The present book is a collection of original manuscripts describing the rationale, the mechanisms and the clinical application of special dialysis techniques such as On-Line Hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF), Expanded Hemodialysis (HDx) and Hemoadsorption combined with Hemodialysis (HAHD): what we call today the 'triad of special treatments of uremia'. These extracorporeal techniques represent a new frontier in the area of extracorporeal blood purification for patients with end stage kidney disea...

In a remote mountain village, fear has returned with the wolves.Eight years after a woman known as the Lady of the Wolves died amid violence and superstition, men connected to that night begin to die one after another.When Brother Anselmo, a Benedictine monk, arrives in the village, he finds a community ruled by old hatreds, ancient beliefs and secrets no one wishes to uncover. The evidence points to wolves. The villagers are certain of it.Anselmo i...

This volume approaches language education through the lens of noncoloniality.The three parts of this volume comprise a discussion of noncolonial perspectives on the language classroom, an examination of noncolonial pedagogical proposals, and a critical analysis of teaching materials and normative documents regulating teaching practice. This volume underscores the need to move beyond critique and embrace creation and a pedagogy of hope in education, in the Freirean sense.It ...

Carvalhaes invites readers into a spiritual practice of resistance and renewal for our climate-challenged world. At its heart lies a simple yet profound ritual of three gestures-rising, bowing, and prostrating-performed within one's own bioregion as a way to reconnect body, spirit, and land. These embodied actions ground us in our places, teaching us to attend to the skies and trees above, to honor human and nonhuman neighbors around us, and to remember the histories benea...

Politicians like to claim that they are “in it together” or “in the same boat” with their subjects. In fact, they are not. Should they be? To what extent? This book offers the first systematic treatment of these questions. It contends that, under the status quo, rulers do not have enough skin in the game; they do not bear the consequences of their decisions in office as much as justice demands. López-Guerra defends equal subjection, a novel understanding of political equality that...

An examination of scientific controversies in which challenging the accepted position led to great intellectual rewardsThe word “hunch” has many definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary; this book’s title references this one: “A premonition or intuitive feeling that something . . . may be the case.” Such premonitions are often dismissed by those in academia and the institutional scientific community. Author Claudio Vita-Finzi, on the other hand, demons...

This book examines how street art transformed Medellín's Comuna 13 from one of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods into a thriving tourist destination, exploring both local community dynamics and global forces of urban renewal and touristification.Shaped by a long history of violence, political conflict, and forced displacement, Comuna 13 has undergone a striking transformation from the 2010s onward. This study traces the complex processes set in motion by street art interventi...

The Shipwrecks of Camões, translated from the Portuguese Os Naufrágios de Camões, is a semi-historical novel, a brilliant exploration of shifting identities, shifting times, shifting spaces. Two of its main characters definitely existed – the poet Luís Vaz de Camões (1524/5–1580, 'the Portuguese Shakespeare', the first great European poet to travel the world) and the rumbustious English explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821–90). Other historical figures make cameo appearances. But the person w...

Seeking to draw parallels between the one and the whole, this work is as much a study of individual character as a critique of society and its institutions. Viewed through the lens of the enneagram, a personality system that divides people into nine character types, this analysis aligns each of the ailments and difficulties of the individual characters with the broader "ills of the world." In addition to providing a discussion of the theological and psychological background of the enneagra...

Succeed by mastering the art of the whoWhy surround yourself with the best? Because it matters-in all aspects of life.In fact, in professional environments, getting people right-what global leadership authority Claudio Fernández-Aráoz calls the art of great who’ decisions”-marks the difference between success and failure. To thrive, you need to identify those with the highest potential, get them in your corner and on your team, and help them grow...

Succeed by mastering the art of the whoWhy surround yourself with the best? Because it matters-in all aspects of life.In fact, in professional environments, getting people right-what global leadership authority Claudio Fernández-Aráoz calls the art of great who’ decisions”-marks the difference between success and failure. To thrive, you need to identify those with the highest potential, get them in your corner and on your team, and help them grow...

An ancient union built on fragile compromises. A single reckless choice could tear it apart.When a letter announces the unexpected arrival of Highlady Franceska, the remote fortress of Grudham is filled with anticipation. At only nineteen, she commands immense authority and influence, a reality that Highlord Graydon views with suspicion.While Graydon's daughters look upon the young ruler with anxiety and awe, his eldest son, Katanur, is deeply unsettled. Ka...