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Lonely Planet's Greece is our most comprehensive guide that
extensively covers all the country has to offer, with
recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences.
Explore the elegant Acropolis, climb to the magnificent Meteora,
and experience the vibrant culture of Athens; all with your trusted
travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet's Greece Travel Guide:
Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the
destination's best experiences and where to have them Itineraries
help you build the ultimate trip based on your personal needs and
interests Local insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel
experience - whether it's history, people, music, landscapes,
wildlife, politics Eating and drinking - get the most out of your
gastronomic experience as we reveal the regional dishes and drinks
you have to try Toolkit - all of the planning tools for solo
travelers, LGBTQIA+ travelers, family travelers and accessible
travel Colour maps and images throughout Language - essential
phrases and language tips Insider tips to save time and money and
get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Covers
Athens, Peloponnese, Central Greece, Northern Greece, Saronic Gulf
Islands, Cyclades, Crete, Dodecanese, Northeastern Aegean Islands,
Evia, the Sporades and Ionian Islands About Lonely Planet: Lonely
Planet, a Red Ventures Company, is the world's number one travel
guidebook brand. Providing both inspiring and trustworthy
information for every kind of traveler since 1973, Lonely Planet
reaches hundreds of millions of travelers each year online and in
print and helps them unlock amazing experiences. Visit us at
lonelyplanet.com and join our community of followers on Facebook
(facebook.com/lonelyplanet), Twitter (@lonelyplanet), Instagram
(instagram.com/lonelyplanet), and TikTok (@lonelyplanet). 'Lonely
Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's
hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's
everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to
travel the world.'Â Fairfax Media (Australia)
Considered the profession's ideal learning resource, DIRECT SOCIAL
WORK PRACTICE: THEORY AND SKILLS, Eleventh Edition, prepares you
for effective real-world practice. Packed with case examples,
illustrations and relevant learning experiences from the authors
and other social work practitioners, the text integrates the major
theories and skills needed for contemporary direct social work
practice. Part of the Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series, the Eleventh
Edition is completely up to date, exploring evolving ethical and
practice challenges, the impact of COVID-19, implications of
electronic service delivery, social injustice, Black Lives Matter
and other issues related to racial inequity. In addition, the
authors have carefully revised the text to incorporate
gender-neutral language and explore key structural implications
affecting clients and practice. The text thoroughly integrates the
core competencies and recommended practice behaviors outlined in
the 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) set
by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). As you're preparing
to practice social work in today's complex world, this trusted text
is an ideal resource to equip you for exam and career success.
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in 'the commons' based
on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and
management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge
exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows, forests and parks
to language, open-source software (FLOSS and Blockchain) and 3D
printers, the commons are distributed or common property
resources/infrastructures that are self-managed by their user
communities. While acknowledging the significant contributions that
can be made through commons-based peer production, this book
provides a critical examination of the commons with the aim of
contributing to their long-term sustainability. In particular, the
book examines the relation of Blockchain to the commons by
illustrating the case study of the Commons Stack. Drawing on a
range of interdisciplinary ideas and methodologies, the book argues
that there are a number of economic and social barriers that are
obstructing the wider reproduction of the commons. Problems with
access to capital and training, the lack of entrepreneurial and
managerial skills and the absence of institutional support from
governments, larger co-ops and NGOs are some of the external
difficulties facing the commons today. Meanwhile, localism, gated
communities, vested interests, atavism, traditionalism, ideology,
conflict, neo-conservatism and techno-elitism represent some of the
internal contradictions inherent in the commons. Through overcoming
these contradictions, the ultimate goal is to transform capitalism
into the postcapitalism of the commons: the creation of a social
economy self-organised around the commons. This book provides vital
reading for anyone interested in the commons, from economics,
techno-politics and across the social sciences.
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Pippi Longstocking (Hardcover)
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The links between self-interest and morality have been examined in
moral philosophy since Plato. Economics is a mostly value-free
discipline, having lost its original ethical dimension as described
by Adam Smith. Examining moral philosophy through the framework
provided by economics offers new insights into both disciplines and
the discussion on the origins and nature of morality. The Morality
of Economic Behaviour: Economics as Ethics argues that moral
behaviour does not need to be exogenously encouraged or enforced
because morality is a side effect of interactions between
self-interested agents. The argument relies on two important
parameters: behaviour in a social environment and the effects of
intertemporal choice on rational behaviour. Considering social
structures and repeated interactions on rational maximisation
allows an argument for the morality of economic behaviour. Amoral
agents interacting within society can reach moral outcomes. Thus,
economics becomes a synthesis of moral and rational choice theory
bypassing the problems of ethics in economic behaviour whilst
promoting moral behaviour and ethical outcomes. This approach sheds
new light on practical issues such as economic policy, business
ethics and social responsibility. This book is of interest
primarily to students of politics, economics and philosophy but
will also appeal to anyone who is interested in morality and
ethics, and their relationship with self-interest.
The innovation systems (IS) approach emerged as a theoretical
framework in the industrialized world in the mid-1990s to explain
innovation and growth in the developed world. This Handbook is the
first attempt to adapt the IS approach to developing countries from
a theoretical and empirical viewpoint. The Handbook brings eminent
scholars in economics, innovation and development studies together
with promising young researchers to review the literature and push
theoretical boundaries. They critically review the IS approach and
its adequacy for developing countries, discuss the relationship
between IS and development, and address the question of how it
should be adapted to the realities of developing nations. Spanning
national, sectoral and regional innovation systems across Asia,
Latin America and Africa, and written by the world's leading
scholars within the field, this comprehensive Handbook will
strongly appeal to academics, researchers and students with an
interest in innovation and technology in developing countries.
Lonely Planet's Experience Greece is your guide to unforgettable
experiences and local surprises. Marvel at Athens' ancient
Acropolis, island-hop through the Aegean Sea, and relax on pristine
beaches - all guided by local experts with fresh perspectives.
Uncover Greece's best experiences and get away from the everyday!
Inside Lonely Planet's Experience Greece: Unique experiences to
string together an unforgettable trip Inspiring full-colour travel
photography and maps throughout Highlights and trip builders to
help tailor a trip to your personal needs and interests Fresh
perspectives to surprise you with things you hadn't thought of, as
well as fresh takes on the well-known sights Insider tips help you
discover hidden gems and get around like a local Expert insights
take you to the heart of the place - food, culture, history,
politics Practical info and tips on money, getting around, unique
and local ways to stay, and responsible travel Covers Athens,
Thessaloniki and northern Greece, Delphi and central Greece, the
Peloponnese peninsula, the Saronic Gulf islands, Ionian islands,
Crete, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, and the Aegean islands. The
Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Experience Greece, our inspiring
guide, filled with local tips and fresh perspectives focuses on
Greece's best experiences to string together for an unforgettable
trip. Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends both
popular and offbeat experiences, and extensively covers all the
country has to offer? Check out Lonely Planet's Greece guide.
Looking for a guide for cities? Check out Lonely Planet's Pocket
Athens, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss experiences
for a quick trip. Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing About
Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company,
providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind
of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed
over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and
grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers.
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you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply,
like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's
bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile
phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling
entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax
Media (Australia)
Frantic (1988)
American doctor Richard Walker checks into a Paris hotel with his wife Sondra to attend a conference and celebrate their wedding anniversary. However, shortly after arriving at the hotel Sondra disappears and soon Richard is plunged into a nightmare kidnap scenario, roaming the streets of Paris trying to find a lead in the search for his missing wife. His only clue comes in the form of drugged-up young punk Michelle.
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Based on the bestseller by Scot Turow, Rusty Sabich is an attorney who finds himself charged with murder. The victim was a colleague of his with whom he had a brief but intense affair and Rusty finds himself in need of a defence lawyer.
The Fugitive (1993)
Based on the 1960s American television series, eminent Chicago surgeon Dr Richard Kimble, married to wealthy heiress Helen, arrives home one night to find his wife murdered and a one-armed man in his house. Due to incriminating evidence and prime motivation, Kimble is wrongly convicted for murder. However, on his way to death row he is involved in a spectacular train crash that precipitates his escape. Kimble then strives to prove his innocence whilst staying one step ahead of the dogged US Marshal Sam Gerard.
Firewall (2006)
Jack Stanfield is an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft, Jack's life is turned upside down when his wife and two children are kidnapped. The ransom is $100 million which the kidnappers, led by Bill Cox, want Jack to obtain for them via his expert computer skills. Initially compliant, Jack is soon irked by Cox and his cronies to the point where he decides to risk everything to get his family back and bring the bad guys to justice.
42 (2013)
A biographical drama about African-American baseball player Jackie Robinson, here portrayed by the late Chadwick Boseman. In 1945, having been spotted by a scout, Robinson is signed by Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and becomes the first black man to play in the Major League. Despite his talent, Robinson is met with opposition, even from his fellow players, because of his race. As he tries to keep his own frustrations in check, he excels in his sport and gradually receives the recognition he deserves.
This edited volume of interdisciplinary essays considers the
aspects of nation, identity, and collective experience in the
notoriously divided island of Cyprus. The contributors examine the
role of international politics particularly the involvement of
Greece and Turkey and examine the changing relationship between the
Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities since 1955. The book
challenges prevailing assumptions about political and cultural
identity in Cyprus and theorizes on the prospects for mobilizing
more multi-dimensional and workable formations of community on
Cyprus. The result is a tightly conceived volume, divided into
sections of national identity, political possibilities, the
location of culture, and social and psychological perspectives.
The links between self-interest and morality have been examined in
moral philosophy since Plato. Economics is a mostly value-free
discipline, having lost its original ethical dimension as described
by Adam Smith. Examining moral philosophy through the framework
provided by economics offers new insights into both disciplines and
the discussion on the origins and nature of morality. The Morality
of Economic Behaviour: Economics as Ethics argues that moral
behaviour does not need to be exogenously encouraged or enforced
because morality is a side effect of interactions between
self-interested agents. The argument relies on two important
parameters: behaviour in a social environment and the effects of
intertemporal choice on rational behaviour. Considering social
structures and repeated interactions on rational maximisation
allows an argument for the morality of economic behaviour. Amoral
agents interacting within society can reach moral outcomes. Thus,
economics becomes a synthesis of moral and rational choice theory
bypassing the problems of ethics in economic behaviour whilst
promoting moral behaviour and ethical outcomes. This approach sheds
new light on practical issues such as economic policy, business
ethics and social responsibility. This book is of interest
primarily to students of politics, economics and philosophy but
will also appeal to anyone who is interested in morality and
ethics, and their relationship with self-interest.
This edited volume of interdisciplinary essays considers the
aspects of nation, identity, and collective experience in the
notoriously divided island of Cyprus. The contributors examine the
role of international politics particularly the involvement of
Greece and Turkey and examine the changing relationship between the
Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities since 1955. The book
challenges prevailing assumptions about political and cultural
identity in Cyprus and theorizes on the prospects for mobilizing
more multi-dimensional and workable formations of community on
Cyprus. The result is a tightly conceived volume, divided into
sections of national identity, political possibilities, the
location of culture, and social and psychological perspectives.
Offering expert, practical guidance through the decision-making
process,Differential Diagnoses in Surgical Pathology: Gynecologic
Tract, Second Edition, by Drs. Russell Vang, Anna Yemelyanova, and
Jeffrey D. Seidman, helps you systematically solve tough diagnostic
challenges in gynecologic pathology and arrive at a correct
diagnosis between commonly confused entities. In this fully revised
edition, lesions are presented side by side for easy comparison,
with clinical and pathological findings in short outline format
followed by several full-color images. In addition to illustrating
and discussing the classical features of these entities, the
authors emphasize atypical features that can complicate
diagnoses. Provides side-by-side comparisons for each major
differential diagnosis—more than 170 in all— helping you
distinguish between commonly confused lesions of the gynecologic
tract Contains more than 1,500 full-color photographs that
depict the features of each entity and cover all major differential
diagnoses in this challenging area Offers up-to-date
coverage of the vulva and vagina, cervix, endometrial epithelial
lesions, uterine pure mesenchymal and mixed epithelial-mesenchymal
lesions, the ovary, peritoneum/omentum, fallopian tube and
paratubal region, and gestational trophoblastic diseaseÂ
Ideal for practicing pathologists, pathologists in training,
residents, and medical students  Enrich Your eBook
Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred
device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily
convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language
text-to-speech.Â
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Pippi Goes on Board (Paperback)
Astrid Lindgren; Translated by Susan Beard; Illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman
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During its secret war in Laos (1961–1975), the United States
recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war,
many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with
refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the
experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize
refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong.
Vang conceptualizes these histories as fugitive histories, as they
move and are carried by people who move. Charting the incomplete
archives of the war made secret through redacted US state
documents, ethnography, film, and literature, Vang shows how Hmong
refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from
narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally
archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing
histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic
attempts to silence those histories.
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Our Stories Carried Us Here (Hardcover)
Tea Rozman, Julie Vang; Illustrated by Tom Kaczynski; Cover design or artwork by Nate Powell; Foreword by Thi Bui; Illustrated by …
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Pippi Longstocking (Paperback)
Astrid Lindgren; Translated by Susan Beard; Illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman
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This book explores the impacts of transnational education (TNE)
from the perspectives of institutions and countries that primarily
act as hosts. The authors describe and analyse TNE across a wide
geographical area comprised of both established and emerging TNE
host countries, from Europe to Southeast Asia to less-discussed
countries such as Nepal and Uzbekistan. Complementing the 2018
volume Exporting Transnational Education: Institutional Practice,
Policy and National Goals, the book is organised into three
principal themes: the impacts of TNE on capacity building, the
sustainability of such developments, and the impacts on the student
experience in host countries. As TNE is a dynamic and fast-moving
area of international higher education, this book will appeal to
scholars and administrators of international and transnational
education.
This book discusses the efficacy of various naturally occurring
chemopreventive agents in preventing or delaying cancer. It focuses
on the holistic chemopreventive concept, demonstrating the relevant
response is the combined effect of a series of compounds that alone
have been shown to have some effect in different experimental
models. Written by leading experts in the field, the contributions
provide details of research on various chemopreventive agents.
Offering insights into the unique molecular targets and mechanisms,
safety issues, molecular efficacy, and occurrence in nature of
these compounds, the book is a valuable resource for all scientists
working in biomedicine, and specifically in cancer research.
This book explores the impacts of transnational education (TNE)
from the perspectives of institutions and countries that primarily
act as hosts. The authors describe and analyse TNE across a wide
geographical area comprised of both established and emerging TNE
host countries, from Europe to Southeast Asia to less-discussed
countries such as Nepal and Uzbekistan. Complementing the 2018
volume Exporting Transnational Education: Institutional Practice,
Policy and National Goals, the book is organised into three
principal themes: the impacts of TNE on capacity building, the
sustainability of such developments, and the impacts on the student
experience in host countries. As TNE is a dynamic and fast-moving
area of international higher education, this book will appeal to
scholars and administrators of international and transnational
education.
This book discusses the efficacy of various naturally occurring
chemopreventive agents in preventing or delaying cancer. It focuses
on the holistic chemopreventive concept, demonstrating the relevant
response is the combined effect of a series of compounds that alone
have been shown to have some effect in different experimental
models. Written by leading experts in the field, the contributions
provide details of research on various chemopreventive agents.
Offering insights into the unique molecular targets and mechanisms,
safety issues, molecular efficacy, and occurrence in nature of
these compounds, the book is a valuable resource for all scientists
working in biomedicine, and specifically in cancer research.
This book belongs to the Port Economics and Global Supply Chain
Management strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics
book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides. This book
discusses the main drivers that affect the introduction and growth
of short sea shipping services. It describes and analyses the main
operational concepts of short sea shipping and introduces relevant
administrative and strategic approaches that enable its sustainable
execution. Short Sea Shipping (SSS) comprises freight and passenger
mobility by waterborne transport at a limited range, without
crossing an ocean. Being a direct competitor to land-based
transport modes, it uses ports and inland waterways to complement
traditional transportation systems, increase capacity, improve
flexibility, and contribute towards the goal of sustainable
mobility. The reader will be introduced to various aspects of short
sea shipping including benefits and shortfalls, relevant
regulations and policies, and the applicability of short sea
services within a given case or scenario.
This detailed volume collects chapters that seek to expand our
knowledge of molecular events and extended molecular networks in
gene regulation. The contents explore numerous aspects of miRNA
biogenesis, a sophisticated series of events that assure a finely
tuned regulation of miRNA expression and activity. Written for the
highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters
include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the
necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step readily reproducible
laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding
known pitfalls. Authoritative and practical, miRNA Biogenesis:
Methods and Protocols aims to contribute to the further development
of knowledge and application of miRNA biogenesis, both in the basic
research lab and in the clinic.
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Stolen Time (Paperback)
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A young poverty-stricken student agrees to spend two weeks in a
remote hotel with a group of strangers in exchange for the
equivalent of five months rent. However, after moving in he
discovers a series of alarming artifacts left by past guests.
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