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The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoir in her twenties, thirties and forties. Beginning as a recent graduate from the Sorbonne teaching high-school girls, we see de Beauvoir revel in the freedom her new financial independence brings. We see her and Jean-Paul Sartre recognise the powerful romantic and intellectual partnership they have found in one another, as they fall in love and define their own unconventional parameters. The Second World War comes, bringing austerity, violence and questions of the reality of freedom and individual responsibility into de Beauvoir’s life. As relevant and penetrating as when first published, The Prime of Life offers rare insight into a truly fascinating mind.
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The unbreakable bonds of family and love are explored in this brilliant and tender story from the author of Guy's Girl.On the day she arrives in Canada for her older brother's wedding, Eliot Beck hasn't seen her family in three years. Eliot adores her big, wacky, dysfunctional collection of siblings and in-laws, but there's a reason she fled to Manhattan and buried herself in her work—and she’s not ready to share it with anyone. Not when speaking it aloud could send her back into the never-ending cycle of the obsessive-compulsive disorder that consumed her for years.Eliot thinks she's prepared to survive the four-day-long wedding extravaganza—until she sees her best friend, Manuel, waiting for her at the marina and looking as handsome as ever. He was the person who, when they met as children, felt like finding the missing half of her soul. The person she tried so hard not to fall in love with… but did anyway.Manuel's presence at the wedding threatens to undo the walls Eliot has built around herself. The fortress that keeps her okay. If she isn't careful, by the end of this wedding, the whole castle might come crumbling down.
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A cornucopia of culture, Vienna puts art, music and theatre at centre stage. Whether you want to explore the stunning gardens of Schönbrunn Palace, gaze at Gustav Klimt's masterpieces at the Belvedere or cycle along the Danube embankment, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Vienna has to offer.
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Discover 60 uplifting birding adventures plus 120 extra ideas on bird-rich trips that explore the joys and pleasures of watching our feathered friends in nature.
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Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic, of friends, family, and strangers, those found in books and films. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.A weekend spent shopping for antiques is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis.Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It is a reckoning with human survival amidst ''history's own brutality, which refuses symmetries and seldom consoles'' - but it is also a testament to the possibility of joy. This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.
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For as long as I can remember, I've had one dream.Go to the same college as my friends, become the starting quarterback of a division one team, and hear my name announced to the world come draft day.The path was clear, and things were falling in place perfectly. And then she came along.Now I'm in love with a girl . . . whose heart was buried alongside the boy she gave it to. The ghost I can't compete with. The father of her newborn son.She wants me to walk away, to focus on my love for football, but I can't, because I have a new dream.And it begins and ends with them.
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CHANEL is one of the best-known luxury brands in the world. Yet it remains the most mysterious of them all. From Paris and rue Cambon, CHANEL will forever be Gabrielle - a woman who revolutionized feminine elegance. Carefree and audacious, the designer turned simplicity into the height of luxury. Bold and unpredictable, the brand, now over 100 years old, continues to astound with its one-of-a-kind fashion shows, iconic N°5 perfume and 2.55 bag, exquisite jewellery and cutting-edge beauty products. By passing on its unparalleled expertise over time - from Gabrielle Chanel, to Karl Lagerfeld, to Virginie Viard - it has built its legend.With a wealth of beautiful images and fascinating inserts, including previously unpublished facsimile documents, this volume is an invitation into the sublime and eternal world of the House of CHANEL.
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All organizations have a culture, whether they acknowledge it or not, and whether it's helping or hindering them.Get it right, and culture can be a positive force for good. Get it wrong, and culture can be a negative, becoming toxic and undermining performance and reputations.In short, culture matters.It can, though, be a tricky thing to understand and master. The Power of Culture tackles this head-on, exploring what culture is and why it matters, how it needs to be aligned with strategy and values, and how to understand it, change it and make it a reality.Told through real stories and examples and using the author's Intentional Culture Circle as a guide, this book helps everyone at work to be more aware of culture and how to find opportunities to make it work better.
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Whether you want to meander around medieval medinas, be entranced by storytellers and musicians on Marrakech's main square or indulge in some rest and relaxation at Essaouira, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Morocco has to offer.
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If no one ever died, what would happen then?For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named Valdemar and is lured to a secret death metal gig in a remote forest. Geir, a policeman, is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees – the last bodies he sees, because, as undertaker Syvert is the first to realise, people have stopped dying since the star appeared.What is haunting the world – and why?As profound as it is thrilling, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Third Realm is a breathtaking novel about ordinary lives on the cusp of irrevocable change.
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Raised to be my father’s weapon against the Coven that took away his sister and his birthright, I would do anything to protect my younger brother from suffering the same fate. My duty forces me to the secret town of Crystal Hollow and the prestigious Hollow’s Grove University—where the best and brightest of my kind learn to practice their magic free from human judgment.There are no whispered words here. No condemnation for the blood that flows through my veins. The only animosity I face comes from the beautiful and infuriating Headmaster, Alaric Grayson Thorne, a man who despises me just as much as I loathe him and everything he stands for.But that doesn’t mean secrets don’t threaten to tear the school in two. No one talks about the bloody massacre that forced it to close decades prior, only the opportunity it can afford to those fortunate enough to attend.Because for the first time in fifty years, the Coven will open its wards to the Thirteen: thirteen promising students destined to change the world.If the ghosts of Hollow’s Groves’ victims don’t kill them first...The Coven is book one in the Coven of Bones series and ends on a cliffhanger. This is a gothic, dark-academia, paranormal romance and includes elements that may be triggering to some listeners.
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Han secuestrado a Harley Quinn. Hay un misterioso culpable que se la ha arrebatado al Joker, pero ¿de quién se trata? Mientras, unos monstruos humanoides y horripilantes muy parecidos al Joker acechan en las calles de Gotham y coleccionan cabezas cortadas. Pero ¿por qué? Jim Gordon ha desaparecido. Y tras recibir un paquete que contiene una parte ensangrentada del comisario de Gotham, Batman sabe que debe estar dispuesto a todo con tal de salvarlo. Pero ¿cómo? Cuando el Joker le propone una alianza que no le entusiasma, las respuestas empiezan a aflorar junto a una conspiración siniestra que sacudirá la vida de Batman. Esta obra oscura y brutal, realizada meticulosamente por Marc Silvestri, toda una estrella del mundo del cómic, revisa la relación que existe entre el Caballero Oscuro y el Príncipe Payaso del Crimen enviándolos a los dos a un descenso al corazón de las tinieblas. No estás preparado.
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Ha llegado a Gotham City un asesino nuevo. Sus objetivos son personalidades relevantes de Estados Unidos, y su origen es nada menos que la Unión Soviética. El Martillo, una célula secreta de la KGB, ha enviado a su mejor agente a acometer esta masacre. ¿Qué sucederá cuando este enemigo temible se encuentre con Batman? Las diez noches de la Bestia es una de las sagas que marcaron la célebre etapa de Jim Starlin y Jim Aparo al frente de la serie regular Batman. Alejados casi siempre de los villanos recurrentes salvo en ciertas excepciones, los dos autores dedicaron esfuerzos al desarrollo de amenazas más mundanas como las que provocaban pesadillas a los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos en plena Guerra Fría.
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L’exposició Els mons d’Alícia. Somiar el país de les meravelles integra les múltiples visions del personatge en els àmbits de la literatura, el cinema, les arts escèniques i les arts plàstiques, i el situa en un segle XXI que ha esborrat les fronteres entre la realitat i el món imaginari. Alícia hi apareix com una figura precursora: una nena amb una gran curiositat per totes les coses, que desafia la lògica de les idees immutables i troba el seu camí en un mon absurd.
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When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever.After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish―into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all the way to the front lines of battle: for her brother, the fate of mankind, and love.Shadow and Bone meets Lore in this epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.
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'A delightfully sweet and cozy novel that's as comforting as a warm cup of tea' - Kirkus Reviews, StarredFollowing the untimely death of their parents, Anne, Beatrix, and Violet Quigley have made a business of threading together the stories that lie at the bottom of their customers' teacups. Days at their teashop are filled with fortune-telling intertwined with the sound of clinking china and the scent of cinnamon shortbread.When the Council of Witches comes calling with news that the city Diviner has lost her powers, the sisters suddenly find themselves being pulled in different directions. As Anne's magic begins to develop beyond that of her sisters', Beatrix's writing attracts the attention of a publisher, and Violet is enchanted by the song of the circus-and a mischievous trapeze artist threatening to sweep her off her feet-it seems a family curse that threatens to separate the sisters forever is taking effect.With dwindling time to rewrite their future and save the cosy and much-loved tearoom, the Quigleys set out to bargain with Fate. But in focusing so closely on saving each other, will they lose sight of themselves?
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With an introduction by Helen OyeyemiA mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and flowers.A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Thirty-eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity.Mercè Rodoreda, in these beguiling, uncanny stories, fragments of beauty and darkness, combines inventive force and lyrical power in a poetic voice of indelible magnetism, and confirms herself as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.
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‘Twas the night before Chrissie, when inside their home, not a Heeler was stirring, not even a gnome.It’s Christmas Eve and Bluey and Bingo are tucked up snug in their beds. When suddenly a noise outside wakes them up . . . Who could it be?Experience the magic of Christmas Eve with Bluey and the Heeler family in this retelling of the classic Christmas tale!Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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En 2002, el mundo cambia para siempre. Todo hombre, chico y mamífero con cromosoma Y sobre la faz de la Tierra se desploma súbitamente y muere. Con la pérdida de más de la mitad de la población del planeta, los engranajes de la sociedad se detienen, y un mundo de mujeres tiene que recoger los pedazos e intentar evitar que la civilización se derrumbe del todo.Sin embargo, el “generocidio” no es total. Por algún motivo desconocido, un joven llamado Yorick Brown y su mono Ampersand sobreviven. De la noche a la mañana, este veinteañero anónimo se convierte en la persona más importante del planeta. Y se espera que sea la clave para desentrañar el secreto de esta misteriosa plaga tan específica.Para Yorick, la persona más importante del planeta está a 15.000 kilómetros de distancia, y él no se detendrá ante nada para encontrarla. Sin embargo, al recorrer este paisaje posmasculino, el hombre y el mono descubrirán lo valiosos que son... como premio y como objetivo.La aclamada serie de Vertigo Y, el último hombre, del guionista Brian K. Vaughan y la dibujante Pia Guerra, hace realidad de forma muy vívida la vieja especulación sobre qué le pasaría realmente al último hombre de la Tierra. Descúbrelo en esta nueva edición de la obra ganadora de tres premios Eisner.
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Explora el sorprendente mundo de las plantas y los hongos, desde cactus y plantas carnívoras hasta árboles, flores y setas ¿Por qué las flores son coloridas y las frutas dulces? ¿Cómo mata una planta carnívora a su presa? ¿Por qué pican las ortigas? ¿Cómo convierten los árboles la luz en alimento? Este fabuloso libro sobre la naturaleza encantará a los jóvenes lectores gracias a los detalles microscópicos y los datos sorprendentes sobre el mundo vegetal. La complejidad de la naturaleza se enseña de manera clara a través de amenas explicaciones, ilustraciones, fotografías e impresionantes imágenes en 3D. Este imprescindible libro enseña a los niños todo sobre las plantas y los hongos con preciosas ilustraciones: mira dentro de una hoja, observa cómo brota una semilla, sigue una raíz bajo tierra y contempla cómo una flor se convierte en fruto. Esta completa enciclopedia de la naturaleza ofrece: - Datos, gráficos, líneas de tiempo e ilustraciones que cubren una amplia gama de temas. - Plantas y hongos de todo el mundo. - Imágenes generadas por ordenador increíblemente detalladas.- Perfecto para proyectos escolares. - Un enfoque visual, utilizando ilustraciones, fotografías e imágenes CGI 3D. Conoce cómo las plantas y los hongos forman la base de cada ecosistema, haciendo nuestro planeta habitable. La vida en la Tierra no podría existir sin plantas y hongos. Las plantas crean los alimentos que comemos y el oxígeno que respiramos. Regulan el clima, proporcionan hábitats para los animales y producen recursos sostenibles que podemos utilizar para fabricar libros, ropa, muebles y casas. Cada página está repleta de datos increíbles. ¿Sabías que el árbol más antiguo del mundo empezó a crecer antes de que se construyeran las pirámides? Más títulos de la colección-Planeta Tierra 9780241582817 -Animales 97802413000992 -Dinosaurios 9780241420539 -Ciencia 9780241382387 -Océanos 9780241507728 -Cuerpo humano 9780241326831 -Universo 9780241537947-Historia 9780241432440
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MiróMatisse. Au-delà des images, catalogue de l'exposition du même nom conçue par la Fundació Joan Miró de Barcelone et le Musée Matisse de Nice, explore la relation entre les oeuvres d'Henri Matisse et de Joan Miró, un lien relativement inexploré à ce
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Este libro marcará la diferencia en la literatura científica y humanista, en español, sobre las infancias: el primer manual de atención para los padres de niños y niñas transgénero, no binarios o género fluido, escrito por especialistas reconocidas en todo el mundo. Desde su publicación en habla inglesa, Infancias trans ha sido reconocido como la fuente de información más confiable para las familias que requieren orientación profesional.
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El duelo entre el chino Ding Liren y el ruso Ian Nepomniachtchi por el título mundial marcó un antes y un después. Por primera vez en mucho tiempo, las soporíferas partidas acabadas en tablas «de grandes maestros» se vieron sustituidas por una sucesión de victorias de uno y otro contendiente, en un combate de golpes y contragolpes que más parecía una final de boxeo por su dramatismo. El Gran Maestro Iván Salgado, uno de los diez mejores jugadores españoles de la actualidad y buen conocedor de ambos contendientes, a los que se ha enfrentado desde su juventud en el tablero, nos comenta todas las partidas y nos proporciona las claves para entender su desarrollo y disfrutar de las mejores estrategias y maniobras tácticas de ambos.La psicología ha sido también un aspecto destacado de este choque, y quién mejor para narrarnos esa esgrima mental que el psicólogo Carlos Martínez, uno de los máximos especialistas internacionales en psicología aplicada al ajedrez. Sus profundas observaciones y un detallado análisis de aspectos como las aperturas elegidas, el tiempo empleado en cada partida, el lenguaje no verbal durante el juego o las declaraciones de los aspirantes explicando sus motivaciones, nos abren una ventana a entender el trasfondo de las decisiones tomadas en el tablero.
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A piercing story of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writersMarianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simon's plans are blown off course, and Marianne is forced to bury her dreams of a future together.Narrating her own story, characterising herself as ignorant and unworthy, Marianne's telling use of irony and smart thinking gradually suggest to us that she has underestimated her own worth. We begin to believe that - in the end, supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella - she will find the life she never stops craving. But what we can't envisage is that beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst has been nursing a secret which will alter everything.
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Mercedes Núñez Targa was born in Barcelona in 1911. She served as secretary of the poet Pablo Neruda, and fought in the Civil War with the Catalan socialists. Following the collapse of the Spanish Republic, she was imprisoned under the Franco dictatorship in Madrid. Unexpectedly released in 1942, she fled to France under a false identity and joined the French Resistance. In 1944 she was arrested by the Gestapo, subjected to a brutal interrogation, and transported to Ravensbrück, the Nazis' infamous all-female concentration camp. In April 1945 the camp was liberated by American soldiers, just days before her scheduled execution in the gas chambers. Bearing Witness is her moving and illuminating account of two totalitarian regimes and the brave women resisting them.
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'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong KongThe Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth. Born a 'princeling' to one of Communist China's ruling families, the young Xi was exiled to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. He fought his way back to the top by stealth, privilege and guile. In 2012, following the spectacular fall of his rival Bo Xilai, Xi Jinping became the leader of China.In a compulsively readable narrative, veteran foreign correspondent Michael Sheridan takes the reader from the poor, isolated country of Xi's youth to the military and economic superpower of today. In Xi's new China, family mafias struggle for power amid murder, corruption and sex scandals as ministers and generals vanish in purges. No one is safe in his techno-security state. Xi is an absolute ruler whose word is law on everything from war and peace to the ruthless campaign against Covid-19. He aims to dominate world trade, to defeat Western democracy and to make China the supreme power in the East. A loner and a risk-taker, he is the most consequential leader of our time.Drawing on intimate stories from the closed world of China's leading families and two decades of first-hand reporting, Michael Sheridan sheds new light on the history and politics of China. The book reveals that behind the façade of the Chinese Communist Party there is a modern dynasty and a new emperor.
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A STUDY IN DROWNING comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her.
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In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.
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The third book in the Beasts of the Briar series, a spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling filled with morally grey characters, a sinfully hot villain and a princess who has found her Prince Charming. All four of them.
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From the eerie to the magical by way of the deeply strange, this collection is a must for fans of the hugely popular fantasy genre.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince draws on the great fairy tale tradition. Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Old Nurse gives us a taste of the Gothic whilst H.P. Lovecraft journeys into the weird. The effects of war and loss are keenly felt by Arthur Machen in his moving story, The Bowmen. And in Victorian times, children’s writers such as Edith Nesbit spin the most charming fantastical tales in stories like The Dragon Tamers.These amazing feats of imagination and many more brilliantly showcase the many facets of fantasy writing.
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In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.
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In The ADHD Advantage, leading psychiatrist and viral TedX speaker Dr Anders Hansen shows you how to turn your diagnosis into an asset, handle the negative aspects of ADHD, and find joy in the fact we aren't all the same.
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La presente edición presenta un conjunto de novedades respecto de la edición 2023, pues desde la publicación de la misma se han incorporado modificaciones a la legislación de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social. Durante la vigencia de la presente edición, la normativa reproducida en este volumen que vaya teniendo modificaciones en el contenido de su texto principal podrá consultarse a través de la página web www.tecnos.es.
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Scottish student Isla escapes to Japan after a relationship falters, and finds old ghosts and new loves when a typhoon sends her time-travelling to the last days of the Samurai in this action-packed adventure Japan, 2005. While researching her ancestors, twenty-year-old Isla encounters a vicious typhoon that sends her back in time to 1877, the dawn of the [real life] Satsuma Rebellion. Through a combination of fate and courage, Isla meets her ancestors, as well as Keiichiro Maeda, a Samurai she ends up falling for.
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Narraciones de época y relatos de viajeros componen una historia del mundo que nos narra el camino transitado por las especias.El libro explora la Historia de la humanidad contada a través del vínculo de las sociedades con las especias. El autor hace énfasis en que las especias fueron el vehículo no solo del intercambio comercial, sino de la unión entre Oriente y Occidente, zonas tan alejadas como Venecia y las islas Molucas o Indonesia y Noruega. El clavo de olor, la canela, la pimienta y el cardamomo protagonizan este relato único en la que los humanos son personajes secundarios.
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Las Relaciones publicadas en este volumen fueron escritas por Gutierre de Monroy, quien navegó de Cádiz a la India en 1613 y fue miembro de la embajada que salió de Goa hacia la corte de Shāh ‘Abbās I (r. 1588-1629) en 1617, con el embajador García de Silva y Figueroa. La misión de esta embajada en el Irán safávida era negociar la devolución de los territorios conquistados por los safávidas a los portugueses en el Golfo Pérsico y la eterna cuestión de la alianza militar con Shāh ‘Abbās contra los otomanos. Sin embargo, el manuscrito cubre una gama más amplia de temas más allá del Irán safávida. Además de la misión a la corte de Shāh ‘Abbās, el texto ofrece abundante información sobre las costumbres indias vecinas al Estado da Índia portugués. Las Relaciones presentan hechos y anécdotas objetivos, así como observaciones esclarecedoras de un profesional militar del siglo XVII que registró meticulosamente sus impresiones durante sus extensos viajes a la India y la Persia safávida. La motivación de la autoría detrás de las Relaciones sigue siendo desconocida. Quizás emprendió el viaje para recibir una recompensa cortesana o simplemente para documentar sus viajes y legitimar sus acciones. Sin embargo, el texto proporciona una gran cantidad de información y contribuye a la extensa colección europea de relatos de viajes asiáticos. En este caso, se trata del relato de un soldado español de principios del siglo XVII sobre sus viajes por la India y la Persia safávida en una época turbulenta para la presencia portuguesa y española en Asia.
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