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Este libro adquirió un formato inesperado como resultado de haberme hecho una simple pregunta: ¿Por qué tengo que escribir De una manera determinada? Esto es lo que salió, y la pasé muy bien mientras lo hacía. Aquí están estas líneas, a las cuales ni yo mismo puedo definir.

Robert Lord (1945 - 1992) is an important figure in the history of literature and theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand. Co-founder of Playmarket and author of Well Hung, Bert and Maisy and Joyful and Triumphant, Robert Lord wrote incisive and often satiric radio and stage plays, experimenting with traditional theatre forms and incorporating queer characters at a time when almost nobody else did. His diaries, which record his life from 1974, when he first moved to New York, until his death in Dunedin in 1992, capture the highs and lows of his writing practice, the theatre world and his social life. Revealing the dramatic contrast between life as a gay man in 1970s and 80s New York - a world of sex, drugs and socialising - and provincial New Zealand, with its respectable living rooms, fields of carrots and the occasional homoerotic demonstration of sheep shearing, his diary entries tell of torn loyalties and reveal the intense creative momentum Lord forged from his dislocated, outsider status.

This two-volume set CCIS 2208-2209 constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 18th Colombian Congress on Computing, CCC 2024, held in Manizales, Colombia, during September 4-6, 2024. The 50 full papers and 5 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Artificial Intelligence; Pattern recognition and computer vision; Computational statistics and formal methods; Cyber security and information security; Data, information and knowledge; ICT for education and e-Learning; Industry 4.0 and digital transformation; Software engineering and automation.

Kevin es un joven de 20 años embarcado en un proyecto que lo definirá como periodista y como ser humano: liderar una investigación sobre el mayor violador y asesino en serie de niños en la historia. Ahora, al joven periodista lo conocen como «La biblia del terror». Vía telefónica, logra que Luis Alfredo Garavito acceda a concederle una entrevista exclusiva en la cárcel de La Tramacúa. Casi sin pretenderlo, el reportero descubre aspectos nunca antes conocidos de Garavito y revela que es el mismo hombre que aterrorizó a Colombia durante los noventa. Esta es la «crónica novelada» que magistralmente ha confeccionado Cristian Valencia en este libro

A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race TheorySince the publication of the third edition of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction in 2017, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in racially motivated mass shootings and a pandemic that revealed how deeply entrenched medical racism is and how public disasters disproportionately affect minority communities. We have also seen a sharp backlash against Critical Race Theory, and a president who deemed racism a thing of the past while he fanned the flames of racial intolerance and promoted nativist sentiments among his followers. Now more than ever, the racial disparities in all aspects ofpublic life are glaringly obvious. Taking note of all these developments, this fourth edition covers a range of new topics and events and addresses the rise of a fierce wave of criticism from right-wing websites, think tanks, and foundations, some of which insist that America is now colorblind and has little use for racial analysis and study. Award-winning authors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic also address the rise in legislative efforts to curtail K–12 teaching of racial history. Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition, is essential for understanding developments in this burgeoning field, which has spread to other disciplines and countries. The new edition also covers the ways in which other societies and disciplines adapt its teachings and, for readers wanting to advance a progressive race agenda, includes new readings and questions for discussion aimed at outlining practical steps to achieve this objective.

Despite significant improvements in many health outcomes over the past 60 years, many chronic problems in Indonesia's health system including financial sustainability, governance and inequities in accessing health care have long been apparent, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The epidemiological transition associated with demographic and socioeconomic change in recent decades makes Indonesia one of many countries that still struggle to address the issues of communicable, maternal and nutritional diseases while facing an increasing burden of non-communicable diseases. The contributors to In Sickness and In Health: Diagnosing Indonesia investigate challenges and opportunities facing the Indonesian health system and assess hurdles that Indonesians have to navigate in their quest to achieve a longer and better quality of life. Politics shaping recent health policy reforms in Indonesia, barriers to the supply of specialist doctors and quality medicines, availability of accurate health and population data, and the financial toll of the COVID-19 pandemic are among the topics discussed in this book. Accessing essential health services for mothers and children and for those living with disability, discrimination and mental illness, as well as an innovative trial to control dengue, are also examined.

Como se muestra en el libro, la compleja realidad de la transición a la vida adulta requiere de intervenciones individualizadas y adaptadas. Así, la juventud migrante presenta una situación notablemente diferenciada que requiere de estrategias propias. Son condicionantes específicos de los menores de nacionalidad no española, entre otros, el itinerario migratorio y sus consecuencias, los obstáculos legales y la estigmatización presente en los discursos sociales.En el libro se tratan estos aspectos tan presentes en la literatura científica sobre la cuestión, pero, al tiempo, se potencian líneas de investigación, hasta la fecha poco exploradas, como la de la presencia emocional de la familia de los menores no acompañados. En este sentido, el libro supone una notable contribución a la literatura científica sobre el proceso de transición a la vida adulta de la juventud en situación de vulnerabilidad y dificultad social. Los trabajos que se publican están realizados según rigurosos estándares académicos y científicos. Las voces de los jóvenes nos aproximan al valor del referenciado, especialmente el profesional que viene a paliar ese déficit de apoyo social tan presente en la juventud con medida administrativa de protección. En definitiva, la publicación aporta un conjunto de investigaciones de indudable valor para el conocimiento científico sobre la emancipación de la juventud y el tránsito a la vida adulta.

Despite the disapproval that'visibly'Muslim women face in the West, the U.S. does not ban the hijab or niqab. Nevertheless, it does find a way to manage assertive Muslim women. How so? Subtly and without outright confrontation: through the courts, bureaucratic processes and liberal discourses. From a range of juridical decisions connected not only by a distinctly neocolonial gaze, but also through the tacit dimension of race, Muslim women-among other women of color-are reconceived as neonates who must be taught to behave: as Americans, as professional women, and as autonomous, mildly independent subjects. Focusing on the discrimination claims of Muslim women, this study examines juridical and political approaches that dismiss Muslim women and other populations of color as culturally backward, misguided in their thinking, and gratuitously nonconformist. Likewise, it analyses the experience of racial dismissal through excruciation: the phenomenon by which vulnerable populations are pressed into hopeless performances of cultural assimilation. Racial dismissal is excavated through legal opinions, court transcripts, and other encounters between Muslim women and the state. Ultimately, this work finds that the racial address of dismissal and the phenomena of excruciation have been pivotal to a liberal juridical order that otherwise claims neutrality. By concentrating on the treatment of Muslim women, this book uncovers dynamics of social and racial division which have inhabited and bolstered liberal legal neutrality from its inception. This book's framework, while focusing on Muslim women in the U.S., is a template for understanding how exclusion is juridically implemented for other racialized and marginalized populations.

An inside look at the struggles former prisoners face in reentering society Every year, roughly 650,000 people prepare to reenter society after being released from state and federal prisons. In Halfway House, Liam Martin shines a light on their difficult journeys, taking us behind the scenes at Bridge House, a residential reentry program near Boston, Massachusetts. Drawing on three years of research, Martin explores the obstacles these former prisoners face in the real world. From drug addiction to poverty, he captures the ups and downs of life after incarceration in vivid, engaging detail. He shows us what, exactly, it is like to live in a halfway house, giving us a rare, up-close view of its role in a dense and often confusing web of organizations governing prisoner reentry. Martin asks us to rethink the possibilities—and pitfalls—of using halfway houses to manage the worst excesses of mass incarceration. A portrait of life in the long shadow of the carceral state, Halfway House lets us see the struggles of reentry through the eyes of former prisoners.

This book complies latest advancement in the field of environmental biotechnology. It focuses on topics that comprises industrial, environment and agricultural related issues to microbiological studies and exhibits correlation between biological world and dependence of humans on it. It is designed into three sections covering the role of environmental biotechnology in industry, environmental remediation, and agriculture. Ranging from micro-scale studies to macro, it covers up a huge domain of environmental biotechnology. Overall the book portrays the importance of modern biotechnology technologies in solving the problems in modern day life. The book is a ready reference for practicing students, researchers of biotechnology, environmental engineering, chemical engineering and other allied fields likewise.

'Uma ferramenta essencial para o mundo de hoje'. Stephanie M. Wildman, John A. e Elizabeth H. Sutro Professor of Law, Santa Clara University.'Sem dúvida, esta é a melhor introdução disponível sobre a Teoria Crítica da Raça. Os autores são escritores inspiradores que moldaram a Teoria Crítica da Raça desde o seu início até seu estado atual, como um movimento global interdisciplinar de estudiosos e ativistas. A Teoria Crítica da Raça fornece uma perspectiva radical e desafiadora que revela como o racismo molda a realidade cotidiana do mundo; dos tribunais e prisões, à economia, escolas, mídia e assistência médica'. David Gillborn, Professor de Estudos Críticos Raciais, University of Birmingham, Reino Unido A Editora Contracorrente tem a satisfação de publicar o clássico Teoria Crítica da Raça: uma introdução, de Richard Delgado e Jean Stefancic. Escrita por um dos fundadores da Teoria Crítica da Raça, esta obra é essencial para compreender a gênese e o desenvolvimento deste campo científico. A edição brasileira cobre as formas pelas quais outras sociedades e disciplinas adaptam os ensinamentos da Teoria Crítica da Raça e, para os leitores que desejam avançar uma agenda racial, inclui novas questões para discussão, visando delinear passos práticos para alcançar este objetivo. Nas palavras do Prof. Adilson José Moreira, que assina o prefácio à edição brasileira,'os leitores e leitoras desta obra devem se preparar para uma experiência que questionará muitas das premissas a partir das quais conceberam o funcionamento do sistema jurídico. Nada poderia ser mais necessário no momento no qual vivemos'.

New towns—large, comprehensively planned developments on newly urbanized land—boast a mix of spaces that, in their ideal form, provide opportunities for all of the activities of daily life. From garden cities to science cities, new capitals to large military facilities, hundreds were built in the twentieth century and their approaches to planning and development were influential far beyond the new towns themselves. Although new towns are notoriously difficult to execute and their popularity has waxed and waned, major new town initiatives are increasing around the globe, notably in East Asia, South Asia, and Africa.New Towns for the Twenty-First Century considers the ideals behind new-town development, the practice of building them, and their outcomes. A roster of international and interdisciplinary contributors examines their design, planning, finances, management, governance, quality of life, and sustainability. Case studies provide histories of new towns in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Europe and impart lessons learned from practitioners. The volume identifies opportunities afforded by new towns for confronting future challenges related to climate change, urban population growth, affordable housing, economic development, and quality of life.Featuring inventories of classic new towns, twentieth-century new towns with populations over 30,000, and twenty-first-century new towns, the volume is a valuable resource for governments, policy makers, and real estate developers as well as planners, designers, and educators.Contributors: Sandy Apgar, Sai Balakrishnan, JaapJan Berg, Paul Buckhurst, Felipe Correa, Carl Duke, Reid Ewing, Ann Forsyth, Robert Freestone, Shikyo Fu, Pascaline Gaborit, Elie Gamburg, Alexander Garvin, David R. Godschalk, Tony Green, ChengHe Guan, Rachel Keeton, Steven Kellenberg, Kyung-Min Kim, Gene Kohn, Todd Mansfield, Robert W. Marans, Robert Nelson, Pike Oliver, Richard Peiser, Michelle Provoost, Peter G. Rowe, Jongpil Ryu, Andrew Stokols, Adam Tanaka, Jamie von Klemperer, Fulong Wu, Ying Xu, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Chaobin Zhou.

This report provides an update on levels of global poverty and shared prosperity and explores which countries are on track to reduce extreme poverty to three percent by 2030 and beyond. It will explain why this challenge is so complex and what complementary strategies might be needed to make greater progress by 2030.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, ICSR 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunesia in December 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the Conference was held virtually. The 16 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: modelling, reuse in practice, reengineering, recommendation, and empirical analysis.

The 2020 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide.PLAY BALL! The 25th edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several statistics that were created by, and are exclusive to, Baseball Prospectus, and an expanded focus on international players and teams.Baseball Prospectus 2020 provides fantasy players and insiders alike with prescient PECOTA projections, which The New York Times called “the überforecast of every player's performance.” With more than 50 Baseball Prospectus alumni currently working for major-league baseball teams, nearly every organization has sought the advice of current or former BP analysts, and readers of Baseball Prospectus 2020 will understand why!

An Army squadron of paratroopers share the story of their fifteen-month deployment in Iraq in 2006.Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected by the squadron command team, Lieutenant Colonel Poppas and Command Sergeant Major Edgar. With just more than 400 paratroopers, they were half the size of a full-strength battalion and the smallest unit in the Panther Brigade.The squadron deployed to eastern Diyala in August, 2006. Despite their size, they were tasked with an enormous mission and were given the largest area of operations within the brigade. Appropriately for a unit known by the call sign of its CO—Headhunter—5-73 would go on to pursue various terrorist factions including Al Qaeda in Iraq. They got results, and 5-73 was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for launching the Turki Bowl campaign from November 2006 to January 2007 against insurgent groups in Diyala Province. However the toll would be heavy—the squadron lost twenty-two paratroopers during the deployment.Headhunter is a unique account of the War on Terror. It's a soldier's story, told by those very paratroopers who gallantly fought to tame Diyala. Based on dozens of interviews conducted by the author, the narrative describes the danger of combat, the loss of comrades and the struggles of returning from a deployment. The voice of the families left behind are also included, describing the challenges they faced, including the ultimate challenge—grappling with the death of a loved one. This book explores the human dimensions of loss and struggle and illustrates the sacrifices our service members and their loved ones make.Finalist, 2020 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardsPraise for Headhunter“A gut punch that pulls out the raw emotion of combat and the feelings of losing those closest to you. If one is unfamiliar with war, Headhunter will shock the senses.” —ARMY Magazine“A highly interesting and detailed account.” —Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International

How Hollywood cashed in on the latest tech boom-and changed the face of Silicon Valley.When Ashton Kutcher first heard about 50 Cent's nine-figure Vitaminwater windfall in 2007, the actor realized he'd been missing out. He soon followed the rapper's formula-seeking equity instead of cash for endorsement deals-but with a twist: as the first person to top 1 million Twitter followers, Kutcher leveraged his social reach to accumulate stakes in a vast range of user-hungry tech startups.A decade later, Kutcher is perhaps the brightest in a firmament of star investors from Beyoncé and Jay-Z to Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez. Bartering credibility and connections in exchange for early (and often discounted) access to the world's most coveted investment opportunities, this diverse group changed the face of venture capital while amassing portfolios packed with companies like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber. But how did two once-dissonant universes-Silicon Valley and Hollywood-become intertwined?Forbes senior editor Zack O'Malley Greenburg told the first chapter of Kutcher's transformation for the magazine's cover story in 2016. Now he offers a lively, page-turning account of how this motley crew of talent managers, venture capitalists, and celebrities helped the creative class forge a brand-new blueprint for generational wealth. Through extensive reporting and exclusive interviews with more than 100 key players-including Shaq, Nas, Joe Montana, Sophia Bush, Steve Aoki, Tony Gonzalez, and dozens of behind-the-scenes power brokers-Greenburg sheds light on the unlikely group that fundamentally transformed the value of fame.

Elliot Hersch is given a basketball on his tenth birthday and cuts a deal with his disapproving father: if he makes straight As, he is allowed to play. Modeling his game on the basketball heroes of his time--Clyde Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, and especially Larry Bird--Elliot becomes one of the finest high school basketball players in New York. Trying to steer clear of the corruption and sleaze in the big college programs, Elliott signs with the seemingly clean-cut University of Southern Arizona (USA), partly to fulfill his promise to his father, whose one piece of advice about life is: Tell the truth, always. A quote from Chaucer, his father's favorite writer, guides both father and son'Trouthe is the hyest thing that man may kepe.'What he finds at the USA and then the NBA is a far cry from untarnished'trouthe.'Elliott is challenged at every turn, tangling at the end of the day with what is most true: the game. Can Elliott truly play basketball? And if not, what is left of his life? Trouthe, Lies, and Basketball is an epic comic tale--structured somewhat like a gripping basketball game, completely with literary'time-outs'--of a basketball player coming to terms with the world as it is, his talents as they are. Rosen's characters, even the mostly unseemly, are all heart, and by the end they leave those hearts on the hardwood.

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Enter a world where money, muscle, and murder reign with three true crime books from the New York Times–bestselling author and Edgar Award finalist. Whitey's Payback: In this collection of sixteen stories culled from his journalism career, author T. J. English reveals the violent world of crime with in-depth pieces on everything from old-school mobsters to corrupt federal agents—including the most feared gangster in Boston history (and secret FBI informant), James “Whitey” Bulger, who vanished for sixteen years before finally being brought to justice. “Hard-hitting reporting.” —Anthony Bruno, author of The Iceman The Westies: They were the gang even the Mafia thought twice about fighting—a gang of young, wild Irishmen led by cold-blooded Jimmy Coonan and his loyal gunman Mickey Featherstone who ruled Hell's Kitchen with a bloody fist. Their savagery gave them power, but their quick rise would eventually lead to betrayal and their ultimate downfall in this tale of vengeance, ambition, and the last of the Irish Mob in New York. “A harrowing account of big city crime.” —Library Journal Born to Kill: This Edgar Award finalist chronicles the rise and fall of the infamous Born to Kill gang, a group of young Vietnamese men raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm who came to New York's Chinatown to make a new life, but instead brought death in their wake. Told from the perspective of one gang member who wanted more than a life of bloodshed and testified against his brethren, Born to Kill is a shocking account of the American Dream gone nightmarishly wrong. “Hard-hitting...torrid and fascinating.” —The Austin Chronicle

Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos” of mid-colonial New Spain. Even before the rise of the Aztecs, commoners in pre-Hispanic central Mexico set the groundwork for a new style of imperial expansion. Breaking free of earlier centralizing patterns of settlement, they spread out across onetime hinterlands and founded new and surprisingly autonomous local communities called, almost interchangeably, tlaxilacalli or calpolli. Tlaxilacalli were commoner-administered communities that coevolved with the Acolhua empire and structured its articulation and basic functioning. They later formed the administrative backbone of both the Aztec and Spanish empires in northern Mesoamerica and often grew into full and functioning existence before their affiliated altepetl, or sovereign local polities. Tlaxilacalli resembled other central Mexican communities but expressed a local Acolhua administrative culture in their exacting patterns of hierarchy. As semiautonomous units, they could rearrange according to geopolitical shifts and even catalyze changes, as during the rapid additive growth of both the Aztec Triple Alliance and Hispanic New Spain. They were more successful than almost any other central Mexican institution in metabolizing external disruptions (new gods, new economies, demographic emergencies), and they fostered a surprising level of local allegiance, despite their structural inequality. Indeed, by 1692 they were declaring their local administrative independence from the once-sovereign altepetl. Administration through community, and community through administration—this was the primal two-step of the long-lived Acolhua tlaxilacalli, at once colonial and colonialist. Pueblos within Pueblos examines a woefully neglected aspect of pre-Hispanic and early colonial Mexican historiography and is the first book to fully demonstrate the structuring role tlaxilacalli played in regional and imperial politics in central Mexico. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American ethnohistory, history, and anthropology.

Is love really enough? Angel became an instant millionaire when her abusive husband died. She uses her newfound future to make the world a better place by starting the Angel Foundation, but her emotional scars have yet to heal. Kevin is an actor fleeing from his fame. When Kevin and Angel meet, they are instantly mesmerized. When Angel doesn't recognize him, Kevin keeps his fame a secret. Meanwhile, Angel encloses herself in an emotional wall. On an emotional journey wrought with danger, they cling to one another. Twists. Turns. Attempted murder. Abduction. But when they unmask, what secrets will be revealed? Will those secrets destroy their connection?

Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and moreSince the publication of the first edition of Critical Race Theory in 2001, the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism, and the onset of an epidemic of hate directed against immigrants, especially undocumented Latinos and Middle Eastern people. On a more hopeful note, the country elected and re-elected its first black president and has witnessed the impressive advance of gay rights. As a field, critical race theory has taken note of all these developments, and this primer does so as well. It not only covers a range of emerging new topics and events, it also addresses the rise of a fierce wave of criticism from right-wing websites, think tanks, and foundations, some of which insist that America is now colorblind and has little use for racial analysis and study. Critical Race Theory is essential for understanding developments in this burgeoning field, which has spread to other disciplines and countries. The new edition also covers the ways in which other societies and disciplines adapt its teachings and, for readers wanting to advance a progressive race agenda, includes new questions for discussion, aimed at outlining practical steps to achieve this objective.

Aus einem guten Drehbuch, lautet eine alte Branchen-Weisheit, kann zwar immer noch ein schlechter Film werden, aus einem schlechten Drehbuch aber niemals mehr ein guter Film. Die meisten Drehbuchratgeber interessieren sich allerdings nur für die klassische Dreiaktstruktur. Im Bereich des Autorenfilms sind Manuale für Praktiker rar, genauso wie detaillierte filmwissenschaftliche Analysen. Ausgehend von einer Einführung in die Mainstream-Dramaturgie und -Figurenzeichnung spürt dieses Buch deshalb alternativen Erzählweisen nach - jenen des sozialrealistischen Arthouse-Kinos. Obwohl viele von dessen Vertretern reihenweise Kritiker und Festivaljurys begeistern sowie an der Kinokasse überaus erfolgreich sind, wurde seine Dramaturgie bisher kaum näher untersucht, sondern höchstens vage als'episch'oder'dem Leben nachempfunden'umschrieben. Bei genauem Hinsehen folgen die Filme aber überraschend oft klaren Mustern, die das klassische Aufbaugerüst systematisch modifizieren. Dies wird anhand von 18 Werken des jeune cinéma français, der Brüder Dardenne, Ken Loachs sowie der Neuen Berliner Schule nachgewiesen. So bietet das Buch einerseits eine fundierte filmwissenschaftliche Analyse, andererseits aber auch wertvolle dramaturgische Anregungen für Praktiker.

This Year Book, now in its 115th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities and is the Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities. The first two chapters of Part I examine Jewish immigrant groups to the US and Jewish life on campus. Chapters on “National Affairs” and “Jewish Communal Affairs” analyze the year's events. Three chapters analyze the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and world Jewish populations. Part II provides Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, social service agencies, national organizations, overnight camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. The final chapters present national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; academic resources, including Jewish Studies Programs, books, articles websites, and research libraries; and lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries. For those interested in the North American Jewish community—scholars, service providers, volunteers—this volume undoubtedly provides the single best source of information on the structure, dynamics, and ongoing religious, political, and social challenges confronting the community. It should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in monitoring the dynamics of change in the Jewish communities of North America. Sidney Goldstein, Founder and Director, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, and Alice Goldstein, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University The American Jewish Year Book is a unique and valuable resource for Jewish community professionals. It is part almanac, directory, encyclopedia and all together a volume to have within easy reach. It is the best, concise diary of trends, events, and personalities of interest for the past year. We should all welcome the Year Book's publication as a sign of vitality for the Jewish community. Brenda Gevertz, Executive Director, JPRO Network, the Jewish Professional Resource Organization

You've got a great idea for an Apple Watch app. But how do you get your app from idea to wrist? This book shows you how to make native watchOS apps for Apple's most personal device yet. You'll learn how to display beautiful interfaces to the user, how to use the watch's heart rate monitor and other hardware features, and the best way to keep everything in sync across your users'devices. New in this edition is coverage of native apps for watchOS 2. With the new version of the WatchKit SDK in Xcode 7, your apps run directly on the watch.On Apple Watch, your app is right on your users'wrists, making your code closer than ever before. Create native watchOS apps by extending your iPhone app with a WatchKit Extension, giving your users quick access to your app's most important features and an intimate user experience that's always within arm's reach. You won't just be creating apps - with Glances to provide timely information, notifications to inform your users of the latest updates, and watch face complications to show your users data as soon as they raise their wrists, your watchOS apps will be the best the App Store has to offer. Any book can teach you how to make a watch app. This book will help focus your efforts and refine your app's feature set. Which features make sense on the watch? How should you organize them? You'll learn what to consider when judging watch app features, allowing you to come up with the best strategy for your app. You'll test your apps on real Apple Watch hardware, and by the end of this book, you'll be ready to ship to the App Store.What You Need:You'll need a Mac running OS X Yosemite capable of running Xcode 7 or later. To build your apps for your Apple Watch, you'll need to be running watchOS 2 or later, connected to a compatible iPhone.

A gorgeously photographed new take on flower arranging using local and foraged plants and flowers to create beautiful arrangements, with ideas and inspiration for the whole year.Roadside fennel, flowering fruit trees, garden roses, tiny violets; ingredients both common and unusual, humble and showy, Foraged Flora is a new vision for flowers and arranging. It encourages you to train your eye to the beauty that surrounds you, attune your senses to the seasonality and locality of flowers and plants, and to embrace the beauty in each stage of life, from first bud to withering seedpod. Organized by month, each chapter in this visually arresting and inspiring book focuses on large and small arrangements created from the flowers and plants available during that time period and in that place, all foraged or gleaned nearby. The authors reflect on surprising and beautiful pairings, the importance of scale, the scarcity or abundance of raw materials, and the environmental factors that contribute to that availability. Whether picking a small tendril of fragrant jasmine, collecting oversized branches of flowering quince, or making a garland of bay laurel, Foraged Flora is an invitation to seek out the beauty of the natural world.

Winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under'mandate'from the new League of Nations. In the end, fourteen mandated territories were set up across the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Against all odds, these disparate and far-flung territories became the site and the vehicle of global transformation. In this masterful history of the mandates system, Susan Pedersen illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, Pedersen examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life figures, including Lord Lugard, King Faisal, Chaim Weizmann and Ralph Bunche, the narrative sweeps across the globe-from windswept scrublands along the Orange River to famine-blighted hilltops in Rwanda to Damascus under French bombardment-but always returns to Switzerland and the sometimes vicious battles over ideas of civilization, independence, economic relations, and sovereignty in the Geneva headquarters. As Pedersen shows, although the architects and officials of the mandates system always sought to uphold imperial authority, colonial nationalists, German revisionists, African-American intellectuals and others were able to use the platform Geneva offered to challenge their claims. Amid this cacophony, imperial statesmen began exploring new means - client states, economic concessions - of securing Western hegemony. In the end, the mandate system helped to create the world in which we now live. A riveting work of global history, The Guardians enables us to look back at the League with new eyes, and in doing so, appreciate how complex, multivalent, and consequential this first great experiment in internationalism really was.

The essential guide to the 2015 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you're a fan or fantasy player—or both—you won't be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2015 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and more than sixty players and prospects from each team.Baseball Prospectus 2015contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams; projects each player's stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, which has been called'perhaps the game's most accurate projection model'(Sports Illustrated). Now in its twentieth edition, this New York Times bestselling insider's guide from Baseball Prospectus, America's leading provider of statistical analysis for baseball, remains hands down the most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind.

Takes A Fresh Look At Leslie Nielsen. This book is your ultimate resource for Leslie Nielsen. Here you will find the most up-to-date 174 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Leslie Nielsen's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, TCM Movie Database - TCM Remembers, Digger (1993 film), Blue Harvest, Harvey (play) - Adaptations, Rosie! - Cast, Superhero Movie - Cast, Anita Bryant - Notoriety, The Patriot (1986 film) - Cast, Spy Hard - Plot, Susan Clark - Career, Hee-Haw - Guest appearances, Day of the Animals - Cast, Spy Hard - Cast, Colin Mochrie - 1999–present, Institute for Revenge, Airplane! - Plot, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, George Kennedy - Career, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear - Cast, Vexed (TV series) - Critical reception, Spy film - Fantasy-oriented films and satire, Scary Movie 3, Van helsing - Films, Scary Movie 4 - Cast, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Guest stars and other actors, Chance of a Lifetime (1991 film), Oxford Union - Notable speakers, Armstrong Circle Theatre - Guest stars, The Plainsman (1966 film) - Cast, Night Train to Paris - Plot, Cleavon Little - Later career, Surf Ninjas, The Vagabond King (1956 film), MTV Movie Awards 1992 - Best Kiss, John Collier (writer) - Teleplays, Uxbridge, Ontario - In film, The Vagabond King (1956 film) - Cast, Debbie Reynolds - Career, Peyton Place (TV series), Yukon - Arts and culture, Nuts (film) - Production, An American Carol, Leslie Nielsen - Airplane! and The Naked Gun, Brinks: The Great Robbery, Night Slaves - Cast, and much more...

A Testament To Julio Iglesias. This book is your ultimate resource for Julio Iglesias. Here you will find the most up-to-date 207 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Julio Iglesias's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Táta Vega - Appearances on other albums, Criteria Studios - Notable artists, Siempre en Domingo, Noche De Cuatro Lunas (Julio Iglesias album), List of Filipinos - Music and Composition, Romantic ballad - Some Latin balladeers, Julio Iglesias, Sr., Bahrain - Tourism, Duets: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition - Disc one, Montevideo - Intendants of Montevideo, José José - 1980s: International stardom, Secretos, Mexico's top singer, Patsy Cline - Cover versions of Cline songs, Moon Over Naples - Cover versions, Double-barrelled name - Practices by country, Amigos (Paul Anka album), Julio Iglesias, Jr. - Career, Julio Iglesias, Jr. - Personal life, Grease (musical) - International productions, Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - 1980s, Andraé Crouch discography - Appearances on other albums, Alejandro Fernández - 1999–2003: Mi Verdad, Entre tus brazos, Orígenes, Lo Nuestro - Premio Lo Nuestro a la Excelencia, Fragile (Sting song) - Covers, Dark Eyes (song) - Popular culture, Un Canto a Galicia, Kevin Jacobsen, Swept Away (Diana Ross album) - Track listing, Premio ACE, 1984 in country music - Academy of Country Music, Chabeli Iglesias, The Golden Girls - Recurring characters, Rhett Lawrence - Foundation as a programmer, arranger and studio musician, Enrique Iglesias - Early life, and much more...

New, enriched Cesar Romero. This book is your ultimate resource for Cesar Romero. Here you will find the most up-to-date 256 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Cesar Romero's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Lady in the Fog, Love Before Breakfast - Plot, Love That Brute - Plot, Debra Paget - Family Theater, The Golden Girls - Recurring characters, 1936 in film - Notable films released in 1936, The Mike Douglas Show - Guest co-hosts, Skidoo (film) - Production, Rat Pack - 1950s, Lust in the Dust, Captain from Castile - Cast, Springtime in the Rockies - Cast, TBS (TV network) - WTCG gets beamed via satellite, Pete and Gladys - Guest stars, Boze Hadleigh - Bibliography, The Gay Caballero - Cast, Ocean's Eleven (1960 film) - Others, Golden Boot Awards - 1986, The 4th Annual Golden Boot Awards, Skidoo (film) - Plot, Marriage on the Rocks - Cast, Ocean's Eleven (1960 film) - Plot, Burgess Meredith - Television, Week-End in Havana - Summary, Chico and the Man - Notable guest stars, Virginia Mayo - Hollywood stardom, Vera Cruz (film) - Plot, Julio César Romero, The Little Princess (1939 film) - Cast, 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards - In Memoriam, Mommie Dearest - Reaction to the book, Dolores del Rio - Television, Shirley Temple - 1935–37, The Hollywood Palace - 1966, The Cisco Kid and the Lady - Plot summary, The Cisco Kid and the Lady - Cast, Charlie's Angels - Notable guest stars, That Lady in Ermine - Cast, The Tracy Ullman Show - Guest stars, Katy Jurado - Hollywood (1951–1969), Captain from Castile - Plot, and much more...

Your Complete Anne Francis Biography. This book is your ultimate resource for Anne Francis. Here you will find the most up-to-date 141 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Anne Francis's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Bad Day at Black Rock, The Satan Bug - Cast, Richard Conte - Life and career, Barnaby Jones - Guest stars, 1968 in film - Notable films released in 1968, Anne & Gilbert - Other, Pancho Villa (film), The Rocket Man (1954 film) - Cast, American Civil War - Emancipation Proclamation, The New Breed (TV series) - Notable guest stars, Honey West (TV series) - Creation, Lydia Bailey, So Young So Bad, United States Civil War - Trans-Mississippi, Born Again (film) - Cast, Portrait of Jennie - Cast, Susan Slept Here - Cast, Pancho Villa (film) - Production, Ellery Queen (TV series) - Guest stars, partial list, Riptide (TV series) - Premise, Haunts of the Very Rich - Cast, Funny Girl (film) - Production, 1960 in film - Notable films released in 1960, Summer Holiday (1948 film) - Cast, Lost Flight - Cast, 1957 in film - Notable films released in 1957, Battle Cry (film) - Cast, Kraft Television Theatre - Background, Turner Classic Movies - TCM Remembers, 1965 in film - Notable films released in 1965, So Young So Bad - Cast, The Golden Girls - Recurring characters, Honey West (TV series) - Cast, The Girl of the Night (1960 film) - Cast, Rogue Cop - Cast, 2011 - January, The Crowded Sky - Cast, The Rebels (film) - Starring, The Untouchables (1959 TV series) - Guest stars, Claudelle Inglish, TCM Movie Database - TCM Remembers, and much more...

Alex Trebek is here! This book is your ultimate resource for Alex Trebek. Here you will find the most up-to-date 162 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Alex Trebek's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Howie Mandel - Later work, National Broadcasting Company - Tartikoff's turnaround, To Tell the Truth - 1990–1991, National Geographic World Championship, Jeopardy! broadcast information - Daily syndication era (1984–present), What Is... Cliff Clavin?, List of Jeopardy! contestants - Burns Cameron, Creston, California - History, Ladies Man (1999 TV series) - Cast, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host - 1990s, Ken Jennings - Media appearances and coverage during the streak, Merchandise based on Jeopardy! - Consoles, Mindy Simmons - The Simpsons (season 9)|Season 9, Markie Post - Career, Alex & Emma - People whose first name is Alex, National Geographic Society - Support for research and projects, Vega$ - Guest stars, Merchandise based on Jeopardy! - Books, Jose Chung's From Outer Space - Production, Roger Craig (Jeopardy! contestant) - Appearances on Jeopardy!, 30th Daytime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Game Show Host, Colonial Penn, The Golden Girls - Recurring characters, What Is... Cliff Clavin? - Plot, Bob Stewart (television producer) - Bob Stewart Productions, Will Ferrell - Saturday Night Live, David Duchovny (song) - Music video, I Lost on Jeopardy, High Rollers - Personnel, I Take Thee Quagmire, Alex & Sierra - People whose first name is Alex, Celebrity Jeopardy! (Saturday Night Live), and much more...

Hardly a season passes in which one or more South Bay football stars don't shine in major college or NFL play. Vince Ferragamo led the Rams to a Super Bowl, but in Wilmington, he's the pride of Banning High School. Before he was television's'Hunter'or an NFL All-Pro, Fred Dryer was an El Camino College and Lawndale High star. Wesley Walker snagged deep passes for the New York Jets but honed his skills under legendary coach Gene Vollnogle for the Carson High Colts, historically the top prep team in the South Bay. From the inspirational coaches like Mira Costa's Don Morrow and San Pedro's Mike Walsh to the greatest players raised here, author Don Lechman presents the full story of South Bay gridiron glory.

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Media Literacy Education in Action brings together the field's leading scholars and advocates to present a snapshot of the theoretical and conceptual development of media literacy education—what has influenced it, current trends, and ideas about its future. Featuring a mix of perspectives, it explores the divergent ways in which media literacy is connected to educational communities and academic areas in both local and global contexts. The volume is structured around seven themes:• Media Literacy: Past and Present• Digital Media and Learning• Global Perspectives• Public Spaces • Civic Activism • Policy and Digital Citizenship• Future ConnectionsCompelling, well-organized, and authoritative, this one-stop resource for understanding more about media literacy education across disciplines, cultures, and divides offers the fresh outlook that is needed at this point in time. Globally, as more and more states and countries call for media literacy education more explicitly in their curriculum guidelines, educators are being required to teach media literacy in both elementary and secondary education contexts.

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All peoples and cultures face environmental issues—but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history. Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework for exploring what other cultures can teach us about human/environment relationships.Drawing on both biological and cultural approaches, the authors first cover basic principles of cultural anthropology, environmental studies, and human biological adaptations to the environment. They then consider environmental concerns within the context of diverse means of making a living, from hunting and gathering to modern industrial societies; detailed case studies add depth and breadth to the discussion.

Includes new chapters with small, easy-to-understand words. Bestselling words!Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend hours upon hours each week on their fantasy sports teams. And as the Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst for ESPN, Matthew Berry is on the front lines of what has grown from a niche subculture into a national pastime.In his New York Times-bestselling Fantasy Life, Berry celebrates every aspect of the fantasy sports world. Brilliant trash talk. Unbelievable trophies. Insane draft day locations. Shake-your-head-in-disbelief punishments. Ingenious attempts at cheating. And surprisingly uplifting stories that remind us why we play these games in the first place.Written with the same award-winning style that has made Berry one of the most popular columnists on ESPN.com, Fantasy Life is a book for both hard-core fantasy players and people who have never played before. Between tales of love and hate, birth and death, tattoos and furry animal costumes, the White House Situation Room and a 126-pound golden pelican, Matthew chronicles his journey from a fourteen-year-old fantasy player to the face of fantasy sports for the largest sports media company in the world.Fantasy will save your life. Fantasy will set you free. And fantasy life is most definitely better than real life. You'll see.

More than a memoir of personal and political achievements, this volume chronicles a family's development from Mexican immigrants to American leaders. Written in an authentic and unique voice, this book describes how the author's Mexican parents, Apolinar and Sixta, instilled a love of learning, a desire to excel, and a commitment to community in their children. Relating how her heritage and upbringing allowed her to lead her community and promote social justice, the author conveys a courageous story of hope, love, faith, and a fighting spirit long committed to social and environmental justice, regardless of the personal cost.

Character Education for fifth grade students covers eight character traits (citizenship, honesty, fairness, responsibility, cooperation, respect, tolerance, and perseverance) in one book. Activities include definition of the theme and real-life examples, reflections on the theme, analysis of situations in which students determine if good character was shown. 184 pages.