Born Twice

Born Twice
Author: Giuseppe Pontiggia
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307425088

When a breach birth leaves Paulo severely disabled, his father, the articulate, unsentimental Professor Frigerio, struggles to come to terms with his son’s condition. Face to face with his own limitations, Frigerio confronts the strange way society around him handles Paolo’s handicaps and observes his surprising gifts. In spare, deeply affecting episodes, the professor of language explores the nuanced boundaries between “normal” and “disabled” worlds. A remarkable memoir of fathering, winner of the 2001 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary honor, Born Twice is noted Italian author Guiseppe Pontiggia’s American debut. Sometimes meditative, often humorous, and always probing, Pontiggia’s haunting characters linger and resound long after the book is done.

Long Live the Free Pericardium !

Long Live the Free Pericardium !
Author: Montserrat Gascon Segundo
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand France
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2012
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 2810622434

This book explains in a clear and simple way what life is and how it flows within our cells, between people and through people. It is a practical manual that will help us to "feel" life, to vibrate and breathe the life inside of our bodies and of all living beings. A key focus of this work is how emotional impact affects our pericardium, which is the membrane that envelops, maintains and protects the heart.

Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- Salsa Latin Jazz, Vol 64: Book & Online Audio

Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- Salsa Latin Jazz, Vol 64: Book & Online Audio
Author: Jamey Aebersold
Publisher: Jazz Play-A-Long for All Instr
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781562242220

Finally, an authentic collection of Salsa/Latin favorites. Complete with syncopations, voicings, and bass figures guaranteed to make you play in whole new ways and expand your musical awareness. There is no drumset on this recording. The percussion is purely Latin/American and the rhythm section is tight. This is like no other play-along in the series. Rhythm Section: Mark Levine (p); David Belove (b); John Santos, Timbales & Miscellaneous Percussion; Harold Muniz (Congas & Miscellaneous Percussion). Titles: Sabor * Linda Chicana * Mambo Inn * ii/V7/I Cha Cha * ii/V7/I Bolero * Afro Blue * Come Candela * Delirio * Manteca * Curacao * Philly Mambo * Mindanao * Picadillo.

Tejas Verdes

Tejas Verdes
Author: Fermin Cabal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2013-07-29
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1783194146

'We are not beggars. I am not here for you to cast your pity at me like breadcrumbs tossed to a cripple. Because I know you're listening to me; and my voice won't be silent, not yet.' Tejas Verdes ('Green Gables'), once a sea-side resort, was an infamous Chilean torture and detention centre during the early years following the Pinochet coup in 1973. Fermín Cabal's humane and powerful play traces the life of a young woman who vanished one night in Santiago. Beneath the tolling of the church bells, her voice and the voices of those who share her story ring out with poetic beauty and overwhelming love.

Revisiting Keynes

Revisiting Keynes
Author: Lorenzo Pecchi
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262281331

Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work, leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in the twenty-first century.

Continuum Mechanics for Engineers

Continuum Mechanics for Engineers
Author: G. Thomas Mase
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1482238705

A bestselling textbook in its first three editions, Continuum Mechanics for Engineers, Fourth Edition provides engineering students with a complete, concise, and accessible introduction to advanced engineering mechanics. It provides information that is useful in emerging engineering areas, such as micro-mechanics and biomechanics. Through a mastery of this volume’s contents and additional rigorous finite element training, readers will develop the mechanics foundation necessary to skillfully use modern, advanced design tools. Features: Provides a basic, understandable approach to the concepts, mathematics, and engineering applications of continuum mechanics Updated throughout, and adds a new chapter on plasticity Features an expanded coverage of fluids Includes numerous all new end-of-chapter problems With an abundance of worked examples and chapter problems, it carefully explains necessary mathematics and presents numerous illustrations, giving students and practicing professionals an excellent self-study guide to enhance their skills.

Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine

Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine
Author: Aharon Apelfeld
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1980
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780879237998

A tale of Europe in the days just before the war. It tells of a small group of Jewish holiday makers in the resort of Badenheim in the Spring of 1939. Hitler's war looms, but Badenheim and its summer residents go about life as normal."

Object Recognition by Computer

Object Recognition by Computer
Author: William Eric Leifur Grimson
Publisher: Mit Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2003-02-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262571883

This book describes an extended series of experiments into the role of geometry in the critical area of object recognition.