
Social Collateral: Women and Microfinance in Paraguay's Smuggling Economy
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Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services,...

On Helwig Street: A Memoir
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'"Whoever said beggars can't be choosers," my grandfather would remark when she was out of earshot,...

Walking: A Novella
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Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of...

David McK (3557 KP) rated Toy Story 3 (2010) in Movies
Jun 28, 2020
Many of his old toys have fallen by the wayside over the years since the first two Toy Story films - either sold off, or broken, or given away - leaving just a small cadre of Andy favourite childhood toys still around: Buzz, Woody, Jesse, Mr and Mrs Potato Head, Rex and Dr PorkChops (I think that's his name … you know, the Piggy Bank toy), with most of those - except Woody - mistakenly donated to Sunnyside Daycare Care, where they believe they will get played with every day.
(Incidentally, it's no mistake that Sunnyside Daycare Centre is a name that could just as easily be applied to an Old People's Home just as much as to a nursery.
That ending, though.
I'm not crying … you're crying!

From Exclusion to Reciprocity: Learning from Success
Jona M. Rosenfeld and Jean-Michel Defromont
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Prof. Jona Rosenfeld is one of Israel's pioneering social workers. This, his autobiography, is a...

Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-century Culture
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Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in...

Habitual Offenders: A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy
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In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory...
Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
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The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black...

Secrets from the Greek Kitchen: Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island
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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island...
The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe
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The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased...