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Quién no se ha quedado sin palabras cuando trata de expresar el amor? En ocasiones, las cosas más importantes no se expresan verbalmente, y se manifiestan con gestos sencillos. Te quiero, la nueva apuesta de Juan Berrio, uno de los más brillantes ilustradores españoles de la actualidad, es un catálogo de amor sin palabras. Una declaración, un abanico de escenas que nos muestran que una imagen vale mucho más que cualquier discurso. Berrio, incansable observador de gestos, de esas músicas y diálogos que muchas veces nos pasan desapercibidos, plasma con maestría en este librito delicioso lo que no está escrito, lo que se intuye; lo que no queda plasmado, sino recordado.

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En La dieta de la longevidad Valter Longo, el gurú de la longevidad, recoge uno de los más importantes descubrimientos científicos en el campo de la alimentación: la clave para prevenir y curar las enfermedades más comunes del siglo XXI.Basado en un revolucionario estudio de la dieta de la población más longeva del mundo.Tienes ante ti uno de los descubrimientos científicos más revolucionarios en el campo del envejecimiento: cómo prevenir y curar las enfermedades más comunes del s. XXI a través de la alimentación.Revolucionario porque se ha demostrado que la capacidad de mantenernos jóvenes e incluso la de regenerarnos, está dentro de nosotros, en nuestro cuerpo, y que podemos reprogramar nuestras células y reducir los factores de riesgo de enfermedades como la diabetes, patologías cardiovasculares e autoinmunes, enfermedades neurodegenerativas como el Alzheimer o el cáncer con un régimen alimentario basado en los hábitos de la población más longeva del mu

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Dice el autor en el prólogo que ha reunido en este libro dos historias sobre la forma en que el afecto y la memoria recuperan amores que ya no pueden suceder en el mundo de los hechos y encuentran una supervivencia en las palabras. En efecto, uno de los protagonistas del primer relato, Juan Jesús, intenta retomar la relación con su exmujer, Nuria, pero finalmente se da cuenta de que su tiempo ya había pasado. En el segundo, un bibliotecario pierde sus anotaciones antes de impartir una conferencia sobre la relación entre la poesía amorosa y la lluvia y al tener que improvisar comienza a hablar de sí mismo y de sus amores fracasados.

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Unos forasteros irrumpen en una pequeña aldea de madrugada. Vienen a la caza de una bestia que está causando estragos en los alrededores. A pesar de los recelos, los aldeanos acceden a alojarlos ante el temor de que lo que anuncian sea cierto. Las primeras batidas para cazar a la bestia resultan infructuosas. Los acontecimientos toman un giro inesperado cuando, durante una de ellas, hallan un cuerpo brutalmente mutilado?

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Winner of the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than expected. There's humor, but it's going to hurt. In "On Paradise," a petshop manager flies with his cat to Las Vegas to meet his long-lost mother and grandmother, only to find that the women look exactly like they did forty years before. In "The Spooky Japanese Girl is There For You," the spooky Japanese girl (a ghost) is there for you, then she is not. These refreshing and invigorating stories of displacement, exile, and identity, of men who find themselves confused by the presence or absence of extraordinary women, jump up, demand to be read, and send the reader back to the earth changed: reminded from these short stories how big the world is.

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This timely reflection on male identity in America that explores the intersection of fatherhood, race, and hip-hop culture “is a page-turner…drenched in history and encompasses the energy, fire, and passion that is hip-hop” (D. Watkins, New York Times bestselling author). Just as his music career was taking off, Juan Vidal received life-changing news: he’d soon be a father. Throughout his life, neglectful men were the norm—his own dad struggled with drug addiction and infidelity—a cycle that, inevitably, wrought Vidal with insecurity. At age twenty-six, with barely a grip on life, what lessons could he possibly offer a kid? Determined to alter the course for his child, Vidal did what he’d always done when confronted with life’s challenges—he turned to the counterculture. In Rap Dad, the musician-turned-journalist takes a thoughtful and inventive approach to exploring identity and examining how today’s society views fatherhood. To root out the source of his fears around parenting, Vidal revisits the flash points of his juvenescence, a feat that transports him, a first-generation American born to Colombian parents, back to the drug-fueled streets of 1980s–90s Miami. It’s during those pivotal years that he’s drawn to skateboarding, graffiti, and the music of rebellion: hip-hop. As he looks to the past for answers, he infuses his personal story with rap lyrics and interviews with some of pop culture’s most compelling voices—plenty of whom have proven to be some of society’s best, albeit nontraditional, dads. Along the way, Vidal confronts the unfair stereotypes that taint urban men—especially Black and Latino men. “A heartfelt examination of the damage that wayward fathers can leave in their wake” (The Washington Post), Rap Dad is “rich with symbolism…a poetic chronicle of beats, rhymes, and life” (NPR).

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Modernity and the Millennium is the first book to chart responses in the Muslim Middle East to modernity through an examination of the evolution of the Baha'i faith--a millenarian movement led by the nineteenth-century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah ("the Glory of God"). This volume illuminates the complexity and ambiguity that characterized the changing relationship of Baha'u'llah and his followers to modernity, considered as a transnational and fluid political and cultural field of contestation. The insights presented here into these responses to modernity illuminate not only the genesis of a new world-religion but also important facets of Middle Eastern-particularly Iranian-social and cultural shifts in the nineteenth century. Drawing on the work of Habermas, Giddens, Touraine and Bryan Turner, among others, Juan R. I. Cole considers some of the ways in which Middle Eastern society was affected by five developments central to modernity: the lessening entanglement of the state with religion, the move from absolutism to democracy, the rise of sovereign nation-states, the advent of nationalism, and the women's movement. He explores the Baha'is' positive response to religious toleration, democracy, and greater rights for women and their "utopian realist" critique of nationalism, militant Jacobin secularization, industrialized warfare, and genocide, oppression of the poor and working classes, and xenophobia.

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Unsympathetic, ambiguous, and openly racist remarks are a hallmark of Donald Trump's public life. They may have reached their nadir after he failed to condemn white supremacy in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, but perhaps no remark of his is more telling than his campaign pitch to African Americans: "What the hell do you have to lose?"Quite a lot, as it turns out. In this vigorous and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst Juan Williams issues the truth about just what African Americans have to lose, and how Trump is threatening to take it away. In Williams's lifetime, civil rights have improved, vastly and against great resistance -- including from Trump and his family. Using the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a rubric, Williams recounts the less known and forgotten stories of heroes like Bob Moses, A. Philip Randolph, and Everett Dirksen, who fought for voting rights, integration of public schools and spaces, and more.This book is not merely a much-needed and highly visible history lesson. It signals the alarm about the Trump administration's policies and intentions, which pose a threat to civil rights without precedent in modern America.In a polarized era, it's especially telling when moderates like Williams are prepared to stand up and shout. This book is clear-sighted, inspiring, and necessary, from an author with the experience and standing to make it heard.

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A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? Resisting Dialogue reassesses our assumptions about dialogue and, in so doing, about what a politically healthy society should look like. Juan Meneses argues that, far from an unalloyed good, dialogue often serves as a subtle tool of domination, perpetuating the underlying inequalities it is intended to address.Meneses investigates how “illusory dialogue” (a particular dialogic encounter designed to secure consensus) is employed as an instrument that forestalls—instead of fostering—articulations of dissent that lead to political change. He does so through close readings of novels from the English-speaking world written in the past hundred years—from E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India and Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion to Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People and more. Resisting Dialogue demonstrates how these novels are rhetorical exercises with real political clout capable of restoring the radical potential of dialogue in today’s globalized world. Expanding the boundaries of postpolitical theory, Meneses reveals how these works offer ways to practice disagreement against this regulatory use of dialogue and expose the pitfalls of certain other dialogic interventions in relation to some of the most prominent questions of modern history: cosmopolitanism at the end of empire, the dangers of rewriting the historical record, the affective dimension of neoliberalism, the racial and nationalist underpinnings of the “war on terror,” and the visibility of environmental violence in the Anthropocene. Ultimately, Resisting Dialogue is a complex, provocative critique that, melding political and literary theory, reveals how fiction can help confront the deployment of dialogue to preempt the emergence of dissent and, thus, revitalize the practice of emancipatory politics.

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In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space. From Chicano-inspired street murals to the architecture of restaurants and shops, Herrera shows how Fruitvale’s communities and spaces serve as a palpable, living record of movement politics and achievements. Drawing on oral histories with Chicano activists, ethnography, and archival research, Herrera analyzes how activism has shaped Fruitvale. Herrera examines the ongoing nature of activism through nonprofit organizations and urban redevelopment projects like the Fruitvale Transit Village that root movements in place. Revealing that the social justice activism in Fruitvale fights for a space that does not yet exist, Herrera brings to life contentious politics about the nature of Chicanismo, Latinidad, and belonging while foregrounding the lasting social and material legacies of movements so often relegated to the past.

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Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals: from colonialism, through socialism, to its current democracy. As Juan Obarrio shows, however, this view neglects a crucial element in Mozambique's transition to the rule of law: the re-establishment of traditional chieftanship and customs entangled within a history of colonial violence and civil war. Drawing on extensive historical records and ethnographic fieldwork, he examines the role of customary law in Mozambique to ask a larger question: what is the place of law in the neoliberal era, in which the juridical and the economic are deeply intertwined in an ongoing state of structural adjustment? Having made the transition from a people's republic to democratic rule in the 1990s, Mozambique offers a fascinating case of postwar reconstruction, economic opening, and transitional justice, one in which the customary has played a central role. Obarrio shows how its sovereignty has met countless ambiguities within the entanglements of local community, nation-state, and international structures. Ultimately, he looks toward local rituals and relations as producing an emergent kind of citizenship in Africa, which he dubs "customary citizenship," forming not a vestige of the past but a yet ill-defined political future.

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Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.Through two trials, America watched with baited breath as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi Arias of Murder One for viciously stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander to death. What emerged was a story wrought with sex, manipulation, and deceit that stunned the public at every turn. Arias, always playing the wronged and innocent woman, changed her story continually as her bizarre behavior surrounding the crime and its aftermath came to light. Unwavering, Arias and her defense team continued to play off the salacious details of the case, until she was finally found guilty and—controversially—sentenced to life behind bars.Now, speaking openly for the first time, prosecutor Juan Martinez will unearth new detai

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A special edition collecting the great works of The Metabarons co-creator, Juan Gimenez, an artist with a limitless imagination.This collection includes two works. The first, the elegant space opera THE FOURTH POWER, is about the odyssey of star soldier Exether Mega who—through a series of heavy encounters—discovers she's at the center of a complex, secret experiment to create the ultimate weapon of war. The second work is the wild, intergalactic romp THE STARR CONSPIRACY which follows an aspiring young journalist on a wild goose chase to uncover the conspiratorial scoop of the century!

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Text in French: Cette nouvelle édition de notre best-seller de la collection "Sans Peine" présente 100 % de contenus inédits. Les dialogues de cette nouvelle méthode sont vivants, actuels, riches en vocabulaire utile et illustrent parfaitement les réalités et les évolutions de la langue orale espagnole haute en couleur et en expressions idiomatiques. Les notes grammaticales accompagnant chaque dialogue permettront au lecteur dappréhender sans heurts tous les pièges et difficultés de la langue et les nombreuses notes de civilisation lui présenteront une culture très attachante. Lespagnol est parlé par plus de 500 millions de personnes sur tous les continents et notamment le continent américain dans sa quasi globalité puisque après le Mexique, les Etats-Unis sont désormais le 2e pays comptant le plus dhispanophones dans le monde. Il se hisse au 2e rang mondial en nombre de locuteurs natifs. Létude de lespagnol est gratifiante : lorthographe est simple, on a vite fait le tour des particularités phonétiques, et lapprenant éprouve ainsi assez vite le plaisir de comprendre et de parler.

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In La Guitarra Flamenca, Juan Martin explains and demonstrates the essential techniques and rhythmic forms of Flamenco guitar playing in six progressive lessons accessible via online videos with a total duration of three hours. The lessons show you in detail many varieties of the basic rhythms which form the foundation of Flamenco guitar styles. They also give you a wealth of traditional and modern Flamenco solos, accurately transcribed into music notation and easy-to-follow 'cifra' tablature. In this way you learn not only how to play but also what to play, as the lessons build into substantial repertoire of Flamenco music. Designed for players of any level of ability.

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In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. This volume is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction composed from the eye of the storm.

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Cómo fortalecer la familia más allá de la división izquierda-derecha? Es posible una nueva cultura de la vida que compagine la defensa del no nacido y el apoyo solidario a las mujeres embarazadas? Qué consecuencias tiene la ideología de género en las aulas? Benigno Blanco, presidente del Foro Español de la Familia, conversa con Juan Meseguer sobre los debates en torno a la vida y el matrimonio que han dominado la opinión pública española durante los últimos años. Blanco aboga por favorecer una cultura de acogida a los más débiles y hace un llamamiento a que los ciudadanos -de cualquier tendencia política y confesión religiosa- tomen las riendas de una sociedad cada vez más alejada de la clase política.

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Están nuestras organizaciones preparándose para el management del futuro? Ciertamente hay casos exitosos, algunos que han sabido evolucionar, y otros que han nacido ya implementando las metodologías que permiten exprimir el talento. Este libro trata de responder a la cuestión de si es posible diseñar un modelo que aglutine desarrollo económico y a la vez bienestar humano, donde la consecución de resultados no sea a costa de las personas.

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Con esta guía amena y de muy fácil lectura, el lector podrá descubrir por su cuenta una etapa de la historia madrileña muy desconocida para el gran público. La gran cantidad de fotografías e ilustraciones y lo ameno de su relato convierten este libro en una obra esencial para cualquiera que quiera iniciarse en el conocimiento de los orígenes de Madrid. La ciudad del Manzanares es mucho más que la villa que los Austrias eligieron como sede permanente de la Corte o la ciudad que los Borbones dignificaron para convertirla en una capital de la Ilustración. Acompáñenos a descubrir este Madrid ignorado durante tanto tiempo, pero a la vez tan apasionante y rico en historia, donde las familias nobles edificaron suntuosos palacios a la sombra de un magnífico alcázar que fue residencia real mucho antes de que la ciudad fuera elegida capital de la Monarquía Hispánica.

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Es realmente eficaz el Derecho internacional de los derechos humanos?. Este libro analiza una de las cuestiones más complejas a las que hace frente el Derecho internacional: la eficacia de sus mecanismos de control, en especial en el ámbito de los derechos humanos. Son cada vez más numerosos los instrumentos jurídicos que regulan la protección internacional de los derechos humanos, pero el relativismo del Derecho internacional contemporáneo, la inexistencia de un poder centralizado que obligue a los Estados a cumplir con sus obligaciones y la existencia de mecanismos jurídicos tales como las reservas a los tratados, que permiten limitar e incluso eliminar las consecuencias de su violación, hacen que la duda sobre su eficacia planee sobre las jurisdicciones internacionales.

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Obra de investigación histórica en el que se aborda el proceso de construcción de un discurso médico sobre el cuerpo de la mujer, la 'enfermedad' denominada clorosis, siendo un caso prototípico del ejercicio de una violencia institucional contra las mujeres. Esta imaginaria enfermedad fue ampliando a lo largo de cuatro siglos el territorio de su clínica de tal modo que a finales del siglo XIX cualquier mujer podía ser fácilmente identificada como clorótica y con este diagnóstico, lejos de resolverse algún problema de salud, se enmascaraban otros problemas médicos y se creaban nuevos problemas para las mujeres. La clorosis fue un potente instrumento médico de control social sobre las mujeres que a través de una sexualidad medicalizada se traspasaba la dependencia paterna al esposo 'benefactor'

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Tan fácil como abrir una lata y darle un toque personal. Estas nuevas y originales tapas sorprenderán gratamente a familiares, amigos e invitados. Recetas fáciles y rápidas de preparar, con latas que están siempre a mano en tu despensa: anchoas, huevas, aceitunas, gulas, sardinas, berberechos? y muchas más!

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