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...

The enneagram outlines the true nature of what motivates our psychological and spiritual being while graphic movement is an unconscious process recorded on paper through the movements of our hand. Ognigraphy is a highly individualized phenomenon that reflects the dynamic synthesis of the existential history, of the biological constitution and of the mental and emotional states of each of us. Our enneatype plays a fundamental role in the way we manifest ourselves in the world, inevitably al...

The Baltimore Catechism formed generations of Catholics and provided a solid foundation in the faith for millions. In recent decades, it has enjoyed a renaissance among traditional-minded Catholics, yet few know that the Plenary Council which produced it, the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, also produced a Manual of Prayers (Imprimatur 1888). This present volume, based on the prayers in that manual, bears the newly-coined name Little Office of Baltimore. With its peculiarly an...

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...

The fragile compromises holding the Great Union together are beginning to fray.The gathering has begun, but beneath the pageantry of the High Council, old rivalries and competing ambitions threaten to turn negotiation into deadlock.As the leading powers of Vurtgoren press their claims, alliances are tested, loyalties are strained, and personal interests become impossible to separate from the fate of the Union itself.In a world where compromise is of...