These poems speak an odd nostalgia for what turns on, in, and alongside the world. A tragedy of loss, a miracle of eroticism, or a comedy of road kill, Odd Bloom Seen from Space looks at the self amid the ashes of fleeting exultation and uncertainty. The speaker tells stories with wild candor on matters of heroic inadequacy while searching through his obsessive questions for greater meaning.But it’s in the act of discovery, through the hero’s immediate ancestry that Welch’...

The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto RicoThe prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5-acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when first occupied over 2,000 years ago. Such a rich regio...

Margaret Millington is a wealthy, cynical, midfifties alcoholic, suffering from depression. Peter Kearns is a thirty-one-year-old Catholic priest with a burn-scarred face he mysteriously suffered as a young child. Fate brings the two together, and they develop an unlikely friendship that allows Margaret to witness the hope that the remarkable young man offers to people in a variety of seemingly hopeless situations, ultimately giving Margaret herself a new purpose in life. When the charisma...

Kaum jemand sucht Beziehungstipps für Liebe, Sexualität und Trennungssituationen mehr bei der Kirche. Und das aus gutem Grund, so der Moraltheologe Daniel Bogner. Dennoch sollten die Ressourcen des christlichen Glaubens für das Liebesleben nicht in Vergessenheit geraten. Bogner hilft sie zu bergen und in ein neues Beziehungsethos zu überführen, das an den Gabelungen des (Beziehungs-)Lebens Kraft gibt. Ein Buch, das mit dem Scherbenhaufen christlicher Sexualmoral aufräumt und die Vielfalt m...

The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism responds to a need to expand and refine the connections among nonhuman studies and American literary naturalism and to productively expand the scholarly discourse surrounding this vital movement in American literary history. This collection focuses on that which becomes visible when the human subject is skirted, or moved off-center: in other words, the representation of nonhuman animals and other vital or inert species, things, entities...

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Daniel Goleman, Jack and Suzy Welch, engage in a powerful discussion of what makes a great leader in this original audio program.The ideas expressed in Goleman's Emotional Intelligence decades ago have taken on a life of their own. They spurred a movement, with enthusiastic adherents in the business world, in medicine and healthcare, at home, in the field of education and the ...

It has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms, the created order, intensifies the mystery of the human even further. When the age of revolution was followed by the age of science, and the effort to shape the environment by technology was joined ...

This book offers a glimpse into the future. The companies it describes are pioneers, the first-movers in market shifts that will eventually become mainstream. These "hybrid organizations" – or what others call "values-driven" or "mission-driven" organizations – operate in the blurry space between the for-profit and non-profit worlds. They are redefining their supply chains, their sources of capital, their very purpose for being; and in the process they are changing the market for others. U...

Cet ouvrage mi-biographie, mi-discographie est une œuvre commune de Daniel Lesueur et Graham Welch.This part-biography, part-discography is a joint work between Daniel Lesueur and Graham Welch.

This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of garden lightshuddled like foothills, earth you coul...

Das Buch unterstützt bei der Anwendung der Verfahren für die Planungspraxis zur stätischen (urbanen) Verkehrssystemen und gibt Anleitung für die Interpretation der Ergebnisse.Neben direkten finanziellen Wirkungen verursacht städtischer Verkehr eine Reihe externer Effekte (u.a. Unfall-, Umwelt- und Klimakosten), die jedoch nicht von den Verkehrsteilnehmern, sondern von Dritten getragen werden. Der erste Schritt zur Beantwortung zahlreicher Fragen der Verkehrspolitik, der strategisch...

The first English translation of a radical and influential theory of art by a leader of Poland’s avant-gardeAfter World War II, socialist realism became the official state doctrine of art in Poland, with abstract works deemed counterrevolutionary and forbidden from public view. Władysław Strzemiński, a leader of the Polish constructivist avant-garde, developed a treatise of visual consciousness as a foundation for progressive art, emphasizing art’s autonomy. His ap...