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For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. The Church in America, historians insist, forged an "American Catholicism," a national faith responsive to domestic concerns, disengaged from the disruptive ideological...

Surgery in the pelvis freely crosses the boundaries between the disciplines of general and gynecology surgery, colorectal surgery, orthopedic surgery, vasular surgery and neurosurgery. Touching on this wide range of disciplines, this book, written by members of the Division of Gynecologic Surgery...

In my practice as a psychologist, I have witnessed how essential communication is in interpersonal relationships. Many family difficulties are the result of a breakdown in communication between husband and wife or parents and children. These problems can lead to further difficulties, including breaches...

Originally published in 1979. Decision makers at all levels need sufficiently detailed information on regional economic structure in order to undertake consistent and comprehensive regional planning. A means is put forward here, elevating the impracticable regional input-output method, to that of...

This edited volume is a collection of empirical scholarship that focuses on curriculum as knowledge connected to the Latinx diaspora from three perspectives: content/subject matter; goals, objectives, and purposes; and experiences. In an effort to fill a void in scholarship in curriculum studies/theory...

The small, terrestrial eastern red-backed salamander is abundant on many forest floors of northeastern North America. Dr. Robert Jaeger and many of his graduate students spent over 50 years studying this species in New York and Virginia, using ecological techniques in forests and behavioral experiments...

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...

Natacha voudrait être une vraie artiste, pas comme son père qui chante dans des boîtes un peu ringardes, se déhanchant debout devant tout le monde en pleine lumière et faisant des œillades à la salle pendant les chansons sentimentales. Sa rencontre avec Happy, une jeune chanteuse, va lui ouvrir de nouveaux horizons…

Der fünfte Band der Buchreihe "die Sinne" befasst sich mit der faszinierenden Welt der Gerüche. Sie nehmen im Leben eine ungeheuer wichtige Rolle ein und beeinflussen bewusst oder unbewusst unser Empfinden. Düfte vermögen plötzliche Kindheitserinnerungen und angenehme Erlebnisse aus...

Over recent years, much renal research has focused on the pathology of the glomerulus, where many primary renal insults occur. However, nearly thirty years have passed since Risdon's study made the apparently anomalous observation that the extent of damage to the tubulointerstitial compartment is...

En el presente volumen, primero de los cuatro que publican las ponencias realizadas en el Congreso Internacional "Filiación, patria potestad y relaciones familiares en las sociedades contemporáneas" organizado por IDADFE y el Departamento de Derecho Civil de la UNED los días 4 a 6 de...

(...) Dicono tutti che anche la musica, come la matematica, sia linguaggio universale e che tale linguaggio è comune, trasversale nelle varie culture; non è proprio così: una salsa colombiana è assai diversa da una paparuda romena o da un klezmer ebraico, non solo nel risultato sonoro, ma nel...

Kompakt und praxisnah vermittelt das Buch die Grundlagen interkultureller Arbeit in der Kita. Es gilt, den Umgang mit eigenen "kulturellen" Brillen und entsprechenden Erziehungsvorstellungen zu verstehen, und eine konstruktive Haltung im Umgang mit Vielfalt und Verschiedenheit einzunehmen....

Victor Hugo Paz Alvarez, conosciuto nel mondo come Hermano Ichu, è uno degli ultimi esponenti del popolo dei Curuhuambo. Vive nel villaggio di Chaupe, situato sulle Ande, a 2500 m. d'altezza, dove ha fondato il "Centro Nativo de Exploraciones del Espiritu del Hombre" per permettere la conoscenza...