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Reflections for women
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Mothers, grandmothers, executives, teachers, nurses, secretaries, receptionists, housekeepers and housewives, successful professionals in all areas - this book pays homage to all women. It's for all the warriors who know that their most important performance is in the home despite all their daily...
by Edir Macedo, Aquilud Lobato, Paulo Sergio Rocha Junior
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
Do you often feel lost, tired, overwhelmed, anxious and discouraged? Do you need strength and direction to continue your journey? Would you like to find the source of courage for the emotional stability you never had? You will find messages in this book that have changed the lives of millions around...
Wading Through Many Voices
Toward a Theology of Public Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together....
Thinking Sex with the Great Whore
Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Many scholars in Biblical and Revelation studies have written at length about the imperial and patriarchal implications of the figure of the Whore of Babylon. However, much of the focus has been on the links to the Roman Empire and ancient attitudes towards gender. This book adds another layer to...
El ábaco, la lira y la rosa
Las regiones del conocimiento
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Esta obra constituye, en primer lugar, una serie de ensayos de divulgación científica a los que -dice el autor- une una característica muy especial: su intención literaria. La idea rectora de todo este texto -añade Díaz- es la unidad final del conocimiento humano. Se trata, pues, de un manuscrito ambicioso aunque, es mi esperanza, legible, ameno e informativo.
by Ray W. Ogden, Luis Dorfmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
This book provides a unified theory on nonlinear electro-magnetomechanical interactions of soft materials capable of large elastic deformations. The authors include an overview of the basic principles of the classic theory of electromagnetism from the fundamental notions of point charges and magnetic...
Cómo crear una mente
El secreto del pensamiento humano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 31, 2015
2029: año en el que la inteligencia artificial no podrá distinguirse de la humana. Este es el horizonte hacia el que mira "Cómo crear una mente". Siguiendo la estela de "La Singularidad está cerca", su libro anterior, el autor recorre la curva del crecimiento exponencial de la tecnología hasta...
Venenos
Armas químicas de la naturaleza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Un veneno es cualquier sustancia que al ser introducida o al estar en contacto con un ser vivo, le produce un efecto o una serie de trastornos que dañan su equilibrio corporal y que lo pueden conducir hasta la muerte. En esta obra se estudian las plantas, los animales y los microorganismos que poseen...
Latinos in the New Millennium
An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Latinos in the New Millennium is a comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed...
Dinero bajo la mesa
Financiamiento y gasto ilegal de las campañas políticas en México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 29, 2019
El modus operandi de una práctica corrupta que está socavando los cimientos de legalidad y equidad de las elecciones en México.
El gran problema de la democracia electoral mexicana se llama dinero. Ya lo había sido en el siglo XX: los partidos de oposición no tenían los suficientes recursos...
Political Theory of Global Justice
A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Could global government be the answer to global poverty and starvation?
Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong...
by Richard A. Santillan, Luis F. Fernandez, Angelina F. Veyna
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Images of Baseball: Mexican American Baseball in Orange County celebrates the once-vibrant culture of baseball and softball teams from Placentia, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Westminster, San Juan Capistrano, and nearby towns. Baseball allowed men and women to showcase their athletic and leadership skills, engaged...
by Luis Garcia-Larrea, Philip L. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Pain and the Conscious Brain brings together more than 30 international leaders from multiple fields to link the complex concept of pain to the equally complex notion of consciousness. Offering a clear, cutting-edge understanding of the brain mechanisms that generate the conscious experience of pain,...
Exploring The Shamanic Gifts Of Power Spots And Sacred Places
Working In Respectful Harmony With Mother Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
This book about sacred sites and power places is designed to prepare you to visit both local spots and world renowned pilgrimage destinations. Here you will discover how to prepare and protect yourself, what offerings to bring, how to understand the nature of the place you are visiting, and how to clean...