Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four generations—as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mind...

The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political theory; and as a special aspect of the volume, theorist-filmmakers make their thoughts known as wel...

A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. BESEIGED: Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary character in the Outlander novels and a main protagonist of the Lord John novels, Diana's related series (Never before published) A FUGITIVE GREEN: Protagonist is Hal Grey, John's brother (Never before published) VIRGINS: Protagonists are Jamie Fraser at age 19, a...

"Dancing makes you feel heaps better" – DianaIn 1981, after the wedding of the century, Anne Allan, a dancer, and ballet mistress with the London City Ballet, was offered an unusual assignment. Her Royal Highness Diana, the Princess of Wales, wanted dance lessons. Would Anne be her teacher?Anne and her royal pupil were soon meeting at a private studio for the first of hundreds of secret weekly one-hour lessons that were never on the princess's official sche...

Feeling discouraged and need some encouragement?Read 31 Devotions for Writers, written by published authors who want to help encourage you in your writing through God’s written Word.Writing can often be discouraging. Some writers have spouses or children who don’t understand why they spend so much time on the computer. You may face a multitude of rejection from agents or publishers. Or you may not get encouragement in the form of reviews or be nominated for an award. So why...

Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend Ian Murray. Both are nursing wounds; both have good reason to stay out of Scotland; and both are still virgins, despite several opportunities to remedy that deplorable situation with ladies of easy virtue. But Jamie's love life becomes infinitely more complicated-and dangerous-when ...

En este primer tomo de la obra Investigación interdisciplinaria en ciencias físicas, ciencias de la vida, ingeniería e informática en la Universidad de Guadalajara, se presentan resultados de investigación disciplinaria en temas de contaminación y distribución del agua, análisis de propiedad físicas y mecánicas de materiales en la industria de la construcción y textil, ecotecnología para disminución de la pobreza, producción de recursos didácticos para el consumo responsable y finalmente l...

En el libro La formación en Comunicación: visiones de una formación futura. Experiencias significativas hemos querido compilar aquellas contribuciones asociadas a prácticas, investigaciones, ejercicios, desempeños y experimentaciones que han adquirido valía por su intencionalidad y alcance para el análisis de problemáticas o asuntos relacionados con el campo de conocimiento de la comunicación y que, en mirada prospectiva, podrían enseñar aspectos fundamentales para dimensionar el futuro de...

Sobre a obra Trajetórias do Direit Civil - 1ª ED - 2023 Estudos em Homenagem à Professora Heloisa Helena Barboza "A luz desse extraordinário itinerário, a homenagem é mais do que merecida, em razão dos extraordinários contributos prestados ao saber e às instituições do sistema de justiça. Deveras, pode-se notar que a obra Trajetórias do Direito Civil reúne estudos expressivos de professores e pesquisadores que analisaram temáticas atuais e clássicas do Direito Civil com o propósito de cola...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For writers looking to make sure their next physical interlude on the page inspires readers to share the moment rather than to laugh at it, bestselling author Diana Gabaldon divulges the writing secrets behind the sex scenes in her wildly popular Outlander****novels.“Ask me to your bed,” he said. “I shall come to ye.”In this revealing compendium, acclaimed writer Diana Gabaldon shares her invalu...

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ‘disaster’ or ‘catastrophe’ - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Palestinian plight.Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, documenting a watershed moment in the history of the moder...