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"In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life.."--Amazon.
Six weeks after she and her husband announced their divorce, Kimberly Harrington began writing a book she thought would be about divorce, heavy on the dark humor. After all, she and her future ex had chosen to still live together in the...
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I seek to demonstrate that in the evolution and growth of science, the 'underdetermination thesis' of some prominent philosophers and scientists (like Quine, Kuhn, or Feyerabend), that there are always a large number or possibly an infinite number of theories to fit the data or explain empirical patterns, is false. The 'underdetermination thesis' has been debated by physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers for several centuries, and I seek to...
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Dieses Buch enthält 13 philosophische Texte von Eva Neuner über die Entdeckung des jeweils eigenen, authentischen wahren Inneren.
Durch ausdrucksstarke Fotografieren von Rainer Frauenfeld werden die Texte noch verstärkt.
Etwas möchte im Buch dazu anregen, der Führung der Seele zu vertrauen, die jeden Menschen mit dem Göttlichen, der Herkunft und dem wahren Zuhause verbindet. Die Seele enthält das Unzerstörbare, Unverletzliche, was auch...
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Get the Summary of Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Far the Light Reaches" by Sabrina Imbler is a collection of personal essays that intertwine the author's experiences with broader environmental and societal themes. Imbler reflects on their youth, activism, and the transformation of landscapes, drawing parallels between their life and the adaptability of species...
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Legal Issues Journal (LIJ) publishes original research on all legal matters affecting justice, equality and other pressing issues for societies. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work at the intersection of law and other disciplines, such as genetics, biosciences, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, medicine, and business. The Journal publishes original papers, case comments, short reports, debates and book reviews. The Journal also provides...
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In the shadowy world of espionage, where truth intertwines with deception, "Masters of Deceit" delves deep into the enigmatic realm of double agents and the high-stakes game of counterintelligence. These are individuals who defy the common understanding of loyalty, navigating between enemy lines, and constantly reshaping the balance of global power.Through a series of thrilling case studies, the book unveils the intricate tactics employed by these...
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La Gran Política de Nietzsche busca reponer en su lugar a un autor capital del pensamiento contemporáneo y someter a crítica gran parte de las lecturas actuales que se hacen del mismo. Así como en la Segunda Guerra Mundial se buscó falsear a Friedrich Nietzsche para acercarlo al régimen nazi, en la posguerra se intentó rescatarlo en forma a-política como un supuesto autor humanista (Walter Kaufmann, Bernard Williams, Alexander Nehamas) y desde...
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Human Tissue Authority New Draft Code: Supporting Child Donors or Supporting Parents? by Lisa Cherkassky
The Underprivileged See No light in LASPO Act 2012 by Gina Heung
Jurisprudence and Structural Realism by Kevin Lee
Regulating MNCs and International Norms: Challenges in Focusing on a Human Rights Approach in Emerging Markets and Possible Alternatives by Samuel E. Ojogbo
Whole Life Orders in Hutchinson v UK: A Counter-Revolution,...
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Freire y Piaget en el siglo XXI: personalidad autónoma, praxis y educación es una nueva mirada sobre la construcción del conocimiento desde el sentimiento moral y la educación en el pensamiento y trabajo de dos grandes intelectuales.
El trabajo de Dongo-Montoya es un ensayo minucioso, de ágil lectura y, a su vez, especializado que se centra en la pedagogía activa y pedagogía problematizadora como un movimiento de transformación de la escuela...
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"Unveiling the Secrets: The Truth About Genetically Modified Foods" is a comprehensive and insightful exploration into the world of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply. This book delves into the science, politics, and economics surrounding GMOs, aiming to provide a balanced and factual perspective on one of today's most contentious and misunderstood topics.The narrative begins by unpacking the science behind genetic modification,...
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Artaud, cruz entre dos rostros, presentado aquí en edición bilingüe, ahonda en la visión ético-política del poeta francés. Lucidez y locura, valentía y desobediencia, sexualidad y anarquía se muestran como rostros posibles de una misma cruz, una cruz encarnada o un quiasmo luciente que la historia persigue con crueldad. El volumen se completa con una pieza de Joana Masó sobre la violencia necesaria para sobrevivir (o para no estar muerto),...
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Colleges organize many social clubs for anything. Here in this book, we will review how to organize a creativity club for your school and college. It is a place to explore inventing, creative thinking, and how to be creative in your own personal life. It is a club for fun, friends, and exploring your creative self.
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Quel est le rle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel? La collection « Profession » répond à ces questions. Marcel Fournier est professeur titulaire au Département de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la sociologie, il est l'auteur des biographies de Marcel Mauss...
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Get the Summary of J. W. Ocker's Cursed Objects in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Cursed Objects" by J. W. Ocker delves into the world of allegedly cursed artifacts, exploring their histories and the human fascination with them. The book covers famous examples like the Hope Diamond, whose owners suffered misfortunes, and Ötzi the Iceman, linked to the mysterious deaths of those involved with him. Ocker examines...
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"The Untold Story: The History of the Coca-Cola Secret Formula" uncovers the captivating chronicle of one of the world's most guarded secrets: the recipe behind the iconic Coca-Cola beverage. While the drink has become synonymous with global branding and timeless marketing, fewer are aware of the mysterious origins, intriguing lore, and tales of espionage surrounding its concealed composition.The narrative unfolds in the late 19th century, tracing...
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Leon Trotsky and Victor Serge represent the great and tragic oppositional figures to Stalin's dictatorial grip on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and 1930s. Written during this period, the letters exchanged between these two friends, published here in translation for the first time together with other material from both the Trotsky Archive at Harvard and the Serge Archive in Mexico, present a unique first-hand account of the alternatives and arguments...
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Travel Tales: Pickpockets & Other Thieves is the next book in the True Travel Tales series of very scary travel stories of pickpocketing and theft in travel. If you are pickpocketed or robbed we hope you manage to escape in your travels with only minor consequences. This book is a collection of the fearful and potentially dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers on occasion, but mostly these will not happen to you. You'll read...
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Travel Tales: Toilet Stories is all about taking care of your daily business as best you can - doing your daily duty, so to speak… finding and using toilets and the like - in your travels. No matter where you are traveling to, no matter what you are doing, and no matter who you are when Nature calls, you had better answer.Talking about your bathroom needs is, indeed, one of the top ten daily topics discussed by fellow travelers among one another...
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From the titular New Yorker article about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to essays on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison's aperçus and delight in the pleasures of the senses. Between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life over the last three decades.
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From everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson (aka @devriebrynn), comes a hearty dose of her sometimes jaded, always funny, and surprisingly soulful wisdom. For fans of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Everything's Trash, But It's Ok by Phoebe Robinson.
Through her TikTok videos, Devrie has chronicled only a small part of her journey as a single woman-leaving her unsatisfying life behind and flying to Scotland in pursuit of a version...
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