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Coming from the deepest of places of the soul this collection of poems takes you from the exhilarating feelings of love to the darkness and desperation created by pain. The journey of a man and his heart through the landscape of emotions that embraced him during the period in which the book was written. Travel...

Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World presents a contemporary and integrated understanding of one of the most remarkable pastoral leaders of our time. This bishop, Oscar Romero of El Salvador, experienced deeply the overwhelming sufferings of the Salvadoran people, as well...

Un nuevo libro de Andrés Sánchez Bodas, creador del Enfoque Holístico Centrado en la Persona, introductor del Counseling en la Argentina, un pensador ubicado en un “Humanismo Descentrado” que plantea en esta nueva obra una serie de reflexiones sobre la condición humana.Preocupado por el camino...

The trajectory of human thought hints at certain historical facts that somehow have a decisive influence on the path ahead. Presently, in our absolute post-modern times, the notion and implications of a Risk Society have properly infiltrated social thought, albeit with a degree of perplexity and resistance....

Ambiguous Spaces, the newest installment in the Pamphlet Architecture series and a return to Pamphlet's own progressive roots, features the architectural fictions "The Pregnant Island" and "Nuclear Breeding." These two projects develop alternative urban concepts that address the...

Actions and Invariants of Algebraic Groups, Second Edition presents a self-contained introduction to geometric invariant theory starting from the basic theory of affine algebraic groups and proceeding towards more sophisticated dimensions." Building on the first edition, this book provides an...

Adam Smith a remarqué que le mot Valeur a deux significations différentes, et exprime, tantôt l’utilité d’un objet quelconque, tantôt la faculté que cet objet transmet à celui qui le possède, d’acheter d’autres marchandises. Dans un cas...

Tudo começa com um homem saindo de casa, armado, numa madrugada fria. Mas do que o move só saberemos quase no fim, por uma carta escrita de outro continente. Ou talvez nem aí. Parece, afinal, mais importante a história do doutor Augusto Mendes, o médico que o tratou quarenta anos antes, quando lho...

Here is a collection of meditations, contemplations and short essays gleaned from years of mystical and spiritual insights. In line and in tune with the tremendous paradigm change underway, these meditations are grounded in experiential realizations and discoveries regarding the nature of kosmic Reality,...

Filling a gap in the literature, this book features in-depth discussions on amplitude modulation AFM, providing an overview of the theory, instrumental considerations and applications of the technique in both academia and industry. As such, it includes examples from material science, soft condensed...

A comprehensive presentation of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) theory, substrate fabrication, applications of SERS to biosystems, chemical analysis, sensing and fundamental innovation through experimentation. Written by internationally recognized editors and contributors. Relevant...

Cada uno de los seis capìtulos que conforman esta obra, expone, examina y compara las políticas educativas -competencias, habilidades, currículo- adoptadas en distintos países: Chile, China, Estados Unidos, México, Singapur y la India. En estas páginas se ofrece un panorama de las políticas...

Even if constrained in their international choices, recipient countries of global health programmes hold the capacity to autonomously define and pursue their own strategies, policies, and ultimately attain political goals. This is comparatively demonstrated through the analysis of PEPFAR's implementation in Botswana, Ethiopia and South Africa.

As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken...