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Dangerous Admissions

Autor: Jane O'connor

Número de Páginas: 370

Miranda "Rannie" Bookman—43, divorced mother of two, with a recent love life consisting of a long string of embarrassingly brief encounters—is beginning to feel like a dangling participle: connected to nothing. Her career as a copyeditor is down the toilet (she makes one little slip—a missing "l" from the last word in the title of the Nancy Drew classic The Secret of the Old Clock—and suddenly she's Publishing Enemy #1!), so she's been forced to take any gig she can get. And that means giving tours at the Chapel School, the ultra-exclusive, ultra-expensive, private academy that her children attend. Certainly not the most interesting of employments . . . at least until someone stumbles across the dead body of the Director of College Admissions. Investigating a murder was never in her job description, but with her soon-to-be-college-bound boy Nate a prime suspect, Rannie has little choice. Besides, who better to dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s than a self-proclaimed "language cop"? Her diligence might even lead her to a brand-new love. Or to a killer. Or to another corpse—hopefully not her own.

Congo

Autor: Michael Crichton

Número de Páginas: 269

Au cœur des forêts de l'Afrique tropicale, non loin des légendaires ruines de la Cité perdue de Zinj, une expédition de huit géologues disparaît dans des circonstances étranges. À des milliers de kilomètres de là, une nouvelle expédition se forme, dont fera partie une femelle gorille aux capacités étonnantes... L'un des best-sellers de Michael Crichton, auteur culte de Jurassic Park et La Variété Andromède Il existe, dit-on, des mines de diamants d'une pureté inégalée aux confi ns du Zaïre et de l'Ouganda. L'expédition envoyée sur place annonce qu'elle a localisé la légendaire cité de Zinj et son fabuleux trésor. Mais les images transmises montrent un camp de base dévasté, des équipements détruits, des cadavres, et la vision fugitive d'un visage de primate. Karen Ross, la responsable du projet, décide alors de mettre sur pied une seconde expédition, et réunit des compagnons dont elle découvrira bientôt à quel point leurs intérêts divergent... Pourrait-elle cependant compter sur Amy, une femelle gorille qui, dotée d'un ordinateur, peut transcrire ses pensées en paroles ? Sans quoi les membres de cette équipée, même s'ils réussissent à...

Guardias civiles, bandoleros, gitanos, guerrilleros, contrabandistas, carabineros y turistas en la literatura inglesa contemporánea (1844-1994)

Autor: José Ruiz Mas

Número de Páginas: 402

Varios personajes de la España de los siglos XIX y XX aparecen en la literatura inglesa, sobre todo en los libros de viajeros británicos, irlandeses y norteamericanos, con determinados perfiles literarios que los convierten en característicos, sin por ello llegar a resultar estereotipados o monolíticos. El presente libro analiza en especial la imagen literaria del guardia civil, y la de otros personajes que aparecen en los relatos de viajeros por España escritos en lengua inglesa entre 1844 y 1994. A través del estudio de un corpus compuesto por más de quinientas obras, se intenta reflejar una imagen del guardia civil compartida en el ámbito anglosajón. Además, se presenta dicha visión de la Benemérita contrastada con otras figuras que han ido poblando el paisaje español a lo largo de distintas épocas, como el bandolero, el gitano, el contrabandista, el turista o el carabinero. La imagen de éstos está mediatizada por los prejuicios personales, nacionales o ideológicos del viajero que narra, por su clase social, por su economía particular o por su conocimiento de la lengua y la cultura española.

Elliot Ross

Autor: Elliot Ross

Número de Páginas: 0

The Tariff in Our Times

Autor: Ida M. Tarbell

Número de Páginas: 266

Ida M. Tarbell's "The Tariff in Our Times" presents a meticulous examination of tariff policies and their socio-economic ramifications in the early 20th century United States. Employing a clear and persuasive prose style that merges rigorous research with accessible narrative, Tarbell adeptly illuminates the complex interplay between governmental decisions, business interests, and the American populace. Against the backdrop of burgeoning industrialization, her analysis reveals the multifaceted implications of tariffs not merely as economic tools, but as instruments that shape national identity and policy in a rapidly changing landscape. As a pioneering journalist and a formidable figure in the muckraking movement, Tarbell's insights are informed by her extensive background in investigative journalism and her commitment to social reform. Her firsthand experiences, including growing up in a Pennsylvania oil town affected by monopolistic practices, fueled her passion for uncovering systemic injustices. This personal connection to her subject matter imbues the text with both authenticity and urgency, making her arguments all the more compelling. I highly recommend "The Tariff in Our...

Morals of Economic Internationalism

Autor: J. A. Hobson

Número de Páginas: 57

In "Morals of Economic Internationalism," J. A. Hobson critically examines the ethical dimensions of international economic relations during the early twentieth century. The book employs a blend of analytical rigor and moral philosophy, urging a re-evaluation of the prevailing capitalist frameworks that dominate global trade. Hobson's literary style is engaging yet incisive, utilizing clear prose that makes complex ideas accessible. He contextualizes his arguments within the socio-political upheavals of his time, revealing how imperialism has shaped not only economies but also moral imperatives. J. A. Hobson, a prominent British economist and social critic, is best known for his opposition to imperialism and his advocacy for social reforms. His personal experiences during the Boer War deeply influenced his perspective on economic exploitation and moral responsibility. Through his extensive writings, including critiques of capitalism, Hobson developed a reputation for combining economic theory with ethical considerations, drawing readers towards a more just economic order. This book is essential for anyone looking to understand the moral implications of modern economic practices....

The Films of the Seventies

Autor: Marc Sigoloff

Número de Páginas: 433

This is a comprehensive filmography of American, British and Canadian feature films released during the decade of the 1970s. Nearly 1,000 films are listed alphabetically, each with cast (including the characters they played) and credits; release date; a five star rating system; production company; length; the Motion Picture Association of America rating of G, PG, R or X; various award winners are indicated with symbols; and a brief summary of major plot details and characters and an evaluation of its virtues or flaws. The box-office rentals of each film achieving $4 million or more are also indicated.

Imagining Judeo-Christian America

Autor: K. Healan Gaston

Número de Páginas: 361

“Judeo-Christian” is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but also a potentially dangerous one. From the time of its widespread adoption in the 1930s, the ostensible inclusiveness of Judeo-Christian terminology concealed efforts to promote particular conceptions of religion, secularism, and politics. Gaston also shows that this new language, originally rooted in arguments over the nature of democracy that intensified in the early Cold War years, later became a marker in the culture wars that continue today. She argues that the debate on what constituted Judeo-Christian—and American—identity has shaped the country’s religious and political culture much more extensively than previously recognized.

Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents

Número de Páginas: 1140

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Número de Páginas: 676

Chapitre 7 - Apprendre à reconnaître les autres : effet des émotions vocales

Autor: Virginie Beaucousin

Número de Páginas: 28

Ce chapitre se focalise sur la voix comme porteur d’information concernant l’identité et les émotions du locuteur. Il montre que les émotions vocales sont l’occasion d’apprentissage, car les informations véhiculées par la voix jouent un rôle important dans la mémorisation et la reconnaissance du locuteur. Ce processus, qui peut être altéré, permet des interactions interpersonnelles efficaces. Enfin, il souligne le phénomène facilitateur des émotions sur la reconnaissance d’autrui. DOI : 10.51926/ISTE.9042.ch7

Processus émotionnels en situation d’apprentissage

Autor: Marianne Habib

Número de Páginas: 288

Les processus émotionnels sont de plus en plus étudiés en psychologie, que ce soit à travers leurs modalités d’expression ou à travers leur effet sur les processus cognitifs. Si la théorisation du lien entre processus émotionnels et processus cognitifs a varié au cours des siècles, l’impact des émotions sur les fonctions cognitives est aujourd’hui indéniable et étayé par des arguments expérimentaux. Les processus psychologiques sont actuellement considérés comme étant nécessaires à l’émergence des émotions, ou influencés par celles-ci. Les apprentissages étant au coeur du développement de l’individu et faisant intervenir différents processus cognitifs, l’étude des processus émotionnels en situation d’apprentissage n’est bien sûr pas en reste. Processus émotionnels en situation d’apprentissage présente les apports de différentes disciplines de la psychologie dans la compréhension du rôle des processus émotionnels en situation d’apprentissage, dans une perspective développementale et vie-entière.

A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942

Número de Páginas: 648

Andrew V. McLaglen

Autor: Stephen B. Armstrong

Número de Páginas: 290

Here is a comprehensive survey of the film and television career of London-born director Andrew V. McLaglen. An opening biography considers the events and circumstances that contributed to his development as a filmmaker, including his relationships with his actor father Victor McLaglen, fellow director John Ford, and motion picture icon John Wayne, who collaborated with Andrew McLaglen on such films as McLintock! (1963), Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969) and Chisum (1970). An extensive annotated filmography covers every theatrical feature film McLaglen directed, as well as his television productions and the films he worked on prior to becoming a director. Appendices provide information on the numerous documentaries in which McLaglen has appeared, and a list of stage plays he has directed since his retirement from motion pictures in 1989.

A Dangerous Performance

Autor: Stephenia H. Mcgee

Número de Páginas: 294

History can change in the blink of an eye... Annabelle’s bravery unraveled a destructive plot and saved the president, but now the thwarted conspirators grow desperate. While trouble turns more deadly in Washington, Matthew and Annabelle escape to New York, where they have finally succeeded in finding Matthew’s brother. But breaking him out of Elmira prison is about as likely as saving her fractured inheritance. Protecting Annabelle put Matthew on the wrong side of some very dangerous men, but he’d do anything to save the woman he loves—even if it means keeping her from the truth. With time running out and an unexpected miracle testing what remains of his faith, Matthew must confront his fears or risk losing her heart forever. ★ A Dangerous Performance is a 2020 rewrite of the previously published title Losing Lincoln (The Liberator Series book two) Book two of three. The Accidental Spy series is an adventurous romantic trilogy following Annabelle Ross and Matthew Daniels. Please note these books must be read in order and that while each book has a complete storyline, the overall plot is completed throughout the trilogy. Don't miss these other titles from Bestselling...

Empathy I (Psychology Revivals)

Autor: Joseph D. Lichtenberg , Melvin Bornstein , Donald Silver

Número de Páginas: 375

When the late Heinz Kohut defined psychoanalysis as the science of empathy and introspection, he sparked a debate that has animated psychoanalytic discourse ever since. What is the relationship of empathy to psychoanalysis? Is it a constituent of analytical technique, an integral aspect of the therapeutic action of analysis, or simply a metaphor for a mode of observation better understood via ‘classical’ theory and terminology? The dialogue about empathy, which is really a dialogue about the nature of the analytic process, continues in this two-volume set, originally published in 1984. In Volume I, several illuminating attempts to define empathy are followed by Kohut’s essay, ‘Introspection, Empathy, and the Semicircle of Mental Health.’ Kohut’s paper, in turn, ushers in a series of original contributions on ‘Empathy as a Perspective in Psychoanalysis.’ The volume ends with five papers which strive to demarcate an empathic approach to various areas of artistic endeavour, including the appreciation of visual art. Volume II continues the dialogue with a series of developmental studies which explore the role of empathy in early child care at the same time as they...

Wired for Words

Autor: Gregory Hickok

Número de Páginas: 421

A critical synthesis of over 150 years of research on the brain’s networks that enable us to communicate through language. The neural architecture of language has been a hotly debated topic in neurology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy since the early 1800s. Is language separable from intelligence? Is it enabled by dedicated and localizable neural networks? Do we speak and understand with our left hemisphere? How did language emerge? Is language grounded in sensorimotor systems, or is it abstract and amodal? Will we ever have a clear picture of how syntax, the pinnacle of human linguistic prowess, is organized neurologically? Wired for Words answers these questions and more. Gregory Hickok tells the stories behind the big ideas, revealing the source of both modern progress and persistent myths. Drawing on decades of research using tools and insights from neurology, functional imaging, neurosurgery, linguistics, psychology, and engineering, Hickok builds a new understanding of the neural architecture—the components and connection patterns—of the brain’s language system from sound to meaning to speech.

Empathy I (Psychology Revivals)

Autor: Joseph Lichtenberg , Melvin Bornstein , Donald Silver

Número de Páginas: 344

When the late Heinz Kohut defined psychoanalysis as the science of empathy and introspection, he sparked a debate that has animated psychoanalytic discourse ever since. What is the relationship of empathy to psychoanalysis? Is it a constituent of analytical technique, an integral aspect of the therapeutic action of analysis, or simply a metaphor for a mode of observation better understood via ‘classical’ theory and terminology? The dialogue about empathy, which is really a dialogue about the nature of the analytic process, continues in this two-volume set, originally published in 1984. In Volume I, several illuminating attempts to define empathy are followed by Kohut’s essay, ‘Introspection, Empathy, and the Semicircle of Mental Health.’ Kohut’s paper, in turn, ushers in a series of original contributions on ‘Empathy as a Perspective in Psychoanalysis.’ The volume ends with five papers which strive to demarcate an empathic approach to various areas of artistic endeavour, including the appreciation of visual art. Volume II continues the dialogue with a series of developmental studies which explore the role of empathy in early child care at the same time as they...

An Accidental Spy

Autor: Stephenia H. Mcgee

Número de Páginas: 307

Some secrets change the world... Once a privileged heiress, Annabelle Ross is now struggling to hold her home and her life together through the devastation of the War Between the States. But with a forced marriage and a desolate future on the horizon, her hopes are beginning to dwindle. When she discovers an encrypted note on a dying soldier, she seizes the opportunity to use it to deliver a message of her own. Instead, she’s mistaken for a spy and captured. Now her only chance to escape is the handsome soldier in charge of discovering her secrets. After his brother is captured by enemy soldiers, Matthew Daniels vows to rescue him at any cost. When a secret society offers him a chance for retribution, Matthew must decide between his loyalties and his convictions. To prove himself, he’ll have to first unmask the spirited spy holding the key to their plans or risk losing his brother forever. ★ Book one of three. The Accidental Spy series is an adventurous romantic trilogy following Annabelle Ross and Matthew Daniels. Please note these books must be read in order and that while each book has a complete storyline, the overall plot is completed throughout the trilogy. ★ An...

Moral Combat

Autor: R. Marie Griffith

Número de Páginas: 433

From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control -- sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts, historian R. Marie Griffith argues, lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago. From the 1920s onward, a once-solid Christian consensus regarding gender roles and sexual morality began to crumble, as liberal Protestants sparred with fundamentalists and Catholics over questions of obscenity, sex education, and abortion. Both those who advocated for greater openness in sexual matters and those who resisted new sexual norms turned to politics to pursue their moral visions for the nation. Moral Combat is a history of how the Christian consensus on sex unraveled, and how this unraveling has made our political battles over sex so ferocious and so intractable.