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Repensar la escuela del CSIC en Roma: cien años de memoria
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Detenerse para mirar al pasado responde a una íntima necesidad humana y es al mismo tiempo una exigencia que conlleva el propio ejercicio del historiador. Esa mirada, que evita la nostalgia, implica repensar críticamente el presente e invita a una reflexión sobre las esperanzas y expectativas del (...)
Misión diplomática, I
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Recopilación de informes políticos, cartas, proyectos, telegramas y algunos ensayos y poemas del autor escritos durante su servicio diplomático. El primer tomo recoge los documentos relativos a su labor en España, Francia y Argentina, que se inicia en 1920 y concluye en 1937.
Gobernanza y Redes de Política Pública en espacios locales de México
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En la actualidad, los múltiples y variados enfoques, marcos teóricos y definiciones de la gobernanza (governance) hacen difícil su uso consistente. Sin embargo, parece haber consenso en que la gobernanza puede ser abordada desde perspectivas amplias y estrechas.
Dificultades de comportamiento en edades muy tempranas
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Dificultades de comportamiento en muy edades tempranas" ayuda a los lectores a entender el porqué del comportamiento de los niños y les anima a reflexionar sobre cómo manejan las situaciones difíciles. Este accesible y práctico libro proporciona una serie de estrategias, de eficacia probada y (...)
Poemas de Julian del Casal
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Esta es una antología de los mejores poemas de unos de los poetas más relevantes de la Cuba del siglo XIX.
Explaining Hitler
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Ever since the Second World War and the Holocaust, historians, psychologists and theologians alike have attempted to explain how a single personality could bring about some of the greatest horrors of the modern era. Ron Rosenbaum s Explaining Hitler investigates the meanings and motivations people (...)
A Writer's World
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In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the late twentieth century. Ranging from New York to Venice, and the Middle East to South Africa, Jan Morris was a witness to such (...)
Nature's Engraver
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At the end of the 18th-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick s History of British Birds marked the moment, the first field-guide for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered (...)
Cavalier
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William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in triumph on the restoration of King Charles II to (...)
Memorial
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Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its nobility , as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its bright unbearable reality (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped (...)
Collected Prose
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The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace and The Book of Illusions presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe (...)
Mi tío el empleado
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Mi tío el empleado relata la historia de don Vicente Cuevas, que llega a Cuba de España a bordo de un bergantín, sin más carta de presentación que una recomendación del señor marqués de Casa Vetusta. La novela es narrada por el sobrino de Vicente; y denuncia cómo los funcionarios de la colonia se (...)
Conundrum
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As one of Britain's best and most loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the (...)
Scenes of Childhood
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In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders (...)
We Come Unseen
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We Come Unseen, first published in 2001, follows the careers of six Royal Navy submariners from their graduation from Dartmouth's Britannia Royal Naval College in 1963, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Between these dates, it seemed that nuclear war was (...)
Somebody
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Marlon Brando will never cease to fascinate us: for his triumphs as an actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris), as well as his disasters; for the power of the screen portrayals he gave, and for his turbulent, tumultuous personal life. Seamlessly intertwining the man and the (...)
Into the Abyss
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Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations? And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do they find the resources to survive?In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a series of tales from his own experience as well as that of other explorers including Columbus, (...)
Small Hours
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Lachlan MacKinnon s fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures (...)
English Captain
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Barcelona is colour, noise, heat, dust, violent traffic and quick-moving people. Many of the men carry rifles slung on their backs… Tom Wintringham (1898-1949) was a pioneer of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and commander of the British Battalion in the bloody Battle of Jarama (...)
Ariel
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The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are (...)
De los nombres de Cristo
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Fray Luis de León empezó a escribir en 1572 De los nombres de Cristo, y la terminó en 1585. Esta obra muestra su idea definitiva de los temas que esbozó en sus poemas en forma de diálogo ciceroniano donde se comentan las diversas interpretaciones de los nombres que se dan a Cristo en la Biblia. El (...)
Pain of Death
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A woman is discovered beneath the London streets, barely alive. Soon after, DC Josie Chancellor finds an abandoned, newborn baby close to Leadengate station. DI Will Wagstaffe puts woman and baby together. The woman is Kerry Degg, a burlesque singer, as well as a rotten wife and mother. Kerry (...)
Tempest in a Flat Hat
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Sirk on Sirk
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Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of Hollywood cinema.In 1937 Sirk left Germany, after a successful career in theatre and film, and came to (...)
Istanbul
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Turkey s greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. An extraordinary and transcendentally beautiful book . . . It is a long time since I (...)
Autobiographies I
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'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in the things that made me.' Sean O'Casey, 1948 Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiographies, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently (...)
Innocent Birds
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'A village is like a stage that retains the same scenery throughout all the acts of the play. The actors come and go, and walk to and fro, with gestures that their passions fair or foul use them to… A country village has a way now and again of clearing out all its inhabitants in one rush, as though (...)
Franklin
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In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and men were fated never to return. The cause of their loss (...)
Three Days in May
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Ben Brown's political thriller takes us behind the doors of Number Ten in May 1940 during three pivotal days in British History when, extraordinarily, giving in to Hitler was seriously considered.Having urgently assembled the British war cabinet, the new Prime Minister is confronted with an intense (...)
Two Cures for Love
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The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope s experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers readers a new arrangement of the poetry as a (...)
The Memsahibs
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Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters; others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. What they did and how they responded to their strange environment were seldom thought worthy of record, and writers have handed down (...)
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
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When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard-minded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, (...)
The Storm at the Door
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Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient in the country's premiere mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to a simpler time even as the pace of the outside world accelerated into modernity. Meanwhile, in a (...)
Blue Murder
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A car mowing its way through Flaxborough market (and almost over Constable Cowdry) dramatically signals the presence of fearless, crusading journalist - Clive Grail, bent on uncovering scandal in that town s quiet and overtly respectable back streets. In answer to published hints of revelations to (...)
Admirals
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The true story of how Britain s maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world s economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through the lives and battles of eleven of our most remarkable (...)
The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures
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Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in our field of study, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success ( I m a winner, Lord Sugar ) to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. (...)
American Trade
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When life in New York gets to hot to handle, charismatic hustler Pharus escapes the clutches of rap star Jules and moves to London. A funny, uncompromising about surviving in the big city that challenges our assumptions about racial and sexual identity, American Trade celebrates (...)
City of the Dead
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New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique sources. What Claire discovers takes us into the (...)
Erskine Childers
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Immortalized as the author of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers led a life quite as enigmatic and adventurous as his classic novel.Childers was orphaned at an early age. Though he was brought up in County Wicklow, he received an English education that culminated in a clerkship to the House (...)
I May Be Some Time
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When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the British imagination. Despite wars and social change, despite recent debunking, it is still there. Everyone remembers the last words of Scott's companion Captain Oates - 'I'm just going (...)