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The book is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever. Some pundits predict that, if things don’t change, another civil war could occur. Have we reached a point of no return? Hopefully, America is mature enough to learn from its mistakes and avoid further scars along its evolving history. "Trumplandia is a welcome addition toward understanding current events, Washington’s international policy, and the present American society; a society polarized and divided as it has not been since the Civil War.” NICHOLAS DIMA, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, Nelson Institute, James Madison University, Virginia. "The book is fascinating. It provides background to, and insights into [the] current and past political history as well as offering a personal view... of the country and society. Presented in thematic form in chapters and sections, the insights offered provide a suggestive radiography...” Dr. DENNIS DELETANT, OBE, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC. "There has been this backsliding in... what a truly functioning rule-of-law state is, that has proper separation of co-equal powers, which, if you don’t keep working on that, you backslide. And I am even worried about that here, in the United States right now, about backsliding.” OBIE MOORE, Esq., OLM Advisors LLC, Washington DC “Indeed, Trumplandia should be a welcome addition to any scholar, student or layman’s library, especially in its international edition. If anyone loses sleep over its challenging assertions, then it will have been well worth it.” ERNESTO MORALES HIZON, Ph.D. Candidate in American and Comparative Politics at Claremont Graduate University, Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TIBERIU DIANU has practiced law in Romania (as a corporate lawyer, judge, senior counselor at the Ministry of Justice, university professor and senior legal researcher), and in the United States (as a legal expert for the judiciary). He published several books and a host of articles in law, politics, and post-communist societies. Tiberiu currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
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With a focus on the creation and distribution of packaged holidays, this text covers the fundamentals of business and the relationship between tour operators and destinations. With particular reference to the sustainability of both parties, it reviews the impacts and influences of tour operations and practices on destinations within the overriding context of tour operator responsibility. It addresses the entirety of this key component of the tourism sector, and reflects the shift in recent years from traditional 'sun, sea and sand' holiday to more bespoke packages. Taking into account tour operators as a growing factor among the major emergent economies of the world, this book is: - The first textbook to provide such in-depth content of tour operators and operations. - Written by authors with industry, research and teaching experience. - A wealth of information regarding popular eco, nature and adventure trips, as well as myriad niche and special interest products. Full of international and highly topical case studies, exercises and discussion questions, Tour Operators and Operations: Development, Management and Responsibility is a fundamental text for students of tourism.
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Due to the nature of agricultural commodities as carriers of exotic pests, importing countries have employed varying methods of pest control for postharvest products. Thermal treatments are emerging as effective, environmentally-friendly alternatives to traditional methods, eliminating chemical residues and minimizing damage to produce. This book provides comprehensive information of these increasingly important treatments, covering temperature measurement, heat transfer, physiological responses of plants, insects and pathogens to heat, and an introduction to current and potential quarantine treatments based on hot air, hot water, and radio frequency energy.
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This book discusses the various basic monitoring techniques available for emergency patients. The book elaborates on and explains monitoring techniques that can be easily performed in basic ER clinics and primary care clinics. This includes blood pressure, capnography, ECGs, pulse oximetry, and point of care monitoring ranging from the physical exam to bedside diagnostic tests like PCV/TP, urine specific gravity, blood glucose, and lactate. Each chapter is structured in the following way: basic physiology as related to the monitor, how the monitor/piece of equipment works, pros and cons of the monitor/piece of equipment, when not to trust the monitor, and clinical applications/examples of how to use the monitor in clinical settings.
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“A wise malice radiated from his features, and one always had the impression that he knew more than he was willing to say, that a shrewd reflection lurked behind his smiles. His quick wit and good humor were the delight of La Mauresque and its surroundings; a reminder through his quiet charm that the world could still harbor delicacy.” Mohamed Abdallah Oran, autumn 1954. At La Mauresque, a space symbolizing a whole country in turmoil, in the heart of the indigenous city of Oran, the doubts of its occupants multiply and questions abound. Journalists, politicians, novelists, poets and artists grapple with a pivotal moment in their countries' history. The old world is dying, while the new one is slow to emerge for them. Hesitations and initiatives abound. They are trying to navigate by sight in an ocean so vast that it merges with the horizon; a horizon they sometimes seem to forget, but which the author has tried to give readers a constant view of through his novel: Le Vent a dit son Nom (The Wind Has Said Its Name). Multiplying references to emblematic figures in the awakening of consciences to freedom, Mohamed Abdallah attempts to offer a fresh look at the role that men of letters, intellectuals and, more generally, people of culture can play, at a time when a Nation is preparing to face new trials. These are themes that still resonate today.
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Edgar Winds Habilitationsschrift von 1934 ist eine originelle Deutung der modernen Physik aus dem Umkreis des Neukantianismus und des amerikanischen Pragmatismus. Wind formuliert darin seine Theorie der „symbolischen Repräsentation“
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Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Spanish, Dutch and the First and Second British world orders. It identifies their common features in order to find the most salient causes for their rise as world powers, and the most probable reasons for their decline. The second half of the book addresses the American world order in the 20th century, from Pax Americana to the End of US Hegemony. The author sees the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resurgence of the US as evidence of the role played by normative dimensions, commonly underestimated in International Relations analysis. Theoretically challenging, Knutsen's volume provides a fresh approach to debates in international relations aimed at both students and scholars.
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Postharvest is an important element of getting fresh, high quality fruit to the consumer and technological advances continue to outpace infrastructure. This book provides valuable, up-to-date information on postharvest handling of seven fruit and nut crops: almonds, figs, table grapes, pistachio, persimmon, peach and pomegranate. These crops are of particular importance in the Mediterranean region, but also to those countries that export and import these crops, where intensive economic resources are dedicated to developing information to understand and solve their postharvest problems. Written by a team of internationally-recognised postharvest experts, this manual collates and verifies essential but often difficult to access information on these important crops, pertinent for the World economics that affect agricultural communities. The book - Covers relevant postharvest topics for each crop across the growing, packing, shipping and retail postharvest phases - Has an emphasis on knowledge useful to solve current worldwide industry problems - Includes practical recommendations - Makes available information previously published in other languages This is must-have manual for growers and commodity handlers, cold storage managers, transportation personnel, produce managers and retail handlers, or anyone in the food chain that packs, transports, stores and sells these fruits and nuts.
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Lassen wir den Wind sprechen, ein Roman, der den Autor fast drei Jahrzehnte beschäftigt hat, schickt den Kommissar Medina in eine Zerreißprobe der Existenz, radikal zweifelnd, abgründig komisch: Seinem Polizistendasein in Santa María entflieht er nach Lavanda, wo er als Maler und Liebhaber dilettiert. Dafür lässt er sich von Frieda von Kliestein aushalten, einer Cabaret-Sängerin, die wie er selbst lieber mit Frauen schläft. Doch das ihm entrückte Santa María zieht ihn zurück. Und dort wieder angekommen, wird er schließlich als Kommissar die Ermordung Friedas untersuchen müssen, in die er selbst verstrickt zu sein scheint. Juan Carlos Onetti, 1909 in Montevideo geboren, ist, neben Borges, der andere große Autor aus dem Süden des amerikanischen Subkontinents. Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William Faulkner – Onetti hat wiederholt die großen Romanautoren des 20. Jahrhunderts benannt, die ihn geprägt haben. An ihm selbst haben sich nachfolgende Schriftstellergenerationen nicht nur in Lateinamerika maßgebend orientiert. Sein langsam, aber stetig wachsender Ruhm hinderte die Militärregierung 1974 nicht, ihn für einige Monate zu inhaftieren. Nach seiner Freilassung emigrierte er nach Madrid, wo er 1994 starb. Im Suhrkamp Taschenbuch sind die Romane Der Schacht (st 5038), Niemandsland (st 5039), Für diese Nacht (st 5040), Das kurze Leben (st 4849), Abschiede (st 5041), Für ein Grab ohne Namen (st 5042), Die Werft (st 4847), Leichensammler (st 4848), Der Tod und das Mädchen (st 5043), Wenn damals (st 5045) und Wenn es nicht mehr wichtig ist (st 5046) sowie eine Auswahl seiner Erzählungen, Die so gefürchtete Hölle (st 4992), und die Sämtlichen Erzählungen (st 5047) erschienen. Anneliese Botond (1922 – 2006), Lektorin und Übersetzerin, u. a. von Alejo Carpentier, Michel Foucault, Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Wien, 1938. Samuel Adler ist sechs Jahre alt, als sein Vater und die Familie alles verliert. In ihrer Verzweiflung verschafft Samuels Mutter ihrem Sohn einen Platz in einem Kindertransport, aus dem von den Nazis besetzten Österreich nach England. Samuel macht sich allein auf die Reise, außer einer Garnitur Wechselkleidung und seiner Geige hat er bei sich nichts – die Last der Einsamkeit und Ungewissheit werden ihn ein Leben lang begleiten.Arizona, 2019. Acht Jahrzehnte später steigen Anita Díaz und ihre Mutter in den Zug, um der Gewalt in El Salvador zu entkommen und in den Vereinigten Staaten Zuflucht zu finden. Doch ihre Ankunft fällt mit der neuen brutalen Einwanderungspolitik zusammen: Die siebenjährige Anita wird an der Grenze von ihrer Mutter getrennt und landet in einem Lager. Allein und verängstigt, weit weg von allem, was ihr vertraut ist, sucht sie Zuflucht in Azabahar, einer magischen Welt, die nur in ihrer Fantasie existiert. Wie aber soll sie zurückfinden zur Mutter? Isabel Allende hat eine fulminante historische Saga geschrieben, die miteinander verwobene Geschichten zweier junger Menschen, die auf der Suche nach Familie und Heimat sind. Der Wind kennt meinen Namen erzählt von den Opfern, die Eltern bringen, und es ist ein Liebesbrief an die Kinder, die unvorstellbare Widrigkeiten überleben - und die niemals aufhören zu träumen und zu hoffen.
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Die Heidnischen Mysterien handeln vom »Bilddenken« des Neuplatonismus und von seinem glanzvollen Ausdruck in der Renaissancekunst. Heidnische Mythologie, christliche Bildersprache, religiöse Spekulation und philosophische Reflexion verschmelzen zu jener »poetischen Theologie«, deren verschiedene Ausprägungen bei Philosophen, Dichtern und bildenden Künstlern der Renaissance (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des florentinischen Künstler- und Gelehrtenkreises um Lorenzo di Medici) aufgezeigt werden. Aus den Mosaiksteinen dieses Denkens rekonstruiert Wind allmählich das System eines »orphischen Pantheon« und lässt dabei seine ideengeschichtliche Explikation immer wieder in faszinierende Interpretationen bildkünstlerischer Werke der Renaissance münden.
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Organic cattle farming is on the increase, with consumer demand for organic milk and meat growing yearly. Beginning with an overview of the aims and principles behind organic cattle production, this book presents extensive information about how to feed cattle so that the milk and meat produced meet organic standards, and provides a comprehensive summary of ruminant digestive processes and nutrition. Since the publication of the first edition, global consumers have increasingly become concerned with the sustainability of meat production. Here, Robert Blair considers the interrelationships of sustainable practices and profitability of organic herds, reviewing how to improve forage production and quality, and minimizing the need for supplementary feeding using off-farm ingredients. This new edition also covers: - Managing a recurrent shortage of organic feed ingredients, due to increased GM feed crop cultivation worldwide - Current findings on appropriate breeds and grazing systems for forage-based organic production - Diet-related health issues in organic herds and the effects of organic production on meat and milk quality. Required reading for animal science researchers, advisory personnel that service the organic milk and beef industries and students interested in organic milk and meat production, this book is also a useful resource for organic farming associations, veterinarians, and feed and food industry personnel.
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Gene flow is a natural process that occurs spontaneously and enables the evolution of life. However, with the release of genetically modified organisms, concerns have focused on introduced foreign transgenes and their dispersal in nature through gene flow. This book examines gene flow of transgenes, such as herbicide resistance genes, with the goal of understanding the factors that may affect the process of gene flow. A greater biological understanding is essential to make sound management regulatory decisions when also taking into consideration the processes that happen in conventional plants. Monitoring, modelling, and mitigation are the three most closely related elements of gene flow. The book includes both scientific reviews and perspectives on gene flow and experimental case studies, including studies of gene flow in soybean and poplar. The authors present diverse views and research methodologies to understand transgene flow. This book: Focuses on applications of gene flow (monitoring, modelling, and mitigation); Includes both review chapters and case studies; Is written by international team of scientists currently working in gene flow. This book will be valuable for students and researchers in genetics, biotechnology, plant science, and environmental science. It also provides key insights of value to regulators of biotechnology as well as policy-makers.
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The current multi-pronged challenges of Indian agriculture demand for searching the viable alternative for restoring farmers and rural youths confidence in the agricultural vocation. Agri-enterprises offer such opportunities to help the agrarian communities to enhance their farm productivity and enhance income from the per unit of land and time. The present book on Agro-enterprises for Rural Development and Livelihoods Security is an excellent synthesis of scholarly concepts, cases and methodologies pertaining to enterprise promotion in agriculture and the related dimensions. For the benefit of the readers, the book has been divided into three segments. The first part deals with need for micro-enterprise promotion in agriculture, resource appraisal for micro-enterprise development, developing the self, characteristics of potential entrepreneurs and related aspects. The major aim of this section is to explore, unfreeze and broaden the cognitive and affective domain of the readers so that a desirable mindset among them may be created at the initial stage so that an effective learning may take place in the subsequent chapteIn the second dimension of the book, readers may find the description of varieties of technological options. These include the appropriate technologies and enterprises related to vegetable cultivation, protected cultivation, seed production, food processing, poultry farming, bee-keeping, dairy production and processing, fishery based enterprise, livestock and piggery based technological options having entrepreneurial potential. The successful experiences of the agri entrepreneurs are also shared in this section. The third and most important part of the book emphasizes on support system required to initiate and sustain the agri-enterprise. These include necessary management related interventions, trade, export, quality standards and other inter-related issues which would definitely enable readers to comprehend how to be successful agri-preneur. Besides, the role of civil society organizations for economic independence in rural India has also been narrated. On-line trading, project monitoring and evaluation and related issue for agricultural commodities are deliberated by the renowned authorities of the above fields.
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The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism. Focusing here on environmental issues, this book moves beyond the documentation of environmental impacts to examine in greater depth the intersections between religious tourism and the environment. Beginning with an in-depth introduction that highlights the intersections between religion, tourism, and the environment, the book then focuses on the environment as a resource or generator for religious tourism and the environment as a recipient of impacts of religious tourism. Chapters included discuss such important areas as disease, environmental responsibility and host perspectives. Covering as many cultural and environmental regions as possible, this book provides: An in-depth, yet holistic view of the relationships between religious tourism and the environment; A conceptual framework that goes beyond listing potential environment impacts; A strong focus on explaining the universality of the deeper environmental issues surrounding sacredness and sacred places. From a global writing team and featuring case studies spanning Europe and Asia, this book will be of great interest to researchers and students of tourism and religious studies, as well as those studying environmental issues.
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The Wind Knows My Name is a novel by Isabel Allende that tells the story of Samuel Adler, a six-year-old Jewish boy whose father disappears during Kristallnacht in Vienna, 1938. The novel seeks to lead the reader to reflect on issues such as uprootedness, solidarity, compassion and love, through these two stories that intertwine like two branches of the same tree. The author considers the humanitarian refugee crisis on the US-Mexico border to be tragic and dramatic, a crisis that governments, she says, are failing to put an end to, and she therefore called for the process to be ‘humanised’.
A trip that marked her life – an encounter that changed her forever. In the prime of her life, Helena Artigas is trying to fulfill her greatest dream: getting a Ph.D. For that, she must travel to Madrid, Spain, to take courses at Universidad Complutense. Despite great family resistance, she is determined to do it. During her trip, her most precious objects will fall into the hands of a stranger. Little does she know that this inconvenience will set off a journey that takes her not only across the Atlantic, but into her most intimate being and her deepest wishes. Maybe the past she is carrying on her shoulders will rise to meet her, or maybe the future brings a more promising horizon – just as long as there is enough time. Of Helena, Ildefonso Falcones, the author of the best selling novel La catedral del mar, has said: “Helena is a story told with a capital H, which in Spanish is a ‘mute’ letter, just like countless women are muted by their pains and the guilt they unjustly carry. This is a novel that is both sweet and hard, where illusion fights with reality, taking us to an unexpected ending.”
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