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Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects. The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...

Communicating Globally: Intercultural Communication and International Business uniquely integrates the theory and skills of intercultural communication with the practices of multinational organizations and international business. Authors Wallace V. Schmidt, Roger N. Conaway, Susan S. Easton, and William...

Diccionario con los términos de economía y finanzas más habituales.

«Le persone possono trasformarsi in una lacrima o in un pugno – a volte la differenza tra le due cose è molto sottile» e racchiude la storia di un’intera famiglia. Dopo aver mandato all’aria il suo matrimonio, la scrittura ed essere fuggito lontano, Ari torna in Islanda per incontrare il...

È la tristezza degli angeli la neve che cade dal cielo illuminando i lunghi inverni d’Islanda, e che le raffiche dei venti trasformano in accecanti bufere. Il postino Jens è scampato a stento alla loro furia quando arriva alla locanda del Villaggio, soccorso dal ragazzo orfano che vi è stato...

Reykjavík, primi anni Cinquanta. In un piccolo appartamento seminterrato Sigvaldi e Helga toccano il cielo con un dito abbandonandosi alla loro giovane e travolgente passione e decidono di chiamare la figlia Ásta. Ásta come una grande eroina della letteratura nordica, Ásta perché ást in islandese...

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars?  As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind.  Alien artifacts:  what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? ...

Imagine: you are seated about a blazing campfire, your and the other bards. Tales of Achilles, Beowulf, Alexander, Odysseus, Conan, Tarzan, Joan of Arc and other heroes are told, along with new ones that carry on with the Jungian archetypes so central to our very nature. Men and women who brave the...

The Dark is coming! Call your friends over. You don't want to go through this alone. You will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and...

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian,...

NEW WARRIORS IN AN ANCIENT BATTLE… The ongoing battle against the immortal Elder Gods enters the modern age. Magic, mayhem, and murder no longer reign in dusty books discovered in decrepit libraries. Today's monsters can be called by more than uncanny rituals in candlelit basements. Madness...

Your favorite stories from childhood have a new twist. Seven fairy tales of old with characters across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Green Things Grow from Cinders by A.E. Ross – Glass slippers aren't for everyone. Gretel on Her Own by Elna Holst – This time around, Gretel Kindermann is...

Nineteen stories of triumph in the past, present, future, and other worlds“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”Those were the words of Mitch McConnell after he banned Senator Elizabeth Warren from speaking on the floor of the United States Senate....

Some of the best-loved stories in the world, originating in Persia, India and Arabia, retold especially for children.