar of African studies with a tool to identify the possible Portuguese origin of terms present in African languages and, on the other, it offers those who are interested in Portuguese culture an overview of the presence of its lexicon in African languages. No doubt the Portuguese were among the first Europeans to explore the world outside of Europe, and as such they were also the first to introduce that world to European concepts and words.This book is the result of a long and detailed work on texts in African languages, as also shown by the rich bibliography in the dictionary.

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BRILL

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9004680780

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9789004680784

Moshe's Children

The Orphans of the Holocaust and the Birth of Israel

By: Sergio Luzzatto

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Moshe's Children

The Orphans of the Holocaust and the Birth of Israel

By: Sergio Luzzatto

Moshe's Children presents the inspiring story of Moshe Zeiri, a Jewish carpenter responsible for rescuing hundreds of Jewish refugee children who had survived the Final Solution. During the liberation of Italy, Zeiri, a volunteer in the British Army in Italy, assumed responsibility for and vowed to help around seven hundred Polish, Hungarian, Russian, and Romanian children. Although these orphans of the Shoah had been deprived of a family, a home, and a language and were irreparably robbed of their past, they were able to rebuild their lives through Zeiri's efforts as he founded the largest Jewish orphanage in postwar Europe in Selvino, Italy, where he began to rehabilitate the orphans and to teach them how to become citizens of the new nation of Israel. Moshe's Children also explores Zeiri's own story from birth in a shtetl to his upbringing and Zionist education, his journey to the Land of Israel, and his work there before the war. With narrative verve and scholarly acumen, Sergio Luzzatto brilliantly tells the gripping stories of these orphans of the Holocaust and the good man who helped point them to a real future"--

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Indiana University Press

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0253065895

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9780253065896

Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference

A Comparative Study of Dutch and Spanish

By: Sergio Baauw

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Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference

A Comparative Study of Dutch and Spanish

By: Sergio Baauw

This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.

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Routledge

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1136711333

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9781136711336

Funhouse

By: Sergio Kokis

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Funhouse

By: Sergio Kokis

Sergio Kokis recreates the magic world of a child in Brazil, told from the point of view of a Brazilian painter in exile.

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Dundurn

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0889242860

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9780889242869

The Papal Tiara: The Authority and Power of The Pope

By: Sergio Becerra II

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The Papal Tiara: The Authority and Power of The Pope

By: Sergio Becerra II

A tiara decorated with three crowns and now the pope is the father of princes and kings, ruler of the world, vicar of our savior Jesus Christ and to whom his honor and glory through all ages.

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130451837X

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Pope Francis color photo album

By: Sergio Felleti

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Pope Francis color photo album

By: Sergio Felleti

A tribute to Pope Francis UN OMAGGIO A PAPA FRANCESCO Jorge Mario Bergoglio

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Youcanprint

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8831613073

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9788831613071

Introduction to Supersymmetric Field Theory

By: Sergio M. Kuzenko

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Introduction to Supersymmetric Field Theory

By: Sergio M. Kuzenko

Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their material in detail with calculations and full discussions of the fundamental ideas and motivations. They develop the subject in its superfield formulations but where appropriate for illustration, analogy, and comparison with conventional field theory, they use the component formulation. The book discusses many subjects that, until now, can only be found in the research literature. In addition, it presents a plethora of new results. Combining classical and quantum field theory with group theory, differential geometry, and algebra, the book begins with a solid mathematical background that is used in the rest of the book. The next chapter covers algebraic aspects of supersymmetry and the concepts of superspace and superfield. In the following chapters, the book presents classical and quantum superfield theory and the superfield formulation of supergravity. A synthesis of results and methods developed in the book, the final chapter concludes with the theory of effective action in curved superspaces. After studying this book, readers should be well prepared to pursue independent research in any area of supersymmetry and supergravity. It will be an indispensable source of reference for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral faculty, and researchers involved in quantum field theory, high energy physics, gravity theory, mathematical physics, and applied mathematics.

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CRC Press

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1420050516

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9781420050516

Forms and Concepts for Lightweight Structures

By: Koryo Miura,Sergio Pellegrino

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Forms and Concepts for Lightweight Structures

By: Koryo Miura,Sergio Pellegrino

Covering a wide range of structural concepts and presenting both relevant theories and their applications to actual structures, this book brings together for the first time lightweight structures concepts for many different applications and the relevant scientific literature, thus providing unique insights into a fascinating field of human endeavour. Evolved from a series of graduate courses taught by the authors at the University of Tokyo, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology, this textbook provides both theoretical and practical insights and presents a range of examples which also provide a history of key lightweight structures since the Apollo age. This essential guide will inspire the imagination of engineers and provide an analytical foundation for all readers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108858651

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9781108858656

Life MedsTM, Breakfast & Orange Juice: a Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom

By: Sergio J.L.H. Sanders

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Life MedsTM, Breakfast & Orange Juice: a Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom

By: Sergio J.L.H. Sanders

With the belief that the pharmaceutical business has the human race enslaved to become dependent upon taking medications everyday to feel good and operate, author Sergio J.L.H Sanders has designed Life Meds, Breakfast & Orange Juice: A Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom to help everyone realize that people dont have to drown themselves in medications that can have negative long term effects. Released through Xlibris, this book offers new mindsets to a life worth living. Life Meds , Breakfast & Orange Juice: a Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom is a collection of poems and words of wisdomthe invisible, spirit-moving meds to get anyone started on their day. Throughout this book, readers will find Meds for Life that will help give their lives substance, provide them with motivation, inspire self-respect, and supply knowledge on how to look at life in a more positive light. The Breakfast and Orange Juice part comes in because normally people take their meds and eat breakfast to start their day off. This collection will give readers a chance to help renew their lives, invigorate it with new mindsets, and make it meaningful through the essential wisdom, poems and thoughts this book offers. Readers will find this book revitalizing, substantial, and life-changing. Life Meds , Breakfast & Orange Juice: a Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom is enrolled in Xlibris Bookstore Returnability Program, which gives booksellers the convenient option of returning excess stocks through Ingram Distribution.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465323538

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9781465323538

POPE FRANCIS PHOTO ALBUM in BLACK and WHITE

By: Sergio Felleti

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POPE FRANCIS PHOTO ALBUM in BLACK and WHITE

By: Sergio Felleti

A tribute to Pope Francis - UN OMAGGIO A PAPA FRANCESCO - Jorge Mario Bergoglio

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8831612913

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9788831612913

How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization

The Issue of Algerian Independence

By: Marialuisa Lucia Sergio

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How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization

The Issue of Algerian Independence

By: Marialuisa Lucia Sergio

By paying attention to Algerian Independence, this book reconstructs the action of the Catholic Church regarding the issues of the spread of Islam in colonies, to Arab nationalism, Marxist propaganda in non-European countries, and the effects of the Algerian crisis upon the French political system. The complex relations between the Holy See and France, as well as those between the Vatican and the Episcopates and clergy of the overseas territories, are vital aspects of decolonisation, a topic which, to date, has been overlooked by historiography because of the impossibility of accessing documents relating to the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) held in the Vatican archives. The opening in March 2020 of the archives of Pius XII, the Pope who had succeeded in imposing the strategic role of the Holy See upon the international scene, has made a vast amount of unpublished documentary material available to scholars. This book is useful for all students and scholars interested in the Cold War, the history of contemporary Europe, the history of the Church, postcolonial studies, and religious phenomenon in post-World War II Europe.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000849066

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9781000849066

Aventuras de Agapito

Bajo el cielo de Coahuila y Texas

By: Sergio L. Gonz Lez De Le N.,Sergio L. González de León

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Aventuras de Agapito

Bajo el cielo de Coahuila y Texas

By: Sergio L. Gonz Lez De Le N.,Sergio L. González de León

Agapito Lumbreras es creado por Sergio González de León, como si alguna vez hubiese tenido contacto con la trashumante vida de este muchacho mexicano que naciera a principios del siglo XX en el rancho de San Marcos del hoy famoso Valle de las cuatro Ciénagas. Los Invito a que juntos veamos una novela campirana/revolucionaria donde no faltan los caballos, los amores, los amores, las pasiones, ¡los bandidos! bajo el maravilloso cielo de Coahuila y Texas.

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Palibrio

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1463303394

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9781463303396

Groo: In the Wild

By: Sergio Aragonés,Mark Evanier

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Groo: In the Wild

By: Sergio Aragonés,Mark Evanier

Groo the Wanderer is back and stupider than ever . . . which is pretty stupid. In this, his latest misadventure, he tries to figure out the dumb way human beings attempt to co-exist with animals on this planet. And if we can't figure out how to do that, what chance does the guy with cheese dip for brains have? From the hilarious mind and skillful pen of Sergio Aragonés, with scripts by Mark Evanier, colors by Carrie Strachan (Mad Magazine), and lettering by Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo)! Collects Groo: In the Wild comics #1–#4.

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506739539

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9781506739533

Perspectives In Membrane Biology

By: Sergio Estrada-O

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Perspectives In Membrane Biology

By: Sergio Estrada-O

Perspectives in Membrane Biology is consists of the proceeding of the first Meeting on Perspectives in Membrane Biology held at Oaxaca, Mexico, on January 14-18, 1974. Organized into seven parts, the book first discusses the structure and plasticity of biological membranes. It then explains the ion and metabolite distribution, as well as the conservation of energy and light mediated phenomena in membranes. It also elucidates the role of membranes in genome expression, the association between membrane and immunological response, and the reconstitution of specific membrane functions.

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Elsevier

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0323143598

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9780323143592

A Naked Singularity

A Novel

By: Sergio de la Pava

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A Naked Singularity

A Novel

By: Sergio de la Pava

“Propulsive . . . The novel’s chaotic sprawl, black humor and madcap digressions make it a thrilling rejoinder to the tidy story arcs [of] most crime fiction.” —The Wall Street Journal Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Best Debut Novel Named a Best Book of the Year in the Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, and Philadelphia City Paper A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, born to Colombian immigrants, who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender—one who, tellingly, has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack—and how his world then slowly devolves. A huge, ambitious novel in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, it’s told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If Infinite Jest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, “Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law.” A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law. “A great American novel.” —Toronto Star

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University of Chicago Press

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0226141802

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9780226141800

Padre Pio

Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age

By: Sergio Luzzatto

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Padre Pio

Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age

By: Sergio Luzzatto

The first historical appraisal of the astonishing life and times of a controversial twentieth-century saint Padre Pio is one of the world's most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. His tomb is the most visited Catholic shrine anywhere, drawing more devotees than Lourdes. His miraculous feats included the ability to fly and to be present in two places at once; an apparition of Padre Pio in midair prevented Allied warplanes from dropping bombs on his hometown. Most notable of all were his stigmata, which provoke heated controversy to this day. Were they truly God-given? A psychosomatic response to extreme devotion? Or, perhaps, the self-inflicted wounds of a charlatan? Now acclaimed historian Sergio Luzzatto offers a pioneering investigation of this remarkable man and his followers. Neither a worshipful hagiography nor a sensationalist exposé, Padre Pio is a nuanced examination of the persistence of mysticism in contemporary society and a striking analysis of the links between Catholicism and twentieth-century politics. Granted unprecedented access to the Vatican archives, Luzzatto has also unearthed a letter from Padre Pio himself in which the monk asks for a secret delivery of carbolic acid—a discovery which helps explain why two successive popes regarded Padre Pio as a fraud, until pressure from Pio-worshipping pilgrims forced the Vatican to change its views. A profoundly original tale of wounds and wonder, salvation and swindle, Padre Pio explores what it really means to be a saint in our time.

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Metropolitan Books

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1429946458

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9781429946452

Today Matsuo Bashō Cooks

By: Sergio Raimondi

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Today Matsuo Bashō Cooks

By: Sergio Raimondi

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the thirty titles published for 2019 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2019 is "Speech and Silence". From 19–24 November 2019, 30 invited poets from various countries gathered in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "Speech and Silence." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats. Poets include Ana Luísa Amaral (Portugal), Maxim Amelin (Russia), Renato Sandoval Bacigalupo (Peru) , Jen Bervin (USA), Ana Blandiana (Romania), Tamim Al-Barghouti (Palestine), Abbas Beydoun (Lebanon), Milosz Biedrzycki (Poland), Derek Chung (Hong Kong), Louise Dupre (Canada), Forrest Gander (USA), Hwang Yu Won (South Korea), Maozi (PRC), Mathura (Estonia), Sergio Raimondi (Argentina), Ana Ristović (Serbia), K. Satchidanandan (India), Martin Solotruk (Slovakia), Ales Steger (Slovenia), Maria Stepanova (Russia), Toth Krisztina (Hungary), Ijeoma Umebinyuo (Nigeria), Anastassis Vistonitis (Greece), Jan Wagner (Germany), Ernest Wichner (Germany), Yang Chia-Hsien (Taiwan), Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan), Yu Youyou (PRC), Zheng Xiaoqiong (PRC), and Zhou Yunpeng (PRC).

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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988237154X

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9789882371545

The Quest for Epic

From Ariosto to Tasso

By: Sergio Zatti,Sally Hill

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The Quest for Epic

From Ariosto to Tasso

By: Sergio Zatti,Sally Hill

An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802093736

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Paradigms of Social Order

From Holism to Pluralism and Beyond

By: Sergio Dellavalle

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Paradigms of Social Order

From Holism to Pluralism and Beyond

By: Sergio Dellavalle

No social life is possible without order. Order being the most constituent element of society, it is not surprising that so many theories have been developed to explain what social order is and how it is possible, as well as to explore the features that social order acquires in its different dimensions. The book leads these many theories of social order back to a few main matrices for the use of theoretical and practical reason, which are defined as 'paradigms of order'. The plurality of conceptual constructs regarding social order is therefore reduced to a manageable number of theoretical patterns and an intellectual map is produced in which the most significant differences between paradigms are clearly outlined. Furthermore, the 'paradigmatic revolutions' are addressed that marked the most relevant turning points in the way in which a 'well-ordered society' should be understood. Against this background, the question is discussed on the theoretical and practical perspectives for a cosmopolitan society as the only suitable possibility to meet the global challenges with which we are all presently confronted.

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Springer Nature

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3030661792

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Diversión

Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America

By: Albert Sergio Laguna

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Diversión

Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America

By: Albert Sergio Laguna

In an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book updates the conversation about Cuban America by revealing how this community has changed over the past 25 years. Albert Sergio Laguna investigates the generational shifts and tensions in a Cuban America where the majority is now made up of those who have arrived since the 1990s and those born in the US. To probe these changes, Laguna examines the aesthetic and social logics of a wide range of popular culture forms originating in Miami and Cuba from the 1970s through the 2010s. They include the stand-up comedy of performers like Alvarez Guedes, festivals, a media distribution network in Cuba called el paquete, morning radio shows, and the viral content of Los Pichy Boys, among others. This study illustrates the centrality of play in a community that has been described historically as angry and melancholic. Diversión contends that our understanding of the Cuban diaspora is lacking not in seriousness, but in play. By unpacking this archive, Laguna explores our complex, often-fraught attachments to popular culture and the way it can challenge and reproduce normative cultural ideologies-especially in relation to politics and race. In the wake of the largest Cuban migration wave to the US in history, Diversión is crucial reading for those who seek to understand not only the Cuban. American diaspora, but cultural and economic life on the island. Book jacket.

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NYU Press

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1479846147

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Lost Empress

A Novel

By: Sergio De La Pava

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Lost Empress

A Novel

By: Sergio De La Pava

From the acclaimed PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize-winning author of A Naked Singularity, a shockingly hilarious novel that tackles, with equal aplomb, both America’s most popular sport and its criminal justice system From Paterson, New Jersey, to Rikers Island to the streets of New York City, Sergio de la Pava’s Lost Empress introduces readers to a cast of characters unlike any other in modern fiction: dreamers and exiles, immigrants and night-shift workers, a lonely pastor and others on the fringes of society—each with their own impact on the fragile universe they navigate. Nina Gill, daughter of the aging owner of the Dallas Cowboys, was instrumental in building her father’s dynasty. So it’s a shock when her brother inherits the franchise and she is left with the Paterson Pork, New Jersey’s failing Indoor Football League team. Nina vows to take on the NFL and make the Paterson Pork pigskin kings of America. All she needs to do is recruit the coach, the players, and the fans. Meanwhile, Nuno DeAngeles—a brilliant and lethal criminal mastermind—has been imprisoned on Rikers Island for a sensational offense. Nuno fights for his liberty—while simultaneously planning an even more audacious crime. In Lost Empress, de la Pava weaves a narrative that encompasses Salvador Dalí, Joni Mitchell, psychiatric help, emergency medicine, religion, theoretical physics, and everything in between. With grace, humor, and razor-sharp prose, all these threads combine, counting down to an epic and extraordinary conclusion.

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Vintage

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1524747238

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There Are No Happy Loves

By: Sergio Olguin

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There Are No Happy Loves

By: Sergio Olguin

The third in Olguin’s Buenos Aires thriller series starring the gutsy, raunchy investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal. Haunted by nightmares of her past, Veronica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all his family, is convinced that his wife and child have in fact survived and that his wife has abducted their child. Then a truck searched in the port of Buenos Aires on suspicion that it is carrying drugs, is revealed to be transporting human body parts. These seemingly separate incidents prove to be tied in a shadowy web of complicity involving political and religious authorities. This is a dazzling thriller but also a story about the possibilities of love, in which jealousy, eroticism, humor and even elusive moments of happiness make an appearance.

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Bitter Lemon Press

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1913394727

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Corruption in Cuba

Castro and Beyond

By: Sergio Díaz-Briquets,Jorge Pérez-López

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Corruption in Cuba

Castro and Beyond

By: Sergio Díaz-Briquets,Jorge Pérez-López

While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself will be succeeded - by a new government. This is a comprehensive analysis of corruption in Cuba, and prescriptions for minimizing it in the post-Castro era. While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself will be succeeded - by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered is how the new government will deal with the corruption that has become endemic in Cuba. Even though combating corruption cannot be the central aim of post-Castro policy, Sergio Diaz-Briquets and Jorge Perez-Lopez suggest that, without a strong plan to thwart it, corruption will undermine the new economy, erode support for the new government, and encourage organized crime. In short, unless measures are taken to stem corruption, the new Cuba could be as messy as the old Cuba. Fidel Castro did not bring corruption to Cuba; he merely institutionalized it. Official corruption has crippled Cuba since the colonial period, but Castro's state-run monopolies, cronyism, and lack of accountability have made Cuba one of the world's most corrupt states

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University of Texas Press

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0292714823

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9780292714823

A General Theory of Interlingual Mediation

By: Sergio Viaggio

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A General Theory of Interlingual Mediation

By: Sergio Viaggio

The author has more than 30 years experience in literary and pragmatic translation and in conference interpreting. His is the most ambitious attempt at unifying every aspect of translational and other connected activities under one overarching general theory. A most specific theory, at that, that conceptualises and explains what translators and interpreters actually do in real life and, at the same time, offers objective quality criteria. The book has many practical examples, from public announcements and owner's manuals for videocameras to poems by Pushkin and Shakespeare. Sergio Viaggio, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1945. MA in Russian Language and Literature, Moscow's Peoples' Friendship University, 1971. UN translator in 1974, interpreter in 1975, and, between 1991 and 2005 Chief Interpreter with the UN Office at Vienna. He has widely lectured and written on the practice and theory of translation and interpretation.

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Frank & Timme GmbH

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3865960634

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9783865960634

Escape from Violence

Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World

By: Aristide R. Zolberg,Astri Suhrke,Sergio Aguayo

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Escape from Violence

Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World

By: Aristide R. Zolberg,Astri Suhrke,Sergio Aguayo

The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the West. This concern reveals itself as an ambiguous mixture of heartfelt compassion for the plight of the unfortunates cast adrift and a diffuse fear that they will come "pouring in." In this comprehensive study, the authors examine the refugee flows originating in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and suggest how a better understanding of this phenomenon can be used by the international community to assist those in greatest need. Reviewing the history of refugee movements in the West, they show how their formation and the fate of endangered populations have also been shaped by the partisan objectives of receiving countries. They survey the kinds of social conflicts characteristic of different regions of the Third World and the ways refugees and refugee policy are made to serve broader political purposes.

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Oxford University Press

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0195363620

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9780195363623

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