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"Lecciones del ayer para el presente" es una antología de escritos que responden a diferentes momentos de la vida política española de la que Benito Pérez Galdós fue o bien actor o bien testigo de excepción. Algunos de ellos inéditos hasta ahora, estos textos dan cuenta de una época que abarca desde la juventud del autor hasta prácticamente sus últimos días, a pesar de su intermitencia, Galdós siempre estuvo muy atento al latir político...
2) Canciones
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Federico GarcÍa Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics. This collection will appeal to lovers of visual art, graphic novels, and poetry, and aims to bring the colorful and atmospheric landscape of Lorca's work to a new audience.
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"I hate marathons. Hate running. An hour before the start, I received a text. Instead of 'Good luck,' it was 'We're finished.' So, I went to a bar next to the subway on 96th. Had a few bourbons with some other mope. Then I got on a bike and took off down the old Lincoln Highway." Forget Route 66. This is the original cross-country highway that takes you through REAL America, the first to cross all of the US from the Big Apple to the City on the Bay....
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A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine in poignant and surprising ways.
L'Inconnue is a young woman lost in turbulent Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Pieter is a Norwegian toymaker and father to two young children in the 1950s.
Anouk is a contemporary Canadian suffering from cystic fibrosis, a medical condition that leaves her constantly fighting for air, swimming through the boundary between...
6) Lire des scénarios: Pour une approche interdisciplinaire et renouvelée des pratiques scénaristiques
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Au cours des dernières décennies, la création narrative a connu un essor significatif dans les médias tels le cinéma, la télévision, le web et les jeux vidéo. Dans ce contexte, l'intérêt pour les pratiques scénaristiques s'est étendu tant dans le monde professionnel que dans les milieux de formation et de recherche.
Ce livre met en lumière des perspectives interdisciplinaires et des enjeux intermédiaux liés à la lecture de scénarios....
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"En este libro, Ezequiel López Peralta nos lleva a un viaje para descubrir qué es el erotismo, cómo se manifiesta, cómo y por qué lo inhibimos,
cómo desbloquearlo, cómo enriquecerlo, cómo seducirnos y seducir a otra persona para poner nuestras potencialidades eróticas en función del bienestar erótico, sexual y afectivo personal y mutuo. El autor desarrolla las relaciones que el erotismo tiene con la sexualidad y la sensualidad y explica...
8) Generaciones
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«No quería que te murieses, papi. Siempre decías que te nos aparecerías si te morías».
Tras la muerte de su padre, la poeta Lucille Clifton comienza a desempolvar conversaciones, álbumes de fotos, recuerdos propios y ajenos para reconstruir la historia de su familia, los Sayles, descendientes de feroces amazonas guerreras, las mujeres dahomeyanas. Sus páginas invocan, entre otros, a mamá Ca'line, que con ocho años caminó desde Nueva...
9) Ereyesterday
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"I wrote this book in love, in pain,
In joy-remembering each name,
Names of lovers lost,
Names of voices dead
Tales of loving at a cost,
Of romance, and of life in shred
It's my heart for you to read or leave
Or find solace when you grieve
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10) La distancia
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Una novela perturbadora y magistral sobre las intrigas del destino.
La distancia es el doble viaje, geográfico y sentimental, que emprende Emilio para visitar a su amante marroquí, que está amenazada de muerte. Emilio vive el día a día de manera solitaria, haciendo traducciones y corriendo con su perro por pistas de montaña. Un encontronazo con el pasado coincide con un momento de inquietud: la relación que durante años ha mantenido con Tamar...
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"This book is born to let our soul realize that somewhere deep in us, we have the demon trying to hide in everyone. We have our own red flags trying to forget. Nevertheless, not always we can fight the urge to seal it. And some consequences of that action are heavy.
That's why this book was created. To help beings like you understand that everyone has a red flag. And it is ok! Because everyone is not a fictional character that has perfect attributes....
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"William E. Jefferson's '2102: Pretense, The Play' masterfully weaves a captivating narrative that explores the intricate dance between advancing technology and the very essence of human existence, leaving readers spellbound by its thought-provoking brilliance."
A work of fictional realism, not fantasy, 2102 offers an undeniable probe of modern-day reality, of technology and media effects. The author draws upon empirical findings, from a range of...
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In many parts of rural India, water is so scarce that people have to walk long distances and spend many hours collecting water for drinking, cooking, and washing. But in the remote village of Saja Pahad in Chhattisgarh, a teenage boy was determined to change this unhappy situation. The story of how he accomplished this is the stuff that legends are made of.
16) The Praying Leaf
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The Praying Leaf is collection of 2 verse narratives, namely The Praying Leaf and The Town Doctor. Both the two verse narratives are in onegin stanza. The onegin stanza was invented by Alexander Pushkin, the Poet, Novelist and Playwright(1799-1837). Both the verse narratives are stories, with a spiritual essence. They are heartfelt stories, inspired by true incidents and true characters, with a blend of writer's own imagination and emotions.As said...
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La vida se desliza, veloz, hasta que el cuerpo pisa el freno y se niega a seguir al mismo ritmo. Cuando el dolor lo coloniza, la voluntad pierde el control. En ese momento se pone en marcha un dispositivo médico, psicológico, familiar y social que acompañan al poseso para librarlo del tormento. ¿Es un drama o más bien una comedia en la que cada uno desempeña un papel? Porque el dolor se padece en soledad, pero el sufrimiento viene acompañado...
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"Minsan sa tula natin mahahanap ang paglilinaw sa mga bagay, mga kasagutan sa tanong kung paano tayo nagiging kabahagi nito habang binabasa. Ang tula ay nasa kahit saan, hinihintay lang niya ang makata na kumuha ng sangkap at magtimpla upang mabuo ito. Nabuo ang librong ito dahil sa karanasan at mga kuwentong pinaniniwalaan ng bayan na ayon sa kasaysayan ay tama.
Natagalan man sa pagluto ngayon ay buong pusong inihain ang bahagi ng kaisipan na inilapat...
19) The Coast
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A city, three lives, four decades, poems, drugs, booze, hippies, love, lust, loss- just keep moving. Some relationships linger across decades and continents, no mater how much individuals change. The links between Patrick, Joanna, Daisy, and San Francisco, though stretched, never snap. San Francisco and the Bay Area are at the heart of this story about three lives evolving over 40 years. When Patrick discovers San Francisco in the summer before...
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