“…Chase recently lost his girlfriend in a violent incident. Since then he has acquired a gun and taught himself to use it. …”

“…Every three years, when PISA results are published, the world’s media focuses on countries’ rankings in mathematics, reading and science performance. Often, what is lost in the subsequent national-level soulsearching about how to improve student performance is the fact that many countries have raised their game significantly since the first PISA test was conducted in 2000. …”

“…The primary findings of this report are: markets with infrastructure competition, and in particular where there is competition in both fixed and mobile networks, are delivering best practice performance in terms of market expansion; while there is evidence that monopoly markets are improved by the introduction of a second operator, developments in duopoly markets have been far from optimal, and substantial gains are being lost by delaying further liberalisation; competitive mobile markets are delivering the most employment gains; universal service applications and social gains are being enhanced by the application of competition in mobile telecommunication…”

“…Leadership is difficult--in our quest to teach leaders the secrets of success, we've somehow lost sight of this truth. Steven Snyder teaches leaders that leadership is a marathon, not a sprint; his book offers key strategies for navigating challenges…”

“…Hospitalised for five months, having lost his arm and told he would never walk again, Sam found his greatest opportunity in the midst of his greatest crisis and BOUNCED FORWARD into a new, better and more successful life. …”

“…Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is used to replace the capacity of blood filtration, which is completely lost in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This book examines RRT from a multidisciplinary perspective. …”

“…He usually told a story to enforce a truth, to save the time and temper so often lost in arguing. Lincoln's stories rank about midway between Esop's fables and the caricatures of the present day…”

“…Dhaka, a megacity with over 22.4 million residents, has progressively lost its greenspace over the past decade as the city has grown and urbanised. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…--The Apache who wouldn't be missed.--The hunt for the lost American.--How Quemado got Quemado.--Las Trampas.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sniffing out the Conundrums of the Coloquio / Innocents Abroad; Or, Lost in La Mancha: Teaching Don Quixote in the United States / Don Quixote as Museum / Writing to be Heard: Performing Music in Don Quixote / What is us? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: From Medieval Origins to the Enlightenment -- 1: Sacred Realms -- 2: Between Rituals and Texts -- 3: Christian Interlocutors and Jewish Memory -- II: Moving Local Jewish Heritage into Modernity and Its Destruction -- 4: Restoring the Lost Memory -- 5: Jewish Traveling Cultures of Remembrance -- 6: Worms 166; A Jewish Heimat on Borrowed Time -- III: After the Holocaust -- 7: Place and Displacement of Memory -- 8: Worms Out of the Ashes -- 9: The Presence of Absence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Healing Through Culture -- Ecological Amnesia -- Climate Tales -- Making Ruins -- Timothy Findley’s The Wars -- Echoes Across Generations -- Reconciliation Pole -- First Light -- Corroboration -- Ships at Sea -- Constructed Futures -- Artistic Silhouettes -- Material Past -- Critical Periods and Early Experience -- Releasing Trauma -- A Fishy Story -- Reconstructing the Past -- Documents of Dissent -- Anthems -- In Defence of Forgetting -- Monuments in Stone and Colour -- Microcosmos -- Time, Oral Tradition, and Technology -- Global 1918 -- Reweaving the Past -- The Digital Shoebox -- Indigenous Storytelling -- Self, Lost and Found -- Contributors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conflict, the common good, and redemption in The Mysterious Island, Lord of the Flies, Lost, and Gilligan's Island -- 10. Shipwreck and the selling of paradise…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Why We Talk the Talk We Talk / Big Fish / How (Not) to Make People Like You / Dissenting Commodities / Secrets, Lies and The Real Housewives / Karaoke Americanism Gangnam Style / 'When order is lost, time spits' / 'Famous in a Small Town' The Authenticity of Unpopularity in Contemporary Country Music / Making Christianity Cool / Listening to Bad Music / Hipster Black Metal? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Empire and Manure; 1. Lost in Translation: Globalization 2.0; 2. Less Is More: The Environmental Crisis; 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Notes; 2 Understanding today's public libraries; Notes; 3 Public libraries lost in the learning landscape; Notes; 4 Developing learning services in public libraries; Notes; 5 Digital citizenship in a learning community; Notes; 6 Information and knowledge in the learning society; Notes; 7 Technology for learning and citizenship; Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Why psychoanalysis has no history; CHAPTER TWO The trauma of lost love in psychoanalysis; CHAPTER THREE Civilisation and its dream of contentment: reflections on the unityof human kind; CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalysis and social democracy: a tale of two developments; CHAPTER FIVE A brief history of prejudice studies; CHAPTER SIX Reflections on women and psychoanalysis; CHAPTER SEVEN Sexual diversity in cosmopolitan perspective; CHAPTER EIGHT Women and children first!…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Professor Unidentified Blob is coming to get you ; Just tell us how to beat liberals already ; Go for their Achilles heel -- How to tip the scales. 11 tactics for debating liberals ; Liberty once lost ; If you know what you believe, prove it ; Read and improve your mind, my son -- What they believe (and why they're wrong). …”