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Neuroinflammation has long been studied for its connection to the development and progression of Multiple Sclerosis. In recent years, the field has expanded to look at the role of inflammatory processes in a wide range of neurological conditions and cognitive disorders including stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and autism. Researchers have also started to note the beneficial impacts of neuroinflammation in certain diseases. Neuroinflammation: New Insights into Beneficial and Detrimental Functions provides a comprehensive view of both the detriments and benefits of neuroinflammation in human health. Neuroinflammation: New Insights into Beneficial and Detrimental Functions opens with two chapters that look at some fundamental aspects of neuroinflammation in humans and rodents. The remainder of the book is divided into two sections which examine both the detrimental and beneficial aspects of inflammation on the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves, on various disease states, and in normal aging. These sections provide a broad picture of the role neuroinflammation plays in the physiology and pathology of various neurological disorders. Providing cross-disciplinary coverage, Neuroinflammation: New Insights into Beneficial and Detrimental Functions will be an essential volume for neuroimmunologists, neurobiologists, neurologists, and others interested in the field.

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Presented in a beautiful gift format and filled with a wealth of new photography, this engaging book aims to introduce to a general audience the National Trust’s vast collections – a treasure chest of history. Arranged chronologically, starting with Roman sculpture and ending with 20th-century design, it focuses on museum-quality objects as well as important examples of decorative arts, furniture, textiles, books and items with fascinating stories behind them. Selected by the National Trust’s curators from more than 1.5 million objects in its collections, the featured highlights include an ancient-Egyptian obelisk; Cardinal Wolsey’s purse; the first English globe; one of the earliest surviving sofas; an incredible 18th-century dolls’ house; an elephant automaton; a tent made for a sultan; a dress made of beetle-wing cases; hand-written manuscripts by Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf; Rodin’s bust of George Bernard Shaw; rare, early colour photographs of the Sutton Hoo discovery; a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth and paintings by Holbein, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Reynolds, Stubbs, Burne-Jones, Monet and Sargent. Each featured object is accompanied by an illuminating, easy-to-read caption, a timeline of key moments in the Trust’s history and a list of properties housing important collections items appear at the end.

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The first biography of a composer who broke the gender barrier on Broadway Kay Swift (1897–1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Best known as George Gershwin’s assistant, musical adviser, and intimate friend, Swift was in fact an accomplished musician herself, a pianist and composer whose Fine and Dandy (1930) was the first complete Broadway musical written by a woman. This fascinating book—the first biography of Swift—discusses her music and her extraordinary life. Vicki Ohl describes Swift’s work for musical theater, the ballet, Radio City Music Hall’s Rockettes, and commercial shows. She also tells how Swift served as director of light music for the 1939 World’s Fair, eloped with a cowboy from the rodeo at the fair, and abandoned her native New York for Oregon, later fashioning her experiences into an autobiographical novel, Who Could Ask for Anything More? Informed by rich material, including Swift’s unpublished memoirs and extensive interviews with her family members and friends, this book captures the essence and spirit of a remarkable woman.

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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the fifth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. DIED IN THE WOOLOne summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction - packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead… FINAL CURTAINJust as Agatha Troy, the world famous painter, completes her portrait of Sir Henry Ancred, the Grand Old Man of the stage, the old actor dies. The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in - in the person of Troy's long-absent husband, Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn… SWING, BROTHER, SWINGThe music rises to a climax: Lord Pastern aims his revolver and fires. The figure in the spotlight falls - and the coup-de-théatre has become murder… Has the eccentric peer let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or will a tangle of jealousies and blackmail reveal to Inspector Alleyn an altogether different murderer?

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Back by popular demand, here is the encore edition of the ultimate guide to Canadian music, featuring the best albums that Canadian musicians ever produced and some new interviews not included in the original hardcover edition. An unprecedented book, The Top 100 Canadian Albums includes the finest albums in Canadian music history chosen by a blue-ribbon panel. The results from 1 to 100 have sparked passionate debate among Canada's music aficionados. This book is jam-packed with incredible behind-the-scenes stories about the making of the albums and the history of Canadian music, as told by the musicians themselves. Find out how Gordon Lightfoot helped get Blue Rodeo back to Canada. Learn about the song that connects The Guess Who to The Tragically Hip. Meet Simply Saucer, the band who waited 30 years for its album to become a hit. Connect the dots between Don Messer and Music from Big Pink. Despite debate about what is and isn't on the list (or perhaps because of it), The Top 100 Canadian Albums is the essential book on Canadian music — not to be missed!

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In the middle of a gang war, wanted for murder, truly alone and outside the law, Detective Inspector LeBrock is on the run from both the police and gangster assassins, the victim of a diabolical scheme to annihilate himself and everyone he holds dear, engineered by mastermind crime lord Tiberius Koenig, one of the most despicable villains in the history of detective fiction.A fiendishly ingenious story of love, tenacity, treachery and tragedy, this fifth, final and longest stand-alone volume of the Eisner and Hugo Award-nominated Grandville series by master storyteller and graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot is a veritable rollercoaster of a detective thriller, featuring Grandville’s trademark high-octane excitement, humour and deduction on a Holmesian scale as we finally meet LeBrock’s mentor, Stamford Hawksmoor, and discover LeBrock’s untold backstory. Fan-favourite characters Detective Sergeant Roderick Ratzi and LeBrock’s vivacious fiancée, Parisian prostitute Billie are joined by a new badger in town! Enter Tasso, an Italian badger who’s bigger, meaner and uglier than LeBrock – but is he a force for good or evil? A battle royale ensues as LeBrock fights against truly outrageous odds. How can he possibly survive?Prepare to be royally badgered!

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In 2013 Sue Bathurst went to Kyrgyzstan to ride a horse in the jailoo - the nomads’ mountain pastures. She fell in love with the country, sometimes described as the most beautiful country in the world, and with its people. In this book she not only describes Kyrgyzstan, as it was and is, but tells of four of these horse rides in the Tien Shan and Talas Mountains, travelled with English and Kyrgyz friends. During those rides they covered 500 miles by horse; crossed 20 passes, most between 9,000 feet and 13,000 feet; negotiated precipitous gorges and boulder strewn rivers of cascading snowmelt. In 2017 they rode for over 150 miles down the no-go zone, once the frontier between the USSR and China, and still the Kyrgyz/Chinese border. Everywhere they were welcomed by the shepherds and their families. This is not only about a beautiful country, illustrated with over 200 colour photographs, 4 graphs and a colour map. It is about traversing challengingly tricky terrain, far from the possibility of helicopter rescue, and seeing, along the way, how the smallest country in Central Asia is rebuilding itself after 115 years of Russian rule.

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'So hard to put down' The Express'Turn up the heat' New York Times'[Patterson] always takes thrills to the next level' Pittsburgh Tribune_______________________________________He's America's most brilliant president ever. He's also a psychopath.US president Keegan Barrett swept into office on his success as director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with a deadly motive: Revenge.President Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. As CIA agents they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all threats, both foreign and domestic.When the threat comes directly from the Oval Office, that's where the blowback begins._______________________________________Praise for James Patterson'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades' Lee Child'Nobody does it better' Jeffery Deaver 'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting' Mark Lawson, Guardian'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin

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Stop me if you've heard this one Knock, knock... Who s there? Why, it s none other than the Clown Prince of Crime himself, the Joker. As the Joker War wreaks havoc all over Gotham, the Joker almost has control of Wayne Enterprises, and Batgirl has something he needs So the Joker makes a special visit to Barbara Gordon s apartment to get it himself. Then, a mysterious murderer is running around Gotham killing redheaded women and dressing them up as Batgirl. Both Barbara s father, Jim Gordon, and her estranged brother, James Gordon Jr., think she s next, and they have to work together to find the killer before Barbara becomes a victim! Barbara has trouble trusting her brother, though, after the history he has with the rest of the Gordon family But this time, she can t help but notice there s something different about him almost like he s someone else Award-winning writer CECIL CASTELLUCCI (Female Furies) and artist CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO (The Flash) and ROBBI RODRIGUEZ (Spider-Gwen, Goddess Mode) bring the Batgirl epic and heartbreaking Gordon family reunion to a conclusion in Batgirl: The Joker War. Collects Batgirl #45-50.

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Intrigue and scandal threaten to rock the monarchy in wartime Britain… Windsor, 1943. Britain is in the grip of war and treachery is afoot. The body of controversial former courtier Lord Blackwater is found in the abandoned Fort Belvedere, once the country bolthole of the King’s wayward brother. And all signs point to murder. Royal confidant Guy Harford is called in to solve the mystery quickly and quietly, before any hint of scandal reaches the public. Investigating with the help of Rodie, his roguish burglar girlfriend, his enquiries lead him into the world of the Royal Ballet, where on-stage glamour hides an undercurrent of off-stage deceit. And when the ballet company’s newest recruit turns up dead, it’s clear there’s more to this murder than meets the eye. Meanwhile, news reaches the Palace that the King’s brother—already under strict orders to stay out of trouble—is threatening to undermine both Crown and country by taking US citizenship. Harford must do his royal duty. It’s up to him to catch the killer and save the monarchy from crisis in wartime. Before any more heads roll…

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'Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness" Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Henry James (1843-1916). James's works available in Penguin Classics are The Portrait of a Lady,The Europeans, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories, The Turn of The Screw, The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, The Wings of The Dove, Washington Square, The Tragic Muse, Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, Selected Tales, Roderick Hudson, The Princess Casamassima and The American.

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Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate “nature” with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial contexts and repositions it within a new comparative frame.

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Chad Gamble, all-star pitcher for the Nationals, is one of the best players on--and off--the field. And right now, the notorious bad boy wants Bridget Rodgers. But with her lush curves and snappy comebacks, the feisty redhead is the kind of woman a man wants to settle down with...and that's the last thing Chad needs.When the paparazzi catch them in a compromising position, Chad's manager issues an ultimatum: clean up his act or kiss his multi-million dollar contract goodbye. To save his career, his meddling publicist says he'll have to convince everyone Bridget isn't just his flavor of the week, but his girlfriend.Being blackmailed into a fake relationship with Chad Gamble isn't easy, especially when the sizzling physical attraction between them is undeniable. With a month to go on their arranged pretense, it's going to take every ounce of willpower they have not to fall into bed together...or in love.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR'A landmark book by an important new voice in Irish writing' EMILIE PINETHIS HOSTEL LIFE tells the stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland.Queuing for basic supplies in an Irish direct provision hostel, a group of women squabble and mistrust each other, learning what they can of the world from conversations about reality television and Shakespeare. In another story, a student shares her work with a class only to be critiqued about her own lived experience, and a mother of young twins, living in Nigeria, is at risk of losing her newborns to ancient superstitious beliefs.An essay by Liam Thornton (UCD School of Law) is also included, explaining the Irish legal position in relation to asylum seekers and direct provision.'Fresh, devastating stories . . . Okorie writes with uncomfortable clarity about things we think we already know' LIA MILLS 'Melatu Uche Okorie has important things to say - and she does it quite brilliantly' RODDY DOYLE

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A vibrant celebration of the vegetables and fruits of Italy in all their seasonal glory.-Anything that Olivia cooks is something I want to eat' Emiko DaviesA hymn to Italy's culinary calendar her deep love of the country's fresh produce shines through.' Waitrose FOODA beautiful book full of good and approachable recipes, but also real and purposeful.' Rachel Roddy-Stagioni, meaning seasons' in Italian, will take you on a journey through the culinary year with recipes for every craving and occasion. Chef and food writer Olivia Cavalli brings together traditional recipes and contemporary creations with an enthusiastic aim to put the best produce of each moment centre stage.From refreshing summer salads to steaming bowls of wintery pasta, you'll find classics such as aubergine parmigiana, stuffed tomatoes and amaretti peaches alongside more unusual combinations of chestnut gnocchi, grape focaccia and courgette cake. The occasional addition of meat and fish enhances rather than dominates,

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A los cuatro años, le extirparon la mayor parte del clítoris y una porción de los labios menores de la vagina a golpe de navaja en su Guinea-Bissau natal. Lejos de doblegarla, los efectos físicos y psicológicos de la ablación despertaron en Fátima Djarra Sani un indómito deseo de lucha contra aquellas tradiciones de su pueblo que suponen un ataque frontal a los derechos de la mujer. Fátima respeta sus raíces. Ama su tierra. Su vida es la búsqueda constante de un equilibrio que le permita conciliar la cultura de la que procede y la causa que la ayudó a convertir la debilidad en fortaleza. Porque como mediadora de Médicos del Mundo Navarra, Fátima Djarra Sani se afana por prevenir la mutilación genital femenina y fomentar la igualdad entre el hombre y la mujer africanos. Para alcanzar su meta, no emplea más armas que la información y su ardor. No pretende hallar culpables ni enjuiciar a sus ancestros, sino transformar la realidad que la rodea. Posiblemente porque las contradicciones y av

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El Principado de Córdoba no es el título de ninguna obra de Martín de Roa (Córdoba, 1559 ó 1560 ? Montilla, 1637), pero es el que se pudiera dar a un tema cuya polémica le acompañaría durante la mitad su vida. En este volumen editamos las dos obras principales que le dedicó, De Cordubae in Hispania Betica Principatu (Lyon, 1617) y Antiguo Principado de Córdova en la España Ulterior o Andaluz (Córdoba, 1636). Martín de Roa fue un escritor apasionado de la Antigüedad, elemento fundamental dentro de su obra (cuyo catálogo se incluye en este volumen). Fue muy estimado en su época por su erudición, y en la actual por su calidad literaria. Del amor a la Antigüedad y a su ciudad natal nacieron estas obras que defienden a Córdoba como primera ciudad de Andalucía, remontándose a la primacía que tuvo en la Bética durante la dominación romana. Surgió la inevitable polémica con quienes pretendían ese honor para la espléndida Sevilla de entonces, y en especial con Rodrigo Caro, el famoso cantor de

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El hombre ha vivido siempre rodeado de vegetación que ha utilizado para facilitar su existencia. La importancia de las plantas para la Humanidad está basada en la reputación y en los conocimientos recopilados sobre ellas que las generaciones han ido transmitiendo a la largo de los siglos. Esta experiencia colectiva permitió los grandes avances de la agricultura y el aprovechamiento de las plantas para otros fines, científicos o industriales, además de los basados en la alimentación y el ocio. Los textos bíblicos se hicieron eco de la relación del hombre con su entorno y ofrecieron los primeros testimonios escritos sobre el valor simbólico de los árboles y los arbustos. En los relatos , se percibe que las plantas son parte de la vida cotidiana, se aprecian sus virtudes, sus utilidades y se habla de ellas con naturalidad. Muchas de esas pantas son bien conocidas pero otras no lo son tanto y su correcta identificación ha sido causa de controversias. Todas ellas están presentes en este lib

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Tras Ciudades del mundo antiguo, Viaje al Antiguo Egipto y Palacios imperiales de la Roma Antigua, un nuevo título se viene a sumar al recorrido visual por la Antigüedad que nos regala el arte del célebre arquitecto, arqueólogo e ilustrador francés Jean-Claude Golvin: Herodes. El rey arquitecto.Aunque el nombre de Herodes evoca de inmediato un episodio perpetuado por la iconografía cristiana ?y probablemente una invención?, la matanza de los inocentes, su figura simboliza una época axial, el cruce entre el judaísmo y el mundo helenístico, ya bajo la égida de Roma, una intersección cultural sin la que no puede comprenderse ni a Jesús ni el nacimiento del cristianismo. El rey que supo navegar entre Roma y sus súbditos, el tirano inmisericorde que se cebó con su propia familia, el gobernante evérgeta que ornó Israel con suntuosas edificaciones... quién fue realmente Herodes?En Herodes. El rey arquitecto, Jean-Claude Golvin y el historiador Jean-Michel Roddaz bucean a través de la ar

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El autor narrador de este libro recibe el encargo de escribir un texto con ocasión del IV centenario de la muerte de Cervantes y se topa con la misteriosa figura de la hermana del ilustre y genial escritor. Luisa de Cervantes Saavedra (1546-1622) con apenas diecinueve años entró, de la mano de Rodrigo, su padre, y de Miguel, su hermano, en el Convento de las Carmelitas Descalzas de Alcalá de Henares, fundado hacía poco por la granadina María de Jesús Yepes. Qué razones la llevaron a ingresar? Cuáles eran sus sentimientos? Cómo pensaba? Era una adelantada a su tiempo, como lo fue Teresa de Jesús, a quien conoció y trató? Y, sobre todo, tuvo algo que ver en la obra cumbre de la literatura española, el Quijote?Javier Ruiz, cotejando las fuentes que se conocen de Luisa, pero esencialmente a golpes de imaginación, rastrea sobre el pasado en este sugestivo libro escrito desde la admiración y el respeto hacia la biografiada, con una profunda curiosidad por una época en que las mujeres pade

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Han transcurrido cien años desde que la Virgen se apareciese a tres niños en Fátima. En este tiempo (1917-2017) el mundo ha sufrido grandes convulsiones: la Revolución Rusa, dos guerras mundiales, guerra civil en España, la caída del comunismo, ataques a la vida... La Virgen del Rosario de Fátima, que se apareció seis veces en 1917, siempre rodeada de una gran luz, se mostró cuando gran parte de estos sucesos estaban germinando. Y en estos cien años, la luz de la Virgen de Fátima no ha dejado de alumbrar ni al mundo ni a la Iglesia.Qué ocurrió realmente entre mayo y octubre de 1917 en Fátima? Quiénes eran Lucia, Jacinta y Francisco, los niños videntes, ahora en los altares? Cuál es verdaderamente el mensaje de la Virgen? Se ha desvelado por completo el "Secreto" de Fátima? Es verdad que "los milagros en Fátima son del espíritu"? Por qué la predilección de todos los Papas por Fátima?Darío Chimeno, director de Mundo Cristiano. Doctor (Universidad de Valladolid) y Licenciado en CC.

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L'Adriana, La Virginia i la Martina tenen grans somnis, però la banda del senyor Nohoaconseguiraspàs els ha omplert les butxaques de pedres perquè no puguin volar.La Martina és lleugera com una fulla al vent. Li encanta volar d'un costat a l'altre de la seva habitació rugint com si fos una avioneta. De gran vol ser la millor pilot del món sencer.L'Adriana és rodoneta com el punt de la i. Sempre puja els esgraons de casa seva de tres en cinc perquè té presa per abraçar el seu estimadíssim violí. Sap que de gran serà una súper violinista.La Virginia és silenciosa i es passa tot el dia entre llibres. Li agrada escriure contes i va amb el seu quadern sota el braç d'aquí cap allà imaginant històries allucinants. Te claríssim que serà una escriptora reconeguda en tot el planeta i una mica més enllà.Elles són tres,però podrien ser-ne deu,o cent,o una,o totes les nenes del món.

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Descripción: 24x16 cm.Encuadernacion:Cartone.Colección: Biblioteca Manual Desclée,56.Nada nos es más cercano y familiar que la vida en concreto: somos nosotros mismos aquí y ahora. Nuestra experiencia ya es vida y estamos rodeados de seres vivos con su infinita variedad. Nos damos cuenta de que vivir es un regalo maravilloso que recibimos cada día, cada momento, sin que sepamos cómo sucede ni por qué.En el presente libro acudimos como creyentes a la fuente principal de nuestra fe, la Sagrada Escritura, para que ella nos ilumine sobre el misterio de la vida. La lectura reposada de la Biblia satisfará con creces nuestras esperanzas y nos hará descubrir horizontes insospechados, introduciéndonos en el misterio insondable del Dios que es Vida, Creador de todo viviente y Dador de su propia Vida.José Vílchez Líndez, nació en Pedro Martínez (Granada) en 1928. Jesuita. Estudió Filosofía en Madrid, Teología en Innsbruck (Austria) y Sagrada Escritura en Roma. Ha sido dura

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El 20 de julio de 1969 la misión espacial del Apolo XI se posa en el Mar de la Tranquilidad, convirtiendo a su comandante, Neil Armstrong, en el primer hombre que pisa la Luna. Las noticias sobre el viaje son el hilo conductor de esta novela protagonizada por un adolescente que, fascinado por estos acontecimientos, asiste al nacimiento de una nueva época; el universo que le rodea comienza a serle tan ajeno como su propia felicidad infantil.En 1969 la vida en la ciudad de Mágina transcurre con la regularidad con que las cosas han sucedido siempre, en el tiempo en apariencia detenido de una larga dictadura. Antonio Muñoz Molina transmite como nadie la fragilidad de instantes capaces de cambiar una vida, como la llegada del primer televisor a casa, la conciencia del incalculable consuelo de la lectura o el descubrimiento de un secreto que ha marcado a la ciudad desde la guerra civil.Historia de iniciación magistralmente narrada, El viento de la Luna posee elementos que remite

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En la esquinita suroccidental de España, son pocos los que después de visitar Cádiz no sonríen al evocarla. Una expresión facial bien común en la mayoría de los gaditanos: el humorismo, con peculiares dosis de castizo y espontáneo surrealismo, surge tan natural como frecuentemente en esta ciudad de sol y de mar. Rodeada por el Atlántico por tres de sus cuatro costados, el casco antiguo de Cádiz es uno de los más bellos y especiales de Andalucía. Empezando por su fantástica catedral de cúpula dorada, que parece no caber en la plaza que la aloja, y siguiendo por el pequeño y antiquísimo barrio del Pópulo, el fascinante oratorio de la Santa Cueva, el de San Felipe Neri (donde se aprobó la Pepa en 1812), el mirador de la Torre Tavira? Y, monumentos aparte, La Caleta, la fantástica playa urbana de Cádiz, mediante la cual la ciudad sonríe al océano Atlántico; o la plaza de las Flores, un bonito rincón que antes o después aparece en cualquier paseo que uno de por la ciudad. Si se dispone de a

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Nasha y Daniel son alumnos nuevos que intentan pasar desapercibidos, algo prácticamente imposible porque Rodrigo, el payaso de la clase, se dedica a hacerles la vida imposible desde el primer día. Por suerte, descubren la librería Serendipias que, con su magia, logrará crear un grupo de amigos fuertes y luchadores que podrán enfrentarse a las terribles situaciones que deben vivir por ser diferentes. Y es que fue una serendipia la que les unió a todos, y será otra la que consiga salvar a quien menos esperan que lo necesite.En un momento histórico en el que una parte de la sociedad ataca a los colectivos más vulnerables, Elena Martínez Blanco, autora de "Bajo el paraguas azul" que ha tenido miles de lectores, ha decidido hablar en "Serendipias" precisamente de esos temas que preocupan a gran cantidad de adolescentes: el racismo, el odio al colectivo LGTBI+, el maltrato entre iguales, la violencia de género o el caso omiso que suele hacerse a los alumnos de altas capacidades a través d

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El enigma de la Creación rodea París. Pero la protagonista de esta novela no se llama Eva, sino Christine. Nacida en Venecia en una familia acomodada, vivió su infancia bajo la protección de Carlos V, rey de Francia. Junto al Louvre, aprendió a leer a escondidas porque, en el siglo XIV, la alta cultura se reservaba a los hombres.Todo iba bien hasta que un día la rueda de la fortuna cambió de signo: conoció la mendicidad y, gracias a los poemas y a las crónicas que compuso, salvó a su familia de morir de hambre.Christine de Pizan fue la primera escritora profesional de la Historia y la pionera en la defensa de la dignidad de la mujer. Llegó a albergar la idea de fundar la "Ciudad de las Damas", una urbe adonde pasarían a residir las sabias, las amazonas, las heroínas, las santas, las trabajadoras..., del pasado y del futuro; en definitiva, todas las mujeres que desearan conquistar su libertad.Con rigor histórico y dinamismo literario, la escritora María Lara, Primer premio Naci

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Nada en el mundo podría apagar las llamas del amor...Segunda entrega de la saga romántica paranormal Oscuros, la apasionante historia de amor entre Daniel y Luce.Fort Bragg, 2010. Daniel creía que nada ni nadie podría volver a separarlo de Luce, pero estaba muy equivocado. Ángeles y demonios acaban de sellar un pacto tan excepcional como las circunstancias que los rodean: se concederán 18 días de tregua para dar caza a los desterrados, los ángeles caídos que han sido condenados al exilio y que ahora buscan a Luce.A Daniel no le queda otro remedio que llevarla a la Escuela de la Costa, el único lugar donde estará totalmente aislada y protegida de la batalla que va a librarse en el Cielo. Será difícil convencerla para que abandone Espada & Cruz, aunque, si todo sale como Daniel espera, muy pronto volverán a verse...Pero cuántas sorpresas pueden sacudir sus vidas en solo 18 días?

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A pesar de ser uno de los personajes que más ha influido en la Historia, hay muchos detalles de la vida de Cristóbal Colón que continúan velados por el misterio. Cuál fue su verdadera patria? En qué pruebas se basan los investigadores que lo hacen gallego, extremeño, catalán o balear? Era Colón judío? Si nació en Génova, cómo se explica que conociese imperfectamente el italiano? Supo de la existencia de América por un náufrago predescubridor al que dio cobijo en su casa? Cuáles fueron sus verdaderas relaciones con Isabel la Católica? Realizó exploraciones secretas a espaldas de la Corona para descubrir yacimientos de perlas y minas de oro? Dónde se encuentra la verdadera tumba de Colón?Este libro examina además los otros misterios que rodean el descubrimiento de América: cuándo y por qué caminos llegaron allí sus primeros pobladores? Conocieron América los fenicios? Extrajeron del Perú los templarios sus fabulosos tesoros? En qué circunstancia llegaron los vikingos al Canadá quinien

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Tercer libro de la Trilogía de la niebla.Un misterioso fabricante de juguetes que vive recluido en una gigantesca mansión poblada de seres mecánicos y sombras del pasado... Un enigma en torno a extrañas luces que brillan entre la niebla que rodea el islote del faro. Una criatura de pesadilla que se oculta en lo más profundo del bosque...Estos y otros elementos tejen la trama del misterio que unirá a Irene e Ismael para siempre durante un mágico verano en Bahía Azul. Un misterio que los llevará a vivir la más emocionante de las aventuras en un laberíntico mundo de luces y sombras.Carlos Ruiz ZafónBarcelona, 1964Carlos Ruiz Zafón es uno de los autores más leídos y reconocidos en todo el mundo. Inicia su carrera literaria en 1993 con El Príncipe de la Niebla (Premio Edebé), a la que siguen El Palacio de la Medianoche, Las Luces de Septiembre (reunidos en el volumen La Trilogía de la Niebla) y Marina. En 2001 se publica su primera novela para adultos, La Sombra del Viento, que

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Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains in many ways their most innovative having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly a handsome cowboy and Laurey a winsome farm girl play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant ÊOklahoma!Ê

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Lively and filled with vivid anecdotes, Viva Baseball! chronicles the struggles of Latin American professional baseball players in the United States from the late 1800s to the present. As Latino players, managers, and owners continue to blossom into baseball's biggest stars, they have benefited from a growing Spanish-language media, a group identity, an increase in financial leverage and attention, and a burgeoning Latino culture in the United States. Although there have been several positive developments in the treatment of Latin American players, many, such as Albert Pujols, Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriguez, and Ozzie Guillen, still face shocking racism. Samuel O. Regalado draws upon archives and rich interviews with Latin baseball stars like Felipe Alou, Orlando Cepeda, and Minnie Minoso to show the changing tenor of discrimination in the twenty-first-century game.

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From Griffith Observatory and the Getty Museum to the Hollywood Bowl and Rodeo Drive, All the Buildings in Los Angeles allows readers to experience the sun-kissed pleasures of Los Angeles without having to deal with its famously terrible traffic. James Gulliver Hancock s unique and charming drawings capture the city as it is today, including classic landmarks like Grauman s Chinese Theater and the Capital Records Building, as well as newer favorites like the Broad contemporary art museum and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Cultural musings, accessible histories, anecdotes, and informative details accompany the illustrations throughout, making this volume truly as practical as it is beautiful. The careful artistry, insider s musings, and approachable read-ability both visually and texturally in this book are sure to appeal to readers of all stripes.

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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has reopened after several years of major renovation. It is home to an especially varied collection of art that runs to more than 9,000 items: paintings, sculptures, assemblages, drawings and prints from the 14th to the 21st century. Old Flemish masters like Jan van Eyck, Quinten Massys and Peter Paul Rubens feature alongside internationally renowned artists such as Jean Fouquet, Titian, Auguste Rodin and Amedeo Modigliani. The KMSKA also has the world’s largest collections of work by James Ensor and Rik Wouters. This richly illustrated book highlights seven centuries of art, from the Flemish Primitives to conceptual artists. A hundred masterpieces from the permanent collection are presented in detail and discussed in lucid articles that draw on the very latest research by KMSKA’s own in-house scholars.

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The story of an iconic model in the long history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, the WLA, which was used by Allied forces during WWII, is told for the first time. Developed for the US Army's mechanized cavalry, the Harley-Davidson WLA became the leading US military motorcycle of the war. It served the US armed services as a messenger and military police vehicle. The Red Army's motorcycle battalions, reconnaissance units of its tank armies, also used them as their primary vehicle. The armies of the Soviet Union, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, China, and Brazil also made use of the model and its variants. It is known today as the "Liberator." Discover the history and stories of individuals who rode this icon to war and why the model is now a favorite among civilian collectors.

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La fortuna que han alcanzado las recopilaciones de cuentos populares provenientes de otros ámbitos culturales -como las hechas en su día por los hermanos Grimm o, en menor medida, Perrault o Andersen- a menudo ha venido a oscurecer, de rechazo, el maravilloso acervo de relatos pertenecientes a la tradición de nuestro país. Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar ha reunido en ?Cuentos al amor de la lumbre? una muestra significativa de los cuentos populares españoles. Este primer volumen recoge los cuentos maravillosos, dentro de los cuales se hallarán, por ejemplo, aquellos que giran en torno a Blancaflor, Juan el Oso, los príncipes y princesas encantados, las tres maravillas del mundo, niñas perseguidas, niños valientes, princesas y pastores, muertos agradecidos, seres mitológicos, la ambición castigada y la muerte.

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"The two rode on. To left and right were lighted streets of tents, visited here and there by substantial cabins. Soldiers were everywhere, dimly seen within the tents where the door-flap was fastened back, about the camp-fires in open places, clustering like bees in the small squares, everywhere apparent in the foreground and divined in the distance. From somewhere came the strains of 'Yankee Doodle.' A gust of wind blew out the folds of the stars and stripes, fastened above some regimental headquarters. The city of tents and of frame structures hasty and crude, of fires in open places, of Butlers' shops and canteens and booths of strolling players, of chapels and hospitals, of fluttering flags and wandering music, of restless blue soldiers, oscillating like motes in some searchlight of the giants, persisted for a long distance. At last it died away; there came a quiet field or two, then the old Maryland town of Frederick."from The Long Roll Before Gone with the Wind exploded into print, Mary Johnston's The Long Roll was one of the definitive novels about the Civil War. Unlike Mitchell's novel of Southern aristocracy, however, Johnston sets her tale among the fighting armies. The Long Roll begins with secession and ends with the funeral of Stonewall Jackson. Our protagonists are Richard Cleave of Virginia, and General Jackson himself, who begins the novel as a major. Cleaves' action in the Confederate artillery alternates with Jackson's cavalry maneuvers to show a wide range of battle experience and combat effectiveness. Johnston peels away some of the historical romance of the cavalry and shows how vital artillery was in the battles. No less significant, she pays close attention to the importance of planning and patience, and the role of roads, rail, horse, and boat, mixing all of these elements with descriptions of raw courage and reckless abandon. As the narrative follows Cleave and Jackson, we are led through the most decisive engagements in the years of Confederate supremacy: Manassas, The Seven Days, Fredericksburg, Malvern Hill, and Sharpsburg. The Long Roll brings alive the differing motives for secession and war, and eerily evokes the suspicion and battered consciences of both North and South.

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The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled their homes, she discovers the unique power of such objects: to unlock the secrets of a colossal human migration, and a life that once was. Remnants of Partition is a remarkable alternative history, telling the family stories hidden within items carried between the new India and Pakistan, amid chaos and violence. They uncover a rich tapestry of pain and rupture, but also of hope and connection – in belonging through belongings, and identities reforged. From a string of pearls to a young woman’s poetry, this extraordinary book gives voice to the voiceless, restoring the everyday to a great drama of the twentieth century. Its power and poignancy will haunt the reader. Shortlisted for the British Academy's 2019 Al-Rodhan Prize A Hindustan Times 'India @ 70' book Shortlisted for the Hindu Lit for Life Non-Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize

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To Benita Ford, Tallgrass, Oklahoma, will always be home. It's where her beloved grandmother raised her and where she rode bikes with her two best friends-the man who became her husband and Calvin. And Tallgrass is where she stayed, even after her husband died while serving his country. Now Calvin is home from that same war, and the sensitive, mischievous boy she once knew is today a man scarred by wounds no one else can see. Falling in love with him is something Bennie never imagined.Tallgrass still haunts Captain Calvin Sweet. Yet it's where he must go to see Bennie-the one woman he always loved but could never have. Calvin regrets so much about what happened years ago. Still he can't deny being with Bennie makes his future feel bright, like anything is possible. But the demons of his past won't be quieted that easily. As old hurts linger, threatening to pull them apart, Calvin and Bennie must take the ultimate risk for the love of a lifetime . . .

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Ranging from Kentchurch Court, a former fortified medieval manor house that has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a delightful Strawberry Hill-style Gothic house in rural Cornwall and car-crazed Goodwood House, this beautifully illustrated book showcases ten outstanding British country houses, all still in the hands of the original families. James Peill recounts the ups and downs of such deep-rooted clans as the Cracrofts, landowners in Lincolnshire since the 12th century, whose late 18th-century Hackthorn Hall is a perfect example of the kind of house Jane Austen describes in her novels (indeed, she appears on their family tree), as well as the relatively newly arrived Biddulphs, who constructed Rodmarton, an Arts & Crafts masterpiece, in the first decades of the last century. James Fennell has once again provided superb photographs of a wealth of gardens, charming interiors, bygone sporting trophies, fine art collections and fanciful family memorabilia, making The English Country House a delicious treat for Anglophiles and lovers of old houses.

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A group of house mice struggle to survive a long and strange winter. The humans are gone, the sun is rarely seen, and a cold, dark rain befouls everything it touches. The mice, long dependent on humans for food, stubbornly cling to their old ways, looting the nearby abandoned houses for any scraps they can find. Once, there was plenty to eat, but now the scavengers return empty-handed, or not at all. Food is scarce, but danger is everywhere. Poison and traps wait for the unwary in dark cupboards, and a gang of feral cats relentlessly chase the mice whenever the rodents leave the safety of their nest. Now there are even rumors a hawk has come to join the hunt. As supplies run low and many mice fall ill, desperation creeps in. With the colony at a breaking point, rumors of a wrecked truck filled with food give them hope, but it lies far beyond the forest, where even the cats won’t go. Included in Scurry, is a two-page READER'S GUIDE. The full TEACHER'S GUIDE can be found on SkyboundComet.com.

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WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR ‘I loved this delicate, beautifully written novella about fathers and sons’ David Nicholls ‘One of Ireland's great novelists’ Roddy Doyle ‘Wrings the heart’ Bernard MacLaverty ‘A mighty book’ Frank McGuinness ‘Extraordinary, raw and moving a chronicle of pain and powerlessness as could be written’ Lisa McInerney AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The world is shrouded in snow. With transport ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in student lodgings. But on this solitary drive from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map or guide, and is forced to chart pathways of family history haunted by memory and clouded in regret. Travelling in a Strange Land is a work of exquisite loss and transformative grace. It is a novel about fathers and sons, grief, memory, family and love; about the gulfs that lie between us and those we love, and the wrong turns that we take on our way to find them.

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A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In this new, updated edition of In Camera, Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacon’s most important paintings and triggered decisive turning points in the artist’s stylistic development. Key influences, including the masters Velázquez, Poussin and Rodin, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge and the film director Sergei Eisenstein, are given close consideration. Bacon’s work is examined in relation to the precedents set by other artists working in the tradition of making use of mechanical reproductions, including Pablo Picasso and Walter Sickert, and in the context of his contemporaries Lucian Freud, Mark Rothko, Graham Sutherland and Patrick Heron. With the aid of over 270 illustrations, including valuable source images and documents, In Camera is a bravura accomplishment of original research, addressing important questions about Bacon’s painting practice and shedding fresh light on his life and work.

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In 1860 Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb, Right makes might, (opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right) in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the 14th century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the 19th century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by today's well-known politicians, including Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women's rights, and the civil rights movement. By looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.

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Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. "Spiral Jetta" is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and '80s - Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty", Nancy Holt's "Sun Tunnels", Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field", James Turrell's "Roden Crater", Michael Heizer's "Double Negative", and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some.

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· · A Daily Mail Book of the Week · ·The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history.____________________ 'A wickedly entertaining read' The Times____________________The Borgias have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthlessness, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. But the story of this remarkable family is far more than a tale of sensational depravities - it also marks the golden age of the Italian Renaissance and a decisive turning point in European history. From the family's Spanish roots and the papacy of Rodrigo Borgia, to the lives of his infamous offspring, Lucrezia and Cesare - the hero who dazzled Machiavelli, but also the man who befriended Leonardo da Vinci - Paul Strathern tells the captivating story of this great dynasty and the world in which they flourished.'A vivid insight into the hothouse world of papal politics in the tumultuous years before the Reformation.' Daily Telegraph'Authoritative and well-written' Wall Street Journal

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Based on the acclaimed RTE documentary, 'Shooting the Darkness', this landmark book presents the stories of leading photographers - Alan Lewis, Paul Faith, Martin Nangle, Stanley Matchett, Trevor Dickson, Hugh Russell and Crispin Rodwell - whose images captured some of the most important events of the Troubles. They talk, many of them for the first time, about the photographs they took - how they got the shot; what it cost them to take the photograph; and reflect on whether it was worth it. More broadly, they talk about what it was like to be a photographer during the Troubles: how the paramilitary groups dealt with them, the ethical dilemmas they faced, and the emotional fallout they experienced. The book includes the stories behind iconic images such as Bishop Edward Daly waving a blood-stained handkerchief on Bloody Sunday, Sean Downes being shot and killed by an RUC plastic bullet in Andersonstown in 1984, and the brutal attack of corporals Derek Wood and David Howes in March 1988.

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Even as war rages, there are deep secrets lurking in the heart of Buckingham Palace… Windsor, 1942. War rages through Great Britain. Anna Duckworth, former lover of Prince George, Duke of Kent, is found dead after an enemy bomb blast at her country home. When courtier Guy Harford is called to dispose of incriminating love letters between Anna and the Duke, it becomes clear that there’s more to the story than anyone is prepared to reveal. As the court begins to whisper of a lone gunshot heard in the house that day, another gruesome death befalls the royal circle. With the bodies stacking up, Guy rejoins his old accomplices, East End burglar Rodie Carr and undercover agent Rupert Hardacre, to unmask the dangerous secrets lurking beneath the glittering Crown. But with tensions rippling from London to Tangier as the Allied Forces prepare to invade North Africa, and Guy’s reputation in the Palace hanging in the balance, can he solve the mystery before more heads roll?

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