Télécharger le livre :  Sanctuaries in Washington Irving's «The Sketch Book»
The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving’sThe Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Most Precious Possession
Finding a precious object – a gem, a ring or a coin – inside the belly of a fish is a favorite motif in western literatures that can be traced back to the Greek historian Herodotus. In Herodotus’ account of the rise and fall of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, the hero...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of Church Planting in North America
The Future of Church Planting in North America looks to Jesus as the model for life and ministry as he said, «As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you». In exploring this passage, the author asks, what does this passage mean in church-planting terms? How do...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Evolution of a Muslim Democrat
Long before the recent «Arab Spring», when the topic of democracy with in many Muslim countries took center stage internationally, Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim, an energetic and charismatic politician, had been one of the most vocal global proponents of the compatibility of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Thoughts on Francis of Assisi
Francis’s forma vitae for the Fratres Minores, the original rule for the Franciscan Order, was meant to establish peace and equality among people who worked together in a community, yet each using his own particular talent: an ideal that had a short life. AtFrancis’s...

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Télécharger le livre :  El juramento ante Dios, y lealtad contra el amor
Lusitanian playwrights who wrote comedias during and after the Dual Monarchy (1580–1640), when the Portuguese and Spanish thrones were united under Habsburg rule, continue to be largely unexplored. This edition highlights the contributions of one of this group’s most...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Influence of Communication on Physiology and Health
There is a significant amount of research that substantiates the connection between social support/relationships and the development, onset, and/or recovery of several physical diseases/illnesses. Research has shown, for example, that an unhappy marriage can increase...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Aesthetics of Grace
In The Aesthetics of Grace: Philosophy, Art, and Nature, Raffaele Milani traces the fascinating history of the idea of ‘grace’ from ancient times to the 1700s. Although this term has been displaced by other concepts with the advent of modernism and postmodernism, the...

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Télécharger le livre :  «En Babia» de José Isaac de Diego Padró
En Babia de José Isaac de Diego Padró se considera un texto fundacional. Constituye la primera novela de la inmigración puertorriqueña en Nueva York y presenta la fascinación de un relato autobiográfico en el ámbito de la gran megápolis americana de fines de los años...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Critical Graduate Experience
The Critical Graduate Experience is a collection of scholarly reflections on the possibilities of a new vision for critical studies. It is a remarkable book that provides daring analyses from the vantage of the graduate student experience. Drawing from individual...

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Télécharger le livre :  Research Methods in Africana Studies
Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant...

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Télécharger le livre :  Communicating Care at the End of Life
While health care at the end of life is changing, the language for talking about treatment options and patient preferences around the end of life is taking longer to change. This book carefully details the way language shapes decisions around end-of-life care. Using...

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Télécharger le livre :  Performative Listening
Performative Listening: Hearing Others in Qualitative Research offers an alternative theory of listening – as a performative act, or as a relational stance and performance in which listeners ethically engage in an act of learning from others across difference. This...

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Télécharger le livre :  Remaking «Family» Communicatively
Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural ideal face a...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Trayvon Martin in US
The events surrounding the Trayvon Martin murder, trial and acquittal bring to public and private discourse the violent, brutal murders of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Dr. King, while bringing back to memory the racially provoked murders of Black American...

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Télécharger le livre :  Casework in K–6 Writing Instruction
Casework in K–6 Writing Instruction is a collection of teaching cases that feature real teachers, real students, and real examples of K–6 writing instruction. Using student/teacher dialogue and reader-friendly narration, each case author describes a teacher’s use of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Plight of Invisibility
The Plight of Invisibility offers unique contributions that inform the use of a community-based research approach that examines educational issues identified by urban, Latina/o communities. It offers a new lens from which to understand the circumstances of Latina/o...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Causal Exclusion Problem
In The Causal Exclusion Problem, the popular strategy of abandoning any one of the principles constituting the causal exclusion problem is considered, but ultimately rejected. The metaphysical foundations undergirding the causal exclusion problem are then explored,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Not «Who Is on the Lord's Side?» but «Whose Side Is the Lord On?»
Second Samuel 16:5–14 is an important text for defining the character of both King David and Yahweh, the God of Israel. In this scene, the points of view of the various speakers battle for control of the narrative, attempting in turn to align their perspective with some...

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Télécharger le livre :  Coming of Age in Franco’s Spain
How could authors not write about the effects of a civil war that tore their nation in two, that divided and destroyed families and friends? They had to tell the story, though they were carefully scrutinized and censored.How could they resist artistically and present...

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