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Medical problems of the male genitals are extremely common and male health is assuming a new importance as men are increasingly recognising the need to look after their bodies. The rates of sexually transmitted infections are rising rapidly in many countries, including a dramatic increase in HIV infection and the recent resurgence of syphilis.Patients with genital disease often present to their general practitioner, sexual health clinics, dermatology departments and urology clinics, and this quick reference guide aids easy diagnosis.Fully illustrated, with colour photographs, this is the ideal volume for anyone dealing with men with genital rashes, skin lesions and sexually transmitted diseases. It covers, in detail, the broad area of male genital disease encompassing dermatology and genito-urinary medicine.

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If pictures can be sexist, can analysing sound reveal sexism, too? Where is the language to discuss sexism in music? L.J. Müller tackles these important questions in their 2018 German book titled Sound und Sexismus, which was awarded the IASPM 2019 book prize. Analysing the voices of Kurt Cobain, Kate Bush, Björk and others, Müller demonstrates how gender is performed vocally and interacts with gendered aspects of embodiment and affect. The book is written from a strongly positioned and personal feminist perspective and is appealing to readers from various backgrounds -- singers, producers, music lovers, as well as academics and anyone with an interest in feminist takes on pop culture.

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Published in collaboration with American Journal of Therapeutics, Therapeutic Advances in Hospital Medicine: Focus on the Older Adult is a concise, practical reference that helps you provide optimal care to geriatric patients in the hospital setting. Ideal for hospitalists, geriatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, this easy-to-read monograph presents expert advice on effectively managing common conditions seen in this growing patient population. Discusses common geriatric hospital presentations such as congestive heart failure, complicated urinary tract infections, symptomatic hyponatremia, orthostatic hypotension, delirium, chronic pain, and insomnia. Includes a section on medication management that addresses the issues of overdose and conflicting prescriptions that arise from multiple medical conditions. Highlights important therapeutic advances in caring for patients with anticoagulant-induced bleeding and diabetes. Covers improved interdisciplinary collaboration for perioperative care, nutritional support, and advanced care planning. Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

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A finales del siglo XVIII, los habitantes de Haití deciden no ceder ante el enemigo conquistador y usan sus conocimientos del vudú para que la muerte de su pueblo no haya sido en vano. Nace así un brutal ejército zombi comandado por poderosos hechiceros.Tres siglos después, los ejércitos del Vaticano son llamados a una misión secreta por el papa Fidel II. El capitán de dicha misión, Augusto Vidoq, comprenderá poco a poco las implicaciones de la encomienda del pontífice a medida que, en su viaje hacia Manu, una pequeña isla perdida en el océano, deba enfrentar los ataques de zombis y las artimañas de los temidos bokor, los brujos practicantes del vudú.La lucha entre las fuerzas del bien y del mal no está tan clara como Augusto pensaba. Y es que no solamente los humanos tomarán partido en la batalla: los más poderosos loas, venerados espíritus del vudú, habitan el mundo de los humanos, y en la isla de Manu se encuentra el corazón de su reino terrenal.

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The rapid growth and development of Android-based devices has resulted in a wealth of sensitive information on mobile devices that offer minimal malware protection. This has created an immediate need for security professionals that understand how to best approach the subject of Android malware threats and analysis.In Android Malware and Analysis, Ken Dunham, renowned global malware expert and author, teams up with international experts to document the best tools and tactics available for analyzing Android malware. The book covers both methods of malware analysis: dynamic and static.This tactical and practical book shows you how to use to use dynamic malware analysis to check the behavior of an application/malware as it has been executed in the system. It also describes how you can apply static analysis to break apart the application/malware using reverse engineering tools and techniques to recreate the actual code and algorithms used.The book presents the insights of experts in the field, who have already sized up the best tools, tactics, and procedures for recognizing and analyzing Android malware threats quickly and effectively. You also get access to an online library of tools that supplies what you will need to begin your own analysis of Android malware threats. Tools available on the book’s site include updated information, tutorials, code, scripts, and author assistance.This is not a book on Android OS, fuzz testing, or social engineering. Instead, it is about the best ways to analyze and tear apart Android malware threats. After reading the book, you will be able to immediately implement the tools and tactics covered to identify and analyze the latest evolution of Android threats.Updated information, tutorials, a private forum, code, scripts, tools, and author assistance are available at AndroidRisk.com for first-time owners of the book.

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Todo empezó el día en que Manu puso un anuncio en la calle para formar una orquesta.Primero llegó María Ratos que tocaba el violín siempre y cuando no le picara la axila. Después llegó Redondo que tocaba el triángulo. Y su jilguero mudo. Y los hermanos Perfumetti, con sus trompetas y su cabra... y un montón de personajes que deleitarán a los lectores con sus locas y musicales aventuras.

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Con la edición ilustrada, en este caso a cargo del extraordinario Fran Vegas, de El último argumento de los reyes completamos la trilogía de La Primera Ley, una obra apasionante de la fantasía que ahora está disponible en el texto revisado por Manu Viciano y acompañado de las ilustraciones de artistas como Alejandro Colucci (La voz de las espadas), David Benzal (Antes de que los cuelguen) y Fran Vegas (El último argumento de los reyes).

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Poverty, substandard medical care, social neglect or withdrawal, unhealthy lifestyle—these are just some of the contributors to the substantial morbidity of patients with severe mental illness. Medical deteriorations are often unexpected and severe, and particularly difficult to evaluate in the context of psychotic disorders. For this new edition, the Handbook of Medicine in Psychiatry has been updated and streamlined to provide a realistic approach to the medical issues encountered in psychiatric practice by helping clinicians answer whether their patient: • Is at risk of dying or becoming severely disabled.• Requires an immediate therapeutic intervention for a potentially life-threatening condition.• Needs to be transferred to an emergency medicine setting.• Requires urgent investigations.• Must have changes made in the current medication regimen. Clinical vignettes for each chapter illustrate the complexity of the presentation of abnormal vital signs and somatic disorders in psychiatric settings, including fever, hypertension, seizures, and nausea and vomiting. The guide also provides risk stratification for major complications—from abnormal thyroid function and acute kidney injury to myocarditis and venous thromboembolism—enabling readers to determine the need for a transfer of the patient to an emergency medicine setting. A brand-new section features thorough discussions of topics requiring interdisciplinary collaboration with geriatricians, neurologists, anesthesiologists, addiction medicine, and adolescent medicine specialists. Clinicians working in today's busy inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings will find in these pages a cognitive framework and knowledge base that will aid them in accurate decision making in the conditions of uncertainty created by potentially major medical deteriorations of the vulnerable populations under their care.

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Plants, being sessile and autotrophic in nature, must cope with challenging environmental aberrations and therefore have evolved various responsive or defensive mechanisms including stress sensing mechanisms, antioxidant system, signaling pathways, secondary metabolites biosynthesis, and other defensive pathways among which accumulation of osmolytes or osmo-protectants is an important phenomenon. Osmolytes with organic chemical nature termed as compatible solutes are highly soluble compounds with no net charge at physiological pH and nontoxic at higher concentrations to plant cells. Compatible solutes in plants involve compounds like proline, glycine betaine, polyamines, trehalose, raffinose family oligosaccharides, fructans, gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA), and sugar alcohols playing structural, physiological, biochemical, and signaling roles during normal plant growth and development. The current and sustaining problems of climate change and increasing world population has challenged global food security. To feed more than 9 billion, the estimated population by 2050, the yield of major crops needs to be increased 1.1–1.3% per year, which is mainly restricted by the yield ceiling. A major factor limiting the crop yield is the changing global environmental conditions which includes drought, salinity and extreme temperatures and are responsible for a reduction of crop yield in almost all the crop plants. This condition may worsen with a decrease in agricultural land or the loss of potential crop yields by 70%. Therefore, it is a challenging task for agricultural scientists to develop tolerant/resistant varieties against abiotic stresses. The development of stress tolerant plant varieties through conventional breeding is very slow due to complex multigene traits. Engineering compatible solutes biosynthesis by deciphering the mechanism behind the abiotic tolerance or accumulation in plants cell is a potential emerging strategy to mitigate adverse effects of abiotic stresses and increase global crop production. However, detailed information on compatible solutes, including their sensing/signaling, biosynthesis, regulatory components, underlying biochemical mechanisms, crosstalk with other signaling pathways, and transgenic development have not been compiled into a single resource. Our book intends to fill this unmet need, with insight from recent advances in compatible solutes research on agriculturally important crop plants.

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'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure novel' Aminatta Forna, Guardian'A perceptive, compassionate history of an enormously complex conflict' Irish Times'Sharp and fast-paced. Foden does a fine job of locating the reader in the maelstrom of this brutal period in Congo's past, taking us deep into the heart of a complex conflict' Observer1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without allegiance. And tonight they have a new recruit - Manu, a nineteen-year-old cowherd fleeing Congo's bloody war. Taken in by this band of unlikely brothers, Manu hopes to reinvent himself. But no matter how fast he flies, trouble always seems to follow closely behind...

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Un vídeo lleno de crueldad, un virus zombi contagioso, una moda mudanza, una tristeza de agujero negro, una huella naranja, un ataque lingüístico, un enfado de hermano mayor?Erika, Manu, Carol y Álex son los detectives de la Lupa. Sí, sí, esos, los que se enfrentan a un lector de diarios despiadado. Y cuál es su siguiente caso? Pues el malvado Zorro Fisgón!

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Quino y su primo Manu se van de campamento a los Picos de Europa. Allí harán nuevos amigos y juntos vivirán grandes aventuras, a pesar de Berta su terrible monitora.Asun Silva nació en Madrid, es abogada, pero, sobre todo, es escritora e ilustradora. Desde que era una niña siempre le gustó dibujar y contar historias a sus hermanos pequeños y, con el tiempo, a sus hijos y sobrinos. Le gustan las historias positivas que nos transmiten la ilusión de luchar por un mundo mejor.

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The Our World series continues to pack quite a bit of culture for the youngest readers into an easy-to-handle board book Booklist Hola! Come along for a day of exploring the sights and sounds of Colombia from the farm to the city. Join Bebé and Perrito as they snack on arepa con chocolate, visit the market, dance cumbia, and count whales in the waves. Colombian author Alexandra Alessandri and illustrator Manu Montoya draw on their personal experiences to create this vibrant board book as part of the Our World series for very young readers.

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Manucraft pasa a la acción para vivir la aventura más épica de su vida!Manucraft está en la bodega del barco cuando se empiezan a escuchar truenos, explosiones y gritos. Ha llegado el momento de la batalla: la bruja de las Cuatro Lunas ha llegado con su ejército de no muertos para invadir todos los mares y las tierras. Hay que huir!Cuando por fin logra estar a salvo, Manu se da cuenta de que algo va mal. Siente algo raro en su interior, y poco a poco la transformación comienza# la bruja le ha lanzado un hechizo! Lo que nadie podía prever es que, sin pretenderlo, el conjuro de magia provocaría LA AVENTURA MÁS ÉPICA DE MANUCRAFT.

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‘Savaş’ prose is an X-ray – an acute portrait of the tender frequencies that make a life.’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and rituals should they establish together? As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentary filmmaker, spends her days gathering footage from the neighbourhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs, anxious to know how people really live. ‘Forget about daily life,’ chides her grandmother on the phone, ‘no one cares about that.’ Meanwhile, life back in Asya and Manu's respective home countries continues – parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up – all just slightly beyond their reach. But the world they're making in their new cit

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With less than two percent of the total Maori population holding a doctorate, the need for Maori leadership planning in academia has never been greater. The purpose of this book is to present the experiences of new and emerging Maori academics as a guide for others aspiring to follow. In 2010 Professor Sir Mason Durie oversaw the creation of the Te Manu Ao Academy at Massey University, designed to advance Maori academic leadership. In partnership with Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, the course looked to develop participants' thinking around effective leadership principles, values and ideas. This book grew from that programme, in response to the need to create the space for new and emerging Maori academic leaders to speak openly about what leadership means both personally and professionally.

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When Queen Soraya dies, her husband and son are heartbroken. Prince Floris misses his mother...and his father. It's like I don't exist, Floris thinks. King Leon doesn't know how to handle his grief. Every kiss reminds him of his wife's cherry red lips. He has a magician put a curse on the kingdom's inhabitants so no one can use their lips to kiss. But that doesn't help him feel any better, and the people in his country get more and more angry. Can Floris find a solution? A moving fairy tale with touching illustrations about coping with loss and grief. For children aged 5 and up. With an afterword by Manu Keirse, professor and grief expert.

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Hay más cuernos en un buenas noches, que además de la historia de los últimos diez años contiene diez años de historias, reúne los textos breves más destacados de Manuel Jabois desde la publicación de Irse a Madrid (Pepitas, 2011). Un tiempo en el que Manu ha pasado, con la tranquilidad con la que se desenvuelve un gato, a convertirse en uno de los escritores más leídos en español.Autor pop como pocos, Jabois es capaz de invertir la perspectiva sobre la minucia más trascendental, de someter en su columna una noticia hasta sacarle luz, de encogerte el corazón cuando habla de sus amigos o matarte de risa con la anécdota más inquietante. Acercándose siempre a la realidad con una mirada limpia, en este gozoso volumen ?la certificación de que estamos ante una de las voces más propias y originales que ha dado nuestra literatura reciente? brilla en todo su esplendor.

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The contributors to Constructing the Pluriverse critique the hegemony of the postcolonial Western tradition and its claims to universality by offering a set of “pluriversal” approaches to understanding the coexisting epistemologies and practices of the different worlds and problems we inhabit and encounter. Moving beyond critiques of colonialism, the contributors rethink the relationship between knowledge and power, offering new perspectives on development, democracy, and ideology while providing diverse methodologies for non-Western thought and practice that range from feminist approaches to scientific research to ways of knowing expressed through West African oral traditions. In combination, these wide-ranging approaches and understandings form a new analytical toolbox for those seeking creative solutions for dismantling Westernization throughout the world. Contributors. Zaid Ahmad, Manuela Boatcă, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Raewyn Connell, Arturo Escobar, Sandra Harding, Ehsan Kashfi, Venu Mehta, Walter D. Mignolo, Ulrich Oslender, Issiaka Ouattara, Bernd Reiter, Manu Samnotra, Catherine E. Walsh, Aram Ziai

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The contributors to Constructing the Pluriverse critique the hegemony of the postcolonial Western tradition and its claims to universality by offering a set of “pluriversal” approaches to understanding the coexisting epistemologies and practices of the different worlds and problems we inhabit and encounter. Moving beyond critiques of colonialism, the contributors rethink the relationship between knowledge and power, offering new perspectives on development, democracy, and ideology while providing diverse methodologies for non-Western thought and practice that range from feminist approaches to scientific research to ways of knowing expressed through West African oral traditions. In combination, these wide-ranging approaches and understandings form a new analytical toolbox for those seeking creative solutions for dismantling Westernization throughout the world. Contributors. Zaid Ahmad, Manuela Boatcă, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Raewyn Connell, Arturo Escobar, Sandra Harding, Ehsan Kashfi, Venu Mehta, Walter D. Mignolo, Ulrich Oslender, Issiaka Ouattara, Bernd Reiter, Manu Samnotra, Catherine E. Walsh, Aram Ziai

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In Making Monsters Happy, Manu is a monster helper. Can he put a smile on the faces of Werewolf, Mummy and Monster Tomato? It''s a hard job, but someone''s got to do it.Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children''s reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.The series is written by top children''s authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

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Taibe Shala no es una víctima más de la última guerra en los Balcanes, es una mujer con el alma helada. Una intérprete de las Naciones Unidas y periodista. Una madre hecha de silencios. Una espía. Esta novela comienza con su extraña desaparición en Pristina, su ciudad natal, en 2019.Manu Pancorbo, alias Panco, un viejo amor de Taibe y reportero de guerra español, emprenderá su odisea particular para averiguar los motivos de la desaparición de la mujer que no ha conseguido olvidar, acompañado por Olga, fotógrafa y su leal compañera en conflictos armados.Las indagaciones de ambos en el nuevo Kosovo los llevarán a un mundo oscuro de venganzas, agencias de inteligencia, suspense y traiciones. Regresar a los Balcanes veinte años después abrirá en Panco heridas que creía ya cicatrizadas. Será buceando en los episodios de un pasado reciente cuando descubrirá quién es Taibe Shala y los secretos que forjaron a la enigmática mujer que lo marcó para siempre.

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Este libro se divide en dos partes bien diferenciadas pero complementarias. La primera, escrita por Gonzalo Vázquez, está vertebrada a través del análisis de una triple extranjería (etnia, religión y raza), a la que se suman la de nacionalidad y la política; una tesis que enriquece la investigación y multiplica su interés, explicando minuciosamente, con ejemplos concretos, el cambio de tendencia en el acceso de los jugadores, especialmente europeos, a la NBA.La aportación de Máximo José Tobías arranca en los ochenta y hace un recorrido por los extranjeros más representativos que han alcanzado el sueño de llegar a la liga profesional americana, profundizando en las dificultades de acceso a un mundo que se creía inexpugnable. Desde Sabonis a Yao Ming, pasando por Kukoc, Tony Parker, los Gasol o Manu Ginóbili, jugadores de los cinco continentes que han hecho el milagro de desembarcar, y triunfar, invadiendo la mejor liga de baloncesto del mundo.

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Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham's writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide Banham's habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham's early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured enthusiasm for the "clip-on" approach developed by Cedric Price and the Archigram group, his advocacy of "well- tempered environments" fostered by integrated mechanical and electrical systems, and his late- career assessments of High Tech practitioners such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano.Gannon devotes significant attention to Banham'slate work, including fresh archival materialsrelated to Making Architecture: The Paradoxes ofHigh Tech, the manu-script he left unfinished athis death in 1988. For the first time, readers will have access to Banham's previously unpublished draft introduction to that book.

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The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet'Superb. A suitably dark graphic treatment of McCarthy’s postapocalyptic masterpiece.' (Kirkus) The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most prescient novels. Dedicated to his son, John Francis McCarthy, McCarthy’s The Road is one of his most personal novels. Ranked 17th on The Guardian’s 100 Best Novels of the 21st century, it was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, and the James Tait Black Memorial

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Encuadernación: RústicaCuando el joven egipcio Weni Imhotep desembarca en Manu, una isla legendaria en medio del Océano Atlántico, sólo es capaz de imaginar maravillas acerca de la civilización que la habita. No puede adivinar entonces las tribulaciones que tendrá qeu afrontar durante su accidentada estancia. Las circusntancias harán que finalmente, por gratitud y por amistad, se alíe con un singular grupo de ladrones. Al llegar, le embarga el entusiasmo por conocer la culturan natia y disfrutar del esplendor y el bienestar que reinan en aquellas tierras, pero no tardará en vislumbrar su decadencia y en percatarse de que, como él mismo dice, "en todas partes crece la hierba de la controversia y medra la podredumbre". Incluso en la ATLÁNTIDA.José Ángel Muriel González nació en Sevilla en 1972. Estudió Matemáticas en la Universdiad de Sevilla y ha desarrollado su carrera profesional en el sector de la informática. Sin embargo, su vocación ha sido siempre escribir. Ha recogido algun

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El ganador del premio Alfaguara de novela y del Independent Foreign Fiction Prize vuelve con un thriller apasionante en la Lima de los años noventa.Por qué ahora? Después de tanto tiempo? Y por qué recordar todo el horror? Me he pasado la vida tratando de olvidarlo.Beto, Moco, Carlos y Manu compartieron la amistad y el despertar de la sexualidad en un colegio de jesuitas de Lima. Pero también algo más: durante su adolescencia lucharon por ocultar su debilidad ante los compañeros, marcar su territorio y huir de sus respectivas realidades familiares. Un cóctel que les llevó a decidir que solo ejerciendo el poder sobre los demás con una furia irracional podrían conseguir dejar una huella definitiva de su existencia.Desde la edad adulta y ya con una franqueza que solo puede dar el paso del tiempo, los cuatro rememoran un acontecimiento dramático vivido en esos años del que solo ellos saben la verdad. Qué ocurrió en realidad la noche en que decidieron rebelarse

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Amistad, amor y rock ?n? rollEl día en que le encargaron escribir una biografía del cantante de Thin Lizzy, banda sonora de su juventud, Marta supo que le iba a tocar enfrentarse a los rescoldos de un pasado que todavía humeaban. La vida de Phil Lynott iba a devolverla a aquella Marta de veinte años que estudiaba en la universidad, que vivía sola y que descubría con sus inseparables Happy y Pipe la Barcelona que escapó del sueño olímpico, la Barcelona más insumisa y radical, la de la violencia desatada en las calles y la que quedó devastada por la heroína y el sida. Pero la vida de Phil Lynott también iba a devolver a Marta a su historia con Manu, a sus días con él y a su muerte. Al parteaguas de su vida.Novela sobre las lealtades, las heridas, la memoria y el amor, No creas una palabra también es el relato de una ciudad silenciada por aquellos que se apropiaron del sueño olímpico.

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UNA MUJER DISPUESTA A TODO POR SALVAR LA VIDA DE NIÑOS JUDÍOSUna novela sobre la fuerza, la luz y la valentía en los peores momentosParís, 1942. Los nazis han ocupado la ciudad, pero Adele Basset está decidida a hacer todo lo posible para mantener a sus alumnos alejados de los peligros de la guerra. Ahora que los días son oscuros y la esperanza se ha desvanecido, las clases de baile se han convertido en la única forma de consuelo.Cuando los alemanes piden a Adele una lista con los nombres de sus alumnos de origen judío, la joven, que es incapaz de permanecer de brazos cruzados, se ve obligada a pasar a la acción. Los esconderá en el ático de la escuela y buscará una vía de escape, a sabiendas de que su vida también correrá peligro.Junto con Manu, su inseparable amigo, trazarán un plan que, poco a poco, irá tomando forma. Harán cualquier cosa por mantener a los niños a salvo, aunque eso suponga pagar el precio más alto.AMBIENTADA EN EL PARÍS OCUPADO POR LOS NA

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Marcelo Tetteh, a twenty-seven-year-old LGBTQ activist, is butchered to death one night after being lured on Grindr to a deserted building site. With high instances of homophobia in Ghana, Marcelo''s wealthy father doesn''t trust the Ghana Police Service to find the killer, so he goes to the Sowah Private Investigators Agency for help, partly because he still feels guilty for disowning his son when he came out. Emma is assigned the case, but quickly learns of a complication that prevents her from teaming up as usual with Jojo, her trusted colleague. Emma is the only one at work who knows Jojo is gay, and now he reveals something else: for some time, Jojo was dating Marcelo, the victim. Working with Manu, whom she''s never gotten along with at work, Emma goes undercover in several organizations including International Congress of Families, a powerful organization seeking to criminalize homosexuality in African countries. As Emma infiltrates the ICF, she uncovers a web of deceit and hypo

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Winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year Small, skinny and short-sighted . . . and dazzlingly talented. Jimmy Joseph loves rugby. All he dreams about is one day playing for his country in a World Cup, or winning a Test series for the Lions with a last-minute drop-goal. But when he kicks an up-and-under in the schoolyard and accidentally hits the new head of PE, Mr Kane, on the head, he makes a powerful enemy. Jimmy and his best friends – Manu, Scott and Kitty – try to prove their worth on the rugby field, but to no avail. Mr Kane has it out for them, and he’s being helped by team captain Mike Green, well known as the school bully. Can Jimmy and his friends overcome the tyranny of Mr Kane and help Mike see the error of his ways? Or will the combination of bullying, pressure and dirty tactics derail the friends’ rugby careers before they have even begun? An epic new rugby series begins here!

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Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S. settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the essays in this groundbreaking volume underscore the United States as a fluctuating constellation of geopolitical entities marked by overlapping and variable practices of colonization. By rethinking the intertwined experiences of Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chamorros, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Samoans, and others subjected to U.S. imperial rule, the contributors consider how the diversity of settler claims, territorial annexations, overseas occupations, and circuits of slavery and labor—along with their attendant forms of jurisprudence, racialization, and militarism—both facilitate and delimit the conditions of colonial dispossession. Drawing on the insights of critical indigenous and ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, critical geography, ethnography, and social history, this volume emphasizes the significance of U.S. colonialisms as a vital analytic framework for understanding how and why the United States is what it is today. Contributors. Julian Aguon, Joanne Barker, Berenika Byszewski, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Augusto Espiritu, Alyosha Goldstein, J. K?haulani Kauanui, Barbara Krauthamer, Lorena Oropeza, Vicente L. Rafael, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Lanny Thompson, Lisa Uperesa, Manu Vimalassery

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A new English translation of Raghuvaṃśa by the celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, who inspired such modern writers as Goethe and Tagore.For a millennium and a half, Kalidasa’s works—from The Cloud Messenger to The Recognition of Shakuntala—have delighted audiences in India and beyond. Although the renowned poet and dramatist inspired many literary works over the centuries, little is known about his life. He likely lived in central India in the late fourth or early fifth century.Kalidasa’s The Lineage of the Raghus, or Raghuvaṃśa, belongs to the Sanskrit literary tradition of mahākāvya, or court poem. It recounts the lives of ancient kings in the sūryavaṃśa, the Solar Dynasty who ruled from the capital city of Ayodhya. The poem describes, among other episodes, the quest for offspring by Dilipa, a descendant of the primordial king Manu; the world conquest of his son Raghu, which offers a panorama of the Indian subcontinent; the exploits of the famous Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu; and the debaucheries of Agnivarna, which jeopardize the future of the lineage.This volume presents a new edition of the Sanskrit text in the Devanagari script alongside a fresh English translation of this enduring epic.

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Over more than a decade, Dylan Moore has written with verve, insight and warm humour about places. Life’s journey takes the author from winding roads in rural Wales via bull runs in the Basque Country to the mangrove swamps of the Gulf of Guinea; from smalltown stations in Slovenia to the gates of Auschwitz; from bookshops in Venice and San Francisco to literary festivals on the Keralan coast; from football terraces in Cardiff to street protests in Mexico City. Along the way we meet refugees from Kurdistan and Venezuela, recovering addicts from Bosnia, writers, artists, flamenco dancers, activists, and desert tribesmen singing the songs of Manu Chao. Driving Home Both Ways is part essay collection, part travelogue through life – it offers fresh reflections on the changing nature of the local and the global, epiphanies of tribe and faith, and is underscored always by the enduring allure of elsewhere and the constant pull of home.

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'A captivating tale of love and loss and finding connection in the most unexpected places' Nikki Marmery, author of On Wilder Seas A lyrical and atmospheric homage to the strange and extraordinary, perfect for fans of Angela Carter and Erin Morgenstern. This is the story of The Greatest Funambulist Who Ever Lived...Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. Until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, our narrator, a tightrope artiste, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in the hope of finding the child... But will her story be enough to bring the pair together again? Beautiful and intoxicating, A Girl Made of Air brings the circus to life in all of its grime and glory; Marina, Manu, Serendipity Wilson, Fausto, Big Gen and Mouse will live long in the hearts of readers. As will this story of loss and reconciliation, of storytelling and truth.

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La autora de la aclamada Luna llena aborda las complejas relaciones entre dos hermanasAnzu acaba de modelar y hornear un delicado jarrón de arcilla. Está satisfecha, lo exhibirá en su próxima exposición, y, como su forma le recuerda la de una campanilla, lo llama Suzuran. Porque Anzu es una joven y reputada ceramista consagrada al mundo de la loza tradicional japonesa. Está divorciada, vive con su hijo preadolescente y, por más que le insistan sus amigas, no quiere volver a enamorarse. Su apacible vida cotidiana, en una ciudad junto al mar del Japón y al pie del monte Daisen, se ve alterada de pronto cuando su hermana mayor, Kyoko, anuncia que tiene novio y que va a casarse. Lo cierto es que la relación entre las dos hermanas no es muy estrecha; en realidad, sus personalidades son casi opuestas. Y Kyoko viajará en breve desde Tokio para presentar a su prometido a toda la familia.Sobre Luna llena:Una estupenda historia de amor de edad tardía. Manu

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