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Tür in die Zukunft

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 2:17:21 PST

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 2:16:34 PST

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In celebration of the publication of the sequel Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman comes this special edition of the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, a novel that transcends genre to stand as one of the most significant literary works of our time. In the Utah desert, Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibow ...

The Left Hand of Darkness

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 2:16:01 PST

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Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

Rendezvous With Rama

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 2:15:45 PST

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In the year 2130, a huge alien artifact approaches the Earth from outer space. Commander Norton and his crew take their ship to meet it, and, once inside, discover the wonders that go to make up Rama.

Die Triffids

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 2:15:13 PST

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Die Zeitfalte.

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 2:14:29 PST

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The City and the Stars

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 2:13:59 PST

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Anyone who ventured beyond the city of Diaspar would incur the wrath of the Invaders. It took one man, a Unique, to break through the fear, escape from Diaspar and learn the true nature of the Invaders. This is a reissue of Arthur C. Clarke's story of a society in the far future.

Flowers for Algernon

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 2:13:36 PST

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Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.

Märchen der Brüder Grimm

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:40:03 PST

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen nannten die Brüder Grimm vor mehr als hundertfünfzig Jahren ihre Märchensammlung. Diese Märchen sind seither zum Besitz unzähliger Kinder, sie sind zu einem wahren Hausschatz geworden. Generationen erfreuten sich an ihrem unvergänglichen Zauber und an ihrer tiefen Weisheit. Ihre Schönheit ist lebendig geblieben bis in unsere Zeit. Die bekanntesten Grimmschen Märchen wurden ...

¡Dormirás con la luz encendida!

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:36:12 PST

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Gerardo Bloomerfield ha tomado a su propia ciudad natal, Montevideo, por sorpresa... La ha ultrajado, invadido, plagado de maldiciones, mitos y fantasmas... Nada volverá a ser lo mismo después de él... Como un Horacio Quiroga de fines de siglo llega a sembrar con angustia nuestro entorno mas habitual... Como un Bloch uruguayo, nos atrapa sin remedio desde el principio de cada relato, solo para de ...

La Paz Perpetua

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:36:00 PST

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El gran filósofo alemán Manuel Kant, nació en el año 1724 y falleció en el año 1804, luego de transitar una vida intensa y particularmente comprometida con su tiempo y con los grandes temas que, desde siempre, interesaron al hombre. Los principios filosóficos de Manuel Kant están basados, fundamentalmente, en su visión crítica, de la cual surgen su aporte al entendimiento de todos los problemas, ...

Cuentos completos

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:34:47 PST

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Desde sus primeros cuentos en 1926, Paco Espínola dio originalmente con una visión aguda y profunda del hombre de nuestra tierra. Su arte narrativo, trató desde entonces el tema criollo con una hondura que le permitió alcanzar una dimensión verdaderamente clásica, ya sea en el desarrollo de las situaciones trágicas, ya sea en el despliegue de una dedicada ironía que se posa a menudo sobre sus per ...

El Amor, las mujeres y la muerte

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:13:52 PST

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Sun-Tzu

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:44:59 PST

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Sun-Tzu is a landmark translation of the Chinese classic that is without a doubt one of the most important books of all time. Popularly known as The Art of War, Sun-Tzu is one of the leading books on strategic thinking ever written. While other books on strategy, wisdom, and philosophy come and go, both leaders and gentle contemplators alike have embraced the writings of Sun-tzu.Sun-Tzu is not si ...

Tao- Te King.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:44:25 PST

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An Ideal Husband

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:36:34 PST

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New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes: The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play Critical, contextual and staging notes Photograph ...

The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Vol. 2

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:35:14 PST

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One of comic art¹s most respected and pioneering artists, well known for his opera adaptations and beautiful fantasy work, P. Craig Russell is in the process of adapting Oscar Wilde¹s famous fairy tales in a series of landmark volumes.

La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:33:46 PST

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For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de las grandes obras literarias. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan ...

Las flores del mal

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:24:05 PST

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El código da Vinci

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:23:17 PST

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Antes de morir asesinado, Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad ...

Hackers and Painters

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:22:15 PST

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"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves h ...

Don Quijote de La Mancha

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:49 PST

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Sin duda estamos ante una edición de El Quijote exclusiva y muy singular. Ilustrada con magníficas acuarelas a doble página y multitud de dibujos en pluma realizados por Salvador Dalí, se trata de la primera recopilación de todas las obras que el artista creó sobre este tema, que acompañan al texto revisado y actualizado por Martín de Riquer, miembro de la Real Academia Española. Un lujo al alcan ...

Faust. Der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:16:22 PST

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Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:14:56 PST

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EL HOMBRE QUE CALCULABA

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:08:53 PST

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The Trail of Cthulhu

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:05:33 PST

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La máscara de Cthulhu

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:05:22 PST

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Dagón y otros cuentos macabros

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:03:29 PST

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Los veinte relatos de H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) reunidos en este volumen pertenecen a la etapa inicial y más fecunda de su obra narrativa. "Dagon y otros cuentos" reviste el interés complementario de iluminar el nacimiento del fantástico mundo lovecraftiano, poblado por abominaciones cósmicas, dioses olvidados, ritos crueles y sueños abismales. La recopilación, que muestra el talento de su auto ...

Case of Charles Dexter Ward

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:02:27 PST

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Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in a quiet town near Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted that it kills without offering the mercy of death!

Moby-Dick

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:00:08 PST

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Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. Introduction by Andrew Delbanco Explanatory Commentary by Tom Quirk

En las montañas de la locura

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:57:31 PST

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En las montañas de la locura es la memoria en primera persona de un geólogo de la Universidad de Miskatonic sobre una reciente expedición dirigida por él al continente antártico y su trágico final. Narra el profesor superviviente cómo se inició la expedición, con aeroplanos y trineos tirados por perros, y cómo en uno de los vuelos de reconocimiento se toparon con una impresionante cordillera, tal ...

Karate-Do

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:55:46 PST

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Linking the time when karate was a strictly Okinawan art of self-defense shrouded in the deepest secrecy and the present day, when it has become a martial art practiced throughout the world, is Gichin Funakoshi, the "Father of Karate-do." Out of modesty, he was reluctant to write this autobiography and did not do so until he was nearly ninety years of age. Trained in the Confucian classics, he ...

Terror

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:53:36 PST

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"Su cabeza cayó hacia atrás y dejó escapar un sonido ronco. La linterna cayó al suelo, la luz se apagó y ambos nos encontramos sumidos en la oscuridad. Pero él no necesitaba luz para hacer su trabajo, que era morir. Y yo tampoco luz para llevar a cabo el mío, que era matar. Sus pies se levantaron del suelo un momento y después volvieron a bajar. Parecía una marioneta, un muñeco colgando de un hi ...

Psycho

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:51:23 PST

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It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night.Her room was musty buy clean and the plumbing worked. Norman Bates, the manager, seemed nice, if a little odd......

Fahrenheit 451

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:45:20 PST

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The classic bestseller about censorship - more important now than ever before. Fahrenheit 451 ...the temperature at which books burn The novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning... along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. ...

Conquerors' Pride

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:36:18 PST

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Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award-winning author of The New York Times best-selling Star Wars trilogy, blazes a spectacular new path across the sky in an epic original novel of star-spanning action adventure, mystery and intrigue. A long era of peace and prosperity in the interstellar Commonwealth has suddenly come to an end. Four alien starships of unknown origin have attacked, without provocation, an ...

The Gods Themselves

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:35:31 PST

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Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.

Contact

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:35:16 PST

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La única novela que escribió, Carl Sagan imagina una gran aventura, el primer encuentro del hombre con otros seres inteligentes.

A Brief History of Time

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:34:30 PST

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A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and t ...

O conto da Ilha Desconhecida

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:32:13 PST

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Der Vorleser

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:30:38 PST

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Foundation

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:28:08 PST

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One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, ...

Obras Completas, 1923-1949

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:26:00 PST

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Also Sprach Zarathustra

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:20:11 PST

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The picture of Dorian Gray

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:03:44 PST

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Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting inf ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:03:19 PST

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Die Insel.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:54:38 PST

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Filosofía en el tocador

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:54:04 PST

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La filosofía del tocador fue escrita en 1795, cuando el marqués de Sade se encontraba encarcelado en La Bastilla. En esta obra puede decirse que su autor prefirió la ironía, el diálogo y las relaciones humanas para ofrecer una crítica de la sociedad y, al mismo tiempo, un juego de pasiones muy característico. Un trabajo que nos recuerda al Aretino y a Boccaccio, los grandes escritores italianos q ...

Die Blechtrommel

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:48:45 PST

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Second Foundation

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:46:07 PST

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Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long. After years of struggle, th ...

Foundation and Empire

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:45:15 PST

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Get the entire Foundation Series for $13.47.The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its found ...

Foundation's Edge

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:44:53 PST

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Now, 498 years after its founding, the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the Seldon Plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it!

Foundation and Earth

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:44:45 PST

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The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have bee ...

El Señor de los anillos

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:40:58 PST

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En la adormecida e idílica Comarca, un joven hobbit recibe un encargo: custodiar el Anillo Único y emprender el viaje para su destrucción en las Grietas del Destino. Acompañado por magos, hombres, elfos y enanos, atravesará la Tierra Media y se internará en la sombras de Mordor, perseguido siempre por las huestes de Sauron, el Señor Oscuro, dispuesto a recuperar su creación para establecer el dom ...

Las dos torres

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:38:33 PST

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El retorno del rey

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:38:25 PST

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El Silmarillion

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:37:57 PST

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The Silmarillion tells of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's World, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle Earth, and the High Elves made war upon them for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. It is to this ancient drama that the characters in The Lord of the Rings so often look back to. Before the world began, the startling bea ...

El Hobbit

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:37:02 PST

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Tolkien's classic is splendidly illustrated in full color by noted artist Michael Hague.

Siddartha

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:17:10 PST

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The Antichrist

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:16:51 PST

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) wrote THE ANTICHRIST (1888) after THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA and shortly before the mental collapse that incapacitated him for the rest of his life. This work is both an unrestrained attack on Christianity and a further exposition of Nietzsche's will-to-power philosophy so dramatically presented in ZARATHUSTRA. Christianity, says Nietzsche, represents "everything wea ...

Jenseits von Gut und Böse

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:16:36 PST

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The Portable Atheist

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:15:53 PST

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From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and pres ...

The God Delusion

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:15:07 PST

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* Mp3 CD Format *. "Discover" magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution., br>"Prospect" magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.He critiqu ...

The Compact Arkham Unveiled

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:07:28 PST

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Great Old Ones

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:06:59 PST

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"For Call of Cthulhu"--Cover.

The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:06:35 PST

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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:06:18 PST

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." --H. P. LOVECRAFT, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" Howard Phillips Lovecraft forever changed the face of horror, fantasy, and science fiction with a remarkable series of stories as influential as the works of Poe, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His chilling mythology ...

Hacia la Fundación

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:06:03 PST

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Call Of Cthulhu

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:05:18 PST

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El ocho

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:04:34 PST

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Catherine Velis, experta en ordenadores, se ve involucrada en la peligrosa búsqueda de un legendario ajedrez que pertenecía a Carlomagno. En sus piezas se halla una fórmula vinculada a la alquimia, la masonería y las fuerzas cósmicas y, al parecer, quienes intentan recuperarlas sufren amenaza de muerte. El lector se sumergirá en la historia europea y conocerá a los propietarios del damero, los cr ...

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:04:18 PST

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This volume contains six zany, outrageous, out-of-this-world adventure stories by bestselling author Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Young Zaphod; and Mostly Harmless. [예스24 제공]

Obras Completas de Borges - Tomo 3

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:03:27 PST

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Martín Fierro

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:02:47 PST

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Un Mundo Feliz

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:01:52 PST

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Gracias por el fuego

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:01:39 PST

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I, Robot

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:59:43 PST

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The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With this, Asimov changed our perc ...

1984

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:59:27 PST

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The year 1984 is finally upon us, and George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1984 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia" - a startling original and powerful novel that creates and imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. "Seldom has a books provided a greater wea ...

Prelude to Foundation

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:59:07 PST

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It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has c ...

Selected Tales

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:58:47 PST

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Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Attentive to the historical and political dimen ...

Selbs Justiz

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:57:22 PST

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Trilogia Sucia De La Habana

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:56:59 PST

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Un despiadado recorrido por la Cuba contemporánea. Con un lenguaje fuerte y apretado, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez es el único capaz de expresar la rabia de quien habita en el vértice del huracán. En este libro, en gran medida autobiográfico, escarba en las entrañas de la Habana y lo revuelca todo irrespetuosamente: sexo, hambre, política, erotismo, desencanto, anhelos, ron y buen humor.

The Catcher in the Rye

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:56:20 PST

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A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?

Der Mann mit den Messern

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:55:11 PST

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The Canterville Ghost

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:53:42 PST

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Der Proceß

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:53:07 PST

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Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne daß er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet. Die Köchin der Frau Grubach, seiner Zimmervermieterin, die ihm jeden Tag gegen acht Uhr früh das Frühstück brachte, kam diesmal nicht. Das war noch niemals geschehn. K. wartete noch ein Weilchen, sah von seinem Kopfkissen aus die alte Frau die ihm gegenüber wohnte und die ihn mit ei ...

Im Krebsgang

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:52:39 PST

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Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung I.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:51:41 PST

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