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Frances Kermeen bought the Myrtles Plantation of St Francisville LA with the dream of turning the historic site into a cozy inn. But she was shocked to discover that the property was haunted. Instead of losing customers, however, business exploded. Since then, Kermeen has travelled to over 150 haunted inns and hotels throughout the US and collected some of the creepiest ghost stories ever told - and they're all true. Readers will enter the Oatman Hotel, where the distinct outline of a man, once murdered in the room, remains imprinted on the sheets - no matter how many times the maids change them. And in the garden of the Myrtles Plantation, two little girls, who were poisoned there in 1824, are often seen playing. Packed with chilling stories, GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS is filled with practical information for anyone who dares to spend a night in a haunted house.

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Amy Chua''s debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco. Some say she haunts the Claremont still.The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three remaining

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This rich and beautiful guide from best-selling garden writer Ambra Edwards explores the most magnificent botanic havens from every continent across the world. There has never been a better time to celebrate botanic gardens. From Brooklyn and San Francisco, to Colombia and Brazil; Oxford and Kew, to Cape Town and Mauritius; Norway and Germany, to Sydney and Thailand, discover surprising diversity, superb vistas, and some of the most intriguing plants you can imagine. As centers for research, conservation, and education, these expansive collections are integral to our understanding of the true power of plants. But they also hold some of the most beautiful species on earth – including ferns, trees, cacti, orchids, and more – expertly cared for and presented as a feast for the senses, delighting thousands of visitors each year. Ambra Edwards introduces the gardens, bringing them t

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A long-time Austinite and journalist’s exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texas—charting the shifts within its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the challenges of gentrification—ultimately questioning what this city’s transformation signals for American urban identity.Austin isn’t what it used to be.This is a common sentiment amongst locals, offered with the same confused—and often disappointed—tone familiar to residents of Seattle, Portland, or San Francisco, where rapid growth and expansion have led to an urban identity crisis. Like those cities, Austin is known for its unique qualities: a thriving live music scene and housing affordability that historically made it a compelling home for creatives and self-described weirdos to roost. But now, as Big Tech infiltrates and climate change looms, Austin has become less familiar—and far less affordable.

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A mystery of obsession exploring the heights and depths within the world of architecture: Who would you kill to satisfy your creative ego? On a fog-enshrouded morning, a famous architect plunges to his death off a San Francisco cliff. Architects are being murdered as they compete for developer Magnar Jones’s prized commission: a new art museum at the notorious Alcatraz Island. Magnar’s devious plan? Turn his design competition into a spectator sport, where architects soon find themselves prisoners. Tormented architect, Parker A. Rand, confronts the police as the prime suspect, and Magnar’s alluring girlfriend, Celadonna Kimm, has her sights on this “friendly neighborhood” architect. With Parker’s ambition spiraling into darkness, can this beloved hero win the contest without losing his mind and soul? A tale of intrigue examines arrogance and redemption. Who will succeed—and at what cost?

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A richly illustrated exploration of the history, art, and design of printed LSD blotter tabs.Blotter is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper, the iconic drug delivery device that will perhaps forever be linked to underground psychedelic culture and contemporary street art. Created in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest archive of blotter art, Davis’s boldly illustrated exhibition treats his outsider subject with the serious, art-historical respect it deserves, while also staying true to the sense of play, irreverence, and adventure inherent in psychedelic exploration. Davis weaves together two main stories: first, the largely unknown history of blotter paper’s development in the 1960s and its later flowering in the 1970s and 1980s; and second, the story of how San Francisco artist, professor, and “freak” McClo

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San Francisco homicide detective Jane Candiotti never shies away from the risks of the job. Now she’s finally ready to gamble on her personal life, inviting her partner and boyfriend Kenny Marks to move in. But just when domestic bliss settles in, Skip Lacey, an ex-cop turned junkie, is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out with a spoon. He is the first—but he won’t be the last.Because after fifteen years on the inside maximum security, a bloodthirsty ex-con is finally free to exact his revenge on the city’s peacekeepers who’d kept him behind bars. One by one the mutilated bodies pile up, while the SFPD scrambles to unmask the killer who is decimating their ranks. For Jane and Kenny, the only thing worse than watching their friends and colleagues fall is the knowledge that, unless they can stop this unrelenting madman in time, any day could be their last.

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A valuable new companion journal to the bestselling Breathing Under Water! We are all addicted to something, according to Franciscan Father Richard Rohr. This Companion Journal can help you work your way through the wisdom of the twelve-step program as outlined in Breathing Under Water, so you may determine the source of, and solution for, your own addictions. Containing reflections, discussion questions and room to write notes, this Journal encourages you to explore the process in a way that’s relevant and meaningful for you. ‘A must-read for any person who recognises the need to go "inward" on their soul’s journey to question what their relationship is with God, themselves, and others.’ The Cord ‘Richard Rohr continues to guide us to greater wholeness . . . his books have helped countless souls, especially those who struggle with issues of brokenness and seek transformation.’ National Catholic Reporter

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Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! For more than 30 years, Designing Clinical Research has set the standard as the most practical, authoritative guide for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other practitioners involved in all forms of clinical and public health research. Using a reader-friendly writing style, Drs. Warren S. Browner, Thomas B. Newman, Steven R. Cummings, Deborah G. Grady, Alison J. Huang, Alka M. Kanaya, and Mark J. Pletcher, all of the University of California, San Francisco, provide up-to-date, commonsense approaches to the challenging judgments involved in designing, funding, and implementing a study. This state-of-the-art fifth edition features new figures, tables, and design, as well as new editors, new content, and extensively updated references to keep you current. Covers clinical research in its many forms, including clinical trials, observational studies, translational science, and patient-oriented research. Presents epidemiologic terms and principles and advanced conceptual material in a practical and reader-friendly manner. Discusses key changes in the field, including confounding and directed acyclic graphs, surrogate outcomes and biomarkers, instrumental variables and Mendelian randomization, regression discontinuity designs, alternative data sources, AI and machine learning, pilot studies, as well as an update on P values and Bayesian analysis.. Covers modifications of classic randomized trials, such as pre/post, interrupted time series, difference-in-differences, stepped wedge and cluster randomized designs, as well as randomized trials in health systems. Adds new chapters on qualitative approaches to clinical research and on community-engaged research 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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From the Archaeological Record to Virtual Reconstruction' describes the use of New Information Technologies (IT) for the analyses and interpretation of archaeological record of the San Chuis Hillfort (San Martín de Beduledo, Allande, Asturias, Spain). The data gathered during the eight excavation campaigns conducted by Francisco Jordá Cerdá in the sixties and eighties of the 20th century was mechanised and digitalised. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) of the hillfort was performed, followed by a creation of spatial analysis through the establishment of relations between the elements of the archaeological record. At the end, having studied and investigated the site’s urban evolution throughout its occupation period (890 cal. BP – 530 cal. AD), a virtual reconstruction of the hillfort in its different settlement phases, presenting various evolution scenarios, is presented. In the process a work methodology and a set of computer applications adapted for each step of this process have been estableshed, such as insertion of data records in a database, planimetry drawings, hillfort virtualization, etc.

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Follow Tali in this heartening tale where children are encouraged to face their fears and embrace bravery with wide-spread wings.Validates children’s fears before gently encouraging them to face them. —Foreword Reviews This book is a reminder that if we pay attention, we can find something or someone to teach us how we can step out of the fear and into power. —Dr. Rayna Savrosa, L.Ac, DACM Moonshadow Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine, San Francisco, CA Tali longs to play like the other kids as they tumble and swing at the park, the gymnastics studio, and the aikido dojo, but her fears hold her back. In her dreams, she can soar, but when she wakes up in the morning, she’s still scared. Until one night, a surprise guest flies into her dreams and teaches her how to make them a reality. Filled with beautiful, evocative illustrations and honest prose, Tali and the Toucan is for any child (or parent) who

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In this candid and moving memoir, John W. Evans articulates the complicated joys of falling in love again as a young widower. Though heartbroken after his wife’s violent death, Evans realizes that he cannot remain inconsolable and adrift, living with his in-laws in Indiana. Motivated by a small red X on a map, Evans musters the courage for a cross-country trip. From the Badlands to Yellowstone to the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, Evans’s hope and determination propel him even as he contemplates his vulnerability and the legacy of a terrible tragedy.Should I Still Wish chronicles Evans’s efforts to leave an intense year of grief behind, to make peace with the natural world again, and to reconnect with a woman who promises, like San Francisco itself, a life of abundance and charm. With unflinching honesty Evans plumbs the uncertainties, doubts, and contradictions of a paradoxical experience in this love story, celebration of fatherhood, meditation on the afterlife of grief and resilience, and, ultimately, showcase for life’s many profound incongruities.

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In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s long-term survival was desired, the overarching goal was to cleanse the unborn child of original sin and ensure its place in heaven. Baptism Through Incision presents Arrese’s complete treatise—translated here into English for the first time—with a critical introduction and excerpts from related primary source texts.Inspired by priests’ writings published in Spain and Sicily beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, Arrese and writers like him in Peru, Mexico, Alta California, Guatemala, and the Philippines penned local medico-religious manuals and guides for performing the operation and baptism. Comparing these texts to one another and placing them in dialogue with archival cases and print culture references, this book traces the genealogy of the postmortem cesarean operation throughout the Spanish Empire and reconstructs the transatlantic circulation of obstetrical and scientific knowledge around childbirth and reproduction. In doing so, it shows that knowledge about cesarean operations and fetal baptism intersected with local beliefs and quickly became part of the new ideas and scientific-medical advancements circulating broadly among transatlantic Enlightenment cultures.A valuable resource for scholars and students of colonial Latin American history, the history of medicine, and the history of women, reproduction, and childbirth, Baptism Through Incision includes translated excerpts of works by Spanish surgeon Jaime Alcalá y Martínez, Mexican physician Ignacio Segura, and Peruvian friar Francisco González Laguna, as well as late colonial Guatemalan instructions, and newspaper articles published in the Gazeta de México, the Gazeta de Guatemala, and the Mercurio Peruano.

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One of world cinema’s most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and—above all—entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst onto the international film scene in the early 1980s. All about Almodóvar offers new perspectives on the filmmaker’s artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of the filmmaker’s oeuvre and in-depth analyses of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: Almodóvar’s nuanced use of television and music in his films; his reworkings of traditional film genres such as comedy, horror, and film noir; his penchant for melodrama and its relationship to melancholy, violence, and coincidence; his intricate questioning of sexual and national identities; and his increasingly sophisticated inquiries into visuality and its limits. Closing with Almodóvar’s own diary account of the making of Volver and featuring never-before-seen photographs from El Deseo studio, All about Almodóvar both reflects and illuminates its subject’s dazzling eclecticism.Contributors: Mark Allinson, U of Leicester; Pedro Almodóvar; Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College; Leo Bersani, UC Berkeley; Marvin D’Lugo, Clark U; Ulysse Dutoit, UC Berkeley; Peter William Evans, Queen Mary U of London; Víctor Fuentes, UC Santa Barbara; Marsha Kinder, USC; Steven Marsh, U of Illinois, Chicago; Andy Medhurst, U of Sussex; Ignacio Olivia, Universidad Castilla–La Mancha, Cuenca; Paul Julian Smith, U of Cambridge; Kathleen M. Vernon, SUNY Stony Brook; Linda Williams, UC Berkeley; Francisco A. Zurián, U Carlos III, Madrid.

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El acompañamiento espiritual y el discernimiento han jugado un papel enorme en la pedagogía y en la historia de la Familia Salesiana de Don Bosco. San Francisco de Sales y Don Bosco fueron grandes directores espirituales en su tiempo. Su experiencia en este ámbito es evidente respecto a los que guiaron. También es evidente en su práctica y pensamiento.El resultado global de esta publicación es el fruto de cuatro Seminarios de estudio que se han desarrollado de 2010 a 2014: una respuesta a la necesidad de profundizar y relanzar el servicio de acompañamiento espiritual como un componente esencial de Pastoral Juvenil salesiana. Los temas ofrecen un espacio de reflexión sobre los desafíos actuales, con un enfoque histórico, pedagógico y espiritual.A través de las diversas relaciones, se han tratado muchas preguntas que pueden ayudar en el servicio del acompañamiento espiritual y vocacional salesiano, con especial atención al acompañamiento de los jóvenes.Finalmente, en estas pá

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Este volumen se abre con los sínodos de Ager, una abadía situada en la provincia de Lérida. Es la segunda vez que en el Synodicon hispanum se editan los sínodos de una abadía. Otra contribución de este volumen a la bibliofilia es el sínodo de Urgell que está dedicado todo él a la edición de un breviario para los sacerdotes de la diócesis de Urgell. Se encuentran en este volumen los sínodos de Segorbe-Albarracín de 1479 y de 1485, de los que nada menos que Hain y Haebler dijeron que se habían editado en Segorbe y en Jerez en 1479 y 1485. Por desgracia no se conocen ejemplares de estas ediciones. Son también una novedad, aunque en este caso no de la bibliofilia, los sínodos que Francisco Clemente Pérez Capera, obispo de Barcelona, celebró en 1413 y 1421, que no se mencionaban hasta ahora en las listas de sínodos de Barcelona.

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio “Delminio” Camillo (1480–1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514–1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression.

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Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. With farsighted investors and shrewd management, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway grew from Holliday’s idea into a model of the modern, rapid, and efficient railroad. There were many growing pains early on, including rustlers, thieves, and desperadoes as well as the nineteenth century’s economic and climatic hardships. The railroad eventually extended from Chicago to San Francisco, with substantial holdings in oil fields, timber land, uranium mines, pipelines, and real estate. This is the first comprehensive history of the iconic Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, from its birth in 1859 to its termination in 1996. This volume discusses the construction and operation of the railway, the strategies of its leaders, the evolution of its locomotive fleet, and its famed passenger service with partner Fred Harvey. The vast changes within the nation’s railway system led to a merger with the Burlington Northern and the creation of the BNSF Railway. An iconic railroad, the Santa Fe at its peak operated thirteen thousand miles of routes and served the southwestern region of the nation with the corporate slogan “Santa Fe All the Way.” This new edition covers almost twenty-five more years of history, including the merger of the Santa Fe and Burlington Northern railroads and new material on labor, minorities, and women on the carrier along with new and updated maps and photographs.

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Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Indeed, innovation became the rule, as artists developed their own unique-and often experimental-processes. The exploration of black media in drawing is inextricably bound up with the exploration of black in prints, and this volume presents an integrated study that rises above specialization in one over the other. This richly illustrated catalogue brings together such diverse artists as Francisco de Goya, Maxime Lalanne, Gustave Courbet, Odilon Redon, and Georges Seurat and explores their inventive works on paper. Sidelining labels like "conservative" or "avant-garde," the essays in this book employ all the tools that art history and modern conservation have given us, inviting the reader to look more broadly at the artists' methods and materials. This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 9 to May 15, 2016.

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Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Honorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and how—despite this risk—many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights. Drawing on more than five years of research, including interviews with undocumented youth organizers, Escudero focuses on the movement’s epicenters—San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City—to explain the impressive political success of the undocumented immigrant community. He shows how their identities as undocumented immigrants, but also as queer individuals, people of color, and women, connect their efforts to broader social justice struggles today. A timely, worthwhile read, Organizing While Undocumented gives us a look at inspiring triumphs, as well as the inevitable perils, of political activism in precarious times.

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Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Honorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and how—despite this risk—many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights. Drawing on more than five years of research, including interviews with undocumented youth organizers, Escudero focuses on the movement’s epicenters—San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City—to explain the impressive political success of the undocumented immigrant community. He shows how their identities as undocumented immigrants, but also as queer individuals, people of color, and women, connect their efforts to broader social justice struggles today. A timely, worthwhile read, Organizing While Undocumented gives us a look at inspiring triumphs, as well as the inevitable perils, of political activism in precarious times.

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An exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as “a seduction by way of small astonishments”Nate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. The poems move from a San Francisco tech bar and a band of Pokémon Go players to the Shakers and St. Augustine, as they explore the push-pull between community and solitude, and past and present. Hosts and Guests gathers an impressive range: critiques of the “immiserated quiet” of modern life, love poems and poems of new fatherhood, and studies of a restless, nimble faith. At a time when the meanings of hospitality and estrangement have assumed a new urgency, Klug takes up these themes in chiseled, musical lines that blend close observation of the natural world, social commentary, and spiritual questioning. As Booklist has observed of his work, “The visual is rendered sonically, so perfectly one wants to involve the rest of the senses, to speak the lines, to taste the syllables.”

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An essential visual overview for students and readers with an interest in Sienese art, history and Renaissance culture. For two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant succession of painters who created some of the greatest masterpieces of all time; an imagery unmatched in colouristic intensity and spatial experimentation. This overview, now revised and updated, is an essential introduction to this extraordinary artistic tradition. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it moves from the 14th-century Siena of Duccio, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers, to the 15th-century city of Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo. Perceptive visual analysis of the distinctive styles and conventions of Sienese painting is combined with clear explanations of traditional techniques such as fresco and tempera. The works are also placed in their social and religious context through discussion of Siena’s system of government, its civic consciousness, the importance of the Franciscan movement and the cults of local saints. An accomplished writer as well as a practising artist, Timothy Hyman brings breadth of knowledge and experience to this extensively illustrated book, brilliantly conveying his personal enthusiasm for Sienese art.

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Celebrated the world over for his famous children's books, master illustrator and storyteller M. Sasek captured the essence of the world's major cities and brought them to life for an entire generation of young readers. Now comes a new edition from the master. Culled from the pages of M. Sasek's renowned series of illustrated children's books, This is America is a witty, urbane, and child-friendly introduction to some of the United States' most popular destinations. From east to west, this is an inspirational travelogue that introduces readers to the art, architecture, music, food, and traditions of multiple cities and states. From a rodeo in Texas to a subway car in New York City, with stops in Cape Canaveral and the Golden Gate Bridge, This is America is the perfect book for international travelers shopping for a gift to take home, and is also perfect for those looking for a nostalgic view on the history of the United States. This anthology includes excerpts from This is New York, This is Texas, This is San Francisco, This is Washington, D.C., and This is the Way to the Moon.

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The Zoological Guide to Crustacea opens by providing an update on the cave crustacean decapods from Mexico, because in the last thirty years several species have been described. Mexico has diverse cave environments according to cave origin, such as: karstic caves, volcano caves with freshwater habitats and anchialine caves with marine and brackish habitats. The following study focuses on a total of 2,700 Artemia franciscana collected at the Al Wathba Reserve between December 2017 and May 2018, which were examined for the presence of larval helminths by direct microscopy of glycerin mounted specimens. Of these, 341 (= 12.6%) specimens contained different species of the Hymenopepididae and Progynotaeniidae families. The penultimate study investigates whether the non-marine ostracod Heterocypris incongruens can detect and react to chemical compounds derived from a predator and from injured conspecifics. The closing study demonstrates the diversity of larval phases and their importance to lobster populations and fisheries, and provides a summary of larval developmental patterns and behaviors and their potential impacts on larval dispersal and lobster demographic connectivity.

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Fred Bower had a full adventurous life and wrote about it in his own vivid and racy idiom. He was born in Boston, Mass. in 1871. Brought up in Liverpool, he recalls a city of two camps, when it was a common sight to see gory battles on St Patrick's day and July 12th. His travels and his work took him to Donara, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guelph, Ithaca, London, Manchester, New York, Peapack (NJ), Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Titusville, Trenton, West Newton, not to mention time spent tramp steaming all the way to Australia and back. He combined the stonemason's craft with diverse activities: prospecting for gold, and working for the Labour Movement. His life the labour movement is interwoven with tales of Francisco Ferrer, Victor Grayson, Jim Larkin, Tom Mann, Philip Snowden and others. He tells you of that dreadful 'bloody Sunday' of 1911 in Liverpool and of his notorious DON'T SHOOT leaflet, inciting soldiers not to kill strikers. He left a secret message to posterity buried in the foundations of Liverpool Cathedral- a story that resurfaces in Liverpool papers. An autobiography of a Socialist, Syndicalist, Tramp, and Traveller. He died in 1942.

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Stephen Zeifman, artist and teacher of studio art and art history, and the founder of Mill Road Studio, discusses his unique approach to art. He talks about being an artist, and about the importance of having a focus driven not by commerce but rather by the challenges of engaging in a creative practice.The book takes the reader on a personal tour, like moving through a grand exhibition, each chapter a new hall of exploration and discovery. But this is not yet another dry academic explanation of art, instead Zeifman uses his museum visits in Toronto, San Francisco and London as catalysts for discussion and interpretation. By way of theory, history and anecdotes, he relates his experiences, describing the works being seen and his responses to them.He also outlines the steps a person might take if they wish to learn how to draw, as a furthering of intimately participating in the fine arts.Ultimately, Zeifman’s insights envelop the reader in the variety and texture, the exuberance and joy, and the constant challenges of living with one’s eyes wide open to the way of art.

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After years on the road performing at sold-out venues, Tyson Motsenbocker returned home to the impending death of his 57-year-old hero and mother. He begged God to heal her, but she died anyway. When they buried her body, Tyson also buried the childhood version of his faith.Shortly before her death, however, Tyson became intrigued by the complicated legacy of Father Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan monk and canonized saint who dedicated his life to the idea that tragedy and suffering are portals to renewal. Father Serra built Missions up and down the California coast, spreading Christianity, as well as enabling and aiding in the oppression and colonization of the native Californians. Tyson discovered Serra's "El Camino Real," a 600-mile pilgrimage route up the California coast that had been largely forgotten for more than 200 years.Two days after they buried his mother, Tyson set out on a pilgrimage of sorts, intending to walk from San Diego to San Francisco along the El Camino, following in the footsteps of the saint. Tyson's journey takes him down smog-choked highways, across fog-laden beaches, past multi-million-dollar coastal estates, and along the towering cliffs of Big Sur. And as he walks, Tyson also wrestles with his faith, questioning the pat answers and easy prayers he once readily accepted, trying to understand how hope and tragedy can all be wrapped up in the same God. The people he meets along the way challenge his understanding of the meaning of security, of what it means to live a meaningful life, and of the legacies we all leave behind.Where the Waves Turn Back is both part journal and part spiritual memoir, and ultimately, a thrilling and deeply satisfying read that asks questions that will resonate with readers seeking meaning in an utterly disorienting age.

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En este libro se recogen las aportaciones de un grupo de especialistas de reconocido prestigio, coordinados por el Dr. Alberto Hernando García-Cervigón, que han colaborado en el desarrollo del proyecto de investigación Nuevos discursos en el español contemporáneo. Francisco M. Carriscondo Esquivel trata la reconstrucción del ideario lingüístico de El Roto; Víctor Guijarro Mora y Alberto Hernando García-Cervigón, el discurso publicitario, imaginario educativo y científico, y sociedad de consumo en España (1924-1936); María Isabel Hernández Toribio y Luis Deltell Escolar, el análisis pragmático de los museos y la comunicación online (Twitter); Alberto Hernando García-Cervigón, el discurso publicitario de productos tecnológicos en la Segunda República Española; Xavier Laborda Gil, la inventiva retórica y el carisma oratorio en cartas de Juan Carlos I a su hijo; Fernando Martínez de Carnero, las formas comunicativas y discursivas en la web social y semántica; Javier Medina López, la imagen

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Un recorrido largo y detallado por California, uno de los estados más completos de los Estados Unidos: con playas asombrosas, montañas, lagos, pistas de esquí, antiguas misiones españolas y desiertos fantasmagóricos. Donde también podemos encontrar los parques nacionales más bonitos de todo el país, con los árboles más grandes del mundo, así como centenares de encantadores pueblos con vistas al océano y las ciudades más modernas, como Los Ángeles es una de las megápolis del siglo XXI o San Francisco, quizá la ciudad más agradable de todo Estados Unidos. Nada mejor que Las Vegas para el final, a una hora de avión o a unas cinco o seis horas de camino atravesando el desierto, la capital mundial del entretenimiento nunca deja a nadie indiferente.

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Hay muchos Oportos en Oporto y esta guía ha de ser una ayuda para su descubrimiento: de ese Oporto deliciosamente atrasado que vio Mayol, el personaje de Vila-Matas, pero también del Oporto monumental reflejado en la talla dorada de la iglesia de San Francisco o en las fachadas de granito de algunos edificios. Después, el Oporto donde se come bien y se bebe mejor, y el Oporto de los jardines románticos, de las plazas amplias y recientemente remodeladas, y también del Oporto contemporáneo del Museu de Serralves y del metro más moderno de Europa, y el Oporto de Alvaro Siza Vieira y Souto Moura, y el Oporto cosmopolita de la Casa da Música diseñada por Rem Koolhaas. Y así sucesivamente, un Oporto detrás del otro ?dependiendo del tiempo que se tenga para descubrir la ciudad y sumergirse en ella con mayor o menor profundidad?.

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Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she is in good health and makes the most of it, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche, chatting to strangers, and recollecting characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story, moving seamlessly between past and present, we meet Dawud, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper, Sage, a feisty, homeless Grateful Dead devotee, and Antonio, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. A subtle story about ageing, friendship and loss, this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman.

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The Pre-Columbian Maya were organized into a series of independent kingdoms or polities rather than unified into a single state. The vast majority of studies of Maya states focus on the apogee of their development in the classic period, ca. 250-850 C.E. As a result, Maya states are defined according to the specific political structures that characterized classic period lowland Maya society. The Origins of Maya States is the first study in over 30 years to examine the origins and development of these states specifically during the preceding preclassic period, ca. 1000 B.C.E. to 250 C.E. Attempts to understand the origins of Maya states cannot escape the limitations of archaeological data, and this is complicated by both the variability of Maya states in time and space and the interplay between internal development and external impacts. To mitigate these factors, editors Loa P. Traxler and Robert J. Sharer assemble a collection of essays that combines an examination of topical issues with regional perspectives from both the Maya area and neighboring Mesoamerican regions to highlight the role of interregional interaction in the evolution of Maya states. Topics covered include material signatures for the development of Maya states, evaluations of extant models for the emergence of Maya states, and advancement of new models based on recent archaeological data. Contributors address the development of complexity during the preclassic era within the Maya regions of the Pacific coast, highlands, and lowlands and explore preclassic economic, social, political, and ideological systems that provide a developmental context for the origins of Maya states. Contributors: Marcello A. Canuto, John E. Clark, Ann Cyphers, Francisco Estrada-Belli, David C. Grove, Norman Hammond, Richard D. Hansen, Eleanor King, Michael Love, Simon Martin, Astrid Runggaldier, Robert Sharer, Loa Traxler.

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Four people's lives intertwine and collide in this early novel from one of the SF greatsSan Francisco in the 1950s, a turning point in American culture: the rise of rock and roll and the teenage lifestyle. Jim Briskin is a disc jockey on radio KOIF. He's still in love with his ex-wife, Pat - even though she's about to marry someone else at the station - and she's vacillating between them. But when he takes her to visit the desperate household of two of his teenage fans, she seduces the boy into abandoning his pregnant wife - who then claims Jim as her protector and support.And all around them the cultural upheaval of postwar American society is manifest, by teenage outcasts who have a remote-controlled Nazi automobile they use to bump into the rich kids' cars; by Thisbe Holt, the dancer who performs for conventioneers by stuffing herself inside a clear plastic bubble; by blaring used-car ads and the conflict between generations. Dick gives us a vision of redemption tempered with layered ironies and a lot of real humour.

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The safe and continued functioning of critical infrastructures—such as electricity, natural gas, transportation, and water—is a social imperative. Yet the complex connections between these systems render them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures, we do not fully understand the risks involved in their failure. Emery Roe and Paul R. Schulman argue that designs, policies, and laws often overlook the knowledge and experiences of those who manage these systems on the ground—reliability professionals who have vital insights that would be invaluable to planning. To combat this major blind spot, the athors construct a new theoretical perspective that reveals how to make sense of complex interconnected networks and improve reliability through management, regulation, and political leadership. To illustrate their approach in action, they present a multi-year case study of one of the world's most important "infrastructure crossroads," the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Reliability and Risk advances our understanding of what it takes to ensure the dependability of the intricate—and sometimes hazardous—systems on which we rely every day.

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Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are internationally renowned moving image artists and designers who for over thirty years have been in the avant-garde of stop-motion puppet animation. Creating work in the tradition of Czech surrealists Jan Švankmajer and Jiri Trnka, Russian animator Yuri Norstein and Polish animator Walerian Borowczyk, they practice a design aesthetic influenced by Polish graphic artists such as Jan Lenica, Roman Cieslewicz, Franciszek Starowieyski and Henryk Tomaszewski. Since 1971, they have produced over forty-five moving images, including features, music videos, dance films, documentaries and signature personal works, and have designed sets and projections for opera, drama and concert performances. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art – the first presentation of the Quay Brothers work in all their fields of creative activity – this richly illustrated publication presents their betterknown films as well as previously unseen moving image works and a little-known body of works on paper, including graphic design, drawings, typography and notebooks for films.

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Many people crave a creative outlet, but more often than not, don't know where to start. In Black, Valentina Zucchi and Francesca Zoboli invite you to nurture your creativity and build your confidence by taking inspiration from works of art that celebrate the most enigmatic colour of all, black.Black is a special colour: rich, glossy and elegant on the one hand; strict, sensible and solemn on the other. Throughout the book, Valentina and Francesca provide creative and fun prompts – many based on famous works of art – which will encourage you to draw or paint on the pages using various techniques. Packed with inspiration from the world's most celebrated artists, including Francisco Goya, Jackson Pollock, Rembrandt and more, you will discover the many meanings of black and just some of the ways it can be used to express your creative passion.Black is a short course in unlocking your creative self – perfect for budding artists of all ages who are keen to try out different techniques and materials and begin their artistic journey.

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A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation - partly to preserve his own memories of those years. The Best Minds of My Generation presents the best of these candid, intimate and illuminating lectures, revealing Kerouac, Burroughs and the rest of the Beats as Ginsberg knew them: friends, confidantes, literary mentors and fellow visionaries in a group who started a revolution.'Marvellous ... spellbinding ... preserving intact the story of the literary movement Ginsberg led, promoted and never ceased to embody' The New York Times Book Review'An awesome exhaustive feat ... fascinatingly readable' Sunday Times'Astonishingly intimate ... Full of penetrating insight and fascinating literary gossip, the book is a major contribution to the core Beat canon ... situates the Beats in cultural history in a way that no other exploration of their work does' San Francisco Chronicle

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Pedro Sevilla nació en Arcos de la Frontera (Cádiz) en 1959. En 1989 la colección de cuadernos La Poesía más joven, dirigida por el poeta Francisco Bejarano, publicó sus primeros poemas. Al poco tiempo salió publicado Y era la lluvia, amor (Barro, 1990), así como un estudio-antología de la obra del poeta arcense Julio Mariscal Montes titulado Diez de Julio (Ayuntamiento de Arcos de la Frontera, 1990). Desde entonces han ido apareciendo otros poemarios como Septiembre negro (Renacimiento, 1992) y Sendero Luminoso (Cuadernos de la Moderna, 1994), este último dentro de la colección dirigida por el poeta José Mateos. En 1995 obtiene un accésit del Premio Internacional de Poesía Rafael Alberti con el libro La luz con el tiempo dentro, que viene publicado en el siguiente año bajo este mismo sello editorial. Pedro Sevilla además ha colaborado en numerosas revistas literarias y ha sido columnista de prensa. También ha publicado las novelas Extensión 114 y 1977, aparecidas en Quorum Libros Edit

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Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers has set the standard for fine woodworking and meticulously hand-crafted furniture for more than forty years. In this modern age of inexpensive mass production, Moser furniture stands out because every piece is hand-made by a master craftsman (or woman). Generally minimalist in style, the pieces are highly sophisticated in their construction. And though Moser has been influenced by Shaker and Japanese furniture makers, the elegant and graceful lines give each piece an aesthetic all its own. In Legacy in Wood, Thomas Moser reflects on his long career and offers his thoughts on creativity, inspiration, and his design aesthetic. It gives an intimate look into the life and work of a pioneering craftsman, whose example shows that you can build a career working with your hands the old-fashioned way. Thos. Moser remains an iconic Maine company and holds to its traditional Yankee origins. The shop remains a family-run and oriented company. All of Moser’s sons have worked in the shop, and all but one are still there as master craftsmen and designers. The other employees have been with the company an average of 20 years—a clear reflection of the value Moser puts on his workers and the respect and love for their work they give in return. Yet the timeless appeal of the furniture has given Moser nationwide recognition and allowed the company to open galleries and show rooms in Boston, Greenwich, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

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PRÁCTICAS DE DRAMATIZACIÓN es, sin duda, el libro de cabecera en cualquier biblioteca, bibliografía, maleta de viaje o mesilla de noche de toda persona, colectivo o institución que tenga algo que ver con la expresión, con la educación y con el teatro. Una base teórica sólida y experimentada en la praxis diaria de sus autores y los colectivos a los que pertenecen. Una sistemática clara, estructurada y definida para su uso bien por personas experimentadas, bien por noveles que se acercan al mundo de la expresión y su educación por primera vez. Una profusión de ejercicios, unos clásicos, otros novedosos, otros creados para la ocasión, perfectamente secuenciados para dar seguridad a quien utilice esta herramienta que, como los propios autores dicen, está 'por amar'. Tomás Motos y Francisco Tejedo han impartido juntos numerosos cursos de Postgrado y de formación del profesorado, elaborado cuantioso material didáctico, dedicado a la Dramatización, Teatro en Educación y Didáctica (Dinamizar t

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Najmudin Kubra, maestro sufí del siglo XII nacido en Uzbekistán y fundador de la orden Kubrawiya o de los Hermanos Mayores, reunió, bajo el nombre "Manifestaciones de la belleza y aromas de la Majestad" diversos escritos místicos dirigidos al viajero que recorre el camino espiritual: sus etapas, los elementos sensibles y característicos que va a encontrar, algunas experiencias contemplativas y las explicaciones, siempre singulares, de sus significados."Las palabras están en el corazónLa lengua es, solamente, el instrumentocon el que aquél atestigua".Najmudin Kubra"Una de las principales características de este gran maestro sufí es que tenía una misteriosa influencia sobre los animales.Los grabados le representan rodeado de pájaros. Domesticó a un perro salvaje sólo con la mirada, del mismo modo que san Francisco de Asís se dice que domó a un lobo en un conocido relato.Los milagros de Najmudin eran muy famosos en todo el Oriente, sesenta años antes del nacimiento

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San Pablo de la Cruz (1694-1775) es considerado como el más grande místico italiano del siglo XVIII. Su aportación principal consistió en haber purificado la mística de su tiempo de fuertes resabios quietistas, que habían desvirtuado la muerte mística, de tanta raigambre cristiana. Para él la verdadera mística consiste en la pasividad del alma en pleno cumplimiento de la voluntad de Dios que guía por la vivencia centrada en la Pasión de Cristo. San Pablo de la Cruz, formado en la escuela carmelitana y en la de San Francisco de Sales, halló su propio camino espiritual adentrándose en la mística renano-flamenca. Con San Juan de la Cruz y el Venerable Juan Taulero forma el tríptico más distinguido de los místicos de la Cruz, a los que podríamos añadir la santa doctora Edith Stein y Santa Gema Galgani. La familia religiosa de Pasionistas, fundada por San Pablo de la Cruz, cuenta con cinco santos canonizados, treinta y cuatro beatos y diez Venerables en dos siglos desde su fundación. Santa

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Jesús F. Salvadores (León, 1975) trabaja desde 1998 como fotoperiodista para diversos medios de comunicación como Diario de León, El País, El Mundo, Diario 16 o ABC. En los años 2006 y 2011 se alzó con el Primer Premio Francisco de Cossío de Fotoperiodismo de Castilla y León y en el año 2018 con el Premio Mingote de Fotografía del diario ABC. Este proyecto sintetiza su labor creativa desde 2005 hasta 2014 y se centra en el sentido de la huida como concepto. Parte de un homenaje sincero y emotivo a la fotografía analógica mediante el uso de la diapositiva, esa imagen de la luz, no seriada y pensada para una visión colectiva. Jesús F. Salvadores lleva al punto álgido el instante fotográfico de Henri Cartier?Bresson y alcanza una exquisita y sutil perfección en la construcción mental de la composición a partir de la anticipación e inmediatez intuitiva del momento. Maestro genuino en el uso del fuera de campo, crea evocaciones espaciales que incorporan al espectador en un juego atmosférico

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A mediados de diciembre de 2007 Gustavo Braudel y su hija Albertine, a quienes ya conocemos por anteriores obras de A. G. Porta, participan en la operación hsys (Hormigas Salvajes y Suicidas), según se desprende del relato que ésta ofrecerá al coronel Francisco Resano: A veces una no sabe, querido coronel, por qué echa de menos una época que en su momento no le pareció mejor que cualquier otra,pero a la que, sin embargo, le tiene un aprecio especial, posiblemente debido a las circunstancias que concurrieron en ella, a las personas que me rodeaban y, tal vez, a que pronto vayan a cumplirse cinco años y todavía no haya podido pasar página. Entonces le prometí un informe de la operación [?] en la que participaron el inspector de policía José Blaya y el también policía Lalo Lucena, ambos jubilados, sinque durante este tiempo haya conseguido escribir una sola palabra. La impresionante trama de personajes, construida minuciosamente con un profundo sentido narrativo, y el estilo depur

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La mayoría de libros liberales sobre la familia no tienen la salud mental de las verdades evidentes. Y la mayoría de los libros conservadores sobre la familia son aburridos, reforzando así la superstición que a Chesterton le encanta refutar, la idea de que la vida de familia es en cuanto tal aburrida y que la vida fuera de casa, ?en el mundo?, es más interesante y liberadora. Chesterton refuta este ridículo lugar común escribiendo sobre la familia con el vigor, colorido, vívido ingenio, y amor apasionado que el tema se merece. Es el poeta de la familia, el trovador de la familia, el San Francisco de la familia. [.] Este es uno de esos libros absolutamente necesarios. Nadie ha tenido una sabiduría práctica tan vigorosa y tan llena de sentido común como Chesterton. Este libro ha juntado a la familia y a GKC, al caballero andante que marcha para luchar por ella. Debería ser nuestro libro de texto para cambiar el estado de cosas y restaurar el sano juicio de siempre. Peter Kreeft (Boston C

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B. Traven, o Traven Torsvan, o Hal Croves, o Ret Marut, nació en Chicago el 3 de mayo de 1890, o en San Francisco el 25 de febrero de 1882, o en esta última fecha pero en Schwiebus, Alemania. Bruno Traven, que se fabricó una treintena de identidades y una media docena de nacionalidades, estuvo preso en varios países y llegó a robar para no morir de hambre. Fue actor, carbonero, recolector de algodón, guionista y, sobre todas las cosas, escritor. Siempre estuvo del lado de los menos favorecidos y denunció las atrocidades del capitalismo hace más de un siglo. Con una increíble lucidez anticipó la falta de autonomía de los medios de comunicación y resumió su postura política en la siguiente frase: No estoy afiliado a ningún partido, a ningún círculo político, porque ningún partido ni programa, ninguna proclama o decisión colectiva, podría protegerme del infortunio universal. La apasionante vida de Traven tiene sin duda visos de novela, y Golo hace de este libro una biografía excepcional p

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En septiembre de 1936 se reunieron, en un pequeño pueblo de Salamanca, los principales mandos del bando nacional para designar al jefe de todos los ejércitos en lucha contra la República. El elegido también se convertiría en el jefe del Estado por casi cuarenta años, Francisco Franco.Esta historia de la Guerra Civil Española, completamente novedosa en lo que a documentación se refiere, propone al lector una nueva lectura desde el prisma del principal artífice de la victoria franquista, el general Fidel Dávila Arrondo, comandante del Ejército del Norte, y triunfador en Asturias, Santander, Bilbao, el Ebro y Cataluña.Los entresijos del Estado Mayor, la preparación y el desarrollo de las campañas, los combates o las relaciones con los aliados italianos y alemanes se combinan con temas tan desconocidos como el de las reservas de oro y divisas o las decisivas reuniones al más alto nivel en las que se designó a Franco como la principal autoridad militar y política durante la contienda.

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