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La imagen es un recurso del deseo, da cuerpo a una ausencia. La rige un designio figurativo cuando evoca lo que ya no existe o cuando provoca lo que no se ha hecho todavía. En el campo de las artes la imagen revela, emerge del estupor que suspende el juicio y pone al descubierto anhelos insospechados. Si es el poeta quien acude a la imagen, el médium que utiliza es la palabra. Pero en la tradición occidental aquel canto suyo originariamente encarnado tiene que amoldarse a las convenciones de la escritura alfabética y de un género literario que tiende a compensar la phoné silenciada con la organización icónica del texto. Así el lenguaje de la poesía se entrega a la tarea de imaginar la imagen y hacer ver lo impensado. La fusión de un río y una muchacha en Jorge Guillén, el maleficio de Nueva York en Federico García Lorca, la mística de la oscuridad en José Ángel Valente, la sacralización de la sombra en Claudio Rodríguez, las huellas que permanecen en una habitación vacía en Juan Vicent

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Un thriller históricoque nos sumerge en la vida cotidiana de la Edad Media a través de una trama llena de suspense en una de los pueblos más bellos e importantes de la Historia de España: Albarracín.La ciudad es la segunda entrega de la aclamada Trilogía Medieval de Luis Zueco.Año 1284. Cae la noche en una de las ciudades medievales más bellas del mundo. Poderosas montañas y murallas inexpugnables la protegen de los reinos que la rodean y codician.Te atreves a caminar por sus estrechas calles, por sus empinadas cuestas y sus asombrosos rincones? Empieza a oscurecer. Sientes frío. Escuchas los rumores acerca de las inexplicables muertes que se están sucediendo. De los secretos que esconden los gremios. De la peligrosa mujer encerrada en las mazmorras.Las puertas se cerrarán pronto. Corre. Una noche más, nadie podrá escapar de la ciudad.La crítica ha dicho...Una extraordinaria novela.Ca

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Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories and non-fiction texts using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds (phonemes) and the letters that represent them (graphemes) and then practise and apply this knowledge through reading appealing, decodable texts that make sense. This ensures that every beginner reader will experience success in their reading from their very first book! In this Level 6 Set 2a book focusing on the 'i-e' and 'ie' graphemes, Mike’s bike did a big slide when he rode up The Bumpy Track with dad. Now his friends want him to ride the track with them. Will Mike be able to do it?

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Hollywood Collectibles: The Sequel features beautiful, full-color photographs of memorabilia from 29 of the greatest Hollywood stars, including Lucille Ball, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Roy Rogers and Elizabeth Taylor. This book also pays special attention to the most famous child stars from 1920 through the 1940s - Judy Garland, Jackie Cooper, Jackie Coogan, Roddy McDowall, Mickey Rooney, Our Gang and Natalie Wood - with a large section on that most famous of all child stars, Shirley Temple. Dolls, paper dolls, coloring books, puzzles, comics, still photos, magazines, books, toys, ads and other items are all pictured in 600 vivid color photographs, all for the collector's delight. Informative passages accompany each section, outlining lives and careers.

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Relying on facts, opinions and personal testimonies from the artists themselves, this book takes a detailed look at the huge impact that Mexican music and culture has had - and continues to have - on Country music in its various forms. Although this very American cultural expression has changed significantly over the last few years, Mexico - with its border towns, beaches, colonial architecture and ancient ruins conjuring up a range of powerful images - has remained an influential presence in Nashville, Texas, and even places like Australia and South Africa. Featuring contributions from Merle Haggard, Jimmy Buffett, Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, Jessi Colter, Johnny Rodriguez and Flaco Jimenez, this book lifts the lid on the unique and largely undocumented relationship between “America's Music” and Mexico.

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En Mirarse de frente, Gornick convierte el recuerdo de su experiencia como camarera en los Castkills no sólo en una agridulce aproximación al deseo juvenil y los trabajos veraniegos, sino en una indeleble toma de contacto con las desigualdades de clase y de género. Su periplo como profesora visitante por varias universidades estadounidenses le sirve para trazar una maravillosa y tragicómica radiografía del paisaje académico como suplicio para el espíritu: comunidades aisladas, con sus ritos y rencillas, con su peculiar dinámica de soledad y sociabilidad donde el alma se enmohece rodeada de seres sólo en apariencia afines. En estas irresistibles viñetas, Gornick vuelve a ofrecernos la singular mirada ? valiente y feroz, empática y siempre de frente? con la que encara el mundo.

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In the years before the Curse of the Bambino descended on New England, the Boston Red Sox rode major league baseball like a colossus, capturing four World Series titles in seven seasons. Blessed with legendary players like Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, and Smokey Joe Wood, and a brand new, thoroughly modern stadium, the Red Sox reigned as kings of the Deadball Era. Just in time for the centenary of baseball's hallowed Fenway Park and the dawn of the Red Sox dynasty, Thomas J. Whalen gracefully recounts the rise and fall of one of baseball's greatest teams.

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Architectural historian Roger W. Moss and photographer Tom Crane set out to celebrate the surviving accessible historic architecture of Philadelphia, envisioning a series of books that would provide much more than the snapshots found in guidebooks. They began with Historic Houses of Philadelphia, bringing the region's most impressive museum homes to life. Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia followed, an exclusive tour of fifty hallowed sites. In Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia, Moss and Crane feature prominent, memorable structures that reflect stages in Philadelphia's growth. There are sixty-five National Historic Landmarks in Philadelphia, structures that have been identified as being "nationally significant" and having "meaning to all Americans." This newest addition to Moss and Crane's trilogy includes a wide array of historic sites, ranging from concert halls to prisons, train stations to museums, banks to libraries. The buildings are arranged chronologically rather than geographically, to emphasize Philadelphia's evolution from modest mercantile outpost of a colonial power, to capital of a proud new nation, to a robust world-renowned cosmopolitan city. Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia presents such notable attractions as Fort Mifflin, Independence Hall, the Fairmount Water Works, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Boathouse Row, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Academy of Music, the Union League of Philadelphia, Memorial Hall, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Masonic Temple, and the sights that line the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Rodin Museum, in more than two hundred color illustrations. It celebrates master builders and their influence on the course of American architecture while identifying the distinctive qualities that embody Philadelphia's history and spirit. A Barra Foundation Book

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Sprachführer für den PflegealltagDieses übersichtliche Wörterbuch ist ein unverzichtbarer Helfer im Gespräch. Begriffe und einfache Sätze aus dem Alltag werden in beiden Sprachen aufgeführt und erleichtern die Verständigung im Alltag. Einfache Dialoge zu Alltagsthemen wie z.B. Wohlbefinden, Krankheit, Arztbesuch, Haushalt, und Ernährung. Neu in der dritten Auflage sind Podcasts zum Anhören und Lernen! Aber auch wichtige Fachbegriffe aus der Pflege werden erläutert. Zahlreiche Abbildungen unterstützen das Gespräch und hilfreiche Vokabellisten erleichtern das Lernen neuer Wörter.Empfehlenswert für polnische Pflegekräfte und Haushaltshilfen, die in Deutschland arbeiten; aber auch Senioren und Angehörige finden darin Hilfen zum Gespräch.Przewodnik językowy z zakresu codziennej opiekiTen przejrzyście napisany słownik językowy jest niezbędną pomocą w codziennej komunikacji. Proste słowa i powszechnie używane zdania ułatwiające porozumiewanie na codzień przedstawione są w dwóch językach. Ważne określenia i zwroty dotyczące opieki Proste dialogi dotyczące dnia codziennego jak np. samopoczucie, choroba, wizyta u lekarza, środki ochronne przeciwko koronawirusowi, gospodarstwo domowe, czy żywienie. Ilustracje wspomagające rozmowy Zestawienie słówek i zwrotów NOWOSC: Podcasty – nauka przez słuchanie Polecany dla polskich opiekunek osób starszych oraz ich rodzin na obszarach niemieckojęzycznych.

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A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise “A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”—Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times “[A] masterly analysis.”—Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear-tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century. Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.

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From the best players to the best coaches and some of the most legendary schools and teams in US history, California high school football has it all. High School Football in California takes an inside look at the state's greatness in the sport, from the best players when they were in high school to those who've gone on to be stars as collegiate players or pros. It's about record-setters, trend-setters, and some of the most inspirational families and people you'll ever meet. Some of the players and coaches featured include Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Bob Ladouceur, Tom Flores, Trent Dilfer, and many more! Extending from the first published report of a game from 1873 to the present, this book presents high school football in a manner never done before. One of the many stories featured recounts how the late Charlie Wedemeyer, former coach at Los Gatos High who suffered from ALS, called plays by having his wife read his lips and then give the plays to assistant coach Butch Cattolico. Cal-Hi Sports editor Mark Tennis mixes amazing anecdotes and interviews with the many who've experienced California high school football from every imaginable angle.

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Featuring a world first 3D cover 'Bridget Jonesmeets The Devil Wears Prada’RED ‘Hilarious and uplifting …The Stylist is the perfect beach read this summer’METRO Amber Green loves her job at Smith’s, the exclusive London boutique frequented by the rich, the famous and the stylish – and with stylist to the stars Mona Armstrong as a customer, there is never a dull moment. With the Golden Globes approaching and her diva-like behaviour resulting in yet another assistant walking out, Mona needs help, and she needs it fast. Before she has time to say Rodeo Drive, Amber finds herself agreeing to get on a plane to LA as she is expected to work with the increasingly volatile stylist and dress some of Hollywood’s hottest (and craziest) starlets. Awards season turns her life upside down as dazzling gowns, shoes and jewels are matched to a steady stream of celebrities who expect to be made red carpet ready. And as Amber starts to enjoy her new life rummaging through the ultimate dressing-up box, she finds herself in the limelight as she catches the attention of two very different suitors. How will she keep her head? Which man will she choose? And most importantly, what will everyone wear?

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For over thirty years, Rupert Roopnaraine has fought a political battle for democracy, social justice, racial harmony and civil society. This collection of essays ranges across politics, literary pursuits, visual arts, social commentary, memoirs and tributes. They encompass Guyana, the wider Caribbean, including the US invasion of Grenada (which Roopnaraine witnessed first-hand), and the international socialist movement. The title comes from a Martin Carter poem written in grief over the assassination of the scholar-politician and WPA leader Walter Rodney. Essays on Martin Carter, Edgar Mittelholzer, AJ Seymour, Kyk-over-Al, the lexicographer Richard Allsop, and the artists Philip Moore, Winston Strick, Ras Ishi, Ras Akyem and Stanley Greaves reveal yet again that there are few Caribbean critics who write with such grace and insight. Born in 1943 in Georgetown, Guyana, Rupert Roopnaraine is one of the leading Caribbean intellectuals of his generation. Having studied in Cambridge and New York, he joined the Working People's Alliance in 1977. He has been a member of the Guyanese Parliament for many years. His book Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves was published by Peepal Tree in 2003. He also wrote the introduction to Peepal Tree's 2010 edition of Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them.

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In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family; complicated, brutal, passionate and glorious. Here is a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia's doomed years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolo Machiavelli. It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womaniser and master of political corruption is now on the Papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two, already thrice married and a pawn in her father's plans, is discovering her own power. And then there is Cesare Borgia: brilliant, ruthless and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with the diplomat Machiavelli which offers a master class on the dark arts of power and politics. What Machiavelli learns will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. But while the pope rails against old age and his son's increasing maverick behavior it is Lucrezia who will become the Borgia survivor: taking on her enemies and creating her own place in history.Conjuring up the past in all its complexity, horror and pleasures, In The Name of the Family confirms Sarah Dunant's place as the leading novelist of the Renaissance and one of the most acclaimed historical fiction writers of our age.

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Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism. Over the last few years, we've seen the growth of the Tea Party, a twenty-first-century black freedom struggle with BlackLivesMatter, Occupy Wall Street, and the grassroots networks supporting presidential candidates in defiance of the traditional party elites.Sarah Jaffe leads readers into the heart of these movements, explaining what has made ordinary Americans become activists. As Jaffe argues, the financial crisis in 2008 was the spark, the moment that crystallized that something was wrong. For years, Jaffe crisscrossed the country, asking people what they were angry about, and what they were doing to take power back. She attended a people's assembly in a church gymnasium in Ferguson, Missouri walked a picket line at an Atlanta Burger King rode a bus from New York to Ohio with student organizers and went door-to-door in Queens days after Hurricane Sandy.From the successful fight for a 15 minimum wage in Seattle and New York to the halting of Shell's Arctic drilling program, Americans are discovering the effectiveness of making good, necessary trouble. Regardless of political alignment, they are boldly challenging who wields power in this country.

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Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon. It examines in detail the growth of the ideological, cultural and legal concepts that eventually led to the carnage of the Witch Craze in the 16th and 17th centuries, which, it is estimated, may have claimed the lives of around 40,000 people. For both Medieval and Reformation scholars alike the Devil and all his works were a very real threat. Their conviction that witches were the servants of Satan led to the formation of perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time: a belief that witches were working in league with the Devil in a diabolical plot against all Christendom. Witches were transformed from poor deluded old women who rode out at night with the pagan goddess Diana into devil-worshipping heretics who became the focus of a centuries-long, Europe-wide campaign determined to seek out and destroy this evil wherever it was to be found, regardless of whether any of its victims were actually guilty or not.

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In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life.Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walworth shows that his mythmaker typologies—the “engineer” and “bricoleur”—illustrate, respectively, the canonical Constructivists and artists on the movement’s margins who deployed a wide range of clever make-do tactics. Walworth explores the relationships of Nadezhda Lamanova, Esfir Shub, and others with Constructivists such as Aleksei Gan, Varvara Stepanova, and Aleksandr Rodchenko. Together, the work of these artists reflected the chaotic and often contradictory zeitgeist of the decade from 1918 to 1929 and redefined the concept of mass production. Reappropriated fragments of a former enemy era provided a wide range of play and possibility for these artists, and the resulting propaganda porcelain, film, fashion, and architecture tell a broader story of the unique political and economic pressures felt by their makers.An engaging multidisciplinary study of objects and their makers during the Soviet Union’s early years, this volume highlights a group of artists who hover like free radicals at the border of existing art-historical discussions of Constructivism and deepens our knowledge of Soviet art and material culture.

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This volume is a collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches at the award ceremonies in Stockholm for the period 2001 - 2005. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work for which the laureate was awarded the prize. This volume of inspiring lectures by outstanding chemists and biochemists should be on the bookshelf of every keen student, teacher and professor of chemistry as well as of those in related fields. Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 2001 - 2005 with a description of the works which won them their prizes.(2001) William S Knowles, Ryoji Noyori — for their work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions & K Barry Sharpless — for his work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions; (2002) John B Fenn, Koichi Tanaka — for their development of soft desorption ionization methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules & Kurt Wüthrich — for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution; (2003) Peter Agre — for the discovery of water channels & Roderick MacKinnon — for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels; (2004) Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko & Irwin Rose — for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation; (2005) Yves Chauvin, Robert H Grubbs & Richard R Schrock — for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.

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The Cornish have for a long time long considered themselves a race apart from the English and their origins are indeed more related to those of the Welsh, Scottish and Breton peoples than to most others east of the River Tamar. Almost every town and village in Cornwall has been used as a surname, and the traditional Cornish trades of fishing and mining have also provided inspiration for family names. Features of the landscape such as hills and rivers have had a huge effect, with many of these containing elements of some names which can be tracked back to the old Celtic language, for example the prefixes Pen (headland) and Pol (pool). A lot of names are tied to a particular area of Cornwall: Rodda and Bottrell are seldom found east of Penzance, whilst names like Odgers, Opie and Wearne are most common in mid-Cornwall around the mining areas of Redruth and Gwennap. Surnames can reveal a lot about family history, but their origins can be difficult to trace. This handy lexicon, drawn together from an exhaustive research, serves as an ideal starting point for tracing ancestry. Packed with information about notable families and migration, this is also an ideal book for anyone interested in the story of Cornish people.

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Esta colección de cuentos está inspirada en nuestra tradición oral. Su autor ha puesto en ellos la esperanza de proporcionar un repertorio de narraciones populares que sirva de unión entre la infancia de los padres y la de los hijos, en un momento en que esta rica tradición hispánica está casi perdida. Por eso Rodríguez Almodóvar ha mantenido en su redacción aquel tono incomparable de los viejos cuentos de nuestras abuelas, con excitantes mezclas de realidad y fantasía, humor y dramatismo, rusticidad y ternura. Pocas veces tendremos tan a la mano un motivo para colaborar en un empeño cultural auténticamente nuestro.

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Eduardo Bravo Martín, José Antonio Herrera Rodríguez, Manuel López López, Miguel Ángel Martín InfanteLa programación de la Educación Física constituye una labor cotidiana para los docentes de este ámbito. Es por esto, que contando con la experiencia, vivencias y recurriendo a multitud de recursos, se ha llevado a cabo esta propuesta para facilitar la labor del docente.El documento integra y adapta diversas opciones y visiones del quehacer diario de la Educación Física, tratando de huir de la utopía que otras programaciones ofrecen.Está diseñada tanto para el profesional que pretenda asumirla como tal y ponerla en práctica en sus clases diarias, como para aquel otro que la utilice como un referente o fuente de recursos que complete sumarco programático personal.El lector tiene en sus manos una obra con carácter global que desarrolla una propuesta teórico-práctica para abordar la programación de Educación Física, adaptada a la Ley Orgánica de Educación (LOE).La obr

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Él era el actor de moda gracias al éxito de Casablanca, pero vivía peligrosamente: un tipo duro que ahogaba en whisky las penas de un matrimonio desgraciado con una actriz alcohólica y celosa, que incluso intentó asesinarle tras una de sus correrías nocturnas.Ella era casi una adolescente, descubierta por el director Howard Hawks en la portada de una revista de modas. Tenía clase, elegancia felina y un don natural para las réplicas "como latigazos".Cuando Humphrey Bogart y Lauren Bacall se encontraron en el rodaje de Tener y no Tener, la cámara se convirtió en testigo mudo de un romance que se inició entonces, se consolidó durante la filmación de El Sueño Eterno y saltó del celuloide a las portadas cuando se instituyeron como pareja de moda en Hollywood. Hicieron entre los dos un puñado de clásicos y dos hijos atados a la estela legendaria de sus padres, aficionados a tejer a medias momentos cinematográficos irrepetibles, sin ningún pudor.Los Bogart fueron

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Para ayudarnos a tener todos los días un espacio de tiempo dedicado a nuestro Dios, el autor nos ofrece estas pequeñas reflexiones para cada día del año donde podemos encontrar motivos para la alabanza, el agradecimiento, el arrependimiento y, en definitiva, el amor. Él lo hace presentándonos pequeñas anécdotas de la vida diaria. Nos enseña, así, a ver en las pequeñas cosas que nos rodean y en los acontecimientos que nos ocurren a nosotros y a los de nuestro alrededor, la mayoría de ellos triviales, la mano amorosa de Dios que nos ofrece día a día la posibilidad de descubrirle a nuestro lado.James Stephen BEHRENS, sacerdote durante veinte años, ahora es monje trapense en el monasterio del Espíritu Santo en Conyers, Georgia, donde trabaja en el almacén de bonsais que tiene el monasterio.

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Diez rupias. Historias de la India recoge dieciocho relatos del más importante escritor de la India moderna, como reconoce Salman Rushdie. Manto, que fue capaz de observar con imparcialidad el mundo convulso y violento que le rodeaba, y que se mantuvo al margen de corrientes y juicios morales, continúa invitándonos a desenmascarar la hipocresía y a contemplar la vida en su totalidad y cara a cara, sin máscaras ni adornos.En estos relatos nos encontramos temas diversos: muchos de ellos son de denuncia social, en otros la política, la independencia de Reino Unido o los conflictos religiosos son el tema centra. Los relatos de Saadat Hasan Manto, además de excelentes piezas literarias, son una crónica de los sucesos más dolorosos de la historia india de la primera mitad del siglo xx.

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El podólogo deportivo Victor Alfaro explica todo lo que hay que saber para cuidar el pie para runners y deportistas. Algunos de los temas que aborda son: anatomía del pie, tipos de pies y tipos de pisada, las zapatillas para correr, cómo tratar y prevenir la fascitis plantar, tratamiento y prevención de las metatarsalgias, cómo se hidrata el pie, relación entre la forma de pisar en corredores y las lesiones de espalda o rodillas, relación entre la forma de pisar y la oclusión dental, lesiones de la piel y de las uñas en el pie, plantillas personalizadas y plantillas inteligentes, reflexología podal básica, ejercicios para mejorar la elasticidad del pie, ejercicios para potenciar la musculatura del pie, cómo influye la alimentación y el sobrepeso en los pies.

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An exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas, Arizona, and Old and New Mexico. Charles Goodnight knew the West of Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Dick Wooton, St. Vrain, and Lucien Maxwell. He ranged a country as vast as Bridger ranged. He rode with the boldness of Fremont, guided by the craft of Carson. His vigorous zest for life enabled him to live intensely and amply, and in this book by J. Evetts Haley, himself no stranger to the West, provides a fully readable and important western biography, vividly told, thrilling, witty, and completely authentic.

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The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic. Culturally distinct from early prehistory, the islands contain a wealth of historical and archaeological monuments, including the standing stones at Callanish, the magnificent St Clement’s church at Rodel as well as numerous brochs, castles, Pitish houses, croft houses and industrial and military buildings. In addition to descriptions of key historic sites from prehistory onwards and gazetteers covering every place of historical interest, this book also traces the development of the modern environment and landscape of the islands, enabling the visitor to appreciate the sites within their historical and cultural context.

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It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault.But it was just the beginning.As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of the man's crimes. Then DCI Ridley is suddenly removed from his post. No one is to contact him - and no one will say why.As Warr digs into Middleton's past, Ridley calls pleading for help, now accused of a murder he insists he didn't commit. To catch a monster and exonerate his friend, Warr must weed out the lies. But what awaits Warr if he uncovers the truth?

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TALES OF THE WAR BEYOND THE NEXT What if there were a war after Armageddon? How would the survivors emerging from World War III’s radioactive slag heaps fight in this conflict? Would they wage it with sticks and stones . . . and sorcery? Or would they use more refined weapons, elevating lawfare to an art and unleashing bureaucratic nightmares worse than death? Would they struggle against themselves or inter-dimensional invaders? What horrors from the desolate darkness might slither into the light? Wipe away the ashes of civilization and peer into a pit of atomic glass to witness the haunting visions of World War IV from today’s greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Contributors include: Jonathan Maberry Steven Barnes D.J. Butler Brad R. Torgersen Martin L. Shoemaker T.C. McCarthy Eric James Stone Stephen Lawson Freddy Costello and Michael Z. Williamson Laird Barron Nick Mamatas Brian Trent Erica L. Satifka Kevin Andrew Murphy Maurice Broaddus and Rodney Carlstrom David VonAllmen Deborah A. Wolf Nina Kiriki Hoffman Julie Frost Weston Ochse John Langan

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Memer is a child of rape; when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they descecrated or destroyed everything of beauty. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return to his home. Though crippled, he is not destroyed. His life still has purpose. Memer is the daughter of his House, the daughter of his heart.The Alds, a people who love war, cannot and will not read: they believe that in words lie demons that will destroy the world. All the city's libraries, the great treasure trove of knowledge of ages past, are burned, except for those few volumes secreted inthe Waylord's hidden room.But times are changing. Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant have arrived in the city. Orrec is a story-teller, the most famous of all: he has the gift of making. His wife Gry's gift is that of calling; she walks with a halflion who both frightens and fascinates the Alds.This is Memer's story, and Gry's and Orrec's, and it is the story of a conquered people craving freedom.

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La cultura japonesa se caracteriza, además de por su exotismo, por su particular forma de concebir la existencia y por la importancia que tienen nuestros sentidos para descubrir la belleza en todo aquello que nos rodea.Esta selección de cuentos, transmitidos en sus inicios de forma oral de generación en generación, nos ayudará a comprender mejor su concepción de la vida y sus valores: el amor, el honor, la bondad, el respeto por los mayores y su profundo amor por la naturaleza.Criaturas fantásticas, seres mitológicos, animales increíbles y acontecimientos sorprendentes e inesperados que forman parte de algunos de los relatos más queridos por los japoneses como Urashima Tar (El joven pescador), Taketori Monogatari (El cortador de bambú) o Momotar (La historia del hijo de un melocotón).Cuentos para todo tipo de lectores, independientemente de su edad, que permitirán a los más pequeños imaginar un mundo maravilloso, imposible; y a los adultos volver a descubrirlo con una mirada d

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Como señala el profesor Miguel Rodríguez-Piñero y Bravo-Ferrer en la presentación de esta obra; ?Segismundo Moret fue un hombre de su época comprometido con unas firmes ideas democráticas y liberales, que no se alejó nunca del espíritu del sexenio revolucionario, cuyas ideas quiso insuflar en el período de la Restauración. Fue un gran estadista y defensor insigne de las ideas democráticas, como aún se lee en la placa situada en la casa gaditana en que nació. Tuvo puestos relevantes a lo largo de su vida política, presidió tres veces el Consejo de Ministros, ocupó Ministerios importantes en fechas delicadas y en los últimos años de vida política presidió el Congreso de los Diputados. Paralelamente a estas responsabilidades políticas, tuvo responsabilidades en la vida partidista como persona particularmente influyente, y fue objeto de críticas y oposiciones no solo desde el partido conservador sino también de sus compañeros en el Partido Liberal, lo que impidió que fuera, como hubiera si

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En esta excelente introducción a la masonería, José A. Ferrer Benimeli analiza la génesis de una asociación que a lo largo de la historia ha suscitado y sigue suscitando curiosidad y morbo, añadiendo pistas que ayudan a explicar el por qué de tantos tópicos, estereotipos y dualismos de los que a veces se ve rodeada: curiosidad y desengaño, atracción y repulsa, temor y deseo. Sin querer adjudicar a esta organización una especial relevancia o papel en nuestra historia, que no ha tenido, ni tiene, pretende aportar algo que ayude a que el tema de la masonería sea mirado hoy día, si no con simpatía, sí, al menos, con un mínimo de respeto y dignidad.

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John Lestrade is attempting to come to terms with the suicide of his friend Stephen, and his guilt that he did nothing to prevent it. Escape to a room on the hill is an act of internal exile, an attempt to find the space to overcome the inauthentic, automaton quality of his life. But Lestrade's self-loathing despair poisons any hope of reconnecting with his friends. It is only when his friend Derek's abandoned girlfriend is killed in a car crash, and is then refused a proper burial by the Catholic church, that Lestrade is moved to action. In its energy and in its rejection of the colonial straight-jacket that locks in the middle-class intellectuals in the novel, there remains in A Room on the Hill some possibility of honest reflection and escape. Garth St. Omer was born in St Lucia in 1931. During the early 1950s St. Omer was part of a group of artists in St Lucia including Roderick and Derek Walcott. His first publication, the novella Syrop, appeared in 1964, followed by the Faber publications of A Room on the Hill (1968), Shades of Grey (1968), Nor Any Country (1969) and J-, Black Bam and the Masqueraders in 1972. In the 1970s he moved to the USA, where he completed a doctoral thesis at Princeton University in 1975. Until his retirement as Emeritus Professor, he taught at the University of Santa Barbara in California. In 2001 he was honoured with the Saint Lucia Medal of Merit for service in the Arts and Literature.

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A heartfelt and moving novel in verse for readers 9+.who wants a temporary place to act like a forever one? Especially when the social services people keep telling you over and over and over that place is "safer" than your parents is a "good" solution is someone you're "extremely lucky" to have offered you a home.Laura Rodriguez has a plan: No matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same.But that's all going to change. Because when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help them get better, and things will finally go back to the way they should.After all, how do you explain to others that you're technically a foster kid, even when you live with your aunt? Most of all . . . how do you explain that you're not where you belong, and you just want to go home?From the winner of the Newbery Honor Award.

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Nominated BEST NOVEL by International Thriller WritersOne Man’s Personal Crusade Against Corporate Greed Having spent ten months on the run after he was framed for the murder of an estate-clearing associate, handyman Jay Porter returns to his hometown of Ashton, New Hampshire. During his time as a fugitive, he searched for a hard drive―evidence that would put his longtime nemeses Adam and Michael Lombardi behind bars. But he came up empty handed. He has nothing. No hard drive, no hope. He hasn’t spoken to his ex-wife and son in almost a year and he’s broke. With his reputation tarnished and employment opportunities nonexistent, Jay takes a charity assignment from old friend/flame Alison Rodgers and learns of a fire at Alison’s former rehab farm. Jay is convinced that the Lombardis started a fire as a scare tactic to pressure Alison to sell. As Jay begins to look into the origins of the fire, he hopes he will finally be able to put away his enemies. But he soon discovers that evil isn’t so easy to define, and that sometimes we need to take the law into our own hands if we want justice.Perfect for Fans of Dennis Lehane While all of the novels in the Jay Porter Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Lamentation December Boys Give Up the Dead Broken Ground Rag and Bone

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In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic. While normal action fulfills a determinate concept, Klinger argues, aesthetic action performs an indeterminacy by suspending the action's conceptual resolution. Taking as examples work by Tino Sehgal, Kara Walker, Mazen Kerbaj, Marina Abramović, Cy Twombly, and Franz Kafka, the book examines indeterminacy in such instances as a walk that is at once leisurely and purposeful, a sound piece that is at once joyous and mournful and mechanical, or a sculpture that at once draws one in and shuts one out. Because it has irresolution as its point, aesthetic action presents itself as an unsettling of ourselves, our ways, our very sense of who we are. As performers of such action, we don't recognize one another as bearers of a shared human form as we normally would, but find ourselves tasked anew with figuring out what sharing a form would mean. In conversation with philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Anscombe; political thinkers such as Marx and Lorde; and contemporary interlocutors such as Michael Thompson, Sebastian Rödl, and Thomas Khurana, Klinger's book makes a case for a conception of the human form that systematically includes the aesthetic: an actualization of the form that is indeterminate and nevertheless rational. The book gives the project of Western philosophical aesthetics a long-overdue formulation for our present that aims to do justice to contemporary aesthetic production as it actually exists. It will appeal to those working in philosophy, art, and political thought.

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Sherman Coolidge’s (1860–1932) panoramic life as survivor of the Indian Wars, witness to the maladministration of the reservation system, mediator between Native and white worlds, and ultimate defender of Native rights and heritage made him the embodiment of his era in American Indian history. Born to a band of Northern Arapaho in present-day Wyoming, Des-che-wa-wah (Runs On Top) endured a series of harrowing tragedies against the brutal backdrop of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars. As a boy he experienced the merciless killings of his family in vicious raids and attacks, surviving only to be given up by his starving mother to U.S. officers stationed at a western military base. Des-che-wa-wah was eventually adopted by a sympathetic infantry lieutenant who changed his name and set his life on a radically different course. Over the next sixty years Coolidge inhabited western plains and eastern cities, rode in military campaigns against the Lakota, entered the Episcopal priesthood, labored as missionary to his tribe on the Wind River Reservation, fomented dangerous conspiracies, married a wealthy New York heiress, met with presidents and congressmen, and became one of the nation’s most prominent Indigenous persons as leader of the Native-run reform group the Society of American Indians. Coolidge’s fascinating biography is essential for understanding the myriad ways Native Americans faced modernity at the turn of the century.

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A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson’s literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's influences, development, and unique model of authorship, Savage Journey argues that his literary formation was largely a San Francisco story. During the 1960s, Thompson rode with the Hell's Angels, explored the San Francisco counterculture, and met talented editors who shared his dissatisfaction with mainstream journalism. Peter Richardson traces Thompson's transition during this time from New Journalist to cofounder of Gonzo journalism. He also endorses Thompson's later claim that he was one of the best writers using the English language as both a musical instrument and a political weapon. Although Thompson's political commentary was often hyperbolic, Richardson shows that much of it was also prophetic. Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and more than a decade after his death, Thompson's celebrity continues to obscure his literary achievement. This book refocuses our understanding of that achievement by mapping Thompson's influences, probing the development of his signature style, and tracing the reception of his major works. It concludes that Thompson was not only a gifted journalist, satirist, and media critic, but also the most distinctive American voice in the second half of the twentieth century.

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As an Art Tutor working in Britain's jails, Steven Tafka's job was to teach the supposedly unteachable. The longer he did the job, the more it seemed like it was him that was serving a sentence. Writing this darkly comic book gave him a release and helped him to survive. From the initial job interview, 'The Art of Crime' charts the journey of a rookie prison art tutor from idealism to the depths of the prison underworld. Written in diary form it details the tragi-comic, often absurd daily experiences of trying to help prisoners to achieve a qualification against all the odds. Tafka had to discover the art of teaching watercolours to violent gangsters and introduce murderers to Monet. He finds himself doing swimming pool designs for an armed robber and trying to keep order in a classroom where one of the learners thinks he is Picasso Peppa Pig. And all this is happening as he is having to count the latex gloves in and out (so the prisoners can't smoke them) and watch out for illicit hooch brewing behind the classroom radiators. This book gives a rodents-and-all insight into the dysfunctionality of prison life, the often-abject conditions, but more importantly the power of art to transform lives. There is an undoubted fascination with the art prisoners make, because it has something to tell us about the human condition and this book reveals the characters behind it.

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The sixteenth thrilling instalment in the globally bestselling Michael Bennett series._________________________________________________________How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace?In New York City, a sniper dubbed 'The Longshot Killer' is taking out impossible targets.Nothing links the victims - except the brutal circumstances of their deaths.Detective Michael Bennett quickly develops a profile of the killer. Great with a gun. Probably ex-military.A profile that his new partner, Rob Trilling, fits to a terrifying degree.With Trilling taking ever more suspicious absences from duty, Bennett must find out the truth - before the Longshot Killer strikes again._____________________________________PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL'Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried ... there's no stopping his imagination' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Patterson is in a class by himself' GUARDIAN

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On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy's African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Middle East. With typical thoroughness, the Royal Navy went further, and took the fight to the enemy, sailing boldly up uncharted rivers and creeks to attack the barracoon's where the slaves were assembled ready for shipment. For much of its long campaign against the evil of slavery Britain's Navy fought alone and unrecognised. Its enemies were many and formidable. Ranged against it were the African chiefs, who sold their own people into slavery, the Arabs, who rode shotgun on the slave caravans to the coast, and the slave ships of the rest of the world, heavily armed, and prepared to do battle to protect their right to traffic in the forbidden black ivory. The war was long and bitter and the cost to the Royal Navy in ships and men heavy, but the result was worthy of the sacrifices made. The abolition of the slave trade led to a scramble for empires and, in place of slaves, Africa began to export cocoa, coffee, timber, palm oil, cotton and ores, all very much in demand in the West.

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DARKLY HILARIOUS AND SEARINGLY RELEVANT, THE RABBIT HUTCH IS A POWERFUL PORTRAIT OF 21st CENTURY AMERICA, SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE UNFORGETTABLE BLANDINE Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022 * Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022 'Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny' Observer Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek's list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however, it's a city with a whole history of reinvention, one that 'buzzes with the American spirit.' Not everyone agrees though - certainly not the residents of the Rabbit Hutch, a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre, populated by a cast of unforgettable, disenfranchised characters. There's an online obituary writer, a woman waging a solo campaign against rodents and, most notably, eighteen-year-old Blandine, recently released from foster care and determined to stop the developers whatever the cost. Set over one sweltering week in July, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America. Bold, experimental and brilliantly written, it will live in the memory long after the final page. A Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022 'The Rabbit Hutch is 2022's The Secret History' The Big Issue A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award * Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize * An Oprah Daily Book of the Year, 2022 A New York Times bestseller, Sept 3 2023

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“You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre.” One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber has reigned over the musical theatre world for nearly five decades. The winner of numerous awards, including multiple Tonys and an Oscar, Lloyd Webber has enchanted millions worldwide with his music and numerous hit shows, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera—Broadway’s longest running show—and most recently, School of Rock. In Unmasked, written in his own inimitable, quirky voice, the revered, award-winning composer takes stock of his achievements, the twists of fate and circumstance which brought him both success and disappointment, and the passions that inspire and sustain him. The son of a music professor and a piano teacher, Lloyd Webber reveals his artistic influences, from his idols Rodgers and Hammerstein and the perfection of South Pacific’s ‘Some Enchanted Evening,’ to the pop and rock music of the 1960s and Puccini’s Tosca, to P. G. Wodehouse and T. S. Eliot. Lloyd Webber recalls his bohemian London youth, reminiscing about the happiest place of his childhood, his homemade Harrington Pavilion—a make-believe world of musical theatre in which he created his earliest entertainments. A record of several exciting and turbulent decades of British and American musical theatre and the transformation of popular music itself, Unmasked is ultimately a chronicle of artistic creation. Lloyd Webber looks back at the development of some of his most famous works and illuminates his collaborations with luminaries such as Tim Rice, Robert Stigwood, Harold Prince, Cameron Mackintosh, and Trevor Nunn. Taking us behind the scenes of his productions, Lloyd Webber reveals fascinating details about each show, including the rich cast of characters involved with making them, and the creative and logistical challenges and artistic political battles that ensued. Lloyd Webber shares his recollections of the works that have become cultural touchstones for generations of fans: writing songs for a school production that would become his first hit, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; finding the coterie of performers for his classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar; developing his first mega-hit, Evita, which would win seven Tonys Awards, including Best Musical; staking his reputation and fortune on the groundbreaking Cats; and making history with the dazzling The Phantom of the Opera. Reflecting a life that included many passions (from architecture to Turkish Swimming Cats), full of witty and revealing anecdotes, and featuring cameo appearances by numerous celebrities—Elaine Paige, Sarah Brightman, David Frost, Julie Covington, Judi Dench, Richard Branson, A.R. Rahman, Mandy Patinkin, Patti LuPone, Richard Rodgers, Norman Jewison, Milos Forman, Plácido Domingo, Barbra Streisand, Michael Crawford, Gillian Lynne, Betty Buckley, and more—Unmasked at last reveals the true face of the extraordinary man beneath the storied legend.

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El intento de contar la España de hoy a través de un conjunto de de textos literarios, aunque ambicioso, no es tan insensato como puede parecer a primera vista. La literatura no se escribe en una burbuja, no es una actividad creativa aislada de todo cuanto la rodea. Los escritores, como el resto de las personas, adoptan una postura ante la realidad, y esa postura se refleja en lo que escriben.La España que te cuento no está hecha sólo de grandes acontecimientos, de aquellos que recogen las páginas de los periódicos, aunque algunos de los relatos traten de temas que son noticia: el terrorismo, el urbanismo salvaje, las mareas negras. También los de abajo, como los llama Vila-Matas en su relato, cuentan historias que, aunque inapropiadas para las primeras planas, transmiten sensaciones que se hacen eco de la realidad circundante, son gente insignificante que narra sus historias, aunque mínimas, llenas de significado.Los doce autores que participan en este audiolibro han sabido, a

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Apareguda per entregues a la revista Joventut l'any 1904 i 1905, Solitud va obtenir immediatament un gran èxit entre els lectors i fou traduïda a diverses llengües. Passats cent anys des de la seva publicació, Solitud, una novel.la actual i colpidora, manté avui dia plenament la seva vigència.Toni Sala, escriptor i professor d'ensenyament secundari, guanyador del Premi Nacional de Literatura 2005 per la seva obra Rodalies, és l'autor de l'acurat estudi introductori i les detallades propostes de treball. Aquesta edició vol ser una eina per a professors i estudiants que els permeti un apropament literari a l'obra i a la seva època i fer, alhora, una lectura actual Considerada una de les obres mestres de la literatura catalana de tots els temps, Solitud narra el trajecte vital i espiritual d'una dona, la Mila, en l'àmbit rural. Contraposant la realitat de les valls amb l'idealisme de l'alta montanya, la protagonista inicia un procés d'autoconeixement que la durà a trobar en la solitud la

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Corre el año 1961 y Marilyn Monroe, que se acaba de separar de Arthur Miller, vive en Nueva York y asiste a clases de interpretación con Lee Strasberg. Por influencia de su cultísimo exmarido, lee literatura rusa (teine siempre a mano un ejemplar de Los hermanos Karamázov) y está empeñada en ser una auténtica actriz y ganarse el respeto de los que la rodean. Maf ?el terrier maltés que le ha regalado Frank Sinatra, apócope de Mafia Money? es su mejor amigo y la acompaña a la psicoanalista, a la peluquería, a la clínica Payne, a un viaje a México y a numerosas fiestas y reuniones con personalidades como Natalie Wood, Carson McCullers, George Cukor, George Orwell y un largo etcétera. En la tradición de Esopo, Cervantes, Swift y Sterne, Andrew O?Hagan confía a un perro ?que sabe más sobre los seres humanos de lo que los propios hombres sabemos de nosotros mismos? la voz narrativa de su novela y construye una sátira viva e inteligente sobre la cultura norteamericana de los años 60. Vida y o

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Un viaje hacia la diversidad, una reflexión sobre el éxito, el fracaso y las expectativas que condicionan a niños, niñas y adolescentes y sobre cómo podemos darles la posibilidad de construir su propio futuro.Qué es el éxito para ti? Y el fracaso? Y si piensas en niños y niñas, qué responderías? Cuando miras a los que te rodean, consideras que estás libre de prejuicios? Hay ciertas creencias que distorsionan tu manera de ver la vida?Como docentes, muchas cosas no nos las enseñaron en la universidad; como padres, vamos aprendiendo a base de ensayo y error. La empatía es un juego que hay que practicar a diario, y eso no implica alejarse de lo que eres sino acercarse a lo que la otra persona es y siente.En el mundo hay casi 8.000 millones de personas, cada una diferente al resto. Las diferencias son un valor y no un inconveniente. Cuando entendamos eso, comenzaremos a ver la vida de otra manera, con la riqueza que proporciona la diversidad.En este libro hallarás

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