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An anthology of more than 30 Christmas stories--short and upbeat, set in West Texas or by West Texas writers--that evoke memories of warm and humorous holiday moments.Christmas is our most cherished holiday for many reasons. It tugs at the heart and evokes memories. It's a time for laughter and joy. Christmas is about faith and family and friendship, about Jesus and also Santa Claus, about giving and receiving, about anticipating and experiencing.And Christmas is about story-telling. Every one of us probably has a Christmas story or two worth telling--the time everything turned out perfect, or not so perfect; the best Christmas ever; a remembered disappointment; a spiritual encounter; a lesson observed and woven deep into the fabric of our own personal quilt of values; an incident so funny we still laugh out loud years later recalling it.The stories here do all of the above--and maybe more. Some may elicit a smile or a chuckle, others may find you wiping away a tear, while others may cause your mind to drift back to moments and memories catalogued deep within your soul. Some are by writers who may be familiar; others by writers you haven't read until now. Some are fiction, others non-fiction, though in the spirit of Christmas it may not always be possible to separate one from the other.Though diverse, the pieces in this book have a few things in common. Geography, for one--they are either set in West Texas or they are the product of West Texans putting pen to paper or, more likely, fingers to computer keyboard. Length, for another--none of these stories take very long to read. And, finally, all are intended to help make this Christmas a little more meaningful.

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Este texto es un esfuerzo de actualizar el judaísmo secular y humanista, que en los tiempos modernos orientó a los mayores pensadores, científicos, artistas y activistas judíos, de Spinoza a Hanna Arendt, de Freud a Einstein, de Gershwin a Chagall, de Kafka a Roth, de Theodor Hertzl a Emma Goldman, de Isaac Deutscher a Amos Oz, así como a la gran mayoría de sus premios Nobel. Judíos, que no invocaban libros sagrados o mandamientos divinos para afirmar una identidad judaica, que se nutrieron de la historia y de la cultura judía, de sus dramas psíquicos y existenciales, de lazos particulares de solidaridad cuando los judíos son perseguidos, como de revuelta cuando los judíos actúan sin sensibilidad frente al sufrimiento de los otros.

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In dieser Arbeit wird widerlegt, dass informelle Penetration einer imperialen Macht zwingend die durchdrungenen Länder in der Peripherie auf Dauer aushöhlt und Strukturen zusammenbrechen lässt. Damit wird auch gegen die Notwendigkeit der imperialen Macht argumentiert, aufgrund vermeintlicher Instabilität einzugreifen und jene Gebiete zu besetzen. Dies wird am Beispiel Ägyptens gezeigt, das nur auf den ersten Blick 1882 von den Briten okkupiert wurde, um eine drohende Anarchie, ausgelöst durch die Bewegung um den Offizier 'Urabi, abzuwenden. Dagegen wird innerhalb dieser Bewegung die Rolle der Delegiertenkammer und der in ihr vertretenen Provinznotabeln untersucht und gezeigt, dass einflussreich gewordene Akteure eine Reform des politischen Systems in Richtung Parlamentarismus und Konstitutionalismus verfolgten.

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Though Mark Twain is best remembered as perhaps the quintessential American humor writer, he was also a keen observer and critic of cultural and social trends. In this vein, he undertook a book-length discussion and analysis of Christian Science and New Thought, both of which enjoyed immense popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. The controversial text was originally rejected by Twain's publisher, a gesture that the author saw as confirming the influence and power of the religious movement.

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