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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 (...)
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 (...)
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.
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)