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Shadows of the Past
A stalker in Madrid exposes deep secrets and tears a family apart. Daniela Lopez’s dance school business is just starting to find its feet when sensational newspaper reports about her father send clients running for the hills. Teetering on financial ruin, she finds that her only hope lies in Rafael Martin—the very journalist and love interest whose articles about her father drove away her students. Searching for answers draws Daniela into a deadly cat-and-mouse game. She must solve clues cryptic enough for a crossword puzzle. Together, Daniela and Rafael uncover a shocking secret in Spain’s ruggedly beautiful Basque Country. The question is: can they beat the stalker’s dead-line to save Daniela’s family? If you like intense romance, rich characters, fast-paced action and suspense, you’ll love Lucy Appadoo’s second book, Shadows Of The Past in the Women Of Strength Series.
Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil, countless enslaved and freed women and men appealed to court to claim their right to freedom or that of family members. Taken as a whole, these legal suits create a narrative against the institution of slavery. By analyzing 30 individual cases (1810–1881) from various parts of imperial Brazil, this book demonstrates the intricate strategies of argumentation that lawyers and plaintiffs conceived to prove the right to freedom of the parties involved and to convince the authorities of it. Enslaved per...
The Cop and the Sociologist
Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers whose job it is to contribute to the acknowledgement of difference, the sociologist outlines three ideal types of actors - an empathetic, a principled, and an opportunist one - and the motives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the specialist, is conspicuously absent. Why is that so? Solving this enigma helps depicting the relations to difference within police forces: it points to a specific »spirit« of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual in Germany.
Die Frau, die nicht wollte, dass ein Leopard sie verspeist
Was haben ein Arzt in Paris, dem ein Baby vom Himmel in den Arm fällt, ein brasilianischer Motorradfahrer mit einem Messer im Kopf, ein katholischer Pfarrer im Schwarzwald auf Verbrecherjagd und eine Inderin, die eine Dreiviertelstunde lang mit einem Leoparden kämpft, gemeinsam? Es handelt sich um Menschen, die in Situationen geraten sind, in denen sie Mut bewiesen haben. Ralf Hoppe hat jahrelang auf den ersten Blick ungeheuerliche, aber wahre Geschichten gesammelt, minutiös recherchiert und in literarischer Form aufgeschrieben. Herausgekommen ist ein Kaleidoskop der Wirklichkeit mit Menschen aus allen Erdteilen und aus allen Schichten, die einmal im Leben über sich hinausgewachsen sind und Außergewöhnliches geleistet haben.
Advances in Computational Intelligence
This two-volume set LNCS 9094 and LNCS 9095 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2015, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in June 2013. The 99 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on brain-computer interfaces: applications and tele-services; multi-robot systems: applications and theory (MRSAT); video and image processing; transfer learning; structures, algorithms and methods in artificial intelligence; interactive and cognitive environments; mathematical and theoretical methods in fuzzy systems; pattern recognition; embedded intelligent systems; expert systems; advances in computational intelligence; and applications of computational intelligence.
Fontanny milczenia. Miłość w cieniu dyktatury
Poznaj mroczne oblicze słonecznego hiszpańskiego miasta i zakazaną, pachnącą cytrynami miłość w czasach krwawej dyktatury Madryt, 1957 rok. Faszystowska dyktatura generała Francisca Franco skrywa niejeden mroczny sekret. Tymczasem zagraniczni turyści i biznesmeni, skuszeni obietnicą słońca, wina i szybkiego zarobku, napływają do Hiszpanii. Wśród nich jest osiemnastoletni Daniel Matheson, syn potentata naftowego, który wraz z rodziną przyjeżdża do Madrytu. Chłopak ma nadzieję, że dzięki obiektywowi aparatu nawiąże więź z krajem, w którym urodziła się jego matka. Fotografia — i przeznaczenie — stawiają na jego drodze Anę Torres Moreno. To właśnie z powodu pięknej pokojówki z madryckiego hotelu Castellana Hilton i wstrząsających wydarzeń Daniel pozna śmiertelny strach i prawdziwe szczęście. Gdy krok po kroku odkrywa tajemnicze losy rodziny Any, natrafia na świeże jeszcze rany i pulsujące bólem ślady po hiszpańskiej wojnie domowej. Fotografie Daniela ściągają na niego niebezpieczeństwo. Musi podjąć trudne decyzje, by chronić tych, których kocha.
Uneven Social Policies
Social policies can transform the lives of the poor and marginalized, yet inequitable implementation often limits their access. Uneven Social Policies shifts the focus of welfare state analysis away from policy design and toward policy implementation. By examining variation in political motivations, state capacity, and policy legacies, it explains why some policies are implemented more effectively than others, why some deliver votes to incumbent governments while others do not, and why regionally elected executives block the implementation of some but not all national policies. Niedzwiecki explores this variation across provinces and municipalities by combining case studies with statistical analysis of conditional cash transfers and health policies in two decentralized countries, Argentina and Brazil. The analysis draws on original data gathered during fifteen months of field research that included more than 230 interviews with politicians and 140 with policy recipients.
A Reluctant Warrior
A gripping novel that gives readers a rare glimpse into Colombia's notorious drug wars, told by someone who knows the landscape intimately. When Luzma's brother Jair unwittingly uncovers the plan by Colombia's most notorious drug cartel to smuggle an unprecedented cocaine shipment into the US, it puts their family in grave danger. Jair's kidnapping by the cartel forces Luzma to go face to face with vicious paramilitary leader, El Cubano, and General Ordonez, ruthless head of the military - men who will stop at nothing to protect their empires. But for Luzma, nothing is more important than saving her family - not even her own life. Kelly Brooke Nicholls worked in human rights in Colombia for a number of years. Although the story and characters in A Reluctant Warrior are fictitious, they are based on events she witnessed first hand and her interviews with thousands of victims of paramilitaries, guerrillas and drug cartels. She wrote this book to celebrate and support the brave people in Colombia who risk their lives to protect and make a difference to others.
Mi Profesor de Música
Daniela una joven estudiante de música, se enfrenta a todos para lograr alcanzar ser una excelente violinista, como lo fue su madre. La tierna y confundida joven vivía y se vestía de una manera no apropiada para su edad, empeñada por aprender a tocar el violín no pensaba en otra cosa que demostrarle a su profesor que aunque cometiera continuos errores en clases lograría ser una estupenda concertista. ¿Conseguirá aprender a tocar el violín? ¿Superara su inseguridades y volverá a ser la joven tierna y alegre que siempre había sido?Descubre que la llevo a vivir la vida gris en la cual estaba sumergida.
