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When Yao was the leader of the confederation of tribes，ten suns ap-geared in the sky. The crops were scorched，and the grass and treeswere destroyed. The common people were starved to death. At the same time，the monsters and demons ran wild and did great harm to the people. Yao sent Hou Yi to kill them. Hou Yi killed the sharp teeth monster in the wilderness，slew the cruel dragon in the turbulent river，captured the storm demon in the valley of Qingqiu Mountains，cut the longest snake in Dong Ting Lake and captured the lar-gest beast in the mulberry forest. After destroying all the monsters，he shot down the nine blazing suns keeping only one in the sky. Then，the mass could live a sta-ble life again. Yi became the hero eulogized by the later generations.
Bordering social reproduction explores what happens when migrants subject to policies that seek to deny them the means of life nonetheless endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. Developing innovative theorisations of welfare bordering, the volume provides rich ethnographic insights into the everyday lives of destitute mothers and children who are denied mainstream welfare support in the United Kingdom due to their immigration status. This book shows how enforced destitution and debt work alongside detention and deportation as part of a tripartite of exclusionary technologies of the racial state. It advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother's and children's life-making practices under duress - arguing that these are neither acts of heroic resilience nor solely symptomatic of lives rendered disposable, but indications of the fragilities of repressive migration regimes and, on occasion, refusals to accept their terms of existence.
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“Melissa, silly little goat, Melissa sta—” Charles Flanders Cunningham III — a name that will rank with Hannibal Lecter as the ultimate evil genius. Charles Flanders Cunningham III — the wealthiest, most influential lawyer in the United States, perhaps the world, trusted counselor to presidents, prime ministers, and world leaders. But Cunningham has a dark side, a very dark side known only to himself and his five accomplices. Cunningham arranges to kidnap children from all over the world, none more than six years old, for a period of two weeks, after which they are returned by a wonderful, charitable organization, ChildFinders, to their despairing parents, safe, secure, and outwardly none the worse for wear … but changed. Changed by chemicals, computer implants, and mind alteration. And they do not know it — until they hear one of a thousand catchphrases. Then they turn into programmed automatons, who will do whatever the next command tells them to do. Afterward, the chip erases all memory of what they have done. By means of this undetectable “army,” Cunningham aims to control the world. Can a team led by Israeli counterterrorist Ezra Caen (Assassin, The Wrecking Crew) stop him before it is too late? In the tradition of The Manchurian Candidate and Telefon, you’d best hold on to your nerves and plan on staying up very, very late to finish this riveting thriller. And be frightened. Be very, very frightened. You never can tell if you will be the next victim … or the next killer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyyH0hZ488 Published by Pangæa Publishing Group,2020. 300 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm
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36 and 6 cats — that’s exactly how many fluffy tailed creatures appeared in front of Mrs. Krepova’s apartment on one rainy evening. The stubborn woman was reluctant to welcome the strangers in her house, but everything changed when the feline, sphinx-like Baroness appeared and completely won her heart. Neither Mrs. Krepova nor her nephew Stas could have ever imagined the outcome of the invasion of their small apartment by 36 adult cats and 6 small kittens.
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It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
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This book presents over 40 cases of bamboo development across 22 major bamboo-industry countries and explores the knowledge gained from their successes and failures. It synthesises experiences and exchanges with country experts from international training courses and consultations, study tours, and seminars. Each case includes observations and summaries of discussions related to the development of bamboo-based industries in a healthy, sustainable way, and the facilitation of strategic and balanced development of bamboo in different global regions. Industrial and artisanal bamboo growing and processing is expanding worldwide and this book brings together key experiences to help inform future developments. This book provides an analysis of bamboo plant features, including strong renewability, fast-growing, and high biomass production. It also reviews important ecological functions of bamboos, such as water and soil conservation, carbon sink and storage, and adaptation to climate change, as well as addressing the diversified culture of bamboo and key issues affecting the sector. Sustainable Bamboo Development: - Is authored by an internationally recognised leading expert in the growth and use of bamboo - Takes a holistic view, covering technical, socio-economic, policy, cultural and business development - Provides practical knowledge to guide the development of bamboo sectors - Gives a clear idea and rich examples of what has been attempted in many countries - Acts as a roadmap for using bamboo as a poverty reduction and environmental security tool Highly illustrated and in full colour throughout, this book is an essential resource for all those interested in bamboo, from private sector investors to governmental and development agencies, academic researchers and students.
Between these pages lies a world unlike anything you've ever known, from the mind of one of the most talented artists of this generation.Here, you will find men and women transcending mortality, gods waging war on other gods, and otherworldly creatures pursuing worldly passions. In these pages, Ian Sta. Maria has created a world for beings he's met in his daydreams and nightmares.But these stories have neither beginning nor end -- only the enduring present. It's a world waiting for your imagination to come even more alive.They say that through stories, we transcend death. We simply become the stories.Between these pages lies immortality.And it's waiting for you.
Between these pages are stories of immortal worlds, curious creatures, and benevolent monsters.And they’re all waiting for you. Here, you will find moon-eaters learning for the first time that they are fearsome monsters, a Salamangkero (magician) living with the knowledge of gods and the heart of man, and mortal men winning over the hearts of otherworldly beings. In these pages, Ian Sta. Maria, along with other talented storytellers, has created a world where men walk free among monsters. But these stories bring neither fear nor torment. Instead, they tell only the stories that areworth telling—that of the heart in conflict with itself. They say that through stories, we bring out the best and the worst in all of us. Most important of all, stories bring out acceptance—of who we are, who we were, and who we want to be in the deepest parts of our hearts. These stories invite you to be a part of this world. Welcome. Come as you are.
Il Vermouth di Torino è per eccellenza un simbolo dell’aperitivo in tutto il mondo. Nasce nel 1700 dalla maestria dei liquoristi torinesi, poi diventa un prodotto esportato ovunque. Immagini indimenticabili sono state create da importanti artisti per la sua réclame. Stupende etichette con la loro speciale grafica ne hanno portato e ne portano il nome in mille Paesi. Questo vino sta vivendo un’epoca di grande apprezzamento, tanto da aver ottenuto dall’Unione Europea il riconoscimento dell’Indicazione Geografica che identifica e sancisce il legame con una terra, una tradizione, un “saper fare” unico. Bevuto puro o in celeberrimi cocktail, il Vermouth di Torino è protagonista di un racconto avvincente che parte dalla mondana “ora del Vermouth” tipica di Torino, per giungere al moderno rito sociale dell’“happy hour".
La Malvasia non sta ad indicare un’unica varietà; ci sono diverse produzioni che all’interno del loro nome contengono “Malvasia” e tra queste varietà non vi è uniformità morfologica. La gran parte delle Malvasie sono vitigni bianchi, ma esistono varietà nere, rosa, grigie, neutre, aromatiche e altre ancora con un sapore moscato. Fonti storiche attendibili sostengono che il nome “Malvasia” debba prendere in considerazione tanto i fattori storici quanto quelli sociologici.Ai mercanti veneziani va riconosciuto il merito di aver introdotto le Malvasie nelle regioni adriatiche e mediterranee.
STELLA FENICIA romanzo storico di ALESSANDRO SPONZILLI Il mare odora di salsedine, la notte è avvolgente e la Stella Fenicia si staglia, nel buio, a indicare la via che la giovane Elissa dovrà percorrere. È terrore quello che la attraversa, ma nel suo cuore una fiammella di forza sta prendendo forma, lei è la donna che cambierà il mondo. Un'avventura coinvolgente tra terra e mare, intrighi e uomini d’onore nel mondo dell’antica Fenicia.
Un Libro della Serie HomeNemmeno il funerale di sua madre riesce a convincere l’auto proclamato festaiolo Zach Johnson a mettere da parte il suo essere appariscente e a sistemarsi. Lui è ciò che è e nessuno lo farà cambiare. Ma quando incontra Aaron Paulson, il migliore amico di suo fratello, Zach deve fare un passo indietro e riconsiderare la percezione che ha dell’amore e della famiglia.Aaron insiste con il dire che si sta innamorando di lui, ma Zach è certo che Aaron lo veda solo come un altro progetto: un’altra anima persa da salvare per Aaron l’idealista. Zach non è danneggiato, non ha bisogno di essere aggiustato. Aaron è insistente, però, e Zach si sente tentato. Vuole credere nel ‘vissero felici e contenti’, ma sarà in grado di ingoiare il proprio orgoglio abbastanza a lungo da vedere cosa c’è nel cuore di Aaron? ;
John Williams è uno strano naufrago nel mare della vita. Alla deriva nelle acque del benessere materiale, a quarant'anni si rende conto che tutto ciò per cui ha lavorato finora non gli da le soddisfazioni sperate. Un'invidiabile posizione economica, una splendida casa con vista sull'oceano, una famiglia, l'ammirazione della gente che conta non lo mettono al riparo dalla tempesta interiore che sta crescendo. Ha tutto ma non ha più niente, nemmeno il sorriso di un tempo. Finchè un giorno incontra Simon, un uomo misterioso, che assapora la realtà istante dopo istante ed è in grado di avvistare la spiaggia della salvezza. Dopo questa esperienza, anche il mare della vita non sarà più lo stesso: quella che era paura diventerà una voglia irresistibile di prendere il largo, e il protagonista si ritroverà a rincorrere con rinnovato slancio "l'onda perfetta", dove cielo e mare s'incontrano finalmente riappacificati.
C.R.E.P.P. is the opening novel of a trilogy that marks different periods in the cycle of life. This first volume tells the story of Paolo and Irene, two of the eight protagonists of this journey. A journey that symbolizes the first of the three phases: the Thesis. Antithesis and Synthesis will follow in the future publications. --- C.R.E.P.P. è il romanzo di apertura di una trilogia che segna periodi diversi del ciclo della vita. In questo primo volume si racconta di Paolo e Irene, due degli otto protagonisti di questo viaggio che sta a simboleggiare la prima delle tre fasi: la tesi.In filosofia la tesi è un’ipotesi, un’idea, il punto di partenza al quale seguono antitesi (una verifica necessaria a confutarla o confermarla) e sintesi (la conclusione che dovrebbe corrispondere alla verità).Arricchito dalla prefazione dello storico dell'arte, prof. Valerio Vernesi, sintetizza la tesi che si sovrappone al periodo della giovinezza, a cui seguiranno le altre fasi con i romanzi Per aspera ad astra (maturità) e Continuare a sognare (senilità). Le emozioni, gli amori, le preoccupazioni dei personaggi si intrecciano scivolando dalla gioventù alla vecchiaia, attraverso il racconto di Annibale che in tarda età raccoglie i ricordi e alcune lettere lasciate dai suoi amici per scrivere il libro delle loro vite.La giovinezza, dal sapore agrodolce, è il fulcro e l'anima di questo primo episodio di 8 personaggi, dove le riflessioni hanno l'impeto del primo periodo della vita nella contrapposizione degli opposti: vita e morte, amore e odio, viaggio e ricerca interiore.
The Space Confederation has gathered all the Nations who have reached civilization around the Universe and culturally elevated themselves, overcoming the limits of the profit system. Earth, on the other hand, is populated by barbarian hordes, still worshipping the money and destroying themselves day after day. The Confederation puts researchers Marta and Kin on a mission to save the Humans and help them make the transition towards civilization. A novel at the turn of science fiction and sociology, whose message is aimed at safeguarding our own, beloved planet. --- La Confederazione Spaziale ha raccolto i popoli del cosmo che hanno raggiunto la civiltà, elevandosi culturalmente e superando i limiti del sistema del profitto. Sulla Terra abita invece un popolo barbaro, ancora legato al denaro, che si sta autodistruggendo giorno dopo giorno. La Confederazione ha deciso di provare a salvare gli Umani e aiutarli a compiere il passaggio verso la civiltà, attraverso una missione condotta dalle ricercatrici Marta e Kin le quali, una volta giunte nella base lunare da cui organizzeranno l'approccio con i terrestri, troveranno ad aiutarle due curiosi personaggi. Il primo contatto con i governanti dei paesi più potenti condurrà a risvolti lontani dalle aspettative iniziali, a causa della mentalità gretta e retrograda degli Umani. La Confederazione non si dà per vinta, i terrestri sono dotati di un talento musicale che non si può lasciar disperdere. Un romanzo a cavallo tra la fantascienza e la sociologia, dove il cuore del messaggio che l'autore cerca di trasmettere volge a salvaguardare il nostro caro pianeta, che lentamente volge al declino a causa della mano troppo pesante dei suoi abitanti più evoluti.Un bel messaggio da leggere tutto d'un fiato per sensibilizzare adulti e ragazzi: Salvare la Terra!
In this book, we ask ourselves about something that occurs in a generalized way today in the bosom of Western democracies, perhaps already obsolete models of the old representative and liberal democracy. Democracies where, on one hand, people vote, seems, in an "i-reflexive" way; to people, political parties or social movements that express an apparently undemocratic way of life; that is, a way of life that refuses to be mixed with the Other; a way of life that detests the migrant in all its forms; that refuses an open, supportive and cooperative economy; that ultimately pursues a more “firm hand” against anything that threatens identity values. And on the other hand, it is claimed that the representative character has to take steps forward, also thanks to technologies, to move towards a democracy where the co-design of this by citizens is fundamental and absolutely necessary to save what is still there. It remains democratic in this current simulation that is the democracy of neoliberal Capitalism. * * * En el libro Aporías de la democracia se pregunta sobre algo de aquello que de forma generalizada ocurre hoy en el seno de las democracias occidentales, modelos acaso ya obsoletos de la vieja democracia representativa y liberal. Democracias donde por una lado se vota, parece, de forma “i-reflexiva”; a personas, partidos políticos o movimientos sociales que expresan un modo de vida aparentemente poco democrática; esto es, un modo de vida que rechaza estar mezclado con el Otro; un modo de vida que detesta al migrante en todas sus formas; que rehúsa una economía abierta, solidaria y cooperativa, que persigue, en definitiva, más “mano dura” contra todo lo que atente contra los valores identitarios. Y por otro lado, se reivindica que el carácter representativo tiene que dar pasos adelante, también gracias a las tecnologías, avanzar hacia una democracia en donde el co-diseño de ésta por parte de los ciudadanos sea fundamental y absolutamente necesario para salvar lo que aún queda de democrático en este simulacro actual que es la democracia del Capitalismo neoliberal.
A picture book that tells the adventures of a girl and her herbalist grandmother in landscapes of exuberant nature in southern Chile. Together they will reveal secrets of the countryside and the power of nature and healing plants. The book teaches us about the trascendental of transferring traditions from generation to generation. This is one of the most important heritage that we can pass on to our children to preserve culture and identity. Matico returns to the memories from childhood. It portrays the life of individual cultists who represent a different lifestyle within the horizon of modernity.
Let’s Cook with Nora provides documentation of Philippine cooking for 1965 when it made its appearance. In its new, 21st-century, classic version—lovingly restyled by her daughter Nina Daza Puyat—Nora Daza’s legacy is ready for today’s cooks, brides to be, and food lovers. –Felice Prudente Sta. Maria (Food historian and author of The Governor-General’s Kitchen)
The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe. This new coalition planted the seeds for today's international order, wedding the idea of a durable peace to multilateralism, diplomacy, philanthropy, and rights, and making Europe its center. Glenda Sluga reveals how at the end of the Napoleonic wars, new conceptions of the politics between states were the work not only of European statesmen but also of politically ambitious aristocratic and bourgeois men and women who seized the moment at an extraordinary crossroads in history.In this panoramic book, Sluga reinvents the study of international politics, its limitations, and its potential. She offers multifaceted portraits of the leading statesmen of the age, such as Tsar Alexander, Count Metternich, and Viscount Castlereagh, showing how they operated in the context of social networks often presided over by influential women, even as they entrenched politics as a masculine endeavor. In this history, figures such as Madame de Staël and Countess Dorothea Lieven insist on shaping the political transformations underway, while bankers influence economic developments and their families agitate for Jewish rights.Monumental in scope, this groundbreaking book chronicles the European women and men who embraced the promise of a new kind of politics in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, and whose often paradoxical contributions to modern diplomacy and international politics still resonate today.
Edited by Dr Christian Weikop, a Professor in Art History at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), this is the first print publication to consider the remarkable formation of the ground-breaking and oft-cited exhibition Strategy: Get Arts, staged at ECA in the late summer of 1970. At the cutting edge of contemporary art, this was unlike anything seen in the United Kingdom to that date, certainly challenging a Scottish art world still struggling to come to terms with the legacy of the Scottish Colourists. It was an exhibition that received international press attention and had a considerable impact on the public, critics, and other curators who saw it, shaking up the conservativism of the British art scene. Strategy: Get Arts (SGA) brought many figures of post-war art, who were based in the exciting cultural city of Düsseldorf, to the United Kingdom for the first time. These artists, who took over ECA, transforming the college into a ‘total work of art’ through their extraordinary actions and installations, were unknown to a British public in 1970. The roll call of talented participants included the likes of Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Daniel Spoerri, Stefan Wewerka, Dieter Roth, Sigmar Polke, Günther Uecker, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and many others who subsequently achieved international fame. In addition to first-hand accounts of the exhibition by Douglas Hall (the first Keeper of the Gallery of Modern Art, National Galleries of Scotland), Jennifer Gough-Cooper (SGA co-ordinator), and Alexander Hamilton (co-editor of Studies in Photography and SGA gallery assistant in 1970), the publication also includes new essays by the editor, Christian Weikop, on Richard Demarco and the Formation of Strategy: Get Arts; Düsseldorf in Edinburgh: The Importance of the Germans; and Strategy Get Arts and Broadcast Media. It also features short essays on the photography of SGA by Karen Barber (a specialist in the history of photography), the controversy concerning the Palermo Restore project by Andrew Patrizio (Professor of Scottish Visual Culture at ECA), the creation of a 2016 archive exhibition on SGA by National Galleries of Scotland archivist Kirstie Meehan, as well as two fascinating Forewords by Keith Hartley (Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Modern and Contemporary Art), and Professor Juan Cruz (Principal of ECA). Many unknown and rare photographs of the artists and artworks at the art college, especially by the German performance artist and photographer, Monika Baumgartl, as well as eye-catching photographs by George Oliver and Richard Demarco, are presented here for the first time. The publication is a triumph of archival detective work, effectively reconstructing the exhibition, profiling all 35 artists who took part, and fully revealing the challenges and dramatic events that unfolded before and during the course of this unique event.
