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Mientras Loba continúa perdida en el bosque e intenta huir de Raïsa, Aaricia, confundida por las mentiras de Lundgen, decide partir con él hacia tierras lejanas. Todo cambiará cuando Vigrid intervenga de nuevo en el mundo de los humanos. Los Mundos de

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Silesia, 1930. Three children play with toy airplanes. Three friends - Max the Polish Jew, Werner and Hanna the Germans. All dream of becoming pilots, but they won't all have the same opportunities, and the world is heading down a dark road... 1944. Max is now an ace in the US Navy, while Hanna is one of Germany's top test pilots. Will anything remain of their old friendship, as the sides they each chose are locked in a struggle to the death?

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Chicago, the Seventies. Life is tough when you''re an orphan in the streets - and even more so if you''re black. Little Jones, 10, doesn''t even know her real name. All she has is a brother who flirts with the Black Panthers, a streak of cunning and determination a mile wide, and a dream: that of some day enlisting into the Army. A chance encounter with war hero Major Whittaker will change her life forever...

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An illustrated biography about Beethoven's childhood and how he came to become a great composer. The accompanying CD contains recordings of some of his most famous works as well as the narration of the story.Beethovendid badly at school because all he could think about was music, and Mozart was oneof his early admirers. Childrenwill learn that theycanmake up a tune to their favourite poem and sing it, and that with only seven notes they can play countless tunes.

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This book provides a remarkable and complete survey of important questions at the interface between theoretical particle physics and cosmology.After discussing the theoretical and experimental physics revolution that led to the rise of the Standard Model in the past century, the author reviews all the major open puzzles, among them the hierarchy problem, the small value of the cosmological constant, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the dark matter enigma, including the state-of-the-art regarding proposed solutions. Also addressed are the rapidly expanding fields of thermal dark matter, cosmological first-order phase transitions and gravitational-wave signatures. In addition, the book presents the original and interdisciplinary PhD research work of the author relating to Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particles around the TeV scale, which are among the most studied dark matter candidates. Motivated by the absence of experimental evidence for such particles, this thesis explores the possibility that dark matter is much heavier than what is conventionally assumed.

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An illustrated biography focussing on the childhood of the great musician as well as how he came to be a great composer. The accompanying CD contains extracts of some of his most famous works as well as the narration of the story. Mozart was already writing music by the age of five, and when he was still very young, he travelled all over Europe and played for the Emperor of Austria, the King of France, and the Queen of England. Children who know songs from different countries, or who have tried writing songs of their own, wil find that they have much in common with Mozart.

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This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil.It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel, and it ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Once you have finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.

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This superb collection, hailed for its power, compassion and elegance, takes in the wide sweep of human experience. From the last hours of a condemned man, to the imaginary life of an AIDS patient, to the first performance of a bizarre new symphony, Yann Martel's stories are moving, thought-provoking and as inventive in form as they are timeless in content. They display the startling mix of dazzle and depth that has made him an international phenomenon.

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One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.

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Edgy, funny and devastating, Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated, bittersweet world. The discoveries of childhood give way to the thousand pangs of adolescence, culminating in the sudden shocking news of an accident abroad. And as adulthood begins, indecisively, boundaries are crossed between countries, languages and people . . .

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Die Hauptverhandlung wird seit dem Jahr 1879 von den miteinander verwobenen Grundsätzen der Mündlichkeit, Unmittelbarkeit und Anwesenheit beherrscht. Der Angeklagte hat nicht nur das Recht, sondern grundsätzlich auch die Pflicht, während der gesamten Hauptverhandlung anwesend zu sein. Keine der bisher vorgebrachten Begründungen vermag jedoch diesen schweren Grundrechtseingriff zu rechtfertigen. Gibt es tiefere Gründe für unser Verlangen nach der Präsenz des Angeklagten? Warum genügt uns nicht die schriftliche Stellungnahme des Abwesenden oder dessen Vertretung? Ein Brückenschlag zur Philosophie der Dekonstruktion verspricht uns Antworten auf diese Fragen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass sich das von Jacques Derrida diagnostizierte Ressentiment gegen Schriftlichkeit, Mittelbarkeit und Abwesenheit mit frappierender Ähnlichkeit in der Gestaltung unseres auf Präsenz beruhenden Prozessmodells widerspiegelt. Eine Parallele, bei der es sich nicht um eine Zufälligkeit handelt.

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For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be as untheatrical as possible, excluding from the courtroom live debates, trained orators, and spectators. According to Yann Robert, circumstances changed between 1750 and 1800 as parallel evolutions in theater and justice brought them closer together, causing lasting transformations in both. Robert contends that the gradual merging of theatrical and legal modes in eighteenth-century France has been largely overlooked because it challenges two widely accepted narratives: first, that French theater drifted toward entertainment and illusionism during this period and, second, that the French justice system abandoned any performative foundation it previously had in favor of a textual one. In Dramatic Justice, he demonstrates that the inverse of each was true. Robert traces the rise of a "judicial theater" in which plays denounced criminals by name, even forcing them, in some cases, to perform their transgressions anew before a jeering public. Likewise, he shows how legal reformers intentionally modeled trial proceedings on dramatic representations and went so far as to recommend that judges mimic the sentimental judgment of spectators and that lawyers seek private lessons from actors. This conflation of theatrical and legal performances provoked debates and anxieties in the eighteenth century that, according to Robert, continue to resonate with present concerns over lawsuit culture and judicial entertainment. Dramatic Justice offers an alternate history of French theater and judicial practice, one that advances new explanations for several pivotal moments in the French Revolution, including the trial of Louis XVI and the Terror, by showing the extent to which they were shaped by the period's conflicted relationship to theatrical justice.

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