For ti år siden forsvant faren til Dr. Gabriella Mondini, og med ham forsvant også tillatelsen til å praktisere medisin. For i Venezia på 1500-tallet hadde man lite tro på at kvinner egnet seg for den slags. Moren er enig. Kan ikke Gabriella heller gifte seg og få barn? Den handlekraftige Gabriella nekter likevel å gi slipp på sin lidenskap for legeyrket. Hun bestemmer seg for å finne faren, som har lagt igjen spor i form av brev fra sin mystiske reise. Sammen med to venner bærer det av sted gjennom fortidens Europa, hvor utfordringer for kvinner står i kø. Krydret med detaljer om vitenskap, medisin, mat og galskap bygges denne enestående reisefortellingen opp som et klassisk eventyr. En kinesisk eske i bokform om familiebånd, å finne seg selv og hva man er villig til å gjøre for dem man er glad i. "En fortryllende debut". Kirkus Reviews. "Vakkert skrevet og full av interessante små drypp om vitenskap og medisin. En uforglemmelig debutroman." Cleveland Plain Dealer

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DESCRIPTION PostGIS is an open source spatial database extender for PostgreSQL. It equals or surpasses proprietary alternatives, allowing the creations of location-aware queries with just a few lines of SQL code, and provides a back-end for mapping, raster analysis, and routing applications with minimal effort. PostGIS in Action, Second Edition teaches readers of all levels to write spatial queries that solve real-world problems. After covering the background in vector, raster and topology based GIS, it quickly moves into analyzing, viewing, and mapping data. The book shows how to optimize queries for maximum speed, simplify geometries for greater efficiency, analyze rasters, vectorize rasters, better manage data utilizing topologies, and create custom functions for applications. It covers PostGIS 2.0 and 2.1 series, PostgreSQL 9.1- 9.3 features and shows how to integrate with other GIS tools. RETAIL SELLING POINTS Comprehensive coverage of PostGIS Applies PostGIS to real-world problems Significant updates to the first edition AUDIENCE Familiarity with relational database concepts is helpful but not required. This book is for programmers, GIS and DB practitioners, scientists, researchers, educators, and engineers. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY PostGIS (pronounced post-jis) is a spatial database extender for the PostgreSQL open source relational database management system. It's the most powerful open source spatial database engine. It also adds to PostgreSQL several spatial data types and over 300 functions for working with these spatial types.

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Regina Beach, sommeren 1942. Radioen er inne i sin gullalder, og radiostasjonen WHAR i New Jersey strever for å lage programmer som kan inspirere og underholde nasjonen i denne mørke tida. Forfatteren Jack Dulaney og sangeren Holly Carnahan ankommer byen for å lete etter Hollys far. Jack begynner å skrive hørespill for radiostasjonen, og etter hvert begynner han å mistenke at en nazistisk spionring bruker radiostasjonen til å arbeide ut i fra. Det ser ut som om forsvinninga til Hollys far kan ha noe med en engelsk skuespiller som forsvant for seks år siden å gjøre. Denne sammenhengen er det noen som vil gjøre alt de kan for å skjule, inkludert å myrde.

Regina Beach, sommeren 1942. Radioen er inne i sin gullalder, og radiostasjonen WHAR i New Jersey strever for å lage programmer som kan inspirere og underholde nasjonen i denne mørke tida. Forfatteren Jack Dulaney og sangeren Holly Carnahan ankommer byen for å lete etter Hollys far. Jack begynner å skrive hørespill for radiostasjonen, og etter hvert begynner han å mistenke at en nazistisk spionring bruker radiostasjonen til å arbeide ut i fra. Det ser ut som om forsvinninga til Hollys far kan ha noe med en engelsk skuespiller som forsvant for seks år siden å gjøre. Denne sammenhengen er det noen som vil gjøre alt de kan for å skjule, inkludert å myrde.

Only 10% of those who have sat at the cabinet table in Ireland in almost 100 years have been women, totalling just 19 female politicians. Along with the two former female Presidents of Ireland, all of the living members of this exclusive club are interviewed here for the first time, collectively bringing together their voices to reveal the challenges and triumphs of getting to the top table of Irish political life.The interviewees are Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese, Maire Geoghegan Quinn, Gemma Hussey, Mary O'Rourke, Nora Owen, Niamh Bhreathnach, Mary Harney, Sile de Valera, Mary Coughlan, Mary Hanafin, Joan Burton, Frances Fitzgerald, Jan O'Sullivan, Heather Humphreys, Mary Mitchell O'Connor, Katherine Zappone, Regina Doherty and Josepha Madigan.From the battles to have their voices heard, to balancing a career with family life, dealing with various levels of sexism and an enduring focus on appearance, their personal stories are dramatic, colourful and inspiring. In opening up about how they secured a place at the top table of political life, these women give us remarkable insights into a changing Ireland.'A fascinating and compelling read that couldn't be more timely.' Miriam O'Callaghan`A timely and important contribution to the contemporary reflection on women's historic and future place in Irish society and public life.' Emily O'Reilly, European Ombudsman.

Issue 66 of OEI is the first substantial presentation outside of Brazil of the poetry avant-garde movement poema/processo (process/poem), launched concurrently in Natal and Rio de Janeiro in 1967. Due to pressure from the military dictatorship the movement was brought to a halt in 1972, but several of the initial participants have continued their practices up until today (Wlademir Dias-Pino, Neide de Sá, Falves Silva). OEI # 66 – a 520 page montage of images and documents, translations of manifestos and key essays, and interviews and new essays by Fernanda Nogueira, Antonio Sergio Bessa and many others – also features presentations of three other all too unknown Brazilian avant-garde movements from the 60s, 70s and early 80s: poesia práxis, poesia marginal, pornismo. Content: Introduction // Proposition // Process – reading of the project // Halt – tactic option // Limit situation: distinctions & consequences // Process?/poem // Reading / writing // Poem out of process / 1 // Process?/poem: reading of products (of positions?), Wlademir Dias-Pino // Ponto 1 // [Presentation of Brasil meia-meia], Wlademir Dias-Pino // The system and the revolutionary openings, Moacy Cirne // The time of the poem, Álvaro de Sá // O Sol // Ponto 2 // Two or three things about poema/processo, Moacy Cirne Poema/processo. // Poetic radicality and dissent, Fernanda Nogueira // The avant-garde beyond the Avant-garde – The case of poema/processo in Brazil, Fernanda Nogueira // Intensified reading, expanded writing (a conversation with Wlademir Dias-Pino on intensivism, concrete poetry, process/poem and the visual encyclopedia) // A AVE (1956), Wlademir Dias-Pino // Processo 1 // Vírgula // Poema/processo: a new reading, Álvaro de Sá // The origin of the book-poem, Álvaro de Sá & Moacy Cirne // The poem and the electronic opening, Álvaro de Sá // Avant-garde: a semiological project, Moacy Cirne // Writing and information (on Wlademir Dias-Pino’s book-poems), Priscilla Guimarães Martins // Pages from A AVE (estudo crítico), Wlademir Dias-Pino // Pages from SOLIDA (critical study), Wlademir Dias-Pino // A AVE and SOLIDA by Wlademir Dias-Pino. The poetic semiotics as tactile and tactic device, Fernanda Nogueira // A Marca e o Logotipo Brasileiros, Wlademir Dias-Pino & João Felício dos Santos // Pré-História: uma leitura projetada, Wlademir Dias-Pino // Enciclopédia Visual, Wlademir Dias-Pino // Wlademir Dias-Pino’s white encyclopedia, Rogerio Camara // Unfolding processes (an interview with Neide de Sá) // Founding proposals of poema?/processo, Neide de Sá // Neide Sá’s process/poems, Eduardo Kac // Poema/processo & comics, Moacy Cirne // 12?x?9 (1967), Álvaro de Sá // The War of Words, Antonio Sergio Bessa // Theory of guerrilla art, Décio Pignatari // New language, new poetry, Luis Ângelo Pinto & Décio Pignatari // New poetry, new process: 8 points // Não ao não (1969/1970), Dailor Varela // Falves Silva – the transgressive eye, Jota Medeiros // The creative explovision of the process/poem, Falves Silva // Poema/processo in the Northeast (an interview with Falves Silva by Cristina Freire) // A Falves Silva poem, Dácio Galvão // Elementos da Semiótica, Falves Silva // New Latin-American Poetry (an interview with Clemente Padín by Cristina Freire) // How I connected with poema/processo?, Clemente Padín // The reading as an object of the eye, Almandrade // Working outside of the circuit (an interview with Almandrade) // BR.– Meia Meia– W. Dias-Pino, Almandrade // Brief synopsis of poema/processo, Álvaro de Sá // Poema-práxis (didactical manifesto), Mário Chamie // Poesia Marginal, Sergio Cohn // Intersemiotic poetry and experimental magazines (an interview with Omar Khouri) // Criticality and vertigo (an interview with Régis Bonvicino) // Middle Class & Co and other works, Regina Silveira // In the Mail Art Circuit, Regina Silveira // Making love to a Xerox machine (an interview with Hudinilson Jr.) // The Porn Art Movement: A Brazilian Avant-Garde, 1980–1982, Eduardo Kac // The search of the lost tribe, Libidiunga Cardoso // Seven Advertised Sonnets, Michalis Pichler // Cronograma do surgimento do poema/processo, Alváro de Sá

Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital's most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago's literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city's robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago's rich literary tradition finally gets its due.Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title-carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization-is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile.Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie's 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky's 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O'Leary's legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, "Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws." At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the "great American city."With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.

This book reports on the results of experiments to assess the effects of global climate change on the agricultural production of crops and livestock. It covers issues such as the CO. fertilization effect, the adverse effects of elevated levels of UV-B radiation and ozone on plant growth and productivity and on livestock. Combined effects are also studied including changign CO, temperature, and UV-B radiation and O simultaneously on crop growth. The chapter given an idea of teh overall global picture in terms of the effects already discussed. Changes in the world hydrological cycle, the regiona

<b>La saga de <i>Los pilares de la Tierra</i> y <i>Un mundo sin fin</i>, que ha cautivado a millones de lectores, prosigue ahora con la magn fica y apasionante nueva novela de Ken Follett.</b><p>Uno de los mejores <i>thrillers </i>del a o 2017 seg n Amazon y uno de los mejores libros publicados en 2017 para <i>The Washington Post</i> y Barnes & Noble.</p><p><i>Una columna de fuego</i> arranca cuando el joven Ned Willard regresa a su hogar en Kingsbridge por Navidad. Corre el a o 1558, un a o que trastocar la vida de Ned y que cambiar Europa para siempre.</p><p>Las antiguas piedras de la catedral de Kingsbridge contemplan una ciudad dividida por el odio religioso. Los principios elevados chocan con la amistad, la lealtad y el amor, y provocan derramamientos de sangre. Ned se encuentra de pronto en el bando contrario al de la muchacha con quien anhela casarse, Margery Fitzgerald.</p><p>Cuando Isabel I llega al trono, toda Europa se vuelve en contra de Inglaterra. La joven monarca, astuta y decidida, organiza el primer servicio secreto del pa s para estar avisada ante cualquier indicio de intrigas homicidas, levantamientos o planes de invasi n.</p><p>En Par s, a la espera, se encuentra la seductora y obstinada Mar a Estuardo, reina de los escoceses, en el seno de una familia francesa con una ambici n descomunal. Proclamada leg tima soberana de Inglaterra, Mar a cuenta con sus propios partidarios, que conspiran para deshacerse de Isabel.</p><p>Entretanto, Ned Willard busca a Jean Langlais, un personaje escurridizo y enigm tico, sin saber que tras ese nombre falso se esconde un compa ero de clase de su infancia, alguien que lo conoce demasiado bien.</p><p>A lo largo de medio siglo turbulento, el amor entre Ned y Margery parece condenado al fracaso mientras el extremismo hace estallar la violencia desde Edimburgo hasta Ginebra. Isabel se aferra precariamente a su trono y a sus principios, protegida por un peque o y entregado grupo de esp as h biles y agentes secretos valerosos.</p><p>Los aut nticos enemigos, tanto entonces como ahora, no son las religiones rivales. La verdadera batalla es la que enfrenta a quienes creen en la tolerancia y el acuerdo contra tiranos dispuestos a imponer sus ideas a todo el mundo... y a cualquier precio.</p><p><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION</b></p><p><b><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER <p>"Absorbing . . . impossible to resist." <i>--The Washington Post</i><b> <p></b></b></b>As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, <i>A Column of Fire</i>. <p>In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. <p>Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. When she becomes queen, all Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young monarch sets up the country's first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions, and invasion plans. Over a turbulent half century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. Elizabeth clings to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents. <p>The real enemies, then as now, are not the rival religions. The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else--no matter what the cost. <p>Set during one of the most turbulent and revolutionary times in history, <i>A Column of Fire</i> is one of Follett's most exciting and ambitious works yet. It will delight longtime fans of the Kingsbridge series and is the perfect introduction for readers new to Ken Follett.</p>

Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. Trap Door grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered "doors"-entrances to visibility and recognition-that are actually "traps," accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms. The volume speculates about a third term, perhaps uniquely suited for our time: the trapdoor, neither entrance nor exit, but a secret passageway leading elsewhere. Trap Door begins a conversation that extends through and beyond trans culture, showing how these issues have relevance for anyone invested in the ethics of visual culture. ContributorsLexi Adsit, Sara Ahmed, Nicole Archer, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Johanna Burton, micha cardenas, Mel Y. Chen, Grace Dunham, Treva Ellison, Sydney Freeland, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, Stamatina Gregory, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Robert Hamblin, Eva Hayward, Juliana Huxtable, Yve Laris Cohen, Abram J. Lewis, Heather Love, Park McArthur, CeCe McDonald, Toshio Meronek, Fred Moten, Tavia Nyong'o, Morgan M. Page, Roy Perez, Dean Spade, Eric A. Stanley, Jeannine Tang, Wu Tsang, Jeanne Vaccaro, Chris E. Vargas, Geo Wyeth, Kalaniopua Young, Constantina Zavitsanos

Velkommen til Villa Ro. Et avsidesliggende spahotel med luksus, velvære og meditasjon. Ni fremmede booker seg inn på Villa Ro. Sett utenfra, fører de ni helt perfekte liv. Men hver og en av dem skjuler svært uperfekte hemmeligheter. Løftet er at 10 dager ved Villa Ro vil forandre livet ditt for alltid. Men noen løfter er -- akkurat som perfekte liv -- kun en løgn... Umulig å legge fra seg, #1 Sunday Times bestselger og Richard &amp; Judy Bokklubb-valg. Fra den prisvinnende forfatteren av HBOs Big Little Lies. Oppdag den avhengighetsskapende og gripende Ni vilt fremmede før den sensasjonelle, stjernespekkede Hulu-premieren med Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Regina Hall, Many Jacinto, Bobby Cannavale and Luke Evans. 'En superspennende sidevender' Mail on Sunday 'Fantastisk' Times 'Twisten overrasket meg veldig' Marian Keyes 'Spenningen bare bygger seg mer og mer opp i en skikkelig underholdende thriller' Guardian 'Original, spennende, rett og slett briljant' Clare Mackintosh 'En av de morsomste, mest originale og mest velskrevne bøker jeg har lest.' 5***** Leser-anmeldelse 'Griper tak i deg fra første side' Sunday Express 'Jeg var helt hektet' Daily Mail «En av de få forfatterne jeg vil gjøre alt for.» JOJO MOYES «Moriarty skriver levende, morsomt og umoralsk!» THE SUNDAY EXPRESS

Korleis hindre djevelen frå å kome tilbake? Slik går skriftet om Djevelens avkom: Når denne boka blir opna, vil det skje. Da er tida inne. Kjære lesarar: De er hjelparane. De skal mane barnet mitt fram. Her. På denne staden. Frøet er planta allereie. Det spirer. Det gror. Men ingen ser. Ingen høyrer. Hjarteslaga til det svarte fosteret. Hysj. Høyr. Kor vart og stille hjartet bankar. Ein mystisk familie, kledd i gamaldagse klede, flyttar inn i nabohuset til Onu. Inne i ei grotte finn Onu og klassekameratane Alex og Irmelin svarteboka til Djevelen. I boka blir det fortalt om det svarte fosteret. Det nærmar seg Valpurgisnatt, natta då djevelen skal fødast på ny. Kva har den nye og merkelege nabojenta Regina med dette å gjere? Og kven i bygda er til å stole på? Djevelen vil alltid finne deg er noko så sjeldan som ein samfunnskritisk og gysande grøssar der lesaren sjølv må vere detektiv og finne djevelen.

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Du har øyne du kan se med, og en nese du kan lukte med. Men hva kan du gjøre med tungen, fingrene og tærne? Denne boken viser barn hvor mye morsomt og nyttig man kan bruke kroppen til!

"Bob Boilen’s book gets at something real and rare about the power of music."— New York Times Book Review From the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others—published in association with NPR Music. Is there a unforgettable song that changed your life? NPR’s renowned music authority Bob Boilen posed this question to some of today’s best-loved musical legends and rising stars. In Your Song Changed My Life , Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), St. Vincent, Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Cat Power, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), Jenny Lewis, Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia, Sleater-Kinney), Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), Trey Anastasio (Phish), Jackson Browne, Valerie June, Philip Glass, James Blake, and other artists reflect on pivotal moments that inspired their work. For Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, it was discovering his sister’s 45 of The Byrds’ “Turn, Turn, Turn.” A young St. Vincent’s life changed the day a box of CDs literally fell off a delivery truck in front of her house. Cat Stevens was transformed when he heard John Lennon cover “Twist and Shout.” These are the momentous yet unmarked events that have shaped these and many other musical talents, and ultimately the sound of modern music. A diverse collection of personal experiences, both ordinary and extraordinary, Your Song Changed My Life illustrates the ways in which music is revived, restored, and revolutionized. It is also a testament to the power of music in our lives, and an inspiration for future artists and music lovers. Amazing contributors Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia, Wild Flag), Smokey Robinson, David Byrne (Talking Heads), St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), James Blake, Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), Trey Anastasio (Phish), Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Sturgill Simpson, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Cat Power, Jackson Browne, Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Philip Glass, Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Hozier, Regina Carter, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, and others), Courtney Barnett, Chris Thile (Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers), Leon Bridges, Sharon Van Etten, and many more.