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Sunspot Literary Journal believes in the power of the written word.
Sunspot speaks truth to power by drawing on the power of every human being. The publication is dedicated to diverse voices in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts and screenplays from around the world. Photography and art, ranging from collages to digital art, are featured in the digital-only quarterly editions.
Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot has showcased voices hailing...
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Este libro fue publicado en el contexto de la celebración del bicentenario de la independencia de Colombia, en 2010 Los textos que reúne rescatan mitos que aportaron a la fundación y la construcción de nación, por eso aparecen personajes como la India Catalina, Policarpa Salvarrieta Y Miguel Antonio Caro, además de episodios históricos como la pérdida de Panamá, el boom del café y la resistencia realista frente a la independencia en lo que...
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There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped through the cracks, went unread, missed their rightful appointment with posterity. They were ahead of their times or behind their times or on a whole different schedule than the rest of the universe.
What do you do when a book that you love has been neglected...
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For history and nature fans
• Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most beloved U.S. presidents of all time.
• Handsomely designed with more than 40 illustrations and photographs.
• A nice gift for history buffs and naturalists.
In addition to being a politician, frontiersman, and rancher, Roosevelt was an enthusiastic hunter who fought passionately for conservation. He played a significant role in setting aside land for the national parks. He...
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In this remarkable collection, 22 writers describe suicidal despair or mania-or coming to terms with a generational legacy of mental illness. Into Sanity includes personal essays by contributors from all over the United States and a preface by Mark Vonnegut, who judged the contest at Talking Writing magazine that sparked these true stories.
The media has paid more attention to suicide risks and depression in recent years, especially after the death...
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La universidad y, en particular, la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) se hallan en el centro de la atención pública, debido, principalmente, al debate actual sobre cuál es el modelo de universidad más adecuado para el desarrollo del país. Para hacer frente a esta demanda social, el Departamento de Humanidades de la PUCP organizó un coloquio internacional interdisciplinario en torno a las relaciones entre la universidad y la nación,...
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Great Britain is changing, and so is Europe. The aim of this book, therefore, is to reflect upon the processes of (re)creation of art and literature within and against the backdrop of the shifting paradigms of the world as we know it. At a time, when the political relations between Great Britain, Europe and the rest of the world are being redefined, this book examines the (de)construction of modern identities through the (de)codification of classical...
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After Shock marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler's, Future Shock. The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightful reflections on the classic text and presents compelling and surprising views of the future-through the very unique lenses of more than 100 of the world's foremost futurists, including David Brin, Po Bronson, Sanjiv Chopra, George Gilder, Newt Gingrich, Alan Kay, Ray Kurzweil, Jane McGonigal, Lord Martin...
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The Institute for Advanced Study in essays and photos
This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy, the book captures the spirit of curiosity, freedom, and comradeship that is a hallmark of this unique...
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"Winner of the 2012 Book Merit Award in the Professional, Reference category, New York Book Show" Donald J. Albers is senior acquisitions editor at the Mathematical Association of America. Gerald L. Alexanderson is the Michael and Elizabeth Valeriote Professor of Science at Santa Clara University. They are the editors of Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews and More Mathematical People: Contemporary Conversations.
Top mathematicians talk...
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Les chroniques de la commune de Saint-Gilles.
Commune de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Saint-Gilles a toujours été une zone de passage. Paroisse dédiée à saint Gilles en 1216, le village d'Obbrussel (Haut-Bruxelles) est traversé pendant des siècles par les marchands et les brigands, les rois et leurs armées, mais aussi par les épidémies.
Au XIXe siècle, la Révolution industrielle s'installe à Saint-Gilles, avec la gare du Midi,...
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¿Qué sentido tiene que un panadero haga pan solo para panaderos o un barbero que afeite solo a barberos? Lo mismo ocurre con la filosofía: los filósofos deberían escribir para todo el mundo y no solo para los iniciados. Los manuales de filosofía suelen centrarse en aquellas cuestiones de las que el filósofo se siente más orgulloso -el conocimiento, la política, la historia, la sociedad, la estética, la religión.
Sin embargo, hay otros temas...
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Mircea Pitici holds a PhD mathematics education from Cornell University, where he teaches math and writing. He has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.
The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 makes...
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American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics, government, and political communication designed to explore fundamental political principles through classic examples of political rhetoric. Now in its seventh edition, its selections include the entire political spectrum and contributors range from our nation's founders to contemporary elected public officials, Supreme Court opinions, and representatives...
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Creativity is power
Sunspot seeks out diverse fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography and art from around the world.
This year, discover Malick Ceesay's play, "a mascu-poem," which rivals the opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow, for emotional impact. Peter Newall plays words like notes in "Konrad's Bukovina Khosidl," while Jana Harris probes themes of gender, class, and art in and around 19th Century Paris with three poems from The...
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This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature-writers best known for novels, plays, and poems-and how they put the essay to their personal use. Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevski, Eliot, Faulkner, Flaubert, Gide, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Heine, Hemingway, Kafka, Kipling, Lawrence, Melville, Pirandello, Poe, Proust, Sartre, Tolstoy, Twain, Whitman, Wilde, Woolf, and Yeats....
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This book is the result of what happened when Liz Byrski asked 20 women from widely different backgrounds, races, beliefs and identities to take up the challenge of writing about rage.
The honesty, passion, courage and humour of their very personal stories is engergising and inspiring. If you have ever felt the full force of anger and wondered at its power, then this book is for you.
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Editor Erin J. Walter and contributors offer essays, interviews, and resources to revolutionize our understanding of ministry by lifting up the rich diversity of community ministries.
Community ministry is the fastest growing type of ministry in Unitarian Universalism and many ministers serve in some combination of parish and community work. But what is community ministry? It's not often clearly understood, and nonprofit work, justice movement leadership,...
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The Art Is Long: Primary Texts on Medicine and the Humanities gathers introductory texts in the growing field of medical humanities. This unique volume presents a lens with which to examine the intersection of literature and medicine with diverse selections that span time and the globe. With authors from Sushruta to Hippocrates, Margery Kempe to John Donne, and Susie King Taylor to Sigmund Freud, the volume also highlights the voices of women, people...
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