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Es probable que una sensación de absurdidad onírica se apodere del lector cuando se adentre en la lectura de Pesadillas de cenas indigestas. También apostamos a que cuando finalice este alucinante viaje por las autopistas del subconsciente el lector deteste para siempre el queso fundido y no lo contemple como posible cena nunca más. Aprenderá a sospechar de los amigos que lo inviten a tomarlo, además. Aprenderá que el infierno está hecho de queso e insomnio.

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Sir Richard Burton, es sin lugar a dudas una de las figuras más fascinantes del S. XIX inglés. Militar de carrera, escritor y traductor por vocación, explorador y viajero por íntima necesidad, dejó tras de sí un importante número de libros de viajes.De todos sus libros de viajes, es su Relato personal de mi peregrinación a Medina y La Meca (título completo de la obra que aquí se ofrece), el más acabado y complejo de todos, superando ampliamente las habituales características del libro de viajes, para pasar a convertirse en casi una novela.

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La Loba Feroz está preocupadísima: su hijo es bueno! Ayuda a las ancianitas a cruzar y prepara pasteles deliciosos. Horrible!Menos mal que su tío el Lobo va a enseñar al Lobito lo que es ser Feroz. Lo conseguirá?El éxito superventas de El Hematocrítico en edición especial.

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Continuación del libro del mismo título dedicado al Imperio Antiguo y publicado igualmente en esta colección, que incluye textos del Reino Medio y del Imperio Nuevo, algunos de ellos aparecidos o editados en fechas muy recientes. además de dos apéndices, el primero con las listas reales y el segundo sobre las posibles menciones a Troya en algunos de estos textos.

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Una interpretación poco acertada del texto ha distorsionado su mensaje evangélico: las bienaventuranzas proclamadas por Mateo 5,1-12 no son una letanía para consolar a los atribulados del mundo, como se ha creído hasta entonces, sino una invitación a los

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En relación con el concepto de poder, sigue reinando el caos teórico. Frente a todo lo que el fenómeno tiene de obvio tenemos todo lo que el concepto tiene de oscuro. Para unos, poder significa opresión; para otros, es un elemento constructivo de l

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Es posible un mundo sin guerras? Arno Gruen así lo cree y plantea es este libro la tesis luminosa, ilustrada con ejemplos y casos extraídos de su experiencia como psicoanalista: no hay maldad en la naturaleza humana, sino que la violencia es el fruto de una cultura cuya socialización engendra autotraición, odio y guerras... La mejor respuesta a la violencia, propone Gruen, consiste en recuperar la bondad que naturalmente poseen los niños y en protegerse de las imposiciones externas de la autoridad y de los modos sociales. Este libro nos anima a desarrollar nuestra propia individualidad y a recuperar la confianza en que un mundo más compasivo y solidario es posible. Si nos aferramos a la bondad que reside en el hombre, dice el autor, y comprendemos que todos estamos vinculados, que dependemos los unos de los otros, la violencia resultará inconcebible.

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The present book aims to study the use of lithic raw materials on the coast of the San Matías gulf (Río Negro, Argentina) during the middle and late Holocene. The understanding of this aspect of human group technology is of fundamental importance as the main archaeological materials recovered at the surface sites of the study area are lithic artefacts made from different types of rock. Thus, understanding how these were selected, reduced and finally discarded will contribute to the understanding of the way of life of the hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited the area during this period. Spanish description: El presente libro tiene como objetivo estudiar el uso de las materias primas líticas en la costa del golfo San Matías (Río Negro, Argentina) durante el Holoceno medio y tardío. El entendimiento de este aspecto de la tecnología de los grupos humanos es de fundamental importancia ya que los principales materiales arqueológicos recuperados en los sitios de superficie del área de estudio son los artefactos líticos fabricados a partir de diferentes tipos de rocas. Así, entender la forma en que éstas fueron seleccionadas, reducidas y finalmente descartadas aportará a la comprensión del modo de vida de los grupos cazadores-recolectores que habitaron el área en el período mencionado.

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While the scientific study of vision is well-advanced, a universal theory of qualitative visual appearances (texture, shape, colour and so on) is still lacking. This interdisciplinary handbook presents the work of leading researchers around the world who have taken up the challenge of defining and formalizing the field of ‘experimental phenomenology'. Presents and discusses a new perspective in vision science, and formalizes a field of study that will become increasingly significant to researchers in visual science and beyond The contributors are outstanding scholars in their fields with impeccable academic credentials, including Jan J. Koenderink, Irving Biederman, Donald Hoffmann, Steven Zucker and Nikos Logothetis Divided into five parts: Linking Psychophysics and Qualities; Qualities in Space, Time and Motion; Appearances; Measurement and Qualities; Science and Aesthetics of Appearances Each chapter will have the same structure consisting of: topic overview; historical roots; debate; new perspective; methods; results and recent developments

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Uncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity In the first ever book-length study of Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions of citizenship and manhood developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The year 1848 saw both the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the U.S. Mexican War and the year of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first organized conference on women’s rights in the United States. These concurrent events signaled new ways of thinking about U.S. citizenship, and placing these historical moments into conversation with the archive of Mexican American print culture, Varon offers an expanded temporal frame for Mexican Americans as long-standing participants in U.S. national projects. Pulling from a wide-variety of familiar and lesser-known works—from fiction and newspapers to government documents, images, and travelogues—Varon illustrates how Mexican Americans during this period envisioned themselves as U.S. citizens through cultural depictions of manhood. Before Chicano reveals how manhood offered a strategy to disparate Latino communities across the nation to imagine themselves as a cohesive whole—as Mexican Americans—and as political agents in the U.S. Though the Civil Rights Movement is typically recognized as the origin point for the study of Latino culture, Varon pushes us to consider an intellectual history that far predates the late twentieth century, one that is both national and transnational. He expands our framework for imagining Latinos’ relationship to the U.S. and to a past that is often left behind.

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Today, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. Although charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us wiser, they can also deceive—intentionally or unintentionally. To be informed citizens, we must all be able to decode and use the visual information that politicians, journalists and even our employers present to us each day. How Charts Lie examines contemporary examples ranging from election result infographics to global GDP maps and box office record charts, demystifying an essential new literacy for our data-driven world. • With a new afterword on the reporting of the Covid-19 statistics.

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Set over the course of twenty-four exhilarating hours, Undercard is the story of four childhood friends, now in their early thirties, unexpectedly reunited by a high-profile prizefight in a Las Vegas casino . . . and an even higher-profile murder.When Tyron Shaw returns to his hometown of Las Vegas after eleven years in the Marines, he’s surprised to discover that two of his best friends from childhood are all anyone is talking about: Antoine Deco, three years out of prison, hasn’t lost a boxing match since his release, and tonight is fighting in the undercard to the fight of the decade; and Keenan Quinn, a police officer who killed an unarmed teenager and escaped punishment from the courts, is the subject of a protest tomorrow morning.Tyron has trouble reconciling either story with his memory of these men, and the situation escalates when he runs into the love of his life, Naomi Wilks, a retired WNBA player, basketball coach, and estranged wife of Keenan. As Tyron reconnects with his old community, he will learn over the next twenty-four hours that much has changed since he left Las Vegas . . . and there is much more that he never understood.The Reef, an aquarium-themed casino and the hottest resort on the Strip, is the backdrop for this bullet-paced narrative, where loyalty to one’s friends, one’s family, and one’s community are ever at odds, and every choice has deadly repercussions.

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