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(The Icy Flame of the Fear)A man is killed in a horrible way while he?s travelling on a train travelling toward the Italian frontier: the assassin cuts him the ocular globes. E' la storia di una caccia a un grosos diamante, intricata, che coinvolge molti personaggi, omicidi efferati, colpi di scena e un finale stupefacente.

In these seven essays, Chen Pingyuan describes the evolution of the fictional genre during the transitional period of late Qing and May Fourth. In a broader perspective, he addresses the cultural changes that took place in these challenging times.Dans ces sept essais, Chen Pingyuan étudie l'évolution du genre romanesque lors de la période de transition de la fin des Qing et du 4 mai et évoque de façon plus large les changements culturels surve...

Race and Racism in Modern East Asia juxtaposes Western racial constructions of East Asians with constructions of race and their outcomes in modern East Asia. This groundbreaking volume also offers an analysis of these constructions, their evolution and their interrelations.

A special recommendation for any collection strong in multicultural settings, fables, and animal stories. - Midwest Book Review A funny and action packed story, glorifying motherhood. A Mother¿s love takes center stage to fight against all odds and propels Ganga to do something that dazzles everyone in Anand Nagar. Mother's Love Can Conquer Any Fear! is a positive message about bullying, teamwork and the power of a mother's love. Synopsis In t...

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A collection of essays which follow Christine Lowther's journey from the unutterable loss of her mother to the discovery of her own poetic voice through reflection and her intimate connection to the coastal rainforest. Lowther looks back on her mother's poetry and activism. She recalls the day the police arrested her father, and the indifferent beauty surrounding that life-changing moment.

This anthology presents a comprehensive review of mathematics and its teaching in the following nations in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. The last summary of mathematics education encompassing countries from the Southern Americas appeared in 1966. Progress i...

Patient Assessment in Pharmacy: A Culturally Competent Approach thoroughly prepares pharmacy students to assess patients from a variety of cultural and ethnic groups in a culturally appropriate manner. Featuring a practical approach, this essential resource begins by establishing the importance of culturally competent care as well as the process for conducting a patient history and interview. Later chapters focus on specific organ systems and ...

After suffering an emotionally-brutal bereavement and against her counsellor's advice, Jackie ran away. Suddenly within a new culture, with a new husband, and no friends, she was living in the obscure world of cruising with zero knowledge of boats. Crashing within the first twenty-four hours, Jackie realised life would never be the same again, a floating home with no fridge or hot water, and with a dinghy instead of a car. Suffering self doubt...

Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together specially commissioned articles from leading scholars of late antique philosophy and literature. Their examinations show that Plato is the single most important and influential literary figure used to frame the literature of this time. Plato in the Third Sophistic will help scholars an...

Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Brontë, Austen and Rossetti.

In Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero Marjolijn van Zutphen discusses the role played by the legendary warrior Farāmarz in the shorter and the longer Farāmarznāme, compared to his appearances in several other later epic poems and in Ferdowsi's Shāhnāme.

In Market Supervision in the European Union, Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel compares the emergence of divergently structured supranational market supervision mechanisms in six different sectors of EU regulation and identifies common or converging constitutional benchmarks underlying those sector-specific administrative design developments.

Why plant trees that only provide shade when they could yield fruit as well? Why not take advantage of sunny patches at the outskirts of parking lots to grow carrots and strawberries, free for the harvesting? The idea that public land could be used creatively to grow fresh food for local citizens was beginning to gain traction when Public Produce was first published in 2009, but there were few concrete examples of action. Today, things are dif...

Relationships of speech tone and music have been intriguing me since my early studies in ethnomusicology and linguistics. Conducting fieldwork in Botswana in 1997 brought me in contact with a Bantu tone language of two tones, but in those days I had neither a matching methodology nor linguistic records that would have allowed me to focus on their relationship to singing and music - a recurring situation that is mentioned, among others, in Cath...

Der Verlust von Zahnsubstanz - umgangssprachlich umschrieben mit dem Begriff Abrasion - zählt zu den natürlichen Verschleißerscheinungen am menschlichen Körper. Auf der Basis von 262 weltweit zusammengetragenen Untersuchungen wird die bislang umfangreichste wissenschaftliche Studie zum Themenkomplex Abrasion, Attrition, Erosion/Korrosion bzw. Abfraktion aus osteoarchäologischer Sichtweise vorgelegt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der epidemio...

The study results indicated a high prevalence (>99%) of nematode infections with the most prevalent species beingthe caecal worm Heterakis gallinarum (98.5%), followed by the roundworm Ascaridiagalli(96.2%) and the hairworms Capillaria spp. (86.1%). Capillaria spp. were composed of C. obsignata, C. caudinflataand C. bursata. It can be concluded that chickens kept in free-range systems are exposed to a higher risk of nematode infections, even i...

Each issue of Orthopedic Clinics offers clinical review articles on the most cutting edge technologies, techniques, and more in the field. Major topic areas include: adult reconstruction, upper extremity, pediatrics, trauma, oncology, hand, foot and ankle.