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Celebrate the 25th birthday of much-loved picture book classic, Giraffes Can''t Dance, with this special new edition featuring a super-shiny cover!Gerald the giraffe longs to go to the great Jungle Dance, but how can he join in when he doesn''t know how to tango or two-step? Everyone knows that giraffes can''t dance ... or can they?A funny, touching and triumphant story about being yourself and finding your own tune, Giraffes Can''t Dance has been a family favourite for 20 years.All toddlers should grow up reading this Daily MailA modern classic Baby & MeA joyful read about an outsider who finds acceptance on his own terms . . . there''s also a simple moral about tolerance and daring to be different JuniorA fantastically funny and wonderfully colourful romp Daily Telegraph

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El 31 de enero de 1968, el ejército norvietnamita ejecutó más de un centenar de ataques simultáneos por todo Vietnam del Sur en lo que se acabaría conociendo como la Ofensiva del Tet. El momento clave del Tet fue la captura de Hué, la capital intelectual y cultural de Vietnam. Tras varios días de combates inútiles y letales, el teniente coronel Ernie Cheatham acabaría dando con una estrategia para retomar la ciudad.

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El libro documenta el encuentro que tuvo lugar en el año 1882. Perotambién los textos que le anteceden y le siguen a lo largo de una década.El intercambio espiritual y amistoso entre Nietzsche y Rée en los añosanteriores a su encuentro con Lou v. Salomé coincide con una fase de laevolución de Nietzsche que él mismo ha llamado su librepensamiento.Nietzsche manifestó que Lou v. Salomé le hizo frente en sus respuestas.Lou v. Salomé definió su comportamiento: Era infalible, algo me debíafascinar en el carácter y las palabras de Nietzsche.En la época en que se conocieron, Lou v. Salomé escribió que sólo Réecuenta para ella tanto humana como amicalmente.Los documentos que presenta el texto ponen al lector ante la vivenciade Lou de Nietzsche. La pregunta, al revés, de qué significó la vivencia deNietzsche para Lou v. Salomé y su evolución posterior no puede encontrarrespuesta en este libro.Paul Rée, aún después de haberse separado de Nie

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At its essence, Giger's art digs down into our psyches and touches our very deepest primal instincts and fears. His art stands in a category of its own. The proof of this lies in the intensity of his work and imagination, which I can only compare to Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon in their powers to provoke and disturb. Ridley Scott Swiss artist HR Giger (19402014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this was just one of the most popular expressions of Giger's biomechanical arsenal of creatures, which consistently merged hybrids of human and machine into images of haunting power and dark psychedelia. The visions drew on demons of the past, as well as evoking mythologies for the future. Above all, they gave expression to the collective fears and fantasies of his age: fear of the atom, o

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Provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising sixteen essays penned by a global cadre of leading military experts, A History of Air Warfare chronologically examines the utility of air power from the First World War to the second Lebanon war, campaign by campaign.

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Key features:- Edited by leading academics and an experienced practitioner- Combines both practical insight and scholarly analysis- A rich compendium of commentary and analysis on all the main themes of competition law- Extensive coverage of both substantive, procedural and enforcement issues in two volumes.Handbook on European Competition Law: Enforcement and Procedure sets out in detail the procedural aspects of EU competition law, ranging from fines, remedies and judicial review. It also gives unique insight into both private and public enforcement of completion law, and offers commentary on the relationship between EU competition law and national competition law, and on the relationship between competition law and private international law.The companion volume, Handbook on European Competition Law: Substantive Aspects, sets the context for examination of substantive law by reviewing and analyzing the goals of competition law. It then covers the substantive building blocks of EU competition law, including horizontal and vertical agreements, cartels, mergers, and also provides valuable coverage of the interaction between competition and regulation, hub and spoke collusion, and information exchange agreements. The importance of the abuse of dominance doctrine is reflected in three discrete chapters considering exploitative abuses, exclusionary pricing abuses, and exclusionary non-pricing abuses.This Handbook will be an indispensable reference work for practitioners and scholars, as well as for those in an enforcement environment.Contributors: A. Andreangeli, K. Cseres, C. Genakos, D. Geradin, D.M.B. Gerard, Y. Katsoulacos, A.P. Komninos, N. Levy, I. Lianos, C. Malamataris, B.J. Rodger, H. Schweitzer, D. Ulph, J. Wileur

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La mentalidad de los tiempos modernos se establecio? en el sigloxviimientras, en medio de guerra e injusticia, tuvo lugar un peri?odo de revolucio?n intelectual. Pero que? le sucedio? a la mente europea entre 1605 ?cua?ndo la audiencia que asis- tio? a la primera funcio?n de Macbeth pensaba que el regicidio era tal aberracio?n del orden natural que hari?a que fantasmas se alzara?n de las profundidades de la tierra? y 1649, cua?ndo una gran multitud, quiza?s algunos de los que habi?an visto Macbeth cuarenta an?os atra?s, podi?an quedarse a contemplar tranquilamente la ejecucio?n de un rey?En este agitado peri?odo, la ciencia se movio? desde la alquimia y la astrologi?a de John Dee hasta el minucioso trabajo y la astronomi?a de Galileo, desde el clasi- cismo de Aristo?teles hasta la investigacio?n basada en la evidencia de la Royal Society. A pesar de eso, los usos antiguos au?n persisti?an y afectaban la nueva mentalidad: Newton, el hombre que entendi?a la gravedad y las leyes del mo

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