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"Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis's New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade of Sherman Williams that a peeping Tom once left a sticky note with the doorman asking for the color. It is in the Coral Lounge that the magic of Helen's marriage unfolds: Shindigs where strangers swap clothing in the powder room, a party game called "What's in the box?" makes its uproarious debut, the Puzzle Posse pounces on a 500-piece jigsaw...
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En el mundo de lo social, es imprescindible la creación de nuevos proyectos, enfocados a mejorar el bienestar y la calidad de vida de las personas.Ante la actual crisis económica que estamos atravesando, donde, se hace latente una de sus consecuencias más claras y devastadoras, como es la falta o ausencia de empleo, nace, a modo de ejemplo, esta presentación de proyectos, con el objetivo de inspirar y animar a los profesionales de lo social a...
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"Kelly McMasters found herself in her midthirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rainboots and diapers. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first, for her and her marriage. But soon, she was quietly plotting her escape. In The Leaving Season, McMasters chronicles the heady rush of falling in love...
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In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better.
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After the events of the 2020 presidential election, a Cuban teacher in Miami identifies signs of the type of society he left behind. Concerned about the conversion of the United States into a totalitarian country, he begins sending email alerts to known people. The mails have become analyses of the evolving situation and a chronicle of the occupation of each field by the radical left. Education becomes indoctrination, news becomes harmful propaganda,...
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A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth.
Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.
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A collection of humorous essays chronicle the author's pursuit of perfection and quest to be everybody's favorite.
Is it possible to be universally beloved? In this collection of humorous essays, Stone chronicle her pursuit of perfection and quest to be everybody's favorite. In doing so she takes a wry look at the chaos that ensues when we contort ourselves into an ever-changing assortment of socially acceptable shapes-- only to ultimately realize...
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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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Une histoire d'amour-haine: L'Empire britannique en Amérique du Nord fait le récit la saga de la genèse de l'empire britannique en Amérique du Nord. L'anthropologue Gilles Bibeau retrace la trajectoire de ces peuples insulaires qui, partis des îles de brumes, de fantmes et de légendes, se sont imposés à la fois aux descendants de la Nouvelle-France et aux Autochtones. Pour les Anglais, le rêve de dominer le monde passait par la conquête...
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The United States' vast agricultural landscape is not just a source of food, but also an integral part of its economy, social fabric, and national security. "Securing America's Harvest" delves deep into the emerging threat of agro-terrorism and the pivotal role of law enforcement in countering such perils to ensure the safety and sustainability of American agriculture.Key aspects covered in this insightful tome include:The Concept of Agro-Terrorism:...
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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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"One of Flavorwire's 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014" Bernard Williams held Chairs of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, Berkeley, and Oxford. He died in 2003.
The first collection of popular reviews and essays from distinguished philosopher Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to...
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Expansión es una palabra que enamora, no es un concepto, es mucho más que un fundamento, es hablar de la misma esencia del Dios Todopoderoso. La Expansión viene de la eternidad, es el diseño del cielo para la tierra.
El Espíritu de la Expansión nace en la mente de Dios, es una manifestación divina que no conoce de límites ni de barreras. La expansión abre brechas y carga un poder de rompimiento sobrenatural que manifiesta multiplicación,...
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The secret life of woods and fields is brought together in The Naturalist's Bedside Book, that delightful collection of BB essays on the seasons of the British countryside.
This book was first published in 1980 and is now redesigned and back in print for a new generation to dip into. As he moves from winter through to spring, summer and autumn, BB covers such topics as:
* fighting starlings and where to site tit boxes
* how to identify old nests in...
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À l'heure des fake news et de la quantité grandissante d'informations mises à notre disposition, la nécessité de faire preuve d'esprit critique n'a jamais été aussi grande. Mais qu'est-ce que cela signifie, faire preuve d'esprit critique ? Peut-on développer cette faculté et si oui, comment ? Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de proposer une réflexion sur l'esprit critique, ainsi que sa pratique au niveau individuel et sociétal. Un dialogue y...
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Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www. edge. org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates. Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution • Richard Dawkins on the...
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From Descartes to designer babies, The Philosophy Gym poses questions about some of history's most important philosophical issues, ranging in difficulty from pretty easy to very challenging. He brings new perspectives to age-old conundrums while also tackling modern-day dilemmas -- some for the first time. Begin your warm up by contemplating whether a pickled sheep can truly be considered art, or dive right in and tackle the existence of God. In this...
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Here are two fundamental human nature concepts for your consideration:
1) Our compelling understanding emerges from the complex interactions of our unconscious instincts with our conscious reasonings.
2) Our personal understanding grabs us emotionally as much as we grasp it intelligently.
Everything presented in this book connects to these concepts.
This book is intended to be a useful, meaningful account of our conscious human existence....
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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...