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Italian adventurer and sea captain Celso Cesare Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to establish his reputation as a middleman and person of significance. Through his machinations, Moreno became a critical player in the expansion of western trade and imperialism in Asia, the trafficking of migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, the conflicts of Americans and Native Hawaiians over the fate of Hawaii, and the imperial competitions of French, British, Italian, and American governments during a critically important era of imperial expansion during the nineteenth century. Oh Capitano! teases out Moreno’s enormous peculiarities and fascination as well as his significance. Celso Cesare Moreno was simultaneously toxic, deceitful, and charming in equal measure. He wandered, adventured, cheated, exaggerated, promoted (mainly himself), and continuously created newly invented past lives. He repeatedly sought a role at the center of a globalizing world with gusto and had no qualms about lying or betraying others. He claimed at times to be the ruler of a Southeast Asian island that he then offered for sale to several western nations. He briefly became prime minister of Hawai’i. He testified before the U.S. Congress as an expert witness. He sought to promote a trans-Pacific cable project. He fought with the ministers and leaders of many countries (and with his fellow Italians and Catholic churchmen almost everywhere) but was more often ignored and rejected than feted. He was accused, probably with good cause, of abusing his obligations after claiming guardianship of the sons of King David Kalakaua of Hawaii. Dragged by his uncontrollable polemical passions, the old Captain died alone, unloved by anyone and with no significant relations to others. With its focus on Moreno, Oh Capitano! illustrates some of the most puzzling cultural traits of emigrant Italian elites. Called a “carpetbagger,” “land pirate,” “extinct volcano,” among many other derogatory monikers, Celso emerges in this fascinating biography as a multifaceted, chameleon-like personality not reducible to a single epithet.

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A founding father of the ""art of philology"", Aristarchus of Samothrace (216-144 BCE) developed a sound, almost scientific method of literary exegesis. This book offers a systematic study of the most famous grammarian in Alexandria, places Aristarchus and his Iliadic scholia within the context and cultural environment of his own time.

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SIMPLÍSIMO IRLANDA es una guía supersencilla para viajar solo con la información necesaria: descripciones claras y breves, las mejores direcciones, mapas y planos muy prácticos y muchas fotos. Una guía que selecciona todo lo esencial del destino para que el viajero no se pierda ninguna visita imprescindible. Decenas de direcciones seleccionadas por sus autoras, Ketty Quigley y Violaine Malié, que viven, respectivamente, en Dublín y Belfast. SIMPLÍSIMO IRLANDA incluye cuatro secciones: Información práctica de Irlanda: clima, salud, precios, transportes, alojamiento... Lo esencial de Irlanda: páginas repletas de ideas inspiradoras. Circuitos: desarrollados en forma de ciudades-etapa -lugares que visitar, actividades y las mejores direcciones-, con trayectos detallados para desplazarse de una etapa a la siguiente, y mapas y planos. También se proponen escapadas de un día para completar la visita. Un índice superpráctico que recoge los datos, horarios y precios de cada uno de los sitios re

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Las mujeres del océano, la mujer-cangrejo o la hija de un dios marino tienen en común el conocimiento íntimo de esas sociedades frágiles en las que conviven el hombre y el mar. Siguiendo sus aventuras mágicas, trágicas o extraordinarias, sumérjase en el corazón de la cultura de los pueblos de los mares gracias a relatos cortos y poéticos donde los héroes son, por una vez, mujeres en un mundo considerado masculino.

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De buena mañana los empleados del museo bajaron al sótano para limpiar las momias que estaban ahí a la espera de ser clasificadas. Y se encontraron una muy bien perfumada, que tenía una barba postiza. Era la momia de una misteriosa faraona: Temoses-tadoes-perando-veinte-años, que fue, nada más y nada menos que la hija del faraón Nari-zotas. Queréis saber quién era esta faraona y por qué llevaba barba? Pues abrid el libro y empezad a leerlo: pasaréis un rato muy divertido.

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Libro de tela con 8 páginas diseñadas para que el pequeño lector pueda experimentar con distintas sensaciones de tacto y desarrollar su psicomotricidad. Se divertirán levantando las solapas tras las que se esconden distintos animales de la granja.

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simple ways to revive and restore well-being, and feel fabulous all over - amazing techniques to recharge both your mind and body, and to improve your health, shown step by step in more than 275 beautiful photographs

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Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) is acknowledged as one of the preeminent systematic bibliographers of the 20th century. His interests were wide-ranging, including theosophy, scrying, psychical research, anthropology, and, above all, Voltaire studies. In all these fields Besterman made significant contributions, and his World Biblio-graphy of Bibliographies (4th ed., 5 vols., 1965-1966) and edition of Voltaire's correspondence (107 vols., 1952-1965) are great monuments in the annals of modern scholarship. Cordasco collects representative selections from Besterman's vast oeuvre, with major attention to Besterman's chief bibliographical works and Voltaire studies, and selections from his writings in other fields. Includes a biographical and critical profile of Besterman and a detailed checklist of his writings.

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New ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers an extensive collection of apartments from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. This compilation expresses the diversity of current trends in apartment design and provides an inspirational source of ideas for those active in the field of design or interested in catching up on the latest in contemporary residential architecture.

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