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This book reviews various modified gravity models, including those with modifications in the pure gravitational sector; those involving extra fields, that is, scalar-tensor and vector-tensor gravity theories; gravity models with Lorentz symmetry breaking; and nonlocal gravity models. The authors discuss both classical and quantum aspects of these theories. The book is unique in bringing together all the current alternatives to Einstein gravity in one source and serves as an excellent starting point for graduate students and other newcomers seeking an overview.
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In Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that “incredible things are happening in this world.” The modernity he marvels over is the new availability of cheap and useful goods. Steven Bunker’s study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that “incredible things are happening in this world.” In urban areas, and especially Mexico City, being a consumer increasingly defined what it meant to be Mexican. In an effort to reconstruct...
Barra became interim president of Mexico in 1911 after the fall of dictator Porfirio Diaz, whom he had long supported, and ruled only a short time before popular insurrection and revolution swept the country. Drawing on extensive archival material, Henderson (history, Winona State U., Minnesota) presents a biography that portrays him as a reformer and bridge between the old and new governments. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Esta revista é um convite à reflexão e à ação evangelística, projetada para equipar e inspirar cristãos a cumprir a Grande Comissão de Jesus Cristo. Com uma abordagem abrangente, a publicação explora desde os fundamentos bíblicos do evangelismo até as estratégias práticas para compartilhar a fé em diversos contextos, como escolas, locais públicos, e até mesmo na internet. Além disso, destaca a importância de defender a fé cristã contra falsos ensinamentos e de alcançar aqueles que se afastaram da igreja, mostrando que o evangelismo vai além da simples proclamação, envolvendo também amor, compaixão e compromisso com a verdade do Evangelho. Os leitores encontrarão ...