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Epílogo de Juan BenetTraducción de Panteleimón ZarínEl significado de la traición (1949, 1965, 1982) es un documentado y fascinante estudio sobre la traición y sus implicaciones éticas y morales. Centrado en un primer momento en los fascistas británicos que, como William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) y John Amery, colaboraron con los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pasa luego a considerar a los traidores de la Guerra Fría. La reflexión moral sobre la traición se convierte así también en una historia del espionaje comunista y de la evolución de la profesión de espía. El relato llega hasta 1963, lo que permite cubrir también el asunto de los topos soviéticos en el Servicio de Inteligencia británico, Philby, Burgess y Maclean, y el caso Profumo.... Por eso decía al principio que el espía son dos; como el matrimonio; una actividad llevada a cabo por una pareja: un espía que procede del campo adversario y un traidor salido del campo propio que -no necesariament

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Acknowledged as Rebecca West's fictional masterpiece, The Fountain Overflows introduces the crisis-ridden Aubrey family. This Real Night continues their remarkable story.It is the early 1900s. With the disappearance of Piers, her feckless and gambling husband, and the sale of some valuable paintings, Clare Aubrey has a firmer grip on the purse strings. Rose and Mary are at music college, struggling for artistic perfection, while the self-assured Cordelia has fallen into the role of art dealer's assistant. Richard Quin, beloved younger brother, is contemplating Oxford. The children's coming of age, with its gradual acceptance of love and loss, becomes all the more poignant as the events of the First World War gather pace...

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Prólogo de Agustín Díaz Yanes Traducción y notas de Antonio IriarteEl 9 de junio de 1944, a los tres días de haber desembarcado con su regimiento en las playas de Normandía, Keith Castellain Douglas caía en Tilly-sur-Seulles, cerca de Bayeux. Sólo tenía veinticuatro años, pero ya había escrito los mejores poemas bélicos de su generación -admirados por T. S. Eliot y por Ted Hughes-, además del muy notable De El Alamein a Zem Zem, en el que narra sus experiencias durante la campaña aliada en el Norte de África.Nacido en 1920 en Tunbridge Wells (Kent), Douglas era un hombre complejo, un individualista de personalidad algo anárquica y displicente, siempre dispuesto a obrar por cuenta propia y a enfrentarse a la autoridad cuando le parecía preciso, lo que le valió no pocos problemas a lo largo de su vida.Cuando estalló la guerra, Douglas se alistó de inmediato, pero no fue enviado a Oriente Medio hasta julio de 1941. Como dice en su libro, pensaba que la exp

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''Spellbinding . . . Probably her best fiction'' - Sunday TimesThe soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper''s daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to ''cure'' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice.Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary

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Making a home that works for you is the key to a better life. Interiors expert Rebecca West reveals how to align your heart, home, and health via small changes that make a big difference.What does it take to be happy at home? It’s not about buying or not buying a new sofa. It’s about whether your home is working for you in the best way. Your home can directly improve your wellbeing and contentment with better health, sleep, and relationships, and ultimately decrease your stress levels to increase your all-round happiness. In this book, Rebecca West helps you to learn how to make your home feel brand new without actually relocating and how to redecorate so you can feel best in your space. Along with beautiful photographs, there are a variety of self-assessment activities to connect your financial, emotional, and physical health to your space to ensure it nurtures your vision—and invest your time and money more effectively too. With Happy Starts at Hom

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Rebecca West’s never-before-published Survivors in Mexico brings to readers a daring and provocative work by a major twentieth-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art, and culture, it explores the inner lives of figures ranging from Cortés and Montezuma to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky.“Witty and entertaining, substantive and reflective, insightful and well documented, in splendid and uncommon prose, Rebecca West’s travelogue . . . is a model of British sophistication and knack for seeing the other.”—Jorge G. Castañeda, New York Times Book Review “An enthrallingly readable book . . . full of sharp impressions and stimulating insights.”—Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review“Luscious reading. . . . The book succeeds beautifully as a travelogue thanks to West’s intellect and experience, with Mexico serving as the vehicle for it all.”—Sam Quinones, Washington Post Book World

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Cousin Rosamund unfolds the final chapters of the saga that began with The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West's acknowleged masterpiece, and continued with This Real Night.As the glitter of the 1920s gives way to the Depression, Rose and Mary find themselves feted and successful pianists. But their happiness is diminished by their cousin's unfathomable marriage to a man they perceive as grotesque. Lacking her cousin Rosamund's intuitive understanding, Rose looks to the surrogate wisdom of Mr Morpurgo, while quiet days with Aunt Lily and the Darcys at their pub on the Thames offer respite from the tensions of foreign concert tours. With approaching middle age Rose gains in perspective. Yet the most exciting development still awaits her: the discovery of and delight in her own sexuality...

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'Impossible to put down' Observer'One of the great books of the century' Times Literary SupplementRebecca West's epic masterpiece not only provides deep insight into the former country of Yugoslavia; it is a portrait of Europe on the brink of war. A heady cocktail of personal travelogue and historical insight, this product of an implacably inquisitive intelligence remains essential for anyone attempting to understand the history of the Balkan states, and the wider ongoing implications for a fractured Europe.

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In this revised edition, Carl Glickman and coauthor Rebecca West Burns synthesize their decades of experience in teacher education and supervision into a comprehensive guide to supporting teacher growth and student learning. Embedded in every page are the essential knowledge, skills, approaches, and methods that leaders need to drive instructional improvement.Official school leaders and classroom teachers striving to be the best will learn how to put the school's goals and priorities into practice by: Selecting the right structure for differentiating teacher professional learning to improve outcomes for students. Implementing the technical and procedural skills needed to support teacher learning while observing, assessing, and evaluating instruction. Identifying appropriate relational skills for communicating and working with teachers. Applying the best interpersonal approach to stretch each teacher based on their own developmental level. Making the most of teachable moments with immediate response skills. Understanding how to support teachers' social-emotional wellness as an essential component of improving practice. In addition, each chapter provides detailed scenarios and case studies that illustrate exceptional leadership, and the Appendixes offer connections to dozens of promising practices.We are in a new era of teaching and learning, and a new kind of leader is needed to guide successful and extraordinary schools. Leadership for Learning: How to Bring Out the Best in Every Teacher gives preK–12 leaders the powerful tools they need to ensure that competent, caring, qualified professionals who want to improve teaching and learning are in every classroom.

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The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice.

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Rose Aubrey is one of a family of four children. Their father, Piers, is the disgraced son of an Irish landowning family, a violent, noble and quite unscrupulous leader of popular causes. His Scottish wife, Clare, is an artist, a tower of strength, fanatically devoted to a musical future for her daughters. This is the story of their life in south London, a life threatened by Piers's streak of tragic folly which keeps them on the verge of financial ruin and social disgrace . . .'A book bursting with love and vitality' DAILY EXPRESS

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