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    The Woman Who Became Saint Teresa of Ávila

    "This brilliant fictional biography of Saint Teresa of Ávila breathes new life into a sacred subject" ( Booklist).She is Saint Teresa—known as a mystic, reformer, and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts that introduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society suffering through the repressive throes of the Spanish Inquisition. In Bárbara Mujica's masterful tale, ... Read more

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  • José Speaks Out

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    José Mujica is a former revolutionary, past president of Uruguay and climate activist.José’s speech to the UN is famous for criticizing the contemporary economy, the inequalities of the world and the consumerism that drives our daily lives and pushes us to buy more and more.José condemns our wasteful way of life, explaining that if we all lived like the average American we would need three earths. ... Read more

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  • Frida

    A Novel

    Mexican painter Frida Kahlo life, work, and love are examined through the lens of her sister in this dramatic biographical novel.Frida Kahlo, painter and cultural icon, lived a life of extremes. The subject of an Academy Award(c)–nominated film starring Salma Hayek, Kahlo was crippled by polio and left barren by an accident when she was a teenager. And yet she went on to fall in love with and ... Read more

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  • FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI

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    Edited by Robin Burgess ...
    This book is the first translation into the English language of a comprehensive study of opera and its constituent parts by an accomplished writer of the eighteenth century. Francesco Algarotti was concerned with developing opera as drama and a move away from the elaborate formality of the Baroque to a more naturalistic style. The Essay in its original Italian had considerable influence on the ... Read more

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  • Collateral Damage

    Women Write about War

    Edited by Bárbara Mujica ...
    From Homer to Tim O’Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children disproportionately suffer the consequences of conflict: famine, disease, sexual abuse, and emotional trauma caused by loss of loved ones, property, and means of subsistence.Collateral Damage tells the stories of ... Read more

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  • Bomarzo

    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    **“[Bomarzo] is a novel that will make any reader happy.... [A] novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around.” —Roberto BolañoA lavishly written gothic historical fantasy novel that centers around Pier Francesco Orsini, the tortured duke of Bomarzo and creator of the Italian town’s famously bizarre “Garden of the Monsters.”**Forty miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo, ... Read more

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  • Even Cats Love Mozart

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    Series Book 1 - Musica Medica
    It all began with a simple observation:Cats that relaxed in response to music. Animals that did not just hear sound, but seemed to experience it physically.Blending personal narrative with scientific reflection, Prof. Dr. Y. Schiftan explores how music directly interacts with the nervous system in both animals and humans.A book about a discovery that may fundamentally change how we understand ... Read more

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  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Explore freedom, power, and the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century with two extraordinary thinkersTwo world-renowned figures of contemporary politics come together to discuss timeless topics and debate alternatives for the future: José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay and an ex-guerrilla whose message of sustainability and common sense won him an international following, and ... Read more

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  • 1969

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    The year 1969 bridged two dynamic emotions: the despondency of ’68 and the hope born at Woodstock. How better to conclude such a year than with a concert by the Rolling Stones? Melvin Jackson, a British pop singer on the run from his family and still pining for the supermodel who got away, seems to think so - at least until the man sitting next to him on the plane from London to San Francisco dies ... Read more

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  • Simulation for a Sustainable Future

    11th Congress, EUROSIM 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 3–5, 2023, Proceedings, Part I

    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The two volume set CCIS 2032 and 2033 constitutes the proceedings of the 11th Congress on Simulation for a Sustainable Future, EUROSIM 2023, which was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during July 3–5, 2023.The 47 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are divided in the following topical sections: environmental sustainability ... Read more

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  • Musica Mathematica

    Traditions and Innovations in Contemporary Music

    Series Book 9 - Methodology of Music Research
    The concept of «musica mathematica*»* seeks to accurately examine the intersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans were the first in European culture to raise the issue of uniting music and mathematics, sound and ... Read more

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  • Applied Simulation and Optimization

    In Logistics, Industrial and Aeronautical Practice

    Presenting techniques, case-studies and methodologies that combine the use of simulation approaches with optimization techniques for facing problems in manufacturing, logistics, or aeronautical problems, this book provides solutions to common industrial problems in several fields, which range from manufacturing to aviation problems, where the common denominator is the combination of simulation’s ... Read more

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