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Las lanzas coloradas, novela de juventud de este escritor venezolano, puede considerase un clasico...

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Si el ?Tao Te Ching? o ?Libro del Sendero?, atribuido a Lao Tse (ca. s. v a.C.), es un texto fundamental del amplio acervo de las sabidurías orientales antiguas, no lo es menos el desarrollo y profundización de su enseñanaza en los libros conocidos como ?Chuang-tzu? y ?Chung Yung?. En ?El segundo libro del Tao?, Stephen Mitchell ?poeta, traductor y estudioso practicante del zen autor de la versión del ?Tao Te Ching? ya publicada en esta colección? ofrece una selección comentada de esos dos importantes textos compañeros. Uncidos al mismo inexpresable eje del ?camino?, del Tao, la armonía, el Chuang Tzu da un paso adelante: es menos solemne, pero porque profundiza en la entrega, en la liberación del juicio y de la tiranía de la mente: aprende cómo gobernar tu mente y el universo se gobernará a sí mismo. El Chung Yung ofrece en cambio una agudeza psicológica y moral de incomparable hondura. Ninguna explicación mejor, sin embargo, que abrir el libro y dejarse arrebatar por la iluminación q

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"Para un reportero en una guerra, territorio comanche es el lugar donde el instinto dice que pares el coche y des media vuelta& donde siempre parece a punto de anochecer y caminas pegado a las paredes, hacia los tiros que suenan a lo lejos, mientras escuchas el ruido de tus pasos sobre los cristales rotos.El suelo de las guerras está siempre descubierto de cristales rotos. Territorio comanche es allí donde los oyes crujir bajo tus botas, y aunque no ves a nadie sabes que te están mirando.? Web oficial de Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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Era la más linda Cenicienta que vi nunca. Tenía dieciséis años, un libro de piratas bajo la almohada y, como en los cuentos, una hermanastra mala que había vendido su virginidad al portugués Almeida, quien a su vez pretendía revendérsela a don Máximo Larreta, propietario de construcciones Larreta y de la funeraria Hasta Luego.Un día veré el mar decía la niña, también como en los cuentos, mientras pasaba la fregona por el suelo del puticlub. Y soñaba con un cocinero cojo y una isla, y un loro que gritaba no sé qué murga sobre piezas de a ocho.Y te llevará un príncipe azul en su yate se le choteaba la Nati, que tenía muy mala leche. No te jode.Relato corto, cuento breve, Un asunto de honor es una moderna historia de hadas y piratas, de buenos y malos, escrita con una acción trepidante y un humor agridulce y desesperado.

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La Colección Abogacía y Proceso persigue constituir, en los cuatro órdenes jurisdiccionales, una guía de la práctica procesal y un compendio de soluciones a los problemas que en aquella se suscitan, incluso ofreciendo diversas alternativas para superarlos, sin desdeñar las críticas que pueda merecer la regulación legal o la doctrina jurisprudencial, en su caso. Para ello se han reunido los conocimientos y experiencias de estudiosos del mundo del Derecho y profesionales de la práctica jurídica (magistrados, fiscales, inspectores de trabajo, abogados-socios de prestigiosos despachos, etc.), ordenados de modo que constituya una útil herramienta para los operadores jurídicos con la que poder afrontar los problemas de la práctica forense. De acuerdo con este enfoque, en el presente volumen, dedicado al proceso contencioso- administrativo, se podrán encontrar desde un pormenorizado análisis práctico sobre los recursos contra las providencias o el tratamiento de la declaración de lesividad, p

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The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper reevaluates how United Nations peacekeeping missions reform (or fail to reform) their participating members. It investigates how such missions affect military organizations and civil-military relations as countries transition to a more democratic system. Two-thirds of the UN's peacekeepers come from developing nations, many of which are transitioning to democracy as well. The assumption is that these "blue helmet" peacekeepers learn not only to appreciate democratic principles through their mission work but also to develop an international outlook and new ideas about conflict prevention. Arturo C. Sotomayor debunks this myth, arguing that democratic practices don't just "rub off" on UN peacekeepers. So what, if any, benefit accrues to these troops from emerging democracies? In this richly detailed study of a decade's worth of research (2001-2010) on Argentine, Brazilian, and Uruguayan peacekeeping participation, Sotomayor draws upon international socialization theory and civil-military relations to understand how peacekeeping efforts impact participating armed forces. He asks three questions: Does peacekeeping reform military organizations? Can peacekeeping socialize soldiers to become more liberalized and civilianized? Does peacekeeping improve defense and foreign policy integration? His evaluation of the three countries' involvement in the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti reinforces his final analysis - that successful democratic transitions must include a military organization open to change and a civilian leadership that exercises its oversight responsibilities. The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper contributes to international relations theory and to substantive issues in civil-military relations and comparative politics. It provides a novel argument about how peacekeeping works and further insight into how international factors affect domestic politics as well as how international institutions affect democratizing efforts.

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte regresa con un libro protagonizado por su personaje más fascinante desde el capitán Alatriste.Violencia, tramas de poder, suspense, lealtad y pasión conforman esta extraordinaria novela de lectura adictiva.«El mundo de Falcó era otro, y allí los bandos estaban perfectamente definidos: de una parte él, y de la otra todos los demás.»La Europa turbulenta de los años treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX es el escenario de las andanzas de Lorenzo Falcó, ex contrabandista de armas, espía sin escrúpulos, agente de los servicios de inteligencia. Durante el otoño de 1936, mientras la frontera entre amigos y enemigos se reduce a una línea imprecisa y peligrosa, Falcó recibe el encargo de infiltrarse en una difícil misión que podría cambiar el curso de la historia de España. Un hombre y dos muj

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Captain Alatriste's latest adventure - a story of skirmishes, privateers, boarded ships, swords and sackings.'This was a time where Spain was revered, feared and hated in the easterly seas; where the devil had no colour, no name and no flag, and where the only thing needed to summon hell on earth (or sea for that matter) was a Spaniard and his sword'Alatriste is back - this time on the high seas! Accompanied by his faithful companion Inigo, the captain joins a Spanish galleon and sets sail from Naples towards the east on a journey that will take them to Melilla, Oran, and finally Malta where they must struggle against the Turk. On board they will have many adventures, including an encounter with The Moor Gurriato. Now seventeen, Inigo is still in love with Angelica but will wisdom come with age and experience?

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The second 'Captain Alatriste' novel, from a series which has sold 4 million copies worldwideA woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned - note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. The chief constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste. Still in danger from the powerful enemies he made in his first adventure, Captain Alatriste is considering returning to Flanders where the war has just resumed. But first, his old friend Quevedo asks him for a favour. The daughter of one of his friends must be rescued from a convent, which certain 'priests' seem to be treating as little more than a harem. Then the woman who brought the girl to the convent goes missing and the connection is made to the murder at the church. It seems that Alatriste's sword is required once more.

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A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trail of devil worship, the more it leads him back to Dumas. He's the unwitting protagonist in someone's evil plot, but is he sleuth or hero, Sherlock Holmes or d'Artagnan?

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En ?El libro de los verbos? se abordan y analizan todos los problemas que presenta el verbo, la categoría gramatical con mayor variedad de formas y con más amplio repertorio de irregularidades. Una primera parte da cuenta de forma clara y exhaustiva, a la vez que proporciona numerosos ejemplos, de los conceptos fundamentales que hay que tener en cuenta en relación con el verbo, básicamente sus componentes, tiempos y formas no personales, junto con su uso correcto. Una segunda parte proporciona, conjugados, todos los modelos posibles de verbos regulares e irregulares, señalándose en color, para su mejor localización, las personas que presentan anomalías. Un último apartado permite solventar cualquier duda que se presente respecto a las preposiciones que deben utilizarse con los diferentes verbos al hablar y al escribir. Otros libros de Arturo Ramoneda en esta colección: ?Manual de estilo?.

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Sobre los patios de las casas llueven tantas pinzas que es imposible saber de dónde vienen. Quizá del primer piso, del último, o desde las nubes más altas, donde viejos dioses tienden sus prendas para que bailen con el viento. Ésta es la historia de una bandada de gorriones que sobrevolaban la casa de doña Amelia, mujer gruñona y defensora de su hermoso patio; del dios Ramón, que tuvo la mala suerte de vivir justo encima; y de una pinza de madera que cayó donde no debía.

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Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them?Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we''re related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already beginning to resist treatment. Among other lifeforms, bats, amphibians, and essential crops are also increasingly threatened by these pathogens. Enter fungal kingdom frontiersman Dr. Arturo Casadevall, an epidemiologist, professor, and inventor. Casadevall shares how the 1990s AIDS epidemic''s fungal complications drove his medical mycology work, how COVID-19''s fungal incidences underscore the continuing threat to the immunocompromised, and how he and his Johns Hopkins University laboratory team are discovering ways to counter the threats pos

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This timely research review analyses a broad selection of important readings from the existing literature addressing several fundamental questions about recessions. These include what a recession is, the causes and effects of recessions, how to identify and predict recessions, and how to manage the associated risks. The review offers a general overview of the subject, detailed analysis of the readings, discussion of policy implications and acknowledgment of the areas where further research is required, proving itself to be an invaluable source of reference for academics, scholars and practitioners alike.

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In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today.Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government’s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements’ efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity “hot-spot” from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes. Territories of Difference is Escobar’s effort to think with Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based cultures and territories.

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El día señalado, cuando llegan a Roma todos los que son aptos para el servicio y se reúnen en el Capitolio, los tribunos militares más jóvenes se reparten en cuatro grupos, de acuerdo con el orden en que han sido elegidos por el pueblo o por los cónsules, ya que la principal división que de sus tropas hacen los romanos es en cuatro legiones. Libro de la colección Teselas que consiste en extractos de textos clásicos narrando un hecho histórico concreto, como podría ser una batalla, un asesisnato, la erupción del Vesubio, ...

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Arturo's Madrid's homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New Mexico is a land of struggle and dispute, a place in which Madrid's ancestors predate those who landed at Plymouth Rock. In the Country of Empty Crosses is Madrid's complex yet affirming memoir about lands before the advent of passable roads--places such as Tierra Amarilla, San Augustin [insert "u" and note accent on I], and Los Fuertes that were once among the most remote in the nation. Madrid grew up in a family that was doubly removed from the community: as Hispanic Protestants, they were a minority among the region's politically dominant Anglo Protestants and a minority within the overwhelmingly Catholic Hispanic populace. Madrid writes affectingly of the tensions, rifts, and disputes that punctuated the lives of his family as they negotiated prejudice and racism, casual and institutional, to advance and even thrive as farmers, ranchers, and teachers. His story is affectionate as well, embracing generations of ancestors who found their querencias--their beloved home places--in that beautiful if sometimes unforgiving landscape. The result is an account of New Mexico unlike any other, one in which humor and heartache comfortably coexist. Complemented by stunning images by acclaimed photographer Miguel Gandert -- ranging from intimate pictures of unkempt rural cemeteries to New Mexico's small villages and stunning vistas -- In the Country of Empty Crosses is a memoir of loss and survival, of hope and redemption, and a lyrical celebration of an often misunderstood native land and its people.

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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things.It's a smart, fun, funny, insightful book that spends the entirety of its time celebrating what has become the most dominant form of music over the past two and a half decades. From Tupac to Jay Z, Missy Elliott to Drake, you'll find pretty much all of the big names among these pages - as well as a bunch of the smaller names, too.There's art from acclaimed illustrator Arturo Torres, there are infographics and footnotes; there's all kinds of stuff in there. Some of the chapters are serious, and some of the chapters are silly, and some of the chapters are a combination of both things. All of them, though, are treated with the care and respect that they deserve.

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A hardcover edition featuring new content for fans of the #1 New York Times bestseller Any fan of Shea Serrano’s unconventional, hilarious, and insightful writing will want to add this hardcover edition of his wildly popular Basketball (and Other Things) to their collection. The book will feature a new cover and two new chapters as well as removable art that showcases Serrano’s trademark creativity and Arturo Torres’s inimitable illustration style. First released as a paperback in 2017, the book went on to become a #1 New York Times bestseller. This edition will be a keepsake for Serrano fans and basketball fans alike.

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The market for art can be as eye-catching as artworks themselves. Works by artists from da Vinci and Rembrandt to Picasso and Modigliani have sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. The world’s ultrawealthy increasingly treat art as part of their portfolios. Since artworks are often valuable assets, how should financial professionals analyze them?Arturo Cifuentes and Ventura Charlin provide an expert guide to the methods, risks, and rewards of investing in art. They detail how to apply the financial and statistical tools and techniques used to evaluate more traditional investments such as stocks, bonds, and real estate to art markets.The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets shows readers how to use empirical evidence to answer questions such as: How do the returns on Basquiat compare to the S&P 500? Are Monet’s portraits as valuable as his landscapes? Do red paintings fetch higher prices than blue ones, and does the color palette matter equally to the sales of abstract Rothkos and figurative Hockneys? How much should be loaned to a borrower who is pledging one of Joan Mitchell’s late abstract paintings as collateral? Would the risk-return profile of a conventional portfolio benefit from exposure to Warhol?Rigorous and readable, this book also demonstrates how quantitative analysis can deepen aesthetic appreciation of art.

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The twin crises of immigration and mass migration brought new urgency to the balance of power between progressive, humanitarian groups and their populist opponents. In the United States and many European countries, the outcome of this struggle is uncertain, with a high chance that the public will elect more politicians who support an agenda of nativism and privatization. The Antiegalitarian Mutation makes a forceful case that those seeking to limit citizenship and participation, political or otherwise, have co-opted democracy. Political and legal institutions are failing to temper the interests of people with economic power against the needs of the many, leading to an unsustainable rise in income inequality and a new oligarchy rapidly assuming broad social control. For Nadia Urbinati and Arturo Zampaglione, this insupportable state of affairs is not an inevitable outcome of robust capitalism but rather the result of an ideological war waged against social democracy by the neoliberal governments of Reagan, Thatcher, and others. These giants of free-market fundamentalism secured power through legitimate political means, and only by taking back our political institutions can we remedy the social ills that threaten to unmake our world. That, according to The Antiegalitarian Mutation, is democracy's challenge and its ongoing promise.

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Depuración y regeneración de aguas residuales urbanas es un texto docente, estructurado en forma de manual, en el que se compila buena parte de la bibliografía especializada en el campo de las tecnologías de tratamiento de aguas y, específicamente, de la depuración de aguas residuales y de la regeneración de efluentes depurados. En esta edición se amplían y actualizan los contenidos de anteriores ediciones, con el mismo objetivo de introducir al lector en el aprendizaje científico y tecnológico de la ingeniería sanitaria y ambiental. El texto está adaptado a los correspondientes programas y guías docentes de las titulaciones de Grado en Ingeniería Civil y de Máster en Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos.

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