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I was in Miami attending a sales convention. After a last minute cancellation of an appointment, I decided to catch a movie. Needing a cigarette, I headed to the bathroom. In there, with time to spare, I look around. Opposite the peephole that looked out on the urinals, there was a glory hole. It was large for a glory hole, even for big ones...I decided to wait and see what happened..

Be mortal or god, the quest for power and the willingness to destroy all that stands in its way is a strong pull to resist. For humanity the threat of death can bear heavy upon decisions made, however when one is a god incapable of dying? Not so much. In an effort to keep the warring factions of gods...

The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper...

This textbook — incorporated with many illuminating examples and exercises — is aimed at graduate students of physical sciences and engineering. The purpose is to provide a background of physics and underlying mathematics for the concept of rays, filling the gap between mathematics and physics...

During the past few years, a considerable number of monographs on bone tumors have been published. They are mainly restricted to bone tumors as clinical-pathological entities, since their diagnosis, more than that of other tumors, requires the interdisciplinary cooperation between orthopedic specialist,...

El estudio por los frailes de las lenguas americanas desde diversos aspectos gramática, vocabulario, modos de hablar, escribir, conocer y concebir el mundo.

"Historias desde la zozobra" reúne diez cuentos en los que el dolor, la enfermedad, la locura y la muerte son las notas dominantes. Invitan al lector a palpar, a sentir, a reflexionar, a conocer simplemente, estas historias reales o imaginarias donde sus protagonistas deben lidiar con el...

The mortal bounty hunter for the gods, Jared Club, is not having a good spot of luck. First, he has to deal with a rogue Leprechaun, which makes him question whether he should be doing the job at all. His personal assistant isn’t helping matters either with her questions about what he really does...

In 1971, corporate lawyer and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a detailed memo that galvanized a small group of conservative philanthropists to create an organizational structure and fifty-year plan to alter the political landscape of the United States. Funded with significant...

The present volume, number 15 of the Acta Historiae Neerlandicae - which have been appearing since 1978 under the title The Low Countries History Yearbook - is the last of the series. Economic reasons force the publishers to discontinue it. This is a matter for regret. Both the editors of the Yearbook...

¿Cuáles son los orígenes de Manuela? ¿Por qué se casó con Justo, un hombre despótico y maltratador? Lo nunca visto antes en la exitosa serie de TVE por fin en la primera novela basada en Acacias 38. La emotiva historia de cómo Carmen, la humilde hija de un campesino, se convirtió en...

Pareja heterosexual monogámica, familia, sentido patriarcal, sociedad, censura, persecución, discriminación sexista, prejuicios, actúan sin cesar y con distintos grados de violencia física, moral psicológica para imponer el estereotipo heterosexual-patriarcal.

Early in its development, the subject matter of any field of surgery is too ill-defined and opinions are too fluid for the production of a book on the subject to be possible. Late in its development, controversy is at an end, and although it is still possible to produce a textbook, it is too late...

A década de 1950 no Brasil representou um momento de grande importância na história nacional. Além da consolidação da democracia que permitiu a ampliação do jogo partidário e da participação popular, após anos da ?ditadura estadonovista?, o período se destacou por um desenvolvimento industrial...