Various Authors
Author
Description
Las bibliotecas son transparentes en cuanto a sus servicios y su apertura a las comunidades con las que interactúan de manera presencial o virtual. La biblioteca, se ha dicho, es un lugar de encuentro, pero fundamentalmente es una institución de intervención y cambio en las comunidades y cuyos efectos tienen repercusión social y cultural. Por lo anterior, el propósito de esta obra colectiva es traer a discusión elementos que demuestren la intervención...
Author
Description
“Women of Colonial Australia” is a collection of short stories focusing on women from the nation's colonial past, with each author breathing life into a tale of one of their ancestors. Through this, each narrative, woven with meticulous research and imagination, brings to life the diversity of experiences that these women faced. This collection remembers and celebrates their lives and the legacies that these women left behind. May their strength,...
Author
Series
Description
La irrupción del expresionismo abstracto o pintura de acción en los años cuarenta trajo consigo un cambio sustancial en las interpretaciones habituales del arte moderno, métodos y criterios historiográficos y críticos. En este marco la obra de Jackson Pollock ocupa el lugar más destacado y muchos de los nuevos estudios le están dedicados. Cabe afirmar que en torno a ella se produjo un verdadero debate. En el presente libro se recogen algunos...
Author
Series
Description
La divisoria sagrado-secular sigue amenazando la salud de la iglesia global, desempoderando a cristianos laicos y socavando el llamado a integrar todas las áreas de la vida bajo el señorío de Cristo.
Los educadores teológicos en busca de un camino para salir de esta dicotomía se verán retados y estimulados por esta colección de ensayos extraídos de la conferencia de ICETE de 2018 llevada a cabo en la ciudad de Panamá. Dentro de sus cuatro...
Author
Description
In this midyear 2021 edition of Bent Street, guest editors Sam Elkin and Yves Rees from the Spilling the T Collective bring a special trans and gender diverse community focus: essays, poetry, polemic, memoir, fiction, and imagery that explores and celebrates gender diversity. In this edition, trans creatives bring an acute understanding of how embodied subjects construct and perform gendered selves, an understanding that though sometimes borne of...
Author
Description
This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit, and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a flowering of literary poets in the twentieth century; right up to thirty of the most exciting contemporary Amharic poets working both inside and outside the country. These poems ask what it means to...
Author
Series
Description
Offering a rich, in-depth study series, the team behind the bestselling The Bible Recap takes your study of God's Word to the next level. Starting with the book of Matthew, the Knowing Jesus series dives deep into the transformative truths found in the four gospels.
Perfect for small groups or individual study, this comprehensive, 10-week Bible study explains and connects the story of Scripture in the gospel of Matthew. Through daily readings,...
Author
Description
Este estudio busca enriquecer nuestra apreciación de los procesos que conducen de las situaciones anteriores al surgimiento del Estado a la centralización inherente a las estructuras estatales, sin perder de vista el papel de los poderes locales. El desarrollo de estas organizaciones permite reflexionar sobre la política como dimensión fundamental de las prácticas sociales, para lo cual contamos en determinados contextos con las propias observaciones...
Author
Description
¿Qué relación tiene el maíz con el Trabajo Social? ¿Qué hacen hoy los profesionales del Trabajo Social? bien, estas mujeres y hombres asumen la labor de cohesionar procesos y personas en ámbitos comunitarios a favor de la vida. El poner el maíz en el centro de esta doble reflexión, resultó en la confluencia de cultura, sabiduría, alimento, prácticas sociales, aprendizaje significativo y, sobre todo, personas en un mismo texto, contexto...
Author
Description
Juris Magister Abogados SLP es una firma altamente especializada en el asesoramiento jurídico-fiscal a emprendedores (empresarios, inversores y profesionales) con interés de establecer y expandir sus negocios en los Estados Unidos.
Con una extensa práctica profesional y una experiencia de más de 25 años vinculada al ejercicio profesional relacionado con los Estados Unidos, Juris Magister Abogados SLP ofrece especialmente al emprendedor internacional,...
Author
Description
“It was Greek to me.” William Shakespeare, the most quoted writer in the English language, is credited with inventing or introducing over 1,700 words. This handy reference showcases the bard's genius, compiling over 1,500 of his most famous epigrams, invectives, literary expressions, and philosophical poems that have found their way into our everyday vernacular—some so often, they've become clichés. From “a notorious liar” and “all the...
20872) The Monsters Next Door
Author
Description
We all have them.
The odd one. The creepy one. The one who keeps weird hours or who engages in the obscure hobby.
Neighbors. Perhaps the one right next door to you.
But what if they're something... more?
What if they are...
THE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR?
Author
Description
The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences.
These transformations pose complex design challenges and yet offer novel opportunities for the understanding and development of human-centered built environments.
Drawing from a 5-year design research collaboration between the REAL Lab at Harvard GSD and the University of Bergamo,...
20875) The Liar's Daughter
Author
Formats
Description
No one deserves to be taken before their time. Do they? Joe McKee - pillar of the Derry community - is dead. As arrangements are made for the traditional Irish wake, friends and family are left reeling at how cancer could have taken this much-loved man so soon. But grief is the last thing that Joe's daughter Ciara and step-daughter Heidi feel. For they knew the real Joe - the man who was supposed to protect them and did anything but. As the mourners...
Author
Description
A one—volume evangelical Wesleyan commentary on the entire Bible.
John Wesley believed the Bible to be the Word of God, and he insisted that Wesleyan teaching conform to that standard. This commentary carefully explains the Bible, book by book, in terms of the intentions of the authors who composed it. At the same time, it is an inspiring exposition of the Bible's message for us and the peoples of all times. The work includes introductory articles...
Author
Series
Description
Read and Engage with Scripture in a Whole New Way!
The Books of the Bible is a fresh yet ancient presentation of Scripture. As many distractions as possible have been eliminated so readers can experience each book the way its authors intended. No more chapter and verse numbers. No more study notes. No more cross references or footnotes. No more red letters. Natural section breaks have been adjusted to reveal the inherent structure, showing the contours...
Author
Description
This vintage book contains a comprehensive catalogue of American Grape vines, with information on propagation, grafting, planting, pruning, harvesting, pests and diseases, and many other related aspects. Beautifully illustrated and full of useful and interesting information, this volume would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature, and is not to be missed by collectors. Contents include: "Climate, Soil and Aspects", "the...
20879) NIV, Adventure Bible
Author
Series
Description
Ready for Adventure? Embark on a fun, exciting journey through God's Word with the 2013 NIV Adventure Bible. Along the way you'll meet all types of people, see all sorts of places, and learn all kinds of things about the Bible. Most importantly you'll grow closer in your relationship with God. Recommended by more Christian schools and churches than any other Bible for kids. Features include: new timelines added to the book intros, new additions to...
Author
Description
This book is about two people locked in in a love affair.
Champ is challenging Dee 2 Riley for the heavyweight championship of the boxing world, along with his side chick, Lynn, who spends her day shopping. While Champ and his longtime manager, Malcolm Buzzy Johnson, were out promoting the fight, a dreadful news came out.
Newsbreak: Boxing world champion, Champ, and his manager, Buzzy Johnson, got into a car accident. Johnson died on the scene while...