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Amb 91 anys, la Gretel Fernsby du una vida tranquilla i confortable al seu magnífic pis londinenc, malgrat amagar un passat fosc i pertorbador. No parla mai de com va fugir de l'Alemanya nazi quan tenia 12 anys. Ni els anys de postguerra a França amb la seva mare. I sobretot, no parla del seu pare, el comandant d'un dels camps d'extermini més tristament cèlebres del Reich.Quan una parella es trasllada al pis de sota, fa amistat amb el fill de nou anys, en Henry, tot i que li porta records incòmodes del seu germà Bruno. Però un dia assisteix a un enfrontament violent de la parella. I davant la tria entre la pròpia seguretat i la del nen, la Gretel evoca dilemes semblants amb què va topar temps enrere. Llavors, haver estat còmplice li va comportar una vida de vergonya i culpabilitat, però interferir ara té el risc que surtin a la llum els secrets que ha amagat tota la vida.

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En La civilización de la memoria de pez, Bruno Patino denunciaba los peligros de una humanidad que ya entonces estaba confinada entre los cristales de su pecera digital: perfectamente libres para nadar en sus aguas y abiertos a todo, pero atrapados dentro de unos límites que no por ser transparentes resultaban menos rígidos, incapaces de concentrarnos ni de crecer, agotados por el paso del tiempo y las interminables exigencias de las notificaciones que acosan nuestros dispositivos.La experiencia sin precedentes de la pandemia puso en evidencia esta misma situación: somos una sociedad desatenta y olvidadiza, que se salvó del asilamiento gracias a su capacidad técnica para hablar, trabajar, verse, mantenerse en contacto y divertirse a distancia, pero al mismo tiempo descubrió, de forma acelerada, los barrotes de su prisión digital, libre para saberlo todo, pero carente de deseo; parloteando constantemente, pero ansiosa de contactos reales...Ahora, cuando por fin hemos podido aban

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Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a panoramic vision of offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Here are writings -- many translated for the first time -- that bring you to the people of the beaches, the deserts, jungles, snow-capped mountains, and megacities. The voices are rich and diverse, the stories enthralling and strange. These writings shatter stereotypes as they provide a rollicking journey from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Yucatan to the U.S.-Mexico border, from humble ranchos to a fabulous mountaintop castle. Contributors include Daniel Reveles, Carlos Fuentes, Ines Arredondo, Jesus Gardea, Elizondo Elizondo, Agustin Cadena, C. M. Mayo, Carlos Monsivais, Juan Villoro, Guadalupe Loaeza, Fernando del Paso, Monica Lavin, Pedro Angel Palou, Angeles Mastretta, Raul Mejia, Martha Cerda, Araceli Ardon, Bruno Estanol, Ilan Stavans, Raymundo Hernandez-Gil, Julieta Campos, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Rosario Castellanos, and Laura Esquivel.

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A stunning anthology licensed in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, We Are Here celebrates 30 of the most inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history. There are more than 23 million people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent living in the United States. Their stories span across generations, as well as across the world. We Are Here highlights thirty Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the impact they’ve had on the cultural, social, and political fabric of the United States.Profiles include: Amanda Nguyen * Bruno Mars * Grace Lee Boggs * Lakshmi Singh * Naomi Osaka * Philip Vera Cruz * Vishavjit Singh * Shirin Neshat * Thenmozhi Soundararajan * Schuyler Miwon Hong Bailar * Channapha Khamvongsa * Lydia XZ Brown * Etel Adnan * Cien-Shiung Wu * Jerry Yang * Carissa Moore * Craig Santos Perez * Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson * Eddie Aikau * John Kneubuhl * Kathy Jernil-Kijiner * Keanu Reeves * Kumu Hina * Manny Crisotomo * Momi Cazimero * Teresa Teaiwa * Mau Piailug * Taimane Gardner * Calvin and Charlene Hoe * Dinah Jane

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Eloquent, urgent, and inspiring, "The Constant Fire" tackles the acrimonious debate between science and religion, taking us beyond its stagnant parameters into the wider domain of human spiritual experience. From a Neolithic archaeological site in Ireland to modern theories of star formation, Adam Frank traverses a wide terrain, broadening our sights and allowing us to imagine an alternative perspective. Drawing from his experience as a practicing astrophysicist and from the writings of the great scholars of religion, philosophy, and mythology, Frank locates the connective tissue linking science and religion - their commonality as sacred pursuits - and finds their shared aspiration in pursuit of 'the True and the Real'. Taking us from the burning of Giordano Bruno in 1600 to Einstein and on to today's pressing issues of global warming and resource depletion, "The Constant Fire" shows us how to move beyond this stale debate into a more profound experience of the world as sacred - a world that embraces science without renouncing human spirituality.

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Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, has been revised and expanded with new selections and is coordinated for use with Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition. Each selection is prefaced with a brief introduction about the anthropologist and the text. Each primary text is followed by a section titled “Queries and Connections,” a series of questions designed to help students focus on the central issues in each text and to relate them to other readings. NEW TO THIS EDITION Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories 25: Leda Cosmides and John Toobey, from The Evolutionary Primer 26: Eric Alden Smith, from Why Do Good Hunters Have Higher Reproductive Success? 27. Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, from “Introduction” from The Origin and Evolution of Culture Part VIII—The Ontological Turn 28: Philippe Descola, from Beyond Nature and Culture 29: Tim Ingold, from Anthropology beyond Humanity 30: Bruno Latour, from “Introduction” from Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

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'Extremely silly, fiendishly clever, genuinely helpful and very, very funny' Bruno Vincent, bestselling author of Five on Brexit IslandAre you stuck inside, bored out of your brain, desperate for things to do? Looking to fill the ever-diminishing gap between stopping drinking coffee and starting drinking booze? Has the incessant comforting warmth of your laptop on top of your lap started to genuinely freak you out? Then you need The Self Isolation Activity Book. Written by Ian Doors, a man who spent all of his time alone in his flat ages before you all started doing it. Packed full of quick and easy activities, including games, mental exercises and colouring in, as well as handy hints and kitchen cupboard food and drink tips, this is the only book you'll need to make the most of your time inside. Also, the last few pages can be ripped out and used as toilet paper. Can't help but feel like all other books are missing a trick there.

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THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY FROM THE MASTER THRILLER WRITER'[Philip Kerr's] Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary' Ian RankinThe first three in the Bernie Gunther series, March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem are true crime classics that transport readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduce the cynical, wise-cracking private eye who sought justice within it.MARCH VIOLETSBernhard Gunther is a private eye, specializing in missing persons. And in Hitler's Berlin, he's never short of work...Winter 1936. A man and his wife shot dead in their bed. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life.As Bernie follows the trail into the very heart of Nazi Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. A trail that ends in the hell that is Dachau...THE PALE CRIMINALIt is 1938 and Bernie Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with his new partner, Bruno Stahlecker, another ex-police officer. But on a seemingly straightforward stakeout, Bruno is killed, and Bernie suddenly finds himself tapped for a much bigger job.A serial sex murderer is killing Aryan teenage girls in Berlin - and what's worse, he's making utter fools of the police. Gunther is forced to accept a temporary post in Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich's state Security Service, with a team of men underneath him tasked purely with hunting the killer.But can he trust his team any more than he can trust his superiors?A GERMAN REQUIEMIn the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin.When an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna, where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge, Bernie doesn't hesitate for long. Gunther is convinced that shooting an American Nazi-hunter is one crime he didn't commit.But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be. Communism is the new enemy, and with the Nuremberg trials over, some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace - alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison.

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Edición especial para escuelas de esta bellísima novela sobre el eterno problema del amor, con la verdad que ofrece un conocimiento profundo del alma humana. Incluye material didáctico a cargo de Maribel Cruzado Soria.Un viejo campesino calabrés llega a casa de sus hijos en Milán para someterse a una revisión médica. Allí descubre su último afecto, una criatura en la que volcar toda su ternura: su nieto, que se llama Bruno, como a él le llaman sus camaradas partisanos. Y vive también su última pasión: el amor de una mujer que iluminará la etapa final de su vida concediéndole toda su plenitud.Reseñas:Está escrita con una ternura y una lucidez aunadas que reflejan perfectamente la experiencia cenital de su protagonista.Leopoldo Azancot, ABCUn tesoro sencillo, compacto, brillante sin estridencias, como el acero viejo.El PaísUna referencia intelectual y moral de primer orden en la España de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.La vanguard

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Bruno Manera y Federica Pesenti parecen una pareja feliz. Él es un rico heredero del valle cuya fortuna no es del todo transparente, mientras que ella es una mujer vistosa y elegante, heredera de la prestigiosa dinastía Pesenti. Un día cualquiera, Manera empieza a sufrir una serie de ataques intimidatorios que, con el tiempo, se van agravando hasta llegar a temer por su propia vida. Para ayudarlo, solo tiene a Manlio Gavazzi, un vigilante jurado con una existencia desafortunada y con excesos de todo tipo, convencido de que ciertos asuntos se tienen que resolver siempre entre la gente del pueblo.A partir de aquí, el azar empezará a jugar en su contra y nos sumergiremos en un mundo podrido, donde la amistad es una falsedad, el amor una especulación, el matrimonio un campo de batalla y la solidaridad entre compatriotas un simple pacto.Con Otro invierno llegará, Massimo Carlotto nos dibuja una novela de chantajes, corrupciones y engaños, donde todos los personajes parecen tener sec

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Publicado por primera vez hace más de cuarenta años en colaboración con Steve Woolgar, La vida en el laboratorio es la primera obra de Bruno Latour y el esbozo inicial de lo que más tarde daría forma a la Teoría del Actor-Red. Fruto de dos años de investigación etnográfica en el laboratorio de neuroendocrinología del Premio Nobel Roger Guillemin en el Salk Institute, este libro fundacional sentó las bases de las nuevas tendencias en los estudios de la ciencia.A partir de una mirada antropológica, Latour y Woolgar ponen en jaque las concepciones tradicionales de la investigación científica para someter a su juicio al "hecho científico" y definirlo, desde un enfoque constructivista, como el "producto" de las complejas relaciones que establecen entre sí el conjunto de prácticas, instrumentos e instituciones que conforman el ámbito científico.Ahora, cuando la ciencia se entrelaza cada vez más con nuestro día a día a través de la omnipresente amenaza del colapso climático y l

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Munich was one of the earliest and most important centres of Art Nouveau in Germany. After the founding of the first Secession here (1892), the magazines Simplicissimus and Jugend were also published in Munich as from 1896. The latter also gave the new art its German name. Many artists were searching for contemporary forms of expression and followed holistic approaches. In addition to the classic genres of high art, the spectrum of work also extended into other fields; objects were designed for different social classes and as many spheres of life as possible. In contrast to French Art Nouveau with its lavish floral ornamentation, Munich Art Nouveau is more two-dimensional and has greater clarity. Leading to abstraction and objectivity, the roots of modernist art and design are found here. The full artistic spectrum of Munich's Art Nouveau! Including works by Peter Behrens, Sophie Burger-Hartmann, Otto Eckmann, August Endell, Elisabeth Erber, Hermann Obrist, Bruno Paul, Richard Riemer

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ÊBoutique Acoustics: 180 Years of Hand-Built GuitarsÊ tells the history behind the important acoustic guitar makers ä some recognizable some obscure ä who all have played a key part in the evolution of the instrument and the myriad acoustic guitar models we have on the market today. The book covers the birth of the steel-string the rise of small factories the advent of one-man shops the origins of various trends in guitar construction ä the design of cutaways; the use of a variety of woods polishes and other aesthetic detailing; and the incorporation of high-tech materials such as carbon fiber and Nomex ä and more. Makers covered include Ashborn Bohmann Bruno Gibson Guild Tilton Washburn Martin Bozo Gallagher Ernie Ball Klein Taylor Bourgeois Tony Yamamoto Zimnicki and others. Also included in this lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive guide to every significant US maker descriptions of the most popular styles and a detailed reference section about boutique guitar models.

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In this award-winning mystery by one of Israel’s best-loved authors, a plot of vengeance reveals deeper truths about the complexity of being human. Coupon-clipping police superintendent Jonah Merlin thinks he has an open-and-shut case on his hands after the body of a beautiful woman is found discarded in a run-down building in Tel Aviv. All evidence points to two suspects, but finding them will require unorthodox methods to decode the cryptic words sprayed at every crime scene. As the body count rises, graffiti expert Rai Zitrin and precocious seventeen-year-old Zoe Navon agree to help Merlin uncover the connection between the killing spree and the words of Polish writer Bruno Schulz, who was murdered by Nazis seventy years ago. Why would a serial killer quote the famous author’s poetic words of unrequited love? The search leads this unlikely trio on a race against the clock to solve the case before the killer has the last laugh...and the last bullet.

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A springtime fresh picture book about a good day out with friends—climbing mountains, swimming and singing—and the difference between storytelling and lies. Lisette and her friend Bobbi the lizard have never told a lie. But they are eager to try—it might be fun! They tell Popof they are going for a trip to the mountains. When Popof decides to come too, they realise they’ll have to make the mountain. A liar needs to improvise. In this funny story about imaginative play with friends, Lisette’s creativity and quick thinking make for a wonderful day out. Gently exploring the differences between storytelling and little white lies and the importance of good intentions, this picture book is ideal to read aloud with preschoolers. With illustrations that convey a range of mood and emotion, the animal friends are brimming with personality and childlike playfulness. Other books from Catharina Valckx: Lisette’s Green Sock Zanzibar Bruno

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As disputes concerning the environment, the economy, and pandemics occupy public debate, we need to learn to navigate matters of public concern when facts are in doubt and expertise is contested. Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce readers to the observation and representation of contested issues on digital media. Drawing on actor-network theory and digital methods, Venturini and Munk outline the conceptual underpinnings and the many tools and techniques of controversy mapping. They review its history in science and technology studies, discuss its methodological potential, and unfold its political implications. Through a range of cases and examples, they demonstrate how to chart actors and issues using digital fieldwork and computational techniques. A preface by Richard Rogers and an interview with Bruno Latour are also included. A crucial field guide and hands-on companion for the digital age, Controversy Mapping is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as activists, journalists, citizens, and decision makers.

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In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to complicate notions of the Anthropocene. Focusing on planetary processes—including the ocean conveyor, glacier flows, tectonic plates, and species evolution—he combines a critical understanding of capitalism with an appreciation of how such nonhuman systems periodically change on their own. Drawing upon scientists and intellectuals such as Lynn Margulis, Michael Benton, Alfred North Whitehead, Anna Tsing, Mahatma Gandhi, Wangari Maathai, Pope Francis, Bruno Latour, and Naomi Klein, Connolly focuses on the gap between those regions creating the most climate change and those suffering most from it. He addresses the creative potential of a "politics of swarming" by which people in different regions and social positions coalesce to reshape dominant priorities. He also explores how those displaying spiritual affinities across differences in creed can energize a militant assemblage that is already underway.

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Drawing together new papers by some of today's leading figures in international economics and finance, Understanding Interdependence surveys the current state of knowledge on the international monetary system and, by implication, defines the research horizon for the future. Covering topics including the behavior of exchange rates, the choice of exchange-rate regime, current-account adjustment in classical and Keynesian models, the extent and effects of capital mobility, international debt, the stabilization and reform of the formerly planned economies, European monetary union, and international policy coordination, the book underscores the importance of these subjects and identifies lessons for policymakers. The contributors to the volume are Michael Bruno, Ralph C. Bryant, Richard N. Cooper, Michael P. Dooley, Barry Eichengreen, Stanley Fischer, Charles A. E. Goodhart, Peter Hooper, Peter B. Kenen, Paul R. Krugman, Henri Lorie, Jaime Marquez, Ronald I. McKinnon, Michael Mussa, Maurice Obstfeld, John Odling-Smee, Assaf Razin, Dani Rodrik, Mark P. Taylor, and John Williamson.

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There are 12 favourite Thomas & Friends characters to meet in this large tabbed board book PLUS early learning concepts too!This fun book with rhyming text will appeal to all Thomas & Friends and train fans.A perfect gift for all train and transport-loving kids!In this bright and appealing large tabbed board book meet Thomas and his many vehicle friends on the Island of Sodor. With everyone's favourite engines Thomas, Percy, Diesel, Nia and Kana as well as Harold the Helicopter, Carly the Crane, Bruno the Brake Car as well as Kenji, Ashima, James and Gordon, young fans will love finding hearing the rhyming text about the characters and saying the early learning concepts out loud too!In this book you can also Learn with Thomas as he shares:first train wordscoloursoppositesshapesnumbersemotionsYoung children will love looking at the pictures of the characters, hearing the rhyming text about them, and answering the question for them on each page. They'll also have fun saying all the early

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Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder's associative travelogue that takes Allan Sekula's sequence Deep Six / Passer au bleu (1996/1998) as a touchstone for a dialogue with more recent artworks zooming in on the borderscape near the Channel Tunnel, such as those by Sylvain George and Bruno Serralongue. Combining ethnography, visual materials, political philosophy, cultural geography, and critical analysis, Ground Sea proceeds through an innovative methodological approach. Inspired by the meandering writings of W.G. Sebald, Javier Marias, and Roland Barthes, Van Gelder develops a style both interdisciplinary and personal. Resolutely opting for an aquatic perspective, Ground Sea offers a powerful meditation on the indifference of an increasingly divided European Union with regard to considerable numbers of persons on the move, who find themselves stranded close to Calais. The contested Strait of Dover becomes a microcosm where our present global challenges of migration, climate change, human rights, and neoliberal surveillance technology converge.

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Catalogue of the exhibition Parmiggiani dedicated to the artist Claudio Parmiggiani by Tornabuoni Art Paris gallery from October 2023 to January 2024. The exhibition will be the first entirely devoted to the artist''s Delocazioni series.Offering previously unpublished texts by Bruno Corà, Andrea Cortellessa and Philippe Dagen, the catalogue traces the stages of the artistic research of Parmiggiani, who was born in Luzzara in 1943 and is recognised as one of the leading artists on the Italian and international art scene. The exhibition offers a selection of works conceived in situ by the artist. Made with fire, dust and smoke, his first Delocazioni were born in the 1970s in Modena as a reflection on absence, shadow and trace.The catalogue is enriched with texts from his work-books published since 1970, quotations from the artist, photos from the exhibition and archival images in collaboration with Parmiggiani''s studio.Text in French. <

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Fifty years after the passing of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), this major new monograph illuminates the fundamental aspects of his oeuvre and technique in sculpture. It is based on years of extensive research and restoration work on seventy-five plasters that came to the collection of Kunsthaus Zurich as a bequest from Bruno Giacometti, Alberto's youngest brother. For Giacometti, plaster was of great importance as a material, far more than just an intermediate stage between clay model and bronze cast. It allowed him to paint or rework his objects in a vast variety of ways. A significant number of his sculptures indeed exist just in a plaster version. Featuring masterpieces from every stage of his career, this book focuses on Giacometti's artistic approach to the material nature of his chosen media, offering an insight into the creative process of one of the 20th century's greatest artists. With the plasters as a core, the selection also comprises works in other materials, such as marble, wood and bronze.

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Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, has been revised and expanded with new selections and is coordinated for use with Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition. Each selection is prefaced with a brief introduction about the anthropologist and the text. Each primary text is followed by a section titled “Queries and Connections,” a series of questions designed to help students focus on the central issues in each text and to relate them to other readings. NEW TO THIS EDITION Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories 25: Leda Cosmides and John Toobey, from The Evolutionary Primer 26: Eric Alden Smith, from Why Do Good Hunters Have Higher Reproductive Success? 27. Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, from “Introduction” from The Origin and Evolution of Culture Part VIII—The Ontological Turn 28: Philippe Descola, from Beyond Nature and Culture 29: Tim Ingold, from Anthropology beyond Humanity 30: Bruno Latour, from “Introduction” from Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

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As disputes concerning the environment, the economy, and pandemics occupy public debate, we need to learn to navigate matters of public concern when facts are in doubt and expertise is contested. Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce readers to the observation and representation of contested issues on digital media. Drawing on actor-network theory and digital methods, Venturini and Munk outline the conceptual underpinnings and the many tools and techniques of controversy mapping. They review its history in science and technology studies, discuss its methodological potential, and unfold its political implications. Through a range of cases and examples, they demonstrate how to chart actors and issues using digital fieldwork and computational techniques. A preface by Richard Rogers and an interview with Bruno Latour are also included. A crucial field guide and hands-on companion for the digital age, Controversy Mapping is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as activists, journalists, citizens, and decision makers.

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Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas—absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath—form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in space. Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body’s capacities to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud, Foucault, and film studies, or anyone who has ever stopped to ponder the give and take of human corporeality.

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Célebre, polémico, condenado, Galileo Galilei es una figura fundamental en la historia de la ciencia. Tanto Einstein como Stephen Hawking lo consideran el primer científico moderno. Se cumplen ahora 400 años desde que Galileo apuntó por primera vez a los cielos con su telescopio.Su juicio de 1633 ante el Tribunal de la Santa Inquisición es el principal hito del conflicto entre ciencia y religión. En aquella época, Roma era la capital de una potencia teocrática que en 1600 ya había ejecutado a Giordano Bruno por un delito parecido, y que se reservaba el derecho de torturar a Galileo.Aprovechando su profundo conocimiento de Italia, y el interés que siempre ha tenido por el Renacimiento y el Barroco, Dan Hofstadter describe este momento histórico encuadrándolo en un contexto cultural amplio, a la vez que retrata tanto al Galileo científico como al humanista.La Tierra se mueve es una crónica convincente de los inicios de la ciencia moderna y de un momento decisivo en la evolución de la libertad de pensamiento.

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Frente a lo planetario es un libro fundamental sobre uno de los más acuciantes del presente: el cambio climático. El autor pone el foco en el ?proceso de lo planetario? ?incluyendo el estado de los océanos, el derretimiento de los glaciares, las placas tectónicas y la evolución de las especies? y plantea una mirada crítica de las formas de vida contemporáneas y una recuperación del lugar de los no-humanos que habitan en la Tierra de la mano de autores como Lynn Margulis, Alfred North Whitehead, Mahatma Gandhi, Naomi Klein, el papa Francisco y Bruno Latour. Pero además de realizar una fuerte crítica al estado del tiempo contemporáneo, Frente a lo planetario, apuesta por una ?política del enjambre? con la que personas de distinta cultura, clase social, credo y de diversas regiones del mundo puedan aliarse para reponer las verdaderas prioridades de un planeta en alerta máxima. Una crisis que demanda cooperación y acción, una asamblea militante espiritual pedirá Connolly, para evitar el co

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Martha Asunción Alonso Javier Blánquez Jorge Carrión Mery Cuesta Marilena de Chiara Agustín Fernández Mallo Bruno Galindo Berta Jiménez Luesma Reinaldo Laddaga Isabel Navarro Pedro G. Romero Marisol Salanova Cristian Segura. Coordinado por Jorge CarriónEn muy poco tiempo, Rosalía se ha convertido en una de las artistas más influyentes y conocidas del mundo. Su mezcla de flamenco, pop, músicas urbanas y músicas latinas es, al mismo tiempo, comercial y experimental. Además, sus colaboraciones, sus coreografías, sus videoclips o su uso de las redes sociales establecen puentes con los principales ámbitos creativos de nuestro tiempo.Al igual que la figura que lo ha inspirado, este libro también quiere ser una constelación proteica e híbrida de talentos periodísticos, reflexivos, poéticos y críticos en torno al fenómeno Rosalía. Así, algunos de los autores de este volumen abordan la relación de su música con el flamenco y el nuevo flamenco, lo natural y lo artificial, la t

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Nueva entrega de la colección Leotube!A quién van dirigidos los cómics de Leotube?Son los cómics más tronchantes, divertidos y emocionantes para niños y niñas fans de Leotube, Mikeltube y toda la Familia Tube, y para todos aquellos que quieran aprender a leer o aficionarse a la lectura.Conoce un poco más a los Tube, la familia más divertida y querida de YouTube:Leo, Mikel, Mamá Tube, Papá Gorila, el pequeño Bruno, el Profesor NoVé, el gatito Bills, la Bruja Gunilda, el Hacker, el Malvado DogDark o Kratos el Aniquilamundos son algunos de los personajes más famosos de los canales de Leotube, Mikeltube y la Familia Tube, y también los encontraréis en esta colección de cómics con aventuras nunca vistas en los vídeos, pero igual de emocionantes y divertidas.Sinopsis de Leotube 6. Leotube y el tesoro legendario:En esta ocasión, Leo y el resto de la Familia Tube se verán inmersos en una aventura de piratas, islas misteriosas, zombis, y una búsqued

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This is the first monograph on the architect Carl Krayl (1890-1947). He belonged, as did the founder of the Bauhaus school Walter Gropius and Hans Scharoun, to a small but prominent circle of German architects who were involved in all phases of High Modernism. In the Arbeitsrat fur Kunst (Work Council for Art) and the Glaserne Kette (Glass Chain), he contributed to the utopian, enthusiastic new dawn of the postwar avant-garde. In 1921 Krayl followed Bruno Taut, who had just been appointed head of the building and planning authority, to Magdeburg and distinguished himself with Expressionist designs; as the leading mind behind the Colorful Magdeburg campaign, his painted building facades caused a sensation at the same time. As of 1923, Krayl then turned to a functional style, and as a member of the Der Ring architects' association, became a proponent of Neues Bauen (New Building) with a reputation even beyond the region. Magdeburg's success in reinventing itself as a city of the modern m

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This book provides an introduction into the diversity of the environmental movement through great characters in the green sector. The book describes inspiring personal achievements, and at the same time it provides readers with information regarding the history, the main directions and the ethical principles of the environmental movement. Some of the most important characters of the movement from all around the world, are included in the book. As well as the title characters, Buddha and Leonardo DiCaprio, other famous environmentalists like Albert Schweitzer, David Attenborough and Jane Goodall are discussed. Some of the less well-known but equally important environmentalists such as Chico Mendes, Bruno Manser, Henry Spira, Tom Regan or Rossano Ercolini are highlighted in the various chapters. The selection of characters represents all major branches within the green sector, ranging from medieval saints to Hollywood celebrities, from university professors to field activists, from politicians to philosophers, from ecofeminists to radicals.

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Drink, drugs, depression, sex scandals, financial meltdowns and serious health issues are just some of the fights British boxers have faced once they've quit the ring. A Champion's Last Fight examines just why and exactly how some of Britain's greatest boxers have self-destructed in retirement. It tells the stories of former world champions who have struggled in life away from the spotlights and the glare that comes with boxing success; delving into the post-boxing lives and tribulations of Benny Lynch, Randolph Turpin, Freddie Mills, Ken Buchanan, John Conteh, Alan Minter, Charlie Magri, Frank Bruno, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Naseem Hamed, Scott Harrison, Herbie Hide, Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton. With interviews and new revelations, A Champion's Last Fight is an emotional journey through boxing history that examines the struggles many former champions experience after hanging up the gloves - and asks what, if anything, can be done to help the nation's boxing greats adjust to life away from the ring?

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This book provides an insight into the life of a professional lighting designer, through interviews with lighting designers at different stages of their careers plus a group interview with the designer and lighting team of the hit musical Billy Elliot. The designers featured are The interviewees are: Neil Austin, Natasha Chivers, Jon Clark, Paule Constable, Rick Fisher, Richard Howell, Howard Hudson, Jessica Hung Han Yun, Mark Jonathan, Amy Mae, Ben Ormerod, Bruno Poet, Jackie Shemesh and Johanna Town. Between them, they have worked all over the world on shows of every genre collecting many awards for their work along the way.They share inspiration and practical advice, useful to anyone embarking on a career in lighting, fascinating to anyone who enjoys going to the theatre, offering insights into: > approaching a new design; > dealing with the challenges each new show brings, from working with a new director to being part of a creative team in realising

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From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as u200a“substance” that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists. Instead, this book reconsiders the basic goals of an environmental ethic by questioning the most basic presupposition that most environmentalists accept: that nature is in need of preservation. Beginning with Bruno Latour’s idea that continuing to speak of nature in the way we popularly conceive of it is ethically and politically disastrous, this book describes a way in which the concept of nature can retain its importance in our discussion of the contemporary state of the environment. Based upon insights from the phenomenological tradition, specifically the work of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the concept of nature developed in the book preserves the best antihumanistic intuitions of environmentalists without relying on either a reductionistic understanding of nature and the sciences or dualistic metaphysical constructions.

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Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia. The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanisław Wyspiański, Tadeusz "Boy" Żeleński, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history.

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Arguably the most prolific and most widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj Žižek has made indelible interventions into many disciplines of the so-called human sciences that have transformed the terms of discussion in these fields. Although his work has been the subject of many volumes of searching criticism and commentary, there is no assessment to date of the value of his work for the development of these disciplines. Žižek Now brings together distinguished critics to explore the utility and far-ranging implications of Žižek's thought and provide an evaluation of the difference his work makes or promises to make in their chosen fields. As such, the volume offers chapters on quantum physics and Žižek's transcendentalist materialist theory of the subject, Hegel's absolute, materialist Christianity, postcolonial violence, eco-politics, ceremonial acts, and the postcolonial revolutionary subject. Contributors to the volume include Adrian Johnston, Ian Parker, Todd McGowan, Bruno Bosteels, Erik Vogt, Verena Conley, Joshua Ramey, Jamil Khader, and Žižek himself.

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Arguably the most prolific and most widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj Žižek has made indelible interventions into many disciplines of the so-called human sciences that have transformed the terms of discussion in these fields. Although his work has been the subject of many volumes of searching criticism and commentary, there is no assessment to date of the value of his work for the development of these disciplines. Žižek Now brings together distinguished critics to explore the utility and far-ranging implications of Žižek's thought and provide an evaluation of the difference his work makes or promises to make in their chosen fields. As such, the volume offers chapters on quantum physics and Žižek's transcendentalist materialist theory of the subject, Hegel's absolute, materialist Christianity, postcolonial violence, eco-politics, ceremonial acts, and the postcolonial revolutionary subject. Contributors to the volume include Adrian Johnston, Ian Parker, Todd McGowan, Bruno Bosteels, Erik Vogt, Verena Conley, Joshua Ramey, Jamil Khader, and Žižek himself.

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Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas—absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath—form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in space. Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body’s capacities to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud, Foucault, and film studies, or anyone who has ever stopped to ponder the give and take of human corporeality.

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François Hébel, who then was the Director of Rencontres photographiques d'Arles, requested Magnum photographers to recall their 'first time' - namely that delicate moment of transition that 'distinguished' them and that marked an actual turning-point in their artistic careers. The Magnum: La première fois volume has been inspired by the turning points identified, and recalls - thanks to the series of photographs by Abbas, Christopher Anderson, Olivia Arthur, Bruno Barbey, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Chien-Chi Chang, Bruce Gilden, Harry Gruyaert, David Alan Harvey, Thomas Hoepker, Richard Kalvar, Peter Marlow, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Eli Reed, Jacob Aue Sobol, Larry Towell and Alex Webb - the particular moment in which artists distance themselves from their teachers and come up with a language, an aesthetic form and a grammar that are theirs and theirs alone. The moment in which their concept of photography, together with their commitment, acquire meaning and individuality for the first time. Text in English and Italian.

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From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, who's been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the Man Booker International Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction comes the brilliant novel The Messiah of Stockholm.Lars Andeming, perhaps overly intellectual and certainly eccentric, is the Monday book reviewer for a Stockholm daily. He is also the self-proclaimed son of Bruno Schulz, a Polish writer who was executed by the Nazis before his last novel, The Messiah, could be published. When a manuscript of The Messiah mysteriously appears in Stockholm, in the possession of Schulz's 'daughter', Lars's circumscribed world of paper, apartment, and favorite bookstore turns upside down, catapulting him into a whirlwind of dream, magic, and illusion.A Brilliant novel... The Messiah of Stockholm is a worthy companion to Philip Roth's superb Prague Orgy... A complex and fascinating meditation on the nature of writing and the responsibilities of those who choose to create - or judge - tales. - Harold Bloom, New York Times

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Sexten Kultur hat den Architekturpreis "Neues Bauen in den Alpen" zum vierten Mal ausgelobt und 2006 an die Architekten von hervorragenden Bauwerken in den Alpen verliehen. Der anspruchsvoll gestaltete Katalog tritt die direkte Nachfolge des mit dem Frankfurter Buchpreis ausgezeichneten Ausstellungskataloges von 1999 an: Besondere Bauwerke werden aufgegriffen und an deren Beispiel wird das Bauen in den Bergen mit seinen besonderen topografischen und klimatischen Bedingungen fachkundig analysiert. 31 Bauten aus 419 eingereichten Projekten wurden ausgezeichnet und aus der Sicht der fünf Juroren beschrieben. Die Jury ist mit den Architekturhistorikern Bruno Reichlin und Friedrich Achleitner sowie den international renommierten Architekten Sebastiano Brandolini, Manfred Kovatsch und Günther Vogt in einmaliger Weise zusammengesetzt. Die atmosphärisch dichten Beschreibungen und Analysen ergänzen sich in idealer Weise mit den hochkarätigen Fotografien und geben so in besonderer Weise die Stimmungen der Bauwerke wieder. Die Ausstellung des Architekturpreises wird erneut mehrere Jahre wandern: Innsbruck, Linz, Bozen, Flims, Wien, Cividate Camuno; 2008: Landsberg, München, Graz, Stuttgart, Kempten, Zell am See (Saalfelden). Weiter ab 2009 geplant: Zürich, Basel, Dornbirn, Grenoble, Belluno, Imst, Eisenstadt, Thonon les Bains, Bergamo… In 2006, for the fourth time, Sexten Kultur advertised the architecture prize Neues Bauen in den Alpen (New Building in the Alps) and awarded it to the architects of outstanding structures in the Alps. This handsomely designed catalogue is the direct successor to the 1999 exhibition catalogue, which was honored with the Frankfurt Book Award. It selects particular structures and as exemplary for a technical analysis of building in the mountains, with its special climatic and topographical conditions. Of 419 submitted projects, 31 projects were honored and described by the five distinguished jurors: architectural historians Bruno Reichlin and Friedrich Achleitner and the internationally esteemed architects Sebastiano Brandolini, Manfred Kovatsch, and Günther Vogt. The highly atmospheric descriptions and analyses are ideally supplemented by the top-flight photographs and thus do a beautiful job of rendering the structures temoerament and character. The exhibition of the architecture prize will travel to numerous venues in the next several years: Innsbruck, Linz, Bolzano, Flims, Vienna, Cividate Camuno; in 2008 Landsberg, Munich, Graz, Stuttgart, Kempten, Zell am See (Saalfelden). Also planned in 2009, Zurich, Basel, Dornbirn, Grenoble, Belluno, Imst, Eisenstadt, Thonon les Bains, and Bergamo.

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Vigo. Setembro de 1972. Paula acaba de atravesar unha cidade tomada pola policía franquista e colapsada pola folga. Na súa casa, no alto do edificio de Gran Vía n 2, agárdaa unha revelación. Ten quince anos e acaba de decatarse de que non coñece a súa nai, a herdeira dunha influente estirpe de empresarios alemáns asentados no porto vigués a finais da I Guerra Mundial. O que ela descobre esa tarde é o primeiro segredo dunha rede de mentiras e silencios que, xa no presente, se verá obrigada a destecer para o seu fillo. Nese relato achará as claves de quen é a súa familia. Un colar de rubís, unha carta sen resposta, un país bombardeado, trens que parten cara ao frío e, sobre todo e contra todo, o amor prohibido que unirá de por vida o seu tío Álvaro co inquietante Bruno.Cabalos e lobos, a primeira e magnífica novela do xornalista Fran P. Lorenzo, é o retrato íntimo da historia dun século marcado pola guerra, o totalitarismo e a barbarie. Unha fotografía, con Vigo ao fondo, do combate

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Es necesaria la arquitectura? Cómo suenan los edificios? Es posible poseer unas vistas? Por qué las viejas fábricas son tan atractivas?Es Dubái una ciudad? ... y 96 preguntas más (con sus respuestas). Gran parte de lo que aparece en este libro ya se ha dicho antes. Algunos arquitectos, como Adolf Loos, se expresaron con una claridad sin parangón en cuanto a la distinción entre arte y arquitectura. Gunnar Asplund habló, con una gran sabiduría, sobre el estilo de un momento y un lugar; Bruno Taut sobre el color y Jacques-François Blondel sobre el carácter de la arquitectura. En este libro, los autores han construido sobre esta antigua sabiduría y la han aplicado a situaciones contemporáneas con nuevas ideas: el mismo proceso, en otras palabras, que se emplea a la hora de hacer arquitectura. Los arquitectos han intentado describir la esencia de la arquitectura como mínimo desde la antigüedad. Frente a otras formas de arte, se espera que la arquitectura se explique a sí misma. Si va a ser

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Any 2027. França es prepara per a unes eleccions presidencials i el candidat amb més possibilitats és una estrella de la televisió. L?home fort darrere de la seva candidatura és el ministre d?Economia i Finances, Bruno Juge, per a qui treballa com a assessor Paul Raison, el protagonista de la novella, un home taciturn i descregut.De sobte, algú puja a internet uns vídeos amenaçadors ?en un dels quals és guillotinat el ministre Juge? amb uns enigmàtics símbols geomètrics. I la violència passa del món virtual al real: l?explosió d'un vaixell de càrrega a la Corunya, un atemptat contra un banc de semen a Dinamarca i el sagnant atac a una embarcació de migrants a les costes mallorquines.Mentre en Paul Raison investiga els successos, s?enfronta a una crisi personal: el seu ma-trimoni està en descomposició, li diagnostiquen una greu malaltia i el seu pare, espia jubilat de la DGSI, pateix un infart cerebral i queda paralitzat. Aquest fet propicia el retrobament d?en Paul amb els seus g

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The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to envisioning life beyond capitalism. How can we explain the rapid decline of this once powerful idea? And what must we do to renew it for the twenty-first century? In this lucid, political-philosophical essay, Axel Honneth argues that the idea of socialism has lost its luster because its theoretical assumptions stem from the industrial era and are no longer convincing in our contemporary post-industrial societies. Only if we manage to replace these assumptions with a concept of history and society that corresponds to our current experiences will we be able to restore confidence in a project whose fundamental idea remains as relevant today as it was a century ago – the idea of an economy that realizes freedom in solidarity. The Idea of Socialism was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book of 2015.

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This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue’s gallery of outsiders—the more outlandish the better, with human attributes optional—as the impetus to its events and the motive for its developments. Philosophers have also vacillated between safeguarding the purity and consistency of their systematic projects and embracing contamination by alien and intransigent elements. The unsettling encounter between interiority and exteriority is a philosophical and literary sideshow not nearly as frivolous as it might seem. Building upon Nietzsche’s fatal confrontation “The Wanderer and His Shadow” and Jacques Derrida’s initiation of the current era in critical theory with the formulation “The outside is the inside,” the author pursues the vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a wide range of artifacts and authors. Among these are James Joyce, Walter Benjamin, James Baldwin, and William Faulkner. A welcome is further extended to the peculiar sublime introduced in the Zohar and in the texts of Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, and Paul Celan.

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In role-play and sex-play, illuminating theater, jokes, leisure, and fantasy. This edition of Aperture focuses on "Playtime." Taking its name from the 1967 film by Jacques Tati, the articles and portfolios explore how photography illuminates, facilitates, and participates in the many definitions of play-from role-play and sex-play to theater and jokes to leisure and fantasy. The issue features an interview with artist Chrisian Marclay about improvisation and the relationship between images and sounds; a conversation with Erwin Wurm about the possibilities and risks of using humor in contemporary art; and new, never-before-published work by Sophie Calle. Additionally, writer Eric Banks visits Saul Leiter's studio; Tim Davis examines the art of the photographic one-liner; Robin Kelsey surveys the artists who turned to games, whimsy, and clowning around in the 1960s and '70s; and Aveek Sen considers Italo Calvino's short story "The Adventure of a Photographer." Plus portfolios from Jo Ann Callis, Kauyoshi Usui, Bruno Munari, James Mollison, a little-known group of Cambridge University students who scaled campus buildings in the 1930s, and more.

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El libro que conmovió a millones de lectores.Estimado lector, estimada lectora:Aunque el uso habitual de un texto como éste es describir las características de la obra, por una vez nos tomaremos la libertad de hacer una excepción a la norma establecida. No sólo porque el libro que tienes en tus manos es muy difícil de definir, sino porque estamos convencidos de que explicar su contenido estropearía la experiencia de la lectura. Creemos que es importante empezar esta novela sin saber de qué trata.No obstante, si decides embarcarte en la aventura, debes saber que acompañarás a Bruno, un niño de nueve años, cuando se muda con su familia a una casa junto a una cerca. Cercas como ésa existen en muchos sitios del mundo, sólo deseamos que no te encuentres nunca con una. Por último, cabe aclarar que este libro no es sólo para adultos; también lo pueden leer, y sería recomendable que lo hicieran, niños a partir de los trece años de edad.El editorLa crítica ha di

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