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NARRATIVE VOICE IN POPULAR SCIENCE IN THE BRITISH PRESS: A CORPUS ANALYSIS ON THE CONSTRUAL OF ATTRIBUTED MEANINGS
NARRATIVE VOICE IN POPULAR SCIENCE IN THE BRITISH PRESS: A CORPUS ANALYSIS ON THE CONSTRUAL OF ATTRIBUTED MEANINGS
Miriam Pérez Veneros

Esta tesis doctoral versa sobre el estudio de la construcción de la atribución del significado en la diseminación de la ciencia en la prensa británica a través del análisis de los recursos utilizados por el periodista para integrar en su narración de los hechos científicos lo que otras fuentes externas han dicho. El fenómeno de la atribución en el discurso académico, científico y de los medios de comunicación se ha descrito previamente desde una perspectiva interpersonal mediante el análisis de la evaluación y de la teoría de la valoración (‘appraisal’). Además, otras investigaciones previas se han centrado también en el …

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The Origins of Human Behaviour
The Origins of Human Behaviour
Bernard Rourke

Everyone is confused at the magnificence and madness of human behaviour, yet the mental profession fails to help us understand it. We know about body organs and limbs, but little about our minds, mental illness and human behaviour. The Origins of Human Behaviour is written in plain English to help us understand how we evolve into the person we become. It sets out to find and explain the major influences, and demonstrates that the origins of human behaviour contain some genuine surprises. Just what are the origins of our myriad personal qualities? Author Bernard Rourke never accepted that living in …

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The myth of winter swimming
The myth of winter swimming
Natalia Szydlowski

Central temperature variance is a common phenomenon, including in experienced swimmers, and it is an important medical concern in winter swimming events. Up to this moment only limited studies of these swimmers in endurance disciplines exist, and these studies provide a phenomena of discrepancies between the recommendations about which would be the optimal body composition they should possess to be capable of keeping their central temperature and do not decrease their performance. With the aim of providing a different approach about this topic, this work goes deep into this scenario to try to understand the implications of this event. An …

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A DISCOVERY UNDERGROUND
A DISCOVERY UNDERGROUND
Beatriz Gea Marín

A Discovery Underground is a fictional story where its characters embark into anunexpected adventure, which involves intrepidity, magic and friendship.Three young teenagers win an almost impossible competition in which they get rewarded with a trip to Indonesia to assist to a special program. However, while they are there, their excitement becomes intriguing when they find themselves trapped in a serial lawbreaking matter. Will they be able to rise up to the challenge to be able to escape and save their lives and their families?

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Time and Iconoclasm
Time and Iconoclasm
Luisa Aurora Viviana Rodal

Luisa Aurora Viviana Rodal, after graduating in Letters and Philosophy (UBA), realized during ten years different academic labors at various universities. During the years 1982 and 1983 she pursued postgraduate studies and researches  at the Department of Religion, Syracuse University,  New York, USA. Independently, she continued her studies in the fields of Religion and Ethics. This essay, meditated during a long period of time, includes themes that concern her: iconoclasm as the limit of the image and symbol and  time as possibility of freedom and creation. She dedicates herself also to Art, especially to play violin.

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The Verdict
The Verdict
Elias Adam
Born and raised in Algeria, with an active political life in the '70s leading to his eventual emigration as a political refugee, Elias Adam is the father of a family deeply affected by the new reality for economic and political migrants in Western Europe, victims of the new face of politics, and some would say of fear. This is his Book of Natural Rebellion
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Learning to ride as an adult
Learning to ride as an adult
Erika Prockl

The usual daily stress of modern living means adults, and very often even adolescents, adopt tensed-up and faulty postures, which have a particularly negative effect on the horse. Here is a modern riding manual with a completely new training concept specifically designed to counteract the problem: * A perfect loosening-up programme, with relaxes and eases. * Complex rider’s movements are separated into individual movements for ease of practice. * These swinging circles can be practised in day-to-day situations as well on the physio-ball – the substitute horse. Erika Prockl is a teacher in further education and a certified riding instructor. …

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The Guide to Gymnastics for children
The Guide to Gymnastics for children
Anna Salaris

* Younger children can also do gymnastics without getting bored, as long as parents, teachers, babysitters or siblings are involved and become their monitors. * It can be started at home, but if the weather is fine, it can also be done outdoors, preferably in a meadow or on the beach. The desire to play, which is never lacking in children, will do the rest. * This book offers you many useful tips and a host of games designed to develop children's motor potential and stimulate their imagination, imitation skills, balance, coordination, etc. * Each exercise is explained in detail …

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Forging Glory
Forging Glory
Antonio Escohotado, Jesús Bengoechea

A Brief History of Real Madrid told by a soccer-loving philosopherWhat kind of determination drives Real Madrid to be the best of the best year after year, and to achieve it with unusual frequency? How do you explain that it has been the most successful club on the world for a century and more? Maybe taking prestige so seriously increments the amount of expertise, since one of the substantial advantages of sport over any other competitive activity is that it does not banish the magnetism of war, in fact it is tamed by the rule of fair play. Maybe it's …

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Theory of everything
Theory of everything
Antonio León Jiménez

THEORY OF EVERYTHING.
TIME, THE UNIFYING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE

Through this short essay, the author, a graduate in Fundamental Chemistry from the University of Seville, tries to respond to one of the great challenges that modern science has been dragging on since the past century. Aided by simple yet profound reasoning, the author illustrates how the universe is governed by one single force and one single sense.

Following the development of a law that unites time and energy in the same principle, we could find ourselves in a new moment of science. A new door of study could be open and …

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Homo Sapiens
Homo Sapiens
Antonio Vélez Montoya

The themes discussed in this book, translated to English by Australian Kieran Tapsell, form part of a revolutionary discipline known under the name of evolutionary psychology, a discipline that has become the most powerful tool discovered to date for man to understand himself. Much of the knowledge revealed by human science is explained as a result of the evolutionary process, using as a premise the theory that the majority of modern man’s desires, impulses, interests and inclinations, and mental faculties were designed by the evolutionary process of the species. This new focus allows us to synthesize a group of already …

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Marcus Aurelius: The Dialogues
Marcus Aurelius: The Dialogues
Alan Stedall

Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest Roman emperors, is remembered less for his military exploits than for his private reflections. His Meditations, as they became known, have been a major influence on Western thought and behaviour down through the centuries, proving that the pen is mightier than the sword. Seeking an alternative to faith-based religion, Alan Stedall came across the book and found rational answers to questions about the meaning and purpose of life that had been troubling him. Here too were answers to his concern that in the absence of moral beliefs based on religion, we risk creating a …

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