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Two happy couples. One dead body. A whole load of secrets. Married life wasn't meant to start like this.On honeymoon in Bali, you hit it off with another newlywed couple and celebrate your last night at a fancy cliff-side restaurant.No one predicted the evening would end with a dead body. But it was an accident, right? A tragic accident.The honeymoon may be over but it soon becomes clear that there's another side to this story . . . and your life depends on uncovering it.Many marriages can survive anything – but when it starts on a lie is it really 'til death do us part? ___________'This sizzling summer read is a breathtaking exploration of obsession and betrayal' - S Magazine'A page-turner full of secrets and lies, this is a totally addictive read' - Heat, 5-star review'Full of suspense and a whole load of secrets' - Prima'Atmospheric' - Candis'A wonderful twisty thrill ride' - Crime Monthly, lead review, 4 stars'Secrets, lies and the mother of all cover-ups...' - Louise Candlish, bestselling author of Our House and The Only Suspect'An addictive, jaw-dropping read. I loved it.' - Claire Douglas'Fantastically atmospheric and suspenseful ... Set to be one of the biggest sizzling reads of the summer!' - L.V. Matthews'A nerve-jangling tale of tension, suspicion and betrayal' - T.M. Logan'Tense, pacy, twisty and ingeniously plotted, it's going to be HUGE this summer!' - Isabelle Broom'Clever, twisty and tense, I'll be recommending The Honeymoon to friends looking for the perfect summer read.' - Nicole Kennedy'Brilliantly plotted, full of suspense and atmosphere, it had me turning the pages long after I should have been asleep.' - Lia Middleton'I really loved this book. Gripping. Atmospheric. Couldn't put it down.' - Imran Mahmood'Dark, devilish and deliciously addictive. The Honeymoon hooked me from page one and delivered twist after twist. The perfect summer thriller.' - Chris Whitaker

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Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life—and how he might guide yours, tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie—Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith—often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by Auden. Indeed, the novelist, best known for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, calls the poet not only the greatest literary discovery of his life but also the best of guides on how to live. In this book, McCall Smith has written a charming personal account about what Auden has done for him—and what he just might do for you.Part self-portrait, part literary appreciation, the book tells how McCall Smith first came across the poet's work in the 1970s, while teaching law in Belfast, a violently divided city where Auden's "September 1, 1939," a poem about the outbreak of World War II, strongly resonated. McCall Smith goes on to reveal how his life has related to and been inspired by other Auden poems ever since. For example, he describes how he has found an invaluable reflection on life's transience in "As I Walked Out One Evening," while "The More Loving One" has provided an instructive meditation on unrequited love. McCall Smith shows how Auden can speak to us throughout life, suggesting how, despite difficulties and change, we can celebrate understanding, acceptance, and love for others.An enchanting story about how art can help us live, this book will appeal to McCall Smith's fans and anyone curious about Auden.

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Libro pionero que expone los numerosos esfuerzos realizados por la humanidad para analizar y resolver las limitaciones del lenguaje: desde la antigüedad y la cultura clásica, hasta la obra de los españoles Ponce de León y Juan P. Bonet o los franceses Abate L`Epée, Sicard y Seguin, junto a tantas otras personalidades e instituciones que constituyen hitos en la historia y tratamiento de las discapacidades auditivas y lingüísticas. El libro constituye una aportación rigurosa, documentada y necesaria en el ámbito de la logopedia. Es un valioso instrumento, especialmente útil para logopedas, psicopedagogos, psicólogos, terapeutas y educadores.Extracto del Índice:1/ Concepto de una historia de la Logopedia.2/ Los precedentes: antigüedad y medievo.3/ Edad Moderna: Preocupación metodológica.4/ Siglo XIX: Período de la institucionalización.5/ El impulso logopédico en el siglo XX.6/ Desarrollo del estudio y la intervención logopédica desde 1980.Isabel GUTIÉRREZ ZULO

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The publication The Architecture of Deception / Confinement / Transformation accompanies the eponymously titled exhibition trilogy at BNKR - current reflections on art and architecture in Munich and showcases 18 diverse artistic standpoints at the intersection of art and architecture. Each chapter directly corresponds to the evolving history of the exhibition space, which was originally constructed as a camouflaged air-raid bunker during the Second World War, then used as a postwar internment camp, and finally transformed into its current state as a mixed-use residential and office building. The Architecture of Deception explores notions of illusion and deception, the creation of new realities, truth versus fiction; Confinement explores notions of shelters and safety, captivity and freedom, ‘outside’ versus ‘inside’; Transformation explores notions of gentrification, decay and definition of living spaces. With contributions by the editors, David Adjaye and Nikolaus Hirsch, Isabelle Doucet, and Madeleine Freund. Artists: The Architecture of Deception: Hans Op de Beeck, Emmanuelle Lainé, Bettina Pousttchi, Gregor Sailer, Cortis & Sonderegger, The Swan Collective; The Architecture of Confinement: Ramzi Ben Sliman, Mona Hatoum, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Annika Kahrs, Özgür Kar, Joanna Piotrovska; The Architecture of Transformation: Dana Awartani, Olivier Goethals, Eva Nielsen, Jeremy Shaw, Hannah Weinberger, Andrea Zittel.

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What if you could create any colour you wanted, from a basic palette of just 11 colours? That is what the art of colour mixing is all about. And once you master it, you will be able to create a broad range of all the colours you might need. Your options will be limited only by your imagination. In this colour mixing book, Isabelle Roelofs and Fabien Petillion first walk you step by step through the basics of watercolour pigments, paper, and colour mixing techniques. Using just 11 colours, you ll learn to bring more variety to your primary colours, create basic colours (such as Payne s Gray and Van Dyck Brown), and create your own secondary colours. This approach works no matter what brand of paints you use, as each of the 11 colours is identified by its universal pigment colour (such as PY154). Once you re underway colour mixing, you ll see how four artists interpret that basic palette to create thematic colour palettes tailored to different subject matter, such as flowers, landscapes, portraits, and animals. Finally, you ll solidify your understanding of colour mixing by analysing five watercolour paintings to see how the colour was achieved and how the painting was developed, layer by layer, to achieve the final result.

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In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky, she was married three times. And now, in Lady Boss, she takes on Hollywood and wins! Featuring a brand new introduction from bestselling author, Julie Cohen, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! 'A galloping page-turner, full of Jackie Collins's signature sex and satire' JULIE COHEN'Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers.' COLLEEN HOOVER Panther Studios is the prize and Lucky Santangelo wants it. But Abe Panther won’t sell until she proves she has the guts to make it in Hollywood. Lucky never backs down from a challenge. She takes a chance and goes undercover. But no one is prepared for the shock waves that she sets off in Tinseltown. Watch ‘Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story’, produced by multi-award winning production company Passion Pictures, directed by Laurie Fairrie. There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood movie studios; from glittering rock concerts to the yachts of billionaires, Jackie chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. 'A true inspiration, a trail blazer for women's fiction' JILLY COOPER ‘Jackie shows us all what being a strong, successful woman means at any age’ MILLY JOHNSON ‘Jackie will never be forgotten, she’ll always inspire me to #BeMoreJackie’ JILL MANSELL ‘What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story’ ROWAN COLEMAN ‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves’ ISABELLE BROOM ‘Nobody does it quite like Jackie and nobody ever will’ SARRA MANNING ‘Jackie bought a bit of glitter, sparkle and sunshine into our humdrum existence’ VERONICA HENRY ‘Collins was saying that women didn’t have to centre round men, either in books or in life’ JESSIE BURTON ‘Jackie lived the Hollywood dream, but, she looked sideways at it, and then shared the dirt with her readers’ JULIET ASHTON ‘What radiates from her novels, is a sense that women are capable of great things’ ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY

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An Irish proverb tells us. "A tale is more precious than the wealth of the world," and judging from the richness of their storytelling traditions, the Celts have always believed this. In In fairy tales, as in music, the romantic artistry of the Celts came to full flower. In this wonderful collection of fairy tales from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, The Isle of Man, and Brittany, we meet heroes and villains, princes and paupers, enchanting creatures and magical mermaids. Each story has been retold by Neil Philip and display a common Celtic heritage in their love of extravagance and poetry, their quick wit and their daring sense of adventure. Here, retold much as they were around Celtic peat fires a hundred years ago, are the enthralling tales of 'Fair, Brown, and Trembling', 'The Brown Bear of the Green Glen', and 'The Ship That Went to America'. Some of the stories give familiar tales a Celtic twist: 'Duffy and the Devil' is a comic Cornish take on the Rumpelstiltskin story; 'The Black Cat' is a dark and mysterious Breton Cinderella. Others seem new and strange: the doomed love of 'Lutey and the Mermaid', or the mystic rapture of 'The Little Bird'. Perhaps most riveting of call is the Irish tale of 'The Soul Cages', in which a fisherman makes friends with one of the sea-people, Coomara, and uses that friendship to free the souls of drowned sailors, kept by Coomara in lobster pots in his house beneath the waves. Illustrated in watercolour and gold by acclaimed artist Isabelle Brent, these tales are full of Celtic magic.

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Must-read historical fiction for fans of Marie Benedict and Tracey Enerson Wood, based on the real life of Britain's first woman veterinary surgeon.Aleen Cust has big dreams. And no one-not her family, society, or the law-will stop her.Born in Ireland in 1868 to an aristocratic English family, Aleen knows she is destined to work with animals, even if her family is appalled by the idea of a woman pursuing a veterinary career. Going against their wishes but with the encouragement of the guardian assigned to her upon her father's death, Aleen attends the New Veterinary College in Edinburgh, enrolling as A. I. Custance to spare her family the humiliation they fear. At last, she is on her way to becoming a veterinary surgeon! Little does she know her biggest obstacles lie ahead.The Invincible Miss Cust is based on the real life of Aleen Isabel Cust, who defied her family and society to become Britain and Ireland's first woman veterinary surgeon. Through Penny Haw's meticulous research, riveting storytelling, and elegant prose, Aleen's story of ambition, determination, family, friendship, and passion comes to life. It is a story that, even today, women will recognize, of battling patriarchy and an unequal society to realize one's dreams and pave the way for other women in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

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This rollicking ride through a single day in the ill-fated village of San Marcos will leave you reeling with laughter, even as you cringe at the misadventures of the hapless Porter Clapp and his pitiable wife, Steph; the jaundiced Onésimo Moro and his ever-watchful spouse, Isabel; and the rest of Crawford’s riotous cast. At this story’s beginning, a meeting notice from the state water agency, posted at the local store, seems to portend an imminent threat to the valley’s precious acequias. But perhaps more ominous—at least to the paranoid Clapp—is the possibility of the outside world meddling with the isolation, blissful or not, of this remote Hispanic plaza town. As the time of the meeting looms, we follow the characters through the day and become immersed in a place unnervingly familiar to anyone who has lived in Northern New Mexico. Crawford spares no one from his acerbic wit and skewering prose, yet there remains an unmistakable affection for the marvelously dysfunctional community and the very faults that he so eloquently parodies. As the tale unfolds, we dread the incipient threat from outside the valley less and begin to hope that something will deflect the downward spiral every character seems doomed to follow—but nothing anticipates or prepares us for the denouement that Crawford skillfully delivers, leaving us punch drunk with mirth.

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Featuring a brand new introduction from Alexandra Heminsley, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! ‘What radiates from all of her novels is a sense that women are just as capable of great things as men’ ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY'Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers.' COLLEEN HOOVER Al King, the rock-and-roll super stud who is everything any sex-crazed groupie ever imagined her hero to be; and Dallas, the beauty queen whose sky-high ambitions stem from a sordid secret-the type that tabloids tingle to tell. Together, they're on a wild ride from London to New York, from Hollywood to Rio and the steaming jungles of the Amazon-where all their dreams and nightmares are about to come true…LOVERS & GAMBLERS There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood movie studios; from glittering rock concerts to the yachts of billionaires, Jackie chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. 'A true inspiration, a trail blazer for women's fiction' JILLY COOPER ‘Jackie shows us all what being a strong, successful woman means at any age’ MILLY JOHNSON ‘Jackie will never be forgotten, she’ll always inspire me to #BeMoreJackie’ JILL MANSELL ‘Jackie’s heroines don’t take off their clothes to please a man, but to please themselves’ CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘Legend is a word used too lightly for so many undeserving people, but Jackie is the very definition of the word’ ALEX KHAN ‘What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story’ ROWAN COLEMAN ‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves’ ISABELLE BROOM ‘Jackie is the queen of cliff-hangers’ SAMANTHA TONGE ‘For all her trademark sass, there is a moralist at work here’ LOUISE CANDLISH ‘Nobody does it quite like Jackie and nobody ever will’ SARRA MANNING ‘Collins was saying that women didn’t have to centre round men, either in books or in life’ JESSIE BURTON ‘Jackie lived the Hollywood dream, but, she looked sideways at it, and then shared the dirt with her readers’ JULIET ASHTON

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Transatlantic Women's Literature is a valuable contribution to the evolving debate surrounding Transatlantic Studies and transatlantic literature. Its originality and importance lie in its focus on 20th century women's narratives of travel and adventure, and its deliberate expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US-UK axis to include Canada, South America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. The crisscrossing of the Atlantic is contested and problematised throughout. The book explores culturally resonant literature that imagines "views from both sides" and examines the imaginary, "in-between" space of the Atlantic. It offers a considered exploration of the way in which the space of the Atlantic-and women's space-work together in the construction of meaning in transatlantic texts. Focusing on contemporary literature, this book engages with a range of genres, from novellas and novels to essays, memoirs, and travel literature. Nella Larsen's Quicksand is read alongside Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine in relation to constructions of the exotic; Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation is explored in relation to memoirs of travel such as Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train; and Anne Tyler's transatlantic novel The Accidental Tourist is read alongside her latest transpacific novel, Digging to America as well as Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune. Readers will gain an appreciation of the complexity of the transatlantic narrative and the ways in which these narratives are defined by and infused with gender considerations.

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A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy With her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our times but also inspired a rethinking of critical theory, political thought, and radical philosophy across a range of disciplines. Here, Stengers unveils what might well be seen as her definitive reading of Whitehead.Making Sense in Common will be greeted eagerly by the growing group of scholars who use Stengers’s work on Whitehead as a model for how to think with conceptual precision through diverse domains of inquiry: environmentalism and ecology, animal studies, media and technology studies, the history and philosophy of science, feminism, and capitalism. On the other hand, the significance of this new book extends beyond Whitehead. Instead, it lies in Stengers’s recovery of the idea of “common sense” as a meeting place—a commons—where opposed ideas of science and humanistic inquiry can engage one another and help to move society forward. Her reconciliation of science and philosophy is especially urgent today—when climate disaster looms all around us, when the values of what we thought of as civilization and modernity are discredited, and when expertise of any kind is under attack.

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Sorprendentes relatos rescatados de la teoría psicoanalítica de Sigmund Freud que, como destaca en su prólogo Juan José Millás, poseen una eficacia narrativa que había permanecido oculta hasta la presente edición.Freud no solo fue uno de los más grandes exploradores de la mente humana, sino también un excelente prosista con una amplísima cultura humanística. En ninguna parte quedan mejor reflejadas estas dos facetas como en sus legendarios casos clínicos, cuya estructura, según el novelista John Updike, tiene una elegancia arquitectónica que iguala a la de los mejores escritores de su tiempo.Este libro, al cuidado de la psicoanalista Isabel Menéndez, presenta desde un punto de vista literario veinte de esos casos, narraciones extraordinarias que reflejan los temas más importantes en la búsqueda freudiana. La primera parte reúne breves y deslumbrantes historias sobre casos de sugestión e hipnosis, entresacadas de sus grandes trabajos técnicos, que alumbran el conocimiento del inco

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Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is more, scientific research is being shaped by the bubbles and crashes associated with economic speculation and the market. A focus on conformism, competitiveness, opportunism and flexibility has made it extremely difficult to present cases of failure to the public, for fear that it will lose confidence in science altogether. In this bold new book, distinguished philosopher Isabelle Stengers shows that research is deeply intertwined with broader social interests, which means that science cannot race ahead in isolation but must learn instead to slow down. Stengers offers a path to an alternative science, arguing that researchers should stop seeing themselves as the 'thinking, rational brain of humanity' and refuse to allow their expertise to be used to shut down the concerns of the public, or to spread the belief that scientific progress is inevitable and will resolve all of society's problems. Rather, science must engage openly and honestly with an intelligent public and be clear about the kind of knowledge it is capable of producing. This timely and accessible book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers in a wide range of fields, as well anyone concerned with the role of science and its future.

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La presente obra es un manual de referencia sobre la punción seca (PS) de los puntos gatillo miofasciales (PGM). Los lectores no encontrarán únicamente el desarrollo y aplicación de técnicas sino que, además, dispondrán de bases conceptuales perfectamente argumentadas que habitualmente se encuentran dispersas en la literatura especializada. Con una reputada trayectoria en el campo del síndrome del dolor miofascial (SDM), D. Orlando Mayoral es pionero en el uso de la punción seca profunda, habiendo formado a un nutrido grupo de fi sioterapeutas bajo el paraguas de los ?Seminarios Travell & Simons?. Junto con la inestimable ayuda de la Dra. Isabel Salvat, los autores nos presentan una obra de referencia tanto teórica como práctica sobre una de las patologías que, a día de hoy, se le reconoce una prevalencia muy elevada. Destacamos los siguientes puntos fundamentales de la obra: Seguridad en la aplicación de técnicas apoyadas en el análisis minucioso de los músculos: anatomía, actividad,

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Viaja por el universo de la genética actual de la mano de sus mayores expertos: Óscar Huertas, Paula Ruiz Hueso, Rosa Porcel, Pedro Morell, Alex Richter-Boix, Víctor García Tagua, Adrián Villalba, Carlos Romá, Guillermo Peris, Isabel López Calderón, Conchi Lillo, Ignacio Crespo, Ana J. Cáceres, Sara Robisco y Carlos Briones.Podemos seguirle la pista a una bacteria tras infectar a toda una población? Por qué necesitamos cultivos transgénicos? Cuáles son las huellas que dejamos al domesticar animales salvajes? En qué nos parecemos a nuestros parientes evolutivos más cercanos? Sería posible resucitar una especie extinta? Está todo escrito en nuestros genes? Se puede modificar el ADN para tratar enfermedades incurables? Debemos hacerlo por otros motivos? Existen personas editadas genéticamente? A dónde va a parar nuestra información genética? Hay ADN más allá de nuestro planeta?Estas y otras preguntas son las que responde Genes, una obra en la que quince divulgadores abordan, de for

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Scenes of New York City celebrates the promised gift of 130 works from the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection to the New-York Historical Society. The Hirschfeld promised gift is at once a collection of individual works by talented artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, a series of vivid "snapshots" of the iconic city, and a tapestry weaving a narrative of Gotham's vibrant history. These fascinating celebrations of New York City-paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, and sculpture whose strength lies in the 20th century-include 113 works by 82 American and European artists not currently represented in the collection. They expand the Museum's holdings in the modern era and help to diversify them, adding numerous works by pivotal artists including Isabel Bishop, Marc Chagall, Fernand Leger, George Grosz, Keith Haring, Franz Kline, WIllem de Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol among many others. The catalogue features an introductory essay covering the sweeping history of New York City, an interview with the collector Elie Hirschfeld, 110 scholarly entries about the 130 works, and comparative material that illuminates the history of the City and the artistic contributions in the works of art

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Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen. Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in literature: the way birds mimic humans, the way humans mimic birds, and the way mimicry of any kind involves technologies that extend across as well as beyond languages and species. The essays examine the historical, poetic, and semiotic problem of mimesis exemplified both by the imitative behavior of parrots, starlings, and other mocking birds, and by the poetic trope of such birds in a range of literary and philological traditions. Drawing from a cross-section of traditional periods and fields in literary studies (18th-century studies, romantic studies, early American studies, 20th-century studies, and postcolonial studies), the collection offers new models for combining comparative and global studies of literature and culture. Editors Christopher GoGwilt is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author of The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya (Oxford, 2011), The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock (Stanford, 2000), and The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire (Stanford, 1995). Melanie D. Holm is Assistant Professor of the English Department and Graduate Program of Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She also teaches in the university’s Women’s and Gender Studies program. Her scholarly focus is on eighteenth-century literature and skepticism. Contributors Madeleine Brainerd taught at Washington University in St. Louis and at Excelsior College. Since 2004 she has taught therapeutic yoga and medical qi gong in New York City, at the Integral Yoga Institute, Kenshikai Dojo, Gouverneur Hospital, and other venues. She studies histories of yoga’s intersections with ecological in/justice, animality, and affect theory. Joe Conway is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His articles have appeared or are scheduled to appear in the journals Women’s Studies, Early American Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. He is currently at work on a monograph about the social life of antebellum money that charts how discourses of noneconomic phenomena such as medicine, race, nationalism, and aesthetics informed nineteenth-century debates about what constitutes good money. Fraser Easton is Associate Professor of English, University of Waterloo, Canada. A specialist in eighteenth-century literature, he has published on Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth, and Christopher Smart, as well as on newspaper records and historical accounts of passing women in the eighteenth century. Shari Goldberg is Assistant Professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Fordham, 2013). She has also published essays on silence, politics, and personhood in American literature. Her current research focuses on late-nineteenth-century models of mind and person in narrative and psychological writing. Sarah Kay teaches French and Medieval Studies at New York University. She has written widely on medieval literature across languages, genres, and periods; her work combines the study of medieval texts, especially troubadour songs, with philosophical and theoretical inquiry. Her two most recent books are Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry (2013) and Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (2017). Kaori Kitao (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art History, Emerita, Swarthmore College) taught art history at Swarthmore College from 1966 to 2001. She was born in Tokyo and studied architecture at UC Berkeley and art history at Harvard. Her main specialization is Italian renaissance and baroque art; she has also taught courses in cinema history, material culture, urban studies, and Japanese architecture. Holt V. Meyer is Professor of Slavic Studies at Erfurt University. He is the author of Romantische Orientierung (1995) and numerous articles and has co-edited the collections Juden und Judentum in Literatur und Film des slavischen Sprachraumes. Die geniale Epoche (1999), Inventing Slavia (2005), Schiller: Gedenken—Vergessen—Lesen (2010), and Gagarin als Archivkörper und Erinnerungsfigur (2014). He is co-editor of the new book series Spatio-Temporality. Practices—Concepts— Media (De Gruyter). He is currently working on a book about the official Stalinist Pushkin celebrations of 1949. Isabel (Annie) Moore completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of California–Irvine. From 2011 to 2013, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in English at the University of Victoria. She has published on Contemporary Irish and Canadian poetry, and her book project is titled The Ends of Lyric Life: A Theory of Biopoetics. Fawzia Mustafa is Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Fordham University. She also teaches in the university’s Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Programs. The author of V. S. Naipaul (1995), she has published numerous articles on postcolonial literature and development. Gavin Sourgen is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. He completed his D.Phil. at Balliol College (Oxford) in 2013, concentrating on the transitional poetics of Lord Byron’s verse, and has published on Byron, Coleridge, and romantic aesthetics in general.

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Alongside the classical reading of the garden as a secluded and circumscribed place of yearning full of meditative, spiritual, and philosophical possibilities, it is viewed in the exhibition as a place of duality and contradiction: a threshold between reality and fantasy, utopia and dystopia, harmony and chaos, between being shut out and being included. In today's world, defined by radical climate change and migratory flows, the garden can be seen as a place of paradise and exile, reflecting within its borders themes as pressing as the anthropocene, seed politics, the legacies of colonialism and historical segregation. In addition to deliberate political positions, the Garden of Earthly Delights features works that also bring to life the sensual dimensions of gardens: immersive installations and video works show an intensive abundance of nature, but also the fragility of the paradise-like state. Artists: Maria Thereza Alves, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Hicham Berrada, John Cage, Tacita Dean, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Futurefarmers, Lungiswa Gqunta, Rashid Johnson, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Lawler, Renato Leotta, Isabel Lewis and LABOUR, Libby Harward, Jumana Manna, Uriel Orlow, Heather Phillipson, Pipilotti Rist, Maaike Schoorel, Taro Shinoda, Zheng Bo. Text in English and German.

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The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin’s contributors take up Rose’s conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose’s scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright

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Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the descendants of Moctezuma II used Spanish law and customs to maintain and enhance their status throughout the colonial period, achieving titles of knighthood and nobility in Mexico and Spain. So respected were they that a Moctezuma descendant by marriage became Viceroy of New Spain (colonial Mexico's highest governmental office) in 1696. This authoritative history follows the fortunes of the principal heirs of Moctezuma II across nearly two centuries. Drawing on extensive research in both Mexican and Spanish archives, Donald E. Chipman shows how daughters Isabel and Mariana and son Pedro and their offspring used lawsuits, strategic marriages, and political maneuvers and alliances to gain pensions, rights of entailment, admission to military orders, and titles of nobility from the Spanish government. Chipman also discusses how the Moctezuma family history illuminates several larger issues in colonial Latin American history, including women's status and opportunities and trans-Atlantic relations between Spain and its New World colonies.

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Featuring a brand new introduction from lifelong fan and Closer magazine Book Reviewer, Amy Rowland, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! ‘I read hundreds of books every year. But Jackie Collins’ novels are the only ones I can read over and over’ AMY ROWLAND'Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers.' COLLEEN HOOVER At the novel's core is the Hollywood Five, a clique of jaded twenty-somethings whose parents (all major players) thought that child-rearing ended with naming their offspring after themselves. Not since best-selling superstar Jackie Collins created Hollywood Wives, the book which established a whole new standard for novels of the American dream in the extreme, has she dealt so incisively and so revealingly with tinseltown, and with the people who live and die there. There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood movie studios; from glittering rock concerts to the yachts of billionaires, Jackie chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. 'A true inspiration, a trail blazer for women's fiction' JILLY COOPER ‘Jackie will never be forgotten, she’ll always inspire me to #BeMoreJackie’ JILL MANSELL ‘Jackie’s heroines don’t take off their clothes to please a man, but to please themselves’ CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story’ ROWAN COLEMAN ‘Jackie wrote with shameless ambition, ruthless passion and pure diamond-dusted sparkle’ CATHERINE STEADMAN ‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves’ ISABELLE BROOM ‘Lessons galore on every page… about feminism, equality, tolerance and love’ CARMEL HARRINGTON ‘Jackie is the queen of cliff-hangers’ SAMANTHA TONGE ‘For all her trademark sass, there is a moralist at work here’ LOUISE CANDLISH ‘Collins was saying that women didn’t have to centre round men, either in books or in life’ JESSIE BURTON ‘Jackie lived the Hollywood dream, but, she looked sideways at it, and then shared the dirt with her readers’ JULIET ASHTON

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IntroducciónI. Continuidad y cambio? Límites y valoración del tránsito de la Edad Media a la Moderna ? Poder Real e Iglesia en tiempo de los Reyes Católicos. ? El Concilio Nacional de Sevilla de 1478, impulso ascensional de la renovación española. ? Poder y élites en la España de los siglos XV al XVII (aspecto religioso) ? La economía de las Iglesias locales en la Edad Media y Moderna ? las fases de la biografía ignaciana.II. Figuras destacadas en el horizonte español? Hernando de Talavera, primer arzobispo de Granada (c. 1430-1507) ? Teresa Enríquez, "la Loca del Sacramento", amiga de Isabel la Católica (c. 1456-1528). ? Pedro Mártir de Angleria, humanista y educador de la nobleza española (c. 1462-1532). ? Juana de Castilla, llamada La Beltraneja (1462-1530) ? Gonzalo de Illescas, el primer historiador español de los Papas en lengua española (c. 1518-1583).

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For many, Charles M. Russell's paintings epitomize life in the West. But in twentieth-century postwar Montana, an avant-garde art movement--Montana Modernism--brewed. Its pioneers--Jessie Wilber, Frances Senska, Bill Stockton, Isabelle Johnson, Robert DeWeese, and Gennie DeWeese--created a community and pedagogy where, in stark contrast to stereotypical romanticized western art and frontier history themes, modernist ideas and art flourished, expanding traditional definitions of Western art.The first book devoted to the topic, Montana Modernists presents stunning artwork and illuminates a little-known art movement. Divided into three sections, Corriel's exploration concentrates on place, teaching/artistic lineage, and community. The isolation, beauty, and complexity of their surrounding landscape served as a backdrop and influenced the lives and art of these ranchers, teachers, and professors. Next, Corriel traces artistic lineages to describe how each arrived at their particular artistic style. Community, the third section, offers a thorough study of their teaching styles, art techniques, and social gatherings to demonstrate how a thriving community of like-minded artists, writers, dancers, musicians, and philosophers opposed the grand narrative of the West, a movement that still resonates in contemporary Montana art.

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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, más conocido como Jean Paul, es uno de los más grandes estilistas de la lengua alemana. Para nosotros es un honor publicar dos de sus mejores nouvelles: El viaje del rector Fälbel y sus alumnos de último curso al Fichtelberg y Vida del risueño maestrillo Maria Wutz en Auenthal.Como señala Isabel Hernández en el epílogo, precisamente en estos dos relatos el lector puede observar el estilo característico de Jean Paul: la descripción de la realidad desde una perspectiva satírica y burlona domina su producción, marcada fundamentalmente por el uso de la prosa, ya fuera en forma de relato breve, de novela, de sátira o de ensayo, pues esta forma le pareció siempre la más adecuada para dar expresión a los problemas de la realidad cotidiana, por un lado, y para dar rienda suelta a su fantasía, por otro. En la primera, a través de Fälbel, un personaje cómico desde todo punto de vista, Jean Paul critica el estilo pomposo, plagado de citas, de los programas de los

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William Gilbert, médico de la reina Isabel I de Inglaterra, fue el científico más destacado de su reinado. Gilbert acuñó el término electricidad y fue el padre del estudio de la energía eléctrica, además de haber fundado los estudios magnéticos modernos y de ser el descubridor del magnetismo terrestre. Y sin embargo, es un gran desconocido. Gracias a su amistad con los principales navegantes de la época, Gilbert conocía el curioso comportamiento de las agujas magnéticas de las brújulas y compases, y la inclinación magnética. A1 formular su teoría de que la Tierra era un enorme imán, un cuerpo enorme dotado de alma magnética, Gilbert desafió la ortodoxia científica de su época e inició una batalla que culminaría en la actual concepción sobre el magnetismo terrestre.

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El gran friso narrativo de los Episodios Nacionales sirvió de vehículo a Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) para recrear en él, novelescamente engarzada, la totalidad de la compleja vida de los españoles, guerras, política, vida cotidiana, reacciones populares, a lo largo del agitado siglo XIX. " La de los tristes destinos " , como se designó alusivamente a Isabel II, llega en este Episodio al fin de sus días como reina de España. Galdós hace revivir los acontecimientos que abocan a la Revolución poniendo vívidamente ante nuestros ojos la trama de conspiraciones que bulle en los últimos tiempos del reinado, los ambientes de los emigrados españoles en París y Londres, las idas y venidas de Prim y, finalmente, la batalla de Alcolea que obliga a la Reina a dejar España y da el triunfo a la " Gloriosa " .

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This bilingual edition presents Luis Vélez de Guevara’s 1613 play La Serrana de la Vera (The Mountain Girl from La Vera) for the first time ever in English translation. This long-forgotten tragedy has come back into focus in recent years because of its extraordinary protagonist, Gila, a peasant girl who calls herself a man, takes fierce pride in doing things men do, and falls in love with Queen Isabel. Her betrayal by an army captain who she has humiliated leads to lawlessness, violence and tragedy. Dramatized by the playwright as an heroic rebel, Gila has been variously described as feminist, homosexual, bisexual, lesbian, transsexual, hybrid, queer, and transgender. Highly relevant today, The Mountain Girl from La Vera is also a great piece of theatre, full of dramatic confrontations, colourful vignettes, striking moments of music and spectacle, and plentiful comic relief. This bilingual edition presents the entirety of the play, annotated, along with a Critical Introduction by the translator that contextualizes the work.

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ONE BOY'S WISH. ONE EXTRAORDINARY LOVE STORY'A quietly beautiful and wonderfully human tale you will never forget' HeatSeven-year-old Jake's heart is failing and he doesn't want to leave his dad, Simon, alone. So he makes a decision: to find Simon someone to love before he goes.Beth is determined to forget the past. But even when she leaves New York to start afresh in a Lake District village, she can't shake the secrets that haunt her.Single dad Simon still holds a candle for the woman who left him years ago. Every day is a struggle to earn a living while caring for his beloved son. He has no time for finding someone new.But Jake is determined his plan will succeed - and what unfolds will change all three of them forever.'A touching love story' Kate Eberlen'A beautiful story that reminds us of the power and importance of love' Isabelle Broom'Gorgeously written and utterly life-affirming' Miranda Dickinson

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No es posible hablar de las obras shakespearianas con independencia de su época, como tampoco lo es entender lo que experimentó la sociedad en la que vivió Shakespeare sin la ayuda de las concepciones de éste. en 1599 Shakespeare escribió cuatro de sus obras más famosas (Enrique V, Julio César, Como gustéis y Hamlet), los isabelinos enviaron al ejército a aplastar una rebelión irlandesa, resistieron una amenaza naval española y apostaron por una joven Compañía de las Indias Orientales mientras esperaban a ver quién sucedía a la reina Isabel y acudían en masa a los teatros de Londres, entre ellos el Globo, recientemente construido.En este documentado ensayo, James Shapiro ilustra tanto los asombrosos logros de Shakespeare como las vivencias de los isabelinos en el transcurso del año 1599, combinando los acontecimientos políticos y las intrigas de la época con una magnífica evocación de la forma de trabajar de Shakespeare como actor, dramaturgo y hombre de negocios.

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Una bella historia de amor, lucha, traición y pasión.El libro en que se basa la serie.Inés Suárez es una joven y humilde costurera extremeña que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo para buscar a su marido, extraviado con sus sueños de gloria al otro lado del Atlántico. Anhela también una vida de aventuras, vetada a las mujeres en la pacata sociedad del siglo XVI. En América, Inés no encuentra a su marido, pero sí un amor apasionado: Pedro de Valdivia, maestre de campo de Francisco Pizarro, junto a quien Inés se enfrenta a los riesgos y las incertidumbres de la conquista y la fundación del reino de Chile.En esta novela épica el aliento del amor concede una tregua a la rudeza, la violencia y la crueldad de un momento histórico inolvidable. A través de la pluma de Isabel Allende se confirma que la realidad puede ser tan sorprendente o más que la mejor ficción, e igualmente cautivadora.Reseñas:Basándose en las vivencias documentadas de su heroína, Allende c

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Tal como predijo la astróloga más reputada de San Francisco, una oleada de crímenes comienza a sacudir la ciudad. En la investigación sobre los asesinatos, el inspector Bob Martín recibirá la ayuda inesperada de un grupo de internautas especializados en juegos de rol, Ripper."Mi madre todavía está viva, pero la matarán el Viernes Santo a medianoche", le advirtió Amanda Martín al inspector jefe y éste no lo puso en duda, porque la chica había dado pruebas de saber más que él y todos sus colegas del Departamento de Homicidios. La mujer estaba cautiva en algún punto de los dieciocho mil kilómetros cuadrados de la bahía de San Francisco, tenían pocas horas para encontrarla con vida y él no sabía por dónde empezar a buscarla.La crítica ha dicho...Los fieles seguidores de la literatura de Isabel Allende no se sentirán defraudados con El juego de Ripper y los amantes del género negro descubrirán a una escritora que juguetea en ese territorio.Aurora Intxausti

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This bestselling book provides indispensable tools and strategies for explicit, systematic phonics instruction in K-3. Teachers learn effective ways to build students' decoding skills by teaching letter-sound relationships, blending, word building, multisyllabic decoding, fluency, and more. The volume is packed with engaging classroom activities, many specific examples, and research-based explanations. It offers a complete phonics assessment and clear guidelines for sequencing instruction to give every student a strong foundation for reading. More than 30 reproducible forms and word lists are included in the appendices. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size and find a wealth of supplemental teaching resources. New to This Edition *Six additional chapters covering key topics, including assessment, phonemic awareness, orthography, and automaticity. *A complete phonics assessment with administering and scoring guidelines. *Downloadable forms and word lists, plus a companion website with rich supplemental resources, including word/syllable cards, assessment tools, and illustrated stories featuring target words, which teachers can project or print for classroom use. *More classroom examples and "Your Turn" activities, as well as expanded word lists. See also Bringing Words to Life, Second Edition: Robust Vocabulary Instruction and Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples, by Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan, which provide essential tools for K-12 vocabulary instruction.

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A Complete Learning-Program for Intermediate Spanish Willey is proud to present a flexible new Intermediate Spanish series that makes learning fun! Two texts combined with a workbook and a complete audio program immerse students in the language via real-life vignettes, media, and photos! All components of the program are closely coordinated to reinforce key grammatical and vocabulary points. Mundo Unido: Repaso y conversación Marí a Canteli Dominicis, St. John’s University 58485–1 Reinforcing all four skills, the grammar review features clear explanations and numerous realia-based exercises. The exercises promote an active use of the language with many pair and group and self-expression activities. Turns grammar review into a fun, culturally enriching experience by placing it in a realistic meaningful context. This is achieved through the inclusion of brief readings, lots of realia and photos, and profiles of famous Hispanics. Crystal clear grammatical explanations are immediately applied in dialogues and prose. English is used to help clarify more difficult points. Directions and the exercises themselves are given in Spanish. Unique escenas illustrate vocabulary and provide a springboard for conversations and activities. Contemporary readings open each chapter to introduce the theme and provide contextualized vocabulary. Mundo Unido: Lectura y escritura Robert L. Nicholas, University of Wisconsin-Madison 58484–3 Thematically and lexically tied to the accompanying grammar book, the reader focuses on Hispanic life in the 90’s. Grammar capsules and numerous realia-based exercises reinforce four language skills. A wide selection of short and long readings includes both cultural and literary selections with the majority reflecting Hispanic life in the 90’s. Some of the authors featured include Isabel Allende, Octavio Paz, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Gloria Fuertes. A great smorgasbord of realia-based exercises that range from traditional grammatical and vocabulary review to more communicative exercises encourage self-expression and pair and group work. Reading and writing strategies enhance reading habits, vocabulary acquisition, and writing skills. The Other Program Elements Workbook/Lab Manual—contains grammar and verb review to better prepare students for the in-class communicative exercises. It also has fun vocabulary applications through descriptive visuals, crossword puzzles, realia, etc. The lab portion includes oral exercises for practicing vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral expression activities. Audio Cassettes—twelve 30-minute cassettes that reinforce vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral expression. A Tapescript is also available.

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Con más de 500.000 ejemplares vendidos de sus obras, Isabel San Sebastián regresa con una aventura trepidante de coraje, familia y honor sobre el papel fundamental que las mujeres, olvidadas por las crónicas, tuvieron en la Reconquista.Año 1069 de Nuestro Señor. Cristianos y musulmanes libran una lucha sin cuartel en Hispania, divididos a su vez en reinos y taifas arrasados por disputas intestinas. En ese mundo despiadado, Auriola relata a su nieto Diego la gesta de su abuelo Ramiro, caballero de frontera caído en combate al servicio de su rey, mientras defiende sola la tierra que su esposo ganó con la espada. Abuela y nieto deberán sobrevivir a las guerras fratricidas entre Navarra, León y Castilla, salvar el legado familiar y plantar cara a la brutal acometida de los almorávides.Además de una obra que refleja en toda su crudeza y fascinación una época determinante de España,La Dueña es un emotivo relato que llega al corazón y que nos muestr

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Featuring a brand new introduction from Eva Verde, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! ‘An assassin of gender stereotypes and patriarchal double-standards, Jackie made sure in her books that women like Lucky succeed in all the places a man can – and do things better, too’ EVA VERDE'Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers.' COLLEEN HOOVER Owner of the luxurious and exclusive Keys complex in Las Vegas, Lucky Santangelo comes up against Armet Askarani, a ruthless billionaire middle-easterner potentate with three wives, who has little regard for women except as sexual playthings or breeding mares. Armet wishes to purchase the Keys, and is shocked when he hears that Lucky has no desire to sell – whatever the price. That a mere woman would turn him down is insulting and unthinkable. And so the battle for power begins… There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood movie studios; from glittering rock concerts to the yachts of billionaires, Jackie chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. 'A true inspiration, a trail blazer for women's fiction' JILLY COOPER ‘Jackie shows us all what being a strong, successful woman means at any age’ MILLY JOHNSON ‘Jackie will never be forgotten, she’ll always inspire me to #BeMoreJackie’ JILL MANSELL ‘Legend is a word used too lightly for so many undeserving people, but Jackie is the very definition of the word’ ALEX KHAN ‘What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story’ ROWAN COLEMAN ‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves’ ISABELLE BROOM ‘Lessons galore on every page… about feminism, equality, tolerance and love’ CARMEL HARRINGTON ‘For all her trademark sass, there is a moralist at work here’ LOUISE CANDLISH ‘Nobody does it quite like Jackie and nobody ever will’ SARRA MANNING ‘Jackie bought a bit of glitter, sparkle and sunshine into our humdrum existence’ VERONICA HENRY ‘Jackie wrote about Hollywood with total authenticity, breaking all the rules and taboos’ BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD

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La vida de Antonio de Orleans, el hombre que quiso ser reyLa historiografía biográfica hispana siempre ha mirado de soslayo al duque de Montpensier, en cuya bibliografía ha primado hasta ahora su perfil negativo y su papel de conspirador contra su cuñada Isabel II. Sin embargo, sin la figura de Antonio de Orleans, una persona comprometida con su tiempo y adelantado a su época en muchos aspectos, no pueden entenderse ni el desarrollo del devenir político de la etapa isabelina, ni la historia pequeña y grande de la casa de Borbón de España en los dos últimos siglos, ni los hechos políticos más notables de la segunda mitad del turbulento siglo XIX español. En esta biografía se nos presenta la personalidad del duque de Montpensier sin estridencias y, sobre todo, lejos de los tópicos maniqueos del duque naranjero, del ambicioso intrigante sin escrúpulos, o del hacedor de una fortuna por un mero deseo de lucro personal. Con un lenguaje sencillo, rico y directo, con pasión pero sin

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El propósito de esta ?Introducción a la España medieval? es ofrecer una obra de síntesis orientada al examen de las tres grandes culturas de este periodo (la islámica, la hebrea y la cristiana) en sus interpenetraciones recíprocas. Desde esta perspectiva, Gabriel Jackson estudia un espacio de nueve siglos cargado de acontecimientos susceptibles de interpretaciones divergentes: desde el derrumbamiento de la monarquía visigoda y la invasión islámica, el esplendor del califato de Córdoba y su desintegración en los reinos de Taifas, la repoblación del valle del Duero y la génesis de Castilla, la difusión de la reforma cluniacense y el camino de Santiago, hasta las guerras civiles en Castilla y Aragón en la Baja Edad Media, la expansión comercial de Cataluña, el crecimiento de las órdenes mendicantes, los avances del antisemitismo desde la Peste Negra, la rendición del reino de Granada, la fundación de la Inquisición y la unión dinástica bajo Isabel y Fernando.

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Esta breve antología recopila una muestra de textos escritos por el alumnado del Taller de Narrativa de la Universidad de Almería durante los años 2016-2017. Se trata de una selección de trabajos tanto de los miembros del Taller de narrativa de la Sede de Almería, como de los que conforman el Taller de narrativa de la Sede de Roquetas de Mar. En ambos talleres se ha experimentado con la palabra de manera creativa y, al mismo tiempo, ha servido para plasmas los recuerdos, vivencias, anhelos... mezclado todo ello con ficción y es que, como indica Margarita Isabel Asensio Pastor en el prefacio de esta Antología el Taller de narrativa ha sido, y sigue siendo, un espacio en donde el alumnado inscrito se ha arremangado la camisa, ha cogido sus instrumentos de escritura, su corazón, sus recuerdos, su experiencia vital y se ha dejado llevar entre las páginas en blanco al son de las palabras para crear una historia.

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As Puerto Rico rapidly industrialized from the late 1940s until the 1970s, the social, political, and economic landscape changed profoundly. In the realm of heath care, the development of medical education, new medical technologies, and a new faith in science radically redefined childbirth and its practice. What had traditionally been a home-based, family-oriented process, assisted by women and midwives and “accomplished” by mothers, became a medicalized, hospital-based procedure, “accomplished” and directed by biomedical, predominantly male, practitioners, and, ultimately reconfigured, after the 1980s, into a technocratic model of childbirth, driven by doctors’ fears of malpractice suits and hospitals’ corporate concerns.Pushing in Silence charts the medicalization of childbirth in Puerto Rico and demonstrates how biomedicine is culturally constructed within regional and historical contexts. Prior to 1950, registered midwives on the island outnumbered registered doctors by two to one, and they attended well over half of all deliveries. Isabel M. Córdova traces how, over the next quarter-century, midwifery almost completely disappeared as state programs led by scientifically trained experts and organized by bureaucratic institutions restructured and formalized birthing practices. Only after cesarean rates skyrocketed in the 1980s and 1990s did midwifery make a modest return through the practices of five newly trained midwives. This history, which mirrors similar patterns in the United States and elsewhere, adds an important new chapter to the development of medicine and technology in Latin America.

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As Puerto Rico rapidly industrialized from the late 1940s until the 1970s, the social, political, and economic landscape changed profoundly. In the realm of heath care, the development of medical education, new medical technologies, and a new faith in science radically redefined childbirth and its practice. What had traditionally been a home-based, family-oriented process, assisted by women and midwives and “accomplished” by mothers, became a medicalized, hospital-based procedure, “accomplished” and directed by biomedical, predominantly male, practitioners, and, ultimately reconfigured, after the 1980s, into a technocratic model of childbirth, driven by doctors’ fears of malpractice suits and hospitals’ corporate concerns.Pushing in Silence charts the medicalization of childbirth in Puerto Rico and demonstrates how biomedicine is culturally constructed within regional and historical contexts. Prior to 1950, registered midwives on the island outnumbered registered doctors by two to one, and they attended well over half of all deliveries. Isabel M. Córdova traces how, over the next quarter-century, midwifery almost completely disappeared as state programs led by scientifically trained experts and organized by bureaucratic institutions restructured and formalized birthing practices. Only after cesarean rates skyrocketed in the 1980s and 1990s did midwifery make a modest return through the practices of five newly trained midwives. This history, which mirrors similar patterns in the United States and elsewhere, adds an important new chapter to the development of medicine and technology in Latin America.

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La tumultuosa, romántica y trágica historia de una mujer que luchó por liberarse de la jaula dorada en que la habían encerrado. Sissi, emperatriz rebelde es la segunda parte de Sissi, emperatriz accidental, las novelas sobre la emperatriz de Austria-Hungria que han enamorado a las lectoras de Estados Unidos, de la autorabest seller de The New York Times, Allison Pataki.Verano de 1868. Tras su apoyo a la causa húngara, que culminó con su coronación como reina de Hungría, la emperatriz Isabel de Austria -conocida por todos como Sissi- ha encontrado su propia voz, como mujer y como soberana del Imperio más antiguo y vasto de Europa.Instalada en el palacio de Gödöllo, a las afueras de Budapest, por primera vez puede disfrutar de uno de sus hijos, la pequeña Valeria, y recibir al conde Andrassy, el hombre del que está secretamente enamorada.Hasta que unas cartas que llegan de Viena la obligan a enfrentarse de nuevo a su eterno dil

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Encuadernación: RústicaSi bien la experiencia es madre de todo saber, existe una especie de conjuro social para retarnos a un estado de eterna juventud en lo puramente externo, en lo superficial. Desde ese despropósito tratamos de disimular, y lo que es peor, tratamos de negar la evidencia: nos hemos hecho mayores. Sin embargo, no se es viejo por la presencia de achaques (que a veces se dan también a edades muy tempranas), sino por una actitud derrotista ante la vida, carente de estímulos e ilusiones."El arte de envejecer" revela cómo es posible armonizar los rigores de una edad más o menos avanzada con un espíritu capaz de asumir nuevos retos, nuevas metas. El elixir para lograrlo reside en la capacidad que tengamos para inventar, para crear y forjar proyectos cada día, para darles cuerda y descubrir que nuestra disposición es la clave de todo.Isabel Agüera, autora de títulos tan celebrados como "Guía práctica para abuelos con nietos" o "Cómo educar desde la experiencia", n

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A veces, iluminando la verdad se puede recuperar la fe en el amor.Y como la luz de un faro, el amor siempre gana a la oscuridad.Después de sorprender por su sensibilidad y empatía en El vuelo de la mariposa, David Olivas vuelve a emocionar con su nueva novela, un canto al amor, la esperanza y la verdad.El azar lleva a Eva Ayala, una policía divorciada de carácter fuerte y decidido, a investigar el caso de un niño que desapareció la Noche de San Juan en el pueblo de Calella de Palafrugell, en la Costa Brava. Además, Eva arrastra el trauma de un pasado muy reciente y debe lidiar con su propia crisis personal. La complicidad que la unirá con Isabel, la madre del pequeño desaparecido, ayudará a Eva a afrontar su tragedia y recuperar la fe en sí misma. Pero solo conseguirá estar en paz si descubre la verdad detrás del caso, por mucho que este esconda un terrible secreto que amenazará con cambiar su vida para siempre.Mezclando elemento

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Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography—and with visibility more generally—in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent‘s contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories. Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson

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***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****A FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer'Invaluable' New Statesman'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The iAfter his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period of British history in living memory. Beginning with the controversial prorogation of Parliament in August and the historic landslide election victory later that year, Johnson was barely through the door of No. 10 when Britain was engulfed by a series of crises that will define its place in the world for decades to come. From the agonising upheaval of Brexit and the devastating Covid-19 pandemic to the nerve-shredding crisis in Afghanistan, the outbreak of war in Ukraine and the Partygate scandal, Johnson's government ultimately unravelled after just three years.This gripping behind-the-scenes work of contemporary history maps Johnson's time in power from start to finish and sheds new light on the most divisive Prime Minister to have led the United Kingdom since Thatcher. Based on more than 200 interviews with key aides, allies and insiders, Johnson at 10 gives the first full account of Johnson's premiership, the shockwaves of which are still felt today.***A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023***

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Se expone la evolución de la Escuela Industrial de Sevilla, cuyo origen se remonta a la época de Isabel II en 1850, a la Escuela Politécnica Superior de la Universidad de Sevilla; de sus circunstancias particulares y de sus notables esfuerzos académicos; de sus diferentes sedes; de mantener viva, en lo posible y en el tiempo, la memoria y la presencia de sus profesores, alumnos y personal; trata de reconocer, y de que se valore, la importantísima labor de formación de técnicos e ingenieros especialistas en el ámbito industrial que durante más de 160 años viene desempeñando. La historia centenaria de un centro universitario en el que la Diputación Provincial, el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, la Universidad de Sevilla tuvieron un cometido relevante, y en la que el Colegio Oficial de Peritos e Ingenieros Técnicos Industriales de Sevilla, desde su fundación, siempre participó intensamente.Durante parte de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y más de la mitad del siglo XX fue el único centro de re

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Dos hermanas buscan su propio camino hacia la supervivencia, el amor y la libertad en la Francia ocupada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Francia, 1939. En el tranquilo pueblo de Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac se despide de su marido, Antoine, que debe marchar al frente. Ella no cree que los nazis vayan a invadir Francia... pero lo hacen, con batallones de soldados marchando por las calles, con caravanas de camiones y tanques, con aviones que llenan los cielos y lanzan bombas sobre los inocentes. Cuando un capitán alemán requisa la casa de Vianne, ella y su hija deben convivir con el enemigo o arriesgarse a perderlo todo. Sin comida ni dinero ni esperanza, Vianne se ve obligada a tomar difíciles decisiones para mantener con vida a su familia.La hermana de Vianne, Isabelle, es una joven rebelde de dieciocho años que busca un propósito para su vida con toda la temeraria pasión de la juventud. Mientras miles de parisinos escapan de la ciudad ante la inminente llegada de lo

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