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Political Modernity and Beyond

Crisis, Struggles and Reconfigurations

Edited by Sofia Aboim, José Maurício Domingues, Filipe Carreira da Silva ...

Series series Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries
Amidst rising tensions affecting democracy, capitalism and planetary life, this book discusses the multiple crises, processes and conflicts reconfiguring modernity. Tracking the political, social and ecological dynamics at play, it offers a critical perspective on the forces that may redefine the futures of political modernity.It asks whether a transition is unfolding and whether a new phase of ... Read more

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Amidst rising tensions affecting democracy, capitalism and planetary life, this book discusses the multiple crises, processes and conflicts reconfiguring modernity. Tracking the political, social and ecological dynamics at play, it offers a critical perspective on the forces that may redefine the futures of political modernity.It asks whether a transition is unfolding and whether a new phase of
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Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond

by John Jennings, N.K. Jemisin, Victor LaValle, Junot Díaz, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lauren Beukes, Carmen Maria Machado, Tobias Buckell, Rabih Alameddine, Nisi Shawl, S.P. Somtow, Daniel José Older, Eden Robinson, Ibi Zoboi, Sofia Samatar, Carlos Hernandez, Katherena Vermette ...

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Beyond Profit: Essential Service Metrics For Performance & Success

by Sofia Juarez ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Unabridged

3 hours 45 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This insightful book offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing essential performance metrics in order to enhance your business's performance and maximize your profits. In today's highly competitive market, simply focusing on financial indicators is no longer sufficient. This book delves deeper, exploring a range of fundamental service ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This insightful book offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing essential performance metrics in order to enhance your business's performance and maximize your profits. In today's highly competitive market, simply focusing on financial indicators is no longer sufficient. This book delves deeper, exploring a range of fundamental service
... Read more
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Beyond Summer

by Lisa Wingate ...

Narrated by Kyla Garcia, Krystel Roche, Sofia Willingham ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Blue Sky Hill Series
Unabridged

13 hours 52 min

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours presents an uplifting novel set in a small Texas neighborhood where unexpected challenges and new relationships give deeper meanings to “home.”When eighteen-year-old Tam Lambert learns that her family’s upscale home is in foreclosure, the life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move ... Read more

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours presents an uplifting novel set in a small Texas neighborhood where unexpected challenges and new relationships give deeper meanings to “home.”When eighteen-year-old Tam Lambert learns that her family’s upscale home is in foreclosure, the life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move
... Read more

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The Prosody of Dubbed Speech

Beyond the Character's Words

by Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level. The author's unique perspective - as both a translation studies researcher and a voice-over professional - helps to bring these two aspects of the dubbing process together into a coherent study for the first time. Supported by ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level. The author's unique perspective - as both a translation studies researcher and a voice-over professional - helps to bring these two aspects of the dubbing process together into a coherent study for the first time. Supported by
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The Summer Kitchen

by Lisa Wingate ...

Narrated by Staci Snell, Karissa Vacker ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Blue Sky Hill Series
Unabridged

12 hours 13 min

From the author of A Month of Summer, an inspiring new novel in the Blue Sky Hill series about one woman's effect on a struggling Dallas neighborhood.With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, Sandra Kaye Darden is drawn to the little pink house where her Uncle Poppy once provided security. What begins for Sandra as a simple painting project, meant to prepare ... Read more

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From the author of A Month of Summer, an inspiring new novel in the Blue Sky Hill series about one woman's effect on a struggling Dallas neighborhood.With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, Sandra Kaye Darden is drawn to the little pink house where her Uncle Poppy once provided security. What begins for Sandra as a simple painting project, meant to prepare
... Read more

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Dandelion Summer

by Lisa Wingate ...

Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Jason Culp ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Blue Sky Hill Series
Unabridged

13 hours 44 min

“A story beautifully told, with richly drawn characters that will...make you want to laugh and cry”* from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours.All her life, Epiphany Salerno has been tossed like a dandelion seed on the wind. Now, at sixteen, she must move to the low-rent side of Blue Sky Hill and work where she's not wanted: in an upscale ... Read more

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“A story beautifully told, with richly drawn characters that will...make you want to laugh and cry”* from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours.All her life, Epiphany Salerno has been tossed like a dandelion seed on the wind. Now, at sixteen, she must move to the low-rent side of Blue Sky Hill and work where she's not wanted: in an upscale
... Read more

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A Month of Summer

by Lisa Wingate ...

Narrated by Johanna Parker ...

Series series Blue Sky Hill
Unabridged

13 hours 31 min

Lisa Wingate has been favorably compared to authors Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans. In A Month of Summer, Hanna Beth has been caring for her aging husband-who suffers from Alzheimer's-and her developmentally challenged adult son for years on her own. But when she suffers a stroke, estranged stepdaughter Rebecca must take the reins. As she cares for her father and the step-brother she's ... Read more

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Lisa Wingate has been favorably compared to authors Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans. In A Month of Summer, Hanna Beth has been caring for her aging husband-who suffers from Alzheimer's-and her developmentally challenged adult son for years on her own. But when she suffers a stroke, estranged stepdaughter Rebecca must take the reins. As she cares for her father and the step-brother she's
... Read more

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The Language of Sycamores

by Lisa Wingate ...

Narrated by Erin Spencer ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Tending Roses
Unabridged

10 hours 44 min

Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from life-immersing herself in a high-powered job-until the day the company downsizes her out of a job and the doctor tells her that she may have cancer. It's a double blow that sends Karen on a search for herself in the last place she ever thought to look: Grandma Rose's old farm.As Karen's hectic schedule falls away, she opens up to the unexpected. In the quiet ... Read more

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Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from life-immersing herself in a high-powered job-until the day the company downsizes her out of a job and the doctor tells her that she may have cancer. It's a double blow that sends Karen on a search for herself in the last place she ever thought to look: Grandma Rose's old farm.As Karen's hectic schedule falls away, she opens up to the unexpected. In the quiet
... Read more

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A Thousand Voices

by Lisa Wingate ...

Narrated by Tanis Parenteau ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Tending Roses
Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

Adopted at thirteen, Dell Jordan was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now, at twenty, after a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Julliard is within reach. But underneath Dell's smoothly polished surface lurk mysteries from the past. Why did her mother abandon her? Who was her father? Are there faces somewhere that look like hers-blood relatives ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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Adopted at thirteen, Dell Jordan was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now, at twenty, after a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Julliard is within reach. But underneath Dell's smoothly polished surface lurk mysteries from the past. Why did her mother abandon her? Who was her father? Are there faces somewhere that look like hers-blood relatives
... Read more

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Never Say Never

by Lisa Wingate ...

Narrated by Peggity Price, Johanna Parker ...

Series series Welcome to Daily, Texas
Unabridged

11 hours 19 min

"Lisa Wingate writes engaging stories that strike the heart."—Debbie Macomber, New York Times #1 bestselling authorKai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She's never put down roots—and she doesn't plan to. Donetta Bradford has never left her hometown of Daily, Texas, but as her marriage flounders, her life starts to feel too small. When the arrival of a hurricane cancels ... Read more

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"Lisa Wingate writes engaging stories that strike the heart."—Debbie Macomber, New York Times #1 bestselling authorKai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She's never put down roots—and she doesn't plan to. Donetta Bradford has never left her hometown of Daily, Texas, but as her marriage flounders, her life starts to feel too small. When the arrival of a hurricane cancels
... Read more

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Talk of the Town

by Lisa Wingate ...

Narrated by Johanna Parker ...

Series series Welcome to Daily, Texas
Unabridged

11 hours 37 min

"Wingate is, quite simply, a master storyteller."—BooklistDaily, Texas, wasn't known for much until Amber Anderson becomes a finalist on TV's most popular singing competition. Sent ahead to prepare for a surprise concert in the young singer's hometown, Mandalay Florentino knows failure isn't an option if she wants to keep her job. However, everyone in town seems to know the secret already. ... Read more

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"Wingate is, quite simply, a master storyteller."—BooklistDaily, Texas, wasn't known for much until Amber Anderson becomes a finalist on TV's most popular singing competition. Sent ahead to prepare for a surprise concert in the young singer's hometown, Mandalay Florentino knows failure isn't an option if she wants to keep her job. However, everyone in town seems to know the secret already.
... Read more

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