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Cosecha en el desierto

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 0:59:43 PST

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Novela juvenil situada en las grandes estepas del Asia central, donde se adjudica un territorio a los leprosos de Irán para que funden una comunidad. Algunos ingenieros intentan transformar la estepa en terreno regable y cultivable, pero todo es muy duro. Los protagonistas han de dar lo mejor de ellos mismos y tratar de buscar, aparte de las cosechas del desierto, otras cosechas relacionadas con ...

The Joke

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:40:45 PST

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All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: gre ...

Seis personajes en busca de autor

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:38:21 PST

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The Woman and the Ape

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:31:59 PST

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General FictionLarge Print EditionHoeg is an adventurous and intelligent writer whose future course seems happily, impossible to predict . . . one of the essential contemporary novelists. starred, Kirkus ReviewsNo imaginative writer today is more daring than Danish novelist Peter Hoeg. starred, Booklist* A Literary Guild Main SelectionAn hour after nightfall the ape rose, wrapped an arm around ...

I Dreamed of Africa

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:24:10 PST

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This autobiography tells the story of an Italian woman whose life is driven by love of Africa. The prologue covers a string of deaths which shaped Kuki Gallmann's life including that of a woman friend who died in a car crash. The widower, Paulo (who then married Kuki), his two daughters and Kuki's son by a previous marriage all went to Kenya and bought a large estate. Paulo died in an accident an ...

Mama/ mom

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:20:53 PST

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Gran historia universal: Civilizaciones fluviales

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:16:17 PST

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Europa medieval

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:16:01 PST

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Los vikingos

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:15:47 PST

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MESOPOTAMIA

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:15:32 PST

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Renacimiento

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:15:19 PST

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La vida en el Antiguo Egipto

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:14:58 PST

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Tanto las tumbas egipcias como los poblados están repletos de información sobre aspectos mundanos de la gente humilde. Queda representado un amplio abanico de actividades como campañas militares, cultos religiosos, agricultura, asuntos domésticos, manufactura y artesanía y las infinitas formas de vida de un pueblo. El Doctor Eugen Strouhal utiliza todas estas fuentes de información en un ameno li ...

TUTANKAMÓN

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:14:46 PST

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El interés por la tumba de Tutankamón no ha dejado de crecer desde su descubrimiento en 1922 por el elogiado arqueólogo Howard Carter. Algunas exposiciones internacionales han puesto algunas piezas seleccionadas al alcance de muchos. Este volúmen ofrece una gran cantidad de material, mayor de lo habitual, en una colección de magníficas fotografías.

Gnomos/ gnomes

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:14:30 PST

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Gramática básica del estudiante de español

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:14:09 PST

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Protagonistas

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:13:02 PST

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Breve historia del español de América

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:12:44 PST

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Gramática esencial

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:12:34 PST

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Dificultades de español para brasileños

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:12:22 PST

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Descripción y Solución de los errores más frecuentes. Exposición del error; Claves y fórmulas para corregirlo; Ejercicios para consolidar el aprendizaje; ...

SOROLLA(ENCICLOPEDIA ILUSTRADA)

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:11:04 PST

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MUJERES ARTISTAS DE LOS SIGLOS XX Y XXI

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:10:30 PST

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Leonardo 1452-1519 - Rustica

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:10:16 PST

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Beautifully illustrated. Spanish text.

Life

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:08:59 PST

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Nuevas crónicas de cine

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:08:18 PST

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Mirar

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:08:08 PST

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Sobre Lo Espiritual En El Arte/the Spiritualism Of Art

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:07:57 PST

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Century, Mini Edition

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:07:44 PST

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CENTURY is an award-winning history of the twentieth century told in photographs. More than any other, the last century was a period of unforeseeable advances, discoveries and victories as well as unanticipated atrocities and suffering, and it was the first century to have been entirely documented by the camera. Thus the chronological sequence of images in this book takes us on a journey through ...

Curso práctico de dibujo

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:07:30 PST

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Photo Icons

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:04:16 PST

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Photo Icons II, 1928-1991

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:04:09 PST

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Robert Doisneau

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:03:59 PST

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Text dt., engl., franz. Als Repräsentant einer zutiefst humanen Fotografie hat uns Doisneau unablässig seine Geschichten erzählt, Geschichten voller Poesie und Humor, besaß er doch diese unvergleichliche Begabung, seine einfühlsame Komplizenschaft zu vermitteln, diese tiefe und zugleich rasch vergängliche innere Beziehung, die ihn mit seinem jeweiligen Motiv verband.Sein ausgeprägtes Interesse ...

Chaplin

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:03:47 PST

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The unparalleled career of the Little Tramp Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp is the supreme icon of motion picturesstill recognized and loved throughout the world, more than 90 years since he first burst on the screen. The shabby little figurewith derby hat, too-tight jacket, oversized boots and pants, dandified bow tie, and swagger caneseemed to symbolize the hopes and fears, defeats and optim ...

20th century photography

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:02:24 PST

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This work provides a fascinating insight into Germany's L. Fritz Gruber photography collection; from conceptual art to abstraction, all the major movements and genres are represented via a vast selection of the century's most remarkable photographs.

Icons of the 16th Century

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:02:13 PST

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Weston

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:02:06 PST

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Throughout the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, Weston was a major force in pushing forward the art of photography. This collection presents 180 of Weston's finest ...

Man Ray

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:00:57 PST

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This is a comprehensive overview of the life and work of the groundbreaking artist Man Ray (1890-1976) who broke down the boundaries between photography and graphic design with his innovative techniques.Man Ray is indisputably one of the most original artists of the 20th century. His revolutionary nude studies, fashion work, and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography. Born u ...

15th Century Paintings

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:00:44 PST

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Edward S. Curtis: Native America

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:00:36 PST

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A collection of images paying homage to the great photographer.

Sean Connery

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 1:00:19 PST

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This title provides visual biographies of cinema's greatest stars. Why is the only non-American on the AFI's prestigious list a Scotsman? Perhaps it's because Sean Connery's career, as international in its scope as it may have been, as global as may have been his appeal, made him a 'genuine movie star' without any petty disputation, pretension, or pandering to current fashion. Indisputably, Conne ...

The Photography Book

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:59:25 PST

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Since it was first developed by Daguerre in the 1840s, photography has followed an interesting and varied course in its progress from a practical means of documentation to an art form with its own icons, heroes, galleries and collectors. This eye-catching and engrossing book contains every sort of photography, all of it arranged in an easily accessible and fun format. Pictures of famous events su ...

1000 obras maestras de la pintura europea

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:59:10 PST

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Dali

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:21:18 PST

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Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century's true eccentrics and exhibitionists.

Picasso

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:21:06 PST

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Rockwell

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:20:56 PST

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Michelangelo

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:20:14 PST

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This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! It describes Michelangelo between earthly passions and fear of God. During the Renaissance, several great homosexual artists - from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Raphael - transformed the history of art, striving for ever closer imitation of nature while shaping it to their tastes. In their art ambiguous beings were born, half m ...

Kahlo

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:20:00 PST

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Su vida y su obra estaban más inextricablemente entrelazadas que en la mayoría de los otros artistas. Las llamativas pinturas de Kahlo, ...

HIROSHIGE

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:19:06 PST

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The Photographs

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:17:13 PST

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National Geographic The Photographs is a captivating, full-color presentation of National Geographic magazines best and most memorable photographs of the last 25 years, the facts behind them, and the stories of the men and women who took them. Page after page of this beautiful, large-format book presents stunning images that capture the major themes of the National Geographic Society: wildlife o ...

Arte y técnica de la animación

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 0:14:52 PST

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Hackear el periodismo

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:27:49 PST

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Tan disruptivo como estimulante. Tan provocador como sugerente. Un libro acerca de la desafiante tarea que tienen los comunicadores, y en especial los periodistas, cuando se trata de cohabitar entre viejas y nuevas formas de producir contenidos y de atraer audiencias. Ofrece un modo diferente de auscultar lo que sucede en las profundidades de la producción periodística. Una mirada nada obsecuent ...

O menino maluquinho

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:42:37 PST

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Soy un gato

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:41:02 PST

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«Soy un gato, aunque todavía no tengo nombre». Así comienza la primera y más hilarante novela de Natsume Sōseki, una auténtica obra maestra de la literatura japonesa, que narra las aventuras de un desdeñoso felino que cohabita, de modo accidental, con un grupo de grotescos personajes, miembros todos ellos de la bienpensante clase media tokiota: el dispéptico profesor Kushami y su familia, teóric ...

Atlas Shrugged

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:35:47 PST

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At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the ...

Photocopies

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:33:21 PST

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This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and countrysides and mountainscapes. John Berger is the author of "About Looking", "Ways of Seeing", "Art and Revolution", "G" - for which he won the Booker Prize, an ...

En tierras bajas

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:32:40 PST

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EL DIABLO ENAMORADO

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:32:06 PST

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Jacques Cazotte (1719-1792) nos habla en su novela corta El diablo enamorado (1772) de un siglo XVIII muy diferente del que conocemos. De un siglo volcado en el esoterismo iluminista, con tanta o mayor ilusión que en el racionalismo militante. De un siglo que había descubierto que el rostro mítico y el rostro lógico no son en absoluto incompatibles, y que la luz y las tinieblas fueron creadas par ...

Gandhi

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:29:34 PST

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LA MARAVILLOSA VIDA BREVE DE OSCAR WAO

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:27:25 PST

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The Wind in the Willows

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:25:18 PST

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The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle.

La mujer justa

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:23:58 PST

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Tres voces, tres puntos de vista, tres sensibilidades diferentes para desentrañar una historia de pasión, mentiras, traición y crueldad concebida por Sándor Márai en los años cuarenta, los años de El último encuentro y Divorcio en Buda, la época más fértil y lúcida de la obra del gran escritor húngaro. Compuesta de tres monólogos, correspondientes a los tres personajes que conforman la novela, e ...

Diarios 1984 - 1989

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:23:21 PST

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Celebrado por su inusitado talento para reflejar en sus novelas el esplendor y crepúsculo del humanismo centroeuropeo, y testigo minucioso de los grandes acontecimientos que conmovieron Europa en la primera mitad del siglo pasado, Sándor Márai vio cómo su obra quedaba relegada al olvido tras abandonar la Hungría comunista en 1948. Después de un azaroso exilio que lo llevó a la ciudad californian ...

LAS ENSEÑANZAS DE DON JUAN

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:21:23 PST

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"Cómo Lázaro vuelto de la tumba" -dijo algún crítico-, un antropólogo narra la primera etapa de aprendizaje que lo convertirá en "hombre de conocimiento" bajo la guía de un brujo yaqui. Por diversos medios, don Juan sumerge a su discípulo en una "realidad no ordinaria", tan objetiva como la cotidiana pero totalmente distinta, inexplicable para nuestros esquemas de pensamiento pero no para la sabi ...

HISTORIAS DESDE EL HIELO

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:19:52 PST

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Un tigre que pierde sus rayas. Unos bollos que van solitos aque se los merienden. Una chica eléctrica que desprende destellos cuando besa a su enamorado. Un abuelo que, atado a una cometa, se va volando a una isla virgen... Historias desde el hielo es una antología ilustrada de cuentos ingeniosos, cargados de ironía, que combinan la tradición de las narraciones nórdicas con la fantasía de los rel ...

El signo del gato

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:19:14 PST

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The Historian

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:17:56 PST

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To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconce ...

Atonement

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:15:37 PST

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The Master and Margarita

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:13:50 PST

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One of the great imaginative novels of the century, a fierce political satire, filled with the most dazzling surreal humour. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by two demons, a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, remain ...

Llamado de la Selva El

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:12:12 PST

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La señora Dalloway

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:07:49 PST

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Publicada en 1925, La señora Dalloway, la primera de las novelas con que Virginia Woolf revolucionó la narrativa de su tiempo, relata un día en la vida londinense de Clarissa, una dama de alta alcurnia casada con un diputado conservador y madre de una adolescente. La historia comienza una soleada mañana de 1923 y termina esa misma noche, cuando empiezan a retirarse los invitados de una fiesta que ...

Tropic of Cancer

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:06:46 PST

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No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read t ...

El segundo sexo

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:04:54 PST

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El Segundo Sexo - Simone De Beauvoir Sinopsis "El segundo sexo" es considerado hoy la "Biblia del feminismo", la obra de referencia, especialmente de la corriente denominada "feminismo de la igualdad". Solapa Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), escritora francesa, fue también inseparable compañera de Jean-Paul Sartre durante más de cincuenta años. Su obra abarca tres vertientes: la literaria (La ...

Lo bello y lo triste

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:03:42 PST

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Out of Africa

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:02:38 PST

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From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. "Out of Africa" is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of ...

Life of Pi

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 4:00:16 PST

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Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, an astonishing work of imagination that will delight and stun readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wide, wild Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a ...

Book of Longing

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:57:50 PST

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Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the legendary writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is his dazzling new collection of poetry -- twenty years in the making -- written on southern California's Mount Baldy and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. Following his highly acclaimed 1984 publication, Book ...

El Eternauta

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:57:24 PST

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A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES.

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:55:14 PST

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DIEZ NEGRITOS

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:44:25 PST

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Diez personas sin relación alguna entre sí son reunidas en un misterioso islote de la costa inglesa por un tal Mr. Owen, propietario de una lujosa mansión en el lugar a la par que un perfecto desconocido para todos sus invitados. Tras la primera cena, y sin haber conocido aún a su anfitrión, los diez comensales son acusados mediante una grabación de haber cometido un crimen. Uno por uno, a parti ...

Don Juan Tenorio

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:43:19 PST

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Don Juan Tenorio, el drama romántico por excelencia, es una de las pocas obras que han tenido y siguen teniendo una vida auténticamente popular. El drama, que repite el viejo tema de Don Juan, ha adquirido una eficacia literaria inusitada en la mezcla de temas de capa y espada con los religiosos y morales. La edición que aquí se ofrece se basa en la francesa que José Zorrilla dio como definitiva, ...

Lady Sings the Blues

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:42:55 PST

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Sinuhe el egipcio

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:37:52 PST

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Cinco horas con Mario

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:37:21 PST

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"Aquí está, de una pieza, deshecha, rota en llanto, buscando frenéticamente la razón de su vida, frente al cadáver de su marido, que acaba de fallecer. Se trata de Carmen Sotillo, uno de los personajes más conmovedores de la literatura española contemporánea, protagonista de esta hermosa y densa novela.... Pocos la conocen por su propio nombre, pues su largo y explosivo monólogo ha hecho famoso s ...

The Remains of the Day

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:27:59 PST

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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

The Da Vinci Code

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:23:26 PST

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EL DIARIO DE ANA FRANK

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:22:13 PST

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Tres Sombreros De Copa

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:21:13 PST

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One of the most significant plays of contemporary Spanish literature. "Tres sombreros de copa" breaks the mold of Spanish theatre in the 50s with a new type of humor, one that is bittersweet. This play, which was first performed twenty years after being written, tells the story of a modest public official who gets a chance to change his dull and sad life. Meaningless and absurd situations along w ...

MALINCHE

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:08:09 PST

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Una esperadísima novela que, entre la imaginación y la reconstrucción histórica, narra con estilo intenso y cálido la peripecia vital de uno de los personajes más controvertidos y emblemáticos de la Historia mexicana: Malinalli, la Malinche, traductora y después amante de Cortés, acusada de traicionar a su pueblo. Un libro que penetra con igual profundidad en el alma atormentada de la protagonist ...

Chocolat

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:07:40 PST

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El chocolate es algo más que un placer para los sentidos. Saboreándolo las penas se hacen más llevaderas, los secretos menos íntimos, los sueños más reales. Por eso para el cura Francis Reynaud, la llegada a Lansquenet-sur-Tannes de Vianne Rocher, una singular mujer que decide montar una chocolatería, no puede ser sino el primer paso para caer en la tentación y en el pecado. Y frente a él, la jov ...

El Feng Shui en 10 sencillas lecciones

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 3:06:41 PST

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The ancient and increasingly popular art of Feng Shui is demystified through 10enjoyable, hour-long lessons in this workbook.

20 Años con Inodoro Pereyra

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 2:10:23 PST

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CONCEPCION, embarazo y parto

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 2:09:45 PST

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Enciclopedia de técnicas de dibujo

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 2:07:46 PST

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The Theatre of the Face

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 2:07:17 PST

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"The face is where we are. We kiss, eat, breathe and speak through it. It's where we look, listen and smell. It is where we think of ourselves as being finally and conclusively on show. It's the part we hide when we are ashamed and the bit we think we lose when we are in disgrace" - Jonathon Green. Though portrait photography is one of the most popular and enduring of all photographic genres it i ...

Performance

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 2:06:54 PST

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"Performance" sizzles with the electric charge that passes between a great photographer and an incandescent artist when they share a purpose and a passion. The photographer Richard Avedon had, in his own words, 'a passion for high-definition performance and a faith in the religion of perpetual acceleration'. Or, as critic John Lahr says of Avedon, 'He was ravished by the articulate energy of grea ...

CAMINO DEL ARTISTA

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 2:05:26 PST

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La joven de la perla

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 1:55:35 PST

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La joven de la perla centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic t ...

Un lugar para Katrin

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 1:52:28 PST

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"Lunar, lunar..."; cantaban las niñas y Katrin, instintivamente, se tocaba la mejilla. No querían jugar con ella porque tenía aquel lunar color chocolate. Sólo había una forma de que Katrin entrara en el grupo: que les contara siete cuentos nuevos. Gracias a los muñecos y a su lunar, que no era un lunar cualquiera, pudo conseguirlo ¡Quién se lo iba a decir!

The Sheltering Sky

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 1:35:20 PST

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Tells the story of an American couple's fated attempt to regenerate their strange and troubled marriage as they journey through North Africa. The book is a portrayal of a man's physical and mental disintegration and is written by the author of "Midnight Mass".

Audrey Hepburn

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 1:25:16 PST

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Audrey Hepburn is one of the most successful film actresses of all time, with a career spanning more than 35 years, and a film and fashion icon whose gamine and elfin appearance and widely recognized sense of chic are still admired and imitated today. "International Cover Girl" collects a treasure-trove of more than 600 magazine covers spanning her adult life and career, many of which haven't bee ...

BREVE HISTORIA DE ALEJANDRO MAGNO

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Vida y hazañas del valiente y despiadado rey, el más brillante estratega militar del mundo antiguo. En esta magnífica obra del periodista y escritor Charles E. Mercer, el lector podrá descubrir los rasgos esenciales de este rey macedonio, su aptitud para el combate, sus dotes para el gobierno y su carisma ante el ejército que le siguió durante tantos años. Un libro imprescindible para comprender ...