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Kurt Gerber es un adolescente que se esfuerza por armonizar sus dos facetas: la de estudiante inteligente y rebelde, y la de novelista principiante empeñado en que su destino y el de Lisa, su gran amor, se entrelacen. Pero durante el último año de estudios, cuando el profesor de matemáticas comience una cruzada personal contraKurt, el joven se sentirá extraviado, indefenso y profundamente angustiado. FriedrichTorberg desmenuza los mecanismos que alimentan el sistema escolar y convierten a los profesores en dioses y a los alumnos en miserables condenados a la obediencia y la humillación. Inspirada no sólo en la propia experiencia del autor sino también en los suicidios de diez estudiantes en una sola semana del invierno de 1929, El alumno Gerber es un relato atemporal que nos habla de la fragilidad en la primera juventud y del inquietante papel de las instituciones educativas en las sociedades represivas.

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En su primer libro para el público infantil el renombrado artista Yoshimoto Nara nos cuenta la simple historia de un cachorro tan grande que nadie repara en él, hasta que un día una niña trepar tan alto como sea necesario para poder verlo y convertirse en su amiga.El perrito que quería tener amigos es un hermoso cuento de un artista para que la infancia tiene un mágico atractivo.Siempre estaba solo y triste. A veces pensaba:Por qué nunca viene nadie que quiera ser mi amigo?, porque me sentía muy solo y muy triste.Nó, es mentira. os explicaré por qué estaba tan solo y triste.La verdad es que

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The book describes the potential of both design objects and concepts, as well as design as a process, with a strong focus on the process of design engineering in the past, present and future. The book makes a stance by referring to historic and current design parameters in industry in relation to certain training methods. It compares these within Europe, explicitly the approach taken by Germany, Great Britain, and Scandinavia – and highlights best practice examples. The range of design disciplines, especially an in-depth look at classic product and textile design, leads to new “blueprint” possibilities and interactive design methods.

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The eagerly anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhina’s journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is magic—and not all magic is good.In Vita Nostra, Sasha Samokhina, a third-year student at the Institute of Special Technologies, was in the middle of taking the final exam that would transform her into a part of the Great Speech. After defying her teachers’ expectations, Sasha emerges from the exam as Password, a unique and powerful part of speech. Accomplished and ready to embrace her new role, she soon learns her powers threaten the old world, and despite her hard work, Sasha is set to fail.However, Farit Kozhennikov, Sasha’s dark mentor, finds a way to bring her out of the oblivion and back to the Institute for his own selfish purposes. Subsequently, Sasha must correct her mistakes before she is allowed to grad

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In The House Of Crossed Desires

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Chester likes to help his dad in the garden, and on the farm. Maybe he will become a farmer or a gardener ... Or does he have a completely different job in mind for when he grows up? A Job for Chester! is part of the Galaxy range of books from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Galaxy provides captivating fiction and non-fiction for Pink A to White band. The rich collection of highly decodable books immerses children in a range of cross-curricular topics and genres. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

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Join five animal friends for a fun day at school in this friendly, reassuring book. The activities introduce children to all sorts of things they will do at school, whilst helping them practise pen control, and there are simple activities on letters, numbers and shapes. Durable, wipe-clean pages mean children can practise again and again, and there are helpful notes for grown-ups at the front too.

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Join five animal friends as they start school in this delightful introduction to the school day, from getting dressed in the morning to home time. Charming illustrations describe the school day and some of the early years concepts children will learn, including colours, numbers and counting, getting dressed, seasons and more.

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Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States, considering issues of function, population, imagery, and growth. Contributors to the volume use ethnographic and cultural analysis to identify downtowns as products of the activities of planners, power elites, and consumers and as zones of conflict and competition. Whether claiming space on a world stage through architecture, media events, or historical tourism or facing the claims of different social groups for a place at the center, downtowns embody the heritage of the modern city and its future. Essays draw on extensive fieldwork and archival study in Beijing, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Nashville, Lima, Philadelphia, Mumbai, Havana, Beirut, and Paris, among other cities. They examine the visions of planners and developers, cultural producers, governments, theoreticians, immigrants, and outcasts. Through these perspectives, the book explores questions of space and place, consumption, mediation, and images as well as the processes by which urban elites learn from each other as well as contest local hegemony. Global Downtowns raises important questions for those who work with issues of urban centrality in governance, planning, investment, preservation, and social reform. The volume insists that however important the narratives of individual spaces—theories of American downtowns, images of global souks, or diasporic formations of ethnic enclaves as interconnected nodes—they also must be situated within a larger, dynamic framework of downtowns as centers of modern urban imagination.

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The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinary narrative research on complexity.Narrative Complexity provides a framework for a more complex and nuanced study of narrative and explores the experience of narrative complexity in terms of cognitive processing, affect, and mind and body engagement. Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume combines analytical effort and conceptual insight in order to relate more effectively our theories of narrative representation and complexities of intelligent behavior. This collection engages important questions on how narrative complexity functions as an agent of cultural evolution, how our understanding of narrative complexity can be extended in light of new research in the social sciences and humanities, how interactive media produce new types of narrative complexity, and how the role of embodiment as a factor of narrative complexity acquires prominence in cognitive science and media studies. The contributors explore narrative complexity transmitted through various semiotic channels, embedded in multiple contexts, and experienced across different media, including film, comics, music, interactive apps, audiowalks, and ambient literature.

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My Dad is a beautifully illustrated, stereotype-busting celebration of all the everyday things one child's dad does to make him so wonderfully, daddish-ly awesome!He may not be a superhero, or an astronaut, or a secret agent… but my dad is still the best dad in the world! From baking cookies and gardening to playing make-believe and watching the sunset, a child reveals all the simple yet wonderful things he loves to do with his dad. With lyrical rhyming text and gentle illustrations, this is a joyous celebration of fatherhood which creates a special reading experience between a child and their father. Inspire a child to explore what makes the relationships in their own life special with this touching book.

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'Let's go outside! Let's run as fast as our legs can carry us. Let's make the best den in the whole wide world.' The great outdoors are waiting, ready to be filled with excitement and imagination. Explore the fun that can be had outdoors in all weathers and count how many children have gone outside to play in this joyful celebration of imaginative play and the simple pleasure of spending time outside everyday... and cosying up indoors at the end of the day.At the end of this simple and lyrical picture book are discussion prompts and outdoor activity suggestions, all ready for parents and children to say... LET'S GO OUTSIDE!

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Imaginative contemporary crime novel set in Romania

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Marciana piensa que su abuelo se ha vuelto loco: se lo ha encontrado haciendo agujeros en las paredes, maullando y gateando. Será ése su regalo de cumpleaños?

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Todos albergamos distintos tipos de miedos. Algunos de ellos nos resultan muy fácilmente identificables, mientras que otros solo son perceptibles a través de sus manifestaciones. Sean del tipo que sean, y los tengamos más o menos reconocidos, lo cierto es que todos ellos impiden la expresión plena y libre de nuestra alma.Sin embargo, contamos con un recurso poderoso frente a las distintas expresiones del miedo y las situaciones angustiantes: el ho?oponopono. Esta herramienta de crecimiento personal y desarrolloespiritual de origen hawaiano, del todo compatible con cualquier fe o creencia que puedasprofesar, es extremadamente efectiva y fácil de aplicar en cualquier contexto.Con Del miedo a la libertad aprenderás a trascender tus miedos por ti mismo para convertirlos en una fuente de paz y equilibrio interior. En estas páginas descubrirás la naturaleza del miedo y cómo se manifiesta; además, encontrarás un espacio para reflexionar y aprender sobre la abundancia, la

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After years of designing her family’s grand wineries (and a few not-so-grand closets on the side), Abby DeLuca knows she has what it takes to be an award-winning interior designer. Newly single, Abby lands the career opportunity of a lifetime and refuses to let anything—or anyone—stand in her way. And that includes St. Helena’s most irresistible contractor, the man who makes her melt every time she sees him—even though he shattered her heart years ago. A former NFL star, Jack “Hard Hammer” Tanner now spends his days doing contract work for the beautiful women of St. Helena—and his nights doing off-the-books projects in their bedrooms. Yet the more time the sexy tool-belt-for-hire spends with Abby, the more he longs to fix her broken heart. Soon, rekindled sparks fly. But when Jack’s dream job comes calling, he faces a tough choice: building in the big leagues, or building forever with his first love.

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Eleven-year-old Quinn has had some bad experiences lately. She was caught cheating in school, and then one day, her little sister, Emma, disappeared while walking home from school. She never returned. When Quinn's best friend, Kara, has to move away, she goes on one last trip with Kara and her family. They stop over at the first hotel they see, a Victorian inn that instantly gives Quinn the creeps, and she begins to notice strange things happening around them. When Kara's parents and then brother disappear without a trace, the girls are stranded in a hotel full of strange guests, hallways that twist back in on themselves, and a particularly nasty surprise lurking beneath the floorboards. Will the girls be able to solve the mystery of what happened to Kara's family before it's too late?

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