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Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
A modern classic for our time and for all time-this beloved, award-winning bestseller resonates with fresh meaning for each new generation. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Rita Williams-Garcia. Pura Belpre Award Winner * "Readers will be swept up." -Publishers Weekly, starred review Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances--because Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.
Kreditsicherungsrechte in der spanischen Mehrrechtsordnung
English summary: Stefanie Hellmich deals with mobile security interests in the multi-jurisdictional Spanish legal system. She analyzes the basis for property law, including particular security interests in the local jurisdictions of the autonomous regions Navarra and Cataluna, the provision of security collateral on usurious terms, the causa principle, insolvency law and the judicial execution law and takes a look at these in the context of European harmonization of credit interests law. As various attempts within the European Union for a direct harmonization of mobile security interests have failed, Stefanie Hellmich examines experiences with the interaction of mobile credit interests in th...
Installation Art and the Museum
Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks means that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials, and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analyzing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of traditional conservation--authenticity, artist's intention, and the notion of ownership--while exploring how these concepts apply in contemporary art conservation.
Southern Spain
Reproduction of the original: Southern Spain by A.F. Calvert
Never in Fear
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The Dreams of Santiago Ramón Y Cajal
The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal contains the lost dream diary of the Nobel Prize-winning "father of modern neuroscience" translated into English for the first time. The book explores the complex attitudes of Cajal towards his contemporary Sigmund Freud, whose theories he dismissed.
Whole Grains and their Bioactives
A review of various types of whole grains, the bioactives present within them, and their health-promoting effects As rates of obesity and other chronic conditions continue to rise, so too does the need for clear and accurate information on the connections between diet and disease, particularly regarding the cereal grains that dominate the Western diet. In this volume, editors Jodee Johnson and Taylor Wallace assemble a panel of leading experts to address this issue. The result is a comprehensive examination of the cereal and pseudo-cereal grains and their most important bioactive compounds. Not only does this volume offer summaries of existing research, it also places these findings within t...
Consumption as an Investment
This work explores the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present. This project is carried out with great skill, vigour and originality and will help to bring consumption studies to the mainstream of economic thought.
De Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries comp...
