Product Description: This collection of poems is lucid and simple. They are short poems with a variety of settings, including Australia, Sudan, Turkey and New Zealand. The author writes of brief incidents or sudden memories which pose paradoxes or flash illuminations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Obra que abre nuevas perspectivas en torno a la administración pública. Los autores sostienen que, desde los años cuarenta, la ciencia administrativa se ha preocupado por descubrir las coincidencias espontáneas en lugar de identificar las distintas doctrinas de la administración...read more

Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way of thinking about home and homelessness, exile and belonging. At Home in the World is the story of just such a search. Intermittently over a period of three years Michael Jackson lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Central Australia. This book chronicles his experience among the Warlpiri of the Tanami Desert. Something of a nomad himself, having lived in New Zealand, Sierra Leone, England, France, Australia, and the United States, Jackson is deft at capturing the ambiguities of home as a lived experience among the Warlpiri. Blending narrative ethnography, empirical research, philosophy, and poetry, he focuses on the existential meaning of being at home in the world. Here home becomes a metaphor for the intimate relationship between the part of the world a person calls "self" and the part of the world called "other." To speak of "at-homeness," Jackson suggests, implies that people everywhere try to strike a balance between closure and openness, between acting and being acted upon, between acquiescing in the given and choosing their own fate. His book is an exhilarating journey into this existential struggle, responsive at every turn to the political questions of equity and justice that such a struggle entails.A moving depiction of an aboriginal culture at once at home and in exile, and a personal meditation on the practice of ethnography and the meaning of home in our increasingly rootless age, At Home in the World is a timely reflection on how, in defining home, we continue to define ourselves.

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Presenting a series of innovative visual manuals on a wide variety of popular subjects, these richly illustrated companions offer detailed cutaway views, maps, specially commissioned photographs, informative captions, biographical profiles, and a fact-filled text as they cover the basics of different topics of interest.

A classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos covers everything from the Big Bang to the theory of relativity.

Product Description: The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller THIS EDITION of James Gleick?s groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new readership the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time...read more

Product Description: Criminal Law in Hong Kong offers a clear and comprehensive account of the general principles of criminal law in Hong Kong and will be useful to students, practitioners, and all who are responsible for or interested in the administration and practice of the criminal justice system in Hong Kong...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Describes the use of illegal drugs by middle-class teenagers, its effects on their lives, and their struggles with drug addiction

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