Wendall and Ruby Forbes are confronting the vagaries of aging boomers: – sleeplessness, loneliness, memory loss, and the fear Ruby is showing signs of dementia.A blizzard hits their small town of Twenty-Six Mile House and a remarkable, perhaps unbelievable, band of strangers — : an Indigenous Colombian refugee, his environmental academic wife, an environmental academic, and their child; a young man on an accidental journey quest; a teenage activist and her ten-year...

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE BOYS OF ST. VINCENT, award winning author David Giuliano creates a story of trauma, humour and redemption. Catherine, a newly minted preacher, moves to Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated community in northern Ontario and befriends the quirky undertaker Billy Buffone who has a disturbing secret he has carried for almost two decades. A story inspired by true events. Billy’s best friend, now deceased, leads the reader through the traumatic events of today and those from t...

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE BOYS OF ST. VINCENT, award winning author David Giuliano creates a story of trauma, humour and redemption. Catherine, a newly minted preacher, moves to Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated community in northern Ontario and befriends the quirky undertaker Billy Buffone who has a disturbing secret he has carried for almost two decades. A story inspired by true events. Billy's best friend, now deceased, leads the reader through the traumatic events of today and those from t...

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE BOYS OF ST. VINCENT, award winning author David Giuliano creates a story of trauma, humour and redemption. Catherine, a newly minted preacher, moves to Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated community in northern Ontario and befriends the quirky undertaker Billy Buffone who has a disturbing secret he has carried for almost two decades. A story inspired by true events. Billy’s best friend, now deceased, leads the reader through the traumatic events of today and those from t...

Che cos’è l’inclusione e come si pratica nella scuola? Il volume intende rispondere a queste domande, introducendo il lettore all’interno del lessico, dei concetti di base e delle strategie che caratterizzano il discorso e la prassi dell’inclusione scolastica. Partendo dagli aspetti teoretici e da una definizione di inclusione come ricerca dell’eguaglianza formativa, attraversando il profilo dell’insegnante e del curricolo inclusivi, analizzando gli aspetti normativi che regolano l’inclusi...

Cibo e cambiamento climatico sono indissolubilmente legati. Grazie a un’analisi delle abitudini alimentari globali e regionali, questo libro offre una visione chiara di ciò che consumiamo e del suo impatto sul nostro Pianeta. E propone un’alternativa.Il cibo costituisce una tra le principali fonti di emissioni di gas serra ed è responsabile di circa un terzo delle emissioni globali, come dimostrato in numerosi studi accademici.Questo libro, che amplia un recente studio scient...

L'e-book raccoglie i dieci racconti finalisti della XXXI edizione del concorso letterario Trofeo RiLL per il miglior racconto fantastico, scelti dai lettori-selezionatori dell'associazione RiLL Riflessi di Luce Lunare fra i 437 racconti partecipanti.

Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. The chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography ...

“Io sono un uomo di sport. Non faccio un mestiere che possa permettermi di salvare la vita a una persona; che so, il medico, l’infermiere, il cooperante, il vigile del fuoco o chi sa cos’altro. Sono uno sportivo, mi nutro di emozioni in questa mia avventura lunga come tutta la mia vita e queste emozioni cerco di condividerle con coloro che mi seguono. Non so se le emozioni sportive possano aiutare a vivere meglio in questo momento di crisi economica, sociale e civile. In questo momento in ...

In the 1970s David Bowie, Cat Stevens, and Genesis were titans of the music industry, selling tens of millions of records and packing stadiums wherever they played. This is their story.

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.The first individuals to identify themselves as atheists lived in the 18th century during the Age of Enlightenment....

Es para mí un privilegio infrecuente y enorme que este libro sea accesible a una audiencia hispanohablante. El libro se presenta como una intervención social teórica en el ámbito del derecho internacional de las inversiones –un orden jurídico que moldea parte del tejido que materializa a la globalización económica–. El libro también brinda una crítica de las formas jurídicas que toma el pensamiento neoliberal. A la luz de estos dos objetivos, no parece haber una mejor audiencia para este l...