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Bioethics, Genetics and Sport

Bioethics, Genetics and Sport

Silvia Camporesi; Mike McNamee

Routledge
2018
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Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body. Drawing on real case studies and grounded in rigorous scientific evidence, this book offers an ethical critique of current practices and explores the intersection of genetics, ethics and sport. Written by two of the world's leading authorities on the ethics of biotechnology in sport, the book addresses the philosophical implications of the latest scientific developments and technological data. Distinguishing fact from popular myth and science fiction, it covers key topics such as the genetic basis of sport performance and the role of genetic testing in talent identification and development. Its ten chapters discuss current debates surrounding issues such as the shifting relationship between genetics, sports medicine and sports science, gene enhancement, gene transfer technology, doping and disability sport.The first book to be published on this important subject in more than a decade, this is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the ethics of sport, bioethics or sport performance.
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Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation

Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation

Silvia G. Dapía

Routledge
2015
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Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of philosophical constructs, to reduce Borges’ texts to mere exemplifications or illustrations of philosophical theories, the book uses Borges’s short stories to demonstrate how philosophical questions related to representation develop out of literature and actually serve as precursors to the various strains of post-analytic philosophy that later developed in the United States. The volume discusses American post-analytic philosophers Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Donald Davidson, Nelson Goodman, and Arthur Danto, as well as a wide-ranging set of philosophical ideas including reflections on Keynes, Hayek, Schopenhauer and many others . Chapters offer detailed readings of Borges’ texts extending from 1939 to 1983, locating where he thematizes issues of representation, and pursuing the logic of Borges’s text toward its philosophical implications without neglecting their literary value. The book argues that Borges’ exploration of the relationship between representation and reality places him unmistakably in the position of a precursor to the post-analytic philosophers. Illuminating the role that language plays in the creation of reality and representation, this volume makes significant contributions not only to Borges scholarship but also post-structuralism, post-analytic studies of language, semiotics, comparative literature, and Latin American literature.
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Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies

Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies

Silvia Conca Messina

Routledge
2015
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Based on innovative and unique primary sources (e.g. notarial deeds) Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies looks to tell the story of the Lombardy cotton industry in the early 19th century, particularly the stories of entrepreneurs such as Francesco Turati who were able to ‘corner’ this otherwise atomistic industry. The book looks at both the financial and strategic elements of the businesses, as well as looking at enabling technology and even the emergence of factory organization in Italy and takes a business history analysis of pre-industrial business enterprises in a developing economy by taking into account all the crucial functions of enterprise.Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies makes important contributions to the study and research of the financing of early cotton mills, technology transfer in these entrepreneurial ventures, the organization of production, including a detailed discussion of the available technology, networks and relationships within the district. By highlighting the shift from putting-out to factory system, the crucial change of actors (both entrepreneurs and workers) and the birth of a local industrial district, exerting a long-lasting influence on the history of the area the book outlines the building of entrepreneurial networks and social hierarchies in (at the time) a new urban context.Aimed at scholars, researchers and students in the fields of management history, development entrepreneurship and regional economics, Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies answers previously non-addressable questions via innovative research methods and, as such, will be a key work in the field for years to come.
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The Beautiful Ones

The Beautiful Ones

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Bramble
2026
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a brand-new Bramble edition of this sweeping romance with a dash of magic They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail's most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina's chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina's debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis--neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse--and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip. When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector's help, Nina's talent blossoms, as does her love for him. But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina -- and himself--that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Henry Holt Company
2022
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"In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life--one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us."--Elizabeth Gilbert Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising memoir following her journey to Mount Everest. A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child, she started climbing. Something about the brute force required for the ascent--the risk and spirit and sheer size of the mountains and death's close proximity--woke her up. She then took her biggest pain as a survivor to the biggest mountain: Everest. "The Mother of the World," as it's known in Nepal, allows few to reach her summit, but Silvia didn't go alone. She gathered a group of young female survivors and led them to base camp alongside her. It was never easy. At times hair-raising, nerve-racking, and always challenging, Silvia remembers the acute anxiety of leading a group of novice climbers to Everest's base, all the while coping with her own nerves of summiting. But, there were also moments of peace, joy, and healing with the strength of her fellow survivors and community propelling her forward. In the Shadow of the Mountain is a remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, an appetite for risk, and faith in our own resilience.
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The Beautiful Ones

The Beautiful Ones

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Tor Books
2021
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic. They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail's most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina's chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina's debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis--neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse--and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip. When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector's help, Nina's talent blossoms, as does her love for him. But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina -- and himself--that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.
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Certain Dark Things

Certain Dark Things

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Tor Nightfire
2021
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized. Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesn't include Domingo, but little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. As the trail of corpses stretches behind her, local cops and crime bosses both start closing in. Vampires, humans, cops, and criminals collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Do Atl and Domingo even stand a chance of making it out alive? Or will the city devour them all?
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

Silvia Ferrara

Picador USA
2023
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In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance--published all around the world--a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrest--all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how--and how many times--human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing's future.
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Holt Paperbacks
2023
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"In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life-one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us."-Elizabeth Gilbert Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising memoir chronicling her journey to Mount Everest. A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child, she started climbing. Something about the brute force required for the ascent-the risk and spirit and sheer size of the mountains and death's close proximity-woke her up. She then took her biggest pain as a survivor to the biggest mountain: Everest. "The Mother of the World," as it's known in Nepal, allows few to reach her summit, but Silvia didn't go alone. She gathered a group of young female survivors and led them to base camp alongside her. It was never easy. At times hair-raising, nerve-racking, and always challenging, Silvia remembers the acute anxiety of leading a group of novice climbers to Everest's base, all the while coping with her own nerves of summiting. But, there were also moments of peace, joy, and healing with the strength of her fellow survivors and community propelling her forward. In the Shadow of the Mountain is a remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, an appetite for risk, and faith in our own resilience.
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La finalidad aplicada a la traducción jurada

La finalidad aplicada a la traducción jurada

Silvia Vidal Galiano

Lulu.com
2012
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Este libro es una gu a completa de como abordar, enfrentarse y solucionar problemas que se plantean en una traducci n jur dica jurada. Durante todo el proceso de elaboraci n de una traducci n se pasa por 3 fases -proceso previo, proceso de traducci n y resultado-. Este libro plasma dudas y preguntas que el traductor se plantea ante determinados aspectos y/o t rminos y, ofrece soluciones tras un largo proceso de an lisis e investigaci n. Presentamos un manual pr ctico con toda la informaci n necesaria para poder desempe ar con xito el proceso de traducci n y ofrecer un producto final adecuado al encargo y a la finalidad de la traducci n. Est elaborado para aquellos traductores que se enfrentan con las complicadas decisiones de la traducci n jur dica jurada y, para aquellos que se est n formando y, necesitan una gu a.
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Altrove

Altrove

Silvia Paveggio

Lulu.com
2012
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Piccola cronaca familiare di un esilio vicino ma definitivo, sullo sfondo delle vicende della Grande Guerra, del Ventennio fascista, della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Gli scenari: la Venezia degli anni '10-'20 e la Bologna degli anni '30-'50.
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Ciencias, tecnologias y culturas. Educacion y nuevas tecnologias

Ciencias, tecnologias y culturas. Educacion y nuevas tecnologias

Silvia Fridman; Ruben Edel Navarro

Lulu.com
2013
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El objetivo del libro "Ciencias, tecnologias y culturas: Educacion y nuevas tecnologias", de manera analoga al proposito de nuestra red RILET, pretende a traves de la investigacion, la gestion del conocimiento y la integracion latinoamericana, comprender en primera instancia el problema fundamental asociado con el cambio de paradigma, pero tambien clarificar los propositos de la educacion en el nuevo escenario en el cual vivimos, lo cual nos permitira transformar los problemas comunes dentro del ambito de la Educacion mediada por Tecnologia.
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La Lettera

La Lettera

Silvia Luciani

Lulu Press Inc
2015
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E una splendida tarda mattinata primaverile a New York. Adriana esce di casa per imbucare una lettera-verita indirizzata a un vecchio amore, spinta dall'incontenibile desiderio di rivalsa per l'umiliazione subita alcuni anni prima, quando lui ha rifiutato di rincontrarla. Ma gia nel sofferto proposito di scrivere quella lettera, si e messa in moto una strana interazione tra due realta e due desideri - quelli di lei e quelli di lui - che sono forse piu prossimi di quanto ciascuno dei protagonisti possa immaginare. Sorta di divertissement dai toni volutamente melodrammatici, questo racconto ha come temi di fondo l'incertezza sulla reale natura di chi ci e piu vicino, cosi come la sempre possibile variabilita del destino che ci siamo scelti - o in cui ci siamo trovati.
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Perto De Ti, Longe De Nada

Perto De Ti, Longe De Nada

Silvia Soares

Lulu Press Inc
2014
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Recentemente divorciada, Julia procura afastar-se do passado e reencontrar a alegria num recomeco. Partindo numa viagem sem destino, conta as suas aventuras e desventuras no blogue da revista para a qual trabalha. Os seus seguidores, novas amizades e tambem Erika, a sua instavel amiga e divertida chefe, acompanham-na. O pintor invulgar e cativante e Jean-Pierre que vive pelo mundo, sem amarras. Talentoso e confiante, julgava ja nao procurar nada...ate conhece-la. Tudo o que ele queria era pintar o seu retrato...Fabrizio, Enzo, Marillia, Gerardo, Adelline, Maria Rita e Matteo sao algumas das personagens que farao parte desta viagem, entrando ainda em cena os recem-casados Sara e Valter, a personificacao de que os opostos se atraem. E tudo comeca em Milao...Pelo caminho, Julia encontra muito mais do que esperava. Mas sera que encontra o que realmente procurava? Uma historia sobre o amor, nas suas diferentes formas, sobre a busca interior da felicidade.
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