This book examines how street art transformed Medellín's Comuna 13 from one of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods into a thriving tourist destination, exploring both local community dynamics and global forces of urban renewal and touristification.Shaped by a long history of violence, political conflict, and forced displacement, Comuna 13 has undergone a striking transformation from the 2010s onward. This study traces the complex processes set in motion by street art interventi...

An examination of scientific controversies in which challenging the accepted position led to great intellectual rewardsThe word “hunch” has many definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary; this book’s title references this one: “A premonition or intuitive feeling that something . . . may be the case.” Such premonitions are often dismissed by those in academia and the institutional scientific community. Author Claudio Vita-Finzi, on the other hand, demons...

Seeking to draw parallels between the one and the whole, this work is as much a study of individual character as a critique of society and its institutions. Viewed through the lens of the enneagram, a personality system that divides people into nine character types, this analysis aligns each of the ailments and difficulties of the individual characters with the broader "ills of the world." In addition to providing a discussion of the theological and psychological background of the enneagra...

When unresolved grievances are amplified by tragedy, how long can the appearance of stability last?The noble families of Vurtgoren look forward to the wedding season, but not everyone is celebrating.For those who mourn their dead, vengeance is portrayed as the only way to find closure.As the two sides meet, is conflict inevitable, or will cooler heads prevail?The Price of Vengeance is the second book in The Great Fal...

Healthcare is a complex industry that requires efficiency, safety, and quality of care. Hospitals utilize structured problem-solving methodologies like the Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) cycle and A3 thinking to achieve these goals. However, many healthcare professionals lack formal training in these methods.Healthcare Kaizen in Action: 30 Case Studies for Rapid Improvement presents 30 real-life examples of Rapid Improvement Events (RIEs) in various healthcare settings. This boo...

A remote town. A desecrated grave. And a dead man who may not have stayed dead.When Brother Anselmo is called to investigate, old fears resurface—of restless corpses, forbidden rites and the sanguisugae: the dead who return among the living.As rumours spread and fear takes hold, Anselmo must separate superstition from evidence and uncover the human motives concealed behind ancient beliefs.But in a world where the dead are feared almost as m...

For the first time in English, the improbable detective of the impossible who has had great success in Italy!Geremia Solaris has returned to the places of his youth convinced that he can forget, at least for a while, the endless evil he experienced in Florence. But a strange message left by the librarian who introduced him to the world of books and who committed suicide thirty years earlier, under never clarified circumstances, will drag him into a dark reality he never imagined he...

Inside Healing Civilization, you will learn: (1) How we can promote individual healing by cultivating our "inner family" – a trinity of "Inner Father," "Inner Mother," and "Inner Child" that corresponds to our three centers, or "three brains": thinking, feeling, and doing, respectively – and how we can foster a balance of the healthy values and virtues associated with each member of this sacred trinity (2) How society as a whole can transcend patriarchy to create a new consciousness that e...

The English translation of this bestselling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native village.Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks to his past, Nok reconstructs a journey through the slums of migrant workers, the rice fields of Isaan, the tourist villages of Ko Pha Ngan, and the Red Shirt protests of 2010.Based on a decade of anthropological research,

This book connects the living realms of the church, the self, the neighbor and the world. It envisions our daily local and global life from liturgical spaces, places where Christians worship God. Through these relations, we can connect worship with economy, preaching with raising a village, baptism with forms of citizenship, ecology and the market, Easter with immigration, liturgical knees with colonization, spirituality with minority voices, all uttering prayers that name racism, poverty ...

The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women's shoes.We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made cheaply, but very little about the process when they are made beautifully. In The Perfect Fit, Claudio E. Benzecry looks at the craft that goes into designing shoes for women in the US market, revealing that this creative process takes place on a global scale. Based on unprecedented...

The present book is a collection of original manuscripts describing the rationale, the mechanisms and the clinical application of special dialysis techniques such as On-Line Hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF), Expanded Hemodialysis (HDx) and Hemoadsorption combined with Hemodialysis (HAHD): what we call today the 'triad of special treatments of uremia'. These extracorporeal techniques represent a new frontier in the area of extracorporeal blood purification for patients with end stage kidney disea...