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Introduces readers to the fascinating folklore behind dragons. Readable text, fun facts, and eye-catching photos invite readers to explore the mythology of this popular mythical creature.

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This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, the book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. The book examines 3 main themes: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place. This study will be of interest to scholars, as well as to advanced general readers and postgraduate students, interested in Muslims, queerness, diaspora and postcolonialism. It brings nuance and complexity to an often simplified and controversial topic.

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The Tuaregs are the true sons of the desert. They can survive in the harshest of conditions like nobody else. The noble inmouchar Gazel Sayah, is the master of a large extension of the desert. One day, two fugitives arrive from the north and Gazel, following his ancient and sacred hospitality laws, gives them shelter. However, Gazel doesn't realise that his act of kindness will lead him towards a deadly adventure. "Tuareg" is a classic epic and at the same time a beautiful rendition to one of the most singular cultures in the world.

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Precision Medicine in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Part One, Volume 192 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology deals with the "Why" in the approach to slow the progression of accelerated brain aging. This volume is intended to provide a scholarly background on the framework, basic science and conceptual pitfalls related to disease-modifying efforts in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative disorders. Among topics covered are different models of precision medicine, the lumping-versus-splitting tension in biomarker development and therapeutics, and the rationale for replacing the convergence of the prevailing autopsy-based nosology of neurodegenerative diseases with the divergence of a systems biology approach to human diseases. Specific chapters are dedicated to the promise of genetic subtypes and the lessons in disease modification offered by the fields of oncology and cystic fibrosis that can be adapted to the field of neurodegeneration. Matching a biology-correcting therapy with those biologically suitable to benefit from such therapy represents the vision and mission of precision medicine, the highest level of personalized medicine.

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El libro recupera los contenidos de la teoría de la computación. A través de las páginas de esta excepcional obra, los lectores podrán familiarizarse con, entre otros, temas tan diversos y fundamentales como la estructura y limitaciones de los ordenadores, la teoría de la información, la física de la tecnología de semiconductores o los tan comentados ordenadores cuánticos. Completa tan singular como excepcional obra, un magistral estudio introductorio de uno de los científicos españoles más destacados: el catedrático de Física Teórica, Alberto Galindo.

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Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Contributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes Alberto Manguel’s account of the Library of Alexandria as well as chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of prime ministers and foreign embassies, protest libraries and the slow transformation of university libraries, and the stories of the personal libraries of Virginia Woolf, Robert Duncan, Sheila Watson, Al Purdy and others. The book shows how the history of the library is really a history of collection, consolidation, migration, dispersal, and integration, where each story negotiates private and public spaces.Unpacking the Personal Library builds on and interrogates theories and approaches from library and archive studies, the history of the book, reading, authorship and publishing. Collectively, the chapters articulate a critical poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.

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Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of crisis. Aiming to develop a political vocabulary capable of critiquing and transforming contemporary political frameworks, the contributors advance a politics of crisis that collapses the false dichotomies between sovereignty and governmentality and between critique and crisis. Their essays address a wide range of topics, such as the role history plays in the development of a politics of crisis; Arendt's controversial judgment of Adolf Eichmann; Strauss's and Badiou's readings of Plato's Laws; the acceptance of the unacceptable; the human and nonhuman; and flesh as a biopolitical category representative of the ongoing crisis of modernity. Altering the terms through which political action may take place, the contributors think through new notions of the political that advance countermodels of biopolitics, radical democracy, and humanity. Contributors. Judith Butler, George Edmondson, Roberto Esposito, Carlo Galli, Klaus Mladek, Alberto Moreiras, Andrew Norris, Eric L. Santner, Adam Sitze, Carsten Strathausen, Rei Terada, Cary Wolfe

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Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black poets include January Gill O’Neil, Tracy K. Smith, and Cornelius Eady. Native American poets include Kimberly Blaeser, Joy Harjo (current U.S. Poet Laureate), and Linda Hogan. The collection also features international voices, including Canadian poets Lorna Crozier and Susan Musgrave. Presented in the same perfect-in-the-hand format as How to Love the World, the collection includes prompts for journaling and exploration of selected poems, a book group guide, bios of all the contributing poets, and stunning cover art by award-winning artist Dinara Mirtalipova. A foreword by Danusha Laméris, along with her popular poem "Small Kindnesses," is also included.

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Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up—drawings, paintings, and pastels of an idealized female face and figure intended for public display—was produced between 1920 and 1970 for calendars, magazine covers, and centerfolds. The majority of original paintings were discarded by publishers and calendar companies after printing, making the surviving art that much more precious. Based on the formidably sized Art of Pin-up, this accessible edition gathers nearly 100 artists alongside in-depth showcases of the top 10 names in the game. Each chapter opens with a reproduction of an original calendar or magazine cover by that artist. The reproduction quality of the paintings, pastels, and preparatory sketches that follow—largely sourced from the original art—invites the viewer to trace the brushstrokes, while the exquisite period calendars, vintage prints, and original model photos document the artists’ creative process. Much of these ephemera were photographed on-site at the historic Brown & Bigelow Company, home to the world’s largest archive of vintage pin-up calendars. In addition to the chapters on the 10 featured artists, the book includes bios and art of 85 painters, the most complete compendium of pin-up artists ever compiled. All this adds up to a hard-to-beat book on this popular subject.

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From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic. Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients.Combining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground today's clinic in a larger scheme of power relations, identifying the cultural, political, and economic pressures that frame clinical relationships, including the instrumentalist definition of health, actuarial-based medical practices, and patient self-help movements, which simultaneously hem in and create the conditions under which agents creatively change ideas of illness and treatment.From threatened community health centers in poor African American locales to innovative nursing practices among the marginally housed citizens of Canada's poorest urban neighborhood, this volume addresses not just the who, what, where, and how of place-specific clinical practices, but also sets these local experiences against a theoretical backdrop that links them to the power of modern medicine in shaping fundamental life experiences. Contributors: Christine Ceci, U of Alberta; Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook U; Suzanne Fraser, Monash U; John Liesch, Simon Fraser U; Jenna Loyd, CUNY; Annemarie Mol, U of Amsterdam; Mary Ellen Purkis, U of Victoria.

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The Jablonka Collection is regarded as one of the highest-profile repositories of American and German art of the 1980s. In this catalogue the art dealer, gallerist and curator Rafael Jablonka (*1951) provides for the first time an insight into his wide-ranging collection, which is dedicated primarily to artists of his own generation.Rafael Jablonka has collected art for decades according to the basic principle of assembling multiple works from the different creative phases of artists. With some 120 works –paintings, works on paper, sculpture and installations –the catalogue introduces the oeuvres in question and shows a representative cross-section of the extensive Jablonka Collection, which was presented to the Albertina on permanent loan in 2019.

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In 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents impressively this unique and spectacular art event. Following an invitation from the Museo Novecento in Florence, Wolfgang Laib – one of the outstanding artists of the present day – created five works in four of the city’s main sights, including the convent of San Marco and the Pazzi Chapel. In their juxtaposition with the historic masterpieces, the delicate pollen sculptures and the imposing beeswax ziggurat cause the contrast between present and past, physical place and endless space, and real and spiritual life to become blurred and lead us towards the central questions of life.

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Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly. Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the hemispheres, this collection examines local political rhetorics across the Americas. The contributors—scholars of communication from both North and South America—recognize democratic ideals as irreducible to a single national perspective and reflect on the ways social minorities in the Western Hemisphere engage in unique political discourses. The essays consider current rhetorics in the United States on American exceptionalism, immigration, citizenship, and land rights alongside current cultural and political events in Latin America, such as corruption in Guatemala, women’s activism in Ciudad Juárez, representation in Venezuela, and media bias in Brazil. Through a survey of these rhetorics, this volume provides a broad analysis of democracy. It highlights institutional and cultural differences in the Americas and presents a hemispheric democracy that is both more pluralistic and more agonistic than what is believed about the system in the United States.In addition to the editors, the contributors include José Cortez, Linsay M. Cramer, Pamela Flores, Alberto González, Amy N. Heuman, Christa J. Olson, Carlos Piovezani, Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco, Abraham Romney, René Agustín de los Santos, and Alejandra Vitale.

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Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly. Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the hemispheres, this collection examines local political rhetorics across the Americas. The contributors—scholars of communication from both North and South America—recognize democratic ideals as irreducible to a single national perspective and reflect on the ways social minorities in the Western Hemisphere engage in unique political discourses. The essays consider current rhetorics in the United States on American exceptionalism, immigration, citizenship, and land rights alongside current cultural and political events in Latin America, such as corruption in Guatemala, women’s activism in Ciudad Juárez, representation in Venezuela, and media bias in Brazil. Through a survey of these rhetorics, this volume provides a broad analysis of democracy. It highlights institutional and cultural differences in the Americas and presents a hemispheric democracy that is both more pluralistic and more agonistic than what is believed about the system in the United States.In addition to the editors, the contributors include José Cortez, Linsay M. Cramer, Pamela Flores, Alberto González, Amy N. Heuman, Christa J. Olson, Carlos Piovezani, Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco, Abraham Romney, René Agustín de los Santos, and Alejandra Vitale.

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GRAN ENCICLOPEDIA CERVANTINACoordinadores: ALFREDO ALVAR EZQUERRA, FLORENCIO SEVILLA ARROYO.Responsables de área: MANUEL ALVAR EZQUERRA, JOSÉ DOMÍNGUEZ CAPARRÓS, BEGOÑA LOLO HERRANZ, JOSÉ MANUEL LUCÍA MEGÍAS, PATRICIA MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA, PEDRO JAVIER PARDO, JOSÉ MANUEL PEDROSA BARTOLOMÉComité científico: MANUEL ALVAR [+] ANTONIO DOMÍNGUEZ ORTIZ [+] ALBERTO BLECUA PERDICES, JEAN CANAVAGGIO, ANTHONY CLOSE, JAIME CONTRERAS, PABLO JAURALDE POU, ISAÍAS LERNER, FRANCISCO MÁRQUEZ VILLANUEVA, AUGUSTIN REDONDO, MARTÍN DE RIQUER, ELÍAS RIVERS, ALDO RUFFINATTO.Colaboradores: Rosario Aguilar Perdomo. Tomás Albaladejo. Luis Alburquerque G. Beatriz Alonso Acero. Manuel Alvar. Manuel Alvar Ezquerra. Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra. Carlos Alvar Ezquerra. Antonio Álvarez Osorio. Trinidad Antonio Sáenz. Juan Aranda Doncel. Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce. Nieves Baranda. Feliciano Barrios Pintado. Rafael Benito Sánchez Blanco. Bartolomé Bennassar. Javier Blasco. Alberto Blecua Perdices. José Manuel Blecu

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In The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings fresh insight to a subject of perennial interest to the history of art and science in the West: the birth of linear perspective. Edgerton retells the fascinating story of how perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence, growing out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives. And yet, ironically, its discovery would have a profound effect not only on the history of art but on the history of science and technology, ultimately undermining the very medieval Christian cosmic view that gave rise to it in the first place. Among Edgerton's cast of characters is Filippo Brunelleschi, who first demonstrated how a familiar object could be painted in a picture exactly as it appeared in a mirror reflection. Brunelleschi communicated the principles of this new perspective to his artist friends Donatello, Masaccio, Masolino, and Fra Angelico. But it was the humanist scholar Leon Battista Alberti who codified Brunelleschi's perspective rules into a simple formula that even mathematically disadvantaged artists could understand.By looking through a window the geometric beauties of this world were revealed without the theological implications of a mirror reflection. Alberti's treatise, "On Painting," spread the new concept throughout Italy and transalpine Europe, even influencing later scientists including Galileo Galilei. In fact, it was Galileo's telescope, called at the time a "perspective tube," that revealed the earth to be not a mirror reflection of the heavens, as Brunelleschi had advocated, but just the other way around. Building on the knowledge he has accumulated over his distinguished career, Edgerton has written the definitive, up-to-date work on linear perspective, showing how this simple artistic tool did indeed change our present vision of the universe.

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The women's league has played a large but little understood role in the history of the ANC. Over the years it has been headed by some powerful women including Albertina Sisulu and Winnie Mandela and has often gained public and media attention. But what role has it actually played in black political life and what influence has it had on national and gender politics in the country? This book provides a revealing insight into the connections between gender, sex and politics in the history of South Africa.

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Al leer a Chesterton nos embarga una peculiar sensación de felicidad. Su prosa es todo lo contrario de la académica: es alegre. Las palabras chocan y se arrancan chispas entre sí, como si un juguete mecánico hubiese cobrado vida de pronto, chasqueando y vibrando con sentido común, esa maravilla de maravillas. Para él, el lenguaje era como un juego de construcciones con el que montar teatros y armas de juguete.Alberto Manguel

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This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for these countries in the years ahead. The work reconsiders the austerity versus stimulus debate through the voices of those who proposed the successful idea of expansionary austerity and those who opposed it. The editors have brought together a collection of articles written by some of the most notable figures in the discipline, including the likes of Alberto Alesina, Ken Rogoff, Tim Besley, David Graeber, Vince Cable, and Paul Krugman. The book also features the debate between Niall Ferguson and Robert Skidelsky. These leading thinkers unveil a world where economists are far from agreeing on economic policy, and where politics often dominates the discussion. The question of whether the British government should have opted for austerity runs through the book, as well as how sustained economic recovery should be encouraged in the future. Scholars, students and members of the general public with an interest in the financial crisis and its lingering aftermath will find this work invaluable.

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"An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre" Times Literary SupplementArthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, wanders the streets of Berlin, a city whose recent past provides the perfect backdrop for his reflections on life and the universe as he collects images for his latest project - a film that will show the world through his eyes.With his circle of friends - a philosopher, a sculptor and a physicist - Daane discusses everything from history to metaphysics and the meaning of our contemporary existence, often over a hearty meal. Then, one cold winter's day, Daane meets the history student Elik Oranje and his world is turned upside down. And when she unexpectedly leaves the city for Spain, Daane is compelled to follow.All Souls' Day is an elegiac love story, a poignant and affecting tale in which the city of Berlin plays a prominent role, by one of Europe's major contemporary writers.Translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty"Displays with admirable lucidity the workings of a humane, civilized, and consistently interesting mind" Kirkus Reviews"One of the most remarkable writers of our time" ALBERTO MANGUEL

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Scholars from the humanities and social sciences analyze representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. While the presence of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture in the United States buttresses the much-heralded Latin Explosion, the images themselves are often contradictory. In Latino/a Popular Culture, Habell-Pallán and Romero have brought together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to analyze representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres—media, culture, music, film, theatre, art, and sports—that are emerging across the nation in relation to Chicanas, Chicanos, mestizos, Puerto Ricans, Caribbeans, Central Americans and South Americans, and Latinos in Canada. Contributors include Adrian Burgos, Jr., Luz Calvo, Arlene Dávila, Melissa A. Fitch, Michelle Habell-Pallán, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Josh Kun, Frances Negron-Muntaner, William A. Nericcio, Raquel Z. Rivera, Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Gregory Rodriguez, Mary Romero, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Christopher A. Shinn, Deborah R. Vargas, and Juan Velasco. Cover artwork "Layering the Decades" by Diane Gamboa, 2002, mixed media on paper, 11 X 8.5". Copyright 2001, Diane Gamboa. Printed with permission.

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The first book on the work of a designer whose refined classical interiors are widely desired and emulated as the epitome of French style. Honoured as one of the top designers by all the international design magazines and universally admired by design editors, Jean-Louis Deniot is in demand. His updated classical approach now graces interiors in Paris, the French countryside, Moscow, India, New York, Chicago, L.A., and beyond-and his legacy is already being compared to that of design greats such as Jacques Grange and Alberto Pinto. Deniot is an architect first, ensuring that the interior architecture of his rooms is harmonious before giving a neoclassical approach to the decor. He brings education, logic, and design history to his work, with one eye looking at the most refined style of French eighteenth century and one eye on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His mix is highly individual and includes contemporary art and custom-made furniture, yet his rooms always look comfortable and are never overly formal or trendy. This book demonstrates a new, sophisticated classical style that is changing the scene for international design and offering inspiration and ideas to decorators, homeowners, and antiques enthusiasts.

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This catalogue for the inaugural exhibition at Tornabuoni Art in Paris showcases works by the greatest exponents of contemporary Italian experimental art from the end of the 1950s to the late 1970s. It includes work by Vincenzo Agnetti, Alighiero Boetti, Agostino Bonalumi, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Mario Ceroli, Gianni Colombo, Dadamaino, Lucio Fontana, Emilio Isgrò, Jannis Kounellis, Sergio Lombardo, Piero Manzoni, Paolo Scheggi and Giuseppe Uncini. “Simplification is complex: it is an all-out choice. The Italian minimalist artists are the heavyweights in the boxing ring of art – and life.” Illaria Bignotti

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'A beautiful haunting novel… looking at a familiar London through a frosty, snowy lens. Wonderful' Caryl PhillipsThe London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. Albertine, the wife of a British army officer often abroad on covert government business, finds herself increasingly lonely. Eager to distract herself with work, she takes a job as companion to the mysterious 'Monsieur Ka', a Russian émigré. As she is drawn into Ka’s dramatic past, her own life is shaken to its foundations. For in this family of former princes, there are present temptations which could profoundly affect her future.

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This glorious design comes from Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a world-renowned British bindery best known for their bejewelled cover of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. Established in London in 1901, Sangorski & Sutcliffe quickly rose to become one of the 20th century’s most important bookbinders. They were especially celebrated for their jewelled bindings, like the one reproduced here. Originally crafted in 1922 to house Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 “Recessional” poem written for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, it incorporated real turquoise, aquamarine and ruby gemstones, alongside medieval-style illumination by Alberto Sangorski and gold tooling by George Sutcliffe.

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This glorious design comes from Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a world-renowned British bindery best known for their bejewelled cover of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. Established in London in 1901, Sangorski & Sutcliffe quickly rose to become one of the 20th century’s most important bookbinders. They were especially celebrated for their jewelled bindings, like the one reproduced here. Originally crafted in 1922 to house Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 “Recessional” poem written for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, it incorporated real turquoise, aquamarine and ruby gemstones, alongside medieval-style illumination by Alberto Sangorski and gold tooling by George Sutcliffe.

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This glorious design comes from Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a world-renowned British bindery best known for their bejewelled cover of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. Established in London in 1901, Sangorski & Sutcliffe quickly rose to become one of the 20th century’s most important bookbinders. They were especially celebrated for their jewelled bindings, like the one reproduced here. Originally crafted in 1922 to house Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 “Recessional” poem written for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, it incorporated real turquoise, aquamarine and ruby gemstones, alongside medieval-style illumination by Alberto Sangorski and gold tooling by George Sutcliffe.

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Se cumplen 40 años de la publicación de la primera edición de Sepulcro en Tarquinia de Antonio Colinas. Este libro es un homenaje al poeta leonés y a la repercusión de esa obra grande de la poesía escrita en castellano en el siglo XX en las generaciones posteriores. Colaboran con texto inéditos en este libro, entre otros, Francisco Brines, Antonio Carvajal, Juan Cobos Wilkins, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Antonio Gamoneda, Pablo García Baena, Amalia Iglesias, Clara Janés, Raquel Lanseros, Antonio Lucas, Aurora Luque, Julio Llamazares, Chantal Maillard, Josep M. Rodríguez, Jaime Siles, Álvaro Valverde, Luis Antonio de Villena.

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Winner of the 2005 Alberta Prize. Laura Sims's exquisite debut is the work of an organic synthesizer, one practiced in the restrained art of listening. Her poems exhibit an attenuation that is akin to devotion by means of maxim and miniaturization, she sorts and stacks the products of humanness. Memes and phonemes of a haiku-like fineness are thereby invited to break the surface of the page. Those pre-hung doors of the native state the return to a native, pre-eminent state wholly immanent, wise and wooly.

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This handy field guide is designed for use by both amateur and professional botanists, biologists, gardeners, and naturalists. The full colour field guide includes over 400 species of water and wetland plants found across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the northern United States. Since many of the northern wetland plants are circumpolar in distribution, Water and Wetland Plants of the Prairie Provinces will also be useful in other parts of Canada, the United States, and Eurasia.

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Las cartas de amor de Pablo Neruda reunidas en esta edición muestran la exaltación y la inquietud del hombre enamorado con respecto a sus numerosas musas (Terusa, Albertina, Olga, Delia, Matilde, etc.). También contemplan el vínculo profundo que une al joven poeta con su hermana Laura, su confidente preferida, y a su " mamadre " , Trinidad Candia Marverde, que sustituyó a su madre verdadera, muerta prematuramente. A ambas se dirigen muestras de afecto y atención que enriquecen la exuberante lista de la experiencia amorosa de Neruda, aportando el matiz de ternura que alberga el corazón del poeta. El epistolario amoroso de Neruda ?aparte de algunas cartas a Terusa, Albertina y Matilde, capaces de crear un mundo exclusivo de pasión y ensueño? revela un espacio poblado de referencias personales y, al mismo tiempo, muestra la extraordinaria riqueza de los intereses vitales del poeta. Las misivas de amor tienen un carácter eminentemente privado en el que conviven, junto a los apelativos y la

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Encuadernación: Rústica.

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El episodio con el que arrancó este libro es el mismo, idéntico, que el que le sucedió hace un montón de años a Marcel Proust, cuando al llevarse a la boca un pedacito de magdalena impregnada en té volvió a sentir algo olvidado: una textura, un sabor y un olor que lo transportaron a su infancia feliz. Y se puso a escribir una novela que titularía En busca del tiempo perdido.Los Sabores colombianos no arrancaron con una magdalena desmenuzada en una taza de té, sino con un simple jugo de melocotón: al primer trago el autor se sintió transportado a su infancia, a muchos kilómetros y muchos año del momento en el que estaba bebiéndose ese jugo. Escribió las primeras notas en un posavasos de cartulina y, tras desarrollar el primer relato, decidió continuar con esa recuperación de la memoria gustativa y olfativa de su infancia en Colombia.No iba a ser un libro de cocina, sino un libro sobre comida, y también sobre imágenes, todas las imágenes encerradas en los álbumes de fotos y en lo

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Este manual pretende dar conocer las diferentes aplicaciones de Autocad. Para ello se dividide en tres módulos: Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño Industrial y Autocad 3D. En ellos se pretende afianzar el desarrollo de un proyecto básico (plantas, alzados y secciones) y aplicar los conocimientos adquiridos en la ejecución de un proyecto urbanístico. Practicar el dibujo con el programa realizando piezas industriales y 3D, así como utilizar el 3D en la realización de infografías.

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El régimen jurídico y de funcionamiento de las Entidades Locales en sus diversas manifestaciones y contenidos constituye uno de los grandes retos de la sociedad española del siglo XXI.Esta relevancia es consecuencia de diversas circunstancias entre las que se señala, específicamente, que se trata de la Administración más numerosa y, a la vez, más la más heterogénea con cobertura de pequeños fenómenos de actuación administrativa al lado de municipios con una relevancia más notable que otras Administraciones de carácter superior.Esta importancia numérica y su propia conformación heterogénea ha ido unida a un exponencial crecimiento de sus competencias y, sobre todo, de sus servicios ha producido un efecto complejo en la sociedad y en el equilibrio de las Administraciones Públicas.Este esquema previo, unido a la situación de crisis económica, ha justificado la publicación de la Ley 27/2013, de 27 de diciembre, de racionalización y sostenibilidad de la Administración Local que

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El paisaje cultural se forma a partir de un paisaje natural por la acción de un grupo cultural. La cultura es el agente, el área natural es el medio, el paisaje cultural es el resultado. El Valle Salado atiende a estas características, alcanzando una perfecta combinación entre el criptosistema (un diapiro, causante originario de cuanto sucede en el Valle Salado), y el fenosistema. El paisaje resultante es de enorme riqueza ecocultural. De hecho, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) ha reconocido en 2018 al Valle Salado de Añana como uno de los dos primeros Sistemas Importantes del Patrimonio Agrícola Mundial (SIPAM) en Europa.

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Más allá de una idea convencional y limitada del 'cinegay' y más allá de los silencios y distorsiones de la crítica (casi siempre masculina y hetero), MIRADAS INSUMISAS repasa las relaciones entre la experiencia homosexual, la fantasía homoerótica y el cine. Constituye una introducción a las diversas aproximaciones de los homosexuales al séptimo arte como espectadores, como críticos y como artistas, pero sobre todo es una invitación a cultivar una experiencia provocadora y heterodoxa del cine. Los placeres cinematográficos han tenido que ver con el deseo y el sexo. Unas veces invitaban a la exploración, otras trataban de imponer cierta ortodoxia. Muy a menudo se producían y se leían en clave heterosexual. La mirada insumisa, tal como se describe en este excelente y único ensayo, se ofrece como una alternativa a esta forma de ver, hacer y hablar de cine.

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Un homenaje a la devoción mariana que san Juan Bosco popularizó e inculcó a los jóvenes y en el pueblo.

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Nutrición para los deportes de resistencia te guiará en la selecciónóptima de alimentos, bebidas y suplementos para entrenar durantemás tiempo, recuperarte con mayor rapidez, evitar lesiones y conseguirtus metas de rendimiento en cualquier prueba de resistencia.La dietista del deporte, y anteriormente corredora de élite, SuzanneGirard Eberle, presenta un programa de nutrición que aborda cuestionesfundamentales para los deportistas de resistencia, como son:? Las carreras, sobre asfalto o montaña, desde los 5 hasta másde los 100 kilómetros.? Las pruebas de ciclismo y ciclismo de montaña, desde las queson cronometradas hasta las que se celebran en varias etapas.? El duatlón y el triatlón, desde sus modalidades de sprinthasta el Ironman.? Los deportes de invierno, desde las carreras de esquí nórdicohasta las ascensiones de montaña.? Los deportes acuáticos, incluidos el remo y la natación enaguas abiertas.? Las condiciones ambien

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