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An entertaining, unfiltered memoir by one of the game's greatest, most clutch sluggers at the end of his career, written with best-selling sports writer and talk show host Michael Holley

A Boston Red Sox all-star slugger recounts his childhood in the impoverished Dominican Republic, his lesser achievements with the Mariners and Twins, and the influence of his respected parents on his athletic achievements. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The death of General Francisco Franco in November of 1975 ended thirty-six years of fascist-style dictatorship in Spain. The subsequent transition to liberal parliamentary government was remarkably smooth, particularly when compared to the recent difficulties experienced by other states, such as the former Soviet Republics and Eastern Europe. Ortiz traces Spain's success back to the development of a liberal tradition and a public sphere in the last decades of the 19th century during the Restoration period. He uses this era as a test case to demonstrate that liberal practices can develop even within a political situation where state institutions and the social infrastructure do not necessarily support them. Paper Liberals dispels the notion that Western Europe ends at the Pyrenees and argues instead that, while on the periphery, Spain should not be excluded from the mainstream of European history. Clarifying a period in contemporary Spanish history that has been largely misunderstood, this study underscores the importance of the Spanish example as a comparative model to the countries customarily thought of as the European center (Britain, France, and Germany). Ortiz examines the formation and expansion of liberal political culture during the Regency of Maria Christina from 1885 to 1902, and he details the pivotal role of the Spanish press, which dominated the public sphere of Regency Spain, as the vehicle for this remarkable transformation.

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"Introduction: Clinical teachers perform multiple and overlapping tasks in clinical work and education. They are therefore expected to juggle many professional identities such as educator and clinician. While professional identity has attracted much attention from medical education scholars over the past two decades, little is still known about how clinical teachers manage and make sense of their multiple professional identities. The present research explores the lived experiences of clinical teachers as they negotiate their professional identities in the context of a faculty development program.Methodology and methods: The present study is an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), which is a methodological approach that enables a detailed explanation of how people conceptualize their personal and social worlds while adopting an insider’s perspective. Six teachers in family medicine attending an international faculty development program were purposively sampled. In-depth semi-structured individual interviews were conducted and were analyzed using the thematic analysis approach of IPA studies.Results: Although each participant had a unique lived experience and sense-making process, commonalities across the cases were identified. All participants made sense of their multiple professional identities by identifying a single identity embedding others. Participants developed and integrated their professional identities in agreement with their personal identities, values, and beliefs, striving thus for identity consonance. Participants understood their craft as a relational process by which they weave themselves into their context and intertwine their experience with that of others. For some, the faculty development program was an opportunity to understand a collective identity and recognize a community of practice. Participants, however, diverged when recognizing their peers; while some named a single group (family physicians), others had a more comprehensive view and included healthcare professionals, students, and even patients. Discussion: Clinical teachers in this research negotiated their multifaceted identities by recognizing an ‘embedding identity,’ which allowed them to have a certain unity or harmony in their daily practice. Participants also made sense of their professional identities by looking for common points between their demands. At the same time, the ways in which participants saw themselves influenced how they behaved and related to others accordingly. Understanding these endeavours enriches current perspectives of what it is like to be a teacher in family medicine. Faculty development leaders ought to consider these perspectives so that they can tailor these programs and thus contribute to better quality medical training and clinical practice"--

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